Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 577

The air and the earth trembled.

The deaths of the six Great Demons.

And the descent of the Demon King.

From this point on, the real East-West War was beginning.

- Stay sharp, everyone. This is where it really starts.

I sent that thought to everyone through telepathy.

At that, they all nodded and began focusing on the battle.

I did the same.

With Lucifer’s appearance, not only was the existing Demon King’s army surging forward, but even the top elite Demon King troops that had stayed hidden until the very end were finally beginning to emerge.

“Kiaaaaaah!!”

Flying monsters began appearing in huge numbers.

There were so many they packed the sky, but I did not have the luxury of worrying about them.

I immediately sent a telepathic message to Zeus and Cronos.

- I’m counting on you.

- Leave it to us.

- Have faith.

Land and sky.

If you had to take one or the other, of course it was easier on the mind to take the ground.

That was why I had brought all the Olympian gods.

At the very least, if it was them—and with Phaidiak 2 added on top—I would not have to worry about the aerial battle until the East-West War ended.

“Charge!”

“Waaaaaah!!”

The Demon King’s army crossed the final line I had in mind.

Once they crossed that line, the waterways greeted them, and once they crossed the waterways, the curved wall waiting like a drawn bow greeted them next.

Most of them could not get past either.

Which naturally drove them toward the gorge I had deliberately left open in the center.

Watching the Demon King’s army pour into the gorge, I said to Jack,

“It’s time. Start.”

- Okay.

Having heard his master’s command, Jack happily started drawing on my mana.

[ Umbra’s Shadow Legacy is activated. ]

[ Hollow Jack, King of the Shadow Divine Beasts, summons the Black Army. ]

The opening move was the Black Army.

And then—

[ Umbra’s Shadow Legacy is activated. ]

[ Hollow Jack, King of the Shadow Divine Beasts, summons the Black Shadow Dragon. ]

Jack summoned the Black Shadow Dragon right after that.

“Kiaaaaaah!!”

The summoned Black Shadow Dragon let out a high, piercing cry and soared into the sky.

Among all the soldiers I had, it was the only one that would take part in the aerial battle.

There was no reason to throw a creature specialized for air combat into a ground battle crawling with enemies like a swarm of ants.

Leihian jumped in surprise at the sudden appearance of the Black Army, but soon felt reassured.

He thought those countless soldiers would descend into the gorge and face the Demon King’s army there.

But the summoned army did not head below the gorge.

They took their positions atop the wall instead.

The Demon King’s army still kept pouring in.

The way they rushed in, all worked up, looked exactly like a horde of zombies.

Watching the Demon King’s soldiers start to push across the bridge, Leihian said urgently,

“Lord Avatar! Are you really not going to station anyone down there?! The Demon King’s army is crossing over!”

“I know.”

“Huh? Then why aren’t you sending the soldiers down below?”

“Why would I send them? Do you think collecting shadows is easy?”

“That’s not the important thing right now!”

“It is important. That’s why I left them on top of the wall. That way, they can fire arrows at the ones entering the gorge below. I’m the one going down there. So you just watch.”

“You’re going down personally, Lord Avatar? What about everyone else?”

“They’re not needed. I’m enough.”

After saying that, I leaped off the wall as if I were doing parkour.

Then I scraped down the wall like I was sliding on the soles of my shoes, and landed safely.

Standing about halfway into the gorge, I held the Blood Sword and drew a line on the ground.

It was a kind of vow that nothing would be allowed to cross beyond that line.

The sight of it was like Zhang Fei at Changban.

Around then, as the Demon King’s army began entering the gorge, Jack—who had been standing on the wall above with his arms folded in stern composure—swept one hand downward.

At once, the waiting Shadow Knights took up the bows that had been distributed to them and began raining down an enormous barrage of shadow arrows like a torrential downpour.

Fwoogoong! Fwoogoong!

A tremendous rain of arrows falling from the sky.

The sound they made was like a battery of hwachas firing at once.

And on top of that, because the arrows were made of shadow, they were pitch-black. Whether they struck their targets or not, each shadow arrow gouged out a deep, narrow hole and then vanished like a mirage.

“Kieeeeeek!!”

“Kaaaagh!!”

“Ughhhh!!”

“Shields! Raise your shields!”

“Attack above us!”

The Demon King’s army started dying in droves.

But they were not complete idiots, so the moment the rain of arrows began falling, they immediately raised shields and came up with countermeasures.

Of course, those countermeasures were not perfect.

The Shadow Knights were strong.

And the arrows they fired were even stronger.

So this time as well, Lucifer intervened.

[ Lucifer, Demon King of Pride, uses Dark Mist Aura. ]

The moment Dark Mist Aura was used, black fog began spreading across the battlefield.

It was a fog with physical force. The smog-like haze soon formed a roof over the Demon King’s army as they entered the gorge, blocking the rain of arrows.

- Oh? So that’s how you want to play it?

The one who reacted to Lucifer’s move was not me, but Jack.

Standing atop the wall like a strategist and watching the battlefield, Jack curled the corner of his mouth the instant he saw Lucifer’s Dark Mist Aura.

- Master, that side’s using an interesting move.

- You mean the black fog? Got a way around it?

- Of course I do. Just watch.

Jack shot his right hand high into the air.

Then some of the Shadow Knights who had been firing arrows stepped back and abruptly started pairing up and merging into one.

[ Umbra’s Shadow Legacy is activated. ]

[ Hollow Jack, King of the Shadow Divine Beasts, uses Shadow Fusion. ]

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