With the mystical Vorpal Knife in hand, I wave it with ease at the metal cage and like cutting through butter it passes through, but nothing happens. I tilt my head and look at the knife with puzzlement. I try a few more times but the knife goes through the cage like a ghost, except I didn’t feel any resistance like it just passed through air.
I put my hand to the part of the cage that the knife passed through and it slides right off. The cut is so clean that if I didn’t push it then it would have stayed intact without any visible seams. The Vorpal Knife is so sharp that it cuts the metal like nothing. I swing the knife through the rest of the cage and lightly blow on it to watch it crumble like a deck of cards. Next I delicately cut through the chains being careful not to cut the Wyvern as I can’t tell from sense of touch if the knife is getting close to the flesh.
When I casually wave the blade around I can hear the wind whistle like it’s being cut up. This thing is pretty dangerous so I’ll put it away into my Inventory for now until I need it again.
The Wyvern senses the magic chains undone and weakly raises its head to look at me. Almost as if he nods in gratitude he closes his eyes and then gathers strength. Fearing the next move I erect a psychic barrier around me as the Wyvern jumps up crashing through the floor and beyond the roof of the cottage. I come out of the debris unscratched and stare at the Wyvern fly off. I guess he wasn’t keen to stay around any longer after his imprisonment.
I track him down with Map and see that he is approaching the village of Wahlburg. In hindsight I should have been wary of this happening.
I warp to the village in no time and call telepathically my party members to gather at the village. They come in no time when I spot that lady knight who fought off the Wyvern. Her name is Brigid.
She is basking in the admiration of the villagers since driving off the Wyvern. She is also surrounding herself with young voluptuous women staring with a heated gaze. She did mention a reward and I guess it involves being served by beauties?
Becca 「 Hey Brigid? Don’t you think you should be concerned for the Wyvern that got away? It might return sooner or later. 」
Brigid 「 Let that overgrown chicken come! I, Brigid, will protect the fine women of this village. And the men too maybe. Or my name isn’t – 」
Becca 「 Brigid Formast? Descendant of Sir Formast, the hero of Wahlburg? 」
Brigid 「 Brigid Formast! Great grandaughter of – yeah that! Wait, how did you…? 」
I can see her name written on her status. It took me a while to connect the dots that this girl comes from the hero Formast’s bloodline. Seeing her fight against the Wyvern only made me that much more sure of her identity.
Hearing her family degree makes the people gasp in shock, then they slowly back away in discomfort. This is a strange welcome for the hero’s descendant.
Brigid 「 Huh? What’s wrong everyone? Was it something I said? 」
Villager 「 Are you really from the Formast family? It’s just that, well, it’s nothing. Why have you come all this way? 」
Brigid 「 Well, I sensed something amiss, a calamity coming to this village so I followed it here. That’s when I found the village under attack of that terrible Wyvern. 」
The villagers fidget uncomfortably like something is weighing on their mind.
Villager 「 Miss Brigid, it might be best if you left this village. 」
Villager 「 No one asked the Formasts to intervene again anyway. 」
Villager 「 Leave us alone already. 」
The last two comments were sworn in a low inaudible voice that I alone could pick up with my enhanced senses. This is a big difference to when they were praising her and holding her head up.
I thought that the hero Sir Formast was held in high regard? I heard that his descendents were cowards who left the village a while back. Brigid looks confused so I doubt that the truth is like that.
Envie 「 I think we can explain what is going on. 」
The girls who went off to patrol and investigate tell me what they found out. Apparently the hero Formast defeated the Lord Trisvern who ruled over this village with Wyverns. But the story continues after that.
Formast Senior wanted to liberate the Wyverns under the lord’s control and set them free but the villagers back then intervened. They thought that the Wyverns deserved to aid the village so they tried using the lord’s magic after learning it to control the Wyverns.
Under the control of the village they used them to sell off their valuable materials like a farm animal. Things like Wyvern scales and eggs sold for a lot on the black markets and the people enjoyed luxuries that the lord had before. Formast was disgusted by the village’s greedy actions and left with his family.
Becca 「 How did you get this information? 」
Envie 「 I may not have my Charm ability anymore but I have my ways. 」
Cheshyr 「 She dragged a lone villager away and questioned him until he talked. 」
Becca 「 What happened to the dude? 」
Cheshyr 「 He… requested that Envie be his mistress and call him a pig. 」
Becca 「 ... Envie, what did you do to that guy? 」
Envie 「 I simply showed him a new world. 」
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