341 - Quick and Easy Blasphemy 1

341 - Quick and Easy Blasphemy 1

TL/Editor: raei

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The lowly creatures that should always look up to them were rushing in.

The walls of the imperial palace, which those who walk on the ground should not dare to covet, are crumbling.

As a result, the sacred place is defiled with dust, and the lowly creatures commit sacrilege.

"Y, you human scum—!!!"

"It's convenient that you're coming to me, really."

"Kyaaak!"

In this situation, the imperial guards charge at me with crazed eyes, but as a close-range tank, I can only welcome it.

Their bodies are much more muscular than the elite harpies, though not much larger. If harpy commanders have lean muscles like Pilates instructors, harpy guards have solid, CrossFit athlete-like physiques. Their combat method relies on that solid body, ramming into their targets.

Monsters that use their body's elasticity to throw javelins from afar, and monsters that crash into you with a charge more comparable to a car than a bull or bear, befitting their superior physique.

In terms of power, the charge is more terrifying, but... their opponent is me, a born 6★ tank.

If they kept their distance, I'd have no way to catch them, but since they're kindly rushing in, I have to meet them halfway. Thinking this, I gripped the hammer that had demolished the wall and swung it with all my might.

"Catch him! Catch that bastard!"

"Let's dice 'em up and serve 'em as food!"

The harpy guards rush in like raptors snatching prey through the dust rising from the crumbled wall. However, the future they face is not the beheading of the madman who dared to destroy the imperial palace wall, but a baptism of the vicious hammer that crushes both sharp claws and proud wings.

Reckless attacks relying on the harpy's superior body.

It was a fatal technique that no one could withstand, but now it has become a fatal technique of a different kind – one that will surely kill them.

They strike down with razor-sharp claws at arrow-like speeds, but what awaits them is merely an iron-walled tank that cannot be pierced by mere arrows. Whether their legs are crushed against the shield or shattered by the oncoming hammer, either way leads only to becoming mana stones.

"Roland! We're coming in to cover you!"

After causing a brief commotion climb over the fallen wall to provide covering fire. I've properly drawn their aggro as the close combatant who demolished the wall.

I've pulled the aggro of all the monsters, creating a completely free angle for my allies in the rear. Our party members immediately respond to this best possible outcome for a tank.

"...By the way, can an imperial palace be this desolate?"

"It's strange that there are no harpies other than the guards, isn't it?"

Beautiful columns comparable to those of temples and beautiful walls untouched by dust or grime, as if by magic. Though I'm an amateur who only knows marble as a high-grade stone, I can't help but feel that this place is more elegant and sophisticated than any tourist spot or museum.

An empty imperial palace with no people, harpies, or stone dwarves. Hanna, who was illuminating the minimap, takes the lead again with no harpy soldiers blocking our way.

As a result, the imperial palace that looked beautiful began to feel eerie. Suddenly, a monster appeared blocking our path-

"...What? Why is that thing here?"

"As expected, are they crawling out from under the imperial palace?!"

A gooey creature extending long tentacles like antennae, slowly dissolving and eating away at the engraved pillars. It seems to have grown quite a bit, as the pillar debris falls to the floor with a plop, then floats up and is absorbed into the creature's body.

It's really strange that these gooey creatures crawled out from inside the imperial palace while the guards were protecting the walls... but anyway, having that monster right in front of us means the quest has progressed somehow.

Even if it can dissolve and eat stone, it can't instantly dissolve my armor. As I walk up and smash it with my hammer, it dies without even reacting, crushed with a splat.

The remains scatter like dropping soft pudding or tofu, sticking to my armor with a plop, but soon disappear leaving only mana stones behind.

"What kind of situation is this...?"

"Hey, this is fishy... Don't tell me there are two bosses? This reminds me of that Souls-like game I played as a punishment before starting Heroes Chronicle."

The situation was hopelessly easy to deal with, but it clearly seemed to use magic. With a monster that dissolves and eats pillars in the middle of the harpy imperial palace, my companions each throw out a comment.

However, no matter how plausible the speculation, we ultimately have to check for ourselves. As we move in the direction Hanna estimates based on the shape of the imperial palace revealed on the minimap, a grand hall appears before us.

......Empty.

"Uh, I guess it's not this way. ......Ahaha, sorry?"

"Looking at the pillars, this seems to be like a banquet hall? Maybe the magic engraved on these pillars confused you."

"Th-that, um, er, right!"

-You'd be in trouble if you went based on the mini-map alone, that hall looked like the palace entrance.

-That's why her maze escape horror game videos are unusually long.

-Lol you trusted Han Se-ah? Go watch her hide-and-seek horror game videos and come back, lol.

-Our little brat has grown up. Protecting Han Se-ah...