My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World-Chapter 140: Kalusia’s Border Wall

A little over a month had passed since we healed the first lesser demon, and by now, we had managed to clear most of the desert from the Kalusia forces, who had retreated back to their territory behind their borders.

The prince of the Droman Empire had joined the battle a few weeks prior and was leading a group in a different spot of the desert, so I hadn’t gotten to meet him yet.

Our forces were split into three large groups. The ones led by the prince covering the southern side, the Aridonia army holding the north, and our group went through the center, led by Empress Lyssandra and having a mix of both armies together.

Most of the soldiers that we cured of their curse decided to join us in the fight to retake their country, which was commendable considering what they had gone through.

During that time, I got to learn the enchantment that Melina used on the black pearls and was able to make my own golden pearls to heal the lesser demons.

However, we had only cured about fifteen of them, which was nothing compared to how many there were.

The problem was that the black pearls weren’t easy to find. All the ones we saw we took from soldiers before they could ingest them.

Now that we were closer to their border, I wondered if we could locate one of the small towns that the healed beastkin told us about, where they had ample supplies of black pearls.

Thinking of a new plan, I called upon Rio and Lampart, who were members of the Dawn’s Defenders and were supposedly the best at discreet operations.

Nisa and Tony were good, but infiltrating wasn’t their specialty as these two, so I told them about the black pearl supply that we were looking for and asked them if it was even possible for them to get inside their borders.

Lampart and Rio were around twenty years old, so they were both quite young, which made me worry a little for them.

They were confident enough in their abilities, but I didn’t want them to get killed or turned into a demon. Nonetheless, they noticed my uneasiness and reassured me that they could get it done.

I decided to trust them, but for security reasons, I gave them two trinkets to use in case of an emergency.

The first one was a voice crystal in case they needed to send an urgent message, and the second was a prototype of a new artifact I was trying to create.

I had started working on it long ago, but I never had the time to perfect it due to the war. Still, I had a decent prototype that could potentially get them out of trouble.

It was an ordinary emerald that I had fused with a teleport enchantment. However, the emerald couldn’t hold powerful spells, so the gem was only able to teleport the person up to 10km towards the direction they were facing.

My goal with the crystal was to make it so that the person holding it would teleport to me, but the gem couldn’t hold that much power, so teleporting them forward was the best it could do.

After I explained to them how the trinkets worked, they put them in their pockets and started their journey toward the Kalusia Kingdom to look for black pearls.

The following day, we kept pushing through the desert and captured the final enemy camp that was the closest to their border from the center, but the battles weren’t over.

When I talked to the sultan with our voice crystals, he said that the enemy forces on the north side of the desert had been growing, as all of their backup had been rerouted that way.

It didn’t make sense why the devil would send all his reinforcements to fight the Aridonia army when the Empire was closing in on their territory.

’I got a bad feeling about this...’ I thought, but my worries wouldn’t manifest until a few days later.

After the empress ordered a large group of soldiers to back up Aridonia on the north side, we kept making our way through the desert for a few days until the border walls of Kalusia were visible in the distance.

The empress told me that the beastkin nation didn’t have a wall before Zagor took control, which she believed he constructed expecting other countries to attack.

Behind the wall, there were no towns or settlements nearby, so even if we crossed it, we would have to keep moving for a few days in enemy territory, and we didn’t know what Zagor would do with the beastkins living there.

If they were all cursed, we could heal them, sure. But what if the devil ordered them to fight while threatening their families? Then, we would have to fight against desperate villagers. If they turned into lesser demons, we didn’t have enough golden pearls to cure them either.

Lampart and Rio had sent me a message saying they had gotten past the walls, but they hadn’t said anything about reaching a town or settlement.

’If we could at least get a few hundred of the black pearls, I would feel much more confident about this...’ I thought.

Nonetheless, we had to keep pushing forward, or the army would lose its momentum, so the soldiers marched behind the empress toward the massive border wall while I was above in the sky to check our surroundings.

When we got closer, I noticed that there were no soldiers at the wall. In fact, there was nobody.

I quickly descended and told the empress that I couldn’t see or feel anyone close to the wall, and she squinted with suspicion.

"That doesn’t sound right..." the empress said.

[Ichiro!] Vespera’s voice echoed loudly in my head, startling me.

[What!?] I replied, looking around for my companion.

[It’s him... the Terra Titan!] she exclaimed.

Suddenly, the ground shook violently as if an earthquake had stuck in our position.

When I turned to look at the wall in the distance, a colossal monster made of rock was slowly standing up, towering over the wall and glaring at our army.

’Aw, man...’