Chapter 58 – Siege?
“What? What the hell is going on?!”
Unlike Nine, a lich, and Myrine, a succubus, Dun, who had no magical literacy, was unaware of the situation outside.
It was only through natural intuition that the two of them panicked and felt the air outside, noticing that something had happened.
“…”
Na-in, who was well aware of Doon’s personality, pondered for a moment whether to tell her this, but she opened her mouth thinking that it was not something to be done by hiding it.
“… The barrier protecting the base has been destroyed. But there is only one intruder.”
“What?! Is that really?!”
However, when he saw Doon’s expression of joy after hearing Nain’s words, Nain immediately regretted his choice on the spot.
“Uh, where are you going?!”
Upon hearing that there was an intruder, Doon immediately climbed onto the tower’s railing.
And before Nine and Mirine could stop, she jumped off the railing with just one word left.
“We are going to deal with the intruder. It’s just going to be fun now.”
Seeing Doon jump off the railing without a chance to stop him, Mirine and Nine looked at his back with a stunned look on their faces.
“What… It’ll be fine if that guy goes. I’ll also send a few officers under my command, so it won’t be a big deal.”
“I did too, but… Still, I keep feeling anxious.”
“Unrest?”
There’s no way humans could have invaded alone without any countermeasures to the extent of discovering this base.
If so, he must have been quite confident in his abilities.
But does that mean there is such a person in the rear, not even on the frontlines?
All the information on the frontlines came to Nine’s ears, but there was no news that a strong man like him had left the frontlines.
There, a possibility of a strong man in the rear, not on the front line, passed through Nine’s mind.
“That… Aren’t you a hero?”
“… What? Warrior?”
Hearing those words, Mirine put on a serious expression for a moment, but then smiled and said:
“Ah~ What a hero suddenly jumped out. Besides, no matter how brave you are, you can’t imagine attacking here alone without any comrades? Even if you said that, would your colleagues stop you?”
“It is, but…”
Since the hero is virtually the only power that can stand against the demon king, he would want to avoid losing his life more than anyone else.
Even if the demon king went alone to the place where the warriors and the strong men gathered, Nine and the other corps commanders would all stop him.
It wasn’t that I doubted the Demon King’s victory, but it was because there was a situation.
“… Did I think too deeply?”
“Okay! What’s more, it’s an implausible place for a hero to suddenly attack…”
Before Mirine finished speaking, the connection between the executives who had been connected to Mirine and Nine was cut off, and Mirine shut her mouth.
“… Several executives connected to me have now been disconnected.”
“… Two, he must have killed him!! Why would you kill an officer for getting in the way of a fight!!”
Doon was an oddball who still couldn’t give up being a warrior despite being the commander of the Demon King’s army.
It wasn’t such a strange thing, as there were many times when he killed an ally for interfering with a 1:1 duel.
“… If it were him, he wouldn’t do it either.”
“That stupid troll must have done something stupid again. I hope the hero really attacks…”
Before they could finish their words, a strong light from the railing struck Mirine and Nine from the railing.
“Ugh! Suddenly what… !!”
There was no time to be taken aback by the intense light, and soon after, a black-stained dun flew out of the light, as if it had entered and exited a pit of fire.
Both of the arms were cut off, leaving the cross section intact, and the face and other parts of the body were turned into porridge like minced meat.
Dunn’s body, which has strong regenerative power, was regaining its original form shortly after, but it seemed that it would take a considerable amount of time to enter the battle again.
“…”
Seeing such dullness, Mirine wiped her face with the palm of her hand and said, as if she couldn’t deny it any more.
“… You’re a fucking warrior.”
“… A warrior.”
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“Gather all the executives and demons!! And we go!!”
With those words, Mirine gave an order to the executives who manage the witch beasts connected to her.
Needless to say, the content was to hurry back to the base with the Witchbeasts.
“Wait a minute! Before that, I must first report to the Demon King and the army commanders on the frontlines…”
“Is this the time to say that?!”
First of all, Nine had a point in saying that he had to share this information, but it took a lot of mana and time to use communication magic with a corps commander or a demon king from a distance.
“Furthermore… If we die, the Demon King will notice right away! Even if we die here, there’s no way that information won’t be passed on!”
Then what I need to focus on now is to kill the hero here anyway.
The reason why the front line is now stuck is because the allied forces are holding out well, but they are wary of the brave who may be anywhere.
If we could kill the hero now, it would not only remove the greatest anxiety, but also greatly demoralize the allies.
“If I can kill a hero here… It’s our victory Do you know what this means?”
“… Yes, that’s what you said But before that, we need to gather information about him.”
To that end, Mirine must have gathered the officers and witches.
It would be nice if Doon, who had fought in person, would tell me, but since he was passed out like this, he had no choice but to find out for himself.
“First, I will send the undead…”
There were many undead, and most of all, they could share their vision with Nine, so the undead would be better at searching for information than witches or executives.
Though they couldn’t last long in front of the hero, Nine sent thousands of undead to the hero with the idea of finding out as much information as possible.
However, to send the undead proudly, all the connections with the undead were cut off in less than 2 seconds, let alone 10 seconds.
Could it be that they prepared a magic tool that blocks sharing magic in preparation for such a case?
‘It’s like the one who led the dragon…’
Nine had no choice but to send the undead as it was, but summoned the undead of a bird made for reconnaissance from a distance to observe the hero from the air.
And soon after, Nine was able to see with her own eyes why the connection with the undead was cut off.
‘… Are you being purified?’
The undead sent to the hero could not even touch the hero’s body and were all being purified.
Even though they were low-level undead, the undead created by Nine, a powerful lich and blessed by the demon king, were not so weak.
Although the miracles of the priests are a weakness, they are by no means to fall helplessly like fruit flies rushing into the fire.
Even so, all the undead could not get near the hero and were all annihilated.
Seeing that scene, Nine was both terrified and convinced at the same time. If we can kill the hero here, it’s a victory for the Demon King’s army.
“… How many witches have gathered?”
“There weren’t many people sent outside in the first place, so I collected them all and returned them all.”
“Right. Then, order them to attack the hero from now on.”
The monsters wouldn’t be able to defeat the hero, but at least they would be able to pass the time.
“… As they hold the warrior’s feet, we strike from the sky with the most powerful magic we can use.”
“… If that happens, there is a risk that this base itself will be destroyed.”
“As you said earlier, if we kill only the hero, it is our victory. I can rebuild this base, but this opportunity won’t come again!!”
Persuaded by those words, Mirine left the hero in the care of the magic beasts and flew high into the sky with Nine.
And Mirine, who saw the battle between the hero and the beasts in the sky, realized that Nine’s words and what he had said earlier were correct.
Mental arithmetic predators and powerful beasts comparable to them were swept away like dust with one stroke of the warrior’s sword.
I expected to be able to drag the time, nothing more, but I couldn’t even drag the time.
Nine and Mirine collected mana in their hands, risking the complete destruction of this base as well as the officers under them.
The mana gathered in Nine’s hands turned into a curse that one day took away the lives of hundreds and thousands of people, and swirled with her hideous glow.
Even in Myrine’s hand, the power to instantly topple a small mountain was compressed, and a sphere of energy like a small sun shone.
“Huh?”
With this amount of mana flowing, even the hero who was not so sensitive to mana noticed and looked up at the sky.
Then, the two of them, who had the illusion that they had met the hero, immediately fired magic.
A plague-like curse and a small sun-like energy surged towards the hero.
However, the hero was not taken aback and confidently looked at the magic rushing towards him while holding the sword.
“You fool… Are you going to take this head-on?”
Even if they were to counterattack, there was no way the two strong men of reversal would miss the gap between the counterattacks.
Eventually, as the magic came right in front of the hero, the hero swung his sword without hesitation and cut off the curse and magic.
As the cut curse and magic collapsed and turned into pure mana and were absorbed into the hero’s body, Mirine and Nine hardened as they watched the scene.
‘What? What have you been doing?’
It wasn’t that there was no magic that absorbed the magic fired by the opponent.
However, there must be a limit to the amount of mana that humans can accommodate, so could it be that the human body absorbed all that enormous mana?
‘No, is he a hero because he can do such a thing?’
Maybe there’s some secret behind that armor or sword, but I can’t confirm it right now.
“What? That guy absorbs mana!!”
“… I have no choice but to restrain myself somehow and then shoot anti-personnel magic to kill him. Wait for him to wake up…”
As soon as Dunn’s name was mentioned, Dun jumped out of the tower and charged at the warrior with his fists clenched.
“No!! If you run into it alone… !!”
The thunderbolt fired from the warrior’s sword hit Doon’s body before Mirine finished her words.
Dunn’s body, engulfed in white thunderbolts, turned to black ash and fluttered in the air as the thunderbolts emitted from the sword passed away.
“Dun… What now?”
“Now… I really don’t have an answer. There is no answer but to run away…”
Perhaps he had heard that, and as if to block his escape route, a barrier that was incomparably stronger than the one that Nine had struck blocked the airspace above the supply base.
“What is this? Oops… !”
Myrine’s hand bounced off with a crackling sound when she touched her barrier.
“I guess… It’s not just made with magic, it seems to have a miracle mixed in.”
“Then through the door…”
“… Look over there.”
Looking in the direction Mirine pointed, tens of thousands of soldiers were camped and blocking the base’s only gate.
If the two of them went together, it wouldn’t be difficult to break through that, but how could the hero miss the gap that was created between them?
“Then… Do we have no choice but to defeat him?”
“… Make up your mind, Mirine. We still have tens of thousands of soldiers and officers left. Besides, there are monsters, so if we drag them into a long-term battle, we have no chance at all…”
Nine’s words were blocked by stones and magic that suddenly flew in, and they did not continue until the end.
Was this barrier made with specifications that could not be exited from inside, but could be entered from the outside?
Apparently, the magician who created this barrier had considerable skill.
“… What is that?”
“These guys seem to have prepared very well. Preparing a catapult?”
A brief lament flowed from Myrine’s mouth as she sighed as she watched her own soldiers fall to the stones and magic flying indiscriminately outside her.
“… Fuck that’s really too much.”
