Chapter 238 – West Coast Chronicles (6)
“First of all, this is the information we created based on the raids so far.”
Unlike us, the Alu estate owned all of the major cities on the west coast. X marks were drawn here and there on the huge map, just like my test papers when I was a student. I clicked my tongue at the countless numbers. Even Eve and Seludo were started by the x on the map. Most of the coastal area was devastated, and places such as beaches and fishing grounds had been closed for a long time.
“Most of the merchants who were already doing business along the coast went bankrupt, and most of the traders moved their bases. Still, there are quite a few places that haven’t been attacked yet, but these places are also close to the limit because the route has been cut.”
“How do you deal with raids?”
“I am using a beacon. When the beacon sounds, the sentry checks and rings the bell to call the Templars. Then, the knights who operate in two shifts will immediately dispatch to that village.”
“Do they attack at night too?”
“I have never been attacked at night, probably because my eyes are dark. Always during the daytime, monsters and mermaids raid the coastline, killing and dragging humans away. Mermaids climb straight up the mountain.”
“I don’t understand why you go to the mountains.”
“So do I.”
Sellu and Eve whispered that they couldn’t understand it no matter how many times they heard it. I asked again.
“Is there a pattern to raids?”
“As a result of our investigation of the raid cycle so far. Raiding to the extent that a few fishmen like the one the lord met just now is extremely unusual, and usually, at high tide, a troop of about 20 monsters and five mermaids chooses one of the beaches that have not yet been raided and attacks. “
It wasn’t that the young people were just playing around here. They already knew the attack cycle and patterns of fishmen and mermaids. The lord continued to explain the strategy of the mermaids.
“It is a structure that mainly attracts the attention of humans by charging monsters and gives orders to mermaids from behind. Then, when the knights arrive and push the monsters back, the mermaids start to run away.”
“To the mountain.”
“Yes. I’ve never caught a mermaid running away because it’s very fast and the monsters are very rebellious.”
The more I listened, the more suspicious I got. What are these kids doing? Are mermaids right? A mermaid who ran away into the mountains rather than into the water was suspicious. Besides, according to what I heard, the speed of the run was also very fast. Can this be considered a mermaid?
“I want to see for myself.”
Said Selu. I nodded too. With that said, it seemed like it would be possible to judge this by seeing it for yourself. How the hell does a mermaid who runs away to the mountain escape?
“Then…”
It was the moment when the lord was about to tell the story.
Ding- Ding- Ding-
“Attack! It’s an attack!”
The bell rang. The sentry’s crackling voice rang out. We got up from our seats without anyone saying anything first. Even while getting up, the lord threw a coat for Sellu to put on. After Eve dressed Sellu, she started running. The knights were already preparing to lead their horses. The lord shouted, beckoning to his coachman.
“Coachman! Prepare the wagon now! We go with the knights too! Knights, don’t wait for us and go first! And, what are you going to do?”
The lord hurriedly gave orders to the knights and looked at me. I turned to Eve and Sellu. Eve said.
“Can we catch those mermaids?”
“I will join the side defeating monsters, and my wives will catch mermaids.”
“All right.”
The lord nodded and looked at the knights again. The knights, who had already prepared for departure, were stomping their feet in place, watching us. Said the lord.
“Don’t think about catching the mermaids, focus on getting rid of them! Here! Because this mermaid is not the target. Don’t attack me!”
The lord confirmed Selu’s face once and then started the knights. Then the coachman, panting, climbed into the wagon and drove the horses. The horses, eager to start, sped up and began to run down the country road. Selu’s face went white. She held my hand tightly and asked.
“What would you do if the culprit was a mermaid?”
“Trust me.”
I said that while stroking Sellu’s hand her. Sellu grinned as if the words were comforting.
“Hehe.”
The carriage arrived at a coastal city on the outskirts of the territory. The whitewashed city was tattered with red bloodstains. There were already screams and gunshots from inside the city.
As we stopped the wagon on the outskirts of the city, the refugees lost their temper and ran away. We grabbed our weapons and ran forward. Upon entering the city, knights in heavy armor were already beating fishmen using shields and swords. The fishmen, whose durability was weak, were reacting greatly to the single blows of the knights. Me, Eve, and Sellu immediately got off the wagon and ran to our respective positions.
I supported the knights who were being pushed back by the fishmen’s land attack. The fisherman, who was about to cut off the knight’s head while wielding a large sword, was hit by my mace and turned into mush. The article scattered on the floor saw me and immediately thanked me. Even though these guys were weak, their attack power was excellent, so even a knight would die if they were twisted.
“There are you fucking bitches!”
Eve’s cry was heard in the distance.
“Kiaaaaagh! Aaaaagh! Aaaaagh!”
On the other side, a mermaid was lying on the floor and flopping around. She was shouting as Selu, who rode on top of her, dug into her mermaid’s stomach her.
“What are you? What are you? Why are you pretending to be a mermaid? Uh? There’s no way you wouldn’t know me if you were a mermaid. You look a bit different, and you have all your fins attached, right ?What are you? Uh? Answer me. Won’t you answer me?”
“It’s black… It’s black… Nope… Sigh…”
Selu’s hand her pierced the mermaid’s belly completely and gutted it. The mermaid, who struggled in pain for a long time, bit her blood bubbles and died. I felt a little creepy when I saw it. Sellu brushed off her bloodstained hands and looked around her again, laying flat. Her Selu’s hands Her were stained red.
“Fuck, aren’t you a real mermaid?”
I muttered as I killed another fishman. As I joined, the fishmen began to die in an instant. When the knights holding shields on either side drove the fishmen into a corner, the fishmen who had no place to go wandered around, then were pierced by the long spears of the knights and died as his hedgehogs.
Sometimes those who tried to step on the shield and run away were turned into hedgehogs by the crossbowmen waiting behind them. There are 4 of them who have been killed by my mace. The knights killed more than 20 of them. The neat city scene was littered with green filth. Despite the obvious victory, the city was full of the spirit of defeat. It was because there were already dead bodies on the shore. A child who was trampled to death while running away. Half-chewed old man. People sitting on the floor, holding on to their wounds and screaming.
The lord didn’t look happy either.
“It took a lot of sacrifice to learn like this. Even if they do invade, they can now avoid completely occupying the coastline. The problem is that there is no way to prevent their attack in advance. Unless the cause is eliminated, civilian sacrifices are inevitable.”
The cause must be found. Whatever the cause, it had to be found and eliminated. Otherwise, this terrible tragedy will continue. I brushed off my mace and looked in the direction where Eve was. Eve and Sellu were catching and dragging the mermaids one by one. People were frightened by the appearance of the mermaid mother and daughter, but were silenced by the lord’s unholy order.
“Fear not! Ally! Open the way!”
Eve was a little surprised by the lord’s reaction and took a slight step back. Sellu kept her mouth shut and had a displeased expression on her face her. The two were dragging a mermaid, or something resembling a mermaid, in each hand.
“Groom. Aren’t these bastards mermaids?”
Eve threw one in front of us. Sellu threw it at the same time, but what Sellu threw was a corpse with guts completely dug out. Selu sat down on her floor and closed her mouth tightly with a serious expression on her face her.
The mermaid Eve threw was saying this with her body stretched out.
“Sah, live… Please… Save…”
“Can I not tie it up?”
“I can’t move because my nerves are cut off.”
At that, I looked at the back of the mermaid and saw that there were knife marks. I took another look at her mermaid look at her. Seeing it up close, it was clearly different. Her fins were sloppy-attached fakes, and her torso her was longer too. If Sellu was a little longer than his upper body of her, they were about twice as long. Could it be the difference between an eel and a mackerel?
In addition, these guys had a lower belly part without needles in the lower body. This wasn’t a mermaid. It was something like a reptile. Fortunately, the pussy was attached. After observing that far, I opened the status window.
Name: Alita
Race: Lamia
Level: 23
Stats
Strength: 0
Agility: 0
Intelligence: 58
Luck: 13
Characteristic
Full body paralysis
The spine was shattered.
I can’t move. (Fixed to 0 Strength and Dexterity)
Fascination
You can [Charm] A human with a lower intelligence than yourself.
Incubation
Inflicts 1.8x damage when attacking an opponent who is unaware of himself or who has been [Charmed].
“Lamia?”
These guys It wasn’t a mermaid. Lamia had come here and was pretending to be a mermaid. The word Lamia reminded me of a setting in the game that I had forgotten. The Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King. The doppelganger Echoing Cutlass, the slime Drifting Falkios, and the ‘virgin’ succubus the hanging Luvian. And the indolent Leah, the queen of the Lamia tribe.
Cutlass was running a love school under the name of Mayhem. The slime Palchios and the ‘virgin’ succubus Luvian died at the hands of A.A. And the indolent Lua was not left behind by the mermaids. She herself was pretending to be a mermaid.
“What is Lamia? Are you a tribe? The ones you met at sea weren’t mermaids, were they Lamia?”
“That…”
But it is a question that cannot be solved by itself. Lamia couldn’t swim her way her. However, there were humans who were attacked by mermaids in the sea. In other words, it was a story that a mermaid and Lamia were working together. I asked the lord.
“Lamias are a race similar to mermaids. Have you ever heard of it?”
“There is not. I have never heard of a different race other than mermaids or beastmen.”
This thing seemed complicated.
