Volume 3 - CH 29
Act 3-29: Wind Cat’s Folks Trampling
【Demonic Forest】.
The territorial army of Count Ketzer had gained total control over the forest with its overwhelming number.
This army was composed of soldiers with terrible personalities or lowly mercenaries hired with a lot of money. Although mobilizing a lot of people as fast as possible was quite hard, they showed an extremely high aptitude for guerilla-like tactics inside the forest.
Thus, there were no doubts about their success in gaining total control over a settlement that was even smaller than a village in a quick sweep.
Therefore, when dozens of men and women of all ages, which the army assumed to be the people belonging to Wind Cat, appeared in front of them in a formation, the soldiers assumed that the other party was about to surrender.
「All of you have saved us from the trouble of searching for you guys. Let’s enjoy the young women, and kill the rest.」
The soldiers replied with creepy smiles upon hearing the bandit-like order from their captain.
Weapon in hand, the soldiers approached Wind Cat’s folks as if they were enjoying the moment. The latter’s expression turned into fear. However, the old man with a long, white beard, who stood in the front, raised his right hand without even changing his expression.
「Trample them down under our foot!」
He shouted in a deep voice.
The next moment, the bodies of the soldiers approaching Wind Cat’s folks got blown in the air.
「Eh?」
That voice soon turned into a shout as the limbs of the soldiers who were blown away got pulverized.
This was the beginning of the trampling.
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「There you a~~~~~~re.」
The voice of a young girl filled with ecstasy was getting closer by the moment.
「D-don’t come!!」
「M-monsteeeeeeeeeeer!!」
The veteran soldiers were screaming like madmen as they slashed toward the blond girl who approached them from the dark gap between the trees. Soon, the soldiers’ bodies got encased in ice along with their weapons.
The ground beneath the girl’s feet became frozen with every step she took.
「Is that all? All I did was just freeze them over though!? Shouldn’t you at least tear away your frozen limbs to attack me!? You useless piece of sh*t!!」
The moment she approached them, all the veteran soldiers had already lost their fighting spirits. Thus, she could only grab their frozen collars to vent her anger.
「F-Forgive us.」
The blond girl clicked her tongue upon hearing the soldier begging for his life. She threw him to the ground. The soldier’s despaired wail resounded in the forest as his limbs broke upon impact with the ground. The girl’s figure then vanished into the darkness of the forest after sending a last, scornful look toward the soldier.
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「Dammit! Dammit! Dammit! Dammit, all! How did this happen!?」
The bald mercenary leader, who trembled nonstop, asked that question to himself for the nth time today.
It was supposed to be an easy win. Or rather, a one-sided hunt by the army. And yet, the one being hunted down right now was the subjugation army of Count Ketzer.
「CAPTAIN, the retreat path has been sealed!」
「 I know that dammit!」
The leader slowly lost his composure, but the encirclement was getting narrower and narrower.
His subordinates had been hunted down, one by one a while ago. By now, only a few of them were left.
「Impossible… Like hell can we win against those monsters. Had I known this, I would’ve never stepped into this den of those devils.」
Finally, one of his subordinates dropped his sword, his teeth clattering non-stop. The limbs of that subordinate moved on their own as if they had gotten tied up by something.
「N-NOOOOOOOO――」
The subordinate was dragged into the darkness of the forest without even being able to finish his scream.
「…」
Among the sound of clattering teeth, a boy of tender age walked out of the dark of the forest with his hands in his pockets.
「I-It’s just a bra—」
The soldier who just heaved a sigh suddenly found that all his limbs hung in the air. He then found his body thrown up, his scream resounding in the night sky.
「You should try to attack me if you have such a leeway to scream in pain, you weak f〇×▽er!」
The soldiers rose in the air as the boy cursed with his enraged voice. The next moment, despaired screams of the soldiers resounded in the night forest.
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At a glance, he looked like an oily middle-aged man whose belly was exposed to the air. And that very same middle-aged man was covered in a red-coloured membrane. He ran at a high speed in the forest, blowing Count Ketzer’s soldiers in the air with a single blow. The soldiers who got blown in the air ended up twitching like a dead frog after they fell back to the ground.
「Eh?」
Maybe because he still couldn’t believe what had just happened, he grabbed the head of a nearby soldier who stayed outside of the attack range of the first blow and slammed it on the ground. The impact of that slam created a small crater.
「FU, HAAAAAAAAAAAA!」
White vapor came out of the middle-aged man’s mouth as he exhaled a breath, his bloodshot eyes locking on to the next target.
「UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA」
All the soldiers finally snapped back to reality upon seeing that nightmarish spectacle. However, at that moment, the middle-aged man had already closed in and grabbed the heads of two soldiers. The poor soldiers were thrown into the air, one after another, and then twitched like dead frogs as they fell back to the ground.
「HIIIII!」
The middle-aged man closed in very quickly and stopped right in front of a soldier who was trying to escape and grabbed his head with his hands.
「GIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!」
With that scream as the BGM, the middle-aged man’s knee landed straight on that soldier’s face.
The middle-aged man then crouched and ran back to the darkness of the forest, searching for more prey.
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Bright spheres flew at high speed, illuminating the dark forest. Each of those bright spheres mercilessly hit on the noses, ears, legs, or arms of Count Ketzer’s soldiers who participated in this operation.
「KIHYAHYAHYAHYAHYAHYA! Look! Targets(enemies) everywhere no matter where you look! There’s not even a need to look for them! It’s hit no matter which direction I’m firing at!」
A rain of blood painted the night sky. In the middle of such pandemonium was a blond boy who looked like he couldn’t even hurt a bug, firing his magic while laughing maniacally.
It was an omnidirectional attack. The soldiers who desperately tried to escape could only crouch down in fear whenever that boy came toward them.
That was definitely something that could be described as a devil’s parade in a fairy-tale.
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「S-STAY AWAY, YOU MONSTER!」
Veteran soldiers screamed in fear as they fired arrows or fireballs toward the black-haired girl with a bob-cut who had appeared from the darkness of the forest.
However, the arrows were burned by a black flame and reduced to fly ash; as for the fireball, it popped when it hit the black-haired girl.
「N-No way…」
The blond captain’s teeth clattered non-stop when he saw such an unbelievable spectacle. The next moment, his limbs burst into flames, charred till they became charcoal. The captain’s wails echoed in the forest, suffering from the pain of his charred limbs.
「A—」
Like grease oil poured into the gears, he regained the clarity of his mind when a white mist covered his field of vision.
And finally, the captain, who should be the strongest in his team, had finally realized his sorry state, writhing like a worm on the ground.
「NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!」
「H-HE―」
Sparks appeared before the soldiers trying to escape. These sparks transformed into a black firewall that surrounded them. It charred their arms in less than a second.
「P-Please spare u—」
The black-haired girl with a bob cut approached the captain, who had lost his limbs, and was begging for his life with tears and mucus smearing his face.
「We shurrender! Pwease, spare our liveeeeeeeeeeees!!」
The girl approached the captain who was desperately begging for his life,
「SPARE YOUR LIVES!? What did your lord do when my father and mother begged him to spare their lives!? What did you do to my powerless father back then!? Aren’t you the b*stard who just laughed at him as you burned him alive!!」
The black-haired girl seized the captain by his collar and shouted right on his face.
「HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!」
After shoving away the captain, who started to cry like a girl, the black-haired girl looked at him, trembling in rage. However, she bit her lips and ran back into the darkness of the forest.
「It seems your worries haven’t come true, Lucas.」
「Indeed.」
Two men appeared soundlessly, sending glances toward the soldiers who heaved a sigh of relief for barely escaping death.
「Is there a need to impose the “Don’t kill anyone who has lost their fighting spirit” rule? Personally, I think it’ll be faster to kill all of them.」
「Yeah, they need such a rule so that they can stay as they are instead of someone drunk on their newfound strength.」
「The so-called warrior’s pride by Supreme Ruler-sama, is it?」
「No, I think it’s the opposite. These people aren’t warriors, nor did they receive proper training as one. That’s why some stop-gap must be there to stop them from killing non-resisting people.」
One of them, the flame majin, grimaced.
「Yup, I really can’t understand after all.」
He heaved a sigh as he said so with a dejected look on his face.
「Hahahaha! In the end, this is akin to my stunted chivalry. Different from that personage, I failed.」
「Indeed! The one who understands the Great Supreme Ruler the best is us after all!」
The flame majin clenched his right fist, and when Lucas opened his mouth…
「Well, it’s about the time for the clean up.」
They walked toward the territorial army that was rolling around on the ground.
「My bad, your end was decided long ago. All of you will die by our hand.」
Lucas’s eyes turned black as he sneered at the soldiers. Then, a sinister, jet-black aura enveloped him.
The incapacitated territorial army raised despaired screams upon witnessing a form that couldn’t be called human. Their despaired wails echoed in the entire forest.
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【Demonic Forest】.
The territorial army of Count Ketzer had gained total control over the forest with its overwhelming number.
This army was composed of soldiers with terrible personalities or lowly mercenaries hired with a lot of money. Although mobilizing a lot of people as fast as possible was quite hard, they showed an extremely high aptitude for guerilla-like tactics inside the forest.
Thus, there were no doubts about their success in gaining total control over a settlement that was even smaller than a village in a quick sweep.
Therefore, when dozens of men and women of all ages, which the army assumed to be the people belonging to Wind Cat, appeared in front of them in a formation, the soldiers assumed that the other party was about to surrender.
「All of you have saved us from the trouble of searching for you guys. Let’s enjoy the young women, and kill the rest.」
The soldiers replied with creepy smiles upon hearing the bandit-like order from their captain.
Weapon in hand, the soldiers approached Wind Cat’s folks as if they were enjoying the moment. The latter’s expression turned into fear. However, the old man with a long, white beard, who stood in the front, raised his right hand without even changing his expression.
「Trample them down under our foot!」
He shouted in a deep voice.
The next moment, the bodies of the soldiers approaching Wind Cat’s folks got blown in the air.
「Eh?」
That voice soon turned into a shout as the limbs of the soldiers who were blown away got pulverized.
This was the beginning of the trampling.
◇◆◇◆◇◆
「There you a~~~~~~re.」
The voice of a young girl filled with ecstasy was getting closer by the moment.
「D-don’t come!!」
「M-monsteeeeeeeeeeer!!」
The veteran soldiers were screaming like madmen as they slashed toward the blond girl who approached them from the dark gap between the trees. Soon, the soldiers’ bodies got encased in ice along with their weapons.
The ground beneath the girl’s feet became frozen with every step she took.
「Is that all? All I did was just freeze them over though!? Shouldn’t you at least tear away your frozen limbs to attack me!? You useless piece of sh*t!!」
The moment she approached them, all the veteran soldiers had already lost their fighting spirits. Thus, she could only grab their frozen collars to vent her anger.
「F-Forgive us.」
The blond girl clicked her tongue upon hearing the soldier begging for his life. She threw him to the ground. The soldier’s despaired wail resounded in the forest as his limbs broke upon impact with the ground. The girl’s figure then vanished into the darkness of the forest after sending a last, scornful look toward the soldier.
◇◆◇◆◇◆
「Dammit! Dammit! Dammit! Dammit, all! How did this happen!?」
The bald mercenary leader, who trembled nonstop, asked that question to himself for the nth time today.
It was supposed to be an easy win. Or rather, a one-sided hunt by the army. And yet, the one being hunted down right now was the subjugation army of Count Ketzer.
「CAPTAIN, the retreat path has been sealed!」
「 I know that dammit!」
The leader slowly lost his composure, but the encirclement was getting narrower and narrower.
His subordinates had been hunted down, one by one a while ago. By now, only a few of them were left.
「Impossible… Like hell can we win against those monsters. Had I known this, I would’ve never stepped into this den of those devils.」
Finally, one of his subordinates dropped his sword, his teeth clattering non-stop. The limbs of that subordinate moved on their own as if they had gotten tied up by something.
「N-NOOOOOOOO――」
The subordinate was dragged into the darkness of the forest without even being able to finish his scream.
「…」
Among the sound of clattering teeth, a boy of tender age walked out of the dark of the forest with his hands in his pockets.
「I-It’s just a bra—」
The soldier who just heaved a sigh suddenly found that all his limbs hung in the air. He then found his body thrown up, his scream resounding in the night sky.
「You should try to attack me if you have such a leeway to scream in pain, you weak f〇×▽er!」
The soldiers rose in the air as the boy cursed with his enraged voice. The next moment, despaired screams of the soldiers resounded in the night forest.
◇◆◇◆◇◆
At a glance, he looked like an oily middle-aged man whose belly was exposed to the air. And that very same middle-aged man was covered in a red-coloured membrane. He ran at a high speed in the forest, blowing Count Ketzer’s soldiers in the air with a single blow. The soldiers who got blown in the air ended up twitching like a dead frog after they fell back to the ground.
「Eh?」
Maybe because he still couldn’t believe what had just happened, he grabbed the head of a nearby soldier who stayed outside of the attack range of the first blow and slammed it on the ground. The impact of that slam created a small crater.
「FU, HAAAAAAAAAAAA!」
White vapor came out of the middle-aged man’s mouth as he exhaled a breath, his bloodshot eyes locking on to the next target.
「UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA」
All the soldiers finally snapped back to reality upon seeing that nightmarish spectacle. However, at that moment, the middle-aged man had already closed in and grabbed the heads of two soldiers. The poor soldiers were thrown into the air, one after another, and then twitched like dead frogs as they fell back to the ground.
「HIIIII!」
The middle-aged man closed in very quickly and stopped right in front of a soldier who was trying to escape and grabbed his head with his hands.
「GIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!」
With that scream as the BGM, the middle-aged man’s knee landed straight on that soldier’s face.
The middle-aged man then crouched and ran back to the darkness of the forest, searching for more prey.
◇◆◇◆◇◆
Bright spheres flew at high speed, illuminating the dark forest. Each of those bright spheres mercilessly hit on the noses, ears, legs, or arms of Count Ketzer’s soldiers who participated in this operation.
「KIHYAHYAHYAHYAHYAHYA! Look! Targets(enemies) everywhere no matter where you look! There’s not even a need to look for them! It’s hit no matter which direction I’m firing at!」
A rain of blood painted the night sky. In the middle of such pandemonium was a blond boy who looked like he couldn’t even hurt a bug, firing his magic while laughing maniacally.
It was an omnidirectional attack. The soldiers who desperately tried to escape could only crouch down in fear whenever that boy came toward them.
That was definitely something that could be described as a devil’s parade in a fairy-tale.
◇◆◇◆◇◆
「S-STAY AWAY, YOU MONSTER!」
Veteran soldiers screamed in fear as they fired arrows or fireballs toward the black-haired girl with a bob-cut who had appeared from the darkness of the forest.
However, the arrows were burned by a black flame and reduced to fly ash; as for the fireball, it popped when it hit the black-haired girl.
「N-No way…」
The blond captain’s teeth clattered non-stop when he saw such an unbelievable spectacle. The next moment, his limbs burst into flames, charred till they became charcoal. The captain’s wails echoed in the forest, suffering from the pain of his charred limbs.
「A—」
Like grease oil poured into the gears, he regained the clarity of his mind when a white mist covered his field of vision.
And finally, the captain, who should be the strongest in his team, had finally realized his sorry state, writhing like a worm on the ground.
「NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!」
「H-HE―」
Sparks appeared before the soldiers trying to escape. These sparks transformed into a black firewall that surrounded them. It charred their arms in less than a second.
「P-Please spare u—」
The black-haired girl with a bob cut approached the captain, who had lost his limbs, and was begging for his life with tears and mucus smearing his face.
「We shurrender! Pwease, spare our liveeeeeeeeeeees!!」
The girl approached the captain who was desperately begging for his life,
「SPARE YOUR LIVES!? What did your lord do when my father and mother begged him to spare their lives!? What did you do to my powerless father back then!? Aren’t you the b*stard who just laughed at him as you burned him alive!!」
The black-haired girl seized the captain by his collar and shouted right on his face.
「HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!」
After shoving away the captain, who started to cry like a girl, the black-haired girl looked at him, trembling in rage. However, she bit her lips and ran back into the darkness of the forest.
「It seems your worries haven’t come true, Lucas.」
「Indeed.」
Two men appeared soundlessly, sending glances toward the soldiers who heaved a sigh of relief for barely escaping death.
「Is there a need to impose the “Don’t kill anyone who has lost their fighting spirit” rule? Personally, I think it’ll be faster to kill all of them.」
「Yeah, they need such a rule so that they can stay as they are instead of someone drunk on their newfound strength.」
「The so-called warrior’s pride by Supreme Ruler-sama, is it?」
「No, I think it’s the opposite. These people aren’t warriors, nor did they receive proper training as one. That’s why some stop-gap must be there to stop them from killing non-resisting people.」
One of them, the flame majin, grimaced.
「Yup, I really can’t understand after all.」
He heaved a sigh as he said so with a dejected look on his face.
「Hahahaha! In the end, this is akin to my stunted chivalry. Different from that personage, I failed.」
「Indeed! The one who understands the Great Supreme Ruler the best is us after all!」
The flame majin clenched his right fist, and when Lucas opened his mouth…
「Well, it’s about the time for the clean up.」
They walked toward the territorial army that was rolling around on the ground.
「My bad, your end was decided long ago. All of you will die by our hand.」
Lucas’s eyes turned black as he sneered at the soldiers. Then, a sinister, jet-black aura enveloped him.
The incapacitated territorial army raised despaired screams upon witnessing a form that couldn’t be called human. Their despaired wails echoed in the entire forest.
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