58. omen (3)

“Thank you so much for your support.”

The commander on the wall said that to Paola. Paola shook her head and pointed to Christine, who was looking down from the side of the castle wall.

“If you’re going to say thank you, do it to our vice-captain over there. It seems that the captain is talking with Marquis Marquis right now.”

The commanding officer looked at Christine with a puzzled expression, then turned to Paola.

“Wasn’t sir the vice-captain?”

At first, he was surprised that he was not the leader, the commander added.

“What are you talking about? Since you fought alongside me, you know that I’m not the type to do that.”

Paola waved her hand. The commanding officer, dumbfounded, approached Christine with a shy expression and greeted her.

“Thank you for your support. Vice-captain.”

Christine took the commander’s outstretched hand and shook it. There was no sign of bad mood. Christine had a look on her face as if she was distracted elsewhere.

“Thanks to the support of the royal family. His Majesty also praised the hard work in the no-man’s land.”

The commander sighed as he looked at the scenery below the castle wall.

“…This should live up to the royal family’s expectations, but the situation isn’t very good.”

Even in the midst of this, sporadically heard the sound of monsters dying under the castle wall. The heap of dead bodies of monsters formed the sea above the wilderness. The commander turned his gaze back to the knights.

“First of all, the soldiers will immediately fill in the lack of personnel and then put them in the standby group. Vice-captain is a wizard, right?”

Christine nodded.

“Then, please join the wizards under the city wall first. The knights will block the top of the castle wall.”

The commander who took over the command quickly dispatched the soldiers. As befits well-trained royal soldiers, the recruited soldiers quickly responded to the command of the new commander and ran from place to place.

“The knights… it would be better to roam autonomously on top of the castle walls and support them if there seems to be a shortage. I can’t even command and control the knights individually…”

Christine nodded in agreement. Then, in a voice that was now quite sub-commander-like, he delivered an order to the members who were waiting for him.

“Then… for now, the Jackdaw Knights will act autonomously. All of them are highly respected knights, so I believe they will be able to fill in the missing parts well.”

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No long answer needed. Following Christine’s words, the Jackdaw Knights scattered all over the city wall. Maxim was one of them. However, Christine called and caught Maxim’s steps as he was about to run to the western wall.

“Wait… Senpai…!”

Maxim stopped walking. Christine looked at Maxim’s face as he looked back at her.

It was a really innocent face.

The body must have already been ruined by the curse, but the pain must have engulfed the body and dominated the mind. That man casually put on his armor, kicked his sword, and was about to run to fight the monster. Even knowing full well that if you accidentally cross the line, the only thing waiting for you after that is darkness.

“what’s the matter?”

Christine looked into Maxim’s eyes. It was an empty eye. It was an eye he had never shown before.

“Senior… always act with Sir Paola.”

Maxim laughed at that remark and joked back.

“Are you saying you don’t trust me?”

However, Christine’s expression hardened even more at Maxim’s words. It was as if Maxim had done what he wanted to say instead.

“Yeah. That’s accurate. How can I trust my seniors and entrust a district alone?”

Maxim couldn’t find anything to say in reply to Christine’s words and kept his mouth shut. Paola, who had been silently watching, spoke as if to comfort Christine.

“Vice-captain… No matter how sluggish Maxim was in the Knights…”

“I will not take this word for granted, Sir Paola. The current senior is not suitable for the role of protecting this castle. Even if you attach it to the Lord, it will only become a burden.”

Saying that, Christine recalled the conversation she had with the professor at the Mage Tower.

“Give me a chance.”

“What do you mean by saying that you came here to make a sudden proposal and to give it a chance, Professor? I definitely have no intention of returning to the Magic Tower…”

The professor clicked his tongue as he adjusted his glasses.

“It’s a proposal to go under Count Benning.”

Christine snorted.

“I don’t know what the difference is between those words and saying that we should go back to the Mage Tower.”

“Very different.”

The professor let out a long breath.

“Earl Benning misses your talent very much. He doesn’t show it on the outside, but he’s a greedy person.”

Christine got up from her seat.

“How much time has passed, and have your memories become blurred? Professor.”

The professor shakes his head.

“Are you going to say that even though you know that Count Benning is holding Maxime Appart’s leash?”

The professor continued his story in a sharp voice.

“The essence of that curse is…”

“The purpose is not to take lives. Disintegration of the body, and furthermore, the disintegration of the mind. It must be the idea of creating such a state and preparing a puppet.”

Christine intercepted the professor in the middle.

“…well, you figured it out.”

“I only found out about it a while ago. I should have expected you guys to use much nastier moves than I thought…”

Christine said, criticizing the Magic Tower, which had already been under Benning’s control.

“Yeah, if you figured that out, you’d know he’d end up under Benning anyway, or he’d be off the stage altogether.”

Christine didn’t hide her sharp attitude, as if that was the case.

“I really have one more reason why I should never go to you guys.”

“How do you know what to do? He couldn’t be unharmed.”

Christine showed no sign of faltering. Christine looked at the professor with determined eyes.

“Because I will protect you.”

“You sound arrogant.”

The professor had the characteristic eyes of an old man watching a young man play. He seemed to be laughing, saying that it was ridiculous. But Christine had a steady eye. The professor was perplexed by Christine’s unchanging attitude.

“I guess so.”

“Sorry.”

Those eyes won’t change. The professor, realizing that fact, clicked his tongue inwardly. The professor shook his head and asked again.

“You really have no intention of changing your mind.”

Christine smiled and nodded.

“Yeah. Even if they gave me a cure, I have no intention of doing that.”

“Even if I threaten you with your life right here?”

Christine sneered at the professor.

“Professor, maybe you should go see a doctor to see if you really have a problem with your memory.”

When the professor heard that, he slammed the floor with the leader. Blue mana bloomed around the professor. In an instant, they were ready to build magic.

“You are so full of confidence. It has been like that since I was a student.”

A magic circle formed under the professor’s feet.

“I will shut that mouth right now.”

Christine sighed. Mana, Christine’s enormous mana shook Christine’s house. The assistant next to her flinched at the massive mana flow that Christine radiated.

Christine’s mana was overwhelming the professor. A researcher could never defeat a knight who spent years on the battlefield.

“Let’s do it if we can.”

Christine said coldly to the professor sitting in the chair.

“I just wanted to do that too.”

The professor shut up. The momentum of the mana pressing him was getting stronger.

What are you going to do?

Christine looked at the professor as if asking. The professor inevitably grinded his teeth and stood up from his seat.

“You will regret this.”

regret?

Christine wanted to burst out laughing. She treated the professor with a more resolute expression. Christine coldly pointed her finger at the professor standing in the doorway.

“I will tell you one thing.”

Christine’s eyes were already fixed with a certain determination. The eyes absorbed the green light again, and were wrapped in a more mature light.

“If you regret it, I already did enough a long time ago.”

therefore. So that this person doesn’t get hurt because of me anymore.

Christine’s eyes met Maxim.

“Senior, so, please join us on this expedition with the idea of assisting Sir Paola.”

Maxim looked at Christine with a complicated expression.

Don’t look at me with those eyes. You can’t look at me like that, with worried eyes, when I say such harsh things to you and hurt you.

Maxim nodded slowly.

“…yes. I’ll do as you say, Christine.”

The moment Maxim made up his mind and turned his head towards Paola, the bell rang.

From the highest point of the city walls came the sound of a bell that sent the listener’s mind crashing to the bottom.

Deng, Deng, Deng, Deng.

Christine’s pupils dilated, then narrowed again, taking on a sharp light.

“Battle deployment!”

“Battle Arrangement!!”

The soldiers ran like crazy and searched for their positions. The sound of weapons colliding can be heard from here and there.

“senior.”

Christine stepped away and said. Maxim looked at Christine’s face. It was much more upright than usual.

“Careful.”

Maxim nodded his head involuntarily. Christine smiled softly at Maxim, who nodded.

Deng, Deng, Deng, Deng.

A soldier standing guard rings a bell saying that the world is over. Hundreds of soldiers jumped to the sound of the trembling bell. All of them had faces like bloodless pork.

It wasn’t the hatred of monsters that stirred the hearts of the soldiers. You never know when the walls will collapse. He never knew when he would climb over these lofty walls and drive his blood and flesh-dried teeth into his own throat. Such a sense of fear was completely dominating the soldiers’ heads. There weren’t many soldiers or knights who had experienced the situation from 15 years ago.

the devil is coming

The battles in the no-man’s land were always intense, but I could feel the principle of action as a creature from the monsters climbing over the cliff and attacking the castle wall. To survive, to get out of the no-man’s land and head to another place.

The current monster moved like a piece of wood with limbs. Without thinking or understanding what he was doing, he just leaned against the wall and climbed up the wall. It was horror. The monsters that had lost their sense of living creatures pushed the corpses of the same monsters and passed over. The number of monsters passed over like that was beyond the scope of counting.

The tide cannot be stopped by human hands.

However, the swarm of monsters rushing under the wall was more like a raging wave than a rising tide. Like water in a leather bag, the body of the monster rushes in. The monsters were advancing, colliding with the walls and gates, stepping on each other, killing each other, and biting each other.

The flesh was being mashed. The demons continued to throw their bodies against the wall, putting their lives on the back burner. The soldiers looked down at the monsters rubbing their bodies against the wall with faces that had lost their complexion. Crossbows and crossbows were loaded with flesh. The sound of turning the crank came from the walls side by side.

Drooling, drooling.

The string of the crossbow was pulled tight, and the flesh was ready to pierce the foreheads of the monsters at any moment. A soldier can’t stand the tension and pulls the trigger of a crossbow.

puck-

Flesh flew through the wind and pierced one of Arachne’s eight eyes. Arachne’s transparent blood and ooze swayed in the sky, and other monsters stepped on the struggling Arachne. At the sight, the commander in charge of command on the wall shouted.

“Don’t shoot!! Crazy, these. Save your arrows! Don’t you know that even if you shoot now, it’s like giving those monsters a meat barrier!”

The commander grabbed the soldier who pulled the trigger by the neck and pulled him down from his seat. The soldier missed the crossbow and hit his butt. The commander gave the order nervously, pushing the trembling soldier away with his feet.

“Hey, take this bastard under the castle wall. Deploy another soldier.”

“All right.”

When the commander spoke, the soldiers shrugged and held their breath.

“Bring the oil pot! Get it and prepare to pour it down the walls!”

The soldiers jumped at the commanding officer’s cry. Soon after, the soldiers brought boiling oil pots with grunts.

“Wait… wait!”

Commander shouts. The soldiers held the cauldron.

“Wait until you climb the wall!!”

thud.

The spirit of the monsters touched my skin. The demons did not appear to be running. Like a single colony, a group of monsters approached the castle wall. There was a squeak and the sound of stones being cut. The commander was holding the hilt of his sword and waiting for the right moment.

The monster’s feet gripped the wall. Slowly, the monsters start climbing up. Stepping on the cornerstone of the wall, the monsters climbed up the wall with a screeching sound. Stepping on the monsters that couldn’t climb the wall, the monsters climbed up.

“Come, come. All knights unleash a sword…!”

The commander’s tense voice echoed across the battlefield. The knights lowered their helmet visors and drew their swords in unison. Maxim saw a group of monsters rushing through the bars of his visor. Like rotten pieces of wood, the monsters climbed the wall and fell after being hit by the stones dropped by the soldiers.

“Damn it, it’s really the same as back then.”

muttered Paola. In Paola’s hand was a mace, not a sword. Maxim turned his head to the side and looked at Paola.

“Do you remember the old days?”

“That’s right. In fact, it seems a little less intense than before.”

Maxim laughed at Paola’s joke.

The speed of the monsters climbing the wall increased. The monster that saw the human head flashed its eyes and hurriedly moved its feet.

“Shoot!!”

The archers fired their bows in unison. The flesh poured down like rain and pierced the monster’s head and body. Demons don’t scream. After being hit by an arrow, he jumped over a corpse that fell and clung to the wall.

“Oil-!”

As the commander shouted, the soldiers poured boiling pots. Boiling oil ran down the ramparts.

“Bring more! Don’t leave the pot empty!

Five toes intertwined and landed on top of the castle wall. As if holding a stone, strength enters the toes, and the walls of the castle inevitably crumble. I heard someone take a sharp breath.

“Prepare for battle!”

The commander shouted, and the monster appeared on top of the castle wall. Maxim inhaled and exhaled slowly, holding the sword in both hands. The smell of blood and iron wafted through the visor.

‘Careful.’

Christine’s words echoed in Maxim’s mind.

I’ll try, Christine.

In the midst of a clouding head and a throbbing pain in his chest, Maxim faced the monster that crawled up the castle wall. The monster emits a terrible stench and roars.

A sword without a handful of mana soars high into the sky. The sword caught in the sunset glowed red, and Maxim’s slash landed on the monster’s neck.