Volume 12: The Traveler's Base Chapter 018 Success
When the magic of time freeze unfolds, everything stops in an instant.
It was as if God had pressed the pause button.
Petelgeuse remained motionless with a disgusting smile on his face, and the witch cultists behind him stood still like sculptures.
The wind was stopped, and the fallen leaves floating down from the trees were suspended in the air.
The bird flying over the crowd's heads spread its wings but did not move forward even a centimeter. Everything in the world stopped.
In this still world, only Beatrice, Emiya, and Loki can move freely.
Beatrice is the caster of this magic, so of course she will not be affected by it.
Emiya is Beatrice's contractor and will not be affected either.
The only one who broke free from this magic was actually Loki. As a real god, Loki was completely immune to this magic.
Although she cannot control time as she wishes, the long river of time cannot leave any trace on her.
Because of this, most of the time magic has no effect on Loki.
Including but not limited to time acceleration, time pause, time freeze, and time reversal, etc.
In this world where time was suspended, Emiya moved his hands and feet, and his telekinesis roared out and spread into the distance.
One hundred meters, two hundred meters, three hundred meters...
It was not until he was five hundred meters away that Emiya discovered a bug walking leisurely.
This also means that Beatrice's magic did not stop time for the entire world.
He simply stopped the time within a radius of 500 meters.
If you think about it, this makes sense.
Time freezing does not mean the world freezing. To stop the time of the entire world in an instant, the magic power required is really too exaggerated.
Even the current Emiya can't bear it, unless...
Phew!
Just as Emiya was thinking, the sound of flesh being torn was heard.
Emiya looked up.
The arrows condensed by Beatrice's magic power have pierced through Petelgeuse's body, leaving holes one after another in his flesh and blood.
It was just because the time around him was suspended, so Petelgeuse's blood did not splatter.
However, when the magic of time freeze was removed, a large amount of blood spurted out from Petelgeuse's body, staining the surrounding ground red.
"Huh?" The disgusting and physically uncomfortable smile on Petelgeuse's face froze.
His mind was still on the magic that had just defeated Beatrice, and he had no idea what was going on.
Why was I injured, why was there so much blood spurting out, why was it...
"Ahhh, laziness, it's really laziness. Why, why did it become like this?"
Because of the rapid loss of blood, Petelgeuse's strength was lost along with the blood. He staggered back a few steps and fell limply to the ground.
Death comes.
But for Petelgeuse, this was actually nothing.
Because he is not a human being, but a real elf.
For hundreds of years, he has survived by constantly changing the host's body. Even if this body dies, he can replace it with another one.
And the person he changed his target to was undoubtedly Emiya.
After all, Beatrice is an elf and Loki is a woman, so the person he can replace can only be Emiya.
However, when he abandoned his original body and pounced on Emiya, Emiya simply raised his hand and created a barrier, trapping Petelgeuse inside.
Others may not be able to see Petelgeuse now, but Emiya can see him easily.
It is not difficult to create a barrier to trap it.
It's just an application of space.
Emiya was familiar.
This move is an ability that Emiya imitated from the protagonist in another work, The Bane Master.
Among the barrier masters, the male protagonist is an expert at using "space" to create "barriers" to eliminate monsters.
Emiya's control over space can be said to be handy, and he easily imitated the male protagonist's moves.
"Destroy."
Emiya snapped his fingers, and the space within the barrier suddenly collapsed inwards. The barrier was destroyed in an instant, and of course, Petelgeuse within the barrier was also destroyed along with it.
After all, this kind of destruction is like the collapse of the world for the lives trapped within the barrier.
The power was unquestionable, so Petelgeuse didn't even have time to let out a final scream before being easily destroyed by Emiya.
After he died, Loki came to the abandoned body of Petelgeus and gently grabbed it.
Loki forcibly pulled the witch factor out of the broken corpse.
"So that's it." Beatrice immediately understood that the reason why Emiya came to seek the magic of the Witch Cult was for this witch factor.
However, she did not say that the witch factor was dangerous, because she had signed a contract with Emiya and could clearly feel the terrifying power in Emiya's body.
This kind of power is not even inferior to that of a witch. The witch factor alone will not have any effect on Emiya.
What's more, the one who got the witch factor now is not Emiya, but this god from another world called Loki.
“Run, ahhhh!”
At the same time, the death of Petelgeuse terrified the witch cultists behind him.
Everyone began to flee in all directions.
Emiya sighed, snapped his fingers, and created barriers one after another, trapping all the witch cultists inside.
Four hundred years ago, the Witch Cult was not the target of everyone's pursuit.
But since more than a hundred years ago, when José was brainwashed and turned into Petelgeuse, he has been leading the Witch Cult to do evil everywhere. Most of the evil deeds of the Witch Cult were committed by his group.
Therefore, Emiya has no good feelings towards these witch cultists under his command.
"Destroy!"
In an instant, the barrier began to collapse.
In an instant, the bodies of dozens of witch cultists collapsed inward, and as the barrier collapsed, they shrank little by little, and finally disappeared completely.
Neither screams nor blood were left behind.
"Go back." Loki said.
Emiya nodded and left the Re:Zero -Starting World with Beatrice and Loki.
He knew very well that when Loki said "return", he did not mean to return to Roswaal's mansion, but to leave this world and return to his own world, the labyrinth city of Orario.
Now that he has obtained the Witch Factor, there is nothing in this world that can interest Loki.
So it's time to go back.
After Emiya sent Loki back, Loki returned to the Dusk Mansion with the Witch Factor.
And Emiya took Beatrice to wander around the labyrinth city of Orario.
Beatrice was inevitably a little excited because it was her first time in such a bustling city. She was amazed at everything she saw, because this was a paradise for adventurers and gods.
Its prosperity is unmatched by any other place.
Even the capital of the Dragon Kingdom is no exception.
Compared with the labyrinth city of Orario, that place is like a royal city in the countryside and is not worth mentioning at all.
At noon, Emiya brought Beatrice to the Goddess's feast for dinner.
He handed Beatrice a mobile phone and added her to the chat group.
Emiya: "Everyone, please allow me to introduce you to my contractor, Betty."
Beatrice: "Hi, I'm Betty."
Shizuka Hiratsuka was the first to say, "You went to the Re-Zero world and kidnapped Betty. You're really quick."
Emiya: "In fact, not only Betty, but also Ram and Rem have become my maids."
Toosaka Rin: "Natsuki Aoi fainted in the toilet from crying."
Illya: "Legal loli or something, this doesn't overlap with my character."
Takashi Natsume: "I think Natsuki's favorite person should be Emilia. Neither Betty nor Rem is his favorite person."
Beatrice: "Ah, what does this have to do with Nayuki? Everyone seems to know Betty."
Emiya turned his head to look at Beatrice and said with a smile: "Yes, everyone does know you. As for why, I will explain to you."
Beatrice nodded silently and continued to peek at the screen.
Toosaka Rin: "Wake up, Illya, your roles have already overlapped. Isn't Wu Zetian just a legal loli?"
Wu Zetian: “…”
Toosaka Rin: "Besides that, there's also Megumin."
Hui Hui: "I'm not. I'm not an adult yet. Please don't talk nonsense. I'm only fourteen."
Toosaka Rin: "Well, Huihui doesn't count, but Hestia is definitely one, and she's also a legal loli with an amazing heart."
Illya: “…” She didn’t know what to say now.
Toosaka Rin: "Overlapping roles is actually quite common in the group, so you don't need to worry about it at all, although no one has overlapping roles with me."
Hiratsuka Shizuka: "Isn't there a tsundere young lady, @Nakiri Erina."
Nakiri Erina: ...
Toosaka Rin: ...
When Emiya saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly, this is indeed a chat group, they have never been late for daily discussions.
Obviously, they were welcoming Beatrice, but they accidentally brought up the topic of overlapping roles.
This is really normal.
Emiya was too lazy to deal with the idiots in the group. After having lunch with Beatrice, he took Beatrice to continue shopping in Orario.
At the same time, Beatrice also gained some understanding of Orario and proposed a new idea to Emiya.
"I want to go to the underground city and take a look."
"no problem."
Emiya did not refuse. He had finally arrived at the labyrinth city of Orario. If he didn't take a tour of the dungeon, it would be no different from coming there for nothing.
Therefore, even if Beatrice didn't bring it up, Emiya would still take Beatrice for a tour of the dungeon.
