Episode 385 Frontal Breakthrough (1)
“You’re going to break through from the front? Have you ever wondered what your hair is like now?”
Limray thought he heard something wrong.
Otherwise, there was no way Rudger would suddenly say to make a frontal breakthrough.
Rimray, who tried to argue further, gave up persuasion the moment he saw Ludger’s expression.
“…You guys are sincere.”
Rudger didn’t just say what he had just said.
“Is there a way?”
“I thought about it. The shadow knights who were chasing us. It was nowhere to be seen in the direction we were running away from. Normally, in this case, the survivors would randomly appear in the place where they are staying.”
“I heard and saw it.”
“Maybe they have a fixed location for being summoned. And it will spread throughout the mansion and eliminate intruders.”
“So you’re saying you can get to the source of the system by going back through where they came from?”
“I think so. At least you know where to summon them.”
Isn’t that just speculation?
Everyone thought so, but at the same time Rudger’s reasoning was quite convincing.
“So what are you going to do? Are you going to go back like this and break through those shadow monsters?”
“yes.”
“You want to risk your life on something you’re not sure about? Everyone here?”
“I alone am enough.”
“There are rules in the mansion…”
“It doesn’t matter if you move alone now.”
Rudger said that and pointed to Samuel.
“Samuel was alone when he was attacked by the Shadow Knight and fled to our location. Don’t you remember?”
“That’s…”
“Before the Shadow Knights appeared, the entire mansion shook greatly. It must have happened when the mansion’s systems were running. Conversely, that is probably why the ‘rules’ of the mansion that have been applied so far do not work.”
So from now on, ‘individual actions’ were possible in this secret mansion.
“You don’t have to follow me. It doesn’t matter if you join other mages. But I have to go no matter what anyone says.”
“Such a madman.”
“Sage-nim, you can leave. Anyway, this is all my own actions. I have no intention of forcing you.”
“I think so even if you don’t say that, you bastard! If I scratch gently like that, how can I get over my emotions and move?”
Limray backed away, saying that he really did not want to move with him.
Rudger didn’t blame Rimray for that.
I didn’t expect it in the first place, so there was nothing to be disappointed about.
However, Roina and Sempas were different.
“I’m coming too!”
“I will go too.”
I didn’t expect this, so I looked at the two with a gaze asking if Rudger was real.
“Chi’s friend is going, but I can’t leave alone.”
“If you come this far and run away, your pride will not allow it. What’s more, I’m curious as to what your plans are.”
It’s a terrible reason for working on something that requires risking one’s life.
But that made it feel even more authentic.
Limray stuck out his tongue.
“They’re just pure lunatics.”
“Will only the old man do it?”
“Are you no longer a wise man, but an old man? You say you’re breaking up, so you’re leaving?”
Rimray complained, then took something out of his pocket and threw it at Rudgar.
Ludger, who lightly snatched the object out of the air, looked at it and his eyes lit up.
“What is this?”
“It is an artifact. It will come in handy at least once in a life-threatening moment.”
Rudgar studied the jeweled brooch carefully.
Seeing the flow of mana inside, it was clear that it was an artifact.
However, it was quite questionable that Rimray was carrying such an item.
Even if it was an artifact, it didn’t suit him.
It was something a woman could use.
“It is something I no longer need. Instead of not being able to go with you, just wear a skirt.”
“….Is that so.”
But Rudger didn’t bother to ask.
Rudger, who kept the brooch in his pocket, left without saying goodbye.
Arpa and Sempas Roina followed.
The remaining Rimray stared at Ludger’s back in silence.
“There. Aren’t you going?”
“….okay. I have to go.”
Come to think of it, there was this guy.
Rimray, who returned to reality at Samuel’s words, moved in the opposite direction where Ludger left.
* * *
When I said we would be together, I got the momentum, but now I feel a little regretful, so Roina timidly spoke out.
“It’s good that we jumped out confidently, but is it really okay?”
In order not to lose hope, she asked Rudger in an expectant voice.
“But do you have any definite plans or anything like that?”
“Hasn’t the plan already been told? A frontal breakthrough.”
“yes? But…”
Roina tried to ask more, but couldn’t.
I started to see black shadows on the other side of the hallway.
“Get ready to fight.”
sereung.
Rudger grabbed the handle of the cane and pulled out the swordstick.
Seeing this, Royna was taken aback.
“Ka Carl? Wasn’t that a wand?! Why would you do such a hideous thing…!”
“Everyone has a secret card hidden from them. It’s the same for me, Roina-san and Sempas, isn’t it?”
“…..”
That was correct.
There is no person in the world who reveals everything about himself.
Even that Roina had never revealed her full power until now.
“But it will be different now.”
A shadow began to creep up from Ludger’s toes.
In an instant, it spread to his legs and covered Ludger’s clothes.
“For this moment, take out everything you have.”
Before long, the shadow covered Ludger’s face with a mask.
Flash!
Blue eyes flowed from the pupils of the Plague Doctor Mask.
“Unless you want to die.”
Magic Beast [Ather Nocturnus]
Ludger, completely in shadow, charged at the shadow knight.
Arfa followed after him.
“I am going too.”
Sempas followed without wavering.
Roina, who was left alone, watched in dismay, then drooped her shoulders.
“Aww. I really don’t want to write this much.”
Roina bit her lip and created magic.
“Give me some time!”
Leaving behind Roina’s cry, Ludger faced the leading shadow knight.
The guy was holding twin spears in both hands, but it was clear that he had been fighting Arfa a while ago.
Kyaaaaagh!
The shadow knight also recognized Ludgar and simultaneously thrust out the twin spears held in both arms.
“Funny.”
At the same time as Ludgar muttered, two huge arms stretched out from the clothes on both shoulders.
Ather Nocturnus stretched out his arms and grabbed the twin spears that were being thrown.
Kigigi Geek.
Just as it was, the moment shadow and shadow entered into a contest of strength, Ludger’s swordstick turned into a single flash of light and was swung.
squeak.
The upper body of the knight whose head was split vertically leaned backwards.
However, seeing that he had not completely collapsed, Arfa shouted.
“leader!”
“Know.”
A shadow knight cannot be knocked down by an attack of just this amount.
Even if their bodies are burned with powerful magic, they will eventually regenerate.
In a way, an immortal being with no weaknesses.
However, beings created by the mansion’s system were bound to have weaknesses.
‘If this works.’
It’s possible in theory, but I don’t know how it will work in practice.
But since I came this far, I couldn’t step back.
Rudgar thrust his sword stick into the ground beneath the shadow knight’s feet.
It was a moment when Arpa and Sempas were puzzled by the sight of him stabbing the floor, not even a shadow knight.
“Here.”
Rudger blew mana into the sword stick, and the mana he had accumulated at the tip of the blade exploded like a flame.
thud!
A small impact echoed from under the floor of the mansion.
An amazing thing happened right after.
The shadow knight, who was slowly regenerating his head that had been split in half, turned into powder and scattered.
“and!”
“You said you got rid of the Shadow Knights?”
While Arfa and Sempas were admiring them, Ludger gave instructions.
“They are getting their magic power from the mansion. There is an invisible pass connected to the ground under the Shadow Knight’s feet that touches the mansion. cut it off.”
Arfa and Sempas understood the words and immediately took action.
“Then that’s my specialty.”
Sempas lifted his leg and gave the ground a big thump.
His magic, which he had shown in sparring with Ludger, unfolded again.
The mana that seeped into the ground through his legs moved on his will and caused a series of explosions under the carpet floor.
Pupperpuppung!
The power wasn’t that strong, but it was too much to break the target pass.
The image of the Shadow Knights, who had endured any attack, was greatly staggered and blurred.
The shadow knights stumbled as the magic power that was continuously supplied from the secret mansion was interrupted.
“Arfa! Cut the pass and hit the main body!”
“yes!”
At Ludger’s command, Arfa moved.
Arfa dug in between the stumbling shadow knights, kicked and stretched out his fists.
Puffup!
The beaten knights exploded like firecrackers with unbelievable explosiveness for their small stature.
The disappeared knights never regenerated.
‘As expected.’
Being able to get rid of them wasn’t just guesswork.
It was all thanks to the records I read in the hidden room in the library.
‘The shadow knights are endlessly supplied with magic power by the leyline, and a defense system that does not collapse. And the role of supplying the mana raised from the leyline is the mansion.’
In order to defeat the Shadow Knight, he had to cut off his magic.
There was no need to touch the leyline itself.
It was enough to cut off the mana pass that supplies the magic power raised from the leyline.
‘Of course, this isn’t permanent.’
Even if the pass is cut off, as long as the leyline and the mansion are intact, the pass will play endlessly and summon the Shadow Knight again.
But it was enough to buy time.
“Break through!”
Rudger shouted and swept away the newly flocking Shadow Knights.
It was the same with Sempas and Arfa.
The two worked together to deal with the shadow knight.
When Sempas cuts the pass, Arpa hits the body.
He steadily reduced the number of Shadow Knights.
but.
“leader! There is no end!”
“It keeps coming.”
As they passed through the shadow knights, the number of knights flocking from beyond the corridor continued to increase.
It was said that it was close to the summoning circle, but the resistance of the knights also intensified.
‘At times like this, it would have been easier if I had anti-magic.’
Kyaaaaagh!
The knight screamed and swung his halberd.
Ludger tried to block Ather Nocturnus’ attack with both arms, but felt the power beyond imagination and let the attack flow to the side.
Quaang!
The momentum of the halberd embedded in the ground was very destructive.
‘The power has increased?’
Rudger realized right away.
That the new Shadow Knights are much stronger than the ones I fought the first time.
If the previous shadow knights only leaked out their eyes.
Right now, green light was overflowing from the entire gap between the joints of the knights’ armor.
It was obvious that if time was delayed here, stronger guys would pour out.
‘It’s still worth dealing with. But how much longer can I last?’
5 minutes?
10 minutes?
Comparing the strength of the first knights and the current knights, it should not have been more than 10 minutes at the longest.
‘Should I blow a big magic here and wipe it out in one fell swoop?’
So, I had to think about the fight that would follow.
There must be a Black Dawn in the Shadow Knight’s summoning circle.
Maybe even Leslie herself.
At that moment when Rudger was agonizing, he felt a huge magic power behind him.
A huge wave that pulsates through the atmosphere.
A faint smile formed on Rudger’s lips.
‘okay. There was something the other side was preparing.’
Rudger looked back.
It was the same with Sempas and Arfa.
“Everyone, keep your heads down!”
Hearing Roina’s unusually clear voice, Ludger, Sempas, and Arfa heard the warning and bowed down.
Cheer up!
Immediately above their heads, tentacles made of bluish magic passed across them.
The tentacles pierced the shadow knights mercilessly.
Kyaaaaaa!!
The Shadow Knights screamed.
It was a truly bizarre sight for those who did not respond to any attack.
Rudger immediately understood why.
The knights stung by the tentacles were being absorbed.
The tentacles, like straws, absorbed and sucked the magic that constituted the Shadow Knight.
And the source of that tentacle was a strange lump made of magic.
“Ugh. gross.”
Arfa looked at the lump and expressed her honest feelings.
In the meantime, the mass grew in size as it absorbed the Shadow Knights through its tentacles.
“Miss Royna. That’s what the heck…..”
“It’s my magic number.”
“…..”
“Why are you looking at me like that! i know! I’m weird too! You thought it was gross?!”
It was honestly like that, but Rudger immediately shook his head.
“I’m just wondering why you summoned such a useful guy now.”
“It’s a bit like that because my magic number is said to be like this. Even if I look like this, I have an intelligent image!”
“…Intelligence?”
What is an intelligence for a person who is not normally intelligent at all?
I managed to hold back the words trying to get out of my throat.
However, I could understand some of Roina’s feelings.
Roina’s magic beast was a bit like that even to Ludgar, who had a good taste.
Rather, the monster of the report party is much better.
‘Besides, if you look closely, it’s a slug, right?’
What looked like a lump of flesh turned out to be a giant slug.
What happened was that one effect was certain.
Unlike the beginning, even the stronger Shadow Knights were being absorbed by magic beasts.
“With this, you will be able to reach the summoning circle safely. Can it be maintained?”
“yes. It is possible.”
“Then let me get some help.”
“…it can’t be helped.”
Since she had come this far and had nothing to hide, Roina gave an order to the magical beast with a voice that gave up halfway.
“Push! Whimp!”
“oh my god. I really can’t come up with a name…eup.”
“quiet.”
Rudger covered Arfa’s mouth with his shadow-covered hand.
