Volume 26 Chapter 2
2. Refugees of Serabourg Citadel
Translated by EE and Adoxo. I don't have a new translator, my brother pitched in and help finish off the last 3 pages.
Proofread by Britsch
The players’ eyes were filled with determination.
‘I must not die.’
‘Whatever happens, I will follow Weed-nim.’
‘Focus. I will come out of this place alive. I can’t die like this or I will be stuck being a newbie. I won’t even be able to get a girlfriend!’
Weed pulled on the wooden pole hanging on the wall.
Du Du Du Du!
The exit covered by the stone gate was raised, opening up a path to the surface.
“Now is the time. Let’s head out.”
With the small break, vitality of the players recovered somewhat. As Weed’s body was so large, he had to wiggle his way out. Behind him, the players jump out to the surface one by one.
“Don’t leave any humans alive.”
“It’s just for all who do not believe in the gods of Embinyu to die.”
“Purge Serabourg Citadel!”
As soon as the players surfaced, they could hear the loud cries of the fanatics and the dark forces of Embinyu Church. While the exit was covered with overgrown bushes, it was only 2km away from Serabourg Citadel. It was a distant that could be covered in an instant on a horse.
Weed gazed toward the direction of the Citadel, and saw that it was blackened because of so many Embinyu forces crowding it. The large demons were advancing into the Citadel, and smokes were rising from the buildings as they burned fiercely.
It was the scene of the soldiers of Rosenheim Kingdom inching retreating back to the palace as they made their last stand. Weed could see that the various groups used this moment to escape.
It was absolute pandemonium! This was a true battlefield.
‘Please come out. Now is our chance.’
The players kept on coming out through the exit. The nearby escape routes also began to spew out players. The newbies and NPCs following Weed were over tens of thousands, for all of them to escape, it would take time.
The players coming out first were decently high level and could fight. Over 200 warriors all exited, leaving the newbies to come out next. They acted as covertly as possible, but with so many people they were detected by the Wyvern Knights circling above.
“Humans!”
“Kill them! Use them as sacrifice for the god of Embinyu!”
Players cried out in surprise.
“It’s the Wyvern Knights of the Embinyu Church!”
“We are spotted!”
Archers, Rangers, anyone who possessed a bow began shooting at the Wyvern Knights. The arrows of the newbies and high level archers flew chaotically toward the enemy.
“Humans are offerings!”
“Praise the Embinyu Church!”
The Wyverns gracefully evaded the arrows as they flew toward the ground.
With the long preparation time for a spell and compounded by the mobility of these Wyverns, hitting them out of the air would be difficult.
“Evil Spear!”
The critical situation was when the Wyvern Knights came closer and closer as they primed their spear skills!
Weed started to run furiously. And then jumped high into the sky.
‘Will it work? My strength and agility increased a lot so it just might do the trick.’
BANG!
The ground cratered as the Ice Troll jumped up implausibly!
Weed struck with his sword in the middle of the air. The low flying Wyvern tried to evade mid flight as an Ice Troll suddenly popped up. But it was too late, the Wyvern was within reach of Weed’s sword.
“Gyaak!”
You have dealt a great blow to the Wyvern Knight.
Wyvern Knight is unable to participate further in battle.
The overflowing strength of the Ice Troll!
He did not aim for the Wyvern, rather he struck the knight riding on top of the Wyvern. The Wyvern Knight fell from the sky after being struck by Weed’s attack. Weed then quickly snatched up the rein of the Wyvern and rode on top of it. Despite the mass of the Ice Troll, Weed’s movements were unbelievably fast and looked as if it was choreographed.
“Gyaaa!”
The Wyvern staggered as it try to prevent it’s crashed. This was the Ice Troll’s weight attack! As the Wyvern came closer to the ground that its underside could literally scrape the surface, it gave it a one last ditch effort to fly back up.
Weed looked down. The high level players were scattered and resisting the Wyvern Knight’s attack but the beginners and the NPCs were still being slaughtered.
Darium, the NPC living some distance behind the palace died. Fame decreased by 2.
Vortuga the blacksmith has passed away. Fame decreased by 6.
While he didn’t mind the players dying, every single one of the NPCs death affected Weed personally. The nature of the quest to lead the refugees to safety allowed for enormous amount of fame to be earned, or lost.
When Weed first accepted Selina’s quest, he never could have imagined that the scale of the quest would be this big. The quest grew enormously as the abandoned NPCs of the Serabourg Citadel put their faith in Weed. But fortunately, Seo Yoon was finally showing her true ability as she turned the Wyvern Knights into grey light.
“Let’s go. Let’s go hunt the other bastards!”
Weed pulled the rein on the Wyvern with his left hand. To tame a Wyvern, a player would need high strength and fighting spirit. In these aspect, Weed already qualified. And he had a lot of experience taming a Wyvern through Wy-Three.
But to completely subdue and tame a monster, high intimacy and time to understand one another was required. Weed did not have any of this. But the Wyvern Weed was riding on top obeyed his command and flew towards the other Wyvern Knights.
“Faster!”
Pa-dak, Pa-dak, Pa-dak!
The Wyvern flew as fast as possible. It wasn’t due to its submission and obedience to Weed, but a silent plea to the other Wyvern Knights to knock off the heavy Ice Troll on it’s back. Furthermore, the cold emanating from the Ice Troll frosted the wings, causing fear to seep into the Wyvern from the possibility of crashing.
The Ice Troll was heavy and it was cold. It was truly evil.
“Well done.”
The Wyvern’s desperate measure to save itself went up in smokes as Weed exchanged several blows with the Wyvern Knights and emerged victorious. Weed was used to aerial battles where attacks were exchanged in a flash.
The Wyvern flew toward its other brethren for salvation, but Weed came out victorious in every single encounter.
GYAAA!
The Wyvern Weed was riding on was quickly becoming exhausted as it flapped its wings harder and harder to prevent its fall. But because of the cold coming from the Ice Troll, soon the whole body of the Wyvern was covered in ice.
Weed waited for his Wyvern to completely freeze over before hijacking another Wyvern in mid air. The sight of a massive body leaping in the air was a truly mind boggling and dazzling performance. The players were dizzy from the heart dropping display above.
“Call Death Knight Van Hawk! Call Vampire Lord Torido!”
Summoning of Van Hawk and Torido!
“Master, I want to fight.”
“This place has the lingering scent of blood. Nothing is refreshing as the blood in the air, it’s much better than any exquisite perfume.”
“Kwaaak!”
The Wyvern was in greater agony as the number of passengers on it’s back increased.
Weed gave them a simple command
“Fight however you want”
Back when they were battling in the Yurokina Mountain, he had to constant supervise and direct them. But now, these two had experienced all kinds of battle with Weed.
Before the weight could overwhelm the Wyvern, Van Hawk and Torido jumped off. Van Hawk flew around, fighting on his summoned Ghost Horse while Torido spread his cape and became one with the darkness. Torido would then appear out of nowhere, behind the Wyvern Knights, plunging his fangs into their unprotected necks.
Woosh!
The pure blood vampire clan that obeyed Torido was summoned as bats and attacked the Wyverns Knights. The Wyverns did not fear the bats, but their movements were hampered as the bats clung everywhere on the Wyverns, sucking out their blood.