Chapter 263 – 263. The Otherworld Summoner’s First Special Move (5)
– One –
“Huh, uh, uh…”
Dump.
An Imperial soldier stumbles and falls.
“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh…”
Wow.
Rumble.
He was regurgitating his gastric juices as he collapsed.
The appearance of convulsions is very pitiful.
Turtle, turd.
The soldier who went ahead comes back.
His condition seemed to be no different.
“Geuh, guhhhhh…!”
Dump.
He vomits and sits down next to the fallen soldier.
In fact, I was close to losing my balance and collapsing while trying to bend his back.
“Wake up… Ha, ha, wake up you asshole…”
“Guuuuu…”
Ododok, ohdodok.
A fallen soldier raises his head, chewing on dirt and gravel.
Even when his eyes were wide open, there was a hint of anger mixed in.
“It’s just the two of us left…”
“I have to tell you, tuuk, I have to tell you about this situation, uuuuu…”
Charleuk.
Dirt and gravel mixed with gastric juices pour out of the soldier’s mouth.
The soldier shakes his head left and right.
“Why, why… Just us…”
“Huh. I must have been unlucky.”
“You have to get up…”
“You have to get up.”
“If you fall,”
Hooked
Instead of gastric juice, a bolt protruded from the soldier who struggled to get up.
“Kahak…!”
A soldier whose neck was pierced by a bolt,
Dump.
He collapses forward, unable to withstand the shock.
“Hey, hey man…!”
Whoops, Tup.
A surviving soldier turns over his body.
Since it penetrated neatly, there was no great difficulty in turning the soldier’s body over.
However,
Burrrr
His eyes wander wildly.
The limbs stiffen and twitch.
Instead of gastric juice, foam pours out of his mouth.
The soldier already looked hopeless.
“Ahhh…”
The surviving soldier raises his head and looks around.
No one is here.
“Me, me, come out! Don’t cowardly shoot crossbows from a distance!”
He shouts.
The volume of his voice was insignificant, to the extent that even a hollow echo could not be heard even if he tried to scream as hard as he could.
Since it was an open plain in the first place, there was no echo.
‘How the hell did you shoot from a distance? … !’
No matter how much I looked around, I couldn’t even guess where the enemy had sniped.
You can guess the direction the enemy sniped through the angle the bolt penetrated, but you can’t possibly predict the distance.
‘In the first place, I sniped from such a distance, is it possible to pierce the bone with a bolt… ?’
It is physically impossible.
Because of the loss of kinetic energy due to air resistance, that could never be possible.
So it is clear that the enemy will be relatively close range.
If so, you must see the enemy in your field of vision.
However, no matter how much I look around, the enemy is nowhere to be seen.
Shiver.
Cold sweat flows
Judging by how often the bolts fly, the enemies are few.
Three at most.
But all three are invisible.
“Even, run away…”
The surviving soldier hesitantly stands up.
The upper body shakes dangerously.
My legs are shaking.
“Go a little further,”
Pug.
The soldier’s vision is dark.
He headed to a world where there was no pain, no hunger, no thirst.
– 2 –
“Demo, you don’t have to reload anymore.”
“Oh, is it? You’ve worked hard, Urmama.”
Hehe! I didn’t miss a single shot! I hit everything!”
Rocking, rocking!
Urmama snorts.
Jump up and down
Demosh gives her a gentle hug on the shoulder.
“Well done! As expected, it’s great! It’s worth practicing without missing a day!”
“It’s because my sister and Octopo helped me practice!”
Ur Mama draws her V with her hand and winks at her.
Democy was so lovely in her appearance.
“No. Maman has a natural talent, and it’s because he never neglected to practice.”
Shrew, shruck.
Demosh converses with Urmama and retracts the tentacles surrounding them in a dome shape.
And recall it
Sruck, Chuck.
I wrapped around the spare crossbow on the floor and the barrel full of bolts.
Urmama also helps her.
They look back at the direction in which a plant stem spread out on the floor.
“Is Octopoda your brother?”
“Octopo brother?”
Heading there, I call the name of Octopoda.
Squeaky.
Shudder.
He makes an appearance
His behavior was no different from theirs.
He was walking toward them, carrying a lot of bolts and a crossbow.
“You’ve worked hard, mamang.”
“Hehe. There’s still a lot left! So,”
– Please go in the northwest direction.
Just in time, Margarita’s voice rings in all of them.
“That’s right! It’s northwest, so that’s it.”
Urmama looks alternately at the sky and Octopoda.
Octopoda smiles and points in one direction.
“I think it’s over there, maman.”
– It should be a bit more westward.
Swoop.
Octopoda adjusts her bearings and looks up at the sky.
“Is this enough, Margarita?”
– Yes. If I think I’m going to take a wrong turn, I’ll let you know again.
“Thank you.”
Oktopoda turns his head and looks at Urmama.
“We can go this way. Can we move right away, maman?”
“Yes!”
Pod!
Rocking, rocking.
Ur Mama raises her right hand and responds loudly.
A demo attempt gets her nod.
– Maman, you did a really good job! I’ll ask you again this time. Trust me!”
“Yeah! I’ll work hard, Margarita sister!”
Urmama’s self-esteem explodes.
Her confidence springs up.
Shureuk, shrrrr!
Whirliririk.
She instantaneously creates her carrying basket at her own feet.
Jerk, jerk.
Zap, zap.
Chuck, Chuck.
Octopoda and Demosi ride on it.
Squeak.
The basket flies.
It resembled a spider walking silently, wagging its long legs.
– At the point where encounters with enemies are expected, there is a colony of coniferous trees that grow naturally near the small Ongdalsam. Maybe Maman can be more active than now.
“I see! Do the trees grow densely, sister?”
– It’s not like that, but I don’t think it’s going to be that easy to secure sight for sniping. The number of enemies fleeing there is not small, so if you don’t care, you may miss them, so you must cooperate with me during the annihilation. Listen to my whispers
“Okay, sister!”
Nod, nod
Rocking, rocking!
Her chest swayed as she moved her head, but the basket moved quietly without the slightest movement.
– 3 –
“Heh, heh, heh…”
“Heo-eok, this, this moss…”
“Even if it smells like water, hehe, I…”
The soldiers look around with excited faces.
A small forest dotted with pine trees was full of subtle moisture.
“It’s not the dew’s fault! Hmm, there’s water, there’s water!”
The voices of the soldiers were hoarse, probably because they ran long distances while drinking dust.
But their voices were tinged with hope.
“I haven’t had any enemies, hehe, take a break for a while, heo-eok, let’s go. I think I’m going to die like this…”
A soldier looks around and offers to rest.
The other soldiers also nodded in agreement.
Beat, beat, beat, beat.
They make their way towards the center of the forest.
Even if they stumbled and stumbled, their steps were not that heavy.
“Huh…? This…”
Whoops, Tup.
A soldier bends down to pick up a pine cone.
About 20 soldiers looked at him all at once.
“Something?”
“No, are these pine nuts?”
“Pine nuts? The pine nuts you eat?”
“Ok.”
As if from a mountain village, the soldier recognized its identity at a glance.
Beat, beat, beat.
In an instant, other soldiers gathered around him.
Gulp.
Other soldiers salivate.
But even that gave off a dry feeling.
“Can you eat that?”
“Of course.”
A soldier from a mountain village shrugs his shoulders and looks around.
“All the trees around me look like cypress trees.”
“Then it’s all edible, isn’t it?!”
A soldier from a mountain village shook his head.
“On a pine tree, these pine cones only open at the top. It is too high, so it is dangerous to pick them yourself. The equipment is poor, and what if you go up tired and fall? You can be seriously injured or even die. Don’t be greedy, pick up the pine cones that have fallen on the floor, and I’ll pick them up for you.”
“Ummm… Is that enough to fill your stomach?”
Food.
A soldier from a mountain village snorts.
“The amount is minimal, but it’s very greasy, so eating just a handful is enough to fill your stomach.”
“Okay.”
Soldiers disperse.
He picks up all the pine cones from the pine trees that have fallen to the ground.
In the meantime, some find the gallbladder gland.
“It’s water!”
The soldiers who found Ongdalsaem shouted.
Chew.
Hurl.
A soldier hurriedly tries drinking water with both palms.
His eyes widen.
“It smells a bit fishy, but it’s worth eating!”
“It’s water, it’s water!”
“Live!”
Tatatatatatat!
Soldiers rush towards Ongdalsaem.
Splat, squeak!
Whoops!
Jerk, jerk.
They circle around Ongdalsaem and drink water.
It reminds me of the mud and rotting peat moss on the floor.
It spreads.
But they didn’t care at all whether it was muddy water or rotten water.
He was just busy quenching his parched throat.
“Keuheh… I think I’ll live…”
“Rather than being hungry, I almost died of thirst…”
Fluff, fluff.
Soldiers sit down.
Because I sat on the wet mud around the Ongdalsaem, the water soaked around the buttocks of my combat uniform.
But the soldiers were too tired to care about that.
“Let’s satisfy our hunger and quickly return to what we saw. I’m afraid those monsters will follow us…”
A soldier looks to the north with a fearful face.
As if everyone agreed with his words, the other soldiers nodded or shuddered at him.
“Yes. I still have pine nuts, so give me some pine cones.”
A soldier from a mountain village looked back at the other soldiers and said.
Swoop, Swoop.
Tuk, Degur.
Soldiers hand him a pine cone.
Others threw lightly.
You have to conserve even the strength to get up and approach him.
Not knowing when they will be able to rest again, the soldiers try to conserve their stamina as much as possible.
“Umm…But the skin was too hard. I wonder how much food will come out.”
“Wait and see.”
Sereung.
A soldier from a mountain village released a greatsword from his belt.
As if it was used more like a tool than a weapon, its blade was blunt and it had many scratches.
Swoop, tock.
A soldier places a pine cone on a flat stone.
Holding the greatsword straight,
Thump, thump, thump.
Strikes down pine cones with a heal.
Kwajik, Kwajik.
Charreuk.
Small grains pour out.
About a handful comes out.
He repeats it several times.
Small grains are piled up in front of him.
“The inner skin is hard, so either chew it with your molars and spit it out, or crush it with a great sword hilt and only eat the kernels.”
Squeak, squeak.
Charrrr.
A soldier from a mountain village distributes pine nut kernels to other soldiers.
It is distributed only so that it is roughly less than a handful per person.
“You want me to eat this and fill my stomach?”
“Try and tell me. You’ll be hungry enough. And if you eat too much, you’ll get a stomach ache.”
“Okay…”
Yikes, yikes.
The soldiers reluctantly start chewing on it.
Some even ate the inner skin after crushing it with a hilt.
The taste wasn’t as bad as I thought, but their expressions didn’t wrinkle.
“That’s true… It’s hard to pick, it takes a lot of work to open the kernels, and if you eat a lot, you get stomachaches? I don’t know why nobles and rich people eat such troublesome things.”
A soldier grumbles.
It was because he was insanely hungry, so it was unlikely that he would just accept this nuisance and eat, and not buy it from the market or shop.
“It’s not that pine nuts are fucking expensive for nothing. In my hometown, instead of saying “It’s fucking like shit,” The word “Like pine nuts” Is used instead of cursing.”
“Hmm… That’s like pine nuts…”
“Hehe. I learned something good.”
The atmosphere wasn’t bad though.
Even if it wasn’t quality food and clean drinking water, it was because it quenched hunger and thirst.
“Have you eaten?”
“Hmm. There’s a little bit left.”
Implicitly, a soldier who was acting as a squad leader looks around.
“Then eat that and get up.”
“Okay.”
Hooked
The soldiers quickly put pine nuts into their mouths.
Some even massaged their feet or stretched their legs to soothe tight muscles.
Dump.
Hooked
A soldier lies down on the floor.
“Hey. Get up. Even if you rest, sit down and rest.”
“…”
“I can’t wake up if I lie down. Let’s get to the main unit and rest.”
“…”
Rumble.
Blood flows from the body of the lying soldier.
“Uh, uh…?”
“Enemies!”
The squad leader soldier shouts.
Papapat!
All soldiers immediately stand up and set up squares.
Undo the small shield on the back to cover the front.
Put the shield in front of the heart and organs, etc., Which can be fatal to the abdomen.
The head is lowered and the helmet is pushed forward to protect the neck and face.
The soldiers stood back-to-back in the correct posture, as if they were in a shield manual, and guarded in all directions.
“Two, two got hit!”
Only then did the soldiers find a soldier who couldn’t get up.
He wanted to fall backwards, but he couldn’t because the bolt through his neck had stuffed him into the pine tree he leaned against.
“It’s a sniper!”
Other soldiers discover the bolt that went through the soldier’s neck.
Bolt’s tail feathers digging into his neck are pointing toward the sky.
“Up, up! There’s an enemy up in the tree!”
They raise their heads toward the tops of the pine trees.
At the same time, the shield was also raised high to cover the top of the head.
Fuck!
Dump.
A soldier is struck by a bolt flying horizontally and is knocked down.
“Kreak…”
The soldier spits blood and spasms.
“The enemy is not one!”
“There are enemies in the lower branches too!”
Chuck, chuck, chuck!
Serung, Serung.
The bolt penetrated the area not protected by armor near the armpit, so the soldiers immediately corrected their posture.
Formed in double tight formation, soldiers in the back row had their heads covered, and those in the front row had their stomachs covered.
Because they stood closely together, their defensive posture seemed firm.
Shiiik, pushyuk!
“Quaaaaagh!”
A soldier let out a terrifying scream.
Dump.
Rattle rattle.
He falls to the ground and convulses, unable to maintain his defensive formation.
Bite down on the crab foam and close his eyes.
“Oh, my God…!”
The fallen soldier’s combat uniform pants had been ripped off near the crotch.
A bolt passed between the soldier’s crotch and seemed to have ripped off his genitals and testicles along with his combat uniform.
“Mi, you crazy bastards!
“Kreak…”
Burr, thump.
Was it because the shock of the entire body organ hanging from the crotch was not small?
A convulsive soldier dies of shock.
“Damn it! Damn it!”
“Come out! Come out!”
Soldiers write evil.
A rustle echoes in their throats.
Since they had already reached their limit, they could not afford to calmly respond to enemy attacks.
“Come out aaaaagh!”
“Bastards aaaaa!”
Soldiers shout into the air.
Because they care too much about the top,
Squeak, squeak.
Shrrrr.
“Uh…?”
It was too late to notice the vines crawling underfoot.
“Eh, what is this?!”
“Aww!”
The soldiers hurriedly try to retreat.
Their squares collapse.
Whoop, whoop, whoop.
“Turn it off…”
“Ouch…”
The snipers did not miss their chance.
Fluff, fluff.
It took exactly three bolts for the three of them to fall.
“What?!”
“There are shamans too!”
“Damn it, get away, billion!”
Plant vines were already entwined around their ankles.
And they tugged at their ankles and threw them off balance.
Quadang!
Cuda da party!
Soldiers fall all at once.
Shrew, shruck.
Plant stems gradually climb up their bodies.
“Uh, ah, ah…”
“Oh, Mom…”
Fear flickers in the soldiers’ eyes.
Hey hey hey.
Squeeze.
Soldiers pee
Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop.
Bolts fly.
It was flying in only one direction.
Only then do the soldiers realize that there is only one sniper.
But it was futile and a belated realization.
Rumble.
Gurgling gurgling.
“Turn it off, turn it off…”
“Kerreuk…”
“Say, save…”
A puddle forms next to Ongdalsaem.
It was a filthy puddle of blood and urine.
