The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

The scarecrow that had lost its reason ran towards the location of the seal.

It was not an action ordered by someone nor a decision made by itself.

It was simply a desire driven by the unconscious regret it had held for a long time.

The instinct implanted in the scarecrow was to save its master, Dorothy.

That was all.

As the scarecrow reached the center of the forest, Rouerfel was startled and fell backwards.

“Uggh! Gah, guh!”

Rouerfel clutched his heart and fainted, foaming at the mouth from the scarecrow’s intense killing intent.

Although classified as a non-combatant due to specializing in medicine and curse techniques, he had also undergone rigorous combat training to learn self-defense techniques.

In the event of a battle, curse technicians who could weaken enemies and strengthen allies with curses were targeted first.

Blessings and curses were only a sheet of paper apart.

Nevertheless, he couldn’t stay conscious in front of such dense killing intent that seemed to visualize the will to kill.

“Get a hold of yourself! Lovers!”

“Subduing the scarecrow comes first!”

At “The Hanged Man”‘s shout, Javan, who had injected a special strengthening agent into Rouerfel, woke up the two familiars through the banshee Lila to control them.

“Stop the scarecrow!”

Javan’s command was converted into the banshee’s crying and moved the black-maned lion beastman and the steel golem holding a heavy axe.

The scarecrow that had lost its reason swung its giant scythe even though the comrades it had missed were blocking its way.

Even if it hadn’t lost its reason, the scarecrow would have cut them down without a moment’s hesitation.

Because if they were controlled by the enemy and harmed their master Dorothy, it was the duty and principle of a familiar to eliminate them.

The moment the scarecrow’s giant scythe was about to clash with the steel golem’s heavy battle axe, two masked men and women jumped out from the bushes.

“Bind them! Chains of ice! Bite them! Ice wolves!”

The boy, Jade, who wore a hood-shaped mask in the form of an old man, chanted a spell while swinging a short magic staff.

The magic staff he originally used, “Winter Wood’s Snowflake Branch,” was too well-known to Arcana.

So Yuan had given him a spare magic staff lying around in Geor’s workshop to use.

Even a unused magic staff lying around in the workshop was an item used by a sage.

Although it was small and thin, about the size of a palm, its performance was far better than the highest-grade magic staffs sold in the Magic Tower.

Thick ice chains formed in the particularly dense negative-dimensional mana in the center of the forest bound the two familiars and the four enemies, and ferocious ice wolves charged at the enemies.

“Mana Crusher, activate number 43!”

“The Hanged Man” quickly used a magical tool she carried while flustered by the sudden surprise attack.

The card case-shaped magical tool contained about a hundred card-shaped magic scrolls, and the 43rd slot among them glowed and crushed the surrounding mana.

As the mana was crushed, the ice chains binding her shattered.

She didn’t miss that gap and infused mana into black opals and threw them to the other three. Then she immediately raised her magic staff and blocked the sharp fangs of the ice wolves.

“Aargh!”

As “The Hanged Man” fell on her butt, the mana in the opals activated and erased Jade’s magic with mana.

“You shouldn’t point such a grotesque thing at a lady!”

As Javan pulled out mana threads to restrain all the ice wolves controlled by Jade, Osmond formed hand seals and instantly melted the ice wolves with a fire spell.

“Oh, what a powerful spell.”

Jade admired Osmond’s concise hand seals and delicate mana control.

“Affirmative!”

Osmond puffed out his chest proudly and went “Ahem!”

“Then let’s see your true skills.”

Jade summoned two dullahans he received from Abassael as vanguards and used magic.

While the three were briefly distracted by Jade’s surprise attack, Precia clashed with the steel golem at full force along with the scarecrow.

However, the lion beastman set up its claws towards the scarecrow, unaffected by the powerful waves it emitted. Precia grabbed the back of the lion beastman, jumped high, and kicked the back of its head with all her might.

“Kyaa!”

Hit by a kick containing the power of a transcendent, the ambushed lion beastman staggered with a nosebleed.

If it were an ordinary person, it wouldn’t be strange for the head to disappear without a trace from that power, but the lion beastman merely clutched its head.

Before the lion beastman could counterattack, Precia wrapped strong energy around her fists and hit it dozens of times at an invisible speed.

The lion beastman collapsed from the sudden barrage, and Precia stepped on its shoulder as it fell, jumped high, and threw a black opal at the scarecrow.

The scarecrow unconsciously cut the black opal with its scythe, and mana explosively gushed out from the shattered opal, creating a mana void zone around the scarecrow.

“Ugh…! Where am I?”

As the surrounding mana disappeared and the mana waves contained in the banshee’s crying vanished, the scarecrow temporarily regained its senses.

Creak. Creak. Creak.

The steel golem attached to the scarecrow also seemed to be affected, as its eyes alternately flashed red and green, creaking like rusted scrap metal.

Precia threw a necklace to the scarecrow and said,

“The center of the forest, in front of the seal. There’s no time for a detailed explanation. If you wear that necklace, you should be able to maintain your senses for a few hours.”

The necklace was a sound-blocking magical tool called “Noise Cancelling” made by Yuan.

Since they were controlling Dorothy’s familiars through sound waves, just blocking the sound allowed them to maintain their reason.

However, as it was an item hastily made by infusing the power of the wind spirit into an artifact purchased in the relic city, it couldn’t last long.

As soon as Precia threw the necklace, the scarecrow put it on, and all the surrounding noise completely disappeared.

The steel golem, which had stopped moving for a moment due to the power of the mana void, was enveloped in black curse energy and began to move again.

Precia coated a spare sword with strong energy and deeply stabbed it into the lion beastman’s shoulder, fixing it to the ground.

Leaving behind the monster that would have been quite troublesome if not finished with the initial surprise attack, she entrusted the steel golem to the scarecrow.

“I will assist you.”

“Hahaha, how reassuring.”

Jade, who had been firing magic and dealing with the three enemies, laughed at ease.

Javan couldn’t focus on combat as he was controlling the familiars through the banshee.

“The Hanged Man” also couldn’t properly use magic due to the injury she suffered when the lion beastman went berserk, and was barely restraining Jade with scrolls alone.

The only one using threatening magic was Osmond.

“First, could you deal with that blood-spitting lady? It’s annoying that she’s been interfering with my magic by reversing it.”

Although Osmond’s magic was also tricky to deal with, the most annoying thing was “The Hanged Man”‘s interference.

Due to her interference, about half of the magic Jade had constructed was scattered without even being used.

The reason Jade’s magic was being reversed was partly because he mainly used generic school magic without distinctive characteristics to avoid revealing that he was the Winter Wood Sage.

However, the biggest reason was her outstanding ability to calculate formulas that saw through Jade’s encryption.

“Sure.”

Precia answered simply and charged at “The Hanged Man”.

“The Hanged Man” tried to activate a scroll, but this time Jade interfered by reversing the magic on her magical tool.

“You’re not the only one who knows how to reverse. If you show that much, even a child could reverse it.”

“Ugh!”

“Stop her! Lady!”

Javan tried to restrain Precia with mana threads.

However, Precia lightly cut Javan’s mana threads and struck “The Hanged Man”‘s abdomen.

“Kuugh!”

“You’re a doppelganger created by magic, right? Then it’s okay if you die.”

“N-No…!”

“The Hanged Man” waved her hands and tried to say something, but Precia mercilessly cut off her head.

“Failure.”

When “The Hanged Man” was defeated, Osmond picked up the unconscious Rouerfel and carried him on his back.

“Wait! We can’t say we’ve failed yet!”

Javan shouted urgently, but Osmond shook his head.

“Inferior.”

The mana in the forest was continuously being annihilated.

Unlike the initial plan, the witch’s seal wasn’t just cracked, but half disassembled.

No matter how much they controlled Dorothy’s familiars with the banshee, without “The Hanged Man,” it was impossible to dominate the witch, which was the ultimate goal.

To dominate Dorothy, the Witch of the Shaking Earth, “The Hanged Man” who designed and directly executed the seal was absolutely necessary.

Without her, the vast, complex, and delicate domination magic couldn’t be used.

“Face reality.”

At Osmond’s words to face reality, Javan’s expression distorted without mercy.

“Hm~ Who said we’d let you go?”

Jade smiled like a mischievous brat full of playfulness and swung his magic staff. Hundreds of ice swords formed in the air.

Seeing that sight, Osmond threw Rouerfel to Javan and formed hand seals to lay down a fire barrier.

Meanwhile, Javan, who carried Rouerfel, attempted to retrieve the banshee while escaping.

Crack!

However, Precia, who broke through Osmond’s flames, extended her arm as much as possible and cut off Javan’s arm with the tip of her sword.

“Aaargh!”

Precia immediately snatched the gem that fell to the ground and turned around to throw it to Jade.

Then she immediately regained her balance and swung her sword, taking a big step forward to take Javan’s head.

Clang!

“Nyahaha! The great me has arrived!”

Arisa, who appeared as if falling from the sky riding a giant death knight, blocked Precia’s sword.

“Old man, you owe me your life, so I’ll charge you for it.”

“Ha, haha… Charge the moon, little lamb.”

Javan’s complexion was pale as he stroked his neck with his remaining hand.

When he instinctively sensed that he had nearly died, he felt his blood run cold.

“You…!”

Precia, who recognized Arisa, exuded killing intent.

It was the pink-haired necromancer who had attacked Yuan in the capital.

“Nyahahaha! How scary.”

Arisa deflected Precia’s killing intent and surveyed the surroundings with eyes flashing with madness.

Rouerfel and “The Hanged Man” were defeated, and Jade was leisurely hiding behind the dullahans, sealing the banshee.

As the banshee’s crying stopped, the two familiars that were being controlled became quiet, allowing the scarecrow to move freely.

One transcendent, one archmage, and one monster that had annihilated Arcana’s core knight forces in the past.

In contrast, on Arcana’s side, there were two magicians who had to fight while carrying an unconscious fool and a luggage with a severed arm.

Stealing the banshee was nearly impossible.

It was also not a situation where they could ask for help from the management unit Nivel had gone to, as they had their own problems.

Having finished assessing the situation, Arisa burst into laughter.

“Nyahahaha! Looks like the mission failed. Let’s scram!”

“Agreed!”

Arisa and Osmond chose to escape, creating a smokescreen with magic.

As smoke rose, Precia shot sword energy through the smoke with all her might.

Then she immediately tried to pursue, but Jade stopped her.

“Wait! Our mission ends with this. Let’s leave the rest to Yuan.”

Jade, who had finished sealing Lila, removed the curse needles embedded all over Dorothy’s familiars’ bodies and helped them regain their senses with black opals.

“First, I will break the seal on the witch Dorothy.”

Jade called the scarecrow to stand in front of the altar where the sealing stone had been.

“Offer the bodies of the three familiars.”

At Jade’s words, the scarecrow willingly placed its two unconscious comrades on the altar and climbed up itself.

It was the moment the scarecrow had prayed and longed for so much.