Shadow Farms
“Keep Watching from below stage”
“What's going on?”
Iris dashed swiftly past the royal capital at full speed in the middle of the night, her red hair fluttering following her.
A building is split. He doubted his ears when such a report came to him. But when heading to a location torn between belief and distrust, successive reports achieve it continuously.
Large-scale attacks occurred simultaneously throughout the royal capital.
It didn't take long to draw such a conclusion. But the problem is, attack targets have no common points they can determine. A trading firm, a warehouse, a place to eat, the private residence of the nobility ..The fact that these attacks are predicted is clearly visible, but their purpose is unclear.
But the fact is that the entire royal capital is currently being shaken.
All the members of the Knight Order have been dispatched as an emergency response, and the evacuation of important people is underway. Many residents watched from their windows even though it was late at night, and not a few of them even approached the location of the attack out of curiosity.
Iris kept rushing towards the biggest scene, yelling at every citizen she passed by to return to their homes.
This was definitely not a simple incident.
Iris' intuition told her so.
Then suddenly.
The screams sounded Iris' ear.
“M-, monsters! That's a monster, we need a help- .. !!”
It was the voice of a knight. He's not far.
Iris changed her direction and headed straight for the origin of the scream.
He turned the corner, took the alley, then went out onto the main road .. The monsters were there.
A giant monster.
The monster swung its bloodied twin claws, making the knights around it become like a pile of flesh.
“What is this..?!”
Although surprised, Iris did not stop moving.
“Retreat!”
It unsheathed in a natural movement, followed by a white flash in the darkness that stretched across the monster's body.
Throughout body.
The giant monster was slashed, just like that.
“Are you okay?”
Unconcerned to see the monster that fell behind her, Iris immediately called out to the knights.
“Thank you for saving us, Iris-sama!”
“As expected of Iris-sama! To take down such a monster with just one swing!”
All the knights turned out to be mostly unharmed. But it's only for the living.
“We lost 8 people.”
Just one punch per person, that's all.
Iris's wine-red eyes trembled as she looked at their horrifying corpse.
“You all go ahead and get the body. I'll report to squad leader kal-.. ”
“IRIS-SAMA!”
Suddenly, one of the knights shouted.
The others also pointed behind him with a voiceless cry.
“Ap- ..!”
Iris swung her sword even as it spun.
At that moment, his sword clashed with the monster's left arm.
“Kuh ..!”
Finding himself pushed back, he immediately unleashed a large amount of magic to strengthen himself, which gave him enough power to receive a blow completely.
Utilizing the momentum, he dashed towards the monster's chest and cut off its legs. Constantly setting his sights on the monster, this time he retreated from his maai.
The next moment, the monster's left hand shot through its previous position, flying past so close that the wind pressure hit several strands of its red hair.
“He regenerated ..?”
The slash wounds he had thrown before were nowhere to be seen, and his regenerated legs could also be seen.
“Must be ... to be slashed by Iris-sama but still regenerate ..”
“You're kidding right..?”
“All of you, back off.”
Iris called out to the shaken knight while stepping forward to receive the monster's follow-up attack.
The attack had speed, had power, and had weight.
But it's too simple.
“At the end is just a monster.”
There was no mercy in Iris's counterattack.
Cut off his arm, cut off his leg, and split his head.
His attack rained down on the monster in an endless manner, as if to say “if you can regenerate after this, then let's see how you do it!” challengeingly.
No fight happened. The monster could only stand in its place and be attacked unilaterally.
But even with that.
“You're still regenerating?”
The monster is still alive.
Taking advantage of the brief moment between Iris's attacks, she swung her left arm, forcing Iris to jump backwards.
He raised his face towards the night sky and let out a high-pitched roar.
Almost as if in response, the black sky was beginning to rain down.
Start with a drizzle. Then it gradually grew busier, causing white steam to appear wherever the rainwater came into contact with the monster's blood.
“It looks like this will take a long time ..”
Iris gave up on ending it quickly, and reorganized her stance while deciding how she would fight.
He didn't think he would lose. In fact, up to this point, Iris had yet to sense even the possibility of her defeat.
However, it looks like this will take quite a while.
Directing her sword upwards, Iris once again dashed towards the monster.
But at that moment.
With a shrill voice, Iris found her sword flying out of her grasp.
It was due to a blow so heavy that his hand was numb as well.
After glancing towards his beloved sword that flew far behind him, Iris glared towards the intruder suddenly appearing.
The intruder is also looking towards the iris.
They look at each other. It was the intruders who first broke the silence.
“Why can't you see that he's just in pain? And all you did was torture her?”
She was a woman wearing a jet black bodysuit. His face was hidden, but his voice sounded young.
“You who?”
In a state of alert, Iris placed herself so that she could see the monster and the intruder at the same time.
“Alpha.”
After that one word, the woman turned her back on Iris, as if losing all interest in her.
“Wait a minute. What are you planning? If you are the enemy of the knight order, then we will not show you ampuna-.. ”
“‘Musuh’ ..?”
Alpha cut off Iris' words and laughed without turning around.
It was a laugh filled with ridicule.
“‘Musuh’ .. To think that the princess would be able to do such a joke. Mention the word despite not knowing anything. You should know your ability.”.
“What did you say..!”
Iris' magic is on the rise. The almost explosive rise caused waves that blew up the wind and blew away the rain.
But Alpha doesn't even glance. He's still turning his back on Iris.
“The audience should only watch from below the stage like a spectator and not hinder us.”
Just leaving behind these words, he started walking towards the monster.
There was no hostility from his back gesture. It was clear that Iris wasn't even in his mind anymore.
“‘ Spectator ’...”
Clenching her still numb hands, Iris was unable to do anything other than silently staring at the back that underestimated her.
“How pathetic you are. It must be very painful, right?”
Alpha continued walking towards the monster while talking to him.
“You no longer have to suffer. You also do not need to be sad.”
The pitch-black knife extends. Its length exceeds the Alpha's own height.
“That's why, don't cry again, ‘ok?”
Then with the most natural movement, he took one step further, and the monster's body was split again.
No one can react.
Not Iris, not even the monster, could do anything before it was cut.
It's too natural. There is no killing intent. The wound seemed to only manifest as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
The big body collapsed. The rain came into contact with his blood, giving rise to a large plume of white smoke. The body itself shrank, until it reached the size of a young girl. Then from his right hand, the short sword fell.
It was a short sword with a red jewel insert.
‘To my Beloved Daughter, Emilia’
That sentence was engraved on the handle.
“I pray.. May you find peace in your next life.”.
That's the Alpha word that disappeared into the white smoke.
Thunder roars in the distance.
Iris just stood up in shock. The rain was pouring down all over his hair and face.
But his body shivered.
Iris did not know the meaning of this shivering.
“Alexia ..”
Whisper Iris. Her sister was in the middle of this whole incident. Iris' intuition told her so.
“Alexia, hope you are okay ..”
Re-awakening, Iris then took her sword, and started running.
The rain continues to flow.
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