The Necromancers
Ch. 15.5: Hunting at Night

In a place not far from the whereabouts of Regard, the Shilphonia that flew with a pair of white wings saw their seemingly finished movements taking the children away to another area.

Landing in one of the city buildings, Shilphonia removes her wings which makes her prepare to make an impromptu attack on them.

Would you help me, Stephani?

Helping out? Can I help you?

I don't know. Depends on yourself.

Myself?

Yep. If you can help me, I'll thank you.

Inside Shilphonia, Stephani, sitting on the surface of nothing, crossed her legs, folded her arms around her chest like a queen sitting elegantly.

Stephani who heard it was shocked. He paused for a moment and pondered over Shilphonia's words earlier to help him this time. She herself did not know whether she was capable of it or not, Stephani just needed to give her answer.

Is there anything I can get after helping you?

Yep. You can get in touch with the Regard. Whaddya think?

Directly related yes.

Smiling and chuckling, Stephani got up from her seat.

Alright. Let's do it now!

Yep.

Closing her eyes, in an instant Shilphonia changed her appearance to Stephani. Starting from the long blonde hair that turned long black, a pair of golden-colored eyes turned black, as well as her bright red lips turning black could be clearly seen.

"Time for me to act."

Spreading her black wings and flying, Stephani who had swapped places with Shilphonia confirmed the number of people below.

Four. no, five people yes.

After successfully determining how many people there were below, Stephani quickly activated [Black Feather Shoot] onto them which caused the black feathers from her wings to fall off, causing the black feathers from her wings to fall off, some hit their bodies and some fell to the ground.

Black Feather Shoot, the black feathers that were shot towards them through the black wings, it was able to give an explosion in a small but deadly area if the explosion or precisely the black feathers were stuck in the human body, they would be crushed melted into blood that had dried up.

Black Feather Shoot can be activated quickly through the user's eyes are suddenly brightly lit, the explosion will occur when the black feathers from its wings blink a few times then the explosive will explode after being stopped blinking.

"Let's see what happens!"

His eyes that turned reddish lit up by themselves.

Just as his eyes were brightly reddened, the feathers scattered on the ground and the feathers that hit their bodies turned a little bright and then flickered. As the blinking stopped, a small but deadly explosion was felt in the area affected by the black feathers.

It's really easy.

Hahahaha..it's because you poured everything in one attack, right?

Sure do. People like them can't be ignored because it will trouble us all.

Besides of...

Yes, I will keep our promise after arriving at the inn later.

It is good that you keep your promise.

Closing her eyes once more, Stephani switched places with Shilphonia.

His black hair turned into a long blonde, his pair of black-colored eyes slowly turned golden, accompanied by black-colored lips turning into a bright red could be clearly seen.

"You really messed it up, Stephani."

Shilphonia's cheeks were puffed up by Stephani's actions that could not clean her up quietly but were filled with chaos and destruction.

Stephanie answered nothing. He only smiled inside Shilphonia's body as he raised his head to the dark ceiling above him.

•••••

Elsewhere, Friya who arrives at the scene notices the details of her apparent incident.

Some trains in large numbers took out children brought by adventurers to be put on other trains. Before being able to put the children onto another carriage, Friya quickly vanished from where she was using [Teleportation] to appear directly on the surface.

Teleportation, magic that is able to move one target or multiple targets to the intended place. This ability requires sufficient mana because this requires more requirements needed so that the user can move places quickly and easily.

"Oi, he...."

"Is she an elf?"

"Yes. Judging from his ears, I'm sure we can be rich by making this elf a slave."

A thirsty gaze of desire filled those who let the children fall silent in place with a pair of chains binding their arms, legs, and neck to attack Friya who did not take off her mask.

Unlike the eagle-shaped iron mask used by Shilphonia, the Friya mask is a face that comes from a statue of a king.

"[Wind Cutter]."

Removing a string of light green balls, accompanied by wind propellers that surround it makes people who want to go back and forth slowly.

"Do something!"

"Good."

"[Special Magic]."

Before being able to break her magic, Friya who activated [Special Magic] made a wide range around her made both Wizards unable to use her magic, except for herself.

Special Magic, magic that is able to reach a large area that can disable magic against opponents for a while for 3 minutes.

Desperate to be unable to use it, High Archer takes aim and prepares to launch his attack on Friya. Unlike the High Archer, a man with a large-sized sword rushed towards Friya using [Iron Body] on his body that was immune to anything. And the last one was a man with a katana and a white and blue kimono lunging directly with a calm expression activating [Hidden Move] in order to be able to move unnoticed by his opponent.

The three people try to do their best but they stop doing it when Friya who issued a series of green balls, the, [Wind Cutter] aimed in all directions causing a range of strong gusts of wind to blow whatever hit it.

Starting from those who were hit by the gust bounced and injured due to the strong scratches from the wind slash that could injure their bodies until finally their bodies in an instant split easily like chopped meat.

"You can't match me."

Walking towards the little boy far away from the scene, Friya opened a chain that tied her arms, legs, and neck and stroked the head of one of the boys nearby.

"Don't worry, big brother just helped you get free."

"Thank you, Brother!"

Running with happy and happy expressions, they waved for a moment when they stopped and left Friya who was still in her place.

Alright. I think it's better if I bring some of their blood for him.

Taking out the bottle he made with [Magic Crafting], Friya took the blood of those who had not used [Blood Water] which made it easy for him to move it without the slightest trouble.

Magic Crafting, magic that is able to create an object based on whatever the user wants, for example, like a user wants to create a table, he is able to do so only with Magic Crafting that is targeted at an object to be changed. Magic Crafting did not require much mana but rather a little, it was already better to use for traveling far.

Blood Water, a magic with water element that turns into a pool of blood, the magic is able to be controlled once there is enough blood on the surface then the user can use it into a weapon or an ordinary necessity.

"It seems like enough."

Deciding to immediately return to the inn, Friya vanished from her place leading to the room where she and the people promised to meet in the room of Regard.

In another place a little away from the other three people, the earthquake tremor felt so strong. The earth tremors were so fierce, accompanied by some land surface that turned into long spears stretching to the ceiling could be clearly seen from a distance.

"Pardon me!"

Behind the deserted road, the friends of the perpetrator who has left no one alive.

The friends who came from the upper level adventurers from him, Reita, Colorful Adventure, has been filled with purple crystal flakes that stick in some of their limbs causing their skin to turn purple due to poisoning.

Not everyone dies from crystals, though, Reita who wore a bull-shaped iron mask had also finished off the rest who had run before with tendrils that spread wide on the ground to the ceiling piercing their bodies in height, and the spines that appeared on their skin caused their bodies to dry up instantly.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I've done all this time."

"....."

Earth Lance, mounds of land that can be created easily by the user into a large number of ground spears that target the enemy in large numbers or little, depending on the wishes of the user in fighting.

Before he could hit it, the man dodged it and rushed to run.

You can't run away from me.

Flicking his finger, a bunch of wind blew around Reita without any form. The wind shot towards the man causing his body to be hit by the wind slash from [Wind Slash] making flesh on the body and blood gushing out from his body making the entire area plied with his blood.

Wind Slash, a high-pressure wind slash capable of slashing into human bodies that caused them to be dead, was, this ability can be activated once both hands are moved with the user in the empty air when a gust of green wind surrounds it.

I think it's better if I fix it first.

Finished committing a heartless serial murder, Reita decides to bring back the destruction that happened as before without anyone knowing. After successfully returning to normal, Reita approached one of the corpses he had killed earlier to draw his blood using his finger.

The reason he took his blood was neither for personal gain nor for Regard, but instead, he used a finger covered in blood to write a word near the corpse he had just killed by the name of 'The Necromancer' to be proof that the violence and fear of the night is more terrible than ever.

"alright. It's time for me to come back."

Flying on the night ceiling towards the inn room, Reita who was standing right in the tallest building disappeared without a trace like her figure that was nowhere in place from the start.

•••••

On a long night, everyone gathered inside the room belonging to Regard.

"Did it all work?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"They're weak so we destroy them."

"That's right."

Smiling at the answers of the three girls nearby, Regard felt grateful that he was relying on his friend rather than himself.

According to Regard, togetherness is everything. Although it was as difficult as what the situation was, they were able to do it together. That was why this time Regard tried to open his heart to be able to trust them.

"alright. Let's go back to sleep before morning."

"Yes." Yeah."

The three of them left the room and he was alone in the room.

Sitting on the side of the mattress, Regard's gaze led to the window. The view presented outside with the moon stretching wide at high altitude really makes him feel that tonight is filled with a bloody tragedy that is more terrible and frightening than the previous nights.

Terror, that's the right word for Regard tonight.

"alright. It's time to go to bed and start the next day."

Laying his body on the mattress, covering himself with a blanket, Regard tried to close his eyes to go to sleep immediately in order to start his morning activities in the Adventurers Guild as an adventurer.

•••••

The Regard POV

Hmmmm....

Something was clear from the blanket.

Before I could sleep soundly, I felt a strong sway in the bed that I thought was no one.

But...

"Huh. huh.... huh..."

My guess is completely wrong.

In front of me, a girl was right above my body. She fumbled me and kissed me on both sides, and wrapped her hands around my neck.

I don't know what to react to.

If I woke up and was surprised at her suddenly entering my room, I was afraid that she would be embarrassed and angry at me so I decided to pretend to be asleep.

"Let's do this, Regard!"

His increasingly violent sighs made me unable to let this go on for long.

Slowly he opened the shirt I was wearing, stroked my stomach and chest and opened the pants I was wearing.

"Stop that, Shilph!"

"....."

Slightly lifting up my body, Shilph who was shocked over me who had not fallen asleep made him think that his estimation had been wrong.

At first I thought he would be embarrassed and angry at his treatment of me, but it was all wrong again. Instead of her being embarrassed and angry, she smiled seductively with her reddened face.

"Sufuku. You finally realized."

"....."

Damnit. I need to shift my eyes.

Before he could take his eyes off her, he with both arms held my face and smiled.

"It's okay. Just this time I want to sleep with you."

"....."

Pimply. Has Shilph lost control of his own desires? No, it's not possible.

For the previous few days, she had never done anything as profanity as this so the only thing I could think of was that she was not Shilph but Stephani.

"Is that you Stephani?"

"Yes, I have made a previous agreement with Shilphonia so that I can satisfy your desires."

"Why do you want to satisfy my desires? Don't you know that I'm not interested in anyone?"

"really?"

The more he fumbled and tried to take off my pants, I could only stare at him sharply while looking annoyed at him.

"Don't worry, it's okay if we do it just once."

Holding my face, Stephanie did not back down in the slightest but she continued to do so with her lips kissing me.

I hope it all ends quickly.

Rather than fighting it, I can only give up on the current condition.

Shilph who had made a pact with Stephani, I couldn't tell her to prevent Stephani from controlling her body again because I knew that they were both bound to each other.

"May I know why?"

"certain. Only one reason is that you saved both of us so I want to thank you for giving you a special service."

I get it now.

The originally evil Stephani had fully understood my good intentions that raised them back to use [Soul Return] so that they could live life freely, but who would have thought that they would even thank me.

Especially Stephani, she wants to present a special service to me, just like Sasaki used to.

Even though I wanted to reject her, I did not want to hinder her from retaliating so I gave up and chose to surrender to let her do it.

"Do it!"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, you did it because of a deal so what can you do other than surrender."

"Sufuku. You really understand yeah, Regard."