Chapter 331

Slice.

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Sticky ‍​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍mana adhered to the blade's surface.

"Hmm~"

It ‍​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍felt as though she had cut through blood, prompting a hum from her nose.

Even ‍​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍for someone who had cut through all manner of things, it was an unfamiliar sensation.

Sssss—

When she increased the density of her mana, the red mana clinging to the blade evaporated on the spot.

Only then did she survey her surroundings.

The Magic Tower's corridors, which had been mostly straight, had somehow become tangled like a maze.

Some formula had activated without her noticing.

"What an interesting place~"

She did not mean it idly.

For it to be so covert that even an 8-Star Grand Walker had failed to notice it.

It had probably been around five hours since she had entered the Red Magic Tower.

For the first time, she was feeling a meaningful sense of danger.

'At this rate, I won't be able to properly respond even if I'm attacked.'

Should she turn back now?

The thought crossed her mind.

'......'

Given the nature of a Magic Tower with an expansion formula cast over it, physical distance did not mean much.

It would be different for Charles.

The more she saw and heard here, the more it would help Charles's analysis later.

That was why Charles had asked her, rather than the direct descendants who had reached the level of Archmage, to investigate the Red Magic Tower.

'It really is different from the other Magic Towers~'

She had toured countless Magic Towers so far, and after synchronizing with the Violet Magic Tower, she had even experienced its hidden areas firsthand.

She had also encountered no small amount of information concerning the White Magic Tower and Black Magic Tower, which had been built relatively long ago.

That was why she knew.

The Red Magic Tower was full of strange things.

The strangest thing of all was that she could not sense the presence of any mages who had entered the Magic Tower before her.

Even Charles, called the walking Magic Tower, bore traces of having synchronized with countless mages. Yet from the moment she entered, the Red Magic Tower had not registered a single thing on her senses.

It felt as if she had entered the belly of some enormous creature.

Secondly, she could not feel any eyes watching her.

A Magic Tower was, by nature, a place filled with boundless mana.

To walk through such a place meant stepping into the administrator's surveillance network of one's own accord.

Red mana was persistently clinging to her, but its response seemed less like hostility toward an intruder and more like an instinctive response toward a living creature.

It had to be one of two things.

Either this was a new kind of structure designed to operate without mages from the beginning, or she had fallen into a new trap that she could not even perceive.

'Neither outcome is welcome~'

Swoooosh—

The violet mana radiating from her body grew denser.

It meant that she was still synchronized with the Violet Magic Tower.

'I think I've reached the core~'

There was nothing here but red mana that stubbornly clung to her.

Orchid Owl's lips twisted.

With several slashes, blood-colored mana scattered through the air.

"I thought I'd at least run into the Mixed-Color Duke."

If she wished, she could turn back along the path she had taken.

But that would not give her the answer Charles wanted.

Charles saw this moment, when the Violet Magic Tower and the Empire's Magic Tower were connected, as an opportunity.

The Kingdom Alliance held the upper hand in the Great War against the Empire, but beneath it lay a peculiar unease.

There was the bizarre phenomenon of all the blood shed on the battlefield flowing into the Red Magic Tower.

And the Mixed-Color Duke, who could be called the Empire's greatest fighting force, had not taken the field.

'Rastian Arken. It's been quite a while since that old man disappeared.'

He, called the true master of the three Magic Towers, had already been confirmed to have reached 9-Star.

A single spell from a 9-Star mage could overturn the battlefield in an instant.

Yet he had not shown himself on the battlefield, as if he cared nothing for the blood being shed by the Empire and its vassal states.

It was behavior that could not be understood through ordinary common sense.

'Hmm~ It has been a long time since he began doing things that ordinary common sense can't explain.'

As she quickened her pace, she recalled the battle that had pushed her closer to death than any other.

Pergius Heinrich, the previous Emperor.

An abandoned temple that worshiped an unidentified god.

There, she had fought the man called the Sun of the Empire.

In the course of that battle, she had lost both hands, and Crimson Wolf had lost his Mana Heart.

Now, High Priest Remire of the Temple of Rinova and the Pope had healed them, allowing her to reach this new level.

'The Emperor didn't die either, so he must have become even more of a monster.'

After the Formula of Reincarnation activated, Pergius Heinrich, who had already been a 9-Star knight, took the body of Krusty Heinrich, who had been an Archmage.

He was not some half-baked thing like Isaac Heinrich.

According to the information provided by Tial Salamander, the Emperor had become a complete 9-Star Magic Swordsman.

An existence that raised his standing by reincarnating again and again.

'I never thought I'd end up helping fight a monster like this~'

For an orphan from the back alleys, she had risen remarkably far.

Come to think of it, why had she come to play a part in facing a giant like the Emperor?

At the center of the Kingdom Alliance were Cornelia and Eurasia.

All she could remember was that there had been someone there who had stirred her heart.

'Umm....... I don't think it was because of Charles.'

Her memories were hazy.

"Hmm~"

Even with the sharper mind she had gained by synchronizing with the Magic Tower, she could not remember.

It felt as if fog had settled over her mind.

'I feel like Charles warned me about the current situation, too.'

But that did not come back to her clearly either.

"Is it because I entered the Red Magic Tower? It's full of strange things~"

Hehehehehe.

She let out her characteristic laugh and stamped her foot.

Thoom!

The red mana that had been stealthily approaching was blown away.

She stopped dwelling on complicated thoughts.

If the Mixed-Color Duke did not appear, she only had to find out why.

She would live up to the expectations of Charles, who trusted her enough to send her here.

"Shadow Run~"

Swoooosh.

Her speed more than doubled.

For a moment, the red mana could not keep up with her movements and flinched.

Whoosh.

It soon accelerated and pursued her.

"Ahahaha~ It's like tag~"

There was no longer any need to conceal her intrusion.

The violet mana she unleashed intertwined with the red mana.

Rumble—

A wall made of red mana rose up to block her path.

"Move~"

Slice—

She cleanly cut through it.

"Step on it~"

She used the things clumsily obstructing her path as footholds to increase her speed.

Sliiice— Slice—

She cut away the mana blocking her path and accelerated.

Then, the Magic Tower, which had not used a single spell until now, displayed its first plausible response.

Boom!

A barrier strong enough to knock aside her sword sprang up and blocked her way.

Boom! Boom!

Red barriers soon rose up on both sides of her, above her head, and along the path she had taken, closing in on her.

"Trying to crush me to death?"

Rumble—

She poured Haki into her sword.

It was not enough.

At this level, she could not cut through the barrier before her.

Swoooosh—

She fused Haki with the mana-enhanced sword.

Rumble—

With eyes that had activated Direction, she saw countless lines.

They looked less like lines of mana and more like human veins.

Even for someone who had cut through countless veins, it was a sight that made her feel unpleasant.

"Hehehe. Shall I push myself a little~"

Just as her eyes had reddened, her exposed skin gradually began to turn red as well.

"Memento."

Crunch— Craaack—

As she began cutting the lines around her, her movements gradually quickened.

And when her movements reached their peak—

"Memento Mori."

Boom!

With her speed strengthened once more, all the lines were cut away in an instant.

Swoosh— Swoooosh—

The mana lines that had failed to keep up with her movements tried to reconnect belatedly.

Whoosh!

But the violet mana clinging to the cut surfaces blazed up like flames.

The lines repeatedly failed to reconnect and broke apart.

The barriers that had enclosed her were no longer there.

What lay before her was nothing but a curtain formed from a sheet of red mana.

'Is this it?'

Beyond the barrier was likely a hidden space within the Magic Tower.

To pass through the curtain, one had to be someone granted entry or someone who knew its coordinates.

The only way for anyone else to pass through was to force their way in.

"I'm not a guest~"

Thrust.

She drove her sword into the curtain stained red.

Trickle—

Blood flowed from the curtain.

"Open~"

Rumble—

Unconcerned, she poured Haki into it.

Screeech—

She drew the sword downward.

The hidden space was forcibly revealed.

Everything except the circular patch of ground on which she stood was soaked in blood.

There was enough blood to call it a river, and in the middle of that river stood a single enormous tree.

"A Divine Tree?"

Orchid Owl tilted her head at its uncanny resemblance to Wigdrazil in Elvenheim.

'Was it made on the same principle as the Green Magic Tower?'

She knew that the Queen of the Fairy Folk had modified Wigdrazil and made it into the Green Magic Tower.

If the core of the Red Magic Tower was the Divine Tree before her, then she was looking at an opportunity to change the course of the war.

'Instead of reporting it to Charles, if I cut it down right here......'

Just as she was about to activate Memento Mori once more—

"It is not a Divine Tree."

"......"

At the sudden voice, she looked up.

Screeech—

A mage walked out of a Gate that seemed to have been made by tearing open space.

He walked naturally, as if invisible stairs hung in the air.

"Orchid Owl."

"Mixed-Color Duke~"

Her eyes, visible through the owl mask, swept over the mage staring at her.

"Do not address me as though we are familiar, you lowborn thing."

"The Emperor's dog~"

"......"

The Mixed-Color Duke clicked his tongue at her smiling manner of speech.

"To allow a mad bitch to intrude. I have no face to show His Majesty the Emperor."

Despite his words, he did not look as if he considered it a mistake at all.

It was the attitude of one who believed he could subdue his opponent at any time.

"Going on about how noble you are~ Does a dog worry about its master?"

She mocked the man who had descended in front of her.

It was revolting to watch the conduct of someone who had abandoned being human.

"It seems reaching 8-Star has not rid you of that lowborn nature. To think you would act so arrogantly merely because the direct descendants recognized you."

Contrary to his words, the Mixed-Color Duke's eyes looked as though they were watching delicious prey.

'She is acting as a pioneer for the connected Magic Tower.'

Even though he had stepped away for only a short time, she had reached the place that could be called the Magic Tower's core in little time.

Eyes capable of seeing the truth through extreme refinement of Direction, and the martial power to cut through space.

They resembled the Eye, Aquares's secret technique.

'Though, judging by her, she seems to be using it instinctively.'

Fragmentary information flowed into the Mixed-Color Duke's mind.

It was the result of reading the traces of the Violet Magic Tower connected to her.

"So Drago was the medium that allowed you to enter this place."

"Poring through my memories without permission? You're sneakier than you look~"

The Mixed-Color Duke gave a kindly smile at her response, as though she had never intended to hide it in the first place.

To him, 8-Star was no longer such an extraordinary level.

But she had more than enough value as a research subject.

'Drago's situation is not like a hostage.'

The gambit Charles Cornelia had made by using Hazard would become a self-defeating move.

"Memento Mori~"

The instant Orchid Owl's violet-stained body vanished—

Thrust.

A sword that had pierced through the Mixed-Color Duke's heart jutted out.

"Since you came looking for me of your own accord, I suppose I should play with you."

Crumb—

The sword piercing the Mixed-Color Duke's body broke apart and scattered.

"......!!"

Orchid Owl quickly put distance between them.

"His Majesty cut off both your hands once, did he not?"

His gaze, turned toward her, lowered to the Walker's two legs.

"Explode."

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