Volume 1 Chapter 42 Gathering with the Villainous Guildmaster and Those Who Have Been Played III [Irankus VII]
Outside the town where the Guildmaster Act resides.
In a forest, some distance away from the outer wall, the grotesquely transformed Irankus was hiding.
'ACT... I'LL HAVE MY REVENGE ON YOU... UGH!'
As a price for the power granted by the evil god Dostoevsky, he had lost his sanity.
Now, all that filled his mind was a fierce hatred for Act.
Through eyes bloodshot and glowing, he saw that surrounding the outer wall was an immense horde of [monstrosities].
In a word, they were monsters made of shadows.
'[DARK LEGION]... HAHAHA! THAT EVIL GOD, HE GAVE ME THE PERFECT POWER, DIDN'T HE?'
The Dark Legion.
It could only be activated under the moonlight.
A skill to create monsters from shadows.
In the forest, Irankus lurked, stealthily amassing his Dark Legion.
All that was left was to unleash his monsters upon the town.
'HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS, ACT! MY COMPANIONS ARE... STRONG! INVINCIBLE! YOU HEAR ME?'
Around Irankus were the monsters he had created from shadows.
But they did not respond to him.
Of course, they wouldn't.
They were silent shadows.
Puppets that only followed the commands of their creator, Irankus.
'KILL! DESTROY ACT AGE! TURN THAT GUY'S TOWN, HIS PEOPLE, EVERYONE... INTO A MESS!'
At Irankus's beast-like roar, the Dark Legion sprang into action.
The Zaltchim were also deployed to the scene.
The weakness of the Dark Legion was that it would disperse if Irankus was defeated.
So he had decided to hole up in the forest, to oversee the end of the slaughter.
'HAHAHA! NOW, LET'S SEE IF WE CAN ENJOY THE MURDER SHOW UP CLOSE...!'
Irankus could share the visual perspective of his legions.
What spread before him was the townscape devastated by the Dark Legion──or so he thought, but they were gone.
'WHAT!? WHAT IS THIS...!?'
Outside the town, without him noticing, a vast number of Adventurers had arrived, weapons in hand, ready to start the fight.
"MONSTERS! YOU WON'T TAKE THIS TOWN WHILE I'M AROUND!"
"WE, THE GEM OF HEAVENLY GIFT, WON'T LET YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS!"
The guild members of Act Age were locked in fierce battle.
"FOR OUR GUILDMASTER, WE WILL PROTECT THIS TOWN!"
With her red hair flowing behind her, Adventurer Rosalia swung her sword.
"THIS IS THE BIGGEST CHANCE TO REPAY THE FAVOR WE RECEIVED FROM THE GUILDMASTER!"
Fairy Mizarii unleashed magic, reducing the number of enemies in their path.
Leading Rosalia's party, the members of the Gem of Heavenly Gift united to defend the town against the shadowy monsters.
"WE'RE HERE TOO!"
With a mighty swing of his greatsword, a golden storm erupted, sending the shadow monsters flying like paper.
That was the power of the golden Hero, Lawrence.
"HA! DON'T THINK YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT ME SO EASILY, BUDDY!"
The spear-wielding Ulgar brushed aside his silver hair and chimed in.
"Ulgar! So you decided to join us to help Act, huh? That's awesome!!"
"You said you wouldn't come at all!"
As his friends teased him, a blush crept up Ulgar's face. "H-Hey, be quiet!"
"I may not like that Guildmaster very much... but, well, I owe them, so not repaying that is just not my style!"
"Ulgar, you really are a good person! Much respect──next to the Guildmaster, of course!"
"DON'T YOU DARE TAKE A BREAK!"
Eli, the magic user from the Hero Party, along with the tamer Mida, were also there.
Act had discovered their talents, and the Hero Party had grown strong enough to come to repay their debt.
"HEY, ARE WE BEING PUSHED BACK A BIT? SERIOUSLY, IT SEEMS LIKE I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN KEEP ACT ON TRACK!"
Perched atop the town's outer wall was a small girl, surveying the battlefield below.
"Woah, is that... the S-Rank 1st place Guild, the Crown of Blood's Guildmaster, Lady Milia!"
Milia waves her hand with a whoosh.
In that instant, her ability, Breaking Army, Ruin Army, activates.
"ALRIGHT! YOU LOT! WORK HARD! FOR MY FUTURE, MY BELOVED HUSBAND...mumbles...ACT! I'LL REPAY THE DEBT OF THIS ACT!"
"""YES! WE'LL DO OUR BEST FOR MR. ACT!"""
...The giant army of shadows that had been there just moments ago, starts to dwindle.
Zaltchim and the others, who had been gathered there, were trembling with fear.
'Are you kidding me?! What's going on?'
'Wasn't this supposed to be a one-sided slaughter!'
'This is unacceptable! I'm getting out of here...ouch!'
The fleeing Zaltchim were instantly killed by Lawrence's sword.
"WE'LL PROTECT THE TOWN...WE'LL PROTECT MR. ACT! WE'LL GO ANYWHERE TO DO THAT! WE'LL EVEN GIVE OUR LIVES! HAA!"
Lawrence's golden strike wipes out the shadow monsters.
Rosalia and the other skilled fighters easily defeat the remaining enemies.
Even those who weren't strong, thanks to Milia's Breaking Army, Ruin Army, which boosted their basic abilities, were able to fight without getting hurt.
'...What the... What is this?'
Everyone gathered there, speaks with one voice, all for Act.
'Act Age...for him, so many humans...have become allies?'
He asks the shadow figures surrounding him.
But, the convenient subordinates he had created, don't answer a single question.
'Why did this happen...? What went wrong? I...I...Why can't I be like Act!'
And at that moment...
"LONG TIME NO SEE, IRANKUS."
The shadow monsters that had been protecting him, disappear all at once.
A silver-haired girl with dog ears appears, holding a knife of ice in her hand.
And behind her...a young man with sharp eyes.
Once upon a time, there was a man I expelled from the Guild....
'ACT AGEEEEEEE!'
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