13. How Hounds Hunt
“Hey, you f*cking bastard!”
That crazy bastard did a damn thing!!
We immediately jumped out of the grass and ran toward Royman, who was wielding weapons while surrounded by living armor.
With a heavy booming sound, between the living armors that were being crushed by the flail mace, Royman could be seen fighting Depal with the whip in his other hand.
“Princess Alexis! Hold on to the Living Armors over there at the warrior party! Robin!!! Come join us!!”
“Yes..! I’ll try!”
“I’m coming, senpai!!”
Bouncing off the blades flooding in from all directions, Robin and I got into the gap between the Living Armors, and we were able to quickly reach the scene where Royman and Depal were fighting.
“Mmm..!! If you meekly obey his will, there will be no more pain! Wicked creature!”
“Keuuugh…!! Such an ignorant guy..!!”
Although Roiman was shouting loudly and driving Depal with his whip, Roiman’s body was already flowing with blood as he couldn’t block all the blades of the Living Armor attacking from all sides.
“Nimi, you must be crazy.”
I shouted as I inserted my short sword into the hamstrings of the living armor that was about to attack Royman’s back.
“Hey Royman!! You’re really f*cking crazy!!! Get out of here and treat your wounds, and start recovering from the dragons and thugs over there!!!”
Royman heard me and nodded at the same time, I let go of the shortsword stuck in the groin of my living armor, grabbed the helmet and turned it with force.
Kudeudeuk. The body of the Living Armor, from which the helmet was separated, collapsed with a sound, and at the same time, Robin, who was holding a claw and a dagger, intervened between Royman and Depal, who were trying to step back.
– Chaeng!
“For the lowly tribes, just die..!”
“Keep…!! Senior!! Please help me out!!”
Because of this f*ck, Royman, you fanatic bastard.
If we had carried out the raid quietly, we wouldn’t have had to fight so ignorantly.
I burst the muscles that were contracted to the limit due to the urgent battle situation, pushed Royman back and rushed toward Depal.
– Geek!!
The exquisitely meshed shortsword and depal blade blades rubbed against each other, making a strange sound.
I, who had been blocking the Defal’s spear for a while, lowered my stance as the force applied to the short sword increased to a certain extent and at the same time shed the spear blade.
Suddenly, the obstacle disappeared, and the spear blade swelled and split the air, and Depal’s body naturally leaned to one side.
“Robin!!!”
As Robin’s kick, which didn’t miss the opportunity to miss it and aimed precisely at Depal’s hamstrings, Depal knelt down and collapsed.
Aiming at the nape of that guy, Robin’s dagger was thrust down like lightning, but the attempt was ruined by the attack of Living Armor, which swung the sword again.
“This f*ck…”
Personal combat is said to be his specialty, but in a situation surrounded by heavily armored enemies, he cannot produce very meaningful results.
You can win if you aim for the joints between the gaps in the armor, but the other Living Armor and Depal are not fools, and there is no way that they will honestly respond to attacks that aim for the joints of their armor.
I hurriedly found a smoke bolt in the bolt box, grabbed it, and glanced at Maya, who had just been chanting a spell.
It seems that Maya was interrupted by the Living Armor’s attack while chanting a spell.
“f*cking a dog…”
The Living Armors were also made by Argyle themselves, and even after being directly hit by Maya’s magic, most of them were slightly cracked and were still moving.
Did you increase magic resistance?
I turned my gaze to Depal again.
“You came with a lot of determination. These scarecrows, they don’t fall out after being hit by magic.”
“Didn’t you… Cut ties with the hero?”
“That’s none of your business, Maya!!!”
While Royman and Isabel heal the rest of the group, you’ll have to wait as long as possible.
I pointed a smoke bolt at Maya and gave her a wink.
Maya, who had been staring blankly at me for a moment while watching my eyes, hurriedly nodded her head, and I loaded the smoke bolt without hesitation.
If Maya is aware, she should be able to trap and maintain the smoke screen with her specialty wind magic.
At the moment Robin, who had a good eye, saw my gesture and quickly distanced himself from Defal, I quickly raised my crossbow and fired smoke bolts at Defal.
* * *
“Austin…?”
The hero, Lee Yu-jeong, didn’t pay attention to the bloody priest who approached her and treated her, and recalled the Austin she had glimpsed in the thick smoke.
I didn’t see it wrong. It’s austin
Ever since Austin left her party on his own, the hero had the idea that if he met her again, ‘she would fix her mental head that she couldn’t get back’.
But now that she met Austin again, the emotion inside her was not anger, but a subtle mixture of joy and sadness.
What is this strange feeling?
Isabel approached the hero who was sitting in a daze, unable to understand her feelings, and gave her healing light with a bitter smile.
“…Hero.”
“Isabel, I…”
“Why don’t we solve the problem right in front of us first? Bury old feelings in your heart for a while.”
…Yes. Isabelle is right.
The hero, Lee Yu-jeong, recovered and once again grabbed her holy sword with her body full of strength.
“…Yes.”
I don’t know what kind of feeling this is now, but she just wanted to have a conversation with Austin, telling her feelings.
It would seem shameless and ugly to tell her now, but now she has decided to throw away her pride.
“Because I am a warrior.”
The hero, who stood up while holding the holy sword, immediately ran to Adrienne, Gracie, and Maya who were dealing with the Living Armor.
Isabel and Max, who have already passed out, are being protected by an exorcist who seems to be Austin’s colleague, so she must clean up the Living Armor that is not trapped in the smoke screen.
* * *
…View is blocked.
I can’t see anything.
Depal just silently stared at the front, holding the spear in the smoke screen, and then closed her eyes.
If you can’t see it, feel it with your body.
If you can’t feel it, just listen with your ears.
But.
“…As expected, it’s not normal.”
I can’t feel anything.
The waves of magic, the trembling of breath that must have become rough from fighting the Living Armor, and the movements of those who should have been digging through the thick smoke.
I can’t feel anything.
Is it even a ghost?
… When I noticed that the guy had left the party, he should have shot the brave straight away.
In order to lure out the party of warriors that Austin was missing, continuing to raid human supply units and attracting them is rather poisonous.
Depal quietly opened his closed eyes, quietly chewing his anger at the current situation where he could not do anything.
The only thing that came into sight was the gray smoke from the smoke screen that still obscured his vision, and his own left hand, tattered and dangling from the explosion of the bolt.
I tried to snatch the flying bolt with my hand, aiming for his neck, but I never dreamed that the bolt would explode the moment I grabbed it.
– Wedge juice!
In the smoke screen where only the clanking of the living armor could be heard, another bolt flew through the air.
I hurriedly turned my body to dodge the bolt, but I couldn’t dodge the second bolt that came at me from an unexpected angle.
“Ha ha…!”
The bolt that penetrated the collarbone and squeezed through the flesh was painful.
Although it is an artificial human, Argyle’s first work, Depal, was a failure that was infinitely close to a human being, with a sense of pain and ’emotions’ that a doll should not have.
Although he has no senses, Bacchus, who has emotions, was also a failure, so it’s not a big concern.
The only thing I’m afraid of is the anxiety of an unguaranteed future, that a failed work like myself will be replaced someday.
…As expected, emotions were something I shouldn’t have.
With the pain squeezing through his collarbone and useless thoughts floating on the surface, Depal shook his head and fixed the spear.
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Now we must focus on the battle.
– Chaeng!
In an instant, he blocks the shortsword’s stabbing through the cracks with his bizarre body movements and spearmanship that are close to feats.
However, as soon as the shortsword was blocked, a sharp dagger from the right cut through the smoke screen and aimed at the ribs.
If you can’t block it, just avoid it.
Defal managed to dodge Robin’s lightning-like stab, throwing Austin’s shortsword back just as Austin had spilled his own spear a moment ago.
Being blind is an equally bad condition for everyone, but not for those two.
The wounds on the pierced collarbone and torn hand were slowly recovering due to the regenerative ability unique to synthetics, but even so, the blood that had been scattered on the floor could not be undone.
The smell of blood.
That was the eyes of those two hounds.
After exchanging sums several times, the hounds disappeared again into the thick fog.
“Oooh…. Wow!”
Defal grabbed the spear and spat out the blood that had suddenly flowed down his throat.
The saliva mixed with dark red blood fell to the floor and made a thumping sound, while barely avoiding the flying bolt aiming at the middle of the forehead and the violently flying throwing dagger aiming for the exact location where the lungs were located. It was to set the blood in the eyes and correct the posture.
When will the alternative smoke screen disappear?
If the smoke screen doesn’t disappear even after a long time, it must be the magician’s fault.
At that time, a new figure suddenly appeared behind Depal’s back.
“Here you are.”
Crumpling the helmet of the Living Armor he was holding in his hand, Priest Royman looked straight at the Devil with his red eyes shining fiercely.
“I will pull out the ugly root of denying him today.”
“…You are blinded by your piety. Foolish priest.”
As Depal turned the spear head to stab Royman again, the thorn whip flying from Royman’s side, Depal barely avoided it enough to brush his side.
“…I’m going to turn around.”
The hunt isn’t over yet.