Chapter 273: After Sunset, the Night (3)

“Ha! You’ve gone into a trance because you want to die!” the knight sneered as he swung his sword again.

The Elder told the future Tiger Tribe Chief.

“Hurry, clear the way!”

At that moment...

“Huh?”

A shadow was cast over his head.

It was a shadow looming over the twilight sky.

He looked up.

“A... bird.”

He saw a bird.

Not just one.

A multitude of crows were flying towards them, turning their backs to the twilight.

Shhh-lrr-rr

And suddenly, the sound of water was heard.

Kuaaaaaaaaaa

Next, a roar was heard.

A roar as loud as that of the Dragons fighting.

The Elder, who had turned around at the sound, saw the city walls collapsing.

A woman was standing on the crumbled walls.

“...!”

The Elder immediately recognized the figure.

A woman enveloped in water.

“A beastman of the Whale Tribe!”

A whale that was believed to be extinct had appeared. But the Elder didn’t pay attention to the woman.

He saw the remnants of the walls. And those who were jumping over those remnants.

They wore different clothes from those here, with wide sleeves fluttering in the wind.

They all seemed relaxed.

But the moment he saw their size and shape, the Elder’s pupils dilated sharply.

“T-T-Tigers!”

They were beastmen of the Tiger Tribe, without a doubt. And they were completely Berserk.

“How, no, they are, no...?”

The Elder couldn’t speak clearly.

A size that far exceeded that of humans. And their entire bodies were covered in fur with sharp claws.

They were all like the Tiger Tribe beastmen he had seen in his childhood when they were completely Berserk.

“Damn it!”

A knight heading towards the newcomers was easily grabbed by the claw of a Tiger Tribe beastman.

“...”

The Tiger stared at the knight and then threw him to the ground.

Baang!

Against the wall. The knight’s armour was crushed, and his hands and feet twisted. But the Tiger Tribe beastman shook his hand indifferently and raised his head.

“Can we fight?”

At that moment...

Biiiiii-

The sound of a flute was heard.

The crows split into two groups and scattered.

In that instant, the Elder could see those on the crows.

There were humans, elves, and dwarves. And...

“That is...”

A Tiger Tribe beastman was playing the flute.

“Ah...”

The Elder cried out in excitement.

“The Tigers have returned!”

And Gashan opened his mouth.

“Let’s go.”

With those words, the Tiger Tribe beastman warriors began to move. As always, there weren’t many of them.

However, just like in the Gorge of Death, they were not an enemy to be underestimated by their number.

Especially in this place where magic couldn’t be used and they couldn’t be stopped by brute force, filled with rage.

“Ah.”

And the other beastmen watching this spectacle simply marvelled.

The fact that other beastmen, and moreover completely Berserk ones, had appeared gave strength to everyone.

In the place where the Wolf Tribe beastmen gathered. Among the predator category beastmen living in Ryan’s Castle, the wolves had the largest number of individuals.

They were also about to take advantage of this situation to escape when Ansen, their leader, saw the people who had been on the crows falling to the ground.

Baang!

Baang!

Baang!

They fell to the ground with a crash and landed smoothly. And one of those who had fallen in front of the Wolf Tribe beastmen approached them.

“Ah, hello?”

It was a slender young man.

Ansen, realizing that he was a Wolf Tribe beastman, opened his mouth to say something but hesitated.

“We’re in a hurry now, so I’ll explain everything in detail later.”

The young man, who looked like a child, said this and turned his back, walking away from them.

“Ah.”

A gasp of admiration escaped from Ansen’s lips.

The young man’s back grew larger. The thin and shrunken image he had presented before disappeared.

“Could it be...?”

However, the young man, Lock, didn’t hear Ansen’s voice.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

He focused on the beats of his heart.

Anger and a sense of responsibility, a desire to fight, determination to change everything.

His heart beat stronger in response to all these feelings.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

Lock’s size now far exceeded that of the Tiger Tribe beastman warriors who were completely Berserk.

The greyish hair of the young man, who looked like a child, shed its dull tone and began to shine with a silver colour. His entire body was covered in silver fur. And that silver fur emitted a soft blue glow.

Like the stars that appear in the night sky after sunset. Like the blue-green sky that comes at dawn after the night. And his clear eyes were as clear as the sky that holds the midday sun.

Chief Ansen’s eyes trembled as he looked at Lock.

He didn’t even think of asking how the young man had achieved the complete Berserk form.

“... B-Blue Wolf...”

Without realizing it, he murmured the name of the God he believed in. He couldn’t help it. Among the Berserk beastmen that had appeared, Lock was the largest and shone with his own light.

Blue Wolf.

The perfect incarnation of that name was before his eyes, and Ansen couldn’t help but utter it.

And Lock looked with his clear eyes towards a fixed point. He briefly glanced towards where Cale was and then closed his eyes.

‘Lock. Help me evacuate the beastmen.’

Remembering Cale’s order, Lock opened his eyes that he had closed.

And he stood up from his crouched position.

The food must be paid for, I must do my part.

He turned around and told Ansen.

“Soon, companions who will guide you will arrive. Follow them.”

Companions?

Ansen was stunned by those words amid the chaos.

“I suppose now I can fight properly?”

The White Snake gave a faint smile and changed her defensive stance. She raised her tail.

¡Baang!

With a roar, she struck the ground with her tail towards the knights, causing the earth to tremble.

Sssssss--

The White Snake opened her mouth. A greenish smoke billowed from the corners of her lips.

“Poison!”.

The White Snake began to spew venom, and her green eyes glowed with a fierce light.

And the Beast People, including Ansen, could tell who the other companions were.

The ground shook and holes opened up everywhere.

Beast People who could achieve the Berserk form, younger than the White Snake but with long lives. Although there were hardly any predator Beast People among them, the fact that they had survived for so long meant they were strong in many ways.

They gathered at the call of the White Snake’s “meeting.”

“Squeak, squeak!”.

A small-sized Beast People mouse appeared next to a Beast People mole.

“Come this way!”.

The sparrow and hummingbird Beast People among Gashan’s crows silently landed on the ground and told the Beast People.

“We’ll lead you out!”.

“Follow us!”.

Over the past week.

They had used the burrows of the secret base to create more than ten passages leading out of the desert. And they had not only prepared underground routes but also exterior exits.

And it wasn’t just the Beast People who had been part of this effort.

“The desert is our specialty!”.

The Dark Elf Tasha, leading her companions, was pushing the knights who were outside the city. Next to her, of course, were Archie and Witira.

¡Baaaaaaang!

With a strike of her water whip, the city’s walls cracked or, at worst, collapsed. The more walls that fell, the more escape routes there would be.

Thus, the Beast People helping their companions escape were also aiding the confused residents. Gashan, through the crows, constantly transmitted Cale’s instructions.

“Get everyone away from the stage!”.

Both Beast People and humans.

Make sure everyone who has nothing to do with this fight gets away from Ryan.

No more sacrifices can be made.

And Gashan had also asked Cale how to break the chains binding this city, besides the walls.

That’s why he gave instructions to his companions.

“Say that guy’s name.”

It was a simple order, so everyone understood.

“Hahahaha!”.

The Beast People from the Whale Tribe, Archie, burst into laughter and entered the city.

¡Swoosh!, once inside, he shouted.

“Ryan!”.

The moment he uttered that name that shouldn’t be said.

Biiiiii--

The magic enveloping this city activated.

Magic that would activate immediately if someone dared to utter the name Ryan.

“!”

Ryan’s eyes, who was in a duel with Eruhaben, widened.

However, Archie, unfazed, shouted with a mocking smile.

“Ryan, Ryan, Ryan!”.

Repeating Ryan’s name mockingly and nonstop, Archie seemed to be insulting him.

Biiiiii-Biiiiiiiii--Biiiiii--

The magical alarms blared nonstop.

But it wasn’t just around Archie where the magical alarms sounded.

“Ryan!”

“Kukuku, Ryan!”

“Yes, we’ll call him a lot! Ryan!”

Gashan and his cronies, the Beast People who had come to help the White Snake and Cale’s companions. They all shouted Ryan’s name.

“Ryan!”

“Ryan!”

Even the crows that had taken control of the sky flew incessantly, shouting Ryan’s name.

Biiiiii-

The alarms, more than noisy, were deafening, enveloping the city.

It was then, as if the magical circle device was overloaded, that the alarm began to sound strange.

Bi, bi-

The magical circle wasn’t prepared for Ryan’s name to be uttered dozens, hundreds of times simultaneously.

It wasn’t thought that anyone, not even a rebel, would dare to utter the great being’s name frivolously, so the magical circle device was set to be sensitive to who spoke the name within the city but didn’t have a high tolerance for the number of times it was spoken.

Moreover, this magical circle was connected to the magical circle monitoring the use of magic within the city.

Therefore, if one of the two failed, both failed.

This information had been obtained from Letao.

Bi, bi, bibbit-

The stranger the alarm sounded, the more wildly Archie laughed.

“Kkkkkkkkk! Ryan~ Ryan~ Ryan~!”

Meanwhile, he ran in circles inside the city’s walls.

“Eh, eh-!”

The old mage was horrified.

His eyes, trained in handling magic, could see what was happening.

The mana emanating from the magical circle was mixing chaotically, creating a whirlwind of confusion. The intricate mechanism, designed to detect even the slightest whisper of rebellion against Ryan, was on the verge of overload.

Raon and Eruhaben, the Dragons who couldn’t use magic inside the city for fear of being detected by the detection spells, had managed to decipher the weakness of the magical circle thanks to the information provided by the Wind Elemental of the elf knights and additional intelligence from the other Dragon, Letao.

Bi, bi, bi-

The alarm sounded increasingly strange.

“Khahahahahaha! Ryan, Ryan~ Ryan~!”

The old mage shouted, “Someone catch that crazy whale!”, but Archie remained unfazed.

In fact, the Beast People warriors from the Tiger Tribe also joined in the fun. No one was stopping. Even the crows were cawing loudly.

“No!”

And finally...

Bi, biiiii-

The magical circle broke.

It no longer mattered if someone spoke Ryan’s name within these walls or used magic. The enemy couldn’t detect it.

***

At that moment, Raon sprang into action.

Clack.

Cale, seeing Raon unlock the door with magic, opened the locked door and entered.

“Human! Before we rob the Dragon Lord’s house, should we first rob this Dragon’s house?”

The Dragon Ryan.

Cale entered his room. He looked out the window. He saw the chaotic battlefield outside.

“I like it.”

Ryan’s room. It was a perfect place to join the chaos unfolding outside.

Nyaaa!

Nyaaa!

Cale, along with the children who averaged Ten years old, had taken control of the highest room in Ryan’s Lair.

***

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Thank you for reading!

[Author – Yu Ryeo Han]

[Translator – Anowa]

[Proofreader – Rai_Mayank]