Choi Hyun-seok, who ca out of the temple, let out a small gasp of admiration.
“Whew, they didn’t need to welco this much.”
He had expected a certain number of enemies to be gathered, but he hadn’t anticipated such a welcoming crowd waiting.
There might be thousands, perhaps even over ten thousand.
All of them had drawn their weapons and had fierce looks in their eyes.
Priests, holy knights, and mages could be seen mixed in throughout.
“I told you we should co out quickly, didn’t I?”
“Hmm, a few seconds wouldn’t have made much difference anyway.”
“You shouldn’t even say that.”
In truth, it wasn’t wrong.
Even if Choi Hyun-seok had co out imdiately without dawdling, the enemies would have been gathered just the sa as now.
Park Hyun-a scratched her head irritably.
“We’ll break through quickly. We can’t kill them all anyway. And there’s no point in staying long since reinforcents will keep coming.”
“Yes.”
“You take the lead.”
Choi Hyun-seok stepped forward without argunt.
Despite taking the lead being dangerous, for so reason, he was feeling pleased.
‘Older sister is finally acknowledging that I’m stronger now.’
Choi Hyun-seok thinks.
It’s natural for the stronger person to take the lead!
When Park Hyun-a told him to take the lead, it must have been based on this thinking.
At least in terms of close combat ability, she had clearly acknowledged that he was superior.
“Hehehe…”
“Is he really crazy? Why is he creepily grinning in this situation…?”
As Choi Hyun-seok grinned, Park Hyun-a watched him with a slightly frightened expression.
It was then that two n approached.
“You bastards! Where is the Cardinal!?”
“Release our Lord!”
One was a holy knight using holy power, the other was a knight using magical power.
Both of them emanated an aura that placed them among the upper ranks of heroes, and they seed to be representatives of their respective groups.
Park Hyun-a answered the question instead of Choi Hyun-seok, who was still grinning.
“The Cardinal and the Lord?”
“Yes! If you release them now, your cris…”
“They’re already dead.”
“What…!?”
“Here. This guy killed them.”
Choi Hyun-seok couldn’t believe his ears.
‘This guy killed them’?
When he turned around, he saw Park Hyun-a with a mischievous smile.
“Older sister? What is this…?”
“Aren’t you supposed to take the lead?”
Park Hyun-a stretched out her hand and pushed Choi Hyun-seok’s unguarded chest.
Thud-
“Huh?”
The flying Choi Hyun-seok landed like a ghost in front of the two heroes.
The two heroes glared at Choi Hyun-seok with fire in their eyes.
“You bastard!!!”
“How dare you!”
“Listen. I did kill that old man, but the pot-bellied bald one was killed by that witch over there… Oh, did I kill the bald one too? That’s right.”
Thinking about it again, he had killed both of them.
“Hey! The rest at least weren’t done by …”
“Atone with your death!”
Swords flying from both sides.
Just one look at their swordsmanship was enough to tell.
These guys were top-tier even among heroes.
However, Choi Hyun-seok was already top-tier within the legend rank.
There was an insurmountable dinsional wall between them.
Clang! Clang-!
He blocks both swords by raising his arms.
Sword strikes that could cut through steel like tofu only managed to leave scratches on his skin.
The two knights’ eyes widened, and then Choi Hyun-seok’s counterattack ca crashing in.
Whack! Thud!
The two knights who were hit by his fists flew back together.
They didn’t die, but their staggering showed they had taken a heavy blow.
Having assessed the situation, they urgently shouted.
“The enemy is legend-rank! Attack! Full attack!”
“Begin anti-legend combat tactics!”
“Cast binding magic! Cast weakening magic!”
“Priests, use blessings!”
“Strengthen the barriers! The current level won’t be enough to stop a legend!”
The enemy’s response was quite decent.
In this sudden battle.
It was a situation where two different groups, the ‘Deusis faith’ and the ‘Doisman Kingdom,’ were united.
Yet they still managed to form a rough formation and launched magic at Choi Hyun-seok.
It seed they had trained for situations like this to so extent.
‘My body feels heavy.’
Hundreds of spells fly in from all directions.
Various debuff spells that weaken the body stack up, rapidly depleting his strength.
Even when he releases mana to dispel the magic, it gets reapplied in the blink of an eye, so it makes little difference.
At this rate, he would collapse before long.
Choi Hyun-seok, who had initially planned to advance straight ahead, changed his mind.
‘Even if it’s a bit tough, I’ll shake up the enemy with one big attack.’
Choi Hyun-seok gathered mana in one breath.
The mana gathering was so intense that both his hands trembled.
During this ti, attacks from the surroundings continued, but he ignored them.
Ordinary attacks couldn’t even scratch his skin anyway.
‘Now.’
The purple light gathered in both hands shone as if it would explode at any mont.
Choi Hyun-seok swung his hands toward the ground, releasing all the mana he had gathered.
Nobilrace
Form 7 – King’s Wrath
His hands touched the ground, and purple light exploded outward.
Kwaaaang-!
The ground shook with a thunderous roar.
The shockwave sent hundreds of soldiers flying.
A massive crater dozens of ters in diater ford around him.
Despite the incredible result, Choi Hyun-seok clicked his tongue inwardly, unsatisfied.
‘As expected, I can’t bring out my original power.’
In truth, ‘King’s Wrath’ is normally twice as powerful as this.
Right now, its power is weakened due to the severe interference from debuff magic and other disruptions.
‘At least I can catch my breath now, which is fortunate. Ti to break through as much as possible!’
The soldiers were greatly shaken by the impact of the strong technique.
Choi Hyun-seok charged forward in this opening.
Kwang! Bang!
“Aaaagh!”
“The sky! The sky!”
Consecutive explosions occurred nearby.
The frequency of magic attacks flying toward Choi Hyun-seok greatly decreased.
Park Hyun-a seed to be dealing with the priests and mages.
“Run! Just a bit more breakthrough and we’re done!”
“Yes!”
After cutting through the forest of soldiers for so ti.
Finally, a point with no people ca into view.
“No! Stop them!”
“Reinforcents! When are the reinforcents coming!?”
“Don’t let them pass…! Ack!”
He jumps up while stepping on the head of a knight who looks like a commander.
Park Hyun-a, who had approached without notice, also took position beside him.
“See the barrier? We hit it together!”
“On three!”
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-a pulled back their fists as if they had planned it.
“One. Two. Three!”
Crash-!
A sharp noise rang out as the barrier shattered.
Now there was nothing blocking their path.
Choi Hyun-seok and Park Hyun-a ran at full speed.
The enemy pursued desperately, but once they broke through the encirclent, the outco was already decided.
The two quickly left the city and vanished quietly into the forest.
***
After completing their task, the group returned straight to their hideout.
It wasn’t the forest cabin from before, but an old abandoned house.
Judging by the several similar abandoned houses nearby, it seed to be a village left behind by slash-and-burn farrs.
“That ended more easily than I expected.”
Choi Hyun-seok said as he sat down on a wooden chair.
The chair creaked unsteadily, suggesting it wasn’t in good condition.
“We were lucky. The command system wasn’t working properly because all the high-ranking nobles died.”
“Their response seed pretty good despite that.”
“Probably because of . They must have distributed so kind of response manual to all troops because I kept causing trouble.”
Park Hyun-a’s guess is accurate.
She and Gatren had been clashing for a long ti.
Gatren, whose pride was hurt by the fact that the empire was toyed with by one person, had steadily researched tactics.
Then their war resud three months ago.
Gatren showcased various tactics he had researched as if he had been waiting for this day.
Because of this, despite becoming stronger, Park Hyun-a’s movents beca more restricted.
In the end, she was forced to fight only by launching large-scale magic from a distance and running away.
“Couldn’t we have just blown this place up cleanly with magic too?”
“I told you. The magic defenses of large cities aren’t sothing to take lightly. The Cardinal’s and priests’ defensive magic is also a problem.”
Suddenly Park Hyun-a patted Choi Hyun-seok’s shoulder.
“And hey. If we blow up the city with magic, what about the people living there? Are you going to crush tens of thousands of innocent people living peacefully in the city just to catch one Cardinal? We’re heroes, you know, despite everything.”
“Ah, right.”
“It’s the sa reason why I couldn’t enter the city alone. If I had moved alone, I wouldn’t have been able to break through this cleanly. The whole city probably would have beco a sea of fire.”
Park Hyun-a’s abilities are mainly focused on magic.
Especially fire magic.
When she fights, the area of damage inevitably becos wide.
It’s unavoidable that the entire city would suffer damage.
“That’s unexpected. To think older sister was living with such humanitarian thoughts.”
“Hearing that from you makes twice as irritated, seriously.”
Park Hyun-a made an expression of genuine exasperation and shook her head in disgust.
Choi Hyun-seok was emotionally wounded by the unexpectedly harsh response.
“What do you take for?”
“A sociopath?”
“I’m a hero. A legendary one at that.”
“Then you’re a sociopath hero.”
“You left out legendary.”
“Is that really what’s important right now…?”
Park Hyun-a, who was about to keep arguing, let out a deep sigh.
“Fine. Let’s stop.”
It seed like continuing would only give her a headache.
Choi Hyun-seok seed to agree as he leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.
The unstable chair creaked once more.
“What do we do from now on?”
“For a while, we’ll focus on hunting Cardinals.”
“Like before, mainly targeting Cardinals outside the Gatren Empire?”
“That’s right. There’s no more effective way to reduce Gatren’s influence.”
From the perspective of a small kingdom.
The existence of a Cardinal was enough to make one tremble at the re ntion of the na.
Apart from the backing of powers like Gatren or the Deusis faith.
Just looking at the pure military force they could mobilize, a Cardinal was more powerful than the king of a small nation.
Therefore, when a Cardinal settled down under the pretext of religious activities, the entire kingdom would gradually fall under the Deusis faith.
Even knowing this, the existence of a Cardinal was sothing that couldn’t be rejected.
“The King of Doisman must be jumping for joy right now. Finally free from that annoying old man’s grip.”
“I see.”
Choi Hyun-seok nodded, roughly understanding the situation.
“But isn’t sothing strange?”
“Strange? What?”
“It feels oddly empty sohow…”
Choi Hyun-seok stroked his chin, lost in thought.
Park Hyun-a looked bewildered as if she had no idea what he ant.
After pondering for a while.
Choi Hyun-seok realized what felt empty.
“Rachel! Rachel isn’t here!”
“She’s right there.”
“What?”
Park Hyun-a pointed to a corner of the abandoned house.
Looking over, he saw Rachel crouched in the corner with her head buried in her knees.
“She’s been like that since we got here.”
“Ah…”
Feeling sowhat guilty, Choi Hyun-seok slowly approached Rachel.
As he got closer, he could hear Rachel muttering quietly.
“I’m finished now… I’m tainted… Between pork and anchovy broth… Slimy… No…!”
“Rachel?”
“I should die! I’d rather die!”
Rachel suddenly stood up.
She was holding sothing smaller than a toothpick, from who knows where she got it.
“Eeeeng…!”
She closed her eyes tightly and brought the piece of tal to her neck.
Watching Rachel trembling, Choi Hyun-seok let out a deep sigh.
“I’m going to kill myself! I’m going to die! I’m tainted!”
“Rachel. Playing with things like that will give you tetanus.”
“I’m really going to die! Die!”
“Sigh…”
He couldn’t bear to watch her waving the piece of tal while tearing up anymore.
Though it didn’t seem like she would actually die even if left alone, Choi Hyun-seok decided to play along.
After all, he was the one who threw Rachel into that hell.
“I’m sorry.”
“I’m dying! Die! An apology won’t save !”
“Okay. Fine. I’ll buy you macarons too.”
“I’m dy-! Macarons?”
Rachel’s eyes suddenly sparkled.
“How many will you buy… Don’t think you can get away with just one or two… The weight of my death isn’t that light…”
“I’ll buy you ten.”
“Twenty.”
“You won’t even be able to eat them all anyway.”
“Twenty!”
“Okay. Twenty.”
“Yes!”
Rachel cheered while clenching her fist.
All it took to revive her was just twenty macarons.
The weight of death is lighter than expected.
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