The Place Where He Was Reincarnated Was Hell - The 300-Year-Old Frontier Defense Line of the Margrave Family - Episode 38

–While Victor was thinking about his brother’s superhuman mobility–

A scene that was far beyond his imagination… no, it could be said that it was exactly what he had imagined, unfolding in the wilderness about 100 kilometers away from Middle Line Fort.

Raven kicked the ground and sprinted across the wilderness, his jet black hair fluttering wildly in the wind.

That speed was truly godlike; it could no longer be expressed in words that put it beyond the limits of human ability.

At a speed that must have easily exceeded 100 kilometers per hour, he had been running across this barren land for over an hour without showing the slightest sign of fatigue.

Behind him, Julius von Muriel, clad in a special harness woven with wind magic and barely suspended in the air using wind levitation and body weight reduction techniques, was being dragged as if by a force, but in reality, he was being tossed about by a ferocious G-force and storm.

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Contrary to the idyllic sound of this expression, the reality was anything but lovely; Julius had found himself in an extremely harsh situation, the likes of which no one had ever experienced before.worldForia

As Victor had imagined, the scene may have seemed comical to an onlooker, but to Julius it was the middle of an experience of indescribable terror.

His face was pale and sallow, contorted with relentless fear and an intense discomfort similar to motion sickness.

All that came into view was the wilderness scenery sweeping past him at a tremendous speed, and occasionally his control over his magic would momentarily waver, as his feet skimmed just above the ground at breakneck speed.

And above all, there was only the devilish strength of Raven’s back, sprinting ahead without a trace of hesitation.

The constant wind pressure hitting me took away my breath, the sound of the wind howling echoed through my ears, and it was difficult to even think.

Yes, to put it mildly.

——Yes, Julius is a great, miserable man.

“–Th-This is… this is the physical ability of Vanguard that I have heard rumors about…!

“The fighting ability of my eldest son, Lord Leyvan, can be predicted from his speed! The heroic tales I’ve heard in the royal capital seem like a child’s fairy tale!”

『In the first place, that’s not a speed a human should be able to go at! It’s been going on like this for over an hour already…where on earth does he get that kind of stamina!?』

–Oh no!! My foot just hit a rock!!

“No! If I let my guard down even a little, I’ll die! If I’m slammed into the ground at this speed, my body will be destroyed in an instant…!”

Even though we were maintaining such an insane speed, Raven in front of us was breathing normally. I could even hear him humming happily from time to time.

『Rather than a human, isn’t he a demon?! Even if he has the blessing of the god Elysion, his physical abilities are fundamentally on a different level than the magicians and knights of our kingdom…』

–Ahhh!! Ahhh!!

“It’s no good!! My magical power and mental strength are no longer enough !! At this rate, I’ll be unable to fight just from this movement, before I can even use the farsighted magic!! I need you to slow down… even just a little!!”Protectiontoo

Julius’ face was twisted and he desperately clung to the harness, but he couldn’t help but feel awe, horror, and even a little intellectual curiosity at Raven’s incredible abilities and the abnormal situation he found himself in. However, he was reaching the limits of both his body and mind if he could no longer maintain this state.

『I guess it was the right decision for me to have him carry me after all… No, but my pride as a magician of the kingdom…』

Enduring such conflict and shame, Julius finally made up his mind to call out to Raven, but at that very moment, Raven in front of him began to gradually slow down his lightning speed.

Eventually, we came to a complete halt in the shade of a rock on a small hill, with Frontline Fort in the distance.

“Julius-sama, at this point we are about 40 kilometers away from the Frontline Fort. Considering the speed of the Gore Walkers’ advance and the time we have traveled so far, don’t you think this is the optimal range for your Farsight magic to spot the Gore Walkers?”

Raven said this with a cool face, not even a trace of sweat on his forehead.

Julius let out a deep sigh of relief as he finally found silence and stable ground. Freed from the violent shaking and unimaginable situation, his body was trembling involuntarily and he felt extremely fatigued.

However, Julius was also a genius magician selected by the kingdom. Even as he managed to calm his rough, panting breath, he remained a magician and nodded deeply to Raven.prideKyouji

“…I, I am very grateful, Lord Raven. …As for my, um, regarding my means of transportation back, I am truly sorry, but I sincerely wish to find a different way…

Ah, sorry about that… Certainly, according to the calculations, it looks like we’ll be able to spot the Gore Walkers from around here…

I’ll try out some far-sightedness magic here once.”

Julius concentrated, silently and with great precision, focusing magical power into his eyes. His field of vision rapidly stretched into the distance, like the endless surface of a calm lake, or the eyes of a soaring hawk capturing prey in the distance, until he captured the horde of terrifying Gorewalkers.

Their indescribable ugliness and the overwhelming numbers that seemed to fill the earth, once again, sent a chill down Julius’ spine.

However, his curiosity as a magician and his strong sense of duty to bring back this information allowed him to suppress his fear, and he observed each one in detail, burning their characteristics, movements, and above all, the strange pressure they emitted around them into his memory and senses.

“There’s no doubt about it… I’m looking directly at such a bittersweet scene with such clarity, and yet nothing abnormal has happened to my mind! I can’t sense any signs of mental contamination at all so far… As I thought, it seems we can pretty much prove the hypothesis that mental contamination doesn’t occur unless Eclipse’s gaze and my gaze directly intersect…”FearlessOzoma

“If we could bring this information back to the royal capital and develop a specialized magical tool… for example, an advanced device that could refract the target’s gaze with a special magic crystal lens, or convert visual information into magical symbols that could then be safely reconstructed and projected within the brain… we might be able to take a big step towards overturning the despair of the last three hundred years!”glassesgoggles

A hot torrent of excitement and elation at this great discovery of the century that could determine the future of mankind welled up in Julius’ heart.

Trembling with joy, he wanted to bring this valuable information back to Middle Line Fort as quickly as possible, so he gradually pulled the focal length of his farsighted magic back closer to reality in order to bring his consciousness back to reality.

——From fifty kilometers away, forty, thirty, twenty, ten kilometers…

The view steadily approached, and the range of vision returned to within about seven kilometers of the hilly region where they were hiding.

It was at that exact moment…

At the edge of Julius’s distant vision, a single being that was different from the swarm of Gorewalkers appeared, flickering like a heat haze and seemingly blending into the scenery.

It had multiple dark red eyeballs set irregularly into what appeared to be a face, long, spider-like limbs, and a countless number of sticky tentacles wriggling from its body; it was a nearly humanoid figure, but more hideous than that, exuding a clear sense of intelligence and even malice.

Its bizarre shape resembles the forced fusion of several living creatures, with distorted human-like bones and monster-like carapaces sticking out in places.

“What is that…!? It’s different from the Gore Walker pack… It’s an individual who hadn’t been reported before… It has both a monster-like appearance and a human form at the same time… I wonder if it’s something I’ve seen in records.”Abnormal mutation mutant

In the instant that Julius concentrated even more to observe it in detail, the Abnormal mutation mutant

Abnormal mutationmutantOne of its countless eyes caught Julius’ invisible gaze, created by his farsightedness magic, and, as if mocking him, it turned towards him with wide eyes.

–The depths of those eyes were laughing at Julius, and a dark light like an abyss, filled with unfathomable malice, emanated from them peekfruit

——Shivers!!

The bl00d in his entire body boiled, and in the next moment, Julius was overcome by an absolute chill that made him freeze.

It was as if my brain was being directly grabbed and twisted by ice-cold, sludgey hands, and I felt an indescribable, intense fear and discomfort. My vision became violently distorted, I lost my sense of balance, and all my thoughts were forcibly collapsed.

“Why…?! It must be far-sightedness…! The hypothesis is correct, there’s no way our eyes could have met…! It…accurately recognized me…?! That’s…impossible…! I was wrong!? No, more importantly…what is this indescribable feeling…! It can’t be…this…”

——No no no don’t look don’t look don’t look die die die die die die… here… die… here…

Julius’s consciousness was rapidly dragged into darkness.

“-Yuri…”

In the distance, I hear someone calling my name.

——Ah…oh…

However, the voice was extremely faint and sounded as if it was coming from deep underwater.

“–Julius!!!”

Raven’s frantic scream barely managed to hold onto Julius’s lost consciousness.

Raven, who had been constantly on his guard, sensed something was off with Julius and grabbed him forcefully by the shoulders, shaking him violently.

Julius’ face had gone beyond pale and turned an ashen colour; he was staring into space with unfocused eyes, meaningless moans of agony escaped from his mouth, and his whole body was convulsing violently.

“Dammit, make it in time!”

Raven placed his hand on Julius’ forehead and poured his pure, powerful magical power into him like a torrent.

In Vanguard, recruits who see Eclipse for the first time almost always fall into a state of panic. In those cases, if you channel the pure magical power of others into them, the panic can be relieved, depending on the level.

However, this is often ineffective on those other than Vanguard who have not received the blessing, and for Raven, it was a gamble as to whether Julius would regain consciousness…

Julius coughed violently with a look of anguish on his face, his whole body stiffening.

——I suddenly come to my senses.

“…Lord Raven… Th-Thank you for saving me… Is that the mental contamination I’ve heard rumors about? There’s no way I can fight properly with something like that… Ah, no!! More importantly!! Lord Raven! Eclipse is already nearby…! It’s hiding, blending in with the scenery!!!”

Raven was already staring, with the sharp gaze of a hunter, in the direction Julius would have last looked.

“…Julius-sama…the mental contamination will last a little longer, but it seems to have subsided to a moderate level of panic…which means that if you are in the middle of farsightedness…no, I’m sorry, Julius-sama…please hide.”

“—I’m coming.”

As he spoke, the space in front of them began to distort unnaturally.

It was as if something transparent had suddenly appeared—