◈ 482. [STAGE 23] Playing tag (3)
“Hey, you idiot! What are you doing!”
The rest of the 4 blacklist members on the roof were clearly embarrassed.
It was because the blind swordsman suddenly jumped out of his seat and rushed at the monster.
“The Gorgon sisters are not a weight class for idiots like us!”
“I think I got the advance payment, so I just need to hide and spend time!”
“You suddenly pretend to be a warrior of justice because you have some sense of loyalty. Did you really not even take care of yourself because you don’t have eyes?!”
“Things that will rot and rot.”
The blind swordsman, who spat on the floor, lowered his stance and put his hand on the handle of his long sword.
“Even though I have lived my life at the bottom of my life eating dust. Even though I am the last person who has lived without seeing anything for the rest of my life… … fuck. I know what morality we must uphold as human beings.”
The blind swordsman nodded toward the temple.
“Pregnant women and children.”
… And towards the hotel on the Cross Road, not too far from the temple.
“You can’t touch the casino.”
The heroes of the blacklist put on a look of absurdity. The blind swordsman smirked, revealing his yellow teeth again.
“That’s an unwritten rule, you bastard? Didn’t your mother teach you?”
Kiyiying!
Instead of answering, Steno activated the Mystic Eye of Petrification.
Taat!
A man with metal plates all over his body quickly jumped at the blind swordsman, grabbed him by the back of his neck and rolled on the floor.
The evil eye of petrification narrowly missed and petrified all the alleyways.
“You really want to die, you bastard?!”
Other blacklisted heroes followed, preparing for battle and bruising the blind swordsman.
“Your slash is a garbage technique that takes 10 minutes to prepare for the next one every time you use it! Besides, I can’t even aim!”
“Don’t expect too much from a blind man.”
“Then don’t step out, you damned idiot!”
“They have sick faces… .”
“You’ve never seen it?!”
Gripping his teeth and stepping forward, the metal plate man spread his arms wide, and magic patterns appeared on the metal plates embedded all over his body, forming a magical shield in front of him.
The evil eye of petrification that Steno fired like a continuous fire was blocked by the shield and was completely nullified. The metal plate man laughed with his mouth trembling.
“But yes. That’s right. You can’t touch pregnant women, children, and casinos… … !”
The others helped Torkel up and lifted him from his seat. The metal plate man shouted at Thorkell, who was bewildered.
“Let’s fight and lead this bastard slowly to another place!”
“You… .”
“We are all someone’s children. Aren’t they bad enough to run away leaving their mothers giving birth?”
The metal plate man grinned.
and the next moment.
Kwajijik!
Steno savagely charged this way, tearing apart all the shields the metal plate man had spread out.
The metal plate man blinked stupidly and turned his head to face the front.
“uh?”
[Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!”
Stenno rushed in, venting his anger about losing his wrist, grabbed the metal plate man’s body with his free hand,
opened his long torn mouth, and then –
Kwak!
Wood deok! Hard!
It swallowed the metal plate man’s head as it was, chewed it up, and crushed it.
Blood gushed out in all directions. The body of a sturdy metal plate man suddenly lost strength and drooped.
It was such a brutal sight that not only the rest of the Blacklist heroes, but also Thorkel’s complexion turned white inside the helmet.
“… hmm.”
The blind swordsman muttered in a slightly trembling voice.
“Are we just crazy?”
“ Kiya Ah Ah-Ah-! ”
He threw the body of a metal plate man who lost his neck to the side and gave a terrible roar toward the heroes where Steeno survived.
***
Successfully lured the 3 Gorgon sisters separately.
So which of the three sisters is the easiest to kill in this situation?
Steno is out of the question in the first place. To put it bluntly, the heroes deployed here lack the ability to kill Steno.
Same with Medusa.
Lucas is one of the strongest in Crossroads, but it is difficult to single-handedly defeat Medusa, the most powerful of the three sisters.
Lucas was singled out to hold out against Medusa.
so last.
Among the three sisters, Euryale is the most agile and has the highest magic defense, but the least strength and the lowest physical defense.
Defeating this Euryale is theoretically the easiest, and so-
“Huh.”
Evangeline was brought in.
Awakening.
Exclusive equipment enchanted by spirits.
And even the strongest barding, Snow White.
Evangeline was better suited to take down Euryale, who was forced to fight in the air, in terms of overall abilities, including mobility.
‘Opportunity is once.’
Standing on the roof of the spire, Evangeline closed her mouth as she looked down at Euryale being lured in front of her.
‘I have to shoot it down at once.’
The hero Party, who played the role of the decoy, was petrified one by one by Euryale, who was flying in the sky, and let out a desperate scream, but Evangeline gritted her teeth and endured it.
I can’t let that sacrifice be in vain.
You have to attack at the perfect timing.
“Deployment of Snow White.”
Charleuk!
As if scales sprouted from the bracelets and anklets on Evangeline’s wrists and ankles, the gloves rose and covered Evangeline’s entire body.
Clap! Click!
In an instant, the silver-white armor tailored to Evangeline’s body was completed, and a white cloak fluttered like a feather behind her back.
The front part of the helmet was in the form of a visor made of magic panels, and Evangeline’s face was visible through the transparent panel.
Snow White was also called Barding in the Lake Kingdom, an ancient magical country, so it was equipped with special functions suitable for it.
It was a function that quantified and visualized the abilities possessed by the user and displayed them on the magic panel of the helmet.
And Evangeline has the exclusive attribute [Crossroad] that allows her to determine the optimal movement line on the battlefield.
This transcendental intuition that has been honed so far has developed almost to the level of the 6th sense, and it is combined with Snow White’s function –
Kiyiing!
reached the realm of wisdom.
The magic panel of the helmet predicts Euryale’s next move, and Evangeline’s course of action is displayed accordingly.
Evangeline, who closed and opened her emerald-colored eyes full of determination, jumped down the spire.
“Evangeline Cross. We’re going-!”
Taat-!
As it was, Evangeline fell on top of Euryale in a free fall.
The timing was perfect, but the trajectory had some errors.
However, Evangeline did not panic and manipulated Snow White according to her will.
The wing bones of the back armor split open, drawing a small halo and spraying magic backwards.
Tuhak-!
It was a one-shot booster function to assist movement on the ground, but Evangeline skillfully used it to adjust the trajectory of the fall.
The movement line displayed on the visor and the actual movement matched perfectly.
«Kirik?»
Euryale, who was flying towards the next victim, sensed Evangeline attacking from above and raised her head, but it was too late.
“Haaaaaa!”
Evangeline’s gigantic cavalry spear, containing enormous magical energy, was incandescent and slammed down as it was,
Fuhuaaaaagh!
The knight’s lance charge, which fell while receiving momentum from the air, showed off its formidable power without regret.
Evangeline’s cavalry lance pierced Euryale’s mid-back and protruded in front of her chest.
“ Kiya Ah Ah Ah! ”
Euri Alee crashed into the screams that the bones were made with blood.
bang! Kwajik! Quagmire and light!
Euriale collapsed to the floor, destroying all the junk and boxes in the alley.
Evangeline, with her spear still embedded in the monster’s body, put her feet on top of the monster’s body as if she were on a yacht, and landed effortlessly.
“It was successfully dropped to the ground… .”
Evangeline snorted.
“Now all I have to do is kill you.”
《Kreuk, Kreuk, Kreuk!》
Keeeeeeing!
Euryale bent her head back at a bizarre angle and used the Mystic Eye of Petrification.
However, Evangeline skillfully covered the shield on her left arm with ice to deflect the evil eye.
《Kiyaak… … !]
Euryale’s eyes brightened as if in a fit of fuss.
Then the surrounding stone buildings shook in unison and shattered, floating above Evangeline’s head.
Evangeline looked up at the stones and grumbled.
“It’s a very comprehensive gift set of rocks… .”
Quagmire and light!
The pile of stones that had hit Evangeline all at once stuck to each other. It was Euryale’s technique of trapping the opponent in a rock.
But
“It doesn’t work.”
Quagmire!
Evangeline lightly opened her arms and smashed the pile of stones around her.
Trait [Unstoppable].
Evangeline was immune to bondage of any kind. This rock bondage was no exception.
“Well then… .”
Evangeline coldly recited to Euryale, who was still struggling with a shrill scream.
“First, the wings.”
***
Blacklist was on the verge of annihilation for Steno.
“Arise, my children! Please stop that crazy monster!”
The woman wearing the candlestick crown was a golem wizard.
She used all the materials she had to summon Blood Golems, Bone Golems, Sand Golems, and even Candle Golems, but all of them were lightly crushed by Steno’s hand.
“this… It’s the last shot… … .”
The man with glasses who remodeled half of his body into a magic engineering machine was a horseman.
Although he was a skilled man who used magic and magic, the magic bullets and magic he used could not fatally injure Steno.
Steno ripped off his prosthetic limb and limb, and after loading the last round with the other hand, brought the pistol to his temple.
“Should I just commit suicide? I don’t want to be eaten by monsters.”
“If you’re going to commit suicide, give me a meat shield and die, son of a bitch!”
The child, dressed in a prison uniform and chained all over, was a dark attribute wizard.
This child, who made hand signs and fired various evil magics, was giving Steno effective damage, but because of that, he became Steno’s first target.
Torkel limped and ran with the child on his back, barely escaping.
But before long, the magician’s magic ran out.
There is no odds.
In fact, everyone knew from the beginning.
“Oh shit! Really! Why are you fucking with me!”
The Golemist woman almost sobbed.
“You knew you couldn’t win! You knew hiding was best! Why do I have to die like this while fooling around with a strange sense of justice all of a sudden?! why!”
“… The child must live.”
The blind swordsman murmured.
He was sitting on the corner of an alley with a broken leg bone from being kicked by Steno.
“I have to save the child born now.”
“What good would happen if you were born into this fucking world?! Even if I were born, that monster would be drooling right in front of me! Do I really have to show my child this terrible world?!”
“It’s him who decides that.”
After inhaling, the blind swordsman raised his scabbard to the floor and trembled.
“To us, this world is a fucking town. What is that for sure?”
Steno stopped on the other side of the alley and prepared to charge.
The blind swordsman stood with his broken leg on the floor and slowly took his feet.
“But you don’t know what the child’s world is like.”
“… .”
“It is the child who decides whether the world is beautiful or terrible. It means that the child will come to a conclusion after experiencing all the sweetness and bitterness of the world.”
Hearing those words, Thorkell, drenched in blood and sweat, blinked blankly.
“I have never seen what this world looks like. I know this.”
An embarrassed smile formed on the blind swordsman’s lips.
“This world usually tastes like sand and dust ash… It really sometimes tastes like really terrifyingly soft, sweet cotton candy.”
“… .”
“Since he was born into this world, that child has the right to taste it too.”
Clap –
The blind swordsman, who had loaded the final slash, was brainwashed.
“Now, I’m ready. Give me some directions.”
thud-!
Steno started charging this way.
Then, the horse musketeer blocked Steno’s way and aimed his pistol forward.
“this way.”
Taang-!
The pistol-type horse gun spewed fire.
Of course, the bullets didn’t stop Steno.
The last bullet ricocheted off Steno’s metal forearm in vain, and Steno’s charge tore the horse musketeer’s body to shreds.
However, the direction was clearly conveyed to the blind swordsman.
“Whoa.”
The blind swordsman lowered his stance to the point where he couldn’t lower it any further. After inhaling as hard as he could, he
drew his sword and struck a slash.
His attack, which cuts through anything as long as he hits it, jumps through space and flies –
Cheak-!
… cut down the stone wall
At the last moment, his broken leg failed to function as a stepping foot and his posture collapsed, so the blade headed in the wrong direction.
“ah.”
The blind swordsman muttered shyly.
“It missed.”
“You mojiri bastard!”
“Aaaaaaaaaaa!”
In front of the screaming blacklist survivors, Steno leapt like a tank.
