Episode 356 Noble Sacrifice (1)
Iriel shouted while looking around at the paladins.
“If you stay calm, you can win! Everyone stay seated!”
“Saintess!”
“All right!”
“Consolidate your formation! The safety of the saintess is our top priority!”
The Paladins gritted their teeth and raised their swords.
Oh Jwa, who was leisurely watching him from behind, made a fishy sneer.
“It’s easy.”
Dark red demonic energy erupted from Ojwa’s hand.
The corpses reacted one by one to the viscous magi that seemed to drip onto the ground.
Geeying-!
With an intense sound that seemed to ring fiercely in the ears, the eyes of the corpses shimmered with blood.
At that moment, one of the paladins had just decapitated the corpse.
Then, even before that, the corpses that had been quietly falling were wrapped in an unknown magic circle.
‘Dangerous.’
Feeling bad in the magic circle, Iriel hurriedly pulled the paladin in front.
When she, filled with divine power, made up her mind and used her power, the paladin was pulled by Iriel’s power without even being able to stand up.
“Aaaagh!”
Kwaaaang—!
The corpse exploded, leaving a huge roar in the son-in-law.
The paladin, who was saved thanks to Iriel, looked at it with trembling eyes.
If he had stayed there, he would have been caught in the explosion and not even left a body.
“Thank you… Holy Lady.”
“Let’s say goodbye later. Things are not good right now.”
Seeing her nervous look, the paladin hurriedly got up from his seat.
As she said, the war situation was heading for the worst.
The number of enemies is still over 10,000, and if you cut it with a sword, it will explode.
In a completely surrounded situation, they could not engage in close combat, so the victories that remained for them were significantly reduced.
Iriel quickly grasped the situation.
‘It’s impossible to beat them all from a distance.’
There was no doubt that soldiers who would explode if cut down were more heinous than the undead.
It is natural that the place they are heading to is the Holy Land.
She estimated the ten thousand corpses and the strength of the Holy Kingdom.
What if they go into hiding all over the Holy Land?
I don’t know, but the Holy Kingdom won’t be safe.
Although it is a place where many outstanding talents, including Ray, live, it is infinitely close to impossible to catch them all.
As soon as the thought reached that point, Iriel raised his holy power to the fullest and prepared himself.
If you can’t break it here, the damage to the castle will increase.
Not only would the people die, but perhaps they would suffer a blow from which they could not recover.
‘…I guess it’s impossible to survive.’
He mobilized ten thousand troops to capture himself.
Just looking at it, it was clear how much they had to forge to kill the saintess.
There will be no way out.
In Iriel’s hand, a sword aura made with divine power rose up.
As he wielded his fine hand like a weapon, his sword energy flew away at a furious speed.
Slow-!
Bodies were slashed, but none exploded.
She let out a small smile, just like her devastated expression.
“…It means that it won’t explode if you kill it from a distance.”
In this case, it seemed that there was no choice but to open a retreat by blowing the sword until the divine power was exhausted.
If you are lucky enough to reach the holy kingdom, you will be able to block it somehow in the future.
Iriel nodded once, and the knight commander noticed him and gave orders to the paladins.
“Blow the sword aura to open the retreat! Keep your distance as much as possible!”
“yes!”
“All right!”
The paladins pulled out their sword auras to create space.
The magic circle of corpses reacts even if you get close, so it was necessary to distance yourself from the beginning.
“Haap!”
The dozen or so Paladins in the lead fired their swords at the same time.
Wedge love liquid—!
The sword aura that flew through the air ripped through the bodies of more than twenty people at once.
I’m sorry-!
Even though they were already dead, seeing them not screaming gave me a little goosebumps.
While the paladins were pulling out their swords and securing a way to escape, Iriel raised his hand.
A pale yellow warm light illuminated the surroundings brightly.
Ugh-!
Along with the resonating sound of the holy power, the holy power of the paladins was immediately restored as it was at the beginning.
“Don’t worry about the back, just focus on taking down the corpses.”
“yes!”
Paladins flew sword auras without worrying about divine power.
Although the aftermath of the corpses exploding was significant, they themselves were not strong.
It wasn’t strong enough to block the sword, and it wasn’t quick enough, so it was easy to fall down when throwing a sword aura.
So even though they were dealing with over 10,000 troops, their morale did not drop much.
Or rather, thanks to the divine magic cast by the saintess herself, her senses became even sharper, and she became more motivated to fight.
However, Iriel’s complexion was still hardened like the first time.
She looked around and bit her lip.
‘I can’t see the end yet. If we keep going like this, the first thing to do is to run out of divine power.’
However, it is impossible to save divine power.
So far, there is no damage from the Paladins, but if you allow the corpses to approach, the damage will start to get out of hand from that moment.
That number is only seventy or so.
Every time you lose one person, the number of people the others have to deal with increases, so the burden will increase as well.
The knight commander said as he blew away his sword aura.
“If we go on like this, there is no end. They seem to have noticed and are gradually pulling back the siege.”
To him she nodded.
As if they noticed that the siege was breaking through, the corpses were also moving according to their own path.
As the knight commander said, if we go on like this, there will be no end.
It wasn’t that there were other sharp numbers.
Right now, there is no other way but to rush forward.
Even if it is backed by divine power, physical strength and mental strength clearly have limits.
In addition, as much as Iriel was feeling impatience, the supply of divine power was not so relaxed.
Then, among the paladins, one or two people began to suffer damage.
“Aagh!”
One paladin could not keep his distance and was caught in the explosion.
He narrowly escaped fatal injuries by throwing himself, but suffered severe burns all over his body.
Iriel held out a hand to him.
“Heal.”
With a single word, her divine power poured into the paladin.
Then, as if he had been injured, his body completely healed.
Among them, numbering seventy, the number of wounded gradually increased.
I didn’t know that reducing the escort force to get to Frio Kingdom quickly would come as such a big blow.
Iriel said while restoring the holy power of the Paladins.
“We can’t continue the war of attrition forever. Speed it up.”
She made her own way by taking the lead.
Approaching the master, she decided to raise her sword aura, and a huge sword aura that was incomparable to the swordsmanship of the paladins was released.
With a single gesture, the corpses of ten people were knocked down.
As the road opened, the speed also increased.
The paladins followed her in deep admiration.
It is shameful that they, who should have protected the saintess, became a stumbling block and were followed.
Kwaaaang—!
Quaang-!
Corpses exploded, flesh flying everywhere, but they never slowed down.
Even if there were more than 10,000 soldiers, if they penetrated in a straight line, they would not have to face them all.
It was difficult to beat it by hand from a distance, but there was nothing that could not be done as long as the divine power was maintained.
However, no matter how much he is a representative of God and an adult who is said to be overflowing with divine power, it was unreasonable to take care of the physical condition and divine power of the paladins for several hours.
Iriel’s divine power began to run.
Even she herself was surprised to see the bottom of her divine power, which even she had not been able to fathom.
It was worth it.
It would be even more strange if one Holy Knight used the sacred power like water, but it was left over.
In the end, around the time they almost got out of the siege, Iriel squeezed out the last remaining divine power.
The commander of the knights and the paladins approached her as she struggled to the point of breathing.
“…are you okay, saintess?”
“Now that’s a bit! Be strong!”
Despite the paladin’s encouragement, she only shook her head.
Iriel sighed and said.
“Heo-eok… heo-eok… I can’t afford it… This… is the last time for us…”
Their complexions darkened as they recognized the meaning of the words.
Decreased divine power means death.
If they do not fight at a distance, they will never be able to defeat them.
As Iriel’s recovery disappeared, their divine power rapidly diminished.
It was excessive consumption compared to recovery.
It was not that he abused his sword skills, but the fact that there were too many opponents was a major factor in his defeat.
When all of the holy power was wasted on the boundary of the siege, the paladins laughed with self-deprecation.
Having been a paladin for a long time, dying was something he had been prepared for since before.
However, if there is something to be said for regret, it is that even the original mission of escorting the saintess was not properly fulfilled.
They looked at each other for a moment and then smiled.
No one told them to, but at the same time, the Paladins removed the proof plaques hanging from the shoulders of the plate armor.
The three paladins who seemed to be the eldest among them bowed their heads to the knight commander.
“I’ve been indebted to you, Captain.”
“There’s no such thing as a good memory, but it was enjoyable in its own way.”
At that, the knight commander tightly gripped the sword bottle.
His wrinkled face was frowning as if he was struggling to hold back the tears that were about to burst out.
“I will follow soon.”
“Don’t keep me waiting long. ha ha ha.”
After greeting the three paladins, they bowed their heads once to the saintess, and then threw themselves at the corpses in front of them.
As he raised his sword and slashed them, the magic circle activated and caused a huge explosion.
Kwaaaang—!
Quaang-!
