◈ 132. [STAGE 5] The
morning sun is dazzlingly bright.
“… .”
Standing on top of the castle wall, I stared at the bright eastern sky for a while, then turned my head reluctantly and looked south.
There was an army of monsters lined up in an orderly fashion.
I was dumbfounded and clicked my tongue.
“What about the ghouls… .”
Could it really be the Vampire King’s personal guard?
Like a well-trained army of ghouls, they line up in formation and prepare to attack.
In the center are 10 vampires.
Seven ordinary vampires are checking their armaments, and two appearing to be vampire generals are holding the vampire lord’s attendants.
And the vampire lord – Selendion.
He sits on his palanquin, as if he were lying still, looking at the wall this way with interest.
It is not a matter of life and death, but a gaze that seems to be preparing for a game.
It was then. My gaze through the telescope met Celendion’s gaze.
smile
The boy-looking Vampire King waved at me with red eyes like the moon. that kid
“You’re behind me, you bastard… … .”
After swearing, I removed the telescope from my eyes. And I looked back.
Human armies were also lined up there.
4 hero character pool parties.
My main party, the shadow unit, the Dion Mercenary Corps, the Old Hunters.
2 reserve parties after that. Lily and Marherita’s party.
Cannons and ballistas lined up on the left and right. 1200 mercenaries behind them.
Three hundred Twilight Troopers. Five hundred mercenaries who have been with us since stage 1. Four hundred mercenaries that have been expanded since then.
‘This one is also elite.’
In just a few months, he killed thousands of monsters and broke through several dungeons.
They are the elite of living humans who are much fresher and younger than you immortal monsters that I radiate after being rotten for hundreds of years.
‘Do you think you’ll lose, you monsters… … !’
chuck! chuck! chuck!
The formation of the ghoul corps has completely changed.
About 300 ghouls in the last row came forward and began to form a wide formation.
I looked to the side and shouted loudly.
“They prepare to attack! All troops! Prepare for defensive warfare!”
The tensed soldiers finished preparing to fire from their respective defense weapons.
The heroic characters also grabbed their equipment and swallowed dry saliva.
“I won’t say much.”
I cried briefly.
“Win!”
oh oh oh-!
The soldiers who heard my cry shouted, and at the same time,
doo-doo-doo-doo-!
The earth trembled and the ghouls started running.
300 Frost Ghouls.
300 of them all. It’s a bit tough for a first wave.
The sight of blue frozen corpses running in perfect formation as if measured with a ruler was terrifying in many ways.
The ghouls rushed across the plain in no time and eventually reached the killzone area, which was blocked by wooden fences.
If it was a regular monster army, it would take a long time to cause a bottleneck there.
However, these monsters are directly commanded by the corps commander.
A kill zone created by stacking obstacles may be a temporary buy, but it cannot hold them down permanently.
Kwajik! Kwadeuk!
Sure enough, the ghouls easily broke down the wooden fence and dug in.
Path enforcement using obstacles was not working in the first place.
but.
“Shoot-!”
Anyway, time is dragging. You can feed the attack in the gap.
As soon as they came within range, I shouted and the cannons fired all at once.
Beep-!
A cannonball was fired with a deafening sound.
Peeing –
Dozens of shells pierced through the air and eventually hit the ground.
Quagmire and light!
It caused a grand explosion, spewing red flames and dark smoke.
The ghouls that were swept away by the explosion were instantly killed by exhaustion. But neither I nor the soldiers were happy.
Because I made it clear to everyone.
With this attack… … You can’t kill them.
ugh… … .
Aaaaa!
After a while, the ghouls who had died from exhaustion regenerated their bodies one by one and rose to their feet.
The pieces of flesh adhere to each other, and the blood that has been sprayed in all directions is sucked in and collected, forming a skeleton and merging again into the shape of a monster.
I stared at this bizarre and grotesque scene with my mouth shut.
These are Selendion’s bodyguards.
These monsters were resurrected by giving their own lives to Celendion.
No matter how much you try to get rid of it in a normal way, it’s useless.
As soon as the object dies, the ‘life’ is returned to Selendion, and Selendion regenerates it by giving it back to his subordinates.
It’s a zombie-like action that is possible because all of the 1,000 monsters are a blood relative army that shares ‘blood’ and ‘life’ with Celendion.
What should I do in the end to stop this?
‘I have to break the spiritual core.’
The core that can be said to be the essence of the soul of life in this world. spiritual core.
Destroy it. Then they will fall forever and Celendion’s life stock will disappear one by one.
The problem is the numbers.
How do you destroy the spiritual cores of these 1,000 monsters one by one?
‘You don’t know how much trouble I’ve had to solve this, you gore bastards.’
Smiling with one corner of my mouth raised, I glared at the approaching monsters.
bang! Kwakwawang!
Patter!
Aaaa-!
Breaking through the rain of shells and ballistas, the horde of ghouls was rushing towards the walls in an instant, repeating death and regeneration.
‘Come closer.’
I nodded heavily.
‘closer! more!’
***
《I expected it a little since it was an invasion of people after a long time.》
Alpha murmured as he watched the group of ghouls smoothly close the distance to the castle wall.
“This is so boring. How can you give away so easily? It wasn’t so easy before.”
“… .”
《Have human tactics degenerated while we’ve been imprisoned down there? no. Maybe he hasn’t had the experience of dealing with an army of monsters properly for all those years.”
Beta, who was listening to Alpha’s words, responded! and nodded.
《… .]
Selendion remained silent.
A hot cup of tea was set on the table next to Celendion’s chair, and Alpha smiled as she poured the tea.
《Maybe we won’t have to step in, Road.》
《… .”
“A-Rod wanted to step out on his own this time. I don’t know if this will disappoint you?”
If the group of ghouls succeed in approaching the wall.
With its destructive appetite, it will gnaw its teeth at the humans on the wall.
‘Ghouls are cannibals. It is the incarnation of appetite. If there is fresh blood and flesh within a certain distance, the aggression is doubled.’
Once approached, the ghouls will immediately devour human flesh and take the life of the enemy.
Taking a life for the blood family corps literally means ‘making it one’s own’.
It means to take the life of the enemy and save it as an extra life for the Legion.
《If the ghoul corps succeed in approaching, there is no chance for humans at that point.》 The
current life stock of the kin corps is 1,000.
However, if you kill an enemy and take its blood and flesh, that much life is added.
If you kill a life, you get that much life. The human side can only lose.
At that point, victory or defeat is decided.
As such, defeating legions of ghouls usually has to be done from a distance.
However, the current human line of defense is nothing more than ignoring the hordes of ghouls that helplessly close the distance.
“It is soon. You’re right in front of the wall. It wasn’t until the first invasion of Inse ended like this.”
“… .]
Selendion’s silent mouth opened slightly.
“Something is strange.”
“Yes? Which one are you talking about?”
“It can’t be this easy.”
Celendion recalled the face of enemy general Ash.
The face of a young human who had shown such clear hostility towards himself… … .
“The man who killed that Orlob… How could he be defeated so easily?》
《Isn’t Lord overestimating the enemy? Wasn’t Orlop killed by a cannonball in the first place? Maybe an ordinary human just got lucky and killed the spider.” 《
… .”
“Well, the conclusion will come soon. Whether it was the luck of the father-in-law or the specialty of a great man.》
Guaaaaaaa!
The head of the ghoul army reached the moat beneath the city walls.
If they fall into the holy water that fills the moat, the ghoul army will take quite a bit of damage, but they are frost ghouls.
Damn- I
immediately froze the moat with the cold air that spewed out of my mouth, and then I skipped over it.
Now it was just a wall. Still on top of the castle walls, only cannons and arrows were pouring down without any magic attacks.
‘Is it really the end, human?’
Celendion frowned.
‘They gave me the wall like this in vain?’
Selendion has dealt with innumerable human inclinations for a long time.
Ancient great men used to fend off vampires by combining all sorts of novel magic and skills.
The magic water-based weapon and the blue flame that purged the injustice of the castle wall made of moon silver were the weapons of humans that are dizzy even to think about it now.
But what about this wall now?
‘Is it just cannons and arrows? really?’
If so, there would be no choice but to perish.
chin!
The leading ghoul’s hand touched the castle wall.
Great! Blasphemy!
It freezes ice and attaches its hands to the wall, repeating this on all limbs, clinging to the wall and climbing.
Dozens of frost ghouls started climbing the walls. Seeing this, Celendion clicked his tongue.
It was only one group sent for reconnaissance, but these ghouls came to capture the wall.
“Was it only this much… .]
The moment Celendion spat out,
boom! Kugu Palace!
Something rumbled down from the top of the wall.
Alpha frowned, and Beta stepped up to take a closer look. Celendion narrowed his eyes.
《What is it?》
It is… … It was the corpse of a cow and a pig.
Dozens of cattle carcasses were suddenly dropped from the top of the wall.
“uh… .]
Alpha was bewildered by the first sight.
《What are they doing now?》
A thick scent of blood spread from the previously sheathed cattle carcasses.
All eyes of the ghouls returned to the cattle carcass.
uh… … .
oh oh!
And the ghouls rushed at the carcass at the same time as if they had promised.
All of them, even those who climbed the walls.
All three hundred ghouls bowed their heads to the ground and began to eat the carcasses. Alpha slapped her forehead.
“These fools… !》
Blood relatives are monsters who are always hungry.
Ghouls are meat. Vampires have blood. It is a being that cannot live without it.
At least, as vampires become higher-ranking beings, they suppress their own instincts and prefer higher-value blood with higher concentrations of mana and vitality.
Ghouls don’t have that.
Because it’s just a cannibal who goes crazy over the blood and flesh in front of his eyes.
《… You nailed the weakness of our corps properly.”
Looking at the faces of his subordinates, Alpha clicked his tongue, looking ashamed.
“But I didn’t even think about it. This number… … .
” And above all.”
Selendion coldly snapped.
《Because it doesn’t mean much.》
At most, the corpses of livestock. In front of the ghouls, in a few tens of seconds, they will be eaten and disappear.
In fact, dozens of cow and pig carcasses were almost boneless.
The ghouls’ gluttony was ignorant.
《If this is the only residual skill, it won’t be of any use other than wasting time… … ?”
It was then.
Drooling!
Huge cannons were aimed down from above the walls.
It was aimed at a group of ghouls that had gathered together to eat the meat of livestock.
“Is it a cannon again… Even though I know it doesn’t work,”
Celendion muttered at the same time.
Beep!
Quguaguagwang-!
Cannons fired all at once, turning the Ghouls gathered together into porridge.
In an instant, the ghouls were shattered and annihilated.
Celendion, as he had done so far, tried to regenerate the lives of the ghouls once they were retrieved.
《… ?”
But.
《… It can’t be retrieved. >
It didn’t come back.
life… … it evaporated
“yes? what is that… … .”
Alpha asked questioningly, and was startled.
Celendion was laughing.
Clearly, the corners of his mouth were rolled up, as if he were dying of joy.
《The spirit cores were all destroyed. All three hundred.》
I don’t know exactly what they did… … .
“Yes, I have to come out like this so this side will feel like fighting…” … !》
