"The Endless Paladin, Chapter Three: King of the Iron Rust Mountains."
- Courage is nothing.
"Blaze, the god of technicians and flames, ask and say"
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Deep in the Beast Forest.
The seat of the great Lord of the Woods, King of the Hiragi, had turned into a hell full of swirling tempers, rotten leaves and dead trees.
From the road that leads to the center of the seat, the inferior Demon Dropper (Spawn) swarms up.
In the sunlight of the incompatibly refreshing early summer, we walk through a line of dead trees, reminiscent of the sparkling bones of a rotten corpse.
"Menel!
"Oops!" My fairy! "It's a skeleton, a game of dusk and morning mist!
Silver hair flickers.
A good voice from Menel, who stopped her leg, called to the spirits with her hands wide open.
Hearing it behind my back, I moved forward with my love spear, Pale Moon.
"'Wake up! Your gentle protector, the King of the Woods, is in crisis! When it comes to rewarding, now!
In this whirlpool, where the forces of nature have weakened.
The weak, powerless, self-diffusing fairies awaken to Menel's call and begin to regain their self.
I also felt signs that the fairies would begin to gather around him so that I could be attracted to a powerful and good call.
The forces of nature such that the spine trembles are beginning to gather under the menel.
"'With a blade in your hand, tie your bow! Fire lizard (salamander) arrows, earth fairy (gnome) hammer, water maiden (undine) spear, wind maiden (silf) blade……'"
Feeling relied upon, I wave a spear at my attacking enemy.
A child plays with human shaped clay in a proper fashion by piercing a distorted and obscure "spawn" one after the other.
"'Now, the horn of war is ringing! To the arrogant invaders -'"
Shield bash along with temper hanging.
When he bounced off the whole "Spawn" thing and slammed it into the imminent herd, he jumped back at once.
"'- The four great judgments will not be handed down!
At that moment.
In front of me, a vast death rolled in.
An arrow of flames fired suddenly fought the enemy as a team of skilled archers fired simultaneously.
From the ground, a huge hammer of rock lifted to exasperate the demons.
Or fresh water blows up from the sludge, drawing spirals and wearing the devil's chest.
Behind his sight, a blade of wild wind scatters his enemies' heads one after the other.
It is a simultaneous attack by the fairies who responded to Menel's call and shouted ferociously.
"Will, let's go!
"Got it!
(9) Beyond the Loser (Spawn).
Stepping over the wreckage of the devils, we rush ahead.
Someone must be in front of him who's fouling the seat of King of Hiragi and driving the forest circulation crazy.
Run.
Then there was the appearance of two demons in front of the seat, in front of an old stone arch.
They both look the same, one spear. One of them has a sword in his hand.
A mixture of people and crocodiles, if you say what you look like in the end.
He's about two meters tall.
A head that associates dinosaurs.
Tough scales, rubbery outer skin, and thick muscles.
The tip of the tail, which was strangely long, had a thorn on it.
"- Vlaskus!"
I know him.
He's the undead one, but he's the one who did it several times in the underground labyrinth of that city of the dead.
"A tail blow! They're coming from blind spots!
"I'll do the sword!
When we speak briefly, we scatter from left to right.
Vlaskus and the others turn to us as they respond.
When I breathed one breath, I stopped on the spot.
Then Vlaskus, approaching too late in time, stops baffled.
- I haven't found a gap to attack.
…………
Keeping the twitch and intermission, he loosened his strength gently.
To the extent that it is not known, it naturally relaxes the structure and creates gaps.
We need a spear that Vlaskus will stick out for us.
"Ha!
Strongly tangle it down with this spear and return the thrust.
At once, he pierced Vlaskus' hard scales and pulled out his heart.
"Gah............!
Roll in the spear quickly, and poke even more just in case you don't allow it to fight back.
Because when you become a demon in this class, the 'fatal wound' line may be a few steps above the human.
It's not weird if you pierce your heart or keep rumbling around.
Pulling through the tip of the ear to see how it was, the giant of Vlaskus, who had fallen into the ground.
Sadly, the wreckage becomes ashes and collapses.
"Phew..."
I just breathed, and there was a nostalgic voice in my back of my brain.
- I'd go straight ahead and keep my neck shut. That's it!
Bitter. That's what Brad once said about the strength of Vlaskus.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to reach that area yet.
But that's not invisible anymore.
- If I were you right now, would I be able to compete with Brad in his time?
"Rah!
Menel also had a fight.
Gnome grabs the ankle of Vlaskus, who has struck his sword in his hand, from behind and breaks his posture.
Right now, Menel didn't speak one voice. I am totally sympathetic and willing with the fairies.
As much as I wish for an easy operation, he no longer even needs a rap.
As he stepped into his nostalgia thoughtfully, Mr. Leistoff, screwing the knife into his torso with a planted thrust, Menel burst some spell into the knife legend.
Bickling and cramping, giving him white smoke, Vlaskus falls down. It's settled.
"Me.... at last"
Menel took the long sword from his body, which collapsed as ash.
The steel of the straight sword is clear.
"The altar of the Lord of the Woods is… behind this."
"The captain demon is the gatekeeper."
"Yeah."
Considerable presence is coming out.
We looked at each other and renewed the tension - diving into the arch and entering the depths of the seat of King Hiragi.
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The seat turned into a giant poisonous marsh.
As Menel quickly calls out to the Water Maiden (Undine) and casts a waterwalk spell, I draw my gaze in prayer for a poison-resistant miracle.
Beyond the withered trees, broken branches and discolored leaves covering them like vales.
I saw a giant ancient tree.
- Large. Although the height is not significantly different from the surrounding trees, it is terribly large.
He's a big, fat trunk, enough to hold him with his arms, two hugs, and the way he quotes like that to seem stupid.
Perhaps if we got close, it would look like a rock wall or something.
"Menel"
"Oh, that's the King of the Hiragi, who runs this forest winter."
As if it were a wavy sea level, a terribly thick root roams around an ancient tree.
... they were black stained to half as affected by the poisonous marshes covering the ground.
Around its black roots rippling.
Make sure you're surrounded by giant roots, and there's a stone altar.
"…… That's it."
As we approached, we heard the glorious Word of Creation.
"... eh"
I could tell just by the sound.
That is a curse. That is blasphemy.
Hate. Resentment. Anger. Contempt. Taunt. The sound of a cauldron boiling down all negative emotions boiling down.
- Abominable Words (Taboo Word).
It's a kind of phrase called that.
Until the wizards created a closed college, they kept it out of the door.
Curse wording that starches the wind, rots the water, dries to the soil, brings decay to the fire.
It's not supposed to be emitted. There's something that emits it.
Be alert to the perimeter and approach.
By the technique of walking on the water, the feet float with the noodles on the poison marsh.
On the altar. The appearance of that demon, whose hands are spread out and recited, was generally similar to that of a person.
A rough muscular body, covered in beast hair.
Tough face, as if roughly stuck (only) in the rock wall and scraped it out.
… the unusual thing is that there are giant horns growing from the head that remind me of a heraldic.
He looked at me and slowly stopped singing.
"……… What happened to the gatekeepers?
Fluent western common language.
"What do you think happened?
Looking at the long sword in Menel's hand, he nodded as if he was convinced that the devil with the horns was fuzzy.
I was getting nervous. [M]
"Cheng Cheng. As you can see, you are Sir William, the Last Holy Knight, Farraway Paladin.
- And this is Lord Meneldor of Hayashi Wings.
This intelligence. This ability to gather information.
Things are completely different from soldier and captain daemons.
General - Horned Beast Demon (Kernunnos)
To the whining voice, the beast demon laughed niggardly.
"If the famous two brave men are here, it's quick to talk"
That moment.
Signs rise around.
Me and Menel, we were aware of the approximate signs - but we were on the ground.
Strange demons, like a mixture of stags and tauruses and snakes and lizards, emerge from the shadows of the giant roots around them.
"I want you to die here because of the plan."
Follow the voice of the beast demons, and the demons will attack us.
"Menel, would this distance be nice?
"Enough. I can't move from here, please."
Menel slowly touched the roots of the blackened King of Hiiragi.
"O king. The King of Hiiragi. From the Summer Solstice to the Winter Solstice, we will unite the woods and divide the twin kings."
On the back of his white hand emerges the text of the oak leaves.
Menel, with his hands on his roots and eyes closed, is like a prayerful cleric.
Noticed something. Kernunnos tries to give instructions to the demons, but it's too late.
"Deposited by Brother King Taru, King of the Oak Tree."
From there, an incredible force flows in.
The roots, which had lost their blackness, began to hear pulsations like heartbeats from the trunks of ancient trees.
"... give you the king's king's strength."
The earth trembles.
The roots of the ancient trees slowly move out, tightening up the impudent demons and dragging them into the poisonous swamp.
The screams and the water sounds of the devils were often wooded and silence fell.
"You did it. I didn't know you had already held down Oak Tree (Oak) King..."
Kernunnos looking down from the top of the altar.
I've already held back the color of anger and agitation that I saw for only a moment. Quick to recover.
But if you can't defeat me, it's the same thing.
When Kernunnos squeals the Word, he attracts and sets up a long battle axe (Halvard) at his disposal.
"I'll knock you down. Because of this forest,"
Breathe in. Spears at the same time as words,
"- of the goddess of circulation (GraceFeel), on the light!
I ran straight out. [M]