Chapter 119 : Chapter 119
Chapter 119. Corpse Seller
Swish!
Bright red blood splattered onto the white snowfield.
Someone’s arm also fell.
A leg, a face also fell.
Among them were some that bled and some that didn't.
“What the hell are these things!”
“You son of a bitch! Son of a bitch! Son of a bitch! Son of a biiitch!”
“Die! Please die! Please!”
One soldier swung his sword while shedding tears.
Another soldier knelt, vomiting blood.
“Weak. So weak.”
Tolino, watching the battlefield, clicked her tongue and swung her sword.
A soldier who had become useless with his limbs severed stood up.
He picked up the arms and legs of others that had fallen on the ground and attached them to his own body.
“Monster! You disgusting monster!”
A soldier cut and cut again the Uresra soldier who had returned as a patchwork.
But the Uresra soldier did not fall.
He just looked at the soldier who had cut him, with a sword embedded in his body.
“W-what is this? What the hell is this!”
Slice.
A purplish-black line flowed, and the patchwork soldier was split in half.
The soldier, who had been seized by fear, looked beyond the split soldier.
Maxim, standing with Dawn in hand, was looking at him with a cold gaze.
“Get a grip. Are you going to die here?”
The soldier shook his head.
Kwak!
Slice!
Three charging corpse soldiers were split in two by the flow of Dawn.
Maxim shook Dawn to flick off the blood.
Then he caught his breath and looked at the frightened Poinus soldiers.
“Fall back!”
The soldiers looked at Maxim.
“Get a grip! Everyone, don’t fight, fall back!”
The soldiers who had been trying their best to put the corpses to rest for good moved urgently.
In the midst of them stood Perignon, motionless.
He looked at Maxim.
Blocking the flying arrows, cutting down the pursuing soldiers.
He had the smallest physique, but he was a greater person than anyone else.
But he couldn't face the undying enemies, the persistently surviving enemies, alone.
Even if he was a being who had accomplished what was thought impossible, even if he was a being who had shown unbelievable power.
‘He is still a boy.’
A human, not a god.
“Your Highness! Come over here!”
Maxim shook his head at Perignon.
“Your Highness! You can’t do it alone!”
“I know! But not right now.”
He turned his head and glared at Tolino.
Dawn, held in his hand, emitted a deep purple light.
“Build a wall of ice. So the corpse bastards can't cross over. When you have the distance, burn them all with flaming arrows. You have to soak them in a lot of oil.”
“Your Highness! You can’t.”
Perignon’s shout.
Maxim responded with a light smile.
“Do you know what aura is?”
“Pardon?”
“Aura!”
“Ah, I know!”
Maxim nodded with a satisfied smile.
“When I shoot my aura, build the wall immediately!”
“Your Highness!”
Leaving Perignon’s shout behind, he gripped Dawn with both hands.
A blue light shone strongly from Maxim’s body.
And Dawn scattered a blindingly bright light in all directions.
“A person should depart like a person. The bastard who interferes with that should die right now!”
Tolino sneered.
“I went easy on you because you were young, but you don’t know your place.”
At her gesture, the corpses buried in the snow stood up.
Tolino’s sword aimed at Maxim.
All the corpses began to run towards Maxim.
“A bastard much younger than me, who are you to talk about place!”
Maxim’s intense gaze.
The Talisman responded to it and flashed.
Dawn danced with Maxim.
Paang!
The air split, and a snowstorm arose.
A purple line passed through it.
The smoke that was in place scattered quickly as if chased by something.
Kurung.
The mountain shook, dropping a little snow.
Even the sleeping animals were startled by the heavy impact and ran around here and there.
“H-how could this happen……”
Viktor’s mouth fell open.
He couldn’t believe what was happening before his eyes.
All of the corpse soldiers that Tolino had awakened had fallen.
Their upper bodies were severed, their heads had flown off, and not a single one could be found intact.
An ordinary soldier would have to stab and cut with all their might just to barely take one down.
It was something a boy had done by swinging a sword as big as his own body just once.
“Revive them again. You’re going to keep reviving them anyway.”
Maxim aimed Dawn at Tolino.
It was like a declaration that he would cut them down no matter how many times she awakened them.
“Ha.”
Tolino furrowed her brow for the first time.
“I’m starting to dislike that one.”
“I disliked you from the start.”
“……My mother likes young and kind souls, but you’re a lost cause.”
“No, you were wrong from the start, you see? I’m not young. And I’m certainly not kind.”
Tolino’s pupils widened.
Kaang!
Her sword and Maxim’s Dawn began a power struggle.
Geu-geu-geu-geuk.
Tolino’s sword scraped against Dawn, creating sparks.
Maxim’s feet sank into the snow.
Seeing this, a green energy swirled in Tolino’s eyes.
Paat!
The hand of a dead man shot out and grabbed Maxim’s leg.
“This! Damn Tenebris!”
Maxim’s face contorted.
Dawn whined, ‘Woong, woong,’ and deflected Tolino’s sword.
At that moment, the hand of a corpse gripping the blade aimed for Maxim’s neck.
“Go peacefully!”
The blade of Dawn, blocked by the blade.
Its tip crumpled and sliced the corpse's fingers.
“Everyone, stick to him!”
At Tolino’s command, every moving thing—a corpse with only an upper body, a corpse with only a lower body, a faceless corpse—headed for Maxim.
Maxim’s eyes widened as he looked back.
There, a thick ice wall was spread out.
“Fire!”
A single flaming arrow flew over the wall towards Maxim.
Then dozens of flaming arrows.
Hundreds of flaming arrows covered the sky.
“Crazy!”
Tolino’s eyes widened more than twice their size.
“C-Captain!”
Viktor, a little further away, shouted, filled with despair.
A cloud of flaming arrows with no apparent escape route.
Maxim looked at Tolino and drew a meaningful smile.
Tolino’s eyes contorted.
“What? What the hell are you?”
Before she could satisfy her curiosity, the flaming arrows began to pour down like rain.
The sound of thwack! thw-thw-thw-thwack! thwack! was heard incessantly.
In the midst of it, there was also the dull sound of hitting a lump of iron.
“If it’s pierced, another will block it. Prove your worth!”
The corpses surrounded Tolino in layers.
The flaming arrows pierced the corpses’ bodies.
Oil spread, and flames rose.
The corpses stuck to the blooming fire.
The fire spread again.
The corpses stuck to it again.
Fwoosh!
A mountain of corpses, a good kindling for the fire to eat.
A flame of a scale incomparable to before.
Tolino pushed aside the burning corpses and threw herself into the snow.
“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!”
She was intensely annoyed by the situation that had deviated from her expectations.
She wanted to tear apart Maxim, who was ruining the picture she had drawn in her head.
So she decided.
To release all the power she had and erase the insolent boy from the world.
Without caring about the boy's heart, just thinking of the blood feast that would unfold.
Three circles relentlessly emitted light.
“There you are?”
Dawn dug into the snow and aimed for Tolino’s face.
Kagak!
Tolino’s sword barely blocked it.
“This bastard!”
Green mana scattered in all directions, swallowing the corpses.
“Captain!”
Viktor shouted desperately.
But the meaning contained within was different from usual.
It contained the feeling of telling her not to do it, not to cross the line.
“Shut up! I’m suffering like this! I’m in so much pain! Damn it!”
With Tolino’s sharp scream, a snowstorm raged.
Maxim looked at the deep green mana mixed in the wind.
“A 3rd Circle is doing this?”
In Maxim’s memory, there was only one thing that appeared when deep green mana met a corpse.
“A corpse golem! Son of a bitch!”
Koong!
Hundreds of bodies were messily stuck together, creating a grotesque figure.
It stood on two legs, but it was awkward to call it a human figure.
There were faces on its head, on its chest, on its side, on its arms, on its legs, a lot of them.
And all of them had a surprised expression.
There were also eyeballs here and there, so it seemed to be looking in all directions.
And it also seemed to be shedding tears of blood with its whole body.
“What is that?”
“I-I don’t know. Kill it. We have to kill it!”
“Save His Highness!”
“Fire! Fire!”
The Poinus soldiers drew their bowstrings.
Flaming arrows soaked in oil flew towards the corpse golem.
Tadadak.
The corpse golem blocked the flaming arrows with its arm.
Then it hit the snow-soaked wall and extinguished the embers.
It was the same with the other arrows.
It tore off the parts where the fire was spreading and attached new corpses.
“This is something a 5th Circle does……”
Maxim looked back and forth between the corpse golem and Tolino.
In that moment, Maxim’s eyes widened.
Tolino had plunged a dagger into her own chest.
“My mother changes pain into power. To kill you, this much pain is nothing!”
She screamed at Maxim and pointed a finger at him.
The corpse golem nodded and headed for Maxim.
Thump! Thump! the ground rumbled.
“Don’t just watch, help! Kill that bastard!”
Viktor urged the remaining soldiers, but no one stepped forward.
No, they couldn’t.
Because they were shocked by the sight of the corpse golem with their comrades dangling from it.
“If you don’t want to end up like that, kill him quickly!”
Viktor raised his sword and stabbed the sky.
Dark clouds gathered.
“If you don’t move, I will burn even your souls. Move!”
Pajik!
A thunderbolt struck Viktor’s sword.
Seeing this, the soldiers around Viktor gripped their weapons and ran towards Maxim.
Slice.
Bloody water scattered over the purple line.
The Uresra soldier who had been running in front lost his life and crumbled.
Dawn, with drops of blood falling from it.
Maxim, holding it and staring at the corpse golem.
“If you don’t want to end up like that, fall back. All who approach will end up like that.”
Killing intent flashed in Maxim’s eyes.
But in Perignon’s eyes, he only saw Maxim standing alone and the Uresra soldiers trying to surround him.
“Your Highness! We will help you!”
Perignon and the soldiers broke down the wall to help Maxim.
“Didn’t you hear me? Don’t come near!”
At Maxim’s shout, they who had been running collapsed on the spot.
Seeing this, Viktor, with lightning wrapped around his sword, shot forward.
“An opening! Die……!”
The corpse golem stepped on Viktor’s body.
Then it stuffed the corpse of a dead soldier into its mouth.
The corpse golem’s body grew larger.
“Don’t waste time, kill him.”
Tolino, with a pale face, gnashed her teeth as she looked at Maxim.
Maxim also puffed out his jaw muscles as he looked at Tolino.
“No matter how I think about it, Tenebris should be annihilated. So that bastards like you can never appear again.”
“The one who insults my mother is just a beast. Tear his skin, chew his flesh, and drink his blood. Grind his bones and sprinkle them on the ground.”
Krooo!
The corpse golem roared and ran at Maxim.
The surrounding Uresra soldiers threw down their weapons and tried to scatter in all directions.
But they couldn't.
Because something sticky came out of the corpse golem's body and pulled them.
“S-save me!”
“What is this! I’m on the same si—thwack……”
“Argh!”
The corpse golem swallowed even living humans and made its body harder.
Kwang! Kwang!
The rock shattered as if it had exploded, and the wall crumbled like sand.
“Your Highness! I will help you somehow!”
Perignon used all his remaining strength to create an ice wall.
So hard that the power of a 3rd Circle could not break through.
Kwarreuk.
The corpse golem lightly broke the ice wall and jumped high into the sky.
Maxim stared at the corpse golem that was extending its foot over his head.
He stared at the pained faces that were forcibly stuck inside it.
“You make a truly gruesome thing by selling corpses. Just wait a little, I will grant you freedom.”
He gripped Dawn and opened all of his Mana Heart.
Golden mana shot up.
“A poem for the souls.”