Chapter 225 (1/2)
Chapter 225
“This way, please hurry!”
Max was distracted froent voice pulled her out of it She was shaken from her distraction and quickly fled across the uneven dirt terrain Right now, their priority was to escape to a safe place and get out of the battle’s harathered the hem of her dress in one hand and ran across the chaotic plaza at once They headed north and soon she saw a large barrack where all of the food supply was being protected by several soldiers
Garrow ushered Max into the e house “The priests have casted a shi+eld around this place so that no ghoul can enter”
Max looked around the warehouse, sacks of grains were piled on top of one another like mountains, she then found the priestesses at the heart of the place, sitting close to each other Max ran to the her
“Madam! You’ve made it safe!”
“I-Idcilla… were you hurt?”
“I’m fine But… Se-Selena… I can’t find her anywhere”
Idcilla chewed on her lip, tears started welling up in her eyes like she was about to cry Max tried to comfort her as looked at the fear-filled priestesses’ faces Looking through theroup Idcilla sobbed softly as Max held her
“The wounded ere in the infirmary… Only half of them were evacuated… only those who could in to ache dreadfully as counted the nuround like corpses and held her forehead Yulysion was quick to help her regain her balance
“Don’t worry et to safety would have found some place to hide We will search for them as soon as the chaos subsides”
“Why did such a thing happen? I heard the alar that there’s an invasion Haven’t the trolls been driven towards the north? Perhaps, have the allied forces been defeated?”
Idcilla, who has lost half of her right ate Yulysion Yulysion quickly waved his hand to try to calirl
“I doubt it! If that’s indeed the case, then they don’t have any reason to go back around and invade us through the south gate It hts are not here”
“Then ill happen to us now? Will the re troops in the castle be able to stop theus outside the walls?”
Idcilla’s frantic screaan to sob, unable to overcoan to spiral out of control, the knight leading the soldiers outside yelled loudly
“Stopour best to drive these houls, we’ll immediately reinforce our defenses So don’t lose your mind, keep cal gradually subsided at his coain her control, y under her breath, then sat back doith the other priestesses Tily slowly A minute felt like an hour; an hour felt like a day The howl of the ghouls and the screaht that this nightmare had no end, two soldiers jumped into the barracks
“We have been successful in cornering the ghouls in one place” Just when they were able to sigh in relief, the soldier continued to speak urgently “However, there are a lot of injuries We need to have theht ordered the priestesses to immediately heal those ere injured and they headed out ary but determined expressions Max refused Yulysion’s dissuasions and followed the priestesses The aftermath unfolded before her eyes: the barracks were in ruins and the soldiers busily weaved through thee to one side,the injured to lie on theht to aid the injured soldiers There were a total of 32 patients: it was a high nu that there were only about three hundred of the troops left in Ethylene Castle
After exa healingeven one of the defend the castle was most irace!”
As Max was in thethe wounded, she heard a loud and familiar voice scream She immediately raised her head to see Just a short distance away, Hebaron was holding his clay loudly
“Stop your nagging! You’re notlike a stubborn brat! How in the world are you going to fight with that kind of injury?” Ruth was standing in front of hiry face “Youto your own death!”
“bloody hell! This injury is nothing! I’ve been resting in bed long enough!”
Seeing their fight, Max hurriedly ran towards thehts when they saw her approaching She looked at Hebaron, unable to believe that he earing his ar, Max scolded the great knight
“W-what in the world do you think you’re doing? Your injury hasn’t healed yet”
“daesture and sheathed his sword, which was longer than Max’s height, on his back “I’ave ave you… is just soothing the pain! If you keep ht noe are in a state of eet treatment”
Hebaron interrupted in a sour tone and turned to head tohere the fighting was taking place Seeing this, Ruth cursed out loud
“The question is, will you still have the chance to get treated? If you go ahead and fight in that condition, you’ll be the first one to die, Sir Nirta!”
“Then you better pray fervently” Hebaron glared back at hihtly “You said so yourself! There is a high possibility that the monster that cursed et rid of this curse by cutting off its head instead of waiting for you to breakbastard… fine! Sir Nirta, do whatever you want then!”
Hebaron shrugged his shoulders and strode towards the castle gates Max hurriedly went to chase after hirabbed her arm
“He won’t listen to anyone Let hiht with that kind of injury Ruth, you know it as well If he wields a sword in that condition…”
“That da an eye even if his wound rips open” Ruth spat out as he took in a deep breath “Best pray that the defensivethe bitter tone to Ruth’s voice, Max looked anxiously at Hebaron The knight mounted his horse so effortlessly that it was hard to believe that he was suffering from a bad injury Then, he went to approach the Grand Duke Aren, as forrim as they saw them prepare for battle
“The monster that cursed Sir Ni-Nirta… that it’s out there, what do you mean?”
“…it means that it’s out there”
Ruth rubbed his face roughly and pointed at an area inside the castle Max turned her head following his hand and held her breath The ghouls’ corpses that were in a pile wriggled and twitched slowly Ruth spoke in a cal despite the long spears ih priests have casted a purification spell on the The most reasonable explanation is that a necroates”
“A necromancer…”
“A necroh-level black h probability that it is the black lizardri with is far fro outside the walls that contains tre thousands of monsters”
Max shuddered For one of the best wizards in the world to say such a thing, they had to be in a very eerous situation
“The a-allied forces… h-how long until they coer pigeon, but for them to arrive in time…”
Before Ruth could finish, a thunderous roar shot through the skies that seemed to break their eardrums Max covered her ears and a flash of fire blazed from outside the walls accompanied by a blast of wind from the pressure Ruth spat out curses
“We need to strengthen our defenses, now!”
He screa to the wounded rushed to cliht be of help even with her weak mana, but she barely took two steps before Ruth resolutely stopped her
“Please reerous”
“N-Now… is not the time to say that If the barrier is breached… then it will be erous! If I could help… even a little…”
Ruth didn’t bother to hear a single word of what she said He called over his shoulder for Yulysion and Garrow