Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 175

Royal Capital Ekhlahim (3)

. Snap.

The thin ice-covered slush crumbles beneath my feet. The rats that came out looking for food were startled by the unexpected presence and scattered.

A sewer underground in the city with a musty smell. Dallen was walking inside, half lost in thought.

“…….”

four days.

Three days have passed during the one-week grace period that the Tsarina spoke of.

The party that arrived with reinforcements from the eastern part of the front line had been busy for the past three days.

‘First, Lucia Castachald… Battalion Commander.’

It’s a combination of words that makes me laugh without even realizing it. Of course, one battalion of the Holy Knights was by no means of a ridiculous size.

The strength of the reinforcements that the Tsarina obtained from the Holy Knights was considerable.

Three battalions composed of paladins and crusaders. A total of about 3,000 troops were gathered in the royal capital.

Lucia was in charge of one of the battalions and had been working on it for the past three days.

The Inquisitor, known as the God of War’s sharpest white sword and slayer of demons, had sufficient abilities and standing within the Knights.

‘Bjorn is improving the Sangvis Army’s gunpowder weapons. ‘It was a good thing I made a deal with the Tsar in advance.’

Dallen previously had a history of exchanging deals with the Tsardom through a special task force in return for taking on a request to guide the labyrinth.

The deal is that the Tsar’s country supplies legal gunpowder materials and technology to Bjorn, and in return, Bjorn participates in research on the agreement with the royal family as a one-eyed master craftsman.

And the efforts of the Sangvis Army ahead of the war were truly unprecedented.

Bjorn was in the process of massively measuring the gunpowder weapons of the entire Sangvis Army, receiving full support at a level he had never received before.

‘If you think about it, it’s not surprising. ‘Because Felber was completely delegated the authority of command.’

Felver Valentino is an Elgaia magic tower lord and archmage, as well as a member of Dallan’s family.

He was entrusted with full command of the mercenary wizards, one of the pillars of magical power.

‘I didn’t think they would hand over command to an outsider… but there was never a time when so many mercenaries gathered during Xun’s invasion.’

Due to the Tsarina’s request for massive support, the number of mercenary wizards sent from numerous magic towers on the continent reached a whopping four hundred.

Normally, he would have been assigned to a part of the royal wizards and played an active role, but since numbers are numbers, it is not easy to do so.

In addition, the magicians of the Tsar’s country were the elite of the elite, but due to environmental conditions, they had a strong tendency to focus mainly on ice-type or wind cloud-type magic.

Although he was good at projecting powerful firepower toward the enemy, he was not suited to handling the various magicians hired as mercenaries.

‘On the other hand, the old man is a suitable person in many ways as he is from the Labyrinth City, is an archmage, and is the owner of the tower.’

Falchion is a huge city where branches of various magic towers gather and fight for power, forming a magic tower alliance.

Felber was a person who proudly held the position of tower owner even though he had been absent for almost a year.

Being an archmage was an ability, but it was a difficult feat to accomplish unless you were skilled in dealing with people from the beginning.

For that reason, Felber took on the position of head of the mercenary magic group.

Over the past few days, he had been busy communicating with the royal wizards and classifying mercenary wizards according to their affiliations and abilities and placing them in the right positions on the battlefield.

‘They said Warsaw will arrive in a day or two… so there is a need to first organize traffic before then.’

This was not the end of the support the Tsardom received.

Warsaw, one of only six great magic towers on the continent and a sacred place for lightning magicians.

When the Tsarina sent a request for support, what did she promise in return? She said that even the spellcasters who rarely come down to the ground would lead the sky fortress itself, which moves on the clouds.

‘If you add it all up, it would be roughly 100,000 troops. ‘This isn’t some kind of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.’

As a result, a situation was unfolding in the royal capital of Eklahim where a historically large army was gathering.

The main force of the defense force is nearly 40,000 elite troops of the Sangvis Army, including reinforcements collected by Dallen from the eastern part of the front.

Including mercenaries gathered from all over the continent and convened militias, the number doubled. Additionally, the support force of 3,000 Holy Knights was a bonus.

Supporting the large army of nearly 100,000 were the royal wizards originally scattered throughout the Tsar’s country and four hundred fire fighters, mercenary wizards led by Felber.

Moreover, when the war began, the sky fortress Warsaw would rain down merciless thunderstorms, and on the ground, gunpowder weapons modified by a one-eyed master craftsman would burst into flames.

‘For hundreds of rounds, this much force has never been gathered on the northern front. Perhaps…it’s because the apocalypse is progressing too quickly.’

The current apocalyptic offensive is faster than any other episode.

However, because the invasion was so early, the situation on the continent had not yet fallen into long-term chaos.

Originally, the arrival of the demonic army was around the time when empires and kingdoms were divided by war and logistics and transportation were all paralyzed.

At that time, it was normal for both the Magic Tower and the guild to be so busy dealing with the crisis that was right in front of them that they couldn’t even think about sending reinforcements.

However, the current continent was alive and well.

Localized chaos and unrest were occurring across the continent, and war clouds were also hovering in the air, but that was all.

The fuse of the time bomb is burning by the minute, but the bomb has not exploded yet.

Therefore, the war situation was simply not at a hopeful level.

It cannot be said that it is clearly advantageous, but on the contrary, it can never be seen as disadvantageous.

‘Even if we exclude a few variables, including myself, that are not apparent on the surface… with this level of power, the odds of winning are more than 30%.’

That’s enough probability.

There are many experiences of overturning situations where work was not even possible.

If the odds of winning were about 30 percent, it was more than enough to overcome.

In addition, the variables in the team’s hands are difficult to quantify, but they were all powerful joker cards that could turn an unfavorable situation over and over again.

“stop.”

Snap.

The end of the thoughts that continued one after another.

Suddenly, a thick palm blocks my eyes.

Dallen looked up. The owner of the hand was a giant about two meters tall.

Judging from their attire, they appear to be guards belonging to the Sangvis Army. Dallen slightly raised his eyebrows.

“…What.”

“There will be unannounced inspections of those who have been awarded the Guiding Award. Please give your name and affiliation.”

***

Dallen didn’t answer. Silence continued for a moment.

“I will ask you again. Name Affiliation. “It’s not a difficult question.”

The man asked again.

Northerners were generally tall. And the man seemed a little taller than Dallon.

Dressed in chain mail with the Iron Blood Army emblem, and with a guard captain’s rank tag attached to the shoulder.

Dallen stared through the gap in the man’s helmet and scratched his chin. He said.

“Dallen.”

“Yes, Dallen. I’m glad you answered honestly. “If I had lied, I would have been stabbed in the stomach.”

“Did this bastard ask this knowingly?”

“…what?”

I could see his eyes shaking through the gaps in his helmet. Dallen naturally put his hands on his belt.

Snap.

A man who takes a couple of steps back without realizing it. He tried to control his embarrassed eyes and continued speaking.

“…He’s been wandering around the back alleys of the Tsar’s country for the past three days. “While his comrades are busy trying to stop the devil’s army, he is absorbed in something else alone.”

“so?”

“In the eyes of the Sangvis Army, your actions… make them suspicious that you are a spy who came to spy on Eclahim.”

The spy is a piece of shit. Dallen chuckled.

It was true that he had been wandering around the back alleys of the royal capital for the past three days.

Although it is nothing compared to the labyrinth city of Falcion, it is still one of the largest cities on the continent compared to the royal capital of Eclahim.

A total of four bodies died here. It was those corpses that Dallon had been looking for for several days.

After recovering ‘the body of a fake dealer who was stabbed in a casino’, ‘the body of an ascetic who was investigating the whereabouts of a witch’, and ‘the body of a paladin who was with the king’s last days’, there is only one thing left.

Of course, they gave a slightly different reason, but permission was already obtained from the royal family.

Although they are already mercenaries and all kinds of human groups have gathered, they are not visible to the outside, but the back alley has become a crucible of chaos.

As a collaborator of the Tsardom, there was no reason for the royal family to refuse to freely travel around and beat up gangsters for the purpose of ‘personal training’.

“Because it is a wartime situation, a more severe punishment should be meted out, but if you consider your contribution to the Tsar’s country as a platinum-plated mercenary and obediently cooperate with the arrest….” “

Hey.”

“…….”

“Quit the useless acting. “Because it’s not fun at all.”

Snap.

The man took two steps back again. he asked.

“How…billion!”

The ax was faster than the answer.

The handle of an ax sprouted from the head with a thudding sound.

The steel helmet, split in two, fell into the sewer mud with a splashing sound.

“You did a good job with the preliminary research. That’s praise. “Knowing that disguises using magic or incantations can be easily detected, you brought in someone with an innate ability to change the body.”

The man’s face was a little deformed.

It was worth noting that his facial features were sharper than usual, but the long strands of beard that grew a hand-length from his cheeks were not.

Of course, since he was wearing a helmet that completely covered his face, a few strands of hair didn’t mean much.

Unless they had sophisticated clairvoyance abilities, it would have been difficult for even a decent superhuman to see through it.

“But there is one thing overlooked. Do you know what it is?”

[…What is it?]

An answer came from somewhere in the sewer. Slightly squeaky voice. Dallen grinned.

“If you were planning on disguising yourself and luring them, you should have brought someone a little less vulnerable. “I just put my hand on my belt, but would a guy with good sense enough to react remain at the level of a security guard?”

[…….]

The voice did not answer. It didn’t matter.

Since I had obtained Ackerman’s drawing method, it was possible to track the opponent just by saying a word from before.

Phew.

As I briefly catch my breath, the view of the sewer comes into my mind.

It wasn’t just the path we walked.

I began to see at a glance the hidden spaces between walls and passageways I had never walked through.

Sigh…!

The vision overlooking the entire area beyond the imagination and Ackermann’s drawing method meet, and a miracle germinates.

The power left behind by the gray warrior completes the miracle by adding the power to color the world with his own colors.

「Dream Chase: The Whole Gray Map」 A

scene unfolds like a scene from a black and white movie.

The map of the nearby area, expressed in dark shades, at first glance resembled the game’s mini-map.

What is different from the mini map is that this is a landscape that is perceived not just with the eyes, but with the sixth sense, beyond the five senses.

And that was an advantage rather than a disadvantage.

“I never thought the shadow the Tsarina spoke of meant the Amwoldan. “I didn’t necessarily plan on touching him first, but I guess he was prepared to do it first.”

A low murmur echoed along the empty sewer passage, and he turned to face the wall, quietly raising his hand.

According to the map of the area drawn in my head, the master of the voice, an assassin from the Dark Moon Company, was hiding behind a dozen walls.

No matter how fast Dallen is, he is an executive of the best assassination group on the continent.

If you chase it along the passage, it will surely escape in some way.

I have no intention of giving it a chance.

The rational choice is to root out any variables that may interfere with the upcoming fight.

Cancer Woldan was also someone with whom we would have to come to terms with one day, so it wouldn’t matter if it was a bit premature.

Whiri –

The hand raised above the shoulder becomes blurry for a moment.

Whoosh –

The flash of an ax right in front of the wall suddenly disappears in the air.

And a few seconds later.

Kwagwang- RURURR….

The sound of something collapsing somewhere in the sewer echoed distantly along the passage.

There was also a faint squeak mixed in between them.

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