Chapter 118 : Chapter 118
Chapter 118. A Disgusting Fellow
Kurung.
The Uresra soldiers, who had been running like mad, came to a stop.
“What are you doing!”
Viktor moved between the soldiers, urging them to run again.
But the soldiers were frozen by the roar of the mountain.
The sound of something breaking and cracking continued ominously.
“W-we have to go back!”
“No! We have to run forward!”
“Move! Move!”
Everyone knew they had to run right away.
But no one could easily take a step.
The mountain shook, and white snowflakes rose like a thick cloud of dust.
And a huge wave of snow pushed towards them.
“Captain!”
Tolino looked at Viktor, who was calling her, with an indifferent face.
“Tsk. There’s nothing to be done about foolish ones.”
She approached the carriage that the soldiers had been pulling.
She pulled back the white cloth.
Inside, there were several clean corpses.
“Bat. Explosion. This should do.”
Five corpses she liked.
She dragged them out of the carriage.
Then she took out a potion and sprinkled it evenly over the corpses.
Kk-geu-geu-geuk.
The corpses twisted with a grotesque sound.
Their arms turned black, and their skin peeled off, spreading wide.
Their torsos changed similarly to their arms.
Watching this, Tolino let out a short sigh and turned her head towards the landslide.
“Over there.”
The corpses opened their eyes.
Their bodies had a bizarre shape, neither bat nor human.
“Kyaak!”
They shrieked as if they understood Tolino’s words.
And they began to fly towards the place Tolino had pointed.
“Don’t just watch, move!”
Some soldiers tried to move after hearing Viktor’s urging.
But they got tangled up here and there because of the soldiers who couldn't come to their senses.
Tolino watched them pathetically.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. If you’re stupid, you just have to die. What can you do.”
The wave of snow drew closer.
Kwang!
Kwa-gwang!
Kwa-gwa-ang!
The human bats exploded and tried to break the balance of the wave, but it was a small part.
The only effect they had was that the speed of the avalanche slowed down a little.
Tolino clicked her tongue and drew her sword.
And she began to kill the soldiers who were floundering around her.
“If you’re just going to stand there foolishly, shouldn’t you do something?”
The soldiers looked at Tolino with surprised eyes.
Tolino wiped the blood from her face and showed a charming smile.
“One, two, three, four…… about twelve of you? Then we just need one more. If you don't want to die, grab him.”
The surrounding soldiers held the soldier in front of Tolino so he couldn't move.
The soldier begged them not to do this and asked for forgiveness.
But no one listened.
“There’s no time, so let’s end this quickly. Otherwise, most of you will die.”
The soldier screamed, but nothing changed.
Tolino stripped the soldier of his clothes and cut open his chest.
Blood came out.
The skin split, and red and white raw flesh was exposed.
Tolino clicked her tongue lightly and thrust her sword between them.
“Argh!”
The muscles tore with the sound of pain.
Blood-stained bones came out.
The soldier, crushed by pain, trembled.
The avalanche also began to pick up speed again.
Smack!
The bones were shattered by Tolino’s hand.
She gave a smiling eye and licked her lips.
“Oh Mother. I offer the heart of one who awaits corruption. Grant me strength.”
Tolino tore out the soldier's heart.
Against the backdrop of the avalanche, the heart throbbed.
A green light swirled in Tolino’s pupils.
Green mana flowed from her body, dyeing the surroundings.
“Arise. Join hands and build a wall. There is still work to be done before you die.”
As Tolino clenched the heart, green light and blood spread in all directions.
The dead, stained with green blood, rose from their places and surrounded Tolino.
The soldiers’ eyes widened as they asked what would happen to them.
“Live or die. Or be in pain.”
The soldiers looked at Tolino’s smile with a bewildered expression.
Her body, her face, was obscured by the dead.
A terrifying sound that shook the heavens and earth approached the soldiers.
The soldiers, soaked in fear, turned their heads.
Kwarung!
The pure white world turned pitch black.
***
The movement of the snow had ended.
Perignon, who had been sitting on the ground, panting raggedly, crawled to the edge of the cliff.
“Is it… is it over? I-is it really over? Did we take care of all of them?”
He rubbed his eyes several times as if he couldn’t believe it.
But he only saw the same scene.
Perignon turned his head.
“How did Your Highness think of such a thing?”
I pointed at Adellian.
Because the beginning of the idea was her.
Adellian, who had been lying on the ground catching her breath, sat up.
“Huh?”
She blinked her eyes as if she didn't know why people were looking at her.
“It’s something like that. If you’ve caught your breath, get up. We have to move.”
Adellian difficultly raised her heavy body.
‘That was close.’
She must have squeezed out her mana until just before the light of her circles went out.
Then again, if it hadn't been to that extent, there wouldn't have been enough snow to cause an avalanche.
“Did we win?”
Piontek carefully looked at the snow-covered Akal Corridor.
A quiet atmosphere.
Not even a hint of life could be felt.
But it couldn’t be said that we had completely won.
Because there would be remaining troops beyond the dust and fog created by the avalanche.
“Ah! There are some left!”
Bartea, who was looking down the cliff next to Adellian, pointed at something with his hand.
The enemy's survivors broke through the piled-up snow.
It wasn't just one or two.
“We can’t just leave them. I will move first.”
Perignon moved to lead the soldiers and attack them.
“Bethel. When the kids come to their senses, bring them.”
“I understand, Your Highness.”
Bethel, at the end of the 2nd Circle, also had a pale face.
Not to mention the other guys.
Since everyone had squeezed out their strength to the limit, it was normal for them to be staggering.
‘Will we need about 30 minutes?’
To fill up with enough mana to get their Mana Circles turning and shake off their body’s fatigue, it would take at least that long.
“N-no. I-I can go now. I-I’m o-okay.”
“Odekerkh. Don’t overdo it. We’re not practicing right now. If you move carelessly, you’ll really die.”
Although we had fought for our lives in the Black Market, it wasn’t a large-scale battle where hundreds fought like now.
The level of tension was different.
There wasn't just one or two knights.
If you swung your sword without coming to your senses, you could be stabbed from behind, cut from the side, and blown up from the front.
“R-really……”
Odekerkh tried to stand up.
But Bethel pressed down on his shoulder.
“I will make sure and go. Your Highness does not need to worry.”
Bethel patted his chest.
It meant that since he had combat experience, he would move accordingly.
“Good.”
Bethel also had experience, so he would do well on his own.
Then shall I head to the enemy camp faster than anyone else?
“Huh?”
“What are you doing?”
“Your Highness? That way is not a path……!”
“Maxim!”
“Hey, you crazy bastard!”
Everyone seemed startled.
It couldn’t be helped.
Drrrk.
Because instead of going down the path, I jumped down the cliff.
The piled-up snow was quite slippery, so it was good for using Dawn like a sled.
The blade made from a Devil Bear’s horn was thick and hard, so it wouldn’t even get a scar from a decent impact.
I minimized the impact on my body as much as possible by circulating mana.
Smack.
“Ouch.”
I should have thought about how to reduce my speed before moving, but I forgot.
It feels like my body is being shattered.
I pulled out my arms and legs that were stuck in the snow and shook them off.
As I grabbed Dawn, which was buried in the snow…….
“E-enemy!”
A soldier pointed at me and looked around.
Even after experiencing an avalanche, his voice was quite loud.
“Quickly! Grab your weapons and prepare! Prepare to fight!”
About a dozen comrades gathered around the flustered soldier.
And behind them, a woman stood leisurely with a cigarette in her mouth.
“Don’t make a fuss over just one.”
It was an indifferent voice, but it didn't seem so to the soldiers.
The few guys there took their positions to attack me.
Though it wouldn't do much.
“Survivors, quickly regroup!”
A voice echoed loudly from within the smoke.
Then, black shadows increased one by one.
The woman, as if she didn't care about what was happening behind her, kept her eyes fixed on me and smoked her cigarette.
“Hey kid. How old are you?”
“Why? Are younger men your type?”
The woman let out a hollow laugh.
“The way a young one talks is disgusting. Did you learn that in the army? I suppose so.
Since there are no people, they brought a kid like you, so everyone must not be in their right mind, right?”
The woman’s smile was eerie.
The way she licked her lips while holding her sword was also like that.
Hundreds of people had died, yet she was only asking leisurely questions.
‘The commander of this unit.’
If she were an ordinary soldier, she would have panicked like the guy in front.
Since it was right after experiencing an avalanche, it would be difficult to maintain composure and decide and act on something.
But that woman showed no signs of panic at all.
The way she controlled the other soldiers with a single word was also like that.
‘If she’s a unit commander, does she have something like that guy I saw before?’
The atmosphere emanating from the woman was bizarre.
“Are you also a result of some strange experiment?”
“Experiment? Ah, you mean mixing with animals? You know a lot for a little one, don’t you?”
The woman smiled even more brightly.
Seeing this gave me the creeps.
There was no light in her pupils.
No, it seemed there was no vitality either.
‘Huh? Vitality? Don’t tell me?’
The sound of many footsteps came through the smoke.
Even at a rough glance, the number was over 100.
“Captain!”
It was the owner of the voice that had echoed in the smoke just before.
“Viktor. No need to be loud.”
“There are many casualties. First……”
The man named Viktor spotted me.
“A Poinus soldier? Are they even using boy soldiers? They said things were a mess inside, I guess it was true.”
“I guess so.”
The woman exhaled a long puff of cigarette smoke.
Gray smoke.
Through it, the woman’s eyes glinted.
It was like a beast that had found its prey.
“I like him. It would be nice to capture that child alive.”
“It's just one, so it won’t be a problem. But does Poinus use strange-looking swords?”
“Sword? Ah! Come to think of it, it looks really strange.”
What?
Dawn was a sword that stood out wherever it went, so it was strange that she hadn't seen it.
Did she not even think of fighting with the enemy in front of her?
Or maybe she thought lightly of me.
“Drag him here with his life intact. So I can see his face and his sword.”
At the woman’s words, Viktor moved his hand.
The Uresra soldiers raised their weapons high.
I too raised Dawn and aimed at them.
The opponent was over a hundred soldiers and two knights.
It would be a little tight, but if I held on, Perignon would appear.
“Huh?”
Viktor’s eyes widened.
The faces of the Uresra soldiers behind him contorted.
“Drop your weapons!”
Perignon’s voice echoed from behind me.
He came earlier than I thought.
“So you were counting on that.”
The woman nodded as if she understood.
She spat out the cigarette she was holding and grabbed her sword.
A strong sense of foreboding brushed past me.
Green mana swirled from the woman's heart.
I know what that damn mana is.
“Tenebris! Perignon! Stand back!”
“Arise!”
The flustered Perignon and soldiers.
Green flashes of light shot up around them like a fountain.
A torn hand emerged from the snow.
Our soldiers were greatly surprised.
A wavering atmosphere.
“If you want to go to the afterlife, you have to take at least one with you.”
Damn bastard.
To use the dead, who couldn't even die.
“Get a grip! They don’t die even if you kill them.”
I shouted loudly, but it didn’t reach the soldiers’ ears.
They trembled in fear as they saw the corpses that had pushed through the snow.
“W-what is this?”
“They’re alive?”
“They’re dead! They’re dead! But……”
“If they’re dead, how are they moving?”
They screamed and swung their swords randomly.
Even if they cut the corpses’ bodies and severed their arms, they kept getting up.
“U-ugh!”
It was the moment the gates of hell opened.