"mud"
"Giant Fireball"
"..."
No matter what kind of magic it was, he couldn't cast it. Even though he chanted incantations, the magic power in his body just wouldn't come together.
"Damn it... this is really bad..."
Facing the Seventh Prince's sword, I was truly unwilling to accept it. I had been living a carefree life for a month, and I had forgotten about the existence of the Seventh Prince, this unstable factor.
I originally thought that with the Sixth Prince's wedding just around the corner, the Seventh Prince's attention would be entirely on him. I never expected that such a dignified prince would be so petty.
It's truly hateful that they would use such despicable tactics against a child as young as ten as me.
call out……
Just as the longsword was about to reach my face, a sharp white light flashed past my nose, and the longsword in the Seventh Prince's hand was also knocked away and stuck in the ground next to him.
"I'm sorry! Your Highness, you can't do that!"
The one who made the move was the middle-aged man named Silas. Judging from his attire, he should be an adventurer from the Royal Capital Adventurers' Guild.
I don't understand why he's helping me. In other words, shouldn't this man named Silas be with the Seventh Prince?
Besides, weren't all his previous attacks aimed at his own vital parts?
Is that really the case?
This man named Silas can infuse magic into arrows, achieving various effects such as explosion, penetration, and poison...
If he really wanted my life, I probably would have died a hundred times over by now.
"Silas! Do you know what you're saying?!"
The seventh prince glared at Silas with wide eyes.
"I cannot allow you to do this! Your Highness, Seventh Prince! He has already been poisoned by me and is nearing death. There is no need to kill a child!"
The above is Silas's righteous and indignant statement as an adventurer. Perhaps he had a change of heart, daring to offend the Seventh Prince at this time, and asking for an explanation for me.
"How dare you! I gave you money! Is this how you talk to me?! Who do you think you are?! You're just my dog!"
When the Seventh Prince said those words, he was almost in a state of frenzy, completely different from the Seventh Prince she had first met in the palace.
That's the real him!
Regarding the struggle for the throne.
I suddenly understand why the Seventh Prince has been targeting me so frequently. The Sixth Prince's strength should be above his, and considering Princess Nishino's influence, the next king is very likely to be His Highness the Sixth Prince.
My appearance disrupted all of the Seventh Prince's plans, forcing him to take extreme measures to eliminate his rivals. And now it seems that, to him, I am the key factor that ruined his so-called conspiracy.
"How meddlesome..."
If I had stayed at the inn and pretended not to know that the Sixth Prince had contracted "Magic Stone Disease," then none of the trouble that followed would have happened.
Is it a case of reaping what you sow?
However, I do not regret it. Rather than handing the country over to such a ruthless seventh prince, Kylorans would have been doomed sooner or later.
As a commoner of Kylorans, he was naturally not much better off.
The seventh prince kicked the man named Silas to the ground, spewing vulgarities at him.
For some reason, Silas did not rebel against the Seventh Prince, but endured the humiliation. He probably understood that offending the Seventh Prince might result in the same fate as him.
However, due to the pangs of conscience, he stopped the Seventh Prince at the last moment. After all, as he said, I had been poisoned by his homemade poison and was really going to die soon.
I only found out later that the man named Silas was not a professional assassin, but an A-rank adventurer from the Royal Capital Adventurers' Guild, and the mage next to him was his teammate.
After pledging allegiance to the Seventh Prince, Silas thought he would rise to great heights, after all, being appreciated by the prince was such an exciting thing. But he never expected that the Seventh Prince would be so treacherous and ruthless as he had imagined.
All of this stemmed from the fact that the Seventh Prince hired an assassin named Agatha. Silas never expected that the usually gentle and refined Seventh Prince would actually be a treacherous villain who only wanted to win people's hearts and strengthen his own power.
Perhaps that's why, when faced with a child like me, he couldn't bring himself to kill me, but he also couldn't disobey the Seventh Prince's orders, so he could only put on a show for him in this way.
It was this very event that led Silas to return to the capital and join the Sixth Prince's camp, but things are far from that simple.
After all, the cunning and treacherous Seventh Prince doesn't only have Agatha as his trump card.
"Hmph! Let's go!"
Perhaps because of Silas's disruption, the Seventh Prince lost interest in me, a dying man, and left with the two of them.
As I realized this, there wasn't much left for me; everything went black and I passed out.
~~~
Meanwhile, in distant Pierpoint.
That place was known as the Demon King's Castle. Under the combined attack of the "Angel God" and the "Dragon God," the Demon King ultimately failed to realize his ambition to rule the continent.
The entire Demon King's castle was reduced to ruins, but this did not mean the end of the Demon King's era. In other words, there were thirty such Demon Kings on the entire continent.
Kekexili Chisilica is just one of them.
The remaining ones, though calling themselves demon kings, merely ruled over different territories as monarchs and did not attack human towns.
Pierpont was the territory ruled by Cocosiri Chisilica.
After she was resurrected, a figure appeared in the Demon King's castle. Following the gaze, it was a blue-haired boy with fish gills on his ears.
"Ugh... why do they always send me to do such wickedly funny missions! I want to create a great calamity like Ali Nightfall... even though it's such an arrogant thing!"
No one knew his purpose in coming to the Demon King's castle. He was seen strolling deep into the castle, muttering to himself.
Deep within the Demon King's castle lies the most primal existence in the world: the labyrinth!
Scattered throughout the continent, seven labyrinths have been discovered to date, and Pierpont is the eighth.
The labyrinth has no end, and each level is filled with monsters of various levels. No one knows exactly how many levels there are, nor has anyone ever reached that height.
Even when Kylorans sent his entire knightly order, they only reached the twenty-seventh level of the labyrinth, which was never the deepest part of the labyrinth.
"Found her! Tch... For a woman like this! He actually made me come all the way to the thirtieth floor! That guy, the God of Humanity, is really arrogant!"
It was clear that even the blue-haired boy had spent a lot of time and effort to reach the thirtieth floor of the maze. Following her gaze...
Deep within a massive blue crystal labyrinth, and within the crystal, there lies a naked woman.
It was Felita Philobius Cabdeon.
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