Volume 24 Chapter 3: An Estimate More Terrifying than Life.
“Time to see if it’s done.”
The Geomchis began to fight over eating the roasted meat and soup. They were happy spending every day waking up, eating, sleeping, and fighting. Pollon took this time to ask the Hermes Guild to recruit the Necromancers reinforcements. Weed refused the help of the priests and paladins because the Geomchis and the Undead Army would be enough to go up against Pollon.
“Just the sahyungs will be enough.”
The Geomchis could fight anywhere on the continent of Versailles. The Geomchis were people who would jump into a dragon breath attack out of their own free will. So he took care of the grilling for them.
“Can you win? You’re not going against a dragon but the Hermes Guild…”
“It would be better to run away and fight against the undead. Even with the undead, what are you going to do if they get help from the Necromancers?”
The paladins were anxiously waiting. They had come to hunt Bar Khan. They believed in Weed but ever since they saw the Geomchis accompanying them, all that they seen them do was eat and sleep.
That was because they were all proud high level users with good skill levels and equipment. Only after the battle would they know the true value of the Geomchis. Weed stood by his plan.
“The undead…there is more than enough of them left.”
Until now he had only fought and retreated, but now it was time to conduct battle.
Weed began to prepare for the battle once more.
“Back in that temple, my levels, skill proficiency, and my japtem…”
Deeply rooted resentment for the Hermes Guild! Murray was secretly returning along the trail with the items.
“Let’s start the fight.”
Ttagak. Ttagak. Ttagak.
As Weed gave his command, the Death Knight and Doom Knight horses began to move accordingly. Thanks to his items, he had regained the authority to command and control the undead. Geomchi5 asked.
“How are we going to fight?”
Weed said that anyway was fine.
“Sahyungs can fight anywhere you want. You still need to be careful of magic and arrows though.”
“Then there is no need to worry. We’ve recently learned a new skill that lets us change the trajectory of arrows.”
Weed got onto horseback as the undead began to approach Pollon’s camp area. Pollon’s unit of knights, mages, and rangers were mainly composed of users so they looked at Weed, Geomchis, and the undead lightly.
“Looks like the paladins and priests are not going to move.”
“If they’re not joining the fight then this will be easy.”
The power of a priests was in high demand for victory. The Hermes Guild wanted to use their battle to show their capabilities against Necromancers. They decided to change their tactics against Weed’s undead since the Geomchis were there now. This time the fight was starting for real. One of Pollon’s knights came forward alone on horseback.
“I am one of the Knights of the Crescent. Is there anyone that would fight me!”
+The Crescent Knight has requested a duel. Would you like to accept the duel?
+The winner of the duel will receive fame and boost morale.
+If the duel is rejected then morale will decrease.
Instead of full-scale combat the knights wanted one on one fights. The Crescent Knights had noticed that there were not many users on Weed’s side. This was their chance to kill Weed again. It would be a great honor for the knight users to cross swords with Weed.
“I’m coming out!”
Geomchi350 went to the sword match riding his bull.
+Both sides of the duel had been established.
+After the duel you can move into full-scale war.
+The opponent must be killed in battle. Otherwise the loser will be branded a coward and the loyalty of soldiers will be reduced greatly.
Weed and the Geomchis decided to relax and enjoy the show. In Royal Road, Geomchi350 had a high level and skill proficiency. There was only one thing they needed to worry about.
“One month of cleaning the toilet.”
“Five thousand practice strikes a day.”
Cruel punishment was awaiting them!
The match was between the knight and his horse against Geomchi350 and his significantly bigger bull. He was trying to grasp the opponent’s movements! He watched the enemy’s breath in and out roughly. Then almost simultaneously, they rushed forwards with their bull and horse.
“Come on!”
Puhihihing!
“Let’s go.”
Eummeoeoeoeoeo!
They charged at each other and Geomchi350 lightly raised his sword from its scabbard. Knight jousting duels were very dangerous. Defense did not matter since the attack that was coming had a lot of weight on it. Since they were running in the one direction, they could only rush towards each other so usually a duel on horseback was decided instantly. Right as they passed each other, the knight fell onto the ground and died.
+Ally has won the duel.
+Fame, morale, and loyalty has increased.
“…”
Pollon’s camp was dead quiet. There was no shouts of victory from Weed’s side either.
“Guess he’s not going to clean the toilets.”
“I was going to have him wash the dishes…”
They had no signs of surprise from the victory. In Royal Road, Geomchi350′s talent for the sword had blossomed. It was better to hunt monsters and raise their sword skill level than it was to just simply train.
The Geomchi had just defeated a level 380 Crescent Knight as if it was completely natural. From their breathing and slight movements of the eyes and shoulders they could tell where the enemy was going to attack and precisely respond to it.
“I’ll fight until your cowardly leader comes forth.”
Geomchi350 shouted to Pollon to come forwards into the match. He had gotten stronger motivation since it was going to be broadcasted.
‘My little brothers will see me.’
His little brothers were also big fans of Royal Road.
He wanted his family to think of him in a better light.
“My name is Balmer! I will take you down a notch.”
“Necker is my name. You will have the glory of me killing you!”
Geomchi350 took on four more challenges in a row and won all of them. It ended with either the death of the users or his horse. Three people had died and two others were dying and the Crescent Knights could still not come out the winner.
Pollon had not said anything about the duels instead of a full-scale battle since he did not think they would beat his knights. Now they had lost a considerable amount of power and the Crescent Knights were dead while the others were not going to fight in the duels.
+The other side has given up on the duel.
+All allies have maximum morale at the start of the battle.
Geomchi350 received charisma, fighting spirit, strength, agility, and other various stats as well as increase in his sword mastery and a lot of fame. Pollon exclaimed anxiously.
“Now is the time to fight! March against the undead!”
It was not a good start but now the real battle had finally taken place. They were trying to fight against the undead using only rangers and wizards.
He deployed the mages and rangers in the back with him against the undead.
Weed used his yell.
“All undead listen!”
Pollon and the rest of the users from the Hermes Guild guessed that Weed was going to use all of the undead from the Immortal Legion to fight. But then he struck a blow to them.
“The Necromancers are not on our side.Should you fall in combat only answer to my call.”
The Geomchis were very high level but they were all melee classes. If any of their bodies fell into the hands of the Hermes Guild necromancers then the situation would become more favorable for them.
“As an undead of Bar Khan, you must honor the name of the father that summoned you!”
Weed’s Lion Roar swept across the entire camp.
At this point, the Hermes Guild began to fell a little uneasy. They did not want the situation to turn into its worst.
“To fight against me would be to deny your existence as undead and as well as Bar Khan. Darkness rules the laws of the legion. You have made me your enemy. Fight for Bar Khan. Kill them!”
+Yell has been used.
+Yell has increased the morale of all friendly units within range by 200%.
+All confusion has been removed.
+For 5 minutes, leadership will be applied at 285%.
Weed was using his status as an undead directly under Bar Khan! It was a status that was well above any necromancer. In the range of Bar Khan’s Death Aura, any undead will be affected by his power and influence. Weed used his leadership to abuse that power and loyalty. The Death Knights were first.
“Bar Khan’s commands are to be followed.”
“We can not go against our respectable lord Bar Khan that grants us eternal life.”
The Necromancers tried to summon Undead troops, but at Weed’s words they began to attack the rangers and wizards.
“What is this? It looks like the undead are crazy!”
“Weren’t these summoned by the Necromancers!”
Rangers had to use bows so at close range it was difficult for them to fight since they had weak defense. Various explosions came out to prevent the undead attack. However they weren’t doing much better. Wizards had high attack power with their magic but it took a long time and they had low health and defense. By raising their wisdom, they had the side effect of having low strength and power. These classes received the undead attacks and died instantly.
Pollon could not tell what was happening amidst the explosions from magical attacks and the death of the mages..
“The summoned undead are not listening.”
“This is crazy! How could his words change the summons?”
“This is Bar Khan’s area and his power keeps the undead on his side.”
In order to stop the undead, the Crescent Knights rushed in.
A wizard’s magic was very valuable and even a single person was a big loss.
“Undead forces, advance forwards!”
Weed showed the force of the Death Knights and Doom Knights. It was a race against time. They planned to submerge the enemy in chaos and attack before they could reorganize.
“You need to eat it as soon as it is ripe. Take this chance to strike a blow.”
He realized that it was difficult to pass this up. There was nothing as wasteful as finding food in the refrigerator that had long passed its expiration date. The undead knights charged at the enemy with full speed. Pollon’s side had very little fighting experience and could not respond quickly to Weed’s actions.
As the fight continued, they quickly chose to abandon their defensive formation. The troops were caught in a bad position and could were not working at maximum efficiency. Pollon ordered his troops.
“Knights, defend the mages from the undead. Rangers use your arrows to shoot down the undead troops. Follow the commands that I have given.”
Weed had fought many enemy that were stronger than himself and was able to use this experience to accomplish his goals. All the units were given clear duties and he used them to produce results. He had learned about how Pollon fought and was managing his troops accordingly.
“About this much.”
Weed watched and made estimations as the undead picked off the Pollon’s rangers and mages. The Sahyungs were suited to this kind of work in Royal Road! When the Crescent Knights were not being mobilized for war, they were usually being used to commit atrocious raids on merchants. They were various high level, notorious murderers that maintained their marks.
Even when they joined the Kingdom of Haven, the murderer mark still had side effects so they would drop a lot of items on death. They may even drop their expensive full plate armor.
“I might be able to get Yurin and Grandma winter coats…its also good to start depositing into a bank.”
Weed was going to establish a savings account.
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KMC Media as well as other game stations kept receiving higher viewership.
+Game broadcast audience has reached over 80%!
+More than half the stations were broadcasting the battle.
+It was hard to find a user on Royal Road that did not know about the fight!
It was the hot topic for the day. Many viewers had expected a battle between Weed and the Hermes Guild, so they had been waiting. The advertisers had made reservations for satisfactory advertising. The undead under Weed’s command broke down the formation and inflicted damages.
Before the battles did not take very long but now Pollon and his units seemed to be bewildered. They failed to stop the Geomchis overwhelming assault with their forces. It was one of the best scenes.
“Let’s kill them fast so we can get our bowl of soup.”
“Shall we use the new skill that we learned? Bungeomsul!”
“Those that live get to eat and those that die don’t. Do your best.”
The Crescent Knights fought with valor but were relentlessly crushed when they were caught by the Geomchis. The knights were completely overwhelmed by the Geomchis frontal attack.
The situation was chaotic and their combat capability came as a big shock to the Crescent Knight.
“Why are these guys so weak.”
“The King Squid we killed before was harder.”
“Compared to when we were fighting in the sea, this is like fighting a camel.”
The viewers were surprised to see the Crescent Knights fall to the sword masters. Within minutes, the Geomchis had killed two of four of them each. They were very experience in fighting large crowds without skills since their wisdom and knowledge were very low. Nevertheless, the knights could not get into formation with the rate that they were falling.
They were lucky that the knights were collapsing quickly because they had low skill proficiencies. The average level of the Geomchis were not that far behind that Crescent Knights and they also had much higher sword skills, fighting spirit, and combat experience. They were people who roamed the most hellish of places looking for strong monsters and fighters! Weed played an integral part as well.
“That piece of armor!”
Without hesitation, he picked out the high level knights from the group.
“Heraim Fencing!”
He was not fighting all alone. Thanks to the Geomchis, he didn’t need to pay so much attention to defense since he was not alone.
“You’re making me wait to eat!”
As if they were born to fight, they cut their way through the Crescent Knights. Due to Bar Khan’s magic, Weed and his horse were very quick and ferocious. It would not be joking to say that he looked like a monster. He looked as if he was a strong warrior that was accustomed to the battlefield. The appearance of the unstoppable Doom Knight wa engraved into the eyes of the audience. He overwhelmingly dominated over the knights. Weed took his time while checking on the undead army. After finishing off the Crescent Knights, the Geomchis went to attack the rangers which would soon end the battle. Historically, wizards and rangers had great strength when used together but they were eliminated instantly before they could do anything. It was a one-sided slaughter and Weed made it look easy! Pollon thought the sanctuary would be useful against the undead, but the Geomchis were human. They could not hope to think that such an opponent as the Geomchis as they headed towards the wizards, rangers, and necromancers. Pollon’s units tried to fight the Geomchis, but they were only killed by the Geomchis. They were a lot of people who were used to killing and fighting, so they were not scared to die. However, the Geomchis were not opponents they could fight against even if they flocked together. No matter how high level Pollon could get, it would not be enough to last in a duel or a battle against the Geomchis.
“This is the cost of cleaning and washing the dishes.”
“There’s also a lot of laundry that’s piled up, sahyung.”
Weed charged the Geomchis after the battle as he began to roast the horse meat. The broadcasters and viewers of Royal Road began to post comments on the board.
+That was pretty amazing.
+This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen this week.
+Ever since my boss screwed me over and forced me to quit, I’ve been depressed. However, now I’m excited for once.
+I’ve been getting shivers every time I remember what happened on TV.
Several people were saying all sorts of things as they watched on the stations. There were countless requests to the stations to rerun the edited version of the battle several times throughout the day. Since the atrocities of the Hermes Guild and other prestigious guilds were well-known, more viewers began to side with Weed.
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The President Jeong regularly receives reports on his daughter Seoyoon’s health.
“She still isn’t talking much but luckily she’s adapting quickly and it won’t be long.”
It pleased him to hear that Seoyoon was recovering and having a social life.
“But she’s getting a little close to the young Hyun man…”
President Jeong heard from the guards that they even travel home together. Since he was trying to be a good parent, he didn’t want Seoyoon’s heart to be broken again. Aside from being a good father to his only daughter, to his business and community he was a cold-blooded man.
“I would have prefered if it was a man with a good status, but isn’t he only an ordinary person?
Doctor Cha Eun Hee looked through and put down some papers that were about Seoyoon on the desk.
“As you know, Seoyoon has recently stabilized her psychological state but if you force anything then it would be difficult to tell what will happen.”
“I am aware that it’s the top priority to not hurt my little baby’s heart.”
However, President Jeong could not just sit around and do nothing.
“I am aware that you are concerned. How about you introduce a good man to her?”
“Is that so?”
“President, you can tell him to go to a place where he could run into Seoyoon.”
“So a place that she goes to often. Good!”
So it was about trying to force a meeting and getting Seoyoon to talk.
‘The eldest son of the H group has been doing well lately.’
President Jeong and the H Group had a close business relationship and the males were known to have a meticulous nature to take good care of woman.
‘A guy that’s good enough for Seoyoon.”
Cha Eun Hee could only smile and laugh.
“It’s not going to be so easy to change Seoyoon’s mind…”
She didn’t know the secret as to why Hyun was good enough, but Seoyoon would smile brightly and laugh when she was with him. Seoyoon was able to laugh. It was an appearance that Seoyoon rarely showed, and only to Lee Hyun.
“But right now their relationship is too awkward.”
Quite a lot of time had passed since they had first met. Normally, they would be holding hands or even walking arm in arm by now.
“Both of them must be unfamiliar with love but with a slight stimulation it should progress further right?”
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Pollon’s unit of knights and rangers were completely defeated and only about 25 people barely managed to escape. Their group of wizards and necromancers did not live and were completely defeated and annihilated. With the Geomchis and Pale’s party they achieved an overwhelming victory that would have usually been impossible.
“Well, now its time to hunt Bar Khan.”
The only thing left to do now was to hunt the undead lord Bar Khan. Even after being weakened by being stabbed in the chest with the holy blade, he was still a legendary monster. Now that he had finished his revenge, it was now time for him to use the paladins and priests from Morata to stage a large-scale hunt. Weed was going to encourage the priests and paladins when he heard a noise.
“Oh, that was a really cool fight.”
“Did you see how they ran? I wish I could change directions while running during a fight.”
“They’re so strong.”
Thanks to his sword fighting as a Doom Knight, he received praise and admiration. He wanted them to continue with their praise! He could flick his hair aside if he had any but unfortunately he had a bald skull.
‘Keuheum. Heraim Fencing performs consecutive hits and it also looks elegant when used. It doesn’t hurt to have a few deserving moments of praise.’
They did not know how to describe how the fight had gone and how powerful it was.
“Wasn’t oppa really handsome back there?”
“It was really cool fight. Each of the remaining units were killed in a single hit, one after another…”
Right then, Weed was getting more attention from the female priests then Zephyr. Zephyr stretched out with a yawn since he was finally alone.
“That’s a really cool jaw isn’t it?”
“Yea it is…I think so as well.”
“Should we go register friends?”
It was a little embarrassing for Weed to hear praise from the women for quite some time.
‘What men…to fight like they did.’
That was the focus that was held by the male paladins.
“Geomchi nims…to fight like that so freely. I want to fight like that.”
“Also there was a very beautiful dancer wasn’t there?
“A dance during an iron battle, so amazing that I can’t take my eyes off of it. The knights fell one after one during that dance.”
“There was also a very pretty girl. Her voice was very sweet.”
The Geomchis, Hwaryung, and Bellotte received a lot of attention from the paladins. They had heard a lot of stories about Weed but they were surprised to see his friends. Weed laughed in relief as he watched.
From the battle he had gotten four magic robes for wizards, a full plate armor, rings, bracelets, boots, necklaces, ranger armor, and other equipment. There were also an assortment of japtem and gold, silver, and copper. The Geomchis got a bunch of high level equipment, swords, armor, and money.
“I don’t need to worry about heating costs this winter.”
This was the reason behind his peace of mind.
Weed began his work to prepare to hunt Bar Khan.
“Sahyungs, give me the swords and armor that you got from the fight. Those that came to fight the undead please entrust me with your equipment briefly.”
The Geomchis got powerful weapons by dissolving the undead equipment. The thick armor of the knights were not suitable for swords but with a small amount of mithril mixed into it they could create a composite sword. However, after they fought the undead they would need to dissolve it again and it would decrease the sword’s power. Weed used his blacksmith skills to create a generic sword to solve the problem.
“Are you going to make the sword better?”
“I’m not going to do anything bad.”
They were hesitant to leave their weapons since they were doubtful. The paladins considered their equipment to be valuable no matter how incredible Weed’s reputation was.
“Oh this is better than before! The damage went up and there’s now an option to deal more damage to undead, but its now a little more difficult to repair durability so it’ll be more expensive.”
After he made enough weapons for the Geomchis, the paladins decided to trust him. Weed’s blacksmith skills were high enough to get the respect of anyone in the land.
‘I wish I could check it…’
He drooled whenever he saw a good sword but he did not know if it was better than his. Weed converted the equipment while he waited for Mapan.
“It’s about time…”
Mapan had come from Morata with the priests and paladins, along with a bunch of different materials. He dissolved the Helium into the large furnace. With his spare time after the battle, he dissolved the helium and formed a mold. It was God’s tears. Using the large fireplace, he dissolve the mana source of the divine power of helium into the completed sculpture as he got ready to fight Bar Khan.
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