Otherworld Adventure 221 Miasma 2

They charged at the walls in reckless abandon and single-mindedly began throwing attacks at the walls and the soldiers guarding them.

With more monsters a.s.saulting the walls, the more casualties the soldiers experienced. The 3 girls tried their best to minimize the casualties by setting up barriers all around the walls, but there were only 3 of them so there was a limit to what they could do.

"Everyone...the ominous aura has grown thicker..." Yuna informed.

"Y-yeah...look at all the monsters...they're all berserk!"

"Hey, what happened to Silver?" Fina asked.

At her words, Eli and Yuna turned their eyes back at the Darkfang Estate. They could no longer see Silver's towering figure, but instead a black smog was hanging around the air where Silver was previously at.

"I can't see him anymore...but what's with that black smoke?" Eli asked.

"It's miasma."

"That smoke is miasma? Then...wouldn't Lucia and everyone there be in danger?!"

"Don't worry about them. Remember, they've all got that aura so it'll repel the dangerous miasma. We should be more worried about the other people in the area..."

"!"

"If the miasma spreads, innocent people will die."

"S-Silver's causing this?"

"Yes...but I bet it's not what the brat intended. He's young and still doesn't have full control over his power...It's also probably the first time he's changed."

"...You should teach us more about what kind of monster Silver is! I know that he's strong and intelligent, I mean, you and Lucia for some reason could even converse with him! He's definitely not just some ordinary wolf..."

Yuna sent a wind scythe at a monster that had just jumped onto the ramparts. The dragon girl followed it up by conjuring a large tornado to sweep away the monsters climbing the walls.

The soldiers cheered and were given a short time of respite. Yuna turned around again and frowned when she saw the miasma spreading further into the area.

"We'll talk about that later...Can I leave you two here to help with the defense? I'll go over to the estate and see what I can do about that miasma..."

"Yeah, we'll manage somehow! Just hurry up and stop that smoke! And quickly bring Lucia and the rest over to help!" Fina shouted. She quickly cut down another monster on the walls and rushed to a different section.

"Hurry and go Yuna...we'll take over from here. But please hurry!"

Yuna nodded. After which, she conjured a Misty Gate connected to the estate and walked through.

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"Silvy? Silvy, it's me, Lulu..." Lucia said as she slowly approached the wary Silver. His eyes were glowing with an ominous red and he was growling and roaring at everything that was trying to approach the unconscious Cecil.

Lucia and Ainz weren't an exception. Ainz nearly had his arm bitten off when he had dashed straight for Cecil upon noticing that the boy was unconscious.

"W-what's with Silver, how come he's attacking even us?!" Ainz yelled.

Earlier, there were still some beastmen who were able to stand. When they rushed at Silver and Cecil they were immediately ripped apart by the ferocious wolf. Ainz and Lucia tried to approach, but Silver had begun roaring at them as well.

Lucia was now trying to approach the black-furred Silver, but he tried to bite off her hand when she tried to get close.

"Silvy! Please, let me take Cecil away! This miasma is hurting him!"

Lucia had long since noticed that Cecil was being affected by the miasma. Even though it wasn't as quick as the beastmen, the boy's skin was corroding and flaking off little by little.

She could see patches of his flesh on his arms and face. If they didn't take the boy out of the miasma, his body might just corrode and melt down like the other beastmen.

"Silvy!"

"RAAAWWWWRRRR!!!"

She was only met with a furious roar. The aura surrounding her and Ainz was beginning to falter as time pa.s.sed by. They could only continue supplying the thin aura barrier around them with more mana, but their reserves were quickly depleting.

Ainz was already struggling. "L-Lucia...I don't think I can keep this up..."

"Then get out of here! I'll handle this!"

"alright...sorry Lucia, hurry up and take the brat out and calm down Silver! There's definitely something wrong with him!"

Lucia nodded and Ainz quickly departed from the area, he didn't forget to look around to see if there were still some surviving beastmen. He should at least take one of them back. Now that they were all weakened and on the verge of death, he thought the least he could do was take them out.

It wasn't anything n.o.ble; Ainz just wanted to extract some information out of them. To his surprise, he actually found a beastman struggling to crawl out of the area. If Cecil saw who the person was, then he'd remember that the beastman was the one giving all the others orders. He was Alpha.

Ainz walked over to him and saw that half of his face was deformed and one of his arms was severed at the elbow. Blood was pouring out of it, but it was mixed with melted flesh and bones.

Ainz conjured a flame in his hands and singed all the wounds on his body.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" The beastman raised an agonized cry and fainted.

"Well...you deserve this, so don't blame me."

Ainz picked him up and wrapped aura around him as well. Then he quickly dashed out of the area, making a beeline towards the outside of the estate.

He was able to quickly meet up with Lucius and Velicia who were dragging some of the guards out of the miasma's area of influence.

Ainz also saw the other Darkfang family members outside as well and he released a relieved sigh.

"Good, everyone's out. Wouldn't want some of them to die a gruesome death like those beastmen..."

Ainz quickly approached the group. He noticed that the guards were also going around the surrounding areas and residences and telling the people to flee from the dangerous miasma.

"Ainz, you're back! Where're Lucia and Cecil?" Velicia asked as she was the first to notice him.

"She's still in there, Silver seems to have gone berserk and won't let anyone approach Cecil...I brought this guy out of the place. We can question him later."

Ainz threw down the beastman he was shouldering. Lucius immediately had the guards tightly restrain the unconscious beastman and they quickly took him away.

Lucius dragged Ainz away and quietly asked, "Is something wrong with Silver? We all saw his fur suddenly change to black...then the miasma came gus.h.i.+ng out of the inner areas of the compounds..."

Ainz replied quietly, feeling a little worried as well, "I'm not sure, but there's definitely something wrong with Silver. He wouldn't even let me or Lucia approach Cecil... he was acting all hostile to anything that moves..."

"What about Cecil? What's happened to him?" Velicia asked.

"He was unconscious...and the miasma was affecting him. If Lucia can't bring Cecil out of there..."

FWWWOOOOSSSSSHHH

A Misty Gate suddenly appeared close to where they were, they thought that Lucia was able to successfully bring back Cecil, but it was Yuna who came out of the gate.

"Yuna!"

"Mhm."

Yuna quickly took a look around. Upon noticing that her master wasn't there, she immediately asked, "Where's Lucia?"

"She's still inside the miasma...Silver's acting all hostile and we couldn't bring out Cecil unless we calmed him down." Ainz answered.

"I see...I'll do something about the miasma, but could one of you go in again and check the situation inside?"

"I'll go inside again, just let me recover my mana!"

"Alright, I'll leave it to you Ainz." After Yuna said that, she immediately rose into the air.

Then she began chanting in ancient draconian. After a full minute of chanting, Yuna grandly waved her arms and a thick barrier of mist engulfed the surrounding area. The mist formed a dome that covered the miasma and prevented it from leaking out.

Everyone was relieved to see this. The miasma hadn't yet been spread to the surrounding areas, but they were already on the verge of doing so. If they couldn't do anything about it, the miasma could affect some of the innocent people who had yet to evacuate from the area.

Now that the mist barrier was containing the miasma, the estate's guards could go evacuate the residents with a peace of mind while the others could go and support the defense at the walls.

Even from here, the sounds of the battle and the roars of monsters could be heard.

"Lucius, we should let Ainz and Yuna handle the situation here. We have to go support Eli and Fina at the walls!"

"Right, I'll go talk to my father and the rest. We'll round up all of our family's warriors and mages. I'll leave a small portion of the guards to go patrol the area around the estate and evacuate the citizens to the middle districts."

"Let's hurry then!"

The two separated from Ainz, while the boy himself sat down on the ground and began meditating. After training with Cecil and them, his mana recovery and mana control had grown exponentially. Ainz felt that he only needed 10 minutes or so to recuperate all of his mana.

Up in the air, Yuna couldn't help but cast a worried look into the misty barrier. Using her shared vision with Lucia, she could see that the girl was struggling to calm down the enraged Silver.

"Tsk...He's still young and he has no control over his power...he's let rage take over him. Just what could have happened that's made him so angry?"