Episode 144
Episode 57. Escape from the lord’s castle The knight who was hit by Tulka’s front foot flew away with his armor distorted. Yuma held Zecca in one hand and climbed onto Tulka’s back.
Because of the injury suffered by Hayes, it was difficult to move as usual. Since he had to break through the encirclement from now on, he couldn’t even join Malone. Marlon was lifted by Tulka’s mouth.
“Tulka!”
Yuma fixed Zecca with one hand and took a stance. There was a constant intense pain in my chest. Heize’s subordinate knights glared at Yuma with murderous eyes.
“All archers! shoot and pour! You can’t let him go alive!”
“Wizards ready!”
The wizards in the castle were also in a state where they had finished controlling the backflow of mana. Under the seats where the wizards were standing, a large magic circle was drawn in an instant.
The magic lightning chain of Daema Muljeon was shot toward Yuma along with the arrow. Tulka jumped around and avoided them, but Yuma had to wield Ascalon to knock out some of them.
Every time he swung his sword, his whole body shriveled up in pain. Hot blood flowed non-stop from the throat.
Still, breaking through didn’t seem that difficult. It’s because of Tulka’s breakthrough power that it breaks even castle gates. Even if the knights hurriedly replenished their warhorses and pursued them, it would be impossible to catch up with Tulka.
But it would have been foolish to run away right away.
The breastbone was broken and some of the intestines were twisted. Running like this for several days to the gateway to Hale, the capital city, was an act of suicide.
The same goes for going to a doctor in a village near Yeongju Castle. It was clear that at the level of a civilian doctor, clumsy first aid would be all that was needed.
“Hey!”
Yuma drove Tulka to the medical room in the castle without hesitation. Fortunately, the infirmary was not destroyed while fighting Hayes.
The knights were taken aback when Yuma, who had thought he would run away, went deeper into the castle. I couldn’t figure out what the guy was up to.
“Are you planning on luring them into a small space and fighting?”
They were elite knights selected by Heize himself, but they were so urgent and absurd that their heads did not roll properly. It was only because the lord was defeated by an intruder and eaten by a demon dragon right in front of his eyes.
“Gather all troops! Strengthen the siege in the castle!”
As the ancient wolf wandered through the corridors, people who could not evacuate screamed. While the knights strengthened the outer siege, Yuma was able to find the medical room without difficulty.
Toulka slammed the closed bronze door in one breath and entered the medical room.
“Aww!”
“Oops!”
Doctors and healers who were trembling from the noise outside screamed. There were about ten people inside the medical room. Yuma managed to control his heavy breathing and looked down at them.
Most doctors and healers were, at first glance, nobles.
They feared death and foreboded. As soon as they saw the Ancient Wolf, more than half of them shouted for help.
In the midst of the commotion, only one woman was seen wearing clothes without gold thread decorations. Yuma pointed at her without hesitation.
“Are you a magic healer?”
“By the way.”
He needed a magic healer rather than a doctor. He had to deal with his injuries with the magic healer’s ability and receive proper treatment after arriving in the capital.
The reason Yuma chose her was no different. Modest clothing without gold thread decorations. She was most likely a commoner or a local minor noble.
It was clear that Hayes, a fierce bloodlineist, would be an excellent magic healer, to the extent that she would be used by people of all ranks.
Yuma turned his head and looked at the medicine cabinet. Although it was less than the royal castle medicine room, it was marked with 50,000 rare medicinal materials, as befits Heize’s lord castle.
“Breastbone fracture, internal organ damage, extreme bleeding. Bring the medicines you need to take care of it.”
“You are all weightlifters!”
It seemed that among the noble doctors, there was a person quite like the opposite. Normally, this would have been praised, but now they were competing for hourly wages.
“It will come out later on who is the weightlifter. come out soon Otherwise, I will kill them all.”
Other noble doctors pushed her on the back. An embarrassing picture was created only for the doctor who answered Yuma.
The woman Yuma pointed out was a person with quite good ability to judge the situation.
She calmly put the medicine in a cloth sack and approached Yuma.
It was because he was sure that Yuma would not kill him. There was no idiot anywhere in the world who would kill a doctor or healer to save him.
Of course, I thought that there would be no idiot who could break through the castle with only three people… But anyway, the woman slaps me in the face and comes to her senses and approaches Yuma.
‘This person’s condition is serious.’
Upon closer inspection, it was surprising that this man was holding on without fainting.
As he said, it seemed that he suffered not only a fractured breastbone and damage to internal organs, but also reflux due to the swollen blood vessels on his face and neck.
“Ride.”
Yuma reached out a hand towards her. She took Yuma’s hand and climbed onto the Tulka.
Tulka has no saddle and no reins. Yuma sat her down in front of him to keep her from falling, holding her with one arm with Zeka.
Yuma turned the tulka and started running through the corridors of the lord’s castle again. Those remaining in the medical room sighed in relief and sat down on the floor.
“Treatment starts when you get out of here. For now, first of all, put down some pain. Because I have to use a sword.”
“all right.”
Green mana gathered in the woman’s hand. As the glowing blue hand touched his chest, Yuma felt the burning pain slowly subside.
Even in a sudden situation, he does not panic and tries treatment first. It was clear that she was a very skilled magic healer.
Even though it was her first time experiencing the speed of an ancient wolf, the woman collected mana calmly. Soon, beads of sweat formed on the nape of the woman’s neck.
‘It’s luck.’
Then she pulled out a small neck gauntlet from a sack of cloth tied around her waist. It was a neck armor containing dragon blood group.
It was an item that he was able to pack because this was the domain of a great nobleman. A famous medicine that is impossible to even see in the estates of quite a few nobles.
As soon as the neck armor was opened, Yuma grabbed a piece of dragon blood and shoved it down his throat.
“Kaak.”
After the cello show, the terrible taste that he hadn’t experienced in a long time hit Yuma’s taste buds. It was as if all the garbage in the world had been boiled down and flavored.
It feels like dozens of stink bugs are trampling your tongue in your mouth. Anyway, it was a terrible taste that I couldn’t describe.
The effect of dragon blood group was as fast as the stimulating taste. He was bleeding profusely, so he didn’t regain his energy right away like when Natalie fed him, but he still felt some strength in his hands.
“It has to be broken into small pieces and eaten little by little…
“Aaaaaaa! How can you not like this taste? Where is the time to do that now! Thanks anyway! I didn’t know there was a Dragon Blood Clan.”
Before she came to this lord’s castle, she was a magic healer who wandered around the forefront of the battlefield. Usually, the forefront was an area where magic healers without a background or rarely armed with a sense of mission as a doctor were active.
Medical personnel from the central aristocracy never had to go to the frontlines in their entire lives. It was rare to be dispatched to the battlefield at all. It was common to treat knights at the rear or in the support group.
She was a unique case with no background and a high sense of mission. The reason she came to Heize’s lord’s castle after working as a frontline magic healer was because of the Battle of Suher Snowfield.
She was the one who saved Shonan Roll Mandi from dying after being beaten by Tenchu, Haseo’s snow crusher.
Hayes valued her ability and subordinated it to his domain.
‘He doesn’t seem like a bad person.’
Green mana continued to gather in the woman’s palm. At the end of the corridor, Yuma suddenly pressed the woman’s head hard.
“100 million!”
“You’re just so down! If you don’t want to die!”
The woman lowered her head and looked straight ahead.
Dozens of knights, hundreds of soldiers and wizards were visible. It was all troops gathered to kill this man.
The woman had been active on the front lines of various battlefields for seven years since she was sixteen, but she had no such experience. Besides, aren’t they subordinate knights of Hayes Roll Mandi, who is said to be the best?
Because the woman was in the medical room, she did not know exactly what was going on outside. I just expected something huge to happen.
However, it seemed that something far beyond my imagination had happened. Some of the lord’s castle was completely in ruins, and the knights were maintaining ranks no different from wartime.
‘Could it be that Hayes Rollmandy is dead!?’
The woman took a deep breath and quickly rolled her eyes. Heize Rollmandi was nowhere to be seen in the ranks of troops.
Moreover, the urgent and angry voices of the knights were heard as soon as Yuma appeared.
Punish the weightlifters and avenge the lord! The woman couldn’t close her open mouth.
“Hold tight!”
There was no time for the woman to think more about the situation. As Yuma hit his head with a pommel, Tulka charged at full speed, pushing off the ground with his hind feet.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
It was terrifying to feel the speed of riding on an ancient wolf he had never seen before.
Not to mention rushing through those bloody troops.
The woman screamed piercingly, but even her own voice could be heard in the distance. Every time Tulka hit the ground and leaped, there was a tremendous recoil and a cracking sound as the floor cracked.
“If you don’t want to die, clear the road!”
Yuma’s bleeding was still unstoppable. Yuma gritted his teeth and held Ascalon high.
The siege became more solid because of the short delay to stop by the medical room. However, now was better than breaking through when the knights were in a hurry.
In any case, some of his energy was restored, and the pain in his chest was slightly relieved. There was no reason why he couldn’t break through the siege while riding a tulka, unless he was naked.
Wow!
Tulka and the ranks of the knights collided.
Tulka rammed the warhorse, turning his head as far as possible so as not to injure Marlon, who was biting. There was a roar as if two heavy cavalry units were colliding.
Of course, even with barding, nothing like a warhorse could overcome Tulka’s power. Tulka twisted mercilessly between the warhorses.
Horses bounced around.
A sense of speed that makes the scenery in front of you seem to be folding in a straight line. In the fast and dizzying vision, Yuma focused on the sharp blade that pierced from time to time.
Avoiding what could be avoided and cutting out what had to be thrown away, Yuma broke through the ranks. Marlon and Zeka showed no signs of waking up in the midst of the chaos.
The knights were accustomed to fighting on horseback.
It was the knight’s job to lead heavy cavalry on the battlefield. They knew very well that in a conflict like this one should never be afraid.
Several knights threw their bodies at Yuma, who dug in like an awl and destroyed the ranks. They rushed wildly as if their lives were not important.
With desperate determination, Yuma decapitated the knight who rushed in. There was no way to know what the pride of the nobility meant to regard life so trivially.
He didn’t want to kill the soldiers, even if he didn’t know the noble knights. There was a high risk of killing soldiers, not knights, if they broke through with force anymore.
“run! Tulka!”
Tulka leaped high, trampling on one of the warhorses. Landing on top of the mage’s magic formula, Tulka ran toward the castle gate.
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