Chapter 368 – 368. Struggle and Struggle (16)
– One –
In order to immediately eject the projectile created by the joint chant, wizards and shamans urgently squeezed mana.
At the same time,
Pooh!
Whee-ae-ae-ae-ae-aek!
Absinthe throws a dagger.
As if jumping through space, it flies while drawing the trajectory of an aura,
Woo woo woo!
Hooked!
“Evil…!”
Shamans get stuck in the orb they were about to eject.
Everyone who looked at it widened their eyes.
[Bulsaaaaagh!]
At the same time as the Commander Archmage uses evil,
Boo woo woo!
The orbs above the wizards’ heads fly up.
Immediately after that,
Oh oh oh oh oh!
Boo-wook, Boo-wook!
Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo!
The spheres atop the shamans’ heads emit ominous tremors.
Like the spheres of wizards, they couldn’t fly up, and vibrated in place.
Pajik, Pajijik!
“Keuk, kuhuhuhhh!”
“Ahhhhh!”
The phenomenon of backflow of mana begins for shamans.
They vomit blood all at once.
Sorcerers are thrown into extreme confusion.
[Wake!]
Instead of the commander Archmage reeling along with his men, the Archmage hurriedly shouts:
[Shield! Protection magic! Defensive Spell! Skin tightening! Anything,]
But,
Weeeee!
Another dagger thrown by Absinthe came flying,
Hooked!
Perseok!
It sticks to his forehead.
As the back of his head bursts open, his brain drains.
All the soldiers standing behind him stare blankly at his ugly face like a broken watermelon.
“Giyi…”
Dump.
Burrrr
He collapses and convulses.
Before his final convulsions, which were not long, were over,
Kkwareung, kkuuuuung!
Aaaaagh!
“Turn it off,”
“Aww,”
The orbs fired by the shaman cause a great explosion.
Along with the bodies of those nearby, it swallows even the dying words they uttered.
Fuhuaaaaa!
Whoa oh oh!
The wind blows, and bloody dust scatters.
Due to the heat emitted by the spheres as they exploded, the moisture they contained during the scattering evaporated in an instant.
Fit!
Pip Pip!
Wow!
Parched debris flies in all directions.
It was only foolish people to expect survivors to be there.
Without the leisure to observe the achievements he has made to the end,
Papapat!
Absinthe jumps high into the sky.
Pop, pop, pop, pop!
Madly spewing aura with the soles of his feet,
Wooooo!
It flies towards the spheres fired by the magician troops.
In an unfinished state, they fired joint chanting magic.
But is it because the archmage who died after the back of his head exploded had excellent magic control?
It was flying in the exact direction where Stras-Ayla was.
That’s why I couldn’t leave absinthe alone.
Chae Chaeng!
As he drew his longsword out of the air,
“Haaaaa!”
Jiying, Jiying!
Woo woo woo!
Fuhuaaaaa!
With the feeling of squeezing it to the limit, I infuse it with aura.
Because he released so many auras in an instant, his complexion is pale.
As if the mana circuit was overloaded,
Shiver.
Dark red blood runs down his mouth.
However, even while infusing an aura into the sword body, it does not stop rising.
Eventually, it rises higher than the sphere.
Woo oh oh
When it reaches the peak, it stops for a moment.
For a moment, silence enveloped his body.
“Whoa, whoa…”
Control your breathing.
Carefully guide the aura along the mana circuit so that the stem of the aura does not break due to the overload of the mana circuit.
Yet,
Whoops!
He falls towards the sphere ejected by the wizards.
“My life!”
Oh oh oh!
Get closer to the sphere.
The ominous vibrations it emits gradually become louder.
As is usually the case with things that contain high energy, light and heat radiate vigorously from it.
“To him eh eh!”
Awesome love!
He slashes his sword at the sphere.
Oh oh oh oh oh!
Dismissed!
The moment the sphere and his sword touch,
“Aaaaa!”
Woo woo woo woo!
Zuzu, Zuzuzuzu!
He spreads the aura from his sword wide like a net and gently envelops the sphere.
Although the energy of different properties completely touched, and even covered the surface as if encroaching, the sphere did not cause an explosion.
Apart from his strength, the meticulousness and maturity with which he handles his auras is evident.
Kugoong!
That’s right!
Instead of colliding head-on with the projectiles fired by his 10,000 troops and tearing them apart, he chose to deflect them.
He knew very well that no matter how strong he was, he was helpless in the face of the violence of numbers.
He didn’t show arrogance.
But despite his brashness, it was unclear whether he would achieve his goal.
“Aaaaa!”
Chijik, Chii Iik!
Titic!
Supportive!
Slurp!
The hand that holds the sword grows old.
His hair is scorched, and his leather garment catches fire.
His body becomes a wreck in an instant.
Suppressing the pain, he contorts his face.
Grit it
Cadde deuk!
Poududeuk!
From between his twisted lips, blood and tooth fragments protrude.
Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo!
The speed at which projectiles fly is gradually reduced.
With disbelief in their eyes, the surviving soldiers of the Imperial Army looked at it.
Zuzu, Zuzuzu!
As if they would burst at any moment, the spheres the wizards shot swayed unsteadily.
“Kuaaaaa!”
Fuhuaaaaa!
He blasts his aura to the limit again, pushing his orb down.
Press down
At the same time,
Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo!
His body is also pushed back.
However, he eventually succeeds in pushing the sphere down and changing its course.
At the same time,
Parching!
“Keuheugh!”
Unable to withstand the repelling force generated by the sphere any longer, his sword shatters.
Boo woo woo!
Absinthe bounces away.
Woo woo woo!
Drawing a parabola while flying,
Wow!
Push Yii Profit.
Fall to the ground helplessly
He seems to have lost consciousness and does not move on the spot.
As if the flesh had been cooked by the high heat, only smoke was emitted.
When the presence of absinthe, which was suppressing the sphere’s path, disappeared,
Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo!
Whoa!
It starts accelerating gradually.
Proceed at the same speed as before.
However, if there is a difference from the beginning, it is that the course has sharply turned downward.
“Uh, uh uh…!”
“Phi, avoid!”
“Run away! Run away, assholes!”
Aaaaagh!
Doo doo doo!
The imperial army disperses to Jung-gu Heating.
It reminds me of a group of cockroaches suddenly facing a light.
Cuckoo Cuckoo Cuckoo!
Woo woo woo woo!
The sphere slowly approaches the rear of the Imperial army.
Unbearable heat rushes in.
The shadow of the imperial army gradually disappears.
Their pupils constrict.
Because they all felt it, their steps gradually became more urgent.
However, its size was so huge that it only looked slow, but its speed was so fast that the Imperial Army infantrymen couldn’t escape it.
Whoa!
“Ah…”
The sphere passes over the head of a soldier at the rear of the Imperial Army.
The soldier blankly looks up at the sky.
As if realizing that it was too late to run away,
Dump.
Fluff, fluff.
There are people who sit down with a devastated face.
A sphere that has passed the tail end,
“Kyaaaaa”
“Buy, live,”
“Mom,”
Woo woo woo woo!
It falls in the middle of the imperial army.
Collide with the ground
The Imperial Army soldiers caught in the middle,
Slurp!
Chiyiyi profit!
Evaporates in an instant
It happened so quickly that it is unclear whether it evaporated before death or immediately after death.
But they could be said to be lucky compared to the others.
It’s because he died without even feeling the pain.
Flash!
Quung!
As intense light bursts from the sphere that collided with the ground,
Kurrrr.
An earthquake happens.
“Oops, aaaaagh!”
“Save me, save me!”
Quadang!
Bang!
Imperial soldiers are scattered on the floor.
They couldn’t even run away
Cheek, Cheeeee!
Whoops!
Hwareuk, Hwarrrr!
“Kiyaaaaa!”
“Aaaaagh!”
It begins to ripen in the heat bursting from the sphere.
The heat was so strong that it was close to burning.
Woo woo woo woo woo!
Oh oh oh oh!
“Aaaaa…!”
A soldier floats through the air with his body on fire.
Because the air was blown away for a moment by the explosion, he was experiencing the care of leaves blowing in the autumn wind.
It’s just a little unusual that they are burning leaves, but considering that they fly around aimlessly, the two could be put in the same category perfectly.
However, unlike fallen leaves, he weighs a lot, so
Whoa!
Knocked up!
Wood Deuk!
The impact of the moment he fell to the ground shattered his body.
“Gerge…”
Breaks his neck and dies
The other soldier was on fire,
“Gyaaaaa…”
He was screaming in fear and pain.
Unfortunately, his head did not catch fire and his optic nerve survived.
Whoops, whoops.
Took, patter.
I had to look at the tips of my own hands that were falling apart every word.
Unlike the soldier who experienced falling leaves, he was experiencing humans.
However, it was unique in that it experienced the life of a leper in a very short period of time.
“Gyaauh…”
Dump.
He looked down at his arms, which were fading joint by knuckle from his fingertips, and had to gasp in pain until his breath stopped.
The result of dying was all the same, but there is no awkwardness at all even if the rhetoric of various things is attached to the process.
Woo woo woo woo!
Fu-wook!
“Kreukreuk…!”
Even those killed by the fragments of the explosion,
Sharrrr!
“Turn off, turn off…”
Even those who are buried alive in a flying pile of earth,
Woo woo woo!
Puck!
Damn you!
“Keep, kkeok…!”
There were also people whose heads exploded as they were hit by the bodies of their falling comrades.
Everyone dies in their own way, in pain, fear and despair.
The moment when it reached its climax would be the time when they made their way back to the goddess.
More than half of the imperial army died in an instant.
The troops on the Regal side looked at the scene with eager eyes.
Within,
Aaaaa!
Absinthe, Absinthe!
Cheers erupt from Regal’s camp.
Upon receiving the miracle he caused, everyone goes wild.
“They’re like corpses!”
“Wipe them all out!”
“Feast! Have a feast!”
Aaaaa!
Doo doo doo doo doo doo!
Unstoppable death flies towards the barely surviving imperial army.
Its texture was like metal.
It was cold and also sharp.
– 2 –
Woodeuk, Wooddeudeuk.
Jose stretches in the yard.
With the top off, let the sweat flow down your body.
His wild muscles glisten in the morning light.
I had ejaculated so much down her throat until dawn that Margarita’s stomach swelled up.
“Huh…”
In fact, Jose was facing an extremely refreshing morning in which his dissatisfaction was completely resolved after a long time.
It feels like we are facing the end of a long drought.
At that time,
Jerk, jerk, jerk, jerk.
Someone enters the yard.
Jose’s head naturally turned toward that place.
“Jose.”
“Ah, Slammer. Good morning.”
Jose greeted him with a smile, but Slammer’s face stiffened.
Jose’s expression hardened as well, as if he had intuition that he had found himself in a rather serious matter.
“Is anything going on?”
“Hmm… I heard from Estrus about what happened yesterday… Can I ask you a few questions about it?”
“Of course.”
Even while everyone was mentally unstable, only Slammer remained strong.
For no other reason, it was because he was not a participant.
Also, because he couldn’t fit in at an orgy, he had to keep a little distance from others.
He was unaffected by the participant’s canine-like emotional instability, and was less affected by the anxiety of his peers.
Because of that, he often took on the role of drafting and reviewing strategies with Jose.
This time, he seemed to be doing his part faithfully.
“May I ask how you pushed them all the way, even if you bought them enough time?”
“Um…”
Jose chooses his words for a long time to carefully answer.
His silence got a little longer, but Slammer waited until the end.
“It was a bit of an impromptu decision, but I thought it would be safer if we dealt serious blows to both sides. Isn’t it winter soon? If you push hard enough to replenish your troops all winter, they won’t even come here until next spring. I thought it wouldn’t.”
“Um…”
Slammer’s complexion darkened even more.
As he expected, José didn’t do it with much thought.
Of course, there was no way to come up with a solution.
But I don’t condemn it straight away.
He was aware that he was not in a position to do that, and he did not want to offend the two women who might be listening to his conversation with José.
“Jose. This is just my opinion about what could happen.”
“Speak. I will listen.”
However, Jose immediately understands Slammer’s intentions after hearing just one word from him.
Correct your posture and stand upright.
It is because he has never lost by listening to the words of the slammer as much as he notices, in other words, understanding of the external relationship, even though he is well versed in strategy and tactics.
“Yesterday sparked an irreversible conflict between the Imperial Army and the Regal’s forces, and we have yet to confirm the outcome.”
“That’s right.”
“But just in case. Imagine a situation where both sides are planning a plan, or the Imperial Army is completely defeated. In other words, the Regal side won overwhelmingly.”
“…”
Jose’s face hardened even more.
“Furthermore, assume that the mobile fort they came from is in good shape. They say that they knocked down the fake ground made of tree trunks and crashed it to the bare ground, but it is only about ten meters. Shouldn’t we consider the situation where it will roll normally?”
“Umm…”
Perhaps he hadn’t thought of that, Jose let out a groan.
“Who has a dim knowledge of our existence, who is extremely hostile, and who at the same time is convinced that we are also behind their schemes? Regal, no? He survived. With a crushing blow to his pride. .In addition, let’s assume that tens of thousands of troops under his command survived, and even the mobile fortress is intact. This is the worst situation I can imagine. If such a situation arises, what action do you think Regal will take?”
“…”
Jose’s eyes tremble.
He is silent for a long time, then he struggles to open his mouth.
“After using his forces to take out the mobile fortress, it seems that he will immediately replenish his forces to retaliate against us…”
“Yes. The biggest problem with transporting troops in the winter is the cold, isn’t it? Homelessness and marching are all close to impossible in this northern winter climate. But the mobile fortress If they use it, they can overcome all such difficulties. If they only manage to eat and pack outdoors from time to time, they don’t have to march in the cold or close their eyes worrying about the dead.”
“Haa… I was short-tempered, slammer…”
Eventually, Jose lowers his head.
His shoulders droop
Tuk-tuk.
Slammer pats him on the shoulder.
It was a ridiculous posture with his arms raised up, but his sincerity was conveyed clearly.
Swoop.
Jose raises his head.
“Don’t get too discouraged. It’s not yet confirmed that the worst has come, and even if we assume that the worst has happened, at least we’ve earned enough time until the Monohorn returns? If you look at it, there is still room for a positive interpretation.”
“… Thank you. I always feel like I am healed by Slammer’s advice.”
Jose smiles faintly.
Worries don’t go away
“I think we’ll have to ask Margarita about the situation, so let’s go in first.”
“Okay. Whatever the situation, it looks like we’ll have to hold a meeting, so I’ll call the others into the living room.”
“Please.”
Jerk, jerk, jerk, jerk.
Their steps are heavy.
– 3 –
“…”
Regal looks down at her feet with eyes filled with all sorts of negative emotions, including emptiness, anger, frustration, and deprivation.
Among them, the most prominent emotion was distrust.
“When… When the hell…?”
He asks in a hoarse voice.
The one who was questioned was a combat agent who stood beside him.
“Sorry…”
But he didn’t give the right answer.
Whii profit!
Puck!
Puck, puck!
“…”
Regal kicks him in the shin with his military boot.
He silently accepts Regal’s assault without even groaning.
“I didn’t ask you to apologize.”
“I will correct it.”
Regarding Regal’s grunting words, the combat agent straightened up and immediately lowered his head in response.
“Ask again. When do you think this happened?”
“Supposedly, it was disfigured right after the joint chanting spell was diverted. However, due to the body’s prolonged exposure to high temperatures, it is impossible to properly estimate the time of death.”
“…”
Fast.
The fact that the corpse is completely cooked is expressed in an indirect way by combat personnel.
However, Regal could see it with the naked eye, so his consideration was meaningless.
“Who do you think did this?”
“There was a corpse that had been burned down nearby, but it seemed to be an Imperial Army soldier who luckily escaped from the range of the explosion. Judging by that, being a private soldier,”
Whoa!
Aww!
Regal slaps his cheek with the palm of his hand.
As if the slap on his cheek did not relieve her anger, Regal gnashed her teeth vigorously for a long time.
“I ask again. When do you think absinthe died?”
They stood over piles of corpses of Imperial foot soldiers who had been annihilated by privates and combatants, and near piles of shamans and sorcerers who had been blown up or burned to death.
In between, to be exact, but it was a place close to where shamans and wizards were massacred.
They were there, looking down at the well-ripened corpse of Absinthe.
“Eh, right after I fell through the magic path, I was attacked by a private in the Imperial Army, and my heart was ruptured and I died instantly.”
Whii profit!
Bitch, buck, buck, buck!
Regal releases her sword from her waistband and swings it at the combat agent.
Fortunately, he swung it with the sheath, so he was not fatally injured.
“Then, did the corpse wrap the aura around itself to block firearms?! So, while the corpse of the Imperial Army private became a lump of charcoal, absinthe’s corpse was able to retain its shape at least? That’s possible? Then is absinthe even a god?! If you can do something like that, you should survive until the end, why did you die?!”
“…!”
When Regal vents his anger and points out the contradiction, the combat agent’s face turns white.
He shudders and avoids Regal’s eyes.
“What an idiot! I’ll tell you the truth!”
“…”
“Absinthe must have been left here for a long time, unconscious, while you guys were heating up on the futility of dissecting Imperials! As the barely surviving Imperial Private, a barefoot man, fled from the fire, Absinthe’s heart fluttered faintly. He must have witnessed the ups and downs! He saw it as a golden opportunity to take revenge on his enemies, so he drove a knife through Absinthe’s heart! I would have waited without it!”
The combat agent’s face turns earthy.
In fact, they flocked in droves to hunt the strong men of the Imperial Army, and then were busy slaughtering the Imperial Army soldiers.
After tearing apart all the living imperial troops, he finally found Absinthe’s body while doing post-war processing.
Right after that, as soon as he came to his senses, Regal heard the report and ran to this place in one step.
“Thanks to you slaughtering all the imperial troops, I became a body that could not return to the system! While you guys were preoccupied with nonsense, Absinthe died while feeling the pain of ripening for a long time, and died without reason! Because of you guys doing stupid things, the whole system has been twisted!”
Whii profit!
Regal throws his sword aimlessly.
It flies
Puck!
The sheath gets lodged in Absinthe’s stomach.
Zie.
Damn it!
The blade tilts, and the golden brown surface cracks.
The flesh of ripe absinthe is revealed.
Kim is blooming.
The sight enters Regal’s eyes.
The corpse does not emit any color of desire, so it is caught in Regal’s field of vision very nakedly.
“Wooooo!”
Chwack, chwaaaaagh!
Dump.
Regal falls to his knees and vomits.
Her tears and snot flow down.
“Oops, wooooong!”
Linger for a while
The death of the one he trusted the most, the one he considered a brother at heart, made even the cruel Regal unable to hold back his vomiting.
Bang, bang, bang!
As Regal lays down, he strikes the ground with his fist.
Rumble.
Tick, drop, drop.
Unable to hold back his anger, tears of blood flowed from his eyes.
But the music doesn’t come out.
What trickles out of his teeth,
“Uuuuu…!”
There were only sounds that were unrefined in language, made only of resentment.
Swoop.
Regal raises his head.
As if he couldn’t bear to watch his master shed tears, the combat agent was looking away without even thinking about supporting him.
“Contact all privates and operatives scattered throughout the northern and central parts of the Empire right now, and tell them to wait for Stras-Ayla at the designated base. All forces that can be gathered must be told to join us unconditionally.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
Chuck!
The combat personnel bowed their heads deeply and raised the courtesy of the god of war.
Efficiency or possibility is not taken into account.
Set other issues aside.
Their lord, their emperor, wants it, so he just does it.
“Your Majesty. May I ask what you are mustering your troops for?”
“… The purpose of issuing the summons?”
“That’s right.”
Swoop.
Regal gets up from her seat.
Tok, tok, tok.
Shaking off the dirt from his clothes, he turned his head and looked north.
Fast!
He changes jobs
“It’s to avenge the main culprit who made the experiment, no, absinthe, and the true mastermind behind it. Shouldn’t I upload a requiem made with the screams of my enemies in the yard where my only brother goes far away?”
Regal’s eyes burn with deep vengeance.
His most precious loyalist has been robbed, and his greed goes on a rampage.