“Woosh!”
Within the tent, Shien suddenly got up, which startled Lumia and Melika who were next to him.
“M-Mr. Shien?”
“W-What is it?”
Both Lumia and Melika became uneasy. It was as if they noticed that a change had come over Shien.
Shien closed his eyes and completely expanded his [Enemy Detection] and [Magic Detection] skills.
With that, Shien not only felt a number of sources of both strong hostility and magic power approaching. The reactions from his skills were quite intense.
Those were definitely not the kind of reactions one got from demonic beasts.
The hostility and magic power of demonic beasts weren’t that obscured nor that lively.
Therefore, Shien was certain that the attackers weren’t demonic beasts. Instead, they were even more dangerous, more terrifying, and more evil existences. Plus, there were quite a few of them too.
There was even one particular magic power reaction that was much stronger than even Jillian.
“Finally came huh?”
Shien opened his eyes and turned towards Lumia and Melika.
“Follow me closely. Absolutely do not get separated.”
With that statement, Shien charged out of the tent.
Lumia and Melika couldn’t quite properly react to that. Only after a while did they give each other a look and, as if realizing that something was wrong, finally charged out of the tent after Shien.
The moment they left the tent, though, Lumia and Melika shuddered.
“T-The scent of blood…!”
Lumia wiggled her cute little nose with a shocked expression on her face.
“Look over there!”
Melika’s sharp eyes caught something abnormal with the camp, and she pointed in that direction with a warning.
In the direction that Melika was pointing, several tents were on fire. They burned fiercely while emitting thick black smoke into the air.
There were also constant explosions erupting from all around the camp.
At this point, there was no way that Lumia and Melika didn’t know just what was going on.
“Enemy attack…!?”
“How…!?”
The two girls let out cries of shock.
Shien stood in front of the two. He narrowed his eyes as he observed the scene before him.
“As expected of the Old Demon Faction that masterminded the mass assassination incident in the capital. They’re quite capable at infiltration and assault.”
It was actually only after they started acting that Shien’s [Enemy Detection] and [Magic Detection] started reacting. Obviously, the enemy came prepared. At the very least, they had made countermeasurse specifically against detection skills.
“Diere’s side shouldn’t have discovered that enemies have infiltrated, right?”
Even Shien, with his maxed leveled skill, only detected it just now, so there’s no way it’d be possible for Diere.
Although…
“Even so, there’s no way I’d still miss you when you’re this close.”
As he said that, Shien suddenly swung about and viciously kicked out at the space behind Lumia and Melika.
“Bang!”
With a clear impact, Shien had accurately struck a shadow that was sneaking up on Lumia and Melika and sent it flying away.
“Ah!”
“Kya!”
Only then did Lumia and Melika discover that someone was about to ambush them, and they let out a surprised cry.
Shien moved the two girls behind him as he fixed his gaze onto the attacker.
The attacker didn’t seem to have imagined that he would be discovered, nor did he imagine that he’d be sent flying with a kick, so he was stunned for a moment before getting angry.
“Kill!”
Without wasting any words, the attacker flipped himself upright, grasped a still bloody dagger, and charged toward Shien.
The speed of his movement was so great that most could only see a blurred shadow. It was also done completely silently, without disturbing the environment around him at all. Most people wouldn’t have been able to so much as react and thus would have been instantly killed.
Unfortunately for him though…
“Bang!”
With the sound of a dull impact, the charging attacker was once again sent into the air by Shien’s kick without even the chance to swing his dagger.
If the attacker’s movement was fast enough to be a mere blurry shadow, then Shien’s kick was light a bolt of lightly. A flash and it was done.
“A-Amazing…”