Chapter 157

Killed 20 guards in a makeshift detention center.

What did that mean? It’s not that difficult as long as you’ve reached Expert. It was a problem when they gathered all at once, but if ordinary soldiers attacked separately, they could never defeat Aura users. Above all, that level of strength was insignificant to those who had lived by seeing soldiers swept away like fallen leaves in front of the demons fighting on the battlefield.

If I had believed that all the guards had been decapitated in one blow, I would have thought a little differently, but they did not.

beat the warrior

After all, he was nothing more than a child who was cared for and raised by the Empire. Even if an oracle comes down and you are called a warrior, you are still a human unless you split the earth and tear the sky alone. Judging from the rumors that were heard, it was nothing more than a pure idiot, so in the end, it only gave a lot of meaning to the fight of the little boys. If the hero had been perfected enough to be put on the battlefield in the first place, the empire wouldn’t have been able to stand still.

They would have thought differently if they had been more careful, escaping from the easygoing idea that warriors are just symbols, but they couldn’t do that either.

He saved the princess from a series of incidents at the academy.

Wasn’t it just a matter of knocking out the princess who was about to be thrown through the gate and entering instead? The courage to sacrifice oneself to save a nobleman is imaginary, but it has nothing to do with skill. Even the demons who appeared at that time were said to have been beaten up by the 1st princess’s bodyguards, so the level would not have been too bad.

Everyone thought and judged it that way. As always, rumors tend to inflate. Even though Eldmia Ega also has extraordinary skills, in the end it’s just an exaggerated rumor.

If the princess had traveled all the way to the kingdom to find him, and had known how the dead demons appeared to the royal guards, they would never have thought so, but they lacked information, and they couldn’t.

The top priority order to kill it and the addition of six experts who had experience in the war against the demons were probably just to make sure the work was done.

Having experienced the Demon King’s army, they were well aware of the realities of the kingdom and the limitations of humans. Even though heroes who transcended the Ark were appearing everywhere, they were emitting so much aura and mana that they could be seen even from a distance.

Combining all that information and experience, they concluded.

They said that going to Eldmia would never pose a physical threat.

And now he was paying the price for believing in wrong conclusions and moving.

‘how?!’

The first question that came to mind crossed the minds of the remaining five knights, but none of them raised a voice. Because I had to make a quick decision at the time to speak.

Although he was careless, the speed was outside the standard. However, it was a skill that could be seen more often than expected on the battlefield.

Someone who noticed that it was a double acceleration used by talented people who knew how to show strange talents shouted.

“Double acceleration! Catch up!”

“I’m in! Cover!”

Obviously, double acceleration is a mysterious feat, but it is meaningless if there is no distance. Above all, it is more like a feat that comes from the difference in aura handling skills, not a high-level skill that can be used only when you reach a higher level. The battlegrounds they had fought were different, but those who had experienced the battlefield clearly recognized that fact and fixed their swords for a full-fledged siege.

It was a painful mistake to allow a surprise attack in front of their eyes, but there is no second time.

Chances are, after mixing the swords for the first time. Attack and counterattack aim for the momentary gap, dig in and kill at once. This was the most confident pincer attack without exchanging opinions.

However, when they started to charge, what I saw was the afterimage of Eldmia’s sword shining and the image of a comrade with a sword stuck in his throat.

“Kukkuk, gaug!”

You can’t fall back already.

So, they quickly thought about Eldmia, who was staring at them while retrieving the shining sword blade, and the dying comrade, coughing up blood as they ran forward.

To understand what the heck happened.

The Count wasn’t just trying to clear the obstacles in front of him quickly, nor was he underestimating them. Since it was an unknown enemy, he hurriedly chose the best available force.

It’s just that even the best option misestimated the enemy’s strength.

“...Damn it.”

However, the two did not resent the Count. It would be more like a psychopath to always assume that there is a 15-year-old boy who unilaterally slashes and kills six expert-class knights. They didn’t trust a lunatic and join the rebellion.

It’s ridiculous that a normal sense of reality is the cause of defeat, so I’m rather calm.

“If I surrender, will you save me?”

“No. I don’t need any proof anymore.”

Eldmia erased the sneer while handing down the unilateral death sentence, and corrected her stance. And the two people who looked at it fixed their swords with the same thought, even though they did not exchange any opinions.

“After running away from the monsters on the battlefield, you are eventually killed by the monsters.”

“It’s a monster. It’s definitely a human.”

With an annoyed retort, Eldmia rushed.

The last remaining knight swung his sword as he watched his colleague’s head fall off due to the double acceleration that he had predicted but failed to respond.

‘It’s really art.’

The impression that the sword that shed, entwined, and dug into was like magic, and finally the knight’s severed head bounced off the wall.

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Unlike those who died in front, the two remaining at the end definitely accepted death at the end.

like delt. Thanks to that, I think I learned that the attitude to accept death has nothing to do with strength, so if it’s an income in its own way, it’s income.

“It’s a battlefield. Are you a deserter or a returned soldier?”

Judging from the fact that they said they ran away from the monsters, it seems that they were the ones who went through a war with the demon king’s army. And that means it’s safe to say that they couldn’t survive the battle against the demons with their skills.

However, even after returning for that reason, the fact that he participated in Count Bossa’s rebellion and even assisted the rebellion by assassinating him arouses my doubts. For what? Does a successful rebellion end the war? Is there going to be a situation where you don’t have to be hostile to the demons because there’s something like Count Bossa holding hands with the demons?

“How do you think it’s right?”

This war is not like a territorial war that humans started because they wanted to. Not only is species against species, but one species fights against many species. And the crazy guy in the fight is currently a demon.

As long as this side does not crawl under the demons on its own, the war will not end even if the king changes.

When dealing with the crazy demon who was cursed, there must have been humans in the demon king’s army... Surrender would be a sufficiently possible option. It wasn’t like a twisted Nether human or a polluted human, it was because they were really normal human beings.

Then, in the end, it is said that it is no different from the war of conquest, but why did God go down to the oracle and tell him to drive out the demon king?

“Even if I were to be reborn, I was reborn at a crazy time like this... I’m not in a position to say anything because being born again is a privilege.”

Even if you think about it in a state where you don’t know anything, there’s no way an answer will come out. I rummaged through their pockets to get the money, wiped the sword with a clean piece of clothing, and left the alley.

I had already stopped by Zicmel’s shop to check information about this alley, so I wasn’t particularly worried about being caught as a corpse. Whatever the case may be, what they were wearing was high quality, so the residents over there, no different from the slums, would take care of it.

In fact, it doesn’t matter even if you get caught.

It’s important that Count Bossa directly touched me.