Episode 207. The Fox’s Grudge (1)
‘I see, something happened.’
As Ruska wandered around the middle of Mount Purgatory, he immediately sensed danger.
A large force of troops can be felt advancing outside the village.
Each of the dark spirits, dragons, and water people groups are at the top of the national power.
However, there are people in this academy who can command troops on par with them.
`Are you desperate to ruin the Great Sage’s anniversary?`
Even Ruska, who always moved his body, knows a little bit of history.
The great sage who bestowed grace upon the innocent ended up making many enemies in the process.
A group that was driven out of the harsh borders after causing a disturbance in the imperial territory.
Those guys are advancing now.
It happened just as the spirit king Shaikhar had said.
`How on earth did that Radon guy get in contact with the Spirit King…`
I don’t know how this connection came about, but the Spirit King said that on the last day of the festival, the dead would reappear.
When Ruska found out who one of them was, she couldn’t help but be shocked.
He is now gone, but he is my greatest mortal enemy. He is someone who can even defeat Envyel.
I still remember that smell.
“…!!”
A terrible stench stings the tip of my nose.
Ruska, who inherited the blood of the Yoho tribe, had a keen sense of smell, and through this, he was able to distinguish between people.
Naturally, the worse the smell, the stronger the bad luck.
Ruska aimed her bow in the direction of the foul smell.
Countless arrows made of aura rain down.
With each shot, an arrow with a power that surpassed his maximum strength during his first year of high school accurately hit an invisible enemy.
“…!!”
At that moment, he who had been hiding took out his sword and struck down the numerous arrows with it.
He neutralizes the aura contained in the arrows with his own pure sword energy, completely disabling them.
The skilled swordsman, who had reached an overwhelming level of skill, smiled and exclaimed in admiration.
“Hahaha! This time, my participation in the tactical demonstration wasn’t so bad. I’m going to lose the feeling of being one with the forest.”
“No matter how hard you try to hide it, you can never hide that disgusting smell. Talema Endhol Papiyas.”
Talema, once the king of the Papyrus Kingdom and a so-called warmonger.
His mother, Angela, and even himself, all once had their lives thrown into the abyss because of that guy.
Her mother was treated like a puppet and died in the line of duty, Angela was treated as a test subject, and she herself was treated as a soldier.
Just thinking about what my family went through at that guy’s hands made me lose my mind.
“Talemar…? Haha, it seems you know me.”
But the guy didn’t remember himself. It was quite a ridiculous situation.
“Do you resent me?”
“Can’t you tell just by looking at my face?”
“I’m sorry, but I have no memory of you. Since leaving you, I have completely lost all memory of my life.”
Talema, who has lost even the emotions of that time, says that he feels no emotion even when looking at the materials about himself while he was alive.
“All I can do is run wild until I feel that emotion. I guess that’s also my instinct.”
He was already known as a bloodthirsty man since his lifetime.
He commits murder not because he is a corpse, but because his body remembers.
“Then don’t you want to regain your memories?”
“how.”
“They say that those who are revived by the RE-Union recall their memories from before they die.”
“so?”
As Talema raised the corners of her mouth, Ruska opened her eyes fiercely and aimed her arrow.
“I’ll remind you!”
At the same time as that shout, a rain of arrows comes pouring down once again.
At that moment, the tip of Ruska’s nose detected the scent of many people.
No, it was a corpse, not a person.
Choaaaah-
They came out from hiding behind Talema and each countered one of Ruska’s arrows.
The wind pressure created by a sword, axe, or spear imbued with an aura.
And a shield deployed by magic.
Even to them, who had defended themselves against the arrows in various ways, there was a similar smell to Talema.
“It’s not even Halloween!”
Although they appeared to be moving normally, they were all corpses.
People who have once left this world. People who should never exist in this world.
The moment they appeared, raindrops began to fall.
“Why did it have to rain?”
The increasingly heavier rain caused spray in many places.
Everything was washed away there, and Ruska’s outstanding sense of smell was paralyzed.
“Wait a minute. This rain can’t be…”
No, your sense of smell is not dead yet.
It was just that the unpleasant smell of raindrops drowned out the other smells.
“You’re quick-witted. Have you heard of Diablo Lane?”
A spell known as the Devil’s Rain.
It floats a huge cloud in the sky over a certain area and causes it to rain curses.
If a normal person were to be exposed to those raindrops for a long period of time, they would die within 15 minutes.
“Are you planning to kill them all?”
“That’s exactly what our shareholders intended to do in the first place. Don’t you think it would be fun to imagine what would happen if everyone died in Alighieri, where so many people were gathered?”
With the blessed body of the Yohyo Tribe, Ruska can withstand rain.
But other people didn’t even form magical powers in their bodies, let alone their physical bodies.
It’s like they were thrown into a room filled with poison gas without any protective gear.
“A dog like a baby!”
When Talema made an expression of enjoyment, Ruska showed extreme disgust.
Until recently, she was the type of person who didn’t care what happened to others, but she changed a lot after the Gumiho incident.
As she searched for a reason to live, Ruska was naturally able to realize what was important in the world.
The Talema before Ruska’s eyes, with all of her personalities improved, looked like a disgusting being, like a rotten tomato crawling with worms.
“We can’t stop now. Even if they kill us, they won’t stop unless we change the weather!”
A large number of corpse soldiers rushed in, holding their weapons.
They are just soldiers, but most of them were adventurers in their lifetime, so their sword-wielding skills were quite impressive.
“Ugh!”
The path of the sword was swung without any errors. There was not a single point of tangle even when multiple people attacked at the same time.
But I was naturally avoiding all those sword attacks.
The axe flying from the left is deflected by hitting the surface with the elbow, and at the same time, the sword flying from the right is blocked with the bow.
Choaaaah!-
The wind magic coming from the front was blocked by grabbing the corpse that was attacking from behind and using it as a shield.
“Blood wind!”
The blade of Ruska’s sword, which had turned into a double-edged sword, glowed red.
As Ruska accelerated at a rapid pace, the corpses also accelerated, concentrating their magical power on their legs.
It is divided into dozens of sums, leaving behind various afterimages.
Boom! Kwajik!-
Hundreds of trees are chopped into pieces like leeks.
Dozens of huge rocks are piled up like an onion.
Hundreds of crackling sounds spread out at once.
Although massive destruction was taking place, the movements of the perpetrators could not be detected.
This phenomenon, which seemed like a sword fight between transparent giants, occurred for just one second.
And in the moment that 5 seconds passed… countless necks flew into the air.
Crunch rustle-
In an instant, red afterimages rushed between the corpses.
Following the corpses holding swords, the corpse of the wizard who was supporting from a distance is also split in half.
Most of the bodies were instantly destroyed.
“Ugh… Ugh…”
After knocking them down in that short time, Ruska stopped accelerating and took a breath.
However, his body was covered in scars from the fight.
Raindrops soaked into the wound, causing drops of water mixed with blood to flow onto the floor.
`Damn, these guys alone are like this…!`
They were all adventurers and mercenaries who had been around for a long time.
Considering that he had simply cut them all down with just his swordsmanship, it was not a shame that he was covered in wounds.
The problem was none other than Talema.
It’s hard enough dealing with these guys, so how am I supposed to take down that monster called Talema?
Moreover, the procession of corpses did not end there.
“You fight better than I expected. This year’s tactical demonstration participants aren’t bad either.”
“Ugh…!”
“But can this large number be sustained?”
It seemed like quite a lot had been knocked down, but some were still there.
This is a quantity that would require several more battles like the one just before.
grasp!-
As the corpses rushed at him again, he raised his sword and blocked them.
As expected, they were once powerful men, and just blocking the sword would make the castle tremble.
Three people were pressuring Ruska at the same time, but it was not to the extent that Ruska, who boasted the strong physical strength of the Yoho tribe, could not withstand it.
“Hey buddy! Do you know what the weather is like now?”
“That kid!”
I felt angry when I saw Talema talking nonsense while fighting.
But for some reason he was up on a tree.
Even other corpses were piled up somewhere.
Except for these three who are blocking Ruska’s movements.
“When it rains like this, the ground will be wet, and the ground that has become so wet…”
Support support support!-
“omg!”
Powerful lightning flowed from the wands of the wizard corpses, starting from Talema’s hand.
Several blasts of lightning magic, at least of medium-level, penetrated the ground.
Ruska tried to dodge right away, but these three guys kept blocking her.
“shit…!”
At that moment, a tremendous shock occurred.
In a flash of light, the trees disappeared and the ridges collapsed.
A powerful blast of lightning magic caused the mountainside to lose its shape and collapse into a landslide.
Countless piles of rocks and dirt surge in like waves, engulfing the village.
The hot spring street nearby was swept away by a landslide.
“Ha! I wonder if I can survive this.”
Talema, pulling his face out of the buried dirt, said with a smile.
It appears that a part of the mountain that was at a fairly high altitude collapsed and floated down here.
I was just trying to shake off the dirt on my clothes.
“Surely you wouldn’t have avoided it.”
Suddenly, something appeared before Talema’s eyes as he looked up at the sky.
A fox girl appeared, strutting across the dark sky, shining as brightly as the sun.
And the girl was holding Ruska, who was almost hit by lightning magic.
“Phew~ I almost got in big trouble.”
“Angela?”
“Sister, are you really surprised?”
“Of course I couldn’t help but be surprised!”
Angela darted in and saved her just before she was struck by lightning.
Angela’s nine tails were endowed with special divine powers, and they allowed her to float in the air.
Angela, who saved her sister with a quick flight, took some of her own blood and healed her wounds. She said as if she was disappointed.
“Do you still consider me a protection target?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know?”
Angela’s presence was a turning point in Ruska’s life.
The sense of urgency to protect his younger brother grew stronger as he became more alert and determined not to lose his only family.
“It’s the same for me. My sister is the only family I have.”
“….”
“We’ve been trying to become close friends over and over again, but there’s one thing we haven’t tried yet.”
We’ve already done everything we could to meet up and talk or play.
In everyday life, that is.
“This fight isn’t just your problem.”
Angela opened her eyes sharply and looked at Talema.
It was their turn to return the pain their sister had suffered.
“Yeah, you’re right.”
“But, unnie, you’ve gotten heavier than before.”
“What the hell!”
Ruska raised her eyebrows at the sensitive remark.
There was a time when I suddenly wanted to say something and ruin the mood.
Swish!-
Chorrrr!-
Wind magic and magic missiles flew towards us.
Angela avoided them all with her skillful flying.
“You’re not the only one who’s been playing around! I still feel like what happened back then happened yesterday!”
Since the Gumiho incident, Angela has had nightmares many times.
The temptation that came from the guilt of having tried to harm good people. I have been developing my spiritual power to shake it off.
Not as a monster fox with an evil aura, but as a strong saint with divine power.
“Today is… the moment to make up for what happened back then.”
It was raining like this back then too.
The one who spread the curse and made people fall asleep.
But after becoming a saint, she was able to spread the opposite attribute.
“Like this!!”
Angela, who had reached the skies above Alighieri, began to shine and sparkle.
Diablo Lane, who takes human life.
Even though I couldn’t change the weather, I could emit light that purified all the raindrops.
“It’s a shame, but I’ll leave it to you to deal with that guy.”
“okay.”
“And as I said before, you are not alone, sister.”
Angela said so and threw Ruska in the direction of Talema.
Meanwhile, Talema, who was watching the scene, made a dumbfounded expression.
“How long can the light of purification last?”
“Well, that’s true.”
Then, someone spoke from behind him and he swung his sword.
He spoke hastily, ducking his head to avoid the sword.
“Okay, wait a minute! It’s me! It’s me!”
“No, aren’t you Prince Charis?”
Talema was taken aback by his sudden appearance.
The life force that I feel from him is clearly that of Prince Charis.
But was Charis’ skill that great enough to dodge the sword attack just now?
“What are you doing here, Prince?”
“What is it?”
A fishing rod was held in Charis’ hand.
Talema just tilted his head at the plain-looking fishing rod.
Choaaaak!!-
The fishing rod was swung as fast as a lightning bolt.
“Today is the day to catch a big fish.”
The fishing rod felt the energy of two spirits, and Karis’s eyes opened wide at the blow that was filled with tremendous power.
I barely managed to avoid the blow by kicking the ground.
But one of the arms attached to his shoulder disappeared.
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