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711. Black and White World
Originally, they would have scattered and fallen one by one, but Jawoon created something similar to a large formation.
He started by blocking the front with Gaju, Alexandra, and Rhinox as an invisible wall.
Since they had to bypass them, the lizard riders could not secure the strength to charge, and had to reveal their movements.
Furthermore, Encred sent out Anajera to attack first before some of the riders could charge, causing a melee and causing a fight.
Even so, Hescal showed no sign of panic.
‘It would have been better if we had charged Ragna instead of Anajera.’
Then I could have made it absurd, but that would be a waste.
If the head of the household was the wall, Ragna was the catapult. He had to fly in and shock them.
No one expected the catapult, so there was no reason not to use it.
Above all, I didn’t have the time to go to Ragna and tell him anything.
I just trusted that he would do it on his own.
Encred’s gaze moved to one side. He didn’t hear anything in particular. His senses were wide and thin, and it was more like he had caught a strange sign.
That sign was nothing more than someone secretly waving their hand behind his back, but now, if he were to blow on him from ten steps away, he would be able to sense it.
Even in the storm, his senses were extremely sharp and aware of his surroundings.
Encred rolled his eyes and followed his intuition to find his opponent and capture him in his field of vision.
He saw some of the lizard riders charging toward Riley reaching out. He saw
the figure of a monster with a pointed snout and black scales mixed with red.
‘A peculiar entity.’
If they survive long enough, they will be able to receive a name.
A group of supernatural monsters with supernatural abilities, such as the Scaler group, were hiding inside.
At the same time, Anajera also cried out in response to their attacks.
“Someone catch me!”
The words burst out even though no one had actually grabbed her arms or legs. Encred interpreted the meaning contained in her short words.
‘Telekinesis.’
Encred planted his sword on the ground, widening his field of vision and opening his senses even further. Several monsters moving in a strange manner caught his senses.
He then accepted the incoming information more sensitively. He saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt.
The information entering his head was reorganized and aligned as Encred wished.
He detected everything with supernatural abilities within his range of perception, as clearly as a black dot on a pure white canvas.
Encred did not rest his hands apart from opening his senses to detect his enemies .
He pulled out two horned daggers from the dagger sheath on his chest and held them in both hands.
Saxon said that they were the most hated weapons on the continent.
“You’re saying that instead of muffling the sound, you’re making it louder? That’s the worst.”
It was a weapon that did not fit with Saxon’s technology or aesthetics.
His thoughts were short, and his actions continued without pause. He took in a few enemies that he felt with his five senses. Everything, including the scaler he had reached out to, seemed slow.
The knight’s thinking speed was several times faster than that of an ordinary person. It felt like he was sneaking in through a gap in time and watching secretly.
That must be why random thoughts were creeping into his head.
‘One point of focus.’
When you realize the slowed time, the pressure on your body feels like you’re buried in mud, but Will spins around and adds strength.
Then you can move as you want in the mud.
What do you need to do now? Throw and hit.
Concentrate. Mix Saxon’s technique with what you’ve seen and learned from Riley. Extend both arms back at the same time. Concentrate enough strength to hit, then put Will in your arms and swing. Both arms cross in front of your chest like a whip, and the horned dagger in your hand rips through the air.
Boom! Boom! Phew!
The daggers tore through the air and flew past the heads of two scalers that were reaching out into the air with a short trumpet sound.
The “bang bang” noise could be heard clearly even through the raging storm.
The daggers did not lodge themselves, but flew through. In other words, a hole larger than a fist was created in their heads.
If a hole were created in the head, it would be difficult for even a troll, let alone a scaler, to survive.
The one that reached out into the air and tried to use psychic powers fell to the mud with its body disintegrating.
Encred spoke as he pulled out the sword he had stuck in the ground.
“Leave the oddities alone.”
Now, it seemed like I couldn’t just watch.
It seemed like there were more than a few people with supernatural powers.
Then there was nothing I could do.
I had to jump into that fun battlefield myself.
Also, the special monsters with supernatural powers were only the first of what they had prepared.
Kwaarrung!
Along with the lightning, I felt an ominous feeling in the sky. I looked up at the sky and saw raindrops forming a large shape under the dark clouds covering my head.
It was as if a large snake had appeared in the sky. It wasn’t a dragon. A long snake with a body that floated above my head and took the side of the monster.
The ominous feeling that hit the back of my head made me realize that it was definitely a spell.
“I was wondering when you would show it.”
Encred muttered.
The effects of the spell were clear. The monster became stronger immediately after the snake rose into the air.
Saaaaah!
My senses began to ring alarm bells as the noise the scaler was spewing out became clearer in my ears.
“Hang in there.”
Encred said as he passed Riley.
“I know you’re doing it even if I don’t say anything!”
Encred swung his sword gently as he passed Riley. The three iron blades curved upward from below, slicing across the neck of the lizard that had been sneaking up on the ground.
Pevic, thud!
It was as if someone had grabbed its neck with a bladed whip and pulled it out.
The blade circled the monster’s neck and cut it off.
It was a creature with an excellent ability to hide its presence, but the sound of the rain hitting the ground was different, and a certain shape was captured along the raindrops, so it was killed.
‘Hascal.’
Encred seemed to know what he wanted.
If people like Crysna and Abnair could see the battlefield as it was now, they would say this.
“In the end, you’re saying that you’re going to decide it with one blow.”
In addition, before that one-shot match, I will drain all of my allies’ strength.
Physically and metaphorically.
I will charge the monsters to drain the strength of those who have reached the level of knights, and if necessary, I will charge the remaining troops to kill their families. That way, I can shake their hearts.
Knights are an asymmetrical force. If I can kill them, I can throw thousands of monsters and still have some left.
‘excel.’
Hescal was also excellent as a tactician.
Encred had no choice but to follow Hescal’s intentions to some extent.
He tried to fight without strength, but he couldn’t ignore it. However, he only stopped them from killing everyone including Riley, saying that he would shake their hearts.
If they were to break through, the path to Zaun would open. Then there would be no way to protect the rear.
Encred cast his gaze into the distance through his keen senses and intuition, and shouted urgently.
“Bow your head!”
Isn’t this a bit too much?
This thought crossed my mind for a moment.
The snake form summoned by sorcery increases the monster’s physical abilities, such as its strength, to a higher level than usual.
A special individual was mixed in among them. It was a monster with supernatural abilities.
In addition, a monster that was much larger than other monsters, and difficult to see even in the demonic realm, raised its head from behind.
Shaaaaak.
The hundreds of snakes on its head are the symbol of that monster. That symbol covers the battlefield. Medusa is a monster that spreads a petrifying curse when its eyes meet.
It seemed to be five times larger than the scaler. It is a monster larger than a giant.
The petrifying curse that Medusa spreads may not always be effective. If you have Will, you can endure it to some extent. The very idea that you have to endure it is problematic.
That means you will lack the Will to fight. You had to endure
the curse of mixing stone dust into your blood and block the horde of monsters with supernatural powers.
When you fight normally, your allies have the upper hand, but when supernatural powers are mixed in, you are at a disadvantage because a magic snake appears in the sky, and when Medusa appears again, you are certain to lose.
Even here, Hescal used his mind.
‘Medusa was used as a tactical tool.’
Instead of charging, he forced the entire battlefield to apply force.
Looking at it here, it seemed like he knew where the power of sorcery came from.
Medusa was a tactical tool, a medium for sorcery, and a symbol.
The enemy’s strength was clearly superior to ours. Here, the sorcerer and the legendary alchemist were together.
If the ghost of Dmul becomes a god like he wants, he will be called Dmul of Disease, something like that.
Encred thought that it would be better to fight without looking rather than expend Will. Even if the Will in his body overflows, some of the Will that is available at the moment is mortgaged.
And he knew that even the swordsmen of Zaun could fight without looking. They have been practicing blindfolded since they were ten years old. He also knows that such a thing exists in Zaun’s actual swordsmanship training.
“Keep your head down and fight! You don’t have to look!”
Encred shouted again. He raised his head stiffly.
He looked around one last time to see if there was anything left to see.
Medusa cursed the act of looking.
Here, in the empty space above his head, there was the sound of wings flapping.
Hescal had been holding back the winged things for a long time, and now he let them out. He was wearing them as a pair with Medusa.
‘They were aiming for a synergistic effect between tactical tools and flying weapons.’
Or maybe those winged things needed to have their spells spread across the battlefield to fly through the storm.
Encrid ignored Medusa’s curse and continued to look ahead. She trusted the unending will, and she trusted the Will of rejection that she had. And
that’s exactly what happened. Medusa’s curse had no effect on her body.
If she were a normal person, her entire body would have hardened by now, starting with her blood.
“I guess that’s what you call a pilot.”
As he brushed his wet hair back, the thought occurred to him that this would be quite dangerous.
If he couldn’t pull out one thing he had hidden and turn things around, he would definitely lose.
He knew this with his intuition and his calculations.
Well, then that would be fine.
The Luagarne-style tactical swordsmanship isn’t complete just by looking at it from behind. Intuition pulls out what’s hidden in the subconscious and combines it to come up with an answer.
That includes the power he possesses.
Encred drew a path in his head with his instincts and intuition.
His heated head and concentration showed him the path he had to walk and move forward. This was also related to a recent realization.
Encred lowered his head.
‘Rhinox creates restrained Willow waves.’
He applied what he learned by watching his swordsmanship. Encred was not a genius, but it was safe to say that he had talent when it came to handling Will.
In reality, moving Will was not a talent, but rather the fact that unlimited repetition training was possible with the overflowing Will.
That was why it was easier to learn the art of ascension than the basic training of Zawoon.
‘resection.’
Don’t look at Medusa. Then hide Will. At the same time, if you match your wavelength with the surroundings, this is a fairy tale.
Funnily enough, it was only after coming here that I realized the fairy tale that Azpen’s knight Jamal showed me a while ago.
If Rem saw this now.
“No, shit, I really don’t get it. Why can I only do that now?”
He seemed to hear the voice of the man who was asking why he couldn’t have told him earlier. Encred melted into the battlefield. Then, he distributed his breaths thinly and evenly and slightly stuck out his tongue to taste the air and the falling rain. The warm scent conveyed information through his sense of taste. He estimated the distance, direction, and location. It wasn’t accurate
.
He
could only feel the presence.
He thought it would be okay to close his eyes. So he closed his eyes.
Instead of looking with his eyes, he opened his ears. Hearing replaced sight.
There was no need to use echolocation. The sound of the rain would do that for him.
Swish.
The sound of the raindrops faded, and soon Encred’s world turned black and white. Only then did he see everything.
The enemy’s location, where they were, what they were doing.
Encred ran along the path drawn in his head by the Luagarne-style tactical sword.
No one in Zaun, including Riley, could detect his movements. Naturally, the enemy did not.
He moved in a state of assimilation, and only in front of his target, he raised his Will, which he had hidden with restraint.
First, it was another Scaler who had just raised his hand, ready to use his psychic powers.
Encred pulled out Penna and stabbed it from under its chin up.
Phew!
The blade penetrated his skull, revealing black blood, brain fluid, and pieces of brain matter outside his skull.
He pulled out his penna faster than he could stab, swabbed the blood, and put it back in his scabbard, then ran eighteen steps to the side. It looked like he was walking
, but his speed was like running. As he moved to the side, Owlbear, who had been specializing in hiding his presence, was about to spray his poisoned feathers.
Pitter-patter. The feathers that could pierce through a storm like a storm raised their heads like an angry beast.
Each and every feather on his body was like a poisoned dart. If he left it like this, someone might get hurt. Of course, Owlbear did not achieve his goal.
The silver blade of the three-steel sword cut Owlbear’s feathers and neck, which were as strong as steel.
Black blood gushed out like a fountain from the cross-section of his severed neck, but the rainwater pouring down from the sky mixed with the gushing blood and diluted it.
To Encred’s auditory vision, it only appeared as if two different liquids with different textures were mixing.
Encred kept moving, sensing his enemies with his hearing and waves in his assimilated state, and using his restrained Will only when necessary.
Phew!
The next scaler was a particularly strong one, and Penna, who had stabbed his eye socket, split his head open. He
didn’t die right away, but there was no need to use his hands again.
Next time.
There were three types of supernatural abilities.
One that used psychic powers, one with a particularly strong body, and one that had the special ability to hide his presence.
Encred killed the third one, those that hid their presence.
The black and white world was like a training ground that was only allowed to him.
It seemed that he was the only one free on the spider web.
Aker’s web, he put everything in order and threw his sword. He mixed the learned and practiced swordsmanship with the Luagarne-style tactical sword. From then on, it wasn’t that hard. It
was just something he could do.
And with just that, Encred was able to prevent a single person with the last name Zaun near him from dying.