Count Bayer.
It was once a famous family of swordsmen, and its head was the Margrave of the Sälen Kingdom’s northern frontier, but that was all in the past, as they were now just an old family clan.
But even so, they were the Bayer family.
Even if the father and son fell and their family declined in approximately 3 years, they still maintained their position at the bottom place of the 12 northern families.
In the mansion of such Count Bayer…
There was a struggling man in the second son’s room, who was called the ‘anguish of Count Bayer.’
“Kkeuoeo…eoo…eoo”
It was a boy in his late teens who held his head and let out strange groans.
He had dark blue hair, a white and slender face, and a pair of mysterious green eyes that all blended together to show off his good looks, but now, he was thinking of his situation as he looked at himself.
The boy was named Jude Bayer, also known as the second son of Count Bayer. The boy was now thinking as he stared blankly at the mirror hung on the wall.
‘Is this likeness totally real?’
Is everything that I see in the mirror real?
The fact that Jude Bayer was now Jude Bayer.
The sentence was like a play on words, but Jude was serious. He would be, because he was both Jude and Kang Jin-ho at the same time.
‘No matter how I look at it, this is the world of Legend of Heroes 2.’
Two days had passed since Jude “awakened” his memory as Kang Jin-ho.
And that time of two days was not short.
The name ‘Jude Bayer.’
The situation of Count Bayer.
The Sälen Kingdom and its surrounding circumstances.
None of them were inconsistent with Legend of Heroes 2.
‘Pleiades.’
A world that was the background of the entire Legend of Heroes series.
‘Let’s face it. This world is Pleiades, and I am Jude Bayer.’
It felt a little different from simply entering a game, which was common in novels and manhwa (comics).
Rather, the situation felt like he was born as Jude Bayer, and then remembered his ‘past life’ as Kang Jin-ho.
So, even though he had become Jude, it almost didn’t feel like something was out of place.
Because from the very beginning, he was both Jude Bayer and Kang Jin-ho at the same time.
Jude raised his head and looked at the mirror again.
He saw the beautiful image of a handsome looking boy with superior looks, sitting down in front of the mirror.
‘I am handsome.’
He wasn’t just handsome…he was exceedingly handsome.
Jude rose from his seat and looked around the room.
It was spacious, nice, and clean.
It seemed to be larger than the apartment he had lived in when he was Kang Jin-ho, and though the furniture showed signs of age, one could not deny that the all the furniture were luxury items.
Jude considered his situation objectively.
The difference between the days of Kang Jin-ho and the days of Jude.
He was young again, a dozen times more handsome than before, and he had become a golden spoon noble.
It was absolutely perfect.
It was an upgrade to the point where he felt like applauding.
But then Jude thought.
‘Isn’t this f*cked up though?’
It wasn’t because of Jude.
Although Jude Bayer was a character with some flaws among the characters of Legend of Heroes 2, the bigger problem lied in the fact that this was the world of Legend of Heroes 2 itself.
The background setting of Legend of Heroes 2 was not a peaceful fantasy world.
No, it was a world of Great Tribulation – demons descended from the demon world, and angels came down to fight against them – all the countries and races of the continent were embroiled and killed in the war.
In short, it was a world destined for Apocalypse.
‘I was fortunate that it wasn’t the third installment.’
Legend of Heroes 3 dealt with the aftermath of the war between the angels and demons, where all human nations had collapsed.
If he had entered Legend of Heroes 3, he wouldn’t be sitting and looking in the mirror like this, but he would’ve been bitten and torn apart by monsters.
‘As expected, there’s only one way.’
He must become strong.
So that when the times of Great Tribulation come, he could endure it.
And if possible, he must become strong enough to protect himself and those around him.
In the real world where Kang Jin-ho lived, there were clearly limitations for humans in becoming strong, but this was Pleiades, the world of Legend of Heroes.
It was possible for an individual here to demolish mountains and become an absolute power that could shake the sky.
‘Well…the authenticity of that is questionable, but moving on…’
For a while, he looked at his slender forearm, but soon made up his mind and clenched his fist again.
‘Let’s do it.’
I can do it.
I must do it.
Jude himself was Outboxer009.
Wasn’t he the rotten water that kept the top spot in the server ranking list for a staggering 23 months!
So Jude decided to consider Jude Bayer’s situation first.
Jude Bayer.
The second son of Count Bayer.
He hailed from the Bayer family which had produced outstanding warriors for generations, but he himself hadn’t mastered even one of the sword basics.
Of course, he wasn’t just a useless guy as he was one of the playable characters.
Jude certainly had talent.
It wasn’t just an ordinary talent but a truly incomparable talent.
Cheonmujiche (Heavenly Martial Body).
As the name implies, it was a heavenly talent for martial arts.
‘But there’s a trap card here.’
Jude was born with an abnormality in the Yin meridians of his whole body, particularly called, Gueumjulmaek (Nine Yin Severed Meridians).
‘Short-lived, weak, unable to use mana, but possessing a tremendous amount of Yin energy.’
These were roughly the effects of Gueumjulmaek.
He was an unlucky genius born in a body with both Cheonmujiche and Gueumjulmaek.
That was the boy named Jude Bayer.
‘Couldn’t I just have been Leon? Or Maximilian?’
In Legend of Heroes 2 where various playable characters existed, it was Maximilian who was the main character of the game.
A cheat character born with a great talent in both sword and magic.
It was the so-called title character prepared by the game company to allow beginners to see the ending of the game.
‘Then, Maximilian will be here too, right?’
Maximilian wasn’t the only one.
There was a high possibility that all the characters in Legend of Heroes 2 existed here.
‘It’s making me excited for no reason.’
He had just lamented that he had fallen into this world, but this was Legend of Heroes 2.
His heart began to throb when he thought that he would be able to meet the characters of the materialized Legend of Heroes 2.
‘Okay, if that’s it, all I have to do is treat my Gueumjulmaek.’
Then the heavenly martial body would start to bloom.
Of course, it was not an easy task to cure Gueumjulmaek.
The evidence was that Count Bayer had not been able to do anything about Jude’s Gueumjulmaek even up to this day.
‘But there is a way.’
As a rotten water of Legend of Heroes 2, he was a player who knew several treatments for Gueumjulmaek. However, knowing and executing it were different.
Is it possible to secure a remedy with this current body, which is weak in itself because of Gueumjulmaek?
No matter how much he thought of it, it was impossible.
It wasn’t something he could do alone.
But that was not the case if he could leave it to others.
All of the methods he could think of were quite complicated, and he wondered if the Bayer family members would even believe in Jude’s words.
‘I need allies.’
Someone who would believe and carry out Jude’s words.
Someone who would be on Jude’s side anytime and anywhere.
But it was then.
“Young master, may I come in?”
The voice he heard from outside the room was Maja, Jude’s exclusive maid.
‘Exclusive maid.’
Although it was a world where a Great Tribulation was predicted and he had a body with Gueumjulmaek, Jude thought that his life was much better now than when he lived as Kang Jin-ho.
After his brief lapse of thought, Jude immediately raised his head and said.
“Oh, it’s all right.”
With his permission, Maja opened the door silently and entered.
She was a woman in her early twenties with blue hair tied up neatly, and her cold expression belied her attractive beauty.
As soon as she entered the room, Maja bowed to Jude and said immediately.
“Lady Cordelia Chase, your fiancée, is here to visit you.”
“Ah.”
Visiting a sick person.
Come to think of it, he thought, it was worth it coming here. When he awakened his past memories as Kang Jin-ho, he remembered a lot of nonsensical stuff.
Moreover, isn’t Jude normally considered a sick person here?
‘What should I do…’
He had awakened Kang Jin-ho’s memories, but Jude’s memories did not disappear.
In other words, meeting his fiancée, Cordelia, didn’t pose any problems.
‘Cordelia.’
She was an incomparably beautiful girl with red hair close to pink.
Isn’t the ratio of handsome and beautiful people here too high? Then again, aren’t all the game characters like that?
Anyway, if it was Cordelia Chase, Kang Jin-ho knew quite a lot about her.
‘Chase, the famous family of wizards.’
If Jude’s family, the Bayers, were a famous family of swordsmen, the Chase family were a famous family of wizards.
Of course, both families were now weak compared to the past.
In any case, Cordelia Chase was a wizard character, born with a fairly outstanding magic talent.
She didn’t have a natural-borne talent like Jude, but instead, she lacked a weakness like Gueumjulmaek, making her easier to handle in the game.
‘I’m nervous.’
He didn’t think he would meet his fiancée who was also a playable character in Legend of Heroes 2.
“Young master?”
“Huh? Oh, yes, okay. I’m going to see her right now.”
When Jude willingly answered, Maja hesitated for a moment, but soon nodded and stepped back.
“She is waiting in the drawing room.”
After Maja said that, she began to take the lead as she guided him to the place.
‘I am a real nobleman.’
It was a new experience for him, but as he stepped out of the hallway, Jude realized that this was a noble family’s house, a residence that once boasted great power.
The hall emphasized practicality rather than splendor, but it was so big and grand that it felt like he was walking in a big castle rather than a mansion.
“Mr. Jude Bayer has arrived.”
Maja, who raised her voice once they were in front of the drawing room door, opened the door with a restrained movement.
Unlike the hall which gave a stark impression, the drawing room was well-decorated. Inside, there was a girl with red hair close to pink, and a female knight right next to her who served as an escort.
‘Cordelia Chase.’
Jude Bayer’s fiancée.
Jude swallowed deeply as stepped into the drawing room. He faced Cordelia with a natural smile.
But right after that.
The moment he made eye contact with Cordelia.
Jude widely opened his eyes. And so did Cordelia.
The two shouted almost at the same time.
““Why are you here?!””
“Young master?”
“Miss?”
Maja and Cordelia’s escort, a knight, said almost simultaneously.
Because Jude and Cordelia looked at each other and acted strangely all of a sudden.
Why are you here?
‘Didn’t we come here to meet the visitor?’
‘Isn’t it because we came here to visit?’
At a time when Maja and the female knight were thinking rationally, Jude calmed his astonished self and thought of the girl in front of him. Just like himself, Cordelia was also full of emotions, such as confusion, surprise, and so on.
‘What’s going on? Why does Yellow Storm come to my mind when I see her?’
The girl in front of him, Cordelia, was so beautiful that the word “incomparable” could be attached.
The eternal 2nd place Yellow Storm had nothing to do with Jude’s own fiancée.
But it was strange.
When their eyes met with each other, the player named Yellow Storm came to his mind.
It was good to say that it was an absolute feeling.
Moreover, it was important to note that the other person showed a similar reaction to him.
‘No way.’
Is she really that Yellow Storm?
It was a dizzying to think about it, but it wasn’t impossible.
In the first place, Outboxer009, who was Kang Jin-ho, had also become Jude Bayer.
“Ahem, ahem…uh…umm. Excuse me for a moment.”
“Uh… M-me too.”
When Jude talked hesitantly first, Cordelia also indecisively answered.
However, the way she looked at his side was also unusual.
“First… Please sit down.”
“Uh… yeah.”
Once the two had sat down, Maja and the female knight tilted their heads at the awkwardness of the two, but it was only for a short while.
Maja brought out the newly prepared tea, and Jude continued to exchange awkward glances with Cordelia.
‘Let’s test her.’
He didn’t know if only he felt something, but he thought that she would have felt something similar too.
If the other person was Yellow Storm like he thought, it felt like a catastrophe had come, but if it really was her, he would likely understand.
“Hi, Ye-”
Hi, Yellow Storm.
Jude’s voice trembled because he was embarrassed to say it out of his mouth.
But her reaction was right. Cordelia flinched for a moment and her eyes widely opened.
“Hi, Out-”
Hi, Outboxer.
Cordelia also spoke quietly, and at the time when Maja and the female knight tilted their heads again, Jude drove the wedge in.
“Hey…you too?”
“Hey…me too.”
“Young master?”
“Miss?”
Maja and the female knight’s face now had a rather serious look of concern.
Why are the two suddenly acting like that?
But Jude couldn’t care less about the reactions of those two.
‘Crazy! Are you really Yellow Storm?!’
When he spoke with his eyes, the other returned a similar answer.
Jude first took a deep breath. He wanted to ask a lot of questions right away, like what happened and when did she became Cordelia, but there was Maja and the female knight here.
Therefore, Jude tried to speak indirectly to her.
“Coop reset 9 o’clock 3-9.”
One of the contents of Legend of Heroes 2 was the coop mode that resets every night at 12:00 – meaning it was reset at midnight.
9 o’clock referred to the 9 o’clock direction, and 3-9 meant 9 blocks down – that is, 18 meters below the entrance coordinates.
Therefore, the interpretation of Jude’s words was as follows.
‘Let’s meet at midnight in the corner of my garden.’
Honestly, it would be difficult for a normal Legend of Heroes 2 player to understand what he meant, but it would have been understandable if it was the rotten water Yellow Storm.
And indeed, Cordelia nodded and said in a whisper.
“Roger that.”
It was a radio term meaning “understood” and was one of Yellow Storm’s peculiar way of speaking.
“Ahem, ahem… I’m glad that you look healthy. It’s already late today, so I’ll be going back and seeing you next time.”
“Ahem, ahem… it was a pleasure to meet you. I look forward to seeing you next time.”
Well, they couldn’t have a proper conversation here.
So, after deciding on when and where to meet, they quickly ended their meeting.
When Cordelia and Jude stood up after talking to each other, Maja and the female knight were confused again.
“Y-you’re going already?”
“Miss?”
Maja was so surprised that her usual expressionless face was now filled with surprise.
However, Jude and Cordelia had already reached an agreement and exchanged their greetings.
Jude laughed awkwardly and saw off Yellow Storm – no, Cordelia, who likewise went out with an awkward smile and a quick pace.
“Young master? What is going…”
“Umm, yeah.”
Just what on earth was this situation?
But Jude was at least certain of one thing.
The appearance of an ally who would be on his side and believe in Jude’s words.
Looking at the entrance of the drawing room where Cordelia had left, Jude clenched his fist.
***
Jude Bayer’s father, Count Bayer, was out on a northern expedition with his successor, Gaël Bayer, who was the older brother of Jude.
It was an annual small-scale expedition where they subjugated northern monsters, and the period from their departure to their return lasted one month.
In any case, the quiet part of the house was now even quieter. Because most of the retainers here went on the expedition following his father and brother.
Having finished dinner alone in the room, Jude waited impatiently for midnight to come.
And finally, the deepest of night, midnight, came.
Jude sneaked out of his room and hurried to the garden.
It was still summer in terms of time, but the night air was cold as they were in the northern part of the country.
‘Will she come to the right place?’
Standing under a big tree at the promised place, Jude looked up at the night sky with an anxious face.
‘I’m really in Pleiades.’
There were two moons hanging in the sky.
Selene and Helene.
Twin goddesses that illuminated the night sky.
In fact, the two moons were even more beautiful and mysterious looking than when they were seen through the monitor screen.
“Hey.”
It was at that moment. With the very small voice that came out of nowhere, Jude became alert and looked up the wall to identify the owner of the voice.
The owner of the voice was a red-haired girl wearing a hard-pressed brown hood reminiscent of a monk’s robes.
“Yellow Storm.”
“Outboxer009.”
Speaking quietly, the same little voice came back.
And, whoosh…
Cordelia crossed over the wall using
“For real?”
“Yes, for real.”
They just confirmed each other’s nicknames.
“It’s really similar.”
“What?”
“Even though you’re crazy, it’s still nice to see you.”
At Cordelia’s words, Jude nodded. The same was true of himself.
He thought that he had fallen alone in a completely different world, but he knew a face – no, he was glad to see another person like him.
“Since when?”
“Two days ago. What about you?”
“Two days ago, too.”
“It happened suddenly when you opened your eyes?”
“Yeah.”
Jude and Cordelia squatted under the tree then and looked at each other with saying anything first.
It was Cordelia who opened her mouth again.
“Hey, aren’t you supposed to be a guy? How did you get a girl to go over the wall of a man’s house?”
“What is this sexual discrimination all of a sudden? And don’t you know Jude? Jude Bayer. Gueumjulmaek. How am I supposed to cross the wall?”
And when he thought about it, it wasn’t just that.
“And how long have you been a woman?”
“From birth.”
“Huh?”
“Since I was born, you crazy bastard.”
At Cordelia’s confession, Jude rubbed his eyes and soon spoke in a rather embarrassed voice.
“Yellow Storm was a woman?”
“Then were you a man?”
“I was a man.”
“I was a woman.”
“Is that so? Okay…”
Then again, they had known each other for five years, but had never talked with each other in the common voice chat. When they met in the game, they met as game characters, so there was nothing for them to recognize about the other’s real sex.
“That’s not what really matters now.”
When Jude spoke, Cordelia nodded, though she had a bit of a bitter expression.
What mattered was that Outboxer009 became Jude, and Yellow Storm became Cordelia, and that this world was the world of Legend of Heroes 2.
Jude decided to start with the basics first.
“So do you? I mean…rather than feeling that I’m inside the game, it was more like my past life was ‘Outboxer.’ So…I thought that it was the same for you too, ‘Yellow Storm.’”
“Me too. I feel the same.”
At first glance, there might not be much difference, but in fact, there was a crucial difference between the two.
Whether or not they could return.
If they were really reincarnated in Pleiades, the world ofLegend of Heroes 2, the destination of ‘return’ would not exist. They were born again in this world, so where would they go to return?
But neither Jude nor Cordelia thought deeply about it. Though they felt strongly about the fact that they were both Jude and Cordelia now, there were also more important issues that they had to resolve.
““The Great Summons.””
An event that triggered when all the necessary conditions were in place, causing the angels and demons to descend.
At first, he only thought about being strong enough to survive in the time of Great Tribulation, but that was not enough now.
They had to stop the Great Summons itself, which would bring destruction to this world.
Of course, it was a desolate story.
The descent of angels and demons was indeed the fate of the world of Pleiades.
No matter how much of a rotten water he was, it was too much for him to do it all alone.
But if he was not alone.
If the 1st and 2nd place in the server rankings were together.
“I like our character picks.”
Jude Bayer and Cordelia Chase.
Both were non-mainstream characters that were far from weak ones, but the characters they ‘picked’ that she spoke about wasn’t just about their character’s performance.
Cordelia said with a bitter smile.
“It’s perfect for sharing.”
“Bingo.”
Jude was a warrior, and Cordelia was a wizard.
As with all the goods in this world, there was a limit to the number of various skills and items that existed in Pleiades.
If Jude and Cordelia were characters walking on the same path, they would inevitably interfere with each other’s growth.
But they were both warrior and wizard, so they could share the items in Pleiades with each other, as Cordelia said.
“I never thought I’d form a party here that I hadn’t done in five years.”
“You’re right. This world is truly nasty.”
It was ridiculous to be reincarnated in the world of a game, but he couldn’t believe that he reincarnated with the forever 2nd place girl. Moreover, they were also engaged.
“Anyway, I’d like to ask for your cooperation.”
“What cooperation?”
“I have to treat my Gueumjulmaek.”
“Doesn’t it automatically get healed during an event?”
Indeed, it was true.
In the game, after starting as Jude Bayer and somehow spending half a year, an event was supposed to take place where Count Chase would send to Count Bayer the cure of Gueumjulmaek.
In other words, it meant that if he just waited calmly, he could completely cure the Gueumjulmaek.
But at Cordelia’s question, Jude said, clicking his tongue.
“That’s why you’re eternally second place.”
“What did you say?”
“Hey, be honest. You’ve never played Jude, right?”
“That’s not true. I’ve tried it before. I know it gets cured because I’ve played as him.”
“But do you agree to that? To just wait for half a year to get treated?”
There were 6 months in half a year, 180 days in 6 months, and 4320 hours in 180 days.
It was a such a waste of a long time.
Cordelia returned a bitter expression at Jude’s point.
“Then what will you do?”
“I need to treat it before that. By mobilizing all sorts of tricks.”
In a way that only they, who had climbed over the level of a stagnant water and reached the level of a rotten water, could do.
“Come closer.”
Jude gestured to Cordelia, and began to tell his plans.
Gueumjulmaek referred to a constitution in which the inner Yin energy was so strong that an abnormality occured in the whole meridians and the circulation of Qi energy was not properly achieved.
Therefore, in order to treat Gueumjulmaek, it was necessary to relieve the Yin energy that was blocking the meridians at once. So what was necessary to treat Gueumjulmaek’s extreme Yin energy was its polar opposite, something that had extreme Yang energy.
“Do you know what Jude will eat in half a year?”
“I know. It’s the Sunfire Carp.”
“Oh, it’s not 2nd place anymore.”
“Hmmm, I’m a little…rather, why do you keep saying second,second place?”
Cordelia warned sharply, but Jude just sneakily laughed.
It was fun when he teased her in the chat window, but now that Yellow Storm had become an incomparably beautiful girl and showed her expressions, it had become more fun.
“Well, as you know anyway, the Sunfire Carp is a carp that possesses extreme Yang energy.”
“So let’s go fishing to catch the Sunfire Carp?”
“Are you really the second in the server?”
“I am? I’m the second in the server?”
“Yes, I’m the first.”
When Cordelia trembled and clenched her fists, Jude moved on to the next topic. Controlling the degree of anything was important.
‘And…this person was a little different from me.’
They were Outboxer009 and Yellow Storm that had ranked 1st and 2nd on the server back-to-back, but in fact, it was not an exaggeration to say that their playstyles took completely different paths.
‘I was a strategist, and she was a fighter.’
If Outboxer009 was a strategist who gained points for achievements by deeply studying the limit of the characters, events, and items that existed in the game, Yellow Storm was the ultimate combat fighter who raised scores by hunting a lot.
Of course, both were rotten water, so Outboxer009 was also a good fighter, and Yellow Storm also knew enough aboutLegend of Heroes 2, but in the end, their specializations were different.
‘Moving on…’
Jude erased the distractions from his head and spoke quickly.
“If we can get in our hands an item with powerful Yang energy, we can treat the Gueumjulmaek much faster.”
“I know that, but is there something like that near here?”
Cordelia frowned and searched her memories.
Although there were quite a lot of items with Yang energy other than the Sunfire Carp that Jude had mentioned, it was questionable if Jude and Cordelia could find it for themselves now.
“There is one. It’s close too. You know what I’m talking about, right?”
“Huh? Uh…umm…ah, that’s it. That. Ah, there was that.”
Cordelia nodded, as if awkwardly reading a Korean book.
“Yes, that. So please help me in handling that. You know what we need to prepare, right?”
“Ah, I know. Yes, I know.”
What does she know? Jude could completely see that she didn’t know anything.
Jude clicked his tongue and decided to just say the right answer. It was fun to tease her, but time wasn’t infinite.
“I can just wear the Sun’s Necklace that Leisegang has.”
“Yeah, if you wear the Sun’s Necklace of Leisegang…Leisegang?! Demon Leisegang- Eep!”
A startled Cordelia jumped up from her seat and tried to raise her voice, but fortunately, Jude was able to cut her words in the middle.
Jude hurriedly blocked Cordelia’s mouth and said in a low voice.
“Hey, we’re meeting each other in secret, right?”
Midnight was a late hour.
It was a good thing that most of the people in the house followed Jude’s father who went on an expedition. Otherwise, someone would have come by after hearing the sound.
“Have you calmed down? I’ll take my hand off when you’ve calmed down, okay?”
Cordelia nodded at Jude’s question.
“Okay, I’ll let go.”
“Pwaah-! Hey, are you really talking about that Leisegang? The Red Moon Demon Leisegang?”
As soon as Jude removed his hand, Cordelia asked quickly in a low voice. She looked dumbfounded.
“Yes, the Red Moon Leisegang.”
“Are you crazy? How will you defeat him? Don’t you know that its level is like a bully to us right now?”
Red Moon Leisegang was a demon sealed in the northern part of the Sälen Kingdom and was one of the mid-bosses that appeared in the middle of Legend of Heroes 2.
Outboxer009 and Yellow Storm were stagnant water who reached the level of rotten water, but as Cordelia had stated, it was impossible for them to defeat the demon with their current power, which was at the level of a game beginner.
Jude also admitted it.
“Yes, so how do we defeat it? But this is really like you, Yellow Storm. Your head is only thinking about hunting it.”
“But you said that you needed the Sun’s Necklace. That’s the drop item if you kill Leisegang.”
Five hundred years ago, it was the Sun Paladin Gallus who sealed Red Moon Leisegang.
Leisegang took Gallus’ life at his last attack just before being sealed, and in the process, the Sun’s Necklace, the relic of the sun goddess that Gallus possessed, was sealed with Leisegang.
Because Gallus was already dead, the priests of the sun goddess completed the seal, believing that the nature of the Sun’s Necklace would weaken the power of Leisegang. Thanks to that, the Sun’s Necklace became the drop item of Leisegang.
“We won’t kill the demon. We’ll just steal the item.”
“How? And don’t you have to unseal it in the first place to face Leisegang? How are we going to do that? I’m still only a 1-star wizard.”
“Yes, and I have a disease, so I can’t even be villager A. So, we’ll use Bellastin’s Magic Circle.”
“Bellastin’s Magic Circle?”
“Bellastin’s Magic Circle. If you use it, it’ll be possible to summon Leisegang for some time while maintaining the seal’s power. We just need to take the Sun’s Necklace away from the one who can’t move because of the seal, and then seal it again.”
“Your words…does make sense…”
Bellastin was a powerful barrier wizard who rose to prominence in the latter half of the heroic period.
With the proper application of a magic circle that restricted one’s movements, it would be possible to call out the main body of the bound demon for a while, as Jude had said, while maintaining the seal of Leisegang.
“However…”
“However?”
“Wasn’t that… extremely complicated? That magic circle?”
Cordelia had once visited the game’s walkthrough website. It was rumored to be a good magic circle for restricting a sealed demon, but she gave up thinking of using it now because she found it too complicated to draw the magic circle, even if a copy was right beside her.
At Cordelia’s question, Jude nodded.
“Of course, I know. I have scrutinized the magic circle for Leisegang several times already. Ah, are you saying that you can’t draw the magic cicle?”
“Th-that’s not true? I can draw it too? How many times have I drawn it? Because I memorized everything too?”
“Is that right? Yes, I think so too. You’re the 2nd in the server, of course. There is no way that you can’t memorize it, right?”
Jude patted her shoulders as he looked at her with eyes full of trust, while Cordelia had an uneasy smile with a face that looked like she was about to cry.
‘Wow, it’s all revealed on her face.’
He thought as he now knew why she didn’t use the voice chat. She seemed like the type who couldn’t tell a lie.
“Yes, since the wizard is you, I’ll ask you to draw it. That’s really reassuring. I’ll only trust in you, Yellow Storm.”
“Uh… yes. Tr-trust me only. Yes. Me only…”
Cordelia’s appearance as she insecurely forced herself to smile was quite a spectacle.
“Anyway, let’s make taking the Sun’s Necklace from Leisegang as our first quest goal.”
“But isn’t it a little far away? It seems impossible to go there and come back here in a short time at the middle of the night.”
The place where Leisegang was sealed was an abandoned temple in the middle of the Belkain Mountains.
Even if it was close to the frontier city where Count Bayer and Count Chase lived, it was still about a half day’s drive by carriage.
“Yes, so I was thinking. There’s a solution for that, too.”
“What is it?”
“First off, you and I are engaged now, right?”
“Y-yes, so?”
At the mention of the word ‘engagement,’ Cordelia looked like she wanted to evade it, and Jude also had the same awkward expression as hers.
Yellow Storm and engagement.
A promise of marriage between them.
Jude felt dizzy while thinking about that, but in any case, using anything available was the mindset of a strategist.
“So, let’s go on a date.”
“Date?”
“A date in a carriage.”
“Who? Y-you and me?”
“You and I. Outboxer and Yellow Storm. 1st place and 2ndplace who get along well with each other.”
What would the people in the chat room say when they see this situation?
Cordelia’s white face became even whiter – in a word, her face had a creeped-out expression and she became stiff. On the other hand, Jude also had a similar expression.
“Ah, it seems like my stealthy ‘time limit’ has made itself felt.”
“Time limit?”
“Yes, my Gueumjulmaek.”
Jude’s hands and feet were already cold from being exposed to the night air for a long time, and it seemed like the spreading night dew would even worsen his condition.
“A-are you okay? Would you like a
“I’d appreciate it. But how do you use magic? How is it when you use magic? Is it okay? It’s a little different from the game, right?”
“It’s a lot different. It’s amazing. Well, it’s really fantastic.”
Unlike Jude Bayer who was born with a disease that made him slow and weak, Cordelia Chase was a trained wizard with basic skills in magic.
She even used
Since arriving at the garden, Cordelia had felt tired and weak from being teased by Jude, but now, she broadly smiled in self-confidence.
“Fufufu, I can use
“O-okay.”
Cordelia put her hand on Jude’s forehead, closed her eyes and chanted the spell. The beautiful appearance of Cordelia and the green light coming from her hands harmonized together, making it a truly spectacular sight for the eyes.
“How is it? Is there any effect?”
“Yes. It’s a little easier to breathe now.”
Jude thought he could get back to his room safely.
“Then I’ll go back first.”
Cordelia put the hood on again. Although Count Bayer and Count Chase were neighbors, they didn’t live right next to each other, so it would take quite some time for her to get back.
“I’m sorry. If I can cure my disease, I’ll try to cross over the walls of your house.”
“No thanks? I’m fine with going on a d-date, okay?”
She was fine with Jude asking her out for a date.
“Hey, if that’s the case, can’t we just call it the quest to attack Leisegang?”
“Y-yes. That would be good for our mental health.”
Jude and Cordelia stood side by side and awkwardly bade each other farewell.
“Then, I’ll be going. Have a good night’s sleep.”
“Yeah, good night to you too. Dream of me.”
Cordelia answered with a middle finger to his habitual greeting, and then flew up and crossed the wall.
“Ha, that’s real magic.”
The world where angels and demons exist, as well as magic.
Jude looked at the wall where Cordelia had disappeared for a while, before turning in the direction of the Belkain Mountains.
Red Moon’s Leisegang and the Sun’s Necklace.
It was the beginning of their first quest in this world.
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