Episode 376: The Battle of the Giants was not clearly visible to the eyes of knights, let alone ordinary people.
It was not simply because the red and transparent sphere created by the sword spirit blocked the view. The clash between superhumans that devastated a corner of the battlefield was so intense that it seemed like they were in a different world.
However, even on the battlefield where lives were at stake, some people who watched them as if they were fascinated knew one thing for sure.
– The game will come sooner than you think.
A red sphere that is rapidly shrinking in size.
And it was clearly visible that the silver lightning flashing within it was also rapidly slowing down.
Then at some point.
– Wow!
The red sphere completely disappeared, signaling that a part of the castle wall protected by a barrier was broken.
And the winners and losers were divided not by the walls but beneath them.
Cough.
“Hehehe. Damn it. Just now…”
Tris was on one knee, coughing up blood, and Harmon, with a pale complexion in front of her, was raising his sword with blood streaming from the corner of his mouth.
The unexpected result froze the entire imperial army around them.
“Understand that we cannot afford to take our time!”
Seeing the imperial army surrounding him on all sides, Harman gritted his teeth and moved his sword, but Tris smiled despite the silver sword aimed at his neck.
“As expected, my choice was right.”
As if responding to those words, another silver Auror Blade suddenly dug into Harmon’s side.
“No way!”
Kwaaaaang!
I gritted my teeth and tried to muster up enough strength to see the one-eyed knight jumping out.
A familiar face.
‘Jerome Decade!’
The reason why I didn’t know until another Auror user got so close was probably because of the fierce battle with the sword spirit.
Up to this point, I still expected it.
But…
– For the Empire!
The moment Harmon saw the four knights jumping out with the same voice as if they were one person, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
The dark red energy radiating from the four bodies was clearly an auror.
It was a strange feeling, as if something was about to break at any moment, but it was clearly an auror.
‘Not one, but five? ‘There were five Auror users approaching me and I didn’t know?’
If he had noticed the slightest hint of that, he wouldn’t have tried to compete with the sword spirit like this.
“Sorry, Shingeom. You’ll have to die here.”
As Tris’s solemn voice pierced Harmon’s ears, dark red energy and pure white light collided dazzlingly beneath the castle wall.
A clash between two superhumans representing the two countries.
Surprisingly, it was Tris who fell.
The moment Harmon gained victory, cheers erupted from the castle walls.
“The leader defeated the Empire’s First Sword!”
“We won!”
“Wow!”
Of course, there weren’t many people who could look away while the enemy was cutting in front of their eyes.
However, as soon as some of the large and able-bodied soldiers announced Harmon’s victory, the other soldiers started shouting without knowing exactly what was going on.
Those who suddenly screamed opened their eyes in surprise at the content of what they had said.
“really!?”
“Aaaah!”
It was natural for morale, which had fallen to the bottom due to various adverse conditions, to rise. The process of how the results of a single duel changes the battlefield in real time unfolds before your eyes.
However, the few strong men who were watching the outcome of the duel could not help but widen their eyes at the scene that followed.
Silver light began to be pushed back unilaterally amidst a deluge of dark red auras.
“no!”
“Captain!”
“Protect the leader!!!”
The strong members of the Knights Templar, including Adjutant Line Harper, began to jump down the castle wall one after another. It looked like a moth rushing towards a flame.
“Aaaah!”
“Avoid the blood… murmur.”
“It’s all, Captain.”
The paladins blocked Harman’s path and threw their entire bodies into the waves of dark red aurors.
“You damn thing! Everyone go back! Go back!”
Blood flowed from Haman’s tightly bitten lip.
However, the dark red aura that surrounded his entire body and tightened his arms on all sides did not allow any gap, and the procession of paladins rushing towards him, jumping down the castle wall, seemed to show no signs of stopping.
“Captain, avoid…!”
The sight of Adjutant Line Harper falling down, clutching the sword that pierced his chest, was sadly visible to Harmon.
A very short gap was visible just before the creature’s body was torn apart, but what filled the gap in that miserable sacrifice was a silver auror blade that was slightly different from Harman’s own.
Kwaaaaang!
“Pfft!”
This is already the fifth time during the short skirmish.
I could only resent Jerome, who stepped forward as if he had known in advance that such a gap would arise at that moment.
Meanwhile, his subordinates were continuously jumping down the castle wall.
“Captain!”
“Captain!”
And the four knights slaughtering them were strangely unwavering.
Neither the excitement that might be seen in a fierce battlefield nor the emotion of a desperate sacrifice were visible at all.
‘Like a doll with no emotions at all…’
They were strange, like grotesque aurors with a sticky feel, but their combat power was definitely strong. It was clear that he had learned the sword skill well from him, as it gave off the spirit of sword fighting just before.
‘But why this strange feeling…’
But there was no time to think more deeply about their strange behavior.
Perhaps because they believed those guys, the other imperial troops were busy climbing the castle wall, ignoring Harman, who was cornered by them. On the other hand, the paladins who were supposed to command the troops on the wall did not stop jumping down to save themselves.
‘It can’t go on like this.’
It was clearly felt that a hole was being created in the formation due to the subordinates going to extreme lengths to save themselves, despite the morale raised by their sword spirit.
It was time for an adventure.
“Sigh!”
Harman took a deep breath and rushed towards the enemy camp instead of the castle wall.
The Holy Knights who were trying to save him were rather embarrassed, but one of the four men who were surrounding Hamon came to block their path without delay.
He looks completely unfazed even in unexpected situations.
‘It really looks like a doll with technology engraved on it.’
How can an Auror user be a doll?
The power that can be obtained only after the soul overcomes its limitations and takes complete control of the body becomes an auror.
But now I had no choice but to bet everything on that vague feeling.
Even as Harmon watched the enemy’s sword with its dark red aura piercing his chest, he raised the sword and stabbed the opponent.
All you have to do to avoid an attack aimed at your heart is to twist your body slightly.
He ignored the attack and only focused on stabbing the knife.
Fuuuuk.
Naturally, I felt pain as if a fireball had penetrated my right chest. However, Harmon, who gritted his teeth and endured the pain, actually took one step further.
The vague feeling was right.
The enemy stopped moving as if they wanted to die together. It’s as if I don’t know what to do in this case.
That one beat of pause decided the game.
Harman’s sword pierced through the enemy’s chest and then boldly cut off the enemy’s waist.
Wow!
Cleanly separated upper and lower body.
“!?”
Hehehe.
If I heard a sound, would it be that way?
The remaining three of the four and even Jerome, who was assisting behind them, seemed to be caught off guard by Harmon’s unexpected and bold move, and their reactions were a beat late.
No, it seemed like he was so surprised that he even flinched back.
‘it’s okay!’
Harman used his divine power to block the enemy’s aura remaining in his body and stop the bleeding from the wound.
Without even feeling pain due to the crazy surge of excitement, his body shot backwards, aiming for the first real opening that appeared.
That moment.
Thump.
An unexpected hand grabbed Harmon’s ankle.
“Ugh!?”
It was the hand of an enemy Auror user, with only the upper body remaining.
Harmon’s eyes widened at the unbelievable sight, and a voice that should not have been heard came from inside the helmet.
“Emperor. Your Majesty. Long live!”
At the same time, the image of Jerome suddenly throwing himself backwards and the remaining three people rushing towards him slowly entered Harmon’s field of vision.
‘what?’
When a crazy, ominous feeling knocks on your soul.
The body of the enemy holding his ankle exploded.
Wow!
Rumbling.
The explosion was so sudden and so intense. So much so that the Holy Knights and Imperial soldiers who were fighting under the eastern wall were completely wiped out.
And such explosions continued ‘three more times’ in a row.
Wow!
That’s it.
With the final explosion, the dust that rose up covered the sky, and the ground cracked as if there had been an earthquake, stopping the imperial army camp that was constantly charging for an instant.
It was a catastrophic explosion that stopped the fierce battle taking place on the eastern wall in an instant.
“…It’s huge.”
As Jerome muttered this with a mesmerized expression, Tris, who was looking at the rising dust with a vain look on her face, smiled bitterly.
“Yes. They say the cost invested in just one of them is over 100 million gold. It’s worth it. It’s just a shame that they are disposable.”
“100 million…”
If you’re too surprised, does your voice actually get quieter?
“How many more things like that are in the imperial family?”
“…I don’t know. But it probably won’t be much. No matter how powerful it is, it is a consumable item whose life rapidly expires after the auror is activated, and it costs too much.”
Power. expense.
Jerome bit his lip at those inhuman words.
“Why? Does it bother you that life is being used?”
“Oh no.”
“Never mind. And just remember one thing: It’s all for….”
“For the Empire.”
“okay.”
Tris smiled in satisfaction as if she liked what her student said, and then looked at the dust and bowed her head politely as if she were dealing with a person.
“They were weapons with mental magic immunity and my basic sword skills perfectly engraved on them. They were weapons to catch the snake that swallowed the truth of the great mage. You, the divine sword, were that great of a person.”
A person who was unable to win with swordsmanship and had to resort to other means.
Tris mourned him, thinking that she would never forget Shingeom for the rest of her life.
But through the dust that had begun to settle little by little, a nerve-wracking ray of light rose up into the sky and caught my eye.
“What is that?”
“hmm?”
A light that feels sacred.
And now he is an enemy of the Holy Kingdom.
The moment Tris recognized this, her complexion hardened and she screamed at her surroundings.
“Charge now! We resume the war!”
“Your Excellency. But the ground…”
“The cavalry detours and the wizards fill the ground! We will occupy the capital immediately!”
Triss mustered up all her strength and let out a loud shout that made the battlefield reverberate.
As the imperial army followed the order and reorganized itself, a woman was seen in the light rising through the dust that had almost settled.
Pure white . A beautiful woman wearing a judge’s crown on her head and a pure white robes covering her entire body was floating in the air above the deep pit at the epicenter of the explosion.
– It is not time for you to rest yet.
A beam of light shot up from the ground along with a voice with a strange resonance.
In between them. A man, unknown whether he had fainted or died, was seen floating over the castle wall.
‘God’s sword!!!’
Tris’ eyes grew twice as big.
“No! All troops charge! Be sure to kill Shingeom!”
A loud, resounding voice.
However, while the knights and cavalry of the Imperial Army were making a detour, the woman disappeared onto the castle wall along with Shingeom’s body.
‘Saint? She had that kind of power? Damn it! Why do I have information? Go…!? No, no, we still have a firm advantage.’
Tris bit her lip and repeatedly urged her subordinates,
“The divine sword cannot fight! The leader of the enemy army has fallen! Hurry and charge!”
There was a valid basis for his command.
But the message magic that came at that moment stopped him.
[Your Excellency. The magic circle reached its limit faster than expected. The holy law barrier is also recovering strangely quickly. Understanding the situation, I think you need to move behind you.]
The imperial army, which tried to charge like an angry bull, had no choice but to stop its advance.
