Nordic Myth – Chapter 8

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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“Yes?”

“Seduce me. Who knows? Maybe if I fall for you, I’ll teach you everything.”

“You’re teasing me! Ha, do you think I can’t do it if you tell me to? Fine! I won’t go easy on you even if you fall head over heels for me and become a fool later.”

Snorting, she couldn’t meet my gaze for a while.

Even so, when our eyes met, she blushed for no reason and walked ahead quickly.

After some time, the awkwardness from before disappeared again.

As we steadily walked along the forest path, we finally reached the end of the forest.

A fairly wide plain is visible and a castle is located in the center.

It seems like we’ll arrive if we walk briskly for about a day.

Perhaps because we were almost there, Kvasir and Seryu quickened their pace.

But unexpectedly, something completely unexpected happened on the way.

It was Kvasir who first noticed the strangeness.

“Oh, look over there!”

“What, it’s smoke, isn’t it?”

The direction Kvasir pointed with her fingertip was the castle, where a very small amount of smoke was rising.

It was so frustrating that I was surprised by her sudden words.

“Is that so surprising?”

“Still. Smoke is rising from the castle, maybe something happened there?”

“There’s no way.”

At Kvasir’s words, I looked at the castle again.

No matter how many times I look, the smoke is not rising enough to be considered serious.

The system message was quiet, and there were no signs that anything would happen.

Seryu immediately denied her words.

“I don’t think so. Maybe there was a fire or they’re performing a ritual like a sacrifice.”

“I guess so? But why am I anxious?”

“It’s not fun if you say it’s a woman’s intuition. I’ll believe it if it’s premonition, but if not, no way.”

“It’s not like that, but…”

But as time went on, I felt that it wasn’t a matter to be taken so lightly.

A huge amount of smoke began to rise from the castle, enough to color the sky.

Arson or sacrifice? No way. Kvasir and Seryu hastened their pace.

Something is coming along the road, raising dust from afar.

“It’s a carriage.”

A total of four carriages are running like crazy, and about ten knights are escorting them.

The exterior of the carriages is very luxurious, and the horses pulling them seem to be quite powerful, and they seemed to be at the level of fine horses.

Judging by this, the person riding in the carriage is the lord of the castle or someone of similar status.

Kvasir turned her head and looked at Seryu with an expression that seemed to say, ‘See? I was right?’, and I wanted to hit her because it was so annoying.

I held back and continued walking along the approaching road, and when I came across the carriage, I stood at the intersection.

Then, the knight running at the front sped up, came running, and stopped.

“It’s dangerous to go this way! Turn back!”

The knight shouted and was about to go back, but saw Kvasir.

Rich blue hair, two red eyes – he doubted if he remembered correctly.

And he asked again in a disbelieving voice.

“C-could it be Lady Kvasir?”

“Yes, that’s right. But wait a minute. What happened? Smoke is rising from the castle.”

“Oh, my God! Thank you. Could you possibly help us?”

The knight said that the castle was captured by orcs.

When I asked how the castle could be taken by orcs, the knight hesitated and answered.

His voice contained a little frustration. When the orcs first rushed towards the castle, he said he scoffed even though he was nervous.

But what’s this? One orc, presumed to be the leader, charged alone toward the castle gate and broke down the gate.

The surprised knights ran to deal with the orcs breaking through the gate, but were killed in return.

What was even more surprising was that the bodies of the knights who fell to the orcs were rotting. They tried to restrain him by shooting arrows, but the arrows rotted and turned to dust before reaching him, like the bodies of the knights.

After that, they were pushed back. The soldiers were brutally killed, and the lord and knights are dealing with the orcs in the alleys in a guerrilla warfare, avoiding the leader.

Anyway, he said it was dangerous to go in this direction. But unlike the knight who shouted that it was dangerous, Seryu was only calm.

Kvasir frowned and was silent for a moment.

“What do you want to do? Shall we help?”

“How many are there?”

The knight replied that there were at least hundreds. At that time, the carriages that were following stopped.

But no one paid attention to the carriages. Kvasir thought carefully.

Can two magicians defeat hundreds of orcs?

No matter how much I think about it, the result is negative.

“What are you going to do?”

“I’m going.”

This is a chance to level up. There was no fear.

While Seryu spoke leisurely with a smile, Kvasir thought seriously and then nodded.

Yes, somehow it will work out. If it doesn’t work out, we can just run away with magic.

“Then I’ll go too.”

“Thank you very much. I’ll trust Lady Kvasir.”

The knight lowered his head as if he was sorry and apologetic.

“But I have a question.”

“Please speak.”

“Are there many people left in the castle? No, there must be many left. But where are you, a knight, who is the main force, going?”

“I’m not running away. But, compared to the knights fighting in the castle…no. I won’t make excuses. I can’t deny it.”

At her question, the knight couldn’t lift his head and meet her gaze as if he was ashamed, and he closed his mouth.

At that time, the sound of a child crying came from inside the carriage as if waiting.

Then, the sound of crying could be heard loudly.

It seemed like the children inside the castle were being evacuated. Kvasir couldn’t question the knight any further.

“Where…are you going?”

“I’m going to ask for support from a nearby castle.”

Even if support is requested, it’s usually too late.

But because of this, the nearby castles will be able to prepare.

The knight must be going, knowing that fact.

At that time, a quest appeared in Seryu’s eyes.

A quest finally appeared.

The knight, who had been silent for a while, wished for God’s blessing and departed, leading the carriages.

Watching the carriages go away, Seryu asked Kvasir.

“Shall we go then, we don’t have time-“

Instead of the grimoire in his hand, he took out another grimoire from his inventory and threw it into the air.

The book that flew into the air flapped with a rustling sound, and then all the pages were torn out.

Hundreds of pages seemed to fly away like trash, but imbued with magic, they flew and formed a cylinder around Seryu and Kvasir.

Twenty pages formed one layer, and then another twenty pages formed another layer on top of it, creating a cylinder of nearly 15 layers.

Kvasir watched this with great interest and confirmed that nothing was written on the paper.

As soon as she reached out her hand, the papers began to rotate slowly and emit a blue light.

She flinched, but soon showed curiosity about the new thing and sparkled her eyes.

“Wait a minute. Can I check this out for a moment?”

“What? …Do it if you can, but uh.”

Before I could ask how, she moved.

Just as she drew runes on the table when we first met, she drew them in the air this time.

After a while, she opened her eyes and exclaimed. Her expression is bright as if she has gained some realization.

“It’s amazing. I wondered if it would be, but it’s actually a spatial movement series. Are you thinking of going to that castle at once with this?”

“I have to, we’ll be late if we walk.”

The papers surrounding them shone brightly.

Kvasir closed her eyes tightly. When the light felt through her eyelids had subsided, she opened her eyes again.

And she couldn’t close her mouth at the sight around her.

They were located in the center of a well-maintained road, but the surroundings were a mess.

The doors of the houses, which should have been tightly closed, were destroyed as if they had been struck with an axe, and some houses were on fire.

There were bodies of soldiers on the street, which were disappearing while emitting gold dust.

The men were nowhere to be seen, and the women were being raped by orcs on the street.

Kruek!?

Kvasir turned her gaze at the unpleasant breathing sound from right next to her.

“Hic!?

There was a woman whose clothes were ripped apart, and she seemed to be unconscious with her eyes rolled back, drooling from her mouth.

And the one on top of her was a bulky orc.

Perhaps because of the joy of finding a new prey, the orc roared and raised his body.

“Haggeuk!?

The orc pulled out his thing from the woman’s genitals.

Perhaps because he hadn’t taken it out since he inserted it once, a massive amount of semen gushed out of the woman’s genitals.

The woman was already out of her mind. She made a hic, hic- sound, and her hips fell and convulsed.

The orc, with his penis still erect, picked up the axe next to him, held it with both hands, and charged forcefully.

Instinctively, Kvasir moved her hands to use rune magic. But Seryu momentarily grabbed her hands and prevented her from using magic and said.

“Kill him.”

At that moment, some of the rotating papers that were layered moved.

Twenty pages that formed one layer came out, turned into three plain cross-shaped swords, and flew like bullets, piercing into the orc’s body.

They didn’t pierce through, they were embedded. They were embedded precisely in the throat area, right shoulder, and left thigh, and the orc roared.

Kraaaaaaaaaaah!

Seryu felt the anger mixed in the scream of pain and gave him additional paper swords.

The orc, which had a total of ten swords pierced into its body, fell forward and made a thud!

Sizzle! Sizzle!

Maybe because of the orc who had just screamed, some of the orcs hiding in the alleys and those on the street focused their attention.

“Those guys don’t know that they are in danger of dying now.”

Some orcs are still forcibly raping the women they have captured.

They don’t care whether Seryu kills the orcs or not.

Cries for help and screams continue to be heard from afar.

The women who are being raped forcibly whimper and cry.

Among them, there was no one who enjoyed it and made moaning sounds.

But the orcs are shaking their hips happily. The sight of the hideous thing piercing into the woman’s genitals made Seryu’s eyes narrow.

I don’t like this kind of thing, Seryu muttered to himself.

“Hey, I think our position is too bad. It’s the perfect spot to be surrounded, it’s dangerous here. Let’s move first.”

“No, it must be here.”

“Why? Let’s move to a safer place and kill them one by…”

Seryu repeated his words stubbornly. And he used his magic power to transform all the layered papers into cross swords.

A total of 45 paper swords surrounded Kvasir and Seryu in multiple layers, point down, and slowly rotated to protect them.

Kvasir was about to ask Seryu why he was so stubborn, but Seryu’s expression as he stared at the orcs was so cold that she couldn’t speak and swallowed her saliva quietly.

The orcs are slowly approaching, holding their weapons.

Among them, they flashed their eyes with desire and drooled at the beauty of Kvasir, a woman, and raised their things.

Kvasir frowned in disgust and prepared her rune magic.

“You know, Kvasir.”

“Yes, tell me.”

“I’m not a good guy.”

Why is he saying this in a situation like this?

Kvasir was puzzled, but she nodded and listened to him.

“I’m greedy and faithful to my desires.”

“….”

“That’s right, I’m a bad guy. Some people would say I’m no different from those orcs. I admit it. But it’s romance if I do it, and it’s adultery if someone else does it? Seeing this kind of thing makes me feel bad.”

“….”

“So I was going to take my time and kill them one by one painfully, but I don’t think that’s a good idea.”

If I kill them one by one, I can certainly kill all the hundreds of orcs.

But it takes too long. By that time, the orcs would have already satisfied their desires in the castle.

“It takes a long time, and in the meantime, other people would have suffered all the damage they could.”

“….That’s right.”

“Then, to kill them all in the shortest time, shouldn’t there be more skilled people like us?”

Kvasir looked at Seryu.

“How? If you’re talking about the lord or the knights, they won’t be helpful. To be blunt, they might even be a hindrance.”

“That’s right, what can they do when they couldn’t even stop the orcs? Don’t worry, I have no intention of asking them for help.”

“Then what are you going to do? Those people are suffering while we’re talking here! Are you just going to talk and not help them!?”

I nodded in agreement with Kvasir’s words.

“Yes, I should help them. I will help them. That’s why I came here.”

Then Seryu lowered his head and chuckled.

He seemed embarrassed as he bit his lips and laughed.

“Ah, damn it! Now that I’ve said it, it makes me cringe. Agh! Why did I say that all of a sudden? Yes! The reason I dragged out the words is one. I’ll come up with a solution, so please do me one favor!”

“…?”

“Everything you see from now on is a secret. Everything!”

Just as she was about to ask what he meant, tremendous magic and momentum began to emanate from Seryu’s body.

In response, the surrounding space began to distort like a heat haze.

Kvasir felt her heart pounding at the sight she had never seen before.

What is it? What did you do?, she wanted to grab his hand and ask immediately, but she couldn’t take her eyes off the distorting space.

Then Seryu opened his mouth again.

“No, I changed my mind. You don’t have to keep it a secret. You can spread it around if you want.”

Anyway, even if Kvasir keeps it a secret, the many people living here will witness it.

So, do I need to hide my identity?

If the gods come, I’ll just face them.

Is there any need to be afraid or scared of them? No.

Then isn’t the answer obvious!

“Come out! Come out and sweep everything away!”

-Yes! Your Highness!

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