Reader’S Regeneration Life [EN]: Chapter 410

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No Hope

I can’t just stand here, spacing out like this anymore.

This was Bade’s decision.

Since he possessed a Stigmata more suited for support than combat, he was positioned relatively in the rear, amplifying the strength of the Holy Prussen soldiers, elves, and celestials, even if only by a little.

By singing?

Or by praying?

Neither.

The source of power for Bade’s Stigmata was the screams, blood, and despair of all living beings around him.

His Stigmata’s specialty was to inspire fighting spirit in the allied forces using that, but unfortunately, it wasn’t powerful enough to make a huge difference.

However, even a small change can have a big impact in war, so the regular soldiers of Holy Prussen declared that Bade’s ability was truly a gift from the light.

But Bade himself was born a soldier of Holy Prussen, a fervent fanatic who believed that only by punishing those who did not believe in the light could they advance to a new world of light.

For such a person, with battle raging right before his eyes, to be sitting in the back, lending his Stigmata’s power only to allies, was maddening.

Having a Stigmata naturally made his physical abilities as strong as those of a high-ranking knight, yet he couldn’t step forward while allies and enemies were fighting all around him, which was almost torture for a fervent believer in the light.

“Bade!

What are you doing? How long are you going to sit here, doing this stupid thing that has little effect!

Look over there. The sinners, the fallen, are rampaging! Is sitting still what a follower of the light should do!

As one who has received the light’s revelation, I can’t stay like this any longer!”

Everyone knew that the outcome of this battle would determine the fate of everything.

For that reason, the Holy Prussen command placed Bade in the rear to use his Stigmata, but they didn’t issue an order to stop him unconditionally if he went into battle. The soldiers waiting with him in the back were eager to fight the so-called sinners.

If the front lines were pushed back, reserves would be deployed anyway, so it wasn’t strange for Bade to prepare for battle.

Therefore, those waiting in the rear as reserves were about to prepare to enter the battlefield in accordance with Bade’s movements.

“Uh, uh?

Uh, uh, uh?”

“Enemy! The enemy is coming from the side!”

As soon as the battle began, Zann and the northern warriors, leading their warriors in a wide flanking maneuver, revealed themselves, crashing into the enemy’s flank.

Although it was a plain, the land wasn’t completely flat, so it was very difficult to distinguish the opponent from a distance. Above all, the allied cavalry was also scattered in all directions, so it was only when they got closer that they could tell whether they were enemies or returning allies.

“Formation! Get in formation!”

“Form an anti-cavalry formation! Hurry!”

Even so, they were regular soldiers of Holy Prussen.

As the enemies rushed in, they quickly formed a battle line and were perfectly prepared to defend against the enemies coming from the side. They tensed up as they anticipated the enemies who would soon crush them with tremendous force.

But what came next wasn’t the enemies’ spears and heavy horses.

Shashashashasha!―

Suddenly, the sound of leaves rustling in the wind could be heard from all directions.

The soldiers, thinking something was strange, soon realized that countless things were flying through the air towards them.

Tititing!

Thud!

Thud!

Tititing!―

Some were deflected, and some were stuck in shields, bewildering them. It was a hail of countless arrows.

Clearly, the enemies rushing towards them were all cavalrymen with spears and swords.

They hadn’t seen any archers among them.

“Iheyiiii!”

“Yohooooo!”

The cavalrymen, making strange noises, seemed to be charging, but they all fired arrows and retreated.

Thanks to this, the soldiers of Holy Prussen couldn’t hide their bewilderment.

They weren’t using any charge tactics, just drawing their bows on horseback, so how could they shoot properly while swaying back and forth on horseback?

“Foolish bastards… Keueup!”

Arrows came in through small and subtle gaps.

Those who laughed at what they were doing and relaxed their guard were hit by arrows that came in through those gaps and immediately collapsed, starting to break the formation.

The rear commander immediately ordered a counterattack, but they couldn’t keep up with the cavalry’s movements.

Seeing that the enemy’s formation was shaken by their attacks and gaps were gradually widening, Zann led her personal guards and rushed straight into the enemy’s formation.

At first, the Holy Prussen soldiers, who were more nervous about the arrow attacks, thinking they would shoot arrows as before, began to collapse from all sides due to the warriors’ strikes that used the weight and speed of the horses to ram into the battle line.

“Uwaaaak!”

“Don’t show your backs! Don’t back down! Rebuild the formation!”

“Retreat and raise your spears! You’ll all die if you collapse!”

In the midst of this, Bade immediately swung a large spear and succeeded in knocking one of the northern warriors who was rushing towards him off his horse.

It would have been impossible for an ordinary soldier, but for him, who had a strengthened body because he possessed a Stigmata, the current situation was not difficult at all.

“Barbarians! Kill them all! Disgusting things that don’t even understand the will of light!”

“Uwaaaaaaa!”

If it were an ordinary army, they would have fled as soon as the formation collapsed, but they were the army of Holy Prussen, armed with strong beliefs and putting up fierce resistance.

With elves and celestials mixed in, the northern warriors immediately realized that they couldn’t just break the formation and trample on them as they had done before.

‘I need to break their morale first.’

If they don’t collapse even after breaking the formation, then break their spirit.

Thinking that, Zann looked around for the person who was the center of resistance for the resisting enemies.

And soon, after confirming the man fighting the warriors, she fearlessly rode her horse and swung the mace she was holding.

However, Bade was a Stigmata holder, and while dealing with the warriors, he immediately turned to look at the chilling sensation he felt from behind and tried to knock Zann off her horse with the spear he was holding.

Teoeong!―

An attack that was as smooth as flowing water and happened in an instant.

Zann managed to block the spear with the shield she was holding, but as Bade wanted, she ended up falling from her horse.

“Tsk.”

Of course, as someone from a northern tribe where getting on and off a horse was more natural than lying in bed, she landed on the ground with a graceful movement and clicked her tongue.

She thought it was a perfect surprise attack, but the enemy unexpectedly defended perfectly against her attack.

That was clear evidence that the opponent was a strong person at a similar level to her, unlike what she looked like.

So Zann threw away the mace and slowly moved, holding the curved sword she always used.

“A woman? Ha, the barbaric things are putting women on the battlefield to escape sin and judgment. How foolish!”

“What’s so difficult about beheading a woman?”

A woman who wasn’t originally destined to play an active role in this war.

But thanks to Zion’s performance, Zann, who had grown so much that she could now fight almost on par with the upper celestials, had become a force to be reckoned with.

If Rishikida suppressed her opponent with clean swordsmanship without military movements due to Kim Yuhyun’s influence,

Zann’s unique rough swordsmanship, which she had from the beginning, was combined with cruelty and coldness, and even Kim Yuhyun once said, ‘She’s a woman who reminds me of the demonic cult’s swordsmanship.’

She wasn’t just cutting, but finishing things off by chopping them up or crushing them.

A battle between a spear and a sword—some say the spear is advantageous, and others say the sword is advantageous.

But the battle between these two was simply a fight where the stronger one wins, a very simple fight.

One is said to be the strongest warrior in the north and skillfully manipulates even magic, and the other is a person who possesses a Stigmata and can handle movements that ordinary people can never show.

Chaenggang!

Chaaang!―

As he pushed the spear coming at him with force and quickly narrowed the distance, Bade groaned and hurriedly stepped back.

At first, he thought she was just an ordinary warrior, but after colliding a few times, he could instinctively tell.

The woman in front of him is real, as strong as himself who possesses a Stigmata, and if he makes a mistake, his head will fly off!

Kwang!

Kwang!

Kwang!―

The more they fought, the more Zann’s eyes became like a beast.

Bade, as well as the Stigmata, were bewildered by the onslaught that seemed to be splitting him in half from the top of his head, with blue eyes flashing.

This was already a sufficiently burdensome situation, but the shouts coming from afar poured several barrels of oil on Zann’s ferocity.

“Waaaaaaa!”

The reason why an army shouts on a battlefield where a battle is taking place is usually one.

When one of the leading enemy commanders dies in the midst of the battle and his head is cut off and raised high.

Therefore, in order to eliminate the resistance of the enemies who had been holding out and to break their will to fight at once.

“…Someone stole my kill.”

It seems that one of her competitors was the first to achieve merit.

Rishikida?

Or Lucia?

Lia?

Or Trisha?

Whoever it was, she must have bitten the most delicious prey in order to get into Zion’s eyes.

Yes, of course, that’s what she would do.

Because she herself is trying to do that right now.

Everyone was broken dozens or hundreds of times by the monster Kim Yuhyun.

As they did, they grew at a literally tremendous rate as they gained experiences that they could never have had with their original talents and skills.

Even Kim Yuhyun said that everyone in the entry that Zion had gathered was certain in terms of skill and talent, so it would be stranger if they couldn’t play an active role in this battlefield.

“I gave up the first one, but I can’t give up the second one.”

The subtle smiles that other women used to make only made them look weak to the northern warriors.

As if she was looking forward to tearing you to death, such cruelty stood out.

Zann opened her mouth with a smile that made you feel goosebumps for some reason just by looking at it.

“I’ll have to fold your waist neatly and take it to Zion.”

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Loo, who was watching the battle situation, instinctively realized that this battle was not going in the direction they wanted.

First of all, in order to face the worst enemy, Kim Yuhyun, five of the top celestials, excluding himself, Cha at the lead, Dan, Ann, Finn, and Hon spread their wings and flew up.

If they could somehow eliminate that man, then the strong, top-ranking celestials could run rampant, so cutting him off first was the best strategic goal.

‘I thought the Stigmata holders and upper celestials would be enough for the rest.’

There were two main reasons why the battle situation was going strangely.

First of all, the beastmen and elves, who were expected to be passive in the battle, were anything but.

No, rather, they were pushing the Holy Prussen, the radical elves, and the celestials with a more terrifying force than them.

Perhaps they were backstabbed by the demons, and when they thought that it was none other than the celestials who did it, they seemed to accept the past, when they had been supporting the celestials without knowing it, as a disgrace.

And the other, in fact, this was the biggest reason and the most important part, was that all kinds of talented people who had been silent until now were coming out and sweeping away the allies.

Until the previous battle, they were a force that had difficulty blocking even one upper celestial, but it was they who were being pushed back, wondering where they had gathered so many strong people.

‘Especially that human woman.’

Loo’s gaze had been focused on Rishikida for a while.

She was lightly cutting down not only the knights of Holy Prussen but also the elves and celestials, creating a sense of fear among the allied soldiers in the area.

Even one of the few remaining upper celestials was fighting her, but unlike what he had expected to be an overwhelming victory for the upper celestial, Rishikida was dealing with him very easily.

‘The Holy Prussen soldiers around her are not fighting properly because of that human knight.

She has already defeated nearly twenty of our strongmen alone.

This won’t do. To reverse the atmosphere, we need to get rid of those things first.’

The reason why Loo remained in this place was to punish the dragonkin woman who had massacred the upper celestials a while ago, and his younger sister who had betrayed her race and sided with the humans.

He judged that the human side’s strongmen could be adequately handled by others, so to be honest, it wasn’t a very pleasant task, but Loo knew that if he didn’t change the current atmosphere, it could be a shortcut to defeat.

Chwaaaaaak!―

The moment Loo, who had spread his wings, concentrated magic power on his fingertips to cut off Rishikida’s breath with a single blow, flew straight towards her.

“I knew you’d be here.”

A familiar voice, a person he thought he would be with for the rest of his life for the sake of the task.

Loo frowned and turned his gaze forward, and soon he could find Shaiella, who was spreading her wings like himself and taking her place.

“…Shaiella.”

“It’s been a while, brother. You look very haggard. You must have been worried a lot.”

“Unlike you, it was a difficult time. If it’s because of worrying about my sister who betrayed her race and the light for her own sake, would you show even a little bit of remorse?”

“Not at all.

Didn’t you say, brother? To act as your heart leads you. I’m faithfully following those words, and that’s what I’m doing.”

“How foolish! I meant to act as the light in your heart leads you! I didn’t mean to move in cahoots with those people!”

“I’m sorry, brother. I found something much more fun and interesting than boring things like light.”

Immediately after uttering those words, Shaiella rushed at Loo without hesitation.

In one hand, she held a sword that she had begged and begged Kim Yuhyun to give her as a gift (although he just grabbed anything next to him and gave it to her).

“Hoo.”

From the perspective of the upper celestials, Shaiella is clearly a strong person.

Not to mention her skills and talents, she also has excellent practical experience.

If you ask if she is a being comparable to Loo himself, who is the top celestial.

Loo would say that’s definitely not the case.

‘I told you not to show such excitement in front of the enemy.’

He has no intention of forgiving or saving her because she is his sister.

Now that child is also a sinner and a fallen one, so just sending her off at once without pain was the least bit of courtesy he could show to someone who used to walk the same path for the sake of the task.

“Human!

Now is the time!”

But the next shout from Shaiella was more than enough to embarrass Loo.

Loo, who had only thought that his enemy was Shaiella, didn’t even notice that a magic circle was forming right below him.

“Anyway, they’re not giving me time to rest and are making me work!”

Raido, who had drawn the complicated beastmen in advance and was leaving only the last line, completed the magic while shouting a cry close to resentment.

Then, a magic circle was created that could block Loo’s movements even for a short time, no matter how top celestial he was.

‘What a useless act!’

No matter how great a magician the opponent is, the opponent is a top celestial who has surpassed that standard.

Loo lightly tore off the magic circles that were sealing his arms, wings, and one leg.

While sneering that if they were trying to create a gap or an opportunity to attack with this, they were thinking too easily.

But the other side had never had such a rosy imagination.

However, what they wanted was to push the last remaining obstacle far away and push it with numbers and firepower.

Wuoowoong, taaat!―

Suddenly, a woman soared into the air as if bouncing from the ground.

If the opponent’s movement was aimed at attacking or ambushing, Loo would have reacted accordingly.

But this woman had no such intention and focused only on grabbing Loo’s body.

‘Suddenly, what is this…?’

And then, as if she didn’t need anything else, she grabbed the opponent’s legs and torso and fell with him as far away as possible from the place where the soldiers were fighting together.

Shuuuuwoong―Kwaaaang!―――――――Author’s Afterword―――――――

And her name is 루 씨 아 [Lucia]!

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Kwakwakwakwakakwakwang!