Night of the Soulless Heathens – 359



#359. Grim Reaper Rampage 3

The upper echelons of the Rescue Knights gave Azadin an Erantry quest that he could not refuse in order to harass him.

However in the eyes of Celestial who grew up under priests and truly believed in the scriptures of the Order of the Salvation Azadin appeared as a milestone that would set right the forgotten traditions of the Order of the Salvation.

This was not a good thing for the Northern Emperor. The Northern Emperor had a strong influence on the Celestial Fire Knights and wanted the Celestial Fire to become the object of people’s admiration.

But if Azadin were to become admired by the Celestial Knights… the knights they had worked so hard to build could end up being fed to Azadin.

‘Well from now on it won’t be like that since all of our brothers will be there. I’m worried about the young Celestials who are like blank slates.’

Triodana looked wary of Azadin but on the outside she wore a bright smile.

“Triodana Sir is here too. Do you happen to know the whereabouts of Bishop Akenar Coxhal?”

“Your patron? I don’t know. Why do you ask us about her? Sir Azadin spared no effort in supporting her in becoming a rescue knight. Why would you ask us of all people about her whereabouts?”

Your sponsor should have taken care of you. There was a hint of criticism in that remark. However Azadin responded with a dismissive tone.

“I heard that the vampires kidnapped her and brought her here. I asked because I thought that if the Celestial Fire Knights were fighting the vampires here they might know more about their enemies’ movements.”

‘I heard you guys are squirming here even vampires can’t penetrate. Didn’t you know that the enemies who were surrounded were coming and going to take hostages? If that was the case why did you surround them? Are your eyes buttonholes?’

It was a statement that could be interpreted as such.

‘This kid?’

‘This kid?’

As Azadin and Triodana faced each other Karna spoke from the side.

“I haven’t seen it myself but if it’s true it must be inside Banreung Royal Castle. It’s the heart of the mountain.”

Heart of the Mountain It was a huge mountain city that was created by digging into the mountain and turning the mine into a residential area as the royal palace of the Banreung Kingdom.

The heart of the mountain which has been the headquarters of the dwarven kingdom since time immemorial is a truly impregnable fortress.

That was the reason why the Celestial Fire Knights were unable to expand their front lines and remained motionless here.

“Oh I see. I understand. I will go into the heart of the mountain and try to find it. May I leave our horses and carriages at the garrison?”

“Yes if you don’t mind letting the horses do some work while we’re in charge.”

“Of course. There’s no need to just fatten up by eating only feed in the stable.”

Azadin willingly entrusted his horses and chariot to them.

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Azadin’s party asked for permission from Celestial Fire Commander Karna to pursue the Erantri quest that is to track down Bishop Akenar who was kidnapped by vampires without causing any damage to the garrison here.

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Karna readily agreed to Azadin’s offer so Azadin was now free to move around here.

Triodana did not like that point.

“Hmm… Karna. Wouldn’t it have been better to banish Lord Azadin? Since we’re in the middle of a military operation we could have forced him to stand on the front lines with us and not move around recklessly.”

“Triodana. He’s a rescue knight and popular among the Celestials so we can’t just ignore him. And maybe he can provide a breakthrough?”

“I’m worried that it might really happen. That author has amazing results.”

Triodana frowned.

If the Celestial Fire Knights are struggling in their conquests and Azadin is successful the status of the Celestial Fire Knights who had been supported by the people by taking the form of angels will be damaged.

The Celestial Fire Knights are great of course but Azadin is better than them.

We were able to instill this awareness in the public.

The Celestial Fire Knights who had worked hard for many years to raise the Northern Qi could become a mere puppet for the fame of one Azadin.

“Well before that we can find Bishop Akenar and use that to tarnish Azadin’s reputation. If we fail the Erantri quest Azadin’s reputation will be lowered.”

“Then we have to break through the defenses of the Heart of the Mountain Fortress. Once we break through the defenses of the Heart of the Mountain Fortress who will secure Bishop Akenar… Oh damn it. Do I have to use this in the end?”

Triodana grumbled and pulled out the bone dagger at her waist. It was a luxurious bone dagger that seemed to have been made from the ground bones of a special animal and a cold aura emanated from the tip of the blade pouring down to the ground like a waterfall.

The Wendigo’s dagger was in Triodana’s hand.

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“There is a secret passage.”

Before reaching the heart of Banling Mountain Bernard said this to Azadin.

“There are many secret passages. The heart of the Banreung Kingdom’s mountain is an ancient city that dates back to the days of the Naga Empire. There are a huge number of secret passages and dungeons.”

Niselda also confirmed the same.

“The problem is that the secret passage is completely under enemy control. They can open and close it whenever they want and there are strange organs buried inside so if you block it from the inside it becomes an iron wall.”

“Then it’s not a secret passage but rather a kind of door. It’s not much different from a castle gate in that it can’t be opened unless you open it from the inside right?”

“But what’s different from a castle gate is that it’s less sturdy than a castle gate anyway and once you get inside you can strike straight at the heart of your enemies.”

Bernard and Niselda were confident that they were from Banling.

and….

“No that’s strange.”

“I think it was here.”

Bernard and Niselda were having a hard time fiddling with the stone headstones in a nearby cemetery.

“I guess it’s blocked.”

“Huh… Huh… Hmm I see. Then to the next location.”

“Yeah. This is the fifth time though.”

Azadin wandered through the cemetery and charnel house hoping that Bernard and Niselda would find a proper secret passage by the end of the day.

“Hmm. Count Azadin.”

Jibek called Azadin’s name.

“Did you notice?”

“of course.”

As they wandered around looking for the secret passage more and more attention was being drawn to Azadin and his party.

The vampires of Banreung discovered Azadin and his group.

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Their surveillance net would be spread all over the area so various detection spells and scouts wouldn’t be able to completely drive them out even for Azadin.

Above all neither Arael’s voice nor the magic of the foresight worked properly here.

“Edir.”

Azadin called his servant Edir.

“yes?”

“Stay with Bernard. Zibek is over there…”

Azadin formed his party into a diamond formation with Bernard and Edir at the center the ones with the weakest defenses.

It was a show of force that anyone could tell was aware of your presence.

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The vampires nearby watched Azadin and his party through the crevices in the snow-covered rocks.

On the gray rocks of Banreung snow was piled up in every shade and Azadin and his party on top were clearly visible because they were not wearing white clothes.

It’s a small number.

Even if it was Azadin the Count of Naisandhokar who spread such terrible rumors what on earth would he do with that number of people and come all the way here?

“Should we attack?”

“Hmm.”

The vampires’ gazes were fixed on the ancient warsword on Azadin’s back.

“There’s Aurelia Dunn. She’s said to suffer the pain of hell until she dies but she doesn’t kill her very well right?”

“then….”

“Let’s move the cult mutants to Ashajit’s followers.”

“Okay.”

The vampires who were hesitating while looking at Azadin’s group carefully cut their wrists to draw blood and cast blood magic.

Ashajit’s followers who had been wandering around gather around.

The vampires who had counted their numbers charged at Azadin and his party when they had gathered a certain number.

“Let’s see how and where to deal with it.”

After sending the cult mutant to take Aurelia Dunn from the front line act according to Azadin’s response.

They could counterattack by following this magic but they would respond when that time came. The vampire who was the commander had a flintlock pistol tucked into his waistband and the other vampires were also armed with matchlock guns.

Even if an individual’s martial arts skills are excellent it is difficult to deal with gunpowder weapons fired from a moderate distance. It was thanks to these gunpowder weapons that Banreung was able to repel the Arangi Kingdom and block the advance of the Celesti Fire Knights this time.

Even if he is a famous Azadin there is no reason to be afraid if he has a matchlock gun. Even if he is holding Aurelia Dawn which is a deadly poison to vampires there is no problem if he doesn’t get hit.

however….

“Brother’s blood!”

As Bernard cast blood magic with Asajit’s eyes arrows of blood shot into the cultist’s veins.

“Runaway!”

Blood gushes out of its veins and the cult mutant collapses spewing blood in all directions.

The sight of the giant monster shriveling up and spewing blood from its body astonished those who watched.

The Celestial Fires are also cult mutants who have suffered humiliation.

You’re going to take it down so easily?

It ended much more easily than the vampires had thought.

In addition Bernard created blood spiders with the blood that was spurted out and suddenly had them rush towards the surrounding vampires and cultists.

The vampires tried to throw in some mutants to see what happened but ended up getting sucked into the middle of the fight unintentionally.

“These… these kids! What do they think we are!”

“They even defeated the Arangian Guard!”

“Don’t make fun of me!”

Although clearly embarrassed the vampires bluffed and gathered up the fraud.

The people of Banreung Kingdom were confident that they had defeated the elite soldiers of the Arangian Kingdom the Arangian Guard.

However Bernard’s blood magic which gave him Asajit’s eyes was close to infinite power.

Countless bloody spiders and golems emerge from the staff shaped like blood spurting out of it.

Blood golems and blood spiders used broken corpses and the surrounding rocks and snow piles to strengthen their relatively soft hand and foot claws and then charged at the vampires.

The sight of the Blood God’s followers and blood itself clashing was a truly horrifying sight of the end times.

“Ah. Bernard.”

Azadin called Bernard who was casting blood magic wildly using Asajit’s eyes.

“What? Count Azadin?”

“Don’t kill anyone who might know the secret passage capture them alive.”

Although it was quite an unreasonable request to capture a vampire Bernard who was using Asajit’s eyes freely attacked the vampires with his great strength.

“If we kill everyone because they want to use blood magic one more time we’ll just get more tired.”

“…I will do so.”

After a while Bernard brought back a dwarven sorcerer wearing the officer’s badge of the Kingdom of Banrung with a regretful look on his face.