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69 – The Struggle of the Hero Party

A heavy hitting sound was echoing across the battlefield.

A black knight wearing black heavy armor all over his body.

He was deflecting all of the hero’s attacks and beating him up.

Pow!!

With a sound as if a leather sack was being struck, the warrior’s body fell.

The hero Kenji flops and falls on the dirt floor.

Looking at that, the soldiers of the empire were unable to make a sound.

When the hero took on the Black Knight, everyone cheered, but the cheers had long since disappeared.

When the hero Kenji, who had been rolling on the floor, staggered to his feet, the Black Knight rushed towards him as if he would not give him a chance.

Even though he was wearing that heavy-looking armor, he moved quickly as if that didn’t matter.

“Huh?!”

The hero Kenji spurted out blood from his mouth.

The amount of bleeding was enough to indicate that damage was done to the internal organs, not a burst lip.

“Kk…Kruk…?!”

As blood spurted out, the warrior Kenji groaned as if he was having some trouble breathing.

However, the Black Knight continued his attack on the hero Kenji as if he had no intention of paying attention.

“Ugh…Ugh…”

Seeing that terrible sight, the complexions of the imperial soldiers turned pale.

The hero is being trampled to the point where it feels horrendous.

A black knight who beats up the hero without allowing a single attack.

Even that black knight is not using a weapon.

It was enough to lower the morale of the soldiers to no end.

“Now it’s done!! Make the hero retreat quickly!!”

Prince Freud, looking at the hero Kenji being brutally violated, shouted with a pale complexion.

When he sent out a warrior, he trusted a warrior who was not at all defeated by the spirit of the Black Knight, but that was all.

Isn’t the hero suffering cruelly?

If you leave it like this, not only will you lose a valuable warrior, but the morale of the soldiers will plummet, putting you at a disadvantage in future battlefields.

“What are you doing!! Tell the hero to retreat!!”

“Ah… I’ve been calling for the hero to retreat since a while ago… But you’re not retreating as if you can’t hear us.”

“Kuh…He’s a hero…!!”

Of course, the hero is being controlled by Iola and cannot hear the soldiers’ instructions to retreat, but the crown prince does not know that.

And, the Iola in question was looking closely at the black knight who was beating up the hero.

‘…What on earth is that?’

A black knight who is literally playing with the hero.

Iola was more interested in the black knight than in the hero’s situation.

Kenji is a hero who grows rapidly thanks to the blessings of fanaticism.

In just a few months, he became strong enough to defeat tens to hundreds of demon soldiers alone.

That is a hero.

That is what a hero is.

A hero of fanaticism who grows stronger faster and exerts greater power than a hero of the goddess.

When he was summoned, he was disappointed in his poor and pathetic appearance and eventually ‘trained’ him using medicine.

He forcibly manipulated them and sent them into battle, forcing them to fight unreasonably and quickly become stronger.

I thought there would be no one who could defeat the hero Kenji.

However, the day before, the hero was defeated by an unexpected being called the ‘Apostle of the Goddess’.

Of course, since the apostle did not appear again after that, it was thought that the goddess was keeping a check on him.

But this time, he is not an apostle of the goddess, but an incredibly powerful black knight who appears on the side of the demon king’s army?

Even if it is twisted, it cannot be twisted like this.

‘The Demon God’s Hero…? No, the Demon God was exterminated by the Goddess in an ancient war… Then what on earth is that?’

For a being that strong, I can only think of him as a hero.

A new hero given by the goddess?

No, the goddess said she would not give any more warriors.

Even if a new hero is assigned, is it possible for him to become strong that quickly?

‘No…It’s not the time to think about such things.’

Anyway, that black knight is dangerous.

Iola ignored the crown prince who was yelling next to her and gave instructions to the hero Kenji.

Kenji, the hero before our eyes, was dangerous.

Not only the growth speed, but also the healing power is incomparable to when I was there.

His recovery ability was so extreme that even if his face collapsed or his arm bones were broken, he could recover in just a few seconds.

When Zikrune reduced this guy to a pulp before, it probably wasn’t to this extent.

I didn’t know what was causing this guy to go on such a rampage, but I was certain that he was dangerous.

“Crazy… This isn’t some kind of zombie!! Come to your senses!!”

It wouldn’t be strange if he came to his senses after being beaten up, or lost so much blood that he lost his senses.

How severe can a situation be to keep waking up like a zombie, groaning?

At this point, it felt ominous and eerie.

“…Huh?”

At that time, his movements changed.

Up until now, it was just like a zombie, trying to attack me at all costs, whether it was with its fists or kicks.

But now it seems like there is some other purpose…

“Ugh?!”

This guy suddenly clung to my leg.

“What’s that gross?! Get off!!”

I immediately kicked the guy in the head with my other foot.

The head of the guy who was kicked spun around and his neck vertebrae made a crunching sound as if they were going to break, but he clung to me like a zombie and didn’t fall off.

I don’t understand what the hell you’re trying to do…

“Now is the time! Everyone attack!!”

“B…But there is also a hero…”

“It’s okay! It’s because the hero ordered it! There must be a way!! Show me the power of the hero party!!”

Along with a woman’s voice, several people appeared nearby.

…I knew it was hiding, but it didn’t move at all so I didn’t pay any attention to it.

A mixed unit consisting of both men and women.

Is that really this generation’s hero party?

It’s more luxurious than when there were only four of us.

The female ratio is a bit high, but to be honest, they are better than me, who only had three women.

…Except for the fact that those three women were all foxy b*tches.

Five women who appear to be magicians.

All of them began to chant magic arts.

…It looks like he’s really planning to blow me away, the hero.

The magic thrown with such a small amount of magic power in itself is not a big deal, but if there are that many of them, it is still dangerous.

When several people chant magic spells together, the power increases through multiplication, not addition.

For no reason, we perform a huge ritual such as summoning a hero, but we do not gather dozens of magicians.

Quaaa!!

A huge explosion hit the black knight and the hero.

“Heo-eok…Heo-eok…”

Mages are highly anticipated rookies who come from the Magic Tower and belong to the warrior party.

All of them belonged to the younger generation of magicians who rebelled against the Magic Tower’s non-intervention.

Those with the highest skills among young people were selected and applied to the warrior party.

What they used was a Tsushima sword that the five of them used together by coordinating their magic power.

It was the strongest black magic that was activated by using almost all of the magic power of the five people.

This power is probably something that even Alessa, the genius mage who is being talked about as the next magic tower lord, cannot produce.

“Did you…Did you get rid of it?”

“Rather than that, hurry up and find the hero…!!”

The aftereffects of the explosion passed, and the battlefield was covered in dust.

The vanguard fighters who had come out to protect the mages rushed to rescue the hero.

…Iola said the hero was fine, but even so, there was no way he wouldn’t be worried after seeing an explosion of that scale.

“Uh…Ugh…”

“We…What on earth are we doing…”

Even the magicians who used magic fell to their knees from the powerful magic they used.

No matter how much the hero said it was okay, he was still hesitant to fire this much magic at the hero.

… Rather than worrying about the hero, the fear of the black knight in front of me was even greater.

“Did you find the hero?”

“No, I can’t see clearly because of the dust…”

Since the hero himself said it was okay, he probably also took some measures.

Then it must be safe somewhere.

However, because of this thick dust, the surroundings could not be seen at all, so it was difficult to find the hero.

“Shall I help you?”

“Ah… Then thank you… Right?”

A gloomy voice was suddenly heard.

After that, a strong wind arose so that the warrior party members had to hit the ground.

It was such a strong storm that some party members who were not prepared for it were sent flying through the air.

In that storm, all the dust was blown away and the battlefield was revealed again.

“Uh…Uh?”

“It’s a lie…”

There, before I knew it, there was a black knight who had drawn his sword and created a storm with just the pressure of the sword, blowing away the dust.

Standing with a sword in one hand and the collar of the hero Kenji in the other.

The hero Kenji seemed to have lost consciousness and fainted.

“Ah…Not yet! The warrior unit charges!!”

“Support the shooting unit from afar!!”

It’s not that we didn’t assume this situation.

Iola decided that if the magic attack failed, the warrior unit would attack the Black Knights in full, and the rest would provide support.

Although everyone was shaken by the sight of the black knight without a single wound, the hero party immediately decided on the next strategy.

They weren’t chosen as a warrior party for nothing.

And if their warrior unit lost the Black Knight’s spirit even a little, the next blade to stab him was quietly preparing.

‘Please. ‘Hero Princess”

The members of the warrior party rushed towards the Black Knight with prayers towards the ‘blade’ that was hiding with bated breath.