72
Not my yard
‘I will kill you.’
Kurtun muttered the bastard’s name as if chewing it and walked away.
The bizarre name ‘Deokgu Pear’.
Behind that ignorance, which was on a par with that of a savage… no, even beyond that, there was a seasoned and vile gambler hiding.
Knock knock. Blood flowed back and poured out of his mouth.
Kurtun shook his head again.
My mind became hazy and my body felt stronger.
The arms tied around his waist felt uncomfortable, so he turned slightly.
‘If you go to a cardinal-level place, you can get it.’
Kurtun moved towards the wall where there were no crowds or knights.
Grrrrrrr.
The corpses blocked the Kurtun, making a gurgling sound.
“Things that don’t even know the subject.”
It was hard to focus and his balance was off, but to Kurtun, who could bring out the aura, he was just a bug.
The aura that extended from the dagger that was lightly swung drew a long line in the air. A long straight line was drawn. The buildings and the dead in between were instantly torn to pieces and scattered to the ground.
‘···That guy should have done this too.’
Kurtun spat red saliva and walked away.
Things that didn’t know the subject kept rushing at him, but Kurtun just swung his dagger lightly as if he was chasing bugs. Kurtun was originally dispatched to clean up all the ‘black blood’ and ‘snow’.
No matter how bad Kurtun’s condition was, those kinds of rascals couldn’t have been a threat.
Warlocks and demons have absolute compatibility.
Those who were impious were those who ruled over those of lower rank than themselves, but when they met those of higher rank than themselves, they were like insects that could do nothing.
‘He’s going to die here.’
The ‘Great Darkness’ had appeared. If he had been dealing with a higher level monster than that one, he would have easily dealt with it, but since there was no one here who could match the level of the ‘Great Darkness’, it was clear that this castle would meet its end today.
Kurtun thought for a moment.
Should I go back now and kill that bastard myself?
‘No, I come first.’
At that moment, I felt a strange sensation and picked up the dagger.
Bam-.
‘···A rock?’
It was just a common rock.
“What kind of guy is he?”
How dare you joke with yourself.
Kurtun coughed in disbelief.
Hey knight- Hey knight-.
At that moment, a loud singing voice was heard from somewhere.
The location was unknown, but the voice was very annoying.
Kurtun looked around, pretending not to be nervous, but there was no response.
All I could see were the dead and the devil’s minions approaching, smelling the scent of life.
It didn’t feel good. Kurtun swung his dagger again, feeling very tense, and cleaned up the area around him.
With just two swings of the dagger, all the savages around him were cut in half.
Still no sound was heard.
Kurtun thought the prankster had run away and started walking.
Then, something flew in again.
Kurtun lifted his dagger and easily blocked him···.
thud!!
This boulder was unusual in its size and the power it carried.
“You idiot who doesn’t even have the courage to step forward. How dare you play a prank···.”
Hey knight- Hey knight-.
Kurtun’s hair stood on end at the sound of the song.
The location of the singing voice was still unknown, but it was clearly closer than before. It stimulated something instinctive.
‘He’s a loser who doesn’t even have the courage to step forward.’
Kurtun braced himself and held the dagger.
I was just nervous because I couldn’t see it.
If you actually faced it, it would definitely be trash.
‘Why are these guys spreading out through the wall?’
It was ridiculous. If they had breached the wall, they would have gathered and attacked the crowd, but they spread out over the entire wall as if they were surrounding it.
“Kreuk- kruk- the smell of a hypocrite.”
A sniffling wolf demon blocked the way.
It was a real devil with the devil’s handprint, not a servant. Saliva dripped from the yellow molars protruding from its snout. The guy kept sniffing as if he had smelled something delicious.
It wasn’t worth mentioning.
Kurtun swung his dagger much longer than before.
As Auror rose to his will and cut through the air, something approached from the side.
‘This kid!’
I had no choice but to turn away the dagger I was swinging at him.
Tick!
It was a very small rock.
No strength at all.
A moment of rage at the thought of being played into that guy’s hands.
Krrrrrr!!
The devil leapt towards Kurtun.
Kurtun swung his dagger nervously, drawing a long silver vertical line in the air.
The demon split vertically, and black blood sprayed out between the gaps, pouring down on Kurtun.
That moment.
Phew-.
I felt a terrible pain in my thigh.
When I turned my head to him, I saw an old man with madness in his eyes. There was a deep obsession in his eyes that was hard to guess.
‘···when?’
Kurtun bit his lip and swung his dagger in a fit of rage, but the old man had already stepped back.
Hot, red blood poured out like a fountain from Kurtun’s thigh. The excruciating pain brought him back to his senses.
“Knight- knight-.”
In the vague distance, an old man hummed a song.
It was the guy who had been throwing stones earlier.
‘crazy···.’
As I raised my dagger, the old man moved further away.
The old man stopped slightly behind Kurtun, just enough distance for him to emit his aura.
‘Do you know my circumstances?’
Kurten glared at the old man and examined the wound on his leg. The thing had hit the muscle right in the eye, so he could barely move.
The old man just glared at me with mad eyes.
Kurtun’s hair stood on end at the sight of the old man licking his lips as if he was tasting something.
Kurtun walked with a limp, keeping an eye on the old man.
And after a while Kurtun realized.
‘That guy… is hunting me.’
The guy kept his distance and kept throwing rocks at him, getting on his nerves. He managed to get over the wall, dealing with the undead and minions that kept rushing at him, but the guy was still following him.
And every time Kurtun’s strength drained, the guy slowly closed the distance.
‘One move. One sleep.’
Kurtun acted weakly, limping even more violently and swinging his dagger in his hand as if he had no strength left in it.
I didn’t stop the flying stone. Bam! I was hit in the head by a flying stone and my mind was shaken for a moment, but I gritted my teeth.
Kurtun continued to act, waiting for his chance. Then, as if his foot had tripped on a rock he had seen before, he stumbled violently and fell forward.
I hid my left arm, pretending to touch the ground, and focused all my nerves on my ears. I could hear insects chirping, the wind blowing, and very faint footsteps.
The guy approached and then stopped walking.
Come on, come on… Kurtun kept muttering.
The footsteps that had stopped for a moment resumed and soon crossed the boundary.
‘I got caught!!’
Kurtun gathered all his remaining aura and swung his sword while kicking the ground. Unlike before, a vivid blue light pushed away the dark night and revealed its presence.
Kurtun expected to see the old man’s bewildered face, but…
‘Are you laughing?’
A cruel smile appeared on the old man’s face.
“Did you expect that?”
The old man spoke in a voice filled with suppressed hatred and hunger.
Although he felt a sense of crisis at the expected reaction, Kurtun trusted his aura.
It was then that the old man’s sword lightly crushed Kurtun’s sword.
The movement was similar to that guy before, but on a different level.
I didn’t feel any resistance at all.
Kurtun’s sword, glowing with a vivid aura, followed the old man’s sword to the side as it had always done.
The old man’s sword moved slowly through the wide open gap, but there was no way to stop it.
The old man slowly brought the sword to Kurtun’s left shoulder as if telling him to look carefully. Soon, a terrible pain was felt in his left shoulder.
The old man lightly caught the fallen arm.
The old man stepped back and sang again.
Hey knight- Hey knight-
Run far away.
That way, you’ll be happy for a long time.
I just realized this. Even if I were normal, I wouldn’t be a match for that old man.
The old man had been following me at a distance up until now, not to drain my strength.
···It wasn’t hunting, the old man was just playing with himself.
Hey knight- Hey knight-.
The old man nodded his head, staring at Kurtun with mad eyes.
It was as if he was saying, “Why don’t you run away?” and that this fun game would last longer.
Kurtun, who had no more reason left, simply kept running.
Then, he collapsed because he had no more legs to run.
The old man looked down at Kurtun with eyes full of regret.
“Why··· Why on earth···!”
Kurtun cried out in frustration.
It was my first time seeing that face, but I couldn’t understand the hatred flowing from the eyes looking at me.
“I was just hungry.”
The answer that followed was calm, but also full of emotion.
Kurtun sensed the end and closed his eyes.
That was the end of Kurtun.
Yeah, why on earth did you do that?
The knight hunter muttered softly and gathered up the meat one by one.
***
“Why can’t people live!”
Kuabarou… No, Swallows turned his head at the commotion heard from the side.
There was a big, bulky man in a colorful suit, pointing and squinting at the men around him.
“No, that’s not it. I was just suspicious because he was a foreigner…”
“Enough! Why are you hitting someone who is just sitting there! Come here.”
It seems that Hannah was trying to vent her stress from the outside world on an outsider. Swallows was amazed at how Hannah would step forward to help a man she had never met before.
“No, Mom told me not to follow people I don’t know.”
“What did you say?”
“Mom… No, I’ll go with you.”
The large man muttered for a moment and then followed Hannah.
“Is this correct?”
Swallows turned their heads at the sound they heard next to them.
Kanna was pointing outward with her finger. Sharp ice cubes were swirling around her finger.
“If it’s just a sharp shape, it won’t do much damage. Since it has height, it might be useful to make it a little bigger than your mana limit. Increase the size.”
“Okay. So you’re just going to drop it?”
“Yes.”
As soon as the words were finished, Swallows couldn’t hide his admiration as he watched the ice cubes expand in size.
‘You’re cutting back on the magic you’ve already used!’
It felt like all the fatigue and irritation that had built up while teaching that stupid girl was gone in an instant.
‘It’s a shame about Manayang, but…’
The amount of mana one has does not increase as one grows older, just as a person’s arms do not increase to three.
Aside from the sharpness of the ice, its quantity and size were below the average for a wizard.
‘The heart···.’
Swallows swallowed with a strong urge. If this child could eat that heart and increase his mana, wouldn’t he be able to make his mark on the history of magic?
Even if it was just a little bit for him to help, isn’t it like putting a dot on history?
‘If this place collapses, I’ll only take care of this child and Young-ae.’
Swallows nodded, caressing the small stone he had in his bosom.
“like this?”
When I checked Kanna’s question, I saw that the ice cubes had grown in size. They were still small, but the aura each ice cube gave off was ominous.
“Yes. Don’t just sharpen it, but like this… If you slightly raise the tip, the opponent won’t be able to pull it out. It doesn’t matter now because the opponent you’re dealing with has no intelligence, but if you set up various devices like this when dealing with humans later, you can inflict greater damage.”
Swallows explained in great detail what he knew. He summoned a curved ice like an arrowhead and showed it to Kanna. Kanna nodded and wiggled her fingers.
The ice quickly bent into arrowheads.
Continuing to trim and modify magic that has already been cast…
It was a talent that made one thirsty to see it.
And on that ice, a small statue of a man was carved.
‘Is it a symbol?’
The Swallows muttered softly.
Each wizard had a symbol. He represented the wizard’s desire, a medium that strengthened the wizard’s imagination, which was power in its earnestness.
‘And when that symbol was broken···.’
Swallows’ eyes sparkled with longing.
The wizard could advance one level if the symbol was destroyed. There were even wizards who destroyed the symbol themselves for him.
···Like Swallows.
“Okay.”
Kanna, who had been muttering softly, swung her hand without any hesitation. The ice fell down the wall, and the corpses and skeletons that had been climbing the wall fell down, pierced by the ice.
Even at such a young age, he never hesitated or held back. He had the perfect qualities as a wizard.
“This time, a bit thicker. No matter what the opponent, aiming for the head is the most certain, so don’t spread your strength out, concentrate it in one spot and sharpen it, and you’ll be able to pierce the railroad tracks…”
Swallows continued to impart his knowledge to Kanna.
He kept talking about where to aim for the most effective attack when dealing with humans. He also said that in the case of monsters, they have thick skulls, so you need to use more force.
After hearing him, Kanna concentrated again and cast her magic.
Swallows swallowed the saliva that had gathered in his mouth as he looked at the white bracelet on Kanna’s thin wrist.
“Aaron Ice Pick.”
Kanna muttered. When she turned her head to him, she saw a large ice block created by Aaron, like a sword stabbing.
The sword in Aaron Ice’s hand spun around furiously, as if wind magic had been cast there. It was a perfect and creative magic stack, except for the appearance.
‘No matter how symbolic it is… it’s a bit much.’
But the sophistication and delicacy were of the realm of art, and Swallows couldn’t help but laugh and applaud without realizing it.
***
‘These kids are playing again.’
Charun, the black magician of ‘Hoe’, clicked his tongue as he looked at the wandering corpses.
Each person had their own area of responsibility, but it was clear that no one cared about filling their own stomachs.
‘It doesn’t make sense to group those crazy guys together in the first place.’
‘The Society’ was not suited to such group activities, as it was mainly comprised of lunatic warlocks and demon cultists.
That’s understandable. Those who joined hands with the devil couldn’t possibly be in their right mind. These guys were the ones who would cause trouble if three or more of them gathered together.
I knew him from ‘Hoe’, so I’ve been keeping him as confined as possible and letting him do his activities.
But since they brought all those crazy guys out, there was no way there wouldn’t be some noise.
‘The master ended up like that too···.’
Charun looked back briefly and let out a small sigh.
If the Master had been in his right mind, he wouldn’t have become so confused, but the Master had completely lost his mind after binge eating.
Although he seemed to have a little bit of reason left, he followed along, but he wasn’t good enough to give orders to others, and eventually this happened.
‘Of course, it’s the same over there too.’
It was clear that the hypocrites would not unite because their pride was so high.
Even those who were hastily gathered for the tournament wouldn’t have been able to come together, and even if they lost their senses, the Master would continue to curse them, so it was bound to fail…
Kwaaang-!
“Target found!!”
The wall next to me collapsed and a strange man came out.
“Assemble!!!”
When the guy shouted loudly-.
“Strategic strategy!!”
“This is the best!!”
Armored men rushed out through the hole.
There were so many of them that they looked like a swarm of ants.
“What···what···.”
“Strategic cooperation!!”
The large fist of the man carrying the bucket over his head was Charun’s last memory.
***
‘Hoo… hoo…’
Knight Adolf felt like his mind was going crazy due to his excitement reaching its limit. He tried to keep himself together and continued swinging his sword.
“Kwaaah! You cowardly bastards!! And you guys are still knights after doing that!!!”
The demon lying beneath him bared its fangs and roared. It tried to swing its huge arms as if in a fit of rage, but it had already been caught.
“Shut up!! This is a strategic maneuver!!”
Adolf shouted loudly and swung his sword again.
The demon’s body was torn to pieces by the subsequent sword strikes, turning into a black mass of blood.
“Strategic strategy!!”
Adolf shouted.
“Strategic strategy!!”
The excited knights shouted along.
Gathering the knights and dealing with them one by one with ‘strategic cooperation’! He wasn’t a strategist for nothing.
‘Strategic cooperation’… I had no choice but to follow the strangely sophisticated and difficult words shouted by the guy who won the tournament out of ignorance.
First of all, the word itself seemed like something very special, and I couldn’t help but follow it because I would be more ignorant than that guy.
“It’s strategic cooperation!! Strategic cooperation!!”
The man carrying the bucket over his head shouted and dashed toward the wall next to him, seemingly untiring.
Then a cool hole appeared in the wall.
“Strategic strategy!!”
Knight Adolf followed him quickly.
Woorur-
After that, a group of men followed in.
***
‘I’m tired.’
I took a deep breath and wiped the flesh off the front of my helmet.
The organization was almost finished.
Stupidly enough, the guys weren’t all grouped together, but rather were all separated. I could take them out easier than I thought by leading them around and beating them up one by one.
‘Didn’t you think the knights would get together and fight?’
The black mass that appeared to be the head of ‘Hoe’ was still standing on the other side of the wall, doing nothing but watching.
‘Are you irrational?’
I shook my hand at the heavy presence I felt even though there was still some distance left.
Seeing that the leader didn’t move even when his subordinates were dying, it didn’t seem like a very good group.
Below him, dark magicians wearing black cloths moved busily. In their hands were knights flying somewhere on their bodies, and they pushed him into the black mass as if they were throwing him into a garbage dump.
Then, there was also someone who was sucked into the lump while saying, ‘Uh-huh…’
‘Can’t we just leave it alone?’
I adjusted my helmet as I watched the man standing still beyond the wall.
Looking at the child sitting still, I didn’t think he would ask.
If you look closely, it looks similar to slime and is cute.
In him, there appeared to be a bud that would serve as a new landmark for the Cassadic Castle.
“Strategic strategy!!”
A voice shouted from behind.
‘I told you, you ignorant bastards, this is strategic cooperation.’
Perhaps because they were made up of only low-level knights who had come all the way to the outskirts in pursuit of a tournament, they were seriously ignorant.
I turned my gaze back to the black slime.
The guy was still sitting there doing nothing, but the aura he was giving off was suspicious.
‘I guess I’ll have to clean it up though.’
It wasn’t cute enough to be a mascot, and the residents might have been told to get the hideous thing out of their backyards.
‘If you actually lose, it might just be a piece of shit.’
I believed in his character. I believed that such a cute guy wouldn’t be the type of trash who would stay still when his subordinates were hit and then explode when he was hit.
Knock knock.
When I turned my head when someone knocked next to me, I saw a blood-covered, blood-soaked, cult inquisitor looking up at me.
As I pointed at the black mass with my finger, it seemed as if he was asking when I would catch it.
‘This kid… is excited.’
Unlike his usual cloudy eyes, they were shining brightly.
That was when.
The bastard started to move.
Kkwaaa …
A silent scream, incomparably louder than before, spread out and white circles appeared randomly on the guy’s face.
A red dot appeared right in the center of the white circle, and the red dot that had been rolling around from side to side looked down.
‘That’s not cute.’
The guy wasn’t a good landmark, as there might be visitors with trypophobia.
Shut up!!
At that moment, the black slime raised both hands.
In an instant, the sky was obscured.
“Assemble!!!”
I shouted loudly and grabbed my sword.
“I···Strategic strategy!!”
“Strategic strategy!!”
The stupid knights swarmed around me, shouting as if they were reciting some kind of spell. Now I see that they’ve gathered quite a few of them.
A huge black mass descended from the sky, like a mythical giant wielding a sword.
In an instant, I became broke and swallowed dry saliva as I calculated the amount.
‘Should I take it out here? No, cutting off the arm is not enough…’
Although it had excellent performance, the problem was that it was slow.
“Strategic Collaboration!!!”
At that moment, a scream-like cry erupted from behind.
Strategic collaboration!!
At the shouts that followed, a blue light appeared on the knights’ swords.
The weapons of the heretic inquisitors emanated white light.
A mixture of blue and white blocked out the black.
Crackle crackle-.
The black color split with an unpleasant sound.
Grow up!
My heart felt relieved at the cries of the black slime, which seemed strangely mixed with pain.
“I can’t stand it anymore! The curse is getting stronger!!”
The abbot shouted urgently. Judging from the double stream of blood flowing from his thick nose, it seemed that he was not faking it.
He nodded and stared straight ahead.
There were strange looking monsters, corpses, and maggots everywhere. And then there was the black mass behind them.
It was simple.
Kill the giant black slime and you’re done.
It was a time when spirit was needed.
“Not my yard!!”
I raised my sword and shouted loudly.
“I···not my yard!!”
After repeating this a few times, I heard a satisfying response from behind.
“Follow me-!!”
I kicked the ground.
He cut the corpse in half with its mouth wide open and broke the hard bones that looked like they had been drinking a lot of soy milk.
He grabbed the head of the giant bastard and ripped it up and down. Cold black blood seeped through his gauntlets, cooling his hot body slightly.
“Follow me-!!”
I moved my hands again, shouting to myself to pull myself together.
Ripped, cut, and torn.
How far did they advance? Corpses were hanging on both sides.
Then, with a ripping sound, the corpses were split in half.
He was a retired heretic inquisitor.
The old man nodded at me and I nodded back.
“Follow me-!!”
I shouted again, grabbed my sword, and advanced.
There was no need to hesitate because the goal was clear.
***
‘Is that really a person?’
Knight Adolf stuck out his tongue as he looked at the broad back.
Deokgu literally crushed those who blocked his way as he advanced. Even though he was at the very front and had to face them head-on, he did not stop.
Just move forward.
It was only forward movement.
The wide, unwavering back that did not stop or shake was a great milestone for those behind.
At some point, the knights, the inquisitors, and the priests all shut their mouths and followed the man’s back.
Black blood flowed like a river beneath their feet, and their flesh crunched like rocks with every step they took.
The closer I got, the stronger the curse became. The pressure on my body grew stronger and stronger, and my legs began to tremble, but I didn’t stop.
I just looked at his broad back, gritted my teeth, and followed him forward.
Growwowowowow-!!
“Pattern Ada!!”
He shouted out some fancy words that I didn’t know the meaning of.
“Pattern A!!!”
The knights took up their swords, rolling the delicious words in their mouths.
Kuuuung-!!
A mixture of aura and divine power blocked him.
Although his hand holding the sword was sore and his mind was confused from using his aura to its limit, Adolf opened his eyes wide.
“Follow me!!”
The voice of the man at the front was still loud and his back was firm and unwavering.
At that moment, my eyes met with the man next to me. He seemed to be an inquisitor, wearing silver armor, and his face was covered in fatigue. His feet were shaking as if he might collapse at any moment.
“Nanat my yard!”
Adolf shouted.
“Not my yard···.”
The man turned his head to her and answered with a weary smile.
Adolf pushed the man’s back.
So they took another step forward.
As I got closer to the black mass, my body became heavier, my vision became blurred, and I felt out of breath as if I was drowning.
‘It’s really bad.’
Just by getting close, I, a knight, am under this kind of pressure…
I stopped because my legs wouldn’t move anymore and I raised my head.
Beyond the hazy, misty vision, as if filled with steam.
Numerous white eyes were looking down on the blackness that filled the world.
That huge thing had a heavy presence that made you shiver just by looking at it.
The man in front was still advancing toward him.
It was absurd. He kept moving forward as if nothing had happened in a situation where even the knight himself could not hold out.
Doesn’t he feel this pressure?
thud.
The knights and inquisitors surrounding them fell one by one.
Adolf held on with the determination not to fall even if he could not advance.
The man finally arrived in front of the black mass.
I went in without hesitation.
“I…not my yard.”
Looking at him, Adolf muttered softly.
I don’t know what it means, but I like the feel of it.
***
‘Those knights… Anyway, they’re weaklings.’
I clicked my tongue and readjusted my grip on the sword.
There was only darkness around.
I feel like I’m left alone in the world.
‘No, there was one.’
An old man I had never seen before was naked and eating something. Upon closer inspection, I saw that it was a human arm. Judging by the thickness of the arm, it looked like he had wielded a sword in his lifetime.
The old man continued to devour him, without even taking a breath, as if he was eating something really delicious.
Around the old man, what appeared to be human flesh and bones were piled up like a small mountain.
It looked like a devil. It was a demon that kept eating until it eventually devoured its own flesh.
Then the old man suddenly stopped moving.
The old man raised his head as if he was about to break, making a strange sound.
The old man’s eyes had only the whites of their eyes.
The old man sniffed for a moment, then raised the corners of his mouth, which were covered in blood.
“It smells delicious.”
I smiled brightly without realizing it.
It sucks, but the old man looked delicious to me too.
The strange and hideous thing embedded in the old man’s chest looked very sweet, like a fine petrification.
