74 – Assault (2)

“It’s cut off.”

The man covered his eyes with a black cloth said calmly.

His eyes, hidden by the cloth, were pointed precisely at the place where the monster he had created had fallen. But like his invisible eyes, he can’t see what happened there.

For some reason, the sharing of sight with monsters, which would have been possible originally, has become a mess today.

All he can do now is give simple commands and figure out where the monsters he spread are. It was impossible to know the details of what happened on the battlefield.

They were made thinking they were simple consumables in the first place, so unlike ‘works’, he didn’t have any attachment to them.

Still, the object that had just been disconnected was created with concern for the abilities of a knight-level, that is, a general Aura user. Quite a few knights judged that he would be able to chew it, and this was an extremely objective evaluation, not confidence in his abilities.

A guy who could be said to have had a hand in his own way died before the others. It’s ironic indeed.

In the man’s head, there was an expected value to expect from the guy. And the results that he saw now showed the lowest value among the expected values he thought.

A colleague next to him opened his closed mouth only after he tapped the man who was staring blankly at the forest with his foot.

“Walter. Habilis has been attacked.”

“Already? Didn’t you put it out with confidence? Didn’t the black dragon enter the forest?”

“No. He hasn’t entered the forest yet. If he did, the trees wouldn’t be so quiet.”

“hahahaha…then he might be the knight commander. If he was that person, he’d be able to deal with that monkey without much difficulty. I’ve had bad luck. The altars I’ve built all of a sudden stopped working, and the monkey I thought would take some time. Destroy from. Are you keeping this plan as it is?”

“Of course. Except for the work of the altar, the rest is still in the plan. And even if that’s not the case, we can’t give up on the plan.”

The colleague who questioned the man’s words, the one called Walter, quietly nodded.

From the moment the plan was executed, there was no one who did not know that it was inevitable that Krause’s family would enter the forest.

When he steps into the forest, their lives are no longer a consideration. Even if it meant cutting down all the trees in the forest, he would have found and killed them, and a man named Arthur Krause has such skills and tenacity.

Then, in the end, the only thing left for them is whether or not the plan is successful.

Knowing this, the man was able to answer Walter’s question without hesitation.

“Even if the black dragon moves, the distance between the children of the sun has already increased. Even if he can take our lives, he will not be able to prevent their deaths.”

After answering so confidently, the man got up from his seat and turned his head again toward the place where his monster had fallen. He spoke confidently, but the current situation was not good for planning, so he needed to reduce the risk of failure as much as possible.

“Due to the inability of the altar, it has become difficult to supply monsters from the forest.

At some point, a strange wave echoing through the forest was causing confusion in the connection with the monsters. It is very likely that the inability of the altar is also due to this wavelength.

The monsters that were randomly spread. At first, he thought it was just to attract their eyes and didn’t take much for the disconnection, but after the highly anticipated habilis quickly died, he decided to change his mind.

First of all, restore the connection with the monster that was cut off.

Even the interference of waves can be ignored if it is close range, so now you have to directly control the monsters with your own hands and become a bait to focus their eyes.

It was just a simple dragging of time, but this was the only way to reduce the possibility of failure even a little. I can’t do anything without halfway checks.

If you drop a bomb so powerful that they can never ignore it in their front yard, they will have no choice but to look at you even if you don’t like it.

“This, it’s a bit embarrassing to be taking on an easy task alone.”

“Don’t be vigilant and miss it. The prince is quite a competent mage, so if you give him room, everything will be in vain.”

“Take heed.”

We shared enough stories about the operation. As soon as the conversation seemed to come to an end, Walter immediately left. We may never see each other again, but there was no greeting between the two. Neither of them expected that their lifelines would continue no matter which way the plan went.

“Oh God…”

Left alone, the man looked up at the sun in the sky and called to God.

Even when he looks at the sun that lights up the world, the blind man sees only darkness.

***

“This…is an entity I’ve never seen before.”

Sir Gwen scanned the detached head and body and told me that he was a species I had never seen before. In the south, where monsters of all kinds run rampant, few people know as well about monsters as the leader of the Black Dragon Knights.

To the extent that he makes such an assertion, it can be regarded as the appearance of an almost new species.

Of course, if it was that much, I could have passed it off as a simple accident.

“However, it seems to have been intentionally created by someone rather than occurring naturally. Although it was well concealed, there are traces of hands on the head.”

“A monster that normally hides deep in the mountains suddenly breaks into a hunting competition in which the prince and princess participate. In addition to that, the monster passed through someone’s hands. This is a huge incident.”

“That’s right. It’s a big case.”

I will turn

Sir Gwen’s words made me feel dizzy.

It’s extremely rare, but on days other than winter, there are cases where monsters living inside the mountain range come down. It was such a rare case that it was safe to assume that such a thing would not happen, but even two years ago, I encountered monsters coming down the mountain.

‘It wasn’t an individual that broke away from the group, but it was almost the size of an army.’

Even when monsters that have fallen from the group come down the mountain, they can pick stars from the sky, but a group of monsters the size of an army. It’s a very good example of how bad my luck is.

So, when I first caught this monkey-like guy, I didn’t have much thought. It’s not common for monsters to come down the mountain, but I thought it wouldn’t be strange for a guy like me to wake up a few more times.

However, when I opened the lid, it was not as simple as I first thought.

‘I’d rather have a monster army. This is real…’

The things that happened in front can be dismissed as just unlucky, but it was something that was planned and happening by someone who is happening now. It is not difficult at all to find out who is behind it in terms of manipulating and manipulating monsters. The problem was that the person who was thought to be behind it was too sure.

In the original work, there was only one time when a monster was moved by someone other than an accident.

‘pagan.’

Known collectively as the True Night, they are a dark group in ＜The Princess is Loved＞.

Aside from the seven magic towers that pursued the truth, only they could handle monsters. And, unfortunately, the place where they moved the monsters to work was also the place where I am standing right now, in the Runproud Mountains.

He wondered if his presence had accelerated the fall of the South, but he decided to put that thought aside for a while. Apparently, the time when the monster appeared was very different from what I originally knew.

In the original work, the invasion of monsters was carried out quietly and cautiously. It was their method to cut off the connection between the villages one by one, starting with eating villages near the forest on non-winter days.

However, this Legion was too large for them to target as the starting point for their invasion.

It’s not winter now, but with important people gathered in one place, the vigilance is stricter than ever. In addition, the talented knights who gathered under the name of the hunting competition and the father who could be called the greatest power in the South.

It is obvious that if an invasion was launched in a place like this, a defensive line would be established in an instant under the guidance of his father and be stopped. that there is no advantage However, if they have a different purpose, the story is different.

“Is the problem that Orcus and Noel participated in the hunting competition…”

As far as I remember, it wasn’t long before the imperial family had extensively cleaned out the pagans, and I thought they were now concentrating on raising taxes, but I guess I was too complacent. They move faster than expected.

No matter how fast I thought I would move when I was at the academy…

“Sir Gwen. Right now… Holy shit!”

Things seemed to be taking a serious turn, and curses came out of my mouth as I was about to have a conversation with Sir Gwen. Sir Gwen, who suddenly heard the curse, didn’t seem to pay attention to it. He, too, seemed to feel the same as me, and was looking at the same place as me, making fire out of his eyes.

I didn’t even open my suppressed feelings, but I felt the signs of the monsters stirring the forest very clearly. But what touched my heart more than those things was the strange energy flowing through it.

It had already been encountered once in Merohim, but unlike that time when only remnants remained, that energy was clearly showing its strong presence without hiding it. Just confirming that fact felt like facing a pit full of bugs, so it made me feel like vomiting.

“You’re calling us.”

“Yes.”

He’s very blatantly beckoning me to catch him.

In my heart, I wanted to follow the provocation, but since I already knew the purpose of that side, I had no intention of doing as I wished.

“young master.”

Sir Gwen called me in a firm voice. His voice was hard and hot, as if he was suppressing anger that was about to explode at any moment. Knowing what he was going to say, I handed him a dagger that was strapped to his waist and said,

“At this level, you would have noticed at camp. Try to approach him while dealing with monsters. It will be easier to save lives that way.”

“Okay. Then.”

As soon as the story was over, Sir Gwen disappeared into the woods. I didn’t check his figure until the end and looked at the place opposite to the direction he ran.

To be honest, the place Lord Gwen ran to now was supposed to be subdued eventually, even if there were casualties. That would also be true, since my father was at the camp now. However, where they were aiming for, such a response was impossible.

Unless you have advanced information like me now, it was difficult to find the hidden answers right away in the chaotic situation as soon as the incident broke out.

I turned the aura flowing inside my body and awakened my senses that were dormant one by one. Originally, when my senses were awakened to the extreme in the forest, I felt unpleasant as if I was watching a screen with noise even if I felt it because of the magical power of the forest, but today there is no such thing and it is just clean.

I murmured softly while touching the crystal hanging from my chest over my clothes.

“I heard it’s not a magic tool…”

After awakening my senses, it didn’t take long to find Orcus and Noel. There were very few people who exuded the same presence as the two, so the problem was that the person who was thought to be the culprit of this incident was getting very close to them.

It seemed like I didn’t have much time.

I immediately ran to Robin, who was examining the child’s body near the monkey’s corpse, and asked.

“Sir Robin. How is the fallen child?”

“I’m unconscious, but I don’t seem to have any breathing problems. I suspect a fracture in the chest area, but other than that, I don’t think there are any major injuries.”

Robin replied in a relieved voice as if he was happy. The knights and attendants seemed to have been killed by the monsters, but at least one survived, so this could be said to be fortunate among misfortunes.

The boy lying down with his eyes closed looked a year or two younger than I am now, but objectively, he was quite young. So is it like that? Looking at her collapsed like this now, I felt uncomfortable because I felt like I was thinking about the past.

After becoming Damian, I also caught monsters at the same age as me, but are that child the same as me? People say I’m a genius in the eyes of others, but inside I was a worn-out old man.

I know that the times and cultures of my previous life and my current life as Demian are different, but even if I understand this in my head, looking at it from an emotional point of view, it doesn’t go my way. The fact that a child was injured right in front of my eyes, then and now, has not changed.

Phew…

The sound of thin breathing that is not rough is heard in the ear.

The boy’s face was red from being covered in monster blood, but his face with his eyes closed looked very calm. Still, the fact that the boy was alive and not dead was holding the thread of my rationality that was about to break.

Although he had already made up his mind several times, he regained his composure when he saw the boy with his eyes closed.

“I’ll borrow it for a while.”

I wrapped the boy’s sword, which Robin had collected earlier when he was cleaning up the monkey’s corpse, around the missing dagger. After briefly explaining the situation to Robin, I pointed to the cart and said to him,

“Fortunately, the cart seems to be in good shape. Sir Robin, please put that child in the cart and head straight to the camp. En route, blow the whistle to see if there are rangers around, and when you arrive at the camp, please explain the current situation.”

“Okay. Then Lord Soga…”

“I have work to do.”

Robin looked at me with worried eyes, as if he knew I wasn’t going with him. This did not come from the high or low level of skill. It was the worry he had for Sogaju as Krause’s knight. That’s why I thought I’d tell you not to go if I told you the truth, so I deliberately cut off my words about it.

“Don’t worry too much. I’ll follow you soon.”

I couldn’t wait any longer, so I said that and left.