The Soldier Shouted Save - Chapter 78



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The soldier shouted save (78)

A late night after the sun has set.

Even though it was bedtime, there were still people around the cave monitoring the entrance and exit.

‘I’m sure there’s something in there.’

Observe the behavior of the men guarding the cave.

A comfortable outfit with only one sword on the waist.

“I don’t think I’ll be able to fall asleep even if I wait any later.”

I change my plan after seeing the guys taking turns closely guarding the entrance.

“Go in and subdue them.”

There was no need to enter the village.

Move along the ridge of the mountain and move upward into the cave.

I crouched down behind the tree and listened, and even without eavesdropping magic, I could hear their chatter.

“Haaah, so they’re giving me a vacation?”

“What about vacation? When I return to the palace after my dispatch, they’ll probably ask me to search for Lee Hyeonseong again.”

The leader who makes eye contact with us and sends us a signal.

After each person puts on the mask they prepared and covers their respiratory organs with their sleeves, the leader puts his hand into his thigh bag.

-Slurp.

Pollen from the sun falling on their heads.

As the scentless powder falls on their heads, they turn their heads and wrinkly their noses.

“Nose, cough, cough… … What the heck?”

The guys cough one after another and look around.

We looked up to the top of the cave where we were hiding, but we couldn’t find the figure hidden in the bushes and looked away.

“When on earth is the shift coming?”

“Hey, can we take turns sleeping for 10 minutes?”

Those who couldn’t overcome their sleepiness are slowly closing their eyelids.

-dump.

The guys who leaned against the wall and closed their eyes without saying who would go first.

As I gestured while quietly observing their breathing, the chief carrying Hye-rin jumped down from the cave.

“let’s go.”

I leave the sleeping guys behind and head into the cave, whispering softly.

“Hmm, what? Is it shift change already?”

A voice heard from inside the cave.

As someone walks toward us, responding to our footsteps,

-widely!

The boss and I both kicked the floor at the same time.

“What, what?!”

When he saw us with our masks upside down, he hurriedly drew his sword, but he was poorly armed and not even wearing leather armor.

“Uh, uh… … .”

Men who can’t stand the hand that’s striking the back of their neck and fall down.

The chief raised his voice as he dragged the fallen man’s body.

“Lean it against the wall. I’ll make you sleep soundly with the sea flowers.”

There was no need to shed blood and put the guard on alert in this shabby atmosphere.

They sit on the floor, and the leader immediately sprinkles pollen on them, closing their eyes.

“How much can you sleep?”

“I’ll sleep soundly for four hours without knowing anything about the world.”

In a cave, even the smallest sound resonates loudly.

It was important to subdue all the guards in one fell swoop before they noticed the intrusion.

“Allen, I don’t think there’s anything here?”

“It’s the same here.”

There were only three people inside the cave.

I frown at the small number.

‘Is this all the security?’

Why is surveillance so lax?

A statue of a goddess that enables saving.

If the statue of the goddess is hidden here, shouldn’t it be under as much surveillance as the imperial palace?

‘Even if you didn’t want to make the existence of the statue of the goddess known, it’s a really poor number.’

I quietly watch Hye-rin, leaving my doubts behind.

“Inquiro.”

Hyelin’s search magic spreads deep into the cave.

Hye-rin leads the way into the cave, unable to spot the hidden guard even with magic.

“It’s this way.”

Hye-rin changes direction without hesitation at a crossroads.

Hye-rin, who was heading to the deepest part of the cave, suddenly stopped walking.

“… … This place, it looks like the entrance to the Demon Palace?”

He lowers his gaze at Hye-rin’s words.

A basement staircase is visible, with an eerie purple fog seeping out of it.

‘It’s a devil’s palace… … .’

According to Hye-rin, the moment you enter the palace, it automatically saves.

If the archery is a place that cannot be resolved with our power, then even saving will not be able to turn back.

“let’s go.”

But I had no intention of going back like this.

Without hesitation, he takes the lead and goes underground.

A downward staircase with no end in sight.

As we walk up those stairs for a long time, the cold air stings our skin.

“… … Can’t you hear anything?”

-Thump, thump.

The life-force that touches your skin changes with the sound of the ground shaking.

A powerful, high-level monster appeared from beyond the purple fog.

The chieftain holds a dagger in both hands and reveals the man’s identity.

“Are you a troll?”

A tricky large monster that can instantly regenerate even wounds that would result in its neck being cut off.

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

He raises his Azure Dragon Sword while avoiding the clubs falling on his head.

-Swish swish swish swish!

A brilliant series of strikes that slice through the flesh of the bastard.

During my time as a soldier, the flesh of the troll, a symbol of fear, is easily cut off.

“Ignis!”

Hyelin’s flames covered the troll’s body, and its body stopped regenerating.

As expected of a knowledgeable warrior, he seemed to know the troll’s weakness without even saying anything.

“Since we have a great wizard, it shouldn’t be difficult, right?”

In the fight against trolls, the wizard’s calculation speed was of the utmost importance.

I had to use fire magic to heal his wounds before he could finish regenerating.

In that sense, Hye-rin, who had a ‘quick slot’, was the best troll hunter who could use magic the fastest on the continent.

-thud!

A huge body leaning towards the floor.

After stabbing the sword into his head to make sure it doesn’t regenerate anymore, he asks Hye-rin.

“How much more fire magic is possible?”

“Hmm, with a body like that, you could probably do it 8 times without a blue potion, right?”

A troll that couldn’t regenerate was not a monster to be feared.

“Let’s break through quickly.”

The leader and I rushed forward and attacked the troll’s body without hesitation.

“Ignis!”

Hye-rin burns the bastard’s wounds with fire to suppress regeneration.

“Gasp, gasp, gasp, gasp… … .”

They kept fighting like that for 30 minutes.

We realized something was strange.

“… … How many trolls are there anyway?”

I didn’t count the exact number, but I’m sure we caught more than 30 trolls.

‘I think I know why the security was lax.’

There was no need to be properly armed.

Because there were so many high-level monsters that even the Knights of the Sword had a hard time guarding them.

It was an effective way to keep information about the statue of the goddess from being widely spread and to keep security tight.

“Ugh, ahhh… I really can’t do this. It’s too hard.”

Hye-rin, who had been drinking blue potions one after another, sat down on the cloud cloak, suppressing her convulsing hands, but there was no end in sight to the bastards.

“Allen, what do you want to do?”

There are only 7 in sight.

If we include those outside of sight, aren’t there still dozens of trolls left?

‘That’s strange.’

Seeing so many trolls, a question arises.

‘How did they get through here?’

It was only recently that the royal family, including Kim Yu-chan, visited this place.

If they had passed through here killing trolls like we did, most of them would have been dead already.

‘Are you just suppressing and passing over it?’

It is possible that the troll was made to regenerate without suffocating, so that it could serve as a guard.

However, such a thing was nearly impossible.

‘No one, no matter how skilled, can get past a troll who can regenerate a severed head in 5 seconds.’

If you do something like that, you’ll end up surrounded by dozens of trolls.

‘So, is it one of the two?’

The palace was avoiding the trolls’ eyes.

Or maybe there is a way to control trolls.

I pick up my sword, certain of one of two possibilities.

“What are you going to do? Beat it all by yourself without a wizard?”

“No, I’m going to check what the palace did to the troll.”

He kicks the ground and runs, swinging his sword powerfully.

-Whoosh!

A blue trail that cuts off the troll’s knee.

“Wow, woooooooooooo!”

As I continued to cut through the flesh of the regenerating troll, looking for traces of something, the leader approached me.

“What are you looking for?”

“They might have used food, so I plan to open their stomachs.”

“If that’s the case, just cut off the troll’s limbs. I’ll use my divine powers to examine the inside.”

At the leader’s words, he quickly cuts off the limbs of the regenerating bastard.

“Koooooooooooooo!”

A voice writhing in pain.

Hye-rin shrugged her shoulders in surprise at the voice, but the chief reached out his hand toward the bastard’s stomach with a blank expression.

-Pfft!

A dazzling light illuminating a dark cave.

The chief, who was perfectly controlling the golden divine power and examining the inside of the bastard’s stomach, suddenly frowns.

“… … Something is strange?”

Could it be that there was something unexpected in his stomach?

I cut off the limbs of the guy who just regenerated and was about to ask the chief about the results.

-Pass… .

The troll’s body turned to black powder and scattered.

“… … The troll’s body disappeared due to divine power.”

When the leader looked down at the troll that had been turned to dust with a bewildered face.

-Purrrr.

Something was stirring around.

‘Was it black magic?’

The shadow of a troll that remains without a body.

When you stick your sword into the shadow, a strange sound rings out.

“Kkieeeeeek!”

A small demon that emerges from the shadows.

-Snap.

I stomp the one with the big one-eyed one to death and tell him the secrets of the trolls that I have discovered.

“They were just empty shells.”

“… A shell? What does that mean?”

“It means that the warlock was capturing and controlling the troll’s soul.”

Controlling monsters with one’s soul was something that even Walker’s secret study did not know about.

But strangely enough, the related knowledge came to mind naturally, as if I had known it for a long time.

‘Is this also related to my growth?’

I used to be a palace soldier, but now I have become skilled enough to fight with a swordsman.

I thought that the knowledge that suddenly came to mind would be related to swordsmanship that was growing excessively, but there was something else I needed to focus on right now.

‘There is a black magician in the palace who is on par with Noel.’

The palace’s warlocks used advanced black magic to breed small demons and control the trolls’ bodies.

If you think about the high-level demons that were resurrected at the academy, they would be as skilled as Noel, who used his own black magic.

“Whatever it is, you found a weakness. Let’s quickly go find the statue of the goddess.”

There was no need to draw the sword.

As the leader led the way, releasing divine power, the trolls’ bodies began to scatter one by one, turning into black dust.

‘Is this why you tried to kill the saint candidate?’

If the key figure in the palace is a black magician, then the candidate for sainthood would be a thorn in the eye.

The current saint is a woman from another world who hates the strict discipline of the Freya Church and prefers the pleasures of the palace.

If the incumbent saintess, who is easy to recruit, already has a close relationship with the palace, then wouldn’t the only person who could stand up to a black magician with skills comparable to Noel be a candidate for the saintess?

“Sir! Come this way!”

A lively voice that seems to have regained its vitality.

The chief frowns as he watches Hye-rin drinking from a puddle of water artificially formed on the floor with her hand.

“Do you know what this is and why you drink it like that?”

“I know what it is, so I’ll drink it like this. You and Ranko, come quickly and drink too.”

At Hye-rin’s unusual words, the chief uses his palm as a cup and pours the spring water down the back of his throat.

“… … That’s strange. My physical condition has completely improved.”

“It’s called the fountain of recovery. It restores all special gauges, including HP and MP.”

Although Hye-rin spoke in the warrior’s slang, it was easy to see what effect the spring of recovery had.

‘Is it going to completely restore your body?’

A spring of blessings that heals all wounds and diseases.

I immediately took out a bottle of water.

‘It doesn’t fit in a water bottle.’

I tried to fill a water bottle with spring water, but after taking a few steps, all the spring water in the bottle evaporated.

“Sir! There’s something written on this side!”

I turn my gaze to follow Hye-rin’s voice.

A huge stone gate appears among the trolls that have been turned to dust.

‘Why is there a door like this in the palace?’

I push the door open slightly.

A door that moves easily despite its heavy appearance.

As I was trying to open the door all the way, Hye-rin hurriedly came over and grabbed my arm.

“T-T, don’t just open that! It’s the boss room!”

“…Boss room?”

“If there’s a door in front of the Fountain of Recovery, it’s definitely there. There’s probably a monster like a metal worm beyond the door.”

A hemp plant that couldn’t even produce a raw vegetable without a sword.

“Is there a hint about the boss written here?”

At Hye-rin’s words, I read the stone tablet in front of the door out loud.

“Face your other self?”

A questionable phrase.

When Hye-rin and the head of the household shook their heads as if they didn’t understand what he meant, he walked towards the door.

“There’s no time to worry. If they got through here, we shouldn’t have any trouble getting through here either.”

I had no intention of sitting here solving riddles.

After confirming that Hye-rin and Su-jang are ready for battle, he pushes the huge stone door open with his hand.

-Squeak.

A giant stone gate that moves with my steps.

The leader makes a face of contemplation and arrogance.

“… …Why are they there?”

There were three familiar people standing in front of me.