94 . Replenish power (6)
City Erethil.
In the past, it was a city with a beautiful and solemn atmosphere centered around an abbey, but it has all returned to remnants of the past.
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From an instant, Erethil came face to face with an undying gray sky.
People collectively called this the day when the abbey burned down and many people’s lives were ruthlessly played and disappeared into the dark side of history.
‘The day God judged us’
No one had any objection to borrowing the name of God.
The overwhelming power they experienced was impossible to explain unless God directly punished them.
The citizens were terrified by the four goddesses who ravaged the city, and the people related to the monastery dropped their heads to the ground and spurted blood into the sky.
It looked as if they were atone for their sins with blood.
After that, Erethil lost its light and couldn’t exert the same influence as before.
People were in a panic, and even the army was not properly formed.
Now, the only thing standing firm in Erethil was the king in name, who was crushed by the power of the abbey.
Zeke, the 21st King of Erethil
Now he was thinking of ways to bring people together and overcome the current situation, not because he wanted to escape from the title of king in name only, but because he was sincerely concerned about the future of this country.
The royal palace located behind the abbey, the throne room where Zeke spends most of his time.
A space where everyone maintains modesty and bows to the king. At that time, when he was sorting out the situation with his trusted subordinates, the messenger who opened the huge door at once and ran to the throne bent his knees and immediately let out a voice close to screaming.
“Your Majesty! Trouble!”
Silk rose from the throne and approached the messenger, not panicking, and asked in a calm voice.
“What’s going on?”
The messenger reported the situation in a different, calmer voice thanks to Zeke’s composure.
“Southern Erethil is under attack!”
Zeke pressed his temples as if he was in trouble.
It must have been the work of monsters or bandits taking advantage of the weakening of Erethil’s forces. Right now, it was difficult to turn the troops outside. If they appeared in the city again next time, there was no way to stop them.
Are you saying the nightmare of that day isn’t over yet?
It is too early to despair. Zeke asked the messenger the following question.
“What numbers have been confirmed?”
“That, that’s it.”
The messenger showed hesitation unlike before.
“Speak quickly.”
“Only two.”
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Helga faithfully followed the elves’ orders.
I couldn’t think of anything else. Because Olivia was always by her side.
Olivia said as she yawned and patted Helga with her foot.
“What are you going to do now?”
“Well, it would be best to advance as it is to the center of Erethil. In any case, it would not be easy to mobilize troops right away if it had received such a large amount of damage in the past, and even if it did, the morale of the soldiers would not be the same as before. Well, even if there are soldiers with morale, they will change their mind if they see this golem. So I think now is the right time to attack it.”
Helga was using her knowledge gained from her former mercenary career to the fullest. Helga, who was called a legend even in the mercenary world, stood out in all fields, including guerrilla warfare, terrorism, and assassination.
In fact, she possessed superior abilities beyond what Olivia thought. Since she would rot as a corpse under the cold ground, it was definitely advantageous to make her a corps commander.
She stretched her arms and looked at Olivia.
“But that’s how wars are won, and we’re not at war now, are we?”
Helga now knew what their tendencies were.
The owners of extremely vicious tendencies who enjoy inflicting as much pain as possible. The way to satisfy them should not be considered from the perspective of ordinary people.
It was just amazing how Ain spent 4 years with these demons and made them fall for him.
‘Well, it’s none of my business anymore.’
Helga sat on top of her golem, scratching her head and yawning.
She muttered as she stroked the golem that destroyed everything even if she didn’t move.
“Anyway, this is so convenient, isn’t it?”
A single golem like this would be able to conquer any small country.
A piece of flesh that instantly regenerates no matter how much it is cut or dropped. People who turn into minced meat with every swing of their fists.
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From the point of view of humans, it was no different than a disaster.
If a human could summon a golem like this, it would immediately threaten the position of the owner of the mage.
However, Olivia shrugged her shoulders in an incomprehensible tone.
“With just that?”
There was no end in sight to the strength of the girls who could dismiss such a golem as just such a thing.
Olivia got up from her seat and stretched her eyes as she looked at the center of Eresil.
“I want to push it away and go back to my dad right away, but…”
“That’s not what Dad wants.”
Olivia sat back down and looked at Helga.
“Turn around. We’re going to organize the neighboring countries first. The most delicious food has to be left behind, right?”
“Yes.”
Helga gave an appropriate answer, and ordered her golems to advance towards the country next to Erethil.
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My head hurts.
There were two mages who knew how to handle golems, so they couldn’t stop them with their current forces.
The good thing is that they didn’t advance straight to the capital, but news soon came that they were starting to attack neighboring countries.
Perhaps the idea is to destroy all the surrounding countries and isolate Erethil.
If you rush to support now, Erethil will be empty, and if someone else attacks in the meantime, it will be over. In the end, ignoring the messengers asking for help, Sieg decided that strengthening the capital’s defenses was more important. Hasn’t he already been through it? When they got together, they all perished together in front of overwhelming violence. Someone had to stand firm and continue to maintain, and they thought it was them.
“Have you contacted the owner of the tower?”
“That’s because I didn’t hear from you.”
“That woman is…”
Cassandra’s power was desperately needed in this situation, but she wasn’t the type to lend a hand to humans easily. She is a very selfish woman who only helps when her own interest or interest arises.
A woman like that shouldn’t be the master of the Magic Tower.
When Zeke was having a headache, another messenger jumped up and knelt down on his knees.
“I’ve been contacted by the owner of the mage tower!”
At the good news he heard after a long time, Zeke jumped up from his seat and asked.
“Really?”
However, the messenger’s expression was not very good.
“It’s nothing else, I just left a gift and lost contact.”
“A gift, what the hell is that?”
As soon as the words were finished, the door to the audience room was violently opened, and a person with ugly flowers blooming on her face had a seizure and collapsed.
There was a possibility that it was a terrorist attack from another country, so people hurriedly blocked Zeke’s way and confirmed the identity of the person who had entered.
“What’s up!”
In the long run, purple smoke began to rise from the body of the fallen person, and soon the smoke began to form a single shape.
The fog in the form of her woman was embodied in such detail that anyone who knew Cassandra could tell that it was her at once, down to her eyebrows.
“It’s been a while.”
At the same time as Cassandra’s voice flowed, the unidentified person who came to the audience room exploded to death, and started scattering purple powder around.
They knew instinctively. That this powder should not be inhaled. People immediately covered her mouth and nose before anyone could say anything, and spoke cautiously to Cassandra in a very angry voice.
“Magic tower master? What the hell is this!”
I knew that the current owner of the Mage Tower had a pretty eccentric personality, but I knew that he wasn’t the kind of person who would risk a person’s life.
But now, as a means of conveying his words, he mercilessly trampled on a person’s life.
Cassandra laughed with her characteristic disdainful tone, then spoke with a straight face.
“Does it matter now?”
“What?”
“This continent is in danger of perishing, and it’s pretty nice to see them taking care of their own food bowls? Certainly, this kind of world might be the right thing to do.”
“Are you saying you’re going to betray humanity?”
“Humanity?”
The corners of Cassandra’s mouth twitched, and then she started bursting into her mad laughter.
Cassandra’s voice, which showed even her madness, suppressed her momentum, and Zeke staggered her backwards.
“I never cared about that crap in the first place.”
“Okay. Any further conversation seems pointless.”
“Wait a minute!”
You can’t let Cassandra go like this. They held her desperately to get any information from her, but Cassandra, as if laughing at them, left her last words and vanished like a mist from her.
“Anyway, humans can’t go against them. Oh, you said there’s a gift, right? Maybe it’s best to go just once?”
Shortly after those words were finished, people’s screams and the fishy smell of blood began to spread outside the castle.