Chapter 35 – 35 Demonic Erosion (2)
Imperial Tomb.
It is a large and splendid cemetery where subjects who made great contributions and high-ranking nobles were buried.
“…Are there any injuries, Rom?”
“Elia.”
“…”
“Monica.”
The two women, who met naturally there, immediately stood in familiar battle formations, apparently exhausted and unable to speak.
Elia, the princess and knight, is next to me, and Monica, the saint, is behind me.
“Ohh… The hero, the princess, and the saintess…!”
“I can’t imagine seeing this historic sight with my own two eyes…”
Behind us, there was a military force that seemed to have been scraped together.
There were no soldiers, and there were approximately two hundred knights of the royal family and knights of the imperial family.
And behind them were about thirty stern-faced wizards.
The fight here is not a good number because there are a lot of numbers, so the number of people is quite suitable.
“Guhhhhh…”
“Greuk, grruk…”
Undead Mages and Death Knights were slowly walking out of the Imperial Contributor’s Mausoleum, wearing splendid aristocratic costumes and rusty armor. Seeing how my skin tingled just by feeling the heat, I don’t think it will be an easy fight.
I mean, if it wasn’t for me and my colleagues, that would be the case.
“Whoa…Monica. Please conduct.”
“Yes. Leave it to me.”
A healer in the game was just a shuttle for buffs and healing, but it wasn’t just that when it became a reality and you had to fight directly.
Due to the nature of the healer located in the rear, he can see the battle situation more broadly, and if he is in a state where he builds a bond and breathes well enough, he can predict the movements of party members and induce them appropriately, so he naturally takes over the command.
It was like that from the last car.
I was the center of the party, of course, but Monica was always the center of the battle.
Even as she had no emotions, she never panics no matter what happens and she always uses rational tactics calmly.
“Elia, aren’t you dead?”
“Whoops. That’s what I’m going to say. Rom.”
Elia, who smiled reliably even in this situation, was a vanguard like me, and at the same time a strong mental support for the party.
“Whoa…Good.”
What should I do? Just be careful not to get too far away from the party members and run amok following Monica’s command.
Chi-Ring, Chi-Ring.
With her divine power, Monica made a platform at the height of her knees and stood on a high place, watching her battlefield with awe-inspiring eyes.
“Goddess. Give vitality to the weary and weary, courage to face evil, and strength to judge sin.”
Immediately after her voice resonated resoundingly, several buffs were stacked on everyone including me.
“…Good.”
I was reluctant to have divine power penetrate my body, but it was not so much that I was worried that my emotions would disappear as it was converted into stamina and vitality as a buff.
“Holy Shield.”
Having created her last translucent barrier around her body, she raises her hands to her chest as if clasping them together.
“…Battle. Beginning.”
With a short, emotionless voice, Elia and I rushed forward.
Elia was in a state of emitting golden energy through the unique mana opening technique passed down in the imperial family, and I was also emitting red energy by covering her body with her blood.
“Waaaaa!”
At the same time, the troops behind them also rushed towards the undead.
“Deploy shield, prepare for magic.”
Monica’s calm and low voice clearly pierced her ears even as the shouts that reverberated through her space hurt her ears.
“Keuuugh!”
“Aaaaagh!”
Dark red flames and ice awls poured out without a chant, but as Monica ordered, the knights with their shields raised barely endured and moved forward.
“Rom. Pay attention to the shadows. Elia. Deal with the group of death knights on the left. Find the summoning magic circle on the left. Wizards, please deal with it before the summoning magic is completed. On the right, open the shield to clear the way for the back row to charge. .”
“Kuuuuu… Haaaaa!”
I raised the corners of my mouth unconsciously as I heard Monica’s voice that stuck in my head because it ringed in my ears at a very fast but regular tempo. He swung his holy sword at him.
“Kwaaaaagh!”
“Noisy. You bastard!”
The moment I shed the howling Death Knight’s sword as if it were a mixture of animal and human cries and cut her throat, the Death Knight’s sword aiming at my gap came in, but Elia, who had approached before I knew it, effortlessly blocked it.
“.. Haha!”
A feeling of exhilaration pervades the whole body.
The moment I feel this sense of unity is the only moment I can laugh on the battlefield.
To be honest, my fighting style is pretty ignorant.
All I know how to do is jump in and stir and attack.
It is the fighting method of ‘unlearned bastards’, as the nobles often say, dangerous and haphazard, who do not take care of themselves.
It’s actually dangerous as well.
However, the story is different with colleagues who are in sync.
“You suppressed the magic. Elia.”
“Okay! Hryaaaaap!”
Elia, who recognized Monica’s intentions even though she was only called by name, fired a golden slash and the magic circle blew off the head of the undead mage who was suppressed by divine power.
“Gwoah!”
“This baby dare to pick up a fuck!”
“…Rom. I was so excited.”
I fill that gap and split the sword of the Death Knight that was aiming at Elia with the holy sword.
“Shields. Suppress the Death Knights first. The knights in the back row should attack the wizards first. Wizards, blow large-scale magic at the middle row of them and cut off the front and back ranks. Victory is just around the corner. Cheer up everyone.”
Morale rises when Monica’s clear voice announces the war situation.
“Haaaaap!”
“Uhhhhh!”
As I and Elia, who are crushing the Death Knights in a two-person group, go all over the place to save allies in danger and kill them to reduce their numbers, the battle line of these guys gradually thins out.
Of course, there were scars all over the body in the process.
However, he was soon healed by the silent beam of light, so he was able to focus his attention on the attack.
Flash-! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak!
Finally, when the allied wizards started attacking, my eyes and ears were shaken with light and sound, and my concentration was broken, but I and Elia, who were attached like one body, moved organically as if they were each other’s limbs, and pulverized the enemies.
“Now. Rom. Stir.”
By the time she could feel the enemy’s momentum breaking, Monica’s voice pierced her ears.
At the same time, I jumped forward, burrowed into the center of them and split and destroyed everything around me with my blood as if exploding.
Haha!”
The elation from the sense of unity with his colleagues, the excitement from the battle hormones that came out like a flood and dominated the brain, and the pleasure of advancing to victory without difficulty as if woven into it, made me laugh out loud.
Awesome! Poop!
In the meantime, he seems to have leveled up, and a new vitality rushes through his body.
“Destroy everything!”
How much did you cut and kill like that?
“Hey, wait!”
Now there are only a few undead left.
In this situation where victory was only a few steps away, someone stood in my way.
I couldn’t see his face because he was fully clothed in armor, but I heard his voice and he was quite a young man.
“…What?”
When I asked bluntly because it was annoying to break the flow, he took a step back as if he was slightly intimidated, but then raised his voice as he pointed to one of the Death Knights.
“Well, that person is one of my ancestors! At least I want to make it easier with my own hands!”
“…What?”
“This is a matter related to the honor of our family! So give me a chance to take it into my own hands!”
“Me, me too! That man over there is my great-grandfather!”
“My ancestors are there too! So please let me do it with my own hands!”
“…Under.”
I really don’t know what happened to the honor of this crazy yagame medieval fantasy.
“…Fuck it.”
Speaking in a calm voice, I exhaled blood in one breath and shredded all the remaining undead mages and death knights.
“Ah…!”
“How could you do this! Hero! You have no honor!?”
“To treat those who are already dead like that!”
“Even a corpse has the courtesy it deserves!”
“Don’t fuck with me. Assholes.”
Even if you don’t want to curse, curse comes out.
“If honor is that important, you bastards would just jump out a long time ago and just do that courtesy or something? But why are you getting permission? Oh, is this by any chance?”
Smirking and raising one corner of my mouth, I aimed my sword at them.
“I don’t have the confidence to deal with it alone, so I want to take care of both safety and honor within my sight.
It is no exaggeration to say that the social circle is as important as life to the nobles of this world.
His politics, his connections, his eyes.
How many times have I been in trouble in the last car because of that damned set of values?
At first I tried to understand, but now I don’t give a fuck.
“This, this…! Let’s see, there’s nothing a lowly person can’t say!”
“That’s right! Do you think you can become anything just because you were chosen by the Goddess!”
“The Goddess must have chosen you because she thought you were suitable for a meat shield! Because such a role is too much for a lowly person who has no honor!”
Seeing the dignified guys just a little while ago blushing and threatening to kill me for swearing at me, I was so full of energy that I couldn’t even speak.
There is only one way to deal with this situation.
Kill them all before they become more of a nuisance.
“Stop. What are you doing?”
Hide behind a greater power.
It’s a much gentler, simpler, and quicker way than arguing with stupid bastards who close their eyes and block their ears.
“Wow, princess…!”
“That is…”
As soon as Elia stepped out, her tail curled up and wriggled.
Kids who don’t even know what war is.
Idiots who have not yet put their bodies and minds into the framework of war.
Dealing with those guys is something I’m not used to, and every time I do it, it’s exhausting and exhausting.
Sometimes even envy
I was forcibly brought in and turned into this face, but the cubs who are the inhabitants of this world are a field of flowers.
Would you rather bring me down to where I am?
With knives and fists, at the boundary between life and death, slowly as if removing poison and quenching iron…
“Rom. Stop.”
“…Ah.”
It was only after hearing Elia’s voice that I could see the pale faces of the nobles.
“You’re very tired. It’s okay. It’s all over.”
“Whoa…That’s right. You seem very tired…But, isn’t that the same for you guys?”
I glanced alternately at Monica and Elia, who often walked by, scratching the back of my head shyly.
“Something embarrassing. I think I overreacted.”
“No. You must have run around several times busier than us and cut down dozens of times more undead. We know you like that. We know you better than you because we’ve always been watching you. I, the princess, Elia Wittelsva. Karsnia assures you. Rom, you deserve to be called weak. There is no need to be ashamed.”
Suddenly, a sense of security spreads from her beautiful smile as she speaks with a dignified face like that of a general.
Since Elia was always the pillar of the party, just hearing her voice is quite effective.
“…”
Monica, like Elia, she didn’t have the confidence to speak well, but she just hugged me tight and embraced me.
“…Thank you for saying that.”
“Well, I just said the obvious. Now, it seems like everything is over, so take a break…”
– Mr. Rom! Can you hear me!?
At that time, Verde’s voice was heard through the essence of dawn.
“Ha…”
A sigh comes out of nowhere.
Because we already know that’s not good news.
-Okay. I can hear. What’s the matter?
– Underground of the imperial castle! The undead in the ‘sun nest’…!
-…Okay. I’ll be going soon.
After I cut off contact with Verde, I looked at the two women and they were already holding my hand tightly.
“…Come to think of it, there’s still one left. I have no choice but to correct it. It’s not over yet, so let’s do our best. Rom.”
Elia’s face was a little red when she said that, and I felt a sense of embarrassment in her expression.
“Puhuh. Yes. Let’s go.”
Holding their hands, I headed for the imperial castle, ignoring the stares of the nobles.
***
Hwangseong, who arrived quickly, was understandably in a state of uproar.
“Yo, hero!
The chief chamberlain, who ran quickly, broke into a cold sweat and shouted in my head, so I raised his hand to stop him.
“I’ve heard the whole story. Please guide me.”
“Hey, come this way!”
Even in this situation, the chief chamberlain sighed as he did not run and walked with a brisk pace, but he suppressed it and held it in.
Nest of the sun.
It is a huge common tomb in which the imperial family of the past are buried.
Blocked by thick and solid walls, it is wider and deeper than the entire size of the imperial castle, and a maximum of 5 people can enter. In the name of not disturbing the rest of the sleeping suns. If the capacity is exceeded, all kinds of magic coated inside will attack.
“Yo, warrior! You’re here! I’ve been waiting for you!”
After going down the underground for a long time, as soon as he saw my face, the emperor ran over and put his hand on his shoulder in a cold sweat.
“Ah, it seems the ancestors have awakened! I don’t know how long this wall will hold up! So…”
“Oh, okay. I’m going inside.”
“Ho, you mean alone…?”
“It can’t be, can it?”
Of course, I went alone in the last car.
I hadn’t properly adapted to this world yet, and I was still immature, so I thought it was natural that I had to be like that in the game.
I thought it would be a catastrophe if I took my colleagues who were not well liked and were still weak and died.
Now that I think about it, it was luck that I survived.
“Father. I will go with you.”
“Eh, Elia? You mean…?”
The emperor swallowed her saliva, dyeing her complexion with worry and apprehension, but Elia nodded her head with a resolute face that would not let a single needle go in.
“Yes. It’s difficult for the warrior alone.”
“I’ll go too. Don’t worry too much.”
When Monica, her saintess, came out, the emperor’s complexion improved, but he was still staring at Elia with uneasy eyes.
“Your Majesty. This is related to the honor of the imperial family. Please allow me to put my ancestors to rest with my own hands.”
The words the aristocrats said earlier came out of her mouth, but as expected, who said the words is important. On the contrary, I am glad that he is saying it to help me.
“Whoa…”
After thinking about it for a while, he seemed to think that there was nothing he could do, and he nodded his head with a hard face.
“Okay. Then come and raise the honor of the imperial family. My proud daughter.”
“Yes. Obama.”
“Please take good care of her daughter, warrior.”
“Don’t worry.”
Nodding lightly, as I stood in front of the wall with the two women, someone stepped forward.
“I’ll go too.”
“…Huh? Why are you…?”
The unexpected person’s intention to participate in the war opened everyone’s eyes wide.
