The explosion not only destroyed the guest room, but the loud explosion also attracted the attention of others.
Hurried footsteps and clanking of armor came from the corridor.
Then, Wales led a group of guards and rushed to the door of the room that was already in a mess.
"This, this is —!?"
Wales' heart skipped a beat when he saw the scene before him.
Louise's room, not only the door, but even the walls were gone.
In the broken room, Louise sat up on the bed with difficulty. Behind her was Shesta, whose arm was bleeding profusely.
Then, Waludo, whose clothes were torn and tattered, was half-kneeling in the room with his knight sword supporting his body.
"What's going on?!"
Waludo, whose head was lowered, laughed strangely when he saw Wales appear.
"Very well, since Louise can't do it here, I'll achieve my other goal first …"
Another goal?
Waludo stood up and raised his knight sword, chanting loudly.
"YOBIKISUTADERUWEINDE …"
After the chanting was completed, Waludo's body blurred. Then, five Waludos appeared and surrounded Wales before the others could react.
"Your Highness, your life — I'll take it!"
"Protect His Highness!"
Two more guards immediately stepped forward, intending to use their bodies to block the attack for Wales.
"Get out of my way!"
Among the five clones, two of them wielded wind blades and knocked the guards away with their swords. Then, the remaining three clones stabbed at Wales from three different angles.
All paths of retreat had been sealed.
Wales raised his sword to block the frontal attack. He then lowered his body and rolled to the right, dodging the sword of the clone on the left.
However, the clone on the right had already smirked at Wales who had rolled to his feet and stabbed him with his gleaming longsword.
[Am I going to die here?]
Wales closed his eyes in despair.
"Ding —!"
"You again!"
Waludo looked at Shesta in shock and anger as she blocked his path again.
"Hmph!"
Shesta grunted coldly. She flipped her wrist and thrust her twin daggers upwards.
"Fluttering White Dress!"
Her white robes fluttered in the wind, and her bare hands glowed.
Shesta's attack was as cold as ice. Her twin thrusts came from tricky angles and forced Waludo's clone to retreat. She then immediately jumped back and grabbed Wales by his collar. She then leaped up and carried him on the shoulders of a group of guards as she ran away.
After escaping from the encirclement of Waludo's clones, Shesta could no longer hold on. She let go of Wales and her body fell limply to the ground.
"Are you alright?"
Wales hugged the limp Shesta and asked with concern.
He didn't expect Louise, his personal maid, to be so powerful.
"I-I'm fine …"
Shasta, who was in Wales' arms, blushed and shook her head.
"I can stand up, Your Highness … Can you let go?"
"Sorry!"
After Wales helped Shasta to stand properly, he turned around and looked at Waludo with a dark expression.
Seeing that his plan had failed, four of Waludo's five doppelgangers blocked the attack of the guards, while the remaining one rushed back into the room and grabbed Louise, who was still barely able to move.
"Don't move! Otherwise, I'll kill her! "
The guards were hesitant to attack, and both sides were in a stalemate.
"Lord Waludo …"
Louise closed her eyes sadly as tears streamed down her cheeks.
"Why? Why did you betray Her Highness, betray Toristine!"
"Why? We were worried about the future of Halkeginia, so we formed an alliance of nobles across the country. To us, there is no distinction between countries! "
Waludo's doppelganger, who was holding Louise hostage, said with a fanatical tone.
"Halkeginia will be united in our hands, and we will take back the 'holy land' where Brimir descended!"
"You weren't like this before. What exactly changed you? Waludo … "
"Yo, don't be sad, little girl."
Suddenly, a pitch-black crack appeared in the room.
Eight-cloud Ink peeked out from the crack.
"You must know that there are many things in the world that can completely change a person. For example, the 2D world, Nailed Gong Meng, ship girls, Nico Nico, and the All-Stars … "
… There was an awkward silence.
Are you here to be funny?
"Yakumo!!!"
Louise was the first to react as she looked at Eight-cloud Ink who was sitting in the crack and shouted in surprise.
"Don't be afraid."
Eight-cloud Ink waved her hand and looked around the room.
When she saw Shasta's injured right arm and pale face, her expression turned cold.
"It's just an illusion created by the uneven wind. Child's play."
In an instant, everyone felt the air in the room vibrate.
Then, the four Waludos who were blocking the guards dissipated like the wind.
"My magic —!"
The real Waludo who was holding Louise hostage widened his eyes and looked at Eight-cloud Ink with an unpleasant expression.
Then, the shadow under his feet began to distort and turned into a dark pool of ink.
Succubus screamed as it emerged from the pool, waving its sharp claws and tearing Waludo's legs apart.
Louise, who was released by Waludo, began to fall, but she was slowly lifted up by a soft force and was finally caught by Eight-cloud Ink.
"It's okay now."
"Okay …"
Louise looked sadly at Waludo who had fainted on the ground due to his legs being chopped off. She buried her head into Yakumo's arms.
Eight-cloud Ink carried Louise and walked to Wales.
"Your Highness, are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Thank you, Miss Maid, for saving me. I managed to escape."
Wales looked gratefully at Shasta who was beside him.
The little maid wanted to bow in a hurry, but she accidentally pulled on the wound on her arm and her face turned pale.
"Don't move around. Get your wounds treated first."
"My apologies … Mr. Yakumo, Miss Louise, and Prince Wales."
Wales waved his hand and ordered a guard to bring Shasta to a doctor.
Then, he looked coldly at Waludo who had fallen to the ground.
"Capture him!"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
⑧
The incident with Waludo was just a small interlude.
However, Eight-cloud Ink was very concerned about the purple ring that he obtained from Waludo.
Andor's Ring of Paris.
Legend has it that the ring could resurrect the dead and control them.
This was the information that Eight-cloud Ink saw in Toristine's underground archive.
He did not expect to come across this thing by chance.
In addition, this ring seemed to have other functions.
After Patrice defeated the rebels at the port and allowed Wales to take back the warship that originally belonged to the royal family, she learned about Waludo's incident and went to Eight-cloud Ink to ask for the ring, saying that she wanted to study it.
Wales did not care about the ring.
The next day, Louise wrote to Angelietta about Waludo's betrayal. At the same time, Wales sent someone to hand over Waludo, who had been treated by Eight-cloud Ink and had lost his magic ability, to the people sent by Toristine to bring him back to the capital for trial.
After Eight-cloud Ink and Patrice's night attack, the rebels who attacked Newcastle suffered heavy losses. The barracks that Eight-cloud Ink destroyed actually stored all the rebels' rations.
The next day, the rebels who originally intended to launch a general attack on Newcastle had no choice but to retreat.
However, Wales certainly would not let go of such a good opportunity and led the army of the capital to pursue.
Eight-cloud Ink, who followed the army, always acted before the start of the war to destroy the rebels' Flying Dragon and warships. Then, they would bombard the enemy's main force with barrages.
After the rebels were defeated, Albion's army began to clean up the mess.
In just a month, the King's Faction recovered a large part of Albion's territory, while the Aristocrats lost more than half of their army.
Soon, the King's Faction's army advanced to Zawsgota.
"Zawsgota?"
In the military tent, Eight-cloud Ink looked at Wales, who had specially called him over.
"Is there something wrong here?"
"It's like this."
Wales, who was dressed in military attire, pointed to a forest on the map.
"This was the place where the rebels stationed their troops. Later, there was news that some people saw fairies in the forest."
"Fairies?"
"Yes." Wales nodded.
"In the previous battle, too many people died in the nearby battlefield, so we're worried that the so-called fairies who saw the fairies were actually the spirits of the dead who were unable to rest in peace and eventually formed into vengeful spirits."
"So you want me to go and investigate?"
Wales laughed awkwardly.
He also felt that it was not good to always trouble Eight-cloud Ink, but he really could not spare any manpower.
"Okay, okay. Fairies? I'll go and take a look … "
"Thank you, Mr. Yakumo!"
Wales bowed and thanked him.
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