“”Koo!!”
Countless undead are glaring at me and crying.
Then, the unique aura of the undead and the holy aura emanating from the white armor they wore mixed together and began to attack me.
“Ugh… I feel bad…”
I felt quite uncomfortable when I was surrounded by an aura of heterogeneous things that could never coexist.
When I think about why I feel so bad, I think it’s because my situation is the same.
I am a warrior who must do evil.
‘Can I win?’
As I looked around the undead with a long, casual expression and muttered to myself, I began to understand their power.
Judging from their armament and body type, it seems that most of the undead were well-trained paladins.
If so, was this the tomb where the paladins of the Sun God Church were buried when they died?
‘…the cemetery of the church must be on the ground.’
However, when I think about it, the cemetery of the denomination that has maintained its title since 1000 years ago is abundantly present on the earth. So, what the hell is this place doing, so many corpses of paladins?
– Shoo!
As I was thinking about it, some undead fired arrows at me.
“Koo!!!”
In order to reduce the consumption of stamina as much as possible, I shook my head slightly to avoid it, and the guys started to cry as they stared at me to see if they were angry.
‘They don’t seem to have much intelligence, I’m glad.’
There are several types of undead.
The first type is the type that moves under direct command from the necromancer, and is characterized by being able to become stronger or weaker at the discretion of the necromancer.
Of course, seeing that these guys have been acting arbitrarily since before, it seems that there is no such thing as a necromancer here.
The second type is a type that has high intelligence and makes efficient judgments on its own. In this case, it consumes a lot of materials, time, and power to make, but it can create a powerful undead that much.
But to make so many of them do that, an Archmage would have to come. And, if you were an Archmage, you wouldn’t have to dig a trap like that, but would choose a different method.
The third and final type is the type that aims at targets with a fairly low intelligence and high instinct, and is the type to which the guys I’m facing now belong to.
Because of their low intelligence, they recklessly charge without making simple cooperative attacks, strategies, or formations, but they are tenacious and cruel, so they are a type that cannot be ignored.
“You have to buy time… you have to buy time…”
Having finished grasping the opponent’s strength in that way, I slowly moved to the side and started muttering.
My goal right now is not to annihilate them, but to take as much time as possible.
Only then will Perloche be able to get out of this place safely.
As a result of expanding and grasping the mana of the stars earlier, if you open that door and leave this room, you will find a passage that extends all the way to the ground.
So, even Perloche, who has run out of stamina, will be able to get out of this place if she recovers her body from the sun’s light from the accessories and moves forward.
Of course, I don’t know what’s out there, but… If I go outside, I’ll be able to catch the sunlight, so she’ll be able to figure that out on her own.
“”Koo!!”
After thinking like that, I was staring at them quietly, and they started advancing all at once.
With a slightly tired expression on my face, as if I was watching a swarm of ants hunting for prey, I started to knock on the ‘Stone of Dominance’ in my pocket just in case.
But even if I beat my finger until it hurts, the undead still just stared at me and approached me. As expected, the ‘Stone of Domination’ doesn’t seem to have any effect on the dead undead.
“Ahhh!”
After removing my hand from my pocket, I grabbed the handle of the sword again, took a deep breath, and swung the sword vigorously.
– Phage hey hey!
As a flash of light flashed along with the mana of the beautiful and twinkling stars, the front line of the undead group that was approaching began to fall without a hitch.
“Keeek!!”
Of course, since they were undead, most of the crooked guys were still wriggling, but knowing that they would, they aimed at the legs and swung it, so it was just a meaningless movement.
– Kwajik! Quajiic!!
The guys who had fallen to the floor with their legs cut off and wriggling began to be incapacitated as they were trampled down by the guys approaching from behind and smashed or exploded.
“Ugh… Damn it…”
As I watched them with a cheerful expression, I felt pain as if stabbed by a knife in my chest and sat down.
By repeating this a few more times, the number of these guys could have been reduced considerably, but again, the influence of 2 penalty stacks and 1 special penalty stack seems to be quite large.
“Hah… Hah…”
I sat down and took a rough breath, then got up from my seat and straightened my sword.
“Should I earn a hand-to-hand battle?”
Recalling the anecdote of the first swordsman and the first head of the Bywalk family, who had the legend of blocking numerous large armies alone, I thought about having a hand-to-hand battle with them for a while, but soon realized that it was a stupid idea.
Wouldn’t it be obvious if they fought in a battle surrounded by paladins who must have been elite soldiers of the Sun God Church in a state where they were all dying like this?
Of course, because they are undead, their approach speed and actions are very slow…
“… tt, can’t you help it?”
After giving up on hand-to-hand combat, I frowned and took a deep breath to collect the mana in my body.
According to the calculations, although the body would be quite messed up, I don’t think it would be too much of a problem to fire the sword once more.
– Phage hey hey!!
“Aww!!”
I slashed the legs of countless undead once again by blowing a huge sword at them, and immediately after that, I grabbed my chest and started rolling on the floor because of the terrible pain I felt in my heart.
“Aww…”
For a while, I rolled to the point of blowing a lot of dust, spit out the blood in my mouth, then stabbed my sword into the ground to support my body, and I started to stand up slowly.
“You’ve lost quite a bit though?”
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Even though he only swung it twice, the number of undead was reduced enough to be seen with the naked eye.
I desperately want to swing it a few more times, but now is the time to take the time as much as possible.
‘…Once I go to that narrow passage and cut down the guys that come up, I’ll have to run outside when the limit comes.’
Hand-to-hand combat in a wide space risks being surrounded and attacked from all sides, so it is natural to give up.
However, if the direction in which the enemies are coming is limited to one direction and you can only deal with a small number of enemies instead of a large number, the story is different.
If you take a vantage point for the passage right now, you will be able to hold on for quite a while by cutting down the guys in front of you.
Of course, if so many guys rush into the passage, no matter how many times they cut and cut them, eventually the accumulated corpses will be pushed out and pour out, but in the current situation, it is unavoidable.
The exit on the other side is blocked by the relatively strong ones among the undead, and gradually they come out of the ground and destroy the space in this room.
And since I am also trying to pass time, not to make sacrifices, I have to fight with an escape route behind me.
Of course, the undead coming out is a problem, but… Since there have been a lot of monsters infiltrating the capital recently, the Imperial Knights are constantly guarding the capital.
And, the elite soldiers of the imperial family, no matter how much divine power they mix, they will be able to easily subdue the undead, who are going to be weakened by sunlight as they are.
“Koo!!!”
“…the guys who got hit with jingle jingle.”
With that in mind, I opened the door that Perloche had entered, sat down in the middle of the long hallway and locked the door.
Of course, I don’t think that door will hold up, but it’s still better than having it open wide.
– Quajik!!
“Keah eek!!”
“Ha, damn it.”
Still, it was an attempt to buy some time, but the door was ripped out by a single undead.
Thanks to that, I had a look of disappointment for a while, and after cutting the head of the undead that was making the door a mop, I finally started to look at the situation.
“…Eh?”
But something is a little strange.
“Kreuk! Kreuk!”
“Keeek!”
Beyond the undead corps advancing towards me with a creepy sound, the huge undead guarding the opposite entrance were manipulating something while communicating with each other.
“…what are you going to do?”
After watching the suspicious behavior for a while, I tried to get out of the aisle for a while to find out what they were doing, but before I knew it, the undead corps came right in front of me, so I frowned and entered the aisle again.
“Ke-e-e-e!”
“…where.”
Standing at the spot I had seen in advance, I put my sword into the head of the first guy who entered the exit.
“”Kooh!!””
Then, five or six undead began to push the sword-studded guy.
“The speed is slow… but the power is filthy.”
They were quite slow, but their strength was the same as before, and they began to show their superpowers, and I used the guy with a sword in his head as a shield to block the advance of the undead, and I was pushed to the point where my arms were cramped.
“Ugh!!”
Then, as three more undead added, I lost my center of gravity and nearly collapsed. I clenched my teeth and pulled out the sword from the undead’s head, which was used as a shield, and started slashing the guys in front of me.
The strength was one of the terrifying guys, but the speed was quite slow, so the bodies of the undead, whose necks were blown away, could not stop my attack, gradually piled up.
“Ugh.”
But it wasn’t long before I started to push back.
As too many undead piled up in the aisle, I gradually removed the space I was going to set foot on.
However, I had to buy some time, so I frowned and stabbed, cut, and mutilated the rushing undead, but even that became useless as the undead that were neutralized piled up.
Whether it was a coincidence or a sudden increase in intelligence, it was because the undead began to climb the passage, pushing up the stacked incapacitated bodies.
“Still, it will be difficult for these guys to come out.”
However, it became quite difficult for the undead to come out to the ground because of that, so I started to take a step backwards slowly, thinking that I could leave the work to the Imperial Knights with confidence.
‘Perloche seems to have escaped safely. I’m so glad.’
As I slowed down their advance by cutting down the things in front of me as much as possible, I arrived at a place presumed to be a door leading to the ground.
Seeing that the door was slightly open, fortunately, it seems that Ferroche escaped safely.
“Ugh!!”
“Keeeeeeek!!”
After confirming that Perloche was safe, I stopped right in front of the exit and started slicing again to slow down the speed of the undead exiting with a smile of relief.
If you pile up as many as possible of the neutralized bodies at the entrance, no matter how strong the undead, only one will be able to get out.
I would like to clean up the situation completely by cutting them down from the ground as well, but if I do, my life will not be left.
– Profit…
After slicing for a long time and creating a low wall made of undead, I carefully opened the door, grabbing my still burning heart and pulling out a black robe from my arms.
“under…”
And as soon as I opened the door, I stared blankly at the scene unfolding in front of me for a moment, then carefully closed the door and swallowed my saliva.
“…f*ck it.”
I just understood everything that was happening down here.
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A few minutes before Frey opened the door to the ground and attained some kind of enlightenment,
“Are you going that way?”
Irina Filliard, who was hiding behind the door where the magic circle was hanging using the Stealth Magic Scroll, kept her head sticking out, watching Frey heading down the aisle to avoid the undead horde.
“Strange… so strange…”
When Frey completely disappeared into the aisle, Irina began to mutter with a puzzled expression on her face.
“Why does Frey do good only after he has done evil?”
It wasn’t until two months ago that she became convinced of Frey’s good deeds.
After the ‘People’s Dormitory Assault’, no matter how much background investigation was conducted, little information was gathered due to the gender gap and lack of funds.
After the Dark Golem was destroyed in that day’s incident, it was possible because all the monsters and dangerous monsters inside had migrated somewhere.
Of course, nevertheless, the gray forest was not an easy place. This is because the harsh natural environment and wild beasts that took their place in place of the monsters were lurking everywhere.
However, Irina collected all the money she had without money to purchase magic scrolls, and even took a leave of absence from the academy, homeless in the Ashen Forest, and immersed herself in research.
Irina’s tenacity shone when she had a problem, she had to find a solution to solve it.
“Hey, here…!
After a month of searching through the gray forest, Irina was able to find decisive information.
It was because, as usual, he realized what this place was like the moment he entered a particularly prominent cave to avoid the torrential rain that suddenly began to pour during the investigation.
“There are traces of blood and traces of being attracted to the stones around, and I can feel the sparkling mana that Liana was using… Then maybe this is…?”
When she was threatened by an unidentified man with an eye patch on, Irina struggled to escape somehow.
The memories of that time are so vivid that they come out in a dream even to this day, so recognizing the traces of her own struggles was a breeze.
In addition, instead of running out of mana, Irina, who felt the same mana as Liana and Frey used in the depths of the cave, thanks to the increased mana sensing ability, swallowed saliva and began to rummage through her backpack.
‘Obviously there was a woman’s scream at that time. So, if this was a place where slaves were raised…’
Irina gave up her monthly meal expenses and took out the mountain attack scrolls and quietly entered the cave. Irina took a deep breath in anticipation of the terrible scene that would soon unfold before her eyes…
“…under?”
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Eventually, seeing the situation unfolding in front of me, I couldn’t help but breathe in vain.
Instead of s*x slaves or torture devices, there were dried up corpses of monsters.
– Shaa…
And, between the bodies of those monsters, the sparkling mana was still shining.
“…..!”
Irina, who was staring at the scene, was stunned as she unintentionally looked down when something stuck at her feet.
“Is it a corpse…?”
Because there was the body of a woman who had been decapitated.
Fortunately, she was a famous war mage throughout the continent, so with a slight frown on her face, she began to look at the woman’s neck next to the corpse.
“…you’re smiling.”
Whether it was because of the sparkling mana or the cool cave, the woman, who had maintained a relatively intact condition until then, was smiling too calmly to be called a dead person by cutting her throat.
If this woman had really been Frey’s s*x slave and had been killed while running, it would have been impossible to come out.
Moreover, the dried bloodstains at the entrance of the cave continued all the way to the corpse, and a large amount of bloodstains were scattered next to the corpse.
Judging from that, the person who brought me here and killed a woman at the same time would be Liana, who tends to vomit after attacking… i.e. Frey.
“Student! You can’t go into that forest!!”
“It’s okay, I’m fully prepared.”
“Yep! Last time, a whole village was burned by monsters in that forest! Seeing only the dead in the village, all the living people would have been taken to the magul… Do you still want to go?”
Irina recalled the unfortunate incident she had heard from a local native who tore her up before coming here, and was only able to convince herself after discovering the corpses of people mixed with monsters and family photos in the woman’s arms.
‘I didn’t catch a s*x slave… I was helping the woman to get revenge.’
Frey commits a good deed without anyone knowing after he has done a bad deed to someone.
That was Frey’s secret, which she had only discovered after a month of research.
“Before, I threatened Perloche to flee on purpose, and then I stopped the undead by myself… I’m sure of that as well.”
And that conviction was once again solidified by Frey showing the same behavior this time.
‘By the way, why are you doing that?’
Irina was so completely convinced of Frey, but she couldn’t quite figure out why.
Of course, if you ask Frey directly, you’ll know right away… But there must be some reason why he puts so much effort into hiding his good deeds.
It’s too dangerous to approach him even though he didn’t even understand why, whether a variable occurred during one regression and Frey changed, or whether he was like that from the beginning.
Because he was such a vicious Frey, there could be some kind of malice hidden in that good deed, or there could be some reason why the good deed should not be caught.
So, it’s still time…
– Kuwagwang!!
“Huh!?”
Irina, who had been contemplating for such a long time, opened her eyes and screamed at the sudden roar.
“Stop it!”
I looked up to see what the hell was going on and saw Frey, with red and bloodshot eyes, running out of the aisle, bleeding from his mouth.
The wind literally crushed the undead in the passage and pushed them out, thanks to which Frey was also stabbed and scratched by such undead and suffered considerable injuries, but he began to charge at the giant undead without hesitation at all.
“Ahhh!!!”
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Eventually, as he swung his sword with all his sucking power, one of the two giant undead who were manipulating something flew off the leg.
“oo!!
“Ahhh!!”
After a while, Frey, who was trembling with blood dripping from his eyes, began to twist the legs of the undead, who began to manipulate things even more quickly, with a sword, and twist with all his might.
“Well, I think something is wrong…”
Irina, who was watching the scene blankly, hurriedly began to gather flames in her hands.
“Die!”
Meanwhile, Frey, who was twisting the sword with all his might, cut off the legs of the undead and smashed something they were manipulating.
“Damn it…”
He was the one who defeated a large number of undead and two giant undead with such an unbelievable explosive power, but it seemed like that was enough.
This is because, after pouring out all his strength, he knelt down helplessly in his seat.
“No… I can’t end it here…”
With a desperate expression on his face when his body no longer had power, he pulled something out of his arms, and Irina, who somehow felt an ominous feeling in it, finally intervened in the situation by spewing fire from her hand.
– Kuwagwang!!
“Keeek!!”
As Irina spewed fire from her hand, the undead around Frey burned.
“Who, who…”
Then, Frey, who was struggling to ask a question while putting the thing in her hand again, slowly closed her eyes, thinking that Irina was being protected unconsciously when Irina hugged her, and then lost consciousness.
– Kuwagwagwang!
“Ke-e-e-e!”
Irina, who was firing while holding Frey, started heading for the exit through the door that Frey had drilled until just before she ran out of mana she had accumulated for a week.
“Ke-e-e-e!!”
“go away!!”
Irina, who gave the last fireball that she could use to the undead who had started following closely behind, took out the attack scroll that she had kept in her pocket in case of any contingency and opened the door…
“…under.”
Soon after, he was able to find out why Frey had suddenly returned with a flair.
“Evacuate all the children in the orphanage!! Right now!!!”
“Saint… Stop being stubborn. If you keep doing that…”
“If you don’t evacuate immediately, I’ll use ‘Sun God’s Protection’ to destroy the orphanage myself!!!”
“Tae, the sun god’s protection…?”
Beyond Perloche, who collapsed on the floor, pale and tired, and gasping, screaming at the Pope and the paladins who were blocking him in front of him.
– Boom! Boob!!
– Whoa! boo!
It was because they saw the orphanage of the Sun God Church where a fun party was being held with firecrackers and trumpet sounds.
‘Maybe… the magic circle on the ceiling…’
Irina, who was frozen for a moment and sweating in a cold sweat in a terrible situation that would have happened had it not been for Frey, felt a presence behind her and hurriedly looked back.
“Keek!!”
“Mister, f*ck you!”
After seeing the undead approaching right behind her, Irina hurriedly tore the attack scroll in her hand.
– Grip Jijijik!
“Uh-huh!?”
Soon after, he felt the familiar feeling he had experienced during the performance evaluation incident and disappeared as a light with Frey.
And then, a brief silence passed.
“Keah, hey, hey!!”
“What, what!?”
“Undead! An undead has appeared!!”
Until the prelude to the ‘Holy Undead Knight Incident’ that will turn the Empire and the Sun God Church upside down.