Episode 85
“Ta-ha-ha!”
A knight with a prosthetic leg displayed his sword skills.
He kicked the ground with his sturdy legs and swung his long sword. The furious blow struck the air, and the chilling blow caused the air to burst into a frenzy.
I held up the serenade.
He had not taken his sword out of his armor.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Ambrod didn’t fall, just stumbled. He looked straight ahead, his teeth clenched. He realized that I hadn’t just been hitting him everywhere.
“Remember, focus your aura there. And release your strength here. One second again!”
Bam! Bam!
“again!”
puck!
It was a one-sided beating. If others had seen it, they would have thought it was a crazy thing to do with a monster right in front of them.
But Ambrose did not doubt me. He trusted his lord. No, he had blind faith in him.
That belief became Ambrod’s swordsmanship. It changed his gestures. It gave him a stable waist and allowed him to step on the ground with minimal reliance on his prosthetic leg.
The one remaining leg hit the ground. Its sole foot showed a firm footing, as if it were driving a giant stake into the ground, rooting itself deep into the ground.
Phew!
The long sword cut through the air. The wind blew along a refreshing trajectory. The wind stretched out and shook the trees on the other side. It woke up the birds that were sleeping on the branches and sent them flying.
Ambrod, startled, looked back at me with a dumbfounded expression.
The knight who had been knocked out by me seemed to not believe that he had unleashed the greatest swordsmanship of his life.
Now, only one form of swordsmanship had been completed. However, I foresaw the infinite possibilities of swordsmanship that would extend from that swordsmanship.
It was a number of cases that were almost infinite, beyond my understanding.
“Remember. That is your swordsmanship. There has never been a swordsmanship for a one-legged knight. The swordsmanship that will be created from now on is the Ambrod swordsmanship. It is a traditional swordsmanship that will be passed down only to the best knights of the Hebron family. So be proud. Your swordsmanship is the best. No, you are the best. Ambrod, take up your sword! My sword does not rest. My sword does not break. My sword… … has no obstacles. Break down the obstacles that block my path, my sword, go! Go now and perfect your swordsmanship!”
“insect!”
Ambrod mounted his warhorse. He did not strap himself into the saddle as he had done before. He had decided that it was unnecessary.
‘The Aura Roads that were blocked have all been cleared. Ambrod is now a monster. No, he will soon become a monster. He is not a branded orc warrior, not even his grandfather can defeat him.’
Foodddeuk!
A flying fox flew towards me.
A red cloth was tied around the guy’s ankle. It meant that a monster had appeared.
‘Where are you going this time?’
He untied the cloth attached to Bimae’s ankle.
There was one word written clearly there.
-Hebron.
The first person to come to mind was my younger sister Dina, who hadn’t even turned one yet.
My mother, father, my landowners, and the city I had worked so hard to nurture all appeared before my eyes.
“Syang, let’s go to Hebron!”
Meeeeeeeee!
It was almost as if someone was watching this situation and dispatching branded monsters to the right places.
Ugh!
‘If that’s the case, then you’ve chosen the wrong enemy!’
Hebron had the knights Adol, Loka, Histon, and the old knight Alberto. There was also the wizard Batman, who was about to reach the 6th class, so even if a branded monster appeared, it wouldn’t collapse in an instant.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Syang was no ordinary sheep.
In addition to being a mutant, he also experienced the power of the brand.
“Remember the breathing I taught you. Focus here and here. Running with all your might doesn’t necessarily make you faster.”
Magic flowed through Syang’s body as well. Although he did not have the concentrated magic power of a knight or a magician, he was born with innate magic power. As he used it instinctively, he became known as a mutant sheep.
I helped Syang use his magic power.
Since detailed teachings like those of humans were impossible, the use of magical power was guided through slight stimulation and impact.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo!
The speed of Syang’s gallop gradually increased. This was because the magical power that had been used indiscriminately was being used efficiently.
“Just a little bit… … Hurry up a little bit more!”
Meeeeeeeee!
* * *
Hebron’s defenses were perfect.
But at this time, ‘perfection’ only meant that we put forth our best, not that we were ready to block anything.
The Territory Defense was activated to disperse the invader’s concentration. It caused him to gradually go mad by continuously giving him tinnitus and auditory hallucinations.
The enemies were in the middle of the enemy camp and were suffering from the constant sound of strange noises coming from all directions.
The monster that climbed over the wall left a trail. Sticky spider webs were left wherever it passed.
“Inferno, get those things out of the way.”
-joy!
Inferno flew low and skimmed the ground.
The spider web that touched the guy’s heat shrank and disappeared.
Fortunately, spider webs were vulnerable to heat.
‘Spiderweb is weak to fire, but has excellent hearing.’
Thanks to magicians and scholars who have experimented on all sorts of creatures, it has been discovered that spiders have hearing. While it is common to hear from up to 600 times the height of one’s body, some spiders have exceptional hearing and have been able to hear sounds from up to 2,000 times farther away.
The ‘spiritual defense’ was effective because the spider’s hearing was excellent.
It seemed as if the creature had followed the source of the sound into the spire. The eastern spire was a giant trap set up for monsters as loyal to their instincts as that creature.
“It is the lord! The lord has come!”
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Cheers were heard here and there.
The soldiers in the rear were being treated for their wounds. I motioned for them to rest.
‘The damage is severe.’
The wounded were visible here and there. There were quite a few corpses covered with cloth, and quite a few buildings had collapsed.
The most painful damage was the destruction of the siege weapon placed on the western wall. It was a ballista that fired a huge bolt loaded with magic stones, but it was destroyed just before it was completed.
A war horse came galloping towards me. It was the old knight Alberto.
Although he was a retired knight, he did his duty as a knight in times of crisis.
“33 dead, 41 seriously injured, minor injuries are being investigated.”
“What kind of monster killed my soldiers?”
“It was a monster that emitted white light. I couldn’t see it properly because the light was so bright, but I thought it was probably a spider. It had sharp claws and used them to destroy buildings. It’s currently trapped in the spire, but it looks like it’ll break through soon. I heard that Adol and Histon entered the spire, were seriously injured, and retreated.”
There were a few monsters that I could guess.
It was difficult to determine its identity, as only four types of glowing spiders immediately came to mind.
“… … What happened to my family?”
“You are safe. As soon as the monster appeared, Loka and his guards evacuated the Hebron bloodline to a safe place.”
Only then did I feel relieved. I desperately wanted to go find Dina and check on her condition with my own eyes, but I tried to focus on the spider trapped in the spire.
That was the lord’s duty.
“insect!”
“insect.”
As I reached the spire, the soldiers saluted me. Those who were lying down and receiving treatment also jumped up, and I motioned for them to concentrate on treating me.
A knight was lying in a sickbed. It was Adol, a knight from Nurha. He looked fine on the outside, but his complexion was cloudy. The expressions of the soldiers caring for him were also not ordinary.
When I approached him and examined him with my eyes, I saw something strange in Adol’s danjeon. The aura from his danjeon was scattered in all directions as if it was leaking, and this was putting a considerable burden on Adol’s body.
‘Is it broken? No, there is still hope.’
Adol despaired. He was convinced that the aura he had built up his entire life had disappeared in an instant. Any knight would have judged it that way. Unless he had awakened his magic eye and could see the flow of magical power vividly.
I approached Adol and placed my hand on his abdomen.
“I take great care of what’s mine. I don’t let anything that’s mine get ruined.”
“omg!”
Adol swallowed the wind. It was because my aura poured into his danjeon. My aura was not only imbued with the attribute of fire. It contained a death energy close to black magic. However, it did not take away the life of the living being.
‘Opposites attract.’
Violent death was another expression of life. The moment the aura of death seeped into Adol’s body, it began to do its best to survive.
He flapped his wings like a freshly caught carp.
“Shut your mouth and concentrate. If you want to live the rest of your life as a knight.”
Histon and Alberto, who were nearby, looked at me and Adol with surprised faces.
They seemed to think that Adol would never be able to hold a sword again. At best, he would be demoted to a drill instructor. That was the typical life of a knight who had lost his aura.
I injected magic power into the broken Aura Rod. I poured my aura around it as if wrapping it around Adol’s Aura Rod, and made it vibrate infinitely.
It would be a one-time shock, but it would be better to experience intense pain in an instant than to suffer for a long time.
“Eeeeek!”
Adol gritted his teeth and held on.
He knew very well that the pain he was experiencing now was nothing compared to the hardships of living a life of disability.
‘It’s fortunate that the treatment was quick.’
Adol’s Aura Rod was just about to break. If he had left it alone for another day or two, it wouldn’t have ended at the level of enduring a moment of pain like it was now. Aside from the pain, the problem was that the possibility of treatment failure was increasing.
“Okay. Now practice Aura. Don’t push yourself too hard and take it slow.”
Gurruk, Adol shed tears.
It was a light in a life that was thought to be over. He practiced his aura once, then slowly opened his eyes. Nodding, Adol nodded, and the other knights clenched their fists.
“The guy who broke mine is up there?”
“I will follow too!”
Adol shouted, but I shook my head.
“Don’t be so hard on yourself. If you try too hard now, you’ll just ruin what you worked so hard to fix.”
“insect!”
Adol followed my instructions.
He sat down on the floor and recited the Aura. Then this time, Sir Histon stepped forward.
“I will go.”
“Everyone stay here. That is an order.”
Fortunately, Hebron had enough troops to besiege the minaret: a hundred newly trained slave soldiers and a force of magicians led by Batman.
“Inferno, lead the way. You may burn everything inside the spire, but you must not bring the spire down. The spiders may escape.”
Whoosh whoosh!
As I opened the sealed spire door, a phoenix flew in. Inside the cylindrical spire, there was a continuous series of stairs installed along the inner wall.
There is no place to stop in the middle, and traps are set up everywhere to attack intruders.
‘You’ve endured it all. I have to give you some stamina.’
The bottom of the spire was strewn with spears and arrows. They were dark weapons coated with deadly and paralyzing poisons, and some of the spears and arrowheads were covered in flesh and blood that were presumed to be spider flesh.
