< Episode 402. To the final battle... >
“Oh, hurry and run! To the Red Sand Tribe!”
Someone riding on the giant scorpion and shale urged. His subordinates were hurriedly helping him around him.
“huh? Burbak? “Where is the bubak!”
A middle-aged man wearing fancy clothes was driving a shale and hurriedly asked his surroundings.
“Well, Master Verbak… encouraged us to keep going, but it looks like we left something behind.”
“Hey, you idiots! “Are you saying you just left my son behind?”
A middle-aged man, Mushid Hushang, got angry and changed the direction of the shale.
“Going back!”
“Boo, tribal leader! “It’s dangerous if you go back now!”
“Are you saying you left my son in such a dangerous place? “You damn bastards!”
As soon as Mushid started to return, his subordinates just stood there and looked at his back, not knowing what to do.
Mushid, who was running, realized this fact late, turned his head and shouted.
“What can you do if you don’t follow me!”
“······.”
The distance gradually increased with a strange silence, and Mushid shouted one last time before his men disappeared from sight.
“You guys! “If you bring Verbak, you will pay for this!”
Even though he said this, Mushid secretly guessed that it would not happen. He just couldn’t suppress his anger if he didn’t say something like this.
“damn! damn!”
The fact that I was walking into a limb felt vain and awkward. That absurd feeling soon turned to his son, Verbak.
“What on earth did you leave behind?”
Even if I left something behind, would it be worth my life? He couldn’t understand his son’s behavior at all.
As I soon retraced the path I had taken, I began to see a procession of refugees in the distance. They were the tribesmen whom Mushid had abandoned and fled.
“Tribal leader?”
“what? “A tribal leader?”
Those who had abandoned their homes looked at the reappearing tribal leader with incomprehensible eyes. As soon as they arrived within earshot of each other, Mushid asked hastily.
“Has anyone seen a buckthorn?!”
“Well, if you are Master Burbak…”
When someone spoke as if he knew, Mushid, whose eyes rolled back, approached him with foam at the mouth.
“Did you see it?”
“Yes, that’s right. “You were on a sit-in protest in the city.”
“holding a castle? “Noooongseeouh?”
Mushid held the back of his neck and trembled at the words he could not believe, or rather did not want to believe.
“Boo, tribal leader. “It’s a shame for a small person to say something like this, but it’s better to just give up and continue on your way…”
“Shut up!”
Mushid, who came to his senses again due to the other person’s words, shouted and immediately drove the shale. It was Mushhid who could give up all the sacrifices, but could not give up his son.
‘If you can’t save Burbak, it’s better to die!’
Unlike other desert tribes with a culture of polygamy, Mushid only looked at one woman throughout his life. It was only a few years ago that I lost the wife I loved so much.
Mushid could not give up his fruitful relationship with her. After his wife’s death, his life was only for Burbak…
Mushid, who reversed the evacuation procession and hurriedly ran along the shale, soon wandered into more and more deserted places and eventually arrived in an empty plain with no one around.
“I wish I could stay here, but there is no guarantee that I will come back alive…”
Mushid got off the shale he was riding and released it. Then he went straight into a secret passageway known only to his tribal leader.
The secret passage looked damaged due to poor maintenance, but since it was a very dry desert, it seemed to be holding up without any major problems.
Rattling!
After walking for a while, Mushid reached the end of the secret passage, climbed up the ladder, and opened the ceiling. As he took a quick look around, a familiar space he knew came into view.
“Whoa.”
As the cold silence hovered around him, Mushid became nervous and slowly pulled his body out, then closed the lid he had come out of.
The place he arrived was a huge mansion where the tribal chief within the city resided. To be exact, it was one of the bedrooms for the tribal leader among the huge mansion that could be described as a palace.
“Gasp, gasp!”
Mushid, who ended up running around on his own because there was no shale, began to look for the burbak while breathing heavily.
‘If you are protesting, are you on the wall?’
When I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it. The son he knew was not noble enough to sacrifice himself to protect the city. He knew that, so of course he ran away, and he came out without much worry. And he’s holding a sit-in protest against those terrifying monsters?
Quack! Kwasik!
As I left the grounds of the mansion and went to the outskirts of the city, I began to hear a clear commotion.
“Boo, tribal leader?”
“You didn’t run away?”
And it was confirmed that there were more people left in the city than expected.
Those who could not fight locked themselves inside houses or buildings and waited for the terrible end to come. When Mushid felt their gaze, he fell into a strange feeling.
‘Is this how many tribesmen remained?’
Actually, it was a problem I had never even thought about. The tribesmen only saw them as beings to fill their own stomachs, and they never thought of them as the same person.
“You didn’t abandon us!”
“When I heard that Master Verbak was still there, I didn’t believe it, but I never thought it was real.”
“Long live the Huxiang family! Long live the Black Scorpion!”
People started taking to the streets. Then they cheered and greeted Mushid as he ran toward the wall.
Mushid, who could not bear to reveal that he had returned to take his son and run away again, lowered his head and ran while looking at the floor.
‘why······.’
Why didn’t they run away? Why do you stay here and confuse your mind?
“Long live the tribe leader!”
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“Myashe!”
When he heard the cries of children who must have been as young as five years old, Mushid had no choice but to reflexively raise his head.
All those who could not help in battle were gathered here. From small children to old people. In particular, Mushid’s eyes were confused and wavering as he looked at the children.
widely! widely. Taaat.
As Mushid gradually slowed down and stopped, the people on the street chanted his name even more.
“Mushid! Mushid!”
“Huxiang protects us! “We can all survive!”
In the end, Mushid had no choice but to open his mouth.
“why!”
“to?”
“Why are you still here, you bastards!”
There was silence in an instant due to the sudden verbal abuse.
“Why on earth! A person who remains in a place where he is sure to die! Children! “What on earth is wrong with children?”
Mushid’s wife was particularly fond of children. Because she was naturally weak, her health deteriorated after giving birth to Birbak, but her love for children did not change.
“These… these damn things!”
“Boo, tribal leader?”
Mushid shed tears without realizing it. The death of his wife, which he had forgotten, came to mind. And the fact that if such a wife saw this sight, she would definitely be sad, also gnawed at his body.
“Does anyone know where the buckthorn is!”
“Well, Master Verbak is on the castle wall…”
“Wait!”
Mushid started running again. He didn’t exercise so he was out of shape, but he was now tireless.
Kwasik! Kagak!
-Keeeeee!
The closer we got to the castle walls, the louder the noise became. All kinds of screams and malice were visible to the eye.
-Kkuiik!
Pow!
At that time, something fell from the wall in front of Mushid, who was running. It looked like it had been half-exploded due to the impact of the fall, but it was still writhing and spewing out strange life forms, and it was a monster that seemed to be a combination of several living things.
“Oak?”
Mushid quickly drew his sword for self-defense as he saw the monster with the body of a red orc but with six arms like insects. Fortunately, the monster was not unharmed as it seemed like it had already been stabbed by someone due to the impact of falling from the castle wall.
“die!”
Mushid shouted loudly and lashed out his sword. Although he has not been exercising recently, he practiced swordsmanship when he was young to impress his wife, before they became lovers.
Suddenly!
Looking at the cleanly cut monster, Mushid felt that his sword had not become dull yet and looked at the stairs leading up to the castle wall.
“Chief Mushid!”
“Why is the chieftain here?”
The soldiers who found him just then greeted Mushid with surprised faces. Then he spoke urgently as if he had realized something.
“Master Verbak is above!”
“Bubak!”
Mushid ran up the stairs with strength of unknown origin.
“Boo, tribal leader! It’s chaos up there! “These guys are the ones who climb walls without even needing siege weapons…”
But the soldier’s words were never heard.
“Ryaaa!”
There was no fear of monsters, no fear of battle, no fear of death, no fear of anything.
Mushid threw his sword at the monsters that blocked his path with the sole intention of finding Verbak.
“Boo, tribal leader?!”
“Woah, Chief Mushid has arrived! Everyone, cheer up!”
His appearance turned the tide of the difficult battlefield slightly. At the same time, Mushid was able to find the Birbak he had been looking for.
“Bubak!”
“Ah, father! Why on earth are we here…”
Burbak looked at Mushid in disbelief. The look in his eyes was no different from that of other soldiers, but Mushid firmly grabbed Verbak’s arm.
“What are you doing here! “Why are you fighting here instead of running away?”
“Well, that is…”
I couldn’t say that I missed the timing while trying to run away with as much wealth as I could. As if that wasn’t enough, the people around him misunderstood him as he failed to run away and sent him flying, so he took advantage of the atmosphere and participated in the battle.
“Chief.”
“Delver! There you were. “There must be a reason why there were no wounds on Verbak’s body.”
Delver, the greatest warrior of the Huxiang family, appeared with his head bowed. As the reticent man gently brushed off the blood on his mace, Mushid immediately spoke.
“Delver, take Verbak and run away.”
“Oh, father?!”
Although Burbak was happy on the inside, he deliberately acted embarrassed. He had no reason to escape, but he looked very relieved that he was able to escape the battlefield thanks to Mushid.
“Bubak, you know the family’s secret passage, right?”
“ah! “Well, there it was!”
Burbak, who was acting, was so happy that he broke his composure and shouted. However, Mushid continued speaking without any concern.
“There are a lot of tribal people left on the streets. “The secret passage is wide, so escape together with as many people as you can.”
“Ah, Sue, what a noble mission! of course. “I will do it!”
Burbak soon came to his senses and started acting again and spoke, and Mushid smiled happily.
“So, Delver, I hope you will take responsibility for Verbak. “Bring the surrounding soldiers with you.”
“What about the tribal leader?”
At Delver’s question, Burbak realized something was wrong and froze. Doesn’t Mushid’s words seem to suggest that only he and Delver should go?
‘Bird, now that I think about it, even my father knows about the secret passage, so why tell me…’
Just as I was about to go crazy thinking about that, Mushid lightly swung the sword he was holding and laughed.
“Shouldn’t someone stay behind and take care of it? “Even though I can’t fight as well as you, I can raise the soldiers’ morale just by my presence.”
“······Chief of the tribe.”
Delver omitted the honorific with a stern expression, and Verbak made an expression of disbelief, his eyes and mouth widening as if they were torn apart.
“Looks like we don’t have much time. “Go quickly.”
“······I guess I’ve misunderstood this whole time.”
Delver muttered with a calm expression on his face. Then Mushid smiled and said, as if he had put down something.
“No, it’s not a misunderstanding. “I am the Mushid you guessed.”
“then······?”
“I guess I will change when it’s time to die.”
Delver’s expression broke at Mushid’s calm words. He got down on one knee with an expression of genuine gratitude.
“I will protect you, Master Verbak, at the risk of my life.”
“If possible, please take care of the tribesmen as well. Especially children. “There were a lot of young children.”
Burbak stared blankly at Mushid, who seemed to have changed.
-Kirilik.
“Ugh, wow!”
The good atmosphere collapsed in an instant. Suddenly, a ferocious energy different from before swirled around, turning the castle walls into chaos.
A white chimera that seemed twice the size of the other monsters appeared with weapons all over its body and was slaughtering the soldiers.
“Keuhum, go quickly!”
“Ah, father!”
Mushid winked at Delver. Then Del Burr stood up, bowed his head once, and dragged Burbak away.
-Kirilik?
However, their escape attempt ended in failure. A white chimera leapt through space and approached, blocking Delver and Verbak’s path.
“Hmph!”
Delver then swung down his huge mace to crush the enemy in one fell swoop.
Kang!
“Gang?”
When Beobak asked me a question without realizing it.
Sigh!
Blood mist scattered from something torn to shreds and drenched the entire area.
“······Huh?”
Burbak looked down at the blood soaking his entire body. Soon, something rolled over and stopped in front of Verbak.
“Delver?”
Delver, the best warrior of the Huxiang family, moved his lips with only his head remaining.
escape.
I couldn’t hear my voice, but my lips were clearly saying that.
“Bubak! Run away! “I’ll do my best to stop this!”
Without any sign of embarrassment, Mushid blocked Burbak’s path. There was no way Mushid could stop a monster that even Delver could not stop, but he stepped forward without hesitation.
“hurry!”
Pow!
“Whoosh!”
The white chimera slashed one of its scythe-like arms down as if playing a joke. Mushid, whose shoulder was pierced by the blow, fell backwards.
“father!”
Burbak shouted, raising his sword with trembling arms. Due to the overwhelming fear, my legs felt like they were locked in place and I couldn’t move them.
“Damn, damn….”
A shadow fell over Mushid’s face. For a moment, his life flashed by like a flash of light, and soon a thought came to Burbak.
“I definitely wanted to save you!”
“Father!”
It’s over.
It was a thought that both Mushid and Burbak felt at the same time.
Hwiyung—-!
Is that why? The two listened with one ear to the strange noise coming from somewhere. However, a strange noise that gradually grew louder soon appeared before my eyes.
Kwaaang————!
“ah?”
Something fell on the spot where the white chimera was, creating a thick layer of dust around it. Soon, through the dust that was slowly clearing, I could hear a voice I had heard before.
“You arrived at the right time.”
-Grrrrrrr.
A shattered floor and a crushed chimera.
Adrias Cromwell, standing proudly on top of it, was smiling as he plunged his sword into the chimera’s head.
< Episode 402. To the final battle... … . > end
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