149: A Shuraba Centered on Lina
Just as the cloaked figure raised his hand toward Evelia's group to demand the Recording Orb, a blinding red light lit up in the air, nearly dyeing the entire night sky red.
"What!?"
Sensing the majestic magic storm above his head, the cloaked figure looked up in surprise. However, what came into his view was not the originally pitch-black night sky...
But a mountain of blood-colored crystals condensed from pure magic crystals.
"Boom!"
The next moment, a loud crash rang out. The hundred-meter-tall blood-colored gem mountain smashed down heavily, actually forcibly suppressing the cloaked figure directly beneath it.
"Hah?"
Looking at this blood crystal mountain of unknown origin before her that had nearly filled the entire street, Amya looked completely dumbfounded. Meanwhile, Evelia shook her head with a helpless expression, reached out, and gently patted Lina, whose face clearly showed some guilt. She gave her a "you'd better watch out for yourself" look.
"Waaaaah! Lina!!!"
The next moment, a voice clearly carrying a sobbing tone came from above. Before Lina could react, she was tightly embraced by Noren, who had suddenly descended from the sky.
"No... Dear Noren? Why... why are you here?"
Noren was crying pitifully. Tears glistened in her bright red eyes as she stared at Lina with a face full of grievance and resentment.
Lina's eyes shifted away, clearly not quite daring to look directly into Noren's eyes.
After all, before leaving today, she had solemnly promised Noren that nothing would happen, telling her to rest assured and wait at home after taking a bath and lying in bed. Yet in the blink of an eye, she had nearly been slain by that cloaked figure in a single sword strike.
"...I apologize, Miss Lina. I did it."
Lola appeared beside Noren with an apologetic expression. At the same time, a small bat suddenly burrowed out from Lina's cloak and fluttered its wings up and down as it flew toward Lola.
"Lola... you... traitor!"
Now Lina understood. So it turned out that when Lola had brought her over earlier, she had taken the opportunity to place a bat familiar on her. No wonder Noren had rushed over in such a hurry. And the moment she arrived, she had angrily unleashed a massive attack on that cloaked figure. This girl had probably witnessed the scene where she was nearly killed by the cloaked figure through her familiar's vision, right?
"Miss Lina, after all, you are now Her Highness the Princess's pet. You must prioritize your own safety above all else. If something were to happen to you, Her Highness the Princess would be very sad."
"What's more... even when beating a dog, one must consider its master. Someone who bullies Her Highness the Princess's pet must also be made... to pay a price~"
As she spoke, Lola intentionally or unintentionally looked toward the motionless blood crystal mountain nearby, her eyes filled with disdain and contempt.
Although she knew Lola was right, being compared like this... somehow still felt a bit strange.
Lina gently patted Noren's back to comfort her while silently complaining in her heart.
"Boom!"
Just then, an extremely terrifying pitch-black sword energy suddenly erupted from beneath the blood crystal mountain not far away. The sword light that shot up into the sky directly cleaved the entire blood crystal mountain in half. At the origin point of the sword energy's eruption, a pitch-black figure wearing a cloak stood quietly. He still maintained the posture of having just swung his sword. However... the aura around the cloaked figure now seemed to have changed somewhat.
"Oh?"
Seeing that the cloaked figure was not only unharmed but could also slash apart the blood crystal mountain Noren had created with that astonishing momentum just now, Lola's expression showed some surprise. However, even so, she still did not take this cloaked figure before her seriously.
She was the head maid of the Blood Clan Royal Maid Corps, and also a Blood Clan noble personally entrusted by Her Majesty the Queen with the important duty of protecting Her Highness the Princess. She had the confidence to protect Noren when facing anyone except world-top existences like Satan and Mikali.
Even if... the opponent was a nearly perfect [Death] vessel.
Thinking of this, Lola withdrew her gaze again. In this world, regarding the degree of understanding of Death Magic, she considered herself second only to Her Majesty the Queen.
After all... that great and beautiful Queen of theirs had specifically mentioned Death Magic in her past conversations with her.
This was a magic system created by "that" Progenitor!
"Before truly embracing [Death], even a vessel infinitely close to perfection is merely 'approaching' at best. What they can do is merely die a little later than others."
These were the words Her Majesty the Queen had spoken to her back then.
Therefore, in Lola's eyes, no matter how strong this cloaked figure was, he was ultimately just a pitiful person who would not live much longer.
"You just said... she's a pet, right?"
The cloaked figure's scarlet eyes locked dead onto Noren, who was embracing Lina. An extremely ominous aura emanated from his entire body.
"That's right! She is my pet! Since you dared to bully my pet, then you must presumably be prepared to... pay the price, right?"
Noren released Lina, secretly wiped away her tears with her back turned to the cloaked figure, then quietly turned around. She looked at the cloaked figure with a fierce gaze completely different from the gentleness she usually displayed. The pressure belonging to Blood Clan royalty was displayed without any concealment.
"The one who should pay the price... is you!"
The cloaked figure tightened his grip on the aberrant greatsword in his hand. He held this pitch-black sword horizontally before him. His other hand lightly brushed across the greatsword's blade. Violent pitch-black magic immediately enveloped the blade, covering its surface with a flame-like gaseous magic.
Immediately afterward, the cloaked figure's body slightly levitated. His tattered, crescent-moon-shaped cloak fluttered recklessly behind him. Like a demon god manifesting in the world, he raised his sword toward Noren ahead.
"How dare you be discourteous to Her Highness the Princess..."
Lola's eyes narrowed, and she was about to step forward. But Noren, in a rare display, reached out to stop her and spoke softly.
"Don't interfere... I must personally make this person who nearly took Lina's life pay the price!"
After speaking, Noren slowly stepped forward and gently removed the small bat hairpin from atop her head. She spun it in her hand a couple of times. The originally dainty and exquisite hairpin instantly transformed into a terrifying giant scythe several meters long.
The night wind blew up Noren's silvery-white long hair. The usual cowardice and timidity had long since vanished from Noren at this moment. Right now, she was a noble truly worthy of the Blood Clan Grand Princess's identity!
Both sides nearly simultaneously assumed attack stances. The terrifying magic emanating from their bodies almost formed whirlpools, as if intending to sweep in and destroy everything around them.
"Those who harm Lina... I will definitely make them pay the price!" x2
"Hm?"
Looking at the two people before her whose battle was on the verge of erupting, Evelia didn't know why she suddenly had a rather strange thought.
Why did this scene somehow feel like... a shuraba centered on Lina?
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