72 – Insufficient
There were two main types of good luck and bad luck that Alessia encountered.
lucky one and one bad luck.
First of all, luck is that all the knights Alessia brought were knights.
The Royal Knights did not discriminate between genders, and in fact, among the Royal Knights, the consciousness that they were Charlotte’s knights before they were men and women prevailed.
Anyway, the Royal Knights were a group that went back to a strict merit system, so there was no meaning in distinguishing gender.
However, in the end, it was also natural for the female knights to gather under Alessia, the only female knight commander.
So, from the point of view of Alessia and her knights, the fact that there were no male knights looking at Christine was a great fortune.
If there was at least one male knight under Alesia’s command, and if that male knight rolled his eyeballs wrongly, Christine would have immediately exploded the knight’s head, not the monster.
Conversely, the same misfortune was that the knights brought by Alessia were all female knights.
Right now, it didn’t matter.
The god Christine worshiped was a suicide attempt, she was eaten by a monster herself, and she was alive and waiting for someone to bring her out.
However, if Alessia or the knights under Alessia’s command had Christine’s God in their eyes even for a moment, what would happen next could not be predicted.
For once, one thing was certain.
It’s only about the difference between dying gracefully with limbs still attached, or dying brutally with all limbs removed.
Perhaps their misfortune was the very thing that appeared before Christine’s eyes.
“Black blood is oozing out, so be careful with your breathing and stride! We need to catch that monster before it runs away!”
“All right!”
At Alessia’s resolute cry, the knights under her command poured mana all at once.
Use maximum body strengthening as much as possible, and move as if enveloping the black blood monsters while keeping a wide distance from each other.
The monster was still busy repairing the wounds caused by the slash to the head.
Seeing the wound heal in an instant, one female knight exclaimed in a loud voice.
“Confirm that the monster’s skin regenerates! It’s a regenerative monster, Knight Commander!”
“I got it! Don’t give me time to recover, push on! I’ll attack first!”
“Yep!”
As soon as she finished her words, Alessia rushed towards the giant earthworm.
Fighting against monsters with black blood took on a completely different aspect from fighting against normal monsters.
As soon as even a drop of their blood splatters, that part rots, and just breathing the same air melts your lungs.
The attack is faster, the skin is harder, the body is bigger, the strength is stronger, but even a single blow should not be allowed.
So, the type of knight who pushes the opponent with force had the worst compatibility with the black blooded monster. Fighting with them was tantamount to committing suicide.
This side had to hit dozens of attacks even if they couldn’t do it, but the problem was that each of the other side’s attacks made them walk a tightrope at the boundary between life and death.
Of course, the knights who enjoyed power-to-power fights had to completely revise their strategies. To do that against a black-blooded monster was to sacrifice one’s whole life.
That’s why most of the royal knights were defeated when they fought against the black blood monsters created by Charlotte’s illusion magic.
Because it couldn’t be defeated with overwhelming force like other enemies.
In that sense, Alessia’s swordsmanship, Alesia’s style, could be said to be the best swordsmanship to deal with black blood monsters.
Hard to be strong, soft to be sharp, strong to be flexible.
It was exactly the path they were to pursue.
ㅡAlessia Ryu 3 meals. wind down.
Alessia kicked the ground with a light movement, and then cut through the monster’s skin as if it were brushing through it.
The spot where her sword had passed was raggedly torn. It looked like it had been cut with a saw rather than a knife.
A single long scar split into dozens of fine scars and created additional cracks. Blood gushed from each crack.
Alessia, who quickly brushed off the black blood from the blade, rolled her body to the side as she felt the creepy sensation on her back.
Immediately, the monster’s head fell and shook the ground.
From the point of view of the monster, it was nothing more than a slight twist, but it was because the distance quickly narrowed thanks to its ignorant body.
In Alessia’s eyes, a procrastinating and rapidly recovering wound entered. If time continued like this, the disadvantaged side would be the Royal Knights.
The atmosphere begins to be polluted just by being exposed to such black blood in the air.
No matter how much the royal knights were a gathering of the kingdom’s most elite swordsmen, it was impossible to fight without breathing at all.
He could hold his breath and continue the battle for about 5 minutes at most. If you can’t handle that in there, you’ll have to reorganize over 30 seconds.
It may seem short at first glance, but it was enough time for the monster to jump far away or conversely to adjust its posture.
Alessia, who knew that fact very well, suddenly shouted.
“Concentrate on the wound! Don’t give it a chance to recover!”
The knights who received the order rushed at once.
While being careful not to accidentally step on the black blood or get hit by the drops of blood splashing from the wound, he diligently uses the sword to widen the wound.
As befits the Royal Knights, the breathing was close to perfection. No one interfered with an attack by an ally, and no one was interrupted by an attack by an ally.
It was as if they were moving as if they were one body.
Alessia slashed the monster from the front, tearing off the corners of its mouth and breaking its teeth, focusing its nerves on herself.
It would be the end if the monster rolled its body round and wrapped the knights on its sides.
After confirming that the monster’s nerves were all focused on her, Alessia shouted again.
“Don’t try to force an attack, and promote safety first! If you die with one knife, it’s our loss!”
At first glance, I didn’t know if it was an encouragement or a compliment, but Alessia’s words were justified.
It is a gigantic monster that exceeds 30 meters in size. No matter how many times you have to cut a knife, at least hundreds of times, but dying with just one swing was not worth it.
If you’re a half-assed adventurer, you might be able to understand the concept of consumables and move on, but they are the most elite of the elite, the Royal Knights.
It was far from being expendable.
“Knight Commander! The sword is corroding! The consumption rate is faster than expected!”
The knight with light brown hair, who had been concentrating on cutting his side, threw the knife in his hand and stepped back.
The knife, thrown to the floor, was covered in rust.
The wound left by Alessia was wide enough for four or five people to enter. Black blood continued to leak from the wound, contaminating the soil and air.
However, more than that, the consumption of weapons was serious.
I had heard the characteristics of the black blooded monster from Charlotte, so from the beginning I had prepared four or five pieces of reserve armament for each person.
Even the swords they brought were not ordinary iron swords, but items made by mixing adamantium only on the premise of supplying them to the Royal Knights.
It was a sword that could be used semi-permanently if nothing special happened, but even that could not withstand a few times and corroded.
“A spare weapon!”
“I’ve used them all!”
“You mean it’s that much even though it’s full of mana?!”
Alessia opened her mouth wide.
When I first heard the explanation about the black blood monster, I just thought it was a little more dangerous and a little stronger monster.
In fact, the king, Charlotte, explained it with that feeling.
In the midst of a one-sided attack, it was unimaginable that the weapon on this side would be consumed first.
“I’m out of spare weapons too!”
“Me too! I’ll step back!”
Reports were heard everywhere that even spare weapons had been corroded and destroyed.
As the number of attacks decreased significantly, the speed of recovery began to be faster than the speed of gradually widening the wound.
Things were bad.
Alessia inspected her sword. It was the third sword I had replaced, and I still had two more swords left at my waist.
Overall, it was fine, but the part of the blade that came in direct contact with the black blood showed a black discoloration. At most, two more swings seemed to be the limit.
“Get out of the way!”
Alessia once again used the ecstasy to scratch the side of the black blood monster with an invisible movement.
It was there. Since there was no subsequent attack, the monster’s skin quickly covered the spot and regenerated the wound.
Alessia threw away the half-rusted sword and pulled out a new one. The knights, who had spare weapons, followed her and took up their swords.
Alessia said calmly.
“It’s my fault for mispredicting. I’ll wait for you like this, so you guys should immediately return to the palace and ask for support.”
“Yes? That can’t be the case! We’re leaving the Knights Commander behind!”
“It was me who made the wrong judgment about the enemy, and I deserve the blame for that. Time is running out. Come on!”
The monster’s side was almost completely healed, despite the previous attacks. The guy’s body trembled.
“Then, what about the adventurer and the nun?”
Oops. At those words, Alessia looked back while drooling.
One adventurer passed out after seeing a huge monster, and one nun stood still and prayed as if she had given up on her life. They were the only survivors.
forgot those two Alessia blamed herself and squeezed her hair. And barely opened his mouth.
“……Let’s save it for now. We need to get as far away from here as possible.”
“All right.”
The female knight did not ask any further questions as to whether she had read the resolution contained in her words. He just quietly, with his head bowed, followed Alessia’s words.
Alessia raised her sword after seeing the two of them running out to take the adventurer and the nun out.
Alessia Ryu is a school that chooses to use several small techniques rather than one large technique.
But not as much as this time. If that happened, the durability of the sword would not last. I had to use as many techniques as possible at one time.
It was then that Alessia thought so and was preparing the biggest blow she could afford.
The female knight’s desperate scream cut off the flow.
“aaagh!”
“How dare you touch me?”
And there was a low voice, filled with anger. It was the first voice I heard. Alessia turned her head involuntarily and let out a futile voice.
“That’s it…?”
In the direction from which the screams came, there was a female knight whose arm had been pulled out from the shoulder blade and blood was splattered, and a nun who casually crushed the removed arm.
He had his arm ripped out of his armor. Alessia couldn’t help but be astonished at the absurd sight.
“God has commanded something.”
A nun wringing out the arm inside with the armor. The entire Royal Knights were frozen at that unrealistic appearance.
The white sleeves of the nun’s uniform were dyed red.
“Why are you putting me to the test?”
Casually dropping the arm of the female knight, which had turned into a handful of blood, to the ground, Christine looked down at Alessia and the knights under her command with dead eyes.
“I asked why you put me to the test.”
no one answered I couldn’t answer. It was because I was certain that if I made a mistake, I would die like this.
The silence continued. Christine’s divine power was trying to designate them as heretics. Alessia’s skin prickled as if pricked by a needle.
Ironically, it was the black-blooded monster that broke through this suffocating situation.
As the black blooded monster, whose side and mouth had been restored, tried to burrow into the ground, Christine snapped her neck. Endless anger burned in his eyes.
“A beast worthy of death, where are you going to go with my god in your arms?”
Christine’s fist clenched. A subtle divine power hovered at its tip.
Alessia and the female knights involuntarily took a few steps back from the sudden heat they felt from their fists.
It was rather fortunate. If Christine had really designated them as cults, they would have burned away as soon as they encountered that divine power.
Alessia looked blankly at the spot where Christine had sprung out. The floor was cracked like a spider’s web around the place where I stepped.
As if the monster from afar had started its final struggle, the ground thumped and thumped every time the gigantic body that reached over 30 meters fluttered desperately.
The vibration stopped after a while, but Alessia couldn’t even dare to turn her head.
The only thing that could be heard was the sound of flesh being crushed.
