Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 229
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Land of Blood Demons (5)
“They are shaking the plague as a group.”
The squeak of the rat was enough to make my ears sting. Dallen adjusted his senses appropriately and walked into the forest.
Even if I closed my eyes, walking in the forest wasn’t a problem. The same was true for detecting the presence of numerous rats around.
“…!”
“…Shoot!”
As they reveal their presence without bothering to hide it, gazes begin to gather one by one in the darkness.
The sound of an animal sniffing and squealing. Sensing a threat, the steps slowly widen the distance.
The swarming figures did not retreat beyond a certain point and began to form a wide siege net. Compared to their skills, their ability to measure distances was excellent.
Dallen knew that most of those types were assassins.
And among that group of assassins, which one is making rat-like cries like now?
“Amwoldan.”
“…human.”
A voice coming from right in front of you. Dallen opened his eyes.
The place where he was standing was at the edge of the clearing in the middle of the forest.
A vacant lot with an altar where a witch made a sacrifice to Enaxagus many years ago and received power in return.
At that time, next to the altar where many people were sacrificed, there were now a large group of rat people instead of witches who were making stew with people.
The human pieces were torn to pieces and scattered around the altar, probably after a ritual had already been performed.
Among the blood-soaked clothes, there were pieces of armor belonging to the City Alliance Army. It seemed like they were probably a reconnaissance team that had gone on a night reconnaissance in this direction.
“Siena.”
Puddeuk- caw.
A crow suddenly appeared on a tree.
“Tell Eberron to prepare for an attack. “I think you may have already sensed it.”
The crow nodded and quickly soared into the sky. Dallen, who saw a black shadow rising through the trees, turned his head and looked at the altar.
It seemed like this wasn’t the only time the Amwoldans performed a ritual at that altar. If you include the white bones piled up like a mountain in the back, it looked like there were hundreds of them at most.
They were probably refugees who hid in the forest to escape the invasion of the imperial army. For herbalists who stayed in the city for a long time, it was a natural decision to take refuge in a familiar forest.
“…….”
While Dallen was quietly looking at the pile of remains, the rat people loitering by the altar began to squeak again.
Dallen turned his head and looked at their faces. There were quite a few familiar faces.
“Shoot!” That guy is the guy I was talking about. The guy who killed the sixth finger. “He is the one who predicted the well!”
That guy with the bony ribs is the fifth finger of the Dark Woldan.
“He is the protagonist of the prophecy. “God said he would give me great grace if I killed that guy.”
That guy with profane symbols all over his arms and neck is the high priest of the Dark Moon Order.
“Kill! Break their necks and cut off their limbs!”
“If you take out your heart and offer it alive, you will be given a greater blessing!”
In addition, more than half of the important officials of the Amwoldan were gathered in one place. That means that half of the Dark Woldan’s power is centered around the city.
It wasn’t a strange thing. Enaxagus must have also heard the news of the City Alliance’s massive counterattack.
He failed to conquer Falcion and made up for the disadvantageous situation with reinforcements called the Vampire Count, but the evil god, who was good at stratagems, could not rely on just one move.
‘They were trying to break the army’s momentum here before it crossed the empire’s border. I’ve been in similar situations a few times.’
However, even though Enaxagus was the epitome of cunning, there were some things that could not be expected.
From Dallen’s point of view, who has been exposed to this guy’s various plans hundreds of times, this is just an event that happened in one episode.
“Kill! “Kill me!”
“Let’s eat them alive!”
“Squeak! “Push with numbers!”
At the encouragement of the executives, people flock in, making loud noises. The murder of a herd of animals that begins to swarm the vacant lot.
The unpleasant noise of teeth grinding together from hunger fills the forest. The number of rat people surrounding the vacant lot was at most a thousand.
[I found the body of a pure silver knight who had been eaten alive.]
[I found the body of a mercenary who became the Third Finger’s scalp collection.]
[The body of a high-ranking knight who was assassinated in his bed….]
[To the Fifth Finger. My internal organs were eaten away….]
Notification windows rising in the darkness. The ending of the episodes that ended at the hands of Amwoldan.
The blade pushes through the square. A dagger coated with poison. I reflexively reached out and broke my wrist.
Crack!
He pulls an ax from his belt and swings it. It splits the head vertically, pulls it, and twists its body.
The corpse of the ratman narrowly passed by and attacked another guy who was attacking him from behind. I took out a spear from subspace and stabbed it.
The spear that went through the dead ratman’s back skewered two more men. The ax in his right hand was already in the process of opening another guy’s skull.
Squeak!
Squeeze!
The cries of rats echoing from all directions. There were more rat people in the forest than trees.
Brainwashed and drugged, the assassins knew no fear. It was just a chopping block that ran and rushed at orders.
「Spring of Lulia」
「Cheonjinryeo(泉振吕)」
The spring water bursting out from under the feet, turning over the earth and sand, swirling between the trees, and crushing the rat men with water pressure.
「Skadi’s Tsunami」
「Blue Wave Wave」
A wave the size of a house surges through the darkness, hitting the rat people and sweeping away even the overturned piles of dirt and tree roots.
“tree! Squeak! Climb up the tree!”
“If you get caught wrongly, you will die! Cheeeeeeeee!”
Some quick-witted people quickly started climbing the tree that withstood the current. After sticking the ax into the head of one of the dogs, Dallon lightly added a hand sign to the swirling magical wind.
Six ice crystals floating in the air while standing on the turbulent water surface as if it were solid ground.
「Ice Crystal(氷晶)」
「Six Flowers Opening」
The moment the ice flowers open their buds all at once and shake off their loose petals, the current that was sweeping the forest with the power to sweep away freezes like a lie.
「Red Flower Juran(赤華株亂)」
The red-hot mithril spear glided past the frozen rat people with a splash of water, once again creating a feast of flower petals.
Spapapapod──
Skilled people saved their lives by climbing trees, but their longevity did not last long.
Dozens of spears and swords moving through the darkness and slaughtering rat people.
The assassins who roamed the darkness as if they were at home exhale their last breath the moment a flash of light passes by.
The dark clouds that covered the night sky were pouring down lightning and fire like rain, and the frozen ground was spewing out bitter cold.
The body of a dead colleague floats, defying gravity. The screams of a dying horse constantly rang out among the gray shadows moving through the forest.
“Enaxagus…give me a hound to guard your squire!”
Gooooooooooooo!
Occasionally, executive assassins who learned black magic sacrificed their accumulated souls to summon demons from hell.
Kyaaa───!
Every time that happens, a dragon made of a mixture of electricity and flame appears, opens its mouth wide, and devours both the monster and the caster.
“How is this…5th rank egg…”
In the middle of the scene of massacre immersed in darkness, Dallon was clutching the neck of the third finger of the Dark Woldan.
“How many scenes are contained in one person’s mind? Unless you have multiple selves…how can you embrace such a heterogeneous scene all by yourself!”
The assassin spews out his anger, spattering black blood, wondering why it is so unfair that he is so close to death.
Dallen stared silently above the half-crushed creature’s head. There, in clear writing, was written information about the character he should inherit.
[The corpse of a mercenary was found as a collection of Third Finger’s scalp.]
Someone’s destination. The ending of an existence that is oneself but not oneself.
A person who had to wait for nearly eternity for just one end, even though he could not see the future he dreamed of.
Naturally, your grip strength loosens. After throwing the returned rat man onto the frozen ground, Dallon adjusted the holy sword in his right hand and held it.
“Everyone asks that. “I couldn’t answer for a while, but now I think I understand a little bit.”
“…!”
“Maybe this is both an opportunity given to me and a burden that I must bear. “Then the future I have to draw should not be an ending just for me.”
“Now! “Kill him!”
At the third finger’s scream-like voice, the rat people hiding in the darkness rush at once.
Dozens of shadows led by the Shadow Lord Fourth Finger High Priest.
All of those who survived the extreme battlefield were mid-level executives or higher, and several of them were individuals who reached the peak of assassination and transcended their species.
The areas that are opened all at once shake the magical wind in the area. Worlds beyond the crumbling space and overlapping images.
Dallen held the holy sword lightly and stared at the whole scene with deeply sunken eyes.
The complicated thoughts that had come from the inn had already sunk below the surface.
The cruel reality becomes clearer as the end approaches, and hundreds of worlds have already come to an end beyond the monitor.
What kind of future should he dream of as he embraces all of those by-products?
There was no right answer to the question that had been lingering in my subconscious for a long time. However, the reason I could not come up with an answer was because my thinking direction was wrong from the beginning.
‘Sometimes you need to let loose.’
The man who led him to the Tsarina. A story told by a northern warrior, presumed to be the great ancestor, flashes through my mind.
If you don’t have the qualifications to look into the future, even if you try to picture that scene in your head, it’s just a vain dream.
For those who were buried in the apocalypse and could not save anything, the only future they could hope for was the qualifications to open the closed ending.
Just surviving the moment and looking ahead to the next.
Protecting the precious relationships that are close to you at this moment.
And to protect this damn medieval land so that those people can continue to live.
“It’s like fucking medieval land.”
In the midst of areas invading reality and bright red eyes flashing with murderous intent, Dallon chuckled and placed his hands on his waist.
Ugh…….
As I held the ax in my left hand, the holy sword cried for the first time in a long time.
Kiiing─
Bright white ripples formed concentric circles under my feet.
and.
「Domain completely opened」
A ray of light tore through the dark clouds that filled the night sky.
***
Luxisituca Tabrela, the fifth finger of Amwoldan, ran with all her might.
For a moment, I felt ashamed of myself for being a high-ranking executive, but the thought disappeared as soon as I remembered the scene I had witnessed just a moment ago.
‘Monster…no, devil…’
She couldn’t understand the scene that happened in the forest.
She also knew how monstrous the Transcendant was. In order to be included in the six fingers in the first place, you had to have experience killing a transcendental person.
So when I heard that Sixth Finger Pikkake had died, I was sure that the opponent must be a very powerful person.
Although he is a little behind her, Pikkake is also a member of the Six Fingers.
As he had once assassinated a transcendental person, he was not a great man capable of being careless or making mistakes.
Therefore, when faced with a situation where he had to fight the warrior who killed him, Luxisituka had no choice but to hesitate, even if only a little.
However, it was out of concern that our troops would suffer severe damage, not because they thought they would ever be defeated.
“Chi…chikki….”
This guy was different.
The frozen ground that started from a simple water flow magic froze the entire forest, and from some point on, the dark clouds hanging over the sky started spouting fire and lightning.
It took only a few hours for the ten thousand Amwoldan members who had gathered in the forest to be slaughtered. The moment Luxisituka saw him knocking down the third finger from afar, he decided to run away.
‘I have to inform Captain Amwol. I can either join the allies who are attacking the city, or I can go back alone…!’
The moment we completely left the forest, the strategy of joining our forces was discarded.
This was because the Amwoldan that attacked the city alliance forces stationed in Lvivbach were literally being torn apart.
[――――!]
A carriage pulled by two subdragons moves around the outside of the castle walls, breathing heavily.
Arrows like pillars of fire shot from inside the castle, crawling through the Amwoldan formation like a giant living snake.
The half-destroyed castle wall had been thoroughly reinforced with a solid earthen wall, as if by an archmage of earth magic, and the soldiers, who should have been asleep, were firing guns and crossbows on top of it.
“…!”
A cool sensation suddenly passes through my spine.
Luxisituka reflexively took out the teleportation scroll and tore it open, but looked back without being able to overcome her anxiety.
━━━━━━━!!
The final image in her eyes was brightened by the teleportation magic.
It was the peak of a snowy mountain rising out of nowhere in the middle of the forest and a pillar of light piercing the sky and hitting the top of the mountain.