Chapter 1168 – #278_Melee (2)
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One.
Alice Ibn Hayyan, The Mercury Witch.
An outcast who violated city laws by illegally discharging experimental wastewater and was kicked out because he had no money to compensate.
Alice, who continued her debaucherous life with her two lovers, Manya Mali Shah, and continued her life as a debt collector, was kidnapped to Hexennacht after many twists and turns.
She meets a crazy psycho lesbian sadist and suffers the humiliation of having non-removable piercings hanging in horrible places, but she escapes after an epic adventure (by the way, she is satisfied because her sexual sensitivity has improved considerably).
In recognition of her contribution to helping Si-woo, she had her citizenship reinstated and continued to live as her daughter, including eating well.
Experience changes people.
Alice reflected on her careless past and created her own savings account.
She keenly felt the need for change in her attitude toward living life.
However, humans do not change easily, and Alice’s motto remained the same: ‘Let’s live happily.’
This trip to Alaska was also a move armed with a thorough sense of honey.
In Alice’s opinion, there was still a long way to go before the war.
She smelled a sweet scent like lilac flowers in full bloom in season at the Anchorage temporary branch, which seemed to be full of crisis and adventure.
Therefore, while everyone was hesitating, he boldly volunteered to serve as a guard, and at first glance, it seemed successful.
Until a missile flies out the window.
“Holy shit!!! Why only me!!!!! “Let’s get some honey too!!!”
In fact, strictly speaking, the light spots shooting out hundreds of times across the midnight sky are not missiles, but 300mm rockets fired from the Russian-made multiple rocket launcher ‘Smersh’.
However, such a distinction can only be made by Lulue, the witch of the secret trade, or Dorothy, a former arms dealer, and the modern weapons that blow smoke from the sky to Alice and bring destruction to the ground are all missiles.
-Bang!!! Kuang! Kwaaaaa!!!
A barrage of high-explosive bombs and thermobaric bombs devastated the city, where a secret barrier was spread around the hotel where the temporary branch was staying.
The building collapsed, and smoke and flames rose everywhere.
In itself, it is a destructive bombing that clearly shows the horrors of war, but in fact, it is a scene that makes you tilt your head.
Modern weapons cannot be a big threat to witches.
It is not because all witches can dodge at speeds above the speed of sound, nor because her body is as hard as adamantium.
This is because the lethality of modern weapons was originally designed for the purpose of killing people and destroying structures.
Rocket guns, which are a disaster that humans cannot resist, have the power of ‘pretty weak magic’ for a witch who recognizes an attack, prepares a position, and builds a defense technique.
When Alice first witnessed the barrage of rocket fire, she thought, ‘Oh, that’s shit’ not because she was wary of modern weapons themselves, but because she judged this attack to be the starting point of Hexennacht’s advance.
“Report the damage!”
“One dead and one injured!”
However, there were already two casualties at this point, when the witches on the Hexennacht side were not even showing their noses.
The hotel, which had been built with a magic circle engraved to the level of Cheolongseong Fortress, was completely destroyed.
This is because the rocket artillery that colored the clear sky of Anchorage with black flames was not just a ‘modern weapon.’
-Pyuuuuu!!!
Another rocket flew toward the already half-collapsed hotel.
It did not explode right away, but sprayed the flammable mixture into the air like a spray.
The mist cloud that is finely mixed with air ignites and a high-pressure shock wave is instantly generated.
It is a thermobaric bomb, also called a vaporization bomb, that delivers death equally in a radius of hundreds of meters, regardless of whether you are covered indoors or not.
“Gather behind me! “Infinite change!”
Alice immediately deployed magic in a certain range after checking the thermobaric bullet.
She is also a 20th rank archwitch.
As its name suggests, a spherical shield instantly surrounds everyone.
-Quaaaaang!!!
The black flame created along with the impact of the pressure wave overloads Alice’s magic circuit.
“Fuck!”
“Sister!”
“Are you okay?”
Alice’s body, which was originally able to block this level of bombardment while having a leisurely tea time, was shaken.
This is the problem.
Modern weapons can just respond with magic.
However, each time a bomb explodes, black burning flames interrupt the magic exercise.
The unrealistically pitch-black flames emitted waves that interfered with the magic itself like a torch.
This is a case where the witch who lost her life was unable to cope with the waves while defending herself complacently and was killed by an explosion.
“Have you contacted Gehenna?”
“We’re not communicating properly!”
“Mana! Until the scheduled time for regular reporting?”
There is a communication network established between Gehenna and the temporary branch in Anchorage, but in case of an emergency, there is a protocol that switches to an emergency situation after a certain period of time after regular reporting is cut off.
“There’s 1 hour and 12 minutes left.”
“I have to hold on until then?”
She asked with her last hope, but she could only confirm the grim situation of the enemy’s massive offensive, with only about 10 people having to hold out for over an hour.
Even in the temporary branch, Alice is the only archwitch.
At this point, when it is clear that we are under siege, escaping through the sea to the gate is a situation where you have to risk your life.
Alice didn’t worry about why pitch-black flames were suddenly spewing out from the human weapon.
However, she came to the most reasonable conclusion.
“Maya, Malisha. Let’s leave it here and run away.”
“Okay, I packed my bags.”
“What about other witches?”
“Is it time to take care of another witch? “They will find a way to live on their own.”
The honey pot fell over and a swarm of bees came, so Alice confidently put the honey in her mouth.
“Anyway, from a national perspective, it’s not important to protect here right now. “At this level, I have maintained my loyalty.”
At first glance, the geographical base may seem meaningless since both Hexennacht and Gehenna have ‘gates’.
‘When there is an innovative means of transportation that can gather troops anywhere in the world in 10 minutes, is it really a big deal to give up just one base for a while?’
But it’s important.
It can be understood similarly to Baduk.
In Baduk, even if you can place a Baduk ball anywhere on the 361 grid grid battlefield without physical restrictions, there will be a winner and a loser.
Even if it is a fight between transcendents, it is very important what position you occupy in a fight for ground.
Of course, Alice knows that too.
Her life is just more precious.
After three rough bombing waves, there was a brief lull.
The allied forces of the Society against the Eastern Legion deployed by Hexennacht in Alaska were the Cooperation Society under Chesed and the librarians of Valentinus’ Secretariat.
The other witch assigned to Anchorage first is a member of the Secretary High School.
This means that they are librarians who have had their hands covered in ink all their lives and volunteered out of righteous indignation that ‘we cannot stand by and watch public achievements.’
As expected, the faces of the Gehenna monks turned white.
It is only natural that we are faced with the worst situation in an instant without being able to properly prepare our minds.
Moreover, the magic field emitted by the enemy witches is slowly getting closer.
After neutralizing the first resistance with artillery fire, they approach to plant the flag.
Although the number of men is not large enough to be called a ‘great offensive’, it is a skirmisher on the side of the ‘corps’ in name.
It is always impossible to deal with this number of people.
“Haiyan… Okay, next instructions…”
“If you hold on just a little longer, the head librarian will come.”
Still, no one wants to run away.
Each person suppresses their rising fears with pride and looks at Alice, the temporary branch leader.
“… “What should I do?”
After giving the order to wait, the three people eagerly packed their belongings from the half-collapsed guest room.
Manya and Malisha’s expressions also became complicated at Alice’s low complaint.
Although they are from Gehenna, they do not have a proper sense of belonging to Gehenna.
There is no particular sense of duty to not stand by and watch as Hexennacht disrupts the world order.
But at that moment, what the trio remembered was the face of a man.
In the past, the trio attacked for a quick hit, and somehow they ended up being escape companions together, and Shin Si-woo, who is now Alice’s boss and a professor in the pension department.
Even in the worst situation of being captured by Hexennacht, he managed to escape with the trio.
Was it because of a sense of duty? Was it because of a sense of belonging? Was it because of a sense of justice?
Probably not all.
“Damn…”
That kind of confidence had been bothering Alice for some time now.
“I will follow whatever my sister wants. If we run away from here, we can hang out together in a quiet villa somewhere. There’s no need for us to get caught up in the war, right? Of course, if you do that, it will be difficult to return to Gehenna… It’s okay if Manya is not Gehenna. “Thanks to her older sister, she got to see a lot of nice places and she enjoyed all kinds of things.”
Manya cautiously opened her mouth.
“But even if you stay here and fight, Manya will follow.”
“You bitch! Why are you the only one who pretends to be cool? Marley Sha is with her sister forever, right?”
Malisha joins in playfully and looks at Alice.
The look in their eyes shows that they both know what the answer will be.
“These shameful things. He’s playing with me a lot. “Are you going to tell me again that I should run away because this is embarrassing?”
Alice chuckled.
Manya and Malisha also flirted and laughed.
“Let’s just last for one hour.”
“That’s right. If you’re lucky, they’ll notice something wrong before that happens and reinforcements will come!”
Alice threw her suitcase, which she had packed, onto her dust-covered bed.
The librarians dressed in her witch uniform were huddled together, waiting for Alice’s instructions.
“Now, pay attention! From now on, we will divide into three groups and work hard on our respective tasks!”
It is the commander’s job to bring confused soldiers back to the battlefield.
“First of all, Manya here will run to Gehenna as a messenger through secret maneuver. Since the enemy had launched a surprise attack by jamming communications, they must have been alert to the presence of messengers and deployed troops on the coast. Manya is dangerous alone. Therefore, Team 1 works with me to draw the enemy’s attention and hide the messenger’s presence.
Group 2 rebuilds the hotel’s protective techniques. Prepare for enemy attacks. Group 3 is responsible for securing the evacuation route and treating the injured.”
Alice’s head was busy spinning.
The fact that they are approaching means that there will be no artillery fire unless you plan on team-killing them.
The key is to buy time without being detected until Manya enters the ‘door.’
As he began giving instructions in a calm tone, the look of agitated librarians also showed a sense of battle.
“It’s true that they caught us off guard. Still, let’s show them the spicy taste of Gehenna.”
Alice stood on the rooftop, flapping the cloak that Malisha gave her, and looked at the enemies with dignity.
The librarians, who had implicitly ignored the three former outcasts, stood side by side with expressions of determination.
“Let’s go!!!”
As soon as Alice shouted in a solemn voice.
-Pop!
Suddenly, a red straight line crossing the sky pierced through one of the Hexennacht sides and fell to the ground.
In the aftermath alone, large-scale destruction reminiscent of a meteorite impact flattened the small city.
“Huh?”
Using this as a signal, black armor flies among the frantic Hexennacht witches.
Alice, who had been blankly observing the scene, sighed in relief and crouched down in her place.
“Ha…”
“Sister, shall we start now?”
“What a rush. “Bring some popcorn.”
It’s okay though.
The identity of the black armor running rampant before our eyes is Shin Si-woo.
The 2nd public slayer.
Because it is the strongest force of Chesed Society at the moment.
Alice tilted her head.
“What?”
“Why, why? Is there any problem?”
The area is surrounded by a barrier that hides the unique presence of public figures.
Communication was cut off by the waves emitted by modern weapons, regular contact was still a long time away, and the messenger had not yet departed.
“But how did you find out?”
Nevertheless, Shin Si-woo arrived here in 10 minutes.
It was as if they had known about the attack in advance.
