Jonber wins (2)
The gold king, who left the territory of Basilonia, said goodbye to the party immediately.
Since he is a non-combatant, there is no reason to continue to accompany him.
Chris didn’t even know why he had to come to see them in the first place.
“Then I’ll get out of here. If you need my help, please feel free to contact me.”
“Wait, why the hell did King Geum come here? Want to see our faces?”
When Chris grabbed the gold king and bet him, he laughed.
“Of course there is that too. Count Vector seems to be reaching the Six Kings soon, so there’s nothing wrong with familiarizing yourself with his face. Now, please accept this.”
Chris and his party accepted the bundle of scrolls for communication that the gold king handed over with a slightly confused expression.
As expected from the continent’s best rejects, a top-of-the-line product with no communication distance restrictions.
Tyrone confirmed it and asked with a greedy expression.
“How much is this… Do you have anything else?”
“The rest of the supplies will arrive with reinforcements. Good luck to all of you.”
Soon after, King Geum left and the rest of the party prepared to camp.
I had figured out the king’s location in advance, and since it wasn’t too far from their path, I decided to find it after sunrise tomorrow.
If you visit at night and run away, there is no such thing as embarrassment.
As the sun went down, the five of them sat around a campfire and enjoyed dinner.
The stiff atmosphere melts little by little in the warm heat.
King Singer and Chris’ party had explored ruins together before, so it wasn’t too difficult to get along. The problem is also the Sword King, who is alone and far away.
Even the singer, who seems to have gotten along a little bit, sits with a little space between them, as if he’s still having a hard time.
At that time, Chris, who did not give up on escaping, asked the singer quietly.
“Sir, aren’t there any members of the allied forces?”
“uh… I don’t think they will come forward this time. Even when I tried to convince them that it was related to the bust, they didn’t respond.”
“this… … .”
If there was a union with the denominations, I tried to get out of my body on the pretext of enmity with them, but I couldn’t even try. In any case, they are of no use in their lives.
Chris chewed the Cult Alliance inwardly and stirred the stew in the pot with a ladle.
Tyrone has little camping experience, and Illesis tries to put edible plants in the pot, as is customary.
Habits at the age of three are said to last until eighty, and even after changing the appearance with magic, the habits remain the same.
The Sword King hadn’t lifted a finger from a while ago, and since the Singer was busy playing the lute, cooking naturally fell to him.
The King of Singers stirs up Chris’s anger by adding comments as if he forgot to be next to him while he is cooking.
“Still, since the Breton Empire participates, it will be fine.”
“What, what? Why are they interfering in this matter?”
When Chris reacted very violently, the sword king’s eyebrows went up slightly.
Singer looks at him and explains sincerely.
“For now, they say they keep their promise to the Sword King… They probably want to kill the demon king who frustrated their war of conquest.”
“I can’t work with them. You should have told me this from the beginning!”
It wasn’t that the people of the Breton Empire had any ill feelings, but thinking that this incident was going according to the Prime Minister’s wishes made me feel anxious.
The King of Singers displayed the unique brazenness of bards.
“If I had told you from the beginning, I would never have followed you.”
“If you come out like this, I have an idea.”
When Chris spoke in a tone that seemed to betray Breton’s allies, the Sword King responded coldly.
“do whatever you want. In any case, if the two fight, the stronger one will survive. As long as you faithfully fulfill your role, there will be no problem.”
Chris was speechless when the other person responded.
The King of Singers, who smiled a little dejectedly, unfolds a map around the bonfire and tells them the roles of the party.
“On the last day, we will attack all at once, but before that, we will divide into four directions, east, west, south, and north, and consume our strength. Since the demon king is constantly moving north, the north must be the hardest. So, the strongest among us, the Sword King, is in charge of that side.”
As expected, the role of confronting the Demon King head-on was the Sword King.
When Chris and the others understood that, the King of Kings pointed west this time.
“I will entrust this to the Kwon King I will recruit tomorrow. He could really jump out of the box, so we need to place him close to the King of Swords. I’ll take the east side, and I want you three to take the south side.”
“We are the safest place. Great.”
Tyrone’s candid delight made Chris’s feelings more complicated.
Although he was out of control because of his bad body, he didn’t like the fact that he was hitting his benefactor, Elgar.
On the other hand, Illesis seems to have accepted reality a step faster than that.
She whispered to Chris, who was in serious trouble.
“I can’t run away right now anyway. For now, let’s cooperate in a way where we don’t endanger ourselves. We need to find out exactly what Elgar-sama’s situation is.”
“That’s right.”
There was nothing wrong with Illesis’ words.
In any case, the final battle with Elga was over a week away. Refusing to cooperate right now is the worst of the worst. In that case, it would be better to first know about Elgar and the allied forces and decide on a course of action.
The king of singers, who had been quietly watching the two of them flirt, asked them a question.
“Now that this has happened, can I get some information about the Demon King? You guys got along pretty well with the demon lord.”
When his interest appeared, the Sword King took a step closer to the bonfire.
Given his attitude, this is practically an interrogation.
Two kings wouldn’t even eat a bad lie.
They must have been aiming for this from the beginning and recruited Chris and the others.
Chris licked his lips bitterly, and Illesis’ body blocked his view.
She asked in an annoyed voice from a position that seemed to protect him.
“What can I tell you?”
“The list of spells, whether you can multicast, things like habits and tactics. I’ve challenged the Demon King a few times, but I’ve rarely met him directly. So far, most of them have been blocked by the Shield Knight.”
When the Sword King asked in a sullen voice, Illesis snorted.
“Will the sun rise if I recite a list of spells Elgar can use?”
“So what about multicast? Is it possible to cast up to 6 times?”
“It’s a seven-fold cast. You cast up to six and your wand uses one instead.”
“Where is that wand?”
Not even the Sword King, Illesis shrugs when Tyrone asks in a bewildered voice.
“Iknow, right. It’s something that could come out of some kind of mythology.”
“It’s a 7-fold cast… it’s a real monster You are on a different level by yourself.”
As if regretting his question, the king of singers has a dejected expression.
However, the Sword King was not satisfied with that and kept asking.
“Then how much capacity does the spell that keeps reviving the undead take up?”
“You mean Elgar’s unique spell, Immortal March. That’s usually about five orders… But you don’t have to worry right now.”
“why?”
When Illesis gave a strange answer, the king of singers followed her up.
She replied confidently, as if there was a reason for her straightforward answer.
“Immortal March is a spell with a very high difficulty, although it has a capacity as well. It’s not something that can be used while running amok under the influence of the Chest God. The principle of the trial of the sun god, which Gawang-nim witnessed the other day, is very simple.”
“Is that so? i get it.”
Only then did the Sword King stop asking questions and returned to the shadows where the light of the bonfire could not reach.
Anyway, Illesis would have changed his behavior and thoughts with Elgar, so it was useless to ask for a long time.
The party, who changed the topic that was too stiff, chatted for a while and then lay down by the slowly dying fire.
Noisy cries of grass bugs disturbed Chris’ sleep.
* * *
After an uncomfortable night, when the day dawned, a cold wind harassed the group.
Without delay, they mounted their horses and found the refugees looking haggard not long after leaving the camp.
Elgar was still far to the south, but her prestige had already spread to this place.
The Sword King did not even look at them properly and silently drove his horse.
The king of singers, with Chris and his party behind him, reluctantly followed him, asked him while talking side by side.
“By the way, how are you going to convince the king?”
“He is a beast. It’s an obvious way to control animals.”
The Sword King frowned as if the title of Fist King was a bit unpleasant.
Chris and the others were quite surprised by his humanity, which is rarely seen.
“Even a nobleman like a wooden stone must have a hard time putting up with King Kwon.”
“Honestly, it deserves it.”
The group, who received a report on the king’s location using a communication scroll, found him on a small hill.
After a carefree nap like a real beast, he wakes up with a ferocious expression when he is kicked by the sword king.
“What child dares… Ugh!”
Before he could fully understand the situation, the Sword King’s sword was pulled out with a cold metal sound.
The Origin Epic I haven’t seen in a while, the Blade of Grief is emitting the energy of death like last time.
If struck by that, even the Kwon King, who boasts the most vitality among the Six Kings, would have no choice but to die.
“Cooperate.”
“What, what? ouch! No, okay, put that away!”
Unlike yesterday, when he explained the circumstances very roughly, the Sword King recklessly pushed the Fist King.
Words are recruiting, but this is like being treated like an animal.
When the impatient Kwon King took advantage of the Sword King’s gap and tried to escape, an invisible slash blocked his path.
The sword king swung the black hill deeply and split it in half.
“ah! really… uh huh you guys… … .”
King Gwon, who reluctantly joined the group, frowned when he found Chris and his group.
Chris looks at him without hesitation.
He has no reason to fear an opponent he has defeated once before.
The Kwon King, who tried to kill his temper to pay attention to the Sword King.
Chris talks to the Sword King as if provoking him.
“But what are you going to use this guy for? I don’t think it’ll be of much help in the fight against the demon lord since we drank water as well.”
“what? for a moment! Are you a demon? What nonsense is that?”
“It may not be very useful, but it can serve as a meat shield. If you consume even a little more of the demon lord’s magic, that’s enough.”
The bewildered king’s question was ignored in an unparalleled manner.
The party, who finished recruiting without difficulty, sped up a little more than before.
Although the Demon King is walking rather slowly, she does not stop day and night.
If King Ga’s calculations are correct, it will take about 10 days for her to reach the central region.
As planned in advance, we must arrive in the South within the next three days to hold the week-long check.
As the five members of the improvised team began to abuse their horses, the horseless Kwon King had to run very diligently.
There was no big problem because he was a human being full of vitality, but the eyes of the refugees kept focusing on him.
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Meanwhile, King Geum, who had left the scene, had people waiting at every corner they passed and delivered new words.
It was a method that seemed to imitate the post offices used by players’ ancestors in the distant past.
It has been about two days since I urged my horses while watching the number of refugees increasing day by day.
Chris stuck out his tongue at the surrounding scenery that had completely changed at some point.
The wind blowing from the other side of them was tinged with dark gray ash.
At first I thought it was snowing a little early.
However, when he soon learned the identity of the suspicious snowflakes, Illesis’ face turned blue.
How many things would have to be burnt down for ashes to pile up like snow in a place where the demon king hadn’t even reached yet. I had heard about it from the king, but when I saw that the whole area was dyed gray, I was stunned.
Chris brushed the ashes from her in the back seat and put the hood on.
“Looks like you’re almost there.”
“There is a fort in front. The king of gold must have gathered people and supplies, so let’s hurry.”
The Sword King, who was welcoming the ashes pouring down from the sky, harshly urged his tired words.
Chris’ party, King Singer, and King Kwon followed him with their heads down.
A horseshoe-shaped mark appeared on the dirt floor, which was piled high with ashes.