“Owen! Are you alright…?”
We rushed to Owen’s room, but all that greeted us was a ransacked room.
Unfortunately, Owen and the others were nowhere to be seen.
“Damn it…!”
Frustrated, I slammed my fist against the nearby wall.
Even though Owen is the protagonist of EnHaza, and Marion, the heroine, and Lloyd, a Galhaza character, were with him, I misjudged the situation, thinking they could easily handle one of the event bosses.
“Prince Harold, I’ve examined the room, and if they were taken away, there should be some traces. But there’s no sign of that, and it’s unlikely they wouldn’t resist.”
“So you’re saying…”
“They might have been neutralized with some kind of poison.”
“Tch!”
I clicked my tongue at Monica’s deduction.
I forgot that the one of the Four Cardinal Directions with the Sylph tattoo has a skill called [Winds of Sleep]. They were probably put to sleep and neutralized by that.
“Lord Hal, finding them is the priority. Let’s search the tower quickly.”
“Yeah!”
We rushed out of the room and split up to search for the three.
The scenario of “Tower of the Broken Lovelorn Doll” is completed entirely within the Magic Tower. So, at least the three of them must be inside this tower.
And the most likely place is…
“Lord Hal!?”
On the way to the stairs leading to the basement of the Magic Tower, I slammed my body against the wall.
Yes… beyond this wall is the Dungeon where the protagonists are imprisoned after eating the food at the Banquet.
Those guys must have locked the three of them in there.
But, sadly, Harold, being weak, couldn’t break the wall.
I regret being the weakest stepping stone in EnHaza in terms of physical stats at times like this.
“Lord Hal! Leave it to me!”
Sandra readied Balmung and struck the wall.
And what do you know? The wall that wouldn’t budge with my body slam was easily destroyed as if cutting through tofu.
“Let’s go.”
We moved to another staircase that appeared beyond the hole in the wall and rushed down.
The three of them must be ahead…
“Lord Hal, it’s okay. Lloyd and Owen are surely safe.”
“Yeah…”
Apparently, my anxiety was showing on my face, as Sandra, running beside me, gently encouraged me.
My wife is truly the best.
And then.
“This is…”
Waiting for us were the three, bound hand and foot, gagged, and locked in the Dungeon, and a Demon Beast standing guard.
It was the Gigantospriggan, the boss we fought in the Title event at the Royal Palace.
Moreover, there were three of them.
“…Even though I’ve experienced it before, three are troublesome.”
Even though I muttered that, I know the weaknesses of these Demon Beasts, and I have Sandra and Monica with me.
Defeating them shouldn’t be too difficult.
Or so I thought.
“Why!? My [Snatch] isn’t working!”
Caz immediately attacked the huge eye, which is the weakness, with her giant black claws, but the Gigantospriggan remained unfazed.
Could it be that… the guys in the Magic Tower enhanced these Demon Beasts?
But.
“Fufu… how trivial.”
“It’s over.”
With a strike from Sandra’s Balmung, her lips curled up, and Monica, who was behind them, beheaded two of the Gigantospriggans before they could even scream, and they fell to the floor.
The event boss that we struggled so much with is treated like a small fry by these two.
The remaining Gigantospriggan was easily defeated, and Sandra destroyed the Dungeon Door.
“Everyone! Are you alright!”
“S-Sorry, bro, master… I messed up.”
“It’s okay. More importantly… what happened?”
“Yeah…”
Owen and the others explained the attack by the Magic Tower in detail.
Having been warned by me to be cautious, the three of them were waiting in a battle-ready state.
However, suddenly the room was filled with something like smoke, and they lost consciousness.
Lloyd barely managed to hold on with his detoxification magic and status abnormality defense skills, but he was the weakest of the three in terms of combat. He was easily subdued.
“…The guy with the wind spirit tattoo on his right hand and the old man who greeted us at first locked us in here.”
“I see…”
Of all things, two of the Four Cardinal Directions came to the three of them.
It’s a three-on-two advantage in numbers, but it’s too much for these three.
“Anyway, I’m glad everyone is safe. Let’s quickly join up with Lize and escape from here immediately.”
“What!? Are we going to run away after being beaten!”
“No, this is a Strategic Retreat. It’s stupid to fight on their turf.”
“Isn’t that the same thing! Are you… are you scared, Harold!? …Hick!?”
“Be quiet.”
Sandra, her crimson eyes shining, pointed the tip of Balmung at Owen’s neck as he snapped at her with careless words.
He might really lose his life if he speaks ill of me, so Owen should just shut up for now.
“I’ll explain when we get out of here, so hurry!”
Forcibly dragging Owen, who was still unconvinced, we ran up the stairs we came from.
Then.
“Oh… Prince Owen, where are you going?”
“What!?”
Waiting for us at the top of the stairs was McLaren, the Magic Tower Master, with a smirk on his face.
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