Episode 669: The Wolf Walking the Abyss (2)
Hans, with his greatsword slung over his shoulder, looked at Tarian with a calm gaze.
‘Tarian· The last remaining Holy Knight leader in the Holy Kingdom of Bretus·’
The one who is considered the strongest among the three captains came here to kill me.
I already knew this would happen…
Now transformed into the monster of Jebodang, his abilities are specialized in blocking large armies.
Cryptids that can be summoned endlessly·
That alone was enough for one individual to change the outcome of the battlefield.
Unless the opponent is a fool, he will do his best to eliminate the enemy that keeps summoning like this.
‘Besides, the opponent is not alone.’
Not only Tarian, but he was surrounded by his subordinate knights.
‘There are priests and wizards, and this is becoming annoying.’
I’m not sure if it was one-on-one, but the other person even had a subordinate who could assist…
‘On the other hand, I’m alone here…’
It was a pity to leave Hans, who raised such a large army, alone, but it could not be helped.
There weren’t that many numbers here.
It was actually true that we did not have the power to protect Hans.
But that didn’t mean that Hans was left in danger like this…
At least we have prepared measures to prepare for enemy attacks.
The fog that had formed around them was a smokescreen to prevent the enemies from guessing Hans’ presence.
‘I never thought the day would come when I would have to fight with my own hands.’
The feel of the great sword in my hand was unfamiliar…
The greatsword, which was about 5 meters tall and about the same height as his own body, was incredibly heavy, but Hans held it as lightly as a stick of wood.
‘A pillar with a curse…’
A great sword made from the pillars of an old building discovered at an old historical site in the past.
It was made in a simple way by simply carving a pillar and adding a handle, but the power contained in this great sword was not like that.
‘Wouldn’t that brat have been a master of the ancient curse school?’
Hans thought of Kravat, who had given him this great sword to use…
He looked like a young boy, but he was actually a man almost twice his age.
He strengthened the cursed pillar studied in his school by adding his own curse to it and then handed it to Hans to use it.
-I had a lot of trouble deciding where to use it, but looking at its size, I figured I could just swing it like a club.
At the time, I thought it was a joke, but I didn’t know it would turn out to be that way.
Hans took up his sword and took up his stance.
It was a life where I didn’t even know the sword of swordsmanship. I didn’t even hope that something would happen if I suddenly held something like this here.
However, the sense of being a beast and the body that awakened as the monster of Jebodang were different…
Sigh…
Lower your upper body, place one hand on the floor, and stretch both legs back.
The posture is as if a quadrupedal wolf is holding a sword.
The most optimal posture suited to one’s body emerged naturally.
The Holy Knights who saw that became nervous…
‘What is that…’
‘It’s my first time seeing such a posture…’
It was a posture that could not be called swordsmanship…
But it didn’t feel awkward or anything at all.
Rather, with that size and appearance, he was quite threatening.
Should I say that it feels like I’m facing a beast that seems ready to rush in to bite my head off at any moment?
But the knights did not run away.
Because I came here to defeat that monster…
“Blessings of courage…”
“The sacred belief that will defeat evil”
Priests used sacred laws with divine power.
A warm light appeared on the bodies of the paladins, including Tarian.
Hans frowned at the sight.
In his current state where reason and instinct are mixed half and half, there was something about that light that kept stimulating his instincts.
‘Nothing good will come of holding on for too long…’
Red eyes sank heavily…
Slurp·
Hans’ body disappeared from the spot.
The Holy Knights widened their eyes at that sight…
“has disappeared!”
“Where did you go?”
Was that just an illusion? A decoy to fool my eyes?
While the knights were thinking like that, the only person who took action was the commander of the Tarian Knights.
The divine power emanating from Tarian’s sword has become stronger.
The sword of blazing gold grew to 5 meters in length.
Tarian swung his sword as if splitting the world horizontally…
At the same time, it collided with the greatsword that Hans swung, creating a huge destructive force.
Quaaaang!
A clash of power so strong that it’s hard to believe it was swords clashing.
Hans and Tarian
The ground where the two were standing split apart, scattering debris in all directions along with a large explosion.
The Holy Knights who saw this widened their eyes…
“···You just moved quickly?”
They were weaker than the Tarians, but they were still elite enough.
The knights gathered here are high-level knights.
Although they were inferior to master-level knights, they were skilled enough to be proud of themselves and comparable to upper-level knights.
Those who were like that
I missed Hans’ movements…
Kagagagagak!
The power struggle between Hans and Tarian continued.
The golden divine power that Tarian emitted burned strongly, but the curse flowing from the greatsword that Hans held in his hand suppressed it.
Surprise flashed through Tarian’s eyes…
“A curse that pushes away divine power?”
That’s not an ordinary curse.
And a greatsword with such a curse on it is not an ordinary object.
Tarian’s body began to slowly move.
Even though he received the priest’s buff and strengthened his body with his own divine power, he was no match for Hans.
Wizards came forward to help Tarian.
They shot a spell at Hans’ head, and Hans stopped struggling and jumped back.
Whirlyrick
It spun around in the air several times and landed on the ground with a bounce.
Even when I landed on the ground, there wasn’t a single sound on the floor…
It was a sloppy movement that did not suit a man of 5m height.
Should I say that it’s like seeing a real ghost?
Hans nodded his head from side to side, recalling the movement from a moment ago.
‘It’s also possible…’
The head didn’t know how to fight, but the body didn’t.
His heart knew instinct.
How to step, how to walk, how to swing your arms…
‘You shouldn’t fight rationally. It’s the opposite. I’m an animal now, so I have to give in to my instincts and wildness.’
However, if it is overly encroached upon by wildness, it will turn into a monster that runs wild.
Reason and instinct
I had to walk a tightrope precisely between the two.
‘Okay then·’
Let’s get started.
* * *
When a fight is going on outside…
Seridan walked around the inner part of the castle, carefully examining any place that caught his eye.
‘There’s still a scientist named Victor hiding somewhere in this castle…’
Victor Dreadful·
A man who was a member of the First Order of the Black Dawn, but before that was from the Holy Kingdom of Bretus.
He was most likely hiding somewhere in this inner sanctum right now, watching our actions.
‘You said you committed all kinds of inhumane experiments… There’s no way a person with such intelligence would miss an opportunity like this…’
A situation where crusaders are coming in from outside…
For Victor, now was the best opportunity to strike after his enemies.
Sheridan was moving to stop it…
“Did you find it?”
Arpa, who followed Sheridan, asked…
Next to him was Bella Luna.
“Not yet, but I’m starting to get the hang of it”
Seridan realized this while analyzing the overall structure of the castle and the hidden devices inside the walls.
“This tolerance itself is a gigantic device, and it is so intricately and well-meshed that it is hard to believe how it was built in the distant past.”
“That was true.”
“But even if it’s a device that’s close to perfection, there’s bound to be a gap in the end. Perhaps a scientist named Victor is hiding in that gap.”
And the person who can find the gap…
Seridan was the only one in this place.
“Here”
Seridan stopped in front of a wall.
It was just a structure with nothing but a pure white wall, but Seridan’s eyes were filled with confidence.
“The minute gap that arises when device is connected to each other, that space is right here.”
“But you don’t feel anything?”
Arpa looked closely at the wall, but didn’t find anything particularly strange.
It also meant that it wasn’t really strange that Arpa, a highly technological automaton, didn’t discover it.
“Of course, a place like this isn’t just made up of devices…”
Sheridan reached out to Velaruna·
“Give me that”
Belaluna handed over a vial of reagent.
The vial of purple liquid itself felt ominous.
“The material of the inner strength is Holy Stone. Since it has a high conductivity of divine power, it is safe to say that a subtle divine power flows through this area. It’s like hiding something and putting a shell of divine power on top of it.”
Seridan shook the vial and threw it at the wall.
Clink…
The liquid inside touched the pure white wall, turned black and began to boil.
At the same time, the divine power began to oxidize like paint spreading over the wall.
“The story is that if you use this cursed drug given to you by a man called Kravat, you can temporarily erase its divine power…”
The wall, with the veil of divine power removed, revealed its true form.
It was a door leading to a hidden space in my inner self.
“let’s go·”
At Seridan’s words, Arpa pushed the door open with his hand.
It was a stone gate that looked heavy, but it was of no use to Arpa, who boasts superhuman power.
The door opened and a long staircase led inside.
The three people went down the stairs.
The place we arrived at at the end of the spiral staircase was a hangar-like warehouse made of pure white space.
“oh my god·”
The inside of the hangar-like warehouse was full of parts for all kinds of devices.
“What the heck is this?”
“I told you, this is a ‘gap’ in the gigantic device called this castle. Perhaps the useless parts and materials from the device are gathered here.”
“Then we really came to the right place.”
“Yeah, I think so.”
At that moment, an alarm rang inside.
“And now they know we came…”
As soon as the alarm sounded, the door on the other side of the hangar opened.
Inside, there was another long passageway, and I could see something rushing through the passageway…
A bizarre monster that seems to have been created by strangely linking together all sorts of people.
Two heads, 10 hands each where arms should be, wings made up of all kinds of fingers on the back, etc.
A human experiment with a terrible shape that looked as if its mental power would be shattered just by looking at it was coming to kill us…
“Is there too much? “If we fight like this, we will be at a disadvantage.”
Arpa asked Seridan and Belaluna if they were okay.
Victor’s test subjects were far more numerous than expected.
I got goosebumps just thinking about what would have happened if that thing had suddenly popped out of my room without me knowing anything.
“You two, step back. I’ll take care of it.”
Of these three, only Arpa was actually capable of fighting.
The other two were capable in other ways, but not suited for combat.
“No. Even you can’t deal with all those test subjects. Do you know what kind of abilities those test subjects have?”
But Sheridan was adamant…
“still····”
“Kid, you’re not the only one who knows how to fight, right?”
Seridan smiled at Arpa and said,
Seeing that appearance, Bella Luna thought to herself, ‘Who on earth is this kid?’
“Is there a way?”
“Of course… why wouldn’t there be something like that? Look over there…”
Sheridan pointed to the mountain of parts piled up with his finger.
“There are so many ingredients… so just buy yourself as much time as possible, okay?”
“···all right·”
As he said that, Arpa kicked his seat and ran towards the test subjects.
The giant test subject at the very front let out a scream and rushed at Arpa, but Arpa quickly moved to avoid the giant’s hand and then kicked him in the groin.
Fight!
The body full of hard muscles caved in and the large figure was thrown backwards.
The test subjects that followed got tangled up there and collapsed…
Meanwhile, Sheridan went into the pile of parts and quickly scanned for any suitable items.
“Okay. The condition is not bad. Rather, it seems like it is not an ordinary material, perhaps because it is a material for maintaining the equipment of this fortress.”
then·
It was an opportunity to create something bigger and better.
“How are you going to move and assemble all that heavy stuff?”
Belaluna asked if that was possible.
It was doubtful whether Seridan’s small body could properly extract even a single part from that mountain of metal.
“Of course I won’t do it alone…”
Sheridan grinned and took something out of his pocket.
“So I’m going to use this…”
It was a metal cube made of a solid color.
It also has a very strong magnetic force.
