Chapter 20: 1 vs 500

It’s an overwhelming number.

Just this one phrase would be enough for most people to understand.

Even if a strong man is good at tug-of-war, if 500 kindergarten children 달려들었다, he will eventually lose.

This is an obvious fact.

Then what about this?

Three special forces soldiers equipped with the latest weapons vs. 50 lions.

Of course, it seems obvious that the latter would win.

But the person standing here.

Has experienced it.

Making the impossible possible.

When she was a child, she killed all the thugs in the back alley with just a metal rod.

This time, it’s not much different.

Holding two fists without a single metal rod, she stands facing 500 demons.

Moreover, she’s injured, unable to use her full skills due to the backlash of mana.

500 demons. A large group that could devastate a small village.

It was a number that would make anyone gasp and run away.

Perhaps her vassals, her subordinates, even the Knight Commander she favored the most, or her sons, even Dylan.

If they saw this battle, they would scream and try to stop her.

Saying that it’s a battle with no chance of winning, and that investing in a battle with no chance of winning is the most important thing for a lord to know.

Didn’t they put pressure on her like that?

As a result.

The current Britina Count’s family has lost its former prestige, and has experienced defeats and retreats on the front lines.

But.

“It was definitely like that back then.”

Her gaze turns to the man lying on the floor, blackened behind her.

Hated, yet loved, a human to whom she could give everything.

“You must decide when you have to do it.”

Whether to die here.

Or write a miracle.

The miracle might be less than a 1% chance, ridiculously so. But the Britina family…

“Don’t forget that it has always continued that way.”

She takes out an old glove from her bosom.

It was painted white, but it was full of traces of blood that had been wiped away dozens of times.

A different side of herself from the current self, who was calculating and thinking about the future.

The power she had used to protect the one thing she had to protect, no matter what.

Shadows of wolves began to emerge from the shadows behind the woman, as if they were a legion.

“…Huh, it seems you don’t trust me until the end.”

-Grrr?

The demon with the shape of a bat turns its head.
As that hot gaze touched the Ice Palace Mistress, it flapped its wings roughly, breaking the window and entering the banquet hall.

In a situation where it seemed like a fire would break out at any moment.

Her head is as calm as if cold water had been poured on it.

It’s a melee she’s experienced dozens of times.

“It’s… about time I got used to it.”

Rachel, who pulled the end of her white glove, stared straight ahead, pressing down on a hat that might have come from somewhere.

-“The family’s…. loser…. the family’s loser…. keekeek, the family’s… loser.”

-“Have you… forgotten your sins? It won’t be erased… won’t…”

A tone that seems to deliberately scratch at a person’s weaknesses.

But it didn’t reach Rachel’s ears, who had already made up her mind.

She was preparing for a single blow.

Bang! With a loud noise, the woman’s foot kicked off the ground. In the short moment that neither friend nor foe could expect or react to her appearance, which looked like she was only a long-range spellcaster.

In that stopped time, she seemed to be running in the air, moving quickly. And, her hand took the form of a knife hand.

The target was, of course, the demon that was in front of her, but large wings, at least 1 meter in size, were flapping on either side of it.

“Kararak?!!!”

The bat-shaped demon, as if astonished by Rachel’s sudden close-quarters combat, frowned and raised its forelimbs with sharp claws. Indeed, it was a low-level demon, but its reaction and judgment were clearly different from the lowest-level demons or monsters she had dealt with in the past.

But the demon’s mistake was that it couldn’t shake her off at once.

Thump, the demon’s head, which was touched around the head, was instantly frozen as if liquid nitrogen had been poured on it. And then, when she clenched her fist, it exploded with a bang!

Hot blood gushed out like a fountain from the torso that remained only with a neck. The woman accepted the blood that would stain her white clothes without refusing, and turned her gaze to the demon who was still looking around, not understanding the situation.

But the demon was still alive.

-Clatter.

The demon’s still-sensory legs didn’t let the woman go.

At the moment she was about to smash it.

“Grrrr….”

One of the five subordinate wolves that had been protecting Ian’s surroundings rushed at her and tore at the demon’s body.

That wolf was the one who had no strengths other than being strong and fast, but its teeth were now faintly glowing with Aura, perhaps because its master’s proficiency had increased. It wasn’t a threatening opponent to the demons, but if their numbers continued to increase and they were bitten repeatedly, it would become an injury that could not be ignored.

“Ugh!”

Rachel, freed from the demon’s touch, turned to the guy again.

The guy who was at the top here.

The one with the largest wings and red horns.

It was at that moment that she met the demon’s eyes.

The demon’s foolish gaze moved towards Rachel’s fist.

As if he hadn’t expected her to approach him already.

Like a beast that had allowed an unexpected blow in an unavoidable range.

He hurriedly tried to 날려 the woman’s movement, but she didn’t avoid it and took it all.

But even after doing so, perhaps to prove that he was the leader?

The demons that came up from below covered the woman’s figure.

This time, two bear-like demons covered in muscle.

Two demons rush in from both sides. If they had come from one place, there would have been a way to deflect them, but the demons who had already strategized move as planned. Cunningly.

But experience gave an unexpected twist to the plan. A surprise attack is an advantageous card only for the first battle. Once you’ve used it, it’s an irreversible trump card.

Rachel grabbed the thorns stuck in her shoulder just before their attack hit.

“…!”

The demons’ eyes contract to the size of a grain of rice at the unexpected response.

Perhaps they were afraid to target them.

No, the woman’s purpose was elsewhere.

Rachel used the recoil from barely avoiding their attacks and wrapped her mana, which had been further strengthened, around the thorns.

Only then did the demons notice the woman’s purpose, but it was too late for them to fly away again.

“”….Grrr.””

The wolves, who had stubbornly not died, were gnawing at their legs.

“Kyaooooooo!!!!!!”

Even a demon would make a thunderous cry of astonishment at the unexpected feeling of being creeped out, but it only made the woman smile.

The guy tries to shake off the wolves somehow.

-Thump.

It was a short sound.

The area that was touched in an instant began to freeze, and he couldn’t even make a groan before his head was shattered and he died instantly.

-Clink!

“Kyaaaaaaa!!!!!!”

The same goes for the guy who was trying to run away.

That guy was being collectively devoured by the wolves that the demon had left behind. With their black organs and blood dripping to the floor.

The time it took for the two low-level demons to die was only a blink of an eye.

Just before the thorns that the woman had fired had even hit their bodies, the two of them, who had been instantly killed, realized that the shields they had deployed to block the projectiles had not been hit by the thorns.

A shield deployed to block projectiles.

A pink shield, further strengthened by magic, closes in front of Rachel.

It was a low-level demon, so the shield, which was poured with that much overflowing mana, was not easily broken. It was probably impossible to penetrate the double shield, which was as strong as its own skin.

Yes. When it was thrown.

Then, her subordinates would tear apart and kidnap that defenseless woman and kill her.

At the sight of the approaching figure, the demon realized that his prediction was completely wrong.

The demon’s mouth was filled only with a fishy smile, thinking about how to ridicule and play with that woman. How would a noble woman scream and what kind of desperate expression would she make when she was played with at night?

What demons like the first is to eat the organs of humans, the second is to have s*x, and the third is to play with humans who don’t know that they are stupid, smiling foolishly without realizing the unjust contract.

But the woman in front of him was smiling like a murderer who should be more afraid.

“Heh, you’re not dead.”

“!!!!!!”

The demon, reacting to the woman’s murderous smile, freaked out.

Flap, he instinctively urged his wings upward. To escape into the sky.

At the moment he was sure he had escaped!

-Bang!

The woman’s figure disappeared from his sight, and he crashed to the ground.

She was already in a jumping position, anticipating his movement.

The whole situation was on that woman’s palm.

Realizing that, the demon frowned and looked up at the arrogant woman.

“Y, yo, you b*tch….!!! Grrr, kyaaaak!!!!”

Reflexive profanity.

Thud. The circular shield that landed was completely covered in an unnatural pink color, except for the demon’s eyes.

Crack…. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Rachel’s fist, rotating her Aura Blade in a simple, crude way, struck the shield dozens of times.

Each time, the intense mana that swayed shook the demons approaching the surroundings, and the wolves, who would not die no matter how many times they were killed, increased in number and blocked the way.

“Ge, get me out of here!!!!!! You idiots, can’t even stop this one fool…”

Crack. The moment that sound was heard, the crack in the shield began to appear.

A fist that strikes without even giving him time to reinforce it with mana.

The moment he was sure that it was working, the speed and the sound of thudding continued even more.

From the cracked area, 1cm… 2cm… 10cm… In less than a few seconds, the space rapidly grew.

With a clink- as the last sound, the human woman who appeared before his eyes.

“…..”

She revealed her cold air, just with her eyes, looking more like a devil than a devil.

The shattered shield no longer protected the demon’s body.

An expression as if she was relieved.

But on the contrary, the demon, who was gradually covered in fear, trembled his two legs and his distorted face was filled with the fear that anyone would feel right before death.

The woman’s golden eyes, which were thought to have turned red with killing intent, look down at him.

“…You, you’re human, aren’t you?”

A question filled with madness.

As if he had been stabbed in the heart, the demon couldn’t answer, even though he understood the question.

Phew, phew. Rachel, whose shoulders were constantly shaking with steep breaths, smiled in victory and grabbed the demon’s head. It seemed like she was already exhausted.

The demons that remained to be dealt with were piled up like a mountain.

Just killing the leader doesn’t mean that all the demons will run away.

Rather, demons full of greed.

Will fight to take the place of the new leader.

And the target to hunt is none other than Rachel, who killed the leader here.

It’s enough to make you scared.

But the woman looked up, her body covered in blood. The eyes of the demons who were rushing in late focused, and their mouths, which had been spewing fear, shut for a moment.

A silence in the battlefield.

The thought that the world was momentarily dyed red.

Behind that mysterious thing, another mysterious woman emerges from the rubble of the building.

“…….Who made my master like that?”

Amidst the chaotic battle, the great presence of a single voice was truly remarkable.

Just by taking a step.

She invaded the surrounding area with mana.

Black blood and red blood mixed arrows fly around the woman’s body.

The maid in the maid uniform was the epitome of beauty. Fair skin and a bewitching body that would make anyone drool.

But those cold eyes and narrowed gaze now represent killing intent.

Before she could even be captivated by her beauty, everyone was thrown into a state of tension as if they were being crushed.

Not like a doll-like woman, a gruesome and screaming rage, as if to pierce the sky, was rising.

Rachel, who had activated the Aura Blade once, was already exhausted.

Come to think of it, what the hell is the identity of that woman?

Did she know what she was and eventually leave it to that woman?

Rachel, who belatedly checked her mana, was greatly surprised.

Yuria, who asked the demons, was still politely holding her hands together and looking up at them.

With an emotionless gaze.

“I asked who it was.”

While exuding that sharp killing intent. She exuded mana in the form of magic, as if a demon would not be strange to tremble.

Holding the dark red blood with her hands.

Even when they stared, the young and small maid’s face was not filled with emotions like fear, but was just getting darker.

Yuria’s eyes turned black.

“…Huh?”

There is no answer until the end.

At that small annoyance, the 480 or so demons trembled collectively as if they were having a seizure. It was pathetic to see the monsters, who had been trying to chew and kill humans until just now, trembling.

The demons were getting impatient. They had tried to approach Rachel, but changed direction.

It doesn’t matter whether they kill this woman or not, this woman’s spirit can’t interfere with anything. Let alone holding a hostage.

It seemed like she was thinking about whether to kill everyone here right now, or not. Or whether to lock them in a prison forever and torture them.

Give her a way to escape? No, they couldn’t even think about that. The moment they met that maid’s eyes, their bodies froze like ice. In fact, their feet didn’t move.

“…I’ll kill everyone comfortably, except for the demon who made my master like that. So.”

As she slowly released her hands, the blood that had been maintaining its shape turned into spears, and she assumed a throwing posture.

“Answer me.”

They couldn’t be afraid and run away, nor could they stare blankly. They just had to rush to kill the enemy with all their might.

Even a demon doesn’t want to die. If they died, there was a way to survive later, so the 500 demons rushed without hesitation.

If they died, it was clear that some demon among them would save them by sacrificing humans.

But that maid is dangerous.

A great conviction that they would all die, without a single one remaining.

The word annihilation echoed deeply in the minds of the demons.

Just by offending that woman, everyone will die. All of them, without leaving a single one behind.

As the woman raised her hand.
The demons screamed like frightened citizens.

-“S, save me!!! Save me…! Save me…. save me!!!!!”

-“Stop… I don’t want to… I don’t want to… danger, danger… die!!!!!”

The screams of the demons.

The Britina Count’s family rang loudly.