Episode 295
Episode 102. The first victory of the Eastern Allied Forces (2)
Every time Tulka’s back foot touched the ground, dust rose. The eyes of the soldiers forming ranks in the barracks in front of the castle were focused on Yuma.
Several soldiers raised their spears and screamed. The sound soon turned into thousands of cheers.
It was a shout of support to the commander who was the first to appear. However, in Yuma’s mind, the nightmare of Pora Pora only came to mind.
On that day, there were countless lives that were broken like trivial cans of sorghum without any response to the black lightning of Empei in Pora Pora.
As far as Yuma knew, the demons’ black lightning was the worst weapon of mass destruction in history.
Black lightning was able to kill humans far more efficiently than a grandmaster’s blow or magician’s chain magic.
Even in the Kuzan Royal Castle, 50,000 soldiers were concentrated.
Fortunately, the distance between the lightning cloud and the Kuzan Castle was not very close.
Yuma calmly raised his strength to catch their gaze.
A blue aura began to roll over Yuma’s body. The large auror sphere that had just been created made a squeaking noise as if it were going to explode at any moment.
In an instant, the distance between the black cloud and Tulka was shortened.
As they got closer, the figure of the Demon Army, which had been hidden by the black clouds, was gradually revealed.
‘What’s so many?’
At least 10,000 or more. At first glance, the densely-lined Demon Army was armed with spears, swords, and armor, just like the regular human army.
Yuma naturally thought that one of the Demon Kings had invaded alone.
A large-scale army of this size came right in front of the capital, but it was because it didn’t make sense to not know until now.
And Yuma immediately realized why King Kuzan couldn’t grasp the enemy’s approach.
Under the dark clouds, sand mounds were rising nonstop.
And demonic soldiers were pouring out of the softly flowing sand mound.
The guys dug burrows and moved.
Yuma intuitively knew that it was the result of using the magic of the underworld.
‘If it weren’t really for those guards, I would have suffered great damage.’
First of all, a light room.
A dauntingly shimmering aura orb was shot in a straight line. Due to the distance, it took a considerable amount of time for the auror sphere to reach the enemies.
Yuma thought that the auror sphere would burst and create an exciting explosion.
However, just before falling in the middle of the enemies, the aura sphere stopped as if it was blocked by an invisible wall.
It was a barrier. Hundreds of mid-level demons were spreading barriers on all sides of the ranks.
Soon, the auror sphere was distorted little by little, and it was offset with a small sound. Yuma just made a sad expression on top of Tulka.
[Looks like that guy is Yuma.]
“That’s right, Mr. Niacle.”
It wasn’t Galos who raided the Kuzan Castle.
Demon King of the East, Niacle. He didn’t even have a different name, so he was actually classified as the weakest among the demon kings.
However, it was not an easy opponent to see.
If they had attacked alone, it would have been more difficult since they were accompanied by a large army of over 10,000.
[Strong. But I don’t think I’m going to rush into these troops alone.]
“Niackle-nim, you shouldn’t belittle him. Gud, the monarch of the west, as well as the Demon God told him…
[Don’t make fun of the muzzle.
I don’t believe that the Demon God was defeated by that guy.]
Niackle cut off the lieutenant’s words. His lieutenant was a human possessed by a general-level demon like Ragatino Rollman D. He was still in a state of reason.
[Today, I will take his soul and make the demon god happy.]
Nyarkle, wearing a huge greatsword on his back, began to move forward, slashing the demon soldiers.
Most of the demonic soldiers were possessed.
Although it is five times less than the allied forces gathered in Kuzan, the possessed low-level demon possessed the strength of about 10 ordinary soldiers.
Therefore, even though they were outnumbered, the Demon Army overpowered the Allied Army in terms of firepower.
Yuma, who had been through numerous possessives since the Ryongma War, was well aware of that fact.
But I wasn’t afraid.
Even if a million soldiers rushed at him, he couldn’t help the grandmaster.
Even though Yuma wasn’t a grandmaster yet, the 10,000 demon soldiers didn’t feel like a threat anymore.
‘Haha, I mean, I can spread a barrier enough to offset my aura sphere.’
Still, I felt a sense of shock. It wasn’t a sincere attack, but the fact that it was blocked damaged his pride.
“How dare these bug-like bastards…!”
A sharp voice spread across the border between the desert and the plain.
All of the Demon Soldiers in formation after getting out of the sand mound flinched and turned their attention to Yuma.
When Sword Eye was activated, Ascalon was ablaze with a blue aura. Yuma adjusted the direction of Tulka to position herself in the center of the enemy group.
Even thinking about it again, it was impossible for a mid-level demon to cancel his auror sphere. The rage caused veins to form on his brow and his grip hard as rock.
“Get lost!”
A sharp flash of light spread from where Yuma was standing. Yuma dropped the sword to the bell while riding the Toulka.
Aura Blaird.
No, can this be called the Aura Blade that humans talk about with common sense?
The Aura Blade, which was formed riding on the blade, soared with the momentum to pierce the sky.
For an instant, a blue semicircle covered the vision of the Demon Army vanguard. A huge mountain of aurablaird, which could be called punishment from God, was falling furiously at them.
Jigsaw Jigsaw!
The Aura Blade that touched the barrier unleashed sparks mercilessly. The mid-level demons spat out handfuls of purple blood.
Pachang! It was an instant when the barrier of the demon army was broken. However, it did not happen that Aura Blade slaughtered the demons.
Iacle, who was positioned at the forefront of the demon army, countered Yuma’s Aura Blade.
[Cheuk!]
But Niackle, like the mid-level demons, spat blood out of his mouth. Purple blood flowed from his nose, ears and even his eyes.
Even the greatsword, which he had raised with enthusiasm, was cracked. More than half of Niackle’s body was sunk into the desert sand.
‘What..!’
Dut Niackle’s eyes twitched in confusion.
It was Niackle’s mistake to think that it was a mere human attack.
He knew that Yuma was strong, but he hadn’t even imagined that it would be this strong.
It was a blow. It wasn’t even a decisive battle that contained the will to kill.
The bell-slashing that just got angry and started like a monster. Niackle was shocked by the blow to the extent that her fighting spirit was slightly broken.
“Are these bastards blocking you again?”
dare! It was a voice that grew more angry.
However, Yuma was also a little taken aback by his power. Was I this strong? My mind passed by for a moment.
If it had been a sword other than Ascalon, it would have exploded without being able to withstand the Aura Blade raid that had just gathered on the blade.
It was the fruit of about 4,000 deaths in the underworld.
These days, Yuma has been fighting most of his battles in the underworld, and even if he had to use his blue aura in the human world, he never had a chance to do his best.
So I didn’t know how much I had grown.
No, I thought I knew exactly. To compare it to a mountain, he understood that he had come halfway up to the level of a grandmaster.
It is only natural for a warrior who has reached the state to recognize his or her level.
But it was a misjudgment and arrogance. The arrogance of knowing one’s body perfectly.
At this level, it should have been seen that there were only about 10 steps left to the top, not halfway up.
Suddenly, I remembered a story my teacher had told me in Ahmad.
-It’s because your body isn’t completely yours. The half unconscious is in command. You must have complete dominion over your body.
This was what I heard when I first became Duran’s apprentice.
Until now, Yuma had thought that he was putting his master’s words into practice, but he had just realized anew in one blow.
It means that he has finally begun to have complete control over his body. In fact, there were still ten steps left to reach that stage.
‘Good!’
A small smile spread across his face contorted with anger.
Yuma looked up and checked the lightning cloud. I could clearly feel the movement of the black aura condensing in the huge cloud.
In the human world, as in the underworld, the power of the demon god could not be freely used.
If it was in the underworld, I could have taken control of it with just one gesture like a lightning cloud.
However, if he had fought in the underworld, the demon king who attacked him would have had much greater power.
Niacle!”
Niackle’s adjutant, who had followed late, shouted.
Niacle managed to hold on to her spirit as she pulled out her body from the sand.
“Are you all right!”
[Burr lightning.]
“Yes?”
[I need to drop the lightning. That guy isn’t human…]
The adjutant informed Niacle, who was bewildered, that it was a mistake.
“Lightning must shoot at the citadel!
The reason he ran alone was probably to attract attention! I’d rather hit the castle…
[Insolent! If you hit the castle, would that guy fall down? If you kill that guy, you can destroy the fort later!] He wasn’t wrong.
However, the adjutant thought it best to strike the citadel with lightning and force Yuma to retreat.
“Niackle! You need to calm down first!”
[noisy! Focus all your firepower on him as he will rise to control the lightning! If he can only drop lightning, he won’t be able to do much.] As
Niacle spread his wings, the greatsword he was holding shattered like a biscuit and fell to the floor. He flapped his wings to go straight into the lightning cloud.
The adjutant had no choice but to give an uncomfortable order with clenched fists.
“Get the archers and artillery warlocks out in front of the ranks! Intermediate Demons need to buy time to repair the barrier!”
Yuma was not going among the enemies.
It was because he judged that if he went into the enemy group, there was a high probability that the lightning would fall into the fortress first rather than himself.
No matter how much he was a demon, it seemed that he would not indiscriminately burn and kill his allies.
Instead, Yuma rode the tulka and ran in all directions, shooting aurablairds and aura spheres. Each time, dozens of Demon Soldiers died.
The barrier was pierced here and there like a rag, and the ranks of the Demon Army were slowly crumbling.
The image of Niacle soaring into the sky came into Yuma’s eyes while he was attacking so frantically.
‘It’s not Galos. Is it the lord of the east who has been killed by Haider every time and doesn’t even have a second name?’
A demon king trying to enter the black cloud. It was the same action that Empey had done on Porapora Island.
Yuma pulled Tulka up by the mane.
Then, Ascalon was wrapped around Auror again. When Niackle settled down in the clouds, lightning would fall madly.
Ascalon emitted a dazzling brilliance in an instant.
As soon as Yuma grasped the strike position with Sword Eye and was about to swing his sword, an enormous amount of poison arrows began pouring down from one side of the ranks of the Demon Army.
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