To her, humans were no different from bugs. Albedo said nothing, but her violet eyes were cold and indifferent. To her, the lives of such weak beings were no different from weeds trimmed in Nazarick's gardensnothing that could stir her heart. She cared only for Rei Ao-sama's will.
Rei Ao looked down on the carnage without a ripple. He had no interest in these villagers' fates. The wars of human kingdoms were as dull to him as ants' quarrels. But the emotions spilling off the soldiers as they burned and butcheredbrutality, greed, crueltywere stains on the first tableau of this new world he had just arrived in.
"Noisy," he breathed.
He didn't even move; he merely willed it. In that same instant, every soldier committing atrocities belowthose lifting blades, those setting fires, those chasing womenwas crushed by an invisible force. Not one had time to scream. With a soft pop, they burst into misted blood, then their armor and weapons alike unraveled to base particles and drifted away.
A heartbeat ago, the village rang with violence and wailing; now, it was dead still. The survivors stood dazed, staring at where the savage soldiers had simply ceased to exist. Only the ruined houses and the bodies of their loved ones proved the horror hadn't been a dream. Shock, fear, and the hollow confusion of those spared filled their faces.
Rei Ao didn't spare them a glance. To him it was no more than brushing dust from a sleeve. His eyes turned to a band of open ground farther on. "There are energy fluctuations over there," he said, and took the two Guardians toward that direction. The episode at Carne was nothing more than a footnote on his pathnot even worth a pause.
On a broad mining flat, a hunt was underway. A dozen figures in white, gold-trimmed robes were driving at a battered squad of soldiers, siccing upon them strange beings woven from light"angels." The robed men were clearly well drilled and coordinated, using a power that wasn't of the YGGDRASIL system but was magic all the same.
At the center of the encircled group stood a burly, hard-faced middle-aged warrior with a greatsword in both hands. Even cornered, his fighting spirit roared.
"Oh? The magic of this world?" Albedo arched a brow in mild interest. "The energy structure is crude, the application quite primitive." "Such feeble glimmers," Shalltear scoffed. "Not even fit to serve as trim lights for Rei Ao-sama."
Rei Ao's gaze swept the battlefield and recognized the quarry. Gazef Stronoffthe Warrior Captain of the Re-Estize Kingdom. He bore the Kingdom's four secret treasuresthe Gauntlets of Vitality, the Amulet of Undying, the Guardian Armor, and the Razor Blademarking him as its strongest fighter. Their pursuers were the Sunlight Scripture, a special unit of the Slane Theocracy. None of it was hidden from him.
"They at least have some standing in this world," he said lightly.
On the field, the tide turned harder against Gazef. His men fell one by one. Though he hewed several angels apart, the enemy's spells and the ceaseless press of summoned angels left him reeling, wounds multiplying.
"Let's go down," said Rei Ao.
Like gods descending, the three of them appeared between the warring sides with no warning at all. The battle froze, as if someone had hit pause. The Sunlight Scripture's captain eyed the three oddly dressed, extraordinary intruders with sharp suspicion.
He couldn't read thembut bolstered by numbers and "divine" favor, he barked, "Who are you? Reinforcements from the Kingdom?" He leveled a hard glare. "Whoever you are, if you dare obstruct a mission of the Slane Theocracykill without mercy!" He had taken the trio for Gazef's allies.
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