episode_0029

King of insects, Balkan is a smart man.

Having lived for over a hundred years, I have had many experiences.

Thanks to this, I had a very good understanding of what my weaknesses were.

He also knows very well that his own body is his weakest point.

That is why he had several means of protecting his body from the outside.

Horibong, paralyzing poison, dimensional bug, summoned beasts, etc…

In short, no matter how much you target the weak point of the main body, there is bound to be some degree of difficulty.

‘Ugh···.’

I wasn’t ignoring it, but experiencing it firsthand definitely made me feel a little annoyed.

It’s really annoying that I can’t ring the bell properly even when I approach.

‘···That’s okay.’

I forced myself to control my anxiety.

Time is on the other side, but that doesn’t mean there’s any reason to be anxious.

Let’s just take it easy and cut this guy down.

Let’s chip away at it and chip away at it to somehow make it work.

That’s my primary goal for now.

That’s when I was thinking about it.

“Pierce through.”

Suddenly the guy muttered something. Then purple magic circles started to appear all around me.

It’s a pattern we’ve seen countless times in games.

I moved my body before I could even think.

Immediately afterwards, numerous thorns sprouted where I was standing.

Each thorn was as big as my thigh. Surprisingly, all of those thorns were some kind of bug.

‘Dimensional thorn bug.’

The greatest masterpiece created by King Chung, and like guards who always protect his fragile body.

Those who are covered in dimensional magic usually hide in the cracks of space, and when he calls, they pull their weapons out of space.

Fortunately, it is not poisonous, but you always have to be careful because you never know when or where it might pop out.

“Wow, you avoided that. How did you know?”

I ignored what the guy said and rushed straight at him.

As I swing the holy sword down again, another bio-energy appears on the guy’s arm.

Now, more than five minutes into the fight, the guy had quite a bit of bio-organisms on his arms.

But there wasn’t a single fatal wound.

“Hehe, this is really good. This warrior party is really fun to fight in. They say the previous warriors were really trash… I guess I picked the right ones this time?”

“I always think about this, but you talk too much. Can’t you just shut up and fight?”

Still, it was a wound, and it must have been quite painful. But the guy was still smiling leisurely.

I guess it’s still doable.

“You seem quite impatient, warrior. You must know that time is not on your side, right?”

I suddenly looked behind me.

Adele and Camilla are seen steadily slaughtering monsters. Perhaps because they have become accustomed to insect-type monsters, their slaughter speed is quite fast.

Even so, I couldn’t beat the speed of the monsters coming out of the summoning circle.

“Try hard. In the end, I will be the one standing last.”

Balkan stretches out both hands and begins to make a hand sign.

For a moment, an ominous magic wavered in his hand, and then two more purple magic circles appeared.

It was a magic circle similar to the monster summoning circle he had drawn earlier.

Immediately afterwards, monsters began pouring out from the magic circle he had drawn.

Sand worms with acidic skin, 1m long bean bugs with thorns all over their bodies.

Camilla sees that and starts cursing.

“Damn it! It’s never ending!”

“Yulis! I need additional support. This won’t work!”

Balkan burst into laughter when he saw that.

“I feel it. I feel it. My children are gradually being driven here. You are destined to be trampled to death by them in the end.”

“No matter how many people flock in.”

He grabbed the sword.

As the saint’s prayer ended, another light began to leak out from the holy sword.

[The ‘Flames of Judgement’ permeate the sword!]

[Your blade will become a flame that destroys evil.]

One of the saint’s buffs.

She can inflict additional damage against the enemy she designates.

“I’ll just slaughter you before that.”

Accelerates blood flow to the max.

My heart pounding like crazy gave me a sense of elation.

Accelerated blood flow has allowed me to do more than I thought.

It not only increases strength and speed, but also increases the circulation speed of magical power.

And that magic power can be used again to strengthen the body.

Swish!

Gather power in your legs as if you were burning fuel. Immerse every muscle fiber in your legs in power.

When my muscles had contracted to their limit, I rushed at him again.

Pfft!

A speed on a whole other level than before!

It was an attack that targeted the guy’s carelessness, as he had roughly adapted to my speed.

“What?”

The guy couldn’t help but be flustered by my suddenly increased speed.

I just put down my sword.

“Keuheukk···!”

For a moment, the guy’s face frowns.

I sliced the shoulder of my black guy, who had received an additional buff, horizontally. The guy’s crimson blood spread out in a wide fan shape.

A blow that is almost serious.

I won’t be able to smile as leisurely as I did before.

“It’s so thrilling.”

“That bastard···.”

The subsequent confrontation continued in the same manner.

When I rush in and try to hurt him, he uses all kinds of tools to stop me.

Sometimes it hurt, and sometimes it blocked.

[I’m addicted to paralyzing poison!]

Indeed, as the guy is a skilled person, his response methods have gradually increased.

[The paralyzing poison has been neutralized!]

Still, I believed in the skills I had built up and charged forward.

A few more minutes passed like that.

There were numerous wounds on the guy’s body, and I also secretly consumed a lot of magical power.

Sigh··· Sigh···.

In the audience room, the guy’s and my breathing intersect.

It was during that time that the guy started laughing again.

“K, keuhehe···.”

It was quite rough and out of breath, but there was definitely a sense of leisure in the laugh.

“It’s over now.”

“······.”

I stopped my sword for a moment and looked around.

Booo!

At some point, the sound of wings flapping could be heard from various places in the passageway leading to the audience room.

As if the soldiers sensed the king’s danger and rushed to protect him. The sound of their wings flapping was extremely urgent and strong.

After a flight of about ten minutes, his forces finally gather here.

It also meant that the situation that had been barely maintained until now was overturned in an instant.

“It’s been fun so far, warrior. You will definitely be recorded in history books as having died a heroic death. Don’t worry. I will tell my historians well and have them write it down in a beautiful style.”

I didn’t bother to respond, and instead looked elsewhere this time. In the midst of the fierce battle, I saw a woman standing alone, reciting a spell.

Lily Spencer Beatrice.

Our team’s magician, a brat with the strongest attack power. She was gathering all the magical power in her body, with her red hair fluttering.

As the immense magical power gathered in one place, the ground shook with its presence. Lily, who had been reciting the spell for a long time, suddenly opened her eyes and let out a word.

“Blow out.”

At that moment.

Quagaga River!!

Her condensed magical power swayed in all directions.

The surging magical power settled on dozens of passageways and then exploded, collapsing the passageways.

“Hya···.”

So what’s left are dozens of clogged passageways and Lily’s bashful face.

That guy always said he wanted to blow it up, and now he’s finally getting his wish.

I snickered at the sight of Balkan’s dazed face.

That pile of rocks won’t keep the bugs out forever.

There are many monsters on the other side that can be called monsters.

but.

“I got another 5 minutes with this.”

I think I can handle that much.

And five minutes is more than enough time to do whatever you want.

In real time, King Chung’s face began to rot away.

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Maybe because I had managed to shave it off for about 10 minutes, I was able to pressure the guy a bit more easily for the next 5 minutes.

Trust in the saint’s buff and pressure the guy somehow.

As the holy sword was drawn forward, serious wounds gradually piled up on the guy’s body.

Eventually, most of the bandages wrapped around his body were cut off, finally revealing his hidden body.

“That bastard···.”

Skin reminiscent of a dead tree, like rotten old wood.

Pieces of skin stuck to the bones with little flesh.

And all kinds of bugs crawling on it.

It felt like looking at a half-rotten corpse, almost in the process of decay.

Among them, the eyes are shining ominously, giving off an incredibly strange feeling.

A monster who was so obsessed with black magic that he even sacrificed parts of his own body.

He was more like a Lich than a human being.

“I admit it. You’ve been preparing very hard to catch me.”

The guy opened his mouth.

A creepy, scraping sound like metal echoes through the air.

Even though it was clear that he was in a very difficult situation, there was still no sense of urgency in his voice.

It is not always possible to maintain composure with a rational mind that has reached a certain level.

It’s just that there is still a corner of me that believes in it.

“It’s been decades since I’ve used this technology···.”

The guy mutters for a moment, his eyes lost in memory.

Then he started wrapping the body in bandages again.

The torn bandages scattered here and there wrap around the guy’s body.

Soon his skin was covered with bandages again, and he ‘frozen.’

It was literal. The guy who had been fighting just a moment ago was frozen in place.

I hurriedly raised my sword and tried to rush towards Vulcan, but the thing he had prepared was activated quickly.

Quagagagagak!

As if guarding a king, thorns spring up around him.

They were the thorns of the dimensional thorn bug that had been terribly tormenting me until just now.

This time, he intends to use his bodyguards for defense, not offense.

And that’s not all. Chitinous gloves, the tough skin of sandworms, etc.

Various defensive parts surround him.

I swung my sword just in case.

I wonder if this will be cut.

Thud!

But all I could hear was the hollow sound of something hard being hit. The guy’s bio-shield was only scratched, but his main body remained untouched.

Tsk, I clicked my tongue once.

‘It’s started.’

The guy’s only survival story.

Molting.

Anyone who enters here will be unable to move for a while, but will recover from their wounds inside.

And now I have to destroy that barrier before the guy fully recovers.

“Phew.”

Now that I think about it again, he really was a very annoying guy in many ways.