Volume 3 Chapter 10 (1/2)

Battle of The Black Castle

“Living humans”

“Paladins!”

“The curse on the paladins in the toas removed!”

As soon as they entered the black castle they were greeted by about 50 va with bloodlust

They grabbed their flapping cloaks with their long nails and flew across the space inside the castle to close the distance between theic to summon bats The vae!

“Light, to defeat thy darkness! Holy Night!”

“Light, to defeat thy darkness! Holy Light!”

Alveron and the nearby priests used holy ic siht!”

The vaht sprayed down on the down

Meic to weaken the ability of the undead and creatures of the darkness

Typical healing spells were powerful offensive ainst the undead and vaic, the paladins brandished their swords gallantly

Chukaak!

Vampire blood sprayed everywhere

It was a one-sided massacre

Until now, none of the paladins or priests had died They overwhelmed the 50 vampires with sheer numbers It wasn’t a very difficult opponent

Backed by the priests’ holy ic, the paladins were able to attack the vampires The paladins did not have much risk to their lives since the priests were constantly healing and dispelling

Weed also took on one of the vampires

“Sword Dance!”

The Imperial Formless Sword Technique’s 4th for his sword flamboyantly

He actually just moved around monotonously and struck the vital points of the enees

He went to attack and destroyed while creating al in a wrong direction, he would close the gap

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Your level has increased

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Weed hadn’t taken care of a va ti up, his experience had been at 56, but more than 226 experience points went to the 30 leech

‘Ohh…it’s too good to boost up!’

It was unfair that he had had to give up the kills to the paladins until now In the plains and village he had not hunted so that the paladins would get strong faster, but now he didn’t need to do so any

Whenever a vas:

Durability: 50/50

Penetrates the eneh unusual, it can be used in alchemy to create items

Restriction:

Level 300

Options:

If used to create a weapon, then it can absorb the enemy’s vitality!

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Vampire Cloak:

Durability: 80/80

A cloak worn by the nobility of the darkness It was very appropriate for its owner Flight is possible when transformed

Restriction:

Level 250

Options:

Bat transformation

In battle, it is possible to fly away

When transformed, the defense from equipment does not apply

Faith –50

Appeal to woman+25

All other stats -25

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And 3 gold and 25 silver

Vampires were very rich monsters

Weed looked around as he pocketed the ite for hiht the vampires quickly

“Let us move to the first floor Alveron, remove the curse from the statues

The first floor had a total of 50 petrified paladins

Alveron removed the curses while Weed and the paladins searched for others captives

There were a few vah to stop the heavily armed paladins

They searched the first floor without much resistance

All of the rooms on the first floor

There were also nuers

“Alveron, remove the curse on theic freed each of them and they fell to the floor

Of the many people, the bearded elder spoke up softly

“Oh, are you our saviors?

“Saviors?”

“We are the residents of the Morata Province fro, incapacitated We have waited for our savior to co for a very long tiers of Morata Province have been turned to stone, our families and our brethren Savior, please have pity and help us As a reill give you whatever we can”

Ttiring!

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The Curse of the Province of Morata

The True Blood Vaers into distasteful stone decorations They spend their time in pain Save the people

Difficulty: B

Compensation: Rainbow Cloth

Quest liic to remove the curse

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Weed did not worry too much

With plenty of clerics in the party to remove the curse froered because Weed had brought Alveron to find the Crown of Fargo

Difficulty B

He already had one He had been commissioned to defeat the vampires in the black castle anyways

“We will make it our duty to see that they are saved”

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– You have accepted the quest

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Weed and the paladins went up to the second floor

Nearly 150 True Blood Vampires awaited their arrival

Other than va nearly 100 in total

Altogether there were 250 enemies

With the number of paladins they had rescued on the first floor added to their ranks, it became too simple

“Attack!”

“Ah waooooh!”

“Let us fight against the evil hoard!”

The paladins had received blessings and protectionthe vaanized, but soon after the fight began the vampires started their counterattack

“Dark Barrier!”

“Dark Arrow!”

“Healing Hand!”

The ic fro shot froe in direct coic, it was possible to end up dead froht hard”

“Yes Weed”

“Use et in the back!”

Weed comainst the dense number of vampires They were the best defensive tankers there could be, since the priest had layered protective ic on them On the side, the priests were instructed to constantly support

They attacked the remainder of the varoups Defending against the ene out the weaker side This approach was , taking advantage of their supportive role to also prevent the paladins fro

They would switch to the offensive for a reckless assault, then to the defensive when they were in danger, to give the priests tiic to launch another offensive

The densely packed paladins and priests were united in battle, fighting in the most optimal conditions

“Let’s attack!”

“The Commander ordered us to attack!”

For the paladins it was not an easy battle, but they eventually won

Froh level vampires, the paladins had been able to increase their level

Furtherh to overwhels

On the second floor, 30 paladins and 40 priests were rescued In the ers rescued as well

‘They’re getting kind of hungry; I’ll have to do so

Usually the priests and paladins would have watched hi they could to get farther away

Looking at the pot made his eyes hurt

It hurt soas he ht to eat it?”

“Please…”

“It is overfloith faith”

Weed handed out bowls of stew to the paladins The ingredients for it were the Avian eggs and the Celestial Fruit!

Finishi+ng the quest required a significant amount of risk The celestial fruits increased intellect and luck, so it was good to eat it before going to hunt Luck increased the item and money drop rates froredients He used the Avian eggs and the Celestial Fruit to redient to the arlic forainst vampires to some extent

“Woohuk”

“Puaahhh, it’s too spicy, I need some snow”

Tears trickled down the paladins’ faces as they ate the stew

There was a tough battle ahead, so there wasn’t just stew Weed cried as he put together dishes such as pickled garlic, garlic salad and garlic sandwich one after another The relatively docile priests now had tears running down their faces and runny noses froarlic

The third floor of the black castle had 200 True Blood Va for theotten the horrors of dark ic The food needs to be reminded of who their Master is Char to us He has become dominated by our spell Wonderful!”

The Vampire Queen had appeared

They tried their illusionary ic to seduce the paladins

“You heinous creatures! Your vaic will not work on an to attack with their swords as they let the priests take care of support

The vaainst the priests to control the paladins

Once they had entered the black castle they were unable to leave

Without the Ice Dragon statue increasing the priests and paladin fighting spirit, they were affected by the charic

But not all the priests,

“Those filthy bastards! Those disobedient rascals! These vampires deserve to die”

“This world needs to be freed fro your followers back onto the right path Cleansing!”

Alveron and the rest of the sane priests used cleansing ht as he analyzed the situation

“First, kill the Vampire Queen and the crisis ends”

But the Vampire Queen ell protected in the et killed before he would be able to kill them

“Alveron, heal the priests before the paladins”

“Yes Weed”

Alveron finished purifying the priests The priests then healed the knights that were under the spell The priests were doing a good job, but the Va

Weed had originally planned to have the paladins and priests fight the vaed His formation with priests as the rear support would not fail

However, the ues and made the priests unable to heal

The vampire attacks had been suppressed to soarlic on the paladins, but it was only a ency!

Weed radiated as he gathered his mana

“Hey! You! Guys! Go! Attack! The! damn! Vampires!”

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Skill: Lions Roar has been used

Morale of the allies in the range of the skill has increased by 200

Any confusion is cleared

For 5 minutes, leadershi+p will be increased by 170

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He used the Lion’s Roar skill that he had trained in the h intensity shout came out

At that moment, all of the Vampire Queen’s tactics became useless

Weed’s leadershi+p was now at a sufficient enough level to command the paladins and priests Without the leadershi+p stat, the paladins and priests could not be coher level soldiers that would not listen to coher leadershi+p, the paladins followed Weed’s absolute co out his coe extended to the area of the vampires as well With the advanced level skill the opponent’s movements was suppressed as an additional effect

“Die!

The paladins drove their blades to rip apart the vampires The Vampire Queen tried to use her illusionary skills to manipulate the paladins, but it failed She lacked the physical abilities that other vampires usually had Weed used the Lion’s Roar skill frequently regardless of the mana-cost

“Hyaahat! Die!”

All of the vaet of the vampires, since his Lion’s Roar skill reat difficulty, Weed and the paladins ed to clear the third floor

With the soldiers that they rescued from the floor, they now had 300 paladins and 100 priests!

That was everyone that the Church of Freya had dispatched to retrieve the Crown of Fargo

4th floor!

The re

With the addition of the paladins and priests, Weed obtained a conificant increase in soldiers

Now, in the black castle, all the True Blood Vampires had been defeated except for one

The Vampire Lord!