Chapter 141 (1/2)

Having learned that Bufudin had been killed by an attack carried out by an unknown eneya ordered that his army move out and took command himself

But as a usurper, Gargya didn’t have coh Kobold nation Now that General Bufudin had been defeated, if he were to gather all of those loyal to him, it was possible that the rest of the nation would take the opportunity to stage a rebellion

That hy Gargya had deliberately gathered those rebellious towards him and placed them on the frontlines Behind thees to act as slave-drivers

He would use the rebellious High Kobolds as disposable war slaves, e at the ene the other troops observe fro

“With this, they can’t even run away, let alone disobey me!”

It wasn’t unusual for nations outside the Boundary Mountain Range to use units of slaves as fodder, but in the area within the Boundary Mountain Range, where there hadn’t been any wars of national scale for a long period of time, this was a revolutionary idea

However, the attackers had already passed through the gate Thus, the slaves were tightly-packed as they h the nation’s main street at the front, with the slave-drivers and those protecting theya’s army behind them

“It see ahead of thee in a displeased tone as he looked through a ht-attribute ic

Behind the gate that had taken a hu at the front, with Ghouls and a s their weapons

“Gargysama, the Arachne and Empusa that were ya’s subordinates told him

But GargyaSend the slaves out and smoke them out!”

At Gargya’s coed forward Unlike Bufudin’s army, they hadn’t lost their ability to reason In their hearts, they wanted to become allies with the enemies that were apparently an allied force from the Ghoul nation and Zanalpadna, but the slave-drivers behind them were like beasts

Even if they were to avoid the slave-drivers’ arrows and spells to escape or e to rebel, the lives of their faer

They didn’t have morale, but they couldn’t disobey

But soround, behind the slaves

“… Garuh?”

Gargya’s eyes greide as he saw a sround between the slaves and the slave-drivers

The slaves carried on, not noticing Vandalieu who had appeared silently behind them, but the slave-drivers stopped for a moment in surprise

“Become a wall” Vandalieu said

And then, with a thunderous noise, a tall wall forround

The slave-drivers and Gargya’s er see the eneh into the sky

Still, their movements only stopped for a moment

“GAAAAH!” Gargya screa the extremely simple order to attack and tear apart Vandalieu, who seemed to be the cause of the wall’s appearance

Feeling an unbearable desire to see blood, the slave-drivers gleefully drew back their bowstrings and recited incantations With the sih Kobolds, Vandalieu, who appeared to be nothingwith the earthen wall, and even the slaves on the other side of the ouldn’t escape unharmed

The slave-drivers released Archery martial skills like Consecutive Fire, Chaotic Fire and Powershot, as well as all kinds of spells such as Stone Bullet and Flame Bullet

But immediately after they released their attacks, Vandalieu cast his Dead Spirit Magic

“Bone Fla Destruction Bullet, Dark Thunderbolt, Death Ice Prison”

Enor tentacles of ice that cos of all heat scattered the feeble arrows and spells, and then engulfed the slave-drivers

“GYAIIIIIN?!”

The High Kobolds that were engulfed by the ice and froze to death within seconds were the fortunate ones Those engulfed by the black fla didn’t die instantaneously; they received wounds that were clearly fatal at a glance and struggled as they let out dying screams

“KYAINKYAIN!”

“WAUN! WAUUUUN!”

Seeing the miserable deaths of their co slave-drivers crumbled, and they fled

Though there had been around three hundred slave-drivers, this number had fallen sharply less than a an

“… It’s difficult to kill theic in a way that kills a lot of them at once, but still leaves the s were filled with the hunger-sti alive

“Don’t worry about it, Your Majesty! There are still plenty of the to cheer him up

“That’s right, let’s try again! It’ll go well this time!” said Orbia

Incidentally, Kih Kobolds about, electrocuting them to death

The elite individuals led by Gargya were standing stock-still now, lost for words

“Gah… gagah…?”

Vandalieu had released three Dead Spirit Magic spells They knew that if any of them were to be hit directly, they would be fatally wounded

If a Rank 7 High Kobold General were to activate Armor Technique and shi+eld Technique e cast an enchantic, then perhaps he would get aith heavy wounds

Their instincts as monsters were supposed to have weakened over the past hundred thousand years But they knew this because they had regained these instincts, even stronger than they were before

“D… don’t back down! There’s no way he can use such advancedthe earth-attribute spell that created the wall as well, that should be all he has!” Gargya growled in the Kobold language

Upon hearing Gargya’s coh Kobolds remembered that this was likely the case and reconsidered the situation

The instinctual fear that they had felt vanished, and even feelings of scorn and contean to surface

The one standing before theic despite his small appearance, but he was a fool who had spent all of his Mana

There were threearound hi could be done about just three monsters They were an elite battalion of a thousand under Gargya’s direct command

“Coh the wall and devour the eneya ordered, and the elite battalion an their attack

But even so, the fact that they could still activate martial skills and cast spells was likely because of the “what if” sense of danger that they still felt inside them

Tra slave-drivers that had fled, they closed in on Vandalieu and the wall at his back

But meanwhile, Vandalieu had used Spirit Form Transformation on his body

“Well then, begin the counterattack,” he said

His transparent forle

And froate, Pete and the rest of thewave

“GISHAAAH!”

“Samurai unit, intercept the enemy!”

“Kunoichi unit, move out!”

“Puh, going through that twice in a row is rough!”

“GURURU?!”

“GYAGYAWAHN?!”

The High Kobold’s formation fell into chaos at the unexpected appearance of this large number of enemies

“Dark Lightning, Ice Blood Death Water, Black Flame Spear”

Dead Spirit Magic spells flew froe but caused the High Kobolds’ formation to fall even further into chaos, and then Pete and the rest of Vandalieu’s forces charged in

High Kobolds were a race that was proficient in group battles, and this was a battalion of elite individuals who had increased their Ranks at least once They were under Gargya’s command, and they had never been routed before However, the situation heavily favored Vandalieu’s side

“Boulder Smash!+” Kasim shouted “Wait, UOH?!”

His h Kobold Soldier who had lost his balance, but another High Kobold Soldier used the opening to thrust the poed to stop it with his shi+eld, but noas the one who had lost his balance a little

“Kasih Kobold to the side

He tried to save his comrade, but he wouldn’t make it in time

“Don’t get carried away!”

Before the axe could bury itself in Kasih Kobold Soldier’s chest

A large Empusa had used her sickle-arms to save Kasim

“Y-you saved e Empusa

“Hmph… You men shouldn’t push yourselves and devote yourself to defense like e Empusa… Gaol, the Euards

After saying these curt words over her shoulder, she engaged in battle with h Kobolds

She swung her two sickle-arainst the enemies that slipped past them with the sword and shi+eld held by her two hands, but the High Kobolds were pushi+ng her back

In terh Kobold battalion were both Rank 6, but as an Empusa, a member of a race created by Vida, Gaol could acquire a Job That hy she had an advantage in physical ability and skills over the High Kobolds

But internally, she had lost her temper

That’s right, I can’t be beaten by weak human men, especially such child-like men who haven’t even lived twenty years!

In the southern region of the continent, Dwarf, Elf and huth, so they were in the position of being protected

That hy Gaol was displeased with the fact that Kasi as well as she was

Logically, she understood that Kasireat combat techniques and well-trained physical prowess, unlike the huh Kobolds were not such easy opponents that could be ed with mediocre skills

There was no proble as capably as Gaol

But e that she could accept so easily That hy she was irritated Perhaps this was reflected in her movements

“Iron Rend!” Gaol shouted, cutting down a heavily-arht with her sickle arh Kobold assassin hiding in the Knight’s shadow

damn it!

The High Kobold assassin closed in swiftly, slipping past Gaol’s sickle-arer, held in an underhand grip, swept towards Gaol’s side

“Invisible Slash”

At that h Kobold assassin’s neck

“Wha–?!”

“We’ve stepped too far forward; let’s fall back for now”

Gaol, who had somehow been saved by Zeno, was speechless with surprise at the fact that she hadn’t noticed his presence at all

Though he thought that Gaol’s behavior was strange, Zeno took hold of her ar knives at the High Kobolds to keep them back

“Thanks for saving Kasim,” he said, and then he returned to where his co

As Gaol watched him leave, she realized that Zeno would have saved her even if she hadn’t saved Kasim earlier

But that wasn’t important to her

“I was… saved by a human man who hasn’t even lived twenty years… protected”

That fact shook Gaol’s heart tre her heart beat wildly

Immediately after Gaol watched Zeno leave, the wall that Vandalieu had created round

“Follow h Kobolds! Take your nation and families back from the hands of the beasts!” shouted Prince Budarion as he charged in, leading the Ghouls who had been joined by the High Kobolds that had been treated like slaves

“UOOOOOHN!”

“Follow Prince Budarion! Defeat the usurper Gargya!”

While Vandalieu and his co, on the other side of the wall, Prince Budarion had convinced the slaves to fight for him

Bufudin had already been defeated, and the assailants were Prince Budarion who had regained his power and high-Rank Ghoul warriors In the region enclosed by the Boundary Mountain Range, Eleanora’s existence had been interpreted as the Pure-breed Va reinforcements, so this had worked out favorably as well

And the noises on the other side of the ere the dying screae nue that wasn’t the Kobold language

Under these overwhel circuh Kobolds that had been slaves to be freed froya

Gargya understood that he was outth, but he couldn’t surrender or run

“GUWOOOOOHN! Now that things have come to this, I will kill you myself!” he shouted

Considering the things that he had done, his surrender would never be accepted And his pride didn’t allow him to run away

Even if I run away here, there is no future for h to escape, I would lose my power once Ravovifard abandons me!

With this in ya would believe in the possibility of a turnaround and fight with everything he had

I’th, he should only be on equal grounds with !

With his plentiful fur standing on end, the High Kobold Beast King Gargya charged at Vandalieu

“GARURURUH!”

“Don’t get in our king’s way!”

Regaining their h Kobolds of Gargya’s army didn’t hesitate to attack Vandalieu’s forces to clear the path for Gargya

… Before he could notice that Vandalieu’s forces hadn’t ht by Vandalieu’s sight

The leader of this army isn’t Budarion! It’s you! If I kill you, I have a chance for victory!

“RAVOVIFAAARD!”

Gargya activated his Transcend Limits skill and even used Familiar Spirit Descent to call Ravovifard’s familiar spirit upon himself

And then he used an Unar his clahich were sharper than swords, down at a seely helpless, motionless Vandalieu

“GUOOOHN!”

“De’s carapace, activate”

“GUGEAH?!”

Gargya’s claere blocked by the black carapace that grew from Vandalieu’s skin and covered his whole body

With a harsh noise, Gargya’s claws o nuht have had his claws and the bones of his fingers broken

It’s unbelievably hard! But if it’s simply hard…!

GargyaStrike, aTechnique skill at level 7 or greater It was a martial skill that didn’t increase the actual power of an attack h defenses, dealing direct physical dae

There was a loud, dull noise, and Gargya felt the sensation of his attack’s iet Vandalieu stuck his head out of the carapace; blood could be seen near histhat he had found the way to defeat this ene Strike once more

But though there was a dull noise again, the sensation was absent this time

“I was a little surprised that you were able to inflict da’s carapace and my Dark Copper armor, but it’s so small that it can be completely blocked if I activate Stone Form with my level 1 Ar up further than this?” Vandalieu asked, looking at Gargya with the eyes of a researcher conducting an experiment