Chapter 269
Camillo, who had been watching the hesitating Roina with a resolute gaze, finally let out a sigh.
“There is a way.”
“Huh?”
Roina looked at her, brightening up. The fact that there was a way to resolve this mana binding was half doubt, half hope.
Camillo looked at her and made a clank- sound, half-drawing the sword she had been wearing on one side.
“If I cut it with this, I think I can get them out.”
At those words, Roina’s eyes shook greatly.
“That sword…”
Camillo nodded. Beneath the old, rough-looking hilt, there was a sharp and dazzling blade. It wasn’t simply well-forged, but a sword with some kind of spell written in ancient language, and as if responding to its owner’s will, those letters were now shining.
Roina faintly understood the meaning of the spell. It was a memory from that old time, not now. A spell of destruction. A spell that completely annihilates the target by sacrificing oneself.
That sacrifice, in Camillo’s case, was her memory.
“…It was Calad.”
Ethan spat out a word with troubled eyes. He also looked somewhat lonely.
“How did it become like this? The hilt and scabbard weren’t originally like this…”
Calad’s other name was the King’s Sword. That sword, passed down in legends, was the treasure of the Castrello royal family and the symbol of the successor to the throne. Such a precious sword was now just a blade, surrounded by an old hilt and scabbard.
It was true that Camillo was the last one to have that sword. Since it was a foregone conclusion that his mother would give the throne to Camillo, she had given it to her with the meaning of definitely returning alive from the final battle. She thought it was fortunate that it was with her rather than being taken away as war spoils by the Empire, but she was curious about the reason why it had changed so much.
Then Camillo nodded once and spoke. Her reddish-brown hair, tinged with a red aura, flowed down gently, covering her bronze neck. The muscles, beautifully structured from her neck to her shoulders and collarbone, delicately shaped her body.
“When I survived, the only thing left for me was this sword’s blade. Perhaps because I was caught in the explosion… I don’t know exactly what happened. But at that time, it was better to hide this sword.”
It was a plausible reason. However, the thought that it would have been difficult for a human to survive if the explosion was so great that the sword’s scabbard and hilt disappeared briefly crossed her mind. But Roina soon dismissed the thought. Now was the time to respond to Camillo’s proposal.
“That sword, you can’t use it here.”
It was dangerous, but more than anything.
“It’s a sword that comes with a price. It’s not good to use it often. Even if you save my contractors, what’s the point if you sacrifice Camillo?”
Looking at Roina, who was shaking her head and speaking, Camillo seemed to be momentarily speechless, but soon burst into laughter.
Hahaha!
For some reason, while hitting Ethan’s back.
Where are Jason and Rager? She suddenly recalled what she had been worried about since earlier. This time, she even spoke it aloud. Camillo, who didn’t know the two of them, wore a puzzled expression, and Rager, with a somewhat dark expression, answered.
“I don’t know. But since they are your contractors, they won’t die easily.”
Roina glanced at Ethan and then moved her feet again. Since there were no clues to find them, they could only deal with the immediate task for now. Even if this place was a prepared trap, they needed to reach the answer quickly.
Roina felt the energy flowing quietly throughout her body. It was overflowing with more power than ever before. What on earth was Ryuhyeon’s purpose? Simply having that kind of relationship? If what he said was true, the Crown Prince, as her contractor, couldn’t actually affect her life.
It was when she was lost in such thoughts.
“Huh?”
Camillo’s voice, sounding puzzled, was heard. Looking in the direction Camillo was looking, there,
“Magic stones? Huh, people?”
Jason and Rager, trapped inside magic stones, were visible in the middle of a cluster of magic stones that had sprouted up like crystals.
“Jason, Rager!!”
Roina, her eyes wide open, shouted.
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