55. first expedition
“I, I, sort…”
Leona managed to squeeze out a trembling voice and gave instructions. Everyone except Doyoon’s breathing was shaking unsteadily.
Leona quickly, no, shook her head.
‘Sangae? battle?’
If they spread out and run away, anyone unlucky enough to be pursued by an ogre will surely die. And at least he’s not the speedy Ranger himself.
And… it didn’t seem like the odds of winning were high. No, it was very low.
she was troubled Does one of the team members sacrifice and let the rest live, or do they fight together with a small hope.
Everyone’s life was in their hands.
thud. thud.
When everyone is in a panic and no one can step out.
“sister.”
Doyoon’s voice woke her up.
“Calm down, take a closer look.”
“Uh, uh…?”
“Isn’t something strange?”
Only then did Leona regain her white spirit and properly look at the ogre in front of her.
As Doyoon said, it was strange. He wasn’t in a fighting or hunting stance, he was just walking. It felt no threat, and the pace was very slow.
Leona finally felt hope and her pupils dilated.
“…All of them. Get out of the way of the ogres. Keeping lined up, turn to the right. Slowly… don’t provoke…”
she whispered softly.
Leona’s team kept their line and slowly moved out of the ogre’s path.
But as they stepped aside, the ogre turned as well.
“uh?”
sure He was walking toward Tim.
“Ahh…”
Leona let out a despairing sigh. She was an excellent team leader, but she was helpless in the face of an out-of-standard disaster that was beyond her capabilities.
Is there really no way now? Really, is there really only one way to save the rest by sacrificing someone on the team?
Leona’s head trembled as violently as her eyes and legs.
Then, Doyoon’s voice rang in her ears again.
“sister.”
A low-pitched voice filled with heavy mana. Leona felt her anxiety and confusion melt away in an instant and she calmed down, as if his presence dispelled the darkness.
She felt Doyoon’s hand on her shoulder so hot and big.
‘…okay. it’s our team I can’t let anyone die.’
Leona made up her mind.
“Everyone, prepare for battle.”
The team leader’s calm instructions were passed on to everyone, and the team members, who had calmed down with her, regained their stance before they knew it.
Eventually, the ogre arrived in front of them and slowly reached out his hand.
“Coperman!!”
With Leona’s bright cry, the battle began.
“Huh!”
With a tower shield as big as his size, Copperman charged and blocked the ogre’s hand.
“Huh…?”
But that’s for a while. The ogre began to push Kaperman’s tower shield back for its own purpose.
“Keep it, sigh…!”
Tendons sprouted from Kaperman’s muscles and temples.
He felt with his whole body that no matter how hard he tried, he was weak in front of this boulder.
The only reason Copper was able to hold on like this was because the ogre wasn’t taking the fight seriously.
“aa!!”
With Kaperman’s desperate barometric pressure, the teammates had a hunch that he wouldn’t last long. Chiwoomin and Leona ran forward like hands.
First, Leona moved quickly to draw attention and slashed the dagger at the side of the ogre’s thigh.
Kang!
“I’m sorry…!”
However, Leona’s attack couldn’t even scratch the ogre’s thick hide.
“What kind of body…!”
She was startled by the rebound she felt in her hands. It wasn’t the feeling of tough and thick leather, but rather the feeling of hitting steel.
“Haaaap!”
Likewise, Chiu-min’s attack had no effect.
‘Does this make sense?’
Although she has never encountered an ogre, ogres are creatures after all. How can a creature’s skin be so hard?
‘Strange.’
she felt embarrassed
But there was no time to think long term. The ogre waved its arms as if shaking off mosquitoes, and Leona and Chiu-min had to pour all their energy into avoiding that powerful move. Its movements were too fast for its size.
The two did not give up and continued to attack him.
The two of them moved quickly, and the ogre started to get a fever because it couldn’t be sorted out with just annoying hand gestures.
He really intended to kill him, so he slammed his fist at Chi Woo-min.
bang!
“Huh!”
Chi Woo-min, who avoided the heavy and fast blow by a narrow margin, lost strength in his legs and fell.
“Chimin! wake up!”
Leona was startled by the bloody roar and shouted at the fallen Chiu-min. However, losing momentum, his movement was slow by one beat, which had dire consequences.
The ogre raised a foot. A thick shadow came over Chi Woo-min’s head.
“no!!”
Seeing this, Leona let out a scream mixed with screams.
The soles of the ogre’s heavy feet descended quickly.
‘ah…’
Several memories flashed in Chiu-min’s eyes as he looked at it.
‘I should confess…’
Eventually, he closed his eyes.
However, at the moment when everyone was shocked, something flew with fierce force from the back of the display.
Poo-!
“Kheuuong!”
Hitting the ogre in the eye, I threw the pack behind its neck.
thud!
Thanks to that, the soles of the ogre’s feet pressed against the harsh ground, and Chiu-min, who came back from the dead, crawled on the floor.
puck-!
“Kheuuuuuong!”
In the meantime, another projectile flew through the air and hit the ogre’s remaining eyeball. The ogre clenched its eyes and ran wild, losing its target.
“Get out of here quickly!”
The team members, who were dumbfounded for a moment by Do-yoon’s voice, suddenly came to their senses.
There were several short spears stuck in the ground around him, and Do-yoon, who pulled out one of them, was already in the javelin stance again.
He pulled his back, loaded his spear, and fired a short spear. It was an excellent javelin, sophisticated and resilient even at first glance.
The spear hit the forehead of the rampaging ogre with his eyes covered, and the guy whose head fell over again lost his balance and hit his butt.
“Do-yoon? you…!”
The moment Leona was about to question his unexpected activity, Jilain’s magic chant was completed.
A flash of bloody power hit the ogre. The lightning that struck the creature’s head exploded with sparks flying in all directions, and a wriggling electric current wrapped around the ogre’s body.
However.
“Kheung…”
“Oh my, fuck.”
Gillain murmured a curse.
The ogre scratched the side of his head that had been hit by magic and stood up.
Besides, he blinked a few times, and the fragments of the javelin that had exploded fell. His eyes were fine.
Crazy exorcism and leather like steel. In addition, the soft tissue called the eyeball is extremely hard. It was unusual durability.
While he was clearing his mind, Doyoon twirled his wrists and thought.
‘As expected, that’s not just an ogre, it’s a ‘guardian’. It’s also superlative.’
A guardian of the highest level, unimaginable with human technology, who appears on the battlefield and stirs up the enemy camp alone.
He still couldn’t understand why it was here.
Besides, I didn’t understand its behavior. Doyoon clearly felt it. That guy was moving towards Doyoon.
It was also moving with the goal of ‘taking’ Do-yoon, not simply killing or eating him. It was really unpredictable.
‘Think later.’
First of all, I had to take it down for the sake of my teammates and to move forward.
Doyoon said as he pulled out a single spear stuck in the ground.
“I will cover you. Let’s try again.”
Leona and her teammates nodded. Although it didn’t do any significant damage, if you had Doyoon’s javelin, you would be able to continue attacking.
With the roar of an ogre full of rage.
“Kwoaa!!”
The battle resumed.
Doyoon thought while covering the vanguard.
That was a difficult opponent for Doyoon as well. There was no problem with movement because it was a simple ogre, but the defense was so high that it was impossible to do anything with Doyoon’s current output.
If you pull out the sword at full power or use the hyeonsword, you can kill him, but if you do, Doyoon will be completely retired. It wasn’t a good choice.
‘Aim for the core with a javelin, and finish it in one shot.’
It just so happened that there was an object that was very suitable for his subspace and had never been used.
Waiting for the right timing, Doyoon aimed the ogre’s eyes with his short spear.
Meanwhile, Leona was also seriously examining the situation with him.
‘I have to finish it.’
The only person who can end this situation is himself who can handle even a little bit of swordplay.
‘Only blocking the mobility, I run away with my teammates.’
She swallowed and straightened her grip on the dagger.
“Chimin! Attract attention!”
“Ah Okay!”
Leona ran to the side and left the battlefield, hiding in the forest with a ranger’s stealth.
Whenever an ogre attacked Chiu-min or Copperman, a dagger flew in and stopped him.
Team members were amazed. Do-yoon’s javelin hadn’t missed even once since earlier, and he was stopping him by hitting the joint or eyeball at the right timing.
Besides, if it was hit, the javelin exploded with a bloody sound, and the ogre staggered its massive body.
‘What kind of javelin sounds like shells exploding!?’
‘This is higher accuracy than most archers.’
‘Was your main position a rear thrower?’
While the team members were surprised by Do-yoon’s hidden skills, they believed in him and continued the battle.
And Leona, who was hiding in the woods, admired his skill and calmly measured the timing.
Leona, the most powerful member of the team, was the only one who stepped into the threshold of the sword technique.
Even though this one attack would run out of mana right away, in any case, her special move was the only solution in the current situation.
In the shadows of the forest, blue-black air shimmered. Leona’s, the Ranger’s sharp eyes glared fiercely at the ogre’s Achilles heel.
Eventually, the ogre hit by Doyoon’s javelin and Jillane’s magic staggered greatly.
‘now!’
Leona’s heart shot mana all over her body.
Leaving only mana for swordplay, her body, which had been invested in speed, shot out at full speed.
A fleeting moment when everything was staked, a blow with the whole body where the lives of the team members depended.
Drawing the half moon, the sharp blue sword cut through the air and pierced the purple Achilles tendon.
and.
Caang-!
“…uh?”
Leona’s dagger is broken.
“Leona!!”
Chiu-min screamed at her.
Leona felt the shadow cast over her, just like Chiu-min did earlier.
But the legs didn’t move. The mana she had scraped all the way to the floor did not allow her to evade.
“ah…”
An experienced, energetic, competent team leader. But right now, she’s just a poor, pitiful girl, Leona.
Tears fell from both of her eyes.
With her mouth open in vain, she gave in to the fear of death.
However, at that moment.
Key Yiing-!
With an intense grinding sound that ruthlessly tears the air.
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A sharp hurricane of green flash pierced the ogre’s stomach.
“Turn it off, kuck…”
The soles of the feet above the head no longer came down.
The thing that filled Leona’s eyes was just slowly moving beside her with a large body.
finally.
thud.
The ogre lay down on the floor.
“……uh?”
Leona sighed in agony.
Her mind, consumed by fear, could not immediately accept the situation.
Leona looked at the rust-colored lines cutting through the sky with eyes still filled with hot water droplets.
It was like an afterimage left behind by something, and it slowly faded away, leaving only the powerful wind pressure of a hurricane still covering its path.
Leona slowly moved her focus to where the green line started.
As her gaze drew closer to the ground, she saw her teammates staring at one place with astonished faces like her.
And in the center of that gaze.
“just now…”
As if he had fired something, he stretched his right arm forward.
“Did you… do it…?”
Han Do-yoon was standing there.
Doyoon nodded calmly and twirled his tingling wrists.