Voyage Of The Villainess

Four hours ago...

Sounds of clashing of swords reverberated everywhere. Along with the multiple explosions happening left and right.

"Crap!" 

Malaya remained firmly plastered on the ground to cover herself from the continuous explosion. Oliver's lightning magic was sending every bit of the beastmen that chose to self-destruct. While those who were salvageable, he knocked them out.

'How in the world, this come to this?' She gritted her teeth and stood up. With her Tyr, she immediately knocked the daylights of the other beastmen who were still going to self-destruct.

Those who were late to save now, Oliver was sending them high above the skies to explode.

Before all these happened, the plan that Oliver discussed with Malaya to unite the two opposing armies was simple. They will play the villain and attack both the Kingdom's army and the beastmen's armies by sneaking in some explosives in clear areas.

After that, Oliver would appear in the skies to threaten everyone. Using his very well, lightning magic. Everything went smoothly with the plan. And Malaya and the others used the chance, while everyone was destructed about Oliver to disguise themselves, and sneaked to the huge cart to look for Iris and Baru. However, something strange happened.

The beastmen out of nowhere started to self-destruct themselves like they were possessed. Not only them but from what Hyun Jae's and Seth's reports, since they were inside the kingdom, some of the knights as well, started to self-destruct as well.

Mostly they were all low leveled mages, that was why the explosions were nothing compared to the ones in the Duke of Taleba. And Oliver took care of those who would cause greater damage.

Oliver could only smile faintly. 'To think something like this could happen. Unexpected things always happen when I am with their group.'

And that led to this current situation. Malaya instead of acting to be some sort of a big villain boss that would scare the whole armies ended up knocking out beastmen left and writing to prevent them from self-destructing. There were also some beastmen who were still sane. They were doing the same thing of knocking out their comrades who lost their sanity before they could fully self-destruct.

Well, it was not like she was trying to play here. However, having to witness lives popping out like this, was not really a good sight for her. 

'What a terrible thing this is.' Malaya could only grit her teeth even more as she continued to knock beastmen that was on her way.

She leaped in the air, and hit another beastmen, on its head. 'It might cause a concussion,' Malaya couldn't help but sigh. 'But as long as they are alive, they can be healed. I hope Hyun Jae and Rhyme were doing well inside the kingdom.

"Master!"

Malaya turned around to see Arnes, the Siren, running in her direction. "They are in the cart!" He was panting heavily from all the running.

"The orange-haired lady and a violet skin-colored girl are with her! They are both locked inside the cage." He reported.

"It's Lila and Iris!" Malaya couldn't help but smile in relief. 'Ah, even though I hate to command him with his magic, I really have no choice now.'

"Arnes, can you use your magic to make everyone fall asleep here?" Malaya asked.

"I will need a certain time, master," Arnes said. "And in order to reach this whole battlefield, I need something to amplify my voice."

'Amplify his voice.' Malaya glanced around. In every army such as this, there should be horns, huge horns to immobilize the army. 'I don't know if it will be affected by a larger scale army like this, but it is better than continuing to let these people explode themselves.

Malaya glanced around.

"Where is it?"

She kept looking around. "Where could it be?" She continued to look around and fight.

"Master! Will this help?!" 

Malaya couldn't hide her grin when she saw the thing Arnes was holding. It was the exact horn she was looking for. 

"That's perfect, Arnes."

Arnes' cheeks flushed as Malaya praised him. "I just want to help, Master."

"Then you can reach further with your singing here, right?" 

"Yes, Master," Arnes said. "As long as I gather enough lifa, and don't get disturbed, I will be able to do this."

"How much time do you need?" Malaya asked.

"Ten Minutes at most," Arnes said.

"Ten minutes," Malaya positioned herself to fight. "Then I'll protect you until that. You can start now."

Arnes looked with awe at Malaya's back. "You really are different, master." He whispered which Malaya failed to hear due to her situation of warding out the crazed beastmen. Then a smile escaped his lips. "Yes, Master." He said as he started chanting to gather more lifa around him. A faint purple light started to envelop him.

---⚓⚓⚓---

Meanwhile, inside the Baslon's walls, a lot of havoc could be seen as well.

"Prince Kija!" It was one of the knights. The third prince Kija just recently knocked out one of the knights. 

"Not only here, is this happening. But some of the knights in the royal palace are becoming insane as well. His highness, the second prince is now there controlling the situation."

  "Go and subjugate every knight that is wreaking havoc." The third prince commanded.

'What kind of magic is this? Is the one who caused this is the man with the lightning before? That can be even the beastmen who are in the situation like us.' 

"Your highness!" The third prince turned around to see Hyun Jae running to him. 

"Lady Hyun Jae? What are you doing here?" At the mention of that, he immediately subjugated the knight that was going to attack Hyun Jae. 

"I'm going to help you! I'm good at healing magic!" Hyun Jae said as she touched the arm of the third prince. A faint golden light erupted from Hyun Jae's hand and immediately healed the prince's wound.

'That golden light? Divine healing magic. And to heal me without even chanting?' The third prince managed to hide his surprise.

"Then please be careful," The third prince said. "I'll watch your back, as you continue healing the other knight."

"Yes," Hyun Jae said and went to the other knights with severe wounds that were inflicted by the crazed knights. She started healing them right away. 

'She is even unfazed at the sight of a battlefield. Lady Malaya's group is something else.' The third prince continued to subjugate the other crazed knights.

"Little Brother," 

The third prince turned around when he heard his eldest brother, the crown prince, called him.

However, before the third prince could even call out to his brother. He froze in his place as he crazed the eyes of his brother, the crown prince.

'Don't tell me even he got affected!'

"I'm a failure as a crown prince."

"I can't stop the suffering of everyone in the kingdom."

"I should just disappear." The crown prince's body started to glow. 

"Stop!" The third prince's eyes widened in horror as he ran towards his eldest brother. "I need to make it!" 

Just before he could reach him, the crown prince suddenly fell on the ground unconscious, before he could even self-destruct. Standing behind him was none other than Seth.

'Unbelievable, to think that I will save these humans.' He couldn't help but scowl. However, if not for Hyun Jae pleading with him, he would not do this kind of thing. And besides, it would be much better if these humans were the only ones who were suffering like this, however, even the beastmen outside were suffering from these strange conditions.

This whole place was an entire mess and chaos right now.

"Brother!" The third prince immediately went to the crown prince's side. While Seth just simply walked away without saying anything to them. Some of the sane knights also gathered at the third prince's side to assist him with the crown prince.

"For this to happen to Hou as well," the third prince, Kija, clenched his fist.

As he carried the crown prince on his shoulders, together with the other knights. All of them stopped on their tracks when a melodious song echoed across the whole place.

The song was so sweet and calming. And those who heard it couldn't help but wanted to sleep.

The beastmen were matching in the tunnel for days just to reach the capital. The knights were anxious to guard the capital before all these strange situations happened. And when these strange things happened, they needed to fight and subjugate their comrades who became crazy. 

It was no denying that through listening to this song, it resurfaced more the weariness they were feeling inside.

'I want to rest.'

'A little rest won't hurt.'

The song was so sweet and hypnotic that one by one, those who were listening to it fall to the ground, sleeping soundly.

---⚓⚓⚓---

Back on the battlefield, Malaya fell on her knees. She was forcing herself not to sleep. However, it was so unbearable.

"Ar-nes." She said with clenched teeth.

'Thank you for granting me permission to sing, Master.' Arnes said with an unknown smile on his face. He really didn't need to amplify his voice, since he was already at the level where if he wanted it, his music could reach far lengths. He just needed the owner of the Mermaid tear, to give him permission to sing. He glanced at Malaya who was fighting herself not to fall asleep.

'Master is really strong. However, I will sing more so please go to sleep now.'

'Arnes,' Malaya finally dropped to the ground.

'Sweet dreams, Master.'