Chapter 266 – #60_Drainage Tunnel(2)

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One.
While walking a total distance of about 1km, Elroa never gave Siwoo a chance.
Unlike the first thirty two that rushed in unison, it was the same even though more passive personnel attacked, ten at a time, from the eight.

“Stay away.”

On the surface, he said that he would allow Siwoo to participate in the war, but in reality, it was because he was uneasy.
Will Siwoo, who is still immature, suffer irreversible wounds due to a momentary mistake or carelessness?
If Siu didn’t have to participate in the battle, he thought of putting it off until the end.

“Haap!”

The tenth clash already.
Elroa, who had neatly slashed her nine white knights, managed her breathing again.

There was no need to use her magical powers as grandiosely as in her first fight.
Just as the cowardly witch measured Elroa’s strength, she also grasped her white knight’s level.
It may not be a red knight, but the white knight, who was only a subordinate, could not compete with Eloa in terms of strength or skill.
All that remains is to suppress with minimal force, conscious of efficiency.

“Something is strange.”
“What do you mean?”

Siwoo reacted to Eloa’s muttering.

“The worst situation I envisioned was that the red knights accompanied by the white knights attempted a cross-fire, or the mana was exhausted from the successive supplies. Even if you’re not particularly good at strategy, you should know that this type of power consumption isn’t good… “

Looking at the situation itself, it is very smooth.
He had already killed a total of 150 white knights with almost no effort.
The number exceeding 10% of the enemy’s power was eliminated without consumption.
At this point, the fact that it was too easy made me anxious and scratched my back.

“Isn’t it because he went outside? To remove the barrier.”
“It can’t be. The heart of Xochitl’s plan is this drainage tunnel. It is a vital support that must be protected by any means.”

The highest power of location point is pushing the knife to the bottom of the chin, but turning the troops to the outside?
It is no different from a gamble with little chance of winning.
Eloah muttered to herself and tapped the blade of her contract sword with her fingers.

“At this point, even the cowardly witch would have noticed. That even this number of white knights would not be able to stop our advance.”

To call it a search battle, the data between each other must have been overflowing.
At least he should have known enough that he could not stop Eloa unless he distributed his forces more aggressively and sent out red knights or powerful homunculus.
Are the two witches who have entered the other vertical shaft doing a good diversion operation?

“What is the reason for throwing away the tuk-tuk troops with such an ambiguous number… At this level, it’s only enough to catch the footsteps… “
“Isn’t catching a step itself the goal?”

Siu, who was standing behind him like a folding screen, said while wiping Elroa’s sweat from his forehead.

“Tell me what you think.”
“No one knows what role the altar plays. There is a possibility that the moment ‘Altar’ is completed, there is a way to completely take the initiative, so we are only wasting time.”
“That makes sense.”

As soon as Elroa finished speaking, her ears that had been ringing intermittently for some time filled the tunnel.

-Oh—-oh oh–oh oh——

The closer the distance is, the louder it is.
Both Eloah and Siu frowned at the unpleasant echo that pierced their nerves more than the sound of scratching the blackboard.

“I’m fed up with that too.”
“I will say so.”

Didn’t Della listen to that sound for months at a distance and stay sane?
Siwoo had no choice but to praise her mental strength.
If she had been herself, she would have gone mad on the third day.

“I will hurry. And as she has repeatedly said before, prepare to retreat at any time. Because I can earn time.”
“All right.”

-Oh oh–!

There was no longer a white knight standing in the way.
Siwoo and Eloa, who ran through the aisle feeling some kind of uneasiness, stopped at the same time.
It was because the scream that had been dragging on for a long time suddenly cut off in the middle like a cassette tape being cut.

It was an unpleasant noise that I wanted to end sometime.
However, in this unnatural silence, she wished she could hear more.
Either way, that meant things had changed.

The place where Siu and Eloa stopped is a crossroads where five tunnels converge.
If you follow the second tunnel from the right, you will come to the altar.

“Get ready.”

Eloa raised her contract sword again.
Now she was expecting a full-scale attack soon.

If you want to push with a lot of numbers, doing it in a spacious place would be appropriate to use your numerical advantage.
This place, where tunnels in five directions converge to one place, would be the most suitable place.
No matter what happened, the priority now is to deal with the immediate danger.

“This time, you should use your strength too.”
“All right. Master.”
“Please be careful.”
“You don’t have to worry about me. I will never catch you.”

-Clap!

Unlike before, the white knight starts crawling out of the tunnel with the sound of metal echoing from all directions.
It goes on endlessly, endlessly.
At first glance, it was a number that reached three digits, and was by no means insignificant.

“Good.”

If this amount of power was sent out at once, it would be safe to say that the cowardly witch had won the match.
However, Eloa’s complexion was calm.
At first glance, it is the biggest danger since entering the rain tunnel, but in reality it is quite the opposite.

The white knight was much more to deal with than Elroa expected.
Elroa’s magnetic magic and fighting style resembles a sports car with great power but not so good fuel economy.
If the white knight had been deployed in succession of 50 to 100 units, she would have been in trouble.
His mana would have been wasted in the process of stepping on the brakes and falling into the ashes.

In that sense, it was a very good thing in terms of saving mana that the white knights, who were not accompanied by the red knights, gathered together in such numbers.

However, it is difficult to deal with all of them with only six contracts, even with Eloa.

“Contract.”

Therefore, two additional contracts were issued.

Contract seven, pay 1/4 of the total magic power to convert it into pure power.

Make up for the lack of power with the seventh contract.
The white knights gathered here are at least half of the entire army.
I thought that the best scenario would be to use up only one-fourth of my mana and clean it up, so I adjusted my power and put restrictions on it.

Contract 8, gains ‘transcendence knowledge’ that allows you to sense all spaces within a radius of 30M.

The eighth contract eliminated blind spots in a situation surrounded by many.
In particular, the eighth had the purpose of covering blind spots that inevitably occur in one-to-many combat situations and immediately helping Siwoo when he was in danger from behind.

The white knights rushed all at once to the point that this wide aisle felt cramped.
Eloa wielding a contract sword and facing each other without retreating.

-Bang! Kukkoom! Kwakwawang!

Eloah’s appearance, which radiated sword energy in all directions as if dancing with a long pink magic reflection light, was like a wolf that jumped into a flock of sheep.

Swing the sword and cut
Swing his foot and split his torso.
When he wanted to get too close, he advanced by even making a physical charge using his shoulder or elbow.
The white knight, who could tear quite a few witches to shreds, was broken like a can of millet before Elroa’s onslaught.

Coincidentally, the compatibility between the White Knight and Eloa was very good.
The force field of the red branch, which hinders and defends various magical effects, did not have a great effect on Eloa.

Because her contract is not outside her body, but permeates her bones and muscles.
As long as it was not ejected to the outside and had a definite physical entity, the extent to which it was disturbed by the distortion field was not great.
Of course, it took a little more power to cut as the force field’s defense was strong.

Eloah slashed all four white knights at the same time and glanced at Siu’s condition.
No matter how much she is, dealing with this amount of enemies at the same time, she can’t miss a single enemy.
About 7 or 8 white knights ran towards her Siu, avoiding Elroa’s sword attack.

At first, she was an anxious and worried elo, but soon her worries went back to her unfounded.

“Synthesis!”

Siu swings his sword as if spinning in place.
Thanks to the difference in the amount of magical power she was born with and the difference between her skills, she did not possess as explosive destructive power as Elroa.
Nevertheless, he was dealing with the white knight who attacked him with a calm gaze.

Realization once gained does not disappear over time.
Shiu’s sword was still beautiful, and the connection with the fluttering ribbon that cut through space became much more natural.

It is a sophisticated swordsmanship.
It is a refined swordsmanship.
It is also a beautiful swordsmanship.

Despite the fact that there were far more enemies charging at once than when dealing with the previous 5 white knights, it was seen that they were calmly reducing their numbers one by one.

-Quaguaguagwang!

Siwoo’s movements, albeit clumsily, follow Eloa’s slash.
A more accurate and more powerful blow cut through the waist of a white knight in one breath.
The result of the training accumulated so far, the contract of King of All Diseases inherent in the stigma, was gradually blooming after meeting actual combat experience.

Getting stronger
Like the lie, dealing with the white knight wasn’t as difficult as before.

The blood flowing violently through the veins of the whole body, the sense of unity as if even the smallest muscles were moving at will, and the hand as if it became one with the sword, were very vividly felt.
Siwoo slashed the white knight from the top of his head to his crotch asheheld back the laughter that seemed to bloom.

“Whoa… Whoa… “

The battle was one-sided.
Siu took a hard breath.
Elroa too, wiping the sweat from her brow, tied her disheveled hair back together.

A total of 598 white knights were destroyed by Eloa’s hand, and Siwoo was able to finish the leaked 22.
Of course, compared to the overall number, Siwoo’s assistance was very insignificant, but it was clear that he had become stronger than before.

“Are there any injuries anywhere?”
“It’s okay. What about Master?”
“Don’t worry, it doesn’t matter to these kind of idiots.”

Eloah’s expression became more relaxed, and Siwoo smiled with pride and joy.
Maybe I was too scared.
Could it be that the cowardly witch is bewildered by an unexpected surprise?
Her real enemy hadn’t even made an appearance yet, but she even had these optimistic thoughts.

At that time.

– Quaang!

A roar rang out.
It wasn’t long after I looked around among the wreckage of the broken white knight…

– Quaang!

Again, the sound of a metal plate being struck came from far away.
This time it was accompanied by tremors like an earthquake.
Not knowing what the reason was, Eloa cautiously grabbed the contract sword, and Siu looked toward the aisle where the sound came from.

-Clap clap clap clap

Shortly thereafter, heavy, bloody footsteps followed.
The one who appeared in front of the fork in the road lit by decorative lights was a knight slightly larger than the white knight and clad in bright red armor, as if covered in blood.

“That guy is an enemy knight… “

The atmosphere is different.
The only difference is that it is a little bigger and the color is different, but from the moment it appeared, Siwoo’s instincts were ringing the alarm bell.
‘That guy isn’t at the level he’s trying to do’.

He has grown by about 0.5m compared to before he was captured by the cowardly witch, and now stands at 2.5m.
In his right hand, he was holding a red spear, a red branch that looked like it was 2M long.
Thanks to absorbing all kinds of sacrifices and ending the awakening ceremony on the altar, both the red knight and the red branches have a much darker crimson color.

“…… !”
“…… !”

Siu, who was examining the enemy knight with her tense eyes, and Elroa, who was preparing to share her sword, swallowed her breath at the same time.
The two were able to figure out where the two roars came from in succession.

In the hands of the red knight, two witches were dangling dangling, caught by the hair.

Evelyn, a witch of agriculture with healthy brown skin who flirted with Siwoo.
Her lower body was neatly removed, and her half-cut entrails snaked out from her upper body.
On the way here, the bright red flesh was covered with dust, as if it had been dragged along the cement floor.

Patricia, the Witch of Glass, with her white hair and beautiful gray eyes.
She stood stiff, an expression perhaps tinged with fear and astonishment.
The reason why the modifier ‘maybe’ is added here is because only half of her head remains.

Of course, both died.

– ぅ ぅ ぅ ぅ ぅ

Siu and Eloah are at a loss for what to say about her.
A sound like scraping metal flowed through the red knight’s helmet.

Humans and homunculus are of different species and have completely different body structures.
Of course, the language used could not be the same.

But even without words,
Even if not a single sentence comes and goes,
I could at least know what the emotion was in that unpleasant tone.

The sound is a laugh full of joy.
After becoming incomparably stronger, he faced his adversary, who had pushed him over and over again.

That long-suffering.
Tenacity.
Anger.
A golden opportunity to solve the problem has arrived.

That’s why the red knight just laughed and smiled before opening his eyes.
The ‘twenty pairs’ of pupils tightly embroidered on the helmet were bent with a red light, as if a human being was smiling.