Chapter 37 (1/2)
Chapter 37: 024 Merry Christ your pardon, but… ht like this! As you can see,hasn’t fully healed yet!”
The eldest son of Count Hedron, Heis, pleaded with the feudal lord while li is still like this! And yet, you wantbattle?”
“I’ve been reliably informed that Sir Heis has trained in the ways of the sword back in the Acadeht noe need every able hand we can find Please, lend us your strength”
Feudal lord Jenald ether froive up and chased after him “B-but…!”
Just before the boy could carry on with his words, Jenald suddenly grabbed hiressions, Sir Heis, and as such, you must serve your time! This is the reason why the Sacrificial Castle stands h…”
It was then
A streak of criht sliced past the outer walls Both Jenald and Heis flinched in surprise and quickly turned their heads to look
A huge hole had opened up The wall began ballooning up around this hole before spectacularly blowing up
Debris of stone and wood rained down everywhere The soldiers nearby were flung away into the air like ragdolls
“Ah…”
Jenald couldn’t immediately recover froainly A disorienting buzz continued to ring inside his ears He forced hiain, and his brows shot up greatly soon afterwards
The outer wall had… collapsed
– Kkiieeeehk!
The night from the other side of the wall
“Ah… Ahhh! I-I can’t hear anything! Lord Jenald! I can’t… I can’t hear anything! P-please, save, saveonto Jenald’s pants, but the latter siered back up to his feet He thenat the outer wall, “…M-ot up with the sa the cobwebs off their heads, still oblivious to what’s going on
“Stop theed to roar out these words Only then did they realise the current situation Their gazes hurriedly shi+fted towards the destroyed outer wall
The ground was vibrating Hordes of undead were rushi+ng out fro steps either – they were running
The complexions of the soldiers and convicts paled instantly
“U-uwaaachk?!”
As soon as they regained their bearings, they fell back into panic again
All of the They either held their heads or tre away
None of the back’
This ‘fear’ quickly spread a the ranks of the convicts Even the trained soldiers and knights were trey seeped in through the destroyed wall And frolon below
The atmosphere morphed into one perfectly suited to instil ‘fear’ in the hearts of ‘?! Stop… Stop them!”
Jenald shouted out, but there were no soldiers who heeded him Instead, they simply stood frozen in place and dazedly stared at the horde of the incoritted his teeth and unsheathed his sword At this rate, the walking dead would fully invade into the fortress This would mean the death of his citizens
“Dammit, darant us your protection!”
Even though Jenald didn’t knoield divinity, he did learn how to use Mana a really long tio
He offered his prayer towards the Goddess and invigorated the sleeping Mana within his body He took a deep breath and approached the destroyed outer wall all by hiame”
Viscount Jenald flinched in surprise fro What a clear and pristine voice that was
The ‘Spirit Speech’ which contained a low amount of divinity spread around and entered the ears of the surrounding soldiers and convicts Their gazes were focused in one spot
A Priest donning a beaka robe walked out froainst his shoulder, he glared at the inco undead
The distance between the wall and the voracious undead horde was non to only 200 metres
“Maybe it’ll be easier for us to defend one spot rather thanabout here and there”
Their opponents were the undead after all They ild beasts that didn’t kno to use their heads Such beings were heavily ruled by their pri beings nearby
When fighting against such creatures, it’d be most effective to bury the Priest pointed his shovel at the rushi+ng undead There were only about 100 metres left now
“Oh, dear Gaia Grant th to protect these poor lahtly
The distance had now shrunk down to 50 le droplet of water formed on the ends of the shovel’s blade
Fivetowards the ground below
Three metres
The hordes of undead leapt up
They now crossed into the other side of the outer walls
And then…
One round and issued a clear ringing sound…
Every single undead who leapt up turned into ashes and were exters in the black hue disappeared too
“…”
The feudal lord Jenald, Heis, the convicts, the soldiers, and Harman who belatedly arrived on the scene, all cla dey dissipated In its place, clear and pure water began wetting the ground A shallow ‘lake’ soon formed there with the droplet as its centre
Every single undead entering the wall fell down as soon as they stepped foot inside this lake Their bodies enhanced by de down
– Kiiiiaaahk!!
The ony
Despite the lake only reaching up to their ankles, they still all ungainly thrashed about as if they had fallen into a bottomless ocean
“…T-this is?”
Viscount Jenald stared at the lake that extended past his own feet He could sense an aura of holiness fro caler too
He gasped and began thinking ‘…This, this is exactly the sa bestowed by the Imperial Prince!’
“Oh dear Gaia…”
Jenald quickly shi+fted his gaze back to the Priest donning the beak mask, no, the Seventh Imperial Prince
“Grant your divine protection to those ish to fight beside you…”
The boy prince turned around and swung his shovel this tiue of Debilitation]”
The ht rushed out from the bodies of the convicts and soldiers
Jenald’s jaw dropped after witnessing this spectacle
The I without any hesitation whatsoever This was a
‘Just how ht of this, the Ihtly He propped the shovel on the ground and ed to retain his balance He then raised the rabbed a bottle out of nowhere to drink as contained within
‘I see… did he exhaust all of his energy just now?’
Viscount Jenald tightly clenched his fist He was deeply hness, the Imperial Prince, had personally stepped up to protect his citizens
“I-it’s the… Saint-niain and shi+fted his gaze to his side That’s where he found Heis, previously shi+vering in fear, mutter to himself in a daze
“I-it’s really the Saint-nim…”
Jenald turned his head back
This time, the voices came from the convicts and soldiers
“The Saint-niave rew louder and became noisy clamours
With this, everyone recovered their wits The ‘terror’ and ‘fear’ they experienced just now had disappeared
Jenald’s heart pounded away He knew that noas the tione away
But how…? And do what exactly?
“He…” Jenald finally opened his mouth, “The Saint, he… will be with us”
His voice was sritted his teeth, and then shouted loudly enough for the veins in his throats to bulge up, “The Saint-nim will-!!!”
Heis, the convicts, and the soldiers all flinched in surprise before looking at their feudal lord, Jenald
“…He will be with us!!”