Swordmaster's Youngest Son Chapter 460

Published at 4th of February 2022 11:58:00 AM

Tied a ship on a reef and climbed to the island.

"It looks like the guards were standing a little while ago. Um...... the stride smells like special leases."

said Rata, looking at the footprints taken nearby.

"Special lease? Can you recognize it just by looking at the footprints?"

"It's some kind of hunch and experience, Lord. Because of the nature of my job, I often got involved with them. There's a strange pattern that's hard to explain."

"To the extent that my brother would say this, it would certainly be a special lease."

"These aren't animals, they recognize everything. Don't you, kid?"

It was amazing to see Prochi siblings so convinced by their footprints. It was an ability that he didn't have. It's a story when it was revealed that there really was a special unit.

Looking closely, the battle was not just in the center of the island. Smoke and flames were rising from all over the large and small islands that were clustered in a row.

For example, local wars were breaking out everywhere.

The gap between the islands was close enough to move enough by swimming or taking off. We decided to go around the archipelago to look at the war situation.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Every time I moved, I heard a shriek somewhere.

The sunny weather, the beautiful islands that harbor unspoiled nature, and the elements that were not in keeping with the warm wind were growing.

The party was forced to feel a strange sense of separation.

"Hey, kid."

"Uh."

"These screams, isn't something strange?”

Jean nodded.

"It's like a scream of terror from an untrained commoner.”

"That's what I hear, Lord."

It was too loud to be called the screams of islanders or other ordinary people. It contains the unique energy of an unmanned vehicle with at least six stars.

Of course, just because you are well-trained and familiar with war doesn't mean you should scream nicely.

However, those who visited the Gaifa Islands today are members of the four major powers. It also brought all four major powers to the realization that they could be at odds with each other.

At a minimum, they should be made up of people who are considered elite.

It was hard to understand why such people screamed in fear.

The newly arrived island was shaped like a low hill. As I reached the top thanks to the relatively high altitude, I could see the island in front of me at a glance.

And the group was able to face a shocking scene that they had never imagined before.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"Argh!"

It was as if a group of people were running wild, screaming like animals running away in fear.

"Huh, what is it. What's the situation?"

"The imperial family..." ...the army, Mr. Murakhan."

The runners were imperial elite soldiers.

Even the flags symbolizing the Beacon Imperial House were torn and laid in a mess on the floor. The Imperial Army was running on it.

Why are the imperial elite soldiers so damaged? There was nothing visible at the moment.

But it was only a few seconds away seconds. What is driving the Imperial Army crazy?

"Lord, this is probably...….”

"You didn't fight anyone else."

The imperial elite, whom the party was watching were fighting among themselves. with no skill or gesture so sloppy as to be considered a elite soldier.

It's as if you're possessed by something, and you can't see anything. They screamed incessantly and wielded their weapons.

Puck! Squirt! Uh-oh......! For a while the party lay face down on a rock and watched how they acted.

And lost in thought. What the hell is going on in the archipelago?

"There's no smell left to be called hallucinogenic. This much of a fascinating hallucinogen is bound to have a strong scent."

"It's not even a drug."

said the Prochi brothers and sisters.

While they were figuring out the smell, Jean was checking to see if they had any traces of mana. It was because it could be the result of dark magic or spiritual magic that Jean did not know. There's even a zipple here.

However, there was no sign of mana anywhere on the small island, where the Imperial Army was painting a scene of chaos.

It's neither medicine nor magic. Otherwise, I wondered what trick could make the Imperial Army this way.

He turned and turned his eyes to other islands. Heavy drinking, flames, and black smoke were seen.

'The footprints Lord Rata said were not those of the imperial elite, but of the special forces. And unlike them, the footprints remained a constant step. So the special rentals were on guard and began to move after finding out that there was something wrong with the Imperial Army.'

A hypothesis quickly came to mind.

What makes people crazy is unknown, but it doesn't work for people above a certain level.

“Let's go.”

It was not a difficult hypothesis to confirm. We can only compare the other islands where the battle is taking place.

On the next island we found, we saw the wizards of the Jipple fighting among themselves.

"Thud!"

"Kaak!"

They are attacking each other like the Imperial Army, but the situation was incomparably bad.

"Well, that's a little disgusting."

Murakhan frowned.

The wizards of the Jipple were fighting not with magic, but with their cane and bare hands.

While the Imperial Army usually kills each other at one stroke because they have the strength of a warrior even though they are out of their minds, the wizards need a disastrous process to kill each other without magic.

"It's clear that this isn't what Zipple did. Let's find the next island. The Kinselo guys would have come."

It was especially easy to find the island where Kinselo was located.

From the island right in front of it came the sound of an animal barking. It was the sound of the water in Kinselo.

It was the Red Lakes who were fighting on the island.

Kinselo was also not the main culprit of the incident, as the numbers of people scratched and bit each other and made their eyes open.

"When was it, about 1,500 years ago? Was it before that? It felt like this when Heluram spread a strange plague. Everyone's completely gone."

"It's unlikely that the witch was involved, right?”

"I don't think there is. Helluram's plague started with a curse, so these snake-eyed friends should have been affected. If there's Helluram here, it's just you and me who can be completely free from that curse, kid."

I looked around a few more islands that smelled of battle. It was similar to the islands we saw earlier.

If there was one other thing, it was the fact that on some islands, each power was intertwined and fighting.

There were places where the imperial elite army and the Red Tiger fought together, and there were also islands where the Red Tiger and the Jipple, or the three of them, gathered together to fight.

Crazy people were just showing a habit of attacking everything in sight.

The only reason we were fighting on the first three islands was because they were stationed there.

The hypothesis was right.

Jean could now be almost certain.

"Looks like it's seven stars, BoA. It's probably Amela's fault with a high probability."

The eyes of the party gathered as Chin spoke.

"What are you talking about, kid?"

"I don't know exactly what drives people crazy, but the standard is seven stars. From 7 stars, you can be unaffected or resistive.”

The Imperial Household Expeditionary Force was not a knight, but a group that selected only the best of its soldiers. Therefore, except for the commander, all the members were made up of less than six stars.

The same was true of the wizards that killed each other. They were not white nights or ghosts or first-groups of each tower, but wizards of less than six stars.

The Red Tiger was also under six stars, with no commander in sight.

There were no corpses of commanders over six provinces in all the islands where the 3 powers were fighting. It means the commanders took refuge after the trouble. That's how Lord Rata spoke of the special lease."

The reason why we concluded that it was seven is because all of them are estimated to be less than six.

The biggest reason was this.

"And I don't see the crazy Looncandel."

Looncandel does not send a six-star guardian to the Hufester external mission. In other words, all the guardian knights who came here consisted of at least seven members.

With all three forces in the vicinity, Looncandel would have built a campsite nearby. But not a single person is seen, which means they all escaped safely.

First of all, I had to find commanders of other forces and islands where Looncandel is located.

"Murakan."

[Uh.]

"I'd rather just fly."

The reason why he used the uncomfortable boat to get here was no different.

The Gaifa archipelago is Amela's residence, and the party came to recruit her. However, it was judged that flying over other people's territory was a huge discourtesy.

It was also meant to differentiate itself, as large powers would have brought troops to show off their power anyway.

Whoo-woo....!

The Murakhan fluttered its wings as it turned into its true self. As they climbed up to the sky, they could look down at the Gaifa archipelago at a glance.

Immediately in the middle of the archipelago, the largest island stood out. The place was black as if the whole island had been eaten up by molds.

At first glance, it looked similar to Young-gi, but it felt much thicker and heavier.

Anyone could intuit that the main culprit driving people crazy was the energy.

And the "uncrazy" of each force had settled all over the great black energy.

They were sweating to stop the black energy from proliferating, and soon the party was able to see the shape of the energy change like clay.

Stretch, wriggle!

What the hell is that? Humans?

What the black energy that covered the island formed was a form of a human being.

Smaller than Zeppirin, but much larger than Murakhan.

And the figure, strangely, resembled a human being whom Jean loathed quite a bit.

'Bubar......Gaston?!?'

The moment Jin remembered his name, the black figure that had just been made opened his mouth.

[You guys, you've been bugging me too much.]

Immediately after that, the black figure breathed in as if to exhale like a dragon.

Chapter end