Lycanthrope (3)
“Oh, yes. If you’re busy, you don’t have to come. Well, see you next time. Effort.”
A phone call from a friend cuts off with a brief goodbye.
Soon after, he put down his smartphone and turned his head slightly to look at the bed on one side of the room.
“Ha.”
Then, after looking around for a man who looked just like her, sleeping as if he were dead, he let out a deep sigh that he didn’t know how many times already.
‘I’m still far from waking up. Well, it’s only natural that less than a day has passed.’
It was a fact that I already knew, but it seemed that I was nervous without knowing it because so many things were happening in a row.
Hugo sat down on the edge of the bed where Han Seong-hyun’s body was sleeping and rubbed his forehead with one hand.
‘It’s already a hectic situation, but from Hans to Harley…’
Fortunately, Harley became a little self-indulgent, but not as dire as Hans, who went to the point of bloodless massacre for his cause.
Still, he borrowed the power of the [Insanity Tyrant] skill to control his madness quite easily.
‘But the problem is that I can’t completely escape its influence!’
It was unavoidable as he crossed the wall using his madness against him.
And the small influence that started like that…
Harley’s savagely primitive wildness, the simplicity of not wanting to think deeply, and the violence of trying to solve everything with power combined to create a fantastic synergy.
‘Right now, he’s turned his attention to food to satisfy his cravings.’
But that method won’t last too long.
It was necessary to hurriedly devise other measures.
‘The easiest way to dispose of a bomb with Jagoro is to just detonate it. In a place where no harm will come.’
And the place where the bomb was going to explode was already prepared.
I was already in a situation where I was prepared to some extent.
‘The place I’m most concerned about right now is…’
Heinz II contacted the Vice President of the Republic, Kayla McClair, and was proceeding with a plan to hit the O-Baipo smoothly, and there was nothing special about the other avatars, so there was only one place to pay attention to right away.
‘… Enamel Continent, Elven Kingdom.’
***
[Giants appear in the forests of Southern Altarica. The Altairica Forest Keeper is leading the keepers and fighting. Support has started from nearby, but I’m careful to reduce the damage as much as possible, so I don’t think it will end soon.]
[Is this the third giant after Bella Gorge and Sorata Swamp? To think that things happened all at once right after the lycanthropes did their trick. After all, it has become clear that they are related to the abyss… And the Immortal King.]
[Tsk, I didn’t dare touch them even though I saw them wandering around the area because they were in a pitiable situation. I never thought it was the immortal king’s henchman. After all, I didn’t believe those guys!]
‘No, it’s the same as embarrassing on this side…’
Immediately after dealing with the General-class lycanthrope in the north.
After four more rounds of battle in a clockwise direction, Harris swallowed an inaudible answer.
Perhaps it was a special case to face a general level for the first time, and it was only a knight level to lead a group of people facing each other in succession.
Thanks to that, I was able to listen to the situation in real time without disconnecting the network because I had enough energy left…
‘How long have you been involved in this job? Most of all, it’s even more surprising that that many stayed hidden until the moment they started working.’
News of the battle was coming from all sides.
Not only giants, but even collisions with multiple lycanthropes.
As a result, the Elven Kingdom went into an unprecedented state of emergency for a long time.
-Harris: So what are the sentences on their chests…? I think this is the reason why the world tree was blinded, and the elves, including me, couldn’t recognize them.
-Hannibal Strauss: Hmm, the oath of reversal seems to be similar to the prohibition that was inscribed on them. This looks more like a proof of a contract with a higher being rather than a ban. Of course, it doesn’t seem like a normal contract, so the price won’t be easy.
-Heinz II: They are everywhere. It has also been confirmed that Obaipo itself was the eastern branch.
‘Sufficiently hundreds of people are all contractors? Could it be some kind of demon king?’
Harris let out a deep sigh at the complex situation and let his shoulders droop.
One thing was certain, it was absolutely not a short period of time for them to prepare for the current raid.
It was because when I took Succubus Siana under my command, I had arranged that there were some officers left in a certain area.
‘Aka clown. He has been active in the Oath of Reversal for over 20 years. The main area of activity is the eastern part of the Empire and the entire Republic… And the Enamel Continent.’
It was dark in front of my eyes to see what tricks he might have done while diligently wandering around for more than 20 years.
‘Oh, no, I hate it. What’s more messy here is the specification. The reward is also milder than I thought.’
I don’t know if it was a special service because it was the first time, or if there was a premium for defeating a general-level enemy, but the reward from the world tree that I received after destroying the altar was not as good as the one I received at the beginning.
He was better than nothing, but he couldn’t help feeling a sense of pity.
‘In addition, the last altar destroyed was not even rewarded. …Well, since the ritual was already over, the rift couldn’t be completely removed, so there’s nothing you can do about it. Couldn’t it be that all the rituals have already been completed?’
So when he was lamenting alone.
‘I met you again. But it looks like you found me over there too. Is it general level this time?’
I could feel the ferocious force rushing right in his direction.
He probably didn’t detect the sign of Harris assimilated into nature at this distance, but he must have smelled the summoned spirit.
‘Thanks to Harley, I was able to learn more about their characteristics.’
The first person I met was in the middle of a ceremony, so it was only a little late to recognize him.
The general-class lycanthrope’s senses not only detect physical phenomena, but also remnants of magical power, so it was not easy to hide their tracks by using spirits.
Maybe it’s to the extent that he shakes his senses openly and confuses him for a moment, just like when he fought him.
‘He seems to be stronger than that guy back then…’
But Harris himself was in a much stronger state than then.
This time, there were only two top-notch spirits, Watt and Pascal!
‘First bread wins!’
Harris took out his bow, Themis, and immediately focused his energy on one point.
Just a few seconds before he arrives.
But that time.
It was enough time to start with one special move.
***
Not all of the giants that appeared on the Enamel Continent faced only the elves.
Security was the top priority before starting work in earnest, so in the beginning, there was no choice but to open the cracks step by step, starting from areas far from the World Tree.
No matter how much the lycanthropes were able to block the influence of the World Tree through the contract they made through the revolutionaries, it was not 100% perfect, so they needed to be as careful as possible.
[———!]
Kwaaang-!
“In hunting formation! Don’t overdo it! Just wait until support arrives!”
In the northwestern part of the Enamel Continent, an outlying hunting unit made up of all kinds of ferocious wild beasts in the Wild Lands collided with a white giant.
“Kahahahaha! It’s the first time I’ve ever seen such a big game! It’s so creepy!”
“You mean that only the idiots from the Ion Continent were playing with something like this?”
“If you’re going to bluff, straighten the folded tail first! Focus! There are dozens of people who have already died from this guy!”
“…Sheesh!”
Also, even if they didn’t fight head-on like them, there were cases where support came from the surroundings for the fight between the elves and the giants that occurred at the border.
Like Sorata Swamp, the eastern border with the Lizardmen community ‘Central Swamp’.
“Chiuuu— let me join you. Forest Keeper.”
“…I would be grateful for your help. Kerrich. I was just thinking that I might really die at this rate.”
“Chwii-it? To the extent that the forest keeper would say such a thing. I guess I’ll have to bite the bottom ones and ask for extra support. sh*t—the swamps are connected, so it won’t take long.”
In the first place, the relationship between the two races was not so bad, and it was not strange because the danger of giants was spread at the continental summit held just a while ago.
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It would be unfortunate for the person who did the work, but thanks to the quick response from the beginning, the incident was entering a calm phase faster than expected.
However.
“Oh! Is this more than you think? I didn’t know that I could summon the giant I’d only heard of with those words! Do you want to see that revolutionary man again?”
Baucalakas, the lycanthrope king who didn’t care about that, giggled lowly, counting the subordinates connected to him.
Even after the revolutionary disappeared, it was not because I trusted him that I opened a crack as previously agreed.
It was only because it was a pity to give up the plan that had been prepared for a long time, to reduce the influence of the World Tree and at the same time supply madness to strengthen power…
‘That man, have you been keeping an eye on this side since the beginning? Well, I’ll be grateful for the gift! Thanks to that, the loss incurred to get here was smaller than expected.’
Although two generals died in the process and one seemed likely to die soon, even this was not a huge damage compared to what I thought.
The fact that the master level elves and forest keepers guarding each region were distracted by the giants must have played a big part.
“Kiki Kick! Well, what are they going to do when those notorious giants come from all sides?”
However, no matter how well things turned out, there was nothing good about procrastinating more time here.
If the elves were not fools, they would have already noticed the anomaly and prepared for it, as well as requesting assistance from neighboring countries in case of an emergency.
To protect Drasha, the center of the Enamel Continent, where the World Tree is located.
Yes, now visible in front of his eyes.
Right there.
“Kee-hee-hee!”
Pasek—
Puss—
Beasts standing on two legs in the bushes around him began to rise one by one as he burst into laughter that he couldn’t contain.
At the same time, a maddened bloody glow began to burn in the center of their bright yellow eyes.
Poududeuk!
Wood Deuk—
Their bodies swelled up to the fullest, and the madness mixed with the dark magic flowing through them burned their vitality and gave them tremendous strength.
The number in this position was less than half compared to the beginning, but with this, the power itself has actually increased compared to the beginning.
‘It won’t last forever, but it doesn’t matter since everything will be over before then!’
Like his subordinates, his eyes burning red, Bau Calakas, the king of werewolves, slowly increased his speed towards the target in front of him.
Kreur-
Wow! Kung—!
One king who reached transcendence and five generals who went beyond extremes.
And hundreds of knights and warrior-level lycanthropes to support them.
Finally, they invaded Drasha, the capital of the Elven Kingdom.
***
Lycanthropes have been preparing for this infiltration for a really long time.
The ceremony to open the rift in the abyss and the contract sentence engraved on the chest are only a few of them.
With the help of revolutionaries, the king directly shook the causality of the World Tree for a long time, and in the process he hid himself and built an access road into the Elven Kingdom.
In addition, additional countermeasures to avoid the spirit’s monitoring network, as well as training to detect the spirit’s reverberation and bypass it.
It was a plan in which time, capital, and effort… Plus the lives of many people were exchanged.
“Move quickly! Inside!”
“Get all the arrows out of the warehouse!”
“Everyone who can fight, to the position!”
However, no matter how thorough you are, there is a limit to your preparation.
If it were only a small number, there was no way hundreds of invaders would not have noticed it while they were approaching the capital.
Drasha’s elves were already preparing for war even before the lycanthropes arrived.
[How did the preparation go?]
[Once, all preparations for Mercury have been completed. The watchman’s sub-captain and the gardener’s manager have already finished preparations, and forest keepers who can afford nearby are also coming here as soon as possible.]
[Haa… That’s a mistake. It was best to intercept them before they reached Drasha. It’s too late to notice that the number of guys approaching is more than expected.]
They were discovered along the way, but that didn’t mean the invaders’ efforts were completely in vain.
This is exactly what they hoped for in the first place.
It was because the battlefield was limited to the capital city with the world tree that the elves had to protect.
At the end of time in such tension.
As the nearby lycanthropes began their advance on Drasha, a full-scale war finally began.
And that moment.
“…!”
Harris, who had just killed a general-level enemy from a distance and was out of breath, suddenly raised his head and blinked at a strange sensation he suddenly felt.
“···This?”
It was a hunch.
A strong feeling of foreboding, transmitted through the bond with the World Tree, which is exceptionally strong compared to other high elves.
‘··· Table? No, three times?’
For some reason, the direct will was still not conveyed, but the meaning was fully understood.
His gaze slowly turned in one direction.
Where the capital, Drasha, is located.
Gulp-
It’s an obvious crisis situation, but for some reason, it’s a place where the scent of jackpot is wafting.