By Zephyria “Wait here. This is the safest place.”
Leonardo said, helping the soldier he had been supporting with both arms to stand on his own feet again.
The soldier, who had been held in his arms and barely managed to stand, nodded slowly to his words with dazed eyes, as if he had no sense of reality.
Afterwards, as he blankly watched his back as he loosened his shoulders and neck and walked away, the word “thank you,” which he had momentarily forgotten, came to mind, and the soldier belatedly parted his lips.
However, before his voice could reach him, Leonardo, who had lightly leaped into the air, glanced back, leaving only an inscrutable smile, and quickly disappeared from sight.
“He’s coming!”
The Sigal’s grasp stretched out at a terrifying speed before the eyes of the 6th Battalion soldiers, who were entrenched next to their comrade. Dellua’s golem, which was half-ragged, hurriedly blocked the front, but its body was pierced by Sigal’s heavy fist, and it lost its balance.
“Battalion Commander!”
Marlene shouted urgently at Dellua, who was behind the golem that was about to fall, and Dellua, gritting her teeth, manipulated the golem’s arms to hang over the cliff. Thanks to this, they were able to prevent the soldiers from being crushed, but they couldn’t stop Sigal from approaching.
Sigal, who was shaking the forearm stuck in the broken rock, put its weight on it and pushed it forward. The two arms of the golem, which were barely holding onto the rock wall, were scraped against the wall, and pieces of stone and piles of dirt fell down.
Through the cloudy dust, Sigal’s eyes, staring at its prey, became even clearer. It was then that the monster, with its rotten-smelling and hardened-blood-filled maw wide open, reached out its hand towards its prey beyond the obstacle.
Kuaaaaaaah―!
Suddenly, Sigal’s painful roar was heard, and the huge arm that had come close to the soldiers was neatly severed.
Afterwards, in the blink of an eye, Sigal’s dirty tongue and head were cut off, and the monster’s blood, which only flowed in the head, neck, and spinal cord, gushed out like a fountain.
The severed head fell to the ground with a loud noise and twitched for a while. The body, which had lost its head, fell as it was and collided with the Sigal next to it, and the other creature fell over as well due to its heavy weight.
The 6th Battalion soldiers, who had been very tense, stared blankly at the group of Sigals, who were suddenly having their arms and necks cut off on their own and falling like dominoes.
Leonardo’s figure, who had disappeared, suddenly appeared in front of the soldier trapped in the hardened Sigal’s hand. Leonardo squeezed into the gaps between the monster’s fingers, leaned his back against one side, and strongly pushed the other side with his foot, forcefully widening the gap. Then, the fingers, which had been stiff and unmoving, cracked with a snapping sound.
After creating a crack and changing his posture, he grabbed the fingers with both arms and bent them backwards, breaking them completely. Then, he threw the heavy boulder far away and pulled the trapped soldier’s arm up, taking him out of it.
“Get back.”
The soldier, who was almost sucked out in an instant by the strong force, nodded his head vigorously as soon as he heard his words, before he could even come to his senses. After confirming that the soldier was holding his abdomen and retreating, Leonardo immediately turned his eyes and rushed at Sigal.
He appeared like a flash of lightning in the darkness, cutting through Sigal’s body and arms at a speed that was difficult to follow with the eye. Sigal didn’t even notice him and helplessly had its body cut off, pouring out blood and collapsing.
The monster’s screams echoed on the cliff, and the blood flowing from the demon beasts formed a valley between the valleys and flowed down to the low-lying areas. It was like looking at a scene from hell.
Leonardo flew at high speed, confusing Sigal’s gaze, and briefly revealed himself in front of it while it was confused.
Sigal tried to grab him, who was in front of it, but instead punched its own head. Then, unable to withstand the impact, its body fell backwards, and Leonardo took advantage of the gap to punch Sigal’s head from above, crushing it as if squeezing it. The monster’s head, which was dented and crushed beyond recognition, burst in all directions, unable to withstand the pressure.
Dellua stopped commanding the golem and watched the scene.
Three Sigals, feeling threatened as their kin were instantly defeated by Leonardo, rushed at him at the same time. Leonardo increased the length of the flame sword in his hand, turning it into a long sword. Then, without a moment’s hesitation, he deeply stabbed the three of them at once as if skewering them on a skewer, and instantly cut them in half with his strong strength.
The three pairs of meat chunks, with their upper and lower bodies completely separated, writhed in a sprawling state.
“……”
The 6th Battalion soldiers couldn’t say anything as they watched the demon beast extermination that was close to a massacre.
At that time, an ominous shadow was cast over the already dark valley, and a creature of unusual size emerged from the fog in the back. It was the largest Sigal they had ever seen.
Dellua was just staring up at it with her mouth open, as if she had never seen such a terrifying size before. The creature growled at Leonardo, as if it had heard the desperate screams of its kin, and watched him warily.
The creature then tore off the cliffs on both sides with its hands, picked up heavy rocks in both hands, and began throwing them at him. Even though huge rocks were flying towards him, Leonardo did not avoid them, perhaps because the 6th Battalion soldiers were behind him, and lightly shattered them with a swing of his sword. Then, he frowned and muttered.
“That’s why bipedal creatures that use their hands are annoying.”
Leonardo, who had been floating in the air, landed on the ground, stood in front of the 6th Battalion soldiers, and stretched out his arm towards Sigal. Feeling the dangerous aura emanating from him, Dellua signaled her battalion members to retreat.
A fierce aura of magic swirled around him, and a current of wind was created that pierced through the valley. The 6th Battalion soldiers directly faced the magic flowing from Leonardo and shuddered at the overwhelming sensation that made it hard to breathe just being in the same space.
Sigal, who had low intelligence, also instinctively flinched at the energy and showed signs of retreating. A huge golden magic circle that could cover the creature was created in front of Leonardo, who was leisurely staring at such Sigal.
Soon, sparks crackled frighteningly from his hand, and in an instant, which felt like less than a second, fiercely glowing lightning appeared and was fired at high speed towards his front.
The lightning that stretched out from his hand, as if a huge thunderbolt had struck from the sky, pushed away and burned all the corpses of the demon beasts piled up in the valley, and even swallowed the body of the huge Sigal at the very back, shattering it into pieces.
The 6th Battalion soldiers put up barriers and covered one ear at the sound of thunder that shook the surroundings.
When they reflexively closed their eyes at the destructive light and then opened them, all the rock walls that had been narrowly rising to the left and right had been blown away, and the corpses of the demon beasts that had been piled up and the last Sigal standing there had all been crushed beyond recognition. The thick fog around them also flew into the air and scattered with the wind.
The hidden sky was revealed in the valley, and sunlight shone through, and the area was briefly dyed brightly at the same time as Leonardo’s magic spread.
However, that was only for a moment, as the blood and flesh of Sigal, whose limbs had been shattered by the explosion, poured down like rain and hail.
The sight of red blood clots falling like rain under the golden sky and splattering on the ground was a bizarre yet thrilling spectacle that sent shivers down their spines.
Leonardo was standing still, putting up a barrier amidst the wreckage of the explosion that was raining down like red rain. Not a single drop of blood was on his ivory magic robe.
A strong wind blew through the cliffs, shaking his hair and cloak.
The rain of blood pouring over it gorgeously decorated Leonardo’s back, who was standing silently in the middle of the hellish landscape. The scene stimulated primal fear and at the same time made them feel an indescribable sense of awe.
A large piece of Sigal’s flesh fell with a thud in front of Dellua, who was watching the scene with a blank look, and blood splattered on her face. Dellua lowered her eyes as they were and stared blankly at the lump of flesh, which was still twitching with cells. Then, she wiped the blood off her face with the back of her hand.
Silence returned to the valley where countless debris had been poured out. However, the sight of the decomposed corpses completely soaking the floor could never be said to be as peaceful as before.
Leonardo silently looked down at his hand.
‘Is it because I’ve been wearing handcuffs for too long? I can’t control it well.’
He had aimed to blow away two peaks, but just like he had blown away the third peak as well, there was a problem that the scale of magic was activated larger than expected because he had been wearing handcuffs for too long.
Thanks to this, Leonardo, who had only intended to blow away Sigal, once again had a road that was so wide open in front of him that it was ambiguous to even call it a valley.
It didn’t matter much now, but it was a very dangerous problem because if he couldn’t control it like this even on the huge peaks he would encounter countless times in the future, he could cause a landslide or erupt a volcano.
Leonardo clicked his tongue at his magic control, which had become terrible because he had only been wearing handcuffs for a long time, removed the barrier, turned around, and walked towards the 6th Battalion soldiers.
He glanced around once, confirmed that there were no major injuries according to his standards, and then walked across the middle of their formation and said.
“Let’s go, we’ll miss the procession.”
Behind him, who neatly did his job and passed by as if nothing had happened, was the scene of the horrific massacre he had left behind.
A valley of red blood where not a single demon beast was alive, and a huge canyon created by his magic that had completely blown away. A blond man in a neat ivory magic robe and a black cloak fluttering leisurely walked through it.
Dellua and Marlene, who were watching his back, suddenly looked at each other silently.
They were silent for a while, and then, knowing that what they wanted to say was the same with just their eyes, they both said at the same time with intense sincerity.
“He’s so cool.”