236 – Lucas and Claire
“A soldier said that. This wall has already been built for over a hundred years, and it has undergone countless maintenance over the years, making it all worn out. So I think it will collapse soon.”
The wall of the Kingdom of Borsha.
Claire was on the podium giving a speech in front of tens of thousands of soldiers.
As a representative of the reinforcements dispatched by the empire, I convey what I have to say before the final battle.
“···I see fear in your eyes. Many people here are probably thinking that it will be difficult to get through tonight. “The number of demons invading this place right now is close to 200,000.”
Everyone gathered here will die before they survive tonight.
That was the main opinion of the soldiers who had to defend this place tonight.
They say there is no way such an old wall can withstand the strong attacks of demons.
The spirit of defeat is already hanging over the entire wall.
“But there is something you are overlooking. “The fact that this wall is so old that it exceeds 100 years means that it has lasted that long.”
At that time, Claire said something unexpected.
It reminds us that the reason the wall is old is because it has lasted that long.
“So I did some research. 15 Invasions over 100 years. Indeed, this wall has withstood many attacks. Among them, there was an invasion of our empire.”
“······.”
“There is a lot of blood on this wall. Starting with your ancestors and ending with your father. He fell here, bleeding fiercely, to prevent foreign invasion. “This wall is a symbol of the determination to protect the precious land and family left behind.”
“······.”
“Behind this wall is your family. Your father knew that too, and although he was afraid, he did not back down and remained here. Staining his walls with his own blood.”
The soldiers’ expressions darkened.
About 23 years ago.
This is because many soldiers lost their lives here during the invasion war of the neighboring kingdom.
And many of the soldiers who lost their lives were fathers of certain families, and now the children of the families that those fathers protected are standing here.
Claire said, looking back at everyone.
“Just as your father tried to protect you, you too will have something precious. Keep it. Even if he falls here bleeding, his father in heaven will be proud to welcome his son. “If you kept what you wanted to protect, that’s it.”
A spark appeared in the eyes of the soldiers who were full of fear.
Family ties.
Because there is nothing better to ignite an emotional spark than that.
With everyone’s morale boiling, Claire continued.
“I am Claire from the Bernhard family. This is a family of specialty spells specializing in buffs and auras. “I will shine a light on your courage so that your determination will not be in vain.”
With those words, Claire began to chant his incantation.
Then, her awakened power began to absorb the mana of her entire area, forming a huge magic circle.
A huge magic ceremony was completed to give buffs to all the tens of thousands of soldiers gathered here.
-Paaa!!!
The blue Jumunjin, stained with the earth, began to create buffs by interacting with the mana of the atmosphere.
And the tens of thousands of buffs imbued with Claire’s heart soon began to be absorbed into the soldiers’ bodies.
All of their potential abilities were revealed, and their overall physical abilities increased.
Claire shouted, looking around at everyone.
“The enemy will not be able to get past this point tonight!”
Claire’s final comment to boost morale.
However, there was no shouting in that comment.
Rather than shouting, he answered with his eyes.
I will make sure that the enemies will never pass over this place.
“Everyone go to their positions!”
The soldiers who received Claire’s wide-area buff moved to their respective positions.
Claire eventually got off the stage and moved to the camp, where she went to see Lucas who was waiting for her.
Lucas smiled and welcomed Claire.
“You said you were good? “If I were a soldier of the Kingdom of Borsha, I think I would be a little moved.”
“···Well, it’s basic…. “His name is a buffer, but his speech is about this level.”
Claire blushes and scratches her cheek as if she is embarrassed by Lucas’ praise.
At that time, Lucas held Claire’s hand.
He dragged her to him and gently held her in his arms.
Claire’s face turned red as if it were going to explode, but she stayed still in Lucas’ arms.
“It’s so good. “That you are my girlfriend.”
“····Ugh.”
Claire’s bright red ears that look like they’re about to explode.
I felt like I should answer something, but my heart was beating so fast that my mind felt blank.
How can Lucas say such shameful words so casually?
-Excited… Excited… Excited… Excited…
But as I was in Lucas’ arms, I could hear his heartbeat.
A heartbeat that beats as fast as you do.
Claire smiled and hugged Lucas.
As soon as he touched her chest, Lucas’ heart began to beat even faster.
‘hehehehe. You are the same. ‘It’s okay to pretend to have leisure.’
Lucas’ heart beats faster as physical contact increases.
At that time, Lucas began to pull his lower body back, breaking into a cold sweat.
When Claire looked up at Lucas, her face turned bright red and Lucas hurriedly spoke to Claire.
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“Okay, Claire… “The soldiers might see it, so why not stay a little further away.”
Soldiers?
Claire tilted her head and looked around.
Isn’t this a space where only those dispatched from the empire can be?
‘Huh?’
At that time, Claire noticed that Lucas’ posture was becoming increasingly strange.
A comical posture where the lower body is set too far back.
Claire soon noticed that Lucas’s area was swollen and fell on Lucas, his face blushing.
With an awkward atmosphere in the air, the two stared into the distance and began to look for a way to deal with this atmosphere.
“It is the enemy!”
But just in time, the devil saved them both.
In this awkward atmosphere, news came that tens of thousands of demonic armies had arrived here.
“Lucas!”
“Yes! “I’ll be back in a bit!”
Claire nodded and ran out.
Lucas continued to pinch his thigh while singing the Empire Anthem.
After about a minute, Lucas, who was finally free from the menstrual phenomenon, ran to where Claire was standing.
-Krrr!!
-Kyaooooo!!!
A land full of demons.
They started flooding into this place without any awareness or warning.
200,000 Black waves poured into the wall.
Lucas looked back at Claire and shouted.
“Claire! “That’s what I always did!”
“Yes!”
The two became closer after defeating Cassandra, a high-ranking demon born as a result of Ed’s butt-show.
Like this, Lucas and Claire boasted of being a fantastic duo after the incident.
They get along so well that they know what each other is thinking just by looking at their eyes.
-Weee! Flash!
With Lucas’ spatial technique, the two made a spatial leap.
They were able to distort space just like the ground they were stepping on, allowing them to float in the middle of the enemy.
-Gooooo…
Claire, who floated above the center of the enemy, immediately began preparing the spell.
As much as she is an expert in buffs and auras, she also possesses high-level skills in debuffs and dioramas.
After Claire casted the wide-area debuff spell, she scattered it among the demons.
To make it easier to understand, it can be said that it has an effect of about -20% (defense reduction).
-Paaat! Paaa!
However, the debuff did not stop at just one.
All kinds of debuffs such as reduced health recovery, reduced stamina, reduced attack power, reduced speed, etc. Were applied to the enemies.
When the devil’s combat power weakened, Lucas cast the final wide-area spell.
-Up───eee!!!!!
He casted ‘Space of Death’, which imitates a black hole that sucks everything in.
-Keez!!
A large number of demons were sucked into the black hole and began to disappear.
Even the demons who would have been able to escape were helplessly sucked in by Claire’s debuff.
-Sssssttpkktkt
However, since the new technology introduced by Lucas consumes a lot of mana and is ‘maintained’ rather than ‘instantaneous’, he had to continue consuming mana to maintain her technique.
And to make up for this, Claire, who can ‘recharge mana’, refueled Lucas’ mana in real time.
It is a combination that inevitably creates synergy between the two.
【Krrr! Target those guys first! Let them fall to the ground and tear off their limbs!】
However, these were not demons that would just suffer.
Intelligent commander-level demons gave orders to deal with Lucas and Claire first.
-Whoop! Huh! Huh!
However, the attack against them did not use any physical force, as if it were an attack against a hologram.
The reason Lucas and Claire are floating there in the first place is because it is a mirage phenomenon caused by ‘space distortion’.
In reality, they were somewhere else.
In short, they are using the bully tactic of hiding in a safe place and unilaterally beating the enemy.
【Krrr! Break down the barriers first!】
In the end, the commander ignored them and ordered them to break through the wall first.
It doesn’t seem like it would be a good idea for Storm to fall without getting tired of the Zergling Hydra unit.
Since we could not attack, we had no choice but to penetrate the enemy’s stronghold.
If the wall is torn down, the other side won’t be able to act like a brat like that.
“The barrier has been torn down! Maintenance team this way! Stop it from here!”
How many attacks did they have to endure from such angry demons?
In the end, the wall began to crumble in various places, turning into an all-out war.
Lucas and Claire have been fighting hard, but the number of enemies is so overwhelming.
The defense line had no choice but to gradually be pushed back by the enemy’s human-in-training tactics.
“Damn, if only the destructive power of my technique had been a little stronger…”
Lucas was disappointed with his firepower as he watched the defense line gradually being breached.
From the devil’s point of view, this is a remark that would criticize the subject of unilaterally throwing out infinite storms, calling him conscienceless.
Lucas wanted to launch infinite Nuclear, not infinite Storm.
If that were the case, more people could have been saved.
“···Lucas, you are strong enough. Of course, we will become stronger in the future.”
At that time, Claire held Lucas’ hand.
Lucas, who was suffering from his own inadequacies, looked at Claire with a smile.
When he was with her, he felt like her imperfect world was becoming perfect.
“·····Came.”
At that time, Claire’s eyes began to flash yellow.
The buffs she had planted in her soldiers had grown to their maximum.
-Hung! Hung! Hung! Hung! Hung!
The buff, which had grown dozens of times, began to be returned to Claire.
She could feel the sincerity of the soldiers melted into each and every buff.
The sincerity of those who are willing to die while remembering their loved ones.
That true power was replaced by tremendous energy, lifting Claire to a distant, supreme realm.
We are presenting here today ‘Advent’, which only Iris, the first head of the Bernhardt family, could have written.
-Whaaa!
And the last buff that is always recovered is the buff that was applied to Lucas.
Lucas’ true love for himself.
“···Thank you. Lucas. “Your buff… Is always so sweet.”
“hehehe. Embarrassingly. So is it time to change roles?”
“Yes. “Let’s wipe it all out.”
Claire surrounded by tens of thousands of golden lights.
The two, who had been hiding in a safe place and using bully tactics, finally rushed to the battlefield.
Hundreds of thousands of demonic armies break through the defense lines and slaughter the soldiers.
A golden flash began to erase the demons on the earth.
Claire, floating in the air like a goddess, passes judgment.
-Quaaa! Quaaa! Quaaa!
And the judgment she made was overwhelming.
Her flash of light that melts demons, like a vampire that burns when exposed to the sun’s rays.
【Kill that b*tch immediately!!!】
At this time, Lucas’ role is focused on ‘defense’.
All of her physical attacks against her are blocked with ‘space distortion’.
-Quaaa!!! Kwaaa!!!
-Kweee!!!
And also, it was Lucas’ role to create a ‘roadblock’ so that the demons could not escape.
Because the space is separated for an instant, the escape route is blocked by the wall of the space.
-Quaaa!! Quaaa!!
Thanks to this, Claire was able to focus everything on the attack.
It can show off its crazy firepower, erasing hundreds of demons with a single flash of light.
【Wow, this is ridiculous… How can I kill that crazy b*tch…】
A crazy entity that is too powerful to ignore, and yet cannot be attacked.
The demon commander, who thought that with an army of 200,000 people he could easily conquer the Kingdom of Borsha, looked up at Claire with vain eyes.
And as soon as I made eye contact with Claire, a golden flash poured into this place.
That was the last sight he saw.
***
-Kugugugugugugugugu…
Just then, Ed’s aircraft carrier arrived in the Kingdom of Borsha.
The soldiers of the Kingdom of Borsha, who were praising Claire and Lucas, looked up at the huge whale with dumbfounded faces.
An aerial aircraft carrier of such enormous size that it casts a shadow over the entire capital of the kingdom.
Eventually, Ed came down to the ground and patted Lucas and Claire on the shoulders, congratulating them on their hard work.
I went straight to the King of Borsha Kingdom and saw Deal.
The entire kingdom must be relocated.
Of course, King Borsha vehemently rejected Ed’s proposal.
“Well, you can’t do that! “We have been protecting this land for hundreds of years—”
“Hey, friend.”
But then.
Silhouettes of several people coming here calling for King Borsha.
The owners of the silhouettes were kings of different kingdoms.
When King Borsha looked at them with a dumbfounded face, King Altussen patted him on the shoulder and said,
“Hey friend. My country also accepted Lord Fix’s offer. “It’s not a bad offer.”
“We decided to enter Lord Fix’s fortress early. “An opportunity like this is rare?”
The three kings actively persuade the puzzled-looking King Borsha.
In the end, King Borsha, who was taken in by their brilliant speech, decided to emigrate.
The ‘Add Friend’ event, which reduces your debt by 10% when you invite another king, was a shining moment.