Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes-Chapter 601 - 119: The Terrifying Enemy (3k words!)

Chapter 601: Chapter 119: The Terrifying Enemy (3k words!)

"But now, Fiona has a story too. When I get back, if my fourth brother asks where I went, I will only tell half of it, waiting until the next day—to tell him the second half!"

As she spoke, watching the surprised expressions of the surrounding animals, the girl couldn’t help but feel a bit smug, while Anvis couldn’t resist giving his ears a little shake.

"Then, both my fourth brother and I went to the academy... Do you know about academies? It’s that interesting place where there are more students than teachers. It wasn’t like that back at the castle, where I only had many teachers instructing me.

At the academy, I made some new friends. Initially, they interacted with me quite naturally, but gradually, they all began to act a bit strange and instinctively tried to please me, just like those people at the castle."

While speaking, the little girl sighed and then continued.

"However, my fourth brother still took care of me, just like he did back at the castle, and taught me many things. He knows so much that sometimes, I feel like he understands everything almost like a teacher.

Although the other people at school didn’t pay much attention to my fourth brother, I could feel that he was actually very powerful; he just didn’t show his strength for some reason.

Also, there was once a classmate who asked me privately if Prince Lanno and my fourth brother had ’that kind’ of relationship. I asked her what she meant by that kind of relationship, but she wouldn’t say no matter what..."

"Your Majesty the Queen, do you now know what that kind of relationship is?"

At this, a parrot raised its wing and asked, as the other small animals around looked at Fiona with anticipation.

"Unfortunately, I still don’t know, but perhaps I can ask my fourth brother when I get back."

Fiona shook her head.

"Could it be... umm... umm..."

"Your Majesty the Queen, please continue your story."

Quietly casting a Silence Spell on the parrot, Anvis interrupted to change the subject.

"Regrettably, I only attended the academy for less than a year before I had to return to the castle due to an accident.

That time, to protect me, my fourth brother used himself as bait to draw away that terrible enemy, and as a result, he was captured by the enemy."

As she told the story, Fiona’s mood gradually became downcast. Consequently, the surrounding animals also quieted down due to the girl’s emotional change.

"At that time, I was protected by my father inside the castle’s Secret Realm. Although I was safe, my fourth brother had fallen into danger.

Since then, I’ve been wondering, why didn’t I have enough strength? If I had my father’s kind of power, my fourth brother wouldn’t have had to risk himself for my protection.

But fortunately, perhaps because a wish I made during a falling star came true, an accident caused me to leave the Family Secret Realm and embark on an extraordinary adventure.

During the journey, I met many interesting companions. They were different from the people in the castle and the academy; they treated me very naturally, and there were enemies who were not strong but very wicked. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

And in the end, I met my fourth brother again—you have no idea how happy I was at that moment!"

At this point, Fiona’s expression became cheerful once more.

"Coming here this time, although I don’t know what kind of upheaval has happened to this world, I can feel that there must be something here that will make me stronger.

Being protected inside the castle’s Secret Realm, I can get lonely. If I have strength, then I can protect myself and no longer worry my elder brother and father, right?"

With her hands clasped in front of her chest, Fiona’s lake-blue eyes gently closed and then opened again.

"So, even after I am taken back by my father, I will still come back here to play with you, although by that time, you may not remember me again.

I will quietly become stronger, and then give them a surprise..."

As if she had more to say but still unfinished, suddenly, Fiona’s expression changed; she could feel that her Shield had just been forcefully penetrated.

She had just followed the advice of the white rabbit to strengthen the city’s protection, but now she hadn’t even detected the enemy’s Identity, and the protection had been completely breached!

"Quick, hide yourselves, there’s an enemy coming!"

Fiona suddenly thought of the white rabbit and the many small animals; if a battle occurred, she certainly wouldn’t be able to spare any attention to care for them.

But almost the instant the girl sounded the alarm, the air in the palace suddenly stilled.

The bewildered expressions on the faces of the many animals were frozen, the particles of dust in the air ceased to fall, and the leaping white rabbit was fixed mid-air, as if time itself had suddenly congealed.

Viewed from the outside of the palace, a transparent cube had appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, like a giant Crystal case, enveloping both the girl and the white rabbit within.

....

Although initially hindered by the suddenly strengthened Shield of rules outside the city, Marquis Winter still forcibly broke through the protection after revealing his true Strength.

At the same time, he immediately confined the space-time region of the royal palace with the power of rules, to prevent the target from sensing something amiss and escaping.

The next moment, the entire transparent cube with the royal palace inside began to gradually shrink. However, during this process, there seemed to be some strong interference, making the cube’s contraction speed erratic.

Crimson eyes staring at the cube, surrounded by the radiance of rules, the Marquis Winter sneered as he pulled out a peculiar short sword from his waist.

The blade was made entirely of a strange brown metal, its surface pitted and uneven, with the tip broken off and the edge still stained with a bit of unknown dried dark brown blood.

It was a weapon that had followed him for many years, a Nameless Mysterious Object he had found while exploring the depths of the Life Forbidden Zone.

Usually, Marquis Winter only resorted to using it when facing enemies of the Ninth Rank. It was with its power that he was able to quickly break through the shield earlier on.

Last time, because it was only an avatar from the Dream Realm that came, he hadn’t expected the King of Nightmare Spirits to be so tricky, so he did not bring the weapon with him.

But this time, he would not make the same mistake again.

With his mind fixed on the girl, Marquis Winter grasped the short sword with a backhand and then swung it fiercely.

The next moment, invisible and intangible twisted lines coalesced from the front edge of the blade, directly targeting the girl who was resisting the binds with all her strength.

This was an attack targeting the soul, its power deliberately controlled so as not to be lethal, after all, what he wanted was a complete test subject, not a mangled corpse.

But to Marquis Winter’s surprise, at the critical moment, the white rabbit beside the girl suddenly became able to move; the pocket watch in its hand emitted a faint light, distorting and neutralizing the trajectory of the lines.

At the critical moment, Anvis used the power of the pocket watch to break Marquis Winter’s rule-based confinement, taking the hit for the girl.

"Is this the Guardian you created? An interesting creation."

Raising an eyebrow, Marquis Winter watched with interest as Anvis struggled to move the watch hands, neutralizing the lines bit by bit.

He saw the traces of the rules’ workings and the connection between the pocket watch and this world.

"But it’s a pity, the fairytale has ended, and now is the time for adults."

With that said, Marquis Winter slightly altered his direction and slashed at Anvis with the sword.

This sword strike was different from the one aimed at Fiona. A large number of black soul lines, like arrows, pierced through the transparent cube, shooting towards all the small animals that were immobilized around Fiona.

Marquis Winter casually made the lifesaving decision to clear the field, just a few small animals.

Aside from Anvis, who barely managed to negate the strike with the help of the pocket watch, all other small animals hit by the fine lines fell silently, their mental fluctuations completely dissipating.

"!!"

Seeing the scene where the many small animals that had just been listening to her stories were now tragically dead before her eyes, the girl’s lake-blue eyes brimmed with deep sorrow and regret.

It was her mistake; when the white rabbit issued the warning, she should have let them escape, rather than complacently assuming the city’s defenses would hold just because she temporarily detected no enemies.

Anvis had once taught her a saying that echoed once again in the girl’s heart: Whatever choices you make now, in the future you will have to bear the consequences of those choices.

Angry, the girl, with red eyes, exerted all her strength to control the world’s rule-based Strength, aiding the white rabbit in defending against the attacks while continuously striking at the spatial cage imprisoning her.

The world’s rules seemed to become violent alongside the girl’s anger, as swirling, hefty dark clouds gathered above the city, with incessant thunderous roars, as if the entire world was roaring at Marquis Winter.

Under the onslaught of the surging rule Strength, the transparent cubic prison finally could no longer continue to shrink but began to gradually expand as if it would burst open completely.

Observing the girl whose resistance had suddenly become strong, Marquis Winter frowned; this was becoming a bit troublesome. He didn’t want to leave the girl with any severe injuries, as that would interfere with his research.

On the other side, barely managing to neutralize the attack with Fiona’s help, Anvis’s pink rabbit eyes tightly focused on Marquis Winter, his heart sinking.

The short sword in Marquis Winter’s hand gave him a rare bone-chilling sense of imminent danger.

He now realized that the previous sense of crisis did not wholly come from Marquis Winter himself but was significantly derived from the short sword.

He had no doubt that if he were hit by the short sword’s attack, he would definitely die on the spot.

Facing Marquis Winter with the short sword, Anvis immediately abandoned his previous suicidal plan, intending to eliminate this danger; at the very least, he couldn’t let Fiona directly face that short sword.

To know, fate can’t completely bind a Ninth Rank powerhouse; if he were to completely let go and neglect matters, Fiona might genuinely be in danger this time.

Sensing something in the pocket of his suit, Anvis’s gaze sharpened.

He only had one chance, not to mention he didn’t have a second Limit-Breaking Mysterious Object, Marquis Winter wouldn’t give him a second chance to act.