Episode 160
Thousands and tens of thousands of threads sculpted the undead approaching in front.
After confirming that some of the approaching undead were literally erased, he got down on top of the castle.
Thousands of undead legions approached the castle.
aa-!
There were many different types of monsters.
Skeleton soldiers in rusted and shattered armor, or Death Knights drenched in black, lancers on skeletal steeds, and Banshee howling blessings over their heads.
It was not aligned like that of mankind, but the scattered appearance was enough to feel intimidating.
Ah-ah-ah-ah!
The monster and the monster’s cries mixed and made the indigo sky gloomy.
At that moment, Bestla shouted as if to leave immediately.
“Allen, use the 4th series. hurry! Is it because it’s one room with such a mischievous monster?”
‘Just because it’s one shot doesn’t mean you can kill so many people at once.’
“Again, again.”
Bestla snorted a little.
Allen didn’t believe him either.
He was the one who faced the four dragons who overturned the city’s sky and the giants who worked hard to break the ground of the solid ruins.
No matter how many there are, they can’t be your opponent.
but… .
“Apostle.”
A man approached him after thinking for a while.
“Move quickly!”
“Activate the magic circle now!”
Many soldiers moved late and shouted.
Among them, the figure who looked at him without agitation seemed exceptional.
Armaments, decorations, and skill on his face showed that he was different from others.
“Who is it?”
“This is Eison, the commander in charge of the soldiers here.”
He turned his head as he watched the soldiers moved up and down the stone steps, moving various things.
Allen opened his mouth at his strangely calm appearance.
“Did this happen often?”
He nodded and replied.
“Yes, this is the fourth time this week alone. Today alone… the second time.”
After looking around for a moment, I noticed a disgusting feeling on the faces of the castle soldiers and believers.
Their fear is only temporary, but they are willing to give their lives to protect the apostles and prophets. Such madness was in their eyes.
“For some reason, they’ve been in an uproar since a month ago. We’re repairing the castle. The fourth Prophet helped me, so I was relieved of my worries…”
Fatigue is not so easily relieved.
Allen remembered the second Seonji, who looked tired. Usually she must have killed them.
Most of these people here are capable of fighting, but they will struggle to deal with the tens of thousands of monsters constantly pouring in.
Rather, she would have thought that it would be easy to solve if she went out on her own and wiped it out.
A large army of undead advancing with a bizarre cry.
Except for the other directions, the undead did not come.
The moment the undead reached the castle, there was a sound of the ground shaking.
A light vibration echoed on the floor, and stone walls rose layer by layer.
“•••That thing.”
When Allen asked, feeling dazed, Aison nodded as if he was right.
“Yes, the fourth prophet seems to have used his power. But…”
He looked down at the bottom of the castle with a worried look on his face as if something was going on. A small murmur was heard.
“•••I know that you don’t usually use that much power…, how can you?”
“What do you mean?”
The rising walls blocked the approaching army in front. They were banging on the wall and screaming.
There was a ray of relief in the faces of the soldiers who were moving diligently.
Even Shigwi, who was crawling on the floor among the Skeleton Soldiers, could not penetrate the multi-layered wall, and the Banshee did not even come close as if he knew the subject.
When it looked like things were going to end before Allen could step forward, he answered.
“Usually a prophet doesn’t use his power like that.”
“That’s why there were many stone buildings here…”
“Usually, you only raise the raw materials, and I understand that shaping like this is avoided because it consumes more energy. But… Seeing that, you must have a different meaning.”
He seemed to know quite a bit about the fourth prophet, the broken iron.
Allen may not know that there are many like Aison, but he remembered that the shattered iron had no small influence on the followers.
‘By the way, even the rotten roots… .,
His assistants and the rest of his followers didn’t even look down on him for being a goblin.
The ring bridge was pagan, but the atmosphere inside was not as bad as I thought.
“Confucius.”
“Inelia?”
When he turned his head to the voice he heard, Enelia, who had come up behind him as if he had found him, exhaled lightly.
“Shall we deal with it?”
Her gaze was directed over the thick wall.
“•••That would be nice. Blocking like that won’t change anything.”
“Then to use your power…”
She quietly spoke about him. As she saw her eyes engulfed in speculation, she seemed eager to test her newfound abilities.
His senses caught the in-young approaching from below the fortress.
“Yeah, it would be good to get used to the power as soon as possible.”
“Be careful not to get hurt.”
“…Yes, I will definitely keep that in mind.”
Her body has changed. Twelve pairs of translucent wings protruding from the back of the skin turned gray. At his request, his red-dyed ears became more pointed.
As she slammed the ground once, her body rose above the castle and flew towards the army of undead.
As he turned his gaze, Aison watched the scene with his eyes wide open. The soldiers who glanced at them also saw Enelia flying in surprise.
“••• Apostle, that one.”
“I don’t care if you leave me alone, she’s my maid.”
“I need help…”
“No.”
If it’s her ability, I’ll finish the process in no time.
Allen saw a golem waving at him under the castle.
The fourth prophet called himself again.
Allen faced a dry wave again, unlike the moment before when he was guided to the hostel.
The crumbled iron also occupied one side of the table.
“After all, I have come to talk today.”
There was no embarrassment on her face for having just let her go and seeing her again.
“Yes, I don’t think I’ll have time to unwind comfortably.”
Her gaze turned to Allen and then to his back. To be more precise, the side where the cheers of the believers were heard.
“Oh…! After all, the apostle brought him here!”
“So many numbers so quickly…”
Praise is accompanied by murmuring and occasional names of apostles and prophets.
“Is this the one the apostle brought?” “Yes, this is my maid.”
Allen nodded at her question. She nodded her head slightly and opened her mouth.
“How much does the Apostle know about Estedor?”
It was a story with no foreshadowing, but Allen didn’t pay much attention to it.
As we talked, I understood that she was out of control.
“I know that demon contractors, witches, warlocks, and others are in their bodies, and they want to summon the Demon King back to this world.”
In short, that was all about them.
Conversely, that’s all Allen knows. There was little information about Esteodor even though Julius was the main enemy he was dealing with before the return.
Did you think that you don’t need information because you broke it all by force?
“For that purpose, the city of Mato was raided… and it must be causing a lot of incidents even now.”
Probably, their influence has increased enough to make the undead army go wild in this place on the edge of the continent.
“Then do you know when they started running rampant?”
“A few months ago…”
“137 years ago.”
Allen paused at the strangely detailed number.
It was a number I had heard somewhere. I’m sure you’ve heard stories about it… .
‘ah.,
When I asked them about the slate, and told me that I would explain all the circumstances, I heard about it after practicing the ruins.
“Estodor, which was scattered here and there 137 years ago, has undergone the same transformation as it is now.”
It was said that a man saw a stone slab with nine stars and shouted “Solar system.” And he said that he took care of him for 99 days and then drove him out.
“There was a man at the center of that transformation.”
“Why are you telling me that?”
“Didn’t I say in the first place. When did they start running rampant?”
“The first thing they did.”
Her voice turned gloomy.
The crumbled metal was quiet, as if he already knew what he was talking about, but he didn’t intervene.
“It was to destroy our kingdom located deep in the sea of the South Sea.”
Her voice was gloomy, but the story went on without end.
“Those who live quietly in the depths of the sea without interacting with the nearby human kingdom would have been the perfect target for their initial target.”
Allen remembered the figure she had seen in the bathtub earlier.
With a fishlike lower body and silver scales, it was clear that a mermaid was a rare race.
“Of course, living quietly in the depths of the sea doesn’t mean our race is weak. But we are doomed. Why is that?
do you think?”
Because I thought she wouldn’t mind if I didn’t tell her.
“Because of me.”
As Allen thought, she continued the conversation regardless of his answer.
“The reason our race has been reduced to a small race and the kingdom has been destroyed is because of a woman who believed only one man’s words and was deceived.”
The princess’s love, which was like a midsummer night’s dream, returned to its worst form and came to an end.
Allen had no choice but to ask, despite the obvious expected ending.
“•••Is that you? Withered wave?”
“Since then, I have been influenced by the words of the first and become the second according to his thoughts.”
His hideous-looking skin and pale blue eyes glared at him.
“Do you know why they refer to me this way? Apostle. I don’t trust anyone anymore.”
From the time she burned herself, thinking she didn’t need her eyes, which did not notice her opponent’s evil, there was nothing left that could shake her feelings any more.
Except for the end of the world.
So it was dry.
“But you have to believe in these eyes. Allen Reinhardt, self-proclaimed apostle of the cycle. My eyes affirm your words, so you should know.”
She spoke in the same voice as the first, as if she was meant to tell this story.
“You said you wanted to kill the variable of destruction. Then the apostle must know. Who he is. What he wants.”
Why are you trying to summon the Demon King?
“If you don’t know him, he will also act as a variable in the end.”
She didn’t open her mouth after that.
The broken iron slowly got up. Allen followed him out of the hut. Right before the door closed, she sat there with an unknown face.
ready-
luck is closed
The conversation of the day ended with this.