Chapter 59 – End of Siege
‘Until here, the operation is…’
The hero smiled with satisfaction as he looked at the huge domed shield that covered the sky and the two corps commanders right below it.
Up to this point, everything went according to the warrior’s strategy. Looking at the rain-like magic and stones, the outside situation seems to be going well.
The warrior’s operation was as follows.
First of all, Hero breaks the barrier in the sky and rushes into the base, attracting attention and finding the commander of the demon army at the same time.
If you find a corps commander, either kill it on the spot or attack it enough to keep it from dying, reminding you of the danger of a warrior.
So, the corps commanders who confirmed the danger of the warriors assemble the troops sent out of the base again to gather the forces of the Demon King’s army in one place.
After that, they set up a barrier to prevent them from flying out and block the gates in cooperation with the ground troops at the same time.
So, after blocking all the roads of heaven and earth, it was an operation in which the warrior single-handedly subdued the Demon King’s army trapped in the base.
Later, in addition to that, the plan to bomb indiscriminately from the outside with catapults and wizards’ attacks was added again, but anyway, it was all according to the warrior’s strategy.
‘All that’s left is…’
All you have to do is to deal with the two corps commanders of the Demon King’s army and all the remaining officers and beasts in the base.
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“Whoa…”
The hero took a deep breath for a while and jumped towards the two commanders with all his might.
Mirine and Nine, who had been watching the scene from beginning to end, hurriedly prepared the magic.
It wasn’t a powerful magic like before, but enough threatening magic poured into the warrior’s body.
And I don’t know if I should like this, but some of the magic and stones poured on their soldiers also went to the hero.
Enough magic and stones to obscure all vision rushed towards the hero.
However, the hero, who had learned the flying magic he had longed for from Rose, easily dodged the raining magic and stone blocks, or slashed them from the front, breaking through the attacks rushing towards him and approaching Mirine and Nine in an instant.
“No, what… ?!”
Mirine and Nine muttered in horror when they saw the warrior flying towards them through countless stones through countless magic.
“… I want to kill the bastard who created the flight magic.”
“… Me too.”
Apart from Mirine, who was flying with wings, Nine was using flight magic like a hero.
At this moment, I sincerely wanted to kill the creator of the flight magic.
“Even if we stay together, we will only be defeated all at once!! It splits!”
Two people… No, the two demons parted ways, praying that the hero would not come to them.
Nine, who has lived a life without a relationship with gambling all her life, today is the first time in her life to gamble with her life.
50% chance of winning this gamble
Even if you win, you don’t know if you can live after that, it’s an unreasonable gamble.
‘Please don’t come to me… ! Please don’t come to me… ! Please don’t come to me… !’
Nine prayed inwardly and flew away from the hero without knowing where she was heading.
The magic pouring down from the sky and the voices of the subordinates covered with stones resonated in Nine’s ears.
However, Nine had no time to mourn the deaths of his subordinates whom he had been with for a long time.
‘… I can’t hear anything from behind.’
Even if you hear the screams of your subordinates, you can’t hear anything, neither Mirine’s screams nor the sound of the hero chasing her.
As if the hero had disappeared from this base, Nine thought as he heard nothing.
‘… Did I bully you?’
It was not unreasonable for Nine to momentarily harbor such hope.
In fact, no sound was heard from behind, and people interpret it favorably if they see even the slightest hope when they are cornered.
Nine, now a lich but formerly a human, was no exception.
“…”
Nine cautiously turned her head, as if the thought that she might be able to live gave her courage.
In the brief moment when she turned her head, countless terrible thoughts passed through Nine’s mind, starting with the thought of what would happen if there was a hero behind her.
When I carefully turned my head, there was…
‘… Doesn’t exist?’
There was nothing.
Just a little magic passed Nine’s back, and there was no one in the sky.
After looking around several times and seeing no one there, Nine let out a sigh of relief and thought.
‘Looks like they went to Miri’s.’
I know very well that it is wrong to think this way when a colleague is about to die, but Nine was sincerely relieved that there was no hero behind her.
‘I’m sure it’ll stand out here.’
It’s unfortunate that Mirine, who is a powerful force, is dead, but she has to hide in a safe place as much as possible while Mirine buys her time.
Nine, who made that decision and went downstairs, hid in a nearby workshop destroyed by magic.
In the eyes of Nine, who had some knowledge of barrier magic in addition to black magic, that barrier would not last long even if there were 8th circle wizards.
One day, the caster’s mana and physical strength will be exhausted, and the barrier will collapse, and if you aim for that gap, you will be able to escape.
‘… Now is the time to be patient.’
I’ve only come this far from the days when I lived hiding behind the shadows like bugs and rats.
Now that he is hiding from the hero, he has briefly descended back to those days, but this is also only a momentary humiliation.
Nine held her breath, vowing to overcome this ordeal that had come upon her and take revenge on that mad hero.
In a shabby workshop without a clock, Nine had no choice but to guess the time that had passed by the angle of the sunlight seen through the cracks in the rubble.
As time passed, officers lost their lives one by one, and the connection between Nine and the officers began to be severed one by one.
Every time the connection that had been connected was cut off one by one, it felt like a hero was approaching one step at a time.
The death that Nine feared so much and wanted to avoid is now aiming for Nine’s life with its eyes shining outside.
But that’s for a while.
‘… The sound is starting to stop.’
As if the baptism of stones and magic hitting the ground outside had stopped, it became quiet as if there were only nine people in this base.
What is the situation outside?
Has the barrier covering the sky been lifted?
Is Mirine alive?
All connections between Nine and the executives had already been cut off, and not a single scream could be heard from outside.
‘… Did everyone get hurt?’
If so, he might have broken the barrier or opened the castle gate and entered and searched for Nine.
At that time, he wondered if he should move right now before the hero’s subordinates found him.
-Tbook.
His body froze at the sound of footsteps approaching him from afar.
– Tumble.
The footsteps calmly and accurately headed for Nine, as if they knew Nine was here.
“…”
As if they were struggling, the footsteps stopped right in front of Nain’s workshop.
Although Nine was nervous, he gathered mana in his hand in preparation for the attack of the being at the door.
And just before the mana gathered in her hands turned into a powerful curse, she broke down the door and lingered outside and came inside.
“Aaaaa!!”
Nine, taken aback by the sudden attack, let out a strange scream and shot the mana she had gathered in her hand.
The lump of mana gathered in Nine’s hand did not fly properly and drew a strange curve and stuck in the wrong place, but this became Nine’s only luck today.
“… Are you in advance?”
The one who broke the door of the workshop and entered was not the hero, but Mirine, who should have died.
‘Your condition is serious…’
The condition of Mirine, who was randomly abandoned by someone with strong force, was so serious that Nine, who usually hated Mirine, inadvertently felt sympathy for her.
Her tail and wings had been cut with a knife, leaving only clean cut edges, and her entire body was full of deep scars, bones and internal organs visible.
Her head had been hit with a mace, and her skull had been shattered in half, and her left eye was unharmed, but her right eye was crushed.
‘How did I get here with this body… No, it’s like the form you came in, so you didn’t come all this way on your own feet, did you get thrown?’
As soon as he thought about it, Nine remembered the existence that was looking at him and took control of his heart.
Then, as I carefully set Myrine’s tattered body down on the floor, I looked behind her.
‘… I hoped my predictions were wrong.’
As expected, when Nine turned his head, there was a warrior covered in his blood at the end of his gaze.
The figure of the hero covered in blood presumed to be Mirine’s blood was so bloody that Nine inadvertently doubted whether he was really a hero.
Aside from her appearance as if she was wearing her flesh, the expression on her face seemed to be amazed at seeing Nine.
If you make fun of her mouth… No, in this situation where her life is in danger even if she keeps her mouth shut, Nine mustered up the courage to ask.
“What… Are you looking at it that way?”
“… No, I thought she was saddened by the death of her colleague unexpectedly.”
“Death? Mirine is still alive…”
As if trying to correct her own slip of the tongue, the pure white light that stretched out from her hero’s hand severed the thread of her life that was barely connected to Myrine.
“…”
Nine, who was stunned as she watched Mirine, who turned her black ashes and fluttered in the air, asked the warrior with a dejected expression.
“… Are you really a hero?”
“That’s right. I don’t usually do this I am a bit angry right now.”
Could it be that while Mirine was being chased, she couldn’t abandon her usual habits and even poisoned her hero?
As she thought about that, as she took a step back, she said that she was a warrior.
“Before I came here, I saw a pit full of dried and twisted corpses.”
“… Huh? Pit?”
Could she be referring to the pit where the corpses of the undead that were brought in from outside were collected?
The more decayed the corpse, the more powerful the undead can be made, so it was partly put there, but it seems to have caught the attention of the warriors.
“That is… What do you mean?”
“… There are many soldiers guarding this base, like orcs and trolls, but most of them are undead, right?”
“Yes… Since the undead neither eat nor sleep, efficiency is… Keugh!!”
Nine’s words were cut short when the same light that had ended Mirine’s life pierced her shoulder.
“How many people did you kill because of that efficiency?”
After discovering the corpse pit, the hero realized that the white bone soldiers approaching him were all human beings who were alive.
How many people have lost their precious lives while gathering the soldiers and blacksmiths who protect this city?
Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands?
In order to alleviate their resentment even a little bit, she killed Mirine right in front of Nine, but somehow she didn’t feel better at all.
Instead of feeling better, he felt like he had become the same person as Nine, so he felt more gloomy and angry for no reason.
“It’s great… When you’re counting all those things…”
“Enough now.”
The spear of light extending from the hero’s hand broke Nine’s bony body and further tore Nine’s soul, which could be said to be the body of Nine, into shreds.
With her body broken and her soul torn to pieces, Nine changed into white particles and disappeared into the nether where she should have gone a long time ago.
The hero, who had been watching the scene calmly, murmured alone in the studio with no one but himself.
“Hearing such a thing only makes me angry.”
