Black Badger - Chapter 325



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325. Once Upon a Time (3)

This time, I really came close to death.

Kairos thought as soon as he opened his eyes.

Besides, it couldn’t be said that he had completely escaped death yet.

The sand fog gradually thins. The smell of smoke and blood stings the nose.

He felt his senior struggling in his arms. He released Ami, checked that she was okay, and smiled.

The young shooter looked up at him and furrowed his brow.

Badger flew in to snatch him away just before the spirit fired its energy wave.

Amy got angry.

“I recover faster than you!”

Kairos smiled broadly, then turned his head and spat out blood.

The battlefield was in a temporary lull.

There was not much movement or sound. Everyone was unconscious due to the enormous energy that swept through the surroundings. Many must have died. Some of them may not have been able to identify the bodies. The spirit energy does not even leave traces of death.

They too would have disappeared without a trace if there had been no milk.

There is a saying that a fearless thief can destroy a village.

That was no exaggeration.

If the Thief Snowflake did not attack for 10 years and accumulated energy, it could fire an energy cannon that rivaled that of a ruined spirit.

Due to the nature of their race, they are very timid, and it is common for them to not be able to accumulate energy for even a week, let alone 10 years.

Usually, it spits out energy as a threat and runs away.

But Milk hadn’t fired a shot in 15 years.

That was why I was able to neutralize the unstoppable spirit’s charge. I had originally planned to use it against Kyle.

Thanks to that, I avoided immediate death.

Kairos crawled across the floor and approached Milk, who was lying nearby.

“thanks.”

Milk squeaked.

“Sleep tight. When you open your eyes, you’ll be home.”

Bbaeng bbaeng. The thief-eye with a sad face looked up at his master.

Kairos smiled bitterly and stroked Milk.

He put the fluffy creature in his pocket. After ensuring the safety of his servant horse, he turned his head to assess the situation.

The place where the merciless rays of the spirit swept through.

The dust was so thick that you couldn’t even see 1km away.

But Kyle was still alive.

His faint presence was felt nearby.

Quite a few injuries from pushing away the subordinates….

“omg.”

Amy took a deep breath.

“Black roots have grown in the ground.”

absorption.

Black vein-like things began to cover the ground.

The reason the Emperor obsessively gathered the children of the World Tree.

They absorbed everything that was not the ashes of the fire, and thus revived the mother body that seemed to have no life at all. The emperor was wary of them more than anything else, as they were said to be close to immortality, and placed the most outstanding among them in the position of commander of the knights.

As with all abilities, there was a considerable difference in skill between those who had mastered it and those who had not.

Zzuzuzu

Kyle is the most skilled.

Unlike Hilde, who tried not to use suction, Kyle used it more often than anyone else.

The pitch-black roots greedily absorb the fragments of the torn monster.

Starting from the invisible dust, it spread its roots aggressively as if it were going to stain the ground.

“I have to go.”

Kairos felt Kyle’s presence becoming clearer and clearer.

The sharp claws of the empire.

The eldest son of the tribe.

The one who will continue the tribe’s lineage.

“If you don’t run away now, you will die.”

Zzzz …

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground was covered with black stems and turned pitch black.

Amy made a hickey sound.

She hugged Kairos’s torso like a tree.

“How can I beat that!”

“I can’t win.”

Kairos raised his head, accurately assessing Kyle’s suffocatingly powerful presence and the heavy, eerie presence of the ruins.

“Unless you carry a curse on your tail, I will chase you to the end and strangle you…”

Kwakwakwakwak!

The sand came rushing in like claws.

Behind the rising sand, there was a sword strike. If Ami hadn’t been launched into the air, they would have been split in half. The heavy impact of the sword strike created a gust of wind, and Ami and Kairos were blown away by the gust of wind, barely regaining their altitude before being slammed to the ground.

But they could not fly up into the sky and escape.

Because the torso of the spirit was covering the top of the head.

If you avoid the sword attack, you’ll end up here.

The moment I figured out Kyle’s intentions, golden eyes appeared before my eyes.

An opponent who quickly closed the distance through the sand fog.

The escape route is blocked.

Rolling under the arch made by the great body and arms of the ruined spirit, they could not even rise into the sky, and the escape routes on both sides were also blocked by the arms and torso.

Kyle was coming from ahead.

There was only one way out, behind, so there was no time to escape to the rear and soar into the sky… .

Kagagagagaga river!

A silver wall rose up.

It didn’t stop Kyle’s sword, but it gave them time.

The moment the sword collided with the silver wall and slowed down, Ami quickly jumped back. After stepping out of the shadow created by the spirit, she soared into the sky.

The wind passing by, sharply hitting the skin.

An enemy moving away quickly.

The ghost looked at them again.

But its gaze quickly turned elsewhere. Kairos watched the ruins sweep over the drones and helicopters that had just filled the sky.

One of them carried the commander in chief.

As I turned my head, I saw Ye-Hyeon looking down from the open airplane door.

The Commander-in-Chief looked down at Kyle.

“Bring back the ruins.”

The boss noticed my gaze and gave instructions calmly.

“go.”

“yes.”

Even amid the loud noise of the aircraft, Kairos heard the instructions.

The one who dropped the shape-shifting weapon on the floor and intervened at the right time to save their lives.

The plane carrying him quickly entered enemy territory.

I could hear Kyle swearing softly from down below.

Without missing a beat, Kairos quickly turned his attention.

He called Echo, who was clinging to my back.

“Let’s try again.”

No matter what happens, the awakened spirit must be returned to its original hole.

Since he woke up, he had to take responsibility for it to the end.

“Sing me a song.”

A song that captivates the hearing of living beings.

Amid the chaos of the clear sound of the drops, the engine noise of drones and aircraft, and the shouts of the enemies, Kairos heard Kyle snort.

He was now at my feet.

“It seems there is a morality to collect the waste directly.”

Kyle had a look on his face like he was going to pull out his aching tooth.

“Good luck until you bring it in, Hwa-ryong-ju.”

Then it disappeared into the sand and dust.

I went to treat the seniors who came in by airplane.

He was not a fool. He must have known that if he kept Kairos alive, he would be able to get rid of the ruins that would be a big problem for them.

In this way, a couple was left behind with the ruins.

Beside the disaster they had awakened and must put to sleep again.

“Let’s go to the portal!”

Ami shouted.

“We see!”

Okay, let’s try again.

Kairos looked straight into the ruins.

Without even thinking about the situation of Hilde being dragged away by the enemy.

He’s just doing his best here.

“Let’s go.”

I whispered, looking into the endless darkness.

“I’m ready.”

Ami’s boots were spitting fire.

***

“earthquake?”

Sophia muttered.

Badgers who don’t move at all, their muscles tense.

The non-humans also stood still and looked around sharply. The one called the scribe muttered to himself, ‘I don’t detect any monsters that could shake the ground.’

Yoon observed those who could sense the sixth sense with his eyes narrowed.

But they didn’t seem to know what was going on.

Is it because of magic that you still can’t sense enemies with your sixth sense?

The ground, which seemed to be unstable, shook ominously.

Vibrating recording.

The sword asked.

“Is this also a kind of magic?”

“I don’t think so.”

Igor furrowed his brow.

“Even if it’s magic, why would you use this method?”

It’s most likely not monsters or magic.

As soon as the two plausible options were eliminated, Yoon checked the location tracker signal.

Because he had one more hypothesis left.

The moment I checked the still-working signals to confirm that hypothesis, the successor to the green-eyed man muttered behind me.

“I have a bad feeling about this….”

okay.

The junior’s hunch will be correct.

Yoon caught Hilde’s position moving slowly, even though she had no intention of moving at all.

Choi Yoon narrowed her eyes.

“Hildebert moved.”

People’s heads went up.

“what?”

“yes?”

“Are you the captain?”

“Oh shit… .”

Ricardo’s nervous mutterings were superimposed on the cries of Igor, Sophia, and Rose.

Yoon understood why he was reacting that way.

He was thinking the same thing.

I listen to the scribe muttering, “Are you free?” with one ear, and watch the moving signal. The blinking thing has now moved to the other side.

Movement that seems to have a clear destination.

Yun recalled what his deputy had said the other day. A story that Hildebert Taleb had said he had never shared with anyone while in the Empire.

The Titans probably don’t know the story and can’t figure it out. They probably think that a rampage is something that can’t be stopped no matter what they do, so they can’t even imagine that Hildebert has ever gone berserk.

But the badgers here knew.

The current situation is likely to trigger Hilde’s trauma switch.

Yoon furrowed his brow and looked at the large article.

“Take off your balaclava.”

“what?”

“Take it off, the situation has changed.”

Yoon didn’t see the rampaging humanoid creature with his own eyes.

However, Ye-Hyeon, who saw the end of it, said that it seemed to have been somewhat conscious until the end. She said that she thought she heard its last words.

But he never revealed what his last words were.

Hildebert also said that a Sword Master-level player could easily maintain a rampage for a week… .

“Show your face, so I can hope for faint reason.”

“Hey, baby. Speak so I can understand.”

“what?!”

You screamed next to Igor, who was grumbling.

“Why is there suddenly a noise-.”

The floor collapsed.

It crashed. The place where they were standing sank down. As if someone had punched the top of a blackmail bun. As if someone had pressed the lid of a hot coffee bun down with a spoon. The floor cracked and sank down, and people let out a sound of panic.

The sound he made was drowned out by the sound of the ground collapsing.

Kuung!

Kukukung… .

The silence that comes.

Debris from trees and earth spilled onto the cave floor. Dust created by the crash.

For a while nothing moved. No sound or movement was detected until the shock of the crash had subsided.

Then, as the white dust settled, the badgers moved.

Those who recover quickly thanks to possessing a reinforced body.

They were the first to get out of the mound.

I got out and looked at one place without moving from my seat.

And a little later than them, a skilled knight also emerges from the ground.

The knight, spitting out the dirt in his mouth, turned his head to follow the badgers.

Towards where the Black Badgers, clutching their guns tightly, couldn’t take their eyes off.

The exact center of the collapsed ground.

The only place where there was no pile of dirt, strangely enough.

“heartbreak?”

There stood someone he knew well.

He was holding a blood-soaked scalpel in his right hand.

The feet were bare.

“… Hilde?”

At the blood-soaked feet stood a trembling stranger.

Hildebert, who was looking down at the nameless man, slowly turned his head as if he heard his name being called.

The opponent’s distinctive appearance caught my eye.

Golden eyes visible through white hair.

Milky white eyelashes… .

For a moment Igor forgot how to breathe.

This is because the corners of the whites of the eyes that hold the golden eye were pitch black.

It was a dark enough blackness to make me shiver. It was as if my eyes were burning.

As if going wild… .

“There were more people.”

Hildebert looked at them and muttered.

“Where have you been hiding?”

“This is fucked up.”

Yoon said.