Chapter 428
While also being deeply moved, he looked around the surrounding and understood that they were on the edge .
Although the Doltos were going straight at first, their path deviated along the way .
Either way, it doesn’t change the fact that they were definitely moving forward . In the first place, there’s no way they can get lost in this one way road . They could spot few others who had made it to the wall like them .
And when they turned back, despite the number of people killed, even more were being pushed forward as if to overrule it .
After a while, even more war slaves are probably going to make it this far . And more of them will lose their lives, either on their way here, or after .
The castle siege plan begins now .
“But even still, what do we even do about this huge wall?”
The only tool given to them was a ladder . A long 15 meter tall ladder to conquer the walls .
However, they had dropped that long ago . The war slaves who had been carrying the ladder were all pierced by arrows and were burnt to crisp .
They didn’t know where the other ladders were at that moment . At the very least, they couldn’t spot any in the surrounding and there were no ladders put up against the wall .
Although, even the goblin had a ladder, he wouldn’t want to climb a 15 meter tall wall . The proud Daidaros knight would probably climb it . And that’s probably why he made it this far silently .
“Hey, hey, mister, what will you—”
“Here . ”
The goblin heard his voice for the first time here . However, that voice was different from the time when he showed him the way in Daidaros’ capital .
Is he speaking with an accent? Did his throat get scraped? A low voice?
All of which are correct but none are the core problem .
“Here… wall… climb…”
This isn’t the voice of someone sane .
While saying that, the lizardman looked up towards the top of the wall .
“M-mister…?”
“Ku-cli… enemy . . demon… kill…”
And at that moment, a scream reverberated . The goblin held down his sharp ears and let out a shriek . But his voice died out in front of the lizardman’s roar—no, the thing in front of him… it was “something else” .
“Wh-what is… this…”
The white robe covering the lizardman’s body flew off .
And underneath wasn’t green scales—it was two audacious arms covered with reddish-brown fur . It wasn’t the arm of a lizardman . In the first place, his arm was still there .
Those two beast-like arms grew from his shoulders . In other words, he now had four arms .
However, it didn’t stop there . His massive chest muscles divided and a head came out—someone else’s head .
That head looked that of an orc’s . A dark skinned orc . And his face looked atrocious . And because of that, the white ring inserted on top was standing out .
The eyes opened up and got a hold of its body in a moment . Its hectic eyes didn’t stabilize, as if it was searching for something important .
“O, ooo… . Guuoooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
After letting out a scream, the former lizardman clung onto the wall with momentum .
And when he looked closely, he noticed that the creature had long bent claws which were sharp like knives .
And it wasn’t just its hands . The same thing happened with its legs . No, even the strong burly lizardman tail had a claw coming out of the tip .
It precisely pierced into the wall’s unevenness with its claws .
“Gaaa!!”
And with a sharp voice, the strange-looking knight started climbing the wall . He climbed the vertical wall at an unthinkable speed considering its size . Nimble like a monkey—no, this movement is closer to that of a spider .
Without being constrained by gravity, it kept climbing up as if that was land . At that speed, it probably won’t even take 10 seconds to climb only 15 meters .
“Uu, aah… how could this… m-mister has… turned into a monster…”
Why did that strong and burly Daidaros knight turn into something that terrifying? A mere farmer like him couldn’t even imagine .
It was like a nightmare . But, considering how this place is already hell, that monster might just be fitting of it .
Monster . That’s right—a flash of light passed through his mind .
Even though he couldn’t be confident in his memory, he recalled reading it in a picture book in the village chief’s house when he was a kid . He couldn’t remember the difficult explanations . He didn’t even read it, to begin with . But in that page, beside the explanation, was a big illustration .
A lion’s head, a goat’s torso and a serpent’s tail . In that picture book, there were also illustrations of two-headed eagles with bat-like wings .
Monsters with different body parts from different animals .
Those looked exactly like the one he just saw . As if those parts were forcibly put together on top of one another .
Now that he had remembered it once, he was sure that the thing he saw was something out of that book . And that grotesque monster’s name is–
“—Ugguh?!
When he had remembered up to that point, he was thrown away by something and fell on the snow, facing up .
And when he came to his senses, it wasn’t the Galahad castle walls in front of him, it was the perfectly clear blue skies .
After blinking a few times, he understood that he had fallen down .
“Uwah, what was that suddenly… it surprised me . . ”–he was just about to say, but then, “–gabuhh! Guu, gaaha… . ”, not a single word came out .
When he opened his mouth, bright red blood came flowing out with intense coughs .
He couldn’t breathe . He felt like that time he had nearly drown in the river when he was young . But now, he was drowning in a sea of blood . That was how he felt .
“Kaa… . ha… . . ”
And then, without even realizing that his throat had been pierced by an arrow, his short life had abruptly come to an end . Death by a stray arrow, which is very common in the battlefield .
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