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13 The Welcome Army (5)
A group of armed forces that do not belong to any place and are driven solely by money is called a mercenary group.
And among them, there were also mercenaries who specialized in hunting only humans, and people called them ‘human hunters’.
Yu Kwan, the leader of Red Hat, who is one of the top three human hunters in the group, was looking at a village not far away.
‘ That village is the goal this time.’
To be precise, the target was Prince Zion in the village, but there was no difference.
After all, that town was also going to disappear today.
‘ Was it a request to disguise yourself as if you were attacked by a welcome army?’
Not even a single grass is left in the place where the welcome army has appeared.
Therefore, it was essential to erase the entire village in order to thoroughly disguise it.
‘ Well, this might be better for Prince Zion.’
At the very least, after finding the phantom forces, they will die.
“ Captain, aren’t the Dmitry guys coming back?”
Behind Yu Kwan, a skinny, thin man approached and opened his mouth.
“ I sent you to look at the dynamics in advance, aren’t you having fun first?”
“ Then why not? Commander, let’s go too! Waiting is the limit now!”
At that, the other members also looked at Yu Kwan and began to squeal.
For a moment, Yu Kwan, who had been staring at the completely darkened sky, opened his mouth slowly.
“ Yeah, go and kill them all.”
Saying that, Yu Kwan’s eyes were as red as the moon in the sky.
* * *
“ Huh, huh! no… … no!”
The urgency in Ferna’s eyes, the girl running along the long path, was young.
‘ Come on, let me know!’
Earlier, when she encountered strangers who gave them a strange feeling, she secretly stepped on them and witnessed a great sight.
Regardless of what happened, outsiders who had stopped by Liam’s house were attacked by unknown people, and a close battle ensued.
And the close combat was so high that Ferna, an ordinary person, could not even see even a single movement properly.
The only thing she could see was the darkness that swirled around the pale man and the bloody lines that flowed from the fingertips of the red-eyed woman.
By the time Ferna was able to accurately recognize their movements again, the battle had already been over.
to the triumph of the outsiders.
It was certainly a very shocking sight to defeat more enemies than themselves, and even those with superior skills.
And the moment he heard the words of the newly emerged short-haired woman, everything else was erased from Ferna’s mind.
‘ The main unit is separate, it is waiting nearby and will attack this village soon.’
As soon as he heard that, Ferna started running towards the village without even bothering them to find out about her existence, and had not yet reached the village.
ride it!
The girl felt that the distance between Liam’s house and the village was too long today.
“ Please, please… … .”
A nightmare that engulfed the village a few years ago, slowly starting to replay in the girl’s head.
I didn’t want to repeat that scene again.
‘ Soon… … What the hell is it!’
How much time do you have left?
Even if it is announced now, will the villagers without any means of transportation be able to escape?
Soon after, the image of the village in the distance entered the girl’s eyes.
‘ Come on, let me know… … !’
And that moment.
Tickle!
Ferna’s new model, which was running, suddenly stopped.
“ Ah… … .”
The girl’s eyes are dyed with despair with him.
already in town.
“ Kihahaha! Cut off all of them!”
“ Help me, please! live… … Gagging!”
“ I’ll give you money here, something worth the money, so Peterman… … .”
“ Huh? You don’t need a penny?”
Whoops!
“ aah!”
That nightmare was repeating itself.
“ No… … .”
Ferna stood blankly and looked at the hellish scene.
Then she met the eyes of an old man who had just been caught on the head by one of the human hunters.
‘ Grandpa Gibson!’
An old man who always treated her with kindness like a real granddaughter, who lost all his parents at a young age.
Do, man, hit.
Such an old man was shouting only with the shape of his mouth, without even making a voice, for fear that Ferna would be caught by the hunters.
I didn’t like it.
this town.
He can’t protect his own body, so he always loses.
Still, the villagers are always smiling.
That’s why I wanted to leave this town, and that’s why I wanted to be strong enough to leave the town.
No, actually… … .
– Ferna, go eat dinner at my house today.
I didn’t want to leave.
– Noona, let’s go picking fruit together! When my mom picks fruit, she makes delicious pie with it!
I just wanted to keep it.
– Oh, you only have clothes? wear this too I didn’t buy it for you, just because it doesn’t suit me.
These foolishly kind and naive people.
I wanted to protect, so I wanted to be strong.
– Heh heh, Fernaya. It looks like you’ve done too much firewood, so come in and take some with you.
Anymore.
I didn’t want to lose anyone, so I wanted to be strong.
“ Let go of that hand! You bastard like a dog aa!”
Ferna runs towards the hunter who grabbed the old man Gibson’s head while holding a pickaxe lying nearby.
However.
“ Huh? What is he?”
Aww!
A powerless, mid-teenage girl could not stand up to a professionally trained human hunter.
The hunter with pierced lips immediately released the old man and grabbed Ferna’s neck as he rushed towards him.
“ Ouch!”
Ferna struggles while holding the hunter’s hand with both hands.
Ferna’s hidden hunter’s relentless grip was slowly getting blocked.
Still, the girl’s eyes were still glaring at the hunter with great fury.
“ Hey, look at your eyes? Are you going to kill someone? Do you like it. I feel.”
The hunter who looked at her face then smiled and raised his other hand.
“ I’ll dig out the snow, especially for you.”
The hunter slowly reached out to Ferna’s eyes, muttering cruelly as if enjoying himself.
The girl’s vision, looking at the hunter’s hand approaching her, begins to fade due to lack of oxygen.
‘ So in the end… … .’
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Maybe it was the expected result.
They were prey and they were predators.
The struggle of a powerless prey was nothing more than killing itself.
Finally, the hunter’s hand approached right in front of Ferna’s eyes.
It was a moment of despair in the girl’s eyes.
Aww!
Did it even thunder right next to you?
The hunter’s arm, which was holding Ferna’s neck, disappeared with a sound as if a shell had exploded.
“… … uh?”
The stupid sound that came out of the hunter’s mouth in a blow that was far beyond his awareness.
at that time.
“ Keep your head down.”
A familiar yet heavy bass sound was heard in Ferna’s ear, which had naturally fallen to the floor.
The moment she unconsciously crouched at the power of that voice.
Tuquaah!
With the sound of thunder that was heard once more, a bullet-like blow that lightly passed over her head detonated the hunter’s body as it was.
* * *
“I heard that the disaster that Prince Zion chose to prove his successor this time was a welcome army.”
On the hill near the Kurdish village.
There, behind the demon Cainris, who was looking down at the village, a demon with gills instead of ears opened his mouth.
“ The imprisoned prince? Do you have great confidence? Did you really think you could handle it?”
Cainris snorted at him.
Since he was active in the Empire, he knew something about Zion Agnes.
“ I think other things will be difficult, let alone the welcome army.”
“ Maybe they didn’t have any intention of solving it in the first place. I heard that they only took one servant with them when they left the palace.”
“ It really might be. Come to think of it, I can give an excuse for not knowing where the phantom forces are coming from, so that’s a good fit.”
“ Maybe we won’t come if we tell them we’re going to raise a welcome army here?”
When the other demons were laughing at Zion, the gill demons who were listening quietly opened their mouths again.
“ I think Prince Zion should be careful. Do you know that there was an instruction regarding Zion Agnes this time?”
“ What instructions?”
“ It was an instruction to put Zion Agnes on the watch list as soon as he returns to the Imperial Castle.”
“ What?”
The eyes of the demon woman with a blue body were dyed with suspicion.
‘ watch list’ were people with great influence within the Empire?
“ Why?”
“ From the above, I think there may be a connection between the demons who disappeared in the Imperial Castle this time and Zion Agnes.”
“ That means… … Are you saying that Zion Agnes is hunting demons?”
The gill demons did not answer, but that was already enough.
“ If that is true, then Prince Zion is already fully aware of our existence… … .”
It was absurd.
They knew how thoroughly the demons in the imperial castle were hiding their appearance.
However, it was absolutely impossible to accurately identify and hunt such demons with the abilities of Zion Agnes they knew.
But anyway, if that’s really true… … .
“ The fact that everything I knew about Zion Agnes was a lie… … .”
That was then.
“I have a question for you.”
A voice suddenly cut off Cainless’s words.
It was low, but the voice that resounded in everyone’s ears was not anyone’s here.
“… … !”
With a hardened expression on his face, the demons turned their heads in the direction the voice came from.
Quad Duck!
“ Big, gagging!”
Suddenly, the image of fellow demons pouring out blue blood with their hearts pierced came in.
A demon who vomits a suffocating scream with eyes full of doubts as to why his heart has been pierced or he does not understand.
Soon next to such a demon.
Shrek-
Darker than the night, the darkness gathered together to form a smiling Zion.
“ I hid it somehow, but how could I not know?”
Shion asks with a genuine curiosity, throwing away the corpses of demons that have been destroyed in a single blow, including the heart, core, and even the transmission core.
“ Who are you… … !”
“ Sion Agnes. The author is Zion Agnes.”
The blue woman who looked at Zion like that with astonished eyes stopped talking and the demons with gills opened their mouths heavily.
The eyes of other demons began to shake with him.
‘ How are you here? Do you know who we are? Do you even know what you are trying to do? And then there’s that power… … .’
At the same time, various questions start to pop up in Cainris’s head.
However, the demons stopped thinking of such questions.
Because there was absolutely no way to know now.
‘ Only one thing is certain.’
The fact that Sion Agnes in front of him had completely hidden his true face.
Even if it was a sneak attack, it was said that Cainris killed the lives of fellow demons who were on the same level as Cainris herself with a single blow.
It was by no means the kind of thing the ‘shame of the imperial family’ I had ever heard of could do.
And the darkness that surrounds me.
It was more foreign and ominous than anything Cainris had ever seen.
“You must kill it.”
You must die right here and now.
With those low words, a suffocatingly horrendous magical energy began to flow from Cainris’ whole body.
An opponent who must do his best from the start.
Cainris’ intuition had drawn Sion to such a conclusion.
Dedede!
As if agreeing with his intuition, the blue woman and the gill demon’s whole body exploded with terrifying magic energy, and the surrounding atmosphere began to vibrate.
‘It’s definitely different.’
Zion’s eyes, looking at those demons, subsided.
Just looking at the quality and quantity of magic that flowed out, it was a level different from the demons Zion had dealt with so far.
Probably, if it wasn’t for the sneak attack, the demons I killed the first time couldn’t have dealt with it so easily.
‘ My level is limited to two people at the moment.’
If so, what should I do?
It was an unfavorable situation for anyone to see, but there was a small smile on Shion’s lips.
Zion is.
The higher the wall blocking the front, the higher it is.
The deeper the valley to cross, the deeper.
I had higher expectations.
A crisis that never existed when he was the original emperor of the world.
The joy you feel when you break through the crisis and move on!
at that time.
Tuoung!
The three demons who disappeared with a light cloud of feet appeared right in front of Zion.
The atmosphere was torn behind them and caused a sonic boom.
“ Die.”
Soon after, the hill they were standing on was the moment when the attacks of demons with the power to lightly break towards the vital points of Zion at the same time.
“ I wanted to save it if possible.”
A low voice came out of Zion’s mouth.
with him.
———–!
The darkness that spread from Zion’s right hand, gripping the air, began to take the form of a sword.