Chapter 175 – 175. The Hounds (5)
Erin’s nine-tailed fox is brought to life, and the blue flames formed on the fox’s tail gradually expand in size.
“What. That one?”
From the standpoint of hounds who are seeing the power of the divine beast for the first time, the power of the divine beast, the gumiho, that Erin is showing is bound to be very interesting.
As she transforms into a beautiful off-white fox beast, the transformation she causes and the massive release of her mana is an unknown experience that has never been experienced before.
If what she felt when fighting Eunhyeon, who overpowered her, was the chill that made her face the fact that ‘I don’t think I could ever win’, the scene Erin was showing was more like curiosity about the phenomenon she was showing for the first time.
The huge blue flame created by Erin soon split into three spheres, each of which took on the shape of a human.
A figure of a knight wearing armor that covers the whole body with shimmering blue flames.
And the weapons of swords, axes, and spears that the knights are equipped with.
They were the hundred ghosts that could be summoned through hard work and practice.
That number was less than half of the number nine that Miho had summoned when fighting Eunhyeon before, but being able to use Shinsoo’s abilities even a little in less than a year is an unmistakable result of his efforts.
“Oh, the sudden increase in number?”
Among the three, one is difficult to continue the battle, one is a doll, and the other is a girl who has transformed into a beastman that emits mysterious energy.
A new aspect began to take shape in the formation of Erinn, who was inferior in both her individual skills and her numbers.
The noticeable gap of 2 to 15 narrowed to a gap of 10 to 15 without knowing it.
“Emilia, these dolls… ?”
Soon after thinking that she was strangely familiar, she realized that the dolls dressed the same as the dolls that fought Eunhyeon once in the Palace of Trials, inside the Great Labyrinth of Archis.
“It is stated that they are the successors of this entity.”
“Ah, Hyun fixed it!”
“That’s right.”
Behind Emilia’s small nod of her head, the five dolls formed a formation with Emilia at the center and settled down.
“Emilia, order one of her dolls to transport her sister to the Artia Knights.”
“To… Lin! Ugh!”
“I accept your order.”
Emilia accepted without much complaint Erin’s decision to use one of them to disengage her Aira even in a situation where the number of people was inferior.
She hurriedly tried to declare her intention to join the war, but Eira let out a moan as she felt her broken rib stabbing the inside of her chest.
She bit her lip, even realizing that her own condition, which had suffered too much damage, could be dangerous if she continued her battle.
“Hey, lady. That’s not right It’s obvious that the Knights know we’re here and there’s nothing good for them, but do you think they’ll let the girl go?”
The Baron smiled and winked at one of her hounds, and the hound, understanding the meaning of the gaze, quickly stood at her exit, blocking her flight path.
“Ah, stop it! Emilia!”
“I accept your order. Our top priority, Eira Olivion’s safe and secure retreat. Activate Elder Brain Mode.”
Emilia, who activated the command and control authority of the dolls around her, immediately gave an order to the doll in the rearmost position.
The doll that received Emilia’s command picked up the fallen Eira and ran toward her exit.
All the other dolls, Emilia, Erin, and the three white demons of Erin were escorting the doll holding Eira in the center, and everyone was running toward the exit.
“Haha! There’s no way I’ll let you go smoothly!”
In the roaring man’s voice, there was ridicule towards Erin and the others who were trying to escape from this spot.
“Ahh! Car!”
The hunting dog, which had lifted the huge warhammer that hit Emilia’s stomach, roared and jumped out through the entrance. She stared at the doll that was leading the front and raised her own warhammer.
Erin, hearing the roar of her warhammer and her hound, pricked her own fox ears and twitched her shoulders.
But for a moment, Erin stared at her hound with her fierce eyes, but she didn’t stop running.
Inwardly, she gives her command to her White Ghost, whom she has summoned.
‘Baekgwi-nim! Stop it!’
In response to the new owner’s request, the white ghost with a battle ax jumped up and confronted the hound holding the warhammer, and raised the battle ax with blue flames.
The Warhammer that strikes downward and the Battle Ax that strikes upward collide at the midpoint.
Kwaaang!
Not the sound of metal colliding, but the noise created by the collision of two tremendous magical storms, which plainly expresses the aftermath of the tremendous force trying to crush not only each other’s weapons but also the space itself.
The collision of the two mighty weapons created a monstrous storm, and the surroundings were swept away in the aftermath, creating a dusty gust of wind.
Despite being covered in dust and creating a mayhem and obscuring visibility, Erin and the others did not stop running.
Erin anticipates the aftermath of the chaos that will occur when the white ear and the hound collide, and she spreads her ‘sense’ towards her running direction.
Although her vision was obscured by the dusty wind, she sensed the location of the exit ahead and the location of the numerous hounds guarding it.
‘Ugh… Head hurts!’
It felt like my head was about to break from the information rushing into my head, even though I set only a short distance ahead as a narrow distance instead of sensing in all directions like Eunhyun.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t stop.
Soon, through the information rushing into her head, Erin caught the movement of the hounds running towards them.
Amidst the dusty wind that obscured her vision, she pinpointed the blade’s presence in her own face and turned her head to the side to avoid her blade.
“… !”
Hearing her voice, the hounds who had been able to locate Erin’s party showed a surprised expression that Erin correctly pinpointed their location and avoided her attack.
However, I was surprised for a while, no matter how much Erin is a disciple of Eunhyeon and an out-of-standard girl who inherited the power of Shinsoo, her experience will inevitably be different from the hounds who have been rolling for half her life in the battlefield where her life comes and goes.
Although she tried to land her extra blow in response to Erin’s move, which quickly dodged the attack.
Slippery
“Uh?”
The hound gave a dazed look at the sight of her own arm holding her sword being cut off in an instant.
‘I couldn’t see it.’
The fox-beast girl in front of him, Erin, was not cut.
‘Then who the hell…’
The moment she turned her head slightly at that question.
A hound with her arm cut off finds a knight in armor with blue flames swaying in the thick dusty wind.
The moment I thought that the two red lights twinkling inside her helmet were infinitely calm and quiet.
‘Ah, this is dead.’
At the same thought, the hound’s neck was separated from its body and fell to the ground.
The thoughts that went through the hound’s head until it fell off its neck and met its death.
‘Ah, X feet. It’s a shame.’
She was caught off guard because she knew that Erin standing in front of her was weak.
She analyzes that despite her appearance transforming into a nine-tailed fox-beast and summoning three knights with blue flames, she remained vigilant as a factor in her own defeat.
With a feeling of regret that if he hadn’t been caught off guard, he might have been able to fight the knight who had cut his throat in front of him, and the hound that had been cut off his head met death.
As time passed, as the dust cleared and her eyesight began to slowly open, Erin let her senses throb in her head and continued running.
Erin, who was able to specify the location and behavior of her hound through her senses, directed her hound’s gaze to herself, and took her carelessness and ordered her swordsman Baek-Gwi to kill her hound.
The white ghost faithfully obeyed the orders of her new master, Erin, and was able to deal with one of her unwary hounds with ease.
‘Also… Reluctance to kill…’
That she doesn’t exist at all, she questions herself.
Even when she pierces the body of a gangster with a wooden skewer and injures a person, she doubts her own body and mind, which she accepts as perfectly natural for the sensation.
‘… Let’s concentrate.’
But now that she had to focus on her fight, Erin pushed her doubts into her corner.
She attempted to attack Erin as she emerged from the dust winds that lifted two hounds to deter Erin’s party from escaping.
“Detect the threat to the sub-master.”
A doll and a spearman Baek-Gwi barge in and block the blades of hounds flying towards Erinn from both sides.
The doll and the white ghosts forced the two hounds to make a path, and when the exit to the abandoned building was opened, the doll holding Ayra accelerated further and accelerated.
“Awesome.”
“Eww… !”
At the sound of her Baron’s voice coming from behind her own back, Erin gave her goose bumps and shook her shoulders.
‘… When?’
His speed, which had followed him from the high place where Baron was, was also speed, but it was a big shock that he didn’t notice it at all until he spoke to him.
She hastily rotates her own body and swings her sword to slash the Baron in the back.
“It sure is fast.”
The monotonous yet honest trajectory of the sword was read, and Erin’s wrist holding the sword was caught in Baron’s hand too easily.
“For a girl your age. But that’s all.”
“Kyaaaaagh!”
As she was, she lifted Erinn’s wrist up and patted her side, and Erinn’s slender body flew through the air as it was.
Cooong!
Baron instantly closed the distance with the doll that was running while still holding Eira.
She was about to pull out the sword from her waist and swing it to cut off the doll’s head.
Kaaang!
The swordsman Baek-Gwi, who was able to detect Baron’s movement, blocks Baron’s sword in order to carry out one of Erin’s orders, ‘Escape Eira safely.’
“Oh?”
The moment Baron showed interest in the movement of the swordsman Baek-Gwi, who clearly caught his movement and blocked his sword.
Another being, Emilia, who was able to recognize and respond to his movements, took over Baron’s back and kicked him in the leg.
“Nice… !?”
Kicked by the doll girl’s absurd leg power, an unexpected shock hit and one leg of Baron floated upwards.
Without missing the gap created by the imbalanced posture, the swordsman Baek-Gwi swung his sword and charged.
“Under!”
Baron smiled with joy at the connection between the two non-human beings, and Baron responded to the attack by cutting off the sword of the swordsman who rushed at him.
I cut off the swordsman’s sword attack aiming at his neck, and I put strength on my legs that floated into the air.
Twisting her waist, he kicked Emilia’s body while swinging the spinning kick backwards.
Baron’s round kick hit her side, where she had taken a direct hit with the Warhammer earlier, but Emilia took damage from his kick and her body was pushed back, but she clamped his leg between her armpits and held it tight.
Emilia, who was helplessly pushed back by her kick, put her weight on her lower body and forcibly withstood the attack of her round kick.
Soon, she twisted her whole body sideways as hard as she could.
“Sheesh.”
Baron clicked her tongue at Emilia’s actions, which aimed to take Baron’s balance by not letting go of one leg, and then break his leg altogether.
Her strength is so strong that even with the strength of Baron, who blew away Erin’s body, Emilia did not budge.
While exchanging sword strikes with the swordsman, Baron avoided the horizontal slash of the white ghost by bending his upper body, and slammed the floor with his magical fist as hard as he could.
Quaang!
The ground shakes.
Cracks begin to gradually form around the floor where the fist was pierced, and the distorted crack gradually grows.
Finally, the ground shattered, denting the area where the fist had been struck, and the ground around it rose upward.
As the rocking, shattering, and wildly rising ground became unstable, Emilia, who had been holding on with her lower body on the floor, lost her grip on Baron’s leg.
Taking advantage of the loosening of Emilia’s arm, which was holding her leg tight, she took her leg out and immediately kicked Emilia in the abdomen, blowing her doll away.
Swordsman Baek-Gwi kicked off the shaking ground, jumped into the air, and swung his sword to decapitate Baron.
Caang!
The attack was also blocked, and the sword-holding sword’s arm was severed.
Her sword and arm, which had been separated from Baek-Gwi’s body, turned back into blue flames and slowly disappeared.
After losing his weapon and one arm, the White Ghost lost some of his strength, and his main body’s functions began to deteriorate.
Grabbing the white ghost’s helmet and holding onto it tightly, I threw the body of the white ghost that was slowly losing its power into the air, just as I had thrown away Erin.
As Emilia was attacked by a large number of hounds even before she could block Baron, her body functions are deteriorating, and her white demon power is not yet complete, so she has no obvious output or ability to exert. There were limits to power.
Even when dealing with Eunhyeon before, she wasn’t able to use her full power, but her current condition is that she is unable to demonstrate her strength, which is less than half of what it was then.
“Hmm.”
Baron frowned slightly and stared at the exit.
I was thinking of throwing away Erin’s body, blowing it up, and destroying the doll that was trying to help Eira escape, but in the end, as the swordsman White Ghost and Emilia barged in, Aira missed it.
If we were going to the Knights of Artia as it is, it would be a natural procedure for the Knights to send knights to this place.
In addition, this place is in a very noisy state as his subordinates, hounds, dolls, and white ghosts fight.
Whether it’s a knight or a guard, it’s only a matter of time before they come to this noisy place.
“There is a level to play.”
Now, it is difficult to enjoy the situation while giving time and leisure.
It’s time to deal with it quickly and step out.
“What is the employer doing inside… What happened?”
Erin’s party, who thought it would be easy to deal with, summoned his colleagues with a strange trick, and even though this mess is happening, Randall, the owner of the hounds, doesn’t show up.
Deal with them quickly, take Randall and his men, and leave before the Artia Knights arrive.
“I’m sure you’re using these guys…”
A girl who transformed into a nine-tailed fox beast.
Proof of this is Emilia calling Erin Master with her unusual way of speaking, and the magical powers generated from her tail creating and summoning hundreds of demons in front of her eyes.
“Just kill the girl who turned into a prisoner, and it will be over.”
Baron stared in the direction he sent Erin off and kicked the ground.
