The Death Knight Became an Escort Knight for the Saintess

17. Frozen Memories

17.

-Koo-Goo Palace!

A majestic spruce tree toppled the massive body and scattered snow dust. It was as if the frozen wind was dancing as the thick layers of snow rose acridly into the air. Ecilia sat atop her headless horse and watched as the open eyes stepped lightly into the air.

It was quite spectacular. As Celia was on a hill some distance from the area where the spruce fell, she could not keep her mouth shut at the beautiful sight as she watched the eyes dance in the air. However, beauty is a subjective domain, so there are people who give completely different impressions while watching the same scene.

For example, the WendigoWendigo In the middle of the snow dust. Wendigo couldn’t possibly accept her troublesome dance moves with pleasure. Especially if she became the subject of the dance.

Thrown at the spruce tree, the wendigo prepared to unleash her wrathful cries based on her pain. And she soon realized that if her lower jaw had fallen off, it would be a distant wish. She struggled and tried to stand up, but this time the Wendigo could see that the action was not far away like before, but in the realm of impossibility.

It’s natural. With only the upper body remaining, it would be difficult to stand up no matter what.

Zer Pied cut the Wendigo’s lower body in half with a single movement, which was pierced by the Partisan Blade. It did not require much strength from him to cut her lower half, which was six cubits long, in half. A steaming steam of steaming hot blood melts the frozen ground in her eyes.

Zer Pied lightly brushed off the blood and bits of intestines from her blade and moved her steps toward her lady.

“I’m sorry.”

Silia looked at the 4.5 Cubit dark blue armor she handed over to herself, starting with an apology, and she couldn’t figure out what she was sorry for. So that was the moment she opened her mouth to know the reason for her apology. But she had to shut her mouth as soon as she placed her hand on her escort knight’s head.

“It’s snowing.”

Zer Pied carefully brushed her eyes off her, taking care not to cut her clothes, hair, or skin with the sharp fingers of her gauntlets. After wiping out her eyes, Zer Pied noticed that Lady’s face had turned red. The Death Knight immediately mounted her horse and wrapped her cloak around her.

This is Rephaim Forest, which is adjacent to the domain of the demons, and is located further north of Diervan City, where they stayed a while ago. As such, the coldness of the wind was relentless. The escort driver thought that it was only natural that the skin would turn red when exposed to such a chill.

“Uh… !”

Esilia, who was just blinking her big eyes, pointed at a certain point. It was where the wendigo that had just attacked them had been forcibly leaning against her fallen spruce tree. With the Wendigo as the center, figures with black fur all over their bodies approached.

They were very strange shapes. Esilia thought the figures had limbs attached to fur. Just as she was thinking about it, the limbed hairballs pounced on the wendigo.

Immediately, their sharp teeth, which had been hidden in the fur, were revealed. As her consciousness slowly faded, the Wendigo wanted to scream at the sudden pain that came to her. She couldn’t, of course. She just waved her arms grotesquely like her promiscuous dance he was watching.

“That… ?”

“BricolacasΒρυκΌΛακαΣ. The previous stage of Werewolf. When the moon isn’t full, all the werewolves take that form. It is only during full moons when it is possible to increase their kind that they assume the aspect of wild beasts. Other than that, I live my life suffering from the vagueness of not being a beast or anything. Werewolves are not called beastmen for nothing.”

Escelia half-closed her eyes. She quietly muttered a sympathetic prayer to beings who had once been human, now neither beast nor human.

She couldn’t even recite the prayer. It was only a matter of time before one Bricola Cass, who was tearing off a Wendigo’s torso, was caught and chewed up by another Wendigo that jumped out of a spruce tree located behind her. The coniferous forest, which had been quiet with the sound of flesh and blood drinking, was filled with wild screams.

Celia looked in astonishment as she watched the reddish liquid flow from the mouth of a giant with a grotesquely twisted head from her deer’s skull. Meanwhile, Celia managed to put an end to her prayer by moving her lips.

Death Knight saw that and thought that she was definitely a saint. She saw the death of another life, a familiar scene, and what he said was very simple.

“Move.”

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-Tadadak!

Spark fiercely grabbed the wind and flew up. But the unauthorized guest soon had to pay the price for free entry with a slight movement of the wind. The spark fell helplessly to the ground. Witnessing the end of the spark, Zer Pied broke off a twig near him and threw it into the bonfire.

Then she turned her head to her side and looked at Ecelia. Ecilia was curled up with her cloak wrapped around her like a blanket. With every breath she took, white smoke billowed from her nose and mouth as if freezing the air.

“Lady Esilia, are you not cold?”

Although she was wearing a snowsuit and wrapped around her cape, it seemed that she would be cold no matter how much I thought about it in the Death Knight. The Gion of Rephaim Forest is also Gion, but now he is an armored type. The metal-like armor was gorging on the chill, and at her side resembled a single four-and-a-half cubit block of frozen iron.

However, he could not return to his physical form. Just today, he had to be attacked by Wendigo or Bricola Cass a total of three times. And such raids were more frequent on nights like these.

Escelia smiled softly at her escort driver’s question and shook her head. However, her body was trembling slightly as she acted like that. Jer Peed let out a sigh of relief and said,

“Hold on a little longer, I think we are about a third of the way through the forest now.”

Three days have passed since I entered the Rephaim forest. As expected, the wilds of the Rephaim forest were not friendly to them. The attack of the cold wind and hungry creatures began from the first day. At first, the Wendigos attacked one by one, but as she advanced into the forest, she often encountered the Bricola Cass or the brown bear she had met yesterday.

Escelia felt the hairs all over her body stand on end when she thought of the scene where the huge grizzly bear, six cubits in size, was running towards her. Seeing her tremble, Zerfied said.

“Esilia, will you lean on a part of me? If you do that, the cold will go away though.”

“No, driver. Yesterday, you were leaning on a horse without a head, and you attacked the Wendigo thinking it was a real horse.”

“So what?”

In lieu of her answer, Celia wrapped her cloak even more and smiled. And she gently leaned her body against Zer Peed. Zerfied tried to point out that leaning against the frozen iron ingot wasn’t the right way to do it, but the lady’s exclamation forced him to stop talking.

Ecilia was looking at the sky. The sky couldn’t help but wonder. It was like a feast of lights.

It was a pity that the huge curtain of night was alone, and it seemed that it was trying to soothe the loneliness with the lights that were attached to it, like a shy gift of a ring to a lover who was leaving far away. If there is a difference, it will be that it is not a gift, but that the stars hang themselves at night to embellish and comfort the lonely darkness.

She has already seen a sight several times, but every time she sees a sight that the saintess has never seen before in the capital city, she looks at the sky in a daze as if she is enchanted. From her saintess, who proved the size of her admiration with her mouth, her words continued like her melody.

“…… In the old days.”

Death Knight listened to the saintess silently.

“It is said that all of this was one. The sky, the land, the sea, the moon, the stars…. I can’t believe it. That these brilliant and colorful things were once one. Is it really?”

There was no answer from Death Knight. The saintess didn’t care about that. Before she knew it, the saintess once again lost her heart to the festival of the group of lights.

The Death Knight, who followed her saintess and looked at her sky for a while, now leaned against her and put her head nodding her saintess in her field of vision. The regular breathing of her saintess whispered in his ears. Zerfied threw his sight a little farther. It was to see if there was anything dangerous.

Fortunately, all I could feel was the branches of the spruce or pine snatching the wind sharply, and the leaves of the yew softly wrapping it so that the wind wouldn’t hurt it so much. It was the same scene as yesterday. Death Knight was soaked in the silence that had nothing special. Death Knight quietly watched the coniferous forest.

The last time he saw this place, the only thing that remained was the frozen majestic spire, alone and unaided, boasting its own majesty. Those who dared to challenge its majesty were brutally shattered by the icy storm that whipped the spire. The place that used to be is now full of vegetation that is rough but fresh.

Suddenly, Death Knight realized the time gap of 950 years. He blinked slowly once.

The white eagle’s cries pile up.

Death Knight carefully placed his answer on the humble cry. I wasn’t talking to myself, but for some reason it seemed like I was talking to myself.

“…… He said yes.”

It was the fifth day after entering the Rephaim Forest that they met something special. In this forest full of spruce, pine, yew and other conifers, the empty lot was special.

… Strictly speaking, it was not a vacant lot.

In the middle of the place, there was a pile of large pieces of ice. The saintess and Death Knight reacted differently to the place that suddenly appeared. The Death Knight showed a wary curiosity, and the saintess’ face became contemplative.

“Knight, don’t get close!”

“…… Why are you doing this all of a sudden, Lady Esilia?”

The saintess had to swallow her saliva once and talk about what she had seen only in words in her library.

“This is … ! You’ll freeze if you get close!”

“… ?”

“I saw it in a book…. There is a strange place in the forest of Rephadam that freezes everything…. Maybe it’s the aftermath of ancient magic or something…. So don’t go!”

Death Knight thought the name was very strange.

To be called a tomb, there was not even a common stone tombstone, and what was there was a pile of ice placed in the shape of a cube with bewildering precision. So he thought it was more like the remains of a structure than a tomb. Ice was similar in shape to bricks, except that they were also ice. The winter spire is similar to that shape…….

Death Knight stopped moving while tilting his head.

He moved slowly towards the piles of ice.

“Knight?!”

Escelia was startled to see Zer Pied suddenly stepping her foot into the realm of the icy tomb. She hurriedly reached out her hand, but he had already gone inside. She stomped her foot as she saw the escort knight approaching the pile of ice that killed everything by freezing it, and so it was called the .

Death Knight stood in front of the ice tomb and slowly reached out her hand. Ecilia was on the verge of screaming. Horrible visions flashed through her mind of the escort knight being frozen in an instant. But her imagination was useless. Death Knight casually lifted a piece of ice.

“Uh… ?”

Death Knight looked at the clear and clean ice. Her own figure is reflected as if frozen in it. No, it was his memory that was frozen in it. He ran his hand through the ice. The memories engraved in it seemed to flow in like cold air from ice.

‘How is it, isn’t it cool, the blue knight of death? This is where the body’s new workshop will be! The whole area is frozen, so there won’t be any troublesome guys breaking in! After I succeed in recreating that transcendent past, I’ll spend the rest of my life experimenting here.’

‘A tower just for you, witch? You are indeed.’

‘What kind of nonsense are you talking about? Of course you can come in too.’

‘…… Me too?’

‘Then if you, my contractor, can’t come in, who else will come in? I can’t even come in without you and me anyway. Listen more than that I thought of a name for this new studio, but since it’s also made of ice, Would be better, right? Or, how about Since it sends a blizzard everywhere?’

‘……… Hmm…. Those names aren’t bad either…. Rather… Would be better.’

‘?’

‘Now it will always be winter here. Even if the heat of spring comes that melts everything, it won’t melt your will that dwells here.’

…… Witches have never experimented here.

Because she died before she could even serve her purpose. That is why, when he entered For the first and last time, there was only a frozen void.

Death Knight carefully laid down her frozen memories. He admitted he was wrong. This was a tomb. The end of something would not be inferior to being called a grave. For a while, he gazed at the tomb of , Which had now collapsed, and finished his memory with his former contractor.

After all, all living things die. Realizing that obvious fact, he turned to the current contractor. And he immediately rushed at his saintess with a partisan like a snow storm.