A fierce battle broke out between one hundred and one. It's not hard to judge a win or lose. One side has an advantage.
Nicholas' long sword, specialized for cutting, is long and covers a wide angle. A weapon specialized for dealing with a weak majority, that kind of Qigong. It's like being the headmaster who teaches students.
However, there are many thick trees that have not been touched by humans in this forest. He sometimes cuts down trees and moves forward, but his power is steadily being consumed.
there
Beep!
“lee! lux!”
“pascal!”
The children, who followed my instructions, were more difficult to deal with than Nicholas thought.
When the whistle is blown, the ritual magic strikes Nicholas all at once. light and wind. A mystery that the military had cut in its own way and was no longer a mystery was shot at Nicholas.
“These are!”
Nicholas took a step forward and made a big fuss. The complicated vines that have been stretched for a long time and effort are cut off in an instant.
At the same time, the children who were blocking Nicholas with logs, screaming and falling out all at once.
However, Nicholas' expression was not satisfactory. He should have split everything from the log he originally used as a shield to the children in a row, as something sticky stuck to the blade and lost his anticipation.
“how about it? We dipped the logs and ivy we had blown up in boiled rosin, and wrapped them around. The rosin adheres to vitality more, so it will not be easily removed by pores.”
It's a minor pitfall. It was prepared in case the whole log was cut down by any chance.
Originally, I was going to weaken the whole body by covering it with rosin, but it was only a blade. I'm sorry, but I can't help it.
I intervened as Nicholas was about to dispose of the rest of the fallen. The moment the dagger aimed at him, the long sword with rosin entangled in it lit up.
towards me
“haha! Also, you don't want to die, do you? That's normal!”
A trajectory is drawn in his thoughts. It's a blow that cuts my waist in half. I couldn't stop it, but I didn't even want to get close to it from the beginning. With a smile, I retrieved the legs that I pretended to enter and walked away.
The tip of the sword barely passed in front of my waist. There is no fear in knowing that it will not be reached.
momentary confrontation. In the meantime, the children in crisis fled quickly. The situation returned to the beginning again.
“… That's pretty good, Hugh. It hurts the more you see it. Why would you make such a foolish choice?”
Seeing me dodging the attack without blinking an eye, Nicholas stuck out his tongue. His lamentation was mixed with some sincerity.
The ability to break in at the right time and cut off Nicholas' pulse was, in Nicholas's eyes, an art that only those who understood battle could do.
Actually, after reading my thoughts, I just kept looking for gaps.
Well, anyway. It would be nice if they thought of me as a threat.
“Ahaha! You know! I'm good at anything, but I can't go any further! In other words, I am already at the peak of my life!”
“okay! If you miss this opportunity, you are stuck at that stage forever! Even a colonel who is not a general like me has to run away!”
It is said that soldiers without stars will fall ill. Of course, there are many people who are faithful to their position, but Nicholas, who realized the limit of his talent sooner than anyone else, became more attached to his talent.
To him, I may have looked like an idiot who, despite great talent, wasted his chances.
“Accept it now! As long as you agree, everything will work out! If the two of us keep our mouths shut, we can make this taboo unheard of!”
Indeed it was. Of the one hundred and forty people here, I am the strongest. If it weren't for me, these children, who are still holding on tight, will crumble like a piece of paper.
In fact, some noticed that I was afraid I might betray them.
However.
“Nicholas. If you're going to do it, try it! Why, you're always the one to test? Are you the one who issues suffering? Why is it always up to you to risk your life to achieve something impossible?”
The long sword is long and has a wide radius, but its trajectory is rather limited. No matter how polite you are, the tree that has been protecting itself from wild beasts does not easily show its rings. If he gets caught in a tree, he gets caught as well as his long sword.
Fearing that the long sword would target me, I sprinted to the position where he was most troubled and shouted out loud.
“Fight the insurmountable ordeal like them! That's true, just making something happen without risking your life or overcoming difficulties! It's just an idiot, isn't it?”
“You’re going to be stupid all the way!”
Nicholas pushed me away and ran towards the side full of other students. As planned, some quickly fled, but the bodies of the two who were slow to react were torn to pieces.
It's not even cut with a sharp edge. My body was torn from the brutal slash. The rosin on the blade was born in the body of a plant, and I had a rare experience of seeing the inside of a human body.
The child next to him screamed. It was still too young to let her friend's death pass.
Just as Nicholas was about to cut off his throat, screaming in vain. I ran to his back.
“I promise, Nicholas! If you really want to feed me all of them! Get out of my way, kill everyone but me, and drink that blood! If you overcome obstacles and succeed in such a feat, I might make a more 'reasonable' judgment!”
In order to make me even more talented, if I can overcome all those hardships and feed me blood. As long as you have an unchanging will and make me that way, from then on, I have no choice.
But Nicholas stretched out his sword at me as if he had been waiting. The blade aimed at his neck had a clear intent to kill.
It means one thing.
“ha ha ha! Then yes! The truth is that he does not want to overcome difficulties himself!”
He slashed the blade while flashing. heavy The body slid backwards.
Nicholas replied with a click.
“… I will not negotiate with the reactionaries.”
“It’s hard to make excuses. Before you even try, if you don't think you'll be able to, draw a line on the subject. Are your limits there?”
I muttered as I brushed my hair over my forehead, squeezing my almost collapsing posture.
“Ahh. Now I know. You, too, only say that you will give your life for the military. In the end, he didn't have the will or the passion to achieve something. They just sit on top and force their subordinates to live up to their expectations.”
Fighting with swords, his heart was fully heard.
Expectations are high, and giving up is quick. Attempt to manage cost effectively. This is the award for educators that the military wants. There is no shame in sacrificing anyone.
But in reality, he doesn't have the courage to risk his life. He cannot afford to put himself in trouble.
“Ah, no fun. Even if you are prepared to risk the lives of 161 people, you are not prepared to risk your own life to do it.”
“… Do you think I will fall for such provocation?”
“It’s not a provocation, it’s an objective evaluation. Whew, you did a good job fighting back. You should put a twist on a boring story, cancer.”
The word “quick, not funny” touched Nicholas's repulsion. His blood vessels bulged as if they were about to break.
Enraged, Nicholas ran towards me with his long sword over his head.
“You had to accept my will! Even to survive!”
“Sometimes they say that he is a talented person who will brighten up the military. I fell for the provocation, but what?”
I put the whistle in my mouth again and gave the order.
The long sword is aiming at me. I circle the tree with a shield. The long sword, which was speared out like a spear, broke the bark and came out of the blind spot, but he reads his thoughts in advance and simply raises his head to avoid it.
Reading thoughts is difficult for me to catch. Nicholas felt impatience at me for avoiding a series of attacks of conversion.
Magic, spears, stones, and nooses are pouring down from Nicholas's back who is facing me.
The greatest way to give courage to humans is to ensure safety. If you have iron bars in between, you gain courage to approach the beast, and if you have a shield, you gain courage to move forward.
The same goes for children.
Lasso, magic, rope, log and spear. Armed with the streets, they pressed Nicholas from a distance that would not be reached. In particular, Siatina, who was once a fighter, and Caropald, who was an aspiring mage officer, played a prominent role.
“Hey, these… !”
An uncomfortable space to wield a long sword. But you can't just throw away your weapon. As long as the qigong can't completely cover his whole body, if he gets stabbed by the blade, his body will be hurt. Everyone has their own way of learning the basics of qigong in secondary military schools, so even Nicholas is in danger if they rush in and hit him with a knife.
Oops, Nicholas's foot fell into a pit full of rosin. A noose flew over him as he lost his balance. Nicholas ran like crazy, but the hunt for humans became more and more tenacious and tenacious.
Yes, just like when hunting bighorn deer.
“These are!”
In the end, he changed his mind to deal with the annoying intruders instead of the incapable me, and he tried to kick the tree and run. The moment he read the thought, he raised two daggers upside down and slashed his ankle. Even though it did not touch the skin, the blade was dyed dark red for a very short time.
blood splashed The sleeves of his trousers were torn and blood was seeping out.
I can't use it for a long time because of the small amount, but if it's only for a short time, I can infuse it with qigong.
“Ugh! hey, you… !”
Changing your posture here is too much of a loss. Even at the cost of the loss, he leaped to the most annoying being, the spearmen led by Shiati.
They were the healthiest, bravest, and intimidating children because they could handle qigong even a little. Those with their own training responded.
But in front of the colonel, he is just a dog. A boy, who had forgotten his instructions to roll on the ground when Nicholas approached, tried to stop it by lifting a improvised wooden spear. A huge slash fell on the spear.
“You idiot! Dangerous!”
Shiati, who had fled faster than anyone else, was startled and pushed him away.
But it was late. No, it is meaningless and has caused even greater damage than it was late.
Along with his body, Shiati's right arm was also severed.
Her right arm caught in the trail of the long sword broke and soared into the sky. Beyond the arm that separated from her body, the boy's eyes, split from the shoulder, slowly faded.
“Ahhhhhhhhhh!”
A scream rang out, whether it was the death of a friend or the pain in his right arm. Grabbing his missing right arm under his elbow, Shiati knelt down on his knees.
Even though he could end Shiati right away, Nicholas prepared to stretch his sword back at any time instead of swinging it. He had killed a student, but he was still wary of me.
In other words, this situation is a bait to lure me out.
I made a loud noise and approached him slowly. Nicholas frowned.
'… Cool. Also, it's different from the other guys. If you approach it so carefully, you're aiming for the other guys.'
“Oh yeah?”
I've already confirmed that Nicholas has no will to keep me alive. Now those students and I are a community of destiny. It was none other than Nicholas.
If so, I'll do what you expect. I called out Shiati's name, and ran out as if the coldness of the moment had actually been a lie.
“You too, after all… . You are young.”
Read Nicholas' thoughts. My pity for me was gradually diluted through the fight. The only thing I can feel in the quite exhausted and tormented is fatigue, irritability, and resentment towards me.
If you had listened to yourself, you wouldn't have died either, thinking that way. Nicholas drew a trajectory in his mind.
A slash drawn in a dark light, starting from the handle of his sword.
I am hanging at the end of the trajectory. It is a surprise attack that is shot from the back.
But, this. Haven't you looked at me so rudely? Are you going to swing it openly like this?
“I’m quite the senior!”
Raises the qigong of the whole body in an instant. Perhaps it was the effect of gluttony, but it was cloudy than usual, but a harsh light hovered over the dagger. Maybe it's because it's the power he got from death, it seems to have a faint dark red light.
But as long as it enters my body, my power. once blown out The daggers in both hands grabbed the gigantic long sword that was about to split my body.
taehyung. heavy noise.
Arms wobble and the dagger shaft twists. The bones of my whole body seem to scream.
Still, it was a good idea to apply rosin. Thanks to that, the blade didn't slip, and the body was avoided from splitting.
He clasped his creaking arms and smiled triumphantly.
“Historia and Rankart are below me. Commander-in-Chief, you felt a wall towards them, didn't you? But, I thought it was easy? My writing and practice are all at the top of the list.”
“… What does that mean?”
Nicholas swung his arms even harder, giving his back a lot of strength.
“Most importantly, I lack strength!”
What I feel is pure power. It's like pressing down with force to break my defense. It feels like the tip of a windmill is pushing me away. The off-axis dagger screams violently.
It's too strong to withstand. To overcome this situation, I came up with another means.
“Set, Lee. Florence.”
Scratch the rosin with your fingernail. Flames rose from the glue covered with dry grass. The long sword was engulfed in flames. The large, long torch was a threat, but in reality, it was a disadvantage for Nicholas than for me.
Flames obstruct his vision, and melted rosin sticks to his long sword. Now the sharpness will be hard to expect.
At that moment, he scraped the burning resin with his dagger and bounced it off. towards Nicholas's eyes.
“Miscellaneous skills!”
Like a skilled soldier, Nicholas did not make the mistake of closing his eyes. However, it is a little burdensome for him to keep flying with burning rosin.
In order not to distance himself from the dodging, Nicholas retreated, recalling his long sword.
I shouted out loud.
“Don’t miss out! Fight, Nicholas!”
I keep occupying a corner of his field of vision and follow him. He screams and continues to tap his eardrums. The dagger in his left hand, whose axis has collapsed, is thrown away by him. Instead, he drew up his magic power with his left hand and fired a series of magic.
When I squeezed everything to attack, Nicholas was pushed back. One step back for a moment becomes two steps, and two steps become three steps when thrown away.
However, it didn't go any further.
“One by one, there is nothing that is not a miscellaneous technique… ! That's your limit! Whatever you face in the future, you will soon hit the limit… ! There is no future for you now!”
The dagger he wields and the magic he shoots are insignificant. At best, stabbing a dagger with a squeezed qigong is only dangerous.
Concentrating on grasping my attack, he realized that nothing I used was powerful. It was time for him to re-establish his posture and push with pure force.
But.
“You're too far back, Nicholas.”
pooh.
Three spears pierced his back, hips, and waist. Then, the rope he used to build the raft wrapped around his limbs. Hard to restrain him in an instant.
A voice that seemed to break was heard.
“You die… .”
A sharp dagger pierced Nicholas' shoulder. It was Shiati. Even though he had lost one arm, he was engulfed in frenzy and ran with a dagger.
All of them are children who have received military education. When the opportunity comes, I quickly seize it. You have the talent and the skills to do that.
“Hey, losers! dare!!”
As the ropes bound his limbs and the blades ripped through his body, Nicholas persevered. He grasped the rope with one hand and pressed his foot to the ground with the qigong, trying to shake off all those restraints at once.
However, it does not move.
The number of students is over one hundred. However, there is a limit to the number of people who can fight at once, so all those who did not participate in the battle were holding the rope from a distance. Then, when the trap or noose group succeeded in tying Nicholas, they gathered in groups of twenty and pulled him with all their might.
Tug of war is ultimately a battle of numbers and weight. An honest confrontation that adds strength as much as the weight you put on it. Even if you pull the ground and twist your body with the dry gon, you cannot overcome this difference.
“Ugh… !”
One way. I had to cut them one by one with a long sword with a sharp edge, where the rosin melted by the fire was agglomerated.
Even in the midst of it, the blade cuts into his body moment by moment, with reference to that. It's virtually impossible.
virtually impossible. As the thought passed, Nicholas' heart became urgent.
'for a moment. I die… go?'
finally. It took a long time. Nicholas recalled his death in his head. In the crisis of his life, he recalled his plight as if chased.
This desperate situation. His heart was pressed against a crisis that he believed would never come to him until he came.
But it was too late.
“Good-bye, General Nicholas. I put to good use what I learned. Even in the end, he thought that he would become a Kyobojae by himself.”
“Hey, hey! wait! If you kill me here!”
He didn't care whether he said it or not, he muttered quietly in front of him.
“I looked up to those who were better than you and despised those who were lacking. Hameln is the place to fill your vanity. To you, Nicholas, who took the position of guiding students who were superior to him and loved the position of the headmaster so much. What would it be like to see the discarded talents you despise come together to achieve a feat? It may be the last that suits you.”
“If you kill me, it will be the worst! Not only that. Instead of keeping his mouth shut over taboo, he attacked me on the contrary… ! The military authorities will try to ask! If you kill me, you are crossing a river of no return!”
You should have said that before crossing the river. It's so futile that even the children who stab you with spears aren't shaking.
Anyway.
“But, I will make your wish come true. Gluttony, I do.”
Nicholas, who did not know what to say at first, opened his eyes wide when I held the biometric terminal.
Aki Avatar is a kind of pattern that follows the body. You can shape something on your body. Usually used for clothing packets, but… What he gave me was a packet-type tattoo.
The blood that had flowed from the battles that had ever taken place reacted to the tattoo. The blood that started from all over the ground came up on my feet and penetrated into my biometric terminal.
I mean, the military also does strange things.
“As a gift from you. All your memories, your energy and your experiences will be swallowed up. Just as you did not wish for.”
“Oh, no! I still have work to do… !”
“Who gets eaten because there is nothing to do but get eaten? It just happens that way.”
okay. This is just a result. If you force the result, you should be able to accept the result.
“not… !”
In order not to become ugly, I put a period in his irresistible neck.
At the last moment, if I'm going to die anyway, I don't want to devour… As if to cut off his thoughts.
thought was interrupted. The cut on his neck was a period that ended his words, thoughts, life, and even life. Instructor General Nicholas ended his life with this.
What he left behind while engaged in education for half his life.
Hundreds of hateful children.
And my energy increased as much as dust.
That was all.