146. troublesome opponents (2)
Luna said that this pendant would definitely be of great help to me in a crisis situation.
Because the owner of the church he belonged to, a high-ranking nobleman, who said that he had put a blessing on this necklace to help me.
“Well?”
However, in the pendant, which was ambitiously aimed at a twist, and opened the lid, there was only a picture of a smiling Luna.
One problem here, though, is that I opened the pendant expecting a dramatic twist, but nothing happened yet.
I looked down blankly at the pendant in my hand.
Luna in the pendant is simply smiling brightly as she points at the camera with her hand, perhaps because the photographic technology of modern civilization is miraculous.
“… … What’s this.”
Looking at the photo of the pretty guy smiling makes me feel better, but the unusual energy contained in this necklace itself still doesn’t know how to be released.
“Nothing… … What?”
“Well… … Is that so?”
No, I have power, but why can’t I use it?
High-ranking nobles are so unkind in the way they lend their strength or teach them how to do it.
This time too, I had to rack my brains and ponder hard to figure out how to use this object.
“So, when this war is over, Mr. Ji-woo will go back and talk to Luna… … .”
“… … Hey, Miyoung-san?”
“yes. Our Mr. Ji-woo opened the pendant containing the photo of the woman who promised him a future on the battlefield… … .”
“… … No, wait, I never promised a future with that kid… … ?”
“ah… … just joke.”
“… … .”
Members of our corps tend to avoid heavy atmosphere as much as possible.
Situations in which members of the Legion get swept up in a serious mood are more common than you might think.
If someone sets the mood because the situation is not good, others may be weighed down by the tension and pressure that is coming, and even things that will work out well can be twisted.
In particular, when those who belong to the so-called ‘head-level’ like me or the elderly manager set the mood, the effect is bound to be amplified out of control.
So, it was quite common for them to make fun of each other in an appropriate way once they were caught making fun of each other.
Unless it’s really serious, this kind of culture has settled in where everyone tries to keep it as pleasant as possible.
“As always, this time it was really serious.”
“ah… … .”
“Because this is a flag… … .”
However, in the case of the Lord of Guardians, he has a terrible talent for teasing people with a very serious expression, confusing whether he is joking or serious.
When I listened to this quietly, even though I knew it was a joke, I felt like I had really sinned.
“I, honestly… … .”
“stop.”
“… … yes.”
Well, as long as I don’t have much feelings for the kid, even a serious joke like this would normally be laughable.
However, with the current development of the situation, it is a little difficult to accept this kind of joke as just a joke.
Black fog spreading in all directions like smog in a factory area where low pressure fell, and the objects of disaster pushing the Legion troops.
Those nasty guys were eating the corpses of demons and legionnaires, and their numbers were rapidly increasing, like E. coli dividing.
It gets stronger and stronger as time goes on.
These were really nasty troublesome bastards.
Rather, it is much easier to deal with devils whose individual abilities are jagged, and above all, whose heads are quite stupid.
In fact, even if they escaped from Purgatory, I was confident enough to protect the Legion’s nest, regardless of whether other worlds perished or not.
However, while sharing characteristics with the Legion, a guy with a good head enough to fuck the Lord of Ruin has become an enemy.
When they pop out of Purgatory, it gets really out of hand, and it feels like the difficulty has skyrocketed all of a sudden.
Now that things are going like this, I have a strong goosebumps feeling that I’ve scratched a bunch of bad flags.
“Huh, there must be a workaround.”
First of all, I had to find a way to offset the buffs and debuffs of that fog, and how to properly unlock the power of this necklace.
Until I can find a way to do that, all I can do is kill time by pounding Legion troops into the fog.
If it’s too late to find an answer, the Legion might eventually have to withdraw from Purgatory here with a white flag.
“Let’s go back and come up with countermeasures. We should use the collective intelligence rather than figure it out alone.”
“Mr. Jiu.”
“yes.”
“You believe in Luna?”
“… … Did you learn how to care?”
It was just then that we were about to return to the hive.
A woman’s low voice, still awkward, came from the air.
“That necklace.”
The owner of this voice had not revealed his appearance or presence at all.
“Give me this.”
I said into the air.
“friend. Please release that invisibility first.”
* * *
From beyond the horizon, the fog that had consumed the power of demons and rituals and increased its prestige in earnest was gathering.
However, there were those who were engrossed in their fight even when they saw the dangerous fog approaching every moment.
“Ha, this old man is really… … .”
The manager, a man who was looking at their own fight with a slightly disgruntled expression, turned to the bald man next to the cook and the members of the corps and said:
“Hey Seongcheol. Doesn’t that old man seem to be enjoying himself on purpose right now? From my point of view, at least a few hits should be enough to make it normal. At this point, you’ve roughly finished figuring out habits and patterns, right?”
The manager, who had an excellent eye for watching the battle, was now aware of the pattern that Baal was using unconsciously, to some extent.
Of course, the others who were less capable than him were in a situation where it was difficult to keep up with the battle that was going so fast.
“Look at that. Can you see the habit? If you think that devil is a little dangerous, isn’t it blinking to the left unconditionally? If I aim well, I think I can land an effective hit too.”
After hearing his words, the members of the legion began to watch the battle of the transcendental beings with maximum concentration, and soon let out a deep sigh.
Surprisingly, as the manager said, Baal was unconsciously using his blinking pattern intact.
“hahahaha, Woo-jae hyung-nim. The old man seems to be enjoying himself because he has been sweating for the first time in a long time.”
“Ha, I’m going to turn around, really. Ji-woo must have spread the word that the situation is not good, right?”
There was no problem propagating the situation of the corps ruler.
The Lord of Destruction was struck in the back of the head, and the Lord of Disaster, who disappeared after being hit by [Excalibur] the other day, appeared and monopolized the final ceremony.
And it has already been reported that the fog is supplying divine power buffs to the objects of disaster and casting a powerful curse on other beings.
―Return to the colony! comeback!
-danger! Fog!
-ruin! death! disaster! appear!
Even now, the legion of jellyfish that fill the sky and fly around warns of the situation ahead and the danger of fog.
Their cries were so loud that members of the Legion with weak abilities suffered intense headaches and even passed out.
Even King Arthur, who was dealing with Baal, couldn’t help but hear the cries of the jellyfish resonating throughout Purgatory.
He was a transcendent apostle who could hear the sound of falling leaves several kilometers away, and he had the most powerful ability here except for the Keraphim.
The problem was, it was his old habit.
“Well, isn’t that a big old habit? He is a person who fights non-stop for decades when he meets his opponent.”
King Arthur was the type who didn’t care much about winning or losing a war.
The moment he met an opponent he liked on the battlefield, King Arthur focused all his attention on a one-on-one match with that opponent.
At this time, it was the knights and wizards of the round table who cleaned up the dung that King Arthur had made and led the war to victory.
“… … After that, I don’t really understand. It’s not like he’s a top recruit. In this situation, is it enough to leave the battlefield alone and enjoy Baal alone?”
The problem was that the flesh of the calamity that was buffed by the last rite, which was about to come soon, was of a different level from the existing enemies.
Now, if the forces that are being pulled out with all their might from the colony spread out in Purgatory and the colony of Nemesis are quietly being pushed back, isn’t it a situation that needs no further explanation?
“Because he’s like an old man obsessed with a fight like that. They always make noise that even ancient people can’t understand, and use training as an excuse to beat apostle candidates. Shit, there is no other sweet potato like that in real sweet potatoes.”
From the mouth of the manager, who could not stand the rising irritation, the resentment that had accumulated over the years began to pour out like a flood.
“Tongue, brother! Your voice is too loud!”
“Fuck, listen if you want to.”
“Then you might be dragged into training!”
“When those bastards go out of purgatory, there’s no training or anything, you bastards.”
The manager shook his head as he roughly poured his favorite herb-flavored chocolate into his mouth.
His expression of chewing on the chocolate was already crumpled.
“Fuck, but the moment Baal realizes his weakness, the suppression is over. What the hell is that old man thinking?”
Putting off subduing a dangerous enemy and enjoying one’s own fight in a situation where the best plan had gone awry was an act that no one could see was truly reckless.
Even though the administrator couldn’t kill Baal because King Arthur didn’t have [Excalibur] in his hand, there seemed to be a few opportunities to make him not crawl out for the time being.
“I have to go and hit him.”
“Me, brother? You don’t like meddling in fights, do you?”
“Hey, does that matter now? It’s a situation where you can’t see the end and withdraw or not? There is no room for us to take care of the entertainment of an old man who has lost his sense of living in the world.”
The manager, who swallowed the chocolate he was chewing on, took out the sacred spear Brunak and held it firmly.
However, the atmosphere he exuded was a bit strange.
Obviously, Brunak was discharged after use, but even though there was not enough time for the divine power to gather, it slowly began to glow as if it had been fully charged.
The holy spear regained its dignity in an instant, and at the same time, black dead blood began to flow from the mouth of the administrator.
The expression of the successor to the apostle watching this also hardened in an instant.
“older brother! Wait. What are you trying to do?!”
“What is it? They’re beating my strength.”
“Yes?! no that?”
“I know, kid. But if we leave the work to that old man here, we will perish.”
“That power, that brother’s life force, isn’t it? Brother, if you do something wrong, you will really die!”
“I’m not dying, son of a bitch. If he was that weak, he would have died during the Pandemonium Conquest in the past.”
The manager grinned helplessly.
“Today is the day that number one in the demon hierarchy falls into my hands.”
After a while, a brilliant flash created by a shining spear split the sky.
* * *
“Didn’t you ask me for a favor?”
A dragon was also a dragon.
Keraphim, who had extensive experience in handling divine power and authority, quickly identified the identity of the disparate power contained in this necklace.
“This contains the power to temporarily explode all the surrounding power at once. A single shot of this power could tear Purgatory itself apart.”
“… … Five? crazy like this?”
good night.
It seems that the nobleman of the plague or something sent me a very nice present.
For the first time, I had a feeling that there would be a nobleman I liked quite a bit among the nobles.
“So, did you figure out how to use it?”
“It seems to activate as a way to resonate divine power. By the way… … .”
When I asked how to use the necklace, Keraphim’s expression was not very good.
“… … That’s it.”
“what’s the matter? What else do you have?”
“Don’t use this.”
“why?”
What followed was a bit shocking.
“If you use this, you will die too.”
“… … What?”
“This is the self-destruct power.”
… … Fuck this.
“Hey, you crazy bastard. Would you give me something like this?”
It was confirmed that the cancellation was confirmed to say that he liked the high-ranking nobleman like this.
And here, because of the power of this necklace, there was another guy who boasted a spirit of sacrifice.
“I will use this necklace.”
“… … Hey, transparent dragon?”
“If I can apologize for my actions in the past with this, then it is right for me to step forward.”
I said to the dragon, who was suddenly uttering something that I couldn’t even repeat.
“It’s crazy, and I’m tired.”