Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 436

The Territory’s Morning (2)

Legion approached the window.

Pat, pat, pat!

Heavy raindrops lashed against the window.

It felt like something was spreading throughout the city like an epidemic. He didn’t know what it was.

Kugugugugukung!

As thunder and lightning struck, Legion knew what it was.

Abysses were forming around the castle. From them, monsters poured out endlessly.

There seemed to be at least thousands of them. As time passed, the number of monsters would only increase. The monsters, with their bizarre screeches, began to indiscriminately attack the city’s mansions.

The city was paralyzed due to the rain that had continued for days. The guards were all deployed to manage the waterways, and security was left unattended.

In other words, there were no troops to protect the territory’s residents.

Crack! Crackle, crackle! Crackle, crackle, crackle!

The monsters destroyed the mansions and devoured humans. Suddenly attacked, the humans were sucked into the monsters’ mouths without knowing why.

Click!

Legion opened the window and looked down at the castle walls. They were quite high up. In terms of height, it was probably over 50 meters.

As Countess Annabelle had said, ‘This room has the best view. If the weather is good, you can see the entire city at a glance. Moreover, it is the easiest place to defend against assassins.’

Bullshit.

It’s easy to defend, but it’s also hard to escape.

He couldn’t climb down the castle walls because it was raining.

However, it wasn’t like there was no way. He could hold Rosemary and use ‘Void Step’ [a magical ability that allows for short-distance teleportation].

But…….

“What the hell are those?”

Hundreds of frog monsters, not even listed in the monster encyclopedia, were stuck all over the castle walls.

They were quickly climbing up the walls.

Squish!

Several of them broke through the window and invaded the castle. A piercing scream erupted from inside.

Soon after, a knight escaped through the window.

Whirrrrr!

A frog monster wrapped its long tongue around the knight. Then, gulp. The knight was swallowed into the frog monster’s belly without even screaming.

Legion frowned for a moment.

He had never seen them before. Their nature was different from any monster he had encountered so far.

What is this?

He didn’t think he would lose if he fought them, but… he couldn’t help but feel uneasy.

Perhaps confronting them would attract even more monsters.

He could find out why this was happening later.

Right now, he had to escape with the princess.

“What’s wrong?”

Rosemary asked. She seemed to sense that something unusual was happening.

“We need to escape the castle immediately.”

Rosemary nodded. She didn’t even ask why. He liked that about her.

If it were another woman, there would have been countless demands such as why? What’s going on? I can’t go. Call the subordinate knights? Call a mage? etc.

Legion opened the magic transceiver called Galaxy. When it was first released, it was as big and thick as a hammer, but now it had shrunk to the size of a palm.

With this, there was no need for a mana stone to act as a transceiver. In the past, there was only one mana stone per village that acted as a transceiver.

It was said that you had to wait all day to make a single call.

The development of mechanical magic made even personal transceiver mobile phones possible.

Of course, it was still too expensive for ordinary people to buy.

Only nobles could use it.

Recently, commoners also occasionally used mobile phones.

What was it called? 4-year installment plan? A method of dividing the price of a mobile phone and paying it off over 4 years.

To think that you have to work your bones out for 4 years just to buy a phone like this.

Legion thought he would never buy it.

“The number is… 010-235…….”

Ring, ring, ring.

The signal goes.

-Speak.

Vassrava Bob answered the phone right away. His voice was also deeply subdued.

“Did you see it?”

-I just confirmed it.

“What are they?”

-They’re monsters from the Demon Realm.

“The Demon Realm?”

-That’s right. It’s in the Demon Realm encyclopedia. I’m sure those are the monsters. It says they are man-eating monsters who are fanatically fond of human flesh. The reason they smelled humans and came out first is precisely because of that.

“Assuming that’s true… why did the monsters from the Demon Realm suddenly appear?”

-The gate to the Demon Realm opens for various reasons. The first is due to natural phenomena. A corona [the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere] is created during a total solar eclipse. At that time, dimensions temporarily overlap. The gate to the Demon Realm sometimes opens through that gap.

“It’s not a total solar eclipse right now.”

-The gate to the Demon Realm sometimes opens due to natural disasters.

“Natural disasters?”

-That’s right. For example, if events such as volcanic eruptions, subterranean earthquakes, or tsunamis occur, the gate to the Demon Realm may open.

“Does the gate to the Demon Realm open even if it rains this much?”

-I haven’t seen such a report.

“Then what’s going on now?”

-There’s a high possibility that someone artificially opened the gate to the Demon Realm.

“What crazy bastard…….”

The Demon Realm is completely different from the Human Realm.

If the Demon Realm is a dimension of predators, then the Human Realm is, at best, a very docile place.

As Vassrava Bob said, the gate to the Demon Realm occasionally opens temporarily.

If the gate to the Demon Realm opens in a city or town, not a single resident will survive.

That’s how much the monsters of the Demon Realm hated everything in the Human Realm.

Why, he didn’t know.

He couldn’t exactly grab the monsters from the Demon Realm and ask them.

In the past, a knight shook hands with a commander of the Demon Realm, saying, ‘Let’s get along. Let’s not fight,’ and his head was blown off in one blow, and such a thing never happened again.

In short, no communication possible.

Occasionally, there are black mages who open the gate to the Demon Realm. They must be opening the gate hoping for something, but they too are torn to pieces and killed by the monsters that come out of the Demon Realm.

In other words! The probability of the caster who opened the gate to the Demon Realm surviving is extremely low.

But someone opened the gate to the Demon Realm?

Why on earth?

It couldn’t be that he opened the gate to the Demon Realm because the weather was gloomy and he was in a bad mood.

There must be some purpose.

-Think carefully. Are we the target?

Legion immediately understood what he meant.

The only thing that had changed from usual was one thing.

Princess Rosemary.

“Are you saying they’re targeting the princess?”

-Perhaps that’s the case.

Legion clicked his tongue.

They targeted the princess in a way he couldn’t have imagined. He thought they would only send assassins at best.

He was confident that he could stop any opponent.

But in this case, he had to change his strategy.

“What should we do?”

-Can you defeat all the monsters from the Demon Realm with your power?

Legion looked out the window.

The monsters from the Demon Realm were increasing. If time continued to pass like this, wouldn’t they increase to tens of thousands?

It was possible to hold out alone.

However, it was very difficult to protect Rosemary and stop all the monsters from the Demon Realm.

It was close to impossible.

“It’s too much.”

-I see. Then escape. I’ve issued an emergency order to all the knights.

“Where do we meet?”

-The first floor.

“Understood.”

Legion nodded. He looked at Rosemary.

Rosemary, who received Legion’s gaze, stood up. And she tore off her cumbersome skirt. Her undershorts were exposed, but she didn’t seem to care.

“I’ll follow you.”

“I will definitely protect you.”

Legion stretched his hand out the window. The five auras created on each finger pierced through the castle walls and shot out.

-Kieeeeeek!

The bizarre screams of the frog monsters were heard. Their screams were fading away.

Crash!

In an instant, a dozen frog monsters broke through the window and entered.

Swishhhhh!

Heavy rain and raindrops splattered wildly. The raindrops soaked Legion and Rosemary.

Fortunately, their clothes didn’t get wet. The raindrops were deflected by Legion’s magic defense. Rosemary seemed to have a similar magic item.

When her necklace glowed, the fiercely raging raindrops disappeared before they could even touch her.

“Fire Wall!”

He unleashed powerful magic in the room.

If they were frogs, they were amphibians.

He had the common sense that amphibian-type monsters were weak against fire.

Would the monsters from the Demon Realm be any different?

Fwoosh!

A dozen frog monsters were engulfed in flames, screaming with a chilling sound.

The disgusting smell of their burning skin filled the room. Nevertheless, they didn’t die. Their vitality was amazing. They broke through the Fire Wall with their bodies on fire.

“Then how about this? Rising Spike!”

Lightning erupted from Legion’s palm. It was an extremely ordinary magic.

That ordinary magic also meant that it had many uses.

The leaping frog monsters were all fried by the electricity from the Fire Wall.

-Creek, creek, creek, creek!

The frog monsters trembled, showing their bellies on the floor.

They were completely burned and seemed unable to move any longer.

“Let’s go.”

Legion took Rosemary’s hand.

Rosemary hesitated for a moment whether to pull her hand away, but decided not to. He was a strange man, but she didn’t dislike it.

Legion and Rosemary hurried out of the room.

* * *

Count Annabelle, soaked in blood, put on his clothes again. The blood was matted on his face and hair, and he didn’t look like a human.

“What’s the situation?”

Count Annabelle asked the followers.

“The situation is optimistic.”

“Has the portal to the Demon Realm opened?”

“Yes. It won’t close for the next six hours, no matter what we do.”

“Six hours…….”

Count Annabelle’s lips twisted strangely.

Six hours was enough time for his city to be devastated.

Commercial city, Conjuring.

Population of 150,000.

Close to 300,000 including foreigners.

It was like offering all those humans as sacrifices. He would be offering far more sacrifices than the other bishops.

If he could successfully complete this task…….

The Archbishop promised him the position of Bishop.

He had devoted his life to the Stone Head Church, following in his father’s footsteps, but his position was only a 1st-class monk who supported the bishop.

But with this, he would become a bishop.

Once he became a bishop, he could serve the Archbishop most closely.

Something that everyone believed without a doubt.

The Archbishop was becoming a god.

Not much time left.

The day the Archbishop became a god, the order of the world would be reorganized around the Stone Head Church.

The humans who had ruled the Human Realm would be pushed from the center to the periphery.

The doctrine of the Stone Head Church.

-The strong shall rule the world!

Race doesn’t matter.

Any race that is strong is treated well.

That was the central doctrine of the Stone Head Church.

That’s not to say that they completely rejected the weak. The strong have a duty to protect the weak.

It was not a structure in which the strong exploited the weak, as it is in the world now. That’s why he and his father had been loyal to the Stone Head Church for generations.

And…….

Now it was his turn to reap the rewards.

300,000 humans.

Although they would become sacrifices, they would be born into something far better in the afterlife.

That’s why Count Annabelle didn’t feel guilty.

“From now on, we will begin the princess hunt. All believers are free to rampage as much as they want. Absolutely! Absolutely, the princess must not leave this place alive!”

“We obey your command.”

The followers bowed deeply to Count Annabelle. And they disappeared from Count Annabelle’s sight like ghosts.