Chapter 83 – Siege of Sorrent.

-Jaeaeang!

“Ugh?!”

The male monster rushed at him at a terrifying speed unbecoming of its size and lashed out with its black, sharp claws, which Crugild barely blocked with Sisyphus.

“What?!”

No, I thought I blocked it. If only the demon hadn’t stretched out its hand and grabbed the sword body, causing sparks to fly as it hit its nails.

It’s a dangerous situation where if you’re not careful, you could end up swinging the sword in the opposite direction. However, there was no option for him to lay down the sword.

“Pfft! [Lumen Flame]!!”

“◼◼◼◼◼!”

Following his cry, Sisyphus began to emit intense light, and at first glance, smoke appeared as if his palm was burning.

“◼◼◼◼◼◼◼!!!”

“What obsession…!”

Nevertheless, the monster tightened his grip as if he was trying not to let go of the sword, but in the end, he retreated as if he couldn’t handle the light leaking from his grasp.

As Crugild fought to the death with the creature, the silence that could be felt even during a brief lull seemed heavy, as if he was under suffocating pressure.

“A Maka like me?”

Anise’s voice trembled when she saw that scene.

“Well, sometimes you can see the same marker, right?”

Even if the number of Maka was different for each person, it was not uncommon for them to overlap. There is no need to be surprised again.

“I know what you want to say, but for generations, the only Maka who used light were warriors and saints.”

It was Lucia who answered Tiaran’s question. Although she spoke calmly, she was looking at Krugild with a rather shocked face.

“What, then that guy is a real hero?”

“Don’t be silly! Only one hero appears per generation!”

When Crusha said this, Lucia shouted in an angry voice.

“I, I was just wondering…”

“Tsk, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to get angry.”

When she hesitated in shock, Lucia seemed to come to her senses and apologized to Krusha. She seemed to be very close to Anis, so she had no choice but to not become friends.

‘If a horse bone that has been rolling around somewhere pretends to be a friend or tries to take over its place, of course it will get angry.’

Fortunately, she realized that she got angry at the wrong place and quickly apologized, showing that she was still a mature girl.

“Is it really the formula ‘divine power = light’?”

“I think it’s a little different, but I guess it’s true when I see priests of the Goddess Church using similar powers.”

“Ugh, I’m suddenly feeling less persuasive.”

“Did I explain something wrong?”

Lucia was embarrassed and wanted to ask him more, but she didn’t have time.

“◼◼◼◼◼!!”

In the meantime, the situation was becoming more urgent.

“Oh my…!”

Crugild was able to withstand the attack alone by blocking the monster’s vision with an intense light, but he was helpless as the monster aggressively pushed its large body forward while being burned by the light.

“Help the Hero! We must not let him harm the Hero!”

The knights who flew into the demonic barrier quickly got their bearings and ran toward the demons to help Crugild, as if they were not knights for nothing, but weren’t they forgetting something?

-Whoosh!

“What…?!”

The knights were shocked to see one of their comrades disappearing from their side, but from a distance, they could immediately see what had happened.

‘After all, the wings aren’t there for decoration.’

While the male type was targeting Crugild on the ground, the female type was flying around in the sky like an eagle targeting a corpse.

“It’s the sky! Two demons are in the sky!”

“The knight has been captured!”

“Archers! What are archers doing?!”

“If you shoot from here, it will hit our allies!”

Sizak, who saw the knights, urged the archers, but if they fired arrows targeting those flying in the sky, they would fall on the knights, including Crugild, right below them due to gravity.

-Chaeng! Whoosh!

“You demon!”

The arrow might be able to pierce the seemingly hard skin of the monster. If I did something like that, only Crugild, who was somehow able to avoid the attack, could have been harmed.

It would have been very difficult for those guys to just hold on like that.

“◼◼◼◼◼◼◼!!!”

“◼◼◼◼◼!!”

“They are coming down!”

“Aaaaah!”

“The wall is broken!”

Fearing that someone would say they weren’t monsters, they found archers aiming at them and flew into the territory, breaking a part of the castle wall to confront them.

‘This is coming down.’

There are few things as meaningless as expecting intelligence from monsters.

“Look at the driver for a moment. Is something strange?”

One of the conscripts noticed something strange and pointed to the knight and realized what the problem was.

“Uh oh…”

“You’re so skinny, right?!”

The figure of the knight who was captured and hugged by the female monster was literally fluttering in the slight wind like a skinny mummy.

“What are you doing?! Can’t you attack quickly?!”

Sizak noticed that the conscripts were blankly ready to swing something at the monsters and yelled at them, but it was already too late.

“Ooh, should we attack?”

“But the knight…”

Fear was easily contagious.

“◼◼◼◼◼!”

“Ahh!!”

“Huh?! Donner!”

The monster did not miss the scent.

“Kwaaaaak…!!”

He threw down the article he was holding in his hand, picked up a nearby conscript, and started tearing it down with just the strength of both hands.

Crump! Skin and bones woven like a rag. Wow! Pieces of bright red intestines pouring down like rain as the skin bursts and red blood with a pungent smell like iron.

The conscripts freeze at the sight of the conscripts who were next to them just moments ago being split into upper and lower bodies, with their internal organs scattered.

“Damn it! Attack first!”

The inferior archers shoot arrows inward from the castle walls.

“◼◼◼◼!”

“Aaaaah!”

“Aaaaah!”

They weren’t one. One horse that had settled on the castle wall started running wild among the archers. Those who tried to stab him in the back were swept away by the lightly swung tail. It is truly a sight worthy of the term ‘the return of the fathers.

“Tiaran, what can we do…”

I thought about the sight of Anis, who was worse than me, coming to Tiaran’s side and asking.

‘Who says he can’t be a hero?’

She was waving her hands as if she was anxious because she still wanted to run away.

“I would have done that if I could, but it’s impossible now.”

“What’s the problem?”

“That’s right. If things continue like this, everyone will die!”

Lucia and Krusha also joined the conversation, probably thinking that things couldn’t go on like this. The people’s condition must have been quite serious.

“The biggest problem is that there are too many people.”

Perhaps because the territory had gathered all the available troops, the square at the west gate was currently saturated with barely any space to step on. Originally, it was definitely something to praise, but now it has become a drag.

“If you can’t do anything, get out of the way! If this continues, you’ll all be followed!”

“Why did you keep us so far away?!”

In fact, aren’t the adventurers who are anxious to do something besides them also unable to rush towards the monster because the road is blocked due to the conscripts being the majority?

No matter how much you make a living from day to day, it would be difficult to just watch people dying in front of your eyes. But problems still abound.

“Get out of the way.”

“What?”

“Get out of the way!!”

In the end, some of the conscripts, who were normally ordinary citizens, lost their morale, threw away their weapons, and began to run away.

– Wedge! Puck!

“Gagging?!”

He lost his life after being pierced through the back by an arrow that flew from somewhere.

“Who gave the order that it was okay to run away?”

The owner of that voice belonged to Sizak. The string of the bow in his hand was trembling from the remnants of power, as if to indicate what he had done.

‘You were also skilled in archery?’

It was an excellent performance for a commander as he accurately shot a conscript who was trying to desert from such a long distance.

“Unless there is a separate order, desertion is punishable by death! Do you understand?”

“””””Yes!!”””””

The effect was clear, seeing as he shouted at everyone because of his charisma.

“Thanks to you, we are at a standstill.”

“That can’t be…”

Because of this, the situation where they cannot move between people continued.

“◼◼◼◼◼◼!!!”

“Don’t approach them carelessly! Until the hero returns from defeating the demons, keep your distance and check their movements with the spear! Archers, raise your arrows!”

Anyway, Shizak leads the soldiers and starts giving attack orders to the female monsters that are running wild.

“I will hold out as much as I can to attract his attention! Knights, please do at least some damage!”

“Yes!”

“Please!”

Outside the castle walls, knights led by Crugild were attacking male monsters.

“◼◼◼◼◼◼!!”

It was an advantage of a systematic army to quickly resolve chaos and attack the opponent as a group, but the problem was that individual movements were restricted.

The biggest problem is.

“… This happened.”

They are the only ones here who understand why the demons are called demon weapons or bombs.