Chapter 261 – Not a Hero #03

“Lord, Master?!”
“Artin!!”

The first to react the moment Artine disappeared were Unicor and Sirka.

The two women and Artin are also subordinated to each other through a contractual relationship, and there is no one more sensitive to magic than Unicor, who is in a bicorn state, and Sirka, who is the second-in-command of the dreamer.

However, in an urgent situation like now, the actions of Unicor and Sirka did not benefit, but instead became poison.

“What are you doing! Look ahead and focus!!”
“Your warning is late, Heavenly Demon.”

The moment the two of them showed an opening, Magni’s hammer, Mjolnir, flew towards the two women.

Kurleung! As Mjolnir rushed toward Sirka, who was farthest away, with a roar resembling thunder, Sirka stretched out his hand and tried to dispel the physical power with the power of a dreamer.

“It’s big!?”
“Dream!? Are you okay!?”

Unikor hurriedly shouted as Sirka saw her entire right half her, including her outstretched arms her, being blasted away by Mjolnir.

Fortunately, Sirka was able to restore her right half her, which had been shattered, with the power of her dream demon, but the aftereffects were severe.

“No, that is nonsense. Where did you get this much power, even though you’ve hit so many effective hits?”
“Did you really think that just the three of you were completely blocking me? So far, it’s just that I haven’t been able to do it properly.”

Magni spit out very arrogant remarks and retrieved Mjolnir, but the Heavenly Demon couldn’t easily get past those words.

It was because, in her eyes her, the corps commander in front of her was showing the difference in rank and power by revealing the power she was suppressing sparingly, as if to prove that she had really suppressed her power her and fought.

“You bastard, have you been deliberately conserving your strength against us all this time?”
“Save your strength? I had no such arrogant thoughts. Now that the pesky hero’s companions are gone, I can only focus on you guys.”
“…What?”
“Where the hell did you get that monster from? To keep me and Harmon’s toys in check while fighting the eldritch. Thanks to that, it was difficult to spare the energy to deal with him.”
“Now, what… “

Despite the Heavenly Demon’s question, Magni interrupted the conversation by swinging his hammer and ax like a storm. At that rudeness, the Heavenly Demon clicked her tongue without realizing it, but she couldn’t afford to open her mouth and spit it out.

“I’m sorry, Heavenly Demon! I will make the dreamer retreat, so wait a moment!”
“Stop talking and go quickly! It’s hard to drag on for a long time!”

While Unicor retreated to the rear with Shirka, who was recovering her body her, the Heavenly Demon had to buy time against Magni, who was attacking with all her might her.

Boom——! Quaang——!

To block those blows that split the sea with a single blow of an ax and shake the night sky with a single blow of a hammer, it was not enough to pour out all the sharp seconds of the Heavenly Demon Art.

If overwhelming physical force can be treated as authority, then the power and speed of wielding that weapon will be regarded as one of the most powerful authority among corps commanders.

“Why are you doing that, aren’t you staggering?”
“Kuu…! Talking with your mouth!”
“You look more impatient than you showed me a while ago! Was that just the limit!”

Magni regains composure by pouring the accumulated demonic energy into an ax and releasing it.
On the other hand, the Heavenly Demon cannot accept even the outside spirit that dwells in nature inside because of the surrounding demons.

Obviously, the Heavenly Horse was at a disadvantage, and if support did not come from elsewhere, the worst could have happened, but in the case of the Heavenly Horse, the circumstances were rather better.

“Shit! You’ve withstood the giant’s attack! How many troops are left?”
“I think there are 13 warriors and 15 knights of the empire left, prince! The rest have been left out of the church due to injuries while paving the way for the princess!”
“Damn, the situation is staggering. Does it make sense for the line to collapse so suddenly?”

Those dealing with the heavenly monster, Hecatoncale, were receiving the most support for this battle in terms of quantity. Even if he could n’t block just one of the thousands of arms that colossal corpse giant wielded, dozens or hundreds of students could die, so he devoted most of his energy to his.

The morale and flow weren’t quite bad either. That corpse golem didn’t even have the ability to ignore the concentration of firepower emitted by the Grand Witch’s granddaughter and the naval guns of the fleet.

The situation, which had gone so well that Ojie thought he might be able to sever the giant’s head with his own hands, began to turn upside down the moment the evil lich began assisting Hecatoncale with magic.

“Ask the fleet to pound it with some more artillery fire! It’s impossible to open a path for those three people to take effective hits with our own strength!”
“No! They say the fleet’s fire isn’t working properly since that corpse giant has a protective spell on it! Rather, some ships tried to break through that protective magic, and the guns were overloaded and disabled…!’
“Call it now! After all, there is no support other than the Witch of Purple Crow!”

In fact, even in remote areas, the lack of firepower was not simply a problem for the fleet. No, he knows very well that the descendant of the archwitch, who makes it possible for support to continue with such insufficient power, is a monster like his own sister his.

But on this battlefield, that’s no excuse. Hundreds of lives and the lives of the hero, the saint, and his comrades, who can be said to be the hope of mankind, are at stake in their struggle.

No, even aside from that, the kingdom loses two young heirs the moment they are slain in this battle. The chaos that would follow would be something that his father, who had a strong inclination to be irrelevant, could not handle.

‘Think! How can I reverse the situation? At the very least, at least my sister and Agnes should be able to escape.’

If they risked their lives, could they buy time for some of the ships in the rear to escape?

No, as soon as the ships of the Northern Church withdraw from the waters after retrieving the sanctuary and chanting, it is certain that the Magi of the Wild Hunt will start eating them. In the first place, without the blessings and magic from the priests, they wouldn’t be able to buy more than a minute.

‘I can’t just let my sister escape. If you try to let only some VIPs escape, there will be a lot of backlash and morale will be broken. Escape, escape is impossible…’

Prince Ojie, who was suddenly agonizing over the battlefield, turned his attention to the lich and the warrior.

No matter what anyone says, it must be that hero who is struggling the most on this battlefield.
It was because this battlefield was barely maintained thanks to being tied up against liches who exercised the same power and magic as the generals of the Demon King’s army or the Transcendentalists of the Southern Church beyond the commander of the corps.

“Shit! There isn’t even one person you can send to the hero’s side?! We will risk our lives to buy time, so if you send Xiaomei or even Agnes…”
“It’s impossible, Prince! Even now, Princess Marianne and I are there, so we can endure! With our current state, we won’t be able to fill that void!”
“Fuck! Then what should we do, wait for Artin Ludwig, who was dragged away by the dreamer, to come out?!”

As Ojie, who had barely blocked the giant’s blow again, cried out in anger, the warrior commander’s face darkened.

Who doesn’t know that it was after Artin Ludwig was dragged away by Lilith that the spirit of the peak of morale was broken.

Everyone who fought together now knew that the warrior’s companion, who was considered simply a horny, problem child, or promising player, strategized against the three corps commanders, commanded people, and overwhelmed them with force.

So everyone knew. As he did earlier in the Rose Hall, Artin Ludwig overcame the power of the Dream Queen and joined the battlefield as the only way to survive this battle.

It was a miserable feeling. Ojie, who was proud of being a warrior of the kingdom, could not understand that he had to entrust his life and the lives of the people he was supposed to protect to someone who had only despised his sister as a lewd person who stained his sister in a bad way.

More than anything else, seeing Artin overpowering Eldritch earlier, Ojier felt a sense of awe. Because of that, he felt as if his heart would burst with shame when he thought of not being able to concentrate on the battle for a moment.

Being absorbed in the battles of others and not being able to focus on one’s own battles, is there any other ugliest warrior in the world?

“Remember! We are descendants of the Lion King, the founder of the kingdom! Even if you die fighting until this heart bursts, you shouldn’t just rely on someone! Pride is won with one’s own blood, not with the blood of others!”

If I couldn’t understand it, I had to fight for it. Once again, Ojie took a step forward, pulling out the blade and sword steel to get the seven pairs of huge arms rushing towards them.

Looking at the backs of his sister and the women who were still leading the fight against Hecatoncale, Ojier hardened his heart.

As for the auxiliary, it only slowly dries up and dies. It takes determination to open the way.

“Warriors of the kingdom! Today we choose to die with pride! Think of it as filling Artin Ludwig’s void with your life! Descendants of the lions protect their pride with blood!”

Ogier himself did not think that he would be able to fill Artin’s vacant position. Still, he grabbed his sword, kicked off the frozen sea water, and leaped to his sister’s side of him.

Marianne, who had not counted since her hundred her and had cut off Hecaton Kale’s arms and head, looked at Ogier with a puzzled expression as her familiar face her caught her eye her.

“… Backcountry?”
“Don’t tell me to go back, sister, because someone has to open the way. How many other people besides me can do that?”
“Opening the way, what are you…”
“My sister, the first successor, is leading the way, so can it be because I’m behind? I know how much my sister cares for that horny man these days, but my sister’s real brother is me, not him.”

He is also a lion An existence that inherits the blood of the founder of the Rektur family, who was called the Lion King in the distant past.
So even if she does n’t show her strong side her like Artin Ludwig or her older sister her, her bravery her should n’t be outdone.

“Follow me sister, I and the warriors will open the road with all our might!”
“Hey, come here for a second! Quit and back…”

As soon as Marianne tried to dissuade her, Ogier bravely took the lead and jumped at the numerous heads of the corpse giant.

“Look!! I am the prince of the realm, Ogier de Lectur!!!”

──Suddenly!

With the sound of a sharp knife, one of Hecatoncales’ heads was cut off.
The blood fountain that usually follows a decapitation did not occur. This is because since ancient times, there has been no bodily fluid left in the withered corpse.

“I did it! I cut one… “

That meant that the head, which still had hundreds of spares, could not be a weakness, so Ojie, who was attempting air maneuvers by spewing mana in the air, had no choice but to be rapidly exposed to the roughly 30 palms swung by Hecatoncale . .

Fain! Ojie’s body his plunged into the sea with a light gong sound. Marianne looked down at the spot with her eyes full of bewilderment as she watched the 5-meter spray created by Osier.

“What was it, Princess?! It looks like a person went out in front and fell?!”
“… Shi, never mind. It should be okay because the name line is an uglier guy who is tougher than me. Hurry! The Heavenly Horse or Cayenne will be more difficult to endure!”

At Xiao Mei’s urgent cry her, Marianne turned her head back to her Hecaton Kale.

On the one hand, she thought she was a little lucky. If Artin had seen her brother her run amok, she might have seriously considered digging Ogier out of her family tree her.

*

[Is this the end? It’s not that great compared to the name of a warrior.]

15 minutes after Artin disappeared from the battlefield.

The eldritch sneered as he looked down at the bloodied Karen.

“…Not yet. Yet…”
[Are you still waiting for Artin Ludwig? This is very tearful. However, give up.]

A composure that could not be thought of as a lich who had been overwhelmed by the fear of death just a moment ago.
However, there was a solid basis for that leeway.

[You can never stop me.]
[And Artin Ludwig does not return in time.]
[It will only appear after filling this sea with your corpses and blood.]

Certainty, that certainty, made the eldritch forget the fear of death.

[No, it might be better for us to return, because it will mean that Lilith has completely corrupted that monster.]
“It’s a pierced mouth, even though it’s a skeleton without a tongue…!”
[So, let me make a good suggestion. Hero Cayenne Silver Sword.]
“..Proposal?”
[Yes, suggestion. A very good and attractive proposal.]

However, oblivion is not enough. The eldritch had to give complete humiliation and defeat to the humans who dared to make them feel fear.

For the first time in hundreds of years, to wash away this unpleasant anger and humiliation, a simple victory would not be enough.

“If you’re saying something like joining the Demon King’s army, get rid of it, because I won’t give in to you!”
[Surrender? Why do you think I’m going to surrender you? A ragtag warrior who can’t win even though he’s only a corps commander?]
“…?”

Seeing Karen staring at him with a puzzled look on his face his, the eldritch smiled the most arrogant and despicable laugh a skeleton can create.

[Determine yourself here, hero. I want to see that trivial pride and incision in person.]
“…What?”
[If, as a hero, you choose to die right here, I will spare all those insignificant humans]

The eldritch gaze shifted to those who fought against the other corps commanders. Even the ship behind him.
Ships with the wounded and priests aboard, pitiful and appetizing toys with students and faculty aboard.

[If you refuse, I will thoroughly kill everyone right here and now. Choose, warrior.]

In Eldritch’s opinion, this game seemed like it could be a pretty fun and pleasant revenge.