Chapter 149 – Battle of Yeongji (7)
All the enemy adventurers who stood in the way of the first team of skirmishers fell. Based on the Clener camp, a retreat was made on the left side.
“Group 1! 2 trillion! 3 trillion! It’s a retreat order! Get out!!”
Yoosung shouted loudly toward the battlefield. The other mercenaries who heard the voice also shouted and relayed it to those who could not hear it.
“Out of groups 1, 2, 3!!”
“You assholes! Get in the way, get out of here!”
The method was arbitrary.
The mercenaries who came out on the battlefield first recovered their bodies and escaped through the retreat pierced by the first team of skirmishers. One of the mercenaries put a hand on Yuseong’s shoulder.
“Thanks.”
“It was nothing. Go and rest.”
Yooseong also patted him on the shoulder and said. Other mercenaries also passed by giving a short thank you to 1st Joe. The first group of adventurers shrugged their shoulders for no reason even though they had done nothing.
After the mercenaries left, Yooseong turned his gaze to the battlefield. On the other side of the battlefield, fresh troops could be seen moving.
‘There are so many.’
It seems to be the ship of the adventurers who fought earlier. If you combine the mercenaries still on the battlefield, there are more.
‘It must be harder than before, right?’
To be honest, the skills of the adventurers who fought earlier were mediocre. They probably brought new adventurers like us.
But dealing with mercenaries will be different. Probably more experienced than rookie adventurers. There are a lot of numbers, so it’s frustrating just looking at it.
Yuseong turned his gaze toward the first group adventurers.
“The retreat of Groups 1, 2, and 3 has been accomplished. We will now enter the battlefield. It’s just a matter of buying time, so don’t push yourself too hard.”
“Yes!”
“Do not worry!”
The adventurers responded vigorously. Thanks to Yooseong and his party’s active performance in the recent fight, not a single casualty occurred in Group 1. No wonder they are in awe.
They regarded Yooseong as a leader, not a deputy leader anymore.
“Great. Then we’ll get right into it. Those with shields, please come forward.”
Yuseong put the adventurers with shields at the forefront. It was probably because the person with the shield had the advantage to survive in the first clash.
“Let’s go.”
He tapped the leading adventurers on the shoulders. With that as a signal, they started running toward the battlefield.
“Aaaaa!!!!!”
Their shouts were much louder than when they first ran. It was thanks to the victory in the previous battle that filled me with confidence.
Yuseong said to Seris and Kara as they ran.
“Don’t go too deep this time like before. Focus on staying close to Ariel.”
Seris and Kara nodded. Ariel’s dying expression came to life at the fact that the two were sticking together.
Team 1 has arrived on the battlefield.
The leading adventurers with shields collided with the enemies first. Shields and swords clashed and a confrontation was made. In the meantime, the adventurers who had followed intruded.
“Aaaaa!!”
Alvor slashed the ax with a roaring roar. When the opponent blocked it with a sword, he picked up an ax and slashed it down again.
“OMG! OMG! OMG! Aww!!”
Every time his short cheering sound spread, iron collided with iron to make a cheerful sound. The opponent flinched at Albore’s powerful ax blow and retreated.
Seeing that, Albore swung his ax even more excitedly.
“Next to Albore!”
I heard Sigrid’s screaming warning. Albore hurriedly turned his head. Another mercenary raised a sword at him.
Albore tried to react quickly, but it was too late. The ax is down from swinging, and that sword is about to be swung. If he tried to block it with an ax now, it was certain that his head would be split first.
The sword moves. Looking at the sword coming down, Albore had a hunch of death.
“Albore!!”
I hear Sigrid’s screams.
‘I’m sorry, Sigrid. He said he would make it better…’
Memories from his childhood to the present replayed in Al Bore’s head.
As the second son of a blacksmith, he inherited the technology but did not succeed in the blacksmith. He promised to marry her childhood friend Sigrid and make her happy. He applied to become an adventurer in order to raise money to open a smithy. I immersed myself in this battlefield out of greed… And the result is such a mess.
A handful of regret dwells in his chest.
It would have been nice to do this It would have been better if I had done that.
His ego taught his past self.
That’s how the kaleidoscope ended. Strangely, however, his consciousness was clear.
Albore opened his squinting eyes. There was no sword pointed at him in front of his eyes. Instead, two of his corpses lay on the floor.
The one who tried to kill him and the one who fought him. The one in front had a dagger stuck between his eyebrows, and the one in the back had a dagger stuck to his neck.
Even though he was bewildered for a moment, he had to calm down Sigrid, who was hugging him.
“You thought Alboer was going to die…”
“I’m sorry Sigrid… More than that, how…”
“Two there! What are you doing! Won’t you fall?”
The couple fell apart in surprise at the sound of scolding. As Al Boer turned his head, Meteor frowned.
“Why are you showing affection on the battlefield? Do you want to die?”
“Ah, no..!”
“Sorry!”
The two immediately came to their senses and prepared to fight again. Yoosung sighed and stretched out his hand toward the dagger he had thrown.
The dagger stuck between his forehead and neck creaked out and returned to Yooseong’s hand.
Manryu Gwijong.
This is the password recovery method of our question.
Yooseong rolled his eyes and surveyed the battlefield. If an ally seemed dangerous, he threw a dagger to help. He wasn’t able to kill an opponent with every throw, but it was enough to benefit from saving an ally.
Thanks to his proper help, there was no major damage at least within 1 trillion.
‘Now it’s about time to come in…’
The enemy’s new mercenary group, which started later than the first skirmisher group.
As expected, Yuseong has just entered the battlefield. Yuseong turned his head and stared at his rear. About thirty mercenaries are running. In order for them to participate in the battle, the Klener camp also dispatched the next group.
If you hold on until the next group arrives, the role of group 1 will probably end.
He thought it would be an easy task.
Until the adventurer who ran out bravely died in an instant.
“What?”
Yoosung frowned. He was watching to help in case of danger, but he died before he had time to help.
One of the new mercenaries caught the adventurer’s gap and neatly stabbed him to death.
Starting with that, the new mercenaries moved in earnest. As they spread widely, they attacked the mercenaries and adventurers in the Klener camp.
Not only skills but also numbers are declining. Claire’s camp began to be pushed back rapidly.
“Hold on! Reinforcements are coming soon!!”
The mercenaries and adventurers gritted their teeth and endured. Soon, the dream reinforcements arrived, and the enemy and the numbers became equal.
Still pushed through.
Yooseong felt strange. He didn’t want dramatic changes. But he thought he would at least boil again, but he couldn’t even do that.
‘The skills of the new mercenaries from the other side are excellent.’
The adventurers and mercenaries fighting here do not deviate from the level of just wielding weapons. On the other hand, the weapon skills of those mercenaries are not flashy or sophisticated, but they are neat and practical.
‘It can’t go on like this.’
Yoosung thought as he looked at the fighting situation.
If it continues like this, the retreat order will come sooner or later.
Then it’s over.
Isn’t it said that in a war more people die in retreat than in battle?
It’s really easy to target the defenseless back.
In order to avoid that, I had to reverse this atmosphere somehow.
Yuseong sighed and directed mana to his body. A faithful aura pervades his body. Although he was much weaker than he felt in the dungeon.
“Seris, Kara. As I said before, don’t step out and stay behind. Take good care of Ariel.”
“Yoosung? What are you trying to do?”
“I’ll go round and round just once. I won’t do anything dangerous, so don’t worry and wait.”
Yooseong patted Celis on the shoulder and moved her steps.
The heat of the battlefield was raging. Swords clashed against each other, and enemies and allies mingled and shouted with ferocious faces.
Yoosung walked through it. He took off his footsteps, grasping the angle of view of the warriors around him and the target he was immersed in. Because of this, no one noticed his movements.
I spotted an enemy mercenary pressing meteors to the front right. He quietly moved to the side. As the enemy mercenary raised his stance to finish him off, he shoved a dagger down his neck.
A dagger gently dug into the middle of his defenseless neck.
When the dagger was pulled out, black blood poured out from the wound. Yoosung moved again without seeing the mercenary fall.
“Kyaaaaagh!”
“No Sigrid!”
A familiar scream came to his ears. Sigrid lay on her floor, her albore wrapped around her, holding up her shield. Two enemy mercenaries clung to each other and pounded their shields with axes and swords.
‘It would be better for those two to stop being adventurers.’
The meteor moved towards the two of them. The two mercenaries were so focused on their shields that they didn’t notice him approaching. Yooseong moved behind the mercenary using an axe and stabbed him in the neck.
“Heheh?!”
The one who was throwing the ax grabbed the hole in my neck. Naturally, the one remaining person noticed the change.
“What, what, why?!”
Confused, he turned his head to his colleague.
“100 million!”
The remaining mercenary’s head jerked back with a short death sentence. A dagger was lodged between his forehead as he fell.
“Go, thank you…?”
Albore, who had put away his shield, tilted his head. He tried to say thank you, but the person who saved him was no longer around.
He didn’t know it, but the dagger stuck between the mercenary’s forehead was also gone.
Yooseong ran around his battlefield without rest. He beat the mercenaries who had concentrated elsewhere and helped his allies.
The [Hideout of the Welcome Door], Which had recently risen to Lv. 2, supported that covert act.
The war situation where he passed was better than before.
But maybe his tail was long?
“You move like a rat!”
He got caught up in someone’s eyes. And that, of course, to the enemy.
An enemy mercenary cut his sword vertically.
Yuseong avoids vertical cuts and observes the opponent’s movements.
‘He’s a learned guy.’
He was one of the new mercenaries that came in earlier. He has the skills of a bitch Patrick.
“You’re quick!”
The mercenary lowered the sword and cut it diagonally. His sword moved and aimed at the meteor. The blade couldn’t even graze Yoosung’s skin.
In the end, the mercenary who lost his temper raised his sword back.
“Looks like you’re avoiding this too… Huh…!”
The mercenary’s body staggered. Breath leaked from the holes in his lungs. Yoosung pulled out a dagger and immediately inserted it into the mercenary’s heart.
Patrick’s level of skill no longer meant anything to him.
Yuseong, who was about to move again, hesitated. The eyes of the enemies around him were fixed on him.
“Damn it.”
Yooseong spat out a curse. At the same time, the mercenaries threw away their opponents and rushed at Yuseong.
The sword of the mercenary who arrived first aimed at the meteor. The honest sword’s trajectory was easy to read. Yuseong looked for an opening while dodging the attack. However, the mercenaries seldom revealed their gaps.
The shield and thick leather armor that were tightly attached to his body blocked an unreasonable attack. In order to penetrate them, a strong attack is required.
Because of this, Yooseong couldn’t counterattack hastily. In the meantime, the number of swords that had been one increased from two to three to four.
The ease in the movement of the meteor gradually disappeared.
Dodging one sword and dodging four were completely different stories. There is no end if we go on like this. Judging that, Yooseong decided to take the risk.
He ducked to avoid a stab in the chest. The mercenary dug deep inside his body and stabbed his dagger aiming at his stomach. His wrists and daggers jingle. Inside the leather armor was an iron plate.
“Keuuugh..!”
The mercenary groaned and embraced Yooseong. He held his hand tightly and restrained the meteor with his two arms. Other mercenaries came running with weapons raised to kill Meteor.
In a crisis situation, Yooseong was calm. First, I took a deep breath. His lungs expanded, pushing out his restraining arms. As he exhaled, his lungs contracted, and a gap formed between the mercenary’s arms.
Yooseong slumped on the floor and freed himself from his restraints.
He stuck his dagger into the mercenary’s shin and rolled forward. The sword struck the spot where he had just been. Had he been a little too late in his judgment, his head would have been split.
Yoosung rolled on the floor and ran straight ahead.
More and more eyes were on him. It was a bad phenomenon. I could deal with them if I wanted to deal with them, but it was a risk I didn’t have to take.
“Stand there!”
Yooseong was followed by the mercenaries from earlier. A sudden chase unfolded on the battlefield.
The front of the meteor running was blocked by the ally and the enemy who were struggling. Meteor leaned sideways and brushed past the enemy mercenary. The mercenary, with his side pierced, fell to his knees.
Yuseong turned his head slightly to check behind him.
The mercenaries from earlier were still chasing them.
He was easily ostracized, and judged that he was wrong. He recognizes the need to move a little more vigorously. He inserted a dagger into the thigh of a fighting mercenary and used it as a support to change his direction. He lowered his stance and dragged the soles of his feet to the floor to avoid falling.
“Aaaaa!!!”
Suddenly, the mercenary whose thighs were torn gave out a ghastly scream.
Yooseong didn’t care and raised his posture again. At the same time, he swung his arms together as if to spread them out. His dagger whirled and flew away.
After a while, when he opened his hand, the dagger that flew away came back. He had blood on his blade. Yuseong grabbed his dagger in reverse and climbed onto the back of the mercenary who caught his eye.
“Huh?!”
He stabbed the startled mercenary’s throat. I jumped off the back of the collapsing creature, kicked off the ground, and ran again.
He didn’t neglect what he had to do while running.
* * *
“Damn it, someone catch him!”
Jeim, a 10-year veteran soldier who was chasing Yooseong, shouted. He thought Yoosung was dangerous and pursued him, and his prediction was correct. Seeing how he stirred the battlefield, he was no ordinary guy.
‘I had to catch it when I first surrounded it.’
It was his mistake not to do so. The meteors were quick and they were relatively dull. Far from getting closer to the meteor, it widens further. A simple chase was meaningless.
“Disperse! Scatter and catch!”
The mercenaries dispersed after confirming the location of the meteor for the last time. James watched them disperse and turned his head back to Yoosung.
“Hmm…?”
Where I looked again, the meteor’s back had disappeared.
“Damn it!”
James hurriedly shook his head and searched for the meteor. The later it is, the more damage your allies take. Unlike him, there were many young people in the group.
Newbies who are just starting to face the world.
James, who grew more and more distant as he got older, did not want to see them die.
For a while, James was only focused on finding meteors. Then, as if possessed by something, he stopped walking.
Every soldier who has gone to war has experienced it at least once. My senses expanded and I felt like the sword and arrow were moving slowly.
James felt that sensation now.
‘Come.’
Behind him, Yooseong runs through the mercenaries. He couldn’t see or hear footsteps, but he could just feel it.
James gripped the handle of his sword tightly. When the meteor was about three steps away, he swung his sword behind him.
The blade, imbued with life, grazed the tip of Yoosung’s head. The dagger, on the other hand, pierced James’ neck.
‘Damn it…’
Nerves were injured
Time passes slowly.
After finishing the short run, James looked at the meteor for the last time.
There was no color in his expression and eyes. Even though he has killed people, he is indifferent, as if he just trampled on a passing bug.
Only then did James realize his mistake.
‘If they scatter… That’s too bad…’
He misunderstood his opponent’s capabilities. He wasn’t a guy that could be caught by scattering in the first place.
‘Is the reason why he was able to get away with it but didn’t because he was aiming for this..?’
I don’t know. In his fading consciousness, James closed his eyes, thinking of his family and comrades.
-Puuu~!
He blew the trumpet announcing a retreat from Clenaire’s camp.
Yoosung moved his steps again. He didn’t even look at James’ corpse.
