Chapter 260 – 260. Demonic Front (3)
Quaang!
On top of the castle wall, many wizards, led by Illyana’s disciple, Princess Yuria, poured attack magic at the group of monsters in the back row.
And a fierce battle was going on with the demons in the front row through close combat with many troops.
Squeak
Erin cut off the head of another demon beast, then kicked the corpse of a monster bigger than herself, knocking it to the floor and looking around her.
The roar of monsters, the screams of people, the sound of weapons cutting flesh, and the aftermath of heat wave-type magic.
Due to various factors, noise makes your ears dizzy and your vision shakes.
He cut down many monsters, but despite this, the end is not in sight.
I couldn’t even guess how much time had passed since the battle with the Witchbeasts started.
It means that these endless battles, the soldiers of the frontier fortress have continued for over 15 days.
“Shit! I can’t eat any more!”
“Open it!”
“Help me! Please!”
Erin stared at the closed gate, guided by her earnest voice.
A few knights and soldiers wearing splendid knight’s armor threw their weapons on the ground and clamored for the gate to be opened.
“What… Are doing now… ?”
Erin muttered, sincerely unable to understand.
Those armors and armaments were obviously soldiers of the Kingdom Army and members of the Krasir Knights.
He hardened his face as he saw those who gave up fighting and chose to run away.
“If you fall out of the wire now, who will fill the void left by falling out?”
“Ah!”
“Quaaah!”
Reflexively, Erin turned her head and stared at the Kingdom Army camp, which was struggling to hold the line.
Among those who continued to fight with the monsters, the figure of Ayla caught Erin’s eyes.
“I have to go help…”
Erin, who reflexively tried to move her body to help Eira and the members of Artia, stopped momentarily realizing the meaning of her actions.
Big!
“… !”
Lycanthrope, a bipedal wolf-type beast with exceptionally longer limbs than other beasts, rushed in with its mouth wide open to devour Erinn’s arm.
At that moment, she sensed the demon’s attack from behind and rotated her body to swing her rapier.
Starting with his mouth wide open, he swung it with the momentum to split it in two, but the lycanthrope closed his mouth and bit the blade of the rapier that was cutting his mouth.
Great!
“Ah… !”
Due to the terrifying power applied to the beast’s jaw, the durability of his rapier, which was in danger, reached its limit and was broken.
“This… Crab!”
[Hujok magic (狐族姚術)]
[Fox fire]
Kiaag!
He hurriedly created fox fire in his hand and threw it at the body of the demon, and the demon engulfed in blue flames screamed and burned.
“My sword…”
Looking at the rapier, which had lost its usefulness as a weapon as it was broken, made a vain expression.
“My sister…”
Looking at the knights of Eira and Artia, who were struggling to maintain the front line again in the other camp, Erin fell into trouble.
For a moment, her gaze went to the rapier she wore around her waist, given to her by Eun-hyeon, but the nine-tailed fox asserted that she could not pull out this sword with her own level.
Moreover, if he were to leave the front line, Armitas’ soldiers and adventurers would have to fill his void.
How is this different from the soldiers and knights of the Kingdom Army who gave up fighting and fled?
Even if he’s not running away, he’s just going to help others.
Leaving the front line for any reason is also an irresponsible act of abandoning the role entrusted to you.
When Erin is in the dilemma in her head.
“Erin!”
Alex’s voice calling her name brought Erin to her senses and looked at him.
From the small nod on Alex’s face, I realized the meaning of what he was trying to say.
‘Do whatever you want.’
Alex was saying with his eyes that it doesn’t matter if you want to help.
Erin asked herself.
“I am… What do you want to do?”
Why did she herself participate in this expedition?
The original reason.
– I want to save people.
If so, what should I do here now?
It is not that there is no method at all.
You just have to use all the power you have.
But what makes it hesitant is the words of its own hero.
– Bear in mind. Erin. If possible, avoid using the divine power in front of many people. Many people will be interested in your strength and ability, and will approach you for various purposes, harboring a deeper black heart than now.
The power of divine beasts is pure, high-density magical power that is one level higher than that of ordinary humans.
If this power had been discovered in her kingdom two years ago, as soon as Erin awakened the power of a nine-tailed fox, she must have used the mentally immature Erin to wage a scheming battle to claim her girl. .
That’s why at that time, Erin, who was in the state of a nine-tailed fox that absorbed all of Ashton’s vitality in the incident, was covered up, and everything was decorated as the work of the devil.
-Then shouldn’t I use this power for the rest of my life in front of others?
With her wry smile, she recalls Eunhyun’s hand stroking her own hair with her kind hand.
– I don’t mean that. To put it bluntly… Will I be able to use it when I become an adult?
-Adult? Umm… Are you saying I can use it when I’m 19?
When she was first able to use Shinsoo’s power, Eunhyeon restricted her from taking out and using Gumiho’s power in public.
-Someday there will come a moment when I’m not by your side.
-… No. Don’t go anywhere
Erin didn’t even like to imagine a home in that situation.
-A moment like that will definitely come. At that time, you will have to decide everything. In what situations, what choices to make, and what results to create. No one can give you an answer You have to find the answer yourself.
– You can continue to lead me. Like now.
Erin at the age of 17, lightly frowning on her and hugging Eunhyeon’s body tightly and clinging to her, was nothing more than a girl with excessive dependence on her who was just fooling around with him.
-Thinking for oneself and moving for the desired result. That’s the first step towards becoming an adult.
-Are you a child who can’t decide anything on your own without him?
“Ah.”
Following Eun-hyeon’s words, she sighed softly as she recalled Alex’s point, which accurately penetrated her inner state of being overly dependent on Eun-hyeon.
‘… I still don’t know what adult means. But…’
Erin released the magic of the divine beast sleeping in her body.
“… Let’s do it.”
This is the first time I’ve seen this in public, in front of a lot of people.
Erin could not imagine the consequences of this choice for her later.
In this situation where there are many eyes to see, I remembered Eun-hyeon’s advice to refrain from opening the power of the divine beast as much as possible.
The lack of assertiveness to think and act on one’s own is one of Erin’s weaknesses, as she tends to be excessively dependent on Eun-hyeon.
Disobeying Eun-hyeon’s advice for the first time, Erin liberated the remaining Shinsoo’s magic and transformed her body into a perfect nine-tailed fox.
An enormous amount of magic power swirled around and as the dense magic powers that surrounded Erinn began to accumulate in Erinn’s body, nine silvery-white tails and fox ears appeared.
At the same time, he activated the concentrated magic powers in his tail and summoned the white demons.
[The Magic of the Fierce Legion]
[Hundred Ghost Night Trips]
‘Will Hyun-i be angry with me for not listening? Disappointment… Do you want to?’
His uneasy mind bloomed, but he did not think that this choice of his present self was wrong.
Just now, he faced the fact that he had the power to save as many people as possible.
[I’m still immature… You’ve grown a little.]
“Huh? … Are you Miho?”
Erin put on her bewildered expression at the muttering of the nine-tailed fox that suddenly spoke to her in her own head.
[I don’t like that rude attitude that doesn’t respect me at all, but at least I’ll let him go to his intentions this time.]
Clap!
“Uh… ? No way…”
Hearing the sound of her unlocking, Erin looked surprised and grabbed the handle of the rapier given to her by Eunhyun and drew the sword from her scabbard.
Seuleung
Erin looked at the rapier’s beautiful blade coming out smoothly, and put on a dazed expression.
“Beautiful…”
[Calm down! Immature! Have you forgotten that we are now in the middle of a battlefield!]
“Huh? Ah! It is!”
[And… This job is a bit unusual, so let’s give it special praise.]
The divine power inherent in her body begins to amplify even more.
Before Erin could open her mouth with a startled look on her face, the sudden change had immediate and unexpected consequences.
A total of nine clumps of magical power that began to form from her own tail that swayed.
“Uh… ? Ah, all nine people!?”
Erin made a surprised expression when all nine of the hundred demons, which she had been able to summon due to her own lack of ability, were summoned.
She didn’t do it herself
Aside from Erin, only the nine-tailed fox, originally the owner of this divine beast’s power, was the only one who could interfere with this level of mana manipulation.
“Miho… Maybe you… ?”
[You should have told her not to wander her mind during the battle?]
“Ah Okay.”
Erin nodded her head and saw the white demons appearing in front of her, surrounded by armor of blue flames, and she gave her order in unison.
“Six minutes! Deal with all the monsters and help the people!”
The white demons who were given orders looked at their young master and nodded, and then scattered to attack the frontline monsters and start supporting adventurers and soldiers.
“What is this!?”
“Are you helping us?”
When soldiers dressed in armor of blue flames suddenly intruded in and engaged in a battle with the monsters, the adventurers in the middle of the fight made a surprised expression.
“Good.”
With this, with the support of six hundred ghosts, he expected that the gap caused by his absence would be filled, as well as that the battle would become easier.
As she sprinted fast, strengthening her body, Erin looked surprised at her own body’s ability to rise throughout her body.
‘Body… Light…’
[Of course. That’s an ability added to the sword you’re holding.]
‘This rapier that Hyun-i gave me as a gift?’
[I would have said that before, right? The sword was created by infusing an enormous amount of divinity into an ore called Orichalcum, which is called divine iron, and smelting it, and containing the essence of many techniques. Although it is said to have been made by humans, the performance of the sword itself is already on par with that of a holy sword.]
‘That, it was such an amazing weapon… !?’
As a concrete example, I took the holy sword as an example, and Erin was startled and asked back.
No matter how much she said it, she was a weapon that was a little inferior to the holy sword. For a moment, Erin wondered if a nine-tailed fox was making fun of her.
[So you didn’t tell me. He complained that he couldn’t pull out the sword without knowing the value of the sword properly. It would be a waste to even compare it to a diamond necklace hanging from a pig’s neck. It’s intelligence at the level of a microbe, less than a pig, not even a livestock. It’s really pathetic.]
‘Your words are always thorny and it hurts! It’s really too much!’
Hurt by the nine-tailed fox’s sharp criticism, Erin frowned and ran again and again.
Accompanied by three white demons, Erin was stunned once more by the cutting power of the rapier, which slashed all the demon beasts in a straight line and cut through the beast’s body as smoothly as slicing vegetables.
‘What the hell did you give me as a present, Hyuna… ?’
