Chapter 554 – The White Winged Grim Reaper (10)
“Only the four of us go to retrieve the Solar Cross.”
I woke up after a short and thick sleep and gathered the party and explained it like that.
With the exception of me, Tyrsi, Nefertiti, and Gildart, the rest will remain in Alfheim, the resting place of this ordeal. If you ask why, it’s because the difference in skills is so big that bringing them won’t help much.
No, it wouldn’t help at all if it didn’t interfere, but as a macho, he was considerate of Gildart. Even if it’s me, if you forcefully take your wives and fight, you’ll get on your nerves.
So we went out into the woods again.
“Even if the opponent is a formidable enemy, the four of us will be enough to catch it if two Death Knights can inflict serious damage.”
I heard a little sighting information from Gildart, but when I saw him fighting the Death Knight, he said that although it was dangerous, it was not a very powerful enemy. I’ve only heard that basic spearmanship is excellent.
“… It is forbidden to be careless.”
When Nefertiti said something like she was worried—of course she was expressionless, but somehow it felt like that—I smiled.
“Heh. Thanks for the advice. Nefertiti, if you have anything like this, please retrieve it with a whip.”
“Yes.”
Together with the party, we walked to our destination, overcoming obstacles. This is the only direction I didn’t go in this forest where I was active as a warlock slayer going clockwise.
The fog in the forest made the otherwise dazzling forest dark. Even if the view is removed, the scenery itself is gloomy, so it is a scenery that would be perfect for people to taste.
There must be a reason why British bastards, who made London full of smog their capital, evolved into imperialists.
─Jeobuck, Jeobuck.
Let’s walk with a clear sense of direction. Now, even in my master’s walking, I’ve come across as a full-fledged adventurer.
But come to think of it, as an adventurer, I’m still a fucking mess. Can I upgrade to gold? It’s a degree. If you throw in a few rooted artifacts here, you’ll get a silver medal, but adventurers are a bit different.
If you have to take an exam, don’t you feel sorry for the prospective goal scorers who competed with me? Isn’t it the level of getting into school by throwing shurikens with Naruto in the intermediate ninja test?
I was walking with a little carefree thought, probably because there were people lined up next to me, and I put the brake on my leg. A pressure that was hard to miss radiated from the front.
The fog did not stay there. Instead, it was strangely bright even though it was an eerie dawn, as if a piece of the sun had fallen, and there was even a barrier that you couldn’t see until you approached the light.
The heat that licks the skin is hot. It is as if only this place is a desert.
“This is ahead.”
We all sympathized with Gildart’s murmur. He drew his weapon without even commenting.
─Whee Oh Oh.
Tyrsi also prepared for battle. When the thesis was taken away by thieves in the past, I cast the magic I had cast on myself and put on a wind shield. It is an art fusion.
Is it like the fly magic that mass markets talk about? If you can get hit and have good defense and fast movement, Tyrsi, who has excellent magic skills, will feel like a tank with boosters.
I waited for the party’s eyes to gather before calling out telepathically.
─Assault!!! WAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!
It is a victory for the first bread. Tirsi’s incantation magic flew over us as we ran out like lightning. It’s an icicle lance charging that seems to take some damage if I don’t activate the aura.
【──The presence of aptitude has been recognized.】
The opponent reacted in less than 0.1 second.
Five runes interlocked and a mandala unfolded in front of me as I tried to examine the enemy’s wake. Across the white light, I saw an armored knight holding a weapon with his palms open.
“It’s crazy that rune magic is minor, damn it!”
As long as the performance is not sealed, it is said to be a magic system that dominated an era, but is it still a rune? The moment I realized that I would not be able to take advantage of the surprise attack, I showed my temper and drew attention.
– Whirik! Tirshi’s icicle spear pierced the enemy.
However, the attack magic with enormous mana was split into 4 pieces and passed to another place. As many as five runes were activated at the same time, and the surprise was passed gracefully.
Does not matter. Defending against magic meant, in other words, that I missed the time to deal with the surprise of three masters.
The whip of Nefertiti’s relic stretched out and flew from behind the foe towards the glittering item. The rune mandala was lifted before I could watch its progress.
“Gigantic Drill Stinger!”
As a symbol to end with a one-com, I put in a stab from Guertur.
Continuous attack with Gildart and time difference! It is a combination of masters.
─Flutter! The enemy responded by pulling one wing like a cloak.
【Check the aptitude of the aptitude being.】
The knight in armor pierced my feet with a spear of light as he twisted his body. After stopping my charge so easily, I pressed down Gildart’s arm, which was continuously flying towards the window.
The sword and spear that I was about to swing at the enemy stopped in an awkward state with one spear!
“What?”
“Damn it!”
Defensive action. With just that, the Mithril class warriors were detained?
Just as AlphaGo overpowered the score on the checkerboard with a divine move, the knight in white armor dealt with the surprise attack of the two of us with absurd perfection!
【Race Judgment… Two human males. 2 females.]
Blocking the attack, the knight talked nonsense. As I approached, I could see the face of the cub muttering to himself from close by.
A beauty that doesn’t look like a person! It was a female-type existence wearing heavy heavy armor. There was no face guard on the helmet, revealing the impression of a 5-5 split with blond hair. It was a cold face like a doll.
Feathers from his wings glided across our faces.
【Einheri aptitude scan for each individual… 】
He spit out the language itself in runes, and looked around at our group with eyes as empty as glass beads. If it wasn’t for his beautiful face, he would have been terrifying.
【──Three bodies passed. I will define it as an enemy and harvest it.]
Of course Gildart and I weren’t standing there dumbfounded while listening to what was being said. Gil Dart shook his spear with force. As if retreating, I slipped the soles of his boots and fired a series of stabs.
-Chaeeng!
The knight was easily pushed back when he pushed it with force, as if there was not a big difference from us in terms of ability.
However, the counterattack that followed was not easy. As the spear of light rotated, it flew past Gildart’s heavy sword, and as if that action was an early attack, it responded to my thrust in the same way.
“What kind of bullshit is this?!”
So I had to open my eyes. It was because the knight’s spearmanship was very familiar to me.
The spear of light rotated the tip of the blade. The spear blade drawn in a circle like stirring a whipping machine followed 【Guerture】’s mana management, and spread out innumerable with efficient momentary explosive power.
【Gerture】’s advanced application technique! It was a combination I had never thought of.
Fush Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha—!!!
Like a hamster approaching the shower and being exposed to the water from the shower hose, a storm of windows raged in front of me. I squeezed out a lot of aura and used the 2nd Counter Strike Poomsae.
The spearhead, which rotated like a windmill, shredded the window of light, almost like a blender. Originally, it was not a weapon-blocking technique, but it was used as an attacking weapon with an aura.
“Kuk!”
Gildart, whose sword slipped, minimized waste by using his lower body like a master, but the armor knight was even better than that.
As if taking advantage of a time loss of less than one second, the knight flapped his wings and approached and threw a shoulder bun. Gildart landed on his feet and leaned heavily behind him.
─Sukkak!
He counterattacked while staggering back, but no matter how much the aura was wrapped around the sword, the power was halved because the waist was missing. The knight blocked lightly with the gauntlet on his arm and stabbed me with a spear.
【Guertur】’s attack aircraft, the 2nd Poomsae. One classic stab.
Fast. And it is difficult to block stabbing with a spear. It was even more so because he was just turning the windmill. I activated the rune stone in a surprise attack that had no choice but to be hit.
“Yamae Shadow Eraser ON!!”
As soon as the effect of removing the obstacle unfolded, the spear of light disappeared without stabbing into the chest. Because this guy was also created from Sehetefibra’s memories.
─Boom!!
“… Nimi?!”
Surprisingly, unlike the spear, this bastard’s fist did not dissipate and struck my aura and beast return mana.
Including the magic items I rooted from Horsha Takari, my defense was amazing, so the shock was small. However, as if that article had predicted even that, my body floated in the air.
It was intended to lift me from the start.
Booooo!!!
While his feet stopped in an instant, the armored knight, who had rotated 360 degrees with the power of his wings, put Nefertiti’s whip and the two of us within range of his spear and swung it.
─Ting! Awesome! Fall out!
The whip flicked and the spear scratched my belly, and at the end of the action, Gildart’s side was pierced with the spear.
Calm and accurate spearmanship like a murder machine! The wind blew in that 360 degree whirlwind attack. If I hadn’t read the attack and focused on the defense to the stomach, it must have been fucking painful.
Gildart and I rolled on the floor and landed while tumbling.
“… Again, this is an amazing spearmanship. It deserves to be stated as a strong enemy.”
─Two. Gildart said, spitting out the dust that got into his mouth. Blood flowed from his wounds and soaked the bandages, but he seemed to be holding back, displaying machoism.
He looked at the enemy and asked.
“By the way, Nord. It’s the first time I’ve seen him properly perform the spearmanship, but… It looks similar to your spearmanship, is it my imagination?”
“It is not an illusion at all. It’s the fucking same type of standard.”
As a warrior, Gildart seemed to admire it, but the surprise he felt was not even half of what I felt. I half-opened my eyes and wiped my lips.
【… Hey, Flying German. Can you talk?]
I asked the question in pure runic language, but the winged armor knight didn’t respond at all.
It was just staring at us, covering half of its body and the tip of its spear with its injured wings. The golden eyes that appeared from the cracks in the wings did not have any human emotions at all.
I wrote arrogance and asked a question.
“Does anyone get a sense of what that bastard is doing? Is it like a fallen angel who fell to hell?”
“A fallen angel? What kind of monster is that?”
“I didn’t study well when I was young.”
I asked that question without realizing it, but if my knowledge is correct, the word ‘Angel’ based on Hebrew mythology would not exist in this world.
So what is it? Even if I wanted to, I felt like I would come to my senses if I tried to interpret the words he was talking about earlier.
Einheri.
It was definitely the future hope of a bastard who knew which half-human or half-orc it was.
“… Valkyrie?”
“It seems right.”
Tyrsi said while setting the magic. The ice picks, which seemed to be waiting only to attack the enemy, were terrifyingly reliable.
“The correct pronunciation is 【Valkyrja】. I know it’s the messenger of the Germanian gods who harvest the souls of warriors with the qualifications to take them to Valhalla… Why is such a being in a place like this?”
“It could be a summoned beast or humanoid spirit that made that a motif. It is a prejudice to think that it would have placed an existence that fits the background.”
Gildart was right. There was a possibility that Sehetefibra randomly inserted a strong guy among the enemies he knew.
Anyway, when I tried to annihilate that bastard with a rune, the spear disappeared but the bastard’s body didn’t disappear.
It meant that Sehetefibra was sending so much mana to that Valkyrie that it was hard to delete it with the output of rune magic.
‘Should I catch it with the regular method? It’s a bit tight.’
It’s not that the abilities are great. However, in terms of spearmanship, Gildart and I were so good that I was pushed aside.
I know that there are differences in skill even with Mithril classes, but the spearmanship of that Valkyrie or something isn’t that great. Like playing Go against artificial intelligence, there was no hesitation or misjudgment in the connection between movements.
It is difficult to deal with when it is combined with the solid basic skills.
We didn’t die like the Death Knights, and since we were masters of the martial arts we had acquired, we didn’t get along very well.
‘… By the way, it’s a spirit.’
I opened Odin’s eyes. I didn’t know what a strong enemy was, but it was hard to think of a wizard, so I turned it off, but if it’s a spiritual being, it’s worth using these eyes to see.
When Odin opened his eyes, he saw his structure.
It was also a magical being, but it is difficult to analyze.
It feels like I’m looking at something like a math formula packed with fucking double-sided printing. Even so, I was able to salvage the mechanism I had seen before in that technique. He is the same guy I saw yesterday.
‘The magic of transforming spirits.’
In other words, that bastard was similar to the Sandman who guarded the door to the desert layer.
Artificial spirits. Or is it correct to call it a divine spirit?
What makes it different from normal spirits is that it was created by the god Asir. If the Sandman I caught was a mass-produced machine, he must be a Gundam.
“Magic.”
Nefertiti spoke briefly again. Her voice was so damn amazing, it had the magic to listen to it even though it was small and low. If she had learned the art of oratory, she might have ruled the country.
“Magic is effective. Tyrsi does it.”
“… Did you get stuck just a moment ago? It was a car that I wanted to become a little more confident in.”
“… Are you okay. Magic skills are half sense.”
Tirsi looks a bit insecure. Nefertiti was silent for a moment, then she looked at her and said,
“I saw your magic even on the first day we met. You can do it.”
Oh, and looking at it, it was like that.
Did Tyrsi divert the attention of that unicorn warlock pup so my last shot pierced his chest? Looking back, the relationship between the two began from then on.
As our eyes turned to her, Tirshi was a little worried. Then she strained her eyes as if she didn’t want to run away.
“… Like. I’ll see you do it. You just need to get attention.”
“I believe. As always.”
When I gave Tirsi her wink, an awkward wink I’d never done in my fucking life, she nodded her head as her face flushed. Actually, I was ashamed of myself for committing it, but I’m glad that I was cheered up.
Anyway, I can’t lose either. First of all, even though I’m a hybrid japkae, I’m not a wizard either.
Valkyrie has no words. The spears hidden in the wings are like aiming a gun hidden behind a cloak, so I can’t predict the enemy’s movements.
But if you turn on Odin’s eyes, you’ll be able to predict. There is nothing to be afraid of.
If it wasn’t for the trolls of the Death Knight bastards, I would have only had to take the item while avoiding it, but it’s a pity. I peeped at the cross of the sun hovering behind the Valkyrie.
The god of the sun, commonly called Ankh!
That sun-blazing ankh sparked my inspiration.
If you are in need of magic dealing, this is a revelation from the sky.
“… Is it time?”
“… Nord?”
I cast the rune magic while letting Tyrsi’s questionable voice go through one ear.
The feeling of being asked to use oneself comes from the window. As if responding to that, I put a rune on my spear.
“What you see from now on is a secret to everyone? Because I’m a man with a lot of secrets.”
─Clap!
I made a spear into a knuckle with transformation magic and put it on my left hand. Then, the prosthetic arm of his right arm was exposed.
The metallic brilliance adorned my arm like that. It is the Spring Soldier mode deployment.
‘It’s been a while since I’ve had this martial art.’
I put up with it because I was afraid that my fake identity would be exposed, but I can’t compete with the same spearman anyway!
So, for a versatile forager like me, it would be right to bring out the skills that were sealed away.
Roaring—!!
Sparks rose from the two steel fists. The blue flame changed its properties based on my aura, and spread wings of flame on my back with firepower like a fist of destruction.
It’s my first time using it in combination with an aura, but it’s okay.
“A long time of seclusion and spearmanship… It was a boring car.”
I shouted with the feeling of a hermit master using a martial art that had been sealed for a long time.
“It’s time to go back to Yesugei in [Kitai]!”
Gathering the aura that covered my whole body into my hands, I unleashed the volcanic wave season from the beginning.
Blood Demonic Art
Crossfire Hurricane!
Blue flames spun like a storm and engulfed the Valkyrie.
