Ch 35

Chapter 35

9. Ranfeld Mansion (4)

“Huup!”

With a burst of spirit, Barros threw a body attack at the golem before him. It was a very sophisticated wrestling technique that seemed ignorant at first glance, digging deep from the shoulders and shaking the center of gravity.

No matter how hard a golem was, it had a human shape, so the center of gravity was similar. In an instant, his balance crumbled, and his feet floated in the air. Barros thrust his sword into the golem’s torso without missing that gap.

“Aye! Get a hole in it!”

The steel blade squeezed through the dark armor. Black blood poured out through the pierced wound.

“Did it work this time?”

The golem’s huge body slowly collapsed. Quickly stepping back, Barros swung his sword left and right. The darkness formed on the blade and bounced in all directions.

“Hi, it’s tough to defeat one guy…….”

Serati was shocked to see the grumbling man. A knight who couldn’t awaken his fighting spirit cut down what she, an Aura user, couldn’t do anything about. However, Barros’ sword was not a powerful magic weapon. It was well made, but there was not something magical about it. It was just a plain steel scare.

“How did you do it?”

“Oh, that’s…….” Barros’ voice did not continue.

Gwaah!

It was because the other chaos golems rushed again.

“Ugh!”

Hurrying, Barros continued the battle. Avoiding the attacking golem, he dodged to the left, fired a slash, immediately picked up the sword, and turned to the right.

Tattang!

There was a loud metallic sound, and the golem with a cut on the shoulder spurted black blood. On the other hand, the other guy who was hit by a blade in the abdomen was fine.

Serati realized, “I see!” Not all of that golem’s body was strong enough to withstand a fighting sword. In weak places, an ordinary slash could work, and there was one place! She threw herself then. She aimed at a golem and stretched out her fighting sword.

“This is its weakness!”

A red aura hit the chaos golem’s shoulder. It was the exact position Barros was aiming for. It had been stabbed in the same area just by looking at it once. It was truly an aura user-like formidable sense.

……though it didn’t work.

Taang!

The fighting sword bounced off again. Serati was taken aback as she felt her grip tingle.

‘I was definitely aiming for the same location!’

In the meantime, Barros was still dealing with the golems. Hit and fell like crazy, cutting down golems. Some of them fell down each time, while others continued to move without any problems.

The process needed to be more consistent. The one who cut his back collapsed, and the one who cut his leg was fine? Of course, he would like the back to be a weakness, but it wasn’t necessarily that.

Some had their legs cut, but they were not cut off, and some, even though they were stabbed in the back, did not move. Previously, it was stabbed in the chest, but it was pierced, and this time, even if the chest was stabbed, it just bounced off.

‘What’s this?’

Serati was in extreme confusion.

“Could it be that all golems have different weaknesses?”

That was strange too. Then it would be said that Barros could only see through all the different weaknesses of those numerous golems.

“By what means?”

Barros clicked his tongue inwardly while spying on the panicked Serati.

“How should I explain this?”

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Being Necropia’s second-in-command, the best confidant of the world-conquering King, he had numerous underlings of darkness. And there was an army of Chaos golems among them. Thanks to that, he knew their weaknesses.

Chaos golems did not move independently. They were the ones who only moved with the power within the barrier. The swamp of blood spread everywhere was the medium through which power was injected. They operated while being continuously injected with dark magic here.

That was their problem. In the process of injecting magical power, there was an unavoidable place where the flow was empty. When the usual magic was complete, it blocked even the fighting swords of Aura users, but when the flow was empty, even ordinary swords would stab them all the time. Of course, that didn’t mean chaos golems were useless.

The gap in the flow did not always occur in the same location. Depending on the movement of the golem, the flow of magic power was also different, so it was a gap.

The position changed from time to time. After grasping all the movements of the golem and memorizing all the positions of gaps that change each time, it was only possible to attack the weak point when you stabbed the location exactly. Even in the past, only the Imperial Knights, who were the strongest on the continent, could do such a thing—the Command Corps of Karnak.

Because they had so much experience, they were able to do crazy things like that, and Barros, who had been dealing with the Imperial Knights, could do the same.

You should’ve seen them knock a Chaos golem down once or twice, right? Having experienced it so often, he learned to memorize the movements and weaknesses of the chaos golem, even if he didn’t like it. It was what kept him alive.

‘That’s right. I never thought the day would come when I would copy the imperial knights I didn’t want to see.’

As such, it was a technique that was only based on experience, so it was impossible to tell Serati. There was no time for leisurely explanations; if he did, it would only confuse him and twist his movements. Sensing her gaze in panic, Barros apologized inwardly.

“I’m sorry. Live to the fullest. If you’re lucky, we might be able to run away together.”

In fact, it was not a comfortable situation for him. In his previous life, he was a Death Knight Lord, but now he was just an ordinary knight who had not even awakened his fighting spirit. If you had to hold on like this, it would be the end if he lost his stamina.

If he wanted to run properly, he had no choice but to trust Karnak…….

‘What the hell is Young Master doing?’

Breathing heavily, Barros glanced at the old Demon King. He had been dealing with Chaos golems with only chaos magic.

‘Weren’t he supposed to use necromancy? Wasn’t it a situation where he had to hide his identity and sleep?’

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A giant golem pushed forward.

Gooooo!

In a calm tone, Karnak memorized the start language.

“Arcane Disc.”

The disk of magical power flew and accurately cut the golem’s leg. The massive body staggered and plunged into the bloody swamp.

Cooong!

Fire-type magic also continued at the same time.

“Fire Blade”

A sword of fire pierced the other’s heart. If it attacked, two flames were easily neutralized. But there were still many of them. Regardless of whether the ally was defeated or not, he just kept pushing ignorantly.

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Gooooo!

But Karnak was not besieged.

“Wind-wave.”

He glided with the wind-wave spell and preoccupied an advantageous position. And then he launched an extra attack right away.

“Mass Magic Arrow.”

Magic arrows flew all at once and were aimed at the Chaos golem’s head. Those who were not affected by the 6th circle fire magic, their heads smashed by the magic arrow, which is the basic spell of the 1st circle.

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Karnak easily defeated the golems while using only spells below the 4th circle. There was no way he couldn’t do what Barros could do in the first place.

Even if the flow of darkness was strange because it was contaminated by light, it was apparent that it was visible. Then, of course, it was easy to find gaps. The problem was that the situation wouldn’t improve if he continued defeating the golems. Karnak became impatient while continually casting magic.

‘Ah, is this really…?’

The Chaos golem continues to draw power from the bloody swamp. In other words, as long as the Bloody Swamp was intact, no matter how hard they tried, those golems would continue to regenerate. So, they had to destroy the base itself…

“……It doesn’t work at all, does it?”

Contrary to Barros’ question, he used necromancy techniques since the beginning. He just didn’t show up outwardly. Even in the middle of a battle, he took advantage of the opportunity and secretly sent command power to his feet. It was an ulterior motive to infiltrate the dark energy into the bloody swamp and took away the dominance of the necromancer.

But he kept getting stuck along the way. It was because that goddamn contaminated divine power was mixed with the commanding power. Still, since his name was the King of Death, he even managed to break through the gaps in the barrier structure, but he couldn’t take away his dominance.

‘It’s going to happen like this.’ Karnak’s complexion hardened, ‘I need to find another way…….’

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A shady space in the basement of the Ranfeld Mansion. A black shadow was reflected on the barrier of dark red blood. Straf, a grotesque middle-aged man wriggling with dark tentacles sticking out all over his body, was a corrupted priest.

“Umm……”

He was puzzled, “What the hell have they done?” He, too, was perplexed like Serati.

“Why is the Chaos golem defeated so easily?”

The Chaos Golem was a monster that neither Alius, the powerful priest, 6th-circle wizards, nor Aura users could handle. Indeed, it was exactly as it was written in the man’s book. But why were those two guys who were weaker than them so easy to deal with?

“Does the Chaos Golem have any kind of weakness?”

He doesn’t know. Because there was no such thing in the necromancer he saw. The knowledge of necromancy that Straf had acquired all came from the books kept by the Hatoba Church.

It was an ironic story, but the Goddess Church had the most necromancy books on the continent. You needed to know the enemy’s tactics to deal with them appropriately. Whenever, just in case, he took down necromancers. The necromancer books they possessed were kept in the temple.

Straf, a high-ranking cleric, stole and learned some necromancy books secretly from the church, and he had a powerful ability comparable to a first-class necromancer. He had been able to handle one of the powers of darkness. However, since knowledge was not steadily built up from the basics, there was no depth.

He could use necromancy, but he didn’t know how it worked. He just placed a barrier and memorized the spell as written in the book, and it turned out like this. That’s all.

‘Anyway, those guys seem to know something I don’t know…….’

‘Anyway, one thing was certain.’

Chaos golems were less effective than spirits. But nothing really mattered.

‘It’s enough if I change the technique.’

The necromancy magic he mastered was not the only Chaos golem summoning. The Dark Clan that could be summoned using the Blood Swamp was diverse enough. Straf raised his commanding power.

“You must have been lucky enough to know how to deal with Chaos golems.”

Dark energy flowed through the tentacles and spread through the stone walls.

“Then, how about this? Huhuhu……”

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The fact that Karnak and Barros quickly deal with the Chaos golems did not improve Serati’s situation because the golems didn’t just fight them, and they didn’t leave her alone too. The crisis was barely averted and Serati was still being driven to the corner.

“Hey, cough cough…! ”

Even an Aura user didn’t have infinite stamina. This was especially the case when you fired an aura every time and spent a lot of energy. The frequency of interruption of the flow of aura increased more and more and had reached its limit.

Nervously, Serati looked back at Karnak. They were weaker than herself, but at this moment, they were her lifeline.

“Hey, what to do now?”

It was when she screamed urgently. The situation changed again. All chaos golems collapsed at once and returned to the bloody swamp. At the same time, a red wave spread from the center of the swamp and attacked the party.

Hupm!

Caught in the shockwave, Serati was blown backward. There was no warning at all, so she couldn’t deal with it.

“Ugh!”

On the other hand, Karnak and Barros were only holding on a few steps back. Karnak opened his shield and deflected the shock wave as if they had anticipated this situation. Barros also moved to that location in advance.

“They’re really strange. I don’t know where they got that knowledge from.”

Straf followed. But weren’t they neglecting your colleagues too much? The shockwave from earlier had increased the distance between Serati and Karnak and the others. A blue evil spirit welled up from the bloody swamp and rushed toward Serati, who was left alone.

Kyaaaaaa!

‘Oops!’

Urgently, Barros tried to save her, but it was too late. The evil spirit attacked Serati first. After collapsing, she forcibly raised her sword and unleashed a final fighting sword. Again, the attack didn’t work. Like an illusion, the evil spirit passed through the red sword light and cut Serati with its claws.

Awesome!

Both of her arms were cut off. There was no blood. The cross-section was carbonized black and only gave off an acrid smell.

“Aaaagh!”

Serati let out a desperate scream in excruciating pain. Straf’s voice resounded.

“I’ve secured Aura users to come with this.”

It was the power that the evil spirits were trying to snatch from her as she collapsed. With a smile of repentance, Karnak waved his arms.

“Now we’ve found a gap, rookie necromancer man!”

An inexorable darkness radiated from his body. A wave of darkness attacked the evil spirit and melted it in an instant.

Kaaaaa!

At the same time, the entire space began to shake. Straf’s voice was astonished.

“Command power? You mean you were a necromancer too!”

The shaking space collapsed with an explosion.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

On the other side of the collapsed space, the entrance of the mansion where the party entered was visible. The blissful madness of Karnak continued.

“It’s cracked open! Ha ha ha!”

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