◈ 132. [STAGE 5] Sisanhyeolhae
The morning sun shines brightly.
“… … .”
Standing on top of the castle wall, I gazed at the bright eastern sky for a moment, then turned my head reluctantly and looked south.
There was an army of monsters lined up in an orderly fashion.
I was dumbfounded and clicked my tongue.
“What about the ghouls… … .”
Could it really be the Vampire King’s personal guard?
Like a well-trained army of ghouls, they lined up in formation and prepared to attack.
In the center are 10 vampires.
Seven ordinary vampires are checking their armaments, and two appearing to be vampire generals are holding the vampire lord’s attendants.
And the vampire lord – Selendion.
It sits quietly on the palanquin, staring at the wall this way with interest.
It is not a matter of life and death, but a gaze that seems to be preparing for a game.
It was then. My gaze through the telescope met Celendion’s gaze.
smile
With red eyes bent like the moon, the boy-looking vampire king waved at me slightly. that kid
“You’re behind, motherF*cker… … .”
After swearing, I removed the telescope from my eyes. And I looked back.
Human armies were also lined up there.
4 hero character pool parties.
My main party, Shadow Troops, Dion Mercenaries, Old Hunters.
2 reserve parties after that. Lily and Marherita’s party.
Cannons and ballistas lined up on the left and right. 1200 mercenaries behind them.
Three hundred Twilight Troopers. Five hundred mercenaries who have been with us since stage 1. Four hundred mercenaries that have been expanded since then.
‘This one is also elite.’
In just a few months, he killed thousands of monsters and broke through several floors of dungeons.
They are the elite of living humans who are much fresher and younger than the immortal monsters that I radiate after being rotten for hundreds of years.
‘Do you think you’ll lose, monster bastards… … !’
chuck! chuck! chuck!
The formation of the ghoul corps has completely changed.
About 300 ghouls in the last row came forward and began to form a wide formation.
I looked to the side and shouted loudly.
“They prepare to attack! All troops! Prepare for defensive warfare!”
The tensed soldiers finished preparing to fire from their respective defense weapons.
The heroic characters also grabbed their equipment and swallowed dry saliva.
“I won’t say much.”
I cried briefly.
“Win!”
oh oh oh-!
At the same time as the soldiers who heard my cry shouted,
Doo doo doo doo-!
The earth trembled and the ghouls started running.
300 Frost Ghouls.
300 of them all. It’s a bit tough for a first wave.
The sight of blue frozen corpses running in perfect formation as if measured with a ruler was terrifying in many ways.
The ghouls rushed across the plain in no time and eventually reached the killzone area, which was blocked by wooden fences.
If it’s a normal monster army, it’ll cause a bottleneck there and take a long time.
However, these monsters are directly commanded by the corps commander.
A kill zone created by stacking obstacles might buy some time, but it can’t hold them down forever.
Kwajik! Kwadeuk!
Sure enough, the ghouls easily broke down the wooden fence and dug in.
Path enforcement using obstacles was not working in the first place.
but.
“Shoot-!”
Anyway, time is dragging. You can feed the attack in the gap.
As soon as they came within range, I shouted, and cannons fired all at once.
Beep-!
A cannonball was fired with a deafening sound.
Piing-
Dozens of shells shot through the air and eventually hit the ground.
Quagmire and light!
It caused a grand explosion, spewing red flames and black smoke.
The ghouls that were swept away by the explosion were instantly killed by exhaustion. But neither I, nor the soldiers, nor anyone else was happy.
Because I made it clear to everyone.
With this attack… … You can’t kill them.
ugh… … .
Aaaaa!
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After a while, the ghouls who had died from exhaustion regenerated their bodies one by one and rose to their feet.
The pieces of flesh adhere to each other, and the blood that has been sprayed in all directions is sucked in and collected, forming a skeleton and merging into the shape of a monster again.
I stared at this bizarre and grotesque scene with my mouth shut.
These are Selendion’s bodyguards.
These monsters were resurrected by giving their own lives to Celendion.
No matter how much you try to get rid of it in a normal way, it’s useless.
As soon as the object dies, the ‘life’ is returned to Selendion, and Selendion regenerates it by giving it back to his subordinates.
All of the 1,000 monsters share ‘blood’ and ‘life’ with Celendion, and it’s a zombie-like action that’s only possible because they’re a clan corps.
What should I do in the end to stop this?
‘I have to break the spiritual core.’
The core that can be said to be the essence of life and soul in this world. spiritual core.
Destroy it. Then they will fall forever, and Celendion’s life stock will disappear one by one.
The problem is the numbers.
How do you destroy the spiritual cores of these 1,000 monsters one by one?
‘You don’t know how much trouble I’ve had to solve this, you gore bastards.’
Smiling with one corner of my mouth raised, I glared at the approaching monsters.
bang! Kwagwawang!
Patter!
Aaaa-!
Breaking through the rain of shells and ballistas, the ghouls were rushing towards the walls in an instant, repeating death and regeneration.
‘Come closer.’
I nodded heavily.
‘closer! more!’
***
《I expected a little because it was a royal invasion after a long time.》
Watching the group of ghouls smoothly close the distance to the castle wall, Alpha murmured.
“This is so boring. How can you give away so easily? It wasn’t so easy before.”
《… … .》
“Did human tactics degenerate while we were imprisoned below? no. Maybe you haven’t had the experience of dealing with a proper monster army for a long time.”
Beta, who was listening to Alpha’s words, responded! and nodded his head.
《… … .》
Celendion remained silent.
A hot cup of tea was set on the table next to Celendion’s chair, and Alpha smiled as she poured the tea.
“Maybe we won’t have to step in, Lord.”
《… … .》
“Ah, Rod wanted to come forward himself this time. This might disappoint him?”
If the ghouls succeed in approaching the walls.
With its destructive appetite, it will gnaw its teeth at the humans on the wall.
‘Ghouls are cannibals. It is the incarnation of appetite. If there is fresh blood and flesh within a certain distance, the aggression is doubled.’
Once approached, the ghouls will immediately devour human flesh and take the life of the enemy.
To take a life from a blood relative corps literally means to ‘make it one’s own’.
It means to take the life of the enemy and save it as an extra life for the Legion.
《If the ghoul corps succeeds in approaching, there is no chance for humans at that point.》
The current life stock of the clan corps is 1,000.
However, if you kill an enemy and take its blood and flesh, that much life is added.
If you kill a life, you get that much life. The human side can only lose.
At that point, victory or defeat is decided.
As such, defeating legions of ghouls usually has to be done from a distance.
However, the current human line of defense is nothing more than ignoring the hordes of ghouls that helplessly close the distance.
“It is soon. You’re right in front of the wall. It’s only after the first invasion of Inse ended like this.”
《… … .》
Selendion’s mouth, which had been silent, opened slightly.
“Something is strange.”
“yes? What do you mean?”
“It can’t be this easy.”
Celendion remembered the face of the enemy general, Ash.
The face of a young human who had displayed such clear hostility towards himself… … .
“The man who killed that Orlob… … How could he be defeated so easily?”
“Isn’t Lord overestimating the enemy? Wasn’t Orlop killed by a cannonball in the first place? Maybe an ordinary human just got lucky and killed the spider.”
《… … .》
“Well, it will come to a conclusion soon. Was it the luck of the father-in-law, or the major of a great man?”
Aaaaa-!
The head of the ghoul army reached the moat beneath the city walls.
If they fall into the holy water that fills the moat, the ghoul army will take quite a bit of damage, but they are frost ghouls.
damn-
After froze the moat with the cold air that spewed out from his mouth, he skipped ahead.
Now it was just a wall. Still, there were no magic attacks on top of the castle walls, only cannons and arrows were pouring down.
‘Is it really the end, human?’
Celendion frowned.
‘They gave me the wall like this in vain?’
For many years, Selendion had to deal with innumerable human inclinations.
Ancient great men used to fend off vampires by combining all sorts of novel magic and skills.
The magic water-based weapon, the wall made of moon silver, and the blue flame that purged the negative were the weapons of the humans that made me dizzy even to think about it now.
But what about this wall now?
‘Is it just cannons and arrows? really?’
If so, there would be no choice but to perish.
chin!
The leading ghoul’s hand touched the castle wall.
Great! Blasphemy!
It freezes ice and sticks its hands to the wall, repeating this on all limbs, clinging to the wall and climbing.
Dozens of frost ghouls started climbing the walls. Seeing this, Celine Dion clicked her tongue.
It was only one group sent for reconnaissance, but these ghouls came to capture the wall.
“Was it only this much… … .》
The moment Celendion spat out,
thud! Kugu Palace!
Something rumbled down from the top of the wall.
Alpha frowned, and Beta stepped up to take a closer look. Celen Dion narrowed his eyes.
“what?”
that… … It was the corpse of a cow and a pig.
Dozens of cattle carcasses were suddenly dropped from the top of the wall.
“uh… … .》
Alpha was taken aback by the first sight.
“What are they doing now?”
A thick scent of blood spread from the carcass of the cattle that had been sheathed in advance.
All eyes of the ghouls returned to the cattle carcass.
uh… … .
oh oh!
And as if the ghouls had made a promise, they rushed at the cattle carcasses at the same time.
All of them, even those who climbed the walls.
All three hundred ghouls bowed their heads to the ground and began to eat the carcasses. Alpha slapped her forehead.
“These fools… … !》
Kindred are monsters who are always hungry.
Ghouls are meat. Vampires have blood. It is a being that cannot live without it.
At least, as vampires become higher-ranking beings, they suppress their own instincts and prefer higher-value blood with higher concentrations of mana and vitality.
Ghouls don’t have that.
Because it’s a cannibal who just goes crazy for the blood and flesh in front of his eyes.
《… … You have properly struck the weakness of our corps.”
Alpha, who was embarrassed to see the faces of his subordinates, clicked his tongue.
“But I didn’t even think about it. This number… … .》
“Because the old wars valued communication more. And, above all.”
Selendion coldly brainwashed.
“Because it doesn’t make much sense.”
At least like the corpses of livestock. In front of the ghouls, in a few tens of seconds, they will be eaten and disappear.
In fact, dozens of cow and pig carcasses were almost boneless.
The ghouls’ gluttony was ignorant.
《If this is the only residual skill, it won’t be of any use other than wasting time… … ?》
It was then.
Drooling!
Huge cannons were aimed down from above the walls.
It was aimed at a group of ghouls that had gathered together to eat the meat of livestock.
“Is it a cannon again… … Even though I know it doesn’t work.”
At the same time as Selendion muttered.
Beep!
Quguaguagwang-!
Cannons fired all at once, turning the Ghouls gathered together into porridge.
In an instant, the ghouls were shattered and annihilated.
Just as Selendion had done so far, he tried to regenerate the lives of the ghouls once they were recovered.
《… … ?》
but.
《… … It can’t be retrieved.”
Didn’t come back.
life… … it evaporated
“yes? what is that… … .》
Alpha, who questioned her question, was startled.
Celendion was smiling.
Clearly, the corners of his mouth were rolled up, as if he were dying of joy.
“The spiritual cores have been completely destroyed. All three hundred.”
I’m not sure exactly what I did… … .
“Yes, I have to come out like this so that this side will feel like fighting…” … !》
