Chapter 650 – 650. Growth of the Hero (6)
Finally, after the complete annihilation of the demon, Riod knelt down and groaned softly.
“Nice…”
As soon as the battle is over, the tension that is released makes you aware of the fatigue of your whole body.
Riod couldn’t stand up because his legs were rapidly getting heavy.
It’s not just the legs.
The hand that was holding his sword, and even his arm, his muscles scream and complain of his pain.
Riod, who had been earnestly begging him to stop resting, desperately wanted a rest as his body reached its limit.
“Just this much…”
Lyod showed an angry expression and gnashed his teeth.
He has obviously grown up.
However, if you compare it with Eun-hyeon, the goal she wants to catch up with, it will still be at the level of taking her first steps.
He still had a very long way to go.
He was frustrated because he just didn’t know how to do it before, but when he thought about the effort and time required to walk forward after the road was presented, he felt so far away that he was at a loss.
In the end, Riod sprawled on the floor of the anthill.
“A little bit… Shall I rest?”
It was something that would not normally happen to Leo.
This behavior of not paying attention to the sudden surprise attack of the Witchbeast is absolutely unacceptable for the leader of the knights, who should set an example for many knights.
It was an indolent appearance that would never have been seen normally, but the fatigue accumulated throughout the body and the extreme exhaustion of the mind made the iron-like will of Riod break and compromise.
“Whoa…”
The stuffy air inside the anthill was terribly unpalatable, but now somehow I could accept even that with a smile.
“I did it.”
Riod was now realizing his growth.
Although he had just entered the infancy stage of being able to follow Eun-hyeon, whom he thought of as his goal, Riod was immersed in a new feeling about ‘growth’, which he hadn’t tasted in a very long time.
As he continued to work for about 20 years, he earned the title and position of the best knight, stronger than anyone else, and built up a reputation.
When I was feeling helpless and frustrated at the fact that there was no further stage to go up, I realized that there was a higher place, and this sense of achievement that I was able to step into there was a sense I felt when I was young.
I can’t help but feel proud and happy.
Now, I wanted to continue enjoying this happy feeling.
And while he was lying on the ground and resting, he felt someone walking from the anthill.
“Are you okay?”
Eun-hyeon was the very familiar voice asking how Leo was doing.
“Of course.”
“… Doesn’t it look like nothing at all?”
As soon as he confidently gave the lie as an immediate answer, Eun-hyeon narrowed her eyes as if she was dumbfounded and glanced at Liode.
Receiving his suspicious glances, Riod hastily changed the subject.
“Why are you here? I would have said I didn’t need help.”
“I thought it would be like this, so I came.”
Eunhyun’s small sighing attitude made Riode somewhat upset.
“… I said it was fine.”
Was he not so hot that he thought he couldn’t trust Eun-hyeon to entrust him with the work?
“Still, there is an if. Look at you now.”
“…”
Lyod had nothing to say.
In the battle with the devil, he was able to win, but in the aftermath, this state of being unable to lift a finger is certainly precarious.
“It’s a bit too much for me to blindly trust you here. If something happens to you, how would you look at Theresia or Eira’s face?”
When Eunhyeon said that, Leo de belatedly turned her face away and avoided her gaze.
Up until now, he wasn’t in a bad mood as he was enjoying his growth, but he was very annoyed when he heard Eun-hyeon’s nagging.
Besides, that’s the right thing to say, so I have nothing more to say.
Eun-hyeon came closer to Liode, who was sprawled on the floor, and grabbed Liode’s body around his shoulders while nagging him nonstop.
“… What are you doing?”
“Whatever, I have to get out of here.”
“Put it down. I can walk on my own feet.”
“You’ve been limp like a dying corpse until just now, but your bravado.”
If you haven’t recovered yet, there’s no way you’ll be able to suddenly jump up and walk on your own.
However, Leo’s stubbornness was not easy.
If you show this to your members, you will not be dignified.
If this expedition had been a very small party made up of Eunhyeon, Erin, and herself, they would have been ashamed and relied on his help, but now this expedition includes a considerable number of their own knights.
As the leader of the knights, he must always be firm and strong.
“Use the potion. It should still be there.”
“… Im you My wife made this for me to use if I am in danger.”
Eun-hyeon showed a puzzled look at Riod’s confident attitude of asking for the potion.
However, while grumbling a little, Eunhyeon took out the potion and fed it to Leo.
Even if Riod received something from Eun-hyeon, he was not an ignorant person who would not reciprocate anything, and since he was benefiting considerably from his social position, there was no reason to save even the potion Eleanor bestowed with divinity.
The potion containing Eleanor’s divine power is a top-level potion that completely restores Riod’s entire body, which is full of accumulated fatigue.
“… Whoa.”
Sensing that not only his physical fatigue, but also his magical power and mental strength, which had been creating a feeling of extreme exhaustion, had been restored, Rio de breathed out lightly and evenly and took care of his body condition.
“Thanks.”
“When you go back, be sure to repay Eleanor.”
“I will.”
With a small nod, Leod asked his future course of action.
“What are you going to do next?”
Externally, the commander and director of this expedition was Riode, but in this situation where only the two of them were apart, he valued Eunhyeon’s opinion more than himself.
“…”
Eunhyeon didn’t answer right away, thinking about it in her head.
Now, in this situation, there were two options.
Joining the knights while going up, or destroying all the spawning grounds scattered throughout the anthill.
“Let’s start by joining.”
Of course, there is no change in the fact that it is efficient to attack the entire anthill under the control of the commander, Riod.
In addition, Eun-hyeon has already dealt with the ancient witch, who is the main culprit behind the large-scale spawning ground.
Moreover, there was also a calculated reason for worrying about Erin’s condition that her mentality was strongly shaken.
“I will.”
Riod accepted Eunhyeon’s proposal and headed upstairs.
“Uh? Captain!”
“Are you okay!?”
He was in the midst of activities by forming a group of about 8 to 12 people under the order of Rio through Erinn.
The knights who were on a mission found Riod and Eunhyeon and ran towards them.
“I am OK. What about the situation?”
Lyod immediately inquired about Joe’s situation.
Arthia’s knights, who reported on whether there were any injuries or deaths and whether there were any obstacles to destroying the spawning grounds, didn’t look so good.
“There are no fatalities, but Tyr is wounded in his shoulder. And…”
The knight, hesitant about something, glanced at the place where the corpses of women with bloated stomachs were piled up.
The bodies were clean and free of any signs of murder.
What that meant was that the knights were not killed, but that the women who were conceiving monsters in their stomachs died of natural causes.
“…”
Lyod also saw the sight and said nothing.
He felt relieved that he hadn’t made innocent women go through the terrible experience they had to kill, and doubted himself whether it was really right to be relieved in this situation.
The contradiction must be confusing reason and complicating emotions.
However, Riod as well as the knights knew that this was something they had to accept.
“Egg plant.”
“… Yes.”
The knights accepted the task of destroying the entire spawning grounds inside the ant nest with determined faces.
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It didn’t take long for Rio de and his knights, who had been divided, to gather together again.
The knights’ morale soared sharply as they directly confirmed Riod’s health, and at the same time, they were quite shaken by the terrible sight inside the ant’s nest.
However, he did not refuse the mission itself to destroy the inside of the spawning grounds.
The mission of the raiding expedition was able to proceed stably by getting on the right track little by little as one or two teams joined with the knights who were scattered and organizing the inside of the ant nest.
“Hyun-a!”
On the third day after the attack, Erin was finally able to meet Eunhyeon again.
As soon as she sensed his presence, she ran over and forced her tired body into his arms.
“Are you okay?”
“It’s not okay. I really missed you…”
Erin rubbed her face against Eunhyun’s chest in her arms and inhaled his scent.
She actively rubbed her face as if to remove the stinky air inside the anthill and the stench of the soil.
She now realized that rather than share the joy of her reunion with her husband, she had to quickly kiss him.
“Tongue, Hyuna… Hey…”
“It’s pretty late.”
Erin’s body trembled as she heard Siete’s voice behind her.
Eun-hyeon, who turned her head in the direction she heard her voice, looked surprised at her presence here.
“Su, how about Master… !”
“Hyunah! Hyuna!”
Erin urgently grabbed Eunhyun and restrained her.
If Eun-hyeon is greatly embarrassed and it is revealed that she has no idea why Siete is here, Erin’s lie, saying that she had no choice but to call Siete here because of Eun-hyeon’s order, will be exposed.
Erin didn’t even want to imagine what kind of revenge would come back then.
‘Please! Please notice!’
Is it because she made a couple’s kite?
Seeing Erin’s eyes, Eunhyun’s expression was unusual.
“…”
Seeing her shaking her head from side to side with a desperate expression in a cold sweat, Eunhyeon noticed what Erin had done belatedly.
In order to overcome the urgent situation, he summoned the hundred demons and at the same time summoned Siete.
And even the excuse that he acted on his own was nothing other than an order he had given.
It was very easy to figure out because she knows Erin’s personality when she does something without thinking back.
The problem is that Erin’s lie was very lax, and Siete already noticed it.
For now, Eun-hyeon made it a priority to settle Siete’s affairs.
“Thank you so much for listening to my shameless request. Thanks to that, the capture expedition was able to finish the case without too much damage.”
“Hmm. Does it come out that way? It’s no fun.”
Siete laughed at Eun-hyeon’s obvious reaction, but she didn’t show any reaction.
That was a good news that wasn’t bad for Eunhyeon or Erin.
“Is there anything you want?”
“There is none. Come see me by yourself when you’re done.”
She had already decided what to ask of Eun-hyeon, that she would make time for herself for a few days, but she had no intention of saying this right away.
If I were to talk about it now, it was clear that maybe Erin would follow Eunhyeon like an annoying chewing gum.
“… Yes.”
Eunhyun let out a small sigh and nodded his head.
Since he couldn’t guess Siete’s intentions, he couldn’t guess what kind of unreasonable demands and twists he was trying to make.
I don’t hate him, but he’s very annoying.
“Bantling. Come here.”
“Yes, yes…”
Erin replied in a crawling voice, lowering her head as she trembled in Eunhyun’s arms.
Siete put her mouth to Erin’s ear as she approached with quick steps, and spoke in a low voice.
“This time, I’ll let you go because of the disciple.”
“… Yes.”
In terms of her form, Siete, her Hundred Ghosts, was no different from her Erin’s subordinates, but the sense of authority she exuded and her position as her master of grace and her own master teacher made her Erin more valuable. Atrophy
“… Master. Please don’t scold Erin too much.”
“Hmph, you are too soft for this gore.”
When she snorted, Te laughed at Eun-hyeon like that, then was summoned in reverse and disappeared.
Only Eunhyeon and Erin were in a position far away from the knights who were finishing her maintenance.
“…”
Erin, as if aware of her mistake, averted her gaze with an embarrassing expression on her face.
Just as Erin was revealing her defenseless stance, her Eunhyeon’s palm slapped Erin’s body.
Damn!
“Hey!?”
Erin stunned at the burning pain she felt in her buttock for the moment, letting out her shrill scream.
Because the scream was so loud, the gaze of the expedition members was focused on Erin and Eunhyeon.
“Oh, nothing!”
She shook her hand and hurriedly rectified the situation, and Erin glared at Eun Hyun with a tingling sensation.
“You were surprised!”
“Are you making a mistake and shouting out loud?”
“That, that… Sorry…”
Erin dropped her head again with her downcast expression and admitted her own fault.
“The judgment itself wasn’t bad.”
Certainly, it wasn’t too bad in itself to call her highest power, Shite, to minimize her damage.
If that judgment had led everyone to be safe, even if she complained, Siete would only say so, but she would not have criticized Erin too much.
The problem was that he was afraid of being scolded, so he sold Eun-hyeon’s name at will and lied to his teacher.
“I can’t lie, though. I’ll punish you when you get home. Understand?”
“Yes…”
Erin nodded her head in affirmation while she stroked her own ass that Eunhyeon had slapped.
Meanwhile, Eunhyeon chewed her words again.
‘Punishment…’
What kind of punishment will you get
Imagine in your mind.
As if Eun-hyeon’s palms were still open, his buttocks were still tingling and hot.
And for some reason, when I was hit, my hips and waist area trembled with a tingling feeling as if an electric current had flowed.
More than painful, it felt strangely strange to the point that I thought it was good.
“Hyunah. Hey…”
“Huh?”
“Oh, nothing.”
Erin wanted to experience that strange feeling just one more time, so she tried to ask Eunhyeon to slap her butt just one more time, but she couldn’t bear to ask for it because she had many eyes and ears.
