◈ 264. [STAGE 10] Kureha
A while ago.
cross road. downtown.
An empty lot next to the barracks.
“Heh-buck, hee-buck, hee-buck!”
Breathing heavily, I stood staggering.
A white werewolf collapsed and died right in front of him.
Kureha’s blink dagger-flying kick combo put him in a dying state, and I managed to finish him off with my magic blade.
But the problem is Kureha.
I glanced back. I saw Kureha collapsed in a puddle of blood.
“Hey Kureha! Wake!”
“Cool cool cool!”
With a huge hole in her stomach, Kureha was coughing up blood. I hurriedly took an advanced potion from my pocket and poured it on his wound.
But
‘recovery is slow… … !’
The wound did not heal easily.
Kureha’s body, which had already been mummified after using her strength, was not even receiving the effect of the potion properly.
“Huh cool! majesty… Those two old men… … I’m sure you’ll be fine… … .”
“Of course not! Worry about you!”
Wrapping yourself up to save others with a body like this… … .
While I was struggling to somehow restore Kureha,
“Your Highness!”
The skirmishers I had scattered everywhere rushed to me.
While looking sideways at the skirmishers, I continued spraying potions on Kureha’s body and pressing the wound with my hand to stop the bleeding.
“Report!”
“yes!”
The skirmishers took turns reporting the current situation.
And I, who listened to the situation in turn, and Kureha, whose complexion was pale from excessive blood loss, also stiffened.
The southern wall is being attacked by Lucas, who protrudes alone.
Evangeline is down on the northern wall, and all other heroes have been killed.
Most of the werewolves hiding in the city have been cleaned up, but the few who survived… … .
“You took a hostage?”
“yes… ! Werewolves driven into the central plaza are holding citizens hostage and are holding a sit-in! Other than that, there are a few of them in the alley, like hostages… !”
My head was dizzy.
I couldn’t figure out how to deal with this situation that was unfolding simultaneously in all directions. I tried to think calmly.
It was then.
“Get up… please give it to me.”
Kureha coughed up blood and tried to stand up. Flagship me shouted.
“Stop talking nonsense! You are dying now!”
“Your brother… We must go find Quylan. hurry… .”
“Can’t you just lie down and not fuck?! With that body, you can’t even go out here, let alone the North Gate, and die!”
“My brother is dying too!”
Kureha screamed at her face. I was at a loss for words for a moment.
Kureha struggled to get up, covering the blood and intestines leaking from her stomach with her hand.
However, his whole body, which had already used his strength to save two elderly people, was as dry as a mummy, and it seemed difficult to even raise himself.
I was trying to save someone I didn’t care about, but I couldn’t save my brother.
I closed my eyes tightly as I watched the gruesome scene.
‘Think about it.’
Find a way out of the current situation.
‘Games exist to be cleared.’
In any situation, there is a trick and a way to live. The past 742 experiences prove it.
any higher probability. any way that’s more certain.
find
‘no!’
I opened my closed eyes.
That’s not enough. You shouldn’t judge based on a given situation. I need to look wider and farther.
‘Look above the rules of the game.’
Don’t be governed by the rules. rule the rules
by all available means.
Detours, bends and twists – find the weak spots in the rules.
“… !”
That moment.
popped up
Now, there is a principled way to solve all of these situations at once.
“Kureha.”
I spoke in a calm and cold voice that surprised even myself.
“What would you do to save your brother?”
Kureha did not hesitate.
“Anything can be done.”
“… .”
“Anything for that child.”
I nodded heavily.
“There is one way. Kureha.”
I quickly explained the strategy I had in mind. A moment of surprise crossed Kureha’s face.
“Certainly theoretically possible, but… .”
“Is it really possible?”
“yes. But maybe I should contact the opponent myself.”
However, now Kureha’s physical condition is serious.
The skirmishers rushed to the temple to summon the priest, but it was certain they would die before the priest arrived.
The light of life was fading every moment on Kureha’s face. Executing that strategy with a body like this… … .
“… .”
Then something came to mind.
“… Kureha. From the past story you told me before.”
Clenching my fists, I asked.
“Your father said that he transformed your younger brother, who became the vessel of the curse, into a wolf monster.”
“Yes that’s right.”
“Then, you, now the vessel of the curse, can also turn into that wolf monster?”
Kureha was silent. I quietly looked into his face.
After a while, Kureha slowly nodded her head as if she had made up her mind on something.
“… Yes Your Highness. However, witchcraft is not perfect here because there is no ‘tree’ to assist the witchcraft.”
“… .”
“I won’t be a full wolf monster and I’ll probably lose my temper… … It may attack Your Highness.”
“are you okay. I have a way. A way to make sure you obey my orders.”
“… .”
A smile crossed Kureha’s bloody lips.
“Just in case, the magic I learned from my mother at the end… The day will come when it will be used like this.”
“… Kureha.”
“Anyway, this is my life to die. Make me a wolf monster. So that we can carry out the operation Your Highness has instructed.”
Kureha bowed her head to me.
“Please help me save my brother.”
Cursing at this, I replied briefly.
“Start right away. There is no time.”
As Kureha instructed, I drew a magic circle on the floor and laid Kureha on top of it.
Kureha chanted an incantation to activate magic in a dying voice. I made an X-shaped wound on Kureha’s forehead with my blink dagger.
The moonlight of the full moon was pouring down from the bright sky.
Kkudeudeuk Kwadeuk… … !
With a terrifying sound of body twisting, Kureha’s mummified limbs sprouted flesh, muscles, and red hair.
Kureha’s entire body exposed to the moonlight was transforming.
Eventually, when all the X-shaped scars were carved on his forehead, Kureha was transformed into a hideous wolf monster.
A grotesquely grown claw and ferocious molar teeth that do not mesh. Distorted joints and left and right muscles. And red hairs sprouting all over the body… … .
A wolf monster with all the curses of its clan.
《… .》
The huge wolf monster slowly raised itself.
I was nervous and prepared for him to attack me, but the monster seemed to have no intention of doing so.
I used the [Mystic Eye of Command] first.
“Get down on your knees and show your allegiance to me.”
The [Mystic Eye of Command] was easily applied. Kureha slowly knelt down on one knee.
“Kureha.”
Facing the monster’s kind eyes staring at me, I spit out the starter of my 2nd skill.
“Be mine.”
Charleureuk!
Then, a figure resembling a dog collar with chains attached to it appeared in the air and tightened Kureha’s neck.
Tring!
[The Unknown Werewolf Kureha (SSR) has been incorporated as an ally!]
– Current Loyalty: 90/100
– Absolute Command: 1
success.
I let out a sigh of relief. Phew… … .
It was then.
Patter!
Magic bullets poured out from the center of the city like rain. I could immediately figure out what it was.
‘Demian’s ultimate showdown!’
I knew the effect by reading the skill description in advance.
It is Damian’s wide-area skill that fires healing magic bullets to all captured allies and offensive magic bullets to enemies.
But the magic bullet that fell on me was a healing magic bullet, but
Tsukak!
What fell on Kureha was an attacking magic bullet.
Kureha casually stretched out her arm to block the magic bullet, but I was dizzy when I saw that.
Damian’s clairvoyance was a harsh judgment.
Kureha is a monster.
I am no longer human.
Then, Kureha slowly opened her mouth.
《… Please give me an order.》
“… .”
《Your Highness.》
Even though he became a monster, he did not lose his reason.
“Kureha. good. Execute according to the plan.”
I added a concise order.
“Save your brother.”
《… .”
“And… Get me a wire here.”
Kureha lowered her head slightly.
“With all my heart. Definitely.]
Throwback-!
Kureha’s gigantic body, which hit the ground, shot north in an instant.
I clenched my teeth and clenched my fists as I watched with bitterness as he walked away.
***
Current.
in front of the northern wall.
Pooh!
Blood splattered everywhere.
“… ?”
Quilan closed his eyes and waited for Lunared’s claw to drop, but he felt no pain.
Quylan opened his eyes tremblingly.
pop. pop.
There is the sound of blood dripping to the floor.
“… ?!”
Suddenly appearing and intervening between Lunared and Quilan, he took the attack instead with his back… I saw a huge werewolf.
Blood was flowing down this werewolf’s back.
Can we call this a werewolf?
The bizarrely bent limbs that looked like a wolf… … A hideous wolf monster.
But why? Quylan stared blankly at the monster’s face.
Is it my own illusion that I feel that the monster’s gaze is warm?
“What is this?”
Lunared said in a puzzled voice.
“What are you? They seem to be from my clan, but why are they interfering… … .”
“… .》
The monster looked at Quylan with gentle eyes, then turned around like a thunderbolt, clenched its fists with arms with different lengths on the left and right, and threw itself into a
fist!
I hit Lunared’s chest with both fists.
《Kuh-?!》
Lunared coughed up blood and fell backwards.
Courage!
Quylan, who fell from Lunared’s hand, looked up in bewilderment as he landed on his butt on the floor.
《… .]
Standing as if protecting Quylan, the wolf monster looked at Quylan with a gentle gaze once more and
-Chuck.
took a stance
It was a bizarre posture because of the reversed joints and limbs of different lengths.
Quylan was immediately recognizable.
That is the Kwonbeop posture of the Maple Lang tribe.
My brother taught me… … That’s it.
《You dare to be a descendant of my blood!》
Lunared rushed again, his bloody eyes glaring. The unidentified wolf monster was shot at and ran away.
Fuck! puck! Pereouk… … !
The two monsters started fighting.
The muscles that far surpassed that of humans wriggled and fired fists to kill each other like cannons.
“I have to kill you now,”
to the side of Quylan, who is staring blankly at this surreal scene .
Evangeline came and stood. Quylan looked at Evangeline in surprise.
Evangeline, who grabbed the wound on her abdomen, had a pale complexion, but her left hand held the shield firmly.
Other party members struggled to stand behind Evangeline.
Thanks to the healing magic bullet that Damian fired, everyone was able to gather their last strength and stand up.
“I don’t know why those two monsters are wreaking havoc on themselves, but this is an opportunity.”
“… .”
“We are all exhausted to the limit. No two times. We have to kill them all at the same time.”
Evangeline winked.
The members of the Shadow Unit, including God Hand, and the Punishment Unit grabbed their weapons and nodded their heads with solemn faces.
The bloodied heroes stepped forward to mount a final assault.
“… !”
Then,
Kuylan, who noticed something, hurriedly blocked the party members. Evangeline narrowed her brows.
“Quilan? What are you doing now… .”
“Don’t attack me.”
“yes?”
“He is my older brother.”
I couldn’t explain it clearly, but I knew it.
“That monster is my older brother!”
out of this world.
Because there was only one person who looked at him with such a warm gaze.
So, Quylan cried out.
“You mean my brother… !”
