Chapter 271

Chapter 271

TL: xLordFifth

ED: Chapter Unedited

“Hoo...... Is that really true?”

“That’s right. By now, commander Burke will be leading the army towards Marching Plains.”

Leeha reported what happened in Dike Beach. Granville nodded his head with an impressed expression.

“Not only defending Dike Beach but also making strategic decisions.... You are indeed the captain of Byeolcho Special Force.”

“You’re overpraising me. Even if I hadn’t told him, commander Burke would have still done it. He seemed very close to the commander-in-chief.”

As Leeha smiled wryly, Granville understood his meaning. If they were not close enough, how could someone make fun of the commander-in-chief and call him old man? And what was the relationship between the two NPCs?

“Okay. Then we will retreat further as soon as the sun rises.”

“Yes. Perhaps the enemy intended to follow us with troops from Faust and Crowley and Marching Plain. Now it’s the opposite. With them in the middle, Burke and our army could do a pincer attack.”

Of course, there was a problem with the marching time, but Leeha believed in Burke.

Burke won’t run out of time, even if it’s a night march. They will definitely be here in two days, maybe three days at the latest.

“It was hard. Let everyone go back and rest.”

Granville nodded and let everyone leave.

Except for a few NPCs, all the users came out and gave Leeha a word of thanks.

The truce signed with Kraven certainly had a different weight than the Rising Sun or Hwahong vs Byeolcho Alliance. The guild masters of the large guilds who participated in this war also looked at the text clearly.

Besides, what did they look like?

As soon as they saw the phrase, the gold dragon turned around! In fact, the presence of the person who made Alexander, the number one in the ranking, give up was clearly engraved.

“To be truce agreement deputy, I was genuinely surprised.”

“Aigoo, it was nothing. I was just lucky.”

“If you don’t have a guild yet, come join our rush-”

“W-what are you talking about, Ron-nim! Leeha-hyung is actually a member of Byeolcho!”

Ron secretly suggested Leeha to join their guild, but he smiled and stroked his mustache.

“It’s a joke, it’s a joke.”

However, he couldn’t hide the sad exexpression on his face. At the end of the greetings, a black-haired man covered in darkness approached Leeha.

“How are you going to take responsibility?”

“Huh? What? What are you talking about, Lee Jiwon-ssi?”

“How are you going to take responsibility? I missed Alexander because of you!”

“B-because of me? Didn’t he come and leave?”

“What! I used the ‘method’ that Leeha-nim taught me! Anyway, I was able to get it! I was able to do it! What will you do when he shows up again!”

“Ah...”

He caught a glimpse of it in the midst of the chaos. Fibiel’s elites joined forces to stop Alexander.

To borrow Kijeong’s words, a ‘Bif Frog’ bit the gold dragon’s chest, and at that point, Leeha’s truce notice was displayed, and Alexander was said to have turned his tail and fled.

And Leeha could roughly guess what that ‘Big Frog’ is.

‘Soul Mate. He used the Soul Link skill. Anything to neutralize the gold dragon would be huge. No, that’s not the problem. The problem is...”

Most of them thought that Alexander turned back because of Leeha’s performance, but Leeha did not see it that way. He must have retreated because Lee Jiwon’s attack was truly fatal.

Therefore, he knew why Lee Jiwon was making a fuss. It was a skill that could not be used consecutively.

“How many hours do you have left?”

“How many hours! I can’t use the skill for a while! There are 22 hours left!”

Its cooldown was 24 hours. Until tomorrow evening? What if Alexander appeared before them?

‘As expected, according to Kijeong ‘it was a fight between a human and ants’, is it possible to stop that Alexander?’

It’s not possible.

Lee Jiwon made a fuss with a sullen expression. It was also one of the secret moves that he had been hiding. Even if the cooldown ends, Alexander and the gold dragon Bailephus were unlikely to get caught again.

“Does Alexander know?”

“How could that arrogant bastard know? But that dragonfly bastard beside him should have told him that was nothing more than a cheat. After all, it is a real cheat.”

Lee Jiwon sighed.

How regretful was he that he missed his long-awaited chance to kill Alexander? However, compared to his usual words and deeds, Lee Jiwon’s murmuring at Leeha was very weak.

‘Tsk, I’m sure this person is great. Maybe there’s another way.’

“We couldn’t see, where are we going to retreat?”

“I don’t know. Are you telling us to recklessly go to Marching Plains, how could we go in the middle of the night?”

“Hey, it’s better than getting burned to death. Have you seen Alexander? He was great.”

“Is he that great?! I’d rather log out before joining the Minis campaign. He was that strong. I can’t vainly die.”

“Still, you have recovered a lot of your contribution, right? Now, just by surviving, you also get a contribution.”

“Damn it, if it wasn’t for that quest, I would have already left.”

Fibiel’s users grumbled as they walked through the dark night. In the previous battle, the numbers of both Fibiel and Minis’ troops decreased considerably, but they still had a large army of over 1 million.

With the Minis’ capital on the horizon, Granville gave a quest different from usual. Instead of attacking for a few days or killing people, they have been rewarded contributions by surviving every day!

It was a mouth-watering reward system for users who had negative contribution points due to several failed quests. In addition, the time in real life and the time in Middle Earth are different, so the longer they log in, the more they could reduce the negative contribution.

In other words, logging out was unthinkable. Of course, all of this was Middle Earth’s way of creating a grand and epic battlefield...

As expected, Middle Earth was well-versed in how to deal with users.

And the elite users who formed the raid were hiding in various places in the Fibiel Formation, retreating to the Marching Plains.

Alexander was not an enemy that moved on the ground. Being vigilant would not catch his movement.

“Is he really coming, hyung?”

“Yes. Certainly. There’s also the attempt to assassinate the commander, Granville. There’s no way someone who thought like that would let the opportunity pass.”

“Well, I guess you’re right.”

“Why? Are you afraid?”

“Me, scared? H-Hyung, you haven’t met Alexander, have you?”

“Not yet.”

“He’s scary.... Can I say it’s scary??”

Kijeong unconsciously put strength into the hand holding his shield. Seeing his dongsaeng’s different state of tension than usual, Leeha also felt a chill in his back.

All the Byeolcho members around Kijeong agreed with his words, even Biyemi.

“The really scary thing is that the fear was taken for granted.”

“What?”

“The thought that I was terrified, that he was stronger than me, and that I was going to die so naturally that I didn’t have the heart to resist. I mean.”

“Are you really Kijeong?”

A tank that always blocks the enemy’s attacks in front. It meant that even Kijeong, who has raised his shield facing countless enemies in the past, felt uncontrollable fear.

“......But it’s okay. Because I experienced it once. Flame strike, well, it’s not a big deal. I can block up to three shots.”

“Kiskis, of the fifteen magic shots.”

Biyemi smiled at Kijeong’s words. It was what he saw anyway.

The gold dragon Bailephus would be able to cast 15 flame strikes 20 times in a row.

The mood brightened for a moment by mixing Biyemi’s jokes with Kijeong’s self-assuring words.

“Aw, hey, isn’t it really scary for Byeolcho Special force to say things like that?”

“Huhuk, it’s okay. Eong-ah doesn’t need to worry about it.”

Kijeong paused for a moment and looked down.

“Isn’t hyung going to do something again? Isn’t that what you talked about with commander-in-chief Granville, Kidd, and Lee Jiwon?”

“Oh, well....... We talked about the strategy, but-”

“Okay, then. Even if I die, I will protect you.”

“Kijeong-ah...”

Kijeong’s words were simple. However, Leeha understood because they were family. The weight of his resolve.

“Isn’t that the mission originally given to Byeolcho Special force, Leeha-kun? If Alexander came over there, Leeha-kun came to us. This time, I won’t be hit as recklessly as before.”

“Kiskis, whatever Halihali-nim does, I will have to run with you in my arms. Because you’re still slower than me, who is a magician.”

Their belief in Leeha was buried in Tale and Biyemi’s words

The mission of the Byeolcho Special force was to protect Leeha.

He felt that heavy expectations were being put on him, so he felt burdened, but he wasn’t tactless enough to show it.

‘To the point that people say... Alexander is great.”

No other thoughts were needed. Most importantly, he needed to think. It’s his job to figure out a way to deal with that person.

The sniper only looks at the target.