The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor: Dad is a Legend - Chapter 53



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Moonlight Sculptor: Dad is a Legend (53)

In the frozen land, in the city where everything had stopped, the Lethars began to act.

Blood-soaked streets, burning and collapsing buildings.

The sky was covered with smoke, and screams echoed through the streets.

The historic city of Sullium was being destroyed.

“Stop them! We must defend the castle.”

“My lord! My lord comes first.”

The soldiers stationed at Sullium rushed to the inner castle where the count was.

“Warriors of Gaul!”

“They will eat us. If you want to survive, you must defeat them.”

“Fight to the end. Those who back down will not be forgiven!”

A large number of arrows fired by soldiers from the thick, high walls flew into the crowd of advancing Lessers.

“Crackle!”

The wraiths take some damage, but quickly charge again.

The city’s residents fled, pursued by the Lesser, but the gates of the inner castle where the lord resided remained firmly shut.

“Please open it!”

“My lord! Please let our children in.”

The city gate does not open despite the residents’ earnest pleas.

The soldiers shot arrows indiscriminately at the residents and the crowd of Lessers.

Corpse, corpse, corpse, corpse… … .

A huge pile of corpses was created.

‘They’re fighting fiercely.’

Weed was able to look down on the city from the Trinity Altar using Pale’s skill, ‘Eagle’s Eye’.

Using the sewers and tunnels, the Lethars were appearing in major areas of the city, eliminating and eating the soldiers guarding the city.

It was a sight that brought back vivid memories of old times playing Royal Road.

‘I remember the moment when I stopped the Undead Legion together with the Orcs and Dark Elves.’

(The video is still out there in many places. There are still a lot of people watching it these days.)

(It was a quest where calculating the probability of success was meaningless, but the master succeeded.)

A massive invasion by the undead army led by Lich Shire.

They were barely able to hold off the attack with the help of the terrain of the Yurokina Mountains, the archery skills of the dark elves, and the bravery of the orcs.

Memories of blocking the first, second, and third waves of the undead army that kept advancing no matter how many were destroyed.

(It was to the point where a romantic notion of large-scale quests arose among users.)

Royal Road was specialized in quests.

There are numerous quests ranging from simple delivery quests to hunting, mercenary quests, production, and area development.

From group quests requiring hundreds of people, to quests started by individuals but reaching scales in the tens of thousands.

(Roanoke also has a lot of quests according to the analysis results. There are many quests that are difficult and life-threatening.)

‘I think so. The Lessers can’t win one-on-one against soldiers.’

(In small battles and organized battles of 10 or more, the Lethals are overwhelming.)

Although the Lethals are not very strong in combat, they are very fast, cunning, and fight using their ability to climb walls or leap through the air.

He excelled at cooperative attacks with his comrades, fighting efficiently by moving through the sewers, isolating, surrounding, and annihilating soldiers in the city.

‘The Lessers are a race that is quite good at fighting.’

Tens of thousands of rats run busily through the narrow alleys and buildings of the vast city.

Even the Lessers poisoned wells and set them on fire, and stopping them one by one seemed nearly impossible.

‘I guess I should start now.’

Weed took out the fire purification placed on the altar of Trinity.

The purification of fire that protected the city of Sullium from the cold is restored.

As if the brief warmth were a lie, bitter cold began to blow back into the city.

Weed spoke to Pale, Calis, Roam, and Horey and Orhan, two users belonging to the Arpen Guild.

“Let’s go to the central square.”

* * *

A portal has been created that allows movement into the frozen land.

“Let’s go and see.”

The quest of the God of Adventure, Trinity.

Ashram, a member of a large guild, is in charge of the leader of the saboteurs.

Following him, the adventurers passed through the portal and arrived at the city of Sulium.

I experienced with my whole body the most terrible cold I could ever imagine.

“It’s cold.”

“They say that the distorted cracks are not places where people can live, and it is really bitterly cold.”

Although I had brought my own winter gear, I still couldn’t open my mouth properly because of the cold.

The city’s lethals were running wild, and their goal was to destroy the fire purge.

Adventurer Caladrian said this after activating his target tracking skill.

“The purification of fire appears to be in the central square.”

“concourse?”

There were immediate reactions saying he was crazy.

When the Lethargy began its revolt in the city, it was common sense that the safest place was the lord’s castle.

The rats enter by digging tunnels or using sewers.

It can walk on the wall with sharp and long claws, but it is still the place where it can endure until the very end.

“You’re going to the central square instead of the castle? Why?”

“I had high expectations for someone who would go on an adventure in a distorted rift, but this is disappointing judgment.”

“I whispered to a few famous adventurers I know personally, but none of them came to the Twisted Crack. Maybe they’re just lucky rookies who stumbled upon the quest.”

The saboteurs thought that they would be lucky enough to solve the S-rank difficulty quest.

“To think so recklessly about protecting the residents in the central square… … .”

“It seems like they want to save at least one more person, but that’s really stupid.”

“Don’t you know the nobles and soldiers of Roanoke? The army protects the lord first when the situation is unfavorable. Unless you plan on fighting alone.”

It was clear that the idea was to protect as many residents as possible from the rampaging Lethargy in the city.

Ashram smiled.

“We’ll just have to watch those we’re supposed to kill in the central square being swept away by the Lessers. They’ll be crushed by the sheer numbers of the Lessers.”

For adventurer users, there is no better situation than this.

Isn’t it common sense that you can’t stop the lesser in a place like the central square?

Still, there was a strange sense of unease because I didn’t know who the other person was.

‘A city in the frozen land… …. Who on earth would come all the way here to go on an adventure?’

* * *

“Let’s go!”

“Let’s go. If we stay like this, we’ll die. We have to get out of this city.”

The inhabitants of the city of Sullium were fleeing in all directions to escape Lethar’s uprising.

In the central square, Callis recalled the plan she had shared with Weed earlier.

“Let me explain the battle that will take place in the city of Sullium.”

Weed roughly drew a picture of a city on the ice.

Draw a circle and mark the location of the castle with a triangle.

The roads and shops are in such a crude drawing form that it is difficult to even recognize them.

Normally, this picture would hit rock bottom in terms of trust, but the opponent was Weed.

Even without recalling the story from the old days of Royal Road, he is currently a challenger at level 6 of the Inferno difficulty.

A man who roasted his own fingers and toes while exploring the frozen land.

Since the initiative for the adventure was in Weed’s hands, I listened to what he had to say for a while.

“There are many soldiers and knights left in the city of Sulium. There are even more Lethars. If Trinity’s power disappears, street fighting will break out.”

Gulp.

Fierce battles with monsters occur frequently in Roanoke.

Despite this, there were no users in this place who had experience with Lettuce and City Warfare.

“I haven’t looked at the city in detail, but there are at least three representative strongholds that are advantageous for defense. From the inner castle where the lord is located, to the streets of the nobles, to the soldiers’ garrison.”

Places far from the sewers used by the Lessers, or places where soldiers are densely packed and surviving.

If you guard a place like this with your soldiers, your chances of surviving the Lessers will definitely increase.

Weed started out by gaining people’s sympathy with such obvious words.

“But we give up all the advantages and keep the central square.”

“yes?”

“why?”

“How do you come to that conclusion?”

The central square was open on all sides, so it could not take advantage of the terrain and was vulnerable to large-scale attacks by the Lessers.

The place where the largest number of residents will evacuate at the same time.

“We will retrieve the Purifying Fire from the Altar of the Trinity and place it in the central square.”

“Then won’t Sullium get cold again?”

Pale tilted his head.

When the purification of fire is recovered, the cold of the frozen land will rush into the city.

The cold may be hard for the lessers to endure, but it is even more unbearable for the common people.

The inhabitants of Sullium will die in droves from the cold.

“The plan is to get city residents, who can’t stand the cold, to flock to the central square.”

“yes?”

“There will be people running in all directions, hiding in each house, in fear of the Lethargy’s uprising. We will draw them to the central square.”

“Then everything will be a mess.”

Orhan’s point came right out.

Pale, Kallis, and Loam thought there might be some intention behind it, but Paladin Orhan was not convinced at all.

“How can we defend a large area like the central square if refugees flock there? The soldiers won’t be able to form a defensive formation, and the Lethals will run wild. The residents will be slaughtered, and most of the soldiers, who are already outnumbered, will die. Those in the lord’s castle will also have to come out because of the cold.”

If you start getting pushed back in a wide area like the central square, wouldn’t you be helplessly defeated?

It’s suspicious that the one known as the God of War in Royal Road would come up with such a reckless plan.

Weed smiled gloomily.

“That’s right. That’s what I meant.”

“yes?”

“The central square will become a graveyard for capturing the lessers.”

A plan to stage a battle in the central square that will determine the fate of the city of Sullium.

Pale had been listening properly up until now, but he couldn’t understand.

“What defensive advantage does the central square have?”

“None. The plan is to kill everyone except for a lucky few among the residents.”

“And?”

“I will unfold the dark rule.”

“… … .”

Pale, Kalis, and Roam, who had extensive experience on Royal Road, immediately understood what the plan was.

The three great magic spells of Balkan Demoph, who led the Immortal Legion.

Dark Rule: Declare the law of darkness. The power of immortality turns all corpses in the area into undead.

Gathers many residents and soldiers in the city of Sullium and raises them all as undead.

They will be lower-level undead, such as skeletons, zombies, and ghouls, but their numbers will be greater than you can imagine.

Paladin Orhan’s eyes trembled.

“A huge number of residents will die.”

“It’s a frozen land. We’re under attack by the Lessers. Most of the residents are going to die anyway.”

“… … .”

Only by gathering in the central square can there be any greater chance of survival.

The residents gathered in this way will be killed en masse by the Lethars, and they will become undead and help protect the remaining residents.

Roam realized one thing.

“Not only the residents, but even the Letsers have no choice.”

Unable to withstand the cold of the frozen land, the Lessers will come to the central square where there is a fire purification.

The corpses of the residents and soldiers will become undead, and the lessers who lose their lives will also become undead and increase in number.

Even if there are hundreds of thousands of undead in the central square, the Lessers have no choice but to rush every last one to avoid the cold.

Callis and Roam thought.

‘He’s really crazy.’

‘Saving the city isn’t the main goal. The goal is to grow by grinding out as many lessers as possible.’

‘He’s a real devil. I should have known it the moment he started eating my fingers and toes.’