Holy Maiden Moriel and the Legend Party hastily left the Kingdom of Mariette.

Sara Dunphy was attacking the Holy Empire’s city of Saicrium.

Given that Sara Dunphy was the ostensible target of the investigation team, they naturally had to rush out.

“Why is Sara Dunphy attacking Saicrium?”

“It must be because of us. It’s clearly an order from Abelson Mariette.”

“I didn’t notice any signs. Did they prepare this before we arrived?”

The three Legends – Gelling, Asmund, and Kinley – spoke in turns.

“It doesn’t matter why Sara Dunphy appeared. It’s already happened. We’ll do what we need to do.”

Holy Maiden Moriel continued the conversation.

“Looking at the situation, this works out well for us. If Sara Dunphy had kept roaming around, we would have felt uncomfortable staying at the Mariette Palace for long. This way, we can catch two rabbits at once.”

Even if they had stayed at the Mariette Palace, it would have been difficult to find evidence of the undead.

In fact, Holy Maiden Moriel couldn’t even sense traces of demonic energy.

If Abelson had held out until the end, things would have become troublesome in many ways.

But with Sara Dunphy causing trouble, their justification naturally becomes stronger.

Now if they deal with Sara Dunphy and return to the palace to confront Abelson about ‘What relationship do you have with the undead’ – everything would be perfect.

“That’s the place.”

Holy Maiden Moriel’s group arrived at the city in question, Saicrium, in less than 20 minutes.

The thick demonic energy floating above the city could be felt from far away.

“Just looking at the demonic energy, it’s at least Corps Commander level.”

“Not just any Corps Commander. This level of demonic energy is on par with First Corps Commander Dorithugs.”

“Doesn’t matter. If we combine our strengths, we can handle even the Grotesque Eater if she shows up.”

“Let’s charge in right away.”

Just as they were about to move toward the source of demonic energy,

A voice was heard from above.

“You’re late than I expected.”

The Holy Maiden’s group hurriedly looked up.

“Is that Sara Dunphy?”

“How long has she been up there?”

“Good thing we knew she was undead before coming. Completely impossible to tell otherwise.”

A woman with bronze skin, adorned brilliantly with gold and jewels.

Looking at her appearance alone, she looked human rather than undead.

Next to her stood a warrior holding a huge greatsword, and his presence was also unusual.

“We hadn’t heard about such a warrior.”

The warrior appeared to possess at least semi-legendary level power.

Kinley, one of the Legends, frowned.

“This is going to be more annoying than expected.”

There was no other meaning.

Kinley frowned because the situation becoming more troublesome was irritating.

After all, their abilities were top-tier even among Legends.

Having one semi-legendary figure join in wouldn’t make things difficult at all.

It would just make things a bit more annoying.

That was all.

Then Holy Maiden Moriel stepped forward as a representative and asked.

“Are you Sara Dunphy?”

“Yes.”

“Why are you here? Weren’t you attacking the city?”

“I wasn’t attacking the city. I just pretended to.”

All Sara Dunphy did here was spread demonic energy.

It might look scary, but effectively caused no harm.

She merely announced her presence here.

The purpose was obviously to draw out the Holy Maiden’s group who came to capture her.

“Are you saying you lured us here?”

“Correct.”

Sara Dunphy slightly raised the corner of her mouth.

Holy Maiden Moriel also responded with a bright smile.

“How interesting. Don’t tell me you think you can defeat us?”

“Hmm, your level is higher than I expected. Still, I think it’s worth trying.”

“How arrogant.”

Sara Dunphy shrugged her shoulders.

“How long do you plan to fight with words?”

Sara Dunphy’s demonic energy spread out, and the undead appeared everywhere.

All of them were high-level undead, powerful individuals.

Their numbers reached several hundred.

Excluding Sara Dunphy, just the undead here could destroy a small kingdom.

However, Holy Maiden Moriel is here.

When it came to undead specifically, the Holy Maiden possessed overwhelming power that could be called humanity’s strongest.

“I don’t think you showed such confidence with just these small fry.”

Massive holy power emanating from Holy Maiden Moriel exploded in the sky.

Supreme Holy Magic

Baptism of Destruction

Then, rain made of holy power covered the earth.

Graaaaaah-!

Rain of holy power that could instantly dissolve ordinary undead.

Though the undead Sara Dunphy sent out were all high-level and holding on, it was just a matter of time.

At this rate, they wouldn’t last even 10 minutes before all disappearing.

“Hooh, certainly impressive.”

Sara Dunphy showed an interested expression.

She naturally became curious as it was her first time seeing the holy power of this level.

“The method of simply outputting strong power isn’t bad. It’s more efficient than complicating things unnecessarily.”

However, this is a battle situation.

It wasn’t time to leisurely observe magic.

“Do you know? This type of magic has a fatal weakness.”

Sara Dunphy raised her hand.

The demonic energy spreading from her fingertips instantly covered the sky.

“Being simple means it’s easily overwhelmed. Like this.”

Holy Maiden Moriel looked at the sky with an expression of shock.

“How…!?”

Swoosh-!

The rain was still falling.

However, it was no longer rain containing holy power.

Rain containing Sara Dunphy’s demonic energy was pouring down.

Grooooowl…!

The undead who had been collapsing from the holy power stood up again.

They were even stronger than before.

Holy Maiden Moriel couldn’t understand how this was possible.

‘Demonic energy is weak against holy power. Moreover, the opponent is undead, which has the worst compatibility. How did she devour the holy power!?’

Furthermore, Sara Dunphy had transformed the magic.

Rather than destroying the existing holy power, she converted its property to demonic energy.

As Holy Maiden Moriel was bewildered by this technique she had never seen or heard of before,

The three Legends stepped forward.

“Moriel. Support us. We’ll handle this.”

“… Understood.”

Holy Maiden Moriel bit her lip hard and stepped back.

Legend Kinley gave orders as the representative.

“Asmund. You handle the small fry. Gelling, take care of the knight. I’ll deal with Sara Dunphy directly.”

“Understood.”

The roles were simply distributed.

Just as the real battle was about to begin.

“Hmm, I should stop here for today.”

“What…?”

“Well then, see you next time.”

As Sara Dunphy waved her hand, black mist swirled.

While Holy Maiden Moriel’s group was flustered trying to clear away the demonic energy.

“She’s escaping!”

They could see Sara Dunphy flying far away.

Kinley’s face crumpled as she swung her mace.

Kwaaang-!

The swirling magical energy scattered completely.

Kinley hurriedly kicked the ground.

“Those bastards are taking us too lightly!”

Her face distorted even more.

How dare they toy with her.

She would catch them immediately and crush every bone in their body.

“Just wait!”

Until then, no one knew.

That this sudden chase would continue for nearly two weeks.

***

At the point when the first day passed after they started chasing Sara Dunphy.

The Holy Maiden’s group thought.

The chase is taking longer than expected.

The enemy is quite skilled at running away.

Then two days passed and.

By the third day, the color had drained from everyone’s faces.

“I’m at my limit. Need to get some sleep.”

“We’ll take turns sleeping one at a time. The rest must continue the pursuit. We can’t lose them now.”

The enemy must surely be tired too.

Even being undead, demonic energy has its limits.

Surely this chase would end soon.

Time passed like that and.

By the point a week had passed, they surrendered.

“Request support.”

“If we contact the home kingdom, they’ll send troops.”

“Regular troops won’t be enough. We need to mobilize the knights too.”

“I’ll speak to the church and get support from the priests.”

They readily admitted they couldn’t catch Sara Dunphy by themselves.

Rather than giving up here, it would be better to request support now and catch her for certain.

“Once support arrives, it’s over.”

“We’ll block all directions so she can’t escape anymore.”

Large forces moved from the Holy Empire of Gatren and the Deusis faith.

Though they thought catching Sara Dunphy was now just a matter of time.

Sara Dunphy still wasn’t caught.

Holy Maiden Moriel and the three Legends could only grow more exhausted.

“This is maddening…”

“… I’ve lived for hundreds of years, but I’ve never been this tired.”

The fugitive just needed to run away, but the pursuers had much to do.

They had to spread barriers to prevent spatial transfer magic.

They had to spread an encirclement in all directions to somehow prevent movement.

Among these, the most difficult fact was that Sara Dunphy ran away 24 hours straight without sleeping.

Being human, they needed sleep, but Sara Dunphy’s speed was so fast that if they left the pursuit to others, they might lose her.

In the end, Holy Maiden Moriel and the three Legends had to continue the pursuit by taking turns getting brief naps.

“How much time has passed?”

“Feels like we’ve been chasing for about two weeks.”

“It’s the 13th day. Precisely, we’ve been pursuing for 12 days, 14 hours, and 16 minutes.”

“I see…”

Today marks the 13th day since starting the chase with Sara Dunphy.

Their eyes were bloodshot, and their bodies were in tatters from not being able to properly maintain themselves.

“I’ll catch her no matter what…!”

Legend Kinley clenched her fist with reddened eyes.

Now it’s a matter of pride.

How much effort and time have they invested so far?

At such a moment, if they let Sara Dunphy escape after all this, they wouldn’t be able to show their faces again.

“Let’s hang in there a little longer. The encirclement is almost complete. Then no matter how great Sara Dunphy is, she won’t be able to escape anymore.”

Holy Maiden Moriel said.

“She might become the biggest obstacle to the Empire’s future. It’s fortunate we found out even now.”

They had already forgotten about the Mariette Kingdom.

They couldn’t care less what happened to the Mariette Kingdom.

Having properly realized Sara Dunphy’s danger.

All their attention was focused on Sara Dunphy.

That’s when the news they’d been waiting for arrived.

“Sara Dunphy has fallen into the trap!”

“Finally!”

At last Sara Dunphy was caught in the trap.

A powerful holy barrier.

This time, even Sara Dunphy wouldn’t be able to escape easily.

***

Sara Dunphy looked around.

Powerful holy power surrounded the area in a dome shape.

“Hmm, this barrier is a bit different.”

During the chase, Sara Dunphy had been caught in barriers several times.

Each time she had easily broken the barrier and escaped, but this time was different.

This was a solid barrier that had taken a very long time and dedication to create.

Even for Sara Dunphy, breaking such a barrier would take considerable time.

Since a fugitive wouldn’t have much time, it meant they would have to fight their final battle here.

‘How regrettable. I had hoped to hold out until Choi Hyun-seok returned.’

She clicked her tongue inwardly.

Though it was disappointing not to see Choi Hyun-seok one last time, what could she do?

The situation had already unfolded.

She stretched big as if trying to shake off her unsettled feelings.

“Liam. Are you alright?”

“Yes. At times like this, I’m grateful to be undead.”

A 13-day chase.

Being human, even Legends would inevitably tire.

In contrast, Liam and Sara Dunphy had no issues except mental fatigue.

Because undead have unlimited stamina.

With enough demonic energy, they could fight for a month straight without rest.

Of course, mental endurance was another matter.

Anyway, Liam was grateful to be able to enter battle in relatively good condition.

“Liam. It’s not too late even now.”

Suddenly Sara Dunphy placed her hand on Liam’s shoulder with a serious expression.

“What do you mean?”

“Though the enemy’s encirclement is tight. I can certainly manage to let you escape alone.”

She could feel the enemies gathering.

At least ten thousand.

Not just anyone, but all possessing strong holy power.

Nevertheless, Sara Dunphy is confident she could save Liam.

Liam shook his head and faced Sara Dunphy.

“My lord. I’ve been thinking about what you said during these past two weeks.”

“What I said?”

“Yes. Didn’t you ask me about the meaning of existence?”

“Ah, that’s right.”

Before this chase began.

Sara Dunphy asked Liam.

‘What do you think is the meaning of existence?’

At that time Liam couldn’t answer.

Because it was a topic he had never thought about.

He pondered endlessly to answer that question while running away for nearly two weeks.

“Thinking about it, I realized. I knew the meaning of my existence from the beginning.”

“What is it?”

At Sara Dunphy’s question, Liam grinned.

“It’s you, my lord.”

“…”

“A world without you has no meaning to me.”

Sara Dunphy gave an embarrassed smile.

“To think you’d say such cheesy things. I’ve lived long enough to see everything.”

“I’m serious, my lord.”

“Alright, that’s enough.”

She looked around.

The enemy had already surrounded them from all directions, pointing swords and spears at them.

“It reminds me of the old days. Before establishing Vallington. You and I. We faced an army like this, just the two of us. Do you remember?”

“Of course.”

The decisive battle that made Sara Dunphy’s name known across the continent.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the Vallington Kingdom was established thanks to winning that battle.

For some reason, Sara Dunphy felt that the battle and now were similar.

“Unexpectedly, I’ll make my name known in this era too.”

“It is an infinite honor to share this historic moment.”

As soon as the words ended, magic began flying in from all directions.

Magic of all colors fills the world.

Sara Dunphy quietly marveled.

‘How beautiful.’

Why was that?

She thought the magic that would lead her to death was beautiful.

“Well then, shall we go?”

“Yes.”

Sara Dunphy and Liam smiled as they threw themselves into the magic.

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