22. Fighting with mugwort monsters (1)
Each time he went down, Zeke became stronger.
His blood, which is enough to become the last man standing, has begun to bloom.
Scatul looked at Zeke from behind and smiled happily.
Teaching both swordsmanship and magic was rewarding.
One legion of Giant Ants
became disorganized and scattered in all directions.
A few brave soldier ants managed to open the way by biting off the weakest part of the siege network made by Sadimus.
The undead army, including Zeke and Skatul Sadimus, chased right behind the stampeding ants.
Zeke’s performance was dazzling.
The giant ants curled their tails in fear just at the sight of the sacred cross emitted from his sword.
The target of the ants running away in a line, spraying pheromones,
was a cave not far from the fortress.
Hundreds of ants quickly disappeared into the cave, leaving no trace.
Just as Zeke was about to chase them into the ground, Skatul shouted from behind him.
“Stop for a moment!”
Zeke stood on his feet and looked back at him. Scatul knelt down on the ground and examined the dirt.
“This… is not a natural cave.”
“It looks like an anthill.”
Sadimus waved his hand. The undead followed his gesture and began to march into the cave.
The number of undead that survived the battle with the ant army exceeded 800.
The sight of them entering the dog’s cave, biting their tails, was eerie even though they were allies.
Immediately after that, the sound of something rattling spread far into the cave.
The rattling soon turned into a sound that sounded like something being struck, and then quickly became quiet.
Sadimus frowned.
“annihilation?”
Skathul shouted.
“Get out of the den!”
The moment Zeke hesitated, the ground collapsed.
Skatul cast a flight spell on himself and flew up, pulling Zeke’s arm at the same time.
Sadimus also quickly flew into the sky to avoid it.
Dozens of meters of soil collapsed in all directions, revealing a large pit beneath it.
What was filling the place were soldier ants with long jaws, and…
one huge individual.
“The queen already…
Skarthul twitched his lips.
I was confident until I regained the fortress, but it seems it was a miscalculation.
The queen had already taken up residence here.
Sadimus said.
“Are you going to run away now?”
Skatul nodded.
But even that didn’t seem to be easy
.
Among the ants crowded around the queen, about 10 flapped their silver wings and soared into the sky.
It was impossible to fight while using flight magic.
Scatul, who was holding Zeke, retreated to the bottom of the fortress and came down to the ground.
Sadimus said to them.
“You’d better not think about fighting. They destroyed my army once and for all. Moreover, there are no usable corpses left around here,
so it is difficult to rebuild the army.”
“Are you saying it’s a dilemma?”
Scatul looked at the ants flying in the sky. It looked like an army of male ants.
“Besides, the road back to Neuekan is now blocked. If you’re going to run away, the only way is down the mountain, and I don’t think Zeke will take that route.”
“You can just take a long turn.”
“That seems difficult too. “Look at that.”
The male ants split in half and scattered in all directions. Some of them will find Neuekan before long.
Maybe the ant army liked humans, but Noiekan’s life could only be seen as a waste of money.
“Even if we go far enough to get to Neuekan, the castle will likely already be in ruins.”
Zeke looked at the pit in front of him with a stern expression.
The ants had not come out yet, but it was only a matter of time.
There was no way Neue Kahn had the power to deal with that huge army of ants.
“You might call me crazy, but
Zeke opened his mouth.
“If we push with all our might, wouldn’t we be able to kill the queen?”
Sadimus sneered.
“Unless you plan to come back alive.”
“You mean… it’s possible?”
“Why do you listen to me intermittently? “If you have no intention of coming back alive, it’s worth targeting.”
“If I step down like this, what will happen to Neuekan?”
“If you hadn’t arrived this morning, the city would have been destroyed today.”
“The city is in danger because they came here and stimulated the ants.”
“I blame myself for being foolish. The ants, including their queen, have already arrived here. You’ll need something to eat. I’m glad it’s vegetarian, but it doesn’t look that way. “For meat-eating monsters, cities are nothing more than dense food warehouses.”
Zeke looked straight at the anthill.
“Mr. Sadimus… then stay away. “I’ll try to reduce it by at least one more, even if it’s just by myself.”
“I can’t listen to that stupid shit anymore. “Why don’t you get out of here, even if it means knocking Butler out?”
Sadimus naturally thought that Skatul had the same thoughts as him.
But Scatul said something completely unexpected.
“Sadimus. Do you remember the warrior you traveled with?”
“Of course.”
“If it were his ability, would you advise him to avoid it now
?”
“That can’t be possible. “The last person standing will compete with the Demon King.”
“That’s it.”
“There is no explanation at all? I know he’s quite talented, but…
Skatul interrupted Sadimus’ story with a smile and looked back at Zeke.
“If you are a warrior, follow the path you believe in.”
“Yes!”
“You will definitely be able to overcome the limit. “ There will be angelic protection
.”
Sadimus frowned.
“It doesn’t matter because I won’t die, but don’t do anything reckless.”
“Zeke.”
“yes.”
“This has been said since ancient times.”
“What do you mean?”
“If you are a warrior, shut up and charge.”
Zeke laughed.
It seemed like his joke made me feel a little more at ease.
Even just one queen.
If he can just kill it, Neuekan might be able to stop this army of ants.
It’s just a matter of increasing the probability of survival from zero to a few percent, but…
that’s really all a warrior has to do.
A few percent of the power that protects humanity, which is naturally destined to perish, from the devil.
Zeke charged towards the queen ant with all his might.
There were eyes watching Zeke’s fight
.
Transcendant.
They could hardly be called that, but they looked at him with very ordinary eyes.
This is not a look at humans in the underworld, but a look at a fellow human being.
It had to be that way. Because he was a real colleague.
Deus and Yulgeum came down the mountain.
I couldn’t find any traces of Zeke in the city, so I searched around and finally found him.
“Isn’t that an aura?”
Yulgeum nodded as Deus asked with his arms crossed.
” that’s right.”
“Wasn’t it exclusive to Generation Zero? Did I make a mistake in calculating the generation? “Zeek was actually from Generation Zero.”
“Then it must be the last one. Congratulations on working hard to raise an enemy to defeat the Demon King.”
“shut up.”
“I am a 4th generation warrior. Humans themselves know the Zero Generation better than anyone else
. “Because they are the saviors of mankind.”
“Well, it’s impossible for thousands of people to be mistaken over decades.”
Zeke’s strength in fighting the Ant Queen was significantly different from two days ago.
A single strike of the sword strengthened by the aura was enough to split a soldier ant in two.
As the roughness disappeared, the power of swordsmanship also doubled.
As I followed the path of the sword that I had learned from Skatul and cut in a trance, even the Giant Ant was scared and retreated. While
the aura of attack permeated the sword,
the aura of defense was concentrated in the shield.
The shield made of dragon scales was actually close to fire. Even the giant’s blow did not leave a single scratch.
When the aura was added to the shield, an area beyond just the physical size of the shield was incorporated into the absolute defense area.
Attacks of any level could not even approach the faint spherical aura. The formic acid that
the ants constantly shoot out
was blocked by the aura around Zeke’s body, not to mention the shield.
“It is an absolute shield and an invincible sword.” Deus burst out laughing as he saw that.
“Just because I got my hands on a single aura, I became a completely different being.”
“It’s not winter. The beginning and end of a hero is the existence of aura. “The biggest characteristic that distinguishes Generation Zero from other generations is the presence or absence of an aura.”
“But why can I use Zeke? “That guy is the 4th generation.”
“Think of it the other way around. Why does Generation Zero
gain such powerful power?”
“They say there is an angel’s protection.”
“There is that, but if it isn’t needed, the angels won’t give you their protection.” Deus frowned and looked at Zeke again.
The queen ant was powerful.
According to the unit I made a while ago, it looked like it was about 2 or 3 dragons.
Moreover, the real power was not in herself, but in the countless ants around her.
There was no end to the number of ants crawling out of their burrows.
Although each one was nothing special, the power of the ants forming a colony was stronger than that of any other monster.
However, the existence of the giant ant army was now only a function of investigating Zeke’s power.
Skatul and Sadimus were firing magic inside the defensive force field created by Zeke’s shield.
Sadimus’ dark magic was an excellent medium through which his nearly infinite magical power descended into this world. The lightning storm he
summoned shrunk
dozens of ants into black lumps .
Scatul mainly played the role of casting auxiliary magic to Zeke.
As Deus said, since she was a fairy, there was no magic that was flashy to look at.
However, just by increasing Zeke’s physical abilities and restoring his stamina, he was doing his job well.
“Why are the heroes of Generation Zero so strong?
While Deus was muttering, he suddenly realized one thing.
“Zeek is like that because of me?”
“Now you’ve noticed.”
The reason the warrior is strong is because there is a devil.
“The reason Zeke’s blood suddenly bloomed into an aura was probably because the Demon King was right next to him.”
Deus looked at Zeke with a surprised expression.
Zeke was the one I chose because I wanted to hide away and do nothing.
The family’s level was not very high, and his own abilities were not very high.
He has no parents and all he has to do is
do all kinds of chores in the village.
Since no one was paying attention, I thought it was a perfect match.
But he was also a warrior.
The moment I met the Demon King, I began to awaken.
And in just a few months, it gained power comparable to Generation Zero.
It may have been because of his high level of purity, but even that might have been influenced by the Demon King.
Deus suddenly burst out laughing.
“Hahaha, are you saying this is also fate? Jin Geum-yong. “Why does this world
exist?” Although he was smiling, Yulgeum could read anger in his voice.
A unique demon king.
Can the birth of such a person also be called fate?
Maybe…
the fact that humanity has endured for 666 centuries was itself a miracle.
Because they have always stepped on the accelerator toward extinction, as if they existed to be destroyed.
“I hope you find the answer yourself. It’s not something I can tell you.”
