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Former General Is Undead Knight (Web Novel) - Volume 4, Chapter 12: Holy City Raid⑥
Volume 4, Chapter 12: Holy City Raid⑥
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The youth raised his right arm, pointing with his right index finger.
「I wanted to wait till a bit more, but I’ve got no choice, I guess!」
He smashed it, pulling it out by its root without hesitation.
Numerous tiny insects flowed out with his blood, surrounding the finger and starting to feast on the blood and flesh like ravenous demons.
The remaining forefinger bone was really strange; it was straight without any joints at all, with a hole at its center like a pipe.
「Let’s go…」
The youth took a breath and blew the hole of his forefinger bone.
Following that was a strange, shrill sound.
The 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 suddenly gushed from innermost part of the room, entrance, cracks along the wall, and the windows of the abandoned church.
It seemed the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 in the nest of the first generation and around the abandoned church gathered when they heard the sound from that bone flute.
「Let’s game on!」
The youth rushed toward Lambert.
Even though Lambert was focused on dodging Philipo’s spear of light, he didn’t miss the incoming 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』.
The youth got closer and closer to the range of Lambert’s greatsword.
At that moment, he opened his mouth.
He then fired a green centipede, with legs that rivaled the size of those of humans, straight toward Lambert.
Lambert stopped the incoming centipede with the blade of his greatsword, slicing it in half.
He didn’t stop with just that. His greatsword kept moving around, slaying the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 around him.
The youth then brandished his right arm toward Lambert.
Since he was still outside the range of Lambert’s greatsword, the boy disconnected his right arm from his elbow. The disconnected arm then turned black as if it was rotting and flew toward Lambert.
The incoming right arm blackened and swelled, revealing holes on its skin.
Appearing from within the holes were five huge, black wasps.
But Lambert had already predicted that, so he bisected all five of them once they flew in a straight line.
The youth flexed his leg, trying to come toward Lambert from his left side this time.
「Splendid, but that’ll be your doom…」
But then, his expression turned into disbelief as Lambert turned around immediately, unleashing a kick with his left leg. The boy barely managed to dodge.
He wanted to close in, but he stopped since he saw that Lambert had already taken a stance with his greatsword.
The next moment, the very same sword gouged his abdomen.
And just like that, the sword’s blade pierced his body, scattering his blood and viscera.
All kinds of insects crawled out of his body.
Lambert didn’t stop. He rushed in and swung his sword toward the youth.
The youth barely managed to dodge the slash by jumping back.
Lambert tried to pursue the youth, but he backed off immediately since Philipo’s spear of light was stuck in between him and the youth.
The dazzling light, which appeared as the spear of light, dispersed the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 around it.
「Oops, too bad it missed. I was almost convinced that I could grant you two salvations at the same time…」
Philipo spoke with an intimate voice.
「How troublesome…」
Lambert muttered this.
Just one more step and he would be able to kill the youth for sure.
Barely escaping death, the youth ran toward Philipo and the other’s direction.
「Tch, can’t be helped. I have to at least take down one person, even if I abandon the nest…」
Though Lambert’s greatsword left a deep wound in his abdomen a moment ago, the wound had already been sealed by the wall of insects that the youth gathered from inside his body.
The youth moved so fast, as if he was unaffected by his wound.
Lambert chased after him immediately.
From his tone, the youth sounded like he was in a desperate situation, but Lambert’s intuition felt something was amiss.
Seeing that he kept fighting against Philipo inside the barrier, Lambert guessed that the youth must have some sort of method to break the barrier.
No matter how much he insisted that he protected the nest of the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』, logically speaking, it was impossible against fight Philipo forever.
In short, the youth’s method took a long time to prepare.
In addition, there was also that flute to call the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』.
Though it was useless against someone of Lambert’s caliber, it wasn’t supposed to be used by him to break the barrier. He had another way to do that.
Even if the youth gathered the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 to destroy Philipo’s barrier, it was just as the youth had said: he should wait for a bit more to increase the number of 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 in the basement.
Originally, Lambert was confused why『Devil’s Piper』 chose the not-so troublesome 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 to wreak a havoc in the holy city.
Though such a plan would indeed create a chaotic situation, the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 honestly fell short compared to their target, the inquisition squad.
Something about the youth’s flippant attitude caught Lambert’s attention.
That boy seemed to be hiding his true plan without alerting both Lambert and Philipo.
Lambert chased after the youth, but he couldn’t go too far to keep the number of『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 in check.
In the same condition, Lambert’s leg power was more powerful.
But the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 in front of the youth split to both sides as if making way for Lambert.
「If you don’t want to die, you have to cancel the barrier and escape from this place! Anyone who has harmed the Hudo tribe won’t die in peace!」
Lambert gave a last warning to Philipo.
And yet, Philipo didn’t seem to care about Lambert’s warning.
「Finally, you come at me.」
Philipo raised her cane.
She fired her spear of light toward the youth.
「TCH!」
Though the blast of light caused a mana disturbance, the youth passed by the place like nothing.
However, his running speed was greatly reduced compared to before.
「Behold, Philipo’s ace in the hole. O light, become a wall and wrap that person!」
A wall of light formed beneath the youth’s feet, launching his body along with numerous 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』.
The light around the youth warped.
It was among the best spells in Philipo’s arsenal. It created a huge barrier that enclosed her target inside, crushing them to death by compressing the barrier.
Numerous 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 struggled inside. The youth was also kicking the barrier from inside.
But it was futile. Not even their voice could be heard outside.
「No one can leave this barrier until now. That barrier will crush your body till it’s nothing more than a lump of meat. Worry not, for I will watch you until you die. That will be my salvation for you.」
Philipo licked her lips.
The box of light slowly crushed the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 inside.
The body fluid of the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 had already painted the wall of light, blocking anyone outside from seeing the condition of the youth.
「Oops, that makes it harder to see the inside. Such a burden…」
Suddenly, a magic circle around ten heins (meters) in diameter appeared with Philipo’s barrier as its center.
The corpses of the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 lined up in accordance to the patterns of the magic circle.
Though there was a pattern that seemingly missed the timing, Lambert saw the living 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 dragging their peers’ corpse to fill the missing pattern.
「Banquet of Ravenous Insects!」
The youth’s voice resounded from the basement.
The corpses of the 『Enhanced Demonic Insects』 suddenly released black light.
「So from the very beginning, his aim was to perform a ceremony.」
Lambert muttered this, glaring where Philipo unleashed her mana disturbance spell.
There was a huge hole in that place.
The youth apparently used the flood of light to escape into the basement, placing a dummy in his original position.
「W-what…?」
Philipo shook her head with a troubled look on her face.
There was a saying that spirits had their own favorite time, place, situation, and even mana spot.
Especially high-ranking spirit, they were even more selfish due to their superior rank and strength.
Ceremony was a deed of forcefully creating the most ideal situation for the spirit with sorcery.
「Heed my call and came to this world, Starving Destroyer Abaddon!」
The floor beneath Philipo cracked, and then a centipede with a giant skull, Abaddon from the insect realm, materialized.
It destroyed the foundation of the barrier and the four supporting pillars, effectively destroying the barrier.
「Too bad, I can change my body by molting. It’s convenient, right?」
Standing on top of the centipede’s skull was the youth who retained his resemblance from before.
His amputated arms and gouged abdomen became as good as new.
