As soon as Luca finished speaking, he picked up something transparent and swept it away as if he was kicking away a blanket spread on the floor.
At the same time, several pale flashes of light erupted all around.
Luca created lightning with magic.
He could have lit up my surroundings with a more powerful and continuous light, like daylight.
However, magic lightning was the most basic magic that Luca, who had almost lost his magic power, could immediately cast using the magic stone he had borrowed from Chloe.
A light descending from the sky briefly gave Callius and his party visibility even in the darkness and snowstorm.
What was revealed was...
“You were drawing a moving magic circle.”
There was a place on the vast land where snow did not accumulate.
It seemed like the ground was kept from freezing by magic.
Lines about two fingers wide were etched across the bare ground, forming an intricate pattern.
Luca fought the cold in this deep valley, laughing at his former comrades who had hidden away and drawn magic circles without anyone knowing.
"You must have been working hard here. Tsk tsk. What are you doing all this for? Such a shabby thing."
He didn't see it, but it was obvious that it must have been quite difficult.
He would have been constantly working hard, holding a shovel and clearing snow or digging up frozen ground with the same hands that would have been sitting in front of his desk, turning pages or holding a pen.
If the work of installing the moving magic circle had been done legally, it would have been enough to bring in countless workers to clear the ground and assistants to move the magic circle on the ground according to instructions, and only supervise them with hand gestures until the last moment when the magic was breathed in.
How much trouble must he have had trying to work illegally and not being able to bring in many people?
Luca kept chuckling as he thought about his old colleagues who must have been struggling to dig.
In any case, it seemed certain that outsiders had settled in this area.
Callius gritted his teeth at what the rats who dared to invade Ronheim had done.
“We will start searching from here!”
Luca suggested.
"If you've been here so many times, you must have erased a lot of traces. There must be other places around here obscured by illusion magic. Let me look for traces of magic."
“Please.”
“Yes. Oh, and.”
Luca flicked his fingers lightly.
“Let’s delete this just in case.”
A small spark flew from his hand and instantly landed on the intricate lines drawn by magic.
The magic lines that Luca's fire touched melted and became unrecognizable.
With a simple flick of his fingers, Luca instantly destroyed the half-drawn magic circle.
There was nothing to regret.
There are many types of moving magic circles, and the moving magic circle that Chloe requested from Luca is completely different from the one drawn here.
“Ugh, my hands are cold.”
Luca quickly put back on the gloves he had taken off for a moment to use magic.
Afterwards, Luca played a big role in narrowing the search area by detecting mana and finding the way.
“You have to die here.”
Andrew glared at Basto with eyes filled with disgust and anger.
If he put all his strength into his sword and cut Basto's throat, he would never see his father again.
But Hillen's voice, coming from the attic, made Andrew stop.
“Brother! Stop it!”
It was a desperate cry mixed with screams.
At that moment, a wizard who was preparing to cast a spell grabbed Hillen.
"Damn it, these savages are annoying! You brought your little sister here, making things ridiculous, and now you're bringing your father too? You're useless!"
The wizards exchanged quick glances.
The magic circle would be completed in a few days, and he figured he could do it without Andrew's help.
“Everyone die!”
The magical fire burning in the wizard's hand was about to transfer to Hillen's body.
Andrew turned away from Basto in surprise and reached out to Hillen.
But Basto's actions were faster than Andrew's.
“Leave my daughter alone! Aaaah!”
Basto's eyes were bloodshot, and he quickly swung the axe he had hidden away by the door at the wizard's head.
It happened in the blink of an eye. The axe, spinning around and flying, struck the wizard squarely in the head.
“Oh my god!”
Then Andrew lunged at Hillen and rolled into the attic with her.
The next moment, magic chaotically flew around the cabin, caused by the bewildered wizards.
Most of the magical whips and fireballs that were running with electricity flew towards Basto.
Basto used his incredible strength to rip off the front door and use it as a shield to block it.
And like a rhinoceros, he carried the thick log door on his head and charged at the wizards.
It was by no means a quick dash.
With his leg and ribs broken, Basto was unable to use even half of his speed and strength and was just fighting for his life.
“Euraaaaaaa!”
Even though a splendid and powerful magic was poured out, Basto's momentum was not broken.
It was not easy for the spirit of a person who wanted to live to overcome the spirit of a person who was prepared to die.
“Stupid things.”
It was a showdown between a veteran knight with a lot of combat experience, despite being a retired knight, and a wizard with a scholarly background who was very capable but had little actual combat experience.
Basto knew that the wizard's attacks were well-suited for long-range, wide-range attacks.
He hurled the log door over the wizards' heads, and at the same time picked up Andrew's dropped sword and thrust it towards the captured children.
Edzel, crying, carefully pulled the knife from his feet and hid it under his buttocks.
"Shit!"
“Get out!”
The two wizards who had been stuck in the log door for a moment used their magic to clear it away and ran towards the entrance.
They realized that if they wanted to use real magic that contained their true abilities, rather than the magic that these kids played around with, it would be best to get out of the cramped cabin and go outside.
“I’ll kill them all!”
The wizards intended to burn the hut to death, using it as firewood.
“Oh my!”
Basto flew towards one of the wizards.
Since he couldn't use his legs properly, he tried to stop him by grabbing the hem of his clothes.
“Ah!”
One wizard missed, but the other was caught by the ankle and rolled across the cabin floor.
As if the broken ribs he had broken while falling had pierced his lungs, Basto spat out the blood that was welling up in his mouth, but he did not let go of the wizard's trouser leg.
“Let go! You dirty savage!”
The wizard fired a fireball at Basto.
Basto took it all in his bare body.
Even as his flesh was torn and burned, Basto gritted his teeth and grabbed the wizard's leg, crawling up his body.
“I can never... let you go.”
That was when.
“Ugh!”
Edzel, who had already cut the ropes binding his hands and ankles with the knife thrown by Basto, gripped the handle of the knife tightly with both hands and plunged it towards the wizard's neck.
Pop!
“Oh my god!”
But unfortunately, Edzel was hit by a ball of fire shot by the wizard and flew into the wall behind him.
The log wall cracked from the force of the impact.
“Edzel!”
Basto opened his eyes wide.
With all his strength, he grabbed the wizard's trousers and crawled up his upper body.
"Ah!"
“Ugh...!”
Basto's large hand strangled the wizard's neck.
Meanwhile, Andrew discovered another wizard who had escaped outside, casting a wide-area spell around the cabin.
In an instant, the area around the cabin became brighter.
The orange glow that appeared as the ground turned red illuminated the surroundings.
The frozen ground melted in an instant from the heat and turned into sticky lava that could not be cooled even by snow or wind.
Andrew racked his brain to figure out how to escape with Hillen.
It seemed impossible to go out towards the entrance guarded by the wizard.
He picked up the axe that Basto had thrown and started chopping it madly against the back wall of the room.
But the walls, made of thick logs, were quite strong, and not a single hole appeared until the entire cabin was on the verge of burning down.
“Brother! Dad...!”
Hillen looked back and forth between Andrew and Basto, stamping her foot.
The cabin was engulfed in flames.
The outside was a pit of fire where you couldn't even set foot.
"Shit!"
Andrew, who threw the axe with a curse, had no choice but to go out of the room, pick up the log door that Basto had thrown, and shout at the two children, except for Edzel, who had passed out.
“I’ll block the magic, so you throw the table out the front door and make a bridge to get out!”
The children sobbed and picked up the table from each side.
Andrew shouted at Hillen just before he ran out to check the situation outside.
“Hillen! Get out with the kids!”
“Oh, brother... Where’s Dad? Where’s Dad!”
Basto, who had strangled the wizard's neck and collapsed with his strength exhausted, was left gasping for breath with his body in tatters.
Every time he gasped for breath, blood flowed from his nose and mouth.
Basto said with difficulty.
“Hey, Hillen, uh, hurry, go, go.”
But his voice was buried in the raging flames.
Andrew urged Hillen.
“If I run, you have to run with me, Hillen!”
“I, I can’t...”
“Do it! You have to do it!”
“Brother...”
“Do it! There’s no time! Are you planning to kill everyone?”
At Andrew's words, Hillen stood behind the children, sobbing.
“If I count to three, you’re out!”
Even amidst the flames, a strong wind blew from somewhere, slightly cutting off his voice.
Whioooooo-!
Woooooooooo-!
Woohoo!
Andrew hadn't noticed the strange wind noise he'd been hearing around the cabin for some time.
The children looked at the fallen Edzel with pity, then closed their eyes tightly at Andrew's urging.
“One, two, three!”
Andrew jumped into the lava first, carrying the log door on his head.
At the same time, several pale flashes of light erupted all around.
Luca created lightning with magic.
He could have lit up my surroundings with a more powerful and continuous light, like daylight.
However, magic lightning was the most basic magic that Luca, who had almost lost his magic power, could immediately cast using the magic stone he had borrowed from Chloe.
A light descending from the sky briefly gave Callius and his party visibility even in the darkness and snowstorm.
What was revealed was...
“You were drawing a moving magic circle.”
There was a place on the vast land where snow did not accumulate.
It seemed like the ground was kept from freezing by magic.
Lines about two fingers wide were etched across the bare ground, forming an intricate pattern.
Luca fought the cold in this deep valley, laughing at his former comrades who had hidden away and drawn magic circles without anyone knowing.
"You must have been working hard here. Tsk tsk. What are you doing all this for? Such a shabby thing."
He didn't see it, but it was obvious that it must have been quite difficult.
He would have been constantly working hard, holding a shovel and clearing snow or digging up frozen ground with the same hands that would have been sitting in front of his desk, turning pages or holding a pen.
If the work of installing the moving magic circle had been done legally, it would have been enough to bring in countless workers to clear the ground and assistants to move the magic circle on the ground according to instructions, and only supervise them with hand gestures until the last moment when the magic was breathed in.
How much trouble must he have had trying to work illegally and not being able to bring in many people?
Luca kept chuckling as he thought about his old colleagues who must have been struggling to dig.
In any case, it seemed certain that outsiders had settled in this area.
Callius gritted his teeth at what the rats who dared to invade Ronheim had done.
“We will start searching from here!”
Luca suggested.
"If you've been here so many times, you must have erased a lot of traces. There must be other places around here obscured by illusion magic. Let me look for traces of magic."
“Please.”
“Yes. Oh, and.”
Luca flicked his fingers lightly.
“Let’s delete this just in case.”
A small spark flew from his hand and instantly landed on the intricate lines drawn by magic.
The magic lines that Luca's fire touched melted and became unrecognizable.
With a simple flick of his fingers, Luca instantly destroyed the half-drawn magic circle.
There was nothing to regret.
There are many types of moving magic circles, and the moving magic circle that Chloe requested from Luca is completely different from the one drawn here.
“Ugh, my hands are cold.”
Luca quickly put back on the gloves he had taken off for a moment to use magic.
Afterwards, Luca played a big role in narrowing the search area by detecting mana and finding the way.
***
“You have to die here.”
Andrew glared at Basto with eyes filled with disgust and anger.
If he put all his strength into his sword and cut Basto's throat, he would never see his father again.
But Hillen's voice, coming from the attic, made Andrew stop.
“Brother! Stop it!”
It was a desperate cry mixed with screams.
At that moment, a wizard who was preparing to cast a spell grabbed Hillen.
"Damn it, these savages are annoying! You brought your little sister here, making things ridiculous, and now you're bringing your father too? You're useless!"
The wizards exchanged quick glances.
The magic circle would be completed in a few days, and he figured he could do it without Andrew's help.
“Everyone die!”
The magical fire burning in the wizard's hand was about to transfer to Hillen's body.
Andrew turned away from Basto in surprise and reached out to Hillen.
But Basto's actions were faster than Andrew's.
“Leave my daughter alone! Aaaah!”
Basto's eyes were bloodshot, and he quickly swung the axe he had hidden away by the door at the wizard's head.
It happened in the blink of an eye. The axe, spinning around and flying, struck the wizard squarely in the head.
“Oh my god!”
Then Andrew lunged at Hillen and rolled into the attic with her.
The next moment, magic chaotically flew around the cabin, caused by the bewildered wizards.
Most of the magical whips and fireballs that were running with electricity flew towards Basto.
Basto used his incredible strength to rip off the front door and use it as a shield to block it.
And like a rhinoceros, he carried the thick log door on his head and charged at the wizards.
It was by no means a quick dash.
With his leg and ribs broken, Basto was unable to use even half of his speed and strength and was just fighting for his life.
“Euraaaaaaa!”
Even though a splendid and powerful magic was poured out, Basto's momentum was not broken.
It was not easy for the spirit of a person who wanted to live to overcome the spirit of a person who was prepared to die.
“Stupid things.”
It was a showdown between a veteran knight with a lot of combat experience, despite being a retired knight, and a wizard with a scholarly background who was very capable but had little actual combat experience.
Basto knew that the wizard's attacks were well-suited for long-range, wide-range attacks.
He hurled the log door over the wizards' heads, and at the same time picked up Andrew's dropped sword and thrust it towards the captured children.
Edzel, crying, carefully pulled the knife from his feet and hid it under his buttocks.
"Shit!"
“Get out!”
The two wizards who had been stuck in the log door for a moment used their magic to clear it away and ran towards the entrance.
They realized that if they wanted to use real magic that contained their true abilities, rather than the magic that these kids played around with, it would be best to get out of the cramped cabin and go outside.
“I’ll kill them all!”
The wizards intended to burn the hut to death, using it as firewood.
“Oh my!”
Basto flew towards one of the wizards.
Since he couldn't use his legs properly, he tried to stop him by grabbing the hem of his clothes.
“Ah!”
One wizard missed, but the other was caught by the ankle and rolled across the cabin floor.
As if the broken ribs he had broken while falling had pierced his lungs, Basto spat out the blood that was welling up in his mouth, but he did not let go of the wizard's trouser leg.
“Let go! You dirty savage!”
The wizard fired a fireball at Basto.
Basto took it all in his bare body.
Even as his flesh was torn and burned, Basto gritted his teeth and grabbed the wizard's leg, crawling up his body.
“I can never... let you go.”
That was when.
“Ugh!”
Edzel, who had already cut the ropes binding his hands and ankles with the knife thrown by Basto, gripped the handle of the knife tightly with both hands and plunged it towards the wizard's neck.
Pop!
“Oh my god!”
But unfortunately, Edzel was hit by a ball of fire shot by the wizard and flew into the wall behind him.
The log wall cracked from the force of the impact.
“Edzel!”
Basto opened his eyes wide.
With all his strength, he grabbed the wizard's trousers and crawled up his upper body.
"Ah!"
“Ugh...!”
Basto's large hand strangled the wizard's neck.
Meanwhile, Andrew discovered another wizard who had escaped outside, casting a wide-area spell around the cabin.
In an instant, the area around the cabin became brighter.
The orange glow that appeared as the ground turned red illuminated the surroundings.
The frozen ground melted in an instant from the heat and turned into sticky lava that could not be cooled even by snow or wind.
Andrew racked his brain to figure out how to escape with Hillen.
It seemed impossible to go out towards the entrance guarded by the wizard.
He picked up the axe that Basto had thrown and started chopping it madly against the back wall of the room.
But the walls, made of thick logs, were quite strong, and not a single hole appeared until the entire cabin was on the verge of burning down.
“Brother! Dad...!”
Hillen looked back and forth between Andrew and Basto, stamping her foot.
The cabin was engulfed in flames.
The outside was a pit of fire where you couldn't even set foot.
"Shit!"
Andrew, who threw the axe with a curse, had no choice but to go out of the room, pick up the log door that Basto had thrown, and shout at the two children, except for Edzel, who had passed out.
“I’ll block the magic, so you throw the table out the front door and make a bridge to get out!”
The children sobbed and picked up the table from each side.
Andrew shouted at Hillen just before he ran out to check the situation outside.
“Hillen! Get out with the kids!”
“Oh, brother... Where’s Dad? Where’s Dad!”
Basto, who had strangled the wizard's neck and collapsed with his strength exhausted, was left gasping for breath with his body in tatters.
Every time he gasped for breath, blood flowed from his nose and mouth.
Basto said with difficulty.
“Hey, Hillen, uh, hurry, go, go.”
But his voice was buried in the raging flames.
Andrew urged Hillen.
“If I run, you have to run with me, Hillen!”
“I, I can’t...”
“Do it! You have to do it!”
“Brother...”
“Do it! There’s no time! Are you planning to kill everyone?”
At Andrew's words, Hillen stood behind the children, sobbing.
“If I count to three, you’re out!”
Even amidst the flames, a strong wind blew from somewhere, slightly cutting off his voice.
Whioooooo-!
Woooooooooo-!
Woohoo!
Andrew hadn't noticed the strange wind noise he'd been hearing around the cabin for some time.
The children looked at the fallen Edzel with pity, then closed their eyes tightly at Andrew's urging.
“One, two, three!”
Andrew jumped into the lava first, carrying the log door on his head.
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