Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint - Chapter 221

EP.221 A Story of the Past, The Pied Piper of Hameln – A

fierce battle broke out between seven hundred and one. It is not difficult to judge the winner or loser. One side has an advantage.

Nicholas’ long sword, which specializes in slashing, is long and covers a wide angle. A specialized weapon when facing the weak majority is that type of qigong. I guess you could say it’s like a general instructor who teaches students.

However, there are many thick trees untouched by humans in this forest. Sometimes he cuts down trees to advance, but his strength is steadily being consumed.

There.

Beep!

“lee! lux!”

“pascal!”

The children who moved in perfect order according to my instructions were more difficult opponents to deal with than Nicholas thought.

When the whistle is blown, the ritual magic hits Nicholas all at once. light and wind. A mystery that was no longer a mystery because the military had tailored it in its own way was shot at Nicholas.

“These!”

Nicholas took a step forward and sighed. The complex vines that have been stretched out over a long period of time and effort are cut off in an instant.

At the same time, pattering, the children holding logs in the way of Nicholas screamed and fell out all at once.

However, Nicholas’ expression was not satisfactory. Originally, everything from the log he was holding as a shield to the children standing in a row should have been split in one blow, but something sticky stuck to the blade and his spirits dropped.

“how is it? The log ivy we shot earlier was dipped in boiled rosin and wrapped around it. Since rosin has the property of being more attached to vitality, you won’t be able to peel it off easily even with a qigong.”

It’s a minor pitfall. It was prepared in case the whole log was cut down.

Originally, it was intended to cover the whole body with rosin to weaken it, but it ended up being a blade. I’m sorry but I can’t help it.

I interrupted as Nicholas was about to take care of the rest of his collapse. The moment the dagger aimed at him, the long sword that Song Jin was entangled in shone.

towards me

“haha! You don’t even want to die, do you? That’s a natural thing!”

A trajectory is drawn in his thoughts. It’s a blow that cuts my back. I couldn’t stop it, but I didn’t even want to get close from the beginning. I smiled and pretended to enter, then retrieved my leg and walked away.

The tip of the knife just barely passed in front of my waistband. There is no fear because you know that you can’t reach it.

brief confrontation. In the meantime, the children who were in danger quickly ran away. The situation is back to the beginning.

“…It’s quite good, Huey. The more I look at it, the more it hurts. Why did you make such a stupid choice?”

Seeing me dodging the attack without blinking an eye, Nicholas stuck out his tongue. There was a hint of sincerity in his lamentation.

The ability to break in at the right time and cut off Nicholas’ pulse was, in Nicholas’ view, a skill that only those who understood combat could do.

Actually, I just kept looking for gaps after reading my thoughts.

well anyway It’s good if they think of me as a threat.

“Ahaha! you know! I’m good at learning anything, but I can’t go beyond that! In other words, I have already hit the high point of my life!”

“okay! If you miss this opportunity, you are forever stopped at that stage! Even a colonel who is not a general like me has to run away!”

It is said that a soldier without a star gets sick. Of course, there are many people who work faithfully in their position, but Nicholas, who realized the limits of his talent faster than anyone else, became more attached to his talent.

In his eyes, I might have looked like a fool who gave up opportunities even though I had great talent.

“Accept it now! If you agree, everything will be solved! If the two of us keep our mouths shut, we can make this taboo never happen!”

In fact, it was. Among the 140 people here, I am the strongest. If it were not for me, these children, who are still barely holding on, would crumble like rags.

In fact, some noticed that I was worried that I might betray them.

but.

“Nicholas. If you’re going to do it, try it! Why is it always you who tests? Is it the one that issues the hardships? Why is it always up to you to risk your life to achieve something impossible?”

The long sword is long and has a wide radius, but because of that, its trajectory is rather limited. A tree that has protected itself from violent beasts does not easily show its annual rings, no matter how much it is dressed up. The same goes for his longsword, which gets caught when caught in a tree.

Fearing that the longsword would aim for me, he evaded to the most difficult position and shouted out loud.

“Fight against insurmountable trials like them! Is that real? To just tell someone to do something without risking their lives or overcoming obstacles! Aren’t you just being an asshole?”

“To be foolish to the end!”

Nicholas pushed me away and ran towards the other students. As planned, a few quickly ran away, but the bodies of the two who were slow to react were torn apart.

It wasn’t even cut by a sharp blade. His body was torn apart by the brutal slash. The rosin on the blade was born in the body of a plant and had a rare experience of seeing the inside of a human body.

The child next to him screamed. He was too young to just ignore his friend’s death.

Just as Nicholas is about to decapitate him screaming in succession. I jumped on his back.

“I promise you, Nicholas! If you really want me to feed them all! Get out of my way and kill everyone else to get drunk on their blood! If you overcome difficulties and succeed in such a feat, I might be able to make a little more ‘reasonable’ judgment!”

If I overcome all those hardships and feed my blood to make me a greater talent. If you have an unchanging will and make me like that. Well, from then on, there is no choice.

But Nicholas, as if he had waited, quickly reached out his sword at me. The blade aimed at the throat had a clear intent to kill.

means one thing.

“ha ha ha! Well yes! It’s just that you don’t want to overcome difficulties yourself!”

He slashed the blade in a frenzy. heavy The body was pushed backwards.

Nicholas clicked his tongue in response.

“…I will not negotiate with the reactionary elements.”

“I’m running out of excuses. On the topic of drawing a line if you think you can’t do it before you even try. Are your limits over there?”

I braced myself on the verge of collapsing and muttered as I brushed my hair over my forehead.

“iced coffee. Now I see. You only said that you would give your life for the military. In the end, there was no will or passion to achieve something on his own. They just sit on top and force the people below them to live up to their expectations.”

Fighting sword to sword, his heart was heard enough.

Expectations are high and give up is quick. Try cost management effectively. It is the award of an educator desired by the military. I have no hesitation in sacrificing anyone.

But he doesn’t have the courage to risk his life. I don’t have the confidence to put myself in trouble.

“Ah, that’s no fun. Even if you are prepared to risk the lives of 161 people, you are not prepared to risk your own life to do it.”

“…do you think I’m going to fall for such a provocation.”

“It’s not a provocation, it’s an objective evaluation. Phew Good job fighting back. You have to add a twist to a boring story.”

The words that it’s not fun at all touched Nicholas’ wrath. His veins bulged as if they were about to break.

Enraged, Nicholas raised his longsword over his head and ran towards me.

“You had to accept my will! Even to survive!”

“Sometimes they say he is a talented person who will bring glory to the military. I was blown away by the provocation, but what?”

I put the whistle in my mouth again and gave the order.

The longsword aims at me. Spins around a tree as a shield. A longsword like a spear broke through the bark and came out of the blind spot, but I read my thoughts in advance and avoided it by simply raising my head.

Reading thoughts is hard to catch. Nicholas was feeling impatient with me as I avoided one after another of his conversion attacks.

Magic or spear stones and nooses rain down behind the back of Nicholas who is dealing with me.

The biggest way to give people courage is to ensure their safety. If there is an iron grate between you, you will have the courage to approach the beast, and if you have a shield, you will have the courage to move forward.

Same goes for children.

Lasso magic rope log and spear. Armed with distance, they continued to press Nicholas out of reach. In particular, Siati, who was once a martial artist, and Carafald, who was an aspiring magic officer, played a significant role.

“These things…!”

An uncomfortable space to wield a long sword. But you can’t just throw away your weapon. As long as he can’t completely cover his body with qigong yet, he’ll get hurt if he’s stabbed by a blade. Everyone has learned the basics of qigong in their own secondary military school, so even Nicholas is in danger if he rushes in and slashes them down with a blade.

Nicholas’s foot fell into a pit filled with rosin. A noose flew over him as he lost his balance. Nicholas ran amok, but the human hunt became more and more relentless.

Yeah, like hunting a big deer.

“These!”

In the end, he changed his mind to deal with the intrusive intruders first instead of me, who couldn’t be caught, and kicked the tree and tried to run. The moment I read that thought, I raised the two daggers upside down and slashed my ankle. Even though it didn’t touch the skin, the blade was stained dark red for a very short time.

Blood spattered. The pants sleeve was torn and blood was oozing out.

I can’t use it for a long time because the amount is not enough, but if it’s only for a short time, I can infuse it at least.

“Ugh! Huey you…!”

Changing positions here is too big a loss. He leaped at the spearmen led by Shiati, the most irritating being, even at the cost of damage.

They were the healthiest, bravest, and intimidating kids because they could handle qigong at least a little. Those who received their own training responded to it.

However, in front of the colonel, he is a puppy. A boy who suddenly forgot the instructions to roll on the ground when Nicholas approached tried to block the improvised wooden spearhead. A huge slash landed on the window sill.

“You fool! Dangerous!”

Shiati, who had dodged away faster than anyone else, shoved him away in surprise.

But it was too late. No, it’s meaningless than being late, and it’s brought even greater damage.

Along with his body, Siati’s right arm was also cut off.

Caught in the trail of the longsword, her right arm broke and rose into the sky. The boy’s eyes, which had been split from the shoulder blades beyond the arm that separated from the body, slowly lost their light.

“Quaaaaaaagh!”

A scream rang out, whether it was from the death of a friend or from the pain in his right arm. Grabbing the missing right arm below the elbow, Shiati knelt down.

Even though he could end Shiati immediately, Nicholas prepared to reach back at any time instead of swinging his sword. Even after killing one student, I was still on my guard.

In other words, this situation is a bait to lure me in.

I deliberately approached slowly and loudly. Nicholas twitched.

‘…cold. He’s also on a different level than the other guys. If you’re approaching with such caution, you’re aiming for other guys.’

“Oh yeah?”

I have already confirmed that Nicholas has no intention of letting me live. Now, those students and I are a community of destiny. None other than Nicholas did that.

If so, do what you expect. Calling Shiati’s name, I ran out as if my cool-headedness just now had been a lie.

“You are too young after all.”

Read Nicholas’ thoughts. The pity for me was gradually diluted through the fight. The only things I felt in the midst of being quite tired and afflicted were fatigue, irritation, and resentment towards me.

Thinking that if you had listened to yourself, you wouldn’t have died either. Nicholas drew a trajectory in his head.

A slash drawn in a dark light that started from the hilt of his sword.

I am hanging at the end of the trajectory. It is a surprise blow fired from the back.

But this. Aren’t you looking at me so funny? Are you going to wield it like this?

“I’m a senior in my own way!”

Instantly raises the Qigong of the whole body. Maybe it’s the effect of gluttony, but it’s darker than usual, but a harsh light lingers on the dagger. Perhaps because it is the power gained through death, it seems to emit a faint dark red light.

However, as long as it entered my body, my strength. once blown out The daggers in my hands grabbed the huge longswords that were about to tear me apart.

Theaeng. heavy noise.

My arm trembled and the shaft of my dagger twisted. It seems that the bones of the whole body are screaming.

Still, it was good to apply rosin. Thanks to that, the blade didn’t slip, so I avoided splitting my body.

He held onto his wobbly arms and smiled triumphantly.

“Historia and Lancart are under me. Instructor General, you felt a wall between the two of them, didn’t you? But I thought what was easy? In their own way, both writing and practice are top-notch.”

“…what does that mean?”

Nicholas swayed his arms even more vigorously, with his back tightened.

“The most important power is lacking!”

What I feel is pure power. It’s like pressing down with force to break my defenses. It feels like the tip of a windmill is pushing me away. The off-axis dagger screamed fiercely.

It is too strong a force to bear. To break this situation, I came up with another method.

“Seth Lee. Pyrenheit.”

Scrape the rosin with your fingernail. Sparks shot through the dried grass-covered glue. The longsword was engulfed in flames. The big, long torch was intimidating, but in fact, it was more unfavorable to Nicholas than to me.

Flames obstruct his vision and melted rosin clings to his longsword. Now sharpness will be hard to expect.

At that moment, he scratched the burning rosin with his dagger and bounced off it. to the eyes of Nicholas.

“Catching technique!”

As a skilled soldier, Nicholas did not make the mistake of closing his eyes. However, the fact that the burning rosin keeps flying is a little burdensome to him.

In order not to give him distance while dodging, Nicholas retrieved his longsword and stepped back.

I cried out loud.

“Don’t miss it! Fight, Nicholas!”

I keep following him, occupying a corner of his field of vision. He screamed and kept pounding on his eardrum. I threw away the dagger in my left hand with its shaft broken. Instead, he raised his mana with his left hand and fired a series of magic.

As I squeezed everything into an attack, Nicholas was pushed back. One step back for a moment becomes two steps, and two steps become three steps.

But more than that didn’t go away.

“There is nothing that isn’t a catch technique…! That’s your limit! No matter what you face in the future, you will soon reach that limit…! Although you have no future now!”

The dagger he wielded and the magic he fired were insignificant. At most, stabbing a dagger with a squeezed air hole would be dangerous.

Focusing on my attack, he realized that nothing I was using was powerful. It was time for him to regroup and push through with sheer force.

however.

“You backed away too much, Nicholas.”

Poo-wook.

Three spears pierced his back, hamstrings and waist. Then the ropes used to build the raft wrapped around his limbs. Forces that restrain him in an instant.

Between them, a voice that seemed to break was heard.

“You die…”

A sharp dagger plunged into Nicholas’ shoulder. It was Shiati. Even with the loss of an arm, he was engulfed in a frenzy and charged with a dagger.

All children received military education. When the opportunity comes, grab it quickly. He has the talent and skill to do so.

“These losers! dare!!”

Even as ropes bound his limbs and blades slashed through his body, Nicholas persevered. Holding on to the rope with one hand, I tried to shake off all restraints at once by planting my feet on the ground with qigong.

But it doesn’t even budge.

The number of students exceeds one hundred. However, there is a limit to the number of people who can fight at one time, so those who do not participate in battle are all far away and hold on to the rope. Then, when the trap or noose Joe succeeded in tying Nicholas up, twenty men gathered and pulled with all their might.

The tug-of-war is ultimately a battle of numbers and weight. An honest confrontation in which strength increases as much as the weight placed on it. Even if you pull the ground with a gun and twist your body, you cannot overcome this difference.

“Keugh…!”

one way. I had to cut them off one by one with a longsword with a damaged blade as the rosin that had been scorched and melted clumped together.

Even in the middle of the day, the blade pierced his body every moment, but he endured it. It is virtually impossible.

virtually impossible. As the thought passed, Nicholas’ heart became urgent.

‘for a moment. I’m going to die…?’

at las. It took a long time. Nicholas thought of death. In the crisis of his life, he recalled his situation as if being chased.

this desperate situation. His heart became urgent at the crisis he believed would never come to him before it came.

But it was too late.

“Goodbye, Commander-in-Chief Nicholas. I put what I learned to good use. I didn’t even think that in the end he would become a teaching aid by taking himself.”

“Hugh hey! wait! If you kill me here!”

I muttered quietly in front of him without paying attention to whether or not I spoke.

“You look up to those who are better than you, but despise those who are less than you. Hamelin is the place to fill your vanity. To you, Nicholas, who loved the position of Instructor General because he was in the position of guiding students who were better than himself. What was it like to see the discarded talents you despised come together to accomplish great feats? It might just be the end that suits you.”

“If you kill me, it will be a disaster! And that’s not all. Rather than shutting up over taboos, they attacked me…! The military authorities will try to bury it! If you kill me, you will cross an irreversible river!”

You should have said that before crossing the river. Even the children who stabbed you with spears aren’t agitated because it’s so empty.

Anyway.

“But I will make your wish come true. I gorge on it.”

Nicholas, who did not know what I was talking about at first, widened his eyes when I held the biometric terminal.

Aki Avatar is a kind of pattern that follows the body. You can shape something on your body. It’s usually used for clothing packets… but what he gave me was a packet type tattoo.

The blood from the previous battles reacted with the tattoo. The blood that started from all over the ground climbed up my feet and dug into the inside of my biological terminal.

I mean, even the military does strange things.

“As a gift from you. It will devour your memories, your energy, your experiences. Just as you never hoped for.”

“Oh, no! I still have work to do…!”

“Who will be eaten because their only job is to be eaten? It just happens.”

okay. This is just a result. If you force the results, you should be able to accept the results that appear.

“not…!”

To keep him from getting ugly, I put a period around his neck where he couldn’t resist.

At the last moment, if he was going to die anyway, he didn’t want to be eaten… as if cutting off his thoughts.

thought was interrupted The knife mark on his neck was the period that marked the end of his words, thoughts, life, and even his life. Nicholas, the Instructor General, ended his life with this.

What he left behind after half a lifetime of education.

With a hundred or so hateful children.

And my stamina increased to the point of dust.

That was all.