Episode 65
Episode 31. To Joheim (3)
The house was obviously neither nice nor spacious. It was just enough to protect against cold and early morning dew rather than homelessness.
But no one in the group complained about it.
Yuma held out two silver coins as a gift. It was an exorbitant price for a night’s stay in a private house in a corner of the countryside.
The gray-haired woman took the silver coin and placed it on the table haphazardly.
It was strange. With this amount of money, it was common for people to be enthusiastic and kind with smiles on their faces.
Yuma carefully examined the woman’s appearance.
Completely gray hair, pale eyes, droopy shoulders, parched lips, unbefitting of his age. At first glance, he seemed like a person with no hope in life.
“Perhaps the family was taken away by Baron Secron… or tortured.”
It was half the time with sad eyes.
Her hair is not naturally white, but has been changed by extreme fear and despair.
The woman made soup by boiling water in a dented iron bowl. It was embarrassing to even call it soup with just a few vegetables that had withered in water.
The party took out beef jerky and grain powder and mixed it into the soup and ate it. A savory smell filled the room.
Evan approached the woman and invited her to eat together. But the woman just shook her head.
‘I completely gave up on life.’
Seeing that, Yuma thought.
Even when they saw money or precious jerky and grain powder in such an underdeveloped village, they did not show any signs of greed.
“..travel. crazy people You came here to travel?”
The woman started talking to the party who were eating soup. It was an angry voice.
The party stopped chopping and shifted their gaze to the woman.
“This is already dead land. You cannot return alive.”
“No, you’re talking harshly when you say let’s see you. Thank you for letting me sleep…
“Is it true that Baron Secron is crazy?”
Yuma interrupted Zecca and asked openly.
“Looks like that kid has been bragging about it. Even then, it would be futile.”
“Tell me in detail.”
The woman went into the room and shut the door.
“What kind of town do you have?”
“Joheim wasn’t like this originally… This is all because of Baron Secron.”
Evan was barely holding back his tears.
Evan, who broke through the chaos and asked for help to the top of Puang, seemed to be having a hard time showing self-control like he did back then. It was only natural that he was only a sixteen-year-old country boy.
The group calmed down and went to sleep.
Before departing from the capital, Evan roughly told me about the situation, but it was a different feeling to face the woman’s reaction.
In any case, it was necessary to get as much sleep as possible to avoid the early morning dew and cold. From tomorrow, I didn’t know when and where the battle would unfold.
There was no danger from thieves or robbers, but it was because it was a region where monsters were rarely seen.
“Suck!”
Sensing a strange presence in her sleep, Yuma opened her eyes and quickly got up. It sounded like a small thud.
Natalie was next to Yuma, and Evan and Zecca were sleeping across from each other.
When Yuma woke up, Natalie also opened her eyes. They had a hunch that they would not be able to spend the night in this house unscathed.
“Master Master.”
Yuma called in a low voice in front of the woman’s room.
The door was firmly closed. Hearing something might have been an illusion. But what is this discomfort?
Yuma started knocking on the door.
”ha.”
“Wait, Yuma. this smell.”
“smell?”
“Yes, it smells like blood.”
After confirming the smell of blood, Yuma immediately unleashed the doorknob with supernatural strength. The moldy wooden door shattered helplessly.
“Oh…
the woman was lying face down in the middle of the room. Blood flowed like a fountain from his neck without rest.
The strange sign that Yuma felt was the sound of a woman committing suicide and falling.
In the woman’s hand was a cleaver that she used to cut vegetables when she was boiling the porridge earlier. The already dead body wriggled intermittently, drawing a devastating scene.
Woo woo woo woo – A sound similar to a wolf’s cry came from afar. However, unlike that of the wolf, it was a sound that could be felt with terrible malice.
Zecca also woke up and was holding Cybelin.
“What’s going on… Ugh! Why is that woman dead?”
“I just committed suicide.”
Yuma sighed and said.
“Something seems to be going badly.”
It was Natalie’s intuition that had been lost for a long time.
That intuition was exactly right. Something was running towards the house where the party was staying at high speed.
Although it was a surprise, Yuma had better senses than any of the three. It was almost impossible to suddenly attack and kill a high-ranking sword master.
Sreung!
Ascalon illuminated the reflected light. The group hurriedly left the woman’s house.
Woo woo _ The sound was getting closer.
As if he had finally come to his senses, Evan clung to his car and pulled out his shortsword.
“These sounds are definitely those monsters I talked about last time. Strange wolves run by the baron!”
“You can’t fight in a private house! Run towards the hill for now!”
Yuma shouted and led the group. A muffled howl was heard quite close now.
The dawn moon illuminated the party with an exceptionally bright light. No, the dawn moon was really shining more light on Yuma and the others. Like a giant pupil pointing at a target.
rattle rattle.
“Ahh! what!”
Jeka shuddered and stopped running. All of a sudden, door to door opened and people started showing up.
Evan couldn’t explain anything else to the party, probably because it was the first time he had seen such a sight.
Natalie stood guard in all directions with her chainsword open.
“Die…
“Die…
All the villagers who came out of the house quietly had their eyes turned inside out and their whites flashing.
“This… His… will.”
“Die…
uhhhh!
It was then. When Cybeline shone brightly like the sun, illuminating the party, it defeated the moonlight.
The villagers vomited blood and convulsed when faced with Cybeline’s brilliance.
‘I’ve never seen anything like this in the Dragon Horse Wars. Is it really black magic?’
The changes of the villagers who were touched by Sibelin’s aura were varied.
Some coughed up blood and convulsed, while others suddenly had their heads exploded and collapsed.
What an out of nowhere mayhem!
From behind, I began to see the owners of the howls of wolves running.
The problem didn’t end there. The bodies of the villagers who collapsed unable to withstand the aura suddenly turned black.
Tuck! Tuck!
Soon, something that looked like an ‘arm’, ‘leg’ or ‘head’ pierced the villager’s body and protruded.
It was also the first monster I had ever seen in my life.
The villagers who became demons were terrifying and grotesque. It was an extremely repulsive shape, with black limbs attached arbitrarily and the jaw joint split into several branches.
They looked like something that failed or something that was created.
left hand!
Natalie’s chainsword bounced off like a whip and cut off parts of the four monsters’ bodies. It was an attack full of aura and poison.
“Kleureutuk!”
“Kkeuk!”
Fortunately, this monster didn’t seem to have great fighting power.
The monsters complained of pain while pouring purple blood.
Natalie continuously swung her chainsword and tore the monsters to shreds.
“Natalie and I will take care of it. Jeka, you protect Evan!”
“okay!”
The identity of the wolf’s cry was the same as the grotesque appearance.
Overall, it was a dark monster with a wolf-like appearance, but what looked like a giant’s hand was positioned where the head should have been.
In addition, in the center of the palm was a huge pupil, and beneath it was a contorted mouth that drooled.
It matched what Evan described.
Yuma realized that he had stepped into a land engulfed in darkness.
And that a conspiracy far greater than expected was hidden in Yoheim.
“Rrrr…
More than ten wolves were slowly putting pressure on Yuma and the others.
Zecca shot Sibelin’s brilliance towards her, but this time it didn’t work. The wolves only paused for a moment.
Yuma regained his composure by aiming Ascalon at the wolves. Relying only on one’s strength and rushing at it in panic could never bring about good results.
‘Evan thought those wolves were normal monsters. But no… How many of them are there? These were said to be good at tracking. No matter how many villagers ran away, they said they found it.’
If so, the ten or so wolves in front of him might have a separate main unit as well as a tracking group.
Evan also said that for some reason those wolves hadn’t recognized him for a while.
Yuma raised his spirits and wrapped a thick aura around Ascalon. Like when cutting an orc, he planned to fight by maximizing his sword body.
The three wolves in the lead attacked Yuma first.
Yuma instinctively understood that the wolves’ attack was a trick. It seemed that the rest of the wolves would come at you if you made a big move to slash all three at once.
Yuma decided not to stand still and block the attack, but to break through. I had to kill all the wolves anyway.
Yuma used her swift speed and ran forward.
See!
Yuma’s quicksword cut the wolf in half in the middle.
The wolf was unable to react and fell to the ground, splitting apart.
The two wolves hurriedly slowed down, but they were too late to catch up with Yuma.
The moment the two wolves turned to aim for Yuma again, Shibelin cut off his legs and body.
“Evan! Get your mind right! These guys are nothing!”
Jeka shouted and corrected her posture.
The monsters that made the whole village tremble in fear with just one or two monsters were cut off so easily.
Evan opened his tightly closed eyes and nodded.
The wolves in the back rushed all at once as Yuma broke through the three. It was as if hungry snakes were running at the mouse from all sides.
You never know when you’ll run into these guys.
Using the Aura sphere to organize everything at once was extremely consuming of stamina.
Yuma twisted around to avoid the wolves’ attacks.
The five fingers on the top of his head, like the palm of a giant’s palm, curled up and tried to grab Yuma. However, whenever Ascalon flashed, the wolves were cut into pieces.
‘Wolves’ attacks are fast, cunning, and menacing. It’s a bad monster.’
The wolves persistently aimed at Yuma even as their bodies were being cut off.
However, it was not enough to hurt Yuma. Soon the pack of wolves was all sorted out.
At that moment, a hand-shaped head that remained intact among the dead wolves’ bodies rose into the air.
[I’m already complete…]
It was Baron Secron’s voice.
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