Chapter 314 – Siege
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The Guild Alliance’s battle preparations have reached the final stage.
Karim Guild’s master, Payaz, also prepared for battle.
Even if he didn’t participate, the rebellion would be suppressed… But since the leader of the traitors was Zahir, he had no choice but to step in.
Zahir, no one else.
He was a loyal subordinate.
He couldn’t believe it when he heard that he had betrayed him.
Payaz wanted to check the truth for himself today. Naturally, the possibility of this suppression failure was not in his mind.
Although there are not a few troops inside the fort.
The Guild Alliance troops brought in from outside the Labyrinth were overwhelmingly superior in terms of numbers and quality.
-Attack!!!
The beginning was an attack by wizards.
The wands of the wizards standing on top of the large magic circle they had made beforehand lit up.
A huge fireball was created above it and flew towards the castle gate.
It is a joint siege magic of mages.
-Pooong!!
However, before hitting the castle gate, the magic was blocked by the blue barrier and vanished in vain.
The wizards of the fortress were defending.
Although the number of wizards who participated in the rebellion was smaller than that of the guild union, they seemed to be defending smoothly with the help of the magic circle hanging on the castle wall.
“Oh… It’s a wall built to deal with the lord… I didn’t know we were going to attack it.”
Conrad grunted with a bitter smile.
The guild masters, Payaz and Konrad, knew better than anyone else about the 11th-floor fortress, so of course they expected this situation to happen.
Anyway, the wizards’ siege magic was an attack to bind the opposing wizards.
That was enough.
“Charge!!”
At Conrad’s loud cry, the mercenaries ran with long siege ladders.
These are the janjanbari mercenaries hired for this incident.
It was all money.
Slaves or porters could not be used in this battle. In the end, they had no choice but to spend a lot of money and hire mercenaries.
The unexpected betrayal cost a lot.
The adventurers of the Guild Alliance followed the mercenaries with siege ladders.
Arrows fly from the wall.
The number of arrows was not that many because there was not such a large army stationed inside the fortress.
Moreover, those who shoot the arrows are third-class adventurers who originally stood guard at the fortress. They were just good at fighting, but they had no special abilities.
Naturally, their arrows were not a threat to adventurers who knew how to use auras.
The adventurers of the Guild Alliance moved along, escorting the mercenaries with siege ladders, lightly avoiding flying arrows or skimming them with swords.
Still, all the arrows cannot be removed by the guild-led adventurers.
Often, mercenaries hit by arrows fell to the ground, but new mercenaries quickly filled the void.
Eventually, dozens of long siege ladders were placed on the walls.
Because it was such a large number, there was a limit to removing it.
With that, it was as if the mercenaries had done their job.
The adventurers of the united guild stepped on the siege ladder using only their two feet without lifting their hands and quickly jumped up.
It was an instant for them to reach the top of the city wall. Surprised, the man who belatedly tried to shoot the bow cuts off his arm and blows his throat.
“Traitors!!”
A battle between the guild union and the rebellious adventurers took place.
“Where is Zahir!”
Payaz climbed the wall and shouted.
She didn’t have to go out on her own, but she did so with the intention of seeing Zahir in person.
“We are here.”
Zahir, carrying a large curved sword, slowly approached Fayaz.
“Zahir…Don’t think of it as a temporary deviation. If you want me to forgive you even now…I’ll forgive you.”
Zahir let out a smirk when he saw Payaz, who mistook him for a kindly benevolent owner.
It was because the thought of that arrogant face distorting made me feel good.
Payaz wriggling his eyebrows as if he didn’t like his appearance.
“What’s funny?”
“Then it’s funny. You’re still talking like that without understanding the situation…”
Anger fills Payaz’s eyes.
“Until I met you… I didn’t believe that you betrayed me.”
“If it’s betrayal, then it’s not betrayal unless there’s something going on. But no matter how much I think about it, I gave it to you guys, but it looks like I didn’t receive anything.”
“I considered you like a brother.”
Zahir snorted.
He’s just a brother
“It is natural for warriors to fight for their tribe. But you mean to betray them in an ugly way just for personal self-interest?!”
Zahir shook his head involuntarily at the sight of Payaz, who seemed unable to communicate.
“It’s just like that… You really… Did you want me to take care of you for the rest of your life? For you, the son of the warchief, to say such things… Payaz, you don’t have a conscience either.”
Why didn’t I feel strange until now?
Perhaps if I hadn’t realized it this time, I would have had to live like that for the rest of my life.
Zahir was horrified at the thought.
“Raise your sword! Zahir.
Payaz took out the two curved swords he was carrying behind his back. And a distinct aura blade began to form on those two curves.
“The desired sea.”
Aura blades began forming on Zahir’s gigantic curve.
“…Zahir…Surely there was a corner where he believed. A great warrior, it’s a pity that he couldn’t use that kind of power…For his own people…”
“I’m tired of hearing any more bullshit!”
The two collided quickly.
– Bang bang!!!
Every time the two Auror blades collided, a loud explosion and shock wave spread.
“Aagh!! Cow, Sword Master?! Blood, damage!!”
The adventurers who were fighting nearby left their seats in shock at the clash between the two sword masters.
Zahir’s face stiffened slightly as he exchanged sword strikes with Payaz.
Because he felt pushed by Payaz.
Seeing this, Payaz made a laughable expression and shouted.
“Zahir! Did you think you could defeat me just because you became a great warrior? One year? Two years?
Zahir, who was sharing a sword attack, started to run away into the fortress.
“Are you running away! Zahir!!”
Fayaz chased after the fleeing Zahir.
It may be an inducement.
But Payaz wasn’t worried.
Because I didn’t think this battle would be lost.
The adventurers of the Guild Alliance were still coming up, and the top of the castle wall will be cleared up soon.
Zahir, who fled into the fortress, stopped shortly thereafter.
“Have you given up?”
“Give up? Put… It’s because I don’t want to lose you.”
Zahir fights on top of the castle wall against Payaz’s extraordinary skills, and if he escapes, it seems difficult to catch him, so he only lures him inside.
“What?”
It was the time when Payaz had such a question.
“So, it’s the sword master!!”
“Hey, here too!!”
“Crazy… How many sword masters are there!!!”
Hearing the screams from the adventurers in the guild, Payaz naturally turned his gaze to the top of the castle wall.
And he couldn’t help but be shocked.
It was because the four sword masters were literally butchering the adventurers of the Guild Alliance on top of the castle wall.
-Jerbuck. That buck
And the sound of quiet footsteps behind Payaz’s back.
A sharp aura blade swayed in the man’s curve that blocked his back.
“Tariq…”
He too was a warrior from the tribe that followed Zahir.
“…Zahir…What the hell did you do…”
Payaz growled as he glared at Zahir.
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I was sitting on a chair and watching the Guild Alliance’s siege.
The siege was more worth watching than I thought.
Brilliant and great magic.
Dozens of siege ladders.
Adventurers stepping on the ladder and climbing the castle wall as if flying quickly.
Perhaps it was because they were high-level adventurers who knew how to handle Auras, but it felt different from the grueling siege.
At first, there was a feeling that the guild union had the upper hand, but…
Four sword masters suddenly appeared on the wall and literally wiped out the adventurers of the Guild Alliance.
Guild union adventurers on top of the castle wall are falling in numbers. He was avoiding not only the dead but also the Sword Master, and was just jumping down and running away.
In the end, the result was as I expected.
At first, I think Karim’s guild master went into the fortress… Maybe he died?
“Did you know it would turn out like this?”
Verna, who was watching the Guild Alliance’s siege from the side, asked me with a surprised face.
“Well… That’s right.”
“Then why…”
“Didn’t you tell the guild union?”
“…Yes…”
“Would you believe me if I told you?”
What if we provided unbelievable information that sword masters were infested inside and said we would deal with it?
I don’t think I would have believed it either.
“…That’s right.”
Still, rather than threatening to surrender the fort, it was a good picture that it happened like this.
“Hmm?”
Verna, who was having a conversation with me, suddenly tilted her head. And I felt a light flow of magical power from above.
-Pajik…
With a light spark, a small charred bat fell to the floor.
“It’s a family. But… It seems that the magical power is that of a warlock.”
“Is there a black magician in the fortress?”
I knew, but…
“Looking at that, it smells like stinky.”
Verna, who peeked at the sword masters going wild on top of the castle wall, answered.
“Well, that’s good.”
Six sword masters… Yes, this is a black magician’s conspiracy.
…Maybe not, but…
You just need to capture the fortress and verify it.
Although there was only one inside the fortress, there was a black magician, and there was even an undetectable suspicious space underground.
The six sword masters who appeared out of nowhere were misunderstood by anyone.
It was a real coincidence that talented people gathered?
Then, it is enough to say that I was mistaken because of the black magician.
Well… At that time, it would have already been after the fortress had been occupied.
Since the Sword Master was not going to starve to death just because he was kicked out of the fortress, there was nothing to hold back.
“Judith, there’s a warlock inside that fortress. Well… We’ll charge in an hour. Get ready.”
In that amount of time, it seemed that the battle would be over on the other side as well.
“Yes! His Holiness, I will thoroughly prepare!!”
Judith’s face suddenly brightened at the sound of going to deal with the black magician.
