As soon as I left the palace, the remaining hunters were being summoned.
“Whoa. Where’s this?”
“Good thing it’s not a messy port.”
The hunters looked around like they were tourists.
“Huh, is this holy rain? The color is…”
“Go under the roof! Quickly!”
“Hey. It says to choose a role as my reward.”
“Role? What’s that?”
The hunters didn’t understand the situation. Was it because they arrived later than us?
‘Even the highest rankers suspected and fought each other.’
3 people had died just because they were doubted. How bad would it be for the remaining hunters! Not much could be expected from the hunters who just entered the stage.
‘There’s no time to convince the players.’
Because the Devil King’s Army was coming even now.
‘We need to stop the attack with NPCs first!’
I ignored the hunters and ran down the street. It became even more crowded. But thankfully, I had to mini map with me. I took the fastest path to the city walls.
“Kim Gong-ja.”
It was when I left the palace. Someone appeared next to me.
“Witch?”
“Call me Black Dragon Master. I don’t like my nickname that much.”
Witch. The Rank 2 hunter and I were running together. Did she have Aura on her feet? She ran the streets like she was sliding on it.
“Why did you suddenly come here?”
“…it’s my skill. I can teleport to where I can see.”
It was a damn cheat skill.
-Hey. Zombie. You should die by this guy once! Teleportation Transference is lit! I don’t know about anyone else, but if it’s by this guy, I’ll acknowledge it. Quickly die!
I ignored what Bae Hu-ryeong said and asked.
“Then what are you doing here not at the city walls?”
“I came to get you. Obviously.”
She answered emotionlessly. We were running, but she didn’t look tired at all.
“I saw on the 11th floor. You have a sword that works on NPCs, right? I don’t know what kind of sword it is, but it can raise their morale. What they need isn’t me, but you.”
She looked at me.
“Agree.”
“What?”
“Agree that you’ll teleport with me. If not, I can’t teleport you. That’s the limit of my skill.”
I was a bit taken aback.
“Wait. Teleportation Transference has gotta be at least an S Class skill. Is it ok for you to reveal its limits like this? It’s your secret weapon.”
“Funny.”
She wiped her forehead. Above us, the red rain was endlessly pouring. Hair was stuck on her white forehead because of the rain.
Her black eyes looked at me.
“Like you said, I’m the chancellor of this empire. Isn’t it natural for a chancellor to reveal their secret weapon?”
“······.”
“There’s no time. It doesn’t matter how you do it, so agree quickly.”
I nodded my head.
“I agree to the use of the Black Dragon Master’s skill.”
It was an instant. The Witch held my right hand. Grip. The wet hand covered mine. Her fingers intertwined with my fingers so as to not slip from the rain.
“Huh?”
“-There’s another limit.”
The Witch whispered while holding my hand.
“Transference.”
In the blink of an eye, we were on top of the city walls.
Like I expected, it was a mess. Monsters were coming, but the soldiers weren’t fighting back. No, they couldn’t. They were hiding behind the walls or praying to their god.
“It’s the end…”
“God. Please pity us and…”
“Sob, sob…”
NPCs were no different than people who were alive. Even if they were illusions, the fear they felt was real.
“Black Dragon Master. Take you for bringing me here. From now…”
“Wait.”
The Witch sighed.
“I can’t just leave like this after showing my junior a pathetic side of me.”
“Sorry?”
“I didn’t become the Guild Master for nothing.”
She took a deep breath, and opened her mouth.
“-Soldiers of the Aegim Empire!”
Black Aura exuded from her body. The black was a bit more dark than the red.
“Rise! What are you doing here? Are you thinking the walls made of stone will protect you? Don’t you know what’s protecting the empire isn’t that pile of stones, but you all?”
The soldiers crouched behind the wall lifted their heads.
“Chancellor…?”
“It’s the chancellor.”
To them, the Witch was a chancellor. Someone recognized the chancellor, and what he said quickly spread like the rain that was pouring.
The Witch nodded her head.
“Rise!”
The Witch looked mad. She looked angrily down at the wall, and the soldiers followed her gaze.
“Rise, soldiers of the empire! The last wall of Aegim! Grab your shield! Lift your swords. Until you aren’t able to! Rise for the empire, and for you!”
The Witch grabbed my hand.
“The goddess is protecting us!”
She raised my right hand.
I realized what I had to do.
Kashing!
The Holy Sword came out from its sheath.
I lifted the sword up high. It shined down to the city walls on the soldiers’ faces.
“The sword of the beginning…”
“It’s the Holy Sword. The Holy Sword that the goddess has proved!”
And.
[The Goddess of Protection expresses gratitude at your choice.]
[The Goddess of Protection musters out the last of her power.]
There was light.
1.
No one knew. Just where these things came from.
-Pitiful things.
Only, when it appeared, it rained red rain.
-Things that don’t see humans as humans.
Blood flowed where the rain was.
-You kill humans after being born as humans. Do you say that that’s the fate of humans? I think that’s the accomplishments of a wild beast. What is the reason why I shouldn’t kill beasts?
Rain of nightmare.
I saw the trauma of the general when I was killed by the NPC general on the 11th floor. In the nightmare, the general was screaming.
Not only the general, but civilians.
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