155 – Invasion…? (2)
Kim Hyun-woo asked again with a blank expression.
“…So you’re saying that the Lord and the Dragon are sharing a body?”
“Yes, master!”
Kim Hyun-woo asked again with a very strange expression as Merilda answered very cheerfully, as if to confirm.
“…Are you sure?”
“I’m sure!”
Kim Hyun-woo soon fell into a slight confusion, and at the same time, various questions began to pop up in his head.
He wondered why she hadn’t told Kim Hyun-woo about this fact.
‘…Is it because she doesn’t particularly want to be readmitted?’
Kim Hyun-woo thought to himself and soon came to his own conclusion.
Thinking about it, Merilda, Lynn, and Charles had all hoped to return to Lartania, but in reality, not all the heroes thought that way.
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Rather, from Kim Hyun-woo’s point of view, it was amazing that so many heroes had wanted to come back during that time.
That’s why.
‘Then this is…a rejection, right?’
Kim Hyun-woo clicked his tongue with a regretful expression.
Even though he hadn’t finished talking to Adria properly, if the two were sharing a body, the Red Dragon must have heard all of Kim Hyun-woo’s words.
And the fact that it hadn’t reacted particularly despite hearing everything meant that the Dragon was either negative or not very interested in returning to Lartania, so Kim Hyun-woo, who had been contemplating, thought.
‘Still, I’d like to talk to her once.’
“Lord!”
He began to think briefly again, but before he could, he had no choice but to cut off his thoughts thanks to Elena, who opened the door hard and came in.
“What’s going on?”
Kim Hyun-woo asked Elena, who had come into the Lord’s Castle in a hurry and opened her mouth.
However, she soon had no choice but to stop in her tracks as she opened the door with a very ambiguous expression, and Kim Hyun-woo, who soon tilted his head, wondering why she was reacting that way, realized.
“Ah.”
He realized that the current situation was a bit ambiguous.
Right now, Merilda was sitting in front of Kim Hyun-woo with her face on his thigh, even though there was a perfectly good chair opposite her.
Kim Hyun-woo belatedly pushed Merilda’s face away and gestured to her to speak, and Elena, who had been clearing her throat for a moment, spoke with a somewhat urgent expression.
“The Allied Clans sent an army…!”
“…Suddenly from the Allied Clan…?”
“Yes…!”
At Elena’s words, Kim Hyun-woo slightly frowned.
He would because right now, the Allied Clan and Lartania had absolutely no interaction.
In other words, there was no reason for them to be hostile toward each other.
That was why Kim Hyun-woo, who questioned why the Allied Clan would suddenly raise their army and attack at this timing,
“…It’s said that the Clan’s army includes angels.”
“Ah.”
At Elena’s words that followed, he could easily guess why the Clan was advancing toward Lartania out of the blue.
“How many?”
“I don’t know the exact number of angels, but they say it’s over a thousand.”
“…”
At Elena’s words, Kim Hyun-woo nodded without realizing.
‘Angels are definitely a pain in the neck.’
Even when Kim Hyun-woo played Arteiel, there were times when he could use angels as troops through special events, and at least the angels he used back then were nothing short of fraudulent.
‘…Even the basic types, angels can all use sword energy with divine power in the air, and they can unconditionally use magic up to the 3rd circle.’
In fact, angels were not lacking in terms of being the strongest soldiers in Arteiel.
However, despite clearly knowing the deceitfulness of angels, Kim Hyun-woo’s face didn’t seem to show much sense of crisis.
In fact, if he had heard this story just a few days ago, he would have quickly put on a serious expression and worried, but at least not now.
He would because heroes had returned to Lartania now.
The heroes he had spent years putting his life into raising, and there were three of them.
Moreover, he already felt the strength of the heroes who had risen to the unheard of 5.5-star realm, beyond 5 stars, for 10 years, when he first entered Arteiel.
‘…But will it be okay with three of them when there are that many angels and they even have an army? And Charles doesn’t seem to be in good condition.’
Kim Hyun-woo, who had an expression without any creases, began to worry slightly.
However.
“Master.”
“Hm?”
At Merilda’s call, who had been kneeling in front of him until just a moment ago, Kim Hyun-woo stopped his thoughts.
“Should I go and take care of those guys?”
“…There are more than I thought, is it possible?”
“If the master orders it, unconditionally.”
Kim Hyun-woo hesitated for a moment at Merilda’s following words.
“…Don’t overdo it, just in case.”
That’s what he said.
And to Kim Hyun-woo’s worries, Merilda nodded with a bright smile.
“Yes!”
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Ernil, an angel who had descended from heaven and at the same time had come down to earth to punish the existence that was blocking the birth of the great one by listening to the orders of heaven, looked down and saw the army on the ground.
Unlike the angels who had brought about a thousand soldiers, the soldiers of the Allied Clan, who were advancing while leading an army that seemed to be at least ten thousand strong, were so strong that even if the lords or mercenaries who were currently in the vicinity were to look at them, they would feel pressured just by looking at them.
The overwhelming number that was currently advancing through Lartania was enough to make one feel pressured.
However, for Ernil, who was flying in the sky above such an army, the soldiers on the ground seemed insignificant.
‘Why do the angels make us share this great temple with such people…’
Ernil made a disgruntled expression.
She wasn’t the only one.
All the angels flying above the army seemed to have similar expressions of discontent, as if none of them approved of this decision.
At least from their point of view, it was enough for the angels to fight in this great temple.
Of course, none of the angels disagreed with Lawton’s statement that Lartania’s forces might be unexpectedly powerful, but that didn’t make them any less dissatisfied.
Because angels focused more on the meaning of battle than on the difference in power or the justification for it.
That was why Ernil, who could be considered the leader of the angels, had her own complaints about the current situation, but she couldn’t reverse the decision that had already been made, so she continued to move forward with the army.
Soon, the time came when they were somewhat close to Lartania.
“…?”
Ernil looked. There were three figures blocking the army’s path, with less than half a day left before they reached Lartania.
In fact, she had spotted them a while ago, but Ernil hadn’t thought they were blocking the way.
In the first place, there was no way that just three people could block such a large army.
However, when the angels and the army were about to arrive, they naturally stood up and took their positions, and it was then that Ernil realized that they were there to stop the army’s advance.
“…”
Ernil stared at them.
They had definitely stood up, but their expressions were too calm.
They looked so ordinary that one might wonder if they were really there to stop the army.
Moreover, the way they each held their thumb and index finger together and placed them on their lower abdomen with such serious expressions was enough to make anyone chuckle.
Some of the angels seemed to have similar thoughts to Ernil, and the sound of laughter mixed with a strange noise of anger.
And so, a little while after the angels had spotted them, the army spotted the three.
Until a moment ago, they had been holding their fingers to their lower abdomen with serious expressions, but they all turned their bodies and looked at the army.
And then, the next moment. Suin, whose face had been flushed red as if he were drunk until a moment ago, stepped forward.
And.
– Hungry Wolf
As that small voice echoed in Ernil’s ear.
“…?”
A hole was punched in the middle of the army.
“What…?”
Ernil, who was looking down at the ground as if her thoughts had stopped at the sight of what had happened in that brief moment that she hadn’t been able to fully comprehend, heard the screams of the army at the same time.
‘What just happened?’
She still had a confused expression on her face as she looked around in bewilderment.
However.
“H, hey, Ernil! Up, up there…!”
As soon as she came to her senses at the sound of the angel’s scream.
“…!”
Ernil could see it.
A ridiculously large sword that was pointed at the angels and trembling.
“Ah-”
Only then did Ernill realize that something had truly gone wrong, her mouth hanging open in shock.
KWA-A-A-A-AH-!
The fallen giant sword swept away the angels.