Or, why don’t you find another savior?

The puppet is connected to the Silver Princess through magic that transfers damage, making it impossible to distinguish the other Shiomi. Whether using a dagger or other methods, it will undoubtedly kill the Silver Princess in confusion and without her knowledge.

"So in order to achieve this result, we must first be able to contact the Silver Princess and the Automata in the forest at the same time," Kallen said.

But all the remains of the automatons in the forest disappeared, which might be the work of the unknown girl.

Her interference, which was almost cheating, left Shiomi helpless for a moment.

Kallen continued to analyze:

"Whether it's the Automata or the Silver Princess, they both belong to Izeroma. And the one who can touch both at the same time--"

Lanis snapped her fingers, "Of course it's only the Izeluma family."

"But if we do that, two questions will arise in a row. Who is it and why would they do this?" Gray anxiously joined the discussion.

Shiomi laughed helplessly: "If I could come up with the answers to these two questions by discussing with you here, I wouldn't be framed and have to cooperate with the investigation and be confined to this room."

"Then go investigate." Kallen said, "Why are there so many guests staying here? What a coincidence that the person being framed is you, father."

Obviously, Shiomi is one of the least suitable targets to be framed, and the same goes for Aozaki Touko.

In contrast, underage girls are more likely to be blamed.

Shiomi fell silent.

He had no doubt that this was a "drama" arranged by the nameless girl, but the guy who always sat behind the scenes and manipulated everything would never come to the front of the stage to participate in the "performance" in person.

Therefore, someone must have been induced, without realizing it, to prepare this series of things for some ulterior motive.

"But teachers can't go out, right?" Lanis said here, and suddenly realized, "Karen, you don't mean to--"

Kallen raised her finger and put it to her lips: "My eyes are empty, my eyes are empty, my hands are empty. That's why I need to open my empty eye sockets as wide as possible, move my empty head as much as possible, and struggle to stretch out my hands even if I can't grab anything."

"...Karen..." Gray whispered softly.

Kallen stood up from her seat and said, "Father has always been the one taking care of us. This time, let's switch positions a little bit. I will try my best to help Father a little bit."

"To be honest, I feel very unsafe right now. Don't do anything that you are not sure of," said Shiomi.

"This body is engraved with the runes given by my father. It won't fall so easily." Kallen smiled.

Xi Jian nodded. He thought to himself that there was still too much unclear information and he had to find a way to understand the deeper purpose of other people coming here.

Just like myself...

Chapter 40 The Attacker

The sunset disappeared suddenly.

Sitting in the room reading a book to pass the time and waiting for the situation to further develop, Shiomi noticed that the evening sky suddenly darkened.

Before the sunset was completely covered by the dark clouds floating from the east, the first thing that came through was a large number of small sources.

Magicians? There are about 20... no, 30 of them?

Xijian closed the book.

When he was framed as the murderer, he was not panicked. He just wanted to cooperate and wait for the murderer to find out that he could not be dealt with in this way, so that he would be anxious to reveal his true identity before making any plans.

However, when the magical achievements of Izeroma's generation were being destroyed one after another, an army of magicians suddenly attacked.

I'm afraid it's not a coincidence. Regardless of whether Izeluma committed a murder or not, these people would have come.

He got up from the sofa and prepared to go to the window to observe.

In a very short time, dark clouds covered Izeroma's land in the lake area.

A low rumble of thunder roared.

In an instant, lightning fell from the dark clouds and struck the forest, suddenly showing a dazzling light in the dim air.

The weather magic was performed at dusk, which, according to the common sense of magic, was obviously to deprive Izeluma of the protection of the land.

When the land is damaged, the magic power of the spirit veins is more difficult to flow. In the case of a magician managing the land, it is natural to cast defensive magic on the land.

Conversely, it is common practice for the attacker to start by making the defense ineffective.

Will Izeluma just sit there and wait for death? Just as Shiomi was thinking this, someone knocked on the door, and then an old woman in a green dress appeared outside the slowly opened door.

"Mrs. Inole?" Shiomi asked with a smile, "Now is not the time to ask me about the situation, right?"

"No, I just thought you might be a little restless since your daughter went to check around the forest." Inolai showed a look of having everything under control. "I'm here to lift your confinement."

"Judging from your reaction, you must know who wants to attack Izeroma?" Shiomi walked towards the door. After learning that Kallen and the others were in the forest, there was no way he could sit still.

"It must be someone from the Galeasta family." Inola turned around and slowly left.

Shiomi couldn't help but raise an eyebrow: "Gary Asta?"

He had heard of this surname. It was a new magic family that had just left the Middle East. Their ancestors were oil miners and had strong financial resources. They were good at plundering the achievements of others, even magicians were no exception.

So... they were attracted by the achievements of this generation of Izeluma magecraft and launched an attack?

Shiomi left the Tower of the Sun where her room was and came to the edge of the forest outside.

It had started raining in this area, a torrential downpour that seemed to be hitting the ground, soaking the entire Lake Windermere district.

Magic that affects the weather is large-scale, but it is by no means rare. There are widespread rain-inviting and similar rituals around the world. However, it is very difficult for modern magicians to perform such magic.

One reason is that many of the mysteries have faded.

As for the reason why the attacking army of magicians were able to perform this kind of magic, it was simply because they took advantage of the geographical location to add fuel to the fire.

Izeroma's twin towers are located in a lake area with changeable weather, and they already have the conditions to cause weather changes. Magic simply speeds up these changes.

A few kilometers away on the mountainside overlooking the land of Izeluma, the young man who planned the attack, the new head of the Gariasta tribe, Atram Gariasta, was proudly hugging the scantily clad maid beside him, murmuring and showing off his achievements.

He personally designed the technique and launched a magic surprise attack with more than ten magicians in his family.

"Come, plunder! Usurp! Efficiently—"

Atram issued a declaration of war with a hearty laugh, but his voice suddenly stopped and the tail end also paused.

“——Do it…”

A ray of light appeared near the Shuangmao Tower.

Unlike the sharpness of lightning, it is more like a lighthouse that can be seen by ships on the sea on a stormy night.

The light quickly rose into the sky and disappeared into the thick dark clouds.

In a blink of an eye, the rainstorm stopped, the dark clouds disappeared, and the sunset and the crimson sky reappeared.

Atram raised the antique telescope in his hand to see who it was. The shock in his heart had turned into anger, and the hand holding the maid unconsciously exerted force, squeezing the flawless wheat-colored skin and leaving red marks.

The Ninth of the Original Runes, the Rune of Navigation.

Originally, this was a magic trick used to calm the stormy sea.

But its essence is the free control of the weather.

It can not only calm the wind and waves, but also create huge waves that are big enough to destroy the city.

Walking through the forest, the forest, which can no longer generate barriers because the land was attacked, is now just a pristine scenic spot as the sun sets.

"I will control Izeluma, you can attack as you please."

These were the last words Inola left for Xi Jian when he came out.

Whether it was to kill someone with a borrowed knife or to confirm something, Xi Jian didn't care.

The group of magicians confronting Kallen and the others had already appeared in his field of vision.

Those people were the advance team sent out by the army of magicians that attacked Izeroma.

Without exception, they all wore green hoods and cloaks that concealed their bodies and faces, like an ancient army of demons.

However, these people, who were just feeling proud of the weather support provided by their companions in the rear, were instantly filled with confusion and shock. Some of them had already fallen to the ground, their bodies pierced by glowing magic arrows.

"Leave this to me. What happens next is not something you can handle." Shiomi put his hand on Kallen's shoulder.

In her hands she held two crossbows engraved with runes. Those were the self-defense weapons that Shiomi had prepared for her.

Kallen, who is not good at offensive magic, can only use magic props to assist in the attack.

The arrows fired from these crossbows can change their power according to the user's intentions, and the built-in spells can automatically transform the magic power in the environment.

To put it in an analogy, it's like an automatic pistol that never misses a shot.

Just now, Karen and her group encountered a group of marching magicians here. With Gray leading the charge and her and Lanis providing support from the rear, they were able to stop several magicians.

The heavy rain caused by magic seriously interfered with the actions of Kallen and the others, but this interference disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"When I saw the rain stop, I knew my father was here." Kallen put down the crossbow she was aiming at, "We'll retreat first."

After saying that, she took Lanis and Gray and retreated behind Shiomi.

Shiomi stood alone in the forest, facing the magicians behind the trees.

Chapter 41: Close Combat

None of these attackers dared to act rashly.

The weather magic performed by their companions together was broken in an instant, and all of them felt the unusual magic power contained in the light that had just risen.

Could it be that Izeluma also has a similarly large-scale spell to control the weather? Some of the attackers kept thinking so.

"Honestly, I'm pretty pissed right now." Xi Jian touched his hair. "I wanted to see what Baliuereta was up to, but you guys came out to do this... Upstarts are upstarts, it's hard to change one's nature."

As he touched her hair, Shiomi's body and clothes, which were originally soaked, became dry in the blink of an eye, as if she had never been exposed to rain.

But this was not enough to attract their attention, as various runes appeared in the forest one after another, floating in the air.

It's the Rune Magician.

These people all have the minimum qualities of a magician and can recognize the forms of these magic at a glance.

"You can't, let the leader come over."

Xijian put down his hands and spoke as if he was looking at a group of dead people.

The runes burst into dazzling light, and the attackers screamed one after another. Those who reacted faster hurriedly constructed protective spells.

The foundation of modern rune magic has declined, although it has been revived by Aozaki Touko's reconstruction, and even several lost original runes have been analyzed.

However, the latter has been patented by the Clock Tower and sealed up. As for the former, it has only been revived for a dozen or twenty years, and there are only a handful of magicians who can master it.

Therefore, until these runes were activated independently, some magicians in this team were not vigilant enough.

There is only one opponent, and he is using a unique Rune magic, so there is no need to be afraid.

Soon, magicians who had such thoughts fell one after another.

The magician was not careless and used protective magic to block most of the damage, but it was still horrible.

They fell into the bushes that were large enough to cover their bodies. Shiomi ignored their groans and slowly walked towards the deeper part of the forest, towards the position where the weather magic was activated several kilometers away.

However, since they were the vanguard, these attackers would not give up. The magicians who were still able to move held onto the tree trunks and prepared to perform lightning magic.

Without the weather magic support from the companions behind, the power of these magics was forced to return to its original power and could not be further strengthened.

But as long as there are enough people attacking, they should be able to cause damage to this strange magician in front of them.

"Didn't I say no?"

Shiomi raised her hand.

Before the magicians launched the lightning arrows, fire arrows and ice arrows formed by the condensed magic power in their hands, a strange gale blew up in the forest, causing the magicians' hoods and cloaks to rustle.

Before they could confirm the situation, the flow of magic power was suddenly interrupted and severe pain came.

The arms with magic circuits used to gather and activate magic were cut off at the roots, and blood splattered, staining the surrounding green bushes and leaves red.

Screams came one after another, but Shiomi's brows didn't move at all, as he looked at the blond and brown-skinned young man who walked out of the shadows in the woods.

"Oh, this really opens my eyes. I didn't expect Izeroma to hire such a powerful bodyguard. Even the weather magic formula I designed personally was cracked in an instant. Don't you really want to hand over the cursed body?" Atram made words that seemed to be praise, but his voice was already slightly gritted, and his eyes were so fierce that he was ready to tear to pieces whoever was blocking his way at any time.

"Cursed body...oh..."

Shiomi let out a slight sound of understanding.

He originally thought that these attackers were related to the people who killed the Golden Princess and the Silver Princess, but in fact it was the opposite.

It turns out that Gary Asta was the opponent whose auction items were snatched away by Izeluma at the underground auction.