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Sultan Baphomer of the Emirate of Amir sent three warriors to accompany the bishop of the Unity Church.
Khaldun had the appearance of a sand dune, and like his two friends Shirahili and Mohad, he was not afraid of death, and was a loyal berserker of the Sultan.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
He thought as he walked through the alleys of the new city center of Soletaraon.
'What a weak and mischievous city this is!'
Weak and playful.
It was not a thought worth thinking about, seeing the magnificent stone buildings, well-paved streets, and well-maintained water and sewer systems.
Even their hometown, Mecharis, was not a city developed to this extent.
But the weakness he saw had nothing to do with the city's cinema or its grand buildings.
'If people live together like this, they will inevitably become vulnerable to erosion.'
If a complete volcanic eruption were to occur at the top of a stone building, the building would collapse.
There is a reason why Mecaris does not build high-rise apartment complexes.
'You can't even maintain such expensive magic tools by placing them all over the place.'
The sacred streetlights on the wide street were blinking.
'In the end, maintenance costs just keep increasing, and there is no money left for important things.'
Kaldun nodded from inside his hood.
Beep!
A horn was heard from far away.
It seemed like a kid was following me for a while, and it seemed like he did something.
'The Emperor of this country does not know what is truly important. This world does not belong to humans, but to greater beings. It is only natural that we should always consider their existence and design the city while considering the impact their presence will have on it.'
Thud. Thud. Thud.
Kaldun and his two friends went out towards the wide street.
'Great power brings arrogance.'
Shirahili and Mohad looked at each other and nodded.
“Should we do it here?”
“Yes, Kaldun. If you want to go back, you can do so.”
“Then the Sultan will feel ashamed in front of his comrades.”
Kaldun stood beside them, smiling faintly.
“Take warning from the Sultan.”
“Be warned.”
Crack, crack!
Their bodies boiled and swelled as the three merged into one.
Hands were entangled, legs were stuck together, and three faces were blackened.
“Ah, hahaha.”
Kaldun felt that his two friends' consciousness was shared.
Boom, boom!
A completely mutated, six-legged demon with three thick legs, six arms, black skin and three heads stood in the middle of the street.
He was 18 meters tall, his eyes were burning like coals, and his whole body was covered in rope-like muscles.
The three heads opened their mouths and shouted at the same time.
“It’s the Sultan’s warning!”
Human language transformed into an indescribable howl, and crimson waves of spirit shot out into the city.
Flash!
At that moment, the sacred streetlight that had been blinking since a while ago began to glow dazzlingly.
Saaaaah-!
Pale divine power spread out in a circle in all directions.
The divine force field collided with the crimson mental wave, canceling out the mental wave and instead covering Kaldun's body.
Phage crackle!
A searing pain ran through my whole body.
My skin felt plump and flushed, as if I had just come out of boiling water.
“Kwaaak!”
Kaldun looked back at the sacred streetlight in confusion.
'What? Why is there a priest's power in that streetlight?'
The light became a signal, and people poured out of the apartment buildings on all sides.
“Now is the time!”
“Run away!”
“Follow this road!”
Kaldun looked at people with his three heads and six eyes.
'Why are you so calm?'
Even if the erosion energy was offset by the divine power just now, it would have been natural for them to panic and run away in all directions while revealing themselves to their own deaths if an 18-meter-tall eroder had appeared.
However, the citizens of this city steadily moved in one direction, even with children holding their parents' hands.
“Sign?”
He saw large and small arrow patterns glowing along the buildings and walls.
“This way!”
“Let’s all gather in the square. The gates will be opened soon!”
“Hold on tight to your mother’s hand, and even if you lose sight of it, follow that light!”
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There were long arrow patterns all over the street, and if you followed the light, you would come across a large open space that could be used as a gathering place.
'I guess I can kill them all at once.'
Kaldun moved towards the open space, trampling over those who had not yet escaped.
“Ahh!”
But a huge triumphal arch blocked his path.
“Tsk.”
The stone gate, which was 16 meters high, was difficult to break down easily, and it was difficult to pass under it.
Around every vacant lot and on every street, there were gates and giant statues like that installed.
Kaldun realized that it was no coincidence.
'Are you just trying to kill time?'
* * *
"let's go!"
“Follow the light of light!”
“The Encroacher has appeared! Report this to the Imperial Family immediately!”
The priest who was looking over the city from the top of the cathedral spire immediately rang the bell, and heavily armed knights and warrior priests rushed in, offering prayers.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo!
Dozens of warhorses galloped along the cobblestone road.
Kaldun thought they would arrive only a few dozen minutes later.
'If people start running away in a big city like this, the roads will be completely paralyzed. It will be a headache not being able to run while stepping on the pouring citizens.'
However, things turned out quite differently than Kaldun had expected.
Doo doo doo doo!
It would have been understandable for them to have shouted, "Get out of the way!" as they tangled with the fleeing citizens, but there was not a single person, not even a shadow of a person, in sight on the path the knights were running along.
If a citizen tried to go that way, other citizens would stop him.
“You can’t do that!”
“Can’t you see the red light?”
“Oh my. I almost made a big mistake.”
Flash! Flash! Flash!
The evacuation route for the people was marked with green lights, and the advance route for the knights and paladins was marked with red lights.
It was a system that Valencianus and Hadrian had devised while putting their heads together.
'If people are afraid and block the road, the knights cannot approach the ravagers. How can we solve this?'
'It's a sign, but we must also make sure to educate them. We will deploy the refugees as construction workers in the new city. They will remember it well if they build it themselves.'
'Good. Let's build with stone as much as possible. If we use wood, it will be too easy to build illegally. Streets will become houses, roads will be blocked, and it will go around and around… It's horrible to even imagine.'
'Yes. Let's keep the main streets empty and eliminate alleys as much as possible.'
A new city created by the intertwining of countless people's interests and gold that cannot be expressed in words.
Craftsmen in the carpenter's workshops protested and bribed others to build wooden buildings; artisans in the stonemasons' guild, whose salaries were skyrocketing, and sorcerers who made magic paints, began to trade in their guts; there was internal strife in the guild of artists who would put the sculptures on the Arc de Triomphe; and all these people, along with the bourgeoisie and the aristocrats who were connected with them through money, were up to all sorts of tricks… … .
Valencianus appeases the carpenters, Saya Yen threatens the stonemasons, the church cracks down on magicians, Hadritan destroys the artists' guild, Ludi cracks down on society… … .
All that confusion was created by pressing and releasing.
The worth of that effort was proven in this moment.
Toodoodoodoo!
Dozens of paladins quickly rushed out of the old city and ran in a straight line towards Khaldun.
It was a perfect rush, without any interruptions.
“Light! Light up the path we take!”
“Light, grant your servants tireless strength!”
“Oh, Light! Grant your power to your spear, to your sword!”
A gentle divine power burned upon the shoulders of the paladins as the battle priests prayed.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
“Now that the Lord has come, what have we to fear?”
Even the spears they drew burned with a gentle divine power, the horses they rode were strengthened with divine power, and even the bows they pulled were imbued with divine power.
Whaaaaaaaaaa! Whaaaaaaaaaa! Whaaaaaaaaaa!
The knights were all skilled in swordsmanship, spears, bows, and horsemanship, and the paladins were no exception.
Pfft pfft!
The divine arrow pierced Kaldun's body without mercy.
To Khaldun, who was 18 meters tall, the arrow, which was less than a meter long, seemed like a rather large needle, but the brilliant power contained in the needle burned Khaldun's black flesh.
“Kwaaah!”
And soon, spears several times larger than those needles would arrive.
“Kaaaah!”
Before I could prepare for it, a terrible howl was heard from the western sky.
“!”
Kaldun opened his eyes wide and let out a sigh.
'That's a bit difficult.'
A wyvern was flying above the giant dome building.
On the wyvern's back sat a knight in blue armor.
* * *
Kaldun was beside himself.
“Let us drive out the enemies of light from this land!”
“The saint is looking at us!”
“Light! Give me the courage to not break!”
A group of knights came running from the ground.
“For His Majesty the Emperor!”
“Distance 1.2km. Wind direction south-southwest.”
“Prepare for lightning strike.”
In the sky, dragon knights flew in.
He first gathered his strength to deal with the paladin.
Tsk tsk tsk!
Khaldun stretched out his six arms to the surrounding stone buildings.
Kkwaduk!
He grabbed a handful of rocks and bricks and prepared to hurl them at the knights.
“Throw!”
At that moment, the Blue Knights fired lightning javelins.
Wedge! Wedge! Wedge!
A loud voice echoed through the night sky, and twenty spears with blue electricity flew in.
'Lightning!'
Kaldun just kept his muscles tense, bulging.
His thick hide blocked most fire magic, and he could even deflect lightning-like electric shocks into the ground.
Phage crackle-!
'I can let it all flow out… …!'
Blue flashes of light shot out like tree branches from Kaldun's massive body.
“Kwaaah!”
The moment the spearhead dug into the black body, the magic of diffusion and penetration created by the genius magician of Geumneungyodong was manifested.
His thick arms twitched and the rocks he was holding in his six hands fell to the floor.
Thud, thud.
I tried to reflexively shout out a mental wave, but the moment I opened my mouth, a spear flew between my three heads.
Phage crackle-!
“Ugh!”
Even though there was clearly electric resistance, my body was frozen and I couldn't make any waves.
At that time, the knights arrived at the bridge of Khaldun.
“The Lord is coming!”
Their eyes glowed orange, and their weapons and armor were imbued with divine power.
“Aim for the first bridge!”
The pure divine power that burned Kaldun's body even while riding on an arrow was attached to a horse-mounted spear that was nearly 4 meters long.
bang-!
Phage crackle-!
The moment the white-hot spear tip pierced the black leg, the dizzying sound of an explosion disappeared, a dazzling light burst out, and the black leg was cut open wide.
“Ahhhhh!”
Kaldun screamed and shook his body.
Of course, that alone wasn't enough to take down an 18-meter-tall giant.
But the story changed when brave and renowned knights joined them.
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A dazzling white light burst forth, and muscular black legs burst open, revealing red flesh and white bones.
“Ughhhhh……!”
Kaldun staggered violently and leaned against the nearby buildings as if hanging on them.
Then the warrior priests who ran behind the paladin offered a prayer.
“Please prevent the author’s evil breath from infecting this land……”
“Imprison, suffocate and strangle the sinner.”
Saaaaah!
The divine power bloomed dazzlingly, forming a semicircular force field that spread out to a width of about 100 meters, enveloping the area where Kaldun was.
Cheeeeek!!
The erosive energy that was gushing out, knowingly or unknowingly, hit the force field and melted away.
“Kurururuk!”
“Keeeeeek!”
“Chwieeeek!”
Some of the eroded people who had been eroded during the first mental wave ran out of the force field with their distorted bodies.
Boom!
I bounced back like a goldfish hurtling towards the wall of an aquarium.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
And the black saint entered the force field.
The purple and red robes radiated a divine power that seemed to distort light.
“Keeeeee…….”
The invaders were too scared to attack, so they bowed their heads or hid in corners.
As the Purification Corps soldiers ran after them in groups of four or five, Mateos recited with his black eyes shining like obsidian.
“It is a city that the infamous Grand Duke Valencian painstakingly designed, and a system to protect the city.”
A pale aura, like a mixture of light and darkness, rose from his hands.
“Warrior of the South. Did he and I look this easy?”