Chapter 170

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Meanwhile, things weren’t much better on the side where Frintz, Raywin, and Hilde were tied together.

“Are you okay?”

“Are you okay?”

“What? Ah, yes......!”

As exemplary knights, Frintz and Raywin took care of Hilde first.

Polite hands were extended to her from both sides as she lost her balance and fell on her buttocks.

“I-It’s okay......”

Hilde lowered her head and stood up on her own without holding anyone’s hand. She was used to it.

Frintz and Raywin withdrew their hands, unconcerned. For now, exploring their surroundings was more important.

“This is bad, it looks like we’ve come quite a ways upstairs.”

“The higher we go, the stronger the demons that come out of the room will become.”

Their location was in the middle of the hallway. They weren’t thrown into a middle boss room like Romina’s party.

Frintz suggested.

“It would be better to wait in the hallway to join our allies rather than entering the mid-boss room by ourselves. What do you think, Sir Raywin, White Wizard?”

“I think that would be a good idea, Mr.Frintz.”

“I agree......”

However, people’s affairs, especially those who brave a dungeon, rarely went as planned.

Durururu!

The Castle of Mirrors did not allow guests to linger too long in the hallways. The walls on both sides began to close in on them and if they stayed still like this, they would be crushed flat.

Raywin let out a frustrated voice.

“It looks like the dungeon owner doesn’t want to allow it.”

“Run, White Wizard!”

“Y-yes!”

Frintz and Raywin grabbed Hilde and started running.

Walls were closing in from left and right. The entire hallway was like that. So, as they continued to run in search of a safe place, the three reached the end of the corridor.

Durururu!

As if on cue, the door swung open and swallowed them whole.

“Huh, huff, huff......”

Hilde, who had weak physical strength, collapsed from exhaustion.

Clutching her heart, which threatened to explode, she tried to catch her breath and suddenly felt a shadow fall over her.

When she raised her head, she saw Frintz and Raywin standing in front of her.

“Knights......?”

The two young men stared straight ahead, swords drawn, tension radiating from their straight backs.

Only then did Hilde remember that the place they had taken refuge in was the mid-boss room.

“I can’t believe you came all the way here. Annoying things.”

A woman’s voice coldly pierced the ears like an ice dagger.

Hilde looked at the owner of the voice in fear.

It was a red-haired woman dressed in black leather that highlighted her voluptuous body.

She had goat horns on both sides of her head, bat wings on her back, and a devil’s tail, which gave away her identity.

“I am the Succubus Queen, Lilith.”

Shwuinng!

A huge black scythe made a terrifying sound while splitting the air. Lilith held a weapon larger than her body with one hand, aimed it at the three, and coldly declared.

“I will not allow anyone to approach Lord Anaxia any further.”

Cold sweat ran down from Frintz’s and Raywin’s necks due to the power that Lilith exuded.

The two talked softly while looking ahead.

“Looks like it’s going to be a tough fight.”

“I suppose so.”

To be honest, it was an enemy where the outcome of the battle was obvious.

Nevertheless, neither man said a negative word. They did, however, have their regrets.

“If I’d known we’d be fighting such a major battle together, I would have done a lot of work together in advance.”

“Right, I don’t know what we’ve been doing for 6 years.”

The two laughed bitterly.

“Yes, it’s impossible to handle that demon’s strength alone.”

Lilith lifted her chin.

“Aren’t you coming? Then I’ll go.”

TAK!

Lilith vanished in the air with a new output of speed. The very next moment, she was right in front of them.

Kaaaaang!

Frintz and Raywin raised their swords together to block Lilith’s scythe. Even though the merciless power was distributed between two swords, it left a tingling sensation in their wrists.

Lilith swung her scythe at an incredible speed and rushed at the two.

There was no end to the sparks and metal screeches, it was a frenzied series of attacks.

Both men moved like longtime comrades-in-arms, parrying Lilith’s attacks in unison. This was possible because each person acted according to the other’s expectations.

It was a pairing that even Lilith was secretly impressed with.

But that was the limit.

Lilith let out a maniacal sneer.

“Hahaha! What if it’s 2 to 1? What about a counterattack? You’re not going to fight back?”

“Tsk.”

“Ugh.”

“Two against one and that’s all you can do? How long are you going to keep blocking me, HANG?!”

They didn’t even have time to reply, as Frintz and Raywin’s faces were already showing signs of exhaustion.

Lilith’s excitement grew at the one-sided offensive. Matching her mood, the trajectory of her scythe’s swing grew, and the power of her attacks also increased.

Blow by blow, the difficulty was increasing nonstop. Pushed relentlessly, they both knew their limit was coming.

Frintz glanced at Hilde.

‘Ah.’

That was the moment Hilde understood the signal.

“Insignificant things! Die!”

Swiiish!

Lilith slashed her scythe vertically with all the power she could muster, with the intent to smash everything to pieces.

Kaaaang!

It was so loud it made even the skull tingle.

Bruru.

She could feel the arms of the two humans ungainly twitching through the sickle’s pole.

Lilith was about to scoff at the men who were struggling just because she’d only added a little strength.

But the next moment, she had to open her eyes to an unexpected situation.

“What?!”

There was only one sword blocking her scythe. The other was a scabbard. And the owner of the arm holding it was the same as the owner of the sword.

Frintz was single-handedly fending off Lilith’s attacks with his sword and scabbard and the moment Lilith noticed that.

“Raywin!”

Frintz called out at the top of his lungs and the called one responded instantly.

Raywin slipped under her scythe and burrowed into Lilith.

“You......!”

Lilith was currently in a strength match with Frintz, so she was defenseless. Taking the chance, Raywin’s sword cut Lilith with all his might.

Kwaaaaang!

The explosive aura threw Lilith off into the wall far behind.

A cloud of dust created by the remains of the collapsed wall covered half of the room.

Frintz and Raywin, exhausted from their earlier joint effort, glared forward, gasping for air.

‘Did it work?’

It was a direct surprise attack. Of course, the three of them had given it their all, not only Frintz and Raywin but also Hilde, who focused her healing on the tank.

But.

“Oh, what should I do?”

“......!”

As the dust cloud lifted, the darkness of the silhouette fell off.

Lilith lifted herself up from the floor with her sickle, showing off her robustness by leisurely swiping her long red hair behind her.

“I’m fine.”

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