Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 186
186
Ssangcheon (2)
Shhh!
I raise my sword. At the tip was a bright light of divine power.
The monster’s skin is bulging and torn long.
The monster with an earthworm-like body and dozens of arms screamed and fell over.
Coo…!
“Whoa whoa.”
Lucia wiped the sweat from her forehead and raised her sword. The building-sized monster has been defeated, but it’s not over.
What she is targeting is not a monster, but a monster hiding inside.
Soon, the monster’s corpse began to stir, and with a thud, a large arm came out through the intestines and skin.
“Krrr…I found it. me.”
It was a troll that came running out, tearing up the corpse.
A huge troll with red eyes streaming down its skin, which is soaked in the blood of monsters and stained bright red.
“Did you take charge? Smell. human. how?”
“Do you know how many times I’ve heard that question today?”
The red troll was evil. One of the demons that was hiding inside a monster’s body and approaching the castle wall.
It looked like a shape I had seen in an old book of the Holy Knights, but I couldn’t even remember its name.
Of course, it was a devil who committed a considerable level of destruction just because there were records left.
An ordinary paladin would have a hard time even if dozens of people flocked to him.
“nice. nice. A bitch to die for. anyway. I’ll eat it. “It’s delicious—that’s it!”
Buuuuk!
The sound of drums being torn apart was heard once more. The devil’s side had been cut lengthwise.
Blood clots overflowing through the hard belly skin. The devil instinctively swept up the spilling internal organs and turned his head.
Lucia, who had already moved behind the devil, brushed off the dark red blood on her sword. She said.
“I don’t know how many times I’ve heard that. “How come you always say the same thing?”
“What…”
The devil couldn’t continue speaking. This was because a flash of light flashed in front of my eyes and my vision was distorted.
“That…?”
A view that gently tilts and falls. What appeared in the red eyes was the headless body of the devil himself.
A gigantic body staggering around with blood gushing out like a fountain.
Before his head even hit the floor, a flash of light split his body in half once again.
Hiss!
The flash of light that split the devil’s body in half turns immediately and crushes the head that had just fallen to the ground.
Kwasik!
The flashing sword strike crushed the troll’s skull, and the white flames left behind burned, consuming even its incredible regenerative power as fuel.
“…Whew.”
This is the eighth one.
The body, which has exerted its power to its limit with the sacred tattoo, is overcome by a feeling of extreme helplessness.
Looking down at the white flame of the Danma slowly devouring the devil’s body, Lucia calmed down the power of the sacred tattoo for a moment.
“Oh God. “Please give me the stamina to carry the weight of the battlefield.”
Control your body’s condition with combat prayer, and spread your senses widely to quickly sweep across the battlefield.
Each battalion of the Holy Knights moved like an organism to hunt down demons, and the results were quite successful.
The number of demons Lucia killed alone was in double digits, worthy of her nickname as a demon slayer.
Including the number of demons defeated by Dallen at the beginning of the battle and the demons that the Holy Knights disposed of with various holy relics, it was safe to say that more than half of the demons that participated were neutralized.
“……”
Nevertheless, Lucia’s eyebrows narrowed.
Even though the Holy Knights tried to hold on to the devil even while suffering damage, the castle wall was being pushed back helplessly.
“…I had no idea that the Great Demon Tower would collapse so vainly.”
The cause was a gap in firepower.
As the Sky Fortress ceased functioning at the hands of the Great Devil, our means of large-scale firepower projection disappeared.
The reason our army was able to avoid being pushed back against tens of thousands of monsters was thanks to the magic bombardment of numerous magicians along with the Iron Blood Army guarding the castle walls.
The disappearance of the Sky Fortress broke the tightly maintained balance between the two camps. And the devils were not ones to miss an opportunity.
After ignoring the Holy Knights’ interference and recklessly pushing their forces towards the castle wall, the second castle wall was almost taken over.
The monster’s army advanced further inward, and the actual front line was formed in the city area in front of the last castle wall.
No matter how much the Paladins showed overwhelming compatibility with demons and monsters, they were unable to stop the offensive as long as they were outnumbered.
“Interrogator! You have neutralized the lesser demon Giltred. Please give me the next goal!”
While I was worrying about the situation of the war, Parn came running. The boy’s face and armor were completely covered in the dark red blood of the monster.
A boy with an eye patch covering an eye lost to a witch and holding a sword blazing with divine power with his only arm.
“Good job. “Just wait a moment.”
Lucia shook off her thoughts and raised her gaze to the sky.
Since we are being pushed back, there is no room for delay.
Isn’t Dallen fighting head-on with the Great Evil in the sky fortress, half tilted and rising toward the sky?
Paaaaat…!
Holy light streams out from her eyes facing the sky, lifting Lucia’s vision to a distant height.
Her small area was imagery, specialized in tracking down demons.
The ability to borrow the power of divine power to see the entire battlefield and clearly detect and track the presence of demons.
There was no evil here that could avoid her pursuit, unless someone greater than the Great Devil decided to hide.
The actions of the devil are revealed throughout the entire battlefield.
Lucia said while raising her head.
“There are not many demons left outside the walls.”
A significant number of demons had already taken advantage of the gap in firepower and had crossed inside the second castle wall.
Most of the demons that were looking for an opportunity outside were defeated by the Holy Knights and Dallon.
It was time to support the defense forces of the castle wall. Killing every last demon outside the castle walls was meaningless if the walls themselves collapsed.
Lucia, having decided so, shook the blood off her sword and gave an order.
“Send a signal to the other battalions. Divide the troops in half, with one side rescuing the troops on the second wall and the other side supporting the street fighting between the two walls…”
At that moment.
Strange things were caught in her vastly expanded sensory area.
***
Doo doo doo doo….
It was a huge wave.
The presence of thousands of people coming from the northeast of the battlefield and shaking the ground.
Lucia’s imagery was specialized in tracking down demons, so it was impossible to immediately figure out what the wave was.
However, she could tell that they were not demons or monsters, which made Lucia even more confused.
‘Clearly, all available troops were brought from the eastern defense line…?’
“Interrogator! “This is an urgent report from the 3rd Battalion!”
At that time, a paladin came running and shouted. He was an adjutant in charge of communication with other units using the ability of a divine tattoo.
“A huge horde of High Orcs is approaching the battlefield! The number is approximately over four thousand!”
Guwaaaa!!
Wow!!
As soon as the report is over, loud shouts cover the battlefield. These are the shouts I heard a few months ago that made my ears tingle.
“High Orcs fight! “The High Orcs win!”
“If I win this, I get to eat! Monsters are also meat!”
“Slash! “Let’s attack less!”
Through the shouts of the High Orcs, which were clearly audible even though they were several kilometers away, another sign caught Lucia’s senses.
“Akasha…?”
A baby dragon that Dallen collected from her nest after defeating the Blue Dragon of the Rift.
Even though he became a companion, his bloodline was a dragon, a type of devil, so Lucia’s small area could clearly feel its presence.
When I turned my head, I saw a sub-adult true dragon flying over the castle wall and into the battlefield in the distance.
Akasha, who had now grown too large for being a baby dragon, had a load on her back that was almost as big as her own body.
“Hahahaha! “It’s the perfect weather to explode a bomb!”
The identity of that pile of luggage was explosives.
To be exact, a huge amount of explosives and a stocky dwarf sitting on the explosives like a saddle.
[Just drop it while we’re chatting! If it weren’t for my father’s request, I swear I wouldn’t have even bothered with this operation!]
“Hehehe, of course that guy, Dallan, is pretty crazy too! How could you come up with the idea of dropping a bomb while flying in the sky…”
[If you don’t take off the weight quickly, I will drop you instead of the bomb!]
Shouting half-crazed and on the verge of a tantrum.
Lucia let out an involuntary laugh as she looked at the dwarf who was excitedly bombarding the monsters near the castle wall and the true dragon who was letting out his frustration.
Coo coo coo coo….
At that time, another vibration rang out from behind my back.
The Sky Fortress, which had risen high into the sky and was half erect, began to shake.
“Oh my God…”
The adjutant who was waiting for orders next to him muttered with his mouth wide open.
What unfolded before my eyes was a more overwhelming sight than the High Orc army that appeared out of nowhere or the combination of dragons and dwarves bombarding the enemy.
Rumbling….
Rumbling!
Dark red clouds come down through a gap in the sky, casting a shadow over the Sky Fortress.
Dozens of thunderbolts pour down continuously like heavy rain, and in response, numerous columns of fire burst out from the lower part of the gray sky fortress.
The feast of thunderbolts and flame pillars exploding from above and below was like a gigantic beast chewing through the sky fortress with hundreds of sharp teeth.
There was no way the fortress, which was barely able to support its firepower with emergency techniques, could withstand it.
The sky fortress collapsed into hundreds of large and small fragments and began to fall towards the monster army.
Kwagwagwagwa…!!
The mass itself becomes a bombardment, crushing the northern flank of the army.
The aftermath of the fight between the Great Demon and Dallon engulfed even the remaining monsters in the vicinity.
Lucia slowly caught her breath and opened her mouth.
“Change operations.”
“…Interrogator?”
“We will return to the walls and support the defense. However, I will act alone from now on.”
It is never a eccentricity without reason.
The balance of the battlefield, which had collapsed, became tense again. No, on the contrary, it was reversed.
Now there is only one variable left in this battle.
A single fight would determine the direction of victory.
“…Are you really trying to get involved in the fight between those monsters?”
There was no way the adjutant, who had served in the Knights’ Order for over a dozen years, would not have noticed the situation and intentions.
The middle-aged paladin looked like he couldn’t understand the orders of his younger superior.
Even though she is a paladin with the nickname demon slayer, isn’t it a difficult fight to get involved in unless you are a transcendental person?
“Please take command of the 1st Battalion.”
Lucia did not answer the question and walked straight ahead.
The direction is north. The place where the collapsed sky fortress fell.
Even at this moment, a fierce battle was taking place inside the dust of the area that rose tens of meters high.
Lucia broadened her senses again. Her ability to track demons clearly captured the fight beyond the dust.
Until the fortress fell, Dallen, who had double-opened the territory, seemed to be overwhelming, but the situation turned when one more great evil appeared.
The momentum is starting to be pushed back little by little by the onslaught of the two great devils.
Even for Dallon, dealing with two great demons was not an easy task.
‘I won’t lose it twice either.’
The words I said a month ago echo in my head again.
Of course, Lucia’s physical strength and divine power were already nearing the bottom after fighting on the battlefield for a long time.
But why?
An unknown power was welling up inside her, along with a strange sound coming from beyond the image.
Ugh…
Silver ripples began to spread out in concentric circles behind her back, which was facing north.