Kuro no Maou

Episode 60: On the Ills Flame (2)

In front of the gates of Northwest Street, there had never been so many people overflowing since the establishment of the village of Iles.

Before that overwhelming crusade, it is known that less than fifty vigilantes can earn time.

Even though not so much time has passed since the gate was broken, the vigilante who still stands on the ground remains only enough to count with both hands.

The chief of the still viable village of Sione, the head of the Grint vigilante, his son Cradle, and the following few vigilante members continue to wave their weapons as they cover each other's blind spots.

However, to that extent, it is not possible to retain the crusaders who invade the village, and many soldiers struggle to keep them on their asses towards the center of the village.

Already, firehands were starting to rise all over the village, but they couldn't even afford to realize it, to keep fighting here.

"Hey, how long are you gonna take to get rid of those demons?

"- Ha, I'm sorry"

A Goblin vigilante slashed from his shoulder to his leather armor falls in front of Colus, who answered without turning around.

Colus stood around giving instructions to his men's infantry not to have casualties, even as he himself fought on the front line.

Soldiers were fighting alternately with another soldier who, if wounded or fatigued, would immediately refrain behind them, thus only letting the dead out so much as counting, despite demonic opponents with physical abilities above human beings.

Most of all, for a small number of vigilante members who keep fighting, they are in such a difficult state that they will always continue to be attacked by intact enemy soldiers that they will remember the illusion that their attacks do not make sense at all.

If we keep fighting like this for ten minutes, we'll only be able to wipe them out with some casualties.

"No, that's good enough"

But without even waiting for that short amount of time, Kilvan, with his own hands, immediately craved to eliminate the demons who would continue this thorough anti-war.

"Back off."

Kilvan says, "The soldiers who were matching the blades immediately fall back, and the circle that was surrounding the vigilante spreads to Russia.

"O evil devil tribe, be judged by God in my holy glory"

He throws up some playful, oblivious dialogue, but he thinks he's seriously destroying the Devil Nation, an evil being on God's behalf.

Elves, Lizardmans, and Beastmen who desperately continue to resist before him - it is the race that is different, but how different they are from humans, and what the hell are their sins?

But the followers of the Crucifixion believe, that non-human races, demons, are sins that betray God themselves.

"Deployment - Centralized Enhancement (Concess Boost)"

"Import - Attribute Enhancement (Element Boost)"

The magician who serves Kilvan's left and right activates the magic of enhancement, and the magic itself is more densely compressed in addition to the shortening of chanting by means of intensive enhancement, transforming the magical ‘light’ activated by attribute enhancement into something stronger.

"Product"

After just a few seconds of chanting, the 'Holy Light’ is finally emitted.

"Big Flash Cannon (Lux Force Blast)"

Range attack magic utilizing the primary color magic of light, which is advanced positioning in modern magic (model).

It alone is powerful enough to kill a Rank 3 monster, it is supported by enhanced magic and becomes a running stream of white light with more powerful destructive power and strikes the vigilantes.

"Deal - Wind Wall (Ale Woldefan)!

The Mayor will summon the magic that has already withered in previous battles and will deploy a shield that will cover everyone to protect them from the magic of the light, which boasts a special power.

But it is impossible to prevent advanced attack magic with the intermediate wind barrier, which the operator's winning village chief also understood, and it is also compatible with the attribute that it is difficult to prevent light attack magic with the wind shield in the first place.

As a result, neither the village chief's shield, nor the reflexive defensive action taken by each of the vigilantes, halved the magical power unleashed by Kilvan.

"" Ghahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ""

Kilvan, who had already turned his back from them, heard the voice of the disconnected demon without shaking any emotions.

"Hey, looks like there are other places that are still resisting?

The vigilante, who was unmistakably charcoal-extinguished by the rays, does not even glance at them as if he had already forgotten about them, etc., and Kilvan shifts his interest to the next issue.

Soldiers around them also show only one reaction: the demonic clan, which persists in its tenacity and resistance, can either be relieved or excited by the gradual shortness of breath.

"Corus, I hear the adventurers are standing in the guild, and we're going to crush them."

"Ha."

In response to Kilvan's call, Korus turned away from the remains of a Lizardman warrior who had crossed his sword until earlier.

Colus was the only one on this occasion turning his mind to the death of the Demons.

(Why is that Lizardman warrior dying in such a position as to shelter another Lizardman warrior?

You think the Demons are willing to stand up and protect others?

Corus doesn't know, such as a burnt corpse burned in the back of his brain, lying down to fold, and that those two are father-son relationships.

"Just kidding! Can you admit to surrendering!

Nino's fury echoes in the guild.

"You're the one who's kidding, take a look outside -"

Currently, the Adventurer Guild building has been sieged by the Crusaders in tens and twenties.

"- Wouldn't it be better if you were bare and thrown into a goblin nest?

Yeah, how can you survive fighting those guys!

It's another adventurer staying in this guild who screams like that.

In the guild, opinions were broken between Nino and the adventurers from the village of Iles and the current adventurers who occasionally stayed in the village of Iles.

The former insists on a thorough anti-war and the latter on surrender.

Earlier, after Nino and the others played a skirmish with the crusader vanguard, they were pushed by the numbers to retreat to the guild, after which they have been besieged and left in a state of calm.

As a result, time is being sparingly debated in this way.

"I guess Temei and the others can fight for their lives because this is their home town, but we're not, you're in charge of protecting a village like this and dying!

"What the fuck, Teme!

"No, please don't!

Nyaleko speaks up to stop Nino, who is caught by a human adventurer.

A companion of each adventurer immediately restrains the two and pulls them apart.

A human adventurer looks at Nyaleko and says, with his arms grabbed by his companions.

"Hey, the guild leader here is already dead, then he didn't order a compulsory quest, and we had no obligation to fight.

Well, even if it's ordered, if it's enough to fight like this, I'll pay you a cancellation fee, whether it's 100 gold or 1,000 gold. "

"Ugh... yes..."

Nyaleko had already popped out of the guild to call the house of the chief guild of the village of Iles before the emergency evacuation bell rang by the news of Nino.

But on the way back to the guild with the guild chief, he was unluckily found by crusader soldiers who had already begun to show up all over the village, and only Nyaleko, the beast man and fast legged, managed to get home safely to the guild.

I had no choice in the circumstances, but Nyaleko is sick that he has abandoned half the guild leader and fled only himself.

"You know, there's no reason to fight us, don't stop us."

"... damn"

I can't help but convince Nino that he has more to say than he is also an adventurer.

"Go, I'll stay and fight"

"Oh, you don't have to tell me to leave."

The human adventurer throws the sword he was carrying at the table, and disarming him is more natural than surrendering.

Starting with his people, roughly half of the adventurers in the Alliance disarm just like him and head to the main entrance of the Alliance.

"Wait."

"What, you're still complaining?

"... take Nyaleko with you, too"

Moment after moment, Nyaleko reacted with Bikun and tried to say something but Nino stopped it with his gaze.

"We're the only ones who can fight and die."

"Mr. Nino......"

"It's okay, if you surrender to adulthood, you won't be killed.

And if they catch us, Chrono might come and help us. "

There was no other man's name there - and next to Nino, Athen thought, but stopped pinching his mouth.

But I also thought Chrono would probably tell us he was going to fight with us.

"Well, after all, we should all surrender..."

Nino replies with a bitter laugh to Nyaleko's appeal.

"Uh, I've slaughtered ten more, you can't forgive me."

Nino turned his gaze to Athens and Harry, who stood left and right, and they both laughed bitterly again.

"So, but..."

"Look, go quickly, because the next moment the enemy might come into an avalanche!

I don't think the present state will last forever, and if the groups outside dare to storm simultaneously, there will be no room to declare their earliest surrender.

"Bye, Nyereko."

"... Yes, Mr. Nino, all of you... good luck"

With tears in his big eyes, Nyaleko leaves with a bunch of adventurers.

And it was just after this that Nino regretted that this was the worst decision he had ever made.

Kilvan, ridden among the standing crusader soldiers, proceeds as if scratching a white wave.

In front of me was the Adventurer's Guild, the largest building in this village.

"What's the matter, why didn't you just attack?

Kilvan asks the captain of the unit, who is arrayed at the front entrance, while including some hesitation.

"Ha, the enemy has multiple magicians who use intermediate magic, and the warriors have a lot of hand work, and I was wondering if it would be dangerous to get their hands on darkness only with infantry -"

"In short, you mean you had no fear?

The troop leader, stared from the top of his head, had nothing more to offer than a tearful plea of "I'm sorry" with his head deeply drooped.

"Well, I hear that demonic adventurers have the vicious power to hunt monsters in a small number -"

If I recall the appearance of an old elf or a Lizardman who was buried with light magic earlier, I see that if there is indeed magical support for the high vitality characteristic of that demonic tribe, it is understandable that it exerts a combat capability that transcends man superiorly.

"I want to avoid damaging my soldiers to jail with me, I will evaluate your response waiting for the magician's help"

Thank you, and while the troop leader, spared from buying the wrath of the young priest, stroked his chest down with relief, he saw a colour of anger dwelling alongside Kilvan's eyes with an eye for something.

"What is that?

At the end of that gaze was a group of a dozen people in light armor but without weapons, raising their hands and shouting something.

The place where they are is just halfway between the Crusaders that surround the Alliance and the Alliance's doorway.

Kilvan asked, but even if he didn't ask for answers or anything, he could understand who they were if he saw this situation.

"Ha, that one came out of the guild after complaining about the current surrender."

"You idiot! You can see that if you see that.

Why didn't you kill him?

"Oh, well, it was... because there was someone in that bunch who seemed human"

"Kill."

"But humans are commanded to be taken prisoner"

"Shut up, that's the Demon Clan! And human beings who live mixed with the devil tribe are suku pagans, and being itself is a blasphemy to God, must be eliminated as soon as possible"

For Kilvan, it is unforgivable in the first place that humans are mixed with a bunch of demons, naturally.

If the humans living in the Pandora continent and the humans of the Arc continent had different shapes, such as face and shape, the more Orientals and Westerners in the Chrono world, they might have seen themselves as a completely different kind of ‘very similar' demonic race.

In reality, however, there is little difference in appearance as a race between the two, just slightly different outfits, and at a glance I find myself a homogeneous person.

Therefore, Kilvan becomes unparalleled in his discomfort with the fact that man, the supreme creature created by God, is with the Demonic Nation.

If we are to take over strictly Command's orders, I guess the human being who has surrendered, as the Force Leader put it, should at least be taken prisoner.

But for Kilvan, adherence to God's teachings takes precedence over strict observance of command orders, which reflexively and instinctively make judgments without any stray or hesitation.

"Ready to fire."

Kilvan scratches the soldiers and moves further forward, while giving orders.

In response to the immediate orders of the highest ranking commander on this scene, the soldiers immediately commence operations.

He with the bow gazes at the arrow, and the sorcerer begins the chant of attacking magic.

The look on the face of a group that was out of the guild to surrender before the Crusaders, who showed an obvious willingness to attack, is stained with amazement.

"Oh, come on!? Wait..."

An adventurer screaming a still word close to screaming, but that wish will never be heard by Kilvan, who only wishes to kill them immediately, the defenseless one in front of him.

That is unless even the miracle of his believing God calling a halt occurs.

"Let go."