Slayers, Volume 8 by Hajime Kanzaka

Author:Hajime Kanzaka [KANZAKA, HAJIME]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

3: Sairaag, an Illusion of the Past

It wasn’t long after I set foot in the forest that I found myself stopping and looking around me.

“Huh... hmm.”

Cool air and green smells. No insects or birdsong, just the rustle of leaves... Exactly like the last time I was here.

See, I was currently in the Miasma Forest that grew outside of Sairaag City. It was said that the blood of the magical beast Zanaffar, vanquished by the Sword of Light, had pooled here long ago and given life to a forest of pure miasma.

But although the sights and sounds were the same as I remembered, the thin air of miasma that had once lingered throughout the woods was now gone without a trace.

Surely this had something to do with Hellmaster, right? But how could that be? Wouldn’t his presence make the miasma worse? One way or the other, standing around thinking about it wasn’t going to get me answers. This too should become clear once I made it to Sairaag.

Thus I continued to sally forth on my own.

My journey had been smooth sailing since I’d defeated Rashart. I tried upping my pace to catch up with Amelia and Zel, but they must have been hustling themselves, as I still hadn’t managed to reach them. I’d asked after them in the villages I’d stopped in, and gleaned that they were two days ahead of me.

I’d learned something else interesting along the way, too. Word on the street was that Sairaag had indeed been rebuilt. The people in the town I’d just left this morning said that the city had popped up out of nowhere—right along with all the folks who used to live there. Stranger still, if you asked any of said folks what had happened, the answer was always the same: “I can’t say.”

What had Hellmaster done to Sairaag? I had questions upon questions. Most of them weren’t anything I could reason my way around, but damned if I didn’t try to hash it all out as I kept walking... Then suddenly, the view opened up around me.

I’d come out of the forest. Before me lay the metropolis of Sairaag.

Prior to its most recent destruction, the tree Flagoon had stood tall at the city center like a massive monument. But now that trademark piece of the skyline was missing, as if it had just been snatched up out of the ground.

As for the rest of the city, it looked like the stories were true. Even from a distance, I spied people walking the streets. Yet I knew there was no way Sairaag could have magically sprung back to life, so the people had to be illusions created by Fibrizo... or worse, demons.

Nah, if he had that many demons at his disposal, why wouldn’t he just set them loose on the world instead of bothering with all this skullduggery?

There was no question in my mind about one thing, though—if Hellmaster was behind the city’s rebirth, the people of Sairaag were my enemies. To be

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