Chapter 164 – Shadow Family Defense (03)

I lost close to 10% of my troops with the first blow, but this was because I deliberately collapsed the hill in front of the mansion, crushing the soldiers, and I couldn’t hope for such luck with the second attack.

“Charge.”

As the Duke soldiers flocked from all directions, accompanied by the buzzing sound of the Duke faction and the distinctive voices of demonized commanders, I waited for them to come as close as possible, pulled back my wooden sword, lowered my posture, and used a horizontal slash toward the leg.

Whoa!

The soldier caught in the trajectory of the wooden sword was crushed, and the rest had their hands shattered or fell to the ground with fragments embedded in their bodies. However, with these two attacks, I killed a total of 21 soldiers of the Peasant faction.

‘Isn’t it bad?’

In terms of turns, I spent 2 turns, and during that time, some of the soldiers bypassed me and ran toward the [Shadow Family], Shooting flaming arrows or throwing torches.

The most serious problem is that I can’t turn my back to them and swing the wooden sword. If I shoot a shock wave inside, my allies will receive corrections so they won’t die, but the terrain itself will be shattered, so the defense line will collapse and no damage will be taken, but they will fly away after receiving the shock wave. I couldn’t stop it.

In other words, damage can occur and kill allies.

‘So I can’t deal with the soldiers who have returned to the rear, but…!’

“You bastards of the duke!!”

There was Richard, holding the sword of the Duke of Renellian and running rampant, blowing off the heads of soldiers.

And the entrance was blocked by William, who was swinging a mace next to him, and the twin sisters, who were supporting him from behind by throwing kunai and daggers, even if they were not using [Shadow Ninjutsu].

‘The timing must be right, as Rito should be back by now!’

I ran wild with the wooden sword and rushed into the middle of the soldiers’ formation where the commanders were.

The Duke faction made the soldiers lose their reason by polluting them with demon energy like low-level demons, and used commanders with stronger demon energy extracted from mid-level demons to control the soldiers.

Demons form colonies like bees or ants, so higher-ranking individuals can control lower-ranking individuals. Thanks to this, if the commanders are alive, an invincible army is completed that is more thorough than the royalists and knows no fear.

In return, if you kill their commanders, most of them do not move voluntarily and instinctively run wild, so as long as you assassinate the commander, you can deal with them as easily as dealing with animals or monsters.

‘In the game, the setting is implemented in such a way that the soldiers of the communist faction change their movements randomly and the formation bonus disappears, but it will be applied properly in this worldview!’

Push shoot!

The operative faction also knows this, so rather than sending a single commander-level individual, they tend to send several spares together to prepare for a surprise assassination.

Even now, there appear to be five commanders, and as long as one of them is alive, the remaining soldiers follow the control without any problems, and the soldiers who follow that control follow absolute orders and risk their lives to protect their commander. Br〉

Just like now, the soldiers risked their lives to stop me without even forming a formation.

Whoa!

Every time you swing the wooden sword, 2 to 3 people fly away, creating a hole in the square.

However, I couldn’t be at ease because while I was attacking the soldiers with a wooden sword, they would insert spears or swords into the gaps, so I had to do the bare minimum of defense, so I had no choice but to slow down.

Patter!

Every time they swing the wooden sword, they break the spear and break the sword, but when the spear is broken, they stab the broken pole, and when the sword is broken, they pick up the blade in their hand and attack, and when there is nothing, they throw their bodies and try to block me.

Even if I don’t get hit, time still drags on. Moreover, if you lose concentration like this, you never know when you might say ‘Ah’ and allow an attack.

“Ha.”

When I thought about it, I thought it was the exact opposite of the first time.

Previously, in order to avoid Aren’s death, which was a game over condition, the troops guarding the outside were safely locked inside the mansion, regardless of whether they were killed or not, but now I am personally stepping in and wiping them out with overwhelming force in order to minimize the number of casualties.

While the people clinging to the outer wall of the mansion were setting fire and Gasol was fighting and fighting to put out the fire, I was breaking through the formation head on, and the Duke’s forces were continuously decreasing and the mansion was I was in a situation where I had to choose between acting like a fool or incapacitating myself.

The commanders of the duke faction gathered their troops and began to surround me from all sides.

No matter how strong my attack power was or how high my agility was, I couldn’t push forward without taking any damage against the reinforced soldiers who were attacking me from all directions without worrying about their lives. Physically, I was a little short of breath right now, so I was getting exhausted. They seemed to have decided that they could win if they pushed through the fields.

‘Should I think that I looked easy, or should I think that I was given more priority than the Shadow family’s mansion?’

Instead of dealing with my wooden sword, they used their spears, and if the spear was broken, they used the broken stick to keep a distance from me and not fight, only blocking the way. Although I would not be harmed, it would be difficult to break through this siege in a short period of time. It was.

And an officer on a horse who appeared to be a commander was approaching me and fiddling with a necklace containing the energy of the demon world.

‘Under these circumstances, if demonization, which increases the abilities of those with demonic energy, progresses, I will become quite tired.’

I was blocking them from getting to me by breaking their weapons, but little by little, the number of times they were scratched by nails or their clothes were pulled increased, and the siege was narrowing.

Even if I completely avoid the wooden sword or get hit by the wooden sword and fly away, the rest of me lowers my body and tries to attack my lower body, so I feel that it is difficult to deal with a large number of troops by myself, no matter how strong the weapon is.

‘My body is not particularly strong, and even a soldier’s spear would hurt if I got hit by it, and if I hit it wrong, I would die, so there’s nothing I can do about it.’

Meanwhile, the shadow that had already begun beneath my feet was passing through the shadows of the soldiers moving dizzyingly.

Paaat-!

A tool unique to the Duke faction that commanders have… The necklace that causes demonic transformation, made for commanders, suddenly emits red light.

Among them, who were confused because it was not the effect they had intended, Rito, who was returning from the rear, jumped up with his kunai in both hands and surprised one of the commanders on his horse.

Phew!

He fell from his horse without even screaming and immediately got up and started dealing with Rito, while the remaining four commanders were discussing their opinions while crossing their red eyes.

Among them, two rushed here and tried to apply the ‘Demon Transformation’ buff to this place where the soldiers were, and the other two went to aim for Rito.

“Inori.”

He called Inori, who had been hiding in the shadows under the soldiers’ feet, and told him to help Rito with a look.

After escaping from the soldiers’ siege, she leaps out of the shadows like a mermaid leaping from beneath the surface and plunges an assassin’s straight sword into the back of a commander who was trying to attack Rito.

As soon as their necklaces were activated, Inori and Rito were sealed with [Shadow Ninjutsu]. Since the surprise attack was successful twice, two of the three commanders were bleeding and crying, and the two of them could easily handle the remaining one. .

Even without [Shadow Ninjutsu], They were skilled assassins. Although he is weak in a head-to-head match, he will not be defeated by an officer-level commander like that.

When I saw one of the two officer-level commanders riding towards me and holding up the necklace, I immediately threw down the wooden sword and plunged it into the guy’s torso.

Fuuuuu!!

It caused bloodshed as if it had been hit by a cannonball and was shattered along with the necklace’s abilities, but the one remaining commander lifted his necklace and cast ‘Demon Flame’ on the nearby area.

As the surrounding air became thick, breathing itself felt uncomfortable, and red magical energy began to emanate from the soldiers’ eyes, and their movements began to speed up.

The wooden sword had already been thrown away, and in a situation where I couldn’t even draw a weapon, I knocked down a soldier who was attacking me with my bare hands and barely pulled out the assassin’s straight sword, but I couldn’t show the overwhelming majesty that I had when using the wooden sword, and I could barely resist the attacks of the surrounding soldiers. The only thing I could do was to endure while avoiding.

The corners of the commander’s mouth, who is casting demonic fire with a necklace, rise. He probably thought he caught me.

“I seem to be mistaken about something.”

Phew!

I drove my sword into the neck of a soldier who was charging at me, and while I was swinging my sword at my back, I broke the bridge of the nose with my elbow, snatched the sword, and flew it to another place. I also retrieved the sword from the dying soldier’s neck and cut another soldier’s thigh. I didn’t stop talking.

“You don’t fight a battle alone.”

“Waaaaa–!!”

While Inori, I, and Rito were taking our time, royalist soldiers and members of the Shadow family came to help and put out the fire in the mansion.

Although there were only 30 troops at most, it was an appropriate number to give a delicious slap to the back of the head of the soldiers who were losing their senses and running rampant by focusing all their attention on me.

Phew!

No matter how much they could not feel pain and use strength beyond their limit, their abilities were strengthened and they did not know fear, in the case of low-ranking soldiers, there was no significant change in the human body.

Ultimately, he dies when his throat is cut and his heart is pierced. The problem is that they attack you like a monster until you are about to die, but killing them instantly is enough.

The royalist soldiers told the Gasols to thoroughly target the weaknesses of the Peasant soldiers and, if not possible, to attack only the legs. In reality, Gasols held nagikatas and cut only the thighs of the Peasant soldiers, depriving them of mobility, and the soldiers finished the battle, forming a siege. Reduces.

In addition, since they were reducing the number of troops by stabbing them with spears instead of entering the area that was thoroughly ‘demonized’, the commander gave up the advantage of demonization and divided the soldiers to intercept the defense force attacking from the rear and tried to kill me with the remaining ones. .

Boom!

At that moment, the kunai thrown by Inori and Rito, who had taken out all the commanders, broke the necklace in his hand.

As the demon world was lifted, the momentum of the soldiers surrounding me decreased.

“…!”

When the commander turned around to see not red blood but black, thick, tar-like blood flowing from the broken necklace and the kunai stuck in his palm his his, the three commanders had already collapsed with the assassin’s straight sword stuck in their bodies.

Rito searched their bodies and broke each necklace with a kunai, and the last remaining necklace was now broken by Inori.

Before we knew it, the shadows were covering our feet.

Although it was dark and impossible to see even an inch without [Shadow Ninjutsu], The Gasols stopped in place as if they were used to it, and the royalist soldiers also stopped in their respective positions in an immovable position, waiting because they had heard the information in advance.

Only the communist soldiers who were unaware of the situation were swinging weapons at random around them.

Push!

Starting with the [Shadow Thorn] Used by Inori piercing the commander’s body from the groin to the mouth, the thorns protruding from the darkness began to crush the soldiers.

After a while, the darkness cleared and the trembling royalist soldiers and gasols opened their eyes.

Only the fragments of the weapons I had captured during the fight were lying scattered on the floor, and the traces of the communist soldiers had disappeared as cleanly as if they had been erased.

Weapons that had lost their owners and were rapidly losing durability were thrown to the bandits who were standing behind them, holding daggers and watching.

There is less loot than expected, but it can’t be helped.

Finally, the battle ended with Inori returning to me with the wooden sword in the [Shadow pocket] And overlapping the shadows together to share the pocket.

It was my first proper victory after taking the third route.

Tiring-

– Number of Peasant Soldiers Killed: 200/200 –

– The global event [Shadow Family Mansion] Defense battle was successfully completed –

– Reputation in the area increases by 100 –

– [Shadow Family Mansion] External reputation increases by 50% less due to the territory characteristic [Secretism] –

– Each force begins to pay attention to you –