How The Sub-Male Lead’s Stepmother Teaches Love Chapter 284

You’re joking, right? You left the entire No. 13 District shield to my fiancé alone?!”

 

“That’s…..”

 

“You crazy people! If Benny dies, you die and I die too!”

 

Brilliana, eyes wide with fury, placed one foot on the rooftop railing instead of using the perfectly safe stairs.

 

She looked like she would jump down if left alone, so two employees at the top of Clover quickly grabbed her.

 

“Calm down, Lady! The vice president is fine! Can’t you see the shield over there?”

 

“Yes, that sturdy shield over there! There’s no way Benny could maintain that without draining his life force…!”

 

“It’s the wand! The wand!”

 

“What?”

 

“I heard he received a new wand as a gift from Marquise Ajas! It’s truly amazing!”

 

At that shout, Brilliana’s movements suddenly stopped.

 

‘The wand…’

 

Brilliana opened her mouth slightly in belated realization.

 

Judging that she wasn’t about to jump anymore, the two employees cautiously stepped back.

 

“The wand’s efficiency is so high that it can keep the shield up alone for about 20 minutes.”

 

“And Lady, the Vice President told us to tell you to try using attack magic.”

 

“Me?”

 

“Yes. He said the wand’s efficiency is really incredible. He made sure we told you that.”

 

“But I’m not a battle wizard….”

 

Of course, battle wizards aren’t the only ones who can use attack magic.

 

It’s just that she had been crafting magical tools for so long that she’d forgotten most of the attack spells she learned in school for self-defense.

 

Benjamin could not have been unaware of the situation. Yet he still had the staff relay the message to try a spell.

 

“He said the wand’s efficiency is ‘really incredible’? How incredible exactly?”

 

It was better to experience something once than to hear about it a hundred times.

 

With minimal thought—but a flicker of curiosity—Brilliana cast a fire-based attack spell over the shield.

 

“Fire Arrow!”

 

It was a very basic spell among the lower-level attack magics, a magic that summoned arrows made of fire.

 

The power wasn’t much, which was exactly why Brilliana still remembered it: she occasionally used it to light firewood.

 

Still, fire was fire, and the nearby fire wyvern reacted to the heat and flew toward her.

 

—Kyaroooo!

 

However, Brilliana swung her wand and sent it flying at the ice wyvern before the fire wyvern could swallow the fire arrow.

 

Though weak, the Fire Arrow was fast and easy to control.

 

Thanks to that, the fire arrow created by Brilliana hit, no, pierced through, the ice wyvern’s wing, creating a hole.

 

“Huh?”

 

—Kyarrrroo!

 

While Brilliana doubted her eyes, the ice wyvern lost balance and staggered.

 

Just before crashing, the ice wyvern flapped its wings and barely managed to fly, staggering in the air and screaming loudly.

 

—Kyrraaaaak!

 

The fire wyvern, also influenced by it, howled fiercely and lunged with its claws raised.

 

But the shield that Benjamin alone maintained was still strong.

 

—Thud, thud, bang!

 

Under the shield, which shook violently as if it were about to be torn off, the wizards shouted in surprise at Brilliana.

 

“What was that?! How’d you do that? Wasn’t that just Fire Arrow?”

 

“What kind of wand can bounce back high-level magic—wait, no, never mind! This is our chance! Fire, now!”

 

Encouraged by the encouragement of others, Brilliana summoned dozens of fire arrows.

 

Being a basic magic, she didn’t run out of magical power even after casting that many.

 

“Okay, go!”

 

Like a grand orchestra conductor, Brilliana swung the wand with flair and guided the Fire Arrows, finally managing to bring down the ice wyvern.

 

Having defeated one of the two, dealing with the remaining one was not difficult.

 

The wizards who could use water magic unleashed the most powerful water magic they could, and even the fire wyvern ended up falling to the ground.

 

“Hurrah! We won!”

 

“We took down two wyverns! We took them down!”

 

After destroying the magic stones embedded between the wyverns’ wings, the wizards raised their arms in joy and celebration.

 

But it wasn’t time to let their guard down. If the wall had been breached once, it could be again.

 

“Let’s have Vice President Clover rest for now. Some of us should use reconnaissance magic to scout the area.”

 

“Shouldn’t we check District 11 or 15 too?”

 

“I want to do that too, but… we can’t afford that right now. We can’t afford to waste our magic power when we don’t know what might happen.”

 

“But when will the support arrive? I wish the knights would come sooner.”

 

“They probably went elsewhere first. The palace knows we have plenty of wizards here.”

 

“Ugh, not all the wizards here are battle wizards.…”

 

On her way to find Benjamin, Brilliana overheard other wizards grumbling and quietly thought to herself:

 

‘Nell will be okay because there are many people protecting her.… The problem is Alex.’

 

She and Benjamin had wands made from multi-elemental magic stones.

 

But Alexander didn’t even have a legendary sword or anything like that.

 

‘He thinks he’s a knight, so he’d never run… huh?’

 

Suddenly, her surroundings darkened. Brilliana instinctively looked up—and screamed.

 

“Kyaaaaah!”

 

“Hey, what is that!”

 

She wasn’t the only one screaming.

 

Everyone who looked up at the shadow looming overhead saw the same thing—a massive, pitch-black wyvern, several times larger than the ones they’d just taken down

 

“W-What the heck is that?!”

 

“L-Lily, quick, use that wand! Cast something!”

 

“No… it won’t work.”

 

It was a wizard’s instinct.

Unless they used high-level magic, there was no way even dozens or hundreds of basic spells would bring down that thing.

 

Furthermore.

 

“Did you see it too?”

 

“See what?”

 

“On its back…”

 

“You mean the magic stones embedded in its back? Yeah… they go all the way to its tail…”

 

Another wizard shivered, saying he’d never seen a monster with that many stones—there had to be dozens.

 

Brilliana tilted her head beside him.

 

“No, the stones, sure, but…”

 

Because Benjamin released the shield, dozens of people would die if the wyvern just landed.

 

But it hadn’t even looked at them. It simply flew off into the distance.

 

So Brilliana couldn’t confirm what she thought she saw.

 

‘I must have seen it wrong?’

 

Yeah, she must have.

 

There’s no way a monster that huge would be carrying a human on its back. That would be ridiculous.

 

“Wait a minute, my goodness! Is that okay?”

 

“What?”

 

“That! That thing! The direction it’s flying in!”

 

Dozens of pairs of eyes turned towards the place Brilliana’s staff was pointing with his index finger.

 

“That’s where the Imperial Palace is.”

 

All of their gazes were filled with shock.

 

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Noah’s command to Robert, who asked for instructions, was as follows:

 

“The knights and wizards of Ajas, who were on standby for expedition by Father’s orders, should immediately go to the eastern wall and assist in subduing the monsters.”

 

“Yes, young master. I will obey your command.”

 

“And… if there are any people who couldn’t evacuate in time, open the mansion gates so they can escape here.”

 

“The mansion gates, master? …But if we do that, monsters or those with malicious intent might try to break in.”

 

“Not all the knights and wizards are leaving the mansion, right? I still have my guards—and this bracelet.”

 

“Hmm… Since it’s an order, I will obey…”

 

Robert looked really, really reluctant, but in any case, with Leonhard and Raenel absent, Noah’s orders were absolute.

 

So he sent the knights and wizards, who had finished preparing for battle, to the eastern wall, and divided Raenel’s escort in half.

 

Catherine and Ethan, who have a lot of experience dealing with monsters, head to the east wall.

 

Leona, Sage, and Jennet—who had originally been Noah’s personal guard—stayed at Paul Herbina with Robert.

 

‘Not a single scratch must be left on the young master.’

 

With that in mind, Robert carefully double-checked Paul Herbina’s security before opening Paul Herbina’s gate.

 

‘I still don’t know if this is really the right thing to do…?’

 

But what could he do? He had already declared with his own mouth that he would faithfully follow the young master’s command.

 

And to Robert, who showed clear reluctance, Noah had said this:

 

“If it were my father or mother, they would have done everything they could to prevent people from getting hurt.”

 

Noah, who had been too intimidated to even call Leonhard “father,” now spoke not with vague guesswork, but with certainty, saying:

 

“They would have done this.”

 

Robert couldn’t dare refuse.

 

Because it was the most ideal order that could come out of the mouth of the next Marquis of Ajas.

 

As soon as the gate opened, people rushed into Paul Herbina’s mansion.

 

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