How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 280

280. To Reclaim 312 (4)

“Aileen… If what that guy said is true, even if I just spread my sword energy around, he’ll come running, right?”

Sylvester smirked in agreement.

“I agree.”

Sylvester unleashed his sword energy.

The sword energy soared through the dark sky, then spread out wide.

“He won’t be able to ignore that.”

That was what Sylvester thought too.

He understood as soon as he heard the vampire’s name.

Elsarria, it definitely sounded familiar.

Wasn’t that the monster he dealt with in the royal capital of the former Selvas Kingdom?

“Come out…”

Soon, he sensed multiple dark objects moving in the sky.

“He took the bait right away.”

The sword energy from earlier didn’t have much power.

It was originally used when there were no signal flares on the battlefield. It was more of a beacon.

It only served to brightly illuminate the light of the aura.

A skilled knight or someone with power beyond a certain level would read the energy and know who was emitting the signal.

And Elsarria would definitely recognize it.

“I would have been a little disappointed if he didn’t recognize it.”

As expected, hundreds of red spears rained down from the sky.

Sylvester dodged and deflected them, leaping upwards in one swift motion.

Using his aura to propel himself into the air, he ascended rapidly.

He swung his sword casually at the vampires gathered above, towards Elsarria.

“That sword energy! It’s you!”

The vampires scattered in the sky, not wanting to be hit carelessly.

“Hmph.”

As if it were futile, Sylvester swung his sword energy greatly, turning over a dozen Elsarrias who couldn’t dodge into ash.

“…He’s become nimbler than before.”

He swung his sword based on his experience from when he dealt with him before.

“Indeed!”

“I remember! That aura! That mana!”

“That little brat from back then! The one who dared to destroy me!”

The vampires recognized Sylvester from all directions, pointing and shouting.

“Ah, my head is ringing… Just increasing the numbers…”

Sylvester rushed towards them, seemingly annoyed by the noise rather than the vampires themselves.

He cleaved several vampires with his sword energy and grabbed the head of one who barely dodged with his left hand, which wasn’t holding the sword.

Crack.

“Kuaaaaaaaak?!”

Ignoring the vampire’s screams,

he swung his arm greatly and threw him, hitting another vampire.

As they faltered, Sylvester’s sword pierced two vampires simultaneously.

They were clearly being toyed with.

The vampires trembled with anger at that fact.

“You!”

“…You’ve only increased in numbers; nothing has changed.”

It seemed they had escaped aging upon resurrection, but that was all.

Their movements were completely visible.

‘Indeed, it would be fastest for me to slaughter these guys myself.’

Even if the guys he had defeated once were resurrected, from Sylvester’s perspective, who had completely grasped their weaknesses, they were nothing more than numerous mosquitoes.

‘I can’t let them get scared and run away.’

Should he provoke them a bit?

“Come on. You’re in a more advantageous position than before, right? Or is it that you’ve become even more pathetic now that you’ve regained your strength and increased in number than when you were just one old vampire?”

“You!”

The Elsarrias, feeling humiliated by Sylvester’s relaxed provocation, emitted even more killing intent.

Responding to their attacks, Sylvester made sure to prevent them from paying attention to the city as he fought back as planned.

“Sorry, but I don’t really like demons or vampires. …Last time, even after cutting you into pieces and turning your heads into ash in the sunlight, you seemed to have survived.”

Sylvester drew lightning from his sword, crackling, and declared firmly.

“I’ll bury you more thoroughly than last time.”

* * *

Mercenary Zelhart had to be quite taken aback when he confirmed the explosion shaking the city.

“Oh? What’s this? Magic? No, is it explosives?”

At first, he thought it was a magical attack, but he calmly judged that it wasn’t.

They had the lich, Kremers Alfrence, here. [A lich is a type of undead creature, often a powerful sorcerer who has cheated death].

They would have thoroughly prepared for magical attacks.

Did they exploit that weakness?

If so, it could only be explosives.

“…Did they mix something else with the explosives?”

He didn’t know what it was.

The faint smell of gunpowder was definitely something being researched in the Empire, but he didn’t know more than that.

“C, Captain!”

“Not only were the Crystal Golems damaged by the explosion, but some of our members were also hit!”

Even his subordinates were hit.

The Crystal Golems lacked the ability to make their own judgments.

If they were to search for the enemy, he would have to leave it to himself or his subordinates.

Clicking his tongue, he found it annoying.

“…Tch, leave the guys who got hit. More importantly, the guys who did this will move. Prepare for an attack!”

As expected, as soon as the order was given, shouts and the sound of weapons clashing echoed from various places within the city.

“It’s them!”

“It’s the mercenaries! They’re attacking, Keueak?!”

The guy who was reporting was pierced by a suddenly flying arrow and collapsed.

Arrows flew towards him as well.

“Hmph, how ridiculous.”

Zelhart scoffed and easily blocked the incoming arrows with just his fingers.

“Hey. This kind of prank isn’t your style, is it?”

He didn’t particularly sense her presence.

But he knew her personality to some extent.

She was probably watching nearby.

Grinning.

“Come out, Ellaut!”

He shouted as if he wanted her to hear.

He knew.

She wasn’t the type to just ignore this provocation.

Even though their methods were different as mercenaries, they had been making a living doing this for quite some time.

That’s why he was sure of what would happen next.

Thukwaaaaaang!

A roar erupted.

It wasn’t because of the same explosives from before.

A single human had burst out.

“Alright! I’m going out! You son of a bitch!”

Ellaut, accepting the provocation with a burst of laughter, jumped out.

“That… Combat Maniac Ellaut!”

“Take down that bitch first!”

The mercenaries were surprised, but they each grabbed their weapons and rushed at Ellaut, aiming for her.

“Don’t be scared! It’s just one woman!”

The other mercenaries seemed to be rampaging in various places, but there was only Ellaut here right now.

No matter how famous a mercenary she was, there was no way she could handle a large number of people alone.

The mercenaries mustered their courage, relying on their numbers, and charged.

However, only Zelhart clicked his tongue.

“…Foolish bastards…”

But he didn’t stop his subordinates.

Rather, he watched the consequences of their choices as if there was no reason to stop them.

“Yeah! Come at me as much as you want, you damn bastards!”

Ellaut, on the contrary, laughed loudly as if welcoming the belligerent mercenaries’ reaction, and drew her magic sword.

She didn’t bother with petty feints.

“Come at me with all your might! Otherwise, you might get cut in half without even realizing it!”

She swung her sword greatly with the momentum that she didn’t care how much they came at her.

A simple upward slash.

But it was by no means a simple force.

He clicked his tongue and slightly lowered his body.

Kwagagagagagagang!

A roar that sounded as if the earth itself was being torn apart echoed.

The sharp aura blade that Ellaut swung literally carved out the entire area in front of her.

The upper parts of the surrounding buildings were completely and cleanly cut off, collapsing.

“Hey… Wasn’t this your base of operations?”

Even though it had been taken away, most of the buildings here originally belonged to the Empire.

She didn’t blow them up, but boldly cut them down.

“Hahahaha! Who cares! So what? I’ll just destroy everything and build new ones!”

Ellaut laughed wildly as if she didn’t know anything like that, and boldly jumped into the mercenaries who had barely dodged the first blow.

“That monster!”

The mercenaries cursed and surrounded Ellaut, charging at her.

They must have thought that she wouldn’t be able to unleash such a large sword energy if they got close.

“That’s why you guys are failures.”

She knew, but she deliberately jumped in.

Ellaut smiled triumphantly and struck the sword of the mercenary who had launched the first attack.

“Eucha!”

She swung her fist and shattered it.

She didn’t block it with her sword, but just shattered it with her bare hand.

“Hahaha! Even a neighborhood thug would swing it better than that!”

“Shut your mouth!”

The mercenary whose sword was broken shouted in dismay.

Even though he looked like this, he was an A-rank… In terms of knights, he had reached the level of an Aura Expert.

To break that with just his bare hands without even using aura?

It was enough to feel the ultimate humiliation and fear.

“That’s why you guys are third-rate.”

Ellaut grabbed the mercenary’s face in one swift motion.

He knew it was coming, but he couldn’t avoid it.

There was a fundamental difference in skill.

It wasn’t Ellaut who had been caught.

It was them who had surrounded her.

“Let’s crush the noisy flies first.”

Smiling, Ellaut squeezed the hand gripping his face tightly.

Kwaddeuk!

“Kkeuaaaaaaaaaak!”

A scream rang out, but as if that made her even more excited, Ellaut swung him around in a large circle.

The mercenaries flinched for a moment, worried about being hit by their comrade.

“How clumsy!”

She slammed the mercenary whose face she was gripping into the ground with the momentum of swinging him around.

Kwajik!

An ominous sound rang out, and fear filled the mercenaries’ faces.

“…That monster…”

“Hmph! If you’re going to tremble like that, you shouldn’t have done this kind of trashy thing!”

There was no such thing as showing mercy.

They were the enemy, and dealing with them was the request she had received.

She didn’t intend to distinguish between good and evil.

Their actions had already gone too far.

The magic sword that Ellaut swung became a red storm of sword energy.

The sword energy swallowed the blood spewed by the enemies and soared up in one swift motion.

Like a dragon drinking blood and soaring.

“This… She’s still reckless.”

Watching the sword energy, Zelhart grimaced as if he was bitter and picked up his spear.

After all, he didn’t even expect his subordinates to be able to properly check that woman.

Just to make them engrave her movements in their eyes even a little.

It would be enough if they could create even a small gap before their reunion.

“Well, it’s meaningless.”

He spat out the impression that his subordinates were useless without hesitation and took a few steps forward.

Of course, Ellaut was also watching his attitude.

“…The biggest piece of trash is someone like you.”

The thrust that Ellaut launched became a thin sword energy and stretched out to pierce Zelhart several times.

He easily deflected it by swinging his spear.

“You could have saved your subordinates enough, right?”

“Well, I can gather as many members as that much as I want. It’s terribly annoying, but it’s better than stepping out myself. Thanks to you, I was able to confirm your movements with my own eyes after a long time.”

“You’re still a crazy bastard…”

“I don’t want to hear that from a woman who’s crazy about fighting.”

They were intertwined with hateful animosity.

They were both mercenaries, and the standards for evaluating their skills as mercenaries were also similar.

Nevertheless, they each pursued different methods.

“Haa, Zelhart. When I see someone like you, I think. I’m still better off, I guess.”

“Oh, really?”

“At least I don’t live like trash like you, so I think that’s fortunate. …I’m terribly grateful!”

Ellaut jumped in as if there was no need to say it first.

She didn’t let her guard down.

Apart from hating him, she didn’t think that the opponent was so easy that he would give up the first move.

She acknowledged it calmly.

“This time too, I’ll beat that face of yours and throw you outside the Empire’s border!”

“Hmph, I’ll decline this time.”

Ellaut’s descending sword was blocked head-on by him swinging his spear.

Kwang!

The pressure spreading as the two blades collided shook the area.

After all, the first blow was blocked.

Whether the two thought the same thing, they immediately continued to the next action.

Papapapapat!

Countless attacks were poured towards both sides to the point where they couldn’t be seen.

The afterimages of both sides’ auras poured down like rain, but none of them reached either of them.

In just a few seconds, dozens… no, hundreds of exchanges continued, and faint bloodstains were barely drawn on both sides’ necks.

“Tch…”

The two mercenaries retreated at the same time, clicking their tongues.