Became an Academy Spearman - Chapter 783
783. [Western Front] – 1st Class Apostle Gryphon (59)
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Good! Sarah!
The 1st unit of the enemy wing, five enemy platoon members led by Leria, move quickly through the space.
And among them, Iris, who was moving with her spurs as if lightly stepping on the ground, suddenly caught my eye. A man with flowing black hair and cold, sunken eyes.
‘Han Tiansheng.’
Even when I looked at this man, I didn’t quite understand it.
He must have felt it himself while executing second- and third-class apostles. The mission is not easy and is very burdensome. And this feeling will be even greater in this situation where we have to carry out endless missions due to the yellow posture.
It is not surprising that he does not want to take risks and is dissatisfied with being assigned to the enemy wing as soon as he arrives at the front.
But, that wasn’t the case.
I heard that they even wanted me to volunteer and come to the first unit.
‘Why is he doing that?’
Even though I stay away from men and don’t get close to them, it doesn’t mean I’m not curious.
And as someone who believes that there is cause and effect in everything, I was more interested in seeing Han Cheon-seong like that. They bring themselves into crisis and make themselves more painful and difficult.
“… … Iris.”
My thoughts were interrupted by Christina’s call.
“uh.”
“I trust you, but you still know that you shouldn’t show personal emotions while on a mission, right?”
“Of course I know.”
Although I answered immediately, my eyes blurred for a moment.
Why is Christina suddenly saying this? It’s already been over a year since we started working together, and we were saying something extremely unnecessary.
And I realized it too late.
What I was looking at at Han Tiansheng just now, Christina took it completely differently.
“Christina, there will never be anything like the situation you are concerned about.”
“Oh, yes… … Still, I said it just in case. “I’m sorry if my words offended you.”
“I’m not offended by that.”
Even as I answered, I found it a bit absurd.
No matter how much I hated men, I had no intention of letting that interfere with my mission. Since everything related to men has ended in a bad way, I just hate them and stay away from them.
From the days when I was growing up at the academy, to the moment I became an officer and was sent to the front line, and even to this day when I was carrying out my mission as a member of the enemy, men were all unnecessary to me.
Just being around them was annoying, and I could clearly feel their sinister gaze and thoughts. It was so unpleasant that I naturally stayed away from it.
‘Because that’s just it.’
It was really nothing more and nothing less. Because it’s just uncomfortable to be together.
In that sense, Han Tiansheng may not have been nice, but he wasn’t the type of man you could feel disgust for.
Maybe it’s because he’s the type of person who understands topics much better than I think. There wasn’t any extremely unpleasant contact like when McPhill came a year ago.
Just by not approaching me first, I was able to stop hating it even more.
Sarah!
As I lightly kicked the ground, the space gradually became visible.
A strange red zone where a red haze rises even during the season when the bitter winter winds blow. I’ve been to this place over a hundred times now, but I still hate it so much.
“Gryphons react to even the slightest sign, and the moment they recognize us, they will recognize us at almost the same time. “Everyone, please keep that in mind and take steps forward.”
“”yes!””
While answering Lieutenant Leria’s briefing, I felt something new.
‘Are you briefing me one more time because of Han Cheon-seong?’
Normally, even this would have been unnecessary, but I felt like I was trying to carry out my mission more carefully.
Jerk.
Again.
As soon as they entered the red zone, blue mana appeared in each person’s body.
It was a manifestation of mana to resist a kind of red zone.
And, compared to other missions, we began to advance through the red zone at a significantly slower pace.
‘Eryl.’
And from this point on, I summoned a spirit that was like my companion.
Saaa… !
A soft wind blew around me, and soon the transparent but very clear image of Eryl was revealed to me.
A spirit with the body of a translucent rabbit.
I nodded slightly, thinking of Eril’s outline that others could not even imagine.
‘Please.’
And with just one word, it was over.
ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!
As if taking control of a huge radius at once, Eryl created her own territory.
“… … “That is truly incredible power.”
The voice I heard at that moment made me stop in my tracks. When I turned my head blankly, I saw Han Tiansheng looking at me with curiosity.
‘That doesn’t make sense.’
I was in denial for a moment.
Not only did Eril’s opaque form appear, but no one except Lieutenant Leria could sense the expansion of the area that had just appeared.
That’s how much Eril’s power was, a subtle yet secret power of wind.
However, the moment I manifested the realm, Han Cheon-seong spoke to me as if it was natural.
“you… … Can you feel Aryl’s power?”
“Yes, isn’t the energy now spreading widely the power of the spirit?”
I was momentarily speechless at the answer that seemed so obvious.
As I looked around, I realized that Han Tiansheng was now looking at Eril’s area.
‘how… … ?’
How did you notice this?
Last time we went on a mission together, Han Tiansheng didn’t even see Eril. It was definitely like that.
And that was natural. Unless you were a strong person like Lieutenant Leria, you wouldn’t even notice Eril’s extremely secretive presence.
“Oh, it’s not like I completely feel that energy either. just… … Because she had a vague feeling. “It just felt like a stronger force than her previous missions.”
He was talking gibberish as if making excuses while looking at me, but even his words felt strange to me.
‘Something is strange.’
It wasn’t that the other platoon members were weak or that I couldn’t sense Eril’s presence because they were below me.
The moment Eril manifests even greater power, the platoon members also clearly recognize the portion of that power. However, in the case of the manifestation of territory, it was a slightly different story.
Because Han Tiansheng noticed the subtle sign that he was just spreading his power.
“Don’t come any closer than this. “I feel bad.”
“ah… … sorry.”
I calmed down as I watched Han Cheon-seong carefully distance himself from my words.
‘Yes, because the trait is a melee type.’
Maybe my senses were much more sensitive than other people’s. I heard that as the level of short-range characteristics increases, physical sensation increases significantly compared to other characteristics.
If you think about it that way, it wasn’t strange to feel Aryl’s slight breeze right now.
Xu Yuung… … !!
Extremely sharp razor-sharp winds blew across the red zone.
While Aryl was moving around, eliminating monsters that entered the area as if slaughtering them, my eyes occasionally fell on Han Tiansheng.
‘How sensitive are your senses?’
The last time we went on a mission together, I didn’t even notice Eril, but now, the second time, I noticed Eril’s presence as if it was natural.
He was even admiring the quick movements of Eril as he slaughtered the monsters.
I was seeing it right.
‘That was a lie.’
Han Tiansheng’s statement that he could not fully feel Aryl’s energy was a lie. It was possible to look at it because I felt it so completely.
“Battle ready!”
I urgently moved my body at the cold voice.
Even though they maintained their existing formation, they seemed to be in a state of panic.
‘where?’
Where on earth is Gryphon?
Even in the vast territory of Eril, I could not sense any trace of Gryphon. However, Lieutenant Leria found out and declared a combat stance.
When I caught sight of where Lieutenant Leria’s gaze was directed, my heart sank coldly.
Gulp.
‘I can only see it as a small dot.’
Even though the vision was greatly enhanced with mana, it was still like this. However, Lieutenant Leria spotted the griffon at such a great distance and immediately declared a combat stance.
… … It was said that the way they see things is on a completely different level from ours.
“… … Because I’m going to strike first, the moment I cut out the space. Iris and Christina immediately block Griffon’s left and right sides. “Han Tian-seong and Sabrina will break through the path head-on and confront the Gryphon immediately.”
A cold briefing followed, and each member of the platoon composed themselves.
‘Eryl!’
I, too, had to control the left side from now on by manifesting territory and calling Eril, who had fallen, back to me.
Sreung!
At the same time, when Lieutenant Leria pulled out her sword in one go, I felt it again.
Among the first-class apostles, how strong is Gryphon? Considering that it was highly unlikely that Lieutenant Leria would launch a preemptive attack, she had to steel herself.
“… … .”
No one even took a small breath.
The moment when Lieutenant Leria took a strange stance, raising his sword straight up.
Even though everyone was aware of their dynamics, they all looked at her as one. Among them was Han Cheon-seong.
And it was just a moment.
There is no foreshadowing.
Even the swinging hand was not visible.
However, only the results dominated the view.
■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■!!
As if it was blinking, a single ray of blood-red light was cutting through the space and moving forward.
Sarah!
As I quickly moved across the ground, my heart was filled with sincere admiration.
‘I have no choice but to win!’
It was never conceited.
As long as Lieutenant Leria is with us, no apostle can be our opponent.
Iris had absolute faith in her more than anyone else.
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“… … .”
At the moment when everyone held their breath, Cheonseong also looked at Leria with the same feeling.
During the last mission to execute an apostle, it was not even clear what characteristics she possessed or what kind of power she wielded.
That’s right, because they executed the apostle too easily.
It even felt a strange sense of heterogeneity, as if the characteristics were not even used.
However, when I held the sword and took a strange stance, I felt it instinctively.
‘I plan to use absurd force.’
It was as if I felt a huge, intimidating energy just from the rider ceremony.
■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■!!
And now.
As the blood-red flash rushed through the space as if cutting through it, I felt like my head, which had been running towards me quickly, was about to explode.
I only saw it as a faint afterimage.
The hand wielding the sword, and the overwhelming energy of destruction coming from the sword. And the movement was so beautiful that it made me feel so many things just by seeing it.
‘Characteristics of the paranormal series.’
I immediately realized that it was the same trait as Kali.
Among the many characteristics, it was the characteristic of the series that was evaluated as the best. Nowadays, the characteristics of the elemental series and the paranormal series that cannot be explained by reason are evaluated as the best, and Lieutenant Leria also possessed the characteristics of those classes.
“Han Tiansheng! I will attack first. Recognize that.”
“yes!”
Looking at Ensign Sabrina moving quickly across the ground right next to me, I answered energetically.
One wing of the griffon, which only appeared as a dot, was spattering blood as if it had been cut by a flash of blood.
Even with enhanced vision, the griffon was far away.
The sword swung from that distance cut off the wings of Gryphon, a first-class apostle.
If I had only heard of it, it was an incredible feat that was hard to believe.
Kyaaa!!
Immediately afterwards, a terrible roar that seemed to tear the space apart echoed through the air.
And even though I knew it was a buster call to summon a monster from a far away place, I felt strangely light-hearted.
Starting with the hand holding the spear, an extremely powerful spiral was swirling through my entire body, and it felt as if an intangible energy that I could not explain was pushing my back.
‘Strong.’
… … Like the other members of the enemy platoon, Lieutenant Leria possessed an absurd strength.
Therefore, even when facing a first-class apostle like this, I did not have even the slightest fear. Why the other platoon members follow her with absolute trust in her.
Because I saw with my own eyes a strength that I had no choice but to understand.
Good!
Ensign Sabrina was seen striking the ground intensely and swinging both hands towards the front.
Kwagwagwagwang!!
When her pure white hand hit the space hard, a huge shock wave was shot out like crazy.
I saw it at that moment.
The moment the griffon, which had one of its wings cut off, tried to move, it hurriedly swung its front paw and erased all the shock waves that rushed through it.
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‘This is a first-class apostle.’
The status itself was completely different from that of a second-class apostle and a third-class apostle.
We sense even intangible energy and invisible power and try to respond to it.
It was the same logic that even the blood-colored flash that Lieutenant Leria shot out only gave up one wing in a fleeting reaction.
Slurp… !!
As I approached the griffon, gliding across the ground, I was determined.
‘You have to stab more sharply.’
There was no meaning to the combo at all.
What I was aiming for wasn’t even a vital point. I plan on disabling one of the griffon’s legs at once.
Looking at his reflexes a moment ago, if he was aiming for a critical point, there was a high possibility that he wouldn’t even be given a chance.
As the blood-red eyes of the griffon followed my movements as if they were completely reading them, I fired the spiral contained in the spear with such intensity.
Saaa… … !!!
It was a moment when the spear suddenly rushed like light along with the spiral that exploded like a storm.
Sararak… … !!
The right wing was cut off, and the griffon’s only one wing flapped loudly, instantly erasing the spiral contained in the spear.
“… !”