060 Episode – Sacrifice
“······uh?”
A woman with red hair and a scar on one eye suddenly picked up and collapsed.
A black hooded man standing next to him took the woman.
The man slapped the woman on the cheek.
“Lay! Wake!”
Rumble-
When Raya convulsed and started pouring nose blood, the man eventually pulled out a syringe and shoved it into Raya’s body.
Then, Raya’s body convulsions subsided and her rough breathing returned to normal.
Soon, men in black hoods ran towards the two of them.
“Jacob, what’s going on!”
“It seems that Raya received a mental shock. I just put the stabilizer in, so it should be fine.”
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Jacob said to the woman with the black hair sticking out.“Ten, report what happened.”
Ten explained exactly what he saw with detection magic.
“All the trolls Raya used were annihilated, and more than half of the orcs were annihilated. Tigris only swung his sword once.”
“······What? Only once?”
“uh. The Tigris looks stronger than we thought.”
Ten glanced at Raya who had fainted and said.
“I feel sorry for Raya, but I think you were right, Jacob. If we had attacked Tigris prematurely, we would have all been dead.”
The others nodded and said.
“The order to kill Tigris made no sense in itself. How can we kill the monstrous guy who killed Lucas with a single blow?”
“By the way, Prince Matthew said you must kill him. If you hear the news that the operation has failed, would you be very angry?”
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Jacob said while carrying Raya.“I take responsibility. It’s impossible for us to kill a monster who killed 10 trolls with a single blow.”
“okay. Well, doesn’t that mean we failed the mission we saw?”
The command given by the King of Gillion to the ‘Black Maw’ was to activate a ‘some kind of magic’ in an area of the Eastern Railway connecting the Empire and the Kingdom of Gillion.
The order to kill Tigris was an additional request from Prince Matthew.
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Jacob said to the woman with dull gray hair.“Kenny. Did the spell work well?”
“Witchcraft doesn’t fall hard like magic. It may or may not work. Beast people, including Teho, can only know exactly when they pass by here.”
A large man with a great sword spat on the floor.
“Whatever it is. If you succeed, you succeed; if you fail, you fail. If you report it like that, you’ll break your head to Prince Matthew.”
“In terms of the possibility alone, it is more than 90 percent. Can you explain this?”
The giant man grunted.
“If we fail with a 10% chance, we are all behind. Do you think you can live?”
“I think I will at least live longer than you. Because you are ignorant, you are a short-lived seller.”
“Shall we sell? what another word I told him not to use strange words I didn’t know.”
When a fight was about to start, Jacob shot the two of them.
“Do both in moderation. I’ll have to walk to the Marquis of Baros, so I hope you don’t make a lot of noise.”
Then, Kenny said with a meaningful smile.
“for a moment. Wouldn’t you like to kill Tigris?”
“Stop talking about killing Tigris with magic. Because I don’t want to play with your dog-like things again.”
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Jacob can kill anyone, regardless of age or gender, if it is necessary for the Kingdom of Gillion.However, torture is not done unless it is really necessary.
It was because it was disgusting to see people writhing in pain, not a matter of human dignity or faith.
So, personally, the mission with that shaman that I took on this time was the worst.
Severing a person’s tendons and arteries and killing them with pain as slowly as possible was a very difficult task.
As Jacob was the leader of the secret society ‘Black Maw’ in the Kingdom of Gillion, he performed as calmly as possible, but it was something he did not want to experience again.
“There is no other use of magic. The magic has already been activated.”
“What?”
“Actually, thanks to you guys working harder than I thought, I had a little bit of time left, so I put a fun spell on those sacrifices. In fact, there was a higher probability that it would not activate, but it seems to have been activated by chance as the trolls and orcs died in swarms.”
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Jacob let out a small sigh.If possible, it’s not a good choice to face that monster.
However, they said that there was a spell, so I thought it would be better to listen first and judge.
“What kind of magic was activated?”
“It’s just simple. It is a spell that loses your sense of balance when you smell a corpse.”
“Can you explain what exactly it means to lose your sense of balance?”
“It’s good to just think of an earthquake or when you’re on a boat. The ground is still there, but it feels like the ground is shaking? They’re probably out of their minds right now.”
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Jacob said looking at Ten.“Ten, check it out.”
“Wait a moment.”
Ten closed his eyes and performed detection magic.
“… it’s true. The advance speed has been significantly reduced. Some of them are running with vomiting altogether.”
Kenny said with a smirk.
“I don’t know if I can kill Tigris or not, but if I attack them now, don’t you think you’ll be able to kill at least Granz? Well, if you’re lucky, you could even kill Tigris.”
“How long will the spell last?”
“About half a day? It’s using corpses, so the effect doesn’t last long.”
Kenny’s words were like the whispers of the devil.
Even if it goes back like this, this purpose will be fulfilled.
But since he couldn’t kill Tigris, it was certain that Prince Matthew would hold him tight.
Still, if you cut off Granz’s head, wouldn’t it be fine to arrange it?
“Time is running out, Jacob. It’s of no use if you attack them when their reinforcements arrive.”
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Jacob handed Raya over to Ten.“Jacob are you really going? If you make a mistake, you could die.”
“Even if we can’t behead Tigris, it would be right to cut off Granz’s head.”
Hearing that Prince Matthew, whose mental state has been fluctuating recently, had failed his mission could have killed Jacob in a flash.
Even if he cut off Granz’s head, it could have been an extenuating circumstance.
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Jacob shot Kenny.“Instead, you go, Kenny. You flirted with me, so you should be held accountable.”
Kenny grinned.
“Well, that’s enough. If you can help in moderation, please help.”
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Jacob said looking at Ten.“If we don’t come back, go with Raya to the Kingdom of Gillion.”
“······I get it. But if you can, just come back.”
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Jacob said as he drew his sword.“It’s up to me to decide.”
* * *
‘·······You are under a spell.’
Orcs and trolls did not pursue them, but the soldiers were not in very good condition.
The forward speed was noticeably reduced, and the lines were disorganized.
‘It must be a spell that makes you lose your sense of balance.’
The ground was rumbling like waves.
Before his return, Tigris had been subjected to this type of magic many times by Levis and the witches raised by Levis.
It was a type of magic that made the physical condition the worst, such as loss of balance, blindness in one eye, or a disgusting taste every time you eat water or food.
Tigris was used to it because he had fought a lot in such a worst condition, but the soldiers including Granz were not.
‘The attack is definitely coming.’
I don’t know when, but I knew that now was the best time for them.
If you make a surprise attack now, the soldiers will lose their pulse and die.
There is no one to protect you but Tigris.
However, if he tried to protect all 50 or more soldiers, Tigris could be killed or seriously injured.
Tigris clenched his sword.
Tigris was all too familiar with this dilemma.
It was because he had been through so many things as much as magic before his return.
Especially when routing (敗走), this happened a lot.
Rota and Arphem’s clan used the weakened and weary troops as bait to twist and kill Tigris.
However, Tigris never sacrificed himself for his troops.
It was because they thought that if Tigris died because of a mistake, it would be damage to the entire empire.
So, even if 10 people died, 100 people died, and 1,000 people died, Tigris did not blink an eye and ran away, throwing away all his troops.
No one told me if it was the right choice or the wrong choice.
Even Princess Rain Rover looked at Tigris with tired eyes, but didn’t say anything.
Because Tigris was truly an indispensable force for the Empire.
But Tigris can speak proudly now.
That was the wrong choice.
At that time, Tigris did not do his best.
I just gave up.
Although he was able to ward off flying arrows or magic, he did not block it with the excuse of maintaining his own stamina.
Tigris thought that this was a heaven-given opportunity.
It was an opportunity to change myself.
It was something he would never have done before he returned.
sacrifice.
Tigris decided to show the sky proof that he had truly abandoned his arrogance.
A woman in a black hood suddenly appeared from the sky.
Even Granz did not recognize it, but Tigris did.
Tigris turned back and drew his sword.
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Just like a killer whale hunting a seal, the silver sword bit the black hooded woman’s neck in an instant.The woman’s neck flew into the sky and fell.
Then, black hooded assassins appeared from the forest.
Tigris took the lead and confronted the black hooded men.
“Sir Tigris!”
“Go! Sir Granz. Here I will stop you.”
“no! I’ll stop…”
Chaejaejaeng!!!
Tigris shot three memorized weapons that flew towards Granz and hit them with a sword.
Granz swallowed his saliva.
I didn’t notice the memorization flying.
“I’ll stop it, so send your reinforcements here.”
Granz bit his lip.
Granz’s condition was not good.
He was holding out with superhuman patience and stamina, but his eyes were spinning.
Granz realized that stopping his feet was going to get in the way of Tigris.
“shit······.”
Granz wept.
Anger filled his head at his own weakness.
Granz looked ahead and ran.
The only thing to help Tigris now was literally to get out of the battlefield.
Kwagwang! bang!
Tigris then struck out all kinds of memorization, arrows, and magic that flew towards the troops.
Ordinary soldiers did not even know what Tigris was doing now.
Suddenly, he appeared next to him and disappeared after memorizing and using magic.
It was like a ghost.
However, it was clear that Tigris was protecting them.
If they fall behind, the Tigris becomes more dangerous.
Because they are nothing more than burdens now.
The soldiers endured the rising feeling of vomiting and teased their feet even more quickly.
Tigris slashed the flying dagger and blocked the man’s sword that had pierced his side.
Tigris tried to counterattack, but a huge boulder was flying towards the soldiers.
Tigris kicked the man’s boat and stepped back, then arrived in front of the rock in an instant.
And swept the rock aside.
The rock’s trajectory changed strangely, and it flew towards the man who was stabbing the sword towards Tigris.
“Aww!”
The rock crushed the man’s body.
The sorcerer who blew away the rock opened his mouth wide as if in shock.
But there was no room for surprise.
Tigris pulled out the gold band hanging from the pocket watch.
Then the golden cords turned into thick chains.
It was the chain of the heavens, the holy relic that I brought from the 1st report not long ago.
Tigris hurled the chains of the sky at the wizard who had just thrown the rock.
There was no need to aim.
Because the chain of the sky flies towards the target that Tigris recognized.
The wizard fled with the blink magic.
The chains of heaven were broken strangely, and they accurately tracked the fugitive wizard.
Char-!
“what!”
I tried to get out with the blink magic again, but I couldn’t move.
Rather, his body was tied up, his legs loosened, and he sat down.
It was because of the power of ‘weakness’ carried in the chains of heaven.
Tigris pulled the chain strongly and dragged the wizard.
“Ugh!”
The man with the giant sword struck the sword with the intention of breaking the chain, but rather the chain tied the man with the sword.
“This is nothing…”
Scratch!
Tigris mercilessly blew off the neck of the wizard and the man with the great sword at the same time.
Now, there is only one person who can attack from a distance.
Tigris hurled his blood-stained chains of heaven at the archer hiding behind the tree.
“Harm!”
However, the chains of the heavens smashed the trees and tightly bound the archer’s body.
Tigris pulled the chain strongly.
The archer’s body flew towards Tigris as if he had caught a big fish.
“This bastard!”
Two men with twin swords and spears rushed towards Tigris’ body at the same time.
However, Tigris gently pushed aside his twin swords and spear with the Salamander’s sword.
Char-!
Then a chain wrapped around both of them at once.
“Zen…….”
Scratch!
The sword of Tigris mercilessly decapitated an archer, a double swordsman, and a spearman at the same time.
Now all that was left was you.
A woman with gray hair and three men with swords are hiding in the trees.
Among them, there was one man who looked familiar to Tigris.
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Jacob.He was the leader of the ‘Black Maw’, a secret society unit in the Kingdom of Gillion.
His specialty was various craftsmanship and assassination, and the number of the general’s neck, which he had suffered, exceeded ten fingers.
I don’t know about the others, but that guy had to be killed today.
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Jacob looked at Tigris with calm eyes.His eyes were counting something.
‘The dizziness hasn’t gone away yet.’
The magic effect was still there.
You have to kill the shaman to restore your physical condition.
In this state, if you used a sword with Simdeuk, your body could be destroyed.
‘It’s a gamble.’
Tigris hurled the chains of heaven towards the woman hiding behind the tree.
“Damn it!”
The woman’s body was wrapped around the tree.
Tigris pulled strongly.
Woodduck!
The tree was uprooted and flew towards Tigris.
The three men ran at the same time, but Tigris hid behind a tree and a woman that slept.
and drew the sword.
Scratch!
Tigris cut off the woman’s neck with a tree.
Then, the woman’s body instantly turned into a thick blood-colored gel like slime.
The red gel flew towards Tigris.
Tigris evaded the gel with a ghost walk.
However, the bizarre Zell has frantically pursued Tigris.
‘It’s a shaman.’
It was clear that before his neck was blown away, he had sacrificed his soul and body to perform a strange magic.
As proof of that, Tigris’ sense of equilibrium returned.
Tigris took a deep breath.
And he drew his sword with the image of ‘cutting’.
A beautiful and clean line cut the gel and at the same time cut the waist of the three men flying towards Tigris.
Iron-!
The blood-colored gel turned into blood and spread on the floor, and the three men, including Jacob, died with their eyes open.
All around was a sea of blood.
However, not a single corpse was found.
Tigris rekindled the tickling feeling he had felt after killing Schwitz’s clone a while ago.
It was a relief.
Tigris took a small breath and looked up at the sky.
‘Now I’m going to go catch the guys who kept staring at me.’
The new Tigris has disappeared.
* * *
Granz, with his five hundred men, ran towards the place where Tigris had fought.
‘none······.’
There were only the corpses of the group that attacked Tigris, and Tigris was nowhere to be seen.
Granz bit his lip.
The tip of his tongue tasted like blood.
‘If Lord Tigris had ever been captured…’
After seeing Tigris’s inaction, I thought it would never happen, but the suspicion of ‘maybe’ penetrated Granz’s heart like an earthworm.
Granz ordered the soldiers.
“Screw up now and find Sir Tigris!”
“Yes!”
As the soldiers were about to enter the Hayden Forest, there was a sound of chains clashing in the distance.
Granz saw a chain of gleaming gold moving through the forest.
Soon the crescent moon came out of the clouds.
“uh?”
It was Tigris.
Tigris was dragging two fainted women with chains.
Granz ran away after a month.
“Sir Tigris! Are you all right?!”
“yes. it’s okay. What about the others?”
“Thanks to everyone, there is nothing wrong with the body.”
“okay. Fortunately, the.”
Tigris put the two fainted women on the floor.
“Maybe these people…”
“I am a companion of those black hooded assassins.”
Granz gritted his teeth.
They were the ones who would be cool even if they changed it right away.
“What are you going to do with these guys?”
“I’m thinking of taking you to the Inquisitor. I have already called the Inquisitor.”
“okay······.”
Granz made eye contact with Tigris for a moment, then shook his head.
He was so pathetic that he could not see Tigris properly.
The only thing the 5-star knight could do was just run away.
It was so embarrassing to Tigris and the soldiers that his face was still burning.
All Granz could do in this situation was to bow his head and express his gratitude.
“Thank you so much for today. Sir Tigris. Thanks to that, I was able to protect myself and my precious soldiers.”
Tigris said as he looked at Granz, whose face was flushed with shame.
“Sir Granz did what only Sir Granz could do in that situation.”
“······yes?”
“As I said before, I am not even the commander of the entire army. I am just a general article. So Sir Granz did what he was supposed to do as a knight and commander of the unit, and he did what he had to do as a former knight.”
Tigris looked into Granz’s red, bloodshot eyes and said.
“So you don’t have to bow your head like this to me. Because they did their job.”
Tears fell from Granz’s eyes.
Granz did not run away, but commanded the troops.
When Tigris, who was no one else, said this, I felt like I was saved.
“We will work harder in the future. For Sir Tigris.”
“You don’t have to do it for me. The road for the Empire is the road for me.”
Granz nodded.
“All right. I will give my life for the kingdom.”