The Soldier Shouted Save - Chapter 90



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The soldier shouted save (90)

Two days after the dinner, the real preparations began.

Priests who imbue weapons with divine power in preparation for battles against the demons.

“Phew, it’s done.”

I worked hard and sweated bullets to finish the job, but to be honest, the results were poor.

‘This level of divine power would only be effective against lower-level demons.’

But not all priests fell short of expectations.

Priest Whale, who purified the toxic cloud of disaster that would corrode the body the moment it touched the skin.

Although not as much as Croa, his divine power shined brightly here, holding a palm-sized statue of a goddess.

“Sir Allen, have you finished servicing your weapons?”

I turned around, following the voice, and saw two otherworlders and a black magician hiding his identity.

“We’re assigned to the same squad, so please take good care of us.”

As Erendi passes by, patting his shoulder, this time Park Min-cheol smiles and speaks.

“It won’t be difficult. If something urgent comes up, just focus on my voice.”

“Are you in command?”

“Yeah. There was no one else who could do it but me, a veteran. Oh, how should I explain what a veteran means… … .”

“Obviously, it was a word referring to a warrior who knows well about the secrets of the Gerard Continent.”

“… That’s right, that’s right. You already knew that Walker’s archmage was from another world?”

What Hye-rin said to Park Min-cheol was different from what he had heard from the old man.

‘A person with more knowledge than Hye-rin.’

If Park Min-cheol is that veteran, he will be of help when you are faced with a difficult situation.

“The search area we’re assigned to is along the outskirts of town. Follow me.”

The punitive force gathered here was powerful enough to easily subdue the territory.

The punitive force quickly splits into squads and searches for the demons.

“Hmm, there isn’t any?”

I carefully searched all the way to the outskirts of the village I had decided to search.

All that was visible was a ruined village beyond the wall.

“It seems they fled after seeing the size of the punitive force.”

“… That’s not wrong, the demons are people who can think.”

“How about we take another look around and join up with another squad to look under the village?”

“Well, if the demons are hiding, there’s nowhere else to go but underground. Let’s do that.”

After completing the search on the outskirts under the leadership of Park Min-cheol, we return to the center of the village.

“Those disgusting black magicians. Sacrificing someone like themselves to the demons!”

The voice of a knight growing angry as he looks at the corpses piled up in the house.

He raises his sword noisily.

“I swear on my sword! I will tear every black magician on the continent apart with my own hands!”

“Ugh, uhm. I’ll take a look over there.”

Erendi leaves her seat at the sound of a voice that hates warlocks.

‘There’s still no sign of anything being planned.’

Could it be that he is a black magician who came in by chance without any hidden agenda?

As I watch Erendi closely, he flinches and raises his hand.

“Here! Come this way! I think I found the entrance!”

A staircase leading to the basement is visible beneath his feet.

At Erendi’s shout, the punitive force began to gather in a narrow house.

“… … I feel an unclean aura.”

Priest Whale speaks, clutching a palm-sized statue of a goddess.

The knight descends the stairs with a triumphant look on his face.

“I’ll take the lead, so follow!”

-Thump, thump.

A staircase that leads down quite deep.

But I felt like this was the right place.

“Those are warlocks!”

A labyrinthine underground space.

A knight runs out, spotting a man in black robes.

“Three, Serratus!”

-Ting!

He lightly strikes the saw blade created by the warlock and stabs the sword into his chest.

“They’re not that strong, so let’s split up and go attack them.”

Dozens of renowned figures from all over the continent gathered, and the subjugation progressed quickly.

‘… … It’s strange.’

What on earth was the palace’s intention in summoning powerful figures from all over the continent?

As we cut down the warlocks, bigger questions arise.

“It’s not me!”

“I’ll tell you the name, so check with the palace!”

Black magicians who beg for their lives in the name of the palace when facing death.

“Those damned bastards. Selling the name of the palace!”

I thought they had gathered together people suspected of being Lee Hyeon-seong to form a punitive force, but it seemed like they had another intention.

“I have defeated the demons!”

“Hey, where?!”

Hearing someone’s scream, he follows the people to check the body.

“You’re a low-level demon.”

A simple subjugation that couldn’t even swing a sword properly.

“Everyone worked hard. Let’s go back after cutting off the demon’s head.”

As the knight was cutting off the demon’s head as a sign of his subjugation, someone raised his voice.

“Hey, come this way! There’s something strange!”

Green hair.

Following the voice of Priest Whale, I enter a room.

“… … What on earth is this?”

A black circular object that sucks in mana from the air.

Erendi narrows her eyes and explains the identity of the strange object.

“It’s a warp portal.”

“…What is that?”

“This is a higher level of teleportation magic. If you pass through this door, you can move to the coordinates designated by the wizard.”

At those words, someone steps forward, gnashing his teeth.

“There must still be warlocks out there. I will go and subdue them.”

As the knight puts down the demon’s head he was holding and heads towards the portal, someone quickly stops him.

“Oh, no!”

“… … What doesn’t work?”

A long-haired man who had never had a presence before.

He mumbles as he avoids the knight’s gaze.

“If you look at the magical power contained in the warp, you can only use it twice… … .”

“If you think about coming back, does that mean only one person can go?”

“Oh, no. If you change the warp range to the entire room, everyone can move at once.”

The knight raises his voice in thought at the gloomy man’s words.

“How about leaving one squad behind and warping?”

“… … The presence of a warp portal means there is a high-ranking wizard. To deal with him for sure, how about we all move together… … .”

“What do the other squads think?”

At the end of the article, the squad leaders came out as representatives and shared their opinions.

After a brief discussion, the article states the results on its own behalf.

“It could be a trap by the warlocks, but we can’t just sit back and watch the warp portal. With a punitive force of this caliber, it shouldn’t be a problem even if a high-level demon appears.”

The knight points to the portal and says:

“Please activate the portal.”

Five magicians belonging to the punitive force come forward and begin to change the portal’s formula.

“Shall I turn it on?”

As the lanky man breathes magic into it, the portal begins to expand.

-Boom, boom.

A portal inflated to its limit.

-phut!

The portal explodes and grows larger, swallowing everyone in the room.

‘… … It’s the same as when I teleported.’

Distorted vision.

“Wow, whoop!”

The scenery before my eyes slowly changes, accompanied by the sound of vomit pouring out from all over the place.

“… … Wait a minute, this place feels strangely familiar?”

A wasteland where sandstorms obscure the view.

“Hey, Mincheol, what was here?”

Junseok Rodlier asked his friend from another world, but instead of an answer, he heard a frightened voice.

“Uh, why, here?”

Park Min-cheol’s face turned pale.

-Thump thump.

He shouts urgently as he looks at the sky that is darkening.

“Everyone, gather close! Prepare to fight and protect the priest!”

It was a punitive force comprised only of capable people.

No one hesitates at Park Min-cheol’s words and moves quickly.

“Get in line!”

Each one of them is holding their weapon up and looking around cautiously.

-Gulp.

As someone swallowed in the eerie atmosphere, a white light appeared beyond the sandstorm.

“……what?”

The words didn’t come out properly.

What was before his eyes was a sight that the Demon King had never seen even when he was alive.

-Clang, clang.

There were hundreds of thousands of skeletons filling the vast wilderness.

“This, this is ridiculous!”

“Those warlocks managed to secure that many corpses…?”

As they walk toward us, making their bones crunch, the knights instinctively step back.

A number so large that one wouldn’t even dare to fight with a sword.

But some men calmed their minds.

“There are many of them, but they are only skeletons!”

“I prepare divine power in the name of the goddess.”

Priest Whale lifts a palm-sized statue of the goddess high into the sky.

‘Was it a holy relic?’

A light that purifies the undead, as powerful as Croa.

As Whale tries to release the divine power gathered in the statue of the goddess, Park Min-cheol hurriedly grabs his shoulder.

“Oh, no! Don’t use your divine power yet!”

“……yes?”

The golden light that fades and loses its luster at Park Min-cheol’s words.

-Dakdak, dakdak.

Something passes before my eyes, accompanied by an alien sound that slowly approaches.

“……uh?”

Whale with a puzzled expression.

-Whoosh!

His head flies through the sky with a black trail.

“What, go… how… … ?”

The severed whale’s head rolls on the floor.

As I turned my gaze along the pitch-black afterimage of the severed head, I saw a terrifying being.

“… …Death Knight.”

A top-tier undead wearing black armor on a heavy horse.

The Death Knights were the Demon King’s personal guard known to be stronger than the Demons.

“That, that can’t be… Something is wrong!!”

Someone can’t overcome their fear and runs away.

“Hey, wait a minute! Back!”

A headless thing rushes at the man like a beast and pounces on him.

-Phew!

Fingernails that dig into a man’s skin without mercy.

“Ugh, euaaaah!”

What was tearing at the man’s flesh was the corpse of Priest Whale.

“Beware of the dead around the Death Knight!”

-Whoosh!

He quickly cuts down Whale’s body and shouts.

“The moment you die here, you turn into an undead!”

Aura of death.

If a Death Knight is nearby, dead comrades will turn into undead.

He remembered the battles he had fought during his time as a soldier and tore up Whale’s corpse, but nothing changed in the outcome of the battle.

“Oh, don’t come!”

“Ugh, euaaaaaaah!”

It was a bad idea to just run away from the Death Knight.

Hundreds of thousands of skeletons have already surrounded you on all sides.

“S, save me… … .”

Renowned warriors were running away, but were captured by skeletons and died meaningless deaths.

“F*ck… Is it possible to clear it…?”

Someone’s voice brushes past my ears.

“… … We can’t let the knights die any longer. We have to get rid of the Death Knights first… … .”

A tone of speech that seems to be aware of the current situation.

He speaks to Park Min-cheol, who is holding his sword and biting his fingernails with an anxious expression.

“What should I do to change the situation?”

“……what?”

“Old man. Didn’t you say it yourself? If an emergency arises, follow what I say.”

At my words, Park Min-cheol bit his lips as if he had made up his mind and raised his voice.

“We have to get out of here and leave one priest behind!”

“Why are you leaving the priest behind?”

“… …Because I need divine power to lure the Death Knight.”

If that’s the case, there was no need to use people as bait.

‘At this point, it’s probably similar to other priests.’

A dagger imbued with Croa’s divine power, used every time Lee Hyun-seong’s power was erased.

-Whoosh!

As I throw the dagger with all my might, the Death Knight pulls on the reins, bringing his armored steed to a halt.

-Damn it! Damn it!

Stop the sword that was slaughtering the knights,

Death Knight heading in the direction the dagger flew.

At that sight, Park Min-cheol quickly moves his legs.

“Everyone, clear the way this way!”

In the place Park Min-cheol pointed to, there were hundreds of thousands of skeletons closing in on the encirclement.

“Hey, don’t be scared!”

“If you stop, you’ll die anyway!!”

The punitive force rushes towards hundreds of thousands of skeletons.

Every time you cut them down, bone fragments fly out, obscuring your vision and tearing your skin.

‘… …Fuck.’

There is no end.

Even if you cut down dozens of them, another skeleton will rush in and try to bury its sharp bones into your skin.

-Clang, clang.

“Ugh, ugh… .”

The sound of pain mixed with the sound of bones.

As the groans heard from all directions gradually disappeared, Park Min-cheol shouted.

“Priest! Divine power!”

“Oh, Goddess! Look down on us!”

As the priest raises his voice as if he had been waiting, golden light spreads out like waves.

-Pfft!

Skeletons turned into fine powder and scattered in the wind.

But the situation did not change.

“Oh, there are still so many… … .”

Out of hundreds of thousands, only a few thousand skeletons disappeared.

“Ha, haha… … I can’t do this anymore… .”

The punitive force, sensing death, waved their hands with despairing expressions.

‘We can’t stop like this!’

Concentrate mana into the Azure Dragon Sword.

-Whew whew whew whew whew!

A blue storm that crushes white bones.

I shouted out loud.

“Get out!”

He swings his sword freely with the Azure Dragon Sword, which contains divine powers to deal with the Demon Tribe.

“Gasp, gasp… … .”

Dozens of minutes of chopping down skeletons, with my face getting scratched by flying bone fragments.

-Pfft!

As the priests unleash their divine powers once more, holes slowly appear in the skeleton-lined encirclement.

“Hey, this way! Everyone, run this way quickly!”

Park Min-cheol and I, who were the first to escape the encirclement, reached out to the man being swallowed by the skeleton.

“Ooh, woof.”

Junseok Rodley escapes, brushing off the bone fragments stuck to his face.

“Hey, save me!”

Rescue them by pulling them in one by one as they reach out between the skeletons.

However, more than half of them did not escape.

“……let’s go.”

Run endlessly through the wasteland, shaking off the skeletons that follow you.

“Gasp, gasp, gasp… … .”

“Why, is it endless?”

It was a strange place.

The knight handling mana ran until he was exhausted, but the same wasteland scenery was repeated.

“… This will be fine. Let’s rest.”

At Park Min-cheol’s words, people collapse on the floor.

Even the priests are unable to use their divine powers, and are bleeding from their torn skin.

“…Fuck.”

He asks Park Min-cheol, who is covering his face with his palms as if in despair.

“What the heck is this place?”

A wasteland filled with death knights and hundreds of thousands of skeletons.

“… … Challenge Dungeon.”

Park Min-cheol speaks with a face that cannot escape despair.

“This is post-ending content.”