Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 221
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Selection of Possibilities (2)
Rumbling….
The hallway shook loudly with a loud noise. It seemed like an imperial cannonball or a stone fired by a catapult had hit the castle wall.
In the middle of a narrow hallway shaking as if there was an earthquake. Lucia calmly maintained her balance and lowered her sword.
Skag –
A neatly drawn sword gently cuts through leather armor and skin.
“Ugh…!”
The Imperial soldier, whose upper body was cut at an angle without any time to move, let out a muffled scream and bent his back forward.
“Huh huh…!”
Urgent hands fumbling with the cracked armor lying on the floor.
The ribs are broken into pieces and one lung is pouring out blood, but surprisingly, the person does not die immediately.
There were already over 20 fallen soldiers in this narrow hallway. The screams echoing through the narrow hallway were the result of a massacre that took place in just over a minute.
“…….”
If it were normal, no matter how much the enemy was, I would have cut off his breathing again to reduce the pain.
However, Lucia had no time for that right now.
The moment she had just cut down the last soldier, a stinging murderous feeling began to hit the back of her head.
“Siselas –”
A cry calling out the name of God. Lucia immediately turned around and applied divine power to her sword.
The bald head scattering life before our eyes is none other than the battle priest of the pantheon.
The pattern embroidered on the front of the priest’s uniform was a sign of a superhuman of the 4th rank or higher, even if he was not a high-ranking combat priest.
“What the fuck…!”
From my experience fighting over the past few days, the compressed water stream scattered by Sisella’s battle priest was quite powerful.
Even though it’s just shooting water and hitting, the result is a destructive power comparable to that of a decent artillery shell.
I’d rather avoid it at all costs if I was on the castle wall, but I ended up running into it in a narrow hallway inside the bronze castle wall.
However, it was too late to regret, and the decision was made sooner.
Paaaaaa!
The power of the sacred tattoo engraved on his body makes his sense of time extremely slow.
“A torrent that swirls around and kills the enemy!”
The bald-headed battle priest raised his voice and stretched out a thick ancient book-shaped holy scripture.
The narrow corridors inside the castle walls were already weakened by endless bombardment. The moment the sacred power of a high-ranking paladin and a battle priest collide, it will inevitably collapse.
The moment when two determined servants of God crossed their gazes.
“…….”
“…….”
Surprisingly, nothing happened.
“……?”
“uh……?”
The voice of a dazed battle priest. Lucia acted faster.
Tadat –
Rushing through the walls of the narrow hallway, kicking them alternately.
Kwazizig!
Her sword passed by the combat priest in the blink of an eye, imbued with pure white sword energy, and tore through all the protective gear inside and outside the priest’s uniform.
“Ugh… Sisela! “Siselas…”
The cry of a battle priest who searches for his God until the end even as his upper body splits diagonally and collapses in place.
The earnest prayer quickly turns into moaning, and the moaning turns into the sound of boiling blood, which settles down in the hallway.
“Whoa whoa…”
Lucia then let out a rough breath and leaned against the wall in the hallway. The narrow hallway was already filled with corpses of imperial soldiers, so there was no room to walk through.
chin.
Lean your head against the wall and close your eyes. The events of the past week passed quickly in my mind.
The day after Dallen and Felber, the group with the maximum force, arrived in the city.
On that day, the Empire invaded the Labyrinth City.
Without a single declaration of war.
***
The empire was clever and agile.
The first operation they posted was a fast-moving sub-human slave army that quickly broke through the border area.
While the slave army continued to attack the labyrinth city, the berserkers of the Pantheon and the main body of the imperial army crossed the border one by one and reached the face of the labyrinth city.
Beyond sporadic raids, a full-scale siege began three days ago.
And more than 72 hours have passed, and the Empire has not stopped its offensive even for a moment.
“…You crazy bastards.”
The imperial army’s strategy was different from the siege warfare experienced in the north.
The battle-mad evil god poured out an enormous army of monsters at once, but the empire was intent on steadily inducing this side to consume its stamina.
Of course, the basis for this is the enormous human and material resources that come from the vast land mass.
Considering the endless supply of troops and materials they were investing, it made me wonder whether they would be able to profit even if they won the war.
“Whoa.”
In any case, the ceaseless fighting over the past few days was steadily eating away at the stamina of our troops.
So much so that even she, who had reached the level of transcendence, could clearly feel her limbs becoming heavy.
Of course, that was also because her area and mentality were completely focused on defeating the devil.
In addition, her holy sword, Reredonatel, was a sword with the strange characteristic of becoming dull when used against humans.
“It’s better to fight with those demon bastards….”
Clink!
He throws away his sword, which has spread like spiderwebs, and snatches the best sword from the soldiers he just killed.
Lucia slowly caught her breath and walked down the long hallway and up the stairs.
Shake!
As soon as I opened the door, what I saw was a scene above the bronze castle wall where a fierce battle was taking place.
“launch!”
“Load! load!”
Archers firing in unison and artillerymen filling gunpowder inside the gun barrel.
“Luther? Lou Lutherer!”
“You fucking fanatics are going to hell!”
A Bronze Guard soldier collapsed with a gunshot wound to the head, and guards weeping around their dying comrade.
[Renia! Dalorema!]
[Ignel – Celtideo Lagreta.]
Dozens of lightning bolts struck the dry sky, and rain of fire poured down from the dark clouds that followed.
Gurgling! Kwagwagwagwa…!
Under the magnificent explosion created by dozens of spells intertwining in the air, the imperial army and the soldiers of the labyrinth city were engaged in a fierce battle around dozens of siege towers.
“…….”
Thousands of lives are fleeting. And that too, not by the hands of monsters or devils, but by the same humans.
How can this happen when the end is right around the corner? How long has it been since the combined power of the North drove out the army of the evil god, and yet the emperor and pantheon of the empire are creating such a tragedy?
It was a sight that could not be understood with the values of a paladin. A man approached Lucia, who was unconsciously chewing her lip.
“Don’t you need to rest? “I heard you haven’t slept a wink in three days.”
“…Eberron.”
White skin. Distinct facial features. A little dull, but still shiny blonde hair.
Lucia also knew the young man’s face. A man with the nickname ‘Face of Heavenly Change Comics’, the transcendental of the labyrinth city whose face was opened after the Vine Witch incident.
Of course, strictly speaking, it was a story about a single body and a sphere that he was putting forward as the manager of the labyrinth city. The remaining corpses are probably still scattered throughout the castle walls, directing the soldiers.
Lucia answered, glancing at the siege tower approaching this side of the castle wall.
“I was just about to fall asleep when the imperial army attacked. “It appears that they probably infiltrated through a hole in the exterior wall.”
“…Is that so? “I guess I’ll have to request support from the wizards at the Elgaia Tower.”
An image of concentrating for a moment and conveying a message to a prosthetic body somewhere.
Looking at the young man with dark shadows under his eyes due to the fatigue accumulated over the past few days, Lucia once again recalled a story she had heard a while ago.
‘It was said that the transcendents of the Diamond Palace knew in advance.’
The timing was unexpectedly accelerated, but Eberron said that the Diamond Palace had already predicted this invasion.
Therefore, they were able to somehow respond to the sudden surprise attack of the empire and block the imperial army at the first of the seven walls.
Just considering the number of people directly attacking the castle walls, the number of imperial troops is several times higher than this one.
The number of troops who came to tear down the castle walls over the past three days was, at best, more than ten times that of those guarding the walls.
Even if Falcion is a huge city, there is no way it can compete in numbers with the empire that owns a huge land mass in the southern part of the continent.
If not for the eleven transcendents from the Diamond Palace, it would have been impossible to maintain such an overwhelmingly unfavorable battle situation.
“Anyway…the rest of the party needs to come quickly to finish the fight.”
Eberron said. Before we knew it, the siege tower was within a stone’s throw.
Arrows fired through the narrow window of the tower. The young man lightly tapped the stone floor with his cane to create a protective shield surrounding the two.
“Grandma… No, the most powerful of our transcendentals went to save the group. Maybe if I last just one more day…”
Gurgling!
A lightning strike suddenly struck the other side of the imperial army’s camp. Eberron stopped talking when he saw the blue lightning.
Grrrgggggggguk… coo!
The huge door of the siege tower landed on the castle wall like a drawbridge, opening the way.
“For Sisela!”
“Powell! Powell!”
“Aaaah!”
Seeing hundreds of berserkers pouring in like a swarm of ants, he shook his head and raised his staff.
“You always exceed expectations.”
The young man laughed. Beyond that smile, dozens of magical bullets rained down, killing the leaders of the rushing berserkers.
Next to Lucia, whose sacred tattoo began to emit light again, Eberron quickly made a hand sign and said.
“They arrived earlier than expected, so let’s do our best until the end.”
***
Gurgling!
A pillar of light hitting the ground.
Twelve priests, including the high-ranking priest, were reduced to ashes by a single lightning strike.
“Si Siselasi….”
Only the high-ranking priest who maintained his form until the end muttered the name of God in a moaning voice.
However, the water god did not respond. Now that the entire incarnation has been destroyed by the Precursor and they have suffered a significant blow, the sacred power of the priests under them will probably be lost for a day or two.
“A monster…”
“It’s a devil. “It’s the devil.”
The soldiers, white-faced, hesitated and retreated.
Dallon walked without hesitation toward the inside of the imperial army’s formation, which split to the left and right.
There was no reason to waste time slaughtering these little brats one by one. The durability of the bronze walls is not very reliable to withstand a large-scale and surprise invasion by the imperial army.
In fact, it wouldn’t be surprising if it slowly collapsed in three days.
The fact that not a single corner of that vast wall has been completely destroyed is probably due to the ceaseless efforts of the transcendents below and above the walls.
Unless they were planning to give up the bronze wall, this fight had to be ended as quickly as possible.
“Exy.”
Wooung –
The moment you utter the starter word, an invisible wave spreads around you.
Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss of fork….
The weapons that had fallen to the ground all rose up and began to circle around Dallen.
As soon as Dallen arrived at the front line, he divided his party into two and dug into the depths of the enemy camp single-handedly.
The reason is that Felber’s technique is better suited to Mercury than Breakthrough, and it is difficult for a pioneer with a weak body to be active in the middle of an enemy camp of this size.
While the Forerunner and Felver support the defense of the walls, the most effective strategy is to attack the imperial command system directly from the side.
Wasn’t the reason he saved as much strength as possible in the fight against Sisella in the first place to be active in this siege?
‘To command something on this scale… the Twilight Knights must have come in person.’
Puuuuu-
“It’s the Knights! “It’s the Twilight Knights!”
“Ooh we survived!”
At that time, the sound of a trumpet rings out in the distance, and the expressions of the frightened imperial soldiers look much better.
The sound of horses’ hooves and the friction of iron armor growing louder among the loud noise.
Dallen, who was already trying to use the power of grayscale conversion, stopped the development of the image and concentrated his magic power.
There was no need to look for this. The experience comes to you on its own, right?