53 – The Falling City (3)

“…that’s?”

“I covered my face with black magic. Just in case.”

“Five… .”

Chang-seong admired, but instead of questioning why he was wearing a mask, he focused on something else.

“That looks great, make me too.”

“…don’t talk nonsense, let’s go.”

“If you have to hide your identity, then I have to hide too… .”

“I have a different reason, so you don’t have to hide it… . Do you want to stay?”

In the end, I agreed to Changsung’s persistence.

It wasn’t good for her to be revealed to the warlock either.

As the mask made of black magic covered her face, only the mysterious purple hair of Changsung was visible.

“This is amazing, I can see the front even though my face is completely covered.”

“If you can’t see, it’s just a blindfold, isn’t it a mask?”

We ran on.

And at some point, let’s move cautiously.

Looking at the surrounding landmarks, I noticed a mountain very close to the city and said.

“I have to go back to that mountain.”

“…isn’t it hard to climb?”

“It can be tough, but it sure is.”

Although that mountain is a convenient place for the undead to hide, it is not a suitable place for a warlock to stay.

It depends.

For a warlock who was being chased and found in a dangerous situation, that mountain was the perfect place.

But on the contrary, this time the warlock is about to invade the city.

If so, he would sit on top of a hill and watch the battle while pouring undead.

In the context of invading a city, that mountain was not suitable.

Therefore, it is a safe route to enter the city.

There must be undead, because there will not be warlocks.

Besides, it’s not that high, so it won’t be difficult to get in.

“let’s go.”

“yes.”

Changsung did not object to my decision.

The sky was dark, so we moved into the mountains where we couldn’t see a single light.

**

“It is too dark.”

Ardel, who had gone into the mountains, murmured.

It was too dark.

It was dark around because of the black core that had already blocked the sun, but when even a little light was swallowed up by the densely standing trees, an invisible blackout covered the surroundings.

The young man who followed him looked around for a while, then took out the luggage he was carrying on his back and lifted it.

“I have prepared just in case.”

“…well prepared.”

Ardel expressed his gratitude and held up the torch handed to him by the young man.

When lit, it brightens the surroundings in contrast to the dark.

The slope of the mountain is not that steep.

Strictly speaking, it is not a mountain, but rather a hill with many trees.

The young man looks around and tells Ardel.

“That kid wouldn’t have gone that far. As well as physically.”

“Then, can we look around the entrance?”

“Do you want to separate from each other, or do you want to find each other?”

“Let’s move together, the atmosphere doesn’t look good.”

Ardel did not choose to hastily scatter and look at each other.

Calling out his name in a loud voice, he started searching the mountains.

“Luna! Where are you? It’s a dangerous situation right now. Luna!”

“kid! Come out, the knight has come to look for you!”

As I shouted so loudly, something rustled in the grass and poked its head out.

When Ardel turned his head with a smile, there was no person with the image he knew.

There was a monster there.

An undead that moves because it cannot die.

-Grrr.

“Huh!”

When the young man took a step back in surprise, Ardel took the lead and drew his sword.

Sreung-!

Awesome!

Only one undead.

That much was easy for Ardel, who was already knight-level.

Since his goal was the honorable Golden Knights, he was still an apprentice, but his skills were not particularly low.

Ardel, who killed the undead with a single sword, murmured while breathing heavily.

“…if the undead had come this far.”

It’s a dangerous situation.

Ardel thought calmly.

Should I go further or stop here?

But would you step back without facing a real crisis yet?

He wasn’t such a coward.

Ardel silently approached an unknown danger.

The torches revealed the invisible forest, and Ardel found a trail in the grass.

Footprints of a small child.

It is an obvious sign no matter who sees it.

If there was something strange, the child would know the ominousness of the forest, but the direction of his steps was heading deeper.

“That’s strange.”

Is there any reason to go deeper?

As I looked around, I could clearly see why.

Big footprints following the steps of a child.

Luna didn’t go into the dangerous forest ignorantly, she was already surrounded by the undead.

A young man who saw something similar to Ardel also expressed his opinion.

“Perhaps Luna is hiding.”

“Hidden?”

“The footprints are modest for running away. Probably undetected by the undead. Rather than running away from the undead, they may be hiding and waiting until the undead have passed and it is safe.”

In a way, this is a hopeful interpretation.

Even in this situation, calmly hiding and waiting is not an easy decision for a child to make.

may have already died

But I didn’t want to give up hope.

“Let’s find it.”

Every effort must be made to save one person.

As Ardel dug into the trail, he cut down the increasingly numerous undead.

As I kill and kill again, I reach the end of the trail.

A child covered in mud with dirt all over.

Familiar color eyes and hair.

Luna quietly hid in the thick grass, trembling.

“Luna… !”

“Hey, knight brother… .”

Luna was infinitely happy to see Ardel who came to visit her, but she had a terrified expression on her face.

Seeing Luna’s face, Ardel was puzzled.

It is not a face that has regained stability after seeing Ardel in danger.

The child is still full of fear.

“Let’s go back Luna, it’s dangerous outside the castle right now.”

“Oh, brother, look ahead.”

It wasn’t until Ardelle turned the torch that she realized why the child was so frightened.

A legion of countless undead.

I was walking quietly.

Ardel frantically threw the torch to the ground, trying to put out the flames.

If the eyes of the undead are drawn, everyone will surely die.

Pressing down on the young man’s shoulders, Ardel tried to pass the current danger by hiding himself.

But it’s already too late.

The moment the light of the torch illuminated them.

The Undead realized the enemy’s location and started charging.

-Keeek!

-Gwaeg!

-Grrr!

ten horses.

twenty horses.

a hundred horses.

The undead legion rushed towards only three people.

Ardel gave Luna to the young man and shouted.

“run! Run away somehow, I’ll try to draw attention!”

“Mi, I believe you. Knight!”

“Oh, if you stay there alone… !”

Luna did not want to sacrifice Ardel, but was dragged away by the young man.

A young man runs fast to survive in a crisis.

The young man’s movements were quite fast, even with a child on his back.

Ardel briefly drew the attention of the undead, then slashed the undead and ran away.

However, the number of undead flocking did not decrease.

Ardel regretted it even as he took a weary breath from his mouth.

“I was too reckless.”

In fact, it was unpredictable.

I was just thinking of bringing a child staying outside the castle into the castle, but misfortune overlapped and overlapped.

Luna went into the mountains at this time, and there were hundreds of undead in the mountains.

In the end, this is what happened.

Ardel raises his sword and makes a valiant determination.

By fighting against the undead.

They move to come up with a way to survive somehow.

-Kieek.

– Kyaaagh!

– aaagh!

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Just as dozens of undead were about to attack from all sides.

When Ardel was about to swing his sword at the risk of death.

Something unexpected happened.

I couldn’t have imagined a reunion like this.

Ardel stood blankly with his sword in his hand.

A being who stood by Ardel’s side with light steps.

That voice was too familiar to Ardel.

“Still.”

At that word, all the undead stopped.

I felt oppressed.

Knowing who the opponent was, Ardel felt even more strange.

A feeling of pressure that would be felt by the head of the knights, the faculty of the academy, or one of the strongest on the continent covered the surroundings.

The boy was wearing an ominous colored mask.

Put your hand on top of the mask and peel off the black film.

“…It seems like a lot has changed since I couldn’t see you, brother.”

“Not much has changed, bro.”

Argal muttered with indifferent eyes.

It wasn’t something a boy who had stopped hundreds of undead would say.

Ardel puts up with countless questions.

“I really have a lot to ask.”

Ardel turns his head.

At a time when you don’t know when those countless undead will change, there was no reason to have a conversation here.

“Let’s go to the castle for now.”

“yes.”

Argal nodded and waited for someone to follow.

In terms of body size, she was a girl of the same age as Argal.

The girl stepped out with graceful gestures and stood beside Argal.

Ardell laughed a little while watching it.

“I feel one thing.”

“…?”

“The sex ratio of your friends is overwhelmingly female.”

Ardelle counted, but it’s one man and four women.

I thought I was going to date a girl well because I was a pure kid.

Ardel could not have imagined that there would be so many connections.

Hopefully there won’t be another one here.

Argal was puzzled by Ardel’s gaze.

“What’s wrong with that?”

“No problem, right now.”

Barely holding back the advice that it was better to think seriously about women’s problems, I moved to get out of the woods.

This is a natural step given the urgency of the situation.

**

Is this a coincidence or someone’s joke?

My older brother wanted to join the Golden Knights from the beginning.

So, even before returning, they were the Golden Knights guarding the capital, and now they are apprentices who have not yet become knights.

And in one part of my head, I remembered that the apprentices of the Golden Knights were given the task of protecting Antony.

The rampage of the Black Tower owner caused by me destroying the Black Magic Tower and the fate of my older brother who protects Anthony as an apprentice knight exquisitely overlapped.

I don’t know why I was fighting the undead in this mountain for some reason, but I stopped all the undead.

As long as there wasn’t a warlock nearby who controlled the undead, I could control it for a while.

This method doesn’t usually work well, but now it works.

“Is that your brother?”

Changsung approached me and said so.

Since it was an obvious fact, Changsung nodded and made a nonsensical noise.

“It’s different from you, isn’t it a bit cool?”

“…Is that so?”

“Don’t worry, I have nothing to do with your brother.”

…Why the hell are you worried about that, Changsung.

As I was silently moving my steps to get out of the mountain, overriding Changsung’s nonsense, I saw a human figure charging at me from beyond.

The sword she was holding was stained with ooze, as if she had cut down and killed several undead on her way here.

It was Raeli, and of course he recognized me and shouted.

“you you! How did you get here?!”

…It was the same for my older brother, and I felt uncomfortable because I had a lot of things to explain.

Anyway, because I cheated on them.