Kuro no Maou

"- Hurry up! The fog is getting thicker and thicker!

"All right, you're all here! First team, let's go!

The 203rd pioneering village, which is being covered in thin and white mist, became a noisy morning when people rushed to and from each other.

Marking the beginning of the day, the church bell hasn't even rang yet. Even the villagers have only woken up early, and the children are still in their dreams for a time.

But before the fog informs us of the horrible monster army's onslaught, neither one nor he gets drowsy and starts acting quickly. Yes, just to survive, run away.

"Look, we're not supposed to defend this dickhead base! Soon all our guys will start leaving the village, so come late!

Ryan is communicating the operation aloud, which often passes through fully armed and assembled vigilantes in front.

If anyone strikes this village, be it a man or a monster, the knights here have a role to protect. Half-automatically, the Crusaders stationed at the supply base will serve as a stepping stone to the enemy.

I just don't know if any villagers from the 203rd Pioneering Village, other than soldiers, will evacuate with us towards the Alsace Fortress. I guess it's hard to tell if it's really important enough for everyone to escape.

Seriously, since we have half the number of soldiers, we might even lean toward the idea that we can repel them.

Whatever it is, just stay out of our way. If you're going to run, you can run away together, and if you want to stay, you can do whatever you want. I am not putting my shoulders in the Sinclair so much as purposefully calling on them to evacuate.

"Yuri, when I had to, I asked for it."

"Yes, brother"

I'll take the wind Rapier-equipped Sariel to the carriage where I'm leaving at the end, and I'll tell him so.

The carrier is packed with the minimum baggage brought out by the villagers, and mothers with small children and babies are given priority in the free space. Some of them are Eva, Ted's beloved daughter, whom me and Saliel performed the birthday ritual.

Originally, just like when I got here, it's just a story about me carrying Saliel, but this time it's a different course of action.

"Leki, go with the vigilante. I'll stay here."

"Eh! If Lord Chloe stays, Leki wants to stay, too, Dace!

"I want to see who the enemy is. We can't let Leki or any other vigilante hang out here because we're in danger of being besieged."

"Then Master Chloe is in danger too."

"As soon as I see how you're doing just a little, I'll be right back and we'll rendezvous that way, so it's okay. Worst case scenario, even if we're under siege, if I'm the only one, we can break through."

Although I have already purchased information on Gratney Octo, it would still be best to actually try to fight it. Apart from fire, weaknesses may be revealed, and more effective measures may be found.

Or, for example, the unexpected ability of the enemy.

After arriving at the Alsace Fortress, it will be the production of the Gratney Octo crusade. In the meantime, I want to gather as much information as I can.

Now that Sue is gone, I have to do it myself. Besides, there's no one else who can act safely and securely alone.

"And... I'm sorry, Ursula will stay with me"

"Nooo! Why is Ur okay and Leki no? Death!

I stared at Ursula with just a few guilty caged eyes, and a tremendously dissatisfied facial leki interrupts in between.

"Leki shut up. Lord Chloe chose me."

"Howard Yikes! Why not Leki? Days!!

Phew, and Ursula with a laugh that somehow won, and Leki following me on my feet with half a cry. No, I'm not a wacko discriminating against you two. Please, let me explain.

"Calm down, don't say anything that would incite Ursula, too. Look, the only one of us who can get magic cover is Ursula. I want to see if the original magic of absorption (drain) works for them. Besides, Ursula doesn't have any actual experience yet. It's too dangerous, but we just have to let it go through here."

When I weighed the risks, I decided it would still be lighter to let them fight at least once at this stage than suddenly putting them into action at the Alsace Fortress.

It's best not to let them fight in the first place, but the opponent is taking a large crowd over a Rank 5 monster. First of all, no doubt, it will be a total battle of strength. As an adult, I disqualify as a guardian, but still have to count Leki and Ursula as a force of war.

"In battle, Leki is already a senior. It worked in the previous goblin battle. I can safely count on you to escort me."

"Oh, yeah, Death? Eh heh."

I'm about to caress Leki's head unwittingly, pulling him like a dog I've nostalgic for, but I'll stop. Neither me nor her would feel comfortable touching this goth gauntlet with a fitted hand.

"Naturally, even if you run away, your enemies might catch up. Never be alarmed."

"Jesus! I'll leave you to Leki, Death!

In the meantime, I'll give Leki, who convinced me, the Ignition (Ignited) series of the prototype before I forget it.

Leki's main wepon is the Heavy Knight Axe Spear (Halvard). It's a slightly indelible weapon to dispose of, so I left it as a long sword and dagger as a subwepon to give to her.

"Once you're in a situation like pulling out this sword, pull it off and look for a new weapon. Think of fire as a time to spare your enemies. And daggers should be thrown and used. Short body, burning makes my hand hot."

"Sengu!

Leki receiving with a smile. She doesn't like studying, but I already know she can be flexible in combat. They will use it well.

"Ursula, are you okay? If you're scared, you don't have to stay.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Be sure to meet Chloe's expectations."

Hmm, and a small snort, Ursula gave me a temperamental response.

I've given up a little more here that you can scare me like a girl, and if you do, I can't let you join the fight either... well, I know best how powerful and horrible her magic is.

"I'm not going to feel that way. When you have to, I'll hold you and run, so calm down and use your magic. Look, the exercise of magic is all about concentration."

"Leave it to me."

Ursula is smart. She reveals exactly what she remembers in the rest of the conversation, from the coaching and attention I said during the training to the trivial crush at the end. Now that I've said something about the magician's initial attention, it's probably engraved all over Ursula's head.

So there's nothing more to say.

Finally, I gave Ursula only one Ignited Dagger instead of an amulet. A magician doesn't need a blade, but with a weapon, nature and mind are tight.

"All right, then, let's go"

So I broke up with Saliel and Leki and took Ursula alone to the stone wall.

"This... yes, fine, I can't see a thing"

Vision is one side, white. An inch away is darkness, not white.

Me and Ursula, together with the Crusaders and the sorcerers, are lining up on stone walls, waiting for the enemy to strike.

I don't know how far the information conveys that the enemy is a green octopus and the fire seems to be weak. I don't know, but for once, the brilliant pine lights are burning everywhere, and the archers are preparing the fire arrows, so I think they are being properly countered.

The walls here are not five meters tall and, although quite as a village defense, they are incomparably poor compared to fortresses. Well, I felt terribly uncomfortable defending the Great Wall of Galahad, 50 meters tall until now.

The other thing that bothers me is that we are still in the Crusaders' line, but the curiosity's gaze is so flimsy that it doesn't make any particular difference.

A captain named Cliff, who was quarreling with Ryan in front of the main gate downstairs, said, "I hear you're an adventurer hired by the village. There's no problem if you don't even get in the way of this one, whatever you want," so it'll be fine because you won't be pursued weirdly.

Regarding Ursula's curse, as well as the original magic (original), he probably can't wear a ketch if he's using it in the middle of a fierce battle. No one bothers complaining about the magic cover of their allies when their lives are at stake.

"Dear Chloe, is this really coming?

Ursula, sitting next to her, leaks that with Pottori.

Time has passed there since we got to the placement here. However, the surroundings are somewhat quiet and I don't feel very much like the army of monsters is looming to this day.

At least, it was something I learned to be more intense when a legion of Greedgor monsters were moving in the Ischian hills.

"Don't be alarmed, no doubt the enemy will come"

My left eye did show the existence of a trial. I haven't shined a single light since, but it can never mean I've seen it wrong. So there's definitely a Rank 5 monster named Gratney Octo.

However, I think so.

Suppose they went through this village and targeted a line of villagers who escaped first.

As a habit of monsters attacking people, it is hard to imagine missing out on this village where there is a massive collection of feeding humans and other foods. In terms of placement, this village should function properly as a hall.

But what if the bearer of wisdom turns or unusual thought than a regular monster, like Sloughsgill, was the boss of Gratney Oct... is it possible? To target the easy eating villagers first, and decide to put this one behind the cage in stone wall defense.

"No, no way -"

That's when the worst imagination of the Eleventh Apostle's face of brutal laughter came up in my brain. There was enough roar to rock the village.

Kyoaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

A strangely tall, somewhere metallic creepy voice that is like this with beasts, dragons, etc. The kind of discord they overlapped with hundreds and thousands of others makes my ears snap.

Unexpectedly, Ursula is meditating on her eyes and blocking her ears, as in. Not because she is a child, but from what I can see, many of the crusader soldiers around her took similar reactions.

Such a big chorus of uncomfortable growls with goosebumps all over his body was finally manifesting the arrival of Gratney Octo - but where? Where the hell are they?

If we concentrated all our nerves and looked beyond the white darkness, the answer was immediately obtained.

"- Up!?

There was a shadow over the fog. The next moment they thought so, they came down. Yes, it rained correctly, and many monsters descended from the sky into the village.

That's not the exception to the stone wall I was standing on.

Naturally. They emerged from the sky. Because stone walls do nothing to prevent intrusion.

"Shh!

Coming down with a big mouth open from overhead, in front of a green octopus about three meters long, I prioritize dodging over pre-emptive strikes.

Immediately hold Ursula next door, then back steps - even so, narrow stone-walled passages. I have to keep jumping, more than I have enough space to fly and avoid.

"Howitzer shelling (grenade burst)!

Throw your body from the top of the stone wall to the side of the village in momentum, and let the octopus strike at me one shot before he starts falling into captivity shortly after.

The octopus that went down to the stone wall looked about the same as the toddler body I saw yesterday, with four legs. It feels like I let it grow to three meters.

If it's strong enough to make a difference, does the four strands of the foot have membranes stretched like flickers and frills?

Thus, the octopus, which has come aboard with a brilliant aerial descent, lands without any reaction to the 'howitzer shelling (grenade burst)' released at close range. It was everything I saw just before I fell, to the point where the creepy emerald green software that slipped null was engulfed in red and black flames in Russia.

- Ursula, are you okay?

"Oh, it's okay... what..."

I suddenly felt five meters of free fall when I thought I was in charge. Ursula seems to be slightly turning her eyes, but not particularly injured. Though it was remarkable.

"Oh, my God, I didn't know they could fly through the sky"

Perhaps the membrane in the crotch has become an organ that receives wind, or manipulates wind, like a sailboat. Even so, it's hard for Russia to believe it's a body that can fly. You better tell me it's a fin for swimming, I can still believe it.

However, if you look around you after you land, you will see that they continue to descend. Vision is still heavily blocked by the fog that can stand still, but countless signs of monsters were perceived to provoke ferocious killings.

A flock of Gratney Octs braved a descent operation into the village without hiding any signs. Heavy water sounds like bumps heard from all over must be the sound of them landing.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!

"Goddamn it, Koitsu and the others, from the top - wow!

A soldier screams a wooden spirit from above the stone wall.

He believed that he would push the ground into a herd of zorros, but he betrayed his expectations and they ambushed him from the air. Being suddenly on the stone wall at first hand is causing the defensive side to panic as soon as possible.

"Ursula, stay away from me. - Blackie."

Byun, and with a whip-like speed, coming from the other side of the fog from the tentacles. Its tip was not merely octopus feet, but covered in sharp crusts, in a vicious shape that could easily be skewered, such as human flesh.

Tentacles, more like spear hands. In addition to the motion of the tentacles wielded at the behest of the phantom, it is a rather troublesome weapon because the tip is equipped with sharp spear tips.

By the time I had finished making that observation, my rolling Halvard had torn apart his impending spear hand and even doubled up to the main body (balls) ahead.

Fortunately, his body itself is soft. Apparently, the spearman is the only one with a crust. If I cracked my head in two straight on the boulder, I would not seem to be able to do much more, and when I shook my tentacles several times, raising my voice without keys and force, the movement stopped completely as it was.

"- Damn, we're already surrounded! Form a circle to prevent it! And magician, what are you doing! Just get rid of the fog, can't you see anything!!

Is the voice that echoes right from the side belongs to Heavy Knight Captain Cliff? Though I'm up in a hurry, I'm probably better than I thought than I could give precise instructions.

"Whoa, the fog's clear."

Cliff's instructions apparently set the tiger child's sorcerer squad to begin to function, whirlwind magic blowing up the mist that stands up. I can't scatter all the thick fog that already covers the entire village, but for now it worked enough to fly the fog from around the soldiers.

Does it feel like a wind junction that generates airflow evenly across all directions? Whatever it is, it's a welcome backup now.

At the same time, a certain degree of vision was secured, which also revealed a desperate state of war.

As if the silence was a lie until just now, it's all over there now, overflowing with disgusting green octopuses.

A young body of about fifty centimetres that can penetrate a person's body sticks to stone walls and houses. It's as if the wall was a green speckle pattern from the start, it's massively pulled on.

And it's the octopus that's about the size of a meter to three meters that makes us the main relative. Just look lightly and you'll see that the number of individuals already exceeds this number.

Crawl over the streets to the soldiers unfolding on the ground in the same snagging motion as the octopus that rightly walks under the sea.

Looking up, several spear men from the stone wall have gone past Byungbyung, indicating that intense fighting has begun on the aisle. Some escaped from the aisle and fell upside down a distance of five metres into a blood splash rising with screams.

It was mainly archers who were deploying on the stone wall, so if all of a sudden an enemy appeared waving four spears in front of him, he would be unable to deal with much.

Fortunately, under these circumstances, the octopuses are not cooperating very well. Attacking the soldiers was fragmented, and he was even seen ignoring his fellow fighters, trying to infiltrate the house and flying to a group of warehouses packed with food.

Apparently it's just a large number and not so much collaboration as a herd.

"Wow... Lord Chloe, there's plenty of them"

But Ursula seems frightened of the boulders, both to the right and to the left, and then to the top, in a situation that is overflowing with monsters. My first real fight like this. Then everyone freaks out.

Unexpectedly, instead of stroking my head, I cover her with a large shield (tower shield) on my left hand to protect her from clutching to her feet.

"Ursula, believe in your power. It's okay, if it's the power, we can take them down."

I don't think he or she has any special abilities or physical fitness that would completely disable absorption (drain). If Ursula can use magic as she normally trains, it shouldn't be the number of things, such as opponents with only this physical attack.

"Calm down and aim in turn from the closest guy. The enemy will never let me in. Don't worry, just focus on the attack."

"... Yes"

Ursula's signs change when she's finally ready. The feeling is a sign of magic that is familiar to me, expressed by Ursula's original magic (original), that makes my spine flatter and colder after almost a week of training.

"Dear Chloe, I'm going -" Princess White Night Fork (Anastasia) ""

That way, the shadow of a big woman appears in a flash without sound.

White body and long hair that assimilates with mist that fills the surrounding area. Even though it looks like a plaster statue that can be decorated in the museum or royal palace as it is, the two corners that grow from the head give a disastrous impression.

That's why I named her "Princess White Night Fork" because of her appearance. Anastasia, although the female name of is totally just momentum. Ursula liked it, so it would be OK.

Think of it, I've never had a 'White Night Fork Princess (Anastasia)' body right next to me like this. I never had a chance to play melee because the training just prevented Ursula's harsh drain attacks.

Shit, if you look close like this, you feel anxiety that you're suddenly going to be deprived of magic just standing... but to the point where boulders can distinguish between enemies and allies, Ursula is mastering the control of power. In letting them fight as allies, it shouldn't be a problem.

"Yes."

Hiding in the shadow of a great shield, Ursula took the first blow, along with a less temperamental hanging voice.

No special powers, no moves. I just waved Anastasia's right arm and gently touched the medium octopus that was within reach, not beating her or slapping her.

And that's just it, the enemy vanished. Ju, making a sound that only burns for a moment, the head touched by Anastasia disappears to melt, and later only the four tentacles that lost their connection to the main body wander through the ground.

A special blow, so hesitant, is a blatant defeat.

"Mmm... it doesn't taste as bad as it looks"

The princess seemed satisfied with the taste of the wind attributes of Gratney Octo.

"Fine, keep doing it at that rate"

"Hmm, let me handle it"

Ursula finally strikes out strong, feeling so confident in a one-sided victory.

Currently, the powerful absorption (drain) arms wielded by Princess White Night Fork (Anastasia) can be served up to four at the same time. Its power is enough to disable 'Howitzer shelling (grenade burst)' just by touching it.

Nothing else, like a medium-sized octopus with no special abilities, then smaller than Dortos, etc., that doesn't make it look like an opponent.

As if to mock a monster of bulimia, the Great Eater princess reaches out one after the other toward a dish (emotion) that can overflow all around her.

Gratney Octo has no hard scales, no agile mobility. There's no way they can deal with the anastasian drain arm swinging so fast that I can't avoid it without being serious about it.

If the palms are lightly slapped, the head disappears, and if you wave your arms, every tentacle is shredded. An overwhelming attack that wipes out the opponent just by touching it. I didn't have to turn to defense, and the octopuses around me lost count at an awesome rate.

But their numbers outnumber our perishing power.

I don't see any change in the number of octopuses crawling around Uneune down the street, and on the walls of buildings, on the roof, everywhere I look, they look like sprouting pests. Besides, even now, reinforcements are pouring down from the sky.

"-Come on, don't be frightened! I can't push you back!

Cliff's counter-attack order sounds vain in the midst of battlefield commotion.

As of the opening, we were already in a state of turmoil, so the defensive line collapses quickly. At a time when the stone wall did not perform any function as a defensive device, there were no lines of defense or anything.

So far, only me and Ursula's combination have been able to defeat the octopus smoothly, forcing their opponents to struggle with tough software monsters whose swords and spears don't work very well.

The infantrymen are not unlikely to be pierced by the rolling spearsman of the medium octopus, and before they are completely exhausted, they are eaten burly with a rounded, fang-lined, graffiti mouth.

Though Cliff's heavy knight unit would not be defeated with that defense, it seemed difficult to defeat a physically resistant octopus. Unfortunately, we can't possibly want enough power to unlock the status quo on them.

"Ursula, don't go too far."

"I think I can eat some more."

"No, you can keep the status quo."

Does it still get high while you're using magic, Ursula just has to fight hard enough yet. But there's still enough reason left for you to follow my instructions very carefully.

It doesn't move from its current position without starting a reckless assault, wielding a drain arm with unbeatable changeable freedom no less than the tentacles of Gnegne and Octopus.

"Bad, the wind is breaking."

It seems that it is not only the infantry that is being sacrificed, but also the magician's unit. At what point, the fog is blowing narrower, and we're about to be engulfed in white darkness again.

First around the main entrance, fifty meters four said they were able to secure sight, but now less than half of it. Wind sorcerer (wind merge) has been hit, or he's probably pushed in so much that he can't help but unbind and attack.

If we lose sight at this time, the soldiers here will have to be wiped out.

Honestly, I've never known how many crusader soldiers and others would die... but now it's a situation where I want one or more allies. I'll do whatever I can, I'll cover you.

Ursula flattens the surrounding octopuses at all, and I'm able to concentrate on Grenade's backup fire. Outranges beyond Anastasia's reach are also well within range if my black magic.

I don't need to wield my weapon already. I'm totally focused on magic activation and dedicated to disturbing and shooting 'Howitzer shelling (grenade burst)'. Positively fixed turret. The grenades released are incinerated together and blown away. The house around there is in blast and flaming and crumbling, well, your love.

"Wow! But no more!

"I can't do this here anymore! Run! Run!

But me and Ursula's cover is also vain, and the Crusaders are finally starting to crumble.

Momentum like abandoning a weapon, the infantry soldiers who were deploying on the stone wall continued to descend into the village streets and began to run with full force disease.

"Yes, what could also be a Crusader soldier is an enemy escape! Return to your positions and defend the base!

If I said that enough to go back, I wouldn't run away from the beginning. Even if you squeeze the courage without it, it's obvious that the octopuses are already completely occupied on the stone walls and it's impossible to recapture them.

Because of the infantry fleeing on their own, Cliff's heavy knight unit, which continues to struggle, naturally takes the form of a lord. I can't afford to devote my efforts to that right now, even if the fugitives want to slaughter me in a show that I won't allow it. Even a strong defensive Heavy Knight is now on the defensive side full of only this overflowing octopus opponent.

"This place is the limit now."

Where Ursula and I worked so hard, we can't change the course of our defeat. In the meantime, one of us who still has the ability to stay on this scene should cover a lot of retreats. That's how he pointed the attack spearhead at the octopuses pushing from behind the fleeing infantry - that's when.

A light purple wind, reminiscent of fierce poison, blew from the sky into a band. That can be described as a thin single tornado.

That purple airflow hit a group of soldiers running over this way and drank them all.

"Oh, hot, guhhhhhh!

A sad scream rising to Russia. But what I see in my eyes is more tragic than that... was the sight of humans melting alive.

The identity of purple gas is a powerful acid. Acid braces, should I say.

The aligned white surcoat wrapped around the Crusader infantry collapsed in a flash, then melted drooling as if the iron helmet and clamson had thrown it into the melting furnace.

At the same time, the flesh becomes like red and black mucus, dripping off. Only for a few moments can a soldier's face have a distressed look on his face. The moment it's wrapped in toxic purple acidic gas, it's as if it's sprinkled with water in a portrait painted with watercolor paint.

Acid braces with a strong solubility that also melts iron strike directly and helpless infantry without any magical defense collapse on the spot. Barely seems to keep the prototype of a person, but the ground is turned into a melted liquid human flesh hell, not a blood pond hell.

Before I die for the first time, I don't want to kill you, I don't want to bake you, I want to turn away from you.

But you have to see it. The same goes for all of us, but now, most importantly, we have to identify the person who threw up this brace.

"I see you're the 10m guy."

They were found, especially without looking around or having to explore the signs. Beyond the thin, smoky mist, the shadow of a giant rises lily over ten meters.

Such a big guy, it's natural to get right into your eyes. Most importantly, he's upright.

Upright with the octopus body, it is an unintelligible state, but if you see it in reality in this way, there is nothing else than to describe it as standing.

Tentacles so thick that people can't reach it when they turn their hands, literally standing upright like a tree, pushing their heads heavenly high. With four tentacles, his posture is as if he were imitating an animal walking four-legged. However, the foot of the software, without joints present, carried a completely different foot than the beast, in one way or another a bug-like motion, walking standing still.

I'd like to deepen my reflections on the monster's incredible ecology as to why I wanted to walk like that, but now is not the time.

He walked through the stone walls in such a ridiculous way that he stepped foot inside the village.

"Two, three... four... damn it, this can't be helped anymore"

Besides, not the whole thing. Four large octopuses with an overwhelming presence can be confirmed as far as they can see.

Two in the front. One on the left a little further away. And worst of all, in the rear, in the middle of the village. What the hell is already breaking into the village is showing that this big guy can fly in the sky as well.

"That's kind of hard to eat."

"I guess so."

"What are you gonna do, Chloe?"

"You've made up your mind -"

Ha, and one sigh, and then I'm ready, and I say it out.

- Run away.

I held Ursula and started pulling back as hard as I could.