Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 181



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Episode 181 Devil in the Mist (3)

“run! “Run!”

“I can beat you if I just get over the hill!”

“Fuck, what the hell is that… … .”

The three Georg knights were running out of breath. It was a day when the rain had stopped for a long time, but the sky was still hazy, and the fog tangled around my body as if I was underwater. Breathing in the air that threatened to drown, the knights ran, sometimes crawled, trying to escape the pursuing monster.

After Aldeon’s army scattered its troops and began to advance, Georg’s knights were confused by this tactic, but quickly adapted. They realized that if they attack well together, they can be defeated individually.

Gathering troops in one place is the basis of military strategy. Georg’s knights laughed at the stupidity of Aldeon’s army and rallied their troops again to attack.

The first few times I had fun destroying small enemy squads. However, as the attack was repeated, the damage increased more than expected several times, and I noticed a strange feeling. At the same time, strange rumors circulated through the mouths of the surviving knights.

They say a devil appeared in the fog and rain.

“Wait, Hilton, what about Hilton?”

“I was caught earlier and died! “Just go for a run!”

They were ashamed of their defeat and laughed at the knight, saying he was making up false rumors, but as the size of the unit began to wear down, the rumors grew bigger and bigger. There were an increasing number of knights who went for surprise attacks not returning, and the remaining knights of Georg could only look at the forest filled with fog and rain with eyes filled with fear.

Aldeon County is scattered with a density as thin as fog. On the other hand, they are well-refined swords. Even though it was clear that they could be cut as easily as a piece of paper, they simply could not jump into the fog.

Georg’s knights, whose morale was at its lowest, had no choice but to give up all checks and return to Elion Fortress.

If the enemy is a giant with a clear shape, you can grit your teeth and fight until you die.

However, it is impossible to win in a fight with fog or ghosts.

“little bit more… … .”

However, there were also knights who were so sick of an unknown fog that they could not tolerate running away. They had never encountered a devil or anything like that before, so they aimed for one knight with the intention of raising their final major before retreating.

A knight wandering alone in the fog and rain.

And they met the devil.

“arrived! I lived! As soon as I’m here… … .”

The knight took a breath and looked back. But all I could see behind me was a pure white mist like drawing paper. None of his colleagues who were running out of breath with him just moments ago were visible. The knight realized that the fog had swallowed his companions one by one without a sound.

And finally, his turn came.

Jeez. A person’s silhouette slowly appeared beyond the fog. He was a calm-looking knight, not much different from when I first met him.

“I heard that I could live if I came here, so I thought there was something, but there’s nothing, right?”

***

Georg Knight held his sword hysterically and waved it. Rather than a determination to fight the opponent, it was more like a cornered rat going crazy.

But the act itself gave him a subtle sense of calm.

It was an unconscious act, but when I made up my mind to die, the miracle of Elil took place.

Isaac looked at the knight and opened his mouth.

“There is both good news and bad news.”

“Good, good news?”

The driver caught his breath at the sudden remark. He seemed more surprised by the fact that Isaac was a person he could communicate with than by the content of what he said. When he realized that he was the person he could communicate with, his fear disappeared, and only later did he realize that the other person was the Holy Grail Knight.

“Holy Grail, it was the Holy Grail Knight! It wasn’t the devil. “But what, what do you mean?”

“Which of the two do you want to hear first?”

Georg Knight hesitated and then opened his mouth.

“Starting with the bad news.”

“I hear you are going to die soon.”

Georg Knight closed his eyes tightly.

“… … “What’s the good news?”

“Luckily you will die very quickly.”

hook. Isaac’s sword moved and instantly pierced Knight Georg’s neck. Georg Knight looked at Isaac with his eyes wide open and then slowly collapsed.

I was sorry that I had to make fun of the end of my life, but it was a necessary process.

‘What is Elil?’

Resistance to the death, non-retirement, life and death… … Anyway, the Elil knights who enter that state demonstrate miraculous powers. There have been several instances in history where the knight of Elil, who had lost consciousness on the battlefield, achieved such unbelievable feats.

The knight just moments ago was also in that state for a moment.

Breaking the so-called ‘die-hard resistance’ was simple. All you have to do is make the situation you are in as if it is not a combat situation that does not require Elil’s miracle, or make yourself give up the fight.

Isaac carried on with the work he had been doing before leaving the knight’s body behind. It was something he did every time he had a body. Just as he was about to bend down, he felt someone’s presence and raised his head. Someone was looking at him from beyond the fog.

At that time, Isaac remembered the knights he had been chasing talking about, saying, ‘If you just get this far, you can live.’

Even though there was nothing there when they arrived and they couldn’t live, Isaac instinctively realized that.

The corner they believed in was right there.

‘If you look at the silhouette, it looks like a female knight.’

The two, assessing each other’s appearance beyond the fog, moved at the same time. Isaac tried to jump forward, but his instincts snapped his neck. A sharp sound passed right next to my throat. Isaac, who managed to avoid having his neck pierced by twisting his head in the nick of time, dug into his opponent’s gap despite being surprised.

The other person seemed just as surprised as Isaac, but immediately stepped back and kicked up his knee. Isaac parried his knee kick with his elbow and thrust his sword towards his opponent’s abdomen. Although it was a reasonable distance to pierce, the female knight put the sword between her armpits and attempted to snatch Isaac’s sword.

I felt pain as if my palm was burning.

The female knight, who had relatively free hands, struck Isaac in the face. However, Isaac pushed back and broke the female knight’s balance. The female knight retreated dozens of steps to the ground, looking as if she would collapse at any moment.

Isaac was already using his sword technique. However, because his opponent was also using sword techniques, he could not inflict any damage. At this point, I could immediately realize who the other person was.

Isaac heated up the key to Ruad Din. He reasoned that if he scorched himself with fire, he would have no choice but to let go of the knife.

However, the Ruad Din key did not generate as much heat as expected.

Isaac belatedly remembered the abilities his opponent had.

“Tsk!”

I felt pain as if my lungs were freezing, as if fighting the heat of the Ruad Din key.

bang. Realizing that further fighting would only lead to self-destruction, the two simultaneously let go of each other. The resident here glared at Isaac as she traced the side of her blackened and shattered armor, and he played with her battered face and let out a series of coughs.

“Cluck, clack. Whoosh, whoosh… … It’s not an easy opponent either. Lyanna Georg.”

“It’s even more amazing than I heard. “Holy Grail Knight.”

Lyanna Georg, the general of Georg’s rebel army and one of the sword masters of the Elil Kingdom, stared at Isaac with cold eyes.

She felt the wound on her side to see if it was sore, but unfortunately it didn’t seem to be a big wound. On the other hand, Isaac thought that the current climate and environment were too favorable for Lyanna.

‘Was Lyanna’s ability a flashy and anomalous swordsmanship based on cold…? … .’

The sword she is holding now is probably Lumiad, one of Elil’s holy swords. The coldness of Lumiad that Lyanna showed off based on her sword skills was both splendid and violent.

Since the Sword Master, who already possesses excellent swordsmanship, wields a holy sword that emits miracles without limit, it is bound to be difficult to deal with him.

Especially when wielding the Lumiad in such a dense fog, the opponent had no choice but to fight while suffering pain as if their lungs were going to explode just by breathing.

Whoosh, whoosh! At that moment, Lyanna struck down the arrow that flew through her fog without even looking at it. The arrow returned to the same spot it flew from without even slowing down.

Hesabel’s nervous swearing was heard from beyond the fog.

As Isaac was again assessing the second round, Lyanna spoke.

“Hey, Grail Knight.”

“… … yes?”

“You look tired and I am also tired. Should we just pretend we haven’t seen each other and move on? “If we fight here now, one of us will have to die before we can go back.”

Isaac was momentarily taken aback by Lyanna’s words.

Are these the words coming from the mouth of a fearsome traitor and commander-in-chief of the enemy? Isaac had to catch Lyanna quickly to end this war, and Lyanna also had to catch Isaac, the only sword master of the Aldeon army, to turn the war to his advantage.

But right now, her immediate fatigue seemed more important.

“I just killed five of your knights.”

“It’s less than the people I killed today. I’m not trying to compete with that, but war is like that. Fortunately, though, there are no witnesses, so if we just agree, negotiations will go smoothly.”

Lyanna’s words were calm. She seemed to have no emotional highs and lows.

She continued speaking while brushing up her rain-soaked hair.

“I am a person who is overflowing with fame, and I am somewhat confident in my skills. The elders say I have to avenge my father, but that has nothing to do with love for the Holy Grail, right? Let’s meet again later on a more important occasion.”

Isaac tried to nod his head absentmindedly, but barely managed to stop himself.

Why are you avenging your father with such a careless attitude? Are all young people these days this indifferent?

“What if you don’t like it?”

“What if I don’t like it… … “The knight of Elil does not shy away from a fight.”

Lyanna lifted Lumiad in a half-hearted manner.

Tuk, tutuk, tutuk. The air froze and a popping sound was heard. An invisible energy spread around her sword, freezing her fog. A coldness that would cause flesh to fall off if not protected with sword energy was encroaching on the space.

Isaac thought for a moment and nodded.

“Let’s do that. “The environment is obviously unfavorable to me.”

“Yes? “I thought it would make sense since you are not an Elil believer.”

“What are you going to do with the body? “There’s more down the hill, would you like to take care of it?”

“hmm. Please make it just enough to be polite. It seems like this area was stolen. Oh, if it’s okay, I’m thinking of retreating all of our soldiers to the fortress. Could you slow down the pace of their advance there a little?”

“It’s not something I want to do, but I’ll make a suggestion. “Fighting in this fog isn’t something that usually gets on our nerves.”

“Thank you… … See you later then. hi.”

Lyanna waved her hand and disappeared through the fog.

Isaac looked at the spot where she had disappeared, feeling as if he were possessed, then immediately turned around and started running. She had to inform Mors that Georg’s army was scheduled to retreat entirely, so it was time to immediately focus an all-out offensive and expand the battle.

***

Unfortunately for Isaac, Lyanna had no faith in her pact with the pagan.

The moment Aldeon’s army began to move quickly to chase down Georg’s army, which was retreating, they began to encounter traps and enemies in ambush set up here and there. Eventually Morse turned his focus back to careful search and exploration.

Isaac was amazed even as he gritted his teeth at the fact that even that seemingly simple conversation with him was a strategy. And less than a day later, I was once again amazed by the report that not a single member of Georg’s army was seen across the entire front.

‘If I had used the Eye of Chaos, the results would have been a little different.’

I thought about it, but I didn’t think the results would be much different unless I looked at it with such force that tentacles popped out.

Not only would it be impossible to easily read the Sword Master’s mind, but Lyanna would be very wary of Isaac because she would believe that he is a follower of the Code of Light without honor or god.

Morse was dumbfounded by the fact that Georg’s army had really retreated, but he quickly moved his troops.

Three days later, the Aldeon army arrived in front of Elion Fortress without encountering any resistance.