The Regressed Mercenary’s Machinations Chapter 796

Episode 796: Persuasion Begins Now (3)

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!
Giselle, spear in hand, charged through the fiery battlefield like a whirlwind.
Kwaaaaang!
Every time Giselle passed, soldiers’ bodies exploded and scattered in all directions.
The Imperial Army was relying solely on the healing effects of the widespread divine power.
Without concentrated protection, their defenses weren’t particularly strong.
The divine power was useless, as Giselle tore them apart before they could even recover.
Kwaang! Kwaang! Kwaaaaang!
Giselle’s every move was accompanied by a swirl of flames, and her shadow consumed the soldiers’ vision.
Giselle charged the enemies like a storm. Although it was a single charge, none who stood in her way survived.
Giselle quickly looked around. Everyone was fighting well, but the enemy was still too many.
“Should I try a little more?”
Giselle unleashed her magical power in all directions.
Kwaaang!
Hundreds of weapons rolling across the battlefield soared into the air.
It would be simple to create them with magic, but that would consume a lot of magic power. So he ‘recycled’ the already discarded weapons.
WHISTLE!
The weapons shot out in all directions like lightning.
They mercilessly tore through the enemy’s armor, crushed their bones, and burst their flesh.
BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ!
“Eww!”
“Stop it! Stop it now!”
“Throw yourself at it and get at it!”
The knights and soldiers tried everything to stop Giselle. But they couldn’t even get close, and they were killed by the weapons that moved on their own. They
couldn’t stop her. The imperial army grew increasingly terrified, busy dodging to the side every time Giselle moved.
“It’s a, a monster!”
“Get out of here! We can’t handle him!” ”
A superhuman must come and stop him!”
Fear instantly consumed the battlefield.
Even the elite soldiers trained to fight the demonic realm were nothing more than scarecrows before Giselle’s overwhelming power.
Giselle slaughtered the terrified Imperial soldiers. With even Marquis Farrington defeated, the Imperial troops were at a loss and floundered.
Glaring at the rampaging Giselle, the commanders in the rear shouted,
“Wait, wizard! Wizards, concentrate your attack on him!”
“If we kill him, we can regroup!”
“Pour all your magic into him!”
The commanders in the rear repeatedly urged the wizards.
But even the wizards couldn’t easily attack Giselle.
“No! We’ve tied up the spirits!”
“If we retreat now, the spirits will run wild again! We need to find and kill the spirit masters first!”
One of the commanders in the rear shouted in frustration at these words.
“We can’t stop all the spirits!”
“The remaining wizards are deploying magic fields!”
The wizards could no longer move. They were helpless.
Erenes was so clever with the spirits that they couldn’t be let loose.
The wizards maintaining the magic field were already under the influence of Giselle’s magic, so the remaining wizards had to reactivate it.
However, their actions were extremely clumsy in Giselle’s eyes.
“If you’re going to do it, do it right.”
Giselle smirked and drew up her magic.
“Frozen Tempest.”
Kwaaaaaaaaaaah!
With the chant, a storm of cold surged out from Giselle.
The surrounding Imperial troops were frozen without even a moment’s resistance.
Some Imperial wizards hastily added magic fields, but it wasn’t enough to completely block the 8th Circle magic.
At least the magic’s power and range were significantly reduced. However, Giselle hadn’t even used her full strength to begin with.
This was more than enough to freeze the soldiers.
Giselle spun her spear around once and slammed it down hard on the ground.
Boom!
With a powerful crackling sound, hundreds of frozen Imperial soldiers were blown to pieces.
The Imperial army was completely dumbfounded by this astonishing force.
It wasn’t just Giselle, who was running wild in the middle of the formation, who was the problem. The Imperial troops fighting in the front lines were also in a difficult situation.
“T-These guys won’t die!”
“Their wounds are healing too quickly!”
“It’s because of the divine power!”
The Yulien mercenaries, swinging their weapons frantically, were the culprits.
The Death Knights were weakened by the divine power, but the Yulien mercenaries were not.
The mercenaries had gained powerful resilience and defense thanks to Deneb’s divine power. Moreover, the Imperial army had also spread the divine power widely.
Thanks to their overlapping divine power, even when the knights swung their mana-infused swords, the Yulian mercenaries only received a scratch. Even those were instantly recovered.
However, the Imperial army’s resilience wasn’t strong enough to withstand the mercenaries’ attacks.
No matter how much divine power they possessed, if their throats were cut off and their heads and bodies pierced, they couldn’t recover.
Ultimately, the Imperial soldiers, unable to withstand the mercenaries’ attacks, quickly collapsed.
“Hahahaha! You’re so weak!”
“Just a little more strength! We can kill them all! It’s just taking too long!”
“Osval, you rascal! Today, we will write a new revolutionary history!”
Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!
The Imperial army couldn’t kill the mercenaries, but the mercenaries could.
This absurd difference in combat effectiveness gradually eroded the Imperial army’s will to fight.
The knights tried to kill the mercenaries, but each time, the Death Knights blocked their path.
The Death Knights, immortal, simply acted as shields. The Yulien Mercenaries only had to hide behind the Death Knights and swing their weapons.
Even the remaining Imperial superhumans were captured by Yulien and Kyle, so they couldn’t help their allies.
The ten-thousand-strong Imperial army was facing defeat.
They were facing an unprecedented tragedy, facing defeat by a mere thirty mercenaries.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
As time passed, the Imperial army crumbled.
They realized they had been profoundly mistaken about the Yulien Mercenaries.
They were monsters, equipped with countermeasures for every situation and the miraculous power to execute them.
And at the center of it all was Giselle, who possessed both the magic of the 8th Circle and superhuman strength.
“Demon…”
someone muttered at Giselle.
What kind of army was this?
The Pope’s army, on a sacred mission.
And yet this army… was being trampled by demons.
To that demon who had dug into the center alone, covered in blood, and was laughing!
Kwaaaaang!
Giselle, who had blown away dozens of soldiers in one fell swoop, suddenly turned around and raised her spear.
Kwaaaaang!
Giselle, who had blocked someone’s attack, smirked.
“Can you still move?”
“This guy…”
The one who appeared was Marquis Farrington, whose face was half destroyed.
Swish… .
Divine power was surging around him, but his face hadn’t fully healed.
The wound was too deep, and Giselle’s magic still lingered.
But he didn’t die.
It was thanks to the superhuman’s overflowing vitality and the constant flow of divine power.
Marquis Farrington looked at Giselle and gritted his teeth.
‘We completely failed.’
He should have brought more superhumans, magicians, and priests to deal with them.
If only he had maintained his formation and pushed forward, he wouldn’t have been defeated so unilaterally.
Even if he had been annihilated, he would have succeeded in eliminating the Yulien mercenary group.
“If it weren’t for this damned bastard… … .”
His biggest mistake was being flustered by his opponent’s absurdity. He should have sent only a few to find the castle stone and gathered all his troops to properly push back.
Now, there was only one way left.
“At least this bastard… … .”
Before he could finish his thoughts, Giselle spoke.
“Do you think it’ll be over if you just catch me?”
“…”
“….” “That’s what everyone thinks when it comes to this.”
“…This arrogant bastard. I’ll definitely kill him.” “
Everyone says that. ”
Giselle poured magic power into her spear and laughed ferociously.
“And I’ve never let a guy who said that live.”
“Shut up!”
Kwaaaaang!
Marquis Ferrington’s sword aimed for the horse’s neck first,
intending to kill the horse and throw Giselle off balance.
However, Giselle’s spear easily blocked Marquis Ferrington’s sword and flew through the blade.
Crack!
The Marquis of Farrington, who had narrowly avoided the spear’s blade, was about to swing his sword again when,
Whew!
Giselle’s spear pierced his shoulder. The Marquis
groaned and tried to approach, but Giselle had already retreated with her horse, increasing the distance between them.
His spear flashed again, and a red line was drawn across the Marquis of Farrington’s neck.
“Ugh!”
The Marquis of Farrington barely managed to pull away and avoid being decapitated.
He was now in shock.
‘Wh-what kind of horse could make such movements…?’
A horse can’t keep up with a superhuman’s movements. No matter how much energy he bolstered, there were limits.
Yet, his opponent moved as if he were one with his horse. His horsemanship was astonishingly excellent.
Even more infuriating was the fact that it was his own horse. Seeing him make such moves while riding an unfamiliar horse fueled his anger.
‘I have to get to him, no matter what!’
Marquis Farrington spared no expense in mana.
Weapons were meaningless in a fight between superhumans, but his opponent’s skills were simply too superior. The length of his spear put him at a disadvantage.
Kaang! Kaang! Kaang!
Marquis Farrington launched a reckless attack, desperate to close the gap.
But Giselle easily parried every attack from horseback.
“Hmm, is this it? It’s pretty good… but not satisfactory. Still, a little better than Kyle.”
“Eaaaaaaah!”
Marquis Farrington roared in rage and swung his sword wildly.
He was one of the top five skilled fighters in the empire. But he couldn’t even brush past his opponent’s collar.
Humiliation and despair engulfed his entire body.
Kaang! Kaang! Kaaaaang!
Even while Giselle fought Marquis Ferrington, the weapons he wielded were mercilessly slaughtering the imperial army.
‘Ah, no. Hurry, this bastard… …’
The more he thought about it, the more anxious Marquis Ferrington became. He had to quickly defeat Giselle to fix this mess.
In contrast, Giselle calmly attacked Marquis Ferrington.
Pooh! Pooh! Pooh!
Holes began to appear all over Marquis Ferrington’s body.
The overflowing divine power tried to heal his body, but the wounds grew faster than he could.
Chiiiiiik… …
At some point, even recovery failed.
The magical power Giselle left behind gradually consumed Marquis Ferrington’s body more deeply and persistently.
Marquis Ferrington was clearly a strong man. Even with the aid of divine power and the full force of his might, it was difficult to kill Giselle in one fell swoop.
But such an opponent could be hunted down step by step.
Understand!
Giselle was slowly killing Marquis Farrington.
Every wound she inflicted would seep into the wound, and instead, Marquis Farrington’s wounds would not heal, but rather rot from within.
Giselle muttered as she cornered Marquis Farrington.
“It would have been fun if we had met before training.”
Indeed. If she had fought with a weaker body, she would have sweated profusely.
Unfortunately, not now.
As Giselle ascended to the 8th Circle, she realized the principles of a higher world. With her willpower strengthened, Marquis Farrington was no match for her.
Giselle’s calm voice continued.
“We should have considered the possibility of us becoming even stronger.”
“Ugh…!”
Marquis Farrington exhaled harshly.
Even though he had already assumed he was a superhuman and prepared, he had failed. In reality, the Yulien Mercenaries were stronger and bolder than expected.
They were being dragged around by every situation. There was nothing to say. It was their utter defeat.
However, Marquis Farrington wasn’t without excuses.
He glared at Giselle and said,
“If only you hadn’t… if only you hadn’t done that crazy thing of abandoning the holy stone…”
If they had fought properly, they wouldn’t have suffered this much. Marquis Farrington truly thought so.
Giselle nodded slightly.
“Yes, we would have suffered quite a bit.”
Judging by the fighting force, Marquis Farrington’s thoughts were correct.
If they had exposed all their strength and clashed head-on, things wouldn’t have been so easy.
However, there was something Marquis Farrington didn’t know.
Giselle smiled and suddenly put away her spear.
“But I didn’t abandon the holy stone.”
Marquis Farrington paused at the sudden remark.
“…What?”
“Exactly. I didn’t abandon the holy stone.”
“T-then that means…”
“Of course it’s fake. Didn’t it seem quite plausible? The Dragon Lord made it for me. I asked him to use it in times of danger. The divine power was also something Deneb just emitted.”
“This, this guy…”
Marquis Perrington’s face paled.
The item was too important, and the situation was so urgent, he couldn’t think deeply.
In reality, from the Yulien Mercenary Corps’s perspective, it didn’t matter if they discarded the Holy Stone.
But it was all fake! An act!
‘Surely these guys… … .’
The Yulien Mercenary Corps had been prepared to fight the Empire from the beginning.
Even the situation he believed to be perfectly surrounded was actually within the enemy’s expectations.
“You bastard!”
Marquis Farrington, unable to contain his anger, raised his sword high. His mind was filled with the humiliation of having been struck by Giselle.
He swung his sword. However, his composure had already been lost and he had sustained numerous wounds, his posture completely crumbling.
And at that moment.
Whew!
Giselle’s spearhead pierced Marquis Farrington’s heart.