[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 84: Conflict (1)

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After the three of them smashed the crystal inside the mouth of the mantis sage, it gave off an extremely dazzling light until it finally broke into a grain of light.

And as if the thread controlling her life had been cut off, the sage mantis slowly lost its power and remained helpless while its body was still held back by the giant thorns that Chloe had removed to seal her movements earlier.

Cryll and Dyland simultaneously fell from the mouth of the sage mantis after destroying the crystal in its mouth.

Falling from a height of about 50 meters should not be a problem for trained people like the two of them, but the state of Cryll and Dyland was now not good enough that they just fell helplessly.

Fortunately, the bodies of the two of them were captured by Chloe using her shadow before they both fell completely.

Chloe slowly leads them to the ground and Brackas goes to get to them.

The shadow that Chloe controls acts as a giant hand that lays Cryll and Dyland's bodies over Brackas' massive body, so Brackas can take them both to a place where the others are already waiting.

As soon as Norman and the others saw the state of the two of them, everyone who was there suddenly widened their eyes in surprise while frowning in horror.

Cryll and Dyland's bodies were covered in wounds. The most terrifying one is Cryll. The skin of his hands and feet had burned and melted so as to show flesh that gave off a foul scent.

While Dyland, the situation is also quite severe. But the wounds he got were still much better than what Cryll got.

His hands and feet were slightly charred and had the possibility of a fracture, but the rest of the time he was fine.

Perhaps because of his endurance as a holy knight or because of his ability in dodging fatal attacks that could protect him to date.

Stella without hiding the anxious and panicked look from her face immediately approached Cryll. However, Chloe calms him down and says that he just fainted.

Although Chloe had already said that to calm her down, Stella still did not wipe her worried face and continued to stare at Cryll's slowly healing body with her natural regeneration.

"Registration ... Too slow" Stella said.

"Well, that's natural. Cryll just used almost all of his magic power just for reinforcement magic and to activate《Accel》"

Noelle came with a body full of wounds while splashing a liquid into the bodies of Cryll and Dyland.

Soon, Cryll and Dyland's bodies instantly recovered and returned to their original appearances.

"It will only heal the external wounds, so we should immediately give them both treatment as soon as possible. Their condition is not so bad, just a fracture in some parts .. It will heal in a short time even without my help."

Noelle explained while shrugging her shoulders.

While he was doing that, he also drank a red liquid from a transparent tube that he took out of his pocket.

Next, all the wounds on his body instantly disappeared and displayed his usual figure.

"Noelle .. From where? "

Olivia asked while tilting her head in confusion.

He brought Noelle a new robe to replace her robe that had disappeared somewhere.

Noelle let out a bitter expression for a moment before finally answering Olivia's question.

"After I shot the eyes of the mantis sage and smashed his protector, I ran out of mana and fainted for a while. That's when a bunch of wyverns attacked me in that fainting state."

The recoil effect that Aligma exerted was much greater than he thought to the point that Noelle was thrown off her footing in mid-air and free-falling to the ground.

Just as he was about to save himself from falling free, he lost his consciousness due to the excessive use of mana in a short period of time.

By the time Noelle regained consciousness, she was already in a wyvern nest a short distance away from the valley where the battle with the sage mantis began.

"And since I haven't fully recovered, I intend to call Brackas for help, but ... I didn't expect that Chloe would come with him either … "

Noelle sighed tiredly while ruffling her hair.

"In addition … "

With a gloomy expression, Noelle tried to add. However, he did not seem to want to say anything.

Despite that, Noelle took a deep breath and told Olivia and the others about what she found.

"I found their nest, and .. Their number is too great. Much larger than expected."

"The wyvern nest where Master was captured is quite close to where the monsters were. We've also marked the location, but .. It's better to go back and report this to the guild for further instructions" Chloe added with a serious face.

Olivia and Charlotte who already knew that Chloe was not the type of person who would be serious enough to be surprised to see her.

Noelle and Chloe have similarities in various aspects …

"Wait, wait! If their nest is near here, and you already know about it, why don't we just attack directly?! " Norman suddenly interrupted the conversation.

"You're crazy, huh? No, you must be crazy. You haven't seen their nest, so you don't know. There are two more creatures in common with that sage mantis, you know?! "

Noelle denied Norman with an unhappy face.

"Is that a problem? If you attack him like that, you can defeat them easily, right? " said Norman with a mocking face.

The real Noelle did not want to mince words and immediately wanted to go frowning upon hearing that.

A faint smile suddenly appeared on Noelle's lips.

"Then, please try it yourself" Noelle said without removing her smile.

Norman frowned in confusion.

"What do you mean …? "

Noelle's smile deepened.

"As I said, please do it yourself. My group will return to the city to report and do treatment for Cryll. You just beat them all yourself."

Noelle then lifts Cryll's body with her hand and Brackas goes into Noelle's shadow to rest.

They left while leaving Dyland lying on the ground.

Olivia, and the others followed him from behind. Before they all left, Charlotte briefly stopped and looked at the Norman group with pity eyes. However, a happy smile clearly emanated on his face.

Norman and the others simply stared at Noelle with dumbfounded eyes. A moment later, Norman regained his senses and shouted towards Noelle angrily, but–

"Ahh, yes, right also .. The location of their nest is located in a few kilometers in the west. You can arrive just by following the straight path," Noelle said, pointing to a rocky road surrounded by lush forest trees.

After showing her direction, Noelle then left while ignoring Norman's screams behind.

There was not a single person in Noelle's group who wanted to get involved with Norman and his group.

Noelle, Olivia, and Charlotte have never wanted to get involved with those people since they reincarnated, whereas Stella only cares about Cryll no matter where he is.

While Chloe .. From the beginning she never knew them, so she didn't care.

"I think it's good here … "

After a few minutes of travel leaving Norman and his group behind him, Noelle suddenly stopped in a large enough empty area with trees surrounding her.

"Why stop? "

Olivia asked while tilting her head.

Noelle turned around and saw that everyone was still in an energetic state like before as if they had never fought with that sage mantis.

"We'll camp here tonight. Although now he was fine, the wounds within Cryll had to be dealt with immediately."

Understanding Noelle's explanation, Stella nodded with a serious face.

"Yahh, other than that … "

Noelle awkwardly continued.

"I'm also running out of energy. I used it too much when I used Aligma, and I lost even more when fighting a bunch of wyverns while giving Chloe reinforcement to help you guys out … "

Olivia, who heard the reason, blinked a few times before smiling gently.

"Okay, let's finish the conversation. How are we going to camp here? Ahh, wait. I'm sure you guys must have brought something to it. You guys have one, right? "

Charlotte with a flat face interrupted their conversation and asked Noelle to make sure.

Noelle smiled as she said 'You think who I am? ', then turn around.

He stomped his feet on the ground, and a large magic circle began to form on the ground, pulling itself upwards into a strange cylindrical shape.

Next, a large multi-storey house appeared right inside the transparent cylinder made from that magic circle.

" " " ……… " " "

Charlotte, Stella, and Chloe stared at the house with twitches on their foreheads.

"Noelle .. You call this camping? " ask Charlotte.

Noelle tilted her head and replied.

"certain."

"But .. Isn't this place too big? "

Stella looked puzzled as she stared at the house that had just appeared before her. Charlotte also looked at Noelle with a face full of questions.

"Nahh .. That's because they'll definitely come here."

" " ………? " "

The two of them simultaneously tilted their heads in confusion, while Olivia and Chloe simply nodded understandingly.

"How should I say it, but .. It's strange to see Chloe understand this more than I do.

"Well, you'll understand later."

Smiling faintly, Noelle didn't say anything more and went straight inside the house, leaving Charlotte and Stella still confused.

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"Hey, Norman .. Are you really going to that place right now? "

While on his way to Noelle's designated location, Rico suddenly broke the silence that had dominated the journey.

Norman looked annoyed when he heard his words.

"According to my analysis, it's true. Cana– I mean Noelle, she looks like she's hiding something from us about that place. More ... We're still bringing Dyland. In that case, returning to the city and making a report was the best thing. We also have to do the Dyland treatment."

" … Tch."

Norman clicked his tongue at Rico who made that logical-sounding decision.

Not only Rico, but Kaira, Iris and the others were also looking at him doubtfully.

Norman will not return. He doesn't know why, but he doesn't feel like coming back and meeting Noelle.

He could only continue his journey even if he was alone.

Norman with a face that was crimson with anger emotions turned around and walked away leaving those who were still speechless.

Shortly afterwards, Rico whispered in Kaira's ear.

"You know? At a time like this I regretted refusing Wandell's invitation to go on an adventure with him."

Kaira let out a bitter smile and nodded her head while recalling their friend who was now not with them.

In the next instant, an enormous explosive bang suddenly appeared and deafened all of them.

Norman who was not too far away from them also immediately knelt while trying to cover his ears.

After the explosion, Norman tried to stand with trembling legs.

His ears still did not function properly and still let out a painful hum to the brain, but he was somehow able to endure it.

Norman with trembling legs tried to stand up and frantically looked in the direction of the explosion.

The origin of the explosion was right at the spot Noelle had pointed to earlier.

He forced his still staggering body to run to that place.

"Wait on! Norman's! That's dangerous! "

Norman ignored the warning shouts from Rico and continued running.

"Ahhh shit! "

Rico irritatedly ruffled his hair and ran after Norman, followed by Kaira and the others.

After running for a few minutes, they were finally able to catch up with Norman.

But something is strange with him. Norman stared at the place with widened eyes and a body that trembled in fear.

They did not know about what Norman saw because they were still quite far behind him. However, they instantly understood the reason once they saw it in person.

It was a vast swamp forest field area with shrubs and murky water ponds.

Some trees that have a height of more than 40 meters are seen surrounding the swamp forest.

Although the scenery was quite beautiful, it was not what surprised them.

Rather, an absurd number of humanoid monsters were seen gathering in that place.

Some cyclops are seen working with orcs to transport goods of trees that will eventually be directly inserted into the crater of the fire that looks very hot.

On the other hand, there was a small building that looked like it would collapse at any moment. From there the screams of various people could be heard.

They instinctively knew about what was inside the building, yet none of them dared to make a move to be sure.

Next, a woman came out of the building without using a single piece of cloth on her body.

He had a body full of wounds and blood, his legs and hands looked as if they would be crushed at any moment, and his stomach was bulging to a size that no one could imagine.

A few seconds after the woman came out and approached what appeared to be a weapon storage area, an orc came out from behind the trees and directly smashed the woman's head into the nearby stone table.

Needless to say clearly, the woman's head was instantly shattered with scattered brains while the orc was smiling.

In the next instant, the woman's bulging belly instantly exploded and took out a few dwarf figures with a pig's head and yellow horn covered with blood and internal organs from the woman.

Norman, and the few others who saw the scene instantly had pale faces and tried to resist vomiting. However, the others were not as strong as him. Some of them had already spewed out their entrails while kneeling on the ground.

Although they did not want it, the memory of the scene would be permanently embedded in their brains.

"Hmm~ That's terrible, huh? "

Chloe's voice suddenly appeared beside them and made them reflexively direct their gaze at her.

"Before much more terrible, loh. But since Master was already kind enough to 'save' some of them, the situation became like this."

Chloe smiled sweetly as she pointed her hand forward.

"《Hastam》"

A spear emerged from his shadow, and easily flew, then pierced the neck of another woman who was trying to get out of the building.

" … Why did you ... Do it … "

Norman with a clear look of shock on his face tried to ask Chloe who replied to him with just a smile.

"Why do you think those women came to the weapons storage? " ask Chloe while sitting on the chair she made with her shadow.

"Of course to fight, right?! What else is it?! " shouted Norman furiously.

Chloe smile. "You really think so? No wonder you're calling you a stupid kid who doesn't have brains."

"Ap–?! "

Unable to finish his sentence, Norman suddenly had a black cloth covering his mouth forcefully.

"Then, how about we see for ourselves."

Chloe flicked her finger, and made another spear with her shadow.

The spear quickly shot forward and pierced through the hard orc skull.

The other woman who came out of the building looked surprised when she saw the spear that hit the head of the orc behind her, but she ignored it and limped to try to approach the weapon storage.

Norman was a little filled with hope when he saw the woman holding a sword in her hand, in the hope that at least she would fight back.

However, contrary to his expectations, the woman stabbed herself in the neck with the sword and eventually fell to the ground in a lifeless state.

Norman and the others looked extremely shocked upon witnessing that. However, Chloe just smiled happily as if she had won a gamble.

"seen? People like them are unlikely to defend themselves. They've been so desperate that the best option for them is to die."

"At the end of the day, saving them or leaving them alone makes no difference. They'll only end in death."

Chloe with a smile and words that did not seem to match her appearance then stood up and turned around.

"Well, I would probably have experienced that too if Master hadn't saved me back then~"

"Where are you going? "

Norman who was still recovering from his shock forcefully removed the cloth that covered his mouth and asked Chloe.

"Certainly back. Sir will be worried if I go too long~"

"Sir you mean .. Is he Noelle? "

"Hmm? Sure have? You think I have another master besides my Master? "

Chloe tilted her head and looked at Norman in confusion.

He really could not think that he would have another master besides Noelle. He only likes Noelle, and is not interested in anything other than Noelle. That'sallthatis.

As if conveying that with her gaze, Chloe then turned around and left.

"Ahh, yes ... Sir said, you can hitchhike at his house if you need a place to rest, so you better follow me quickly or you will be left behind."

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After a few minutes of travel, Norman and the others finally arrived at the 'campground' Noelle had set up.

Of course they found it with Chloe's help.

During the journey earlier, no one dared to speak in that heavy air.

Fortunately, one of the people in Norman's group secretly continued to cast magic spells that would calm the mentality.

Thanks to that, their pale faces became much more lively and healthy looking even though heavy air still filled the space between them all.

"Gee! Tuan~ I came back by bringing them all as Sir said~ Ahh … "

As Chloe cheerfully ran over with the intention of approaching Noelle, her legs suddenly came to a halt when she saw Noelle standing closed while clasping Langen tightly.

Noelle did not move from her position at all as if she was a statue.

Norman looks confused and tries to get close to Noelle, but is stopped by some shadow hands that come out of his own shadow.

"Why did you stop me? " ask Norman with an unhappy look.

" … You'll die if you approach the Master now."

" ……… "

Chloe let out a tired sigh as she looked at Norman who still did not understand her point.

He took one pebble from the ground, and threw it at Noelle.

With an invisible movement, the pebble was immediately slashed neatly into pieces after he entered the 2-meter circumference area around Noelle.

"Master is training, so it's better that we go in and see Miss Olivia and the others" Chloe said with a slight disappointment.

Norman and the others without saying anything walked up to Chloe who slowly entered the building she referred to as the 'campage.

Except for Lilith whose face was still gloomy.

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