Chapter 564: The Continent After 1 Year (2)
“Yup, this makes my life worth living. This drink tastes amazing.”
“I understand, but please get dressed. Why do you have to stay bare-chested?”
“Oh, I still had nothing on? You should’ve told me.”
“I told you when you came in.”
“Well, does it matter? Here, drink another cup. Oh, it’s so delicious. Wouldn’t this drink make us want to stay here longer?”
“I think this drink is famous in this area. I’d like to take this with me too.”
“Buy a bottle before you leave. Or you can ask the supervisors around here for one. I’m sure they’ll give you some for free because both of your performances are so good.”
“Huh? Can I?”
“Yes, of course. You guys do so much work in a day. Let’s say cheers one more time and wrap it up. Any more, and we won’t be able to work properly tomorrow.”
After finishing off another cup quickly, they got ready to go back to their lodgings. All the other guys seemed like they wanted to stay longer, but…
‘They must still think they’re in their 20s.’
I watched them walking shoulder-to-shoulder. Because I was bored, I took out the G.o.ddess’s Hand Mirror and checked out the post I posted earlier. I remembered the person who had said that they would come back with evidence after an hour.
“Huh, Nature Lover… was really a Blue Guild employee.”
Their Blue Guild Insignia and Employee ID were clearly certified.
All the comments written by No ID were deleted, and people were posting comments and treating my post as a holy place.
[Dirt Poor: Wow, lol. It was real. Receiving good energy from here.]
[JeremWhoCantHeal: Tell me how you got a job at the Blue Guild. I haven’t seen a public recruitment post lately…]
[Tresha: No ID, you’ve been talking nonsense and ran off. LOL. Look at how many dislikes he has.]
[Lindel Village Resident: The poster is safe, right? I’m glad nothing much happened, but… I’m nervous because there are no more comments.]
[Dirt Poor: Must have slipped out in the middle. Lolol, how could the monsters have gone all the way to that area? The middle area is famous for not having monsters… They probably settled in a nearby forest. More than that, the badge doesn’t look like a regular guild employee… I think you must at least be a team leader level.]
The comments were making me laugh, and I heard a faint sound come from a distance.
‘What’s that noise?’
The night was so dark I couldn’t see anything properly, but when I looked forward with a crumpled face, I saw strange shapes that seemed to be moving from afar.
‘What’s that?’
It was a scene that I hadn’t seen for nearly a year.
“Mr. Choi, what is that? Isn’t that a monster?”
“Why would there be monsters in this area…? Why would they suddenly show themselves here? You must be very drunk.”
“No, I’m not drunk, but…”
‘Where is the workshop? I think the monsters are moving North. Be careful if you are in a workshop near the middle. Monsters near Lindel are not only disappearing but evacuating. It seems the world is really going to end.’
I thought of the comment I read on Benignore Net. It was then that a loud siren sounded.
“Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle!”
“It’s a monster wave. Monster Wave!
“What… What is this? Mr. Choi, is this okay?”
“I, I don’t know…”
“The castle walls hadn’t even gone up yet. Wouldn’t we get trampled? We don’t even have troops here. There aren’t that many magicians either… How could so many monsters come at once like this?”
“I think everyone who knows how to fight has to volunteer…”
Sure enough, voices began to resonate everywhere.
“Support is coming soon. Let’s just hang in there until support comes. Soldiers and those who can fight, take up arms and position yourselves near the walls!”
“Let’s just hang in there until support comes. Set your position on the wall. All in position! All in position!
‘What does he mean by the wall? That’s more like a fence… How can we stop them with this?’
The wall was made out of magic stones so that it wouldn’t collapse, but it was short enough for even small monsters to jump over. It had the height of a fence. Hence, it was too much to call it a Defensive Wall. I didn’t want to fight.
But…
‘I’m going to die even if I run away.’
It would be meaningless to turn around and start running away at that point.
Still, as I had once dreamed of being an adventurer, I could at least slay some rare-level monsters. I then ran to a soldier who was supplying weapons from the other side and asked for a weapon.
“The bow, please.”
“Here.”
“I was an adventurer before I came here. I want a dagger, too.”
‘Where are the other men?’
Mr. Ahn, Mr. Park, and Mr. Choi seemed to have fled for some reason, but it wasn’t easy to find them near the chaotic wall.
‘Mr. Park and Mr. Ahn wouldn’t have run away.’
They looked like they would have some fight in them.
‘Mr. Choi said he was an adventurer in his prime…’
However, had he backed off already?
‘Reinforcements will be here soon. I’m sure they’ve been contacted before the monsters got here. And we have a magician. We don’t have to hang on for too long.’
I thought it was fortunate that I remembered the instruction manual in case of an emergency. I quickly climbed to high ground and nocked an arrow onto my bow.
So far, I was just aiming because I was still outside the monsters’ range, but without realizing it, my body shook. It was because it was my first time to be in such a large-scale battle.
I thought I had to practice for times like that. Hence, with a swish, I shot an arrow through a monster’s skin.
“Fire! Fire!”
The dark area brightened due to a large flame spell.
Boom!!!!!!!!!!!
The magicians had poured out their magic.
It seemed that they could no longer maintain the Warmth Magic, causing my breaths and body to become cold, but I couldn’t stop my fingers. Normally, a bunch of monsters would have been immobilized by such an attack. However, for some reason, they rushed towards us while foaming in their mouths.
A good clump of them got swept away by another magic blast, but they continued to approach the walls.
I could only sigh in relief upon noticing soldiers with shields move forward with the fighters behind them, but such a few numbers couldn’t defend an entire wall.
Eventually, a giant monster rushed toward the fence with its huge mouth open.
‘You have to avoid it.’
That line of thought raced in my mind, but my body did the opposite.
I was anxious about what could happen after that, but I could only feel pain in my body after a few seconds. I slowly opened my eyes and saw the back of a man holding a monster’s fang in his arms.
“Huh, huh?”
Before I could say anything, I saw another huge monster on the ground, totally tattered up.
“Mr. Park?”
I didn’t hear an answer, but…
“Attack! Attack! Follow me quickly!”
[You have been affected by the Legendary-grade Combat Morale Shout. All stats will be temporarily increased significantly.]
‘What’s this?’
As if I had received the best buff, my whole body felt as if it was overflowing with energy. It was hard to understand how Mr. Park had gone under the fence and caught the monster so easily.
The same went for Mr. Ahn, who was next to him.
I didn’t know how to describe the sight of them hitting monsters with blunt weapons and shields.
They had holy power greater than most holy knights, and I thought that they could be priests, carrying a blunt weapon and shield; but as I continued to watch them, I realized that, without a doubt, they were warriors.
However, Mr. Park showed something more absurd.
‘Who’s that?’
I already knew that he wasn’t an ordinary person, but what I had seen was completely out of the normal standards.
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I watched monsters falling off of him whenever he moved the shield on his arm. They created a large s.p.a.ce wherever those two pa.s.sed by.
There wasn’t even a need to call in reinforcements.
‘That’s… What the h.e.l.l…’
I wondered how humans could even become that strong. I heard that some strong adventurers could affect an entire battlefield single-handedly, but I never thought it could be true.
For a moment, I forgot that I was in battle. I did nothing but stare at the scene in a daze.
No, it wasn’t appropriate to say that we were in a battle. It was too much in our favor by that point. I took out the G.o.ddess’s Hand Mirror and began to capture the two men.
I t.i.tled the room “Carnage in the Northern Base” and watched as people flooded into it.
[Lindel Village Resident has joined.]
[Dirt Poor has joined.]
[Nature Lover has joined.]
[… has logged on.]
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[Lindel Village Resident: What did I say? I told you monsters were heading over there. Wow, but there wasn’t a need to worry about it. You guys are pushing them away way better than I expected… But isn’t there nothing over there- like not even a single troop to fight? How is the battle so much in your favor? Isn’t that at the wall?]
[Too Serious: What’s the guy capturing this video doing anyway? People are fighting to death… He’s hopeless.]
[Lindel Village Resident: Never mind that, keep this on air. Can’t you see that sides had turned upside down? And it looks like the person capturing this is just a junior worker… If you didn’t apply as a soldier but a worker, there’s no need to fight. You can just be protected. By the way, the two men in front of you are crazy good at fighting. Even at a glance, I can tell that they should at least be in the Continent’s eighth cla.s.s.]
[No ID: I hate guys who just say people are in the eighth cla.s.s even if they’re just a little bit strong. They must think the t.i.tle is just a children’s joke or something. lol.]
[Dirt Poor: He’s here again.]
[Lindel Village Resident: No, I’m not just saying that. I think they are in the country’s eighth cla.s.s. Look at how they’re swinging their shields in a mix of hero-cla.s.s monsters. I think they’re just tanking all the attacks with their bodies. Their durability must at least exceed 100. Maybe they have a lot of buffs from their equipment.]
[No ID: As if someone with a durability stat over 100 would be over there. lolol]
[Lindel Village Resident: If you keep your mouth shut, you won’t at least be humiliated. Whoever they are, I think it’s right to think that both of them are at least in the Legendary-grade. I think they’re Koreans… I’ve never heard of them… I know most of the top adventurers, but I’ve never seen anyone like them. Who is that?]
[No ID: Koreans are at it again. They think every adventurer who looks a little strong is Korean. And acting like they know all of the top adventurers. If you know all of the top adventurers, I’m Lee Kiyoung’s friend. Kkkkkkk]
[Dirt Poor: Don’t feed the troll.]
[Lindel Village Resident: I was already ignoring it. Anyways, does anyone know who that is?]
[Nature Lover: Park Deokgu, Ahn Ki-mo.]
[Lindel Village Resident: Huh?]
[Nature Lover: Found them.]
[Nature Lover has left the room.]
“What…?”