Chapter 225 – 225. The Dark Knight (2)
Some have their arms and legs cut off.
Someone’s heart is pierced
Someone’s shoulder is stamped and cut out.
Someone had their whole head crushed.
“… Oh my god.”
At the scene of the one-sided massacre, an elf stared at it in awe during the battle.
“Ah!”
Screaming in pain, a large number of Dark Elves could not resist and faced a one-sided death in Elvin’s shadow, becoming corpses and falling to the ground.
It was only 10 seconds that the entire main base, the realm of the Dark Elves, was covered with shadows and one-sided attacks continued.
Within 10 seconds, half of the hundreds of Dark Elves died.
However, even though he showed overwhelming killing ability that no one could easily imitate, it was not a very satisfactory result for Erwin.
“The efficiency is too bad.”
In just 10 seconds, more than half of the magic power supplied by Eunhyeon was consumed.
The range of the attack was absurdly wide, but this skill was only useful when dealing with multiple opponents weaker than oneself.
It was a skill that had very poor fuel efficiency and was useless at all when it had high defense power that could not be used with its own shadow weapon, or when dealing with a small number of stronger opponents.
The number of Dark Elves was reduced by half, and a number of Elven Guards were fighting together in the friendly camp.
No matter how quickly he was supplied with magical energy from Eun-hyeon, it would be too inefficient to use such a wide-area technique once more.
“In this case, I’d rather just engage in close combat with a sword.”
After a brief evaluation of his first wide-area skill, ‘Royal Dance of Shadows’, Erwin created two swords by manipulating the shape of his shadow and held one in each hand.
“I’ve never used a sword, but…”
She quickly closed the distance with the hesitant Dark Elves as Elvin’s body accelerated as he put strength into her legs and began to sprint.
Fuck!
In an instant, the distance narrowed, and at the same time, the Dark Elf in the forefront, unable to respond, was hit by Elvin’s sword in the abdomen and floated into the air.
“Ah!”
It was a swordsman who wielded it with the momentum to completely sever it, but the thrusting swordsman with unskilled power only cut through the Dark Elf’s abdomen shallowly, but could not sever the abdomen or waist itself.
There was a huge difference in the senses between amputation through the magic of imaging and cutting flesh and bone directly with a weapon.
The body of the Dark Elf, which had risen into the air with a dull sound as it was struck by the sword, flew backwards and landed on the floor.
‘Is it lack of skill?’
Of course.
The former Erwin was a mage from a commoner who had never even used her body properly, let alone her swordsmanship.
She’s never been able to hold a sword properly, but she doesn’t suddenly become stronger just because she suddenly acquired a body capable of displaying outrageous power.
‘Fast and strong.’
However, Elvin’s sword is just a series of frank and monotonous attacks that extend in a straight line.
The Dark Elves, who were flustered by her first preemptive attack, quickly gathered their minds and responded by analyzing Elvin’s movements.
After arranging her ranks, the Dark Elf struck at the gap created by striking back with Elvin’s sword, which he had just swung aimlessly, with exquisite timing.
She bent her upper body low and dug into Alvin’s arms, thrusting the blade of her dagger through the fitting between his pitch-black armor.
Caang!
“… Uh?”
It wasn’t the sound of cutting flesh, but the sound of metal colliding with hard iron.
The Dark Elf made a bewildered noise at the fact that the blade that had been pushed into the gap in the armor did not go inside beyond a certain amount.
The shadow of the imaging technique, which had a history of blocking both Illyana’s attack magic and Gerard’s normal attack, is so strong that it has not been hit by enemy attacks at all.
It was only for a while that the Dark Elves were so flustered.
Elvin’s sword, which was raised high, slammed downward with all its might.
Wooddeuk
It wasn’t the sound made by a master swordsman as he slashed flesh, but the sound of bones being crushed and broken as he struck as hard as he could with the weapon he was holding.
“… Coheh!”
As he mercilessly struck the shoulder of the Dark Elf who had driven the dagger into his left waist, his body flew to the side.
“What is this…”
The Dark Elves, who had been watching the sight of their fellow countrymen flying away without giving proper damage, looked blank.
Feeling the helplessness of Elvin, who had wiped out half of the army in 10 seconds due to the first shadow bon dance, several Dark Elves with fear creeping faces began to step back little by little.
At this moment, the morale of the Dark Elves was obviously broken.
Even without the skills accumulated through experience and repeated training, the overwhelming gap was crushed by the quality of magical power and the ability of the body.
‘I can’t win.’
It is natural for instinct to exclaim.
“All attack!”
In the camp of the Dark Elves, who had been deprived of their preemptive strike and completely suppressed their morale, the resounding voice of Derkin of the Elven Guard, who led the raid this time, resounded.
The number of Elven Guard troops who came to fight the hundreds of Dark Elves was at most 8-90.
However, the surprise attack was a complete success, as several hundred Dark Elves were killed by Elvin’s shadow dance and suffered damage from Illyana’s wide-area magic that collapsed the earth.
The aspect of the fight completely leaned towards the elves camp.
“I’ll leave it to you.”
“All right.”
At Eunhyeon’s words, Derkin nodded vigorously.
“How do we do?”
“I’m going to hit right into the center. Both hold me.”
“Huh, okay.”
“Yes.”
Eunhyeon wrapped her arms around her neck, wrapped a belt around Eleanor’s waist to keep it from falling, and held Illyana in her arms.
Using the strength of the body through magic, it easily supported the weight of two people and spurred on the ground and ran across the center of the crowded battlefield.
The destination was none other than the building located at the innermost point, where the head of the Dark Elves could be located.
Arriving in front of the destination building, which was damaged in the aftermath of a crack in the ground, Eun-hyeon dropped off her wives and found a dark elf woman staring blankly at her mansion in front of her mansion.
“You… You… !”
“Do you know me?”
The dark elf woman’s expression, which had been staring blankly at her, soon turned into anger and she began grinding her teeth.
Seeing the change in her expression, Eun-hyeon asked while slightly frowning at her.
She could roughly guess why she was angry with herself, but she didn’t even look closely at every dark elf’s face and remember it.
It was clear that she was a survivor of a war 350 years ago, just as she glared at herself with all the feelings of hatred and anger in her heart.
However, the dark elf, Direa, faced with Eun-hyeon, made a futile expression that made her forget the feelings of hatred and anger that seemed to explode at Eun-hyeon’s unexpected reaction.
“Me… You don’t remember?”
“Because I didn’t know every single one of your faces.”
“I killed my husband…”
Direa’s clenched fists trembled.
Her head was so filled with indescribable rage that she couldn’t bear to speak.
For over 300 years, he had never forgotten the face of his enemy, but his own enemy did not even remember his own face and did not care.
“You killed them too.”
My precious people.
Spitting out words with the meaning behind them, Eunhyeon calmly looked at Direa.
An eerie word with a chill hidden behind a calm expression.
And with those words, Illyana and Eleanor shuddered slightly at the thick murder.
“… You.”
“Know. Are you okay.”
Eleanor, who sensed an emotion of anger that was incomparable to her sometimes eerie and frightening cold side, looked at Eun-hyeon with worried eyes.
‘The heart is hot, the head is cold.’
I don’t understand the attitude of the Dark Elves, who had waged wars in the past, being defeated and now preparing for war again, pretending to be victims of the loss of their husbands.
If they hadn’t started a war, Sylvia could not have died.
‘Goddess. Thank you.’
To Verdandi, one of the three goddesses who placed her goddess restraint on her own soul in her past, Eunhyeon expressed her gratitude.
[…]
Verdandi, who knew the meaning of the thanks, said nothing, but nodded her head with a bitter expression full of her guilt.
[Go.]
“Simple reason. Because I killed him.”
Seuleung
Eun-hyeon, who had summoned her sword and held it tightly, continued her words.
“You will die.”
Di Leah, who understood Eun-hyeon’s words, which contained many of her meanings, twisted her mouth into a fishy smile while distorting her face in her anger.
“… Okay. It’s our loss.”
The war situation had already tilted before even a proper fight.
For nearly 20 years, the Dark Elves were completely defeated before they could use many of the things they had prepared and worked hard to weaken the World Tree.
“…”
However, Di Lea’s eyes did not give up even as she accepted her defeat.
It felt very reluctant, and it made Eunhyeon’s forehead narrow.
“But there is no guarantee that our defeat will soon lead to your victory.”
Fu-wook
“…”
“What is that? Are you crazy?”
“What… !?”
The three people expressed their surprise with different reactions to the sudden act of self-determination by stabbing his left chest and grabbing his heart.
“Nice… Ugh!”
Even as her heart was pierced and her expression contorted in pain, Di Leah did not get rid of her fishy expression.
Due to the surprise attack from Illyana’s crustal shift magic, the existence of Elvin, and the onslaught of the Elven Guard, the Dark Elves suffered damage that was close to annihilation, and the possibility of a reversal no longer existed as much as the grime on their fingernails.
In such a situation, it was suicide that he chose without erasing the look and expression of resistance.
“… ! Illyana! Dispel!”
Realizing that Di Leah was trying to activate her curse by dedicating her own body and the souls of the already annihilated Dark Elves, Eunhyeon hurriedly gave instructions to Illyana.
“Okay!”
However, it was too late when she realized what she was thinking.
Di Leah activated the ‘Seal of Curse’ engraved on her heart.
“We pray to our God!”
[You are a goddess!]
[Vesta’s Blessing]
[Purification]
At the same time as reciting the ‘prayer of purification’ to prevent the curse from being activated, Eunhyeon started to act.
“Damn to our hateful enemies…”
Squeak
Her head tumbled on the floor with a neat flash that cut Direa’s throat with her grip on the summoned sword.
“Consciousness… It doesn’t stop!”
“What is this… !”
Already from the moment Di Leah destroyed her own heart, her curse ritual began.
Not blood, but black, slimy liquids that flowed from Di Leah’s dead body.
And the ghosts floating in the air revealed their thoughts.
[Huh…]
[It hurts!]
[Hungry. Hungry. Hungry. Hungry.]
[I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. I want to die.]
[Kuaaaaa!]
Even Eleanor’s prayer of purification boasts a level of powerful magical power that cannot be dealt with.
“You can’t even use Dispel like this!”
If you blindly cast a dispel on a place where tremendous energy is already gathered in one place, it is certain that the magical energy gathered at one point will explode all at once and be scattered in many directions.
If it was an ordinary magical explosion, it would be a matter of just putting up a barrier to protect it, but what is now gathering at one point is an assembly of souls with strong grudges.
Illyana, who did not know much about the realm of witchcraft, could not dare imagine what would happen if those things exploded and scattered around.
That’s when I was hesitant to even use Dispel.
Aaaaagh!
Illyana and Eleanor flinched at the sight of the screams of the ghosts making terrible noises.
The eerie black liquid that constantly comes out of Direa’s body forms a huge puddle and swallows her body.
Clap!
Before long, her arm clad in her armor emerged from a huge pool of black liquid with a heavy iron clang and touched the ground. Seeing the mass of armor raising their bodies, Illyana and Eleanor held their breath.
The thick ‘death aura’ flowing from her entire body was a familiar aura she had felt once before or recently.
However, the density itself is completely different from the energy I felt recently.
A reluctant aura that made her shudder just by feeling it, reminding her of the time before when she faced the transcendental ‘Queen of the Dead’.
“What the Dark Elves worship as gods…”
Recalling that none other than Eun-hyeon was the person she hated the most on the continent, Eun-hyeon gnashed her teeth and distorted her face.
The undead that had been promised that they would never appear on the continent again.
A death knight who was a faithful servant of Mediah was summoned from the other side of the void where Mediah is located, from the Pandemonium.
