I Became a Genius Swordsman in the Pretty Girl Game

Clackety-clack, clackety-clack, clackety-clack─

Just a week later, I returned to the plain.

Although it hadn’t been long, a dark aura hung over the Litel Castle.

But the change wasn’t just in the atmosphere.

Skeletons!

Armed with weapons, the white skeletons surrounded the entire castle, clacking endlessly.

It was like an army of hell had manifested.

“This, what is this······.”

Queen Lim Ga-eul exclaimed in surprise.

“They look like white ants.”

Ichika added, nonchalantly.

“It’s not much, as expected.”

“······They’re just skeletons.”

Only Jin Yuha and the giant were relaxed in the face of the skeleton army.

“Be, not much? Th, that’s······!?”

Queen Lim Ga-eul turned her head in surprise.

What she saw before her were countless white skeletons.

How could that be considered not much?

“Last time, during the war, I cleaned up the demon’s henchmen that were hiding among them, so, um, they can only summon about a tenth of what they used to, I think?”
“······What? A tenth!?”

It was the same scene, just on a different scale.

Click.

Queen Lim Ga-eul turned back to the skeleton army, swallowing her saliva nervously.

‘So, if the skeletons here were ten times more······. That’s just hell······!’

The skeleton army here, multiplied by ten.

Queen Lim Ga-eul shuddered at the thought of that army in her mind.

Could they really survive such a battlefield?

Honestly, she didn’t feel confident.

“Crazy, what, what is······.”
“The Litel bastards must have sold their souls!”
“To do such a crazy thing after losing the war······?”

“Ugh, will I make it back alive?”

“Snap out of it! We have our guardian deity and our queen with us!”

The soldiers, still reeling from the aftermath of the war, were trembling at the sight of the skeleton army, but they hadn’t fled thanks to the giant standing before them.

“Junior······. Are we going to lose?”
“We’ll win.”

Jin Yuha smiled wryly and replied.

“Well······. I understand your concern about the visuals being overwhelming, but it’ll be fine. We have the giant, who isn’t cursed, Ichika, and Senior Ga-eul.”
“······What, me, me!?”

Queen Lim Ga-eul pointed to herself, looking flustered.

The giant and Ichika were one thing, but herself?

This was the recognition and expectation she had longed for from Jin Yuha, but Queen Lim Ga-eul couldn’t bring herself to feel happy about it at this moment.

How could she, facing such a large number of enemies, do anything?

The crown she had obtained by chance from the book was just a pedestal for launching magic stones!

Without magic stones, she was just a talking potato!

As Queen Lim Ga-eul struggled with these thoughts—

“Ichika.”

Jin Yuha called out to Ichika, who was standing next to her.

“Yes.”

Ichika calmly extended her hand at Jin Yuha’s call.

Hwiieeeee─

A chilly wind blew across the plain.

Black shadows began to rise from the ground, one by one.

But the number she could summon now was only a few hundred, a pitiful number compared to the countless skeletons clacking in unison.

‘How are we supposed to win with this······.’

As she was filled with worry—

“Senior Ga-eul.”

Jin Yuha called out to her.

“Hmm······?”
“Area acceleration. You can use it now, right?”
“······Area acceleration?”
“Yeah, last time, when the soldiers were chasing after the Litel Kingdom’s soldiers, you cast a wide-range slow on them. You can cast it on Ichika’s shadow.”

‘Oh, that······?’

So, during the last war, when the soldiers were chasing after the Litel Kingdom’s soldiers—

Jin Yuha had seen her do it while escaping.

‘Is that what they call area slow, area acceleration? But I only used it once, so I don’t really remember how to do it······.’

As Queen Lim Ga-eul made a troubled face—

Jin Yuha made a slightly disappointed face.

“······Can’t you do it? Well, if you can’t—”
“I can! I can do it!”

Queen Lim Ga-eul interrupted Jin Yuha, shouting.

She didn’t want to show a pathetic side to her junior, who had high expectations of her.

‘Yeah, I did it last time. I can do it······.’

Queen Lim Ga-eul bit her lip.

First of all, she had enough magic stones.

After hearing that this was the final chapter, she had gathered all the magic stones left in the Lilliput Palace, and the ministers had also brought out the ones they had hidden, intending to repay her for the Litel Kingdom war.

All she needed to do was become a magic stone bombardment squad, not just a launcher.

Queen Lim Ga-eul placed her hand on the large magic stone pouch the giant had brought.

Hoooooo─

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

After a moment—

Flash!

Her eyes opened, emitting a bright blue aura.

“Area acceleration───!!!”

She released the energy from the magic stones towards the shadows.

Whoooooong─

Her magic power began to fall on the shadows like snowflakes.

In response, Yuha junior opened his mouth.

“As expected, bringing Senior Ga-eul this time was my best decision.”
“······!”

Queen Lim Ga-eul opened her mouth at Jin Yuha’s smile.

“······What about me?”
“I don’t need to say it twice. Ichika, show them who you are and why I brought you here.”

Ichika, encouraged by Jin Yuha, also gave orders to her shadows.

‘Get rid of all those skeletons.’

Let’s do it.
Shhhhhhh─.

Ichika’s shadows took to the air and flew towards the skeletons.

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Ichika’s shadows were already useful on their own, often used as platforms.

From the start, her position was special, shining in one-on-one situations.

Originally, she boasted unmatched speed and the freedom of aerial mobility.

Now, with Queen Lim Ga-eul’s acceleration added on—

Of course, Ichika’s shadows were weak in terms of attack power and durability, but—

Bam

Boom

Swish

Smash

A black wind blew by, and the bones shattered with a chilling sound.

I curled up the corners of my mouth.

Tens of thousands of skeleton soldiers were helplessly swept away by Ichika’s mere hundreds of shadows, their bone fragments flying in all directions as if they had been hit by a giant truck.

No matter how much the skeletons tried to use their overwhelming numbers to pressure them, they couldn’t catch Ichika’s shadows, which attacked in both physical and ethereal states.

“This is the Litel Kingdom’s Minister of Magic······.”
“No, that’s not it! She was originally from our Lilliput Kingdom! She was a spy, and she’s returned this time!”
“······Ah, yes, yes!”

As Ichika showed off her one-man show, the soldiers behind her gradually regained their spirits, which had been dampened by fear.

“······Warrior, so when do we step in? It seems like this war will end just with these shadows.”
“Wait a moment. We’ll step in soon. They’ll realize that their skeleton soldiers are useless.”

I climbed onto the giant’s shoulder, looking at the man in the black robe standing on top of the castle wall—

Dikrain.

He, too, seemed flustered, the situation not going as he had expected.

‘Can my perception reach him?’

I increased my ‘perception’ trait to hear his voice.

‘Oh, it reaches.’

The dragon’s elixir I had taken earlier seemed to have better effects than expected, or maybe it was because I had reached 3-star.

“Damn it, everything, everything went wrong! Where did it all go wrong!? What the hell are those shadows!!!”

He kicked the floor in frustration, his face covered by his hands.

He had every right to be angry.

Nothing had gone right from the start, everything messed up.

‘I didn’t expect it to go this well, either. Well, I’m not sorry, though.’

I smirked, watching his antics.

“This is ridiculous······.”

He covered his face with both hands, his body trembling.

Then, suddenly, he waved his robe and raised both hands.

“Oh great Baal, the king of hell, the first ruler, the one who reigns over fear! Your servant calls upon you here!!!”

Above Dikrain’s head, the sky darkened as if black ink had been spilled.

I confirmed it and immediately climbed onto the giant’s shoulder.

“Giant, let’s go.”
“I understand! Finally······! We can finally fight that demon!”

The giant, who had been waiting for these words, took a step forward.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ground shook with the impact, and—

Waaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!

And the Lilliput soldiers followed the giant, shouting in unison.

Finally, the final battle of Gulliver’s Travels had begun.