73 Tue-Invasion and Erosion(2)
“The enemy!”
He instinctively shouted with all his might.
At the same time, numerous red eyes flashed in the dark forest.
“Aww!”
“A monster! It’s a monster!”
Contrary to expectations, the things pouring down from the forest all at once were not human.
They were attacked by bizarre and terrible monsters that they could not even imagine.
The soldiers with shields hadtily raised their shields and prepared for battle, but it was impossible to even stop the charge with the power of ordinary people who were not properly prepared.
Just like the infantry being trampled on by the heavy and long-term cavalry that rushed with all their might, the soldiers who made haste to form a square were trampled on by the medium-sized legionaries.
The steel armor was torn like a sheet of paper by its claws, and the steel black bastards could not penetrate the carapace.
‘You crazy.’
The deputy director was shocked and almost fainted, but in the current situation, he caught on to the instinctive thought that if he collapsed, he would be annihilated.
“Everyone here!”
After moving his magical power, he immediately manifested a spell, smashed the ground with his hand, and executed the magic.
From the spot he took with his hand, the sparkling enchantment flowed quickly across the ground, engulfing the people.
“this is!”
“This is a higher-level protective spell!”
The soldiers cheered. The advanced magic used by the executive level of the society was that powerful.
In fact, the claws and stings that the Legionnaires slashed were blocked by pulsing waves in this translucent golden shield.
“What the hell are these guys…?”
“Is it time to worry about that now! Attack!”
Having to keep his magic, he couldn’t take any other action.
Fortunately, the wizards of the society who came with him, the garrison commander and some other elite soldiers attacked these monsters within the shield, wielding their own magic and magical weapons.
However, these monsters retreated with uniform and constant movements as if they were being directed, minimizing damage.
“Leave it alone, and start requesting support!”
“Can you hear me! Apply now! We’ve been attacked!”
In the meantime, they used communication ports to connect with the city.
Although he managed to survive, he was still surrounded, and he was unable to move even a single step from here.
“Everyone calm down. Fortunately, those monsters don’t seem to have the ability to break through this shield.”
“Deputy Director. I’ve definitely heard that something is wrong in the labyrinth.”
“…that’s right. Maybe these guys came out of the labyrinth.”
In the moment of a brief confrontation, he glared at them in a cold sweat.
They were too foreign and strange to be simple monsters.
‘Is it a living creature?’
Having encountered various magical weapons such as golems, which are now obsolete, he found something familiar in the appearance of these black monsters.
Too quiet and alien to be a living creature, these monsters gave the impression that they were more like mage weapons that acted according to orders rather than beasts.
“uh?”
“Are you a person…? A girl?”
And that moment. A roar erupted among those who were on the lookout for the rear rather than the front he was watching.
‘Girl?’
Embarrassed, he didn’t even have time to look back.
A small woman appeared through the monsters and raised a sword made of dark red ore.
“No way! Sword…”
The garrison commander was astonished when he saw this, but a merciless slash came out first.
The dark red slash with power exploded and collided with the shield.
“Heh heh heh…”
The shield he had been holding with a lot of effort was shattered in a single blow, and the recoil caused the deputy commander to fall to the floor with bloodshed.
“Oh, it’s coming!”
“Stop it!”
The monsters once again rushed towards them, whose shields had disappeared before he could even come to his senses.
Screams, shouts, the clash of weapons, and the sound of flesh being pierced and cut and blood sprayed.
It was a sound that was often heard in places called battlefields.
One peculiarity is that all the sounds are only those of our allies.
On the other hand, the desperate screams and death of our allies heard on the battlefield, and the monsters rushing towards their spears without any hesitation, greatly undermined their fighting spirit and morale.
‘It was stupid. too.’
The deputy chief, who was shaking like a worm on the ground, blamed himself for his stupidity.
The moonlight fairies wouldn’t have asked for salvation if they had only been able to block them with a single shield spell with their own level of strength.
“Deputy Chief?! Deputy Chief!”
He crawled on the ground and reached for the crystal ball that had fallen on the floor.
In the crystal ball with the screen turned upside down, the academic staff who had been left in the city were panicking and shouting urgently to the ground.
“…you guys, no, four years…”
However, the moment he reached out his hand, the crystal ball was shattered by the trampled foot.
At the feet of the monster with sharp claws and the like, a woman in a mask wrapped in black armor looked down at her and fluttered her black hair in his gaze.
“Come on. Let’s see the end.”
Feeling defeated and annihilated, he raised his throbbing body.
At the same time, I prepared a magic by moving my magic. A technique close to self-destructing that mobilizes all the magical powers in the body and overloads them at the same time.
‘At least these guys, or even those monster bitches should be caught.’
He has already given up on living. Now there are few people who survived and resisted.
Desperate, crying and begging for their lives, these black beasts mercilessly stopped breathing.
“Even though my skills are a middle managerial position in the academic society, this blow will be difficult to prevent.”
It is an attack aircraft that a wizard pours out everything including his magical life and life.
His magic twisted the air around him.
‘Let’s reduce it as much as possible here. Only then will the city survive. Hundreds at most, if defense is sufficient, it can be stopped.’
The magic he had completed, which was bleeding through his eyes, nose and mouth, was aimed forward.
The Blake Society’s advanced magic pyrotechnics, who mainly study the magic of the fire system to be used in battle, know only about firepower.
A pillar of fire with more than double the power with an overload burst out, illuminating the dark forest like a face.
‘Have you succeeded?’
With that spell that burned even his own body, he bounced back as he watched the opponent create a dark red shield on his body.
“What the hell…what is your identity…”
In the forest, where silence has been restored. The only sound you hear is the sound of the trees and grass burning.
With one arm completely burnt out, he stretched out to the floor, swallowing pain and muttering blankly as he watched the rising moon.
‘But the others have reduced it a lot…’
The red eyes in the mask that looked down on him were still there. There was not even a trace of charring.
It was heartbreaking to see him, but most of the other monsters exploded at his spell.
It was he who was stretched out on the floor in a miserable condition, but he smiled as he thought he had won for nothing.
“Did you intend to attack the city…. Big, with only a few dozen… it would be impossible. You foolish creatures of the ancient labyrinth…”
He groaned, wringing out his last strength, and mocking his opponent. It didn’t matter if I understood or not.
“Now…soon…the reinforcements that will come…you…”
“…”
The opponent raised his sword. Fatigued, he nodded as if he had expected it.
Still, I felt at ease. It felt like everything had to be done.
So, he tried to face his death proudly while protecting his honor and pride as a wizard.
“That’s funny.”
“…Unbelievable.”
“You haven’t accomplished anything. You bastard.”
But his last was brutally trampled upon.
The moment when another masked being laughed at him in human language and walked out of the darkness with his thick, jet-black hair fluttering.
And the moment I saw hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of monsters popping out around me, shaking the air and the earth, crossing the sky and the ground and heading straight to the city.
A sword flew into his neck, and he was beheaded with a single sword, stained with deep emptiness and despair.
*
[The legionnaires sent out are heading to the city. Are raids, wars, and predation your goal?]
“no.”
The corps grinned as they watched their soldiers run away.
The battle just before was not just hunting.
It was the first battle with the native species. The Legion, an aggressor by birth, has already been tired of this kind of war.
And it has grown through the war. The battle just before was just a taste to see the level of the native species.
“A prisoner worthy of captivity killed himself…but that doesn’t matter.”
[Didn’t you try to learn high-level magic?]
“Because there are many wizards. There is also a lot of time…”
He rubbed the soil on which the Legion was standing.
The real goal of the corps that had grown this much in the first place was not war.
‘It devours everything in this forest, everything I see now, and everything in this world.’
The real goal of the Legion is erosion, not aggression.
When you are completely absorbed in dealing with legionaries who are nothing but teeth and claws.
The Legion was going to devour this world without leaving a single ant.
[With that nourishment, more legionaries will be produced, and their resistance will be trampled down]
The first button is already attached. The soil the Legion was stepping on began to gradually turn black.
It meant that the erosion that started in the labyrinth would eat up the surrounding area.