章節 574: CHAPTER 732
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In response to Jin's determination, the fleet fired cannons and the dragons unleashed their breath. The remains of Chaos Dragons and Black Ships were oxidizing in the shockwave.
Jin continued to gaze intently at the inside of the gate amidst the chaotic saturation.
He sensed the gloomy energy emanating from within rapidly intensifying.
'A knight, perhaps. It carries a certain weight.'
Sharp hostility emanated from inside the fortress, piercing through his skin.
He didn't expect to engage in a fight with Rosa immediately upon entering the fortress. After all, he hadn't come alone either.
"Bale."
[What?]
"That guy coming out from inside seems quite arrogant. Go and see what he's up to."
"That's a good idea."
Upon Jin's words, Hedo chimed in, and Bale frowned.
[You want me to go inside the gate alone?]
"Yeah. There's no one more suitable than you to scout those dark areas. It might take too long to send a Nameless person. Besides, if a situation arises where a special power like a barrier is needed from the inside, you should be able to escape more easily, right?"
[Ha.]
Bale sighed and spread his two wings.
His annoyance towards Jin and Hedo ignited as a blazing power from the edge of Shakan's blade.
[Damn it, how did I end up in this situation!]
Pang-!
Bale stormed towards the gate, kicking up a cloud of dust.
The allies watched with tension as his figure disappeared into the gate.
Even after Bale entered, there was no significant change inside the fortress.
However, after about thirty seconds, most of the allies couldn't help but gasp and sigh.
It was because a formidable knight emerged from the fortress, gripping Bale's head in his left hand and dragging him across the ground.
In his right hand he held a longsword well over twice as long. It was a similar form to when Shakan was a longsword Bale.
[I wanted to see how impressive this guy is, since the matriarch cares so much.]
Clang! Swish!
The knight tossed Bale in front of him and spat on the ground.
Similar to Lionel and other knights of Chaos, there was a faint indigo glow running through his entire body. Only the knights who had escaped from the mausoleum had such a form.
[Hmph, what a disappointment. I expected someone who could single-handedly sweep this place. But instead, you send this kind of doll first... Disappointed, disappointed, utterly disappointing.]
As he spoke, Jin shook his head.
"He let his guard down."
"He let his guard down."
Jin and Hedo spoke simultaneously.
The fact that all the allies witnessed Bale's pathetic state sent a shiver down their spines.
"In any case, this is a problem with super regeneration, Sir Hedo."
"Yeah, as long as there's a belief that one can't die easily, it leads to such situations. That worthless guy is now trying to undermine the morale of the allies you worked so hard to uplift."
"I am to blame for trusting Bale, there is nothing to say."
[Hey, when someone is talking, you should listen, you know?]
"That guy is also being careless. There must have been numerous unfavorable reports about Bale to the evil god side. I don't understand where such arrogance comes from."
"Perhaps it is a skill... Hmm!"
Ching!
Suddenly, a sharp flash emanated from the knight's long sword.
Runcandel's 5th secret technique, the light speed thrust, had passed between Jin and Hedo.
[You have no guts, and even less pride. Although you are currently committing treason, I heard that until recently, you were Runcandel's most highly regarded flagbearer. Even if we are fighting, isn't it right to show respect to me first? Surely, you understand the significance of me being buried in the mausoleum.]
Jin couldn't help but chuckle, feeling incredulous.
"A person who dedicated themselves to Runcandel, alive or dead. One who sacrificed both body and soul for the preservation and prosperity of the clan. No matter what calamity befalls, they would steadfastly protect the clan until the very end."
[You know that well. Then?]
"Why is such a person standing there?"
[What?]
"You probably fulfilled almost all the conditions I just mentioned during your lifetime. That's why you could be buried in the mausoleum. But now, where is your soul directed? When the evil god is pushing the clan into the brink of destruction, what are you standing there to support?"
The knight glared at Jin without responding.
[A person who has never become the patriarch dares to teach me...?]
"It doesn't matter whether you were a patriarch or an ordinary knight. What's important is whether you are fulfilling the duty after awakening from the mausoleum. Only that matters. I am giving you the opportunity to fulfill that duty for the first and last time. Join me immediately and prove that Runcandel's struggle will not falter against the power of the evil god."
[It's getting more and more absurd!]
"Will you respond to my words?"
Swish! The man spat once again.
[Did you get an answer? I am Senga Runcandel! The 11th patriarch of the sword clan and the one who has returned from death once again for the sake of Runcandel.]
"Senga, I will take away your qualification to be enshrined in the mausoleum and the home of Runcandel."
As Senga was about to respond, Jin took a deep breath and continued to gaze at Bale lying motionless in front of the gate.
"Bale! Stop playing dead and get up to finish him off."
[Tsk...]
Bale slowly got up.
As Jin and Hedo said, the reason Bale was dragged out, humiliated with his hair being grabbed, was that he had let his guard down.
As soon as he entered the castle, Senga's sword pierced his chest, and then an explosion of aura erupted from his body, almost tearing him apart.
It didn't really hurt Bale that much. Because in order to annihilate the 'trace of life' called the Bale, it must be the power of Genesis knight or a power equivalent to it.
Nevertheless, Bale decided to lie down for a while to suppress his embarrassment.
'Ah, it's embarrassing. I hope that Bastard Padler wasn't watching this...…?'
Fortunately, there seemed to be no sign of the Padler around, at least from what Bale could sense.
While others may not know, Bale didn't want to show such a pathetic state in front of Padler.
A smirk appeared on Senga's lips as he watched Bale.
[I was curious when you would get up and fight back, doll.]
[After lecturing Jin about his ancestors earlier, why do you dare to try and compete with me? Did you think that stabbing me once in my carelessness made you someone? Huh? Because I was feeling irritated, did it feel good to stab me once? Huh? Am I like a piece of crucian carp when I'm quietly standing here?]
Perhaps due to spending time with Sandra every day and being in an uncomfortable situation, Veil was using slightly provocative language. It could also be influenced by the mimicry of Murakan that Enya occasionally demonstrated.
[Indeed, as Sir Padler said, you are a lowly doll. However, I'm not interested in your life anymore since I've already taken it once. I'll assign my friends to deal with you and the other guys. Stay put and wait until the battle between me, the traitor Jin Runcandel, ends.]
As Senga raised his arm, knights and monsters drenched in chaos began pouring out from the open gate.
A massive army that couldn't be counted.
They had been waiting at the boundary of the castle gate since the moment Senga stepped out of the castle.
Before the army could even establish their positions, Bale enveloped the entire battlefield with a golden aura.
As the shining ring above Bale's head expanded and resonated with the overwhelming power, the forces of evil god that stood on the land all collapsed simultaneously.
[You just said you would. Even if all your subordinates attacked him at once, it would only make him break a sweat. Did you think the evil god would have expected you to face Jin in the first place.]
Senga remained calm even in the face of the futile deaths of his forces. However, as the golden aura covering Shakan grew even more intense, he couldn't help but feel a chilling sensation down his spine.
Bale became a ten great knight with only his overwhelming power during the prime of Runcandel.
On the other hand, Senga was the patriarch of the clan during Runcandel's most critical decline.
The weight Jin mentioned, the recognition of Hedo that Senga was a formidable fighter—they were merely evaluations that implied he could serve as the 'the gatekeeper of the evil god'.
Finally, they had reached this place.
They had faced countless arduous battles. Now, someone like Senga was no longer even a minor threat to Jin and his comrades.
As Bale said, As Shakan fell with a thud on Senga's head, the duel between the two began.
Senga was a man who became the patriarch without ever living in an era as desperate as it is now.
Tsuaak-!
As Shakan fell with a thud on Senga's head, the duel between the two began.
Even after the duel started, Bale continued to effortlessly incinerate the forces pouring out from the gate.
Senga thought to himself.
No matter how immense Bale's power was, he wouldn't be able to handle all the forces. Naturally, fleet bombardment would follow, but once the melee began, they would have to fight again while catching their breath.
Bale, who didn't let his guard down, was clearly several steps ahead of Senga.
As time passed, Senga had to reduce his calculations regarding the overall situation and focus solely on Bale.
On the other hand, Bale emphasized more on single-handedly annihilating the forces of chaos.
The end of the battle between the two came when Senga's longsword shattered into pieces, followed by his arms, which were holding it, disappearing.
[Hoo, hoo...!]
Senga, kneeling on one knee, looked around with a vacant expression.
Throughout the fight, the battleships never bombarded the battlefield, and not a single surviving force of chaos was in sight.
Jin walked through the sea of black corpses, approaching.
"Knight Senga, from now on you are no longer Runcandel. And even after the war ends, no one in this world will give your remains any respect."
[Kuhk... Are you saying that you can really decide that, even though the matriarch is still breathing in there? Your treason cannot succeed.]
Jin slowly turned Senga's head, so that Senga's gaze reached beyond the darkness within the castle where he had just emerged from.
"Those who entered the darkness and aimed their swords at Rosa today will forever have shining names. But those who never managed to escape the embrace of darkness despite their struggles will have their names buried in scorn and forgotten."
Senga's face contorted.
Jin casually looked down at Senga's eyes, where he was trying to suppress his trembling.
He could sense death approaching.
Originally, the knights of the mausoleum could be resurrected through the power of the evil god, Rosa had never planned to revive Senga in the first place.
Jin thought it was only natural. Even when Rosa was human, she had never shown any favor to individuals like Senga.
Thud!
Senga fell to the ground.
Jin walked past him, gradually moving into the darkness within the castle.
Hedo, Bale, and the comrades who had descended and awaited Jin were now following closely behind him.
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章節 575: CHAPTER 733
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Valeria unfolded the record window, but no information appeared on the screen.
In a typical war, they would have already received intelligence from an nameless reconnaissance unit or assessed the approximate enemy forces from the air through fleets and dragons.
However, in this war, none of these actions held any meaning. They had to push forward, regardless of the lurking danger beyond the darkness.
The fleet resumed its bombardment, targeting the walls that stretched on either side of the open gate.
They knew that physical strikes were effective against the walls, so the fleet needed to break through and secure a passage into the castle.
It was impossible to scale the heights.
However, as Jin approached the gate, he felt a growing unease.
'The gate... keeps opening.'
It seemed to be welcoming Jin.
With each step closer, the darkness within the gate grew. It was as if it were allowing the entrance not of an enemy, but of an ally.
"Sir Jin," Ronil spoke. Octavia and some members of the specter squad had also descended to the ground.
"Speak."
"Would it be better to enter after partially destroying the walls? The gate keeps opening as if taunting us."
Before Jin could respond, a disquieting and heavy rumble echoed through everyone's ears on the battlefield.
Grooaaan....
Like the mournful cry of a monster within a cave, it was a low and eerie sound.
Jin and the others involuntarily looked up at the sky.
'Ram's main cannon? Did Dame Lynn fail?'
It was moving. The hideous barrel was already adorned with a massive chaos.
The fleet immediately switched from bombardment to deploying protective shields. Signals flared up in various locations, alerting to sudden situations, and blue shields formed.
The ground forces also adopted defensive postures centered around Jin, and Ram's cannon unleashed its massive chaos.
Phaaaa...!
Ram's bombardment struck directly down on Jin and the fleet.
Five battleships that were there moments ago disappeared without a trace, but the ominous pillar that eradicated them remained.
"The 4th flagship, Pistro, annihilated!"
"We need confirmation on the change of the 4th fleet's flagship, over 10 battleships destroyed...!"
"Enemy cannon reloading, projected impact point, Kinzelo 1st fleet!"
"The fleet cannot keep up with Ram's reload speed!"
The fleet's mages were shouting frantically.
The fleet's protective shields were nothing more than sheets of paper in front of Ram's main cannon.
The terrifying bombardment they experienced during the first assault was happening again. The mages were consumed by fear, recalling the nightmare of that day.
Ram fired its second shot.
Even Grenil, the flagship of Kinzelo, could not withstand Ram's main cannon with its own capabilities alone.
[Tsk!]
Fortunately, before the bombardment hit, Zephyrin positioned itself above Grenil, exhaling a breath.
Unlike during the first assault, Zephyrin did not get pierced even when directly hit by the cannon.
There were reasons why Zephyrin became stronger, but it also meant that Ram's main cannon had weakened compared to the initial strike.
However, the weakened main cannon did not imply a decrease in overall power.
"Main cannon switched to radial mode! Damage radius, the entire fleet...!"
Black meteor showers spread like spider webs, relentlessly striking the entire aerial forces. With each passing moment, battleships were destroyed, and dragons let out cries of agony.
Bale soared into the sky, unleashing its golden powers, while Orgal deployed a shield encompassing the entire aerial space.
As Orgal's shield formed perfectly, the damage significantly decreased, but Ram seemed unwilling to allow it. The reload speed was increasing.
The aerial forces were already at a disadvantage due to the low altitude of the entire aerial space from the beginning, and they had no room to spare.
If things continued like this, the aerial forces would soon face annihilation or near-extinction.
Swift judgment was required. Veradin gritted his teeth and alternated his gaze between Ram's barrel protruding from the clouds and the battlefield below.
'It's difficult to retreat... The barrier that Jin broke through earlier has been restored. If we try to break through the barrier and retreat recklessly, the likelihood of complete annihilation is high.'
Veradin's gaze fell on the gate. It was still open, spreading darkness.
Unbeknownst to them, the gate now had enough width for the fleet to enter.
And although the impact from Ram's cannon had slightly altered the shape of the walls, they were still resilient enough to withstand the fleet, incomparable to their previous state.
"...Advance the fleet. We will enter the castle. Inform the ground forces as well!"
Veradin's command momentarily startled the commanders, but they quickly prepared for acceleration.
Jin and the heroes on the ground intercepted Ram's continuous cannon fire, reading the signals from the fleet.
At the forefront, Kozec reached the darkness of the gate. The battleships followed, disappearing into the darkness.
Indeed, Veradin's judgment had an effect. The ominous castle acted as an umbrella, protecting the entering battleships.
When the fleet, dragons, and ground forces had all completed their entry into the castle,
Only about 70% of the remaining fleet and dragons remained.
It hadn't even taken 10 minutes for 30% of the entire aerial forces to disappear.
Allies stared at the gate from outside, their eyes momentarily dazed.
Inside, there was only the same darkness as when they entered. It gave them a feeling of crossing some kind of boundary. A boundary that connected the mortal world to the world of the evil god.
However, the merciless noise and vibrations caused by Ram's cannon were still being transmitted from within.
In other words, the temporary alliance had escaped to the castle of the evil god from that bombardment.
The allies couldn't help but feel a great sense of humiliation as they sought mercy from the enemy, just as much as they did in asking for mercy.
Inside the castle, it was possible to visually confirm the structure, unlike when observing from beyond the castle gates.
It was a vast space where one could truly feel the size of the castle, an immense cavity.
Even though the entire fleet had entered the interior, there was no feeling of claustrophobia at all.
It felt like being in the middle of a plain rather than inside a castle.
"It feels much larger than it looked from the outside."
"Why would they create such a spacious area?"
"They were already bombarding us from the outside. If we stayed out there, we would be killed by their artillery. To avoid that, we had no choice but to enter the enemy's castle."
As the allies looked around and made their remarks, suddenly, the roaring and vibrations coming from outside, made by Ram, ceased.
The castle gates had closed.
"Ah!"
"Ugh!"
And as soon as the doors closed, the knights with the lowest resistance and the mages among the allied forces began screaming.
A psychic attack.
The mental attack of the evil god that had been pressuring the entire forces had infiltrated the minds of the allies.
Many collapsed within the fleet, even the dragons twisted their bodies and fell to the ground.
The absurdity of facing a god continued to unfold.
The only fortunate thing was that those who had a certain level of willpower were unaffected, as evidenced by the fact that Rosa had been struck during the previous internal battle.
At that time, regardless of willpower or resistance, Rosa indiscriminately unleashed psychic attacks.
[If we had come here without winning in the previous battles, we would have already been wiped out.]
Orgal said to Jin. In his eyes, he could faintly see the light that enveloped Jin's body in this darkness.
For lesser beings, it was an unseen light.
[It's more like a kidnapping, but since there was an invitation and a welcoming ceremony, we must oblige. We need to quickly attend to the incapacitated personnel and move forward. I'm sure everyone feels it, but if this fight drags on, we have no chance of winning.]
His words were accurate.
Just staying still caused people to suffer mental blows, and it was a waste even to pause for a moment.
But where should they go?
It was not easy to find a clue. The interior was so vast that it was empty, truly like a plain with openings in all directions.
They could be attacked from any side.
In the worst case, enemies could converge from all sides at once.
Everyone's gaze fell on Jin. As if they naturally looked at the light in the darkness.
With his eyes closed, Jin was reading the chaos. Although all directions were filled with intense chaos, an even denser energy was rising from the center.
Without delay, Jin began to move, and the allied forces followed behind him.
With every hundred steps, more personnel collapsed from the mental attacks. Just by continuing to move forward, people engaged in their individual struggles.
They advanced for about thirty minutes. By then, the chaos army hadn't attacked the allied forces.
Instead, Jin and the allied forces stopped moving and suddenly found themselves staring at a cliff that appeared in front of them.
They couldn't fly over it, just like when they attacked the fortress wall.
When Bale and Zephyrin attempted to fly, the moment they tried to pass over the cliff, something seemed to drag them down, and their altitude rapidly decreased.
They almost fell below the cliff without warning.
There was nothing beyond the cliff.
They had to descend below the cliff for a new path to be formed.
The interior of the Evil God Castle was a structure that strictly connected only to the underground.
Jin looked down below the cliff.
You are trying to draw us deeper and deeper...'
It was like a swamp.
In Jin's thoughts, Rosa was pulling the allied forces to the lowest point in the world. It was as if they had to reach there in order to confront her head-on.
"I'll go down first to check."
Jin said as he drew his sword.
"I don't know if it will be possible to send a signal from below, so if there's no contact after 10 minutes, the remaining high-ranking forces will enter one by one."
Normally, if it weren't Jin. The allies would have suggested being more cautious about the danger.
But in this war, Jin's judgment was absolute, and no one could open a path that he couldn't.
As Jin began to descend below the cliff, his comrades watched his back.
For some reason, the sight of Jin being trapped in a trap didn't come to mind. Whatever awaited him below, it didn't matter.
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