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Chapter 38

38hwa change gate

The light upon entering the gate fades. Slowly, I began to see what was in front of me..

"uh?

What everyone sees is a vast battlefield..

-Kraaaaaa!

-Kikyakyakyakya!

Monsters of different types are swarming in. Their true identity is demons. The horns rising from the forehead and the fierce demonic energy emanating from the gait are proof of this..

Demons are rushing across the plains. And the army that blocks the armies of demons.

"Stop it!"

"Hey, stop it.?"

"It's impossible!"

Even at first glance, there were over a thousand demons. The army against such demons is only a few hundred. They are badly outgunned just by their sheer numbers, and their armament is extremely poor..

Compared to hunters refined with modern technology, how can they stop demons that are ten times more powerful with medieval-level armor and spears?.

And the trainees are also embarrassed after encountering an army of demons..

"Uh, why are the devils?"

"It's called Demon Gate.?!"

The trainees were embarrassed. It is unprecedented for demons to appear from the yellow gate..

It's embarrassing to be suddenly summoned in the middle of the battlefield, but they're demons.?

Even Koo Dae-seong, who is good at researching gates, has never heard of this phenomenon..

"Raise your shield! It's dustproof! Get into formation!"

Despite the sudden change in environment, Leon calmly gave instructions..

As he rode a pure white horse, brandished his sword in the air, and struck the soldiers' shields, the trainees quickly came to their senses..

"Bar, hold the shield.!"

1Article 5. According to the instructions of the leaders, the dust-proofing is completed in an instant..

"advance! forward forward!"

Move forward? Why not just jump out and see? Although the trainees were shocked by Leon's instructions, they saw and learned something during the four weeks..

Absolute obedience to the knight's instructions. There is no need to mention the price of disobedience..

【 Lionheart Aura 】

Above all, a wealth of traits granted just by his presence. The trainees slowly advanced holding shields..

'I'm not afraid?'

Manager Jinsu Kim looked at this with a puzzled expression. There is no way to understand how reckless an order it is to rush into a group of demons, but the trainees follow it faithfully..

And above all, the feeling of omnipotence that I felt from before. Manager Jinsoo Kim was astonished by the system messages that were overused to the point of blocking his view..

'What are these strengthening traits? Enhancement buffs higher than Commander are given to all hunters.?'

Meanwhile, the trainees who did not run away but advanced steadily were noticed by the devils..

Dozens of demons rushed towards us..

"Ah, they are devil dogs.!"

"It comes this way!"

Bloodhound. Commonly called devil dogs, they are devils the size of a human being..

They seemed to like the shields huddled together and the arrows being shot, so they rushed in without any breath..

-bang!

-Kwaang!

An unstoppable headbutt to the body that is close to a suicidal charge. Manager Kim Jin-su sensed that the attack would break through the defense. but…….

"Shut up!"

"Hold on!"

The trainees withstood the hand-to-hand assault of the four-legged beast. Not just one or two outstanding individuals, but all of them withstood this assault..

'The bloodhound's charge is too much for even a B-class hunter.?'

If you are a B-class tanker, you have unique skills that are helpful for tanking. However, these D-class hunters may not have such unique skills, but they blocked the devil dogs' charge with their strength..

"Fight back!"

The trainees stabbed their swords between shields under Leon's instructions. Their swords easily pierced the devil dogs' skin..

-Kieeeeek!

-Wow!

The leading devil dogs fell to their knees. Meanwhile, demons come again. They are great swords holding swords bigger than my height..

"Block it!"

These are the hunters who even blocked the charge of demon dogs. Demons at the level of dwarfs rushed at the shield wall with ferocious blows, but the defense was strong..

Leon raised his sword and shouted.

"One step forward!"

Trainees hurriedly advancing with shields in hand. It is in close contact with the great swords and does not give the enemy any distance to swing the great sword. Immediately the leaders shouted.

"push!"

-thud!

4Bangjin practiced like crazy for a week. The hunters pushed back the demons with an explosive push of the moment..

"stab!"

From now on, it is a repetition of mechanical movements. Block, push, stab. There is no hand-to-hand combat as powerful as this in anti-infantry combat..

As the wildly charging demons were cut off, a huge demon appeared..

"Daemon Troll!"

"It's an evil troll!"

A medium-sized monster that is as big as a house and charges at you with a 2m long club. The trainees' pupils trembled, as if they didn't have the confidence to block even this..

"Don't back down! Maintain formation and stand firm.!"

Leon's voice woke them up. Just by his presence, the trainees can ‘endure at least’..

-Response to medium-sized objects. sniping begins.

It was then. A minimalist machine gun fired fire with a mechanical voice..

-Todadadadadada!!

Holy granite bullets pouring out. The bullet fired from the Holy Grail Knight's body is itself a holy attack..

"Hey Sir Yappy?!"

"Why is Sir Yappy here??"

Regardless of the hunters' reactions, the Demon Troll, which was charging with terrifying force, was in pain and slowed down. It's because Yapi's divine machine gun blast shattered her knees..

"Wow!!"

However, the troll did not stop its momentum and raised its club. Trolls are at least B grade... As the mass is large, the difficulty level is equivalent to Class A..

There is no way D-class hunters can stop a boss-level entity that comes out of a fairly yellow gate.──

"Ooooooooooooooo…!"

Koo Dae-seong raised his shield. Protect your colleague's right shoulder as well. Hunters who heard it enough to make their ears bleed naturally pack their shields to follow Gu Dae-seong..

-Boom!

Koo Dae-seong and other trainees felt their bodies being pushed violently. The insurmountable difference in mass penetrated the defenses and shocked them..

'uh?'

However, a common sense of wonder flashes through the minds of the trainees who blocked the troll's blow..

'It's lighter than His Majesty's charge.?'

'There will be four times the difference in size..'

'What, it's worth stopping?'

Over the past four weeks, they have not been able to stop Leon's charge once. If you put a little less force on your feet, it would often fly up into the sky..

【 The strongest assaulter 】

Compared to that, a troll's swing can be blocked at a level that would cause the trainees' phalanx to twist.!

"Well blocked!"

Meanwhile, Leon approached the troll's back and whizzed! And when he swung the holy sword, the head of the troll who could not respond was cut off..

The troll's head is sliced ​​off as if it were sliced ​​through tofu..

-Kiyi…!

-Wow…!

As the troll, which had been their secret weapon, died inexplicably, the demons' momentum subsided. On the other hand, the defense force's momentum increased..

The demons, whose momentum was broken, took notice and began to retreat. It's because the evil trolls 'extincted'.

-Kiiii… died.

-troll… really died.

The death of demons does not end with death. They are immortal creatures who take on a body and live in the material world..

If I died, I would simply return to the spiritual world and lose the vessel of the material world..

However, the troll that just died did not go through the process of disappearing into the spirit world. She was 'annihilated' after being sucked into the Holy Grail summoned by Leon.

"No, they're leaving!"

"Won! we won!"

The defense force cheers. While they were happy about their survival, a horseman approached Leon and the hunters..

Judging by the state of his armor, he appears to be a commander or knight, and he bows his head first to express his gratitude..

"Thank you, warriors, for coming to save our Spero Kingdom.!"

Hunters each checked their system windows at that expression..

[The Kingdom of Spero is being invaded by demons. Defend your kingdom from the devil's invasion.]

Deadline remaining: 1 week

"Is this a quest like this?……."

"The devil. Are you really talking about the Great Devil??"

"He's not a monarch-level demon, right? There's no way a demon lord will come out of the yellow gate.!"

Hunters are confused. Some argued that we should leave the gate immediately. but…….

"what? the gate is gone?"

"How did this happen... No way, a variable gate?"

"This doesn't make sense!"

The hunters' faces hardened. The joy of victory disappeared in an instant and despair appeared..

"Quiet! Don't act rashly.!"

Leon's voice flows to them. The energy of the Lionheart King, who raised the morale of the soldiers with just his presence, raised the hunters who seemed half-collapsed..

Only when they are quiet enough does Leon open his mouth..

"Sir Spinner. What are you doing here??

-Strange observation. Entry of a third person.

Yapi displayed the video he observed as a hologram. A person wearing a robe, not Leon or the Hunters. He must have used an invisibility spell, or was an outsider who could only be observed in infrared light..

"Did the interest amount to something?."

-Lack of judgment materials.

"Is there anyone who can explain the current situation?."

Koo Dae-seong carefully raised his hand..

"Rice, it is a variable gate.."

"what is that?"

"It’s an anomaly at the gate… To put it simply, the difficulty of the gate increases rapidly, and you cannot exit until you clear it.."

Blocked from the outside. A surge in attack difficulty.

It is impossible to come in from the inside or come in from the outside..

Unlike the Orc Gate, Leon realized that his escape route was blocked when he saw the gate that had disappeared..

"hmm……."

I never thought something like this would happen in the actual combat of trainees. Is it a coincidence? You never know..

While Leon was worried, the hunters' complexions darkened in real time..

Normally, it was difficult for gates to respond to the rapidly increased difficulty because the appropriate target price was bidding according to the difficulty of the pre-measurement..

In general, when a variable gate opens, it is no exaggeration to say that the hunters inside it are guaranteed to be wiped out..

They ended up being caught in an incident at the gate where their survival rate was infinitely close to zero..

'still…….'

Nevertheless, there is only one reason why they do not panic. Because the lion-hearted king exists in front of them..

"Your Majesty... Do you have a way??"

As the anxious hunters' attention was focused, Leon spoke with a calm expression to prevent them from despairing..

"Attack with precision. According to the quest, it said to defeat the demon lord.."

"Demon Lord... Or maybe it's the Archdemon."

"joy… ! Jim is the Lionheart King who slaughtered two demon lords and over thirty great demons. Do you doubt my strength??"

"Oooh……."

"Yes, His Majesty has three devil-related traits.!"

【fear of evil】

【Demon Lord Slayer】

【Most Demon Slayer】

This is the only demon-related trait confirmed through system messages. The hunters' faces brightened with hope..

"……."

Leon did not bother to say that it was a battle fought in his own world, which was full of divinity..

I didn't say that a head-to-head match against the demon lord is impossible at this point..

They just have to rely on their own hope. A knight must appear firm at all times..

* * * *

Meanwhile, Raynald Shellman, the main culprit who transformed Gwangju Gate into Demon Gate, watched Leon defeat the demons..

"Kills a demon troll, a mid-to-high-level demon, in one blow.……."

No matter how much attention the hunters got, they cut off that tough troll's head in an instant... Above all, the disappearance of the troll was a shocking sight..

Demons are immortal creatures. Those who live in the spiritual world appear in the material world as mere shells..

It's closer to remotely controlling a drone, so even if the drone is destroyed, the devil himself won't die..

However, the Lionheart King's sword forced the 'death' of the being it cut down..

It climbs up the connection of the mental body and forces the result of ‘death’. In other words, the operator who was controlling the drone dies at the same time as the drone is destroyed..

scary.

I thought I knew why the great devil beyond the Jewel of Wisdom was scared and ran away..

[Hehe… Hehehe!]

"Great being?"

And even after witnessing such a fearful being, a gloomy laugh flowed from the Jewel of Wisdom..

[I'm weak! I'm weak! Lion heart king! Leon Dragonia Lionheart! You are a human after all! Kihihihihi!]

Weakened? That's it?

The author destroyed a demon troll, which was not even an ordinary troll, with a single blow.?

When Raynald expressed a question, the Jewel of Wisdom seemed to be in a good mood and answered with a chuckle..

[Hehehe, if this guy had the power he had at his peak, he would have annihilated about a thousand demons with one blow! If he had enough holy power, he would have opened the holy sword!]

"Holy sword… What do you mean??"

This is a sword that gave off a brief but brilliant light when it decapitated a demon troll. That much power is power that hasn't even been released.?

[Hehehe… Even if you hit it well, you're still a little stronger than the Holy Grail Knight! It's lost.!]

As the great devil beyond the Jewel of Wisdom rejoiced, Raynald spoke cautiously:.

"Great being... Then shall we perform a ceremony so that You may come??"

[What?!]

The Jewel of Wisdom was embarrassed..

[I don't like it! No matter how weak he is, he is the lion-hearted king! I said I was crazy!]

He said he became weak…….

Raynald swallowed his frustration and asked.

"Then the author… who handles it?"

[Hehehe… ! He’s the devil of this place..]

"Adversary……."

Quest also confirmed Raynald. There is a devil here.

"no way… Does the Demon Lord really exist??"

If there was such a thing, it was definitely a victory. In the history of the 30-year war after the cataclysm, the Demon Lord was the monster of monsters who slaughtered countless S-class hunters..

[If the monarchs want to descend, there is no way to use the energy of this gate! but… The bad news of being appointed as a monarch exists here..]

"Oh, oh oh……."

Raynald swallowed his saliva at those words. Humans who serve devils wish to become devils at the end of their role..

This is because he longs for the immortality of devils and harbors ambitions to become a great devil himself..

But he is a monarch who puts even the great devil to shame.?

[Hehehe… There is something here that those ugly demons of lust have been working on for 100 years... ! If that were the case, it would be enough to kill the weakened Lionheart King.!]

For that, Raynald needed to move like a limb..

We will use this fleeting hope of the Kingdom of Spero to awaken the ‘Queen’..