175 Episode 45: Wisteria

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

- From my mouth, there are often growls that are not my own.

"Yikes! Yikes!

- From my own mouth, the laughter that doesn't belong to me stirs up.

I know what caused it. Bad Spirit Demons that crawl out of the forest, drive spirits crazy, and drive people crazy, more than the bottom of Nara. 'It', which I possessed, is trying to leave my body alone.

- Andorra's lead swordsman. What a prick.

Wisteria persuades herself and desperately connects the consciousness that is likely to disappear with it. Thus, although he manages to conjure up resistance to the rule of the Evil Spirit (Demon), the other power is mighty and cannot move one finger of his hand satisfactorily.

And, as I grinned at this little resistance, further evil spirits' laughter echoed. Are you trying to clear up the depression (puffiness) that has been held up so far, the evil spirits raise their voices to the scabbard. At the same time, body mutations gained momentum.

My arms, my legs, my back, and my face are turning into something that people have to do. They change.

The mutation caused severe pain. If you get your arms ripped off alive, your legs ripped off, your back stabbed through, and your face burned, I'm sure you'll experience this pain. If my mouth moved, I would definitely have screamed.

But now Wisteria doesn't even have the freedom to scream. I just had to endure the pain that could never end - although I knew there was no point where I endured it.

Cage Castle Battle Without Reinforcements, if you can capture the current situation. I can't keep falling just because I endured it, I'm just putting ruin ahead of me.

It would be easier if you gave up. But wisteria gives up, which means the evil spirit gets complete freedom. In that case, this human city will easily disappear.

I'm in a hurry to at least get out of the city, but my body still doesn't move.

- How did this happen?

Wisteria asks no one. The evil spirits (demons) laughed at each other for a while so that they could answer the question.

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Andorra, the kingdom of the forest.

Wisteria's home, full of water and greenery, is present in the vast Catalan desert.

The majority of that area is occupied by the tree sea, and many of the inhabitants are of the same elf species as Wisteria.

The Golden Empire (Imperium) - there is no city covered with gold and silver as the humans speak. Both gold and silver are unnecessary for forest life. The people of Andorra have gone through time peacefully in the woods, protected by a bond stretched out on several fronts.

It's just not like Andorra didn't have a threat like that either.

The name of the threat is called "Naruto". Bottomless hole in the heart of Andorra, in the deepest part of the tree sea.

There is always a lot of magic (mana) erupting from Nara, and it is that magic that survives the desert's just vast forest. In that sense, Nara's presence is inseparably related to Andorra.

On the other hand, the magic that erupts from Naruto was too dense, with the drawback that it easily drives the Spirit crazy. The Kings swordsmen to whom Wisteria belonged, whose main task is to crusade the mad spirits around Nara.

For an elf, the Spirit equals a friend. Having that friend in your hands is a severed thought, but if you neglect to crusade, the mad Spirit will flinch all over Andorra and wreak havoc. It was said to be a much greater scourge than the warcraft outside, which from time to time invaded beyond the boundaries.

Wisteria was the youngest generation of Andorra's elves and a newcomer among the Swordsmen, but in swordsmanship and spiritual handling she shrugged off the ancient one's elves and every now and then gave credit in spiritual crusades.

It was the crusade of the mad Supreme Spirit (Phoenix) that took the name of Wisteria in particular from high. When the disaster, which was thought to be attributed to dust (kaijin) by half of Andorra, subsided with less than a tenth of the damage assumed by the activity of Wisteria.

Praising the achievements of Wisteria, King Andorra gives the young elf the title of lead swordsman (Gladius). The head of the nation's finest swordsmen. In other words, Wisteria was recognized as Andorra's best swordsman.

I was not willing to rejoice in the honor I had earned by discussing the Friendly Spirit, but it nonetheless became Wisteria's pride to have been recognized by the Great King. That was also because my late father, who taught me the sword, and my late mother, who taught me how to deal with the Spirit, were recognized.

With that pride in mind, Wisteria will continue to advance to the task, and the name of the new lead swordsman (Gladius) will be known to all of Andorra.

The days, arguably smooth sails, came to an abrupt end, however.

Evil Spirit (Demon). It was possessed by a being so called.

I don't know who the evil spirits are. It is said that both the devil that leaves from the bottom of Nara and the spirits who were killed resent him. Wisteria considers the former, but many take advantage of the latter theory because many of those possessed by evil spirits belong to the Swordsmen.

The symptoms of those possessed by evil spirits vary, but one thing we have in common is the habitation of those who do not possess themselves.

Wisteria will not leak into that example either, and will be plagued day and night by unidentified voices. There was no point in resistance or prayer (sometimes).

Most importantly, if the symptoms were just that, it wouldn't have been a major problem. Even if he is possessed by evil spirits, some live a life no different than before.

However, some of the symptoms worsened. Physical freedom is no longer advantageous, and then the body mutates into something that no one else should, finally ending up being evil spirits (demons), both physically and mentally, and attacking their former compatriots.

The worst example of this hit Wisteria.

In the midst of a battle, Wisteria plunges beyond her limits to help her allies - as a result, evil spirits deprive her of her body.

This also led to physical mutations at once, and it became clear to the eyes of 10,000 that Wisteria was possessed by evil spirits.

Leading Swordsman (Gladius) Taru Wisteria and a mighty evil spirit that even its Wisteria cannot resist. If these two strip (mumble) Andorra of her fangs, she will be no less of a threat than the mad top spirits (Phoenix).

King Andorra's conclusion was execution. There is no means to recover the elves that have progressed to this state, nor are there examples of natural healing. We have no choice but to execute every evil spirit who possesses it in order to preserve the kingdom, as we crusade the mad Spirit in order to preserve the forest.

But just snapping your neck won't solve it. Because the moment the host dies, evil spirits will be present using the wreckage as a catalyst.

The power of a flesh-received evil spirit is not the ratio of a mad spirit. In order to prevent it, the means were also taken in the past to order the superior Spirit to cut the carcass into fine pieces, or to extinguish charcoal, none of which prevented the present world of evil spirits.

As a result, one means was devised as an execution for evil spiritual possession.

- To throw oneself at a great beast that eats even evil spirits.

That beast, also known as the Divine Beast, slowly circles outside Andorra's junction. To protect Andorra. Or, like, keep an eye on Andorra.

Elves possessed by evil spirits offer themselves to the divine beast. The beast eats the elves, and eats and scatters the evil spirits that are present with the death of the elves, and begins to circle around Andorra again as if nothing had happened.

With regard to Wisteria's execution, this method was taken, as was the case with past evil spiritual possessions. He is banished outside the contiguity just because he has been given minimal water and food, searching for the divine beast by himself, and jumping from the mire into his mouth. That was the last order imposed on Wisteria.

At this time, evil spiritual possession can also escape, but no one has chosen this means in the past. For the fairy elves of the forest, the climate of the desert is more terrifying than the fierce demons, and stepping out into the desert without much fear is worse than being eaten by divine beasts.

If you put it together, the Elves of Andorra don't know there's a human world outside the desert. I believe there will be a world of hot sand everywhere. In that sense, none of them were willing to flee.

In fact, Wisteria didn't want to run either. My parents are already dead, and I have no brothers or sisters, so I have no heart. With the pride of the lead swordsman (Gladius) in his chest, he intended to offer himself to the divine beast and put an end to his raw.

But I couldn't find a god beast for what was going on. No matter how much you look, the great beast can't even see its shadow.

Wisteria was puzzled. If you die in the desert like this, the evil spirits of the present world can strike Andorra. Although there have been no such examples in the past, Wisteria had an unspeakable fear of living (su) things in herself and was not inclined to be optimistic.

Maybe the thought of simply "not wanting to die" made him act that way, but anyway, Wisteria expands his scope of action to discover the divine beast - and to discover one of the oases dotted in the Catalan desert.

For Wisteria, who just thought that outside the juncture was a world of death and sand, the surprise when she met with humans was hard to put to the brush tongue.

Nevertheless, that does not change the purpose. Having replenished the water with oasis and secured food by hunting desert demons, Wisteria continued to repeatedly challenge what humans called the "untouched area" to find the divine beast.

Some adventurers are interested in seeing such wisterias, who also come into contact with them in a desire for information on the Divine Beast, obtaining some information even as they struggle with the Word. It is also at this time that we learned that humans call themselves Behemoths about the Divine Beast.

But the information obtained from man also did not lead to the discovery of the divine beast.

A divine beast that you will never find. Mind and body swept away at every moment. After thinking about it, Wisteria headed to the city of man known as Berca. If Berca were to gather information from all over the desert, it might be possible to obtain information about Behemoth - he entrusted the words of such an adventurer with a desire.

… the result is the current situation. The hopes entrusted to me crumbled (with) the worst form of involving others.

It is no longer possible to stop the evil spirit from eroding. Already, my consciousness as a wisteria is overwhelming, and I feel the joy of evil spirits trying to free me from years of neck trees (bites) like mine.

It's melting, the presence of me (Wisteria).

It melts, collapses, mixes with evil spirits. It gets eaten.

At that moment, my spine trembled. The last remaining consciousness screams at the sensation of being licked directly at the soul.

- No more, no more.

Words that have been desperately distant go through the back of my brain. A grain of tears spills from his right eye that still leaves the shadow of the elf.

That was when Wisteria tried to close her eyes before the inevitable debacle.

I heard voices.

"- Heartdress (Shin Seems) Excitement (Reiki)"

I heard a voice, so powerful as to tremble.