[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 139: Neutral Enemies (10)

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"Hmm .. I thought this would be very interesting because of the presence of the Knight of Round and Asterisk, but .. This is quite boring."

"Are you having fun, Miss? "

Somewhere in Eisen's underground area. A beautiful woman with a very charming appearance and modestly dressed in a red flower-patterned kimono stared at the remaining crowd of monsters on top of a building that had almost destroyed its foundation.

The woman had black hair neatly styled in a shape similar to a ponytail, and in her hand, she held a traditional umbrella known as a wagasa.

Standing diagonally behind him, an old man with a sturdy posture spoke to the young lady.

The kimono with a beautiful blend of black and white color seemed to sway every time the wind hit it. The woman sighed while closing her eyes, creating an extremely charming appearance.

"There's no way I can have fun here, Hayase. Olpus and the others would be furious if they found out that I had just intervened in that fight."

The woman called the name Olpus easily as if without burden. Just that alone should be enough to explain that the woman is not a normal person.

The woman was actually one of the Voyagers who came to watch how things were going in Eisen.

However, seeing how all the things that had happened in Eisen, he felt futile for having come.

(I came to respect the decision of the Elder who wanted to keep the honor of the Sawano family, but .. I guess I'm not needed here.)

His name is Sawano Yukine. He did have a different nationality from Olpus and the others, but their two countries had cooperated so that Yukine had to come to this place as one of the Voyagers.

It's really troublesome, Yukine thought at first. However, after witnessing how the people in this place were developing, he became increasingly interested and ended up drowning in fun and curiosity while watching how everyone could develop.

"You said that, but you had previously intervened directly to test the three of them, right? " said Hayase with a faint smile.

In response to that, Yukine only showed a flat face without any major changes to her expression.

"They four. With one man disguised as a little bat."

The four people that Yukine meant were of course the ones who were stuck with Noelle before.

"Oh, yeah. Then, what do you think after testing them all directly? "

'Testing' which Hayase meant was when Noelle and the others had to face off against an unknown enemy with such a thin presence.

The figure of the unknown enemy was actually a very beautiful woman named Sawano Yukine. Of course, Noelle and the others couldn't possibly have guessed that.

The one who got Noelle and the others trapped in an endless barrier was the same person who attacked them, it was none other than a Yukine.

《Unlimited Imprisonment》 is the name of the special skill that Yukine has. The skill had the function of creating a barrier that separated the area inside the barrier, with the outside world.

With that skill, Yukine had trapped Noelle and the others in an indestructible cage of illusions at all costs.

Although referred to as a special skill, both the abilities and shortcomings of this skill are similar to《Absolute Cube》 that Damian has.

The only difference is that the use of this skill is completely undetectable to others. So, the enemy would never know that they had been trapped in Yukine's boundless prison.

Yukine then pulled the end of the handle of her umbrella, revealing a sword that looked extremely sharp. The umbrella had another function as a scabbard for his sword.

Several pink flower petals also seemed to be flying around him as he drew the sword.

"Well, their strength is average. Although I can feel a huge difference in strength between them and everyone here. But, the most conspicuous one was that person named Lucius and Noelle. I can't guess the limits of their strength."

"Can I know what you mean? "

Yukine smiled happily, and replied, "I can't see their full strength. The two of them were still holding themselves back in the previous fight. They also have a lot of potential so they can develop quickly at any time."

" … That sounds like something amazing … "

"Really, right? I was originally interested in kidnapping and making them disciples of the Sawano family, but I immediately changed my mind because they would not accept the offer."

Hayase widened her eyes, clearly surprised by what Yukine said.

"Inheriting the fighting style of the Sawano family should be an honor for commoners like them. They shouldn't turn down that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

A small laugh came out from Yukine's dazzling lips. His gaze gently looked at the ground that was now filled with disgusting dog-shaped monster corpses.

"The loyalty you have towards the Sawano family has always been amazing, Hayase. But you have to reduce your arrogance because it can backfire someday."

"I'll remember it. And what about two more people? What do you think of them? "

"Hmm ... Two girls named Tania and Olivia, yes .. I admit that they are both quite strong as well, but the potential they have is not as much as Lucius and Noelle. Although ... I feel that the two girls are the type of people who can develop very quickly when they have a reason to do so. Especially, the girl named Olivia who is now disguised as a bat. I can feel a lot of potential pulling off him."

"Are you talking about ice magic before? "

Yukine nodded.

"Yes. That ice magic,《Frostnova》 is a high-level magic that is impossible for ordinary people to use. That girl named Olivia has a lot of mana in her body, I think she can use that much magic many times within 12 hours."

" … He sounds very strong. Is it okay to let them all off now? They could be a problem in the future."

"That might happen, but we'll leave that to Olpus and the others. The only job we have here is to keep an eye on. Besides ... We've got what's our goal."

Yukine smiled, then pulled out a large feather from between her clothes.

"'Angel feather', one of the most important catalysts in 'the creation of angel weapons'. I didn't expect that Earl would have this stuff in his house."

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A battalion filled with Arnaz's rotting insects quickly advanced and broke through the crowd, melting all the monsters he touched.

On the other hand, the hundreds of playing cards that came out of Ethan's sleeve continued to fly and slash all of the monster's bodies with great ease, as if they were an extremely sharp sword.

Damian also did not stay still, he swung his two swords with very smooth movements without any gaps, making all the monsters around him instantly die in a split state very neatly.

Asher fought by thrusting his spear into the ground, and created many thorns from the rock to penetrate all the defenses of the monster. It was a very effective type of attack to counter the crowd of monsters.

Meanwhile, the only person with no attack power against the monsters in the group, Lucia could only keep quiet while watching all her 'comrades' fight.

Not that he had no way to fight against monsters, it was just that the ability he had was a bit troublesome as it could affect the people around him as well.

The majority of the attack skills Lucia possessed were powerful attacks with a wide area range. It was a little troublesome as he could not manage anyone who should not be hit by the attack.

Even so, an attack of his area would at least be much more useful than a girl who could only fall asleep on a large pillow.

After conducting a large-scale assault on Rondo, and against the monsters that attacked in other areas earlier, the, now Colyn has run out of energy so he can not even afford to release the ability《Inviolable Area》 he is proud of it.

While Noelle, with guidance from Olivia who has the ability to echolocate in the form of a bat, Noelle has finished off the monster in numbers that he can no longer count.

Some time has passed since Noelle was freed from the boundless prison that trapped her earlier, and since then the remaining monsters have begun to arrive.

Right now, Tania was going around Eisen to destroy all of the open 'gate', while Lucius and the other Asterisk were working together to finish off the remaining monsters.

After the Prince and his companions were secured to another place, there was already no reason for Lucius to feel any doubt. He could freely fight without having to worry about Norman and the others.

From his place, Noelle could see how Lucius fought.

Unexpectedly, the fighting style that Lucius used looked extremely admirable in Noelle's eyes.

There was absolutely no waste of his movements. Every move he made had resulted in an attack that could easily finish off the enemy.

Noelle continued to kill monsters while paying attention to Lucius' fighting style, with the aim that he could learn about it and adopt, then fuse that fighting style into his own fighting style.

{Noelle, 9 o'clock direction. More than 40 monsters appeared. 20 seconds left until the clash.}

(Understood.)

Noelle pointed all her swords at where Olivia was referring to, and made a powerful stance pose.

His posture seemed to say that he was ready to draw forward at any time.

Noelle without saying anything else directly advanced forward with all of her sword tips targeting every monster she saw.

One by one the monster's head was plugged with its sharp sword, and a number of other monsters were very easily split apart, leaving their disgusting internal organs out.

If it was to match what he had thought, then this should have been the last wave of monsters. Now he just had to wait until Tania finished closing all the gates to the underworld.

Fortunately, there were no strange monsters like the ones they faced in the beginning. The monster that appeared here was just a small dog-shaped monster that was only slightly stronger than a bunch of goblins.

{Turn at 10, eight more monsters come. It is recommended to attack from above in order to be able to switch targets easily.}

(Understood.)

According to Olivia's advice, Noelle immediately jumped far up, and pulled out Aligma.

It didn't take long for Aligma to be fully charged with the magic energy of Noelle.

Noelle without further ado instantly pulled the trigger, and shot a powerful surge of energy at the crowd of monsters.

As soon as Noelle landed on the ground, Noelle instantly cast a gravitational magic that disrupted the movements of all the surrounding monsters.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the other Asterisk members also directly attacked the monsters that had been crippled by the gravity magic from Noelle.

Asher threw his shining spear into the air, then landed right in the middle of the group of monsters.

His spear quickly became a pillar of light that exterminated all those monsters without a remnant.

Noelle who saw that again used gravity magic to pull all the monsters to a single point.

Lucia smiled as soon as she saw him. "Thank you for providing a stage for me."

Lucia's hand lifted upwards, while the black cloth that closed her eyes slowly slipped apart, revealing two golden eyes that were filled with countless magic circles.

Instantly, all those monsters stopped rebelling. Their bodies were stiff, and they slowly turned to stone.

(Medusa's eyes, huh? )

Noelle who saw it inevitably directly connects the ability of Lucia with the mythological creature from the earth, Medusa.

Indeed, it was very suitable for him.

"With this it should have been finished, but .. Has Mordred destroyed all the gates? "

Damian looked around, and made sure no monsters were seen. It seemed that they had completely exterminated all the monsters that existed.

However, despite killing monsters in numbers that he could no longer count, Noelle did not get any sense of achievement.

Right now, his mind was focused on one thing.

Where is Harold, who should be disguising himself as Souris right now?

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Shortly after they all finished off the remaining monsters, Tania finally came and reported that all 'gates' had been shut down.

Which means, their work here is done.

"Eh? Done already? I just woke up … "

The sentence came from Colyn who was rubbing her eyes, while her body was still languidly lying on top of a large floating pillow.

"It doesn't matter if you continue sleeping, you know? But no one will take responsibility if you die here."

"I'm immortal too, you know? "

Colyn looked at Arnaz with half-open eyes, while Arnaz only replied to her with a cynical smile.

Lucius watched all the members of the Asterisk gathered (except Souris), and his gaze stopped on Damian.

"From your uniform, you're a Republican, right? You better be careful from now on. Because your picture will be on display in the wanted poster released tomorrow."

Even though Damian wears a mask to cover his face, those who knew him well enough in the Republican military will surely be able to easily figure out that Damian is actually Ructus, a wanted Asterisk member.

For Noelle, she had no problem with her photo wearing the mask being spread to the public. After all, no one would instantly recognize him considering that white hair and pale skin were not something that was rare.

Damian looked at Lucius firmly from behind his mask.

"I'm grateful for your concern, but it's unfortunate that I don't care about it. We've decided to do what we should."

Lucius could see Damian's seriousness even through the mask. He closed his eyes and snorted in annoyance.

"Well, if what you do is still in line with the security of this country and the world, then I will let you. But, if your actions start to deviate … "

The moment Lucius opened his eyes, an extremely powerful killing intent flowed out as if escaping from that cage called 'resistance.

Even someone like Damian or Noelle had almost lost the strength in their legs when facing his killing intent.

Noelle silently gritted her teeth firmly, and exerted magic energy to envelop herself and Olivia who was still hiding as a bat.

The intention of killing someone is something that is an embodiment of one's emotions and thoughts so it is impossible to avoid. The intention of killing someone would only hurt others mentally and damage their morals, but it had no influence whatsoever on the physique. However, there are several ways to survive that exposure.

One is to blanket the body with something that has the nature of 'can affect nature'. An example of matter having that property is mana, or also known as magic particles.

Lucius turned around without removing his killing intent, and immediately jumped high up, flying through the barrier on the ceiling.

His figure then disappeared from everyone's sight. It's clear that he's gone.

Everyone left there was instantly silent without being able to say anything. An awkward atmosphere filled the air, but it only lasted until Damian turned his eyes on Noelle, then removed his mask.

"Souris, what was the reason you left us and instead made someone disguise themselves as you just now? "

Noelle sighed tiredly. After everything that happened, now he should be caught up in a shitty interrogation? No, thank you. Noelle will answer Damian's questions in moderation.

"Well, you see, there's a lot of people who know me in this town. Even though the adventurers and soldiers available were now elsewhere to help with the evacuation of the population, I would still have to create an alibi if someone suddenly asked about where I was at the time of the attack."

That was the reason Noelle had prepared. Suspicions of him and Olivia have not faded since the appearance of Nix Regina. That made him have to act even more vigilantly since he did not want to be seen with such a troublesome matter among the residents.

"That makes sense," Arnaz nodded, agreeing with what Noelle said.

Asher came forward, and stood before Noelle. But, he then turned around and looked at Damian as if he was defending Noelle.

Asher then took off his mask and spoke to Damian.

"Ructus, Souris's actions have not harmed us in the least. He had also already told someone to replace him as 'Sourist' to clear suspicion."

"But, still .. The actions Souris took risk leaking our identities."

"But, in the end, the risk you're talking about doesn't happen at all, does it? Then let him. I'm sure that you would do the same with Souris if faced with a similar situation."

" ……… "

What Asher said is true. Damian would also do the same with Noelle if he was involved in the same situation as her.

If Damian's identity as Asterisk is revealed, then it is the end for him. All the subordinates who trusted her, as well as Claudia who had become her daughter would legally be in danger if that were to happen.

"alright. I'll let you do it this time. But, I might not be able to hold myself back if this were to happen again. Do you agree with that? "

Damian then looked at all the Asterisk members who were not involved in the conversation.

Because of the Asterisk organizing structure that stands in the absence of a leader, all decisions must be taken based on mutual agreement. If he wanted to make a rule, then at least the majority of the members would have to agree with it.

"I have no problem" Lucia said with a smile.

"Do as you like" replied Arnaz.

"I'll follow any decision as long as it sounds good" Colyn said.

Tania was still silent, but then she looked at Damian. "I agree."

Damian nodded, and walked away leaving them.

Asher and the others also then walked after him, before they finally all flew into the air, out of the inlet that Asher had created earlier.

Now, all that's left is Noelle and Olivia.

Olivia, who was still in the form of a small bat, was wild from Noelle's coat, and realized her real body quickly.

He smiled gently at Noelle, and raised both of his hands forward, as if pulling Noelle who was now right in front of him.

Noelle's gaze naturally softened, there was already no more threatening aura that had enveloped her since.

Noelle slowly walked over to Olivia who was standing not far from her, then bowed slightly to let Olivia hug her back.

"Welcome back. You really kept your promise to come back to me, yeah … "

"Unn. I'm already here anyway. There's no way I can go far."

"Hmm .. You don't have to say that."

Olivia pouted a little, but the smile did not disappear from her face. His hand slowly stroked and stroked Noelle's extremely fine white hair.

" … Sorry."

He's really back. Noelle has returned to where she should have been. Now he should not have to think of anything that could ruin the warm feeling that filled him at this moment.

But, what the fuck? He should be happy now. But, there was such a painful feeling filling him, as if his heart had been squeezed by something.

It's like .. He has lost something very valuable to him. And he can't remember what it was.

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