Returner of the Colosseum

Episode 24 . The other side of the light (5)

It was time to turn the corner to get to the exit of Area A-2.

“There it is! Corbin, hurry up and report the intruders here!”

Soldiers rushed in from the direction of Area A-2.

Perhaps thanks to the fact that he caught his breath while running, Gavin’s sword began to dance vigorously again.

“Stop! Just hold on! Even if we just hold on, we have an advantage!”

More than 30 soldiers stood in their way, but two or three of them were decapitated at a time by Gevin’s knife.

But even so, the end was not in sight.

This was because the soldiers were running continuously in real time.

“Just hold on! You don’t have to try to kill them!”

In the meantime, even the Paladins began to join in little by little.

They’re wearing heavy armor, so it’s hard to penetrate in tight spaces.

sh*t. I’ll have to drill it from now on.

It was time to move forward with that kind of heart.

‘Flow of mana?’

The flow of mana was felt behind the knights.

f*ck.

‘Wizard!’

Sorcerers were chanting.

Are you trying to shoot real magic?

Are there any offerings?

‘It’s hard to protect Lucia when the magic really runs out.’

You need to get through it as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, Gavin was breaking through the wall of knights to some extent.

With a little more, you can reach the wizard.

Just then, to some extent, the appearance of a wizard was visible.

It was then.

“Gavin! I will take the lead…”

【Shadow Encroachment!】

For an instant, my eyes went dark.

what?

I was obviously fighting.

I couldn’t hear anything, I couldn’t feel anything.

complete silence.

It was then.

―The stronger the light, the darker the darkness.

A strange name came from somewhere.

-Don’t be afraid of the dark. This is a true haven. Lean off your strength and leave everything to darkness.

That nickname grew bigger and bigger.

under.

‘It must have been mental system magic.’

fortunately it was

Lucia wouldn’t have been safe if the physical magic had fallen.

Someone started appearing in a space where only darkness exists.

A figure wearing a white robe and holding a wand.

It was the magician who had just been chanting magic.

He walked over and held out his hand to me.

-From now on, you are one body with the darkness. Now you can rest in peace. Everything that held you back has disappeared into darkness.

under.

it’s funny

I smiled and approached him, holding his outstretched hand.

Mental magic?

You picked the wrong number.

[Spirit: 107 (+18)]

As soon as I held my hand, the wizard’s body, which had been immersed in darkness, began to tremble.

Then, the darkness began to dissipate.

The sound of sword clashing. The sound of tearing fabric. groaning and yelling.

They came gradually.

‘He’s back.’

Time didn’t seem to pass at all.

It was the same as it was before I was sucked into the darkness.

It was then.

I felt another spirit in my head.

‘This is… the wizard’s ego?’

It was a strange feeling that I felt for the first time.

It’s like I have an extra limb that I can move.

But the feeling didn’t stop there.

All of a sudden, a huge amount of information started flooding into my head.

‘Keugh.’

It was an incredible amount of information.

‘This······?’

The appearance of the Church of Light occupying Aden Macha.

The kidnapping of Lucia.

Even preparing to possess the devil in her body.

‘It was that wizard’s memory!’

The wizard just stood there blankly, like a doll whose thread had been cut.

Accepting the wizard’s memories, the current situation began to make sense at a glance.

‘That’s why I couldn’t kill Lucia.’

The essence of life bestowed by the gods, capable of summoning demons without having to sacrifice a huge number of sacrifices. That was Lucia’s body.

‘Wait, this information…?’

And it was when the image of Go Gun-moo began to dimly appear in the wizard’s memory.

In an instant, I felt my head splitting.

‘Keugh!’

Before I knew it, Gavin’s sword was cutting the wizard’s throat.

At the same time, the information that was pouring in to me suddenly cut off.

sh*t.

Hopefully I could figure out what happened.

“wren! What are you doing! Why don’t you come!”

Gavin, who had run ahead of him even killing the wizard, shouted at me.

okay.

Now is not the time to be like this.

Now we are surrounded by enemies on all sides.

I hurried after Gavin.

Killing the guys who couldn’t handle it and recovering physical strength.

Tring! Tring!

[Your HP is recovered by 1% with ＜Recovery of Blood＞ ability.]

[Your HP is recovered by 1% with ＜Recovery of Blood＞ ability.]

If you fight against a large number of people, you can continue to fight without getting tired.

The ability of the white mask was truly fraudulent at any time.

Thanks to that, even though I hadn’t taken a break since I entered the mansion, I still had close to 70% of my physical strength.

“Ugh.”

Anyway, why is he fidgeting like that?

The sacrifice, Lucia kept struggling.

Every time she moved, her body was slightly out of balance.

“what’s the matter?”

“Ugh, I feel bad.”

sh*t.

As I kept running around with her in my arms, I felt like I was starting to get motion sickness.

Looking closely, her face was quite pale.

But now I can’t move while watching her condition.

“If it hurts you that much, I’ll knock you out.”

“Oh, no. Hold on as long as you can, ugh.”

Honestly, it doesn’t matter if I vomit on my body.

The problem is that throwing up doesn’t solve the problem.

I will continue to take you like this in the future.

“I can’t help it. Please sleep for a while.”

“Oh, no. are you okay. Oh, it’s okay! oh!”

When I lightly hit Lucia’s neck with the blade of my hand, she drooped.

It was a very drastic method, but I couldn’t help it.

Because the situation was too urgent to move while paying attention to her condition.

I carried her limp body and moved quickly.

“Huck, huck. It’s an exit.”

“Will you suffer a little more?”

Thanks to Gavin’s quick clearance, the exit to Area A-2 is starting to show.

-Kale: How far did you go?

―Ren: The current exit of the mansion. Sooner or later, you will be able to leave the lord castle.

-Keil: I see.

Seeing that he was still receiving messages from Cale, he seemed to be holding on well so far.

As we left the mansion, the chilly night air greeted us.

However, Gavin didn’t turn right, and continued to go straight.

“Gavin! not that one To the eastern gate!”

Escape through the northern gate was also an escape route devised by Go Gun-moo.

For now, whatever the reason, it was a route to be ruled out.

“Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.”

Gavin’s breathing was very rough.

Focusing on getting out of the mansion quickly, it seemed that the distribution of stamina had failed.

“I will take the lead again.”

There were few people outside the mansion.

It seemed that everyone had flocked to the inner banquet hall where Cale was.

Thanks to that, we were able to get out of the lord’s castle without getting any more blood on our hands.

‘It’s quiet.’

The night in Aden Macha was very quiet.

There was not a single person passing by on the street.

Only the sound of Gavin’s breathing spread through the alleyways.

‘thank god.’

Anyone would have been screaming if two gunmen were walking down the street covered in blood and carrying weapons.

5 minutes to run like that.

“Those guys! Catch it!”

As we were about to leave the alley, soldiers patrolling Aden Mach spotted us and shouted.

Phew! PABABABABAK!

“Signal firecrackers exploded over there!”

“okay? Everyone move that way!”

When the firecrackers exploded, Aden Macha, which had been immersed in silence, became noisy in an instant.

“Gavin, this way!”

I never thought traveling around Aden Mach to gather information would be so helpful.

It was a tangled alley like a spider’s web, but I had checked which side of the alley was a dead end.

It’s been a long time since I walked around excluding alleys where I could hear soldiers’ voices with my super senses.

Thanks to this, he was able to come out to the outskirts of Aden Macha while reducing the battle to a minimum.

After exiting the alleyway, there was a well-polished roadside.

Beyond that, the eastern gate began to appear.

The number of enemies guarding the gate in front of him is one knight and ten soldiers.

“I am a paladin! Gavin soldiers!”

“Leave it to me!”

In the meantime, Gavin caught his breath again and replied vigorously.

Gavin and I split our opponents and charged quickly toward the gates.

The enemies who happened to spot us were taking out their weapons, wandering around.

“hey! Close the castle gates! Rest calmly! We can stop it, kuck!”

The paladin encouraged the soldiers and pulled out his sword, but I blew his throat at once and left the gate that was about to close.

Gavin also quickly disposed of the soldiers and followed me.

After passing through the gate, I saw a mountain at the end of the well-paved road.

And near the top of the mountain, I could see the safety zone shining like a green curtain hanging down.

“The gatekeeper has been attacked!”

“arrow! Shoot the arrow!”

Shuuk! Papabak-

As we made our way outside, the soldiers on the walls started shooting arrows.

“sh*t! Watch out for the arrows!”

Gavin screamed.

I was surprised by the archers shooting arrows on my own.

I hope the arrow will fly

‘I never thought I’d shoot an arrow because of Lucia’s presence.’

Fortunately, we were able to dodge the arrow attack safely thanks to our speedy out of range.

Phew! Pabababak-

Again, signal firecrackers flashed in the sky, but I was able to catch my breath.

We passed the second big hurdle.

Now all you have to do is go to the safety zone and you’re done.

―Ren: Escape from Aden Mach completed. Moving to the safety zone.

I first told Cale where I was.

They’re dragging their time by serving as bait for us.

I thought it would be right to at least let them know where we are and what kind of situation we are in.

Fortunately, a reply came right away from Cale.

-Keil: I’m glad. Please suffer a little more…

But that was the last message with Cale.

Tring!

[Player ‘Kale’ has died.]

In an instant, a sigh came out.

In the end, the only ones left out of the ten were me and Gavin.

only two

When I first started, I thought the difficulty wasn’t that high for a co-main event story mission.

Soon there were only two left.

‘f*ck. I never thought it would permeate between us while changing its form.’

maybe you don’t know

Even in Shuusaku Joe, someone might have been hiding while changing their form.

Thinking like that, I thought I could understand why Shusaku Joe was so vainly annihilated.

If only we hadn’t destroyed the holy relic and Go Gun-moo had been hiding by us pretending to be a player.

‘Just imagining it is creepy.’

After running for about 10 minutes with such thoughts in mind, I was able to arrive at the entrance of the mountain before I knew it.

In the distance, we could see soldiers leaving Aden Mach, but the distance was wide enough that they would not be able to catch up with us.

“Could you try a little harder. It’s all here.”

“Huck, huck. it’s okay But you have great stamina. Heck, heck. I can’t even breathe Can I catch my breath for a moment?”

“Then I’ll go first…”

At Gavin’s words, I was about to say that I would go to the safety zone first.

For a moment I frowned.

far away

Tadadada-

Countless horses were running towards this place with a tremendous roar.

f*ck.

There is even a knights in such a small castle?

Gavin also looked at it and muttered in a small voice.

“sh*t. I guess I won’t have time to rest like this. Let’s go.”

I picked up the limp Lucia and quickly started climbing the mountain.

The incline isn’t much, but it’s still uphill, so I didn’t go as fast as I thought.

That was when we arrived halfway up the mountain.

In the meantime, the enemy cavalry also reached the entrance of the mountain.

‘sh*t. I’ll catch up soon.’

Since the slope is not very steep, the horse’s speed will not be reduced very much.

That means that the distance between us will quickly close.

‘It can’t be helped.’

Regardless of whether Gavin caught up or not, I sped up even more.

It is approximately 2 kilometers in a straight line to the safety zone.

Even if it was an uphill road, it seemed like it could be reached in about 15 minutes.

“Whoops, whoops, whoops, whoops.”

Fortunately, Gavin looked like he was about to collapse, but he managed to keep up with him.

That was when I reached the middle of the mountain.

‘basin?’

After crossing the ridge, I saw a hollow terrain.

And the safety zone’s portal was over the forest in the basin, on top of the mountain where the slope started again.

“Into the forest once!”

I shouted at Gavin and quickly ran into the woods.

The trees stood tall, and the roots were spread out on the floor.

It will slow down the cavalry a bit.

It was when I stepped into the forest with such thoughts.

Pook-

In an instant, my feet sank into the ground.

Unknowingly, I lost my center of gravity and collapsed, almost missing Lucia.

What the hell is this situation?

I tried to get my foot out, but it didn’t come off easily.

Rather, it continued to suck me in.

like the abyss of hell.

Only then did I realize what this was.

‘Swampland!’