The Way To Protect The Female Lead’S Older Brother [EN]: Chapter 185

“Prevent them from getting inside the building!”

“Yes!”

Cassis found himself amidst a scene of carnage, a slaughter in every sense of the word.

Everywhere he looked, people lay groaning on the floor, wounded. Some were motionless, as if already dead.

Besides them, people were running, chased by others. In just one hour, Yggdrasil, which had been so peaceful, had descended into chaos.

Fortunately, Cassis was with Fedelian’s close aides, allowing him to respond relatively quickly compared to others.

He was in the process of ordering them to reinforce the security within Yggdrasil.

Several barriers were in place around Yggdrasil, primarily functioning to prevent the approach of magical creatures.

However, the stone Roxana possessed must have had a powerful effect, enough to lure the creatures.

An alarm would sound if a magical creature entered Yggdrasil.

The time it would take for them to reach the interior where people were located was about two minutes.

To respond in time and prevent fatalities, they needed to be stationed near the location where the recovered weapon was.

In truth, Cassis didn’t care if magical creatures ravaged Yggdrasil itself.

However, there were people inside who lacked the ability to fight.

Cassis believed he had a duty to prevent the worst-case scenario if Roxana’s plan were to be executed.

Was it too presumptuous to think that was one of the reasons Roxana had bothered to tell him her plan?

What Roxana truly wanted from Cassis was something he would likely have to ponder for the rest of his life.

As Deon Agriche had said, it was a question he had to answer himself to be with her.

“Aaaagh…!”

Then, Cassis heard a scream that tore through the air.

“What is this….”

“What’s going on?”

The other close aides of Fedelian in front of him were equally shaken, a ripple of unease passing among them.

The first thought that crossed Cassis’s mind was, ‘Has Roxana’s plan already begun?’

But he quickly dismissed the idea. If it were her, she would have waited until after the hearing to proceed.

Cassis took his close aides and moved swiftly.

He hadn’t gone far in the direction of the scream when the thick stench of blood assaulted his nostrils.

Then, what came into his view was a person lying on the floor, bleeding.

There was no need to get closer to confirm; their throat was half-severed, and they were certainly dead.

Needless to say, it was definitely not the work of a magical creature.

From somewhere, another scream and loud noises surged in.

“Move to your positions. Now!”

As soon as Cassis commanded his close aides, they moved with perfect discipline without delay.

Cassis also ran towards the center of the commotion.

What he saw then was the same scene unfolding before his eyes.

“Kyaaagh!”

“S, save me…”

Slash!

‘They,’ who had silently infiltrated Yggdrasil, attacked with the intent to slaughter everyone in their path.

They didn’t miss those who ran, chasing after them and swinging arms equipped with weapons instead of hands.

Wherever they passed, a cloud of blood mist scattered without fail.

Those who had invaded Yggdrasil had the form of humans but were not human.

Since this was a demilitarized zone, it was practically a one-sided massacre.

Cassis had seen something similar in Vertium before.

‘Noel Vertium’s puppets!’

He realized the identity of the things before him and gritted his teeth.

He couldn’t just wait until the close aides who had gone to the armory returned.

Cassis ordered the close aides who had followed him to prevent the puppets from leaving this place and quickly rushed forward.

The number of combat puppets from Vertium seemed to be at least a hundred, just from what he could see.

To think that Vertium had hidden such a large puppet army.

Moreover, he couldn’t understand how they had moved here without being noticed.

Could it be that the sense of unease he had felt recently was not just because of the magical creatures?

The desperate screams pouring in from all directions were like the sound of rough waves.

People who had come upon hearing the commotion were horrified by the scene of pandemonium and ran away. Among them, the unlucky ones were attacked by the puppets.

“Kyaaagh!”

Cassis pushed away a servant who was about to be pierced by a puppet’s weapon. Then, he put strength into his hand and struck the puppet’s head.

Kkigigigik…!

The puppet convulsed, making a strange metallic noise.

However, unlike magical creatures, the puppet did not die even after having its life force plundered.

Cassis’s expression grew even colder.

It seemed that this method didn’t work because the puppet was originally alive but not alive.

“Obstacle… eliminate….”

Still, perhaps because its functions were partially damaged, the puppet continued to convulse and muttered the same words incessantly.

Swoosh!

Cassis mercilessly bent the arm rushing towards him and instead slammed it into the puppet’s jaw.

Since the puppet’s arm itself was a weapon made of steel, he judged that the most efficient way was to block its movement altogether.

The awl-like arm, breaking the puppet’s jaw and piercing through to the crown of its head, was firmly lodged and no longer moved.

Even so, the puppet, with its head pierced, slashed diagonally with its other arm, which was equipped with another weapon.

Cassis moved almost acrobatically, using it to pierce the head of another puppet approaching from the side.

The movements of the two puppets, whose bodies were connected, became sluggish.

“Stop them!”

“The puppets are going inside!”

At that moment, he saw the sight of several puppets breaking through the defense and starting to enter the building.

It was nearly impossible to completely stop the movements of so many puppets with bare hands, and there was a limit to their numbers, so it was natural for gaps to appear.

Fortunately, the close aides who had gone to the armory returned not too late.

Cassis left this place to them and turned his body.

In the meantime, he felt a stinging sensation on the back of his left hand and lowered his head.

Roxana’s red butterfly sat on it, fluttering its wings a few times.

It was one of the signals agreed upon with Roxana. She must have learned of the current situation as well.

In this situation, what this signal meant was….

Cassis gritted his teeth.

He knew.

Roxana was not a weak person who needed his protection.

So he had to trust her and do the work given to him.

Even so, he couldn’t help but have reason and emotion intertwined and wrestling with each other.

The butterfly sitting on the back of his hand flew up, drawing a red trajectory as it moved.