Like a ruin.

The gray sky was filled with thick dust.

Vast expanses of tall* buildings and streets with countless dead grass grow like the backdrop of the world.

Even the creatures encountered occasionally are all kinds of strange shapes, but more often than not, they are huge black shadows like humanoids, with meaningless whimpering from their black mouths, and they are walking blankly in this ruin-like world.

Like the weird cat-faced woman before, in Freya's eyes, it may be a relatively normal type.

It's just that it's like a world between the real and the unreal, and no matter what Freya does, she can't bring anything inside to the world she is in.

Even with energy wrapping, it can't.

This is the end result of a night of experimentation.

The dagger on his chest slowly shattered, and his eyes, which emitted scarlet smoke, returned to their original blue.

Freya touched the vanished horns on her head, giving her a pensive look.

She pondered the results of the night's experiments, and although they all ended in failure, the strange landscape of the world still made her curiosity more and more intense.

If I'm not mistaken, I was probably the first to discover that world. She thought faintly.

The sun outside the window poured into the courtyard of the manor, and some of the morning birds chirped and fell to the dry pool to comb their feathers.

Freya turned her head to look at the birds in the fountain of the pool, paused, and finally stood up.

Not sleeping all night didn't make her body feel particularly tired, just because the mental power consumed by continuously portraying the magic circle for a night made her face a little pale and looked very tired.

Twisting her waist slightly, she subconsciously touched her chest. It seemed a little smaller, but it was about the same size as before, which made the corners of her mouth slightly upturned.

"In about a week, the after-effects of the promotion will be completely stable, and then it's time to think about meditation and other trivial things. But now ......"

She walked to the second floor, took off the brown dress she had worn for a long time, changed into a fiery red leather armor, and covered it with a white robe.

The cross-sword was hidden in the robes.

Freya gently smoothed the folds on it, paused, and strode out of the manor.

"It's time to visit the lord of the lower castle." ……

The city of Raymond in the early morning is busy.

Some shops opened early. On the street are some women carrying baskets of shopping.

Occasionally, you can see one or two swordsmen wearing leather armor and holding weapons.

As for Freya in her robes, it didn't seem strange when she walked.

This is just an ordinary city, and she doesn't understand the meaning of the white robe at all, but when Freya passes by these people, she occasionally feels a strange cold and inexplicable panic.

This is the effect of the invisible spiritual force field.

The castle lord's castle is located in the noble quarter of the city.

Over time, the streets, which were still a bit cluttered, became clean and tidy.

Occasionally, ornate carriages inscribed with aristocratic motifs pass by.

The red and yellow houses and manors gradually appeared in Freya's field of vision.

Not far away is a huge pond. The fountain in the middle is spraying water, and next to it are two children dressed in aristocratic costumes playing and playing, and on the seat on the other side of the pond is a lady in a red dress, presumably the mother of two children, who is looking at the two with a black parasol.

She calmly swept past the two struggling children, paused, and walked straight towards the huge castle in the distance.

Ten minutes later.

Freya appeared at the gates of the castle.

The door was half-open, and two soldiers with spears were standing on either side.

Maybe she saw Freya walking this way. One of the soldiers frowned slightly, and was about to speak, but he paused when he saw Freya's blue eyes.

At this time, Freya's eyes were like two blue swirls. It glows with a blinding light.

"Knight intermediate, that's good."

Glancing at the two soldiers who were standing still, Freya walked straight through.

Just the guards have such strength, and the defense of this castle is very strong.

But that's just for the average person.

Feeling the faint aura of energy in the air, Freya slowly walked in one direction.

Anyone who saw her was as if they hadn't discovered her.

This is what the official wizard does to ordinary people, even if they don't do anything. Just by slightly strengthening the spiritual force field formed around her body, these mortals directly ignored her existence.

This is the gap in the level of life.

She hadn't felt anything special about being in Katya City. But now that I've been promoted to a full-fledged wizard, this feeling has become even more profound.

Or rather. This is also the difference between wizards and ordinary people, even if the pollution caused by ordinary spiritual force fields is irreversible and severe to mortals for a long time.

Leather boots stepped on the bluestone slab, and in a moment Freya came to the outside of the castle's living room.

There was a faint sound of soft speech coming from inside.

“…… No, I won't allow you to do that, although the Tertia family has a tough attitude, but if you go directly, I'm afraid they will really cut off the supply of goods, which will not be good for us. It was an old voice, as if to convince him.

"What if it is cut off? Do we really have to bow our heads? Or do you want to give it to them for nothing? Don't you know the value of that thing? Or are you old enough to be afraid of those people......?! ”

"Felix! You!! Don't think you're going to be able to do that if you advance to the rank of Grand Knight! After all, one person's strength cannot be worth a family! Have you forgotten your father's death? ”

"Shut up!! I ......"

Just as the two were arguing fiercely, an unusually cold female voice suddenly sounded in the middle of the two voices.

"That's it! Stop arguing! I didn't call you here to fight! This female voice seemed to have a strong deterrent power, and the two of them were immediately silenced.

After a pause, the female voice continued

"I was already notified yesterday ......"

She was only halfway through her sentence when her eyes suddenly pointed to the door of the room.

Over there. At some point, a blonde woman in a white robe was already standing there, looking at the three of them with an indifferent expression.

"You are ......"

Maybe it was the woman's gaze, and the other two people also looked this way.

It was an old man in a black gentleman's dress and a young man in aristocratic attire.

Perhaps it was this sudden appearance that made both of them slightly stunned for a while.

A drop of cold sweat ran down the sideburns from the young man's hair.

Suddenly. Out of nowhere, the young man pulled out two silver scimitars and rushed towards Freya with a furious current.

The invisible blade directly pulled up a silver light.

"Oh no! Felix! Don't go! "The woman is there

The moment the young man rushed out, he suddenly screamed as if he thought of something terrible.

And on the other side.

Freya indifferently looked at the young man in front of her who was rushing towards her with a fierce wind pressure knife, she stretched out her palm and snapped her fingers lightly.

'Smack'

A subtle green glow flashed.

Suddenly, the wooden gate behind him twisted violently. Then a large brown thick vine swept over.

'Huh!! ’

The sharp scimitar immediately smashed the vines in front, but more vines in the back wrapped around the young man's body and quickly tightened up.

As if sensing a threat, the man who had not yet been completely submerged by the vines had a sharp look in his eyes. The scimitar, which was not entangled in the other hand, turned abruptly.

Like a thin silver thread that had been stretched, all the vines that wrapped around his body were actually cut open.

"Oh? The great knight who has just been promoted and has not yet stabilized dìng, is that swordsmanship? ”

Seeing the vines that broke free of the catalytic technique in an instant, Freya looked curious.

In her field of vision, she clearly saw that this person didn't know what method he used, and he actually slashed out more than a dozen knives in an instant, and the knives were all at the same point.

So much so that ordinary people look like a slender silver thread.

"Since this is this, what about this?"

He muttered softly. Suddenly, her right hand disappeared abruptly.

A black shadow mixed with a strong aura of danger suddenly shot out.

Before he could cross his knives across his chest, the young man named Felix flew straight out as if he had been hit by a heavy truck.

'Click! ’

The sofa in the back was directly broken. Then there was the table, and then it slammed against the wall.

The two scimitars on his chest were now full of fine cobweb cracks, and an ordinary black seed was embedded in the middle.

'Poof! ’

A mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, and he looked at the blonde woman opposite him in disbelief, and then his eyes actually fainted.

"This is unreasonable punishment for you." Freya glanced at the man and said lightly.

The woman who had just shouted to stop her saw the young man unconscious. He didn't get angry, but showed deep jealousy. It's as if the woman on the other side is some terrifying beast.

"This ...... My lord, I don't know what you're here for......" she said cautiously.

Hear her words. Freya retracted her gaze and instead of answering her question immediately, she glanced her up and down and sniffed lightly, as if she had found something, and asked in confusion.

"Huh? You were once an apprentice in the Crimson Forest? ”

"Uh...... Yes. I don't know why the witch on the other side asked this question, but she answered honestly.

"Oh." Freya nodded slightly, strode over to the side of the couch and sat down before continuing.

"Actually, I came here just to borrow your records from thirty years ago, and I didn't mean anything, but I came a little hastily and may cause some misunderstandings, but since you are from the Crimson Forest, it may help me. By the way, my name is Freya, Lord of Angelia. ”

“……”

Hearing Freya's words, Angelia, who was originally terrified, slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

But in the bottom of my heart, I was still nervous, an official wizard actually came here suddenly, no matter what the purpose was, it was terrible after all. (To be continued)