The grand counter attack

The grand counterattack(will be including some photos from manga I like to help you all visualize, try and guess the names of the manga :D)

“General Norman, our forces have almost broken through the city gate! Estimated time until the city gate is 20 minutes. After that we’ll be able to occupy the city. But I have to say that I’m surprised…This is a very impressive army you’ve amassed here.”

“Ha ha ha! Of course it is!! I was given this army by the high priest himself! We have not suffered a defeat in these last 4 months and have conquered countless cities. I doubt there’s an army other than the Hermes guild that could put so much as a scratch in our ranks. But still…I have to take over this city quickly so that I can report back to my superiors. For some reason they were quite eager to rule this city. I wonder why?” The old general stopped doubting himself and decided to move forward with the plan “Anyway, continue the assault we must have this city before sunrise.”

It was like a completely different world when they exited the citadel. There was a cold wind in the air and there were no lights, no sign of life, only an endless mass of mist and darkness that seemed to swallow them whole. The single source of light was the moon but even that seemed to be fading as they charged forward. Many of the knights and players were still afraid but they still decided to follow Weed and ride alongside him. The knights and warriors acted as the spearhead and defenders of the formation while all of the long range specialists and squishier players stayed closer to the center of the mob inside the wagons.

Weed looked over his shoulder before raising his sword into the air “Follow me!!”

Hosram nodded his head in reply and “Forward!! Follow the commander!” roared Becker in reply

Within minutes they were in sight of the embinyu soldiers guarding the siege weapons. They were the ones that stood between them and the Forest of Miming. Their front line consisted of a wall of over 10,000 Paladins with two more rows of Paladins behind them making for a total of 30,000 paladins. All of them held tower shields, large rectangular shields that could cover the entire body from head to toe, and locked them together to form an enormous wall. Behind the row of paladins stood a group of 20,000 Shamans who were readying their staves for combat. It was a common formation that most guilds use when entering a new hunting ground of high level monsters. Paladins or another combat related class would create a defensive wall around the physically weaker characters while the shamans would throw out hexes, curses, and magical attacks at the enemies then buff and heal their allies. (Hybrid classes like Shamans which can’t out heal/out buff a priest make up for this weakness by throwing buffs at their allies and then debuffs at the enemy so there’s a larger difference in abilities. This was the tactic Dyne used to help Weed in the City of Heaven) It may take some time but by using this tactic a group of only 40 could clear out an entire floor or dungeon of monsters.

Some of the players went weak in the knees but Weed didn’t care. He was too busy analyzing the gears that the embinyu forces had on. Hmm….The paladins are wearing Legion Plate armor but those are too heavy for me to carry right now. So Harn turned his focus toward the shamans and his eyes immediately turned into money signs/showed a spark ($_$ Money vision ? that’d be Harn’s face atm lol) Most of the Shamans had a wand of occult which was a common wooden staff tipped with a goats skull but some of the higher level shamans had a staff with a diamond twice the size of Harn’s fist embedded at the top!! Diamonds….Diamonds…He instantly began calculating the price that it would fetch for as well as the electricity and water bill. This month’s fees have been higher but if I have that then I can sell it for about 700,000 won or maybe more! His eyes began to change and a dark shadow loomed over his face as he tightened his grip on his sword. All of the paladins and Shamans who fell upon Weed’s gaze felt a cold chill run up their spine. Harn regarded the paladins as little more than a doormat that needed to be stepped upon and the Shamans as a treasure chest that needed to be beaten a little before it’d open and give him his money.

Lowering his sword so that it pointed at the Shaman with the diamond staff Weed out “Hold the line!! We’re breaking through!”

Now it was Becker’s rouse to his troops “Knights of Rosenheim push forward! We will protect Master Weed with our lives and show these Embinyu bastards the meaning of fear! Engrave it onto your hearts… Now is the time to lay it all on the line and fight!”

"Holy Shield!"

A basic paladin skill that decreases the amount of damage received by a flat amount.

"Sun God's mercy on your soul! Warrior's blessing!"

A blessing that further increases a paladins resistance to brute force and magical attacks. If the paladin is at a high level then it also helps to increase their health regeneration.

Normally people would avoid having a fight with a paladin because of their strong defense and healing abilities. They were regarded as one of the toughest things to kill and some people compare them to a living zombie. (Anyone else thinking of Creus Sun the Sun Knight here? XD)

"Saint-blade!"

The sword of the paladin began to radiate a brilliant white flame. The sacred fire will break out from the sword every time it’s swung. However it consumes a large amount of mana.

"You will know the strength of Embinyu!”

“Embinyu! Embinyu!! Embinyu!” the Paladins and Shamans began chanting like it was some kind of spell.

“Fire spear!”

“Earthen Shackles!”

“Deep Freeze!”

“Chain lightning!”

The Embinyu Shaman’s began launching various magical attacks with debuffing effects at the incoming soldiers.

Standing at the forefront of the formation was just one man who was riding a bull. After lowering his back slightly so he was closer to the ground, Weed ordered Rover to run faster and got ready to intercept the magic spells “Sculpting Blade!” A pure Cyan colored blue light surrounded Weed’s blade.

Horizontal slash to the right, upwards slash and then following up with a diagonal slash. Weed had practiced blocking and occasionally reflecting the spells countless times with his Sculpting blade that it had become a reflex. Now that his mastery of Sculpting Blade had reached advanced 9 the only ones who could damage Weed with magical spells would have to be an archmage. (volume 2 chapter 16 made it so that Weed could block/deflect spells lower than his sculpting blade level at the cost of mana.) The spells were fairly low level and wouldn’t have done much damage to Harn given his high magic resist but he didn’t want to be delayed from reaching his brand new staff by even one second.

Weed started his offensive when he finally closed the gap between him and the Paladins. After taking out a small fox sculpture from his mastery Harn began casting his skills “Sculpture destruction! Give me strength!”(Got this part from when Weed was an ice troll so not adjusted to his current art stat)

You have destroyed a fine statue!

Art stats permanently reduced by 5.

100 reputation decreases.

Stats are an art for a day's rate is the power switch.

Had originally due to low power thermostat does not happen all at once the transition.

870 Power of the advanced skill level 7 'devastating blow' to the changes.

Actually, just hit a bunch of power to attack the enemy until it will blow away.

Paralysis and chaos, creating a percentage increase in the fall.

This advanced skill level 6 of the power 950 'pierce the window' is replaced by.

As a powerful attack enemy armor and shields will crush it entirely.

This advanced skill level 9 power of 1430 'monster of the moment' is replaced by.

Able for a short time can use up to 3 times the maximum power.

Requires tremendous stamina.

Sculpture Destruction skill has increase in exp

“Heraim fencing!” screamed Weed as he ordered Rover to tackle the closest paladin and then throw him overhead. (Now let’s do a little basic physics. Force = Mass times Acceleration in this case Rover is 3500 pounds and he’s forced to sprint at full speed by a demonic master who seems to be somehow even more evil than usual. So….Ya…R.I.P.(Rest in peace, Rest in pieces, Regurgitate in peace, take your pick, sir Paladin o_o”) Weed charged through the newly created gap and quickly began to send the other paladins to their doom.

Five Embinyu paladins quickly moved to defend the gap that had been created.

“You shall not pass!”

“We will stop you here, monster!”

“All those who try to keep me from my money deserve to die!!!” (Took this from oddsquad ½ prince novel since the smiling overlord was so darn similar.) roared Weed as he sent them flying into the sky to become a star. For a moment, embinyu and Rosenheim felt incredibly sorry for these poor men and forgot all about who the real villain was. Some of the people there even thought Weed was spewing fire from his mouth.

Weed could feel his attacks growing stronger with each successive hit but all he could think about was how much he could sell those diamond embedded staff for and how many other high quality staffs there were. The warriors standing in his way meant nothing to him for he only saw them as experience and item drops. Harn didn’t wait for the reinforcements since he thought they might steal his kill and decided to push forward on his own. Exp~! Lovely exp!! You’ve also brought me a nice bonus item. Don’t worry, I’ll come and claim you shortly!! Grahh annoying ants, out of my way!! Daddy’s coming for you my cute new diamond staff~!! It was indeed a very strange image. Weed would be smiling as he hacked away his foes, and send death glares at anyone who got in his way. (mm….this may sound a bit too creepy. But this is just how I imagine Harn when he sees something valuable, so sue me lol. If there are too many complaints I’ll change it QWQ)

Following closely behind him was Seoyoon. She thrust her sword into the part where the shields linked with one another and separated them with pure strength.

“Wha-What the hell is this person!?” All of the paladins surrounding him tried to reinforce the barrier but it was no use. She burst through the small opening and bulldoze her way through.

Seoyoon’s body was by no means large for a warrior, but she had trained her body for over a year and fought in countless battles during that time. Battle senses, tactics, and instinct were sharpened to the extreme each day when she fought in the wilderness on her own. There was no way that these soft hearted paladins who only knew easy victories could stand up to her assault.

Last but not least was Geomchi’s group.

“Come on! We can’t lose to them!”

“Rahh taste cold steel!”

The martial artists made use of their new breaker skill which allowed them to smash rocks, armor, and anything with a tough surface. Without their shields and armor the paladins were nothing. The soldiers began to lose their footing and eventually fell to the ground as Geomchi and the rest surged through their ranks and ran them over. They would even occasionally throw in a punch or hit the enemies with their hilt of the sword to bring them down. The only thing on their mind was beating the enemy and gaining fame so that girls would notice them more. Plus, they were fairly pissed off that the dance was cancelled because of Embinyu Denomination’s random attacks. Now they wouldn’t be able to see all those beautiful ladies in dresses.

“The death penalty!!” The Embinyu soldiers eyes became filled with fear.

The player’s jaws dropped to the ground as they watched this small group of 500 break through an army more than 10 times as large as theirs.

Soon they broke through the 3rd wave of Embinyu paladins and had arrived as far as the tents where their reserves had been resting. An instant later the entire ground had been covered in blood and the surrounding tents were full of cries for mercy. Some of their cavalries had even tried to run off for help but were soon shot down by Pale and the other archers.

“Take down the catapults!! Hurry! Burn them down!”

“"Unhindered blazing flames which consume everything. Fire Field!"

“Fire arrow!”

All of the martial artists, Weed, and Seoyoon: “Splendor of the sword!” A special long range skill taught by Zahab himself which only a few knew of. Streams of blue light began to surround their bodies before focusing on their swords. With each swing of their blades a rainbow colored bird would fly out and strike their targets with deadly accuracy.

Boom! Dirt, dust, and scraps of wood flew everywhere as a deafening explosion sounded out across the battle field. There was only a large crater where the catapult had been before.

Seoyoon and Weed stood at the head of the attack and cut down enemy after enemy forging their way through the masses. Becker's soldier's covered them from the flanks and set the remaining tents on fire to cover their escape.

Finally they were on their way to the forest of miming, said to be a minor forest god.

As Weed was running toward the woods he looked to his sides and saw his comrade’s faces, feeling somewhat at ease with this change of pace. It didn't matter that there was an army of 300,000 men hot on his trail for he was surrounded by an army of his own. Things were different from the last time they had attacked. Now his friends and soldiers that he had fought alongside him before were now with him. For the first time in a long time Harn, the lone wolf that hunted through the Continent of Magick, felt at ease on the battlefield.

Weed took one long look at the forest of miming and the enormous mountain that still some tens of miles away. The real battle begins now.

"Come on you lot! We've still got a lot of ground to cover!!" yelled Weed in a loud voice as he tried to hide his smile.

"Wuohhh!! Follow the commander! We're going to make it through this alive!" screamed some of the Royal Knights.

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“General Norman! A small group of soldiers has broken through are right flank and are heading for the Forest of Miming. Estimated number is 3500.”

“What?! Then why are you just standing here for!?? Rally cavalry regiments 3 through 7 and intercept those bastards! We were given strict orders not to allow any survivors!”

“Understood. 20,000 cavalry men should be more than enough to take them down.”

“See that you do then.” Replied the General in a cold voice “Or it’ll be your head.”

*Gulp* “Sir yes sir!”

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“Hehe”

“Hahahaha”

“Yahaaaaaaaaaa”

The entire group began to break out into an uncontrollable laughter as they finally began to realize what an impossible thing they had just done.

"Come on you lot! We've still got a lot of ground to cover and need to set up the traps!!" yelled Weed in a loud voice as he tried to hide his smile.

"Wuohhh!! Follow the commander! We're going to make it through this alive!" screamed Becker toward the skies

Everyone in behind him started screaming as well at the unexpected turn of events.

"Hurrahh! I'll follow you anywhere master Weed!"

"Toward the mountains! We'll grind those embinyu bastards to dust with our cannons!"

"Push forward!! We can do this!!"

To be honest, most of the soldiers and players that had been conscripted for the assault were second guessing whether or not they could break through the enemy’s army and some had even considered running away after they were out of the gate. But once they broke through the enemy encampment their faith was restored. There was no turning back and the only thing they could do was keep moving forward.

In a matter of minutes they reached the forest and broke out of their formation to ready the traps.

Good. This is where we’ll hold them off thought Weed as he watched everyone run through the shrubs in haste preparing everything.

“Everyone listen up! We’re splitting up into two groups. Group one will contain the shamans, sculptors, and Geomchi’s group. They will make defense preparations while the rest of us hold off the enemy! Am I understood?”

“Yes Commander!!”

“Geomchi I need for your group to go with the others and clear away some of the monsters to Death Mountain. Once there use you breaker skill the crush all of the rocks so that the enemy has nothing to hide behind. Also, carve out several slides along the face of the mountain. Shamans, you are to summon as many boulders as you can while the Sculptors carve them. If you get it then move out!” instructed Weed.

After group one left through the main road Hosram ordered the knights to cut down the surrounding trees so that the enemies couldn’t follow.

“All of the traps have been readied and everyone is in position.” Said Maylon in a cool fashion

“Good. Now we need only wait for the enemy.”

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The Forest of Death

Within 15 minutes the Embinyu Cavalry had arrived at the forest of Miming, dismounted, and began to scour the past each tree in search of the enemy.

The Rosenheim defense force was conversing over the group chat with private messages.

-Pale: Master Weed there’s a group of 10 paladins 320 meters from you. The rest of them are close behind.

-Really? That’s a pretty accurate reading??

-Well yeah…I mean they’re wearing brand new shiny white armor. It’s kind of hard NOT to notice them…In fact it hurts my eyes a little. *Rub Rub*

-Well okay just make sure not to shoot anyone yet. We need to follow the plan and wait for them to get closer.

-WE WILL FIGHT UNTIL THE LAST MAN STANDS!!!! Elliott screamed over the group chat. After that a bunch of other players started saying the same thing causing an echo effect.

-Weed: Grr... SHUT UP BEFORE I COME OVER THERE AND KO YOUR ASSES!!! Shouted Weed as he repeatedly massaged his temples. (I wanted to Weed to say this least once lol, it’s kind of like Creus Sun from Legend of The Sun Knight wanting to scream “Are you blind?! Look at my sword! I am the Sun knight! SUN.KNIGHT.” >: ) Gah…Even calculating tax returns wasn’t this painful…

-Elliott: -But…

-Weed -Shiiing- (Sound of Weed pulling his sword out and getting ready to smack him)

-Elliott: I’ll be good.

Pale: Hate to interrupt your honey moon but…

-Weed: Don’t you start with me to Pale…

-Pale: The enemies are in range. Shall we begin?

-Weed: Yeah…Hwaryung, you’re up. Let’s give them a show to remember for all time.

-Of course!

Pales previous comment seemed to have struck one of Seyoon’s nerve as she to had taken out her blade.

“Moonlight Serenade!” the melancholic melody of a harp began to weave its way through the trees and directly into the ears of all those nearby. Then a beautiful lady with pale white skin appeared from behind one of the trees in a light green dress which exposed her upper back and part of her left leg because of the slit. It was Hwaryung dancing to the sorrowful music. There was utter silence as everyone gazed upon Hwaryung’s wondrous dance. She moved to and fro across the small opening in the forest all the while the hem of the dress clung to her, revealing her body’s smooth curves. Hwaryung’s beauty was somehow enhanced in this desolate and depressing forest. The moonlight shone through the forest ever more and seemed to shine only on her, and her beauty was magnified by the flower bed that Weed had arranged beforehand. That crystal like voice of hers seemed echo through the night and breathe life back into this once dead forest. She gave off the impression that she was a Nymph, an embodiment of the spirit of the forest itself in its entire splendor. The Embinyu soldiers were drawn to her and began to move forward bit by bit.

-Weed: mm….I kind of feel like singing now to.

-Mapan: NO!!

-Weed: -shiiing(sound of sword being drawn out again)- Hmm…What was that?

-Mapan: Um…We are not worthy??

-Weed: Darn right you aren’t. *Sheathes back his sword*

On a separate group chat:

-Irene: Master Weed’s singing can’t be that bad, right…?

-Mapan: I spent an entire month carrying him from Baran Village to Herridia village, the home base for the Church of Freya. The entire time I was with him I was contemplating suicide but couldn’t because I would’ve my carriage…

-Romune: How did you get through it then?

-Mapan: I smashed my earlobes with a rock and later had myself healed when we reached town. Thankfully he was more worried about cutting his bag of jewels so I didn’t need to learn how to read his lips…I swear that it was a form of torture. If I didn’t do that with the rock I would’ve gone permanently tone deaf both in Royal Road and in reality…Argh….just thinking about it hurts my ears.

-….

-Pale: Good save man!! Pale sincerely felt like patting Mapan on the back just then. If Mapan, who had to deal with Weed even more than them had trouble putting up with it, who knows what they would’ve been forced to do.

Back to main group chat

-Pale: Master Weed all of them are gathered and in range.

-Weed: Without hesitation Weed announced “Begin the attack.”

“Rangers pick out your targets and focus on hitting the gaps in their armor. Fire on my signal” ordered Maylon who was left in charge of the ranger(sniper type of archers I think)

“Archers knock back your arrows and prepare to volley on my command.” ordered Pale in a calm fashion. He was in charge of the archers who had specialized more in using multishot and vulture’s eye.

“Mages begin chanting your incantations now it will begin shortly.”

“Archers fire!”

“Rangers fire at will!”

The soldiers that were entranced by Hwaryung’s dance were easily taken by surprise by the sudden attack. All at once, a rain of arrows began to pour down from all directions upon the Embinyu soldiers. But as expected from a trained army they quickly got back in order. “Defensive formation! Get into circle formation and protect the priests and mages!!”

“Where are they?! I can’t see anything!”

“Ahh…. Above! They’re shooting at us from above!!”

“Damned cowards….Mages, what are you waiting for?! Shoot back at them while we defend!”

Kuku…Like I’ll let you do that. You guys were trained so that makes you all the more easily to predict. Weed took out a horn from his bag and blew it “puwoo wooowoowoo woowoowoo!” The horn of three big victories Weed had been carrying out was used to signal the start of the attack. “Rosenheim knights, now is the time! Break into wall formation and strike down your enemies!!!”

The Rosenheim knights appeared to be zombies as they popped out of the ground (like daisies!!! Only in this case they’re daisies of doom). They were originally ordered to hide underground by covering themselves with dirt by Weed so that they wouldn’t be discovered but now it was finally time for them to take their revenge. They held in their hands the tower shields that they had looted from the Embinyu Paladins previously and then lined up with each other to form a wall before crashing into the enemy from all four sides. “Crush them!!!”

They began to cut down all of the stray warriors in their path and then charged toward the gathered enemies. The Knights moved as one as though they were a massive machine. They were fueled by an decisive factor called morale. All of them knew full well that Rosenheim would fall indefinitely if Embinyu denomination was allowed to run amuck, so they decided to wager everything in this fight and stop them here regardless of whether or not they died. The embinyu soldiers on the other hand were in complete distress. They had always held an absolute advantage in terms of numbers and would just swarm their enemies to win, but now their numbers were just a hindrance.

“Push!! Don’t let a single one of them get away!” The knights came at them from every direction and boxed them in like sardines by using the tower shields. All of them were level 400 royal knights so there was no way that they could outmuscle them. In the end, they could do nothing as their bodies were mashed together. None of them could so much as scratch their nose, let alone fight back!

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“Kill them!! Kill them!!”

“Lightning Bo-Gahh!!”

All of the archers in the trees continued to rain down arrows upon the now helpless enemies as the knights on the ground. Within minutes almost of the enemies were killed and only a mound of grey bodies was left.

Several shadows appeared from behind Weed an latched onto his body.

“Now!! Blast him!!”

“Hurry up, we can’t last long as is!!” Some of the stray paladins had survived the onslaught and were only pretending to be dead. 10 mages began to chant a high level spell called Jupitel Thunder. “Get off of me!!” Weed attempted to rip them off from his body but they crowded him and held him in place. Shit… “Stone skin! Cold eyes!” Weed activated a skill to increase his defensive abilities at the cost of mana and movement speed then shut his eyes tightly bracing himself for the attack. I am so going to get revenge on those stupid knights when I’m back…Huh?? Shouldn’t they have blasted me by now.

Weed opened one of his eyes slightly to take a peek at what was going on. His face was distorted into a mixture of surprise and horror. Several of the mages were missing their limbs and lying on the ground crying. The paladins that had been holding him in place were easily dealt with by a dagger to their necks. Seoyoon looked in Weed’s direction and hastily examined his body to see if he was hurt. Then heaved a sigh of relief as their were no wounds. But for some reason Weed took two steps back and looked awkwardly at her.

Weed began to analyze the situation at a lightning speed pace. Holy crap she’s a monster…She easily dealt with those paladins even though I couldn’t get them off…and there were 25 of them!! Wait…why is she looking at me like that?! Could it be…? She must want some kind of reward!! But…I helped her get that circlet before!! Agh…However, she did save me…and I was the one who got caught in that stupid trap because I let my guard down…. “….I’ll show you something amazing once this is all over as well as take you out to dinner…?”

Seoyoon just stared dumfoundedly at Weed as he ran through a series of poses and expressions you would normally only see in a gag manga. Why is he offering to show me something? No wait…he said dinner!! He clearly said dinner!! “Dinner…?”

“Yes, and I’ll even make it myself…” I have to minimize the costs somehow…

So…it’s a date?! “Okay! You promised!! You can’t back out of it no matter what.” Seoyoon smiled slightly at this thought of being able to eat with him.

Weed: It’s not like I can~~!! Argh….looking at her expression just now, I bet she wants some high class dinner with rare and costly ingredients like lobster….Argh~~~!! My money!!! It’s slowly fading away!!! Whyyyyyyyyyy!!!

“Commander there’s a group of enemies escaping to the right!” reported Buren

Just as Weed tidying himself up and getting ready to explain why it was unnecessary, a large number of spells crashed down on the enemies and annihilated them.

“I placed Romune and the other mages over there to cut them off. For now, everyone get back into your positions it should be another 15 minutes till the next group comes.”

“Weed nim there’s a large number of cavalry coming from the west! It seems to be at least 12,000 cavalry men!”

“What?? But...that’s too soon. There’s no way we can hold off that many as we are.”

*Whizz* Several arrows flew towards Weed but Buren and Becker used the shields to defend him.

“There is the enemy! Show them the might of embinyu!!”

Damn it…We’re too exposed and we may not be able to get away safely but right now we’ve got no choice… “Tsk! All units retreat!! Hurry up and fall back!”

From the corner of his eye a large shadow suddenly flew past him and toward the Embinyu army. That impossibly large body and ridiculously massive battle axe couldn’t have belonged to anyone else. It was the only player he had talked to when he was in the training center “Python!! What are you doing?!”

Python looked back at Weed with a slight smile on his face. It seems that he sensed that it would be impossible for everyone to safely get away unless they had more time and decided to charge in him. “You had better give me a duel once this is all over!” he shouted as he turned back to face the opponents.

Raising his battle axe far over his head Python executed a horizontal slash and cut down both the horse and the man on it. “Come face the great Python sama~!! Ahahahha!”

“Ignore him! He’s just trying to distract us, quickly go and take down those-”

The soldier was de-capacitated before he could even finish his sentence.

“You’ll deeply regret it if you dare to underestimate me.” Said Python in a low voice as he readied his weapon for battle once more. None of the Embinyu dared to charge forward and leave their backs to this monster so they all focused their attention on bringing him down.

“Master Weed, are we really going to leave him behind?! He sacrificed himself for us!”

Enraged Weed shouted back “We have no choice!! The priority right now is to get as many people safely to death mountain and prepare to defend Rosenheim!” Harn tried to hold himself back by biting his lower lip “The only thing we can do now is avenge him.”

“Sir! Second enemy group inbound from the left! Estimated numbers are 8,000. They seem to be trying to flank us!!”

“What?! So they had another group in waiting…This means that Pythons sacrifice was meaningless. Damn it!! No…I have to calm down. Anger will only be a hindrance right now.” Weed quickly calmed himself down and issued orders. “Heavy armor troops form a wall and hold to separate us from the enemy and try to intercept their attacks. Lead party, do not allow a single one of those bastards to get past you otherwise our formation will be torn to shreds! Archers and mages support the heavy armor division with your attacks!! We absolutely cannot fall here. For Rosenheim kingdom!!”

Skill: Sing

Allies within range are affected with a 200% increase of moral. Confused allies have confusion removed. Leadership for 5 minutes will be boosted 195%.

“We will follow your orders!!”

-Mapan have you finished setting things up yet? We’re heading your way right now.

-Eh?? But it’s too soon! We still haven’t finished putting everything in place yet!

-No choice! Gather everyone there and begin to head toward Death Mountain right now. We’re already engaging a group of 8,000 men and behind them there’s another 12,000.

-Um…Understood, Master Weed. We’ve already placed several of the taps at the designated locations so we’ll be going now.

Weed began to beckon all those present to gather around him “All units form up and follow me! Do not mis step single foot off the path I’m about to take otherwise you may get separated. Am I clear?”

“Yes!!”

The knights and players continued running for a total of 4 miles before reaching a clearing where they tied up the horses. Following closely from behind was unrelenting Embinyu Denomination.

Embinyu soldier: *Huff….Huff* “Stop! You cowards come and face me!! Argh…. So hard to breathe…”

Romune could hardly contain her silence anymore and decided to throw back her own insult “Coming from a man who only has confidence when he outnumbers his enemies? Hmph! You can’t even be considered a man.”

Unable to counter this insult all the soldier could do was order his subordinates to capture her “Gahh what are you idiots waiting for, hurry up and catch that woman! I want her head on a silver platter!”

“Huff…Huff….We’re trying but they’re damned fast…It’s just about impossi- URK!!”

Just like that the soldier fell off his horse, as did several the sergeants that they were following and some of the other soldiers.

“Ahhh~!!! My neck hurts….And this puddle stinks…”

Secret weapon number 1: Weed had actually ordered the blacksmith guild to hand over 50 thin steel wires and for the painters guild to paint them jet black. This way they would be close to invisible at night and the enemy would be unable to notice them. Mapan was ordered to set these strings in various locations through the forest at neck level when they ride a horse.

“Eh??? Wait…This smell is….OIL!?!? All units retreat at once! It’s a trap!!”

After Weed’s gained enough distance he decided it was time. While gritting his teeth in anger he issued the order “Burn it down. The forest, Embinyu Denomination, everything.”

“Fire arrow!”

“Fire field!”

“Fire ball!”

“Fire bolt!”

The last and final strike was Romune’s spell “Endless Rivers of fire!” the fire started burning where Romune’s hand was pointing and then began burning its way through the forest and Embinyu forces with horrifying accuracy. The flames were fueled by the oil that Mapan had poured and everything in its path soon became ash. Rather than a river it seemed more like an enormous snake was circling its prey and devouring it whole.

After another half an hour of travel everyone arrived at Death Mountain. Geomchi and the rest were finishing up smashing the surrounding rocks and turning the mountain face completely flat. The only exceptions were these 8 small slides that went from the top of the mountain to the base.

Pale glanced left and right repeatedly, analyzing the mountain. “Why does this look so familiar….I’m sure I’ve never been to this area before but somehow it just looks recognizable…”

“What’s wrong dear?”

“Nothing, nothing it’s just that…I feel as though I’ve seen this scenery before.”

At the top of the mountain were the shamans and sculptors. The shamans were summoning giant blocks of rock from underground (This was in 32 I think) and the sculptors would carve them down into the form of a sphere by using a chisel and hammer.

“How’s everything progressing?” asked Weed in a serious manner

“We’ve just finished setting up the cannons and fortifications.”

“Good, then angle the cannons and take down the enemies priests/mages. If they lose their long range attackers and healers then they’ll be considerably weakened.”

“All right, we’ll adjust the angle and begin the bombardment at once. We’ve already stockpiled plenty of cannon balls from the Merchant guilds so there’s no need to hold back.”

Maylon looked at Pale in worry. He stopped dead in his tracks as soon as he reached the top of the mountain and his knees went weak. “Pale your face looks pale(white as a sheet if you want but I wanted to do this okay ;p). What’s the matter this time?”

Cold sweat ran down Pales forehead as he turned toward his wife. With a weak laugh he told her “Ha ha….I finally remembered where I saw this scene from…”

Ian: “The Embinyu denomination is here!! Let’s kick their asses!!”

“Rahhhhhhhhhh!!!!” The knights began to run down the hill but were stopped before they could even make a move.

“Stay where you are!!” yelled Weed “Time for you guys to show your stuff.”

With a boisterous laugh the martial artists took out a warhammer (think of a hammer but like 10 times bigger, the face of it is as large as a person’s head), started moving his shoulder around in circles, and got into a batters position. “Heh heh, I can finally let loose and relieve some of my stress. ORAHHHHH” Geo4chi smashed his hammer into the boulder dead center and sent it flying downhill into the face of an unlucky embinyu paladin and 3 of his friends behind him. “Ahahhaha that’s four points right??”

Martial artists have the unique ability of being able to competently wield any weapon that they want. Even if their mastery level of the weapon is low the player can make up for this with his strength stat that he trained with other weapons. Needless to say, everyone from the dojo had a monstrous amount of strength built from repeated training, hunting, and swimming across the ocean.

Embinyu mage: “You cowards!! Come down here and face me!! Face me!!!”

Next was Geomchi who sported a warhammer twice that of Geo4chis and sent the next boulder colliding into 6 embinyu soldiers causing everyone below to shudder in fear. Embinyu mage: “Guah!! Okay…You win…” After turning to face his compatriots he looked at his friends or mainly the girls in the group, and struck a pose to show off his biceps. “HAHA!! How do you like that?! 6 points!!”

The martial artists started to compete with one another to see who could get the highest score. The rocks were sent downhill just as fast as they were summoned by the shamans. Sometimes the sculptors didn’t even have enough time to carve it into a sphere but instead a cube that rebounded randomly.

Pale felt absolute pity for the Embinyu soldiers who were treated as nothing more than toys in a game. He turned his head toward Maylon to divert his attention and continued “…The Mountain was changed into a giant bowling alley…and the embinyu denomination is the bowling pins….”

Maylon could say nothing to comment at this ridiculous idea. But she couldn’t deny it since it was unfolding in front of her very eyes. She could only laugh weakly as she continued to watch the situation unfold. “I thought that I had gotten used to Master Weed but each time I think I understand him he just does something even more random.”

It was Irene’s turn to say something. “Don’t worry, we’re all the same as well. One time he even punched a lizardman to death with his barehands….”

“Seriously….?”

The embinyu soldiers continued to climb the mountain despite the rain of rocks, spells, and arrows. But it was clearly evident that their morale and confidence were fading as they watched those in front of them turn grey. Knowing that the situation was turning, the Embinyu priests and necromancers began to make their move. They raised their wands and began to chant various spells.

"Rise sleepless spirits living here undetected by eyes. Take revenge on those that killed you! Dead Rise!”

All of the dead warriors were ressurected as skeleton knights and Dullahans to take revenge on their enemies. The most frightening thing about them was their tenacity. Even if they only had their head they would still try to bite your ankles!!(This is from bonky’s summary of volume 10,btw you still working on it ?_?)

“You, fated to bring death,blood, and carnage,the battlefield shall be your home! Bloodlust!”(From oddsquad vol 2 chapter 16)

Their eyes turned red with fury and the muscles on their bodies grew to the point that it nearly ripped their armor off. The newly reformed army began to charge up the mountain once more with the soldiers in the front acting as shields. “No mercy!! You will suffer Embinyu!! RAHHHHH!!!”

Weed tensed as he watched the enemy’s run forward without a care for their lives. The skeletons and paladins already had high defense but now that they had been buffed it would be next to impossible to stop them. This is bad, even if we are uphill they still have the advantage in terms of numbers. Feeling that the tide of battle was about to change weed decided to reorganize the groups priorities. “Priests focus on heal bombing the skeletons while archers take down their necromancers. Mages, we’ll need your spells now more than ever. Cavalry, circle around the mountain and sweep across the mountain after the mages finish casting their spells. Your objective is merely to knock them back down the mountain; the momentum should take care of the rest. Also, split up into two groups and switch directions from time to time to catch them off guard.”

“Ready and waiting!”

“Attack!!”

“Holy light!!”

“Treatment of the Hand!” Healing regenerates a living person’s wounds but to an undead it causes damage.

“Wind cutter!”

“Churning Earth!”

“Thundercloud!”

The mages began to take turns firing off their spells so that there would never be a gap in between attacks that embinyu could take advantage of.

Just as he was about to give the order for the next attack Weed saw a glint in the center of the group below. That color…that shape…there’s no mistake about it! It’s the Dea staff! It’s Carved with the figure of Thea, Goddess of the Divine Light. It’s a special staff that increases the effectiveness of a priests skill by 200% and also contains in it 3 different buffs called magnifcat which increases mana regeneration, Assumptio which decreases the amount of damage your team recieves by a flat amount, as well as Angelus, a spell that increases the teams vitality. A priest with such an item would be welcome in any guild or party he wanted!! They must have taken it from one of the cities they captured. Every item in the Royal Road magazine was recorded in a part of Weed’s mind. What he recalled was that it was an impossibly rare item that no player had gotten his hands on yet. Not even the powerful Hermes guild. It’s price would probbly be 20 million won(20,000) or more…ARGH….But I can’t go down and take it. There’s too many, even more than I can handle. A lightbulb suddenly went off in Weed’s mind.

“Call Death Knight Van Hawk!”

“Wuooooooh!!! Greetings to the great master!! Whatever you need of me I will do it!!” Van Hawk was obviously happy. He could smell war in the air and was ready for combat at anytime. (Skeletons don’t have a nose~!! :3)He was only ever called out on rare occasions such as these when he was needed to fight, at other times he was trapped inside the necklace until he was summoned. This had been happening quite a lot recently since Harn disliked the thought of needlessly sharing exp.

“You see that gold staff that priest is holding in the center of the group?” said Weed with a smile

Van Hawk began to worry. Every time his master smiled it meant something unimaginably horrifying was about to happen. “….Yes…” he replied in a low voice as though he were on an execution stand.

“I want you to get it for me, as well as his robes if you can. Silver robes sell for quite a bit since they boost both the faith and the intelligence stat.”

The death knight tried to come up with a rebuttal and threw out whatever reasons his brain could think of(He has no brain yohohoho~! Okay had to be a little corny ;p) “But…it’s a very large number of enemies…and, and…it’s a very holy object. I’ll be lucky if my arms aren’t burned off after holding it for five minutes!!”

“Did you not just say that you would do whatever I ordered you to do?”

Van Hawk instantly regretted his words “Yes….I did but….”

“Are you not a knight who values honor?”

“….Yes…”

“Then go get that staff for me. If you fail or it’s damaged in any way…*cracks knuckles and neck a little* You know full well what’s in store for you…”

“….Understood…” *sniff*

Lifting Van Hawk high over his shoulders with his arms he gave one more order to the poor Death Knight “Now go get me that staff!! And don’t come back until you do!!”

“Why m- AHHHHHHHH!!!!” Van Hawk flew headfirst into the crowd of enemies and collided with the priest who held the Staff.

Irene: “Um…Master Weed…?”

“What is it?! Don’t you see I’m busy watching the battle?!” Weed refused to stop looking at his beloved dea Staff. That staff made of pure gold that would soon come into his hands.

Romune: “Well the thing is….There’s something you should see.”

“I’m already watching something.”

It was then Maylon’s turn “Master Weed! You really REALLY need to see this.”

After five more attempts and then smacking his head with their staffs, Weed reluctantly turned his eyes away from his precious Dea staff and the sight of a death knight punching his way through a mass of paladins.

“Alright, what is it??”

It was only then that Weed noticed the abnormal sound of someone grunting, and the ground shaking. All of the blood drained from Weed’s face as he gazed across the landscape. There were 12 enormous ogres, each pushing a siege tower toward Rosenheim.

Maylon tried to cheer everyone up but it was in vain “Guys no need to look so frightened. We…we still have the cannons. The siege towers are made of wood so we could try and take them down from here!”

After taking a gulp Weed pointed his finger toward a part of the skies. “You’ve trained your vulture’s eye ability for a while so you should be able to see them easily.”

Maylon turned her head and squinted her eyes as she focused on the shadow in the sky. she nearly fainted when she saw them but Pale held her up “Those…Those are…Undead dragons?! Four of them?!?!?”

“That’s right….So we have no time to waste on these weaklings.” Weed quickly got over his doubt and began to closely analyze the situation and figure out a possible countermeasure. “Maylon about how long until the undead dragons get here?” Weed asked calmly

“I’d say…15 to 20 minutes.”

“It’ll be close but I have a plan. Geo39chi and Geo5chi(The martial artists are named in terms of 1st sword, 5th sword, etc with Geomchi being 1st I believe) attach some of the steel chains to the balls and get ready for my command!”

At this time, after much fighting Van Hawk had finally managed climb the mountain. His Skull had an arrow in it, his Ulna, Clavicle, and several other bones were cracked beyond repair, and his entire left ribcage was missing. In his left hand he held the Dea Staff but it was engulfed in a pure white holy flame.

-You have received holy damage, health decreases by 250

-Health decreased by 330

*Huff* *Huff* The death knight was gripping his ribs and on the verge of collapsing but he supported himself with his sword began to limp toward Weed by using the sword as a cane. “Master….Master…I’ve gotten the staff…ahahaha…”

“Mages and priests enchant the knight’s and the archer’s weapons then let them engage the paladins.”

“Master…??? It took a while but there was a paladin who managed to get several good strikes on me but I’m here now.”

-Health is decreased by 423. Your left hand is now destroyed. Have a nice day.

“Crap…I can’t let it get damaged or master will beat me even more…Better switch to my right hand” grimaced Van Hawk. But that arm to, was engulfed in a white flame and continued to inflict damage upon him.

-HP is decreased by 477

“Afterward, the wizards are to work focus on using large area of effect spells to bring down the siege towers. You don’t need to destroy the towers, just render them immobile by breaking their wheels. The cannons will also help give you supporting fire in between the spells”

“Master, please um…This really hurts. If you could just recall me back into the necklace so I can recover….”

-You receive 560 damage. Your right arm has been destroyed.

Van Hawk was forced to hold onto the holy Dea Staff in his mouth to keep it from falling down.

“…..Master, help….pretty please…? Agh….”

“Break out into three groups with one group casting another spell, after that spell is over the next one will fire, and the third group is to recover their mana then switch out with the others when necessary.”

Once the orders were given Weed turned around to see who was speaking to him. “Ah! The Dea Staff!! Good job, Van Hawk. I knew you could do it.” turning to side to side “Eh? Where are you?”

“Master….I’m down here…”

Weed tilted his head downward but he could only see a mound of fine ground dust.

Hesitating a bit Weed finally asked “….Van Hawk??? Is that you??”

“Yes, it is me master. Can I go back into the necklace to recover now? Please?!!?” asked the death knight as he tried to suppress his tears.

“…Recall death knight!”

Oh thank goodness…I can finally rest…

“Summon Death Knight Van Hawk”

Appearing in a shroud of black smoke was Van Hawk back at full health.

Weed stood proudly with his hands at his hips as though he had just done a great deed “Good. You’re all repaired now. Fight alongside the others and defend the mage group.”

The suppressed tears finally broke free and they streamed down the death knights cheeks as streams of blood. Why me….I never did anything to deserve this…

Weed: “Ahahaha! No need to cry tears of joy Van Hawk. Just fight and I’ll consider that thanks enough.”

*Sniff Sniff* After accepting his cruel fate he charged toward the enemy alongside the Rosenheim Knights.

Hugging the staff fiercely was Weed “My precious…I won’t hand you over to anyone!! Not to those Embinyu guys, the undead dragons, or the gods themselves!”