As I was chasing the butcher, I was diverted when Stefan appeared and told me to go the other way.
‘This way.’
Fires are burning all over the arsenal.
Black smoke rising from below. Intuitively, I knew there was another name in it.
Outside the armory, people were crowding restlessly.
“There is Arthur inside… … .”
Ralph said to me with tears in his eyes.
A monster I heard about while studying names.
Blackbeard Slime.
He is in here with Arthur.
The 1st floor was engulfed in flames and could not be entered, so I rode the Baekrang from the roof of the opposite building to the 2nd floor of the armory.
Scattered weapons and bloodied corpses were seen everywhere.
Stairs, handrails, and floors were all strewn with bodies of soldiers who had been cut off.
In the middle, a man with four swords and Arthur, who is barely standing with a coat of blood, are confronting each other.
I jumped down with Baekrang from the second floor railing and blocked Arthur’s way.
“Arthur!”
It looks like it will die any minute.
Shed too much blood. The rough breathing was gradually fading.
‘Because of the flames, no one can come and save me.’
It didn’t seem like the sword demon in front of him would be comfortable letting Arthur go out like this.
‘It can’t be helped.’
The sword demon in the form of a short black-haired man rolled his eyes.
A slime that turns into a human.
Still, something awkward doesn’t seem like a perfect transformation.
“Is it you? Who made Arthur like this?”
“you… what?”
His green eyes glowed strangely.
The pupils dilated and shrunk repeatedly, then tilted their heads.
‘Is it possible to imitate human speech?’
It was a clumsy moment, but it was a moment when I could clearly feel that his intelligence was different from other monsters.
‘Tsk.’
I don’t have time to have a leisurely chat with him. First of all, it is urgent to quickly sort out the situation and rescue Arthur.
[Bulge]
He instilled spiritual power into Chohon and swung it.
Caan!!
Two swords block my sword, and the other two swords surge sharply.
“Quit!”
Swords and swords collided in disarray.
It wasn’t for nothing that the nickname “sword demon” was attached.
Even while using four swords, he penetrates through gaps in the right place.
The sword and the path of the sword were in perfect harmony.
‘Is this my inner strength?’
A monster believed to have lived for at least 100 years.
Even in the midst of frantically swinging the sword, those green eyes are shining brightly as if searching for me.
Kang!
His sword, which cuts into sharp gaps, cuts through the hem of my clothes.
‘Damn it, do you still have a name comparable to that of a swordsman?’
The troll warchief would never have won if he hadn’t inherited Sara’s fighting spirit.
‘Even speculation aside, the Sword Demon is more than a troll warchief.’
In terms of skill, it feels like a top-notch knight.
Moreover, the characteristic of being a slime and the fact that it uses multiple swords made it even more difficult to deal with.
“no… I will.”
Suddenly, the slime that compressed my ankle like a spring flew through the air.
Then, he stuck his sword into the railing on the second floor, bounced up with exclamation, and stood in front of the window in an instant.
“next time… see.”
Having said that, the slime broke the window and jumped out.
It must have escaped under pressure from the growing fire.
The entire building was so hot that the whole body was wet with sweat before one knew it.
Flames rushed inward and ashes began to fall.
“Arthur! are you okay? Hold on a little.”
Arthur’s condition was very serious.
I immediately got on the waiting Baekrang with Arthur on my back.
“let’s go!”
Stepping on one side of the stairs that was about to collapse, he jumped up and threw himself back through the window where Baekrang had come in.
“excuse me! I’m here!”
“Sir Ren! Arthur is… … .”
The soldiers who confirmed Arthur’s condition quickly took medicine and bandages and treated Arthur.
“Where did the Sword Demon go?”
“It looks like he was heading towards the castle gate.”
Arthur’s breathing, which seemed to stop breathing at any moment, became a little easier.
First, the fire was quickly extinguished.
– Let’s go to the castle gate.
-The baby told me! Don’t even give me rice and roll it!
– I’ll take care of you enough to die of hunger later, so wait a little bit.
– Sniff! i get it!
After barely calming Baekrang’s grumbling, he headed back to the gate.
There was more mayhem at the gate than inside.
The corpses of Amaranth Knights and soldiers strewn all over the inside of the gate.
On the top of the wall, the Golden Lion Knights, who had fought alongside the soldiers, were breathing with expressions as if they were about to die.
“How was it?”
“Sir Ren! You are here!”
“Captain! we! We saved the North!”
Andrew, who was on top of the castle wall, exclaimed proudly.
“The Sword Demon has just crossed the wall and returned to the monsters.”
The commanding officer who commanded the gate came to inform me.
“Is that so? thank god.”
I don’t know why the Sword Demon quietly retreated, but thanks to that, the damage didn’t seem too great.
The gates that were said to have been breached were closed again, and the blood-stained walls looked like they needed repair work.
“What happened to the legion of monsters?”
“It’s withdrawn, but it’s not completely off the wire, but it looks like it’s coming back.”
“Have monsters ever moved in groups like this?”
“doesn’t exist. It’s such an organized movement… … , I’ve never heard of this.”
The mood in the north became serious.
While the long defense battle stopped for a moment, the soldiers and knights rested and recovered.
Executives gathered and held an emergency meeting.
* * *
“How did this happen?”
For the first time since coming to the North, Alan couldn’t manage his expression at the sight of the fort that was so shocking.
“About 2,000 of the monsters who had an enemy force of 10,000 died in this battle… … .”
The executive salivated and continued talking.
“It is said that about 2,000 monsters gathered again.”
“How on earth do monsters in the north form corps like humans and organize a siege?”
To Alan’s question, all the executives kept their mouths shut and couldn’t answer easily.
They didn’t know why either.
I’ve never seen anything like it before, and I’ve never seen anything like it in my past records.
“What is presumed is that a new named class monster has appeared… … , even that is not certain.”
“… … Can that mean that a monster strong enough to lead an army of more than 10,000 has appeared?”
“yes.”
Alan’s expression hardened seriously.
It wasn’t this serious even when they said they were asking for reinforcements.
However, during my brief visit to Proviant, the atmosphere in the North was far less gloomy than the previous foreboding.
“Nothing has been found yet, so let’s wait.”
Stefan said with a calm face.
“How was the skill of the Sword Demon?”
His question drew the attention of the executives to Ren.
“It felt on par with the troll warchief, maybe even more.”
Stefan and the knights who went through the troll warchief probably couldn’t find a better explanation than this.
“I understand why the captain suffered.”
The vice-captain of Amaranth, who attended the executive meeting on behalf of Arthur, spoke.
“Tomorrow the second invasion will begin. Until then, do your best. They won’t be able to constantly create monsters.”
The emergency meeting ended without any results.
The next day, the monster army’s second siege began.
Hundreds of monsters fell into the moat beneath the walls. Before anyone knew it, the moat was full of monsters.
Using that as a stepping stone, the monsters who bounced up again hung ropes and ladders on the wall.
“Pour the oil! If you don’t have it, bring some filth and sprinkle it all over!”
“Beware the Shadow Archer! Don’t expose yourself as much as possible! Raise your shield!”
A fierce battle took place on the walls of the castle.
The monsters threw their lives away like simple consumables, while the limited warriors of the north each and every one of them were precious.
When the monsters came up, the Golden Lion Knights cut them down.
Having endured in the north for quite some time already, the Golden Lion Knights were quite accustomed to fighting.
“Find a shadow archer in a radius of 15 degrees north!”
A soldier hiding in the steeple and checking the monsters with a magic tool that can see far away shouted.
Then the knights and soldiers all at once set up shields in the direction of 15 degrees north or hid themselves behind cover.
PABABABAK!!
On the first day, the damage caused by the shadow archer was not the only one.
For that reason, he set up a soldier looking for a shadow archer on the spire and notified the soldiers every time to prepare.
But even this is only a temporary expedient.
It was too early to completely block the Shadow Archer’s attack.
hooked!
One soldier was knocked backwards with a direct hit to the head slightly sticking out through the cover.
It was a wasteful title given to a monster, but it was a skill worthy of being called a great bow.
“sh*t! Hide properly!”
“Monsters are coming!”
“The shield soldiers cover your view and kill those who come up in the meantime! Load your arrows! I can’t match the name anyway! Shoot mainly those who come up!”
Loud voices, screams, and shouts erupted from all directions.
Alan, who had seen their grueling battle under the castle walls, returned with a tired expression.
The second Mercury, which seemed to have no end, came to an end.
Those who died this Mercury passed three positions.
About 1,000 monsters died this time.
“Günther! Tens of thousands of soldiers died this time over! Doesn’t Sir Günter know better that they are different from the regular soldiers in the center of the continent?”
Ren met Günther at the warriors’ grave.
Before the second siege, Ren asked Günther to lend him his strength, but he was unsteady.
– What a sad story.
“Didn’t Günter say he would fight to the end for one of his comrades?”
– That’s the story of when I was appointed as the lord of the castle. It’s after death now.
“Anyway, these are your successors. Some of you may have inhabited them while you were still alive!”
– So my daughter died that way?
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Günther was no longer able to speak.
In his dead mind, only revenge for his daughter’s death was left.
“If Ain Bayer collapses like this, revenge against the Shadow Archers will be impossible.”
– It will be the same even if I go out now. Even if I explode my similar energy, he will freak out and run away.
“… So, are you saying you’re going to hold out until he safely comes inside?”
– okay.
Ren was fed up with this stubborn old man.
The third siege has begun.
The attack was more intense than last time.
This time, the walls of Ain Bayer were opened.
There, Ren, who was at the forefront of the Amaranth Knights, rushed along with them holding the Chohon.
In an instant, dozens of monsters were crushed by the Amaranth Knights.
As the knights fell back and reappeared to crush them several times, a huge scream was heard from the distant snowy mountains.
aaa!!!
How loud it was, it was so loud that the people throughout the fort could hear it.
At the same time, the monsters started having seizures.
Regardless of whether they were wounded or not, a baptism of attacks that disregarded death unfolded.
Warriors’ damage increased.
The knights fighting outside the fortress said they saw the silhouette of a 5m tall monster over the snowy mountain that day.
After the 3rd Mercury was over, the officers confirmed that the monster was a new named entity that created the corps.
They called him Tyrant.
“A tyrant… … , is a fitting name.”
Ren, who felt his energy directly on the front line, greatly sympathized with the name decided at the meeting.
* * *
The 4th siege is over.
At the end of the siege, the Tyrant made its first appearance.
A monster covered in white and blue fur.
Its size was twice that of the troll warchief, and its ferocious spirit was charismatic enough to dominate all the names.
It laughed ferociously, exposing its huge buck teeth at Stefan and me on the top of the castle wall.
“Ha, it looks like you’re laughing at me.”
“I guess the reason it showed up this time was because I had the confidence to destroy it next time.”
“I think we need a final meeting.”
The executives gathered together.
Arthur, who had barely recovered, was now able to participate in the meeting.
After a total of 4 battles, 4 out of 10 executives died and 2 were seriously injured.
Only Stefan, Arthur, Olive, me, Alan, and the last officer were left in the conference room.
“If Tyrant goes out in the next siege, the gates of the people will be breached in a hundred. All of our soldiers are tired. There are now far more injured than healthy.”
At the executive’s words, Olive slammed the desk and stood up.
“Then what are you going to do? You want to abandon the fort like this?”
Silence fell in the conference room at Olive’s words.
“good idea.”
And I got that
“what? wren! What are you talking about?”
“Let’s drop it. Ain Bayer.”
It shouldn’t be like this. It takes more time for reinforcements to come, and even if they do come in the first place, you can’t kill that ignorant Tyrant.
‘speculation… , I need speculation, just like Sarah.’
The guardian spirits of the cemetery, which were said to be buried in several snowy mountains here.
You have to find them and gather speculation.
It’s not enough to simply plan to stop the monsters.
We need to make a plan to catch the Tyrant.
“We must wage guerrilla warfare.”
At my words, all the officers’ eyes lit up.