Chapter 441
My Villains Episode 441
65. peak of spring(16)
Four hours after the sun sets.
There was only heavy silence in the two camps, with the light green rippling river in the middle..
The destruction spell that mercilessly crushed the fences and mounds and the defensive spell that reduced the damage to some extent have also ceased..
The non-commissioned officers who were shouting to boost their morale counted their men under their breath, and the soldiers who were swearing at the enemy put their heads down in the newly dug trenches in the rear and recited prayers..
The cavalrymen retreated far away to protect their horses, and the officers stood at the central watchtower, which they had barely managed to protect, and kept an eye on the enemy camp..
By the time it reached midnight.
The sound of drums was heard from the camp where countless torches were lit..
Thump, thump, thump! Do I not want to see the emperor's army enter my territory?.
The two electors seemed to have neither the patience to wait until morning nor the intention to hide their impatience. A fierce offensive wind blew against the west wind..
As if the sound of drums alone was not enough, the Duke of Strom's cavalry, who took the lead, and the heathen slave army advancing behind them made loud footsteps..
The number of troops deployed in this way was more than two thousand. The soldiers of the kingdom's army, who were hiding in the ruined defense line, which was as disorganized as the defense line, were overwhelmed by the force..
At that time, a rider appeared, climbing over the remains of a wooden fence..
It was a red knight riding a bicorn..
He lightly flicked the reins and immediately stood in front of the narrow river..
“Hopeken-!”
Even while the drums were pounding and the footsteps were noisy, the red knight's shout was
made the night sky cry.
“Hopeken!”
It was not the old swordsman who answered the call. They were saboteurs positioned within a circle drawn with mercury and gold dust. A white pillar of light soared through the darkness and flew towards him..
Instead of steering the bicorn to the side or twisting his body to avoid it, the red knight pulled out 'black ice' with a casual gesture. And he struck back the 'Spear of Power', drawing a smooth path..
Pacaan!
With a roar that pierced my eardrums, a long pillar of light bounced in the other direction. The spear of power flew over a hundred meters and blew off the head of the unlucky soldier Duot..
“It's heavy.”
The red knight adjusted his sword and held it. He had a smiling face, as if he was impressed by the tingling repulsion power transmitted through the anglerfish..
Was it because he was nervous about the superhuman move, or was it because he was facing the 'rider of light' that was sweeping Zelentree? The eyes of the Strom soldiers who took the lead wavered for a moment..
But it was only a moment.
The 1,000 cavalry soldiers that Duke Avilambus brought with him to the retreating army were the elite of the elite, and there were only a very few cowards who would be crushed by the power of a single knight..
Shuuuung!
Once again a pillar of light, no, pillars of light flew. The night sky flashed one after another. White energy lumps rushed in a violent parabola..
The red knight still pulled the reins with a relaxed gesture. Lee Gak-su, which turned its head, walked briskly and stuck out its horn, and the black blade again drew a large, smooth trajectory..
Tudung! Kugu Palace!
Most of the light was hitting the river's edge violently, splashing dirt at the feet of the bicorn. Not all of them were thrown to the ground; one shot melted like sugar in front of a pair of horns, and three shots bounced off the enemy knight's sword..
Kagaang!
It was the battle wizards of the Strom family who stopped the white lumps that flew toward the imperial army camp. They quickly completed the spell they had prepared in advance, creating a 'copper ogre' with a copper rod, casting the light of 'decomposition', and opening a 'refraction passage'..
Ugh.
When the large red figure stood up in front of the soldiers and swung his fist, the spear of power that hit it shattered with a sharp metallic sound. The lump of light struck by the thin green ray scattered like sand, and the last spear of power was sucked into the black sphere floating in the air and suddenly soared into the night sky..
While the Red Knight was appreciating the magic of the enemies with an expression of admiration, several ‘Orbs of Destruction’ flew in..
“……These crazy guys, they've been shooting all day and still have mana left?”
While he was muttering as if he was tired, the old mage who had been guarding the watchtower the whole time was squeezing mana..
Whoops!
Unlike usual, where I swallowed my breath and then let out a powerful gust of air, this time I puffed out my chest endlessly. The body of the old man, who had grown to a strangely large size, was engulfed in smoke with a ‘pop!’ sound.-
Coooooooooo.'
It transformed into a translucent and gigantic shape and floated in the air.!
The figure, reminiscent of the cloud giant in mythology, bluntly swung a cloudy ball of air resembling an arm and blew away the purple spheres that were flying towards the Red Knight..
A spell learned by a master of breath magic who had spent his final years quietly in a peaceful village in Antrum, but became embroiled in war..
It was the so-called ‘Ogshlizo metamorphosis’..
“It's now!”
At Staff Fogan's shout, the magicians of the kingdom army, including Epoz, all spit out starter words. What the wizards, with sunken eyes under their eyes, shot out were balls of fire, letters shining in brass, and dried and twisted pumpkin vines..
However, the target was not the enemies across the river, but a huge shape floating in the air..
Gooooooo-
Ogshlizo accepted the various orders and stored them in his translucent form. And with a gale that brought the grass and flowers of the entire field to their knees, he spewed out the spells he had stored up on the enemies..
“Sigh!”
“Shield, take up your shield!”
The wind was strong enough to stagger even sturdy soldiers..
About a dozen battle wizards from Duke Strom tried to respond urgently, but the situation was not easy..
Most of the spells I had prepared were used up to block the spear of power thrown by the enemy knight or the orb of destruction that fell on the soldiers' heads out of nowhere..
Moreover, it was not easy to block the spell that flew in on a gale. The speed was also fast, and even if it deployed a protective shield, it was prone to being deflected and flying to the wrong place..
In the end, the attack spells sent through Ogshlizo swept the enemy camp into no man's land..
Kwaang!
“Ouch!”
“blood, damage!”
“Stay in line! Keep the ranks in line!”
Fireballs fired by mercenary wizards just before they fainted exploded here and there..
Where the runes fell, brass light spread out in all directions, and the soldiers exposed to it turned into miserable sheep or fat pigs..
The dried pumpkin vines grew rapidly and covered the area like a snake with dozens of heads..
“firing!”
As Fogan raised his sword and shouted again, the archers gathered under the watchtower poured out the arrows they had saved until the end. Deng of Ogshlizo
A strong wind was caught in the rain of arrows that passed through the young, transparent figure..
This attack, targeting beasts with their armor removed and soldiers entangled in vines, was not very fun. This is because, among the saboteurs, an old woman called ‘Zen Master’ deployed a hemispherical force field..
Jjaeng!
The transparent force shield deflected arrows filled with strong winds, then scattered into seven pieces and attacked the defense lines of Ogshlizo and beyond..
Guuuu - The pieces of the force field sent by the old woman scattered a sharp wind and toppled the translucent giant..
The shaking shape was stained with an unsuitable purple color. The devil in his eyes flew up, engulfed in his unique brilliance..
“Antizr!”
Atalanta, with her third eye flashing, stretched out her hand with a sharp cry. A huge purple figure, the 'Grip of the Void', came out of the empty air and struck down a piece of force field that flew like a boomerang. Other fragments were broken like glass by being pierced by purple spears that were intertwined two by two..
“Ugh-” The devil in his eyes changed the word ‘white thorn’ and held it. The radiance that burst from her cervical vertebrae dyed the moon purple, and purple flames rose from the white window..
“Rabun, gel, lana!”
The spear, which was thrown out following harsh swear words, became a 'bolt of fire' and was launched towards the enemy camp. The tail was long, like a ray of light or a shooting star..
“This is crazy-”
“Protect shipping companies, shipping companies!”
The fiery thunderbolt that flew close to 250 meters pierced - no, split into pieces - ten soldiers and two saboteurs..
Then, a destruction master broke the 'mud room wall' that he had created by tearing up a scroll, and eventually dug into the chest of an old woman with a devastated expression..
The very next moment. A purple flash exploded and dozens of pieces of meat were scattered..
“O ”
The demon in the eye, who had been staggering for a moment in the air, landed on the ground as if he had practically fallen, with his brilliance clearly diminished. And after a full day of torture, he fainted..
While she was being carried to the rear by the hands of the Hares Kisses, Ogg Shlizo managed to recover his form and released a gust of wind..
With a favorable wind at his back, the red knight threw his javelin with an excited expression on his face. The javelin struck between the eyes of the copper ogre blocking the east wind, and the enormous impact force broke the bars and split the spear poles. The large red figure also fell backwards with its teeth crushed..
“Hopeken-!”
The chunk of copper fell, raising dust, and the dust was swept away by a gust of wind and hit the soldiers..
Poynix gained momentum and took the reins to cross the river..
“You cowardly old man! How long are you going to hide?!”
The red knight raised his left hand high with his sword hanging down. The palm of my hand began to boil, and red blood formed a sphere in the air..
“me forward, come-!”
‘A bloody wind blew. Several branches of blood twisted like a sharp whip and turned into a red vortex..
Kiiiiing!
Mixed with Ogshlizo's gusts, a vortex divided into five or six branches struck the enemy camp..
Strom's battle wizards, who had been on high alert right after the demon in the eye dropped the fire thunderbolt, quickly defended themselves using spells such as 'Wind Bullet', 'Deflection Channel', and 'Dissolution', leaving only a few victims of the wind of blood. It stopped at 100 people.
However, the sight of it shooting a red vortex while riding a two-horned beast was literally terrifying. For that reason, as the red knight slowly advanced with a cheerful face, the soldiers who had stopped advancing while the bloody spells were exchanged inadvertently took a step back..
““Get out of the way!” With a voice mixed with the sound of metal, the infantry ranks split and a group of cavalry jumped out..
It was a group of about seventy people, including the master of the twin swords and his disciples, as well as the imperial knights who served the Altenburg royal family..
“at las.”
Poinix greeted Hope Kern with a welcoming smile..
“Did it really come out? I thought you would hide until the end.”
“I have never hidden.”
His wildly grown beard fluttered. The old man, who possessed the nobility of a lord, the spirit of a knight, and the courage of a swordsman, spoke calmly..
“I just fulfilled my responsibility as a commander..”
“I guess the commander's responsibility is something that is pushed around by slaves, etc.?”
“Are you talking nonsense again? He seems like a boring guy.”
Seongbaek got off the horse..
The heavily armed swordsmen followed their master down and drew their dual swords, while the imperial knights dispersed on their horses and formed a semicircle centered around the red knight who had crossed the river..
“What is this doing??”
“……I laid down my responsibility as commander. The dignity of a nobleman and the honor of a knight.”
Hofken Seongbaek slowly drew out his two long swords..
“So, I will try to win even if it means the worst.?”
“Because the battlefield is a place that does not tolerate defeat. Didn't you expect this situation??”
A long sword with a wide cross section and a heavy blade, reminiscent of a falcon, and a long sword with a narrow tip and short handle, reminiscent of a hummingbird, were paired together..
“I don't know if it means much, but since I've received a provincial order, I guess I'll have to tell you..”
“Put down your sword and surrender. His Majesty the King promised him the title of Chamberlain, and the Duke of Avilambus promised him the title of Archbishop and a suitable fief.
“He said.” “… … That's all I'm worth?”
“Additionally, His Majesty the King's eldest son, Prince Savellard, declared that if you surrender with your henchmen, he will make you his sire in the future. It is to add your name to the genealogy of the Altenburg royal family..”
“Hmm.”
Phoenix smoothed Bicorn's mane with an expression of interest..
“you are pretty?”
“What are you talking about??”
“Savellard's daughter. Are you pretty?.”
Perhaps it was an unexpected question, but the old swordsman stiffened his mouth for a moment and then nodded..
“All three of you are pretty.”
“Wow, you have three daughters? That would be nice. Who is the prettiest??”
“……It is difficult to distinguish between superiority and inferiority..”
“But if I had to pick just one person.”
Hofken Seongbaek distorted his face a little but tried to answer calmly..
“The eldest daughter, Miss Suned, is famous for both beauty and intelligence..”
“That's right?”
The Red Knight thought for a moment and then shrugged his shoulders..
“Ah, it's so difficult. Can't you just look at that girl's face and make your decision??”
“……How are you going to meet the person at Faberis?.”
“You can at least bring me a portrait..”
“There is no such thing. Make a decision right here and now”
“Ah, that's difficult. So how do you do this?……
He scratched his head and smiled broadly.
“Can I just think about it until the sun rises??”
It was a cheeky smile that did not go well with his cold facial features, including his long, sharp eyes..
“I can't make rational decisions at night. Everyone is like that. “For some reason, when I look at the moon, sensitivity that wasn’t there before comes back to me, and I make impulsive decisions.” The old swordsman sighed at the playful tone and adjusted his grip on his two long swords..
“Captain Buakan's advice is absolutely correct. It's best not to talk to the Red Knight..”
“Oh, what else? I'm seriously thinking about it right now. I'm really on the fence about whether I should go through with it or not, so let me persuade you a little more..”
Hofken Seongbaek held out his left hand holding the hummingbird sword as if he did not want to continue talking..
At that time, the Red Knight hit Bicorn's butt with his sword..
Boom!
As Lee Gak-su lifted his back foot, Poynix moved his center of gravity forward and muttered a starter word..
“Aello.”
pop!
The red knight stepped on the air pressure released by the magic boots and was shot like a crossbow. Then, he pulled out his dark red blade nearly 3 meters away and delivered a slash..
Suddenly!
“please ”
The old swordsman quickly dodged by throwing himself to the side, but the swordsman next to him suddenly took a defensive stance. And the two long swords were shattered at once, and the breastplate and body were split in two..
“Forbuk!”
Hopeken, who had rolled on the ground, belatedly memorized the starting word, and a translucent pattern flashed on his leather gloves..
Wow.
A hemispherical anti-magic field surrounded the surrounding area along with a subtle shock wave. Ogshul Rizzo's gust of wind became a breeze, and the battle wizards of the Strom family, who were preparing a new spell, looked back on what they were muttering and recovered their mana..
At the same time as the magic power froze, Holy Baek Hofken and eight disciples flew away at once..
“Ha, fuck.”
Poynix, deeply impressed by the feeling of the blood in his body hardening, swung his sword like a thunderbolt, revealing his black naked body with the 'blood blade' scattered..
Kaga River!
A single knife drew a rough oval. The trajectories of five pairs of longswords were caught in it and bent or twisted, and the rest split the air..
Taang!
The old swordsman, who followed his disciples, struck the black ice with his sword. At the same time, he aimed for the red knight's wrist with his hummingbird sword..
“Old man, shabby!”
“That's not what you want to say!”
Every time the three blades met, a deafening metallic sound erupted. The two sword strikes were so fast that even the sound was muffled. The culprit couldn't even count the number of agreements made..
“Oh, Mr.-”
Poynix stepped back, ripped off the coat tied around her shoulder, and threw it at Seongbaek. Then he turned around and jumped into the crowd of disciples..
The Sigmil-style swordsmen surrounded their opponents by widening or narrowing the distance, and swung their two long swords without even raising their spirits..
“Assholes.”
The red knight lunged at the swordsman in front with a cold sneer. White blades came rushing in from all directions, cutting off several hairs, slitting earlobes, and tearing out sparks from vambraces..
Be that as it may, Phoenix grabbed the blade in front of him with his scaly hand and threw out black ice..
Kaga Gagak!
“uh billion.”
Unfortunately, the swordsman who was standing in front of the red knight got caught by his right long sword and desperately swung his remaining swords. Then the black blade wrapped the white blade like a snake and bounced it away, crushing the opponent's helmet and piercing his eye..
deeply!
Poynix rolled forward, hugging the swordsman whose brain was stirred by the tip of his sword. The paired blades followed closely behind with a fierce force..
“Inhale,”
The red knight rolled in the mud-mixed grass and threw the corpse he was holding towards the enemies. Aiming at the gap created, he lay down and cut the knife horizontally. The two swordsmen fell forward with their shins and calves cut off at once..
“Gonggyeo-hundred million!”
“catch the red knight!”
About sixty imperial knights, who had been quietly forming a siege, suddenly raised their reins and attacked. They started shooting arrows as if they didn't care about the swordsmen..
“What is this?.”
Although Phoenix was embarrassed, he pulled out a short sword with an ice-clear blade from his belt and immediately plunged it into the armpit of a swordsman who was rolling on the floor..
“Oh my gosh,”
He then used the dagger as a handle and carried the sword like a shield. Arrows hit or bounced off, and the swordsman soon became a heavily armed corpse..
Immediately after the rain of arrows stopped, Seongbaek and the swordsmen attacked again..
“Hmm ”
The Red Knight looked back at the enemies who were everywhere and twisted his lips. Then he ran towards the old swordsman and his disciples and stamped his feet..
It jumped to an ambiguous height, neither too high nor too low, but it was as quick as a cat or wild animal pounces on its prey. In the midst of that leap, Poynix twisted and rotated her whole body, starting from her waist..
Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
The black blade turned into a circle of steel. Three of the attacking swordsmen could not even react, and their heads rose into the sky..
“nonsense-”
The ‘flight of the bird of prey’ exploded upon Hofken Seongbaek, who opened his eyes..
The falcon sword and the hummingbird sword quickly crossed to block the horizontal cut of the blade. However, the two long swords were put away in a series of sword strikes without any time difference..
crackling.
As soon as the red knight set foot on the ground, he stabbed, but the old swordsman managed to avoid it by bending his back..
York ”
As if Poynix had expected this, he followed the thrust and launched his body to attack Hofken Seongbaek. Then, I stabbed the wool stem with the clear, transparent blade hidden in my left hand..
“Turn it off, turn it off.”
“It was fun.”
The red knight twisted his dagger, looking down into the old man's cloudy eyes. The master's breath stopped with a loud, yet terrifying noise..
“Phew.”
The enraged imperial knights let out fierce shouts at Phoenix, who stood up in front of the Hofken Castle Baek..
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