Night of the Soulless Heathens – 478



#479. Guardian of the World 5

“What’s going on?!”

“excuse me!”

Azadin immediately flew up and stood on the royal window sill.

The Asander Palace located on a higher elevation than other places was a large northern-style royal castle built overlooking the city of Assendar.

Outside the windows of the palace the city could be seen shaking with the earthquake.

But it’s not just a simple earthquake.

A moment later the ground split open and a giant white mushroom appeared to rise from the ground.

A messenger came running to the king’s audience room.

“your majesty!”

“This is a big deal!”

“The elves have betrayed us! All the spies we placed to watch over the elves have been killed!”

The Northern Emperor did not completely trust the elves and sent spies to watch them.

Originally they assigned Northern Aragatha agents to watch over them but in addition to them they infiltrated the Telvarin Guild an elf business under various pretexts for training.

All those watchdogs were killed at once.

“ah.”

Azadin clicked his tongue when he heard that.

Because Azadin took northern Aragatha from the Northern Emperor the elves’ movements became easier.

“Huh. I knew they’d betray me someday.”

Cohen wasn’t surprised to hear that the elves had betrayed him.

The elves who had their own ambitions and had no hesitation in touching the witchcraft of the Nether showed their true colors by abandoning Cohen without hesitation when it seemed that he would be taken over by Azadin.

“It is my fault Your Majesty the Emperor. Please forgive me.”

Instead Bukje Cohen apologized to Azadin.

This is what happened when Azadin took away the northern Aragats and now he is apologizing in return so even if Azadin had ten mouths he has nothing to say about this.

“It’s okay. It’s not a matter of forgiving or not we need to prepare quickly! Aren’t they attacking Ascendar right now!”

“Yes! I will respond.”

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Cohen said so and called his entourage.

Azadin and his men were perplexed.

“What should I do?”

Aliya asked Azadin’s intentions.

“what?”

“Can I have Cohen call in the troops?”

Currently Azadin and the northern Aragatsas control the palace.

But when Cohen starts wielding his military power under the pretext of defending Ascendar the capital of Assander…

“Let’s just believe it for now.”

“Seeing you say that it seems that Your Majesty doesn’t completely believe it.”

“He’s not someone I can completely trust… but what can I do? Let’s trust him for now. The things in front of us are bigger.”

Although Azadin showed that he did not trust Cohen he decided to give Cohen the military command anyway.

The Royal Guard Cohen’s entourage arrived. These Royal Guards who were guarding Ascendar Palace were visibly flustered but calmed down when they saw Cohen.

“Your Majesty! Are you safe?”

“Okay. I’m fine. What’s the situation?”

“I don’t know yet. Mushrooms are growing through the axis and spiders are attacking from underground.”

“Spiders?”

“Yes. I am a sorcerer spider a servant of the Spider Queen Atra.”

The sorcery spiders originally humans who were transformed into spiders in exchange for a contract with the Spider Queen Atra were troublesome enemies who used magic while being spiders.

After those sorcery spiders appeared all over the city they poured out fire magic and set fire to various parts of the city.

The sudden earthquake and mushrooms sprouting from the ground are enough to cause confusion and with fires breaking out on top of that the damage is severe.

“First go to the Wangseong Watchtower and look around.”

“It’s dangerous. The tower tilted due to the earthquake a little while ago!”

As soon as he finished speaking one of the towers built at the four corners of Ascendar’s castle collapsed crushing the palace.

The eastern pavilion called Changryongjeon was crushed by the tower and its walls collapsed.

Through the gap sorcerer spiders invaded weaving spider webs and firing flaming arrows setting fire to various parts of the palace.

Cohen ordered the Royal Guards to stop the sorcerer spiders and cast a protection spell on them.

As the Royal Guards now resistant to flame arrow magic began to fight the sorcery spiders with spears and shields the sorcery spiders who had been pushed back just a moment ago were pushed back as if it were a lie.

But this time the west wing collapsed.

“Oh no! Wererats from the west!”

An attack was also carried out at the West Gate some time after the attack at the East Gate.

The Wearrats the apostles of Mezeri are armed with curved swords and are rushing in.

Civilians are massacred and flames erupt throughout the city.

The Wererats rode giant spiders through the city quickly approaching the castle.

The wall of Baekhojeon to the west of the castle had collapsed and the Wererats were rushing in there causing the Royal Guards to fight back. However there were many Royal Guards rushing in to block Changryongjeon to the east so the defenses there were weaker.

If things continue like this we will be breached before long.

“It won’t work. We will help the West.”

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Cohen nodded as Azadin said so.

“I am sorry Your Majesty the Emperor. It was my own lack of virtue that caused this…”

“No this is not the time to be arguing about that! Alya!”

“yes!”

“Let’s start!”

As Azadin casts his spell the bodies of all the northern Aragathas are filled with a golden glow.

“Shoot!”

As the Northern Aragasa members fired their arrows all of their arrows flew with blue lightning splashing sparks at the wererats and spiders in their path.

The wererats were able to withstand the electric attack to some extent but the giant ants they were riding on could not endure it and immediately capsized and fell over.

My nervous system was fried in an instant so I couldn’t move even if I didn’t die.

“Golden Guards! Provide arrows and equipment!”

The Northern Emperor saw that the messenger tribe that followed Aragasa and Azadin to the north were easily defeating the Wererat army by firing arrows and so he ordered the Imperial Guards to supply arrows.

The soldiers bring in barrels full of arrows and place them among the archers.

As the messenger clan and Aragasa fired lightning arrows protected by Azadin the enemies were swept away along the arrow’s trajectory and the battle situation began to unravel in an instant.

Enemies suddenly attack from underground but they literally melt away before the overwhelming protection of the new king.

however….

At that time something strange happened at the eastern gate.

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A sorcerous spider with strange markings carved all over its body climbed onto a mushroom towering high in the sky and cast a nether spell.

To stop it the Royal Guard brought out matchlock guns and fired them all at once but other spiders used their necromancy to raise corpses and literally came out to defend with their own bullets.

The sorcerer spider took advantage of the gap between the bullets being blocked by his body to complete his Nether spell.

At that moment a black shadowy hand descends from the sky.

The long slender fingers the hooked nails and the twisted tentacle-like wrists were reminiscent of the hands of a god.

A giant divine arm descended from beyond the clouds slowly touching the mushrooms and sorcery spiders growing at the eastern gate of Ascendar with its fingertips.

Then the sorcerer spider exploded and the mushrooms growing on the gate froze completely.

The air around the mushroom began to freeze as it crumbled into a pillar of ice.

The air froze and turned into liquid and the terrifying cold spread out in an instant freezing and shattering other sorcery spiders in the vicinity.

The cold air surged in like a wave instantly freezing everything it touched. It wasn’t a cold wave.

Even the air freezes and turns to liquid and gusts of wind blow with terrifying force into the resulting vacuum of atmosphere.

The Royal Guards were shocked but a tremendous gust of wind sucked them up.

A massive tornado of cold air swirls through the air liquefying it.

Anyone who was sucked into this tornado had their blood frozen and were torn to pieces by the gusts of wind.

The frozen man’s body is blown away by the gust of wind and rises high into the sky.

The shocked guards tried to run away but they could not even scream.

A gust of cold drowning out even the screams scorched the eastern gate of Ascendar.

In the face of the tornado of cold the strength and performance of each individual human being meant nothing.

If you get swept away you die but if you don’t get swept away you die too.

A soldier running away to escape the tornado’s influence falls clutching his chest.

Running makes you breathe harder and you breathe in too much cold air.

His lungs froze he lost all bodily functions in an instant and he collapsed and died.

Some people died with their heads frozen by the cold throwing off their helmets and tearing their clothes.

and….

A Wererat sorcerer also appeared at the western gate.

He too broke through the gate climbed a giant mushroom that had grown and cast a nether spell.

This is the very same spell used by the sorcerous spider that destroyed the eastern gate.

“No! Don’t let me finish that! Cut it off!”

Azadin who had climbed up to the roof of the palace gave orders to his men.

The Northern Aragasa members run and fire arrows at the Wearrat Sorcerer all at once.

Arrows laden with lightning danced in the air. The arrows that flew in electrocuting and knocking down the Wererats that stood in their way… were also blocked by the undead.

The wererats who had raised the corpses with their necromancy were trying to block arrows with their flesh walls and successfully cast their spells.

But one arrow slipped through the air evading the undead and piercing the Wearrat Sorcerer’s jaw.

Zion Etar had fired an arrow with the magic yellow crane of flowers birds wind and moon.

The arrow which had been flying in a detour around the direction blocked by the enemies suddenly turned at a right angle and flew to the side killing the Wearrat Sorcerer.

The spell he was preparing was broken and the mushroom the Warrat Sorcerer was stepping on exploded as it was roasted by the electric sparks.

“Ha. I barely earned my keep.”

Zion Etar breathed a sigh of relief.

He had recently been taken prisoner by the Northern Aragasa and forcibly married and was so haggard that his eyes were sunken in but he still had the skills of an elder of the Jeonryung clan.

“Good job! Good job but…..”

The eastern gate has been reduced to ashes and the cold air pouring out of it is tremendous.

In Ascendar’s garden there was a pond that never froze over with warm spring water flowing in and in this pond tropical fish the size of a person brought from the south lived but the pond began to freeze over from the eastern side.

Even though the hot spring water is gushing out it freezes.

“Damn it!”

Azadin quickly spread the light of the royal flower and surrounded the palace.

The cold air that was rushing through the garden was blocked by the light of the royal flower and pushed back.

But at that moment breath came out of everyone’s mouths.

Suddenly the temperature around you drops.

Is this how it is even though Azadin stopped it?

-Wardudduk!

The trees in the Ascendar Gardens are breaking apart like ice.

Still Azadin managed to block the oncoming cold air.

But far beyond the horizon countless black hands of the gods are visible.

Far from Ascendar on the plains between the farms and trade routes that originally supplied the city with food countless Nether followers began to cast spells.

It was a very long distance but looking at that terrible cold if those spells were successful not only the area hit but the entire kingdom would freeze.