31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 213)
death.
For those without faith, the coldness is the only value emphasized..
Bren, the chief knight of the Knights of Beregion, was now enjoying the value of death to the fullest..
A strange feeling, like a sword blade has been inserted under the tongue..
‘Lord, I'm going to die..’
If he behaved suspiciously even once here, if he said something in a disturbing tone, he expected that he would definitely die..
The prediction was made based on reasonable evidence gathered quite a while ago..
After he finished subduing the cartel, he stopped by the Adeline Court Laboratory..
- So, it's not a malfunction??
- Yes, not at all. Not at all. Why did you decide that the measuring instrument was malfunctioning in the first place, Bren??
- Isn't it obvious? Do you think it makes sense that Jeonja had a combat power of over 100 million? All children are like new children born on the same day. But when a guy with a dark beard appears among children who have just started walking, it is natural for him to think something is strange.!
The guy with a dark beard who emerged from the crowd of toddlers was Kang Seol..
The researcher tilted his head and said.
- There is nothing wrong with the equipment. The meter is in good working order and has collected excellent data..
- That means…
- If there was something strange, it wouldn't be the problem of the measuring instrument, but of the precocious child with the dark beard, right? Isn't it??
- …What I mean is, is a combat power of over 100 million possible?.
- Was he ridiculously weak??
- That's not it, it was strong.
- how strong was it?
In response to that question, Bren briefly recalled the sight of snowfall bouncing across the city..
- little… no, a lot?
- yes?
- It was strong. This is my first time seeing such a strong transference. But I can't believe that the combat power of 100 million is true.….
- haha! Since you don't believe me even though I explained it clearly, there is no way..
- …Nope. I went too far. I will admit that such a transference really exists..
The researcher grinned..
- All discoveries begin with breaking stereotypes. This is probably something like that too..
- if… What would this Bren do if he meets such a transferor again??
- Didn't you say that we fought together? Then what are you worried about?….
- I mean, just in case you meet him as an enemy..
- Bren, do you know the legend related to shooting stars??
Bren snorted..
- Does this mean that if you make a wish while looking at a shooting star, it will come true? Why is this story… Now, are you thinking of me as a child??
- When you meet him, don't you think you saw a shooting star??
- …why?
- If it falls on your head, you'll die. First of all, it's a meteorite. You also have to make a wish.
- …wish?
The researcher scratched his head and answered.
- If you really wish for my life, wouldn't you grant it??
In that sense, Bren's situation was completely messed up right now..
‘It's him! I can tell!’
I didn't see it closely, but that dark power seemed familiar for some reason..
‘Why did that guy come towards Bren?!’
A black energy creeping up from the intruder..
Cartel's face, smashed by that energy, kept flashing in Bren's vision..
When he was young, his mother's words came to mind before she died..
- Bren, no matter what happens, life is the most valuable thing. Honor and trust must be taken care of at the same time.?
- Madam, what do you mean! Bren followed his father and became an honorable man.…
- Understand? Don't make the mistake of throwing your life away like fools do..
These were the words that Bren's mother, Charlotte, now deceased, left for her son..
Suddenly, Bren remembered his mother's words and his heart warmed..
‘You must live! The one who survives is the strong one!’
Bren desperately tried to gather his wits in that moment..
All I could think about was how to stop this man's accidental actions..
“Bren? Did you find anything suspicious??”
“ah! ah… Nilse.”
“It must have been a mountain animal..”
“So, hahaha….”
Snowfall's right arm is still oozing with black energy..
‘damn! This isn't enough?’
If no one was around, Bren would have said the words begging for his life..
However, now that there were many watching eyes around me, I took a different method..
“Over there... I think our area is too crowded.?”
“yes?”
Slurp…
The black energy of the snowfall has faded a little..
‘This is it!’
Bren calmed his pounding heart and walked towards the crew..
“The area I am in charge of is not very large, so this is extremely inefficient. No, isn't it??”
“Since the knights were mobilized on a large scale, it was inevitable. Aren't you the most enthusiastic??”
“No, no. I never did that!”
“…yes?”
“Hmm… Would an intruder really be foolish enough to break into this place? In a deep place where there seem to be more people on guard than trees..”
“Well, if this is enough, I'll be so scared that I'll run away..”
“That's right! That's why I, Bren, am worried about the crew's stamina consumption..”
“it's okay.”
“It's not okay!”
Bren spoke passionately..
“As will be the case in future missions, this way of carrying out missions is not practical at all. In a situation where the enemy might attack at any moment, wasting away the stamina of his subordinates is not something a good commander would do. I, Bren, dream of becoming a great commander, so from now on I will divide the border into three groups. The rest can rest in the garrison created above..”
“B, Bren….”
“3Jonah….”
“You think of us this much... Hmm….”
With watery voices, the knights stared at Bren with impressed eyes..
“Okay, from now on, we're going to split into groups, so let's get together for a moment..”
“If you do this, the boundary is….”
“Uh-huh! Wouldn't it be fair to say that it's not fair to divide groups? Let's all get together! hurry!”
The security forces in the area were momentarily distracted by Bren's words..
“then… that is….”
Bren glanced at where Snowfall was and sighed after seeing that he and his group had disappeared..
“Whoa whoa….”
* * *
[You are now wandering the Braggland Mountains. With the movement of the security forces changing all the time, which direction will you move??]
1. Direction of the ridge visible on the right.
2. direction of distant cliffs.
……
“Huh... Heo Eok….”
Moving without notice required quite a bit of stamina..
In particular, since they were not traveling on horseback, Chadorp, who had been injured earlier, and Princess Liona, who was weak, felt as if they were about to suffocate..
‘Stopping is the most dangerous.’
Snowfall continues to find a way through the ever-tightening border..
right.
“No news yet?”
“If there had been, there would have been an uproar right now..”
right again.
“Because it's stupid, this too.”
“If you ask me to do it, I have to do it. Is there anything special?.”
This time on the left.
“It's not this way?”
“First of all, I don’t think it will be today..”
All of Kang Seol’s judgments so far have been correct. However, facing the narrow road in the middle of the mountain range, a problem arose once again..
Cough, cluck.…
A bird that cried when the snowfall passed by.
“huh?”
The guard's eyes met Kang Seol's eyes. The guard's pupils are infinitely dilated.
“female….”
Tuk-!
Seueuugh…
Kangseol stunned the guard by striking him on the back of the neck with the blade of his hand, then caught his body as he was about to fall and carefully laid him down..
And then, as the snowfall passed by, I shot a bird that cried loudly..
Cough, cluck.…
The bird just stared at the snowfall. Snowfall felt weak at that sight and sighed..
“ha….”
things were not good.
‘Instead of helping, you're only hindering me..’
For no reason, I'm starting to hate even this little thing..
‘hmm? But this bird….’
It resembles a bird we encountered in the Nogurs Mountains..
‘I'm sure you didn't follow me all the way here.?’
Cuckoo… Guuuuk…
And so do other birds.
‘what? this feeling?’
Exciting…
The heartbeat I felt when passing through the smuggling route came again..
Patter-patter…
The birds flew from the trees in an instant.
‘…I guess it wasn't my mistake..’
an unpleasant thing.
However, it was not something to think deeply about in one sitting..
The snowfall eventually reached the point I was most worried about: the Central Narrows of Bragland..
- It seems better to stop..
‘…I felt it too.’
- They're wizards... . Two waves are coming out of this front. One is a wavelength that suppresses the use of magical power, and the other is a wavelength that searches for magic power other than the registered type..
‘Can I use it at the same time??’
- It's a matter of order, so it's possible as long as you pay attention to the arrangement. However, there are weaknesses.
In times like this, there was no summoner better than Ur..
‘Weakness?’
- In magic where such arrangement is important, even if the flow is slightly distorted, it trips over its own feet. By changing the arrangement, we will make their search magic clash with the magic suppression magic..
Widespread jamming.
‘Then wouldn't you notice??’
- You won't notice. The magic flow will remain the same. They will probably think that they are channeling their magic properly for a while. All the horsepower that leaks in the process is mine. but….
Ur said seriously..
- Because it is an unnatural flow, if it is realized that magical power manipulation has been applied, an intrusion is almost certain. So, try not to get caught. you'll be in trouble.
nod.
[The sealed magic path of Ur is activated..]
[Interpreting unidentified magic.]
[Interpreting the magic.]
[Magic interpretation has been completed.]
Magic manipulation is now done in a breeze..
- became.
Seueuugh…
Snowfall and the group chose the edge of the narrow road, the darkest place to move..
Slurp…
One of the wizards guarding the narrow passage said.
“hmm?”
“why?”
“No, I think it's an illusion.”
“Then I'm glad.”
Boundaries were somewhat looser than before.
It was a loophole that arose because they blindly trusted the trap they set..
“It makes no sense to deceive even this tight border zone..”
“I'm sure it's not already in there.?”
“That doesn't make sense..”
“what… There's a lot of people in the back, so it's safe anyway..”
“It was the morning before and there wasn't any fuss because of the pups throwing a tantrum..”
“So why do they keep making a fuss asking for me to be in the first line?….”
patter-patter-!
“What, what?!”
“bird?”
A lot of birds flew up the tree.
The wizards were impressed, perhaps because of the birds suddenly showing strange reactions..
“This is not magic exposure?”
“That can't be possible, it's set to not cause damage to living things.?”
“The birds suddenly looked like that... hmm?”
“what's the matter?”
“…I have to tell Heinkel..”
“what?”
“hurry!”
- I got caught. The magic power was good, but... Detection magic will soon sweep the area. Break through.
At Ur's words, Snowfall ran with the group..
Soon, lights were turned on in all the garrisons and the surrounding area was noisy with shouting..
“It's an intruder! They are already here.!”
“Princess! Princess Liona is crossing the mountain range!”
“find! Search the area thoroughly.!”
Troops pouring in.
In addition, there has already been a response from the first line..
“Put back the border! There is talk that they have already come inside.!”
“This place has already been breached!”
Snow and his party also became desperate..
“Huh... Heo Eok….”
“Princess! You need to run now!”
“Huh?….”
“Ugh… Ughhh….”
A lot of flash magic appeared in the back to find Snowfall and the others..
Pushuuuuuu…
Paaang!
Paaang!
“Find it! It must be here!”
“The knights will arrive soon! Just figure out the location!”
The rear was a problem, but the front was even more serious..
“Wow!”
“coming here!”
“catch! If you catch it here, we caught it.!”
“Deal with it before the knights come.!”
“You can’t see your surroundings very well! You bastards, get out of here!”
“what?”
Is this what a flock of hungry wildcats looks like?.
“There it is! Hey, I found it.!”
someone's cry.
The person who discovered it was truly wise. All I did was yell, but I didn't step forward..
If he had come forward, Kang Seol could have accidentally killed him to keep his mouth shut..
Kangseol frowned..
“There it is!”
“Hey there! If it's over there, I'll never be able to get out from now on.!”
Chadorf said to Liona.
“Princess! The Count and I will stop this place! Crow, attending the princess….”
“Wrong. Just the two of you can't change the situation.”
“So you're saying let's just sit back and relax?!”
“for a moment… Just give me a moment.”
A situation reminiscent of a battlefield.
Karuna and Karen had already been summoned to cover them..
Like tinnitus, the surrounding noise was interrupted and transmitted..
“who… Did I say big! … Leave the interest to us….”
“gibberish! … Siji!”
“Ouch! what! Don't shoot!”
Everyone was subject to desire.
The hunting dogs discussed ownership with the lion in front of them..
‘That's it for here.’
The path to maintaining the horse without colliding with the transferees was cut off here..
Now I had to move on and take their lives..
The lines of the world are usually not straight. They crawled and overlapped each other like the crooked lines drawn by a child. There were times when I had to step into a puddle of blood..
Is now the moment to make a choice??
‘If you kill them all, the way out will be open. but….’
Many transferees die at his hands..
is that right?
Kang Seol couldn't be said to be a good person, but he couldn't be said to be an evil person either..
It would have been a different story if the opponent had been a villain, but he wasn't so ruthless as to slaughter hundreds of ordinary people..
At least, so far.
But there was no guarantee that this would be the case in the future. Once you cross this line, there is no turning back..
“now… That's Okay.”
During the escape, when Snowfall was lost in thought, Princess Liona spoke to her. Snowfall ran ahead and glanced at me..
“Everyone did their best for me, despite my shortcomings. In that case… That's Okay.”
“princess!”
“Not yet! It's too early to give up!”
Liona smiled at the two foolish loyalists..
“I'm not giving up. Just do your best and accept the results.”
“what is that….”
“The only thing these crazy people are after is me. So, you guys….”
Exciting…
Snowfall's heart scolded again.
Ur must have sensed the turmoil in my heart and brought me some good news..
- It can temporarily suppress the magic of space. If you escape in the meantime, you can escape the wizards' pursuit..
Kang Seol shook his head..
‘It's impossible, there are a lot of knights and transferencers..’
- In that case, unless they fly up into the sky, the only way is to kill them all. Do you want that? if you want….
“To the sky... Fly up….”
Kikluk… Grumpy look…
Snowfall had noticed the flight of the birds that had caused the group to be discovered earlier..
Exciting… Exciting…
“Yeah, somehow… I thought I was sick.”
- What are you talking about??
“I'd rather die!”
“Come on! Now that the siege has not yet narrowed, maybe it's just you.….”
Snowfall interrupted Liona, whose cheeks were burning with excitement..
“Liona.”
“…yes?”
“You only get one chance.”
“What do you mean? This is not the time! If not now, then even you….”
“piggyback.”
“what… Uh oh….”
As Snowfall ran with Liona on her back, the speed of the group became even faster..
“catch!”
“I almost caught up!”
“Drive it into a corner!”
“What bullshit! Allies may collide with each other! keep your distance!”
When those caught in madness rush towards me.
Chirrururuk-!
Above the birds, something came out of the clouds.
object that looks like a meteorite.
“what… What is that?!”
“…griffin?”
It was never a griffin..
It was different from Griffin. The other reason is that it was much larger than that, had strong wings, and had the body of a bird rather than a lion. And, crucially, flames continued to bloom near the beak..
Grumbling…
A flame rose from the corner of the bird's mouth..
“Blood, damage!”
Quaaaaaaaaa-!
Flame streaks across the mountains.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…
It was as if he was declaring that he would not let go if he crossed the line..
Snowfall shouted at the strange bird coming towards them..
“Koopaaa! It's this way!”
Let’s go!!
Exciting…
The reason why Kang Seol’s heart continued to pound was because the connection with Koopa became clearer as she got closer to him..
“It was you!”
[Helper ‘Corpse Hawk Koopa’ appears in this adventure..]
[Helper 'Corpse Hawk Koopa' will join your ally in this adventure..]
Snowfall's friend appeared with bigger wings, beak, and a bigger belly than when they parted ways..
“Ride the Koopa!”
“Um, is that a cuppa??”
“how….”
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!
“Ughhh!”
“Block it!”
“use magic!”
A clever corpse hawk that deliberately creates dust to obscure people's vision..
- joy! where!
Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!
Ur's prepared wide area magic blockade.
“Hey, the magic is dissipating!”
“Shoot! At least shoot a bow!”
Pushushushu!
Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssst!
Karuna's black wave knocked away all the projectiles that followed..
“now!”
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
Koopa, Kiri's true legacy, opened the skyway for snowfall..
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
The huge wings flapped and dust flew up. It happened very suddenly..
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