Episode 192. Forward (6)
Chiang!
The dark elf who was furthest behind turned around and pulled out a curved sword.
Whoa!
Black fog rose from the dark elf’s body, and the misshapen letters engraved on the curved sword he held glowed red.
Whoa!
The dark elf kicked the wooden pillar and rushed at Baek Woo-jin. He swung the curved sword, spreading the black fog wider. Knowing that they can’t escape, they attack in reverse.
“That wouldn’t be a good choice.”
Baek Woo-jin used the sword technique to deflect the curved sword that was struck sideways.
Taang!
The dark elf used the recoil to spin once in the air and then struck the curved sword towards the top of Baek Woo-jin’s head.
Sigh!
Baek Woo-jin was not embarrassed at all, but leisurely turned his wrist and raised the arm sword upward.
Damn it!
The dark elf’s curved sword that collided with the dark elf’s sword shook as if it would break. However, a more ominous light emanated from the letters engraved on the curved sword, stopping the vibration.
“What are those ominous texts?”
-It is a dark elf spell that strengthens weapons and physical abilities. They use auras and use magic to strengthen their bodies, weapons, and mental power.
“It’s fascinating that it’s a spell.”
“Big!”
“Kaaak!”
The two dark elves who were watching the situation from behind came down next to the dark elf holding the curved sword. The male dark elf on the left was holding gauntlets with blades, and the female on the left was holding a curved sword.
“Are these guys a little different from the dark elves I thought of?”
Even though the dark elves were angry at themselves, their eyes were blurry and unfocused.
Her teeth and nails were also jagged, like an animal, not in keeping with her beautiful appearance.
“Big!”
“Kaaaak!”
The three dark elves surrounded Baek Woo-jin and swung their weapons without hesitation.
Whoa!
Black fog rose from the dark elves’ bodies, and ominous auras burned from their weapons.
“There’s no need to catch all three.”
Baek Woo-jin drew a semicircle with his sword and blocked the attacks of the two curved swords aimed at his heart and neck. By gently stepping on the steps, I escaped the encirclement by letting go of the gauntlet’s attacks.
Whoa!
Baek Woo-jin did not miss the opportunity when the gauntlet-wearing dark elf struck the air and plunged his sword into his heart.
“Ugh…”
The dark elf grabbed his left chest and collapsed like a sand castle.
“Big!”
Two elves holding curved swords rushed in, aiming for the upper and lower bodies as if they were joining forces. It was an attack without hesitation, as if he had disregarded his life.
Whoa!
Baek Woo-jin used the Wind Wall Blade to completely block the attacks of the dark elves and then cut off the head of the female dark elf floating in the air.
Whoa!
He quickly swung his sword, cutting off the right arm of the dark elf he had been fighting with from the beginning, and plunged the sword into his left shoulder.
“Off….”
“Are you saying you don’t feel pain?”
Even though the dark elf’s arm was cut off and the sword pierced it, its expression was crumpled and it did not even scream. There was only a slight moan.
-It is the ability of witchcraft.
“This is also witchcraft?”
-okay. It is a spell that erases pain. Plus, these guys are receiving the aura of the gray zone and the black neck. You will feel almost no pain. However…
the darkness looked down at the dark elf and tilted its blade.
-There is something strange about these dark elves. They’re not even young, but both their magic and abilities are clumsy. The guys I met were much stronger than this. Moreover, their skin color is very dark and their nails and teeth are like beasts.
“That’s why I said it was strange.”
Baek Woo-jin looked at the dark elf’s cloudy eyes. No matter how you looked at it, it was not a normal look. The eyes look as if they are possessed by something.
“Did you send that huge fish?”
I tried talking to the dark elf just in case.
“Keuukyaaru!”
“What do you mean?”
An unknown language flowed from the dark elf’s mouth. Baek Woo-jin saw darkness.
-It’s a language I don’t know at all. It is neither an elven language nor an official language on the continent.
“Then what are these guys?”
“Kwaaah!”
The dark elf let out a scream that he didn’t even hear when his arm was cut off, and his head fell back. Like a candle going out, the life drained away and my breathing stopped.
“Is it suicide?”
-I guess so. This is my first time seeing a dark elf die like this. Are you sure. These are not dark elves from our continent. Same with that catfish from earlier.
“Uhm….”
Baek Woo-jin stood up and pulled out the sword stuck in the dark elf’s shoulder. From giant monsters that have never appeared outside to dark elves whose identities are unknown. The front line was a place shrouded in secrecy in many ways.
“Prosecutor Baek Woo-jin! “Prosecutor!”
When Baek Woo-jin was about to go back, Cale came running screaming.
“Three three? “You caught three?”
Kale froze like a stone statue when he saw the corpse of the dead dark elf at Baek Woo-jin’s feet.
‘What on earth is this person?’
My mouth dropped open at the fact that I recognized the presence of a dark elf that I had not even noticed and tracked it down and caught three dark elves.
“Ho, by any chance, didn’t these guys spray black smoke?”
“Black smoke? “I sprayed it.”
“Didn’t you feel weak when you drank that?”
“at all.”
Baek Woo-jin shook his head. The smoke sprayed by the dark elf was blocked by the aura of Lasadum that covered his body, so he could not even get close.
“Huh…”
Cale hung his head with a confused expression. What kind of people are there in this world? He looked at Baek Woo-jin with that expression.
“What is black fog?”
“The black fog that spreads from the dark elf’s skin has a similar effect to the fog of the Dark Zone. The moment you inhale smoke, your abilities and stamina decrease. That’s why I came running…”
Kale looked at the dead dark elves with a bewildered look.
Baek Woo-jin was worried so he ran to him, but all he saw was the corpses of the dark elves. It seemed like they couldn’t even resist properly.
“don’t worry. Because nothing special happened.”
Baek Woo-jin smiled lightly and put the Armin Sword into its sheath.
“Now go back…”
Baek Woo-jin, who was about to return to the Hyeon-King’s wall, looked back with a pale face.
‘Huh when? ‘Since when?’
Far, far away, deep in the dark zone that cannot be seen with the eyes or felt with mana, a being was watching him.
“Ugh….”
My breath caught in my throat the moment the gaze of an unknown being caught my attention. It felt like I was looking through everything about myself.
-Come to your senses!
“Tsk!”
Baek Woo-jin raised Rasadum’s aura and tightly gripped the handle of the Dark Sword. At that moment, the gaze disappeared as if it had been washed away.
“Are you okay? As expected, his physical condition…”
Cale looked at Baek Woo-jin with worried eyes, not knowing the situation.
“Didn’t you feel it?”
“yes? What?”
Cale had blank eyes as if he felt nothing.
“What’s at the end?”
Baek Woo-jin raised his finger and pointed in the direction where he felt a presence observing him.
“That is the center of the Dark Zone. “It has a black neck.”
“Black neck…”
Baek Woo-jin frowned and glared at the dark zone where ominous smoke was rising.
‘You felt it too, right?’
-There’s no way the tree recognized you, so there’s something there. A monster so enormous.
‘okay.’
I didn’t know what it was, but it had an incredible energy, as if it were nature itself. That was probably just the tip of the iceberg, so I had no idea how much it would actually be.
‘Couldn’t that be a real dark elf?’
-Absolutely not. The monster’s energy that identified you was full of nature’s mana. Definitely not a dark elf.
‘Then what is it?’
-Couldn’t be that….
“What?”
-no. I don’t know what it is either.
The darkness seemed to know something, but did not open its mouth any more.
* * *
“Thank you so much.”
Hwang Byeong-hun smiled brightly, leaving behind his tired complexion.
“no.”
“No. “If it weren’t for you, the barrier of the Wise King’s Wall would have broken and the wall would have collapsed, causing great damage.”
“you’re right. The size of the crane fish was the biggest I’ve ever seen. “If it wasn’t for Baek Woo-jin, the wall would have collapsed before help arrived.”
“I would like to see you cut down a crane fish of that size with one sword.”
Hwang Byeong-Hoon swallowed his appetite, probably regretting not having seen that scene.
“It’s rare for a new recruit undergoing adaptation training to go into battle, but this is the first time I’ve seen such an action as you. Yeonhwi. Well chosen. “As expected, you are more flexible than you look.”
Hwang Byeok-hun looked at Baek Yeon-hwi and nodded. Thanks to Bek Yeon-hwi’s excellent choice, there was little damage on both sides.
“Do attacks come from both sides like this often?”
“both side? Both almost every day. In severe cases, there are times when fighting takes place in 10 locations. “When you were fighting, battles were taking place in three other places.”
“okay.”
Baek Woo-jin’s eyes lit up when he saw Hwang Byeong-hun’s outfit. There was monster blood on his combat uniform as well. It seems like everything happened in the center block as well.
“I heard you caught a dark elf as well. How was it?”
“It was very different from what I thought. “It has intelligence and its fighting style is similar to that of a martial artist, but it is a bit more instinctive.”
“okay. They look beautiful, but their actions are not. It’s like a beast. “But the elites are different.”
Hwang Byeong-hun frowned and continued speaking.
“They are as intelligent and vicious as they are beautiful. Do you know what the elites did when they first showed up?”
“What did you do?”
“It’s a kidnapping.”
“yes?”
Baek Woo-jin asked back with a mesmerized expression. Kidnapping by a monster was a word I didn’t understand.
“They kidnapped and tortured talented people to steal information from this place and learned our languages.”
“You kidnapped humans and stole information from them?”
“okay. They learned several languages, including Korean and English, and even stole information about our encryption system and personnel deployment. Because of that, we suffered a lot of damage and had to change our password and personnel deployment.”
“Huh…”
A cold wind flowed from between Baek Woo-jin’s teeth. Kidnapping humans and stealing their information and language was not something a monster would do. It was no exaggeration to say that he was human.
-It seems like the people called elite are people I know.
‘huh?’
-This is something the dark elves on our continent would do. These guys are capable of being crueler than humans.
As I listened to the words of darkness, I felt like my head was opening little by little.
“The elites are strong and mean. “When placed in an unfavorable situation, they abandon their subordinates and monsters and run away without looking back.”
Hwang Byeong-hun and Baek Yeon-hwi both gritted their teeth as if they had suffered a lot from the elite dark elves.
“There is one thing I would like to ask you.”
“what?”
“What is near the black neck?”
“Near the Black Tree?”
“When I caught the dark elf….”
Baek Woo-jin explained exactly what he felt. People’s complexions became increasingly dark.
“Could it be that I got the wrong idea about the elite dark elves?”
“I haven’t met the elite, but that’s definitely not the case. “There was something huge crouching down, as if nature itself was looking at me.”
I absolutely did not feel wrong. There was an unknown monster in the black tree.
“Commander. The recent movements of the elites and dark elves have been suspicious. “It may have something to do with what Woojin felt.”
“I guess we should hold a meeting. “Please gather everyone.”
“All right.”
Baek Yeon-hwi, who received Hwang Byeong-hun’s gaze, nodded.
“You can just leave. “Thank you for your hard work.”
“no. then.”
Baek Woo-jin bowed his head and left the office. Hwang Byeong-hun looked at his back and sighed softly.
“Whoa, I wonder what’s going to happen again this time…”
* * *
“Huh?”
Baek Woo-jin stopped walking as soon as he left the commander-in-chief’s office. This was because all of the wise king’s wall guards that he had seen earlier were right in front of his eyes.
“Thanks to the prosecutor, we were able to protect the wall. Thank you!”
“Thank you!”
Layton made a fist with his right hand and struck his left chest twice. The entire guard followed him, pounding their chests in the same way.
“This is a greeting from here.”
When Baek Woo-jin did not understand the situation, Baek Yeon-hwi told him what their actions were from behind.
“It is a greeting method that is rarely used on a daily basis and is only used on special occasions.”
“Ah…”
Baek Woo-jin made eye contact with the guards. The light in their eyes was one of gratitude and emotion. He was looking at me with sincere eyes.
“thank you!”
The guardian looked at himself and shouted thank you once again.
After seeing people thanking me through comments or articles, seeing people saying thank you face to face made my nose twitch and my heart warm.
“What are you doing? “If you say hello, you should accept it.”
“I guess so.”
Baek Woo-jin nodded and did the same as them, making a fist with his right hand and tapping his left chest twice.
“Silver must be repaid. “If you need help, please call me at any time!”
Layton pounded his chest again. He and the guard smiled brightly and returned to the wise king’s wall.
“Good work. And thank you.”
Baek Yeon-hwi said she was grateful when she saw the guard leaving, not Baek Woo-jin.
“what?”
“I said thank you.”
Baek Yeon-hwi glanced at Baek Woo-jin, thanked him, and then entered the commander’s building again.
“Huh…”
Baek Woo-jin burst into laughter with a dumbfounded expression.
-Your brother is also more shy than he seems. But why are you like that?
“I didn’t expect to hear a thank you from a direct descendant of the Baek family.”
Baek Woo-jin touched his earlobe and made a bewildered expression.
“That too to my eldest brother….”
* * *
“Phew….”
Baek Woo-jin returned to the dorm and threw himself on the sofa. I tilted my head back and thought about the dark elf I saw today.
“I think I’ve seen those guys somewhere.”
-Don’t think too deeply. Because it doesn’t come out just because you think about it.
“Yes, but. uh? for a moment!”
Baek Woo-jin woke up as he saw the darkness floating above his head. His eyes found a line in his past memories.
“I get it!”
-what?
“I found out where I saw that strange dark elf!”
-Where did you see that?
“I don’t know?”
Baek Woo-jin raised his finger and pointed at the darkness.
“I saw it with you!”
