Episode 216. New forces & balance in the middle class (1)
‘I didn’t expect these guys to move at the right moment…’
Jinhyeok’s eyes narrowed.
Coming out of the castle were medium-sized giants with a size of 5m.
A total of seven numbers.
There aren’t many of them, but each one can’t be ignored.
It was because it was difficult for even one company-level soldiers to handle a single giant.
Even more, it was impossible to guess what kind of damage would happen if it invaded the capital, which could be called the heart of the empire.
“I know that giants are loyal to their territorial instincts… No, more than that, how did they come this far? No matter how weak the empire is due to internal divisions, is it enough to miss giants of that size?”
Alice muttered with a hard-to-believe face.
“Probably… it came through that way.”
Jinhyeok pointed to the river flowing to the right of the castle.
A passageway where rivers and seas meet and flow inland. sea transport.
As an empire with 7 kingdoms, it also has a transportation route to transport various materials.
“You mean they came all the way here by boat?”
“I used a more outrageous method than that.”
If you look closely, the bodies of the giants were full of water.
No way…
“Into the water…?”
“Yes. From the body where they are to this place. I sent a detached team through the water.”
This will allow you to infiltrate deep into the empire, avoiding the prying eyes of border guards.
The fact that the water is not so clear must have helped a lot in hiding the bodies of the giants.
I didn’t even know how he breathed in the water… But
when I saw the characteristics of ‘Noob’ who came up with this method, he must have found something ingenious.
‘The king of giants…’
Jinhyeok recalled the memories of the past.
Ograkun.
He is a minority force in the middle level of the tower. As a king leading giants.
The Empire and Murim are the only rulers of a race that have protected their realm even in the midst of huge powers.
‘At the same time, he’s also the one who holds the key to this war.’
In any case, the die was cast.
By the hands of giants who are neither the Empire nor the Murim.
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“What the hell did the border guards do to miss the seven giants!”
“Damn it. We’ll talk about that later. We have to stop it first!”
“Shoot! Pour everything you can! Don’t let them get close to the walls!”
An urgent voice accompanied by a roaring sound that shook the earth shook the earth.
thud! thud! thud! thud!
The sound of impact coming from the massive body approached the skin.
I feel the pressure as if a herd of rhinos are rushing at me.
And right at that moment.
Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwam!
Wow!
Various magics exploded on the bodies of the giants.
Flames and ice shards bounced in all directions.
“Koooooo!”
“Ohhh!”
Giants with huge wounds all over their bodies cried out.
But it only stopped for a moment.
The giants mechanically reached the moat just below the castle.
“Damn it! We’ve already come this far!”
“No matter how big they are, they say they are over 20m tall here.
One of the soldiers who was talking breathed in vain.
Two relatively large giants grabbed the small giant by the feet.
It was soon tossed high into the air.
One giant jumped over the wall at once as if he had been helped.
Of course, it was the place where the most vulnerable archers were concentrated among the fortress walls.
I don’t know if that was intentional or not.
The only thing that was certain was that it would be next to impossible to stop the giant with the defense forces here.
“die!”
The giant roared wildly.
What followed was a one-sided slaughter.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!
The giant swung his great ax as if a rock would be split in two with a single blow.
“Quaaaaagh!”
“My, my legs!”
“Sa… save people!”
Soldiers armed with iron armor and shields were torn like sheets of paper.
It was an attack that overshadowed the option of defending at all.
As soon as the infantry broke through, the archers right next to them were exposed to the giant.
Losing an archer, who is the key to long-distance combat, would be a strategically invaluable loss.
We must prevent the archers from annihilating them.
Especially if the enemy didn’t know how to get here.
“Killed…destroyed…they all!”
The giant swung his ax madly while muttering human language.
Arms and legs were cut into pieces, and the air was stained red with blood.
But just then
Someone cut in front of the giant.
“This is all I can do about it.”
Roaring!
A blinding blue glow followed the blade.
A person who handles auras.
The most powerful weapon possessed by the Empire.
…It’s a knight.
“Wow!”
“Temple Knights! Lord Melbourne of the Temple Knights is here!”
“It’s done. I’m alive!”
The soldiers who had just been in Hell cheered at Melbourne’s appearance.
Melbourne, blonde and blue-eyed, stepped on the giant’s arm and jumped to the nape of his neck.
Melbourne, who grabbed the giant’s back with a motion that flowed naturally like water, swung his sword.
however.
Kaaaang!
The sword, which was galloping without hesitation, suddenly bounced out of the air.
“Oh… you blocked it?”
An earthquake struck Melbourne’s pupil.
Undoubtedly.
The giant countered the sword attack with an axe. It is a characteristic of the race of giants that
it is
difficult to deal with only with superiority in physical specs .
‘…Dangerous!’
Melbourne instinctively felt a sense of danger and quickly tried to escape.
But it’s already too late.
This time, I wondered if the ax was leaning sideways.
Kwajik!
With Melbourne’s sword, he accurately smashed the body in two.
“Lord Melbourne… to be struck in one blow.”
“Mi, I can’t believe it.”
“What kind of giant are you like that? How do you beat that?”
It took an instant for hope to become a bubble and disappear.
The morale of the soldiers plummeted to the fact that the knight had died after surviving less than a minute.
“Cheuk…cuck! Humans… are weak. We are… strong.”
The giant let out a grotesque laugh and twitched the corners of his mouth.
He looked down at the humans as if intoxicated by his own power.
“The bug-like… human beings who have been bothering us for a long time. After I kill them all today… I’ll have a dinner with their meat.”
The giant, filled with dreams of predation, enjoyed the expressions of the more terrified humans.
After all, it is nature’s order for prey to be eaten without even thinking about attacking predators.
however.
A human who had lost his cowardly head calmly approached the giant.
Even while everyone was trembling, the boy was walking without fear in the slightest.
“Am I…crazy? Or…are I stupid?”
The giant tilted his head in amazement.
And soon he raised his ax high into the sky.
Just like I did to a knight called Melbourne.
I was thinking of splitting the opponent’s head in the same way.
Whoops!
The ax headed for the man’s head with a terrifying blast.
But…
what the giant expected did not happen.
Wow!
The ax, which had never stopped before, was blocked for the first time.
And even that, by means of a thin dagger.
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“It’s not a bad weapon.”
Jinhyeok glanced at the giant’s axe.
A meteorite that can withstand an aura.
This is why the giant could not be pushed even against the knight.
In addition, the original strength and speed were ignorant, so of course the knight couldn’t stand it.
“Did the dwarves get involved?”
“Uh-how…?”
“What do you want to play with? With something obvious.”
Advanced technology like this is not the kind that giants can do.
It’s a kind only allowed to Dwarves who can be called blacksmiths from birth.
Minor powers got involved in the struggle for interests of the giant powers and suffered damage.
In the end, it seems that they united and created another force.
“All of my questions have been cleared. It was a short meeting, but thank you in many ways.”
“It’s just… don’t show off with something that’s blocked for a while… Keuheoup!?”
What happened between the giant and Melbourne was repeated exactly as it was.
The difference is that things have completely changed since then.
Geugguk!
Kakak!
Cracks gradually appeared on the surface of the axe.
Uncheol, who had endured the aura, was splitting apart because he could not stand the fangs.
A blue grade.
It is no exaggeration to say that the combination of blacksmith Orun’s unique ability and the high-ranking phantom beast called Pentagris is, of course, the strongest.
“You…what the hell are you doing…?”
“The guy who will die soon won’t even know that. You’ve had a lot of trouble coming a long way.”
This is sincere.
How hard would it have been to walk in the water for days and days?
Of course, he died before he could properly repay him for his hard work.
end with that.
Awesome!
The dagger blew off the giant’s neck.
A huge head rolled over the wall.
The end of the giant, who was so strong that his teeth trembled, was too empty.
“Ooh, aren’t we dreaming right now?”
“Damn it. What kind of dream are you talking about after seeing the same thing?”
“What kind of knights did he belong to? If he was such a strong knight, he would have seen it at least once…”
The soldiers who were watching could not believe at all whether what they saw was true.
Some rubbed their eyes with their hands or shaved their heads.
The recently appointed Knight Commander of the Knights Templar.
Or a top-tier mercenary whose name is not well known.
Most were convinced that the man in front of them was one of them.
As such, the scene Jinhyeok showed us now was in a state that was incomprehensible with ordinary common sense.
But that was just then.
“Hey, wait! That person. Isn’t he a wanted criminal?”
Another commotion arose at someone’s words.
“Yes. A player from outside the tower. He is the man who caused a stir in the meeting hall of nobles.”
“I heard that the bounty alone is money we will have to collect for the rest of our lives.”
“So, shouldn’t I catch it?”
“You’re catching? How are they going to catch that monster?”
Yes.
No matter how many bounties they do, what do they do?
It’s a tree fruit that they wouldn’t dare to look at even with their own abilities?
Besides, they didn’t even want to point a knife at the benefactor who saved their life. .More
than anything else, isn’t it the arrest of criminals that is urgent right now, not the remaining giants? The
giant who turned the wall to ruin was only one of seven.
To deal with the remaining six, we had to reorganize our forces right away.
But
” Stay still.”
Jinhyeok calmly restrained them.
“What do you mean? Those who are still down there…”
“Who are you talking about?” The
ambush is over .
‘Unknown’ stepped in.
I saw a player wearing a mask with geometric patterns floating in the sky.
[Ellis activates her unique ability ‘Blood Lord’!]
Just like that,
the sky turned red.
