The Return of Lilietta - Chapter 200

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Chapter 200

As soon as the man recognized Luca, his face turned pale as he quickly spoke.

“Y-Young Master, the monster rampage you warned about has actually happened! The defense line is currently in danger, so I’m on my way to notify the mountain outpost and request support from Raskail!”

At his words, both Lillieta and Lucas’s expressions changed drastically. They briefly met each other’s eyes, and that alone was enough to conclude their discussion.

Lucas spoke in the calm tone befitting a young lord of the Winterfield Family rather than the youngest member of Beacon.

“Jacques, you rest here for a moment and then continue on this path. We cleared out all the monsters on this side as we came, so it should be safe.”

“What about you, Second Young Master…?”

“I’m going to the estate as quickly as possible.”

He looked back at Rita. When Rita nodded, Luca immediately began removing his shirt and proceeding with his beast transformation.

Blue fur covered his entire body as his muscles swelled. Having transformed into a giant wolf-like form, he stood before Rita and lowered his body.

She placed a large whole ham into the wolf’s mouth. It was for energy replenishment needed to sustain the beast transformation.

“Hiiik.”

A suppressed scream came from the startled messenger who was seeing beast transformation for the first time, but neither Rita nor Luca had the luxury to pay attention to him.

While he chewed and swallowed the ham at a similar speed, Rita packed only the urgent necessities before climbing onto his back and grasping the fur around his neck.

As soon as he felt that touch, Lucas began running down the mountain at tremendous speed. Ignoring the path, he leaped down cliffs and climbed over hills. The scenery streaked past on both sides along with the wind.

As the moon waned and dawn began to brighten dimly, monsters started to appear. From relatively common monsters like orcs, goblins, and trolls to white-furred creatures that only lived in the White Mountains.

The fact that monsters were increasing as they approached the Winterfield Estate clearly indicated what was happening.

The blue wolf didn’t fight them. Trusting the marksman on his back, he ran straight through them.

As expected, silent gunshots rang out, and the monsters that had tried to pounce on the running wolf all collapsed with holes in their foreheads.

The sun rises.

Through the pale brightening dawn, tall fortress walls came into view. These were walls that had protected the winter lands for many years.

And screams and roars pierced through the cool air that didn’t match summer. These were the sounds made by the people defending the walls and the monsters clinging around them.

As they drew closer, a desperate scene became visible.

Even civilians, not just soldiers, had climbed onto the walls to throw boiling oil and stones, while the monsters below the walls were climbing up with their eyes rolled back, howling.

It seemed the battle had continued throughout the night. If it had been a war between humans, they would at least sleep at night, but the frenzied monsters didn’t rest.

It’s similar to the descriptions of great rampages in Pascal’s history. Fortunately, the scale of monsters seemed smaller than in history.

‘In the history books, it said monsters filled the land so completely that no soil could be seen, and waves of those creatures stretched endlessly from the forest to the walls.’

The current Winterfield Estate wasn’t quite at that level. While monsters were packed densely around the walls with no room to step, elsewhere they were only scattered about.

It was certainly an exceptional situation and crisis, but it wasn’t at the level where monsters endlessly poured out from the forest, so it wasn’t a ‘great rampage.’

‘So Gid really did enter the Black Forest.’

Lucas stopped on a hill overlooking the scene of inhuman siege warfare. He made human sounds with his wolf’s muzzle. His voice trembled with mixed groans.

“Sister, that’s…”

“It’s not quite a great rampage. I’ll explain the details later.”

Luca felt relieved by the calm answer, but then sensed Oath power swirling and gathering above his head and looked behind him.

Lillieta, sitting astride the blue fur, spoke while holding up a silver revolver that was beginning to glow golden with both hands.

“Let’s clear out the monsters first.”

“S-Sister, if you shoot Twilight from here, even the walls will be in danger!”

Lucas cried out in alarm. Rita chuckled.

“Don’t you think I know that? This is something different.”

“Something different?”

“What I used when hunting the Mimic.”

Dragon’s Breath.

Unlike bullets that are hard to take back once fired, this technique that shoots Oath power like a flamethrower could have its firepower controlled to extend only until just before reaching the walls.

‘Besides, there are too many monsters for this technique to even reach the walls easily. It has less penetrating power than magic bullets that concentrate Oath power at a single point.’

Like when she destroyed the Mimic’s core and broke through the barrier, she could penetrate by continuously focusing her breath on a narrow area with a melting heat effect, but she had no intention of doing that this time. It wasn’t that kind of situation either.

Holding the gun that was dyed like pure gold plating, she spoke quietly.

“Luca, get ready to run. I’ll run while broadly scorching them with my breath to make all those things come toward us.”

“What are you planning to do after gathering them like that…?”

“I’ll have to shoot Twilight. This hill is perfect. Remember the Block 9 recapture battle? Isn’t this hill about the same height as the siege tower that was isolated there?”

“Hiiik.”

Lucas recalled memories of that fierce battlefield, flattened his ears back, and trembled all over before slowly nodding his massive head.

“Yes, I remember… I’ll do better than I did then.”

“My firepower should be better than back then too, so don’t worry too much.”

“B-But Sister, you won’t have another seizure, will you? Sister Sera isn’t here either!”

“Back then my Oath aptitude was C-rank, but it’s not now, right? I won’t have any seizures.”

At the firm answer, the wolf let out a long sigh. Rita wrapped both legs tightly around his neck to secure her body and whispered.

“Let’s go, Luca.”

The blue beast immediately leaped down the hill. Landing in a smooth arc, he used that momentum to compress and extend his elastic muscles, propelling his body far forward.

The battlefield quickly approached. Rita aimed at the backs of the swarming monsters and pulled the trigger.

Golden Oath power gathered in a circle in front of the muzzle. Like dew forming on the tip of a leaf.

What had been rapidly swelling soon burst forth. Becoming a straight beam of light, like burning breath breathed out by a dragon.

It crosses the battlefield.

Keeeak!

Kyaaak!

The monsters hit by the beam suddenly shot from behind went berserk. The weak ones were pierced through and died instantly, while the relatively sturdy ones shrieked in agony from pain like having their skin seared by fire.

As chaos erupted in the rear, those focused on the walls also turned around. Then they witnessed an intense golden light blazing and approaching that couldn’t be ignored.

Beyond that beam of light, they also saw long blonde hair fluttering atop a blue-furred beast.

The people frantically moving on the walls soon saw that scene too. The golden line drawn between the monsters and the woman at its end.

The monsters roared and turned their bodies to avoid the flame-like beam. They surged toward the human on the wolf, opposite from the walls.

Even without Rita giving a separate signal, Lucas confirmed their reaction and moved on his own.

His thick hind legs kicked off the ground. He began running along the walls.

A blue line began drawing a circle, and golden flames moved with it. Then the monsters that had been clinging to the walls like ants fell away and chased after the golden line.

A scene like a giant’s spear sweeping across the plain between the walls and hills. The weak ones were swept away and scattered while only the tenacious ones remained, pursuing the end of the burning line.

Following the racing light, movement on the walls also stopped in sequence.

The women carrying pots of boiling oil, the soldiers thrusting spears while crying, the wounded who had collapsed and sat down, the men clutching stones.

The officers who had been shouting until their voices were hoarse, the knights staggering covered in sweat and blood, the mages retching while pale with fear.

One by one they stopped and watched the light rotating along the walls. They watched the morning rising between the Black Forest and white mountains.

Finally, the blue beast that had circled the walls once ran toward the hill. Behind it, a motley crowd of monsters followed in pursuit.

There were still some clinging to the walls, but they were few. Most roared in fury as they chased the beast and woman.

Dawn crossed over the mountain range, passed through the dark forest, and covered the plain that had become a quagmire.

In that morning, as the wolf climbed the hill, the long beam of light that had been extending began to fade. At the same time, something in the woman’s hands began to burn brightly.

Crimson light spread. Following the running wolf’s movements, that cluster of light scattered like smoke in long trails.

The dawn that had been in the sky beyond the mountainside was descending into human hands.

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