◈ 340. [STAGE 14] King & Knight (2)
Hwaaaaagh!
As I planted the flag and used the [Imperial Declaration], a dazzling light covered the area.
“what?!”
“What is this… !”
Listening to the panicked screams of the task force, I grinned.
The place I lured them to is the base camp.
It is not a hostile area, so it does not enter the [Occupation War] state. However, it can generate territorial effects.
And in this territory,
kurrrureung!
You can form your own fortress!
Walls of gray magic rose from all over the area.
Swept away by the creation of the wall, the task force members shouted and rolled their bodies away from the wall.
“This is not okay. There are many good guides in this town.”
If you met a good guide like an unknown, you would have had a pleasant sightseeing time.
“Of course, it was caught by a vicious swindler like me!”
You all look like you’re going to die here!
“Prince Ash-!”
Realizing that I was the cause of this situation, Mason lunged at me, but
Kwajik!
A gray wall formed right in front of me, separating Mason from me.
I’m sorry, but this fortress can be transformed at will! Even in real time!
‘In other words!’
It doesn’t even have to be in the form of a normal fortress! I mean it doesn’t even have to be a function of a fortress!
Charleuk! Charleureuk!
At first, the circular magic fortress, which was designated as the default value, is reassembled like a block in real time according to my will.
The fortress shrinks, compresses, changes form from a circle to a square –
koo-gu-gung!
Eventually, it was transformed into a rectangular parallelepiped structure.
Originally, it was a fortress to block attacks from outside.
Just this time, to trap those inside… … took on the role of a prison.
‘Rules are meant to be overturned!’
A fort turns into a prison if overturned.
In short, it’s a matter of how I play with it… … !
In my mind, I wanted to push the wall and crush it, but the size of the prison did not decrease anymore, as if it was resisting from the inside.
“I can’t get off until I buy all these things~”
I muttered as I kicked the wall made of gray magic power, then turned around.
“majesty!”
“Are you okay, Your Highness?!”
The men who were waiting at the base camp ran to me.
Elise came along with the reserve party that had been dispatched to the upper ranks of Winter Silver, and Marherita also came from the temple.
“Ash! I don’t know what’s going on, just give me orders!”
And even Belldandi’s Holy Grail Exploration Team, which was waiting at the base camp. I guess I’ve gathered enough to collect this urgently.
Even with their wounded bodies, they could see the Shadow Unit, which had evacuated citizens and gathered troops all over the city.
I nodded to the three of them.
“Saintess, it’s enough for me, so start with the treatment of Lucas and the shadow unit.”
“I see… !”
Marherita poured her recovery magic on Lucas first.
While I was watching Lucas’ body, which had been covered in blood, heal, a Dwarf blacksmith came running from the other side.
“ash!”
“Yes Kelly Bay. That’s me.”
“No, what the hell is this? I heard a rough explanation from God Hand who came first, but… … .”
“More on that later. than that.”
I held out my hand to Kelly Bay and nodded.
“The equipment you ordered must have been manufactured, right?”
“I was still making final adjustments, but… .”
Kelly Bey grinned, twisting her thick beard, and held out a cloth-covered object to me.
“Well, originally weapons are finalized on the battlefield. It looks urgent, but put it into action right away.”
“thank you.” When
I
took off the cloth, there was a long sword in a scabbard.
The cleanly polished but simple design of the handle was quite familiar.
[The bestowed sword].
Lucas’ exclusive equipment was completed.
I took it and approached Lucas. After emergency treatment, Lucas staggered and stood straight in his seat.
“Lord.”
“Lucas.”
I held out the [sword given to me].
“Take it. It is your new weapon.”
“… .”
Taking the long sword, Lucas looked down at the handle of the sword.
After a silent stare, Lucas’ mouth slowly opened.
“… This sword was first bestowed on me by my lord when I was young.”
I listened quietly. Lucas continued.
“And the blade shattered one night when I betrayed my lord.”
“… .”
“Since then, I have always held this handle in my arms. Regarding my wrong choice that day… … To remind myself of regret and vigilance.”
Clutching the handle, Lucas held out his sword to me again.
“I do not deserve this sword again.”
“… Lucas.”
“I betrayed my lord and carved an indelible wound on him… It’s just a crazy dog that’s ashamed to call itself a guard dog. I tried to run away from that fact, but this time, because of my past, the lord… … .”
“hey! shut up! Shut up!”
Lucas’ eyes widened as I squealed.
I cried one more time
“take no interest!”
“yes?”
“I’m not even curious about the guy’s past!”
Lucas opened his mouth slightly. I stuck my index finger in and continued.
“What wrong have you done to me! I already forgot.”
no really I mean, because I don’t know.
“And no matter what else you do to me in the future! I will forget again.”
Pushing the outstretched sword again and forcing it into Lucas’ arms, I continued.
“betrayal?! Do it one more time! Do it twice, three times, four times! doesn’t care!”
“yes?! no yes?!”
“If only you would come back to my side and stay as my knight in the end!”
I slowly removed the hand that had been pushing the sword.
“If you would be my friend again. That should be it.” That’s what I said to the main character
who failed 741 times with me and
reached the gear nose ending.
It may be a bit funny, but… … I was only watching on the computer monitor, but I had considered you as a friend from the beginning, who accompanied you on the 742th journey.
Lucas, who was blankly holding his sword, repeated.
“friend… What?”
“Yes, Lucas.”
I shrugged.
“You and I aren’t like owners and dogs, but friends and friends, right?”
“… .”
“Well, of course, in private, there is a hierarchical relationship between a commander and a knight in public, but… .”
I, who had been hesitantly putting it on, said “Eh-ra” and reduced my words.
“We are friends, Lucas. That fact doesn’t change no matter what happened before or what happens in the future.”
“… .”
“Or maybe I was the only one who thought so?”
“No no… .”
Lucas kept his mouth shut and shook his head.
A mess of tousled, blood-soaked blond hair hung down and covered his eyes.
“… no sir never.”
After patting Lucas on the shoulder, I pointed towards the magic fortress.
“Suddenly, maintaining the walls is at its limit. Now the ones you locked inside will come out.”
I was in a mess, but I forcibly took out all the magic potions from my inventory, inhaled them, and summoned a stronghold. Thanks to that, the limit came quickly.
I could see the magic fortress slowly crumbling. It will soon collapse completely.
“They are the villains plotting to bring down our lines.”
I looked around at my subordinates and nodded.
“I define They are the ‘monsters’ our Monster Front has to deal with… … Destroy them all!”
“yes-!”
The subordinates answered in unison.
Elise corrected her swordsman, and Belldandy and the Holy Grail Exploration Team took out their own equipment.
The shadow unit and reserve parties also prepared for battle, and Marherita cast shield magic over their bodies.
Lucas’s armor, which he had sent to Kelly Bay on the God Hand side, had been urgently repaired.
I said to Lucas who put on the armor with Kelly Bay’s help.
“Lucas.”
“yes.”
“Cut it off with that sword and come. your past.”
to the protagonist of this world.
As the possessed player, I grinned.
“Go.”
Lucas didn’t wear the tin helmet he was holding in his hand and quietly put it down next to him and smiled vaguely at him.
“… yes. I’ll be back. Lord.”
The magic wall disappeared in the distance.
Belatedly, the remaining magic power drained from my body as if paying for it, and
I fainted.
***
The Aegis Task Force Team 1 is a unit that selects only those who are good at fighting even in the dark.
In fact, their fighting power was quite high, so they would get similar scores in mock battles with Imperial Knights.
There were times when he would overwhelm the knights if they were allowed to use various tools.
The fighting power of these individuals was to the extent that even the elite heroes of the Crossroads could not be defeated.
but.
Things were so bad this time.
Patter – Quguaguawang!
As soon as he teleported, he was trapped inside the gray walls, and as soon as he was released, attacks poured in from all sides.
Burnout, who had been preparing in advance, decided to pour out a pile of explosive arrows, and Body Bag threw the iron spear created by God Hand.
The Holy Grail Exploration Team led by Belldandi also shot shortbows and threw daggers.
Without cover, the task force caught up in this ranged fire projectile took heavy casualties in one fell swoop.
“Damn it! Break through in this direction at once!”
Mason, who had swung his greatsword and removed the arrows, looked back at his subordinates with a harsh command, and there
was a woman in a maid’s outfit, carrying a huge coffin with bobbed dark blue hair flying in.
Some agents who recognized her identity became flagships.
“you… ?!”
“I don’t think Elizabeth, the mortician-”
Among the special forces who hurriedly wield weapons at her, Elise quietly pulled out the swords inside the swordsman-
Cheek! Chi Kang! Kagagagak!
Spinning like a top, it slaughtered the task force members at once.
Watching his subordinates fall one by one, Mason gritted his teeth.
‘As it is… … !’
that buck that buck
Then came the sound of approaching footsteps. Mason glared at him.
“Mason. Neither the dark side nor this kind of classified mission suits you.”
It was Lucas.
His steps were unsteady, perhaps because he was not in good condition, but his bright blue eyes were firm.
“Why don’t you join the Knights instead? Then I would have been able to use that ignorant swordsmanship.”
Mason grinned and straightened his grip on his huge greatsword.
“There is a part where Her Majesty Fernandez values me very highly. That’s why you entrusted me with this mission.”
“What part do you overestimate? what is that?”
“To survive.”
Mason laughed ferociously.
“Succeeding in a mission by somehow surviving and surviving in front of an opponent no matter how strong or under no matter how terrible the situation… … ! I am confident in that one!”
“That miserable life ends here.”
Lucas slowly put his hand on the handle of his long sword.
“Let’s put an end to our bad relationship, Mason.”
“It’s disappointing that it’s a bad relationship, Master Lucas.”
Taat-!
Kicking off the ground and flying toward Lucas, Mason slammed his greatsword down.
“There were times when we were good-!”
In response, Lucas drew his sword.
Charleuk… … !
As the simple handle slipped out of the scabbard, a shimmering sword body was revealed beneath it.
Mason frowned.
‘What is that black?’
like… It is like a blade made of light.
Chae Ae-Aeng!
Lucas’ light longsword and Mason’s greatsword clashed roughly.
Mason, who was struggling with sword blades, laughed with his mouth wide open.
“Is the color good? Are you new? It’s shiny and pretty, but what the hell is that sword?”
Lucas answered succinctly.
“My regret. And… .”
After clenching his hands together and tightly gripping the hilt of the sword,
Lucas concluded his words with strength.
“… my forgiveness.”
Tuhak-!
Lucas’s longsword glowed dazzlingly and began emitting light in all directions.
