Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 666

“Everyone, prepare for battle!!”

A sudden surprise attack.

It had not appeared on the minimap, so they had not known.

In the urgent situation, Uven shouted, and Su-ho also shouted.

“Protect everyone.”

[ Protection is activated. ]

[ Dragon Speech is activated. ]

[ Blood Spirit Art is activated. ]

[ Blood Demon Art is activated. ]

With a single word, thick defensive barriers unfolded.

The targets were naturally everyone present.

He did not discriminate just because they belonged to Uven’s group.

Afterward, the shadow army and vampires that had been standing by emerged and began fighting in place of the giants.

“W-what is that?”

“What is this......!”

“Vampires?”

“A dragon?!”

The giants under Uven, seeing Su-ho’s soldiers for the first time, merely opened their mouths in shock.

Three Giant Hunters had appeared.

Their appearance was the same as before.

They became entangled with Typhon, the Black Shadow Dragon, and the others, fighting like mad.

Su-ho spoke to Uven, who had drawn his weapon.

“Good timing. Take this opportunity to watch. See whether I was lying or not.”

“.......”

Uven was left speechless.

Just as he had said earlier, it was true that they had killed two Giant Hunters, but that was only because they had done so after meticulous planning.

Otherwise, fighting Giant Hunters was impossible.

Every Giant Hunter possessed the strength of a hundred giants, enough for one to fight a hundred alone.

Thud!

Around then, one Giant Hunter fell.

It was the one whose nape had been bitten by the Black Shadow Dragon before being hacked apart by the Shadow Knights.

Thud!

Then another one fell.

The entire group of vampires had clung to it and drained its blood, so in the end, it could not endure and had all of its strength taken away.

Now only one remained.

But that fight also looked as though it would end soon.

Typhon was dealing with the last remaining Giant Hunter, and using his uniquely massive body, he was beating the Giant Hunter like mad.

Kuuung!!

Before long, the final Giant Hunter also fell.

Truly overwhelming power.

At the absurd sight, Uven had no choice but to close his open mouth.

Su-ho smiled amiably and asked.

“What do you think?”

“This makes no sense.......”

“Why doesn’t it make sense? You saw it with your own eyes.”

“.......”

There was nothing he could say.

To think there was a hunting method like this in the world.

The other giants belonging to Uven were the same.

Su-ho looked around at them.

In particular, the one who had first called Su-ho a fake turned his head away like someone guilty the moment their eyes met.

“Instead of doing that, how about coming over to my side this time? If you join me now, I’ll protect you all the way until this trial ends. I’m not forcing you. I have no intention of dragging along anyone who says they won’t follow me. But you know, right? In the end, only one person becomes king, and the rest either die or become that person’s soldiers.”

“.......”

Uven remained silent.

It was not because he was tempted by the protection.

Nor was it because he feared death.

Among the things Su-ho had said, the fact that only one person would ultimately become king had brought him back to reality.

“......All right. I’ll come under you.”

Uven was the first to move to Su-ho’s side.

“Good choice. But do you represent everyone?”

“No.”

“As expected.”

While they were in the same group, Uven had been able to take the position of leader.

He was the strongest, skilled in tactics, and had used those qualities together to hunt Giant Hunters.

But it felt more like a temporary alliance than complete submission.

Su-ho looked at the remaining giants and spoke.

“What do the rest of you think? You don’t have to follow me. I won’t kill you. But I have no intention of protecting you like this again next time.”

“.......”

“.......”

“.......”

The giants remained silent.

But his words struck deeply.

To put it bluntly, everyone here had just come to owe Su-ho their lives once.

In the end, beginning with Uven, all the remaining giants decided to follow Su-ho as well.

More than anything else, the fact that only one person would ultimately become the Giant King had shattered their expectations that they themselves might become king in the face of such an overwhelming difference.

Furthermore, there was not a single dissenter.

That was because they all strongly felt that they owed Su-ho their lives.

“Congratulations, Commander.”

When the recruitment of Uven’s group succeeded, Ruin quickly came over and congratulated him.

Ruin.

He was truly good at navigating social situations.

Su-ho continued advancing.

Whenever he saw a Giant Hunter, he killed it, and whenever he saw giants, he recruited them.

He did not hold on to anyone who refused.

But as time passed, there were no longer any giants who rejected Su-ho.

The number of giants following Su-ho had itself become a powerful form of persuasion without anyone needing to add a word.

Eventually, the sun set and night arrived.

The moment the sun went down, Su-ho stopped moving and gave an order through Ruin.

“He says we’ll move again when morning comes!”

Everyone agreed, and after counting their numbers through Ruin, Su-ho learned that he had 346 giants under his command.

‘Judging by the atmosphere, it feels like I’ll become king without much difficulty.’

Of course, there were still more than five hundred giants he had not met.

But it did not seem as though they would particularly refuse to come over to his side either.

Naturally, he was confident as well.

Because he knew that in the end, everything would revolve around the logic of strength.

Su-ho put an appropriate amount of distance between himself and the giants and rested.