Chapter 280:
A soldier whose retreat route was blocked looked back at his pursuer and asked.
“… How did you know?”
“It stinks.”
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu too
too of
the ghosts that had been infiltrating the city for several days were eradicated .
The enemy inside really existed.
Even in the Central Army, a large number of ghosts were captured who were actually borrowing the appearance of dead soldiers and posing as those soldiers.
After that day, the transferees staying in Songjo made their attitude clear.
Approximately one-third of the former troops left the Song Dynasty, and the remaining personnel cooperated with the central army.
It could be seen that they participated in the training with some enthusiasm, but in reality, it was just verbal training and it was about adapting to the organization.
Still, funny but small benefits were given to the remaining transferees.
It is said that they have been given various adventures related to the defense of the city, so it would not be a loss if they could save their lives in this task.
Wow!
Whoa!
Kotaro fiercely attacks Snowfall. The sword he held in his hand was a wooden sparring sword.
After dodging the wooden sword by bending his back, Kang Seol pulled Kotaro’s neck with his leg and broke his posture.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
!
The blade of Snowfall’s hand reached Kotaro’s neck, but did not go any further.
“Huh… heh… thank you for your hard work.”
“Thank you for your effort!”
Transferees bowing their heads.
The transferees’ attitude toward snowfall has changed a lot in a short period of time. Just like people training at a dojang, they chased after Kang Seol, trying to learn at least one more thing.
– Oh, I don’t have anything to teach you lol
– So you’re a summoner?
“Wow… did you see it?”
“How does it move like that? “I couldn’t do it.”
“Is it okay? “Isn’t that person the one with the highest score among the transferees?”
“Maybe not? “They say other towns fight without a day off… but this town takes a break, right?”
“I see…”
Pandea’s worldview is that there are wizards who use martial arts and swordsmen who use magic.
The only relevant abilities were derivations of derivations, so if you wanted to obtain them, you could easily obtain them.
Since all abilities followed that basic formula, there was no need to get frustrated if things didn’t work out. As their abilities rise, the first thing they will think of is how to use them, so they too will reach this point someday.
Kang Seol took the time to briefly interact with the transferees.
There wasn’t anything to gain from them, but the central army and the former soldiers could mix together more smoothly if there was a link called snowfall, so they took their time steadily.
* * *
The afternoon break is over and the time for the regular meeting held every day since being dispatched here has returned.
The meeting was run by the Central Army staff, and various agenda items were discussed depending on the defensive situation.
“A total of forty-two… There were that many ghosts in this small castle, which is why it was so crowded.”
Qiu yawned and said.
The staff spoke about matters related to him.
“The boundary amulets you sent have been placed in various places.”
Jamard clearly showed himself as a great shaman through this incident. Not only is he a combat enthusiast who is good at fighting, but he is also equipped with wisdom and martial arts.
Maybe this is all because of a strange scripture called Dark Living Magic. Jamard felt this too, and occasionally suggested to Kang Seol that he should look up the magic scriptures.
Seolhong asked.
“What about additional support?”
“The central government says it will take some time to dispatch a shaman.”
“Things have gotten a little bigger… what can we do?”
It was just as Seolhong said.
A hypothesis that a ghost may exist behind the monster movements that are taking place throughout Khan.
Seolhong reported this to Yonggung through the recorders and was informed of the progress of the situation through immediate processing.
“It seems like the ghosts have decided to do this. “It is said that traces of ghosts continue to be found in other cities.”
“Umm… that’s not good…”
We talked about a few more issues.
“Is it possible to repair the iron cannon in the castle?”
“As you ordered, we are currently undergoing repairs. However, the destruction range is too wide, so I don’t think it is suitable for defensive purposes.”
“What about the barrier?”
“We are reinforcing it, but… the citizens are exhausted.”
“It would be worth it…. Not only did we take a lot of damage from the air raid, but we also have to prepare for the next air attack…” You
might have thought that you had an advantage because you only had to defend, but in reality, that wasn’t the case at all.
While the enemy was aware of this side, this side did not know when and where the enemy would attack.
In short, it means continuing to be in a very tense state.
It might be okay for trained soldiers, but it was a fear that would be difficult for ordinary citizens to endure.
“Resources are limited… it is difficult to take a long time…”
“They also suffered great damage in the air raid, so I think it is correct to say that their strengths are similar…” the
staff said. While doing so, he saw Biran sitting next to Kang Seol, drinking something with a serious expression.
“What do you drink while on duty?”
“Yongseok bought it for me and strongly recommended it, so I had no choice…”
Biran blinked one eye several times towards Kangseol.
“… Isn’t that something you usually do without being noticed by others?”
“I will correct it.”
“No, don’t correct me for that… um… no. “What about interrogation?”
“It didn’t blow in the end.”
“Wasn’t there enough torture?”
“If you actually see it, it’s so devastating. I threw up as soon as I got there. The torture experts dispatched from Cannes were really amazing… They were really mean…”
“It’s something that can’t be helped in order to save even a few more citizens’ lives.”
Kang Seol quietly listened to the meeting and was lost in thought.
‘Where do they come from?’
This word here has two meanings.
Ghosts that were enough to cause trouble throughout Khan suddenly appeared. First, where did they come from? Second, how were they able to infiltrate the Song Dynasty?
“Could it have been over the castle wall?”
“I would have been found out. “The number of security forces remains quite large before and after the air raid, and fatigue has accumulated as a result.”
“Then you wouldn’t have been able to come in confidently through the castle gate.”
“… yes.”
Kang Seol, who was listening to Chiu and the staff talk, listened blankly for a while, and then remembered something and spoke straight to the staff.
“sewer.”
“… yes?”
“What if it seeped into here through the underground?”
“Sewage management is ongoing every day. If the person in charge noticed something wrong, I’m sure… Ah!”
“They are the ones who deceived even the transferees. “Obviously…”
The staff member’s eyes swiveled furiously.
Then, I looked through the documents and checked the list of ghosts that had been revealed.
“There is…”
the staff member said, pointing to the job of the man the ghost was imitating.
“There was a ghost dressed as the person in charge of the sewer purification facility!”
“I guess I’ll have to check.”
Chiu said.
“You mean there could be guys crawling under your feet right now? Ugh… Then, if we use explosives to explode the sewer…”
“Songjo will collapse.”
“yes? In the end, we have to find them and push them out without damaging the facility…”
Kang Seol said.
“Even if they used the sewers, there is no guarantee that the sewers were their base.”
The staff member nodded.
“The number of monsters that survived the supply alone would have filled the sewers. “That’s probably not their base.”
“Anyway, first we have to check if they actually used the sewer.”
“yes. Then who…”
Everyone’s eyes naturally turned to Snowfall.
* * *
The next day, Kang Seol reported to Seol Hong that he had discovered traces of monsters in the sewer through reconnaissance.
It felt like a strong smell had settled into my body, but the smell would go away in a few days.
More important than that was the whereabouts of monsters and ghosts.
“I didn’t even know they were right around the corner…”
“There were traces of use, but it definitely wasn’t a base. “The road led somewhere.”
“Hmm…”
While the staff was answering various questions to Seolhong, Seolhong seemed to have decided on his next move in his mind.
“Then let’s do it this way.”
The words that poured out of her mouth were not just a simple strategy.
“This side will hit first. “The first thing to do is to find out the base.”
“This is a dangerous idea!”
“why?”
The staff opposed the march, citing various reasons that were easy for Seolhong to understand. He looked as if he wanted others to disagree with Seolhong’s opinion.
However, Kang Seol and Chiu’s reaction was exactly the opposite of his wishes.
“great.”
“That’s a great idea.”
– Look at the expressions on the staff’s faces haha
– Don’t bother the civil servants, you guys!
– Let’s do it now!
– The staff is scheduled for a second-level special promotion.
The staff immediately intervened.
“If that many people were trapped in a small space, the damage would be severe! “If it collapses…”
“That many people? “We will maintain our defensive forces.”
“yes? “Then how are you going to go out to war?”
Seolhong looked at Chiwoo and Kangseol in silence.
“…Are you a genius?”
Chiu strongly agreed with Seolhong’s idea.
– Hahahahahahahahaha
– If you send only two people, that is ‘going out’.
– Infantry protect the house and tanks go to the battlefield!
“This is crazy. Seolhong, this matter is much more complicated than you think!”
Seolhong laughed.
“A true victory is when you can solve complex things simply.”
Even though that was what they said, there were a few people who followed Kang Seol and Chi Woo. Including Biran, there were three fighters who were good at chasing.
The number of people was three times more than the first time, but it was only 6 people.
Biran, holding his nose, followed along along the flowing sewage.
“Ugh… it smells disgusting.”
“Because it’s a sewer.”
“That… a more foul smell than can be described in words…”
“It must be the smell of a monster’s excrement. “This smell… must be close to Tichobi’s excrement.”
Ticobi was a lizard monster with smooth skin.
“How do you know that?”
“I’m interested in this.”
After those words, Biran walked a little away from Kangseol.
One of the transferees placed his hand on a drop of suspicious liquid placed in front of his feet.
Cook…
and took it to his mouth.
“Stop… I was wrong, please let me go back…”
Biran saw that and fell into a panic.
– Save me…
– Strange guys…
Jeon-ja chomped, savored the taste of the liquid, and said this.
“It’s bitter. It’s a bodily fluid. “It must have gone this way.”
“It seems like you came to the right place.”
“Let’s keep going.”
The transferees took more initiative than expected and took on this task. Kotaro was very disappointed that he could not follow along, but said that the other transferors he recommended would be much more helpful.
These were the transferees.
There
was no sign of anything nearby
.
“It all got out. Did you notice?”
“All the infiltrated ghosts were filtered out, so communication would have been cut off. “If I felt suspicious, I would have left right away.”
“Please, they must have left a trace…”
“I hope so.”
Snowfall was lost in thought as she quietly followed the chaser. The words that the ghost captured in the barracks divulged kept ringing in my mind.
– The Yasha has broken down the boundaries, so the ghost king will fall.
‘Could it be that there was a hole in the ghost world?’
Just as the home of spirits is the spirit world, the home of ghosts also existed.
That place is an area called the ghost world.
Common ghosts lived there.
In order not to invade human territory and not disappear.
I was concerned about the organized movements that such ghosts were carrying out throughout Cannes.
‘Hmm… How much does the yaksha have to do with this?’
Even if it is true that the yaksha broke the boundary, it may not have been intentional.
‘… Because yakshas are beings without reason.’
Could it be that we escaped from the control of snowfall for no reason?
In any case, you cannot judge anything rashly until you know the truth.
Whoa…
The group escaped out of the sewer.
The pursuer expressed his disapproval.
“Hmm… the traces are sparse and disjointed.”
“wait a minute!”
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of “Biran uses the wind of that day.]
[pulls out memories of the desired air in a certain range.]
Huuuuuuu!
It appeared as if a seal made of air had stood still.
“Did you have this talent?”
“I didn’t blow into your ears on purpose. “I’m breathing too much.”
“I understand.”
The trail led to a deep mountain path.
It is located a little far from the city, so to speak, it is almost like a mountain valley.
“Oh my god…”
Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrva
can even!
Wow!
Monsters that filled the valley.
The number seemed to be hundreds.
If the enemy’s scale was this large, it would be difficult to wipe it out without causing any damage, even if it was a snowfall.
Hundreds of monsters. Considering that the monsters were of different sizes, it was large enough to threaten Songjo.
Kang Seol conveyed this fact through his alter ego next to Seol Hong. The answer came right away.
– It was closer than I thought. So… what do you see around you?
Shoot…
a couple of abandoned houses with unusual doorknobs and a waterfall falling three times. The monsters were quenching their thirst with the water falling from the waterfall.
Seolhong relayed this story through his lieutenants.
– Find a citizen who knows at least one thing about the waterfall that falls over three times in the northwest valley among the houses with unusual doorknobs! hurry!
A brief commotion.
After about 10 minutes had passed, Seolhong spoke.
– The coordinates were specified. It was snowing so quickly that I had to get away from there and go back the way I came for about 5 minutes.
“Are you within range of the iron cannon?”
– Barely. It’s heavenly luck.
* * *
The ghosts that permeated the valley worked like shepherds herding sheep.
“I thought they would destroy themselves, but they became a nuisance.”
“Hehehe… Well, it’s only for a little while. Just swallow it slowly. “As long as the yaksha has broken its guard, we can target humans at any time.”
“But I don’t want to wait… I want to put something in my mouth quickly.”
“Giggles… Let’s wait for them to get tired and then go in.”
Hundreds of monsters and about 100 ghosts were literally invincible.
These are beings who were part of the ghost army a long time ago.
They were like the defeated remnants of the fallen legion.
They haven’t tasted human blood in a long time. Although I was that hungry, I learned to wait for a long time.
And even greater pleasure comes after a long thirst.
“You idiots! Should I be the leader of the humans instead of just standing there like that and thinking about shaking? “If you sacrifice a human to me every day, I will lend you a trick on your behalf.”
“Hehehe… Then just give me one arm and I’ll be the captain instead of you.”
Not all ghosts are obsessed with pleasure.
They also tend to follow someone who is a little wiser.
The leader of the group was better than them.
“Don’t make a fuss. What are you trying to do if someone hears you?”
“I ate everything on the mountain, so it’s okay!”
“Tsk… Anyway, stay quiet. “We are still investigating the situation.”
“But why do you have to be quiet? “I just have to kill them all, right?”
“Just kill all the idiots. “It’s because of the yaksha.”
“ah!”
“You must not be seen by the yaksha. “The yaksha will kill everyone it encounters.”
“that’s right! The yaksha is scary…”
“The yaksha is strong…”
For some reason, the ghosts were also afraid of the yaksha.
Why are they, who clearly followed the yaksha, afraid of the yaksha?
Right then.
The sky flashed with a strange light.
Hwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
“… what?”
“Ugh… the snow…”
Light poured down.
No, that wasn’t light.
fire.
It was fire.
“That’s… what…”
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Kiaaaaa!
“Aaaah!”
A thunderbolt fell from the sky.
Fireworks shot from the direction of Songjo.
Seolhong, who exploded a peony from his iron cannon, quietly muttered.
“Reduce to ashes, invaders.”
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
A valley that became a sea of fire.
It seemed like hell had unfolded as the barely surviving monsters and ghosts screamed.
And beyond the flames, a dusky shadow appeared.
Quasi profit-!
Pussut-!
It was Snowfall and Chiwoo.
“It’s no bastards!”
“Run away!”
Any thoughts of fighting have already flown far away. Most of the troops had disappeared in a fire, and there was no way there was anything left to fight.
“Heo-eok… Heo-eok…”
The leader of the group, who barely survived, tried to run away to avoid Kang Seol and Chiu.
Swoosh…
With a creepy feeling, someone’s hand grabbed the ghost’s neck.
“Keez…”
Kang Seol asked while holding the ghost’s neck and lifting it up.
“… Where are you?”
“Keek… human… what… what….”
His golden eyes demanded the truth.
“Yacha.”
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