My Villains Episode 083
22. Witch (3)
I sat down on the stone steps, wiping the blood off my mouth.
“Whoa, that’s tough.”
I didn’t feel it during the fight, but after it was over, my whole body ached a lot.
In particular, because of the shoulder beaten by all sorts of weapons and the side stabbed several times by the tip of a knife, excruciating pain rages every time you breathe.
My stomach and thighs also throbbed as if I had been beaten several times with a fist, and my shins were sore as if they had been sliced by a sharp knife.
If it hadn’t been a shame because the armor was strong, he would have been dying by now.
wo O ” ———–9
After sitting and moaning for about ten minutes, the pain subsided a little. Are you used to the pain? anyway.
I stood up against the wall and looked around.
I entered through the third floor and came down the stairs, so this must be the second floor of the palace tower. Candles in brass candlesticks dimly lit the room.
There was only one soldier’s corpse lying around in a room with arrow holes on the wall, but nothing else.
On one side stood a spiral staircase leading to the upper and lower floors, and on the other side stood a thick wooden door with iron frames.
“The door seems locked.” Even if I put my ears to it, I couldn’t hear anything.
There’s no way they didn’t notice the uproar on our side, so they probably don’t have the energy to send reinforcements.
“Okay.”
Geek.
I grabbed the doorknob and struggled for a while, but the door showed no sign of opening.
If your strength is 23, you are at the level of a wild boar, but is it still lacking?
Shall we break it with Hrunting?
no no There is no way to get it back if the blade is damaged by beating it blindly…
Unfortunately, I picked up a combat ax from upstairs and tried to axe it, but the door didn’t budge.
This is because the core material layered on top of the solid frame was quite tough. I think I’ll have to spend at least 2-30 minutes with an ax to break through this.
I went upstairs again, but the door was warped, perhaps because of the earthquake. Moreover, seeing a piece of stone protruding from the cracked door, the wall might collapse if you carelessly touch it.
oh i can’t help it
I went down to the first floor, lighting the front with a candlestick.
A damp musty smell penetrates the nostrils. It must be above ground in terms of the number of floors, but it feels shady and damp as if you are entering a basement. When I went down the stairs and lit a fire around,
there was a well on the other side of the stairs going up to another palace tower .
Around it, there were wooden barrels, boxes, pottery, and other odds and ends, and in the corner… “…Hmm?”
“Phoenix? it’s you?”
“What?”
Familiar people were imprisoned inside the small iron cage. It was Sister Grania and Olga. The two of them were tied tightly to the ropes with all their weapons removed.
“What are you doing here?”
“That’s…”
Grania looked sideways at Sister Olga with a puzzled look on her face.
Ay no way really?
“Sister, did you get the letter?”
“…huh. I didn’t do that on purpose…”
Ha, I’m going crazy. Was it really because of Sister Olga that the SS suddenly moved? Because of the letter I wrote?
“I must have accidentally spilled it on my way up to the bedroom. I didn’t even know it was because the stairs were so dark.”
…If it wasn’t for the real nun, I would have been fucking with double bathing right away.
I said with a small sigh.
“…it’s a relief that he didn’t die on the spot. What about Pharrell and Gilius?”
“I do not know.”
“Don’t you know?”
When I asked, narrowing my eyebrows, Grania, who was next to me, answered instead.
“Obviously they were caught together, but we were brought here and the two were sent elsewhere. Please release this immediately. It looks like it’s still under siege.” The key was not too difficult to find. Among the soldiers dealt with above, one of the other outfits was a guard.
After opening the barbed wire and releasing the restraints, Grania explained the situation.
“After being imprisoned in the salt castle, the lord of the castle started to get a little weird. I said bullshit that the prince would come in if I did something without even touching the food.”
“Why all of a sudden? Did you go crazy?”
“Things like that happen, too. They say that the reason why their son fell sick with a fever was because of the prince’s curse.”
“son? Oh, the sick family member of the castle lord was the son?”
This time, Sister Olga answered.
“that’s right. I and another sister were taking care of the sick.”
“Ugh. Then where is the Seongju family?”
“It must be in the audience room. The lord of the castle is not someone who can fight, so he will stay with his other relatives.”
“Is it because the order of the castle lord is why the guards are resisting?”
“I guess so. After the letter was found, the streets went wild. They were yelling that they would hang us in the square.”
Wow, the scenario was really messed up.
If we recall the original scenario….
Following the schedule quests, the order was to catch ‘Kingpin’ Ubarr at the pier and take the ‘Unveiled Position’ in front of the salt castle.
In the process, there was no collision with the lord of the castle, and of course, he did not fight with the bodyguards. Since it was the castle lord and his retainers who gave the quest in the first place, there was no reason to fight.
However, when an earthquake occurred and Prince Ulkar occupied the city, situations that were not present in the game arose.
Of course, it’s probably because I intervened here and there, but I don’t think the scenario was greatly twisted because of those factors.
Umm….
It’s done. It’s not the time to think about these things. Let’s start with what we need to do now.
“I have to go and open the lattice door. The knights are waiting for me with their necks stretched out. Are you going with me?”
“Because I can’t be sucking my fingers here.”
“Then, both of you arm yourself. There’s a lot of unowned equipment up there.”
“above?”
Grania glanced down the stairs with a sullen expression on her face.
“I heard a strange noise earlier.”
“Sounds weird?”
“huh. I must have heard something like a beast cry. didn’t you hear?”
“…I don’t know. Didn’t you hear the noise of the fight outside?”
“It sounded like an echo, so I don’t know exactly… but it must have been heard from above. Is that right, Sister?”
“that’s right. It was an unholy laugh.”
Seeing the two of them with a look of disgust on their faces, I let out a smirk.
“I must have heard hallucinations because it was so dark. If you feel uncomfortable, wait here.”
Grania made eye contact with Sister Olga for a moment, then shook her head.
“…no, not even that. Let’s go up.”
A mercenary and a nun stood behind me, armed with the equipment of the dead SS.
Sister Olga wrote me prayers for healing, and thanks to her, the aches and pains that remained in various parts of my body seemed to subside.
We couldn’t wait any longer, so we went straight up the stairs on the other side. While keeping footsteps as low as possible, I crept up to the room on the second floor, but I was shocked!
“Heuk!”
What is this X arm?
Something flew from the corner of the room and hit me in the chest. I reflexively twisted my shoulders, but the speed of the projectile was so fast that there was no way to avoid it.
I hurriedly raised my shield and looked down to see an arrow with three feathers rolling on the floor.
The iron plate fixed with rivets bounced off to the extent that it dug deep, but the pain in my breastbone felt as if it had been beaten with an iron club.
“Uh *cool* these bastards,” he let out a suffocating cough, then straightened his staggering upper body, pulling his back. Then he threw down the candlestick and pulled out the Hrun Ting, kicking the floor at the same time.
Then, three from the front, three from the stairs leading to the third floor, two from the door leading to the hallway, three – a total of eight soldiers came out. A well-known solid armament. It was the castle lord’s bodyguard.
As if they had been in ambush for a while, they were holding wooden sticks one by one in their mouths. Even with my sensitive hearing, I couldn’t hear a sound of breathing. Could it be because of that?
There are a lot of enemies, so it would be the correct answer to fight slowly while maintaining a firm stance. But the pain rising from my breastbone passed through my throat and turned into rage, so I couldn’t stand it and rushed forward.
“Quaaap!”
Quaang!
Hrunting swung with a fierce shout and blew a soldier through his shield.
Then, he blocked the ax that came from the side with his shield and stabbed his sword deeply under the attacker’s helmet.
Leaving behind the guy who pierced his eyeball and trembled, I started rampaging with the blade dyed red.
Grania and Sister Olga were looking after me, so the enemies couldn’t completely surround me.
Thanks to that, I swept the narrow room to my heart’s content and it took less than 3 minutes to kill all the enemies.
“haha. I’m going to die.”
I plucked the sword from the last soldier’s chest and sat down.
“Are you okay with Phoenix?”
“No *hehe* it’s so hard.”
The battle with the elite soldiers was more tiring than expected.
The guards of Seongju came out with their weapons at the slightest gap.
Thanks to that, I had to twist my body to receive the attack with my armor, and every time I did, it felt like my muscles were tearing and my bones were breaking.
In addition, it was not easy to handle because of the strong armament.
The only thing he could aim for was his face, and even that was covered with a chain cover. My wrists felt sore every time I pierced a chain with a knife, probably because it was a proper item, not a cheap one.
It’s fortunate that the blade isn’t damaged, but I’m afraid I’ll break my wrists and elbows before that.
This fatigue continued to accumulate through successive fierce battles, and although his body was strong, he was enduring it, but the hardships were difficult.
Of course, it would have been better if he had used the ‘Loot’ skill… but he couldn’t be sucking human blood in front of a priest.
“Lord, who watches over all ages. Come into the hands of your servant and show love.”
With a short murmur, Sister Olga’s hands glowed white. When his shining hand touched his head, a faint light poured out and embraced his whole body.
Hurulung.
Ugh, the pain is getting less.
Compared to the priests in the church, they are inferior, but Sister Olga’s Holy Order seems to be quite usable.
It must be because of this that Grania is dragging this clumsy nun around.
“Whoa, thank you. I just want to live a little longer.”
I caught my breath and turned my shoulders, and Grania said as if she was dumbfounded.
“You’ve already killed over twenty people fighting in the palace tower over there, right? It’s nothing to say that you wiped out half of the castle guards… You couldn’t even hold a sword properly until a month ago, did you?”
“Oh, was it? Every time I fight to the point of falling behind, my skills improve quickly.” When I trembled, Grania burst into laughter and shook her head. I laughed too and got up from my seat.
I went out into the hallway through the door through which the enemy soldiers came in, but I couldn’t feel any presence.
The row of candlesticks lit up the hallway, so I could see the lattice door on the other side at a glance. Certainly not a single enemy was visible.
“…what?”
“It might be a trap.”
Grania’s dark brown eyes were shining brightly under the tightly pressed helmet.
“Watch out for ceilings and corners. Arrows may fly out of nowhere.” But to put it mildly, there were no raids or traps as we ambled through the corridors.
When I reached the hoist to raise the lattice door and no one showed up, I let out a weary breath.
“Did he run away?”
“Where is the corner to escape? It must have gone up.”
oh well i guess
The corridor leading from the palace tower to the lattice door was narrow enough for me to barely pass through.
Even considering that my physique was far above average, it was a structure in which more than one heavily armed soldier could not stand.
What if the SS run into me in this environment? It won’t do any damage, and it will all be cut.
The reason they were dangerous was because they had been surrounded by numbers. No matter how elite soldiers were, if they attacked one by one, they would be nothing more than an easy opponent.
Thinking like that, it makes sense for them to step back… but it’s kind of embarrassing.
…uh what?
“Hey, why are you like this?”
“huh? why’?”
Grania crumpled her face when she found what I was pointing at.
“Damn it. Did you lose your machine? ”
Fuck, that’s right. I wondered how things could be solved easily.
