Chapter. 16. Saint and Perfection (27)
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Kuuuuung –
Another pillar falls down, scattering red smoke. It was one of the largest and best grown around here.
Now that it’s collapsed, the area protected by the blood mist will be significantly reduced. The land that nourished Mute will be trampled by humans like waves of steel and stained with the disgusting light of divinity.
“Tooth. “I’ve tried my best, but it’s clear that I can’t replace you.”
….Small.
Edeorna laughed bitterly at the human shouts echoing among the chamber maids’ screams.
In the end, it’s like this.
[….If you had faced my remaining thoughts, I would have died without being able to secure my father. Unfortunately, we ended up losing. Ah, I thought I would definitely be able to surpass him this time.]
[He will probably head straight to the Western Front now that I’m dead. He must be trying to finish off our race that has lost its head.]
Falcatus had prepared numerous schemes and defenses just before he left. Even about what happens after his death.
The red fog zone was a natural fortress that, the deeper you went, paralyzed not only your eyesight but also your hearing, smell, and touch, blocking the concentration of mana and elemental power.
Although hidden from humans, the fog-spraying Chamber Maid did not lose its ability to reproduce. In addition to the ability to create a blood fog zone, it was also capable of producing a low-level mute that exploded while spraying strong acidic body fluids, and being slow and sluggish, it would boast extremely powerful effects in a fog zone where the senses were blocked.
[….sister. I always respected him, feared him, and lived with defeat in mind. I also knew that there was a high possibility that a moment like this would come someday. Please think of what I am about to tell you as an apology for this ugly younger brother who died in vain. First of all, let me tell you about the division of the nation that humans call ‘Teldrat’…]
How far can uncivilized humans fall when they are swayed by desire, and how can they without hesitation commit terrible acts that will drive their own people to their deaths?
What is the only means the enemy will choose to turn the tables on the man Falcatus calls father?
A detachment of humans who will bounce acidic mutes at each other that will explode if touched, without even being able to confirm each other’s location in the blood fog.
What should we do when the detachment is isolated like that and the main force, the most powerful force, which can be said to be the enemy’s total power, has entered deeply?
He said that he had prepared an environment suitable for the growth of a powerful entity called Edeornara.
The queen was also able to convey her will to all of Mute, so all the plans conveyed by the thought were implemented, and the all-out attack, which risked everything for humanity, was divided into the main unit and a separate unit, and penetrated deep enough, as predicted by Falcatus.
『Kaaaaa! Oh oh oh, take me away. I will burn every last bit of my remaining strength. Take the warrior’s soul from my empty shell!!!!!!』 Kwajajajajajajag
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『It’s Certa! The Wisdom Church is watching you with the ‘eyes in the sky’, so please focus only on the battle at hand! Led by the two saints, the Saints of Mercy and the Holy Knights have formed a ‘sanctuary’ circle in the center, so we will maintain a droplet-shaped formation with the Saints at the center!』 –
[Palm/Garrison/Dolpar 3 parties 8 person! Named discovered Named discovered! Two Three Heads, Nygmi Trapper, and Dox! Two names! It’s the enemy’s counterattack!]
– [Wood/poled 2 parties, 7 people. Garrison is right in front of us. Join in.]
– [It’s the professor! It’s dangerous between you two, so just hold on! Turn the large group’s head and attack from there!]
– [Whee~ You’re in good hands, monster saint!]
– [Attach the party leader and communicate, you bastard! I know how many people are in communication here!]
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Kuuuung-
Quaaaaang!
Sadly, the Queen and Edeorna couldn’t handle it properly.
Dozens of elites prepared by Falcatus were thrown into heavy fire and destroyed individually, and the humans sent one of the saints they considered most precious with the special unit to open the sacred communication that connected all of the special unit.
Even with their eyes and ears covered, they moved organically and steadily removed the source of the blood fog. In the place where the fog disappeared, a large human army entered, set up their camp, and sprinkled holy water.
“I should have stopped you when you said you would go to the desert alone.”
….click.
Sigh.
Crack!
The weapons containing their power, created by eating countless heroes, began to fall into place one by one on Edeorna’s white body.
A great arch made from someone’s spine and tendons.
A serrated sword made from the claws and fangs of a certain beastman.
The wizard’s eyes still contain snowflakes in their pupils.
Clap clap clap! Chagak!
A symbol of those who were once heroes, now buried under white thorns.
and.
….Chalarak.
The golden dragon’s scales and claws were handed to her by a frightened Nigmi while crying. The remains of my younger brother who loved his family and race more than anyone else.
[….Also, there is one thing left that I would like to tell only to you.]
Edeorna looked down at the slowly approaching army of steel, seeing the dragon’s scales growing white where her right arm had once been cut off.
[….My sister has loved me as an equal and as her own blood since the time when I was nothing. Edeorna my sister. This thought will be left only to you, not to your mother or other siblings…]
“….Tooth.”
Edeorna’s fully armed body fell down from the top of the tall Chamber Maid.
[Nigmi has become afraid of his father, and Dox is gloomy and conceited, so there is a high possibility that he will do something wrong. Sister, there is only you. For you… I would like to leave open the possibility of a slightly different choice…]
“What on earth do you want from me?”
It ends with Edeorna recalling the last thoughts of her departed brother.
Hehehe!
Width –
The white fuselage disappeared into the thick blood fog.
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“and.”
“Huhhh…..”
“Guhuh…. uh….”
Three mouths wide open. And the two people with their arms crossed looking up with interest.
Square Square –
“Just looking at some of the human structures expands the horizon of perception. Tushan, would you please step aside for a moment?”
“Grrr. I’m a little offended. I guess all the time spent trapped in the human castle was painful. “I don’t want to be near big structures.”
An elf and a werewolf chatting while looking at the huge castle walls and skyscrapers in front of them.
And
“This Idrasil… W Where is this?”
“Rodrik’s metropolis, also called the city of wizards. This is Tobrun. I thought the professor would know better than I, a first time student. “Isn’t Otman from this city?”
“Oh no… This is not possible. Two clean and clear upstream streams met and the two merged into one wide river flowing across the city. Tobrun… Once this heroic journey is over, the Water Magic Tower must be restored again. TOBRUUNEEEE!!!!!”
“Geuuuu. Meat Castle. “A meat fortress that you can’t eat.”
“no! My hometown! That’s not the wizard city of Tobrunn! It can’t be like this, it can’t be like this!!!!”
The three people who had stayed in Tobrun for a while and passed by there in the past were mesmerized by the dramatic change in Tobrun from the past.
– [Hey… Saint Certa? I’m teaching you, but that… the hell?]
– [Don’t look shocked. The soldiers are agitated.]
You know, I know that. I know, but…
‘How on earth can you maintain a solemn expression while looking at that!’
The city that was full of magic and vitality when I passed by has turned into a biohazard hell complete with a meaty Tower of Babel, but how did I survive without being shaken?
Thanks to all kinds of magic and incantations inlaid, the castle wall, which shined beautifully with five-colored magic circles, became a barrier of disgust covered with red-colored flesh and pulsating blood vessels that seemed to have flowed, and on top of the castle wall, a crustacean-type mute, often used by chamber maids, with long tentacles. It was hanging and flopping like a turret.
Up to this point, it was a sight that would make you go to a priest if you dreamed, but what happened after that was even worse.
Three types of chamber maids, including the broad root, pillar of the poor, and standard type. Aren’t Mute’s base-type production facilities, which can take over the entire area between villages just by itself, filling up the castle walls like bean sprouts? And they are several times larger than regular chamber maids!
And the guy in the center of the bean sprout soup. The huge tower that rises almost to the clouds is large in size, but no one can see the blood constantly flowing from the top, the large purple gongma crystal embedded in the center, and the thick blood vessels running up the tower in three branches…
“Those bastards.” “He stole our entire magic tower, Lead Flow’s magic tower!!!”
“Ottoman, just calm down for a moment…”
“Do I look calm! Although the origin of our school has collapsed because of so-and-so, the magic tower containing the essence of water-based magic that will one day bloom brilliantly again has fallen into the hands of those dirty monsters! “These bastards!!!!”
….It looked exactly like the half-destroyed magic tower of the Lead Flow school. The difference is that it is five times larger than the previous magic tower and that Mute’s blood flows instead of water.
– [If it is a magic tower… is it the influence of mana?]
– [Our priests of wisdom judge that it is. Since Tobruun was a city of wizards, it had a huge amount of magic stones in stock, and Roderick had to hand over Tobrun to Mute, who rushed up without even having a chance to steal the vast supplies.] – [They took care of
all that . Did you eat it?]
– [Aurors cannot absorb it. The divine power became polar opposites thanks to the power of the evil god, but since mana is a power that exists in nature, they can also absorb it. It is believed that such a huge chamber maid was created by absorbing all of the magic stones. Chamber maids have a habit of settling in tall buildings such as castles or spires, and the location of the magic tower is the place where mana is most concentrated in the city, so it would be natural for the largest entity to be located there.]
Detached unit and main unit.
That was the reason why the advance, which had been divided into two camps and was gnawing away at Mute’s occupied territory, came to a halt.
A truly authentic mute fortress. The core of the enemy forces took up residence in the occupied city and used human structures as the foundation, with production facilities growing endlessly on top of them.
Not only is the castle wall high, but it itself is a living enemy, and judging from the number of heads of chamber maids that can be seen vaguely, it looks like the power generated there alone could be more than our main force in a short period of time.
It is truly the most powerful and important place in the occupied territory where the enemy has advanced.
Its scale and defense power were not at a level where a separate unit could break through, and even if it did break through, the main unit could not advance immediately due to structural problems, so the operation of the separate unit had no choice but to be halted.
“Otman. “That… has to be pierced from the front, right?”
“Hehehehehehe…. I guess so. Unlike a typical castle, the entire castle is more like a living creature, so you can’t infiltrate and lower the drawbridge, and in fact, anywhere you step is like on an enemy’s body.”
“Do you have enough water? Tobrun was a city where the power of water-based magic was strong thanks to the large river.”
“It’s difficult. What and how much was absorbed into the river and it dried up. It seems to have grown in size so ignorantly and absorbed everything in its vicinity. “The ground we are stepping on is probably just like a lump of sand.”
“…You mean we have to wage a siege. “Put your head in without any variables on our part?”
In normal war, if the enemy’s formation is so fortified, it is best to avoid it, but if the opponent is a mute, the more fortified the attack, the more tenaciously you have to attack. The stronger the fortress, the stronger the chamber maids are, and catching and killing them determines the success or failure of the war.
‘….Once we are deep inside enemy territory, we engage in an unavoidable battle with each other. ‘I was planning on eating it.’
It is not a foolish siege of friendly troops, but a movement to properly engage the enemy and fight them off. Moreover, even if the blood fog on the road we passed has disappeared, the front and part of the sides are still covered in blood fog, so it is a good environment to secretly turn troops to the side.
Add in the allies who were exhausted from repeated marches and battles for four days, and you could clearly guess the picture the enemy was drawing.
The large chamber maids pouring out,
blocking the front, the elites turn to the side
and strike from behind as if scraping.
‘It was a carefully crafted operation but clumsy operation.’
The battles we experienced on the way here over the past four days were very blatant. It’s not just something that breaks through easily. However, it doesn’t seem like they are just determined to stop it.
As if large baits were scattered one after another, ‘Follow this path!’ The intention was very clearly revealed.
If something like this happens, I’ll lie down next to the idiots buried in Cologne.
‘It’s coming this time. As much as I’ve hidden myself until now, I’ll reveal myself properly this time!’
….So I also saved my strength.
While we were moving as a detachment, the Saint of Courage always took the lead and broke through the enemy lines, and I followed behind him and only took care of those who approached.
‘This is the center of the enemy camp. They probably know that if they lose Tobrun, the human blade will reach the queen’s face.’
While Aulis was fighting the fiercest battle, she listened to every single communication from other detachments and focused on her senses, which were sharpened like a blade.
Nigmi has appeared only twice in the past four days of battle, killing three of the detachment’s members and poisoning nineteen. The guy moved passively, and thanks to the Virgin of Mercy, most of the injured returned to full strength.
One of the five names that must appear. ‘Trapper Dogs’, as his name suggests, was a guy who planted his fingers all over the place, and in the fog of blood, 21 people were crushed to death by his fingers and 13 were injured. The wounded, whose backs and knees were crushed, were evacuated to the rear of the main unit.
Other names, including Edeorna, were not found anywhere.
I felt it during the battle in the desert. No matter how many troops and strategies you have prepared, only those of a similar level can deal with those who are stronger beyond a certain level. Regardless of whether the overall battle is won or lost, the outcome of such a confrontation can turn everything upside down.
For the past three days I have been looking for Edeorna.
‘The very last half of the story. There are more than fifty hero units officially known to have been killed by this guy. It must have been completed into a terrifyingly powerful entity.’
It is known that Edeorna’s evolution occurs through changes in the exterior and the body connected to it rather than through physical changes. Just like how they made that damn white thorn spear in Wuthering Heights.
This is because Edeorna’s body originates from the queen’s body, so they believe that they cannot create a more perfect body than that. That is why it takes an unusually long time to recover from an injury.
…Except for the severed right arm. It tasted like honey when I ate it, but I was scared to death of what kind of monster the arm I ate would have grown into. At least it will come with all kinds of stopper modifications using ‘Professor Park Counter Custom’.
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– Jokass: How did Edeorna come out during Levitt?
– takealook: 9 sword crazy melee follicle. For no reason, I sent a lot of assassins in the beginning, but they all turned into accessories, and for a moment, my DPS became ridiculous. The shield ‘Iron Castle’, which had been passed down from generation to generation to the Castle Knights, was hit so hard that it became a rag in less than a minute.
– Noru Drug: Isn’t that something we should praise Charlotte for holding on to that Edeorna by herself for almost a minute, not because it lasted less than a minute? Levitt was also an ally at that time, and Nabal ordered a carpet bombing of the place and we managed to catch him.
– takealook: Anyway. That’s right.
– Jokass: What about Cheonryu Festival?
– takealook: It was quite easy. Anyone strong enough for Edeorna to fight was already in sickbed because Emperor Cheonryu had already created an asshole first, and most of the sword wielders would go out. Edeorna, which only wizards and priests hunted a lot, was completed in the form of a long-distance artillery type Gundam. After vaporizing the few ragtag human troops with artillery fire, they were cut down with one sword by Emperor Tian Liu. It was futile.
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I took a quick look and saw that even in the chat room, there was a lot of debate going on about what his complete form would be.
Whatever it is, the fact that it is a strong enemy is certain.
The heartbeat seemed to be unusually loud, perhaps because he was nervous or because the blood of the richest mute was nearby.
It’s pounding, pounding, pounding, ringing from below your ears to your head
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[Everyone in the special unit? As I said before, this time we will go in the opposite direction from the previous battles. While we stop the enemy’s elites from attacking the rear, the main force, joined by some paladins and warriors, must ‘do whatever it takes’ to break through the castle walls. Can Parnamo Wizards. Do you understand?]
– [Khan Party 5…. 4 people. You’re good at making unreasonable demands.]
– [If you don’t like Azhar Khan, let’s switch roles with our party. I heard that white guy appears here.]
– [Haaah. For some reason, the colleagues who went before were smiling brightly in the dream…]
– [White Named Edeornna is in exclusive charge of me and Saint Ayulis. So, you have to figure out the rest of the names among yourself -]
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My heart flutters…
Sigh!
“come!”
At that moment, the blood fog surrounding the area seemed to have become several times thicker.
Likewise, while the heroes, who sensed life, raised their weapons and looked out for their surroundings, I focused on the scent that passed by the tip of my nose.
The stench of battlefield stings your nose. The scent of Mute’s blood covered even that. Something close to its essence mixed between that foul and sweet smell.
Just smelling that scent was enough to remind me of something I had encountered when and where.
In the Empire. When I used up all my strength and chewed that white arm with my broken teeth, the scent that engulfed my entire veins as if on fire.
And… one more thing. Rising along with the desert sand…
‘What?’
An unforgettable nemesis. The traces of a man whom I felt I would never have to think of again.
The scent of Mute’s blood mixed with the blood of a dragon with mana like the sea.
I slowly turned my head, following the scent of blood that passed my nose.
To the rear of the main force we must protect.
From rear to side.
And again…. face to face.
To the front…..
‘To the front!!!!’
When I turned my head, a white foot was already sticking out of the blood mist. With that one step, the air became distorted like a haze.
It seems like only me and Edeorna are left behind as time slows down. My feet were hitting the ground as time passed slowly.
Another step. Edeorna’s face slowly emerges from the fog.
“This is the third time. “An adversary.”
A self-deprecating smile appears on the white face that can no longer be viewed as completely human.
At the same time, the right arm covered in white scales, like that of a reptile, was raised.
All the blood mist around her converged into a single point in front of her hands.
“…Yur couldn’t breathe and died.”
“Mountain…dog—-”
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widely.
“Brass.”
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
And before I could even say the word ‘spread out’.
A storm of white thorns penetrates the center of the Allied forces.
When I opened my eyes, the only thing left on the rounded road was a black monster.
Fear was seen in the eyes of the battle-hardened soldiers at the sight of 10,000 people evaporating in a single blow.
….Audrey!
“Conversely, it’s the front… You use your brain just as much as your younger brother.”
“Because I don’t know much about such delicate things. Tooth always overestimated me.”
Edeorna shook off her right arm, where smoke was rising, and raised a white spear in her left hand that was even more vicious than before.
Behind her, the eyes of countless enemies began to appear in the blood mist.
“I want you to know how terrible you are to us. A being that takes our blood to kill us, eats us, and kills us. Human Professor. “You are a monster to us.”
There was no time to answer. While the skin blown off by the breath is regenerated and the crouched body is raised.
Behind me, Charlotte, gritting her teeth, was gathering the remaining troops and preparing for the upcoming battle, and a detachment was positioned in between to fill the empty space left by our troops.
“I have come to ask you for blood.”
….fit price. It’s the price of blood.
“Well, I guess I’ll have to calculate it to find out who the debt is to!”
Shook.
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– Ugh!
As a signal to the clash of fists and spear points that were fired through space, the mutes lurking in the fog began to rush towards the humans.
A clash of pure power that leaves no room for any strategy or wisdom.
It was a melee.
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