Chapter 153 – Battle of Yeongji (11)

Ting!

Yoosung blocked the arrows with his dagger. My wrist went numb.

“Where did that suddenly appear?”

“I do not know. I don’t think he broke through the ground like the others, but…”

It wasn’t that that mattered.

Yuseong rolled his eyes and inspected the skeletons that suddenly appeared. They all rode bone horses in common, but in different forms.

Like the guy who shot the bow earlier, some wore arrow shafts on their backs, and some wore breastplates as if they were pretending to be knights.

‘It’s the number that matters more than appearance.’

Five guys with bows and ten guys pretending to be knights.

They wouldn’t know if they had their feet on the ground, but now they’re on the wagon.

They didn’t even have a bow, so there was no way to intercept them.

Yooseong tried throwing a dagger just in case, but the dagger was pushed back by air resistance.

There was a big difference in air resistance when moving slowly and when speeding up.

The skeleton’s arrow is fired again.

“Keep down!”

Karen squeezed the villagers’ necks. Papabak. Three of the five arrows hit the carriage, and the other two passed over the heads of the villagers.

“Hee-ik…!”

The sound of the wind crackling frightened the villagers. The 5-year-old child was crying loudly in her mother’s arms.

“It’s okay… It’s okay…”

The mother shivered and patted her child on the back. Yooseong looked at the scene with strange eyes.

“Horald! Take care of those dead things!”

“Yes!”

The knight followed the lord’s orders. The skeleton approached step by step. Horald pulled out the sword from his waist. Neat feet too. The Skeleton Knight’s head flew off. He swung his sword and cut the skeleton horse’s neck.

The skeleton archer pulled the bowstring with a clicking sound. Horald didn’t care about them and cut the next skeleton’s body in half.

Ping! A sharp bone arrow flew towards Horald. However, it bounced off powerlessly against the full plate armor.

Ordinary arrows could not pierce full plate armor.

“Become a Buddha!”

Horald’s sword gained momentum. The bodies of the three skeletons were shattered in one breath. In the breathing that followed, the backs of the skeleton horses were cut.

Skeletons pretending to be knights were mere janitors in front of real knights.

* * *

“Um, after all, it’s not good for knights.”

The wizard, who was watching the situation through the eyes of a skeleton, touched his beard.

“By the way, she’s the daughter of the Marquis Clener… I heard she’s an excellent knight, but it would be fun to turn it into a Death Knight.”

The wizard snapped his fingers.

* * *

Every time Horald swung his sword, the skeleton’s body was shattered. Yuseong admired his light swordsmanship.

“You are very talented.”

“Horald is sincere. Among the knights of the family, he has excellent skills.”

Karen replied in a proud voice.

The articles of the Marquis family were her pride.

“… I thought I had caught them all, but new ones are coming.”

The smile disappeared from Karen’s face. This is because a new skeleton appeared from afar.

There is no problem with the skeleton itself. But what bothered me was that I couldn’t know the end of the undead that were chasing me.

“Horald! Deal with them before they approach the wagon!”

“Yes, lady.”

Horald immediately turned his horse’s head. As he headed towards the skeletons, undead pierced the ground and popped out from under his feet.

“What?!”

Sudden surprise.

Horald calmly cut down the undead that attacked him. A trained knight did not collapse to this extent.

But the horse he rode was different. Horses are basically timid animals. It is possible to overcome it to some extent with training and bonding with the shooter, but there was no answer when it suddenly jumped out from under his feet.

The horse kicked up and lifted his forepaw. Horald fell off the horse. As if they had been waiting around him, the Undead dug up the ground and appeared. Horald was covered by the undead.

“Horald!”

Cried Karen, sticking her head out the window. At the same time, the bodies of the undead that surrounded Horald split in half.

“Have you failed? Good luck.”

The worry disappeared from Karen’s expression.

“However, it will be difficult to break through that number right away. Philip, go back to support Horald.”

“All right! But if I go, who will pull the carriage?”

Karen froze at Phillip’s question. Because she hadn’t even thought about it. But to tell the truth, you might think Philip is a thoughtless lord.

Karen opened her mouth after contemplating whether it was long or short.

“I…”

“I know how to handle horses!”

A villager sitting in the corner of the wagon raised his hand. He is a middle-aged man with a shaggy beard.

“Then let me leave it to you. Let Philip go.”

Karen brushed it off softly, as if she meant it from the start.

While she secretly thought that she was lucky.

“Yes, then I’ll be there, ma’am.”

Philip jumped out of the wagon and onto his horse that ran beside him. He turned his horse and ran towards Horald.

Karen thought she had taken a breath and sat down in her chair.

In the meantime, Yooseong was watching the fight between the undead and Horald.

“Do you know why they suddenly came out?”

Karen also answered, turning her gaze towards the undead.

“Recently, there have been reports that the movements of the cultists are suspicious. He probably moved after hearing the news that the Battle of Yeongji was taking place. They are the only ones who can control undead like that.”

“Okay.”

Yuseong had also heard the news that the cultists were acting strangely. I can’t remember who I heard it from.

“What are you thinking…”

“It’s obvious what they thought. He must have intended to capture me or Vanried and demand a ransom from the family.”

“Huh… Because the ransom is a certain amount, that amount of undead…”

Yooseong, who had been laughing, pricked up his ears. Raising her eyes, she immediately shouted at the man leading the horse.

“Turn the wagon sideways!”

“Yes? What a sudden…”

“Right now!”

Yooseong drew a dagger and put it on the man’s neck. The coachman, who was frightened, turned the carriage around as Yooseong said. The sudden change of direction caused the wagon to shake violently.

“Kyaaak!”

There was no fuss with people bumping into each other in the carriage. Only Karen held on to the window frame and maintained her center.

“Han Yuseong! What are you doing now…”

Kwagwawak!

Diagonally in front of the wagon, the undead dug out where the wagon would have been passing if it hadn’t turned.

Karen opened her eyes wide.

“How did know?”

“Your ears are good. What is more than that?”

Meteor pointed at the undead that had just come out. They were no ordinary undead. The severe wounds on the body were the same as other undead, but the forearms and legs were particularly thick.

“It’s a ghoul.”

An undead created by synthesizing ghouls, dogs, and humans. They are stronger and stronger than normal undead, and are also more intelligent.

The undead lowered their upper bodies and started running on quadrupeds.

Seeing that, Karen frowned at her.

“You probably didn’t use everything to catch me… Damn it, the cultist seems to have stored up more power than I thought. If I go back, I’ll have to inform the temple.”

“Karen-sama, those ghouls seem to be faster than I thought.”

“Fast is right. We will catch up soon.”

The ghoul’s instantaneous speed was only slightly behind that of a horse’s. On the other hand, the horses currently pulling the wagon were unable to speed up due to the weight of the wagon.

“Prepare for a response.”

Said Karen, drawing her sword.

“Yes. Take care of Ariel.”

“Don’t order me!”

Ariel rebelled, but ordered the spirits to attack the ghouls.

Dozens of ice picks flew towards the ghouls. Kwakwawang! Dust rose with an intense blow.

“Good job.”

“Heh, at this level… Don’t pet it!”

Seeing Meteor and Ariel bickering, Karen put her sword in with a shy expression.

“How is it? Is this guy worth using?”

Yooseong ignored the struggling Ariel and continued stroking her hair.

Karen laughed.

“Okay. Quite… Well.”

Following her words, Karen’s gaze turned to the dust. The ghouls ran through the thick dust. The number was not much different from before.

“What is this… Hey, Ariel. Did you do it roughly?”

“Oh, isn’t it? Right guys?”

The two spirits shook their bodies violently. Yuseong looked at him suspiciously, then pulled out a dagger and threw it at the ghouls.

The dagger flew towards the ghoul’s head.

– Kang!

The ghoul snatched the flying dagger into its mouth.

“…You have good reflexes.”

Yooseong clicked her tongue. If you catch it like that, you can’t even bring it back to Manryu Gwijong. It was like throwing away a precious dagger.

“…It seems like I’m going to run out of time soon.”

The ghouls approached the wagon. Among the ghouls, one who was running in the lead jumped onto the wagon with excellent leg strength.

– Kyaaaaagh!

The ghoul thrust his face into the carriage window. Her skin was rotten and there were no pupils in the whites of her eyes. The lower crown is thick, and the teeth are sharp but uneven.

He grinned as he looked at the prey in the wagon.

A silver light drew an arc line. The ghoul’s head and body separated and fell off the wagon.

Karen brushed her blood off her sword. It is the first blood to be buried. She shook a little, but she didn’t show it.

“Those who are not confident in battle, bow down!”

With a loud cry, she warned the villagers.

With that cry, the ghouls rushed into the wagon in earnest. They clung to the windowsills and roofs of the carriages.

“Go away.”

Yoosung threw a dagger at the ghoul hanging from the window frame.

The ghoul twisted his head to avoid it.

-Kyaheh.

It splits the threads while licking its yellow teeth. Yooseong narrowed her eyes.

As she exhaled, he tugged at her right hand. In her mind, she recalled the memory of her crushing the orc’s throat.

Then she showed the line.

Movement of the sword and muscles.

Inhaling her breath, she stretched out her right hand. The dagger was thrust once more.

– Kyahak!

The ghoul laughed at the obvious attack and twisted his head again this time. The ghoul’s neck was out of the dagger’s path. As the dagger was just about to slip past, Yoosung moved her wrist.

The trajectory changed and the blade stabbed the side of the ghoul’s neck.

-Kyaaaaagh?!

The ghoul panicked at the unexpected damage and decapitated him.

But it was already too late.

Siren solo dance

Meteor’s right arm bent like a snake and hacked at her ghoul’s neck. The rag ghoul’s neck was on the verge of being torn off.

Yoosung grabbed the dagger in reverse and swung it. The mass of flesh barely supporting the ghoul’s neck was ripped open, and the owner’s head fell off the back of the wagon.

Yooseong exhaled.

‘Fortunately, it worked. Slower than then…’

-Kiaak!

A ghoul opened its mouth and jumped toward the meteor’s hand that came out of the window.

Yuseong struck the ghoul in the jaw with his left fist. The ghoul fell off the wagon after being beaten without much gain. Yoosung immediately raised his dagger.

Ting! The arrow collided with the blade and bounced off.

Skeletons riding skeleton horses were running towards the place where the arrows flew.

“It’s a mountain beyond a mountain.”

Yuseong turned his head toward his driver’s seat.

“Mister, can’t you go faster?”

“This is going as fast as possible. No more…”

-Kihehehe!

The ghoul snatched away the coachman who turned his head to answer.

“Haaaaagh!”

The coachman’s screams faded away. The coachman’s seat where he had disappeared was empty.

“It’s really different, fuck…”

Yoosung sighed.