Returner of the Colosseum

＜ Episode 63. Promotion Match (7) ＞

Kwajijijijijik!

I started to push the bewildered Liam.

[The mark has been registered in the shadow of ‘Liam Valdesgreitz von Reinhardt’, a Valinor.]

Liam frowned every time the thunderclap struck his shield.

An intense thunderbolt penetrated the inside of the guy, causing damage.

‘It will hurt quite a bit.’

Then he swung his shield to somehow shake me off, but to no avail.

It was because I kept adjusting the distance and focused only on his shield.

I didn’t even look at the other gaps.

【Blessing of Death!】

Liam pushes my spear with his shield and recites an incantation.

His body was momentarily enveloped in white light, and his movements became faster.

It was using divine magic.

To be precise, it was self-buff magic.

The guy’s divine magic didn’t stop there.

【Blessing of Darkness!】

【Guardian’s Will!】

Every time he uttered a spell, light emanated from his body, becoming stronger and sharper.

The stats that had been boiling quickly changed to his superiority in an instant.

Chaeeng!

Liam, who had a hard time keeping up with my speed, rushed in quickly from then on.

With the shield at the forefront, he started digging into my arms.

‘How much did it rise?’

When I checked it with the devil’s eye, my muscular body increased by 5%.

If that’s the case, it wasn’t much to worry about.

Because it was a level that could be covered enough with technique.

Chae Ae-Aeng! Chae Ae Ae!

I dodged left and right, focusing on blocking his charge.

Anyway, my strategy is to pile up damage with lightning strikes.

It was a fight I had no choice but to win in the end if I didn’t give him the distance.

“Keugh!”

In the end, Liam, who had been concentrating on reducing the distance for a long time, eventually gave up and widened the distance.

It was properly caught up in the spirit.

If you want to overwhelm me in terms of compatibility, it would be impossible unless you try to crush me with agility like Achilles in the Star Wars.

‘Now, what are we going to do?’

The boy was at a crossroads of choice.

Will you continue to lose little by little in a way that doesn’t work, and die metallurgy metallurgy?

Or will you run away like this?

Parbat!

The boy’s choice was the latter.

Liam turns his back and runs away.

After I started running for a while, I started seeing other people in the distance.

One priest and thirteen knights.

They were people of the church he belonged to.

‘I can’t let them go like this.’

Due to the increased agility of the guy, the distance was gradually widening.

Even so, I focused on chasing him without bothering to swap with a bow or chain scythe.

And the moment the guy completely gets out of the window!

‘Illumination petrification.’

Tring!

[Increases Agility stat by 20% for 10 seconds.]

As his agility stat instantly rose by 11 points, the distance with Liam quickly narrowed.

Then, he got out of the distance of the spear and unexpectedly approached Liam, who was relieved, and swung the spear.

Awesome!

Then the guy’s right arm fell off.

“Keugh!”

Liam fell to the floor as one arm suddenly disappeared.

“Apostle Liam!”

At the same time as he collapsed, the black knights rushed this way.

“Two apostles, do not separate from the priest!”

Liam yelled as all the Dark Knights tried to come running.

It was probably because he was conscious of my shadow exchange.

If there is only one left, there will be no one to protect the priest when he is exchanged with me.

I didn’t bother to finish off Liam and looked at the guys who rushed at me.

‘Evil eyes.’

Of the guys here, there were a total of four Paladins.

One of the eleven knights running.

And the two guarding the priest are also paladins.

Liam finally collapsed.

The rest were regular black knights.

‘It’s possible enough.’

You can’t use the exchange skill unless you register the mark by stepping on the shadow, but they don’t know that.

In the end, it was like tying the feet of the two Paladins just because they had the Shadow Mark skill.

It seems like Liam is incapable of fighting because he lost his sword grip.

In the end, the only guy I had to be careful about was the one paladin running from the front.

“Everyone, start with Apostle Liam! I will deal with the heretics!”

【Guardian’s will! Dark Blessing! Blessing of Death!]

The lead paladin used divine magic like Liam, then charged at me with a large shield in front.

We have to kill this guy here.

If there were only two paladins left, there was a way to kill the priest.

Kwajijijijijik!

Chae Ae Ae!

My spear collided with the paladin’s sword, and thunderbolts spread out in all directions.

The boy shuddered at the pain of the thunderbolt.

‘It has to be finished as soon as possible.’

Liam also ran away from me and had his arm cut off.

However, the paladin I was spearing with had lower stats than Liam.

So it was time to swing the spear vigorously, aiming for a short-term battle.

【Attracting shadows!】

Tring!

[You have been cursed with weakness. Agility stat decreases by -4%.]

[＜Magical Offset＞ canceled the curse.]

[Agility stat decreases by -2%.]

Magical power enveloped my body, and I felt a shadow pulling me in.

The priest cast a curse spell on me.

Fortunately, the magic offset reduced the debuff effect by half, but the priest’s curse magic didn’t end there.

【Accelerated Aging!】

【The crush of the night!】

【Dance of Darkness!】

【Pain amplification!】

【Nothing・・・・・・.】

‘How many do you use?’

Cursed magic that sticks like crazy.

Various curses such as decreased strength and stamina and blurred vision shook me.

[＜Magical Offset＞ canceled the curse.]

[＜Magical Offset＞ curses…]

Of course, there were no fatal curses.

Whether you use elemental magic or divine magic, it’s the same that you can’t escape from the range of magic in the end.

Gaen’s spirit magic also consumes spirit power, but in the end, just as the basic base was powered by magic power.

That’s why, although his stats were cut a little, there was no problem pushing Paladin.

“We will help too!”

Then, the ten Dark Knights who supported Liam and took him back joined forces to help Paladin.

‘I don’t think exchanging shadows with Liam will work.’

While blocking their attacks, I glanced sideways at Liam’s location and abandoned the idea of exchanging shadows.

Perhaps because he had been beaten once, Liam was never by the priest’s side.

‘I can’t help it.’

In the end, we have to kill each other one by one.

Kwaji support!

I moved quickly so as not to be surrounded by the dark knights.

The guys tried to tie me up somehow, but the difference from agility stat was too much in the first place.

Rather, it occupied space to the point that the paladin I was fighting with couldn’t move freely.

Depending on the situation, there are times when you have to move to the side, but the Dark Knights were standing in that path.

Awesome!

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

Whenever that happened, I didn’t miss the opportunity and cut down the black knights one by one.

“Brothers! Rather than punish the heretics, please spread out and cover the back!”

The Paladin, who was worse than that, shouted loudly.

‘That won’t work.’

The Dark Knights scattered at Paladin’s instructions.

At that moment, I lunged at Paladin head-on.

Kwajijijijijik!

The most basic of sheep hunting is the role of the chaser.

“Keugh!”

But there was no way that a guy weaker than me could drive me into a corner.

Chae Ae Ae! Chae Ae Ae!

The paladin, who had been pushed back greatly every time he blocked the spear, eventually dropped his shield.

My arm was tingling due to the lightning strike, and the strength in my grip was loosened.

“Sado Louis!”

Paladin, who was relying on his shield to block my attacks.

But since the shield was gone, there was nothing he could do.

Awesome!

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

“Poetry, my God…”

The paladin, who had the name Louis, collapsed to the floor with a small muttering.

If he had been stabbed in the heart, he would have died instantly.

“Apostle Louis!”

The scattered dark knights rushed at me again in amazement, but since the paladins were dead, they were no match for me.

Kwajijijijijik!

With each swing of the spear, one black knight lost his life.

In the end, there were only five people left on Mount Dumbes.

Three paladins, one priest.

and me.

“…”

Push- Push-

Amidst the silence, only the sound of blood gushing from the throats of the dead black knights engulfed the space.

“Apostle Roland, Apostle Harold. Take the priest and hide yourself. I will hold that cultist by the feet as long as I can.”

Liam blocked the gap between me and the priest, aiming his sword with his left arm.

Then Rolance and the paladin called Harold met each other’s eyes and nodded.

“Please take good care of me, Apostle.”

“For the World of Holy Night.”

Then, taking the priest with him, he turned his back and started running away.

‘Do you think I’ll miss it?’

I jumped straight at Liam and swung my spear at him.

Liam came clumsily swinging his sword with his left arm to block me.

Tang! f*ck!

He was hit in the back of the head by the spear handle and fell down without being able to block just one attack.

Having treated Liam lightly, I immediately followed the fleeing guys.

I didn’t have to run fast.

Priest’s agility stat is low or higher.

‘Cause you’ll never run away from me

“It’s not okay to run away, priest.”

“No matter how strong that cultist is, he probably won’t be able to defeat the two of us. It would be much wiser to kill him here.”

Perhaps feeling that, the paladins escorting the priest stopped for a short while.

The female priest wearing a hood nodded at the words of Rolance and Harold.

“Do by that way. I believe in the Apostles.”

Rolance and Harold stood in front of the priest and glared at me.

The guys were very nervous.

‘I finally gave up running away.’

Both Paladins are on the same level as Liam, or slightly weaker.

It wouldn’t be easy to defeat them alone.

But I wasn’t too nervous.

My goal is not to defeat the two paladins, but to kill the priest.

And as long as the two paladins couldn’t get away from the priest, it was a fight with a fixed outcome.

‘Shall I try to bully you?’

I stopped a short distance from them and took out a chain scythe from my inventory.

Then, while aiming at the priest, he filled it with lightning and swung it wildly.

Kwajijijijijijijik!

visor! Chae Chaeng! visor! visor! Chae Chaeng! Chaechaechaeng!

They flinched each time the chain scythe hit the shield.

The lightning damage would be quite stingy.

Even so, the guys only blocked it, and did not think of counterattacking.

‘Isn’t the psychological pressure considerable?’

Neither of them thought of leaving the priest because they did not know when their positions would change due to the exchange of shadows.

However, it was impossible to attack me wielding a chain scythe from 10 meters away.

“Keugh!”

In a word, they are in a dilemma where they can neither do this nor that.

“You bastard heretic!”

After enduring the thunderbolt attack, the paladins tried to attack me.

Every time that happened, I flinched and only trembled once.

Then, thinking that the shadow exchange was activated, the guys went back to the priest’s side.

Kwajijijijijik!

“Ugh!”

It was a fraudulent skill because of the shadow mark.

Beyond simply moving my body or exchanging with an opponent.

Chae Ae-Aeng!

“Keugh!”

Because it instills fear of not knowing when and where I will appear.

Kwajijik!

“Keep!”

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Just that psychological pressure alone.

Chae Chaeng! visor!

“Turn it off!”

The opponent will be severely restricted.

In the end, the Paladins, who had been blocking my chain scythe for a long time, couldn’t kick the attack, probably because the damage had accumulated a lot.

Chain scythe, unrestrained.

Awesome!

Cleanly cut the priest’s throat.

“Priest!”

The two paladins looked at the priest’s wound in amazement, but to no avail.

As long as half of his head was cut off, he would not be able to avoid death.

I don’t know if there is even an elixir.

Tring!

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

‘He’s dead.’

This ends the South Gate wave.

All that was left was west and north.

“You, heretic bastard!”

“I will definitely kill you!”

Two paladins, bewildered by the death of the priest, charged at me.

I just waved my hand leisurely, not even thinking about blocking their swords.

“See you again.”

[Use the ＜Shadow Movement＞ ability on ‘Isaac Moneycoutz de Dacre’, a Valinor.]

“…?”

When I used shadow shift, my vision changed in an instant, and I saw Isaac’s face with his eyes wide open.

Seeing this, the tension was relieved and a sigh came out.

“I’m home. The wave at the southern gate has also been silenced, so you don’t have to worry.”

“Huh, you finished much faster than yesterday! I’m glad you’re okay.”

I nodded at the delighted Isaac and opened my mouth.

“yes. I’ll just go and rest. I stayed up two nights and I am tired.”

“Yes, thank you for your hard work!”

As the tension eased, fatigue set in.

The current time is around 11:00 AM.

At least eight hours remained until the moon rose.

To kill the priest of the west.

I felt like I had to sleep for a bit and wake up.

‘What time is it?’

When I woke up in the guest bedroom of Hersebelg Castle, the first thing I did was open the status window and check the current time.

19:08.

I think I slept for about 7 hours.

I stretched out and checked Liam’s position.

‘Mountain Najaran?’

Liam’s location displayed on the status window was Mount Nazaran to the east.

The features are not displayed, only the distance from where I am is displayed, but there is a compass at the right end of the status window, so I know where the guy is in which direction.

Najaran is a mountain…

It seemed like I moved the location to confuse them, as it seemed like I was going to kill the priest in the west or north as my next target.

‘It’s useless as long as it has a mark.’

In addition, there were only minimal troops left at the eastern gate yesterday, so it must be a surprise attempt to create a wave in the mountain.

After exiting the lord’s castle and moving to the central square, I met Isaac, registered my mark, and passed through the western gate.

Then, while looking at the map Rudel had marked, he headed towards the Horned Orc’s territory.

“Chwiik. human. This is the domain of the Horned Orcs. If you want to save your life, go down immediately. Chwiik.”

As soon as I entered the realm, a group of horned orcs patrolling stopped me.

A horned orc that is one head taller than the black orc and has a larger body.

They have two horns on their heads.

That’s why they were also called demon orcs.

‘He’s usually calm, but he turns around the moment he gets attacked.’

Kwajijijijijik!

Awesome!

I stepped forward from the group and cut off the head of the horned orc who told me to return.

“Chwiyiyiik! Ingaaan! dare! dare!”

“Chwiik! Disregarding our goodwill! I will never let you go!”

Seeing their kin dead, the horned orcs rushed at them with their eyes turned upside down.

Woo woo woo woo!

A huge horn echoed past them.

After a while, a huge number of horned orcs rushed to where I was.

“kill! Chwik! Enemy of my people!”

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!

Certainly, the horned orcs were a different race from the black orcs.

Weapons were not crude axes or glaives, but well-forged greatswords or spears, and there were also guys who could shoot arrows, and everyone knew how to handle magic.

So it was very difficult to deal with.

Tring!

[Stats increased by ＜Enhancement of Blood＞ are maintained for 30 minutes.]

After fighting for a while, the waiting notification window appeared.

The bloody enhancement perk was turned on.

‘Whoa. It’s not easy.’

Killing only 30 of them was harder than hunting the same number of ogres.

Unlike ogres, they live in groups and use various weapons and advanced tactics.

But this is the end of our business here.

Now all that was left was to go east and kill the priest.

I immediately opened the list of markers and found Liam’s name.

‘Goodbye, Liam.’

A huge number of horned orcs were coming from all directions.

[Use the ＜Shadow Exchange＞ ability on ‘Liam Valdesgreitz von Reinhardt’, a Valinor.]

＜ Episode 64. Promotion Match (7) ＞ End