Chapter 559 – The Cursed Throne
The door in front opens, and a number of giant green-skinned monsters appear inside.
“It’s a troll. Everyone remembers the pattern, right?”
“…Of course.”
Orc archers surrounded him on top of the castle wall, and huge trolls were facing him in front of him.
If it was normal, it would not be enough to fall into a panic, but the colleagues who had already practiced dozens of times with Seong-il ignored the situation and formed formations as they practiced.
“Hammer and anvil!! Sing a holy storm for your warriors!!!
The party members formed a circle around Bruno. As Bruno sings a battle chant that strengthens the bodies of allies and weakens the physical abilities of nearby enemies, the party slowly feels the rush of the trolls running in front of their eyes.
Took. Thug…
And in the meantime, arrows falling powerlessly from the air. Seong-il, seated with Sena in the rear, arms crossed, using telekinesis to protect allies from the arrow attacks of the orc archers.
“Continuous fireballs!!.”
Thinking that it is safe from the enemy’s ranged attack, the hamster throws several powerful fireballs at the troll in front of him with a relaxed expression.
“Turn it off!!”
The sight of the trolls screaming terrifyingly after being hit with dozens of red fireballs.
Gaaz and Ban, standing at the forefront, do not miss the gap and stick their swords into the head of the rampaging troll with their respective swords.
“Blow harder!! Kill the insolent intruders!!”
Perhaps outraged by the party slicing the trolls with overwhelming force, the vampire roars wildly and encourages the monsters.
“Obey me!! To me!!”
Then, the vampire looks at Senna, who seems to be the weakest of the dogs, and tries to use her unique and powerful enchantment magic.
“You are the one who is arrogant.”
A bizarre lump of metal protruding like a ghost from behind a vampire concentrating on using magic on the castle wall and a dry voice coming out of his mouth.
“What?!”
Stop casting the spell, the startled vampire turns to look at the owner of the voice.
『Good luck.』
While the bewildered vampire flinched, Edward pierced the vampire’s torso with a red-tinged mechanical arm.
“Kehehe…?!”
Not only did he not feel any presence, but he couldn’t even smell the scent of magic, but when he was ambushed by a bizarre being and fatally wounded, the vampire began to die with an expression of disbelief.
『Succeeded in removing the target. Eliminate the remaining hostile creatures.』
On top of the dead vampire, Edward raises his unique mechanical arm in the air and fires plasma bullets in all directions.
“Kwueeeeek!!”
Orcs who were hit directly by the bloody plasma attack with the power of each shot melted away like sticky jelly and died.
“…Why did we bother to train? I think Edward could wipe it all out by himself…”
Seeing Edward’s bloody battle scene, Senna stopped shooting her crossbow and muttered quietly with an absurd expression.
“It’s dark. Edward’s constant fighting ability is weak. Once he fights, he needs to rest.”
“…Is it so?”
Despite her holy day’s explanation, Senna puts on a suspicious look as Edward, after firing plasma bullets, floats in mid-air, slaughtering orcs with her fearsome mechanical arms.
Poop!!
“This one is the last one.”
Bruno strikes the troll with a warhammer on the trembling head after being hit by additional flames and acid spells from the hamster, severing the troll’s breath.
“He’s nothing.”
“Damn the intruders!!”
“…!!”
We thought we had defeated all the enemies, but when we heard voices from high up on the wall, the party all turned their heads toward the wall. Then, a pale-skinned vampire woman appeared.
“Enemy in sight. I will destroy you!!』
Upon seeing the vampire, Edward immediately flashes red from his eyes and raises his mechanical arm to fire plasma bullets.
“Char!!”
However, perhaps because of Edward’s terrifying battle scenes, the vampire instantly transforms his body into mist as soon as he raises his arm and flees on the spot.
“Tsk… Missing one. Annoying…”
“It’s okay. This is enough.”
Seong-il encourages Bruno, who is disappointed because he has beaten more than a hundred enemies.
“Let’s go. Everyone remembers the peculiarities inside, right?”
“Of course.”
The party responds sternly to Seongil’s words. No matter how rigorously they had trained in the Inner Plain for the past few days, the party meticulously memorized the interior of the castle as if it were engraved in their heads.
“Kkuhik!! Human… Kkuek!!”
The group lightly slaughtered a group of orcs and gnolls who were ambushing them from behind, and even disarmed a trap that had been carefully prepared in advance.
“Hmm? What are they…?”
As you enter the interior while beating down the orcs that keep crawling out like cockroaches, a spacious vacant lot appears. And inside the iron bars installed in the vacant lot, there were a lot of people in shabby clothes.
‘…What? I’ve never seen a situation like this in a game before?’
Not only the party but also Seong-Il are puzzled by the appearance of people who are not in the simulation.
“…Those people’s eyes are slightly open?”
“Uh…?”
When Ban, puzzled by the sudden appearance of civilians, approached them. They shudder and start foaming at the mouth.
“Aww!!!”
“…It’s a werewolf!!”
As muscles swell and hair grows from people’s bodies, Bruno realizes their identity and shouts wildly to the people around him.
“Aww!!!”
“…I think they captured innocent people living nearby and turned them into werewolves in preparation for our coming?”
Seong-il naturally interprets the current situation in a situation that has never appeared in the game.
“This… This… Wicked…!!”
And Bruno, who heard the chanting of the holy day, dyed his face red as if he was really angry and started shaking his hands.
“Kyaaaaak!! Slaves!! Bite the intruders!!”
And a group of dozens of vampires who appeared along with the mist before I knew it. They also rush at the party along with werewolves that seem to be in the tens.
“Don’t panic! Werewolves have been added, but the pattern should be the same as the strategy prepared for the vampire opponent!! Werewolves will be taken care of by me, so just focus on the vampires!!”
“The angry storm sings…!!”
At the words of the holy day, Bruno immediately starts singing the battle anthem instead of answering. After hearing the chant, the party also closes their mouths and concentrates on performing their roles as they have practiced in advance.
“The will of justice is clear…!!”
While Seong-il rushes at the werewolves and fights with them. The two crusaders, Van and Bruno, as well as the hamster pour out the divine magic prepared in advance like a storm.
“Kyaaaaagh!!!”
『Sacred Bombardment』, 『Sacred Mantra』, 『Extermination of the Unclean』, 『Dawn of Dawn』, Etc. Vampires, who are powerful monsters in the baptism of holy magic optimized for the undead, start to melt like scarecrows unlike their reputation.
“Kyaa…!! Sisters!! Run away…!!”
“Where!!”
When the vampires panicked at the holy magic raining down on them like a storm, they ordered a retreat.
“Yap!! 『Undead bondage!!』”
“Kyaaaaak!!”
If they were unscathed, they would have resisted the magic emanating from the scroll to some extent, but the vampire was already half-dead due to being hit directly by all sorts of divine magic.
In such a situation, when the powerful anti-undead spell book brought from the temple hits directly, the vampire cannot resist the spell and stops as if it is tied to its place.
“Die!! Something special!!”
Bruno smashes the skull by swinging the warhammer at such a vampire.
And even Gaaz and Ban, who silently swung their swords by the side to suffocate them.
“I’m dying.”
And Seong-il starts slaughtering the rampaging werewolves one by one with his hand clad in a black sable on the other side.
“Quaaaaagh…!!”
Despite having the power of body regeneration as strong as that of a troll, the Werewolf, who was hit directly by the black flesh that flowed through Seongil’s hand, instead of regenerating, his body rots alive and dies in a terrible state.
“Things that don’t matter.”
This time, too, the party succeeded in slaughtering powerful monsters in an instant.
“…The number of vampires killed is twenty-two. The number is a little less than expected, right?”
“It doesn’t matter. At best, I missed three or four, but what?”
After hearing the exact number of vampires residing in Goseong from Seong-il, the party shows an accurate figure of how many people have fled after killing the enemies.
“Let’s go. To finish.”
“Hmm.”
Even though it was a high-level dungeon, it was like taking a walk in the neighborhood. They continue to move deeper into the inner world, guided by the holy day.
“It’s here.”
Instead of going to the castle, the party suddenly turns toward the crumbling spire.
‘Oh. It looks like that…?’
About half way up there, Seong-il finds an unusually broken torch, and intuition that it is the hidden place he is looking for.
‘Using empathy… Oh! As expected.’
As expected, a hidden mechanism that can be felt in response. Seong-il uses telekinesis to move a device inside to open a secret passageway out of his reach.
“Wow… It really was…”
Sena prides herself on being a professional treasure hunter, but didn’t even notice the existence of a hidden secret passageway.
In the meantime, Seong-il finds the passage so easily, and when she opens the secret door easily in an unknown way, she looks really surprised.
“Fishik.”
Replaced her answer with a light laugh, Seong-il leads her down the secret passageway.
And a large square arrived shortly after.
Interestingly, different humanoids with very unique appearances are located in the plaza, catching the eyes of the party.
From the clan leader of a group of vampires I’ve seen before, to an ogre dressed as a wizard and a mutant werewolf with impressive silver hair.
‘The big cave behind them must be Casarak’ Tarun’s rare.’
The boss’s nest that we finally see. At that time, Seong-il fell into a bit of inspiration. A human wizard, who appears to be their leader, asks the party a question with an expression of exasperation.
“…What the hell are you guys like? How do you find a secret passage that only the apostle and a few believers know about?”
Ironically, when the intruders arrive here using a secret passage that few of them know about, the wizard really doesn’t understand.
‘Honestly, we don’t even know…’
Seeing the absurd tone of the enemy, Senna glanced back and forth between the enemy and the holy day without realizing it.
“What do you mean? You corrupt bastards. The gods told you. Slap your neck.”
“…Cheeky!!”
The followers of Struggle were outraged by Seongil’s mocking reply. The wizard, who seems to be the leader of the dog, raises his staff and shouts strongly.
“My followers!! Eliminate the intruders according to my will!!”
As the cry rang through the plaza, the stone statues there all trembled and began to move.
“It’s a golem. Form up as everyone prepared.”
It’s not just a golem, it’s a golem made of steel and adamantium, so if it’s a normal enemy, you should fall into a panic, but the party puts on a very calm expression.
‘These guys are…’
The time when the wizard was horrified by the enemy’s calm appearance. A soft silver light begins to emanate from the back of the warrior who appears to be a barbarian.
