283. Hero (4)
Explosive sounds reverberated endlessly around the imperial palace.
It was such a familiar sound and trembling that I could make out what it was from afar.
It was Asylum’s suicide bomber.
It wasn’t just one or two, but dozens… No, maybe hundreds of units rushed in and knocked on the barrier.
If it’s attacking, surely it’s not just Asylum.
It must be a preparatory work for the Mine to infiltrate the barrier.
That much was certain.
From Heretic Questioner to Asylum to Mine…
You are very Power Rangers.
‘It must be a bit tough…’
She was frightened at the thought that she had stumbled upon a beehive.
If only I hadn’t pressured Festia.
If you hadn’t sent troops to the Holy See…
‘It must have been more difficult.’
Otherwise, the situation would have been even worse.
I stopped thinking about it and shook my head.
Now I have an advantage.
As the military occupied the Holy See and the power of the Heretic Questioner was in danger of being neutralized, the attack was carried out in a hurry.
Whether psychologically or physically, it was me, not the enemy, who had the upper hand.
Even if it’s not, I decided to think so.
‘How many Mine will attack?’
The number of mines.
That was the key.
It would be great if there was only one tirpitz, but the odds of that happening are slim.
Tirpitz will never show up alone, as Tirpitz already had a history that was overwhelmingly broken even by me when I was not a demon.
Then did they enlist the travelers?
I hope Alexia doesn’t fall for her, but that was just a personal wish.
We had to assume the worst case scenario.
‘It is possible to fight against 3 demons.’
The magic that poured mana worked, and the field of view suddenly changed.
At some point, I left the Imperial University and was floating in the sky above the Imperial Palace.
The anti-aircraft guns of the imperial palace aimed at the flying object that appeared out of nowhere, but soon after confirming that it was me, they turned their muzzles.
‘Where should I imitate a demon?’
I saw fanatics rushing towards the imperial palace like crazy from all directions.
Guards jumped out and tried hard to stop them, but to no avail.
Because those numbers were so many.
I caught each and every one of those nasty bugs that came into my field of vision.
I can catch all of them without taking any damage.
With that thought in mind, I deployed a spell that synthesized a flash type and an electrical type in the sky.
It was a spell that had never been learned or developed before, but it was drawn without hesitation.
That’s because it was an original technique I devised just for this moment.
I knew a day like this would come someday, but I didn’t know it would be today.
.
.
.
“Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Everyone get out of the way!”
“Kuh…!”
Cutting down the maddening zealots, Fellain swallowed.
They never stopped.
Even if the lower body and upper body were separated, they crawled on the ground with their arms and tried to get as close to the barrier as possible.
And if you think you can’t get close to the barrier-
“Where are you going to pass!”
“Cheer! Uhhhhh!”
“Get away from him…”
Quang!
They would immediately self-destruct and take the guards along the way.
Among the senior knights, the Imperial Palace Guard was the place where only the fiercest elite gathered.
They were also dying helplessly.
If I didn’t sacrifice my life as a price, the barrier of the imperial palace would be broken.
Unreasonable battles forced to exchange the best elite soldiers with fanatics completed with a few simple surgeries.
In the midst of it, Fellain gripped his sword, glaring at the shrapnel.
I wonder where it came from, there were still a lot of fanatics rushing at it.
If necessary, even at the cost of one’s life…
“Ah. I really, really hate dying…”
In the past, I thought I was willing to die for the sake of the Empire, for the members, and for Lord Schluss.
But now I didn’t want to die.
I wanted to survive and see the future Schluss was drawing with my own eyes.
I was with him next to him.
But now I had to protect the imperial palace even at the cost of my own body.
As he made up his mind, Fellain clenched his teeth tightly.
Fellain was about to let out a roar to raise his fighting spirit.
“Ugh?”
Suddenly, dazzling light poured down from the sky.
It wasn’t just Felline who looked up at the sky in amazement.
The zealots who rushed at him raised their heads to try to figure out his identity, but they couldn’t recognize anything because of the intense light and just squinted their eyes.
“Wow…”
Fellain barely opened his eyes and found a human figure floating in the sky.
Then the light began to fade.
No, it wasn’t actually fading away.
The light source split into dozens or hundreds in an instant.
In an instant, the light began to descend to the ground.
As if they were alive, as if they were actively chasing something, the light strands descended in a red trajectory-
“Kuuk?!”
“Ouch!”
In an instant, it was rammed down by the fanatics.
I didn’t miss a single one, and I only hit the fanatic without a single misfire.
They rushed at me like a pack of dogs, and in an instant they fell limp and poured in front of the guards like a wave, turning into a heap of corpses.
“Damn it…”
The problem still remains.
The corpses that had already died were starting to swell up one by one.
The self-destruct spell is activated regardless of whether the caster is alive or not.
But it was already too late.
It was at this moment that Feline hurriedly threw herself backwards and fell on her stomach.
Pajijik······! Jijik······!
“What?”
The corpses suddenly wriggled and the red light subsided.
The corpses, which had been wriggling for a long time with the smell of something burning, were soon emitting smoke and calming down.
‘All internal circuits were destroyed by electric shock?’
Feline, who witnessed the scene, immediately realized what had happened.
The flash of light penetrating into the bodies of the zealots burned the internal circuits of their entire body with electric shock using that mana as fuel.
Until the self-destruct spell can’t work.
However, the problem was that each person’s internal circuit had a different shape and location.
In other words, the caster of this spell analyzed the internal circuits of hundreds of people at the same time.
It was impossible.
In the human body.
“Huh…”
A smile escaped Feline’s mouth as she looked up at the sky.
With the sun as his halo, only a black figure was visible, but thanks to the scabbard on his right waist, there was no difficulty in recognizing who it was.
A very reassuring and strong person.
And too much…
Quang!
“Huh?”
At that moment, an explosion occurred in the air and a black figure was thrown out.
Watching the fall into the distance, Feline froze with his mouth open.
***
“Ugh…”
There was not a single healthy corner of his body.
I barely got up, clutching my aching stomach.
When I looked up at the sky, the air where I had just been was thick with black smoke.
‘I was hit by an annihilation cannon.’
What I was hit with was nothing other than a annihilation gun installed for the purpose of air defense of the islands.
As a victim who has already been hit once, I dared to say for sure.
After sweeping the zealots aiming for the barrier of the imperial palace, Iris’s urgent voice came through the communication as I was briefly grasping the situation.
I’m dying.
In the very near future.
At that moment, I felt all the nerves in my body on edge and turned around in a hurry.
There was no way he could have detected a shell that was much faster than the speed of sound without using ‘Selection and Concentration’.
It must have been something like an instinct engraved in my unconscious as I went through the battlefield several times.
At that time, the shells were already flying right in front of my eyes.
However, the barrier was suddenly deployed, and a shell exploded in the air, breaking the barrier.
It was probably Erica’s barrier.
The barrier absorbed most of the explosive power, and thanks to covering his face with his hand, his head was not hurt at all.
If it hadn’t been for the end hardening function in the internal circuit, my face would have been completely crushed by now.
“Ugh…”
The limbs were tattered.
The skin was all peeled off, revealing the inner meat like a well-mixed gochujang bulgogi.
Since the whole body was in this state, it was impossible to solve it with low-level recovery medicine.
[Shop]
[Items can be purchased using shop coins.]
[Owned coins: 24]
[Lesser Recovery Potion] 2 Won
[Advanced Recovery Potion] 5 Won
You can only buy 4 bottles of advanced recovery medicine…
At this point, all you have to do is treat the limbs.
Things were getting worse and worse.
An air defense gun was stolen by the enemy.
The Extermination Cannon is strictly managed in a fortified fortress, so the Mine must have quietly infiltrated it, destroyed it, and handed it over to Asylum.
I didn’t know how many cannons were stolen that way.
If that gun was aimed at the imperial palace instead of the sky…?
“I can’t do that.”
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I had to launch a quick counterattack.
It wasn’t a fatal injury that greatly hindered movement, so I decided to hold on.
If it’s Mine’s resilience, this will quickly recover within a few hours.
I felt like I was going to die of pain because I still had the weak mental strength from when I was a human, but I had to endure it.
It’s not just the store coins I’ve been saving for something like this.
“What’s wrong?”
“·······.”
It was a familiar voice.
The moment she sensed that beautiful yet hateful voice, goosebumps all over her body and her strength went up.
It was Tilpitz.
Tirpitz, dressed in human clothes, was slowly walking out of the alley with his hands behind his back.
“Looks like you’re seriously injured. Wouldn’t it be better to go get a treatment from her saintess, Iris?”
“Shut that mouth.”
“You’re talking too harshly. The last time I met you at the Mine Meeting, you weren’t so disrespectful.”
“Unlike back then, you are very relaxed. She doesn’t even know her future.”
“Who doesn’t know their future?”
“·······.”
Tumble.
The sound of heavy footsteps made me stiff.
Even a Mine can’t tell a person’s true identity from the sound of footsteps, but now I have a strong intuition.
The intuition that a fatal threat is approaching.
“Oh, damn…”
Soon, a man with a long sword on her shoulder appeared from the back of a dark alley.
As expected, it was a familiar face.
Mine Traveler.
And Mine Tilpitz.
Two demons were standing in front of me now.