Chapter 216 – The Northern Front 5 (1/2)
Woohyuk took only his existing party members and went to attack the empty nest.
The 50,000 troops being left at the fortress consisted of the imperial army soldiers that Tiberius gave to him and a few clan soldiers that he absorbed so far.
The command system for each group was well established, so there was no problem leaving them to Hugo to defend the fortress.
As they made their way through whipping winds and blizzard, Helena complained about the cold,
“It’s so cold! I think I’m going to freeze to death. If I could eat something sweet, I’d feel so much better…”
“Do you want to ride the golden mountain goat again, Helena? If you get on, I’ll give you a bag of chocolate balls,” Woohyuk responded.
“… I’ll think about it.”
There was no slope here, so it was unlikely that she would be stuck on a cliff or other high area riding a golden mountain goat.
As Helena was leaning towards accepting Woohyuk’s condition, Ibn Rusud spoke with eager, child-like anticipation,
“I wonder what precarious situation you’ll find yourself in this time, With of Annihilation. This is why you should act with humility normally…”
“Shut it. What the hell did I ever do wrong? You keep calling me the wicked Witch of Annihilation, but you’re the one who really enjoys sadistic things!” Helena said as she turned her head away from him with a frown.
It looks like her pride took a hit.
Woohyuk handed a bag of chocolate balls to resolve the situation.
“Alright. Eat this and feel better.”
“… I wasn’t offended by being denied something sweet. This is a matter of manners.”
Helena tried not to lose the moral upper hand, but she swiftly put a chocolate ball in her mouth with one hand.
Roan muttered in his mind when he saw this,
‘This little girl with a sweet tooth… If Master wasn’t here, I would have said something and taken you down the right path.’
Even though his seals were completely released, he couldn’t think of rebelling against Woohyuk.
Soon, almost arriving at the first major point, Woohyuk took out Lemegeton and summoned Amon.
“Use God’s Death over there.”
“… Okay.”
As one of the seven Demon Kings under his authority, even if only Amon was mobilized, one of the main strongholds of the Kazak tribe could easily be seized.
He wasn’t a 7th ranked Demon King for show.
Hwee-Ahahahahah!
A massive black hole formed a spiral above the fortress, and when everything was sucked in, the Kazak people inside the fortress opened the entrance and ran outside.
Woohyuk ordered Sieg and Bailey to quickly deal with them.
Slice!
Slice!
The blades wielded by the two minced the vicious-looking Kazaks into a pile of flesh.
In addition, in the case of Bailey, due to him possessing the characteristic of Dark Knight Dora, he was able to raise his victims, either killed or subdued, and control them.
When he raised those he killed as undead, the Kazak retreated back in confusion.
However, it was impossible for them to return to the fortress again.
The inside of the fortress was already ruined by the spiral black hole.
In the end, the enemy chose to die with honor.
“Kyah-Ahh!”
They tried to create an opening and attack Woohyuk, who seemed like the leader.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Verserios spewed black flames and cut off the Kazaks rushing towards its owner.
After this massacre, only three Kazak soldiers remained…
“Where are the Demon Kings?”
Woohyuk ordered his guards to arrest the three soldiers and then went into an interrogation.
“Keuk…!”
The Kazak soldier in the middle showed hostility towards Woohyuk.
Woohyuk, who saw his appearance, stabbed the hostile soldier’s toes with Verserios; spear tip.
Puk!
“Keuk…!”
A painful scream rang out in the blizzard.
Woohyuk waited for a while and then asked the middle Kazak soldier once more,
“Where are the Demon Kings?”
“… Ugh.”
The soldier still didn’t answer.
As Woohyuk nodded, Sieg took out a hot iron from a burning furnace.
Chee-Ee!
The hot iron touched the Kazak soldier’s thigh, leaving a scar of burnt flesh and blood.
However, the soldier resisted until the end, so Woohyuk swung Verserios and struck him in the neck, beheading him with one stroke.
Slice!
Dull-purplish-red blood was scattered over the white snow on the ground.
The Kazak soldier on the right, seeing the end of his colleague, lowered his head in defeat.
Woohyuk asked him the same question,
“Do you know?”
“… Kwah.”
It was a positive answer.
It seemed that the Kazak soldier decided that betraying the Demon Kings was nothing compared to betraying the whereabouts of the Queen of Thorns.
As the two Kazak soldiers gave out all the information they knew, Woohyuk nodded and called for Bailey.
“Kill both of them and raise them under your command.”
“Alright.”
Bailey stabbed the Kazak soldiers’ hearts with his black sword.
Sieg quietly observed what was happening and suddenly asked Woohyuk with a curious expression,
“But Lord, how do you understand the Kazak language?”
“I don’t understand it. However, the meaning was conveyed.”
It was one of the abilities he obtained after gradually using Verserios.
A type of sixth sense.
The Kazak language was not processed by the automatic translation system, so it wasn’t unnatural for Sieg to wonder.
“So, the Demon Kings moved to the Northwest of here… It seems that they already read our movements,” Sieg stated after hearing Woohyuk’s explanation of the Demon Kings’ position.
“Of course, it’s very likely that they already know of our movements. They knew from the beginning that I was going for them,” Woohyuk replied.