Episode 209
The military barracks south of Carpe.
In the large barracks where the Supreme Commander was seated, the Queen was weeping as she looked at the maps and reports covered in parchment.
The stacked parchment was also a report from the battlefield, but it also contained several complaints.
Most of the complaints were like this.
[According to an oracle, the morale of the soldiers is hitting rock bottom. They hold the cause, and since we have no choice but to lead the army, it is not feasible to lead the army.]
Since they are looking for defectors, the entire continent is the enemy.]
Is it right to continue to wage war?
Isn’t it right that we should give up the gray we are embracing and plan for the future?
The country is in danger if it continues like this.
It was usually something like that.
Clara put down her appeal and covered her face with both hands.
He who was thought dead is alive.
That alone sublimated sadness into anger, and Clara’s face when she came to the battlefield became lively.
In a brief battle, her swordsmanship showed great power on a large-scale battlefield, and her brain, which received God’s grace, fully understood the tactics of the battlefield and raised its efficiency to the limit.
Although they are only defending in small battles with the principality, they have won consecutive victories.
However, it seemed a little different now.
“The cause lies with them, and an oracle has come down to fulfill them with one heart and one mind, so it won’t work just by defending.”
So far, only small-scale battles have been fought, and they have been won without much difficulty.
The southern area was equipped with gentle terrain for defense, and the golden lion guarding the southern area.
It was because the Ruidren family fiercely guarded the border.
Even the principality’s 100,000-strong army couldn’t easily cross Carpe’s southern border.
In the first place, the terrain in the south with various canyons was perfect for ambush, and passing through it was because the enemy had to be prepared to give their lives.
Even an army of 30,000 has the advantage of being able to deal with a large army of 100,000.
So, they couldn’t easily move their troops and were looking at the tide, so the war was of course looking at a long-term battle.
“Global war is what I wanted.”
“you’re right. Securing supplies to feed 100,000 troops is a big deal for them.”
From the point of view of defense, the battle of earth is the sea that I hoped for. Unlike principalities that carry the risk of transporting military supplies, Carpe does not.
“How about the food in the South this time?”
“It is a bountiful harvest. You don’t have to worry about food.”
“It’s good.”
But the Queen’s expression was not so good. If you wage a global war without worrying about food, the principality’s large army will gradually become exhausted.
If you can’t come up with the right way, it will be far from breaking through the southern defense.
However.
‘The trust is the problem.’
Originally, it was a strategy to chase after the retreating guys after draining their strength with an earth battle and achieve a great victory.
But that bastard’s oracle was a problem.
Even if we were to engage in a global war, the chances of other guys joining us had increased.
“The Empire says that the Emperor has already declared hostility against us.”
“I don’t think we can accept the troops we agreed to borrow.”
“But we no longer have to hand over the saintess. It’s the same thing to give them a cause anyway.”
It was then.
“Urgent news!”
“What’s going on?”
“Lou Luidren’s golden lion!!”
“Why is the golden lion!”
“I was killed!”
* * *
Northwest of the continent.
The drifting snow forest that appears when you go south from Lumpad. It is a huge birch forest that stretches across Lumpad and other small countries.
The knothole of a birch tree was named because it resembles a human eye.
floating eyes.
Because of the fear-inducing snow, the originally quiet forest was now noisy.
“That guy! It’s clear!”
The pilgrims surrounding a man passing through the forest each brought out their own armor.
“Hey, are you sure about that guy?”
“It is certainly. gray renegade. The man the oracle spoke of must be him.”
“Isn’t it gray?”
“Grey means his eyes. look Those ominous eyes.”
A man’s eyes appearing implicitly under the robe.
It was obviously gray.
“Right.”
“Oh God. Your messenger has found the protagonist of the oracle.”
“I will fulfill God’s command.”
Skip.
The weapons they took out of their hands showed off their eerie days in the sunlight.
spear scythe crossbow and so on.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
A spear is only for stabbing.
Suddenly, the pilgrim’s legs and arms turned into those of a beast. It seemed to be a spear with that kind of unique ability.
The man twisted his body slightly to avoid the thrust and grabbed the spearman by the neck.
Wooddeuk.
“Colin!! This fucking bastard!!”
Tuk-tuk!
As he shoots his crossbow, he lifts up the dead spearman to block the arrow.
“My arrows are not that easy!”
Puff!
I tried to block it with the spearman’s corpse, but the arrow penetrated as if there was no way.
However, the man didn’t care.
Ting Tang!
“An arrow!”
bounced off
He was wearing gray armor under his robe, which seemed to be the reason.
The man who threw away the spearman raised his spear and dyed it his own color.
“Rice renegade bastard!! Gagging!”
coo!!
I threw a javelin at the shouting crossbow man.
When the spear is blown at once, it pierces him and flies away, impaling himself on a tree and dying.
“die.”
A pilgrim carrying a scythe with a cloth covering his mouth covered the area with black smoke and draped the scythe around the man’s neck.
The moment he was about to slit his throat at once.
“Mo body!”
For a moment, the body does not move.
Before he knew it, his whole body was bound by gray chains rising from the ground.
“A son of a bitch practicing cowardly witchcraft!”
It was then.
charrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
A hook attached to a chain flew out of the thick bush.
Soon the man’s model disappeared, and the hook pierced and tore through the body of the poor scythe’s pilgrim.
“It’s a bit harsh.”
“Is it you? turncoat. Why don’t you stop playing with the kids and play with me?”
Druck.
A knight walking with a three-pronged hook.
It was probably the paladin of the hook.
Certainly, the momentum radiated was stronger than those who appeared earlier.
The man held up the scythe of the pilgrim who had been torn to pieces. Then, black smoke spewed out around him, filling the air everywhere.
“You used a spear before, but are you using a scythe this time?”
he’s a weird guy
But it was also dangerous.
“I think I know why God told me to kill you. You are the one who shouldn’t exist.”
The one whose existence itself would cause confusion.
The paladin of the hook judged that.
A forest full of dark smoke.
The moment he was about to throw it towards the sky with a hook there.
Swoop.
“I want to live too.”
“?!”
The moment when I was startled by the new type of guy who approached me and avoided my body.
“Uh…”
The body and head separated and fell.
“when.”
“just now.”
Took.
At the same time as the fallen paladin, the darkness is lifted and the figure of the man appears again.
The man took off his hood only after taking his scythe and spear crossbow.
black-haired sage.
The protagonist of the trust and the hero of the continent.
A man who is said to have smashed Lumpad, stole the Holy Grail, and fled.
It was Callius.
“It is unexpectedly uncomfortable.”
The status window does not open even when holding the scythe.
That alone made me quite uncomfortable.
Aside from not being able to see one’s own condition objectively, one couldn’t see the ability of the sword or the status of other items.
‘As expected, it was God’s arrangement.’
status window. quests and so on.
Looking at the fact that it was recovered, it is said that all of this was originally arranged by God.
“Did you try to raise me as a challenger?”
Perhaps it is.
If it wasn’t him, it was also about facing the fact that the path they wanted and the path I walked were different.
‘It can’t be helped.’
what has already been stolen. Can not help it.
just a little uncomfortable
everything else will be the same
“Are you trying to maintain your own fairness? I don’t know what you’re thinking at all. The gods of this place.”
One month from Lumpad.
Those who follow the oracle are usually pilgrims or paladins.
Either that or they were troops dispatched on a national basis.
Originally, he could have summoned the gray corps as an iron lord and wiped them out, but he didn’t.
First, because they had to let them know where they were.
Those who do not know the location will naturally turn their eyes to Carpe.
to prevent it
And the second is because I wanted to test my newly acquired power in various ways.
It is no longer limited to swords.
Spears, crossbows, hammers, scythes, etc.
You can use various weapons and fully draw out their power.
Of course, only the sword and armor can be turned into main spheres, but being able to fully use the power of other weapons is obviously powerful.
However, since Colius had little experience using weapons other than the sword, he was taking the opportunity to wander around and try out various weapons.
“Because I need to look away.”
In the current situation, there is nothing good about going to Carpe.
All kinds of crazy people on the continent will threaten Carpe and himself, saying that the oracle has come.
If that’s going to happen anyway, it would be better for Carpe and for herself to wander the continent while pulling aggro.
And honestly.
[I don’t know what to do~]
“…”
[To be hated by God all of a sudden. It’s not even a fall.]
That’s not wrong.
It was pretty sudden.
I didn’t know that acting on the basis of a momentary realization would cause such a change.
I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong.
But the water has already been spilled.
There is nothing we can do but humbly accept.
[What are you going to do now? At this point, how is it that you fall as fast as I did…]
“Shut up. You talk nicely. I have decided what to do.”
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“Let’s find the volcano.”
[Are you going to drown me there?]
“There is no need for me to fall.”
She is a woman who makes a lot of noise when she forgets.
It wouldn’t be bad to deal with Rebecca first and think about it calmly.
[Are you kidding me? If I don’t have someone to talk to, I’m bored, so what am I going to do? The person hated by God and started to be hated by the entire continent would have no one to speak to without me? You’re walking around alone, leaving those who looked like colleagues to you.]
I was referring to Helena and Cedric.
After saving Helena and Cedric from being buried in the snow of Lumpad and treating them appropriately, he told them everything and left.
I couldn’t stay long.
It is because he was the one who destroyed Lumpad in half and was hated by God.
“The closest active volcano was probably Kuula. No matter how corrupted the soul is, if it touches the lava of Kuula, it will die.”
[How about thinking about it again? If you kill me, you are really at war with the principality!]
“You must be at war by now. Nothing special. Besides, if you show a princess doing this, it will only make them more angry. Anything different?”
While ignoring Rebecca’s chattering words, she was about to head for Mount Kuala.
A faint light emitted from the dead body of the pilgrim.
“Poetry? come now?”
Originally, poetry should have shone silver.
But this time, it was the light of gratitude shining in a pale golden light.
The corpse of a paladin holding a decapitated hook. Callius pondered for a moment before reaching for the corpse.
Gray energy enveloped the corpse. Soon, the paladin’s corpse turned into armor and was placed in the hands of Calius.
It’s a sword, not an armor.
It was quite an unfamiliar feeling, but poetry is poetry. The paladin’s memory seeped into him through the armor.
“It’s Shi-Eun…”
I wonder if Si-Eun has changed something along with the changed situation.
Shi-Eun, who made Colius the way he has been.
How did Shi-eun change?
Colliers had to know.
‘The systemic part seems to have disappeared now.’
Does Shi-eun not part of the system?
If so, what kind of reward will I receive now when I complete the poem?
I had some expectations, but I had no choice but to expect that the results would not be so good.
“Shall we go first?”
He is a paladin who serves the hook.
One thing he wished for at the end of his death.
It was the life of an old man in a cave.
should i save him?
Or should I just leave it alone? Whatever I choose, it’s better to meet first…
[I will dedicate my body and soul to Satisfy Mr. Colius!]
Callius tore off the necklace and threw it into the subspace.