117 – Witch Hunt-3

I was depressed.

In the end, I couldn’t protect everyone, and I couldn’t cut off the deep-rooted grudge.

Saying he saved others with minimal sacrifice was just an excuse. Nothing was over yet, and all I could do was kill time.

Until I saw Weather’s Army, I thought so.

“Stop!”

Stepping on the ground lightly, the commander knocked down the awkwardly held sword.

“Oops!”

Kick your legs lightly to break your balance and move forward again.

“Raise the spear! Don’t rush at it, make a gin!”

Even in the chaotic situation, the soldiers somehow lift the spears and create a dense wall of windows.

They were originally prepared to fight the Demon King’s army. Of course, the Weather family wouldn’t want to use their soldiers on such an exhausting battlefield, but externally it did.

Because I was the only opponent, I couldn’t see my battle except for the soldiers on the front line.

Even considering all of that, it was pretty surprising that he didn’t run out of morale right away. They are just ordinary soldiers, and if they can maintain this level of morale, they will have endured quite dangerous battles or rough battlefields.

“Haaa!”

But, that’s it.

I planted my feet on the ground and jumped over the window wall. You can see the pupils of the bewildered soldiers widen.

With a bit more training, you might be able to fend off an attack by holding your spear upwards. But that wouldn’t have changed anything.

The blunt tip of a spear like this cannot stop the hero. Even when Eleanor was struck by a large and savage sword from a monster much larger than this, she got up again as if nothing happened.

It is unreasonable to block me with a spear that has no power.

“Get back! Regroup and build your defenses again!”

The commanding officer in the distance tried to rectify the situation somehow. It seemed that he consciously refused to use the word retreat.

It was clear that the morale of the soldiers, who were barely holding on, would melt away like snow if negative words were added.

“In the first place, he won’t kill us! Anyone who escapes will be killed by my sword!”

“Hmm, that’s pretty sharp.”

I was holding a holy sword, but I didn’t cut the soldier’s throat or pierce his stomach with the sword.

But it was pretty amazing to notice that on this chaotic battlefield. If a clumsy person saw this battlefield, he would only see the soldiers falling like autumn leaves and myself cutting through them.

“The swordsmanship is poor! It’s nothing more than a strong idiot! Humans are stronger than monsters!”

“By the way. Like I said, my swordsmanship is clumsy, and my skills are lacking… I might not be able to control my strength well, right?”

At my words, the soldiers around me flinched and trembled.

“No matter how hard you try, you could break one or two of your arms or fall and be trampled to death by the steps of your allies.

But death is not the only thing that frightens people. it’s the middle ages It was not a society where people living with disabilities for the rest of their lives due to injuries could enjoy their daily lives.

“If you think it’s okay to live without arms or legs for the rest of your life, come in. Otherwise, just stay put.”

“Ugh…”

The soldiers rushing at me lost their swords and spears in an instant and were blown away.

Move on. They can’t stop me

A soldier ran up to the commander-like man who was glaring at him from behind and whispered.

“Retreat! Retreat!”

It was an unbelievable order that negated all previous strategies.

“Huh, retreat?”

“Run away! You can’t stop that anyway!”

Even in this situation, the degree of their training in running away without dropping their weapons was astonishing. But, that was it.

I didn’t go after them.

“Let’s take a look at your skills once in a while…”

Evil energy permeates the place where they left. The eldest son and his troops were staring fiercely this way.

They weren’t afraid of me. Rather, he was afraid of something wriggling beneath him.

It’s a huge magic power. As if looking at a runaway crater, a power of terrifying size that only burns mana.

“come!”

the earth splits A monster several times my height, a tangled mess of rotten flesh and corpses, rises.

“Gwaaa!!!”

It’s not like a normal person’s voice when the wind goes up his neck and makes his mouth ring. It was a much more bizarre and unnatural moan, literally from a strange monster.

“It’s hot.”

The monster they’ve been waiting for, the evil one who thought this would be enough to stop me, burst forth.

“It will be fun.”

Still, the smile did not leave my lips.

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“What, what!”

“I can’t control it. I need to run away…”

“What did you ask, Wizard!”

The eldest son roughly grabbed the robed magician by the collar.

“You never said you’d use a monster like that!”

The object the magician showed in the demonstration was a little flimsy, but at least it had the shape of a golem.

But that wasn’t it. People who saw that would think that a hundred out of ten, Weather made a deal with the devil.

“I don’t know! I can’t understand! No, if it’s my magic, a huge monster like that shouldn’t come out in the first place!”

“…well, if that was the case, I would have told you beforehand.”

No matter how unrealistic and incomprehensible a magician may wield, it is only one of the abilities that can be replaced, at least on the battlefield.

Huge fireballs can be countered with catapults or fire arrows. The magician’s mobility and ambush were huge advantages, but at least the impact on the battlefield was not much different.

The giant golem shows great ability at breaking the enemy lines and demoralizing them, but can be overcome with a knight capable of swordsmanship, a well-trained archer, and more soldiers.

Wizards are not omnipotent.

“It’s too big.”

The amount that the unauthorized wizard was promised was not large. Among them, some decided to solve it with ‘magic materials’, so it was not a lot of compensation to say that it was a high-class manpower.

Naturally, there were not many expectations from the wizard. But more than she had promised, that living golem was unnaturally large.

“It’s weird, it’s weird. It’s all weird…”

If he was a wizard who knew how to use such magic, of course he would have paid more for it after telling him about it.

“Stop the magic right now!”

“No. I’m trying…”

“shit!”

It’s magic that can’t even be controlled, and has grown arbitrarily.

It was embarrassing to even call it the magic of the Warlock hired by Weather anymore.

“Wait, then… Isn’t that dangerous?”

said the adjutant, sweating profusely.

“If that self-proclaimed hero falls back right away, there’s no guarantee that the monster won’t attack us…”

The eldest son frowned. His plan, which should have been sharp and effective, if not perfect, was ruined in an instant.

“I feel bad…but it’s good. Let’s retreat for now.”

It wasn’t a slow decision. Considering how time-consuming it would be to withdraw now, the eldest son’s decision was admirable.

However, while they were talking among themselves for a while, a huge living creature howled.

“Gwaaa!!!”

Uncontrolled magical energy runs amok. An evil energy spewing out of its mouth spreads around.

It soon drew a huge circle that was too wide around the monster, and a black flame rose above it.

“What’s going on! Assess the situation!”

“There are no friendly casualties! But, the way back is blocked!”

The eldest son turned around and frowned.

As if God was watching over them, no victims came out even in that enormous flow of magic power.

However, the gaze did not seem to be favorable. The moment he touches the blazing demonic flames, other soldiers will be burned or cursed.

“The power isn’t great. But…”

“Damn, damn, damn!”

The eldest son kicked the robed wizard in a fit of rage.

“I wasn’t using a warlock…”

It looked desperate, and it didn’t seem like it was using particularly dangerous magic.

I knew that uncontrollable magic was dangerous, but I felt it was worth the risk.

“No, are you asking me to believe this?”

Somehow, the monster grew larger than necessary, the golem, which was supposed to be made in the form of neat ore, attached ugly, rotting flesh, and the magi pulled out of its mouth prevented them from escaping.

“You mean all of this really happened by accident? Didn’t you betray us?”

However, the overlap of all these coincidences was something that the eldest son could not understand. Even that self-proclaimed hero who was needlessly strong right now couldn’t understand it, but bad news was overlapping bad news.

“I’m not, I mean not really…”

“Useless.”

The eldest son let out a deep sigh and watched the battle between the self-proclaimed hero and the gigantic monster.

The inside will be weak, but the minimum mass and power that comes from its size is enough. A self-proclaimed hero would be trampled to death in an instant.

However, this time, reality betrayed his expectations.