chapter 27
27. Do you know bullfighting?
1.
It was only natural that the Orcs of the Red Tusk tribe fell into great confusion when the strong fence that had protected them completely collapsed.
And the Orcs who haven’t even properly prepared for battle,
“All, charge!”
It began to collapse helplessly from the knights charging with half-fifty warhorses.
To be trampled by the horseshoes of warhorses, pierced through heart and brain by knights’ lances, and decapitated by their swords.
It was a one-sided violation. In a situation where all conditions were so favorable, there was no way that at best the warrior class Orcs could withstand the offensive of Isvant’s knights, the elite of the elite.
However, it was not Adele’s concern how such petty soldiers were slaughtered by the knights. The only thing she is interested in is the obliteration of the second apostle, Tauros.
Kuwoah-!!
Targa, the warrior leader of the Red Tusk Tribe, a gigantic orc with a height of over 4m, who appeared in the largest barracks in the center of the village, roared and scattered its presence.
“Are you a mutant orc…”
“No, the variant back then wasn’t that big!”
“That armor… Is it possible that a foreign country is secretly supporting the orcs?”
Unlike the Orcs of the warrior class, who were equipped with leather armor and armor that was occasionally ironed over, he was wearing iron armor all over his body that was obviously made by human hands.
At first glance, the appearance of a beautiful girl holding a sword against an iron-clad monster whose height was likely to be 2.5 Times her own was a situation where, at first glance, it seemed that only a terrible ending awaited the girl.
But none of the knights present doubted Adele’s victory.
“Hey, did they send it out in a state of runaway from the beginning?”
Seeing that Targa’s complexion had turned completely blood red, Adele thought that, although it was the enemy’s judgment, she was admirable and worthy of praise.
Generally, the target to which Taurus has given the power of madness does not go into a runaway state unless it is in a situation right before death. However, since there would be no time to go on a rampage against the Master, Taurus made a wise decision.
Kuaaaaa!!
Adele clicked her tongue as she watched Targa wield a huge ax screaming in pain.
‘But that’s right, only one. Isn’t this looking down on me too much?’
Targa, who was not at all interested in what Adele was thinking inside, slammed the ax into the spot where Adele was standing with all her might. Due to the terrifying power that the surrounding ground is cracked, dust rises.
Targa felt that something had landed on his hand in the dust and hurriedly tried to retrieve his axe.
“It’s too late.”
Adele’s sword was imbued with a brilliant light, the master’s symbol of aura, and she cut off Targa’s wrist entirely.
Kwoaaaaa!
‘I heard that in a runaway state, you constantly feel terrible pain as if you were squeezing your whole body… Originally, I wouldn’t have mercy on an orc, but I’m in a hurry, so I’ll make you feel comfortable right away.’
Targa’s body began to move wildly in pain from having part of her body severed, but even that was within Adele’s expected range.
Adele leaped one step ahead of Targa, who began to move wildly, and landed with one foot on Targa’s shoulder and the other on the gap in the armor covering his chest.
In the process, Adele naturally reversed her sword.
Pu-wook-
I stabbed the sword with a thick aura deep into Targa’s chest.
Whoa, whoa, whoa-?!
The pupils of Targa, who had just begun screaming as he clenched his blood-splattered wrist, shook greatly at the sudden, foreign sensation.
When he lowered his gaze, he saw Adele’s sword cutting through the iron like tofu, piercing his chest.
However, after receiving the power of Taurus and going into a state of runaway, Targa’s life was terribly tenacious. To the extent that even after receiving a fatal wound piercing his heart, the flames did not die down easily.
That’s why Targa was able to wield her full arm. He intended to crush the man who had taken his life and make him his companion.
If he had been someone else, he would have won the moment he pierced the heart. He might have been caught off guard by Targa’s last blow. If it had been someone other than Adele.
However, since Adele had a record of defeating Tauros in the previous round, there was no way he would be defeated by such an equal number.
Targa’s palm belatedly struck the spot where Adele, who naturally drew the sword and retrieved it, caused the iron armor to creak.
Not only the power of Taurus, but also the transcendent strength exerted by squeezing it to the limit at the moment of death. However, Adele, who should have been the target, had already landed lightly between Targa and the barracks he came out of.
“You are not waiting for me to come inside, are you?”
Adele said as if she had no idea, not even paying attention to the gigantic figure of Targa who was collapsing behind her. It was obvious to her that she was preparing for a surprise attack inside the barracks. She just laughs out loud for herself.
‘If you don’t intend to come out, just die.’
Adele clenched her tongue and gripped the sword with both hands, the flames of her aura burning fiercely down the blade. And with her subsequent horizontal slash, a tangible aura was fired from the blade and flew toward the barracks in front of her.
It was ironic that it was a job skill that was uncharacteristic of a swordsman, but it was fine for Adele now. She said that she used her accumulated power as she wished, but she didn’t care if it was a job skill or not. What is urgent right now is to deal with Tauros in the shortest time to protect Luke, who could be in danger at any time.
The aura that flew through the air lightly rips through the barracks made of leather, suffocating those preparing for a surprise attack inside.
A barracks that splits in half to reveal its interior. Inside, two orc warriors of the same height as Targa, who died before he could even say a death sentence, an orc shaman, and a chieftain with a bigger body than Targa, were split in half and blood was splattered everywhere.
And in the furthest part of the barracks.
Unexpectedly, a slender blond man with an unusually ordinary body was receiving Adele’s aura while holding up a war hammer that glowed in soft white.
Sacred Power.
Aura, the most threatening weapon of unmanned people who have reached the level of master. Being able to receive it with holy power, though it was difficult, was tantamount to an indirect proof of the power of the god the Zodiac served.
Being able to bestow that much power on my apostles even in the state of virtually being sealed meant that I was an existence equal to or higher than Lux, the current Celestial God.
“Haha!”
The man who slashed the aura with his war hammer slammed it down, and once again burned the aura on his sword body, smiling at Adele, who was straining her whole body. Then she greeted her with words that she couldn’t get over.
“Haha! I never imagined it would come so soon!”
“…What?”
Power enters Adele’s grip as she frowns.
‘I’m coming… Did you know? Could it be that Aquarius told me in advance?’
“Ah, I was wrong. I didn’t know that someone who went against the laws of heaven would come to me so quickly. Yes, that’s right.”
“Are you… telling funny stories?”
Adele, who seemed to have a stiff smile, actually had 50,000 thoughts in her mind.
‘A person who goes against the laws of heaven? Could it be that you know that I have returned to the past? But in the last episode, this didn’t happen. I don’t know what the heck is.’
‘The same is true of the duties Aquarius told Luke, as well as the original scriptures that disappeared before our eyes. There are too many variables in this episode…’
But even because of one of those variables, the word failure didn’t exist for Adele in this episode. She said she couldn’t tolerate herself.
Because this episode’s Luke is the only one. Even if he went through a failure and experienced another regression, the chances of meeting someone like Luke now were infinitely low.
That’s why Adele had no intention of ending this episode as a failure no matter what.
Never.
“You are still strong enough to make your flesh tremble like this, but if you had come a little later, I wouldn’t even be able to compete with you!”
A bull’s horn began to grow next to the man’s head as he said that.
“But I still have a chance.”
It’s not just the horns, the normal body shape and height of men also gradually started to grow. The muscles of the limbs, which had been so thin that gave a bony feeling, swelled up, and muscles were attached to the whole body, transcending human limits.
“Therefore, the one who has been bestowed with the marks of the bull, this Second Apostle, Lugnica Albern, will take your life!”
In the end, even the face of the second apostle, Taurus, Lugnika, began to change into that of a bull.
It was not a surprise to Adele. It was because the memory of blowing his throat directly in the previous episode remained vivid.
However, the knights of Isvant must have been surprised to see this human-shaped monster with the head of a bull.
Yes or no.
“I don’t know how much you know, but it doesn’t seem like you have any useful information. Yes?”
The apostle Taurus, who looks just like the Minotaur in mythology, is nothing more than a mere obstacle blocking her path.
“If you look at the self-introduction you gave when you were killed by my hand the other day, without leaving out a word, you said it again.”
To the pity of an apostle with a fierce fighting spirit, Adele had no intention of getting caught up in such an odd obstacle.