Translator: AkazaTL
Pr/Ed: Sol IX
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Chapter 65 : Dragon Tooth Soldier (1)
Thud thud thud thud-
True to the Balak Clan’s reputation for excellent mobility, the gap between the Wolf Riders and the nobles was reduced in an instant.
“Ugh, ugh…….”
On the other hand, compared to the shrinking distance, the nobles’ expressions turned increasingly paler.
“Hiyah!”
Among them, there were nobles who, disregarding the consequences, hastily turned their horse heads and ran away.
In this field of chaos dominated by fear and anger, there was only one person keeping their sanity.
‘This should be enough.’
It was only Rishu Vispon.
“Kuaaagh! Kill them all!”
Around the ti the pattern engraved on the forehead of the Tiger Beastkin warrior standing at the front beca clearly visible.
Rishu stroked the ring she was wearing on her finger.
Then,
Woooooo-
An ominous sound resembling the wailing of a spectre rang out from the center of the ring.
Crrrack-
The ground started to split.
“Bark!”
“Woah, woah, stop. All forces stop!”
The vibration that started in front of Rishu soon spread throughout the entire plain.
A situation where it was hard for the wolves to even take a step.
The Clan Leader ordered the entire force to stop marching for a mont.
Screech-
However, it didn’t take long for it to be revealed that the judgnt to stop the march was a misjudgnt.
Gurgle.
Along with an unpleasant sound, through the cracks of the split earth, tangled bone fragnts grabbed the ankles of the wolves.
Wrists made of blunt bone fragnts.
Ribs revealed desolately.
And the lower body and tailbone settled below them.
“Wh-what! This is!”
“Yelp, yelp!”
Seeing the human figures made of bone blocking their path, the Clan Leader reflexively swung the greatsword he was holding, but
Clang!
The greatsword bounced off the Skeleton Soldier’s ribs futilely.
Thud!
“Yelp!”
Directly hit on the head by the bone shield wielded by the Skeleton Soldier, the wolf collapsed with a thud, vomiting blood from its snout and ears.
Although the wolf carrying the Clan Leader had a massive physique close to a monster,
In front of the Skeleton Soldier of enormous size reaching 3m, it vomited blood and sprawled out with a single blow.
“Uoooo-”
The Skeleton Soldier, vomiting an ominous cry from inside its empty eye sockets, swung its bone sword with terrifying strength, and
“Damn it!”
Although the Clan Leader succeeded in sohow blocking the bone sword with his greatsword, he couldn’t withstand the shock and was bounced off.
Just before the Clan Leader, bounced into the air, falling to the ground,
Imdiately, the Skeleton Soldier’s tailbone wrapped around the Leader’s body in mid-air.
Click, clack.
Sharp bone fragnts sprouted out as the bone joints composing the tailbone twisted.
Squeltch!
“Ugh…….”
And they pierced straight through the leather armor the Clan Leader was wearing.
The Clan Leader, who beca a honeycomb in an instant, turned into a lump of at after spitting out a groan once.
“Le-Leader…….”
The Balak Clan mbers, who confird the Leader dying futilely, stared ahead with blank eyes.
At that mont,
Screech-
Along with another creepy ominous sound, a second and third Skeleton Soldier split the ground and appeared.
A short while later, the number of Skeleton Soldiers that appeared was four hundred in total.
“Run away!”
“Awoo-”
Like those retaining the instincts of beasts, the Balak Clan realized imdiately that they were no match for the Skeleton Soldiers.
A desperate escape began imdiately.
However…….
Whoosh-
The escape also didn’t go their way.
The Skeleton Archers deployed in the second row started pulling the strings of magic bows imbued with bluish energy.
“Aagh!”
In an instant, nearly half of the clan mbers collapsed, pierced by arrows.
By the ti the barely surviving mbers reached the other side of the plain,
Crack-
“Th-this can’t be.”
The ground split once again, and a group of Skeleton Soldiers appeared again.
The number of Skeleton Soldiers that appeared blocking the retreat path was about two hundred.
Although it wasn’t that large a number, just the fact that giant guys over 3m tall were lined up in a row completely blocked the clan mbers’ retreat path.
“This…… Shit…….”
Sighs mixed with despair burst out from the mouths of the Balak Clan mbers.
A snort burst out from Rishu’s mouth, who watched that sight clearly through a telescope.
“Then shall we finish this?”
The mont Rishu’s pink lips touched the ring,
The ring vomited ominous light once again.
“Uooooong-”
As if responding to that light, the Skeleton Soldiers blocking the clan mbers’ retreat path started charging.
In front of the monsters 3m tall rushing toward them, the clan mbers ended up closing their eyes unwittingly.
***
It didn’t take even 30 minutes for the battle, no, the one-sided slaughter to finish.
Truly an overwhelming difference in power.
The Beastkin warriors numbering 1,500 beca bloody lumps without being able to offer decent resistance even once.
“It is our army’s overwhelming victory. Don’t you agree?”
Rishu looked back at the nobles with that sa bright smile, but no one answered.
They were sickened by the slaughter that unfolded before their eyes.
No, before that.
Could those monsters made of bone really be called ‘our side’?
“…….”
The nobles, who witnessed a sight too unrealistic, couldn’t rejoice even though they achieved a great victory.
Leaving the nobles who had lost their wits standing there, Rishu smiled brightly and started the work she had to do first.
“Are these the ones? The foolish cowards who couldn’t endure a mont of difficulty and ran away before the battle even started.”
Before her, the nobles who attempted to escape before the Skeleton Soldiers appeared were kneeling while bound.
Their escape attempt had been blocked by the Simmach knights who were guarding the rear of the procession.
“It is truly regrettable. Even though we achieved such a dazzling victory, I have to condemn our comrades, no, those who ‘were’ comrades with my own hands.”
The mont the word condemnation ca out of Rishu’s mouth, the complexions of the bound nobles turned truly ghastly pale.
“Really, truly regrettable, but my personality is such that I can’t work together with despicable cowards, you see.”
Rishu, with an expression completely opposite to her words of regret, signaled the Simmach knights with her eyes.
“Madam, sa-save us!”
“Madam Vispon, please! Considering our affection over the generations……!”
Sounds of begging while pouring out tears and snot rang out, but
“Kugh!”
“Gurgle-”
As if mocking the words poured out with desperate feelings, soon their heads bid farewell to their torsos.
“Hiccup!”
A hiccup filled with terror leaked out from the mouth of a certain noble watching this sight.
The noble, who hurriedly covered his mouth, lowered his head deeply and trembled.
If their patience had been lacking even by a hair’s breadth.
Among the headless torsos rolling in that place right now, theirs would have been mixed in too.
“Ugh…….”
Since the nobles of Zodiac were tied by various blood and regional relations, there were several who were related to those who were beheaded.
But despite that, none among them protested to Rishu.
Because with the actions of last night and just a mont ago, Rishu had sufficiently shown that she didn’t have much rcy,
Clack, screech-
And through the Skeleton Soldiers faithfully following her orders, she clearly imprinted that the difference in power was also incomparable.
“Fufu.”
Was she happy about the fact that the trump card prepared over a long ti worked properly?
Rishu burst into laughter covering her face with a silk fan.
Laughter containing sincerity is shown after quite a long ti since Redin’s person was taken away.
However, Rishu failed to notice.
“…….”
Just one person among the nobles avoiding her gaze with pale faces.
There was a figure capturing the appearance and abilities of the Skeleton Soldiers in his vision with wide-open eyes.
Ssshhh-
It seed as if the sound of a snake flicking its tongue could be heard amidst the wind mixed with the sll of blood.
***
Even though the night was already deep, the light in my temporary residence located in the Inner Castle of Adela was not turned off.
On my desk, books recorded in ancient languages and papers written with Rune characters that I was in the middle of organizing were piled up here and there.
Drip.
From the middle of the gap in the heaped materials,
The sound of the teapot showing its bottom was heard.
I, having emptied the last teacup, leaned back in the chair and closed my eyes.
‘As expected, the materials here are insufficient. If it were the Empire’s Central Library or the Magic Kingdom’s Royal Museum, there would be a bit more useful materials…….’
I, having detected suspicious energy from Abysin, imdiately went into preparing counterasures.
But regrettably, the process of gathering materials needed for preparation wasn’t very smooth.
‘Dragon Tooth Soldier, huh…….’
Dragon Tooth Soldier.
Soldiers of authority created using traces left in this world by the ancient existence, the Dragon Race.
I also had never faced Dragon Tooth Soldiers directly throughout my past and current lives.
But combining that ruthless brute strength and appearance, and the dark energy they were emitting, their identity must be Dragon Tooth Soldiers.
‘Quite impressive. To summon remnants of ancient monsters in a small country like this…… Even if she sohow obtained the dium for Dragon Tooth Soldiers, creating them wouldn’t have been an easy task.’
Was it instinct as a mage?
Curiosity about the creation process of Dragon Tooth Soldiers suddenly raised its head in my mind.
But I soon showed a bitter smile and shook my head.
‘Right now, establishing counterasures against them is the priority over my personal curiosity.’
The number of Dragon Tooth Soldiers confird through the battle was approximately six hundred.
Judging by the appearance shown in the battle, each individual Dragon Tooth Soldier seed to possess abilities surpassing the Apostles of Kelbes who raided Reichart previously.
‘Probably each individual Dragon Tooth Soldier possesses abilities between a normal Sub-Dragon and a Royal Guard Sub-Dragon. A whopping 600 of such guys.’
My brow furrowed.
Whether in quality or quantity, Rishu’s Dragon Tooth Soldiers were more threatening than the Sub-Dragon pack.
I remained lost in thought with my eyes closed like that for a while.
‘It’s useless to agonize alone anymore,’
After so more ti passed, I organized my thoughts and got up from the seat.
No matter how much I thought about it, the materials I could obtain on my own in the current situation were absurdly insufficient.
But fortunately, there was one ‘expert’ in this field by my side.
‘1:30 AM.’
I checked the clock before leaving the room.
It was quite late, but I wasn’t particularly worried.
It was a ti when ordinary people would be asleep by now, but it was still early for the ‘expert’ I was going to visit to fall asleep.
Probably she would be performing ‘her own ritual’ necessary before taking sleep right about now.
“Could you tell the Young Lady I have sothing to say to her?”
“Yes! Understood. Young Master.”
The maid, who made a surprised expression montarily seeing appear at Sherazade’s residence at a late hour, soon nodded.
Pat pat pat-
“Oh my, oh my…….”
In her own way, she was pretending to mutter to herself, but the energy of excitent dwelling in the maid’s voice was conveyed intact to my ears.
Late hour, excited voice, flushed cheeks from imagining whatever.
Probably among the Reichart maids tomorrow morning, pink rumors surrounding Young Master Hein and Young Lady Sherazade would be rife.
“The Young Lady asks you to co inside.”
“Okay. I have sothing urgent to discuss with the Young Lady, so you wait here.”
Leaving the maid to wait in that spot, I passed the corridor and arrived in front of Sherazade’s room door.
“It’s . Can I co in?”
“Aang.”
What was heard instead of an answer was ‘that sound’ which had beco quite familiar now.
I opened the door without waiting for a separate answer.
“Whaf brings you here, Mafter?”
The first thing that caught my eye was smoked ham piled high on a tray and salad filling a bowl to the brim.
And Sherazade who had just shoved an extra-large sandwich into her mouth.
“…….”
I had expected it, but at the appearance that simply didn’t suit the current ti, I forgot my words for a mont.
“No! What I’m making right now is mine. I’ll do my Master’s separately, so wait.”
Sherazade, who accepted my silence with a different aning, started moving her hands busily while tightly clutching the sandwich she was holding.
“I don’t need it.”
I, having expressed refusal with a firm tone, sat opposite Sherazade and brought up the business imdiately.
“You, anyway, you are a Dragon, right?”
“Yeah. Wait! What do you an ‘anyway’, ‘anyway’!”
Sherazade, who nodded unwittingly at my question, flared up, but I ignored her reaction and nodded.
Although Sherazade wasn’t a pure Dragon who could create Dragon Tooth Soldiers, anyway, she was a descendant of the Dragon Race.
Then the probability that information heard through her mouth would be much more useful than records stuffed in books would be high.
I said in a firm voice.
“Tell every fact you know about Dragon Tooth Soldiers.”
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