“I know. Why don’t I know that?”
Lucas smiled bitterly.
“On that day, how did you feel when you left the castle? I want to hear your honest answer at least once. Did you doubt me and my younger brothers? Did you resent me?”
Tyr, who was silent, shook his head.
“Brother. I never doubted or resented anyone.”
“············”.
“It was the opposite. I thought my brothers and sisters would resent me for having him dethroned. That’s why I left. Whatever it is, I won’t be able to go back to the way I used to be. If I disappear, time will take care of everything.”
“…you’ve been thinking absurdly.”
“I did. If I have any regrets now, it’s that I realized too late that it was an illusion. I came back to where I was too late.”
Taylor got up with a shattered body.
Lucus, who was staring blankly at him, also stood up with his sword on the floor.
“I wish I could have properly apologized to my younger siblings.”
“That’s why I should have told you to go back to the capital a long time ago. You can’t break your stubbornness from a long time ago.”
“Haha, you’ll only do it, brother.”
With a darkly shaded face and a bitter smile, Taylor said as if muttering.
“If I come back alive, I’d like to sit around the garden in the backyard of the palace and talk. Just like before.”
Lucas also nodded with a similar expression.
“Yes, if I could go back alive.”
It was just a story. The two knew each other well.
Unless a miracle happens, there’s no way you’ll survive this hell.
It was the moment when the insects that started climbing up the wall again flocked to the two brothers.
flash!
A dazzling white light suddenly covered the sky.
That huge brilliance soon split into dozens of streams and rainwater fell toward the outskirts of the fortress.
Kwagwagwagwagwang!
A vibration that resonated with the earth shook the fortress.
More than half of the insects that were constantly rushing toward the wall exploded in one blow.
“······································································!
After chopping down the bugs, Taylor and Lucus raised their heads to the sky.
Suddenly, something slowly came into view just above the fortress. It was a huge black wyvern.
Seeing the people riding on the Wyvern’s back, Taylor stood blankly and muttered involuntarily.
“········7 Lords.”
In the darkest moment, a miracle really came.
Siege of Gadfalk (3)
“·······You have arrived just in time, 7th lord.”
The Black Sea Empress, who slowly rose from the cocoon, raised the corners of her lips.
The figure of the Seven Lords who had arrived on the battlefield was reflected in her sparkling eyes.
***
I looked down at the half-broken fortress with cold eyes.
I hoped that it would be true, but it was indeed true.
Did the King of Earth Hill choose to fight without surrendering?
As far as I know, he wasn’t that stupid.
Still, it was incomprehensible that they wanted to continue the war against the army of the Black Sea Empress.
There was only one case left. Even after surrendering, the opponent did not surrender.
The reason I came all the way here from the monarchy was because I was concerned about such a development.
…but in the end it was too late.
The war had started before I arrived, and many had already died.
Earthhill seemed desperate to resist, but they could not bear the power of the Black Sea Empress.
Still, should we consider ourselves lucky to have arrived even before the fortress was completely destroyed?
“Achelle.”
“Yes.”
Ashel, who was waiting for the next command with her sword drawn, answered immediately.
Half of the bugs that were rushing to the fortress in the blow that Ashel had just flew were dead.
He had the momentum to jump off at any moment and sweep away the remaining insects.
Even for her, such a massacre would be an unacceptable tragedy.
“Go and defend the fortress.”
Ashel nodded, jumped straight from the back of the dragon, toward the fortress, and swung her sword.
A huge storm of swords swept the outskirts of the fortress once again, killing the insects.
I looked at the scene and looked away.
Toward the army of the Black Sea Empress in the distance.
It seems that only a small part of their power was mobilized to attack the fortress.
There were also huge entities that could completely destroy the fortress walls if they wanted to, but none of them moved.
“············”.
I looked at her army and soon realized.
A tower of giant bugs that rise all over the army.
That’s what we call a ‘mother tower’.
That tower was the core of the huge army ruled by the Empress of the Black Sea.
At the root of the mother tower, there is a queen body that is fused with the reproductive nucleus, and if energy is continuously supplied through the magic of the reproductive nucleus, the queen body can endlessly multiply worms. That was the setting in the game.
’31 pieces.’
The number of towers currently visible was 31.
At most, the number of queens she had would not exceed 40, so that was the equivalent of mobilizing almost all of her power. Of course she will be here now.
I understood the meaning of it.
You said you brought so many queens to the battlefield to beat just one fortress on Earth Hill?
It is an act that goes beyond showing off and is not common sense. There is no reason to bring the Queen itself in the first place.
‘I was prepared for my coming.’
She was expecting me to arrive here on time.
If he hadn’t come or it was later, he would have used Earth Hill as it was.
I was confused as to which of the two was the intention of the Black Sea Empress.
Is this the intention of attacking the fortress till the end even if I come? Or was the goal to attract me from the beginning?
If it was the former, I couldn’t understand why she was willing to hit Earth Hill, even risking a collision with me.
What does she have to gain from doing so in this war?
In the latter case, it was equally incomprehensible.
If you were going to drag me in, so what are you going to do from now on?
I knew from the last emergency call that she had bad feelings for me.
But if that’s the reason to fight with all your might, is that really true?
She can’t kill me anyway. The opposite is also true.
In the first place, even battles are prohibited without the overlord’s permission, but even if it’s until battle, if she wants to kill me, it’s impossible for her to take over.
‘What are you thinking?’
That was then.
I could feel huge magical energy flowing from the towers of the Black Sea Empress.
oo…
I stared at the gigantic mass that started pouring out of all the towers, hardening my eyes.
They were swarms of flies.
An enormous amount that seemed to be hundreds of times more than the insects that attacked the fortress.
They poured out endlessly, gathered in one place, and soon covered the far side of the sky in black, as if the letter ‘disaster’ had a visible form.
A huge army of flying insects slowly approached this way, and the voice of the Black Sea Empress resounded on the battlefield.
– If you can stop it, stop it, 7th lord. Should I protect the people of the fortress?
A voice mixed with laughter as if it were fun.
. . . I was then able to figure out what the 8th Lord’s intentions were.
Apparently this crazy bitch really did this to provoke me.
“under.”
I smiled and looked at the black waves crashing from the sky.
If you don’t stop, the fortress will be wiped out in the blink of an eye.
If possible, he did not want to collide with the Black Sea Empress.
Until I came here, I thought of avoiding collisions as much as possible.
If I, who has already killed the 6th lord, continue to collide with other lords, the overlord will notice.
But if he came out like this, I couldn’t help it either.
No, rather than having to do anything about it, I touched her character properly.
“Let’s try it.”
I went down a little further and immediately activated the blood technique.
The legion of the Black Sea Empress coming from the front is truly overwhelming.
The case is completely different from the monster swarms that I had faced in the past in Magical Hallumenta. It was not on a scale that could only be covered with drops of blood as it was then.
Only by reacting that way would they get to the fortress with less than a tenth of the kills.
But I also had an idea here.
I have been constantly thinking and researching how to use my abilities effectively and in what situations whenever I have time.
Of course, the one that paid the most attention was the synergy between instant death ability and blood magic.
Although I have not yet used it in practice, I have also prepared a way to deal with enemies of this size outside the standard.
A way to hit a much wider range with far less fatigue than clumping and popping blood and scattering drops of blood.
The blood gushed out of my body swayed like a mist.
A change in properties from a liquid state to a gas-like state.
In order to make this possible, he has been training in the blood technique and increased his blood control ability.
The red blood mist quickly spread around me in all directions.
But to deal with that army, this is not enough.
I continued to spread the blood mist by focusing my super regenerative powers solely on the regeneration of my blood.
This was also one of the achievements of researching and training abilities. It was also possible to focus the regenerative power on only a specific part of the body.
woah ah ah ah.
Within a few hundred meters, a huge haze of blood that could have easily crossed over was completed.
I stared silently at the hordes of bugs that flew by themselves towards Hell.
***
“This······.”
Commander Masto was speechless.
A woman who roams the battlefield like a beam of light and annihilates insects alone.
Each time she swung her sword, hundreds of bugs were swept away, and the battle situation of the fortress, which was just before the fall, changed in an instant.
Longford also took a breath and stared blankly at the Wyvern floating in the sky.
“·······The 7th lord of Calderic. The 7th lord has come to help us.”
He felt an indescribable feeling, and then he came to his senses.
When the opportunity came, I had to rush the enemies and annihilate them. Of course, it was a yard that had already been wiped out by the 7th lord’s superman.
“Lung, Your Majesty! There…!”
Then something changed in the army of the Empress of the Black Sea in the distance.
A terrifying number of flying insect monsters started pouring out of the towers made of insects.
In an instant, they all covered the far side of the sky and gradually approached the fortress.
An overwhelming force that seemed to have not been even a joke in the attacks so far.
The soldiers, who had been in hope for a while, looked at the scene again, tired of despair.
Ashel also stopped the battle for a moment and looked up at the sky with a stiff face.
After a while, a thick blood mist spread from the 7 Lords riding on the Wyvern.
It soon became as huge as the armies of the Black Sea Empress and covered the fortress.
“What are you trying to do?”
The Black Sea Empress, who was watching the situation leisurely through the eyes of insects, narrowed her eyes. blood fog?
He had guessed that the 7th Lord could handle blood, but he didn’t know the details of his abilities.
On the one hand, he looked like the power of the 6th lord he had killed: madness.
Maybe poison or mind control? She naturally guessed so.
“It’s disappointing if it’s just those things.”
The Black Sea Empress’s bugs were basically poisonous insects.
The poison did not work for those born from her magic, which was the most poisonous and terrifying in the Demonic Spirit.
The same was true of mental domination. The worms are a part of her, and from birth they are perfectly bound to her domination.
It was impossible to usurp this dominion no matter what the seven lords used.
“Come on, let’s see. Whatever you do, it’ll be much quicker for my girls to destroy the fortress.”
The Empress of the Black Sea watched the situation with a smirk.
And it was the moment when the worm corps completely entered the 7th Lord’s Bloodmist realm.
“······································································!
The Empress of the Black Sea jumped up in surprise.
In an instant, the life signals of all insects were cut off.
Insects in the blood mist fell to the ground.
***
I raised the corners of my lips as I watched the insects fall to the ground like ashes.
‘done.’
Instant Kill is an ability that meets the trigger conditions as long as it somehow touches the opponent.
In other words, whether it is a drop of blood or a small amount that is only 1/1000 of a drop, all you need to do is reach it somehow.
So this is also possible.
The moment I let the worms into the blood mist without any boundaries, my victory was certain.