Chapter 684 – 684. Disaster Prologue (5)
Under the bright moonlight illuminating the dark night sky, the city of Erenium was filled with somber energy.
“Kyaaaaah!”
“Sah, save me!”
The energy of death scattered along with people’s screams begins to fill the city.
Helpless citizens who were not accustomed to battle were busy running away with their families, friends, and lovers all at once, and adventurers who resisted there were desperately resisting.
“Shit… !”
Breaks the head of the undead with strength enhanced through magical powers, pours magic and burns the whole body.
However, even though he was fighting against the undead with such a desperate struggle, the limit came without fail.
Not all of the adventurers spread across Erenium chose the option of fighting, and the number of adventurers who chose to fight increased more than the number of undead, but there were too many of them.
The reason why it is at an unbearable level is also because there was an undead with overwhelming strength that could easily wipe out adventurers.
A single knight with mightier power than hundreds of undead hordes.
A black knight, Death Knight, who seemed to be reminiscent of death, appeared and wiped out the adventurers fighting desperately.
“Aagh!”
A longsword clad in black, disgusting morale cut through the adventurer’s abdomen.
The cuts turn black and spread throughout the flesh in an instant, encroaching on the body.
“Kuuuuu!”
Knock, knock
The adventurer’s skin turns black in an instant as his body twists into a bizarre shape with the strange sound of grinding his teeth.
The adventurer’s eyes, which were filled with fear, soon lost their light and became an undead with a dull gray glow.
“Oh, how can it be… !”
Other adventurers who directly witnessed the sight were horrified.
The sight of a living human being reduced to the undead for the first time in an instant is an indescribable gigantic horror itself.
“Hee, hee!?”
The moment the death knight came in contact with the black magic (死气), a female adventurer unknowingly dropped her staff and sat down on her floor.
It felt eerie and made me want to vomit.
Can’t win.
Can’t survive
You can’t die at will.
I had a hunch that if I were to face off against that death knight, I would just wander the streets with that hideous face that could neither live nor die, unable to even keep my senses.
The premonition, which was imagined arbitrarily in the head, soon turns into fear, taking over the whole body of the adventurers and breaking even their will to fight.
The female adventurer, who was sitting on her floor, was crushed by the huge fear and unknowingly fell into incontinence on her floor.
Not even realizing what she was doing, she just sat down on the floor, and she gave up even running away, let alone resisting, and she just laughed.
Haha. It’s over…”
It was as if she had already given up on her own life.
It is impossible to escape from that.
It wasn’t just the female adventurers who gave up so much that she dropped her own weapon on the floor.
The fear gradually spread to the surroundings.
“No! Please please!”
“Help me. Help me. Help me. Help me…”
When her untied legs can’t even allow her to escape, and she is filled with despair, begging for her life and repeating the same words over and over again.
“Wake!”
The intense cry that makes the ears numb makes the adventurers’ bodies tremble.
Its voice has the power to awaken the hearts of people who were filled with despair, and it broke the hearts of adventurers who once gave up their lives without hesitation.
As their hardened bodies trembled, as if a glass full of water would break, countless adventurers turned their heads in the direction of the sound.
What was caught in their field of vision was a woman who was quickly running towards them, scattering silver sparks.
In a very brief moment barely recognizing that it was a person, the woman had already reached this place and went further and burrowed into the Death Knight’s arms without hesitation and brandished her rapier in her hand.
[Galahad Raise Sword]
[Gale Knight]
Erin’s attack, which appeared like a gale, rushed in to pierce the Death Knight’s neck.
Her fast speed, which is impossible to even perceive with her own two eyes, adds extreme penetrating power to Erinn’s rapier and boosts that attack power to her ship.
Though the Death Knight belatedly recognized Erin’s stab at her, she quickly responded, brandishing her own longsword to parry Erin’s rapier.
Squeak
Erin’s Levantine, who had already accelerated and raised her penetrating power to the limit, pierced the Death Knight’s blade full of her morale.
The blade of the Levante Il, with white silver flames, pierced the Death Knight’s neck and incapacitated her by cutting her torso in half as it was.
Chi profit
The white silver flame worn by Erin is a pure flame that purifies evil energy.
The spirit of death that came in contact with the purification flame was gradually neutralizing as it produced black smoke.
“Ah…”
Seeing Erin appearing in an instant with the sudden intrusion and wiping out the Death Knights, the adventurers who had given up on her life and were in despair made a bewildered expression.
Blue hair and nine tails fluttering in the dark and gloomy night wind.
The sight of her clutching her rapier and glaring at the undead was so beautiful and noble that she captivated those who saw her.
Soon, Erin looked at the nearest adventurer and spoke to her.
“Now, I will ask you to deal with the remaining undead.”
“Yes…”
A sweet voice lingered in their ears, and the adventurers inadvertently nodded.
From the moment they heard her voice and met her eyes, they accepted Erin’s words with dazed faces.
The reason why she felt her mysterious feeling as if she was tickling her own heart was because Erin channeled the magic of her divine beast and temporarily manipulated the emotions of the adventurers within her range by speaking her words. .
[Barbarian Witchcraft (狐族姚術)]
[Emotion Distortion]
The feeling of fear filled in the hearts of adventurers is extracted and removed as much as possible, and the empty place is planted with the courage to overcome this battle.
Of course, it is absurd to instill hope that you will be able to fight unconditionally in this hopeless situation, but it is not impossible if there is an opportunity.
‘Because I’m here.’
Just by defeating the desperate opponent, the Death Knight, who couldn’t win at all costs, the adventurers’ eyes began to glow with hope.
Erin knew very well that she could be herself.
The human mind is really complex yet simple.
Originally, she didn’t like manipulating other people’s minds, but in such an emergency, she valued her realistic judgment that she had to make efficient choices in order to save even one more person.
In this part, he resembles his teacher, Eun-hyeon.
Little by little, Erin drove a wedge into the feelings of the adventurers whose morale was rising.
“Soon, priests and paladins will come to support.”
The priests and paladins who had already been mobilized from the main school of the temple were dealing with the undead with all their might.
Although support had not yet reached this place in the outskirts, Erin felt the divine power from a distant location and decided that it was only a matter of time before support came to this place.
“There is support from the main school of the temple… !”
Upon hearing this, the faces of the adventurers slowly turned bright.
It didn’t make sense that the temple wouldn’t come out when there was such an uproar in the city, but even so, this situation was hopeful news.
“So please hold on until then.”
“All right!”
When Erin tries to move her steps to another place, leaving behind the adventurers’ answers that have restored her morale.
Slippery
“… !”
Sensing that something that was incomparable to the Death Knight and denser than any other fraudulent feeling she had ever felt had appeared, Erin felt chills running down her spine and had to stop her steps.
Erin cautiously turned her head to stare in that direction, full of her morale.
“What are you?”
The low voice of a man wearing a black hooded robe covering his entire body.
Erin was certain that she felt the qi of death emanating from the man in the black robe.
“… It is you.”
Even though she had no conversation, she was sure.
The man in front of me is the one who used some means to unleash the morale of the entire city of Erenium and activate necromancy.
That is, the cause of this catastrophe.
Erin clenched the rapier in her hand and spoke to the man.
“How… Did you disarm the city’s defense barrier?”
Agies said that the city’s defense barrier had a powerful protective ability that made it impervious to any external attack, unless it was high-digit magic at the level of Illyana.
In addition, there is a special effect that naturally rejects and rejects evil spirits and does not allow entry, so beings full of fraud (death qi) can never enter the city.
Therefore, it is impossible for the necromancer to break into this city in order to break this barrier.
The necromancer giggled and answered Erinn’s question indifferently, as if it wasn’t a big deal.
“I didn’t unlock it. I just made it unlock.”
“What… ?”
At the point where the invasion had already succeeded in the city, the method that succeeded was somehow good, so the man spoke without hesitation.
Rather, he spreads his hands wide to the sides as if he were proud of his great achievements, and even makes an exaggerated gesture.
Eventually, the spirit of death flowed out from the man’s side and gradually took shape, taking on a human form.
“Ah… Eww…”
It was a middle-aged priest wearing a pure white robe stained with dirt and dust.
A dagger with the emblem of the Temple of Vesta engraved on his neck, and the blade pierced his neck, but the priest did not die.
No. That is not alive
The result of removing death from a corpse that chose self-determination and semi-forcibly settling the soul into the body to degenerate into the undead.
Unlike her Eunhyeon, Erin didn’t have much knowledge, so she couldn’t figure out the principle and state of it, but she knew that it was a terrible result, neither alive nor dead, without even asking.
“Ouch… !”
An adventurer who was dealing with the undead was disgusted by the terrifying corpse summoned by the necromancer, so he suppressed vomiting.
Although she had seen many human corpses, Erin naturally frowned, probably because they were surrounded by disgusting scams.
Marius, the necromancer who confirmed the reaction of Erin and her adventurers, was engrossed in her desired reaction and giggled while reciting his proud achievements.
“This priest is one of the top priests who managed the barrier stones in the city. First, I killed all the members of the city outside the city where this priest’s family lives and turned them into undead.”
And when the high-ranking priest went on vacation and went back to his house to see his family after a long absence.
“At that time, I showed this priest the corpses of my family members who had been reduced to undead!”
Seeing the scenery of a small town filled with the smell of rotting corpses and blood, the high-ranking priest who came out on vacation hurriedly found his home and despaired of seeing his family turned into undead created by Marius.
“And I offered this high-ranking priest a deal. I will show you mercy so that you can die as a human deserves, so break the barrier of Erenium!”
Is it the salvation of the family, or the countless lives of strangers?
Among the 2 unreasonable choices forced upon them, the high-ranking priests chose the right death for their families.
“In the end, this priest also only shouted for the salvation of humans with his mouth, and his own family was more important than trash.”
Marius laughed at the corpse of the high-ranking priest who committed suicide by inserting a dagger into his throat.
Full of sincere contempt and cynicism, Marius snapped his fingers and removed the high priest’s corpse, then looked at the adventurers who were staring at him with a blank expression.
And among those humans, only one woman was the only one who showed her anger when she saw herself.
“I can’t forgive you!”
Erin grabbed the rapier clad in silver flame and charged at Marius.
