Guild Boss's Ambition

My words did not surprise President Ehard.

This did attract the call of Miss Paladin.

"Wait? You mean the wrath of nature is coming?"

Miss Paladin's face was full of resistance to the disaster. She seemed to want to hear a negative answer from her own mouth, but I couldn't give her an accurate answer: "Maybe they will come, maybe not. But let's calculate the time. Haven't we seen them in the Seven Border Cities for a long time? Isn't that very unusual?"

Miss Paladin was silent, and I gave her a comforting smile.

"In fact, if you want to live in this city, then don't worry about it. Mopolis City is rich because of the danger itself. From my point of view, if the danger can be prevented, then the destructive power of the danger can be restricted to a certain extent. And this year, the attitude of the Alliance of Light towards border defense can be regarded as cautious."

Unfortunately, my advice did not seem to bring much relief to Miss Paladin. She smiled wryly, shook her head calmly, and temporarily put aside the idea of ​​Nature's Wrath: "Well, let's start the competition as soon as possible. I hope to get our lost property back as soon as possible. I always feel uneasy without it."

Ahad also responded, "Although I just broke a battle axe with you, Raftan, I am still happy to accompany you in such a matter as working together to defeat the evil necromancer."

So, we stood on both sides of the field, using our positions to show the two camps with clear enemy and friend relationships.

There was no need for any referee. We saluted each other at a certain moment, and the battle began silently.

In this first moment, everyone took action. President Ehard, who lacked the means of long-range attack, launched a charge from the very beginning. However, unlike Ehard, Raftan continued to stay where she was, muttering to herself.

"Archer of Light, Alpha summons—"

"Bata summons the Archer of Light—"

Unlike other Paladins, Raftan has learned summoning skills. This is a very tricky tactic in a team battle. Because of this summoning skill, I secretly raised Raftan's overall combat power score to the level of four Guild Masters. At the same time, I also silently developed corresponding countermeasures to deal with the two of them.

The first thing I did was to open the Bone Spirit Ring and throw out my Experiment No. 99, Xiaoban.

After my careful transformation, the stray dog ​​Xiaoban is now not as thin as before. Just like what he longed for in his lifetime. I gave him the strong physique I promised him. With a lot of failures as a prerequisite, his body finally succeeded in combining the speed of the polar snow wolf, the strength of the iron rhinoceros, the defense of the ground dragon and the magic resistance of the gargoyle.

Basically, Xiaoban now has platinum-level combat power, but because the soul driving this powerful body is just a stray dog, Xiaoban, he may not be able to perfectly use the powerful qualities of other creatures immediately.

However, with constant injuries and battles, I believe that Xiaoban will soon learn to use them in actual combat, and then put them into practice to beat up that slow-growing idiot Ehard for me, making the naive Miss President realize that she is actually so weak that she can't even defeat a puppy.

"Ehard, quickly become stronger and more reliable! If I want to explore an entire unknown area, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack with my own strength. Therefore, I need the Stone House to gather more real adventurers for me. Therefore, I need to make your Stone House a real adventurer's guild, but if you don't have the qualifications to be an excellent leader..."

"By then, I may have to look for a more suitable guild leader for Stone House..."

"But that is definitely not the future that Uru would like to see..."

"Therefore, dear Miss President, please pass my test and defeat my pet dog!"

I gave the guild leader a mocking smile, and then turned my attention to the other knight in the arena.

I wouldn't be that attentive and gentle towards a stranger.

"As a platinum paladin, her body and mind should be able to withstand a lot of torture, right?"

"I guess it won't be easily destroyed by me, right?"

"By the way, can the arena's defensive magic prevent permanent mental disability?"

"Should I try it?"

"Hmm? Wait! I was so excited that I almost forgot not to do experiments randomly──"

"Unfortunately—"

……

……()

16. I Saw the Devil (Raftan)

(Paladin: Raftan Fritz)

I glanced at the strange dog fighting with President Ehard nearby, and finally understood why I instinctively felt a strong sense of uneasiness towards the necromancer in the beginning, because she did not have a normal mind that a human being should have.

otherwise……

There was absolutely no way she could create a monster like that vicious dog.

It was a synthetic beast that combined the characteristics of various creatures, a completely new species that had never existed in this world. Its body was carefully designed for combat. I could clearly feel the malice in its claws, its skin, and from President Ehard's hard fight. I also found the uneasy restlessness in the eyes of the vicious dog.

I don't know whether it was the necromancer that made it become like this, or if it was just that pitiful, but there is no doubt that the girl who discovered hatred and used it is the truly terrifying monster.

If it came to a real fight, she would be the opponent I least wanted to face.

The look she gave us was full of indifference, it was not ignorant pride, but absolute self-confidence and self-knowledge. Even though I summoned twelve soldiers of light one after another, she was not moved by the increasing number of enemies. She didn't seem to take the bows and arrows of the soldiers of light seriously, nor did she take my huge cross sword seriously.

"It's all a futile struggle."

She continues to convey this message to us through her silence.

Should I be angry at her for being so frivolous?

Do not……

I should look for the source of her confidence.

"Or is she just bluffing?"

I couldn't help but sneer at my own naive assumption, but that is not impossible. Every powerful magician I met after holding the cross sword was a wise man who was good at grasping people's hearts and deeply understood the essence of gambling. As long as it was a rational strategy, the magician would always be able to execute it to the end cold-bloodedly.

"Since we can't guess her strategy, let's use our strength to force her out!"

"Sophie is still watching. We can't let her see her sister lose twice in one day."

"Besides, isn't it ridiculous for a paladin to lose to a necromancer?"

Different thoughts flashed through my mind quickly. After summoning the seventeenth soldier of light, I raised the cross sword and aimed the soldiers' bows and arrows at the necromancer in the distance. However, even with the threat of the bow and arrow, the necromancer still stood still and even smiled faintly -

what's so funny?

This calm smile──

Let me destroy it!!!!

"Everyone, aim at the target, three-stage scattering—"

I spoke my orders to the elements as usual, but the feeling of disharmony swept through my heart like a storm. It was like a fall without weight. In my sight, those loyal soldiers of light actually turned their longbows and aimed at their superiors. I suddenly realized the meaning behind that calm smile, it was a smile looking at a fool.

The soldiers gathered the energy of the elemental arrows to an extreme.

At the critical moment, I forcibly took back the elemental soldiers.

Inevitably, I took a heavy backlash from the magic.

But compared to minor internal injuries, the consequences of being pierced by thousands of arrows are obviously worse.

I took unnecessary injuries in exchange for the opportunity to continue fighting──

Because I hate the feeling of losing.

I hate getting used to the feeling of defeat even more.

I've lost so much in my life.

It includes the family's honor and the people's expectations.

All this is because of my incompetence.

I……

The enemy in front of us must be defeated! This necromancer in front of us must be defeated!

However, this necromancer seems to be a little bit out of the ordinary...

If I want to seize control of the Warrior of Light, I must understand the structure of the summoning ritual. However, this ritual was clearly an original design by me, and it has never been recorded in any book or text. But now the other party has seized it on the spot. Doesn't this mean that the other party has used its powerful computing power to crack my ritual on the spot?

"Is that really something that humans can do?"

Such amazement flashed through my mind, and a trembling answer came out of my heart: "No, that should not be within the ability of a human. The one I am fighting now is an absolute monster──"

"To deal with an unconventional monster, conventional means alone will never work!"

I looked sharp, the temporary defeat in the battle actually aroused my fighting spirit.

It was just a minor backlash of magic, which would not determine the outcome of the entire competition. Right now, President Ehard has been completely entangled by the modified dog. Although she defeated me just twenty minutes ago, due to her shallow foundation in martial arts, she will probably be in trouble in the face of the modified dog's powerful talent.

I can only rely on myself in this battle.

I looked at the Necromancer opposite me, and at this moment, she finally made more obvious movements.

She fired a gray magic missile at me.

The speed of this magic missile was frighteningly fast. I was wearing heavy armor and had no chance to dodge. When the magic missile came close to me, my anti-magic armor did not provide any protection. The magic missile went straight through my body.

This gave me a chill.

It wasn't that my body really became cold, but my emotions and thoughts were caught in an indescribable cold wave.

It was a curse magic that targeted the mind.

Even though I knew it was the effect of the curse, I couldn't help but feel sad. The memories of the past were like ants that were gnawing at my heart like crazy.

I recalled the death of my biological father, and how my mother took me to escape the pursuit of those evil people. I also could not forget that my mother remarried Sophie's biological father, my adoptive father, in order to seek a stable life. My existence seemed to be the embodiment of bad luck. When I returned to my father's territory from the Paladin's Hall, my adoptive father encountered the same tragedy that my biological father had encountered.

This time it was even worse.

Not only did his adoptive father die, but even his territory and honor were tarnished because of the evildoers' schemes.

We were forced to pawn the territories that the king gave us to guard, allowing greedy and immoral merchants to use the people and land as tools to make profits, while we, the defenders, could only watch helplessly as our hometown gradually lost its original color.

So, Sophie and I came to Mopolis.

We hope that the prosperity of this impoverished city can bring about a turnaround in everything.

We need a lot of gold.

Two hundred thousand gold coins.

That is the value of the territory we lost pawning to the Chamber of Commerce.

And the moment we got the 200,000, we used it all to pay off our debts.

Now, Sophie and I only have a few hundred gold coins left.

This is indeed a large sum in the eyes of ordinary people, but for us who want to buy back the territory and honor, this little bit of gold coins is of no help at all. In fact, even if we come to the city of Mopolis, we may not be able to earn the 200,000 gold coins.

"Haha, that's 200,000 gold coins. Even if I were an adventurer my whole life, I wouldn't be able to earn that much."

"Besides, we only have four years left to redeem the territory..."

"The so-called honor is actually already irreversible, right?"

Tears blurred my vision without hesitation, and my mind gradually lost its resistance to the curse magic. The burning will to fight suddenly collapsed. When I thought that all the struggles and efforts would only increase the pain, I seemed to have no reason to continue fighting. Thinking from another angle, in fact, as long as I let go of the last name Fritz, couldn't I live a relaxed and happy life?

Yes, that is indeed a way to get out of this.

But I could vaguely hear my sister Sophie's voice from the chaos.

She told me to stand up.

She told me not to give up—

She told me to fight—

She thought I was risking my life for the honor of my family...

But actually...

Ha ha……

Yes, why would I forget such an important thing?

The reason why I held the cross sword was not because of Fritz's last name from the beginning to the end.

All I want is to fulfill the wishes of my mother and Sophie. As long as they are happy, as long as my sword can bring them happiness, I will keep fighting even if I am in hell.

and so……

That damn wavering will, that damn curse magic...

Go to hell.

“Ah—ho—”

With a shout, I stood up again and charged towards the necromancer. Unfortunately, I realized it too late. When I knelt on the ground and cried ridiculously, the necromancer had already prepared a lot of means of attack and defense. She was sure to knock me down on the spot when I had lost my will, and give me the unforgivable and unjust judgment.

However, the Skeleton Girl praised me.

She used a bone spear to push me away from her, raised her eyebrows and smiled, "Everyone has one or two dark sides in their hearts, but there are only a few people who can walk out of their dark sides. Although I don't know what your psychological weakness is, your will seems to be much stronger than I thought, so -"

She changed the subject and narrowed her eyes. "Dear Miss Paladin, to show my high respect, I will use my strongest magic to defeat you. Please defend yourself with all your might, because even I am not sure how powerful this move will be. If you fail miserably, there is a good chance that it will even penetrate the protective magic of the venue itself."