Chapter 120

On the contrary, killing magic cannot penetrate the defense magic specially developed to restrain itself, and now most magic defenses will have restraining spells attached, resulting in killing magic becoming a general attack magic on the human side.

This completely highlights the problem of acquired compatibility... Otherwise, the killing magic in the past would still be a super strong penetrating magic that kills everyone.

That is this kind of magic, facing the gold that turns everything into gold, it has no temper at all.

No need to analyze, no need to do anything, just put the gold in front of you, it is enough to resist killing magic, there is no need to change the spell or anything.

Because that kind of gold itself will not be destroyed, just the defense itself... Mahat is almost invincible.

Celia may have restraining magic, but he doesn't have it at all... In this case, it will be very difficult to fight, and it is not good to let Celia go.

And Celia took action against Mahat fifty years ago, it was entirely because she judged that if she didn't show up, Mahat would turn the entire northern plateau into gold.

The entire northern plateau... probably occupies half of the northern continent. In this world with only one supercontinent, the area of ​​the northern continent is roughly the sum of the central continent and the southern continent.

That is to say, about a quarter of the world will perish; if it is the Earth, it will be the second largest continent, Africa, plus the smallest Oceania.... Even if Mahat dies, the goldenization will not be reversed.

It is this kind of monster that can bring great disasters to the world that Celia can't help but take action. After all, what she likes is an unpeaceful world, not simply excessive slaughter, let alone excessive destruction of the integrity of the world.

But in the end, she was dissuaded by her disciples and did not continue to fight with Mahat. She directly took the measure of sealing... This hindered Ash's direction of advance.

After all, he couldn't really hope that Mahat would not come out or something, and it was not good to leave a time bomb behind him.

"Take down all the west first. The people behind didn't keep up. The northern city fortress Fednan can't be moved for the time being, and Weisze on the east side can only be put aside for the time being..."

Looking at the map spread out on the table, Ash was worried and worried, and finally made a decision.

The golden city fortress Weiize was originally in the north-central part of the kingdom, but now he could only ignore it and find a way to solve it later, and other things could only be postponed.

There was no way. He ran very fast with the cavalry and the monsters, but the main force did not catch up at all. After all, the infantry could not fly over like Linie and Solitier.

In the case that the follow-up troops could not keep up temporarily, he could only take a break for the time being and slow down the speed of counterattack-after all, he had not slept for several days.

After making up his mind, he put Linie aside and went to the lord's room, which had been renovated to welcome him.

He just fell on the brand new big bed, and fatigue permeated his whole body, making his consciousness fall into darkness in an instant.

When the time came to the next day.

The situation in the city of Kesman had basically returned to stability in the afternoon when Ash woke up... At least on the surface, the city was restoring order in an orderly manner.

Especially the magicians who came on horseback from the rear, have now raised the ground to create a temporary city wall, and have begun to build a new city defense barrier.

"But, they still haven't come... The main force of the empire is probably going to the second line of defense, right?"

Ash lay on the guardrail of the castle rooftop, looking at the streets below that had restored order. Although he said so, he didn't have much hope that the kingdom's infantry could arrive the next day.

Or... he didn't have any hope at all.

After all, it's so far and they can't ride horses, and humans have their own limits.

But in this way, the empire's reinforcements will gather in the fortress city of Ferdinand, among which there must be a new magic special forces, the Holy Staff Court, and some court mages, and they are ready to deal with him.

In addition, he didn't forget Celia's reminder.

"Now I can only stop for a while..."

Although it was a bit depressed, the follow-up troops couldn't keep up, and there was no point in going all the way. He could only temporarily put the plan of advancing north on hold and prepare to hang the empire's power here.

Then make preparations and see if there is an opportunity to take advantage of other countries from the northern Demon King's City and the northeastern border of the kingdom to attack by surprise.

If possible, he hopes to solve the problem quickly... After all, getting into a tug-of-war will only waste people's money and effort.

And accidentally entangled in a war of attrition, it would be contrary to his original idea... Although he has plenty of time to waste with the empire.

But now this quick battle is to reduce casualties as much as possible. If possible, he would rather kill the emperor directly or capture the emperor and replace him.

Because this was the idea when he traveled with Fulilian and Feilun at the beginning, to meet the emperor together when the other party was not vigilant, not to directly take down the high-level officials of the empire.

For this reason, he also deliberately exposed the fact that there was a great demon in the kingdom, so that even if some people in the empire heard about him, they would not doubt that the person with combat power above the great demon would be him, and they should think that the kingdom's trump card is an unknown great demon.

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Looking at the peaceful urban streets below, Ash also began to think about the future plans for himself and the kingdom.

But this plan did not last too long.....

"....Line, what are you doing? Don't you like apples the most? Why are you wasting them so much?"

While looking down and thinking, he had actually been enduring the strange sounds behind him, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore and looked back.

If you don't look, you won't know. When he looked, he found that the pink-haired girl was squatting in front of a basket of washed apples, taking a bite on the left and right.

Or after eating one bite, she threw it directly behind her, but for some reason she picked out three bitten apples and placed them on the table next to her.

"This is my pocket money." Linie raised her head and retorted seriously. She tilted her head and thought for a while before adding: "This is the real money given by you and Lord Aura."

"... I know you have a lot of money in your treasury, and you don't need to spend it on a daily basis, but there is no need to waste it like this, right?"

"Listen to me, Lord Ash..." Linie said inexplicably seriously: "I forgot about the birthday present a few days ago."

"I know... But at that time we were in the wild, waiting to analyze the national defense barrier, and serious things are more important, Don't worry about it."

"I care, so I'm choosing a gift."

"....Is it for me again?"

"Yeah, I've almost finished choosing."

While talking, Linie bit two more apples, nodded slightly and threw them back again, then she held the three apples on the table together and handed them to him: "Here, Master Ash, a birthday gift."

".......Is it the same this year?"

He looked down at the three apples, picked up one and stared at the small oxidized gap, his eyes full of helplessness.

Linie's gifts every year are basically apples. Although they are carefully selected apples, he can't taste much difference, and he will definitely take a bite first...but they are obviously the ones she thinks are the most delicious.

"Apples are very good, so Master Ash should eat more."

"...I don't have this strange obsession with apples." Facing this overly serious girl, he could only take a bite, and then stroked Linie's hair with a doting smile: "Not bad, it tastes good...Thank you, Linie."

"Well, as long as you like it." Linie raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and when he sat on the chair next to her, she immediately sat on him, and happily shook her slender black silk legs. She also grabbed his collar as if she thought of something and wiped the juice from the corners of her mouth with the lining.

Okay, I will use my collar to wipe it when I am unhappy, but I will also do this when I am happy? —— Ash didn't know what to say, so he could only reach out and hold the girl in his arms, and casually bite the apple as a birthday gift.

Although it is a bit strange to have apples for breakfast early in the morning....but if it is imported apples, it seems to be...even stranger?

But in this way, when things are at their extremes, it should not be so strange.

At this time, Linie, who was always very quiet, suddenly pointed her finger downwards, at the man and woman who were hugging and kissing each other, and said thoughtfully:

"Master Ash, what others can do, I can do now, right?"

"As long as you don't mess around, it's up to you." Still looking into the distance, thinking about how he seemed to have accidentally thrown aside the agreement with Fren, Ash answered casually without even looking at him: "Rather, you asking me makes me a little surprised."

"Really? Then..." Linie nodded to herself, then raised her head and stretched out her hands to fix on his face.

Without waiting for Ash to speak in doubt, Linie pressed her pink lips against his, completely imitating him... and kissed him like the man and woman below.

At this moment, time seemed to be stretched, and the soft touch blocked his words.

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The girl kissed greedily as if she was biting, and it lasted about a minute... or maybe much longer.

Ash couldn't calculate the time correctly, but Linie, who had just let go of him, blushed slightly, licked her lips, and smiled happily:

"The taste of Ash is also apple-flavored, I like it very much."

"...Because I just ate an apple."

"Hey~ Ash, I feel good, how about you?"

"It's good, but I feel a little complicated now..." It's impossible to say that he hates it, but... he was a little scared and covered his mouth with a troubled look: "You are still a child, I actually think it's good..."

"Child?" Linie tilted her head slightly in confusion: ".... Ash, have you forgotten? I'm almost a hundred years old?"

"Uh, it seems so...?"

"Ala~ You guys are having a lot of fun, can you add me?" He didn't even finish talking to Linie, and Solitier came to the terrace with a sweet smile.

What she said almost shocked Ash: "... Can this kind of thing be added?"

"What's the problem? Am I really too old?"

"Ah, yes... that's it." He was slightly stunned, but nodded subconsciously, which made Solitier immediately stroke his cheek with regret:

"This is a bit of a headache. Compared with Linie... I am closer to the body of a girl, and I can't control it myself."

"No... you said there is a possibility, there is no possibility, I am talking about age?"

"How is it possible? What's the difference between 1000 years old and 100 years old for us?"

"... Okay, I take back what I said before, I mean you are too weird."

Facing this always weird Solitier, he couldn't help but cover his face and shake his head, and even said what he thought in his heart directly.

And at least for now, he doesn't plan to do too many weird things.

Although he does like Linie, and it's true that he likes beautiful girls, at least he doesn't have the idea of ​​doing those things now... I shouldn't have.

After all, Linie was brought back by Aura, and to some extent, she is Aura's adopted daughter, and he also "invested" in a part of it, so from the perspective of the relationship, there may be "a little bit" of strangeness.

Compared with Linie, Solitier's personality is simply too bad, completely different from the beautiful girl he expected, and even a little scary, that is, the kind of calm madness.

Although Linie's personality is not very good... This made him fall into trouble.

At this moment, Solitier thought about it and thought of something interesting. Suddenly, with a smile, he whispered in his ear:

"Speaking of which... You don't want Aura to know what happened between you and Linie, right?"

"I don't think she cares. By the way... Where did you learn such a bad line?"

His capable subordinate actually said such a weird line, which almost made Asura fall off the roof of the castle. He even looked at Solitier dumbfounded and couldn't recover for a long time.

Of course, although he was a capable general, he was not sure how reliable he was.

At least a truly loyal and reliable general would not say such strange things to him.

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Although he was kissed by Linie, Ash tried his best not to think of strange things. After all, he needed to sort out their relationship.

It took a long time to convince Linie and Solitier to stay here temporarily to help him defend the city.

After that, he only needed to put pressure on the medium and large cities in the west, and the other party would probably surrender.

The situation stabilized a little the next day. After arranging things, he met the surrendered magic special forces again, and then quietly slipped out of the city and flew back to the magic city.

In the evening of the same day.

He flew directly to this familiar city at supersonic speed, and as soon as he entered the city, he found that... the atmosphere in the city was no longer as relaxed as before he left the city.

But it seemed that there was no way. Although the conflict between the empire and the kingdom did not declare war, it was actually basically the same as entering a state of war.

The Empire's attack was frustrated. The Kingdom has already driven a nail into the Empire's territory and will soon eat away at the southwest of the Empire bit by bit.

Once the war starts, it will not stop easily, and the process is full of uncertainty.

If there is a chance that the Empire will push back, the Magic City will definitely be the area that the Empire wants to take back the most.

After all, this was the Empire's territory in the first place, and the Empire must want to take it back.

Once the conflict extends to here, the Magic City will probably suffer a lot of disasters. It is this idea that has caused the entire city to be filled with panic.

Many people in the city are still hoarding supplies, but more people who have been prepared for a long time have chosen to stay indoors due to the tense atmosphere.

Therefore, in this dusk, there are actually not many people on the streets of the city that used to be bustling.

He walked carelessly towards his home, but before he reached the door of his house, he happened to see two girls walking out of his house together.

"Well..." The appearance of two familiar girls made him ponder and worry about his words.

"Wow! It's the uncle~!" Connie, who had cute orange hair and twin ponytails, was stunned for a moment, and then rushed towards him with a smile that was almost overflowing, like a puppy seeing its owner, and grabbed her hand and shook it: "--You are finally back~ We were very worried about you!"

"Hmph, you didn't even come to the privilege granting ceremony, and you... you have the nerve to come back now." The girl with straight silver hair, Rabinie, put her hands on her hips and looked unhappy.

"... Don't say such things, weren't you still worried that something might happen to the uncle, and whether he would be killed by the assassins of the empire? Just like the rebellious witch more than 20 years ago?"

Connie looked helpless about his frank childhood friend, and the example he cited was something that Ash had heard before.

Of course Ash knew more than others... because the rebellious witch was a female elf, and she was also an ancient magician who had obtained the Holy Staff Certificate like Fulilian.

People who have obtained the Holy Staff Certificate are also called great magicians.