The Guild Master of Demon Hunters that the Empire is Obsessed With

99 – If It’s for You (4)

I crossed the portal and arrived at Tangrad Fortress.

What you can see right in front of you is the sky full of dark clouds in the eastern imperial territory in front of you.

Watching the white clouds floating above the fortress, I feel once again that the empire is truly a land of trash.

And below that.

In the middle of the plain where sunlight and shadow were strangely mixed, Death Knights were seen gathered together like a swarm of ants.

“A lot has been gathered.”

Lucene whistled after seeing the Death Knight.

“Have you ever caught one, Lucene?”

“No. How easy is it to see something like that?”

Captain Vivian, who led us, took the lead and walked towards the castle wall.

There stood a group of executives talking intently while observing the Death Knights with a telescope.

“I am the head of the investigation department of Shlesi. “I have brought people from the Lucas guild with me.”

The person holding the telescope turned his head this way.

Judging by his rank his being colonel, that person is the head of the principality’s western border guard.

“Welcome. I was already waiting for you. But what about the back?”

“This is our guild wizard, heavy warrior, and healer.”

“I heard it was a small guild, but it seems to have a pretty solid structure.”

“I was lucky. But I don’t think this is the time to leisurely say hello.”

I took the telescope over from the leader and looked at the Death Knights.

A skeleton or half-decomposed corpse wearing cold, black armor riding a hell horse.

There, I saw a vague ghost rising faintly like a blue gas fire.

This is the typical appearance that comes to mind when you think of Death Knight.

The armament was slightly different, but the flags they were holding were all the same, so they were clearly the vengeful spirits of an army that had been massacred somewhere according to the story.

“Is there a way to deal with that?”

“Well, I don’t know.”

Considering the setting, it is an undead type.

However, unlike ordinary undead, about half of them violate the laws of physics.

That skull and burning vengeful spirit, respectively.

As far as I know, there are three ways to eradicate it.

One is a sacred attack, a classic method commonly applied to the undead.

But honestly, I’m not sure about this.

Because divine power does not function that way in this world.

It’s just focused on treatment and recovery, and there’s nothing like exorcising monsters and demons like in some novels.

This is highly unlikely, but I brought Celestine just in case.

The other is to crush half of the materialized body and cause the remaining parts to scatter on their own.

This is a very ignorant and dangerous method.

Since magic doesn’t work on them, you have to stick to them and hit them with physical force, but the Death Knight’s combat power is incredible.

I heard from Captain Vivien that the imperial soldiers who went out to destroy them were annihilated in the blink of an eye, and that’s why.

But if it’s Lucene and I, I don’t think it’ll be a big problem.

In any case, it is clear that it will be difficult to expect troop support from the garrison.

They outsourced this to the guild to save on personnel.

The third and final method is to open the phase portal.

Unlike regular portals, it is a portal that is opened through very difficult formulas and calculations in a parallel world, and it is a magic that can catch people who deviate from the laws of physics.

So, to put it simply, it’s like a vacuum cleaner that sucks up ghosts.

But this is also a bit difficult.

This is because no one has ever realized a phase portal.

I only remember that Orléans mentioned it briefly in the past, saying it was a gateway to another world.

Still, I didn’t know what to do, so I brought Ornette.

The leader touched his chin after hearing what I said.

“Then in the end, I guess I’ll have to try all of those methods.”

“You have to set priorities. If you do it wrong, you could end up poking a beehive with a stick.”

“Hmm, but we don’t necessarily have to solve that.”

“There may be a way to drive them out into imperial territory. That should also be considered, but no one knows what will happen. Due to the nature of the undead, it is difficult to predict their behavior.”

“Are you saying that they could go to the Imperial Territory and then suddenly turn their head and charge here?”

“Yes. Has there ever been a big battle here in the past?”

The leader thought about the question for a moment and then answered.

“There was a significant battle here during the Principality’s War of Independence.”

I looked at the flag closely, but it was so tattered that it was difficult to tell which army it belonged to, the Principality or the Empire.

“Death Knight is the resurrection of an army that died with a grudge.”

“But why did you come back to life now?”

“Well, I don’t know. As I said, undead are unpredictable.”

I looked at the imperial Gervais watchtower standing under the dark sky.

I was curious about what kind of strategy the empire was planning.

“Have you ever communicated with the Empire? It seems like it would be better to cooperate on both sides at the same time rather than fighting only on one side.”

“We dispatched each other several times, but everyone died along the way.”

“Is that so? Then, let’s open the portal and go through. I guess we’ll need cooperation…”

Before the words were finished, a corner of the castle wall began to tremble.

Suddenly, a woman walked out of the shimmering space, her pink hair fluttering.

The woman who came down from the castle wall looked around with a clever smile and her eyes met mine.

The smile disappeared from the woman’s eyes in an instant.

“Re… Regards, Leonard… ?”

“Hello, Isidore. It’s been a while.”

“Why, why are you here… ?”

Isidore stammered and asked if his throat was choking.

“Why? “I came here because I smelled money.”

I laughed at the joke, but Isidore did not laugh.

“Are you from the Empire? Are you trying to cooperate in dealing with the Death Knight?”

In response to my question, Isidore licked his dry lips and looked at the people around him.

“I didn’t know you existed…”

“Nothing will change just because I’m here, right? It’s nice to meet you again, but the situation is different, so let’s resolve what’s at stake first.”

Isidore’s eyes turned to the nightrend on my waist.

“No, I… I’ll just leave… Haha, then, take care…”

Isidore turned around and jumped into his portal.

“What is that all of a sudden?”

I shrugged my shoulders in response to the defense leader’s question.

“I’m an imperial wizard I used to know. Don’t worry about it. I won’t help you anyway.”

The fact that Isidore, a wizard, came to deal with the Death Knight gun, which does not work with magic, probably means that there is no solution even in the Empire.

However, that does not mean that Isidore is skilled enough to open a phase portal.

One way or another, in the end, I have to solve that problem.

“Then what do you want to do, leader? Can our guild take over the process?”

“You can do that. Demon hunters don’t specialize in those types of people. We don’t know. We’ll provide you with whatever you need, so take care of it.”

“Okay, then I will prepare.”

I took the guild members to a side of the castle wall.

“Did everyone hear what I said? We have to destroy that Death Knight.”

Lucene put one of his feet on the castle wall and looked at the Death Knight, and Ornet just held on to my sleeve.

Celestine swallowed her saliva and clenched her fists.”Okay, manager! Then what should I do?”

“First, Ornette. Do you know how to open a phase portal?”

“I don’t know.”

Ornette shook her head.

“But I’ll look into it if I really need it.”

“Then Ornette, please do so. Celestine is going with me to the Death Knight right now.”

“Huhhh?!”

Celestine was scared and jumped up.

“Me and the manager?!”

“Can you shoot a nova ray from here to there? Then you don’t have to get too close.”

“Oh, that’s too far…” ” .”

“Okay. Then, let’s go through the portal and go out together. I need to check first whether divine power can affect the Death Knight.”

“In that case, there’s no need to go out. You can just go through the portal.”

Ornette, who was listening, made a suggestion to me.

Following the suggestion, Ornette created a portal on top of the castle wall and connected the exit to the border.

It was about a few tens of meters away from the group of Death Knights, and the direction of the exit was exactly towards the Death Knights.

“Celestine, Holy Ray.”

“Yes!”

When Celestine fired a sacred ray through the portal, the sacred vessel that came out of the exit on the other side flew into the corner of the group of Death Knights and got stuck.

“Umm…”

The defense team leader and Captain Vivien, who saw it through a telescope, let out negative groans.

“Mr. Leonard. It doesn’t seem to have any effect at all. It looks like he doesn’t recognize it at all.”

“I see. Then the divine power has no effect at all. Have you tried talking?”

The defense team leader shook his head with a negative expression.

“Do you think we could understand each other?”

“I see. Then, there is one last thing to check.”

“aah!? Manager! Where are you going!!”

I jumped into the portal and immediately landed at the exit.

I could see Death Knights standing still in front of the flag, waving their flags.

I got closer, but the Death Knights didn’t move as if they couldn’t see me.

“Hey! Over there!”

I made a trumpet and shouted, but as expected, there was no silence.

As I got a little closer, a few Death Knights on the edge looked at me.

“Yes! Here! Can you hear me?!”

Without any particular warning or warning, several Death Knights started running towards me as if they were gliding.

Judging by the speed at which it is approaching, it seems that the intention is not to talk about the weather.

Let’s see if Nightrend works.

Running in front, he struck the waist of the Death Knight holding his ax high with the Nightrend.

Nightrend’s blade entered the Hell Demon’s neck and cut the Death Knight in two.

Bones and fragments of armor flew in all directions and fell noisily on the floor.

Cheers were heard from both the fortress and the watchtower.

When I looked back, I saw a ghost with all its weapons destroyed, hovering in the air, emitting a faint blue light.

Since most of the main body has been dismantled, all that is left is for the ghosts to disperse.

As the ghost circled back, the bones and armor scattered on the floor began to rattle and take shape again.

Oh my. It wasn’t an ordinary Death Knight.

As the Death Knight, who had completely restored his hell horse, rushed in, this time he unleashed Nightrend’s scream.

[Kaa aa-!!!!]

Age Trend let out a scream with all her might that chilled her entire body.

However, the Death Knights appear to be unable to hear any sound at all.

Without hesitation, I turned and jumped into the portal.