Surviving as a Knight in a Trash Game

Chapter 182

The morale of the soldiers charging towards Marin Castle was sky-high. Under the almost fanatical belief that they would never be defeated as long as Karl was at the front, they ran towards the castle without hesitation.

The dwarf-made prefabricated siege engines did not break easily against the enemy's attacks, and the bridges and siege towers, firmly connected to the castle walls, also held firm, assisting the soldiers in climbing onto the walls.

“Get up there, no matter what! Get up and fight!”

The tide of battle would only turn once a large number of troops were on the castle walls.

A siege, in the end, depended on whether one could capture the walls or not.

Thanks to the dwarf-made siege engines, the soldiers who had climbed the walls with relative ease began to engage in a fierce battle with the Marin Domain army.

“We can take it. We can do it!”

As time passed, the number of allied soldiers on the walls gradually increased, and their numbers steadily grew the conviction that the siege could succeed.

Woooooong.

Just then, a strange sound was heard.

It was like a vibration, and also like a resonation of the air. The bizarre tremor lasted for a very short moment, and then a giant red mass began to reveal itself on the castle walls.

The red object, which looked like blood vessels or a chunk of flesh, began to sweep through the surroundings as soon as it fell onto the walls.

The things, too grotesque to be called living creatures, did not distinguish between friend or foe.

When their sharp, protruding arms pierced a person's torso, they shriveled up like a dried-up husk. Those who touched the red monster's body had that part melt away.

“Blood Golem….”

The demonic weapon called the Golem of Blood. The golem, with a body that seemed five times the size of a human, began to devour the soldiers on the walls without restraint.

“Only Master-grade knights, follow me!”

Confirming that the damage was spreading rapidly due to the approximately 20 Blood Golems, I leaped onto the castle walls with only the Master-grade knights.

It was the moment I flew onto the walls and was about to plunge my golden aura into the torso of a Blood Golem.

Pooooow!

A black current erupted in front of me, clashing with the golden aura enveloping my body. I barely managed to stop my body, which had almost been thrown off the castle walls by the single impact.

“…”

My gaze fell upon Duke Jacques Marin, who was standing on the castle wall, smiling faintly at me.

In his hand was a black rod that looked like a staff.

Contrary to his soft features and light brown hair, a strange black light flickered within his eyes.

“Nice to meet you.”

“I’m not pleased to see you.”

“From the looks of it, you seem to be half-mixed with our side too, so don’t be so cold.”

The Duke seemed to know that I had received Decarabia’s power.

“I don’t know why the greedy Decarabia gave his power to the agent of Essus. From the looks of it, you don’t seem to have made a contract with him either.”

I was definitely not a demon.

When a human made a contract with a demon, they could no longer exist as a human. They would become half-human, half-demon, with one foot in the demonic realm.

However, no such trace could be found on me. I was a pure human.

“You are not the agent of Essus.”

Jacques' head spun rapidly. And he reached a conclusion.

“Right, you are not the agent of Essus. That’s what it was. Now I understand a little. Yes.”

The man was lost in his own thoughts for a while. In the meantime, the Blood Golems were devouring everything on the castle walls.

I no longer had time to listen to his stories.

Woooong.

A golden aura formed on my sword.

[Karl Meyer Style. Transcendence. Spatial Slash.]

In that moment, I slashed through space and Jacques along with it.

Kwaaaaaang!

I knew I couldn't cut him down with a single attack, but he only received a very slight shock and wasn't greatly damaged.

Considering the previous blow was one of the strongest I could execute, it was a bitter result.

“My, oh my, even for me, the sword of a Transcendent is dangerous. So please be careful. You still have half the power of a demon, don’t you?”

“Who are you? Gremory, Decarabia, are you too one of the 72 demons?”

“That I am. Since you’ve already seen two of them, I’ll skip any other introductions. I am called Murr.”

As soon as his introduction was over, I nodded and kicked off the ground, shooting straight towards Murr.

“My, my… you don’t seem to like conversations.”

Woooong!

My sword cried out, and flames erupted from it, touching his body.

Fwooooosh!

The flames flowing from the sword strangely burned a part of Jacques' body and did not go out, continuing to burn on his body.

“…Why is the Dragon King’s Sword in your hands? What in the world are you?”

Laevateinn, the sword of the Dragon King formerly called the Dragon Sword, contained flames that were proving to be more useful than I thought. As his body was touched by the flames, a certain amount of damage was being dealt to his core.

“A troublesome item, I see.”

After that short remark, a black current rose from Jacques' body, and his entire body was covered in armor.

Clad in dark green armor that was close to black, his staff had at some point transformed into a spear of dark, inky light.

And in that moment, his momentum began to writhe more fiercely than ever before.

***

The Masters of the Arthur Domain Allied Forces, who had climbed onto the castle walls, saw me suddenly start a battle and quickly found their own tasks.

A total of five Masters split into groups of 2, 2, and 1 and rushed towards the Blood Golems.

Bastien took on one Blood Golem by himself, while the rest moved in pairs.

The Blood Golems, belying their size, were fast and had a toughness that was not easily cut even by aura.

On top of that, if a part of their body was severed, the severed part would explode, and along with the explosion, a strong poisonous mist would instantly fill the surroundings.

It was the moment Kelvin and Rogério had neutralized one Blood Golem after a difficult fight.

“Kelvin! Dodge!”

Hearing Rogério’s urgent shout, Kelvin quickly threw himself from the side of the Blood Golem, and at that moment, a huge explosion was heard from the golem’s torso.

“Aaaaaah!”

The neutralized golem exploded on the spot, and a radius of about 30 meters fell into the explosion’s range.

Along with that, soldiers who had melted from the acidic poison and those who were caught in the force of the explosion with various parts of their bodies severed appeared everywhere.

“Vicious!”

The faces of the two men turned pale at the fact that there were still 19 more of those terrifying monsters.

“There’s no other way but to get rid of them quickly….”

The two immediately threw themselves towards the next Blood Golem.

“A tricky one, indeed….”

Bastien clicked his tongue as he sent another arm of the Blood Golem flying with his giant greatsword.

Having tried to conserve his strength with many Blood Golems remaining, he concluded after a few clashes that it would be difficult to neutralize the golem without using his full power.

[Lion Greatsword Style. 1st Form. King's Claw.]

Bastien, who had reignited his desire for a challenge for another realm after seeing me at the age of over 70, showcased the new greatsword style he had created for the first time.

The moment his greatsword, full of blue aura, was swung, three giant diagonal lines were drawn in front of him, trisecting the Blood Golem’s body.

“Marquis! You must dodge!”

Rogério, who was moving towards the next golem with Kelvin, shouted roughly, and Bastien stared at the golem that was about to explode in front of him.

[Lion Greatsword Style. 3rd Form. Lion's Roar]

And the moment the explosion occurred, the greatsword spun forward like a windmill, creating a rough rotation.

Kwooooong!

The rotation created by the greatsword let out a roar like a lion’s cry, and the blue aura swallowed the explosion whole. Then, the exploding corpse and everything else were buried together in the roar on the spot.

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Kelvin and Rogério could not close their mouths as they watched the phenomenal sight.

“Heh… as expected!”

Seeing Kelvin give him a thumbs-up, a bashful Bastien threw himself towards the next golem.

***

While the knights were fighting hard against the Blood Golems, the battle between me and Murr continued even more fiercely. Murr, wearing armor and holding a spear, tormented me by mixing necromancy and black magic with close combat.

“Amazing…! I see why Decarabia acknowledged you.”

I remained silent, while Murr chattered restlessly. The reason he had casually called himself the Demon of Philosophy earlier seemed not to mean that he contemplated and agonized a lot, but that he chattered restlessly.

‘Fire is effective against him.’

The high-purity fire seemed to act as a natural enemy to the black magic and necromancy he primarily used.

A plausible idea flashed through my mind as I pondered. Something I had trained for a long time but had never used.

I materialized the image in my mind, felt and read the surrounding energy and flow, and converted the energy.

-If you wish to create fire, and there is a related medium, you could amplify the power even more than now. It’s also the reason why mages use staffs. In a word, you could call it an increase in efficiency through a magical tool.

I recalled Emilio’s words. And. In my hand, there was a very suitable medium for using fire.

Fwoooooosh!

Unlike before, a giant flame blazed up as if forming the shape of a sword. And I began to refine the risen flame once more.

Just as one condenses aura to create a stronger aura force, I refined and condensed the flame raised by magic. The flame that had been blazing upwards fiercely increased its density and changed into a stronger flame.

And the moment the flame took on a blue light, a line of fire was drawn in front of me.

“Magic…!”

The magic that came out at a completely unexpected moment, from a completely unexpected place, broke Murr’s composure, which he had maintained throughout. And just as much as his shattered composure, the flame I had raised produced a more destructive result.

Fwoooooosh!

The pure crystal of blue flame set Murr’s armor on fire and melted it. If other demons had seen his armor, made of demonic metal that wouldn’t even be scratched by an ordinary attack, melting down, it would have been a shocking scene.

Just as the fire was increasing in intensity, a black energy explosively erupted from Murr’s body and began to counter the flame.

“You are a human who surprises me in many ways.”

His black current clashed with the flame and burned endlessly. The flame that had been melting his armor clashed with the black current and could no longer burn the armor.

However, even in the midst of that, his face was strangely distorted. The flame of Karl, added to the Fire Dragon's Flame of Laevateinn, burned intensely until the very end.

Fwoooooooosh!

When the flame went out, Murr stood before me, blackened and scorched.

And my sword, which had been raising flames until just a moment ago, once again emitted a golden aura.

[Karl Meyer Style. Transcendence. Sky Severance.]

The sword that had been aimed at Agnitus flew towards Murr in a more evolved form than before.

Ssssssk!

There was no great impact sound or explosion like before, but space split in front of me. And Murr’s armor shattered and fell to the ground.