[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 138: Neutral Enemies (9)

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"What the fuck was that … "

Noelle frowned in annoyance, while her body still maintained a strong turtle position.

A few minutes had passed since Noelle, Lucius, and Tania were faced with an attack from an enemy they did not recognize.

Occasionally there were slashes that made it through the guard and ended up injuring their bodies. However, the injuries caused by those slashes were not a problem at all as the three of them were somehow able to dodge the attack that landed at a vital point.

Even so, it was still annoying to be hurt while they did not even know what caused it.

Even the detection ability that Noelle and Lucius had was completely unable to detect the presence of an attacker. Which meant, the person who attacked them had equivalent strength, or even one level higher than them.

Noelle herself actually wanted to doubt that statement. But, seeing how a person as strong as Lucius could do nothing but fend off and dodge the attack made him think twice.

{Noelle, side! Direction at 3 o'clock! )

Receiving a telepathic warning from Olivia, Noelle with almost reflexively performed gestures instantly focused her attention on the direction Olivia was referring to.

A second later, a whistling sound accompanied by flower petals appeared and made Noelle instantly draw her sword to fend off the attack.

The sound of metal clanking accompanied by sparks that appeared as a result of the two thin sword blades colliding against each other appeared and made Noelle jump straight back.

Lucius who noticed that immediately threw the short sword in his left hand, but the sword only flew away without touching anything. The sword that Lucius had thrown before was only stuck in the wall, before it was finally pulled back by Lucius through a small chain connected to his greatsword.

The whistling sound accompanied by the flower petals again appeared, this time near Tania.

Tania with perfect acrobatic movements instantly leapt back and maneuvered in midair to dodge the attack, before finally throwing her own scythe right in the direction that Navi pointed in her mind.

However, the Zephiroth scythe that Tania threw was only stuck on the ground without touching the enemy in the slightest. This was almost similar to his fight against the 'natural will' in the previous Rondo.

Noelle who saw Tania's reckless act of throwing her only weapon instantly took control of the three swords she had to protect Tania from all sides.

"It's a stupid thing to throw away your weapon like that."

" … Thank you" said Tania, pulling the chain connected to the crescent handle of Zephiroth.

{Noelle, clock direction 6.}

Warning came again from Olivia. Noelle instantly charged towards that direction while creating a defensive position with her sword.

The clanking sound produced by the two metals colliding back again appeared. The warning Olivia gave was completely accurate.

(How can you guess the attack? )

{Bat has strong ultrasonic detection ability, so I can hear the sound of the attack it generated before the attack landed.}

After Olivia explained it, it made sense to Noelle.

The hearing senses of humans and bats are very different. Even with the enhancement given the vampire evolution and strengthening magic, Noelle's ears still could not hear a very subtle sound with high frequency waves. But, such a thing did not apply when he was in bat form.

His vision did get a little worse, but instead, he would get super-hearing that could even detect ultrasonic sounds that humans normally cannot hear.

(I forgot that bats have that echolocation ability .. )

{I'm glad to be able to help, and by the way ... 9 o'clock direction, something is coming.}

Noelle once again moved her body to change her position, dodging the impending attack.

"Damn it, why is this bastard only targeting me?! "

Even though she had the echolocation assistance from Olivia, Noelle was still irritated by the oncoming attacks.

Though there was Lucius or Tania who could be an easy target, but somehow the attack was always targeting Noelle sekrang.

Noelle jumped far up, then shot into any place using Aligma in her hand.

"Don't complain, boy."

Lucius jumped with him, then threw the great sword on the ground.

"You're the girl with the fucking scythe, get out of there if you don't want to get hurt! "

Tania followed his orders and jumped far up while paying attention to the ground below her.

The sword that Lucius threw was easily stuck on the ground and gave off an extremely dazzling light. It was too dazzling and stinging that Noelle could feel her skin burning with just that.

"What are you doing?! " noelle shouted, questioning what Lucius was planning.

"Our enemy is someone with a very thin presence. It would be best if we used a large-scale attack to stop its movement."

(Ohh, that's a great idea. Why don't I think about it? )

Noelle nodded and directly landed on the ground when the light disappeared. He secretly talks to Olivia through telepathy.

(Livia, can you use《Frostnova》with me as an intermediary? I want you to use that magic when I pretend to cast it.)

{That's not a problem, but .. Magic it takes a little preparation. Can you wait? My magic energy is also still recovering after resurrecting《Lust》tadi.}

That shouldn't be a problem. Timing is not difficult for Noelle. But, he felt like he had just heard something crazy just now.

(Did you say that《Lust》rise? )

{Nn.}

(. .. Describe the details to me later.)

{If that's what Noelle wants.}

The short conversation is over. Noelle immediately ran down the field which was now filled with stone debris that had gone out of shape.

Every now and then, he gets an attack from the enemy, but he can withstand it all with just his sword.

As soon as Noelle reached the central area where she had expected her enemy to be, Noelle instantly cast a magic spell to weaken her enemy a little.

"《Druckbereich》"

A large magic circle formed on the ground with Noelle as its center. The magic circle was slowly rotating and enlarging its own size, while enormous amounts of magic energy were continuously being poured to maintain its activation.

By inserting Lucius and Tania into the exclusion list, Noelle instantly increased the gravitational pressure all over the place within a range of 200 meters around it.

With this, he should be able to give Olivia enough time until Olivia finished preparing her magic.

{I'm done, Noelle! }

Noelle opened her eyes that had been closed since, and muttered the spell she was going to use.

"《Frostnova》"

A terrifying, at once calming aura flowed out from his body, accompanied by a very drastic drop in temperature towards the surroundings.

The surrounding land and water quickly began to freeze, while the drop in temperature continued to occur.

A large amount of magic energy flowed out from Noelle's body, along with the violet particles mixed with the dull silver colored magic particles that actually came from Olivia.

All the things that were within the range of the magic that Olivia had just announced, instantly froze.

The temperature of the air that had been at minus number was overwhelming everything. Even Noelle doubts that any microorganism has survived this brutal freeze.

Due to a very sudden drop in temperature, Lucius and Tania's bodies could barely contain it. Fortunately they have very high adaptability so their bodies can adjust to the ambient temperature.

(Livia ... Is it just my feelings, or is this magic becoming stronger than before? )

{ ... I don't understand either, Noelle.}

Even Olivia herself was surprised by how much power generated《Frostnova》 now.

Lucius quickly approached Noelle and watched her surroundings.

"You really have crazy magic."

Seeing large-scale magic like this was already common to Lucius. But, still he felt surprised to see this much magic coming from a C rank adventurer like Noelle.

(Sorry, but Olivia has this magic.)

Noelle was only able to smile wryly as she guessed what Lucius was thinking.

Tania approached the two of them after she confirmed the situation.

"The enemy is not attacking anymore? "

"I think so," Noelle answered briefly.

However, just as they were trying to breathe a sigh of relief, something strange suddenly happened.

(What the fuck?! My body ... Can't move .. )

{Noelle! }

Noelle was completely unable to move her body, and that was also the case with Tania and Lucius.

Olivia shouted frantically through telepathy, clearly clueless about the situation.

The atmosphere around them suddenly changed. The air became much heavier than before, and the sound of broken glass started popping out very loudly, deafening all of them.

Fields filled with large amounts of magic energy started popping up around them. Despite that, the three of them were still unable to move their bodies in the slightest.

Noelle tried to use the transformation to break away, but it seemed that she was not allowed to use the skill in this situation.

The rest of the magic that Olivia unleashed earlier was still around them, but just by the fact it would not change anything.

Nearly two minutes have passed with those caught in this complicated situation. Soon, a change finally happened.

The air becomes lighter, and their bodies can be moved freely again. The magic field that had previously sprung up also slowly began to disappear, along with the rest of the magic《Frostnova》 that Olivia had previously announced.

"It seems we are free."

"That's true, but .. How? "

(Ohh, come on .. I'm not in a good mood and want to think about something like that.)

'The 'limit' that had previously prevented them from leaving finally disappeared, but how about it was something Noelle did not want to think about now.

Clearly, a third party must be involved with this.

While they were all still confused by the sudden change in situation, a monster with a giant jellyfish-like appearance appeared and attacked them with its sting. However, the creature instantly froze when it touched Noelle.

Noelle who saw that was of course confused. Then he looked at his own hand.

(Hmm? Is the magic effect still there? Livia ... Does that magic give us the added effect of such protection? )

{Eh, I don't think.}

(Eh? )

What is the addition of resurrection《Lust》? Most likely it is.

"Now ... Since the city has made it out .. How about we check out the others? "

Lucius asked Noelle and Tania politely, but what was on Noelle's mind now was very unworthy to show her.

(Why did you become familiar with us, you bastard.)

Lucius must have been worried about Norman and the others, therefore he wanted to rush over to check on him.

However, what she was worried about at the moment was none of Noelle's business. Noelle was eager to turn down her offer and leave immediately, but it would definitely ruin the image she had built so hard, so she rejected the idea.

"So here you are."

Moments later, a man came and called them.

That was Earl Eisen. He appeared to have wounds on some parts of his body, and his clothes were slightly shattered with many bloodstains there.

It was clear that he had just been involved in the fight.

"What happened to you guys? All of a sudden you disappeared" said Earl.

"We should have asked you that, where have you been?! "

Noelle did not care about him, but still irritated when he saw a leader like the Earl actually left the population under his control.

Lucius also had the same feelings as Noelle. He looked at the Earl with great pressure, as if asking him to explain everything.

Realizing everyone's thoughts, the Earl could only sigh. Really troublesome, he thought.

"There's no time to explain. It's all Terneth-related, I just went away for a little while to take care of it. For His Highness the Prince and his friends, I've asked them to go somewhere else to take shelter. I also get help from them."

The Earl looked back, and noticed the group of people who were fighting to finish off all the remaining monsters.

They were all the remaining members of the Asterisk. But something is wrong there.

There were only six people there. The figure, known as Souris, disappeared.

(Where did that bastard go?! )

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Meanwhile, where Harold is.

Harold with a body drenched in blood tried to stand with great difficulty. All the wounds on his body were slowly closing with regenerating power, but still he still lost a lot of blood.

Several minutes had passed since he was attacked by an unknown enemy, and from then on, there was absolutely no sign of the very presence of the attacker.

He completely disappeared right after leaving a huge wound on Harold's body.

Some of his internal organs and bones had been destroyed, and it took quite a long time to heal all of them with regeneration. In order to speed up his regeneration, Harold tried to bite and suck the blood of the monster he had killed before.

The taste of the monster's blood was really very bad. It tastes so bitter and disgusting. Accompanied by the stench produced by the monster's flesh, even a vampire would think twice about sucking its blood.

Despite that, Harold continued to force himself to drink that extremely disgusting blood. Although he had to hold back his vomit when he sensed how the extremely rotten sticky liquid had entered his throat, Harold would do anything to keep him safe.

However, no matter how much monster blood he drank, the regeneration speed of his body did not change at all. He simply continued to drink the disgusting liquid without getting any benefit from it.

By the time Harold had resigned, the space around him began to distort, and displayed a shadow figure that had absolutely no human characteristics.

It was a huge wolf with pitch-black hair, and red eyes. The shadow under the wolf was seen shaking every time the wind struck and caressing his delicate body.

Harold felt like he had seen the wolf somewhere, but he had absolutely no memory of what or who it was.

A second later, another figure came, this time in the form of a little girl with very thick black hair.

As his consciousness faded, he managed to name the girl.

"Cho .. e … "

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One part of the autonomous island in the city of Eisen, Anastasia Church.

There's nothing there anymore. Other than the barren land that had several small craters filled with lava, there was absolutely no trace that signified the establishment of the autonomous island of the majestic church.

The only thing left there was the biological figure of a man whose body had been almost completely destroyed.

It was Terneth, who was dying.

"Look at you, you're really pathetic right now."

Approaching him who was dying, a girl uttered a mock sentence to the figure of Terneth who was now lying helplessly on the ground.

"Not only did you let him beat you, you even lost without a fight from him. You're really disappointing, Terneth."

The girl chuckled softly, clearly mocking Terneth's current state.

How not? Terneth is really a very sad situation right now.

Initially, he fought against the Earl with full confidence in his abilities. But, in fact, he was defeated very easily.

Both of his hands had been destroyed, and one leg and one eye had also been damaged so that they could no longer be used. Dozens of bones and some of its internal organs had also been destroyed due to the shockwave that hit it from outside.

It was all a wound that the Earl left for Terneth in just under an hour.

"Well, I can't blame you for losing to him. None of us would have thought that that person, Moretti sera Eisen, had such a high ability in close combat. It was a miscalculation."

Not only were they defeated in terms of magic, but Terneth was also rendered battered by the Earl's ability to use melee weapons such as daggers and short swords.

"Despite that, this is your defeat. You still have to take responsibility, Terneth."

Even though his body state was already extremely dire, Terneth could somehow still live to listen to the girl's words.

"I can tolerate your failure this time, but there won't be another time. You even let the vibrate dagger I gave you get stolen by him. You'll have to make up for that, by serving us, Voyager."

"Me ... laya ... ni? "

"That's right. Swear allegiance to us, and we'll give you one more chance to make up for all your failures."

" ……… "

Terneth already had no power to answer him. He could only give up on what would happen to his life after this.

"Well, I should have killed you here by now. But, since our goal has already been achieved, we can still be kind enough to give you a chance. You better not waste it. I'll heal your body later, for now, I'll just give you emergency treatment."

As the girl was about to leave, Terneth with the last strength at his disposal tried to call out to her, and asked.

" … How .... With ... People .... That? "

The girl only glanced slightly at Terneth, before finally answering indifferently.

"If what you mean by 'those people' are the people you brought to attack this place, then there's only bad news for you. Out of the 60 people you brought, there were only 14 survivors. The rest have died in such a horrible way that we don't even want to see their bodies."

"So .. Yes … "

After hearing it directly, only regret filled Terneth's heart. He had already asked those people to join him in the act of 'revenge'. They all joined Terneth because he had promised them all victory. However, the result was very contrary to what was expected.

If it was just adventurers, then Terneth could still handle it. But, he had never expected that a Knight of Round like Lucius would also come. Moreover, there was a new group called Asterisk that appeared and messed up all his plans.

(I'm really stupid .. )

That's all he can think of now.

No matter how many times he thought about it, he always ended up with the conclusion that all the plans he made were very stupid.

He was overconfident in the strength he had, and ended up making a rash plan. He didn't even take into account the worst situation that could have happened.

Now, he already had no face to meet everyone he had promised with his previous victory.

"Well, you don't have to blame yourself like that. It's also our fault for not predicting everything. The appearance of Asterisk and the Knight of Round was something unexpected."

Even though he put it that way, Terneth remained immersed in regret for having wasted the precious lives of all those people.

"At least this isn't the end for you. You still have a chance to avenge all this later. For now, you'll have to come with us."

With that, Terneth is again given a chance to live, and lives his life of vengeance filled with regret.

(Goodbye .. Glantz, Luna, all of them .. I hope you can live in peace without taking any bad influence from me. )

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