Chapter 174 – 174. The Hounds (4)
Caang!
“… !”
“… !”
Both of them make faces of bewilderment and surprise at the sudden change.
Gerard’s blade, which was about to pierce Randel’s neck, was blocked by something in a black shape and bounced off.
‘… Shadow?’
Recognizing the identity of the black figure that blocked his blade, Gerard hardened his complexion and distanced himself from Randel, who had failed in the assassination.
After leaving a certain distance, I frowned at the shadow that crawled into the floor and hid its identity as if it had never existed.
The feeling of deflecting the blade of the dagger made me reluctant to have the will to protect my master.
Randel also hurriedly distanced himself from the sudden surprise attack and immediately frowned upon seeing the identity of the person who tried to assassinate him.
“It’s boring. Are you still chasing him?”
“If you die quietly here, I won’t pursue you anymore.”
“That can’t be possible.”
“Then just die.”
The attitude of Gerard, who spat out unmatched lines, was very different from the attitude he showed to Erin earlier.
The pathetic man who ardently courted a young girl of the opposite sex and underage disappears, and the figure of an assassin who thoroughly takes the life of another person is itself.
Using the high-speed movement method he learned from Eun-hyeon, he took over Randel’s back again and stabbed a dagger to pierce his heart.
Kaaang!
Gerard’s attack is blocked by the shadow barrier again.
Randall is not aware of Gerard’s attack.
He just stood still, just as he was when he was first ambushed, he was unaware of Gerard’s attack.
It was as if the shadow itself was protecting Randall with will.
“… You’ve created another annoying black magic trick while I didn’t see you.”
“Oh, is this worth using? It’s called ‘Joyeongsul’. As an experiment, I had a mage learn this black magic, and then collected data and improved it, and I am quite satisfied.”
The reason why Randel is showing a relaxed appearance even in front of Gerard, an opponent he cannot match, is because of his confidence in the imaging technique that absolutely protects his body.
For Randel himself, combat ability is not a field he is confident enough to describe as his ability.
The only thing he can trust is the enormous amount of magic books, knowledge, and magical reserves left behind by his father, Rampel, who was a black magician and a top wizard in the empire.
He learned countless magic and black magic on his own without anyone’s help.
Even though he knew the knowledge of imaging, one of Rampel’s black magic, he knew the usefulness of the magic and the risks at the same time, so he did not hastily learn imaging.
Instead, he trained a succubus, who was close to his collaborator, to become a wizard necessary for the experiment, induced him to learn imaging, and put a monitoring spell on it, checking the change status of Erwin in the provided black magic book every day to study the dangers of imaging without omission. .
Through the data obtained from Erwin, it was this ‘defensive angiography’ that was used after being improved.
Thoroughly trying not to lose money, hiding behind the scenes, passing on the risk that one has to bear to others, and taking advantage of it somehow is clearly a twisted way of thinking as a human being.
“Well, even with this magic. It seems that Lyra was attacked by that black witch.”
It is true that the performance is excellent enough to block Illyana’s upper six-digit magic, but how can it counteract the high heat generated by the magic’s aftermath that burns the entire body of the devil?
I couldn’t think of a way to respond to a hero named Illyana or Kennifer as a wizard.
Nevertheless, the reason why Randel took such a big step to infiltrate Fernine where Illyana was is because she was half-assured that Illyana would never step forward in this matter.
‘The most unpleasant thing is that the ‘mercury snake’ is nowhere to be seen.’
She was also worried about how to respond to Eun-hyeon, who had been interfering with her own schemes and stopping her in every case.
Fortunately, the fact that a man named Eun-hyeon had left Pernine for a few days and was relieved was enough to come out.
‘So, I was thinking of just doing something quick and falling in before the leader of Artia or the Black Witch moved…’
Randall puts on an annoyed expression, and she looks at Gerard, who is glaring at her and exuding her murderous intent.
“You are quite tenacious. You’ve been following me for close to three years, are you a stalker?”
“I have no interest in following men, but you are dangerous. There’s no way we can just leave a madman who wants to resume ‘summoning demons’. I also want to deal with you quickly and meet a good woman and live comfortably.”
“It’s a crowd. It started with my father, but now it is also my aspiration.”
“Then die here. I have no intention of making that wish come true.”
“This shadow has withstood the Black Witch’s higher magic. With that dagger of yours…”
“But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a way at all.”
Gerard focused his magic on the blade of his dagger.
Gerard, who glared at Randel with sharp eyes, had no intention of missing Randall here.
If he had wavered or given up in an impossible or difficult situation, he would not be where he is now.
“The point is, if you break down that shadow barrier, you’re completely defenseless now.”
“…”
Randall frowned at the words that pierced her to the core.
Even though she had absolute confidence and faith in the black magic she had improved, because the hero was in front of her, she made the seed of anxiety, ‘Certainly?’, Sprout.
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“Urachaa!”
A hound jumped from a high place, along with her massive body, and Emilia stepped forward and blocked her vertically slashing greatsword with both her arms.
Wow!
“Ok… !?”
Not only her arms, but also the girl’s arms, which blocked the attack with an enormous weight that could easily crush the slender girl’s body, were completely intact.
Even as the girl’s legs supporting her arms sank into the ground, she was calmly enduring the weight of the one-sided violence brought on by her gravity and the strength of the hound’s muscles.
Seeing that scene, all the hounds that were closing the distance to Erin and the others showed hesitation.
The youngest of the three, who at least managed to block the greatswords of her fellow hounds, is the most heterogeneous of the three.
And Erin and Eira didn’t miss the chance of the hounds, who were stopped by Emilia’s bold action.
Passing by both sides of Emilia, using her greatsword, they each swung their swords at the hounds that were desperately pressing down on Emilia’s body, trying to protect her Emilia.
Kaaang!
However, the hounds surrounding them are also fighters who have crossed countless battles between life and death.
Two hounds appeared on either side of the hound that used the great sword, and each took away Erin and Ayra’s sword.
“… Awesome!”
It wasn’t enough that the attack was blocked neatly, so another hound burrowed into Erin’s arms in that short gap and thrust her fist into her abdomen.
“Big… Black!”
As her hound’s fist hits her abdomen, Erin’s body flexes and she flies through the air, crashing into the wall of her lung building.
“Erin!”
Eira, seeing Erin flying through the air, shifted her gaze to Erin without realizing it and called out her name.
An obvious mistake on her part.
“If you look elsewhere during a fight, it’s bitter.”
The hound dog, smirking inwardly for revealing all of its immaturity, took advantage of the moment Eira’s eyes turned to Erin and kicked her in the left leg.
“Nice… Ugh!”
The kick hit her left shin and her knee joint, causing Eira’s leg to stagger and create a huge gap.
In the end, the hound takes advantage of the gap and kicks Eira’s abdomen with her foot as hard as it can.
“Cheuk!”
With her shock, her body was pushed and she tumbled on the floor until Eira, who lost her strength in her hand, let go of her own sword.
“Coke! Coke!”
“Uhhhhh!”
As Erin and Eira on either side were attacked one after another and flew away, Emilia tried to move her body to help them, but with the sound of her spirit, the greatsword hound pressed her own greatsword with even more force, With both of his arms, he blocked and supported her great sword, limiting Emilia’s movements as she barely stood.
“Eat this!”
Another hound’s warhammer hits Emilia’s right side, which is the limit of raising her arms up to block her greatsword.
Caang!
When the warhammer’s attack hit her exposed side in her defenseless state, Emilia’s small body was flung emptyly to the left of her.
“What. What is this sound? Is that a person?”
“I don’t think so?”
The sound of the hammer hitting her side was clearly not the sound of pulverizing human flesh.
“The taste was also a little strange. I felt like I hit the flesh, but why are the bones so hard?”
It had a stronger impression of hitting some hard mithril or steel rather than breaking a person’s bones.
“Hmm…”
Baron, who was watching the situation from above, looked at the three women with a subtle expression.
“It’s ambiguous…”
“Eww… Ugh!”
Rubbing her belly against the pain in her stomach, Erin lifted her body.
“Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve been hit like this…”
In the early days, she was beaten while being trained by Eun-hyeon, and her memories of learning her fighting body came to mind.
“I missed a moment, but… Not as fast as Hyun.”
She was sure that if she just focused and looked good, she could handle it herself.
Before long, Erin saw her Eira lying on the floor in front of her own eyes, and hurriedly moved her steps towards her and checked her condition.
“Sister! Are you okay!?”
“Erin… Are you okay… My sword…”
“Ah yes!”
“Hey, ladies, are you quite relaxed?”
“Eww… !”
As her voice mixed with ridicule and sarcasm hit her ears, Erin’s body, which was about to pick up Eira’s sword that had fallen on her floor, trembled and froze in that state.
Clutching her rapier in her hand, she slowly looks up her head, and she checks her face at Baron, who was smirking at herself.
“Ah~ pick up the sword. Otherwise, it won’t be a fight.”
Looking around her suspiciously, I saw that more than ten people who called themselves hounds were waiting for Eira and herself to get her stance.
She puts on an expression that Erin can’t understand the attitude she’s looking at them.
“Why… ?”
“Because you guys are too weak.”
“… What?”
Thud!
While clearing away the debris from the wall of the buried building, Emilia raised her body within it.
The clothes the slender doll girl was wearing had already been torn and soiled by several attacks and building wreckage, especially on her side, which had been hit by a direct Warhammer, the luxurious goth loli outfit had already been ripped away, revealing the doll’s skin.
As the skeleton of the unnatural doll, not human skin, was revealed, the hounds made a slightly surprised expression.
“What. That? You weren’t really human, were you?”
“Golem?”
“Is it that small? I thought I was fully human.”
It wasn’t long before the hounds made a surprised expression, Emilia stared at them and flew towards Erinn in an instant with a long-distance jump.
“Emilia, are you okay?”
“Internal damage rate of 13% due to impact in the abdomen. 36% of bodily functions are reduced.”
“… I see.”
Emilia carefully examined the condition of Eira, who was lying on the floor, and opened her mouth again.
“Two ribs were fractured. I recommend that you do not move any further.”
“But…”
While receiving the kick from the hound from before, she struggled to stand up from the floor while distorting her face with the pain of her ribs breaking.
“You don’t have to force yourself to stand up. I’m not going to kill you anyway.”
“… ?”
Erin stared at Baron with a look of caution.
“If all three of you are incapacitated, I will kill them all then.”
“…”
At the reaction of several hounds who nod at her with her giggles, Erin feels an unknown emotion welling up in her heart.
‘What. What about this situation?’
Baron and other hunting dogs, despite the situation where they could kill Erin’s party at any time, did not kill them right away, but rather waited until she corrected her stance.
“By the way, I was told that I was his disciple, so I expected a little bit. Not young Well, he seems strong for a kid his age. Even if all of these guys attacked, that guy would rather overwhelm us.”
“Man, it was absolutely creepy at the time.”
“I thought I was going to die too.”
As if recalling pleasant memories, the hounds smile and talk, and the attitude of the hounds is very heterogeneous.
“So, stop fighting like that woman and stop selling her eyes and focus on the fight?”
Only then did Erin realize.
That their essence is that they are lunatics who seek pleasure in fighting.
That’s why, in their eyes, they, the weak, were treated as nothing more than toys to enjoy for a while.
A toy used to enjoy a desperate struggle without killing on purpose.
The hounds were ignoring Erin’s party.
“… This entity states that, at this time, ‘something inexplicable’ is being created within the chain of command.”
“What do you mean?”
“I want to deal with all the removal targets in front of me, my chain of command strongly demands.”
It’s as if he’s angry at the hounds who ignore him because he’s so weak.
“I request the submaster to unlock the equipment.”
“…”
Erin intuitively understood the meaning of Emilia’s request.
This is like Erin directly ordering Emilia to kill them.
Killing orders and killings, which may be the first time in your life.
For some reason, while thinking strongly that she shouldn’t cross the line, Erin made up her mind for the first time in her life.
To punish the ‘evil’ himself.
“I’ll give you permission.”
Looking at Emilia and nodding her head for a while, Erin opened her mouth as she stared at Baron and his hounds.
“You really won’t touch her until the fight is over, right?”
“Haha! Of course!”
“… You’ll regret those words. Emilia!”
“Open inventory.”
At the same time as Erin’s command, Emilia activates her own magic built into her doll’s body.
A huge magic circle begins to be drawn around her Emilia.
Soon, five coffins were summoned above the magic circles that had settled on the floor.
Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!
In the coffins that were opened one after another, dolls with different appearances appeared.
Along with the sound of the puppet joints raising their bodies and creaking, the puppets all stare at the hounds and their red eyes shine.
“Dominus Platoon. Start working.”
“Let’s do it for real! I will make you all regret it!”
At the same time, Erin also released the magic of her divine beast sleeping in her body.
Her enormous amount of magic power swirled around and as the dense magic powers that surrounded Erinn began to condense into Erinn’s body, they created nine silvery white tails and fox ears.
The appearance of a nine-tailed fox that gradually became accustomed to the power of the divine beast and was able to take it out freely.
Then, using the blue flames condensed on her wagging tail, Erin activated the divine power.
[Barbarian Magic (狐族 妖術)]
[Hundred Ghost Night Trips]
The hundred demons of blue flames, who have welcomed new masters, are called by their masters and manifest once again.
