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Now, the reason why Zain and Ren move alone to subdue the Succubus Queen was simple.
It was because there was a high probability that the succubus queen would run away once when entering a regular party. The succubus queen was an enemy whose release was confirmed once during the regular attack. After defeating the hero, he wondered if it was okay to suddenly kill such a beautiful girl, and he hesitated and missed the ridiculous forced event. After that, the ending changed depending on how she treated the succubus queen who disguised herself as a silver-haired neat nun and asked to join the party.
Of course, Jain had no intention of seeing such a childish event. The succubus queen was a thoroughbred of the non-virgin world who absorbed and killed more than ten thousand men. Bankruptcy of this walking gene bank was common sense. It was absurd to even make them a friend, so even when playing a game, Jain would always pierce his neck immediately and throw him away.
This time, the urgency of fixing Ren’s illness was added. It was a waste of time to even wait for the reunion after being released once. So, it was planned to exclude the hero and subdue the succubus queen through an irregular route. Fortunately, the Succubus Queen did not have immortality, so she did not need a holy sword.
“But is it really okay? Even if the two of us enter the introspection…”
“It’s okay because you are there.”
Ren’s face flushed slightly at Zain’s resolute words. I knew what that meant. For some reason, if Ren touched his hand, all the strict secret doors of the fortress had been opened. Still, the ball swelled up a bit. The two broke through the outer castle with the help of Ren’s power. Occasionally, I encountered a sentinel.
“What are you guys! Intrusion…”
But their fate was the same. The watchman could not finish his words, his mouth was blocked by a round magic gate, and he gasped, and was pierced through his chest by a flaming spear that flew in and died. With a single gesture, Jain was able to cast the Silence Magic, a rather high-ranking magic. Putting silence, summons a spear of fire to pierce the body. With these two movements, the guards could not even sound the alarm and fell to death like pieces of wood. It was a really neat job, Ren admired. After repeating the same operation seven times, the two reached the last gate of the outer castle. The alarm never sounded. It was overwhelming speed and perfection.
The outer fortress of the fallen old castle was not something that could be broken through in the first place. In the original case, the succubus queen had lost her husband, instigated disgruntled residents, rebelled, and with the help of a dragon with a grudge against the succubus queen, she had to go through an incredibly complicated process of biting a wyvern and conducting a siege.
But now, Ren and Jain skipped all the steps and broke through the impregnable outer castle in about 30 minutes. Ren, who looked up at the tallest last door, held out his hand as cautiously as ever. The last door also opened wide as if to welcome the owner. Following Jain who strode in, Ren breathed a sigh of relief.
“By the way, why are these doors open? I didn’t really dismantle them…”
“Because of your bloodline.”
“Blood?”
“You’ll find out later, so don’t ask now. Now is the time to focus.”
Jain’s voice was firm. Jain, who was observing the details of the inner man with the dazzling vault, brought Ren to the front of the seemingly ordinary door.
“Open it.”
“What’s this?”
“The secret passage leading to the Succubus Queen’s bedroom. It is a passage to secretly kidnap men.”
Ren put his hand on the door with a tired expression on his face. Then the door opened on its own with a creaking sound. A wide hallway with vaulted ceilings was revealed. Torches hung from every wall, casting a gloomy light on the carpet and decorative armor. Jain reached out to Ren and strode inside.
“Hold my hand tightly. It can be dangerous.”
“Huh? Ugh…”
In order to share protective magic, physical contact had to be maintained. Ren hesitated and grabbed Jain’s hand. The effect of the action became apparent immediately after entering the hallway.
“───────────!!!”
A bizarre gray monster fell from the ceiling and was aiming for Ren. However, his teeth were bounced off the round barrier that protruded just before it touched Ren’s body, shattered and rolled on the floor. Jain closed the seal with the other hand as if annoying. A ring of ice formed on its neck, and it exploded when Jain clenched his fist. The man’s severed neck was horribly wallowing down the hallway.
“What is that?”
“Sucking horse. The succubus queen turns a man who has finished sucking into a monster and uses it as a sentinel.”
“Really, it’s terrible, that succubus queen.”
Ren looked at the suction horse as if tired of it.
“Because there must be hundreds of guards waiting in this hallway. Hold your hand tight. Then the barrier will protect you like before.”
“…yes.”
At those words, Ren stuck to Jain’s right arm as if he were hanging on it. The two walked down the long hallway in that state. Every few steps I took, the suction horse attacked me. On the chandelier on the ceiling, under the carpet, in the decorative armor, he ran from anywhere and tried to bite his neck. However, all those attempts were repeatedly rejected. When Jain waved his hand once to make a seal, their stomachs were pierced by fire lances, their internal organs exploded with blood seeping in them, and they were cursed and blinded, and they fought among themselves in confusion. When the five ran together, Jain made two seals for the first time. Then a wolf made of shadows popped out of the air, swallowed five heads and disappeared. The corpses of the spirit horses piled up on each path the two passed, and the red carpet was stained with blood and darkened to crimson. In a word, it was slaughter. Jain alone was slaughtering hundreds of sucking horses.
Frightened by the whole scene, Ren just closed his eyes and moved on, clinging to Jain. Hearing the echoes of screams, riots, and cries, he moved his trembling steps, and the end was approaching.
“Now, you can open your eyes.”
Hearing Zain’s words, Ren opened his eyes. And looking back, I was shocked. Because the hallway was drenched in blood. The smell of blood was so strong that my nose fell. There was not a single drop of Ren and Zain’s blood in the blood. This red mage next to him had wiped out all of the hundreds of sucking horses in just 20 minutes.
“Hey, did you defeat all of this by yourself?”
“Then who would have done it?”
Jain answered bluntly, only pointing to the door at the end of the hallway.
“Now open this door.”
Somehow it seems that my role is only the key. I’ve been training hard on my own… A little depressed, Ren put his hand on the doorknob. As always, the tightly locked door opened gently as soon as Ren touched it. It was time for Ren to open the door and go inside.
“for a moment.”
Zain grabbed Ren’s neck as he was about to enter. Ren widened his eyes and asked.
“why?”
“It’s not unusual. First of all, wait here for a second. I’ll go inside by myself.”
“Ki, Gicheok? I didn’t feel anything…”
“Because it’s hidden. It seems that the commotion is transmitted and the defenders are digging a trap and waiting.”
It seemed that the red mage Jain felt a presence that even the thief himself could not feel. Ren nodded and took his hand off the doorknob. Jain pushed Ren back and walked into the door.
“You idiot, you’re completely under siege! Raise your hands!”
And he sighed at the fact that his premonition had come true. The guards, who were heavily armed with armor, pointed their crossbows at Jain and shouted. Dozens of similar crossbowmen, dozens of orcs and werewolves, and hundreds of spirit horses with swords formed a circle around Jain.
“I don’t know how they entered this castle where the noble queen resides, but I will spare my life if I surrender!”
“Since when did the filthy Adamantium ragweed hive become a noble queen?”
“What, what?”
“Doesn’t it have to be beaten three hundred times to make one suction horse? So, if you add up the ones I’ve caught, you’ll hit 100,000 times? If you beat the steel that much, it will break. So, isn’t it natural to deduce that it’s adamantium?”
“You bastard! That filthy tongue honored one! Stop insulting!”
The watchman’s face turned red. These guys were pitiful beings who lived fascinated by the succubus queen. So it seems that he took the insult to the succubus queen as an insult to himself.
“You idiot! We’ve definitely given you a chance! Surrender now!”
“Yes, thank you. I won’t even give you a chance.”
Jain said so and turned around. What is he doing? The watchman rolled his eyes. Then, I heard the squeak and woke up. He was locking the bar. It was a move that showed such arrogant intentions, blocking the escape route so that even one person could not escape.
“this person…”
Unable to bear the movement any longer, their captain gave the order to fire.
“Shoot! Turn that bastard into an arrowhead, and tell him who the hive is!”
Rain of arrows poured down and aimed at Jain. Hundreds of arrows flying at Jain in a parabola or straight line, however, did not land on the target and stopped in mid-air. It was because Jain captured all the projectiles with gravity magic. The watchman opened his mouth when he saw the magic that was close to the mirage.
“Well, what…”
He held a rain of arrows with his right hand, and made another seal with his left hand. It was a flame of fire. Then a fire broke out for every hundred arrows. It didn’t end there. As Jain waved his right hand, all the knives they were holding began to float in the air, regardless of their swords, spears, or axes. Then all the cutlery were blazing and burning. As soon as Jain, who had all the preparations, swung his left arm like a conductor, thousands of bullets of flames floating in the air turned around and aimed at their original owner.
“What, crazy, what amount of magical power do you mean!
“Okay.”
Looking at the watchman’s astonishment, Jain lowered his hands.
Thousands of bullets followed the gesture and poured like a meteor shower.
*
The commander of the 4th Corps of the Annihilation Army, the lover of the Succubus Queen, and her top executive.
Kwon Ma Xerxes was looking into the crystal ball with interest.
The crystal ball was quietly reflecting the devastation that was taking place in the interior where Xerxes was now, just below it.
“Is it a battle mage, that’s quite a level.”
He murmured as he watched Jain break through hundreds of defenders alone. After dropping thousands of fiery arrows, he wielded all kinds of elemental magic and slaughtered the defenders like a wolf who jumped into a flock. It seemed like it would not last long and would be annihilated. A certain sentinel who had both arms burnt by the lightning that Jain had dropped cried out.
“Madam Kwon! Please save us!”
However, the horse Xerxes was cold. Rather than rushing out to fight to save them, he thought it would be better to sacrifice them to obtain information and fight on the battlefield of their choice. If he had not been for such a cold personality, he would not have become a human traitor in the first place and would not have been able to join the Demon King’s army and take the position of commander of the corps.
“The thing that could be a weakness is… Yeah, that girl.”
After the battlefield was completely cleared up, the magician opened the door and summoned a woman. Even from a distance, she was a very beautiful woman.
“I’ll have to consider hostages or threats first.”
The Horse Xerxes. Another nickname is Xerxes of Killing the Magician. He looked like an arrogant warrior on the outside, but in reality he was very cruel and cunning. He considered all means and was planning to defeat the Red Mage who had invaded the castle.
“Well, if you go into that hallway and come to my arena, you can catch it without any strategy.”
That was the development that Xerxes was most looking forward to. He clenched his chin and looked at the crystal ball. A conversation between a magician and a woman could be heard.
[ What do you think? ]
[ As a result of detection with the redemption skill, if you go straight down this hallway, you will find the Succubus Queen’s bedroom. By the way… ]
[ By the way? ]
[Before that, there is a large amphitheater. ]
[Okay then, shall we go into that hallway? ]
Xerxes smiled. The amphitheater was his battlefield, built by Xerxes specifically to kill magicians.
[By the way, that amphitheater is a bit… hard to say, but ominous. Wouldn’t it be better to go the other way? ]
“Bitch, you’re talking useless…”
Xerxes bit his lip. The skill that the red mage just showed was amazing. It seemed difficult to guarantee victory anywhere other than in the arena, which is his home ground. But his worries were overshadowed, and the red mage persisted.
[ done. How dangerous would it be? Let’s go down that hallway. ]
“Hahaha! Magicians are always like that, because they’re arrogant and always choose the wrong answer at the crucial moment!”
Xerxes got up from his seat and ran towards the arena.
‘Stupid child, that arena is a place built with magic stones that seal magic.’
There, he was confident that he would catch and kill any magician. The nickname Xerxes of Killing the Magician was obtained in part thanks to the arena.
‘It sounds like a pretty strong guy, but if you catch him and eat the experience points, you can finally complete the Fist of Jinmu Bongryong and become a Gwonseong.’
It was his hunting ground. Standing at the top of the amphitheater built of black magic stone, he awaited his prey.
Xerxes, who saw Jain and Ren walking foolishly into the hunting ground, started a fight with an unexpected surprise. As he jumped from the ceiling, he punched the defenseless Jain. Just before he lowered his fist, he was sure.
‘ got caught. You’re young.’
And, after a while, I opened my eyes wide. There was obviously no sign of dodging, because Jain had backed off like a ghost and was dodging his fist.
‘By the way, did you avoid it?’
It could have been a coincidence. However, Xerxes was cautious. Most of the red mages were also magic swordsmen. Looking at the sword hanging from his waist, he seemed to be too. There was a possibility that that guy had a knack for swords, so he could have avoided his attack with the divine law.
‘Because it’s my personality to do everything perfectly.’
He suddenly changed his stance, clenched his fists and laughed out loud.
“You passed the test! All right, I’ll let this Kwon-Ma fight you! As a warrior!”
“What kind of f*cking tests are there?”
Jain replied bluntly. Xerxes said still smiling. From the outward appearance alone, he looked like a warrior who had completely devoted himself to the achievement of nothingness.
“I am Xerxes, the Kwon horse, who transcends the morals of the world to become a authority! Ladies, won’t you join me with Kwon? If I fight with you with Kwon, I think I will be able to achieve achievements and reach authority!”
“Why do I have to?”
“Then, I’ll make sure I don’t touch your woman.”
Xerxes said, pointing to Ren with a knuckle. It seemed like a favor, but it was a threat. If he didn’t listen, it was as if he was going to run straight to Ren and take him hostage. Ren, who understood the words, opened his eyes sharply and said to Zain.
“You don’t have to. We’re colleagues, so let’s fight together.”
‘Hot, that’s not a magician when you hear that.’
Xerxes snorted. And, the red mage in front of him moved as he expected. He had thrown the bare sword away from his waist.
“It’s fine. Good. Keep your promise.”
“Then come into this arena. Oh, you didn’t tell me. You are the thousandth magician I fight.”
“What about the 999 ahead?”
“They’re all dead. In this arena built with magic stones.”
Seeing the thousandth sorcerer who had completely entered the slaughterhouse, Xerxes told the truth and gave a bitter laugh.
But soon he frowned. It was because the magician in front of him didn’t look agitated at all.
Rather, he looked as if he had been waiting.