I Became the Hero Who Banished the Protagonist chapter 46

46. coming (3)

Is this how a soccer player looks at his team while injured? I was killing time in the ward by repeating only training and recuperation. The noise outside the window had been getting louder and louder since yesterday. Probably, there really isn’t much time left before the monsters start their invasion.

“[Do you kill time because it’s only been a few days, do you say mani?]”

The holy sword gave a rebuke. Well, the anxiety was true. Even without me, they would have enough capacity to block a swarm of monsters, but I was dissatisfied with not being able to see it with my own eyes on the spot.

“… Still, it’s good that the speed of recovery seems to be going smoothly.”

“[It’s fortunate, but for the time being, keep that double swords sealed. Since you’ve already messed up your body once, you need a recovery period to mess it up again. There is no law saying that the next time you use that skill, your body will survive intact.]”

As the Holy Sword said, it took some of the load on my body, but the twin swords were definitely powerful. Since it uses two powers, it will be much more difficult to deal with. Since he overcame the load on his body when using the holy sword, he thought that a double sword would be possible, but the opinion of the holy sword seemed different.

“[Do not leave the battlefield doing useless things during the war.]”

Being dismissed right away like this, I couldn’t think of anything to protest against.

“[At that time, it would be better to work hard on the swordsmanship that the Grand Duke of the North modified.]”

“Then, don’t you intend to teach me swordsmanship?”

“[It is impossible to teach someone who does not know the sword well with just a few words. It might just be a hindrance. All I can teach you now is the basics and movements.]”

I guess that’s also a good thing for me. Thanks to you, I got through the crisis several times.

“[If you become more familiar with the sword, I will let you know little by little. The swordsmanship that has become a myth used by heroes of the distant past.]”

The holy sword said as if to soothe me.

“okay. For now, we should start thinking about opening the second stage.”

It was good to have more time to challenge the crown test. Ever since he started training with the Grand Duke, the time he had to withstand the test was increasing. I’m not sure if that’s a positive sign or not.

“[Thanks to that, you must have slept comfortably on the nun’s thighs again.]”

… As the Holy Sword said, it was impossible to tie myself to a pillar, so I asked Marianne for help. As requested, she helped me to keep the thorns from the crown from getting stuck in my head when I fell, but she gave me a lap pillow every time I fell, which was a bit difficult. There was a time when I just asked for it to be placed on the pillow normally, but when I opened my eyes, what I finally saw was Marianne’s face. Even more troubling was that I was getting used to the feeling. Thanks to that, only the nagging of the Holy Sword increased day by day.

“You couldn’t help it.”

“[They do seem comfortable though.]”

I let out a soulless laugh and buried my head in the pillow. I’ve been given permission to start fighting right away from tomorrow, so I’ll just go to bed early today. The trick is to wake up early in the morning and go to the fortress wall. It was when I leaned the holy sword against the window sill and closed my eyes to go to sleep.

coogu palace.

As soon as I heard the noise, I grabbed the holy sword. As soon as I got dressed, I wanted to open the window and jump down like a chimney, but I calmly jumped down the stairs of the ward.

“[It’s coming. It is fortunate that the misfortune begins when you are almost fully recovered.]”

“The days of being confined to bed are over.”

Soldiers and knights brushed past me as I came out of the ward. Some even rode horses. Even without looking at the outer castle, I could feel the momentum of the monsters approaching.

thud. thud.

A roar was coming. It seemed that the wizards had begun to use magic in earnest. Shouts and shouts, the dizzying sound of spears and swords, and the unraveling of taut bowstrings were heard. The closer you get to the wall, the clearer the sound.

“… Get off!… ”

“… Drop it into the fire!… ”

From the castle walls where shouts could be heard intermittently, something pitch-black crashed. It was a monster whose body was cut in half. I ran without slowing down and arrived at the stairs climbing the wall. The soldier who was guarding the road going up opened his eyes in surprise and immediately moved out of the way.

climbed the stairs Pulling out the holy sword in advance, I turned the mana. body was light. The rest of the past few days seemed to have had a positive effect on my body. At the end of the stairs, I saw a crawler holding onto a knight. I held out my sword straight away, and the crawler’s head, which had been screaming with its mouth open, was severed and tumbled down the stairs.

“Thank you, warrior.”

The knight, who was tainted with monster blood, nodded lightly and headed back to the battlefield, and I followed him and looked around the battlefield to see if anyone needed help.

Kieek, Kieeck.

However, there was no place that seemed to need my hand that much. Among the screams and screams heard, the soldiers and knights could hardly be heard. I approached the Grand Duke of Quenore, who was sweeping away the monsters with overwhelming inaction at the center. The Grand Duke knocked a white wolf off the wall with a single kick and turned to me.

“Isn’t it late?”

“What if you put me in the ward and criticize me for being late?”

“yes. If I had just been lying there quietly until tomorrow, no one would have said anything.”

“All was well. You don’t have to worry.”

I frowned and dropped a monster that had climbed up the wall. It wriggled its limbs in the air, engulfed in flames and screaming in agony.

“But if that’s the case, then I have nothing to do.”

I wondered if I needed my hand. Daphne, who can be seen from afar, with fluttering pink hair, was generously pouring the magic of the 5th circle. Like a heavy warrior, Georg stood still and swung his mace to turn the monsters into porridge. And near them, a spear warrior dressed in armor pierced the monster like a ray of light and ran across the wall.

“Why don’t you have anything to do?”

The Archduke pointed to the castle wall. Monsters, soldiers, and knights were tangled together and blood was splattering desperately. The spears of the soldiers pierced the belly of the monster, and the swords of the knights blew off the head of the monster that had become a skewer. Seeing that sight, I firmly gripped the hilt of my sword.

“Please take good care of the soldiers.”

“of course.”

The Archduke and I stood back to back and kicked off the ground at the same time and ran out. The cold wind from the limit line, which had come closer, brushed my cheeks. I thought of the grand duke’s teachings as I flung my body as if brushing the ground.

‘Your movements and basic skills are so great that I don’t need to touch them. However, in my view, what you lack is a matter of detail in fighting. In the end, it’s a matter of how you use the power you have.’

sharpen the blade There are many goals in front of us.

‘You have a good sense, but a fight that relies only on your senses is, after all, a fight that does not consider the total amount of your physical abilities. Hero Illoi, keep my movements in mind.’

insulate Arm movements are kept to a minimum. I select what my body can do and what it can’t do without overdoing it.

‘The war is not short, Illroy. It’s not for nothing that you say that you don’t need to use a cow-slaying knife to kill chickens. Power is most powerful when it is well distributed.’

“[The Grand Duke of the North taught me good things. Use it well.]”

Keep the running momentum intact. I naturally split the first monster’s body in half. The monster cut it off on its own without much effort. The yeti who was competing with the soldiers died just like that.

“No, hero!”

“Are you intercepting our exploits?!”

Dissatisfaction, not dissatisfaction, exploded behind my back. I turned my head and gave a grin and started cutting down the monster in earnest. If there was a place to be pushed, I ran and swung my sword. I killed the monsters I could see, and I killed them again. In less than two hours, I cut close to a hundred monsters.

“… I knew it would be like this.”

When I came to my senses, all the monsters around me were looking at me. Because I installed it so much, it seemed to have become a top priority for removal. I took a moment to catch my breath while confronting them.

“Kill him first.”

The yeti, apparently intelligent, growled lowly. With those words, the monsters that climbed up the castle wall attacked me in an instant. Slashed, pushed, dodged. In the meantime, monsters attacking me from behind were approaching. Okay. If you run mana, their teeth won’t even stick properly. It was when I bit my teeth hard to prepare for the shock.

Kwakwang.

“Hero, are you okay?”

I had no choice but to let go of my body and laugh. Marianne’s holy spear pierced the two monsters approaching from behind me in an instant.

“Good timing, Marianne.”

“I will open the road.”

Georg ran in front of me and opened the way with his mace and shield. The monster was swept away without being able to resist properly in front of Georg’s power. Following-

“Lightning bolt.”

Daphne’s magic hit the yeti’s body at the end. The yeti let out a painful cry and twisted. Daphne was smiling next to me.

“Isn’t the end up to the hero?”

“… It makes you lose face.”

My legs were moving steadily toward the yeti. Just one slash. The yeti’s head, bound by Daphne’s magic, was severed by the blade of the holy sword. The offensive of the monsters, which had been strong in the beginning, was slowly fading away. The corpse of the monster became firewood and made a strong fire, and the wall of the corpse became a barricade to prevent the monster from sticking to the wall.

“Push away!”

The demons that clung to each other while screaming were cut down and fell. There was no sense of time thanks to the sun still beating brightly. It seemed that the sky had been dyed a deep orange for a while, but now the pale morning sun was shining again. The last monster tumbled out of the castle wall. I stared at the pile of corpses, blazing with a foul smell. With that hill as the boundary line, the monsters couldn’t get any closer. Then, as if some sort of order had been issued, the monsters turned their backs and began to disappear into the forest.

“Fix it up. Today’s battle is over.”

With the Grand Duke’s declaration, the soldiers sighed in relief and began tidying up the battlefield. The grand duke’s eyes were still burning with his fighting spirit, and he was looking at the demons beyond the castle wall.

“… We can’t just stay on the defensive forever.”

As I said, Archduke Quenore nodded.

“yes. The moment the limit line hits this castle, it will be the end. As you said, everything will collapse with one kick from the giant.”

The Archduke did not call today’s battle a victory. The soldiers also looked like they were not letting go of tension.

“When the palace’s support arrives, the best strategy would be to entrust them with the defense of this castle and head off to defeat the giant, but we don’t know if those monsters will act the way we want.”

Grand Duke Quenore narrowed his eyes and sighed.

“… Please, I hope our soldiers will not be afraid of tomorrow coming.”

—

The offensive of the monsters was regular, like a search battle. In the morning, we met and fought against the monsters that came in, and the monsters withdrew at night after paying countless sacrifices. The defense battle lasted for several days, but the opponent always attacked with the same momentum. There weren’t many victims in a single battle, but they gradually piled up like clothes soaked in drizzle.

‘I am the corps commander, ‘Mur’.’

Ten knights were killed by one corps commander who climbed the wall. More than a hundred soldiers must have died. The Archduke cut his throat. The battle that day ended earlier than usual. That day, even after the battle, I did not speak to the Grand Duke.

Gradually, night began to draw closer to this land. The sun, which had been shining brightly all day, passed the afternoon and began to cast twilight. The night was gone after waiting for a couple of hours. The night that came to the battlefield was not a very welcome guest.

“… Don’t you think it’s getting a little cold?”

One night after the battle. The soldiers shrank from the sudden chill and leaned against the wall. The stench of the monsters still made my head dizzy.

“How much longer do we have to endure like this?”

I heard the soldiers muttering. I went over to our huddled party and took a corner and sat down.

“This feels different from Kraken. If at that time it felt like facing a typhoon, now it seems to be tightening my neck.”

Georg stuck out his tongue and shook his head.

“When the reinforcements arrive, we will open the gates and then attack the giants. I don’t know if the monsters will wait until then.”

Daphne was sleeping against the wall. After spending mana like crazy for several days, the fatigue must be extreme. Marianne was still awake, but her face was just as tired. At that moment, a chill ran up my spine. Feeling a strange sense of deja vu, I jumped up from my seat. yes. It was a feeling I had never felt before. The scenery in the middle of winter that the crown of thorns showed me.

“Illroy?”

Koo Goo Goo Goong-!!!

The world shook. All the soldiers and knights who were resting against the wall stood up and sounded the alarm. I approached the edge of the wall and looked out into the woods.

“… damn it.”

Beyond the grayish curtain of the limit line, I saw a silhouette of something.