Chapter 487 – Episode 486 – The Price of Strengthening

[Carry out resuscitation work.]

A mechanical voice echoed inside the cockpit.

There were two women wearing bodysuits standing in the cockpit.

One was a woman with red hair, and the other was a woman with white hair.

Both people were bleeding.

Blood was flowing from the eyes, nose, and mouth. Looking at the amount of blood on the floor, you would think he was already dead.

Several thick mechanical hoses were stuck on the backs of the two people. Drugs for regenerative purposes were injected into the two people through hoses inserted into their spines,

“Huh?”

The red-haired woman was the first to open her eyes.

“Aaaaah, ahhh…”

Afterward, the white-haired woman also came to her senses.

The two people came to their senses and quickly looked around.

Soon they realized that they were still in the cockpit.

“Aww… Damn, I thought I was going to die.”

The red-haired woman, Mercenary King Raven, cupped her own forehead with her left hand as if her headache was not going away. Traces of the blood she shed were clearly visible on her face.

“We’re alive, right? Isn’t this heaven?”

The white-haired woman, guild leader Elisi, asked the mercenary king a question. She also had traces of blood running down her face.

“Of course he’s alive. If he were alive, would he be able to talk like this normally? You’re saying something strange… Ugh?”

The moment he was about to talk as if it was no big deal, the mercenary king grabbed his chest. This is because breathing became difficult due to the sudden pain.

“Hoo, heo, heo! Holy shit, damn it!”

After a few minutes had passed, the Mercenary King was barely able to calm down. The pain still hasn’t gone away, so it’s not completely better.

“Isn’t this a joke? That woman, she didn’t warn me for nothing.”

In order to prepare for the decisive battle with the Empire, Raven requested the Holy Kingdom to dispatch the prophet Averis again, and the Holy Kingdom dispatched Averis according to the request.

-Armament has been strengthened as requested.

There was only one thing Raven asked of Averis.

Strengthening our armament.

When he attacked Fox Island, he proved that the robot was powerful enough to take on the demon Grid, but the mercenary king thought it was not enough. Unless Grid is an idiot, he will find a way to defeat them. In that case, he thought that this side had no choice but to become stronger so that it would not fall prey to that method.

Following the mercenary king’s wishes, Averis further strengthened the red robot’s armament.

He made the spear he was using bigger, his shield was bigger than before, and his wings were also bigger.
As it has grown, the total amount of energy that must be handled has also increased several dozen times.

As a result, mercenary king Raven and guild leader Elish were able to launch a surprise attack, and it was successful.

The energy cannon fired from the capital of the Kingdom of Roseum sank the demon and devastated Fox Island.

And, they even annihilated the Steel Legion gathered on the eastern border. Both targets were far away, so the Mercenary King was a little worried about whether he would reach them properly, but that didn’t happen.

In this way, the surprise attack was a great success,

The mercenary king succeeded in taking control of the battlefield.

However, the price was too great.

“I feel like I can’t feel my right hand. Can you give me some pressure?”

“Is this it?”

My right hand doesn’t move. It doesn’t move as if it never happened in the first place.

In order to find out if her right hand was truly paralyzed, Raven asked the guild leader,

At Raven’s request, the guild leader extended his hand.

He touched the king’s face, not his right hand.

“No, not the face, but the hands. Hands.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. I couldn’t see clearly…”

“You can’t see?”

“Yes.”

At those words, the Mercenary King immediately looked at the guild leader’s face.

And, he was astonished.

“Oh my god…”

My eyes are blurry. The red pupils had turned gray. Like a dead fish.

The mercenary king was able to immediately understand what this meant.

I went blind. There is no other way to explain it.

The mercenary king asked about the situation that suddenly occurred.

“Can’t you see anything? Not a single thing?”

“Yes, Mercenary King, do you have no feeling in your right hand?”

“Yes. It feels like the whole thing has been cut off.”

“Haha, it turned out just as the nun said.”

Averis left these words before leaving.

-The stronger you become, the greater the cost. You will have to pay a greater price than before. Please keep that in mind.

As the armament has been strengthened, the output has also increased. As output increased, the burden the two had to bear also increased. The extent of the growth will not stop at the level of simply pouring out blood.

The guild leader could only understand the meaning of those words after experiencing it himself. It was the same with the mercenary king.

“If I can’t use my right hand, I can’t hold the sword, and it’s really a pain in the ass. If someone asks me to fight, I’m in big trouble…”

The mercenary king’s main weapon is a great sword. In order to use that great sword, he must use both hands.

What should I do from now on if I can no longer use both hands? Do I have no choice but to change my weapon? I should, but I don’t want to throw away the weapon I’m so attached to. Raven thought that she had paid a very high price.

“Why, are you worried that the throne will be taken away?”

“Of course. It is clearly stated that anyone can challenge for the throne in Roseum. Since it is an emergency right now, no one is doing it, but when it is over, they will make up their minds and attack.”

“This is really crazy.”

If the king is replaced like that, can the country be run properly? Wouldn’t it be okay if we just got rid of those rules in the first place? The guild leader thought so.

Well, even if I said that, it wouldn’t work.

“It seems like you are worse off than me. How are you going to live from now on?”

“Well, I don’t know. Anyway, even if I remove the stigma, I’m going to be broke…”

The guild leader made a self-deprecating expression.

“Can’t you take care of it? Even though the eyes cannot be seen, the head remains. “I will be your strength.”

“Well, you rejected my offer before, but now that you’re blind, have you changed your mind?”

“Yes.”

The guild leader acknowledged the mercenary king’s point.

“Anyway, the adventurers were wiped out, and the guild was ruined. And I lost my sight. In these situations, you have to support your family. Since there is no one I can rely on other than you, wouldn’t I have no choice but to follow you?”

“I’m sorry, but I have no intention of accepting you bareback…”

Meanwhile, the mercenary king looked at the guild leader’s body.

The guild leader must have felt those gazes, but his face frowned,

“Do whatever you want.”

Soon he spoke with a feeling of despair.
Although we are comrades who fought together, we clearly know who is in control, so what difference will it make if we protest here?

It’s humiliating, but you have to persevere. The guild leader decided to accept whatever the mercenary king asks.

“Okay, let’s make sure we finish them off before then.”

Saying so, the Mercenary King began preparing to attack again.

“I’m not the type of person who will die from two hits anyway.”

Currently, the red robot with the mercenary king and guild leader on board stands at the center of the capital of the Kingdom of Roseum. The Holy Kingdom’s crusaders are already leading the evacuation of citizens, and mercenaries are in the process of defending the coast,

The fleet was prepared so that it could invade the empire at any time.

With the grid, the main source of power, collapsed and even the Steel Legion defeated, the Mercenary King planned to rob the empty empire.

However, it does not attack right away. It would be better to clean it once more and then move in. If you attack just because you won, you might face a backlash.

So, let’s hurry and find the grid guy…

“Oh, where did it go?”

With that in mind, the Mercenary King, who was exploring Fox Island, was taken aback by the fact that the grid had disappeared.

“Did you run away while we were unconscious? No, he won’t be the one to run away. It’s not like there’s a problem with the goggles…”

For this long-distance sniping, Averis put goggles on his aircraft. With these goggles, you can clearly see even Fox Island, which is very far away, and even the eastern border of the Desire Empire.

The Mercenary King decided to take advantage of this and raid the Desire Empire.

At the same time, he sent Jeon Seo-gu to the King of Knights.

If your surprise attack is successful, the two of you will split the empire in half.

The Mercenary King predicted that the King of Knights, who was under threat from the Empire, would definitely accept this offer.

“Are you hiding? This is difficult…”

I scanned Fox Island with the goggles to look for the devil, but I couldn’t see anything. All he could see was the hole created by his own sniping. There wasn’t even a shadow of a person to be seen.

“What are we going to do?”

The guild leader asked,

“Whatever.”

The mercenary king made a decision.

“We have to destroy the island. “I was planning to blow up the capital anyway.”

If you don’t know where they are hiding, all you have to do is destroy the island itself.

The burden on the body will be more severe than now, but it doesn’t matter.

If we don’t get rid of them anyway, splitting up the empire will end up being a pipe dream.

So let’s get it over with.

It was the moment when the mercenary king, who had made such a promise, gathered the energy of his body.

-Chooooo!

“Hmm?”

“Huh?”

The howl of a monster is heard. Also, from above.

This is the sound of the devil howling that I heard on Fox Island.

The mercenary king and the guild leader turned their heads upward at the voice that rang out of nowhere, and in response, the robot’s head also looked up at the sky.

Above that sky,

Grid, the black monster that the Mercenary King had been looking for, was falling. A huge magic circle was drawn in the air, and through that magic circle, it appeared above the Royal Palace of Roseum.

Everyone in the capital was shocked by the fact that the monster had appeared.

The mercenary king and the guild leader were also shocked.

And the grid, Advent,

-Quaaaaang!

It landed directly toward the target window.

The window was broken in two with an explosion sound.