Vol 21 Chapter 2 (1/2)
Act 2: Pabiun Fortress
“Steel Knights, go around the right side of the valley and attack!”
“Blackbird Knights, go around the left side of the valley and attack!”
“Units 2, 3 and 4 will break through the canyon from the front!”
“Waaaaahhhhh!”
The soldiers pulled out swords and spears and charged forward They breathed roughly as they sank up to their knees in the snow before entering the huge canyon which looked like a scene from hell
-You have entered the sphere of influence of the ‘Jinn Demons!’
The Jinn clan are one of the rulers of hell and their presence has distorted the area The distortion of this space thanks to the ‘demonic’ influence has corrupted the environment and turned it into a hell space Naturally the deer inside this distorted space
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It was the identity of the black fog covering the Sinius Principality Any soldiers that entered the black mist would instantly be surrounded by thousands of reed and malice! They were the hellish demons that appeared out of the darkness It was a chimera like monster with the upper body of a human, the lower body of a lion and the head of a bull Some monsters also had 5 heads or 8 arms……
It was similar to a monster exhibition hall These weren’t ordinary monsters but ones that had been deformed by the deht, the ues
-Kuraka, kuraka, nohun! Arkra mojaham!
The thousands of e nuround to shake! The leaders of each unit immediately ordered their troops
“Leading warriors, use Rush!+”
“Wahhhhh!”
The soldiers at the head of the unit raised their shi+elds and simultaneously rushed forward There was an intense sound as the two groups pressed against each other But after a while, the enorround from above and trampled them
“Priests, concentrate your holy power on the leading unit!”
“The great God Ares, let the power of your light help their willpower! Holy Sword!”
“Gracious Goddess of the Earth, breathe life into your children…Revival!”
The thousands of priests in the back used their holy ic, there were bursts of intense light The intense light caused the dark presences to ht and they hesitated
“Now send them back into the darkness!”
The soldiers who had their health restored with holy power instantly poured a shower of violent attacks on the monsters The monsters shrieked and ran forward The sound of iron clashi+ng spread through the area Dozens of warriors ran up to the monsters over 10 h with relief, they were stepped on by other giant monsters and becahter on the snowfield was like pouring red paint onto a white surface
“Kuaaaa……!”
A warrior in the middle of the battlefield moaned with distress He was the 3rd assault captain of the 1st unit, Jaed in bravely with his troops when the battle began before beco battle, his equiped and his potions had disappeared In this situation, he couldn’t expect any help from the priests or the main forces!
“……Is it going to end here?”
Jas In the nearby area there were only 10 people and they were surrounded by dozens of monsters
“If I can get a few supplies… But it is impossible in this situation damn, if it’s like this then I just have to kill so! It is the desperate resolution of the 3rd assault captain…!”
It was at that moment A loud sound could be heard in the area When Ja like a storm His whole body was protected by a thick fur
“Who are you?”
“A supply warrior!”
“Supply warrior? Shouldn’t you be in a supply unit? Don’t tell me you came here alone?”
“Yes, I’ive you the detailed explanation later Did you send a supply request a while ago? What do you need? Was it a repair tool box, recovery potions and food?”
“Yes”
“I have 50 re of each item Radun”
Ssak ssak ssak, ssak ssak ssak ssak!
The snake around the man’s waist opened its mouth and spat out 50 repair tool boxes, potions and military provisions each Ja close to his face
“Now, sign here to indicate that you’ve received supplies from me”
“Sign? In such a situation?”
“Hurry Shouldn’t you recover before the monsters attack?”
“U-understood”
Once Jarabbed his hand and said
“It’s hard but hold on a littlethe canyon The nal flare that Ja soon It should take around 10 minutes so you have to hold on until then”
-Roaaaaar!
Then soed towards the man The man turned around and shouted
“Flash!+”
TheWhen the ray of light swept pass dozens of monsters, they quickly lost 15 health The man who showed such extrehed
“This is a service And I’ht Illusion!”
A light wrapped around the man and three clones were made When the three bodies fled, the monster shrieked and chased after it Meanwhile, the man used Sprint and escaped to another battlefield
“T-that person is……”
James who had received the supplies looked at the man’s back with stupid eyes Then so at the man said
“Captain-nim, isn’t he ‘that person’ from the rumours?”
“That person?”
“What, you haven’t heard about it? Whenever a person surrounded by monsters requests supplies, that person will show up and deliver the supplies before leavingHe is called ashop…”
“Then is wasn’t just a rumour?”
James’s expression turned even more amazed
‘Hihihi, one more person!’
After delivering the supplies to Ja monsters He would show up like the henever there was a supplies request, a ht This person was Ark
There was a reason Ark wassupplies Ark participated in the expedition as thefor him to do once the war actually started The raccoons and Baran clan were the ones producing the munitions JusticeMan, the rehabilitationthe troops while Sid was a merchant so it was more efficient for him to handle any docu care of the work, there was nothing for the president to do
‘Then should I rake in some achievements on the battlefield?’
While he didn’t care because of the exclusive trade rights, Ark had also accepted the xpedition army’s=”” crusade=””> quest Since Ark didn’t have to worry about the munitions supply then he should aim for the question compensation And he participated in the battle As the battle went on, et support fro else However, it was realistically impossible for the supply unit to help all of them Then Ark suddenly heard the voice of a commander in his ear
“damn, one of the search units has been cornered on the western e! There are too many monsters so the supply unit can’t approach Anyone is fine Is there any soldier willing to deliver the supplies to the soldiers for the supply unit?”
“I’ll do it!”
Ark was searching for suitable work so he immediately delivered the supplies to the troops At the saeappeared in front of Ark
-Your mission to deliver supplies to the isolated unit has been accomplished
Thanks to acco your duty, the survival rate of your allies has improved
‘300 achievement!’
Ark’s eyes widened at the ave 5~15 achieveathered and attacked the saet 1~5 achievement points Yet he received 300 achieve supplies to an isolated unit Since many people needed supplies on the battlefield, it felt like a huge windfall for Ark Anyway, Ark thought quickly after receiving the 300 achievements
‘Wait? If it is this easy to get achieve around the battlefield for? I can just give supplies to the isolated troops Then……?’
Ark went to meet the supply office Nadin and said
“A lot of soldiers are losing their lives in vain because supplies can’t get there in time”
“Dah In addition, the supply unit can’t enter the deep places of the battlefield If the supply unit encountersto the isolated troops then there will just be evencrazy!”
Nadin shouted nervously Then Ark sestion
“That’s why I suggest having just one person spread supplies to the isolated unit The places the supply unit can move on the battlefield are limited but if I’ht beif it is for the expedition force”
“Are you really sincere?”
“Of course However there is one condition Apart from the military supplies, I’ve also joined the expedition force If you want me to spread the supplies to the unit then I need 120 of the market price for the supplies”
“What? Isn’t that 50 more than the price you delivered it to us?”
“My life is ier allowance On a battlefield, supplies are like the life of the soldiers Even if money is important, is it ?”
……Ark was sha to profit from the lives of the soldiersBut Nadin wouldn’t receive that es The value of an item was determined by the need On a battlefield it was even more important If the supplies weren’t delivered in time then they wouldn’t even be worth 1 copper If the supplies were delivered on tine then 120 wasn’t that expensive
“Okay Make sure that the unit cons that the supplies were received or else you won’t get even 1 copper”
“Of course Isn’t building up trust in documents the basics of business?”
Thus Ark changed frooods As a supply warrior, he received quite a bit of profit Not only did he raise his contributions more quickly than others, he was also able to receive 50 profit frooods he handed over to the soldiers And……
Ssak ssak ssak, ssak ssak ssak ssak!
Radun as flicking his tongue around suddenly struck A eappeared in front of Ark after Radun entered the snow
-Radun has obtained ‘Kalkin’s Spear!’
This was another benefit he could get as a supplier The place where the expedition andwas a snowfield that went up to the knee In the confused fighting, there were quite a few places where loot was buried in the snow so soldiers couldn’t spot the with the soldiers, he didn’t have ed after he beca to find ite two birds with one stone!
“OkayWell done Radun!”
Ark praised Radun and stroked his head after he returned
“Master, there is a supplies request signal 500 metres away at your 3 o’clock! And another request at your 8 o’clock”
Racard suddenly communicated to him
“Which side is ent?”
“Although the signal appeared later, the 8 o’clock direction is more serious There are a lot of soldiers who survived but their weapons are so tattered that it will break any minute Some of them are already weaponless and only have their shi+elds left”
“I understand I’ll move in the 8 o’clock direction Direct me!”
“The right side has reinforcements on both sides so the battle is extreap in the rocks with a pat to escape approxio around where the et there within 3~4 minutes”
“Okay, tell es!”
Ark ran across the battlefield while receiving Racard’s real time traffic reports This contributed to how he could be a supplier by himself Racard had a panoramic view of the battlefield and he could also use satellite surveillance mode to catch the supply requests quickly His directions also allowed Ark to move to the troops quickly and safely, so his mobility couldn’t be compared to the supply unit Sometimes he even delivered the supplies faster than the supply unit ere right beside him
‘I have to arrive first in order to receive 120 of the price!’
So he focused on
‘It is also important that the soldiers survive I can’t delay at all!’
So Ark had to go a little bit faster even if there was er It wasn’t just because fellowshi+p between soldiers were common in war movies All the soldiers in the expedition were Ark’s customers If his customers decreased than wouldn’t his incoht for a long tiain the maximum profit Of course, the expedition’s ultimate premise was to save the continent If the expedition forces were destroyed then Schudenberg Kingdoer
‘The survival of the soldiers is important to me!’
“Thank you The 4th unit ishere so just hold on for a bit”
Ark once again explained the war situation after delivering the supplies This was an effort to raise the survival rate of the soldiers Just as he was turning around to go fulfil another supply request…
“Gripper! The Gripper unit has appeared!”
The shout came from their military ca in the canyon
Clink, clink, clink……
The giant shadoere over 20 ed chains which made a metallic sound With their eyes and mouths sewn shut and chains wrapped around the body, the e stone pillars As soon as they showed up, the allied camp fell into a state of chaos
“Block theet here!”
“Concentrate all large weapons on the Grippers!”
“Simultaneously fire flames and electricity to stop the Grippers!”
Hwiiiiing, tu tu tu tung, tu tu tu tung!
At the sa which looked like a beehive in the allied camp It was the weapons that the raccoons had developed Naturally Ark had sold the next generation of weapons to the expedition force Nue Crossboere sold The stones from the catapults flew across the space and slammed into the Grippers
-Kuaaaa!
When hit by dozens of projectiles, a Gripper e sound and knelt
-Bakuram, bakuram, puraibata, bakuram!
When the Gripper fell, the arathered around it Of course the rest of the expedition army didn’t just sit and watch All the troops marched forward and created a barrier consisted of several layers of the arht from monsters
“Ar! Do whatever it takes to stop those guys!”
The coe weapons fired a volley of projectiles Two Grippers collapsed from the tremendous firepower In the meantime, several troops were destroyed by the violent attacks from the ed to arrive at the place where the troops were
-Kuaaaa!
A Gripper raised the stone pillar and swung it down vertically The 10 round Then the Gripper who planted the stone pillar in the ground scraped the skin of its chest with its claws and tore out its heart The Gripper howled into the sky before its body was blown apart like a bomb Ark, the soldiers and even the monsters were hit by the shock wave When he raised his head, an infor in front of him
-The Gripper has invoked the ‘Earth Blast!’
The Gripper has sacrificed its life and used the huge stone pillar to spread the ih the earth Those who receive the impact will be deprived of their power and won’t be able to oppose any more evil spirits Those who receive the impact with take 24 hours to recover their power Meanwhile, the evil curse will strengthen the demonic influence within 2 kiloer
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“Ack, again…!”
“It is vexing but there’s no more hope!”
The commanders moaned as Earth Blast was used All allies had their stats decreased by 50 while the monsters had it increased by 50 In other words, there was now a huge difference between the soldiers and thein these circumstances was suicide The expedition army had only one choice left
“Retreat! All troops retreat!”
The Schudenberg expedition was forced to retreat Deep inside the canyon they retreated froulfed in darkness
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“Dammit!”
Haverstein yelled as he slammed his fist onto the table After the Earth Blast from the Grippers, the expedition force had i from the battlefield wasn’t as easy as it sounded Thanks to the Earth Blast, there was an incredible gap between the abilities of the soldiers and the monsters Around 1,000 people were killed before they could retreat out of the range of the demonic influence
“How many more soldiers do we have to sacrifice?”
Haverstein bit his lips as he stared at the coathered in the tent The question wasn’t directed towards them but towards himself In order to understand why Haverstein was made, the situation needed to be explained
After 10 days ago, the Schudenberg expedition had finished all their preparations and departed towards the Sinius Principality Whilethe obelisks, they finally arrived at the Schudenberg border after a week Although they hadn’t initially planned for such a quick march, the darkness had encroached on the continent quicker than expected When the expedition force left Selebrid, they heard inforainst the border region When they arrived, the darkness was already encroaching on the northern region of Schudenberg They could no longer blindly enter the Sinius Principality Haverstein’s response was to divide the expedition army into several troops
“If the expedition army enters the Sinius Principality then the troops protecting Schudenberg will vanish So 30,000 troops will use this place as a base point and destroy all the obelisks in the northeast and northwest to prevent the darkness fro The rest of the 30,000 troops will enter the Sinius Principality and meet up with the Bristania expedition at the promised location”
So the war between the expedition forces and the dark aran But there was one difficult part about this The border region between the Schudenberg and Sinius Principality was filled with e was famous for its steepness so only a certain nuh it The only possible way to lead the troops across the border was through Pabiun Canyon Since the relations between Schudenberg and the Sinius Principality had been hostile for a long tinable fortress in the Pabiun Canyon It was Pabiun Fortress that was annoying Haverstein right now