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Chapter 155: Raid...? (2)

Kim Hyunwoo, wearing a blank expression, asked again.

“…So you’re saying the merchant leader and the dragon are sharing a body?”

“That’s right, Master!”

Kim Hyunwoo, with a puzzled expression, asked again to confirm, seeing Merilda’s cheerful response.

“…Are you sure?”

“I’m sure!”

As Merilda confidently answered, Kim Hyunwoo felt a mild confusion and several questions began to arise in his mind.

He wondered why she hadn’t bothered to tell him about this earlier.

‘…Could it be that she doesn’t particularly want to be re-recruited?’

After all, while Merilda, Rin, and Charyll wanted to return to Lartania, not all heroes would feel the same way.

In fact, Kim Hyunwoo found it surprising that so many heroes had wanted to return.

Therefore.

‘So, this is…a rejection?’

Kim Hyunwoo clicked his tongue in disappointment.

Although his conversation with Adria hadn’t concluded properly, if they were sharing a body, then the Crimson Dragon would have heard everything Kim Hyunwoo said.

The fact that the dragon showed no particular reaction after hearing everything suggested that the dragon was either uninterested or against returning to Lartania. Kim Hyunwoo thought about this.

‘I still want to talk it out, though.’

“Lord!”

He was about to start another line of thought when Elena burst through the door, interrupting him.

“What’s going on?”

Kim Hyunwoo asked as Elena, who had hurried inside, began to speak.

However, she soon froze in the position she entered with a very ambiguous expression, leaving Kim Hyunwoo to tilt his head in confusion as he wondered why she was reacting that way.

“Ah.”

He realized that the situation was a bit awkward.

Merilda had ignored the intact chair across from her and was instead kneeling in front of Kim Hyunwoo with her face resting on his thigh.

Kim Hyunwoo gently pushed Merilda’s face away and gestured for her to speak. Elena, clearing her throat nervously, began to speak with a somewhat urgent expression.

“The Allied Clan has sent an army…!”

“…The Allied Clan, suddenly…?”

“Yes…!”

Kim Hyunwoo frowned slightly at Elena’s words.

After all, there had been no interaction between the Eastern Clan Alliance and Lartania.

In other words, there was no reason for them to be hostile toward each other.

This left Kim Hyunwoo puzzled as to why the Allied Clan would suddenly launch an attack at this time.

“…And the Clan’s army includes angels.”

“Ah.”

Elena’s follow-up made it easy for him to guess why the Clan was suddenly advancing on Lartania.

“How many are there?”

“There are at least a thousand angels.”

“……”

Kim Hyunwoo involuntarily nodded at Elena’s words.

‘Angels are definitely troublesome.’

When Kim Hyunwoo played Arteil, there was a special event where he could use angels as troops, and the angels he commanded were nothing short of unbeatable.

‘…Even basic angels could use holy power to create sword energy and could cast up to 3rd-circle spells.’

In Arteil, angels were arguably the strongest troops available.

However, despite knowing how formidable angels were, Kim Hyunwoo didn’t seem particularly concerned.

If he had heard this news a few days ago, he might have been deeply troubled, but not now.

Because the heroes had returned to Lartania.

The heroes he had spent years of his life raising – three of them, in fact.

On top of that, these heroes had exceeded five stars, reaching an unprecedented 5.5-star level, which Kim Hyunwoo had already experienced upon entering Arteil.

‘…But can three heroes handle that many angels and an entire army? Plus, Charyll doesn’t seem to be in good health.’

Kim Hyunwoo, who had been unfazed, started to show a hint of concern.

However.

“Master.”

“Yes?”

Kim Hyunwoo stopped thinking when Merilda, who had been kneeling in front of him moments ago, called out.

“Shall I take care of them all?”

“…There are more than I expected. Can you handle it?”

“If you order it, absolutely.”

After hearing Merilda’s confident words, Kim Hyunwoo hesitated briefly.

“…Just don’t overdo it.”

He said, and

Merilda nodded with a bright smile, reassured by Kim Hyunwoo’s concern.

“Yes!”

The angel Erniel, who descended from the heavens to heed the celestial command and punish those who would obstruct the birth of the Holy One, looked down at the army on the ground.

Unlike the thousand-strong angelic force, the Allied Clan’s army, numbering around ten thousand, was advancing with such intensity that any nearby lord or mercenary would feel overwhelmed just by looking at them.

The overwhelming numbers advancing on Lartania were enough to cause significant pressure.

But to Erniel, who was flying above the army, the soldiers below seemed insignificant.

‘Why has the Holy One ordered us to wage this great war with such beings…?’

Erniel wore a dissatisfied expression.

She wasn’t the only one.

None of the angels flying above the army seemed to be pleased with this decision, all wearing similar expressions of discontent.

From their perspective, it was enough for the angels alone to wage this great war.

Of course, none of the angels disagreed with Durandor’s assessment that Lartania’s forces might be stronger than expected, but their dissatisfaction remained.

Angels focus more on the significance of the battle than on the power balance or justification.

Thus, Erniel, the leader of the angels, held her own grievances about the situation, but she continued to advance with the army, knowing that the decision could not be overturned.

Soon, as they neared Lartania,

“…?”

Erniel saw them – three figures standing in the army’s path, with less than half a day left until they reached Lartania.

In fact, Erniel had noticed them earlier but hadn’t thought they were blocking the path.

After all, three people couldn’t possibly block an army of this size.

But as the angels and the army approached, the three figures stood up and took their positions, and Erniel realized that they were indeed there to block the army’s advance.

“……”

Erniel stared at them.

Although they had risen from their positions, their expressions were unusually calm.

They looked so ordinary that one might question whether they were really there to stop the army.

Moreover, seeing them press their thumbs and index fingers to their lower abdomens with serious expressions would make anyone suppress a laugh.

Even among the angels, some seemed to share Erniel’s thoughts, as mocking laughter echoed oddly with hints of anger.

Soon after the angels noticed them, the army also spotted the three figures.

A moment ago, those who had been pressing their fingers to their lower abdomens with serious expressions all turned to face the army.

In the next moment, the beastfolk, whose face had been flushed as if drunk, stepped forward.

And then.

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As that small voice echoed in Erniel’s ear,n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

“…?”

A hole appeared in the center of the army.

“What…?”

Erniel, unable to fully comprehend what had just happened, stared blankly at the ground while the screams of the army filled the air.

‘What just happened?’

Still wearing a confused expression, Erniel looked bewildered.

However.

“L-Lady Erniel! Up above…!”

When she snapped out of it at the sound of another angel’s scream,

“…!”

Erniel saw it.

A massive sword, suspended in the air, aimed directly at the angels.

“Ah-”

Only then did Erniel realize something had gone terribly wrong, and she gaped in shock.

Boom-!

The falling giant sword swept through the angels.