354 - - 354Th Episode. - Family.
When was the last time you saw your husband with such a serious expression on his face? Rico was thinking about this as he looked at the rapidly changing scenery in front of him.
I can rest assured that Linos will take good care of him. Just as she was thinking this thought, a familiar sight appeared in front of her eyes. And there was a girl standing still and alone. It was Eril.
"Mommy!
When she spots Rico, she comes running at full speed, her eyes wide open. Then she jumped into Rico's chest.
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy ahhh."
What a lovely girl. She must have been waiting for my return in this garden ever since I left for Agartha. Liko hugs her daughter with all her strength.
"I'm ...... in pain,...... mama,......"
"Oh, I'm sorry."
Eryl and I looked at each other. She is staring at Rico, tears streaming down her cheeks. Rico quickly touches her cheek and wipes away her tears.
"That was great!"
Eryl nodded his head broadly at these words. Riko hugs Eryl again and continues speaking.
Your mother is going to pick up Mato now. Eril, can you wait until your mother comes back again?
"Mato, are you coming back to ......?"
I'll bring him back, I promise."
Eryl looked Rico in the eye and nodded slowly.
"Now then, Eril, your mother would like you to do something for me. Will you play with Alyria and her younger brothers and sisters until I come back?"
"I understand. ......
"I'm counting on you, Eril."
She nodded broadly, turned on her heel, and ran toward the house. Liko looked at her lovingly. Suddenly Erile looked back at him just before she entered the house. Rico waves to her with a gentle smile. Eryl sees this and slowly enters the house.
"Eril, please take care of him.
Rico muttered to himself and started walking again toward the place where the transfer warding was located.
Mom's ...... clothes were ripped. A large, vertical tear ran across her chest. Mom held it with her hand and hugged me.
She had the same expression on her face as usual, but somehow, she looked different from her usual mom. She must have been going through something serious. Eryl, with his keen sense of perception, knew that something like that had happened. He must have saved her. She must have been scared. But instead of saying she was scared, she said she would go to help Mato right away. Erile thought that Mom was really great. Moreover, she asked him to play with his younger brother and sisters. If he would obey her words, Mama would surely bring Mato back to him. Eril knew this intuitively.
He really wanted to be hugged by Mama more. She wanted to ask what happened to her father. But she pushed those thoughts away and opened the door to the house.
"Hey! Don't you have any more potions?"
"I'm sure there's some in storage.
"If you leave, your attack power will decrease!"
"Then what do you want me to do? I've been telegraphing to them for a while now, but no one is responding.
"Oh~. I'm running out of magic. My body is doing great. ....... I'm sorry, can I take a break?"
"We're one breath away from annihilation, let's go for it!"
"...... I know. I'm just saying."
It was Ferris and Ruara who were casting magic while chattering. They were intercepting the approaching undead with their magic, and were working together with the troops led by Matkal to reduce their strength significantly. The undead were now almost surrounded, and they were working to exterminate them.
However, the continuous firing of high-level magic from both hands had depleted their magical power. The combination of magic and spear attacks distracted the attention of the undead, so that if one of them stopped attacking, they would concentrate their attacks on one of them. It was obvious that they would have a hard time against Matkal and the others, no matter how outnumbered they were.
"Even so, they are very persistent.
"That's a pretty high rank among the undead, that thing. They won't go down unless you hit them where they're most vulnerable.
"After all, you have to train yourself to not only shoot magic, but also to pinpoint it."
I agree with you.
"When this is over, we'll have to start practicing magic all over again."
"I thought I was good at this. ....... Sister, wouldn't it be quicker to release the bracelet?
"Hey, you. It takes a lot of magic power to release a breath, you know? If you do that, you'll really fall down!"
In fact, Ferris and Ruara were quite confident in their magic. However, when they tried to fight the undead, their magic made them fall down, but after a while, they got up again and moved forward. It was a very frustrating sight to see them crawling forward even though both their hands and feet were blown off. However, in the midst of such a situation, Matkal's troops who jumped out from the west gate were efficiently killing the undead from outside the range of their magic. The attack from the top of the city walls and the attack from the ground are working very effectively. That being said, they had to keep on casting their magic.
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Ferris, on the spur of the moment, sends out a reminder. If I remember correctly, Sisters May and Sidie are nearby. And the Poseidais. She wonders why no one is responding.
In fact, her reminder had not reached May and Siddhi and the others. The magic sucking stones attached to the horns of the dragon that had charged the west gate had been shattered and scattered around the west gate. The number of them was very small and had little effect, but it caused some noise in the telephemes of Ferris and the others. As a result, their telegrams were heard only as noise by Mei and the others, which was the reason for the delay in responding.
"Sister! The undead are heading toward you, Sister Mato!"
Ruara's voice brought Ferris back to his senses, and he clucked his tongue as he opened his mouth.
"Oh my god! Even though my magic is about to run out~. You're stubborn!"
Then something hit her on the cheek. She turns around in surprise, and there is a bottle of potion. And beyond that was Rico's smile. She had a stole-like thing wrapped around her shoulders, which had not been seen on Rico recently, but it was a first aid measure to cover the torn part by Hayes, but Ferris and the others had no way of knowing that.
"Sister Rico!"
"I'm sorry I'm late. I brought four bottles of potions.
"Enough, Sister Rico!"
The two slurped down the bottles with a gulp and stood on the ramparts with their arms rolled up again.
"Come on, we're almost there! Let's destroy the undead!"
Yes! Sister!"
It was shortly afterwards that the walls of the castle unleashed more magic than ever before.
After about an hour, all the undead had been defeated. Matkal and his troop are slowly pulling up toward the west gate. Rico watched them from the top of the ramparts.
The troops, with Matkal in the lead, are slowly going through the west gate. At first glance, her appearance seems to be the same as usual. Liko runs from the city walls to the gate to see what is going on.
The people were standing in the square at the west gate. They remained silent as Matkal and his men entered the castle, and the square echoed eerily with the sound of horses' hooves and the clattering of armor against armor.
Suddenly, the sound of clapping hands could be heard among the people. It gradually spread, and soon the square was filled with loud applause. Matkal was watching from his horse with kind eyes.
"Mato! Mato! Mato!"
When her name is called, she comes to her senses. She looked and saw Rico's face right next to hers.
"Mato! Take it easy ....... What about your body? I'm touching my baby! Get off your horse quickly!"
"Oh, don't worry. The undead were defeated without incident. The city is protected.
With these words, she dismounted from her horse. Immediately after that, she slowly fell to one knee as if she were crumbling down. Her face was pale and she found herself slowly moving her shoulders up and down.
Liko called out loudly and moved Matkal to May's side. .......