Chapter 58. Calling for Thunder

The ax tore through the darkness in an instant. A monster flying through the sky was hit and fell to the ground.
Thud!
A giant bat with red eyes. Ivan retrieved the ax while pressing the bat’s body with his foot, then asked fiercely.
“Who are you?”
An old man’s voice came from the mouth of a giant bat, a monster that seemed unable to speak at all.
“He he he, warrior of Asgard. How long do you think you can interfere with our work?”
Ivan snorted.
“Forever.”
“You cheeky bastard. Let’s see what you can do. Worthless human.”
Cracked!
Ivan slapped it on the head. He didn’t like the fact that it didn’t answer his questions and only talked nonsense.
After all, this bat monster was nothing more than a slave. If he keeps holding on, it will be a waste of time.
Gooo!
All of a sudden, the paladins, who were fully armed and equipped with a rank, raised their holy power all at once. The divine power they radiated as one body amplified each other and began to subdue the darkness.
But their expressions were not good. They realized that the disappearance of darkness was not simply due to the divine power they radiated.
“Demonic energy has entered people’s bodies! Bless everyone!”
Chiik!
Delfino held the Orb of Life in his hand and raised his divine power. A divine barrier was deployed to chase away evil and purify the surroundings.
The demonic energy that had penetrated the bodies of nearby soldiers was blocked by the Holy Barrier and burned.
“Ugh!”
However, the demonic energy did not leave easily.
Even in the short time that it was purified and disappeared, it resisted as much as possible and tormented the soldiers. The soldiers groaned in pain and fell.
“Ugh!”
The soldiers outside the barrier suddenly started running rampant. They couldn’t drive out the demon’s energy, so their eyes were turned over, and they were attacking the surroundings randomly.
Paladins could not bear to cut them and put their swords on the ground. They spread divine power to expel the demonic energy from their bodies.
The soldiers, who were possessed by the energy of the demon, were quickly suppressed, but the damage was not small. It was fatal because they were suddenly attacked by their colleagues.
The priests even healed the wounded, but the situation was not good. They couldn’t fight the enemy properly yet because their divine power was being consumed excessively fast.
A blow that was struck without defense. Now, the fact that many soldiers were protecting the fortress was not an advantage at all.
No matter how many there were, if they couldn’t resist the demon’s energy, they had no choice but to suffer like this. Rather, more force was put into calming the raging ally.
“Smart and meticulous. He knows exactly what can threaten us and is eroding our power. It’s probably a mistake to enter the fortress.”
Sueup, hoo-.
Irene muttered as she burned the tobacco.
“It seems that he has a very careful personality to carry out such a feat even when he has strong power.”
The smoke of tobacco mixed with tea leaves grown in the fairy forest has the effect of purifying the spirit of the soul, so the demonic energy could not approach her.
Woo-.
Spirits appeared one by one around her. The energy emitted by the spirits, who are incarnations of nature, is similar to the divine power in some ways, so it was a little easier to block the power of the demon.
-Kyahahaha!
The sound of the spirits laughing like children spread in the form of mental waves everywhere. Hearing the laughter, the soldiers came to their senses, freed from the state of being possessed by the demonic energy.
In the midst of calming the noise of the fortress, Ivan suddenly looked outside the fortress.
It wouldn’t end up like this if he was really the demon. Once he’s turned the fortress upside down, he’ll use that gap to attack. That’s why the current chaos is even more fatal.
Kick!
Ivan jumped up the wall at once.
He knocked out a soldier who was drunk with demonic energy and summoned two crows, Huginn and Muninn and let them fly outside. After a while, he shouted.
“Monsters! Monsters are coming from the forest!”
The chaos inside the fortress was being sorted out to some extent. But the results were disastrous. Many people died or were injured, and many lost their minds because of the power of the demon.
Currently, the number of soldiers who can fight is about a third of the total. Considering that the priests also used a lot of energy, it meant that they suffered more than just casualties and injuries.
Birds were seen soaring through the forest under the faint moonlight. Suddenly, the monsters moved, and the animals were frightened and hurriedly bolted away.
Ferocious Tooth suddenly climbed up the fortress wall next to Ivan. He glared at the forest and murmured.
“At least a thousand, maybe twice more than that.”
It was the number of monsters running towards the fortress.
Ivan nodded his head in affirmation.
“I don’t think we’ll be able to handle that, either. We came here to rest for the night, but the fight begins without that much room.”
Then he looked at the commander of the fortress. The commander could not hide his bewildered expression at the sudden change of situation. After all, he doesn’t even know why his soldiers are suddenly going crazy.
“Can you stop the monster attack with the remaining troops?”
When Ivan asked, the commander of the fortress frowned heavily and said hard.
“..It’s difficult. Since there are two thousand monsters, it would be difficult to block them even with the usual fortress troops, but now there are only a few soldiers who can move.”
The number of soldiers guarding the wall was absolutely insufficient. It was difficult to just fight, but they also needed to protect the fallen soldiers. Once the walls have been breached, it will be difficult to stop the massacre.
The monsters that came closer were trying to climb the wall. The soldiers swung their swords desperately to throw them.
thud! thud!
A Razorhorn Giant Boar smashed into the gates.
The wooden gates shook and shattered little by little.
A mantis taller than a human flaps its wings and flies up to the top of the wall. Before the frightened soldier could wield his sword, the giant mantis’s head exploded.
Bang!
Ivan, who had thrown an ax and dealt with the mantis, looked around and said:
“I’ll have to make sure they can’t climb the wall anymore. Somehow.”
Whoops.
Ivan grabbed the spear of the lost warrior and looked to his side.
“Ferocious Tooth, I’m going to try something crazy, okay?”
Ferocious Tooth chuckled at those words.
“You said it before. If you told me to live, I would live. And if you told me to die, I will die. Now, what should I do this time?”
“Catch all the monsters who run away. Can you do that?”
Ferocious Tooth gripped his sword strongly.
“Don’t ask whether I can or not. Just order me. The sword doesn’t judge.”
Ivan, who had been staring at him, turned his head.
“Then follow me. I’ll trust my back to you.”
A group of monsters comes out of the black forest. The monsters whose eyes were turned over because of the demonic power were running towards them, leaving only ferocity.
And Ivan, who saw it, kicked off the wall and jumped off. He threw the spear.
Shh!
The spear that contained the power of the storm flew away.
After ripping the body of the Razorhorn Giant Boar and smashing the head of the Darkbone Giant Mantis, the body of a blood-maned wolf was made into pieces of flesh and stuck to the ground.
Ivan, who leaped through the space and retrieved the spear by reaching out his hand forward, recited the old Norse language.
“Geirglnir (Spear-wielding Assault).”
The words Ivan spit out became a spell and settled in his body. Blessings remain in all his actions as long as he charges with his spear.
bang!
He leaped forward with every step he took with a blast of blue lightning. Thunder steps and the spear of the storm, the wrath of nature, appeared to other people.
Kiiiik!
The monster clung to him with a harsh sound. A giant mantis over 2 meters tall wields its sharp forelimbs. It was longer and sharper than most swords, but Ivan didn’t care. He didn’t worry about his back.
Kang!
Ferocious Tooth had jumped off the fortress wall was behind Ivan’s back. He swung a sword and blew away the Darkbone Giant Mantis’s head. Still, he shoved a sword into the squirming monster’s body and kicked it out with his foot.
With his strong tail, he smashed the wolf’s head and pierced the heart of a boar with the sword. He wasn’t afraid to wet his body with the blood of monsters.
Meanwhile, Ivan was dealing with a Flameclaw Bear. Ivan’s spear brushed past the man’s arm wrapped in crimson flames. Hot blood spurted out, and it turned into ice and shattered.
“Freeze!”
Cold air pours from Ivan’s spear. The surrounding monsters froze alive and turned into ice sculptures. Ferocious Tooth scream as he breaks the ice.
“Here I am!”
Boom!
The ground trembled as Ferocious Tooth stomped his feet violently. Mana burned like a flame from the sword he was holding. It was so powerful that the monsters, which had been filled with madness due to the demonic energy, flinched and retreated.
Shh!
Arrows flew from the wall. Arrows filled with the power of the spirit pierced through the monsters around them and exploded. The ground turned over, and the flames burned. A sharp wind pierced the tough skins of the monsters.
Ivan glanced at the wall. As Irene fires arrows from the highest point, she makes eye contact with him and smiles.
But things didn’t go well. Because there were so many monsters. Even though Ivan and Ferocious Tooth were running wild outside the wall, the monsters that had moved to avoid them were about to pass the wall.
“Purify with the holy fire!”
Ivan could hear the paladins of the Kundara Temple shouting. They were running around the castle walls and dealing with the coming monsters. The castle gate was also broken in half, desperately preventing the monsters from entering.
At that time, Ivan was able to rediscover the young soldier he had seen during the day by chance. He was lying in a strange position from below the wall, not from above, looking at the sky.
Ivan turned his head and pierced the monster’s body that was approaching. His hand, holding his spear, grew stronger.
And he called his god with a very calm voice.
“Thor, I dedicate this battlefield to you.”
After reading the warrior’s heart moving violently in the calmness, Thor nodded his head. He was willing to accept blood, battle, and the fighting spirit of the death of his enemies.
Rumble, boom!
Rain clouds gathered in the dark sky, and thunder roared. Lightning flashed, and there was the sound of tearing the sky.
Ivan reached out his hand to the sky. The thunder god responded and handed him his hammer.

TN: sorry for the late update, I just moved to another country.