I Was Mistaken as a Genius Mage in a Game-Chapter 70

Like others his age, Ed's first memory begins with a lonely road and the corpses of monsters. He doesn't know where it went wrong, but he was an orphan and his body was engraved with a swordsmanship stance that no one knew who taught him.

The first monster he remembers subduing was when he was six years old.

The following year, he killed a low-level mutant, and when he turned nine, he subdued a demon, albeit a low-level one.

He wandered aimlessly, catching mutants and monsters. After subduing monsters like that, those who helped him would repay him with things like loot or food.

'Thanks to you, I was able to save my life.'

'My son came back alive. It's all thanks to you, Ed!'

Even as time passed and his life stabilized, Ed didn't let go of this work. It was all he could do... ... But he liked the greetings from people after work more than anything else.

‘You are the hero of our town!’

And among the numerous compliments, the word ‘hero’ was by far the most pleasant.

‘Ad appeared from the sky like a hero... ... .’

‘You are my hero.’

‘I want to become a hero like Ad later.’

A vagabond who only knew his name.

It was a moment when meaning was given to a wanderer who didn’t even know his hometown or parents.

“I want to become a hero!”

Ad, who was addicted to the word hero, started to express his aspiration to become a hero with his own mouth at some point.

No one ever pointed out that he used the word hero so lightly. He was talented, and he was stupid enough to risk his life for someone he had never met.

It didn’t take long for such a stupid Ad to hear rumors about Geomseong and his party members. They had the title of general, commanded countless soldiers, and constantly achieved great things... ... It became a big goal for Ed.

There was no particular reason why he accepted Rex's offer and enlisted in the military.

If he followed Rex and enlisted in the military, even though he was a child, he would be assigned the task of escorting the 'general'.

If he could see the heroes fight with his own eyes, he would be able to get one step closer to them.

If he took each step like that... ... he had no doubt that he would become a true hero someday.

In fact, when he saw the white-haired boy riding a spirit and roaming the battlefield today, he felt a slight sense of elation at the fact that he had truly reached the place he had dreamed of.

He had finally reached a position where he could watch the true heroes fight.

He believed that the day would come soon when he too would become a 'true hero'.

Until this moment.

"Bill, turn right!"

“Don’t try to deal with them all! Leave the other three to the lieutenant! We focus on clearing the southern path! Only attack the entity in front of you!”

His feet kept sinking into the thick mud.

A huge hand covered in blood moved to find a second victim. The sound of the giant mutant seemed to shake his body. His vision obscured by the mask felt uncomfortable, and he couldn’t suppress the urge to take it off. Eventually, Ed ripped off the mask.

The air mixed with poison seeped into his lungs. It felt like the poison that entered his blood vessels was rotting every bit of his flesh.

Thump!

The vibration shook Ed’s feet stuck in the mud.

Once again, in the blink of an eye, one person died.

There was no time to worry. There was no time to think. Ed pulled a huge greatsword the size of his body from his back and kicked the mud that wouldn’t let go of his feet and ran.

Thump!

A tremendous vibration was heard from behind.

Menes was holding the three giant mutants back while the soldiers focused on the entity that appeared to the south. Watching them barely manage to deflect all the attacks and repeatedly shoot arrows, my eyes shook with the desire to immediately go over there to provide support.

‘Wake up. We have to kill the southern bastard so that even you, Lieutenant, have a place to run to. Trust me, right now all I can do is trust you.’

Ad clenched his teeth and stomped his foot hard on the ground. Mud clumps flew up in all directions. There was no sign of any wavering in Ad’s posture.

Crack!

Ad’s giant greatsword flew and struck the arm supporting the mutant’s body. It felt like striking steel. The huge blade barely pierced the skin, but it could not reach its sturdy bones.

Ad quickly pulled out the greatsword.

The blind mutant swung its arms wildly.

Once, twice, three times.

The wildly shaking arms were accompanied by a strong wind, and the mud that had bound Ed's feet flew everywhere.

Ed quickly lowered his body.

Thankfully, the giant arms didn't even touch Ed's body. He was lucky.

"Eww!"

A roar, almost a scream, was heard from behind him. A soldier holding two long swords kicked the mud, jumped high, and rushed at the whale-like giant mutant's forehead.

The sight of him jumping high with his back to the dark clouds was nothing short of the back of a hero.

Bam!

And the hero, in the next moment, disappeared without a trace.

The giant hand of the mutant grabbed the soldier who was running while roaring and burst him like a small water balloon. "The first feelings were a fear," he said. When I was attacked, the eyes of the arms were obviously far away. It was a soldier with a thin and sharp sword.

Thud!

The mutant lifted his right arm, which was supporting his body, and then slammed down his left arm. It looked like he was trying to catch and pop a mosquito that had landed on him to suck his blood.

Thud!

The solid, huge bone of the mutant that Ed couldn't even reach with his blade protruded from under his arm. The mutant had slammed down his arm so hard that he broke it himself.

Poisonous blood spurted out from the huge arm.

The poisonous blood didn't splash on Ed. He was lucky this time.

Immediately afterwards, the whale-like, heavy body began to fall to the ground.

The foolish mutant had pulled both arms off the ground in order to grab the soldier who was on his arm.

It was only natural that the huge body, which had lost its support, began to fall to the ground.

Thud!

The body, which weighed tens of tons, dug deep into the mud. The mutant struggled to get out of the mud, and its arms were covered in bright red blood.

“.......”

The soldiers’ blood splashed around Ed’s eyes.

“.......”

Ed’s heart was beating fast.

He was wondering.

How could he swing his arms accurately even though he lost his eyes?

How could he survive, unlike the soldiers who died meaninglessly?

“Damn it!”

Before that question could be resolved, a blade flew towards the mutant’s forehead, which had fallen to the ground. Instead of Ed, who was still searching for an answer to the question in his head, another soldier ran forward with a blade.

The thin blade tore through the skin between the mutant’s eyebrows and split his flesh. The blade penetrated all the way to the handle, but it was nowhere near enough to reach his skull.

The soldier who had stabbed him with the thin blade put his arm through the skin as if it were a given.

The blade still did not touch the skull.

The soldier continued to insert his arm between the splitting skin of the mutant. When the blade did not touch the skull, he inserted his shoulder, and soon his entire body was inside.

Green blood covered the soldier’s body, and soon he felt the pain of his entire body melting.

Chiiiiik... ...!

The soldier’s body, which had stabbed the blade between the mutant’s eyebrows, was covered in poison. The leather clothing melted and soon mixed with his skin.

“Fuck, fuck!”

A scream was heard. The soldier’s speech, soaked in the poison-filled blood, became increasingly muffled. Even in extreme pain, the soldier did not loosen the grip on the blade.

Instead, he inserted the thin, sharp blade even deeper... ... .

Soon.

No screams could be heard inside the monster’s splitting skin.

“.......”

Despair.

There is no time to indulge in such sentimentality.

‘... ... Scream, roar.’

Why does the monster without eyes know the exact location of the soldiers?

The clue faintly flashes through his mind.

“.......”

Ed stood up, holding a large sword, stepping on the mud floor.

Adrenaline fills his head. His hands and feet tremble.

Ed held his breath, strengthened his arms, and slowly walked forward.

Whoosh!

The mutant’s arm, which he swung carelessly, brushed past his hair. If he had been unlucky, his head would have been blown off.

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Ed’s eyes revealed the wounds left by the brave soldier.

The mutant was still struggling with his arms on the ground to lift his body, which was still deep in the mud.

Ed quietly walked towards the mutant’s body, which was struggling with his sword.

A sharp blade mark carved into the giant eyebrows catches the eye. The scars of a brave soldier’s blood remain around the blade mark.

‘... ... Will this monster die if I stick a blade through this gap? I heard that some mutants don’t have vital points.’

My head quickly turns.

‘Between these eyebrows what are the chances that a brain exists? No, does a brain even exist in the first place?’

A meaningless question plagued his mind.

However, Ed had no other choice than to insert his blade into the huge gap left by the previous warrior.

“.......”

Ed held his breath and thrust his blade forward.

Could it be that he didn’t feel pain? The mutant didn’t react at all. Only green blood flowed out.

Ed slowly laid his blade to the side. A thin crack opened as wide as the width of a large sword.

... ... He could see the melting corpse of a soldier and the thin blade not too deep.

Ed swung his blade to the side.

Soon, chunks of flesh were torn and blood gushed out.

The giant mutant continued to struggle to lift its body from the mud floor.

‘This mutant doesn’t feel pain. The fact that it kept its eyes open even after being first hit by an arrow is proof.’

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A large cave unfolded before ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ Ed’s eyes. Blood dripped from the ceiling, full of poison, and a green puddle formed at his feet.

‘The reason it was able to pinpoint our location even after losing its eyes was because of its roar. If we don’t make any noise, this monster won’t be able to figure out our location.’

Ed quickly went into the cave and cut off more flesh.

‘Sound, if you’re careful with sound. It might be surprisingly easy to deal with.’

The flesh on his shoulder and arm melted away from the poison dripping from the ceiling, but he held back a groan.

Soon, a skull appeared, and Ed immediately stabbed his knife into it.

The brain was exposed where the skull was shattered. As befitting its huge size, its brain was also as big as a house.

There was no time to worry about where and how to cut it to kill this monster.

Card!

Ed immediately began to cut open the large brain with the blade of his greatsword. Like a jellyfish stabbed by a sword, something liquid flowed out of the brain and soon began to sag like a deflated balloon.

Thump!

The sound of a giant arm falling limply to the floor was heard.

“.......”

Ed held his breath and walked outside. If you breathed in carelessly inside the mutant’s body, your lungs would rot away.

“Everyone, these things don’t feel pain! Their vision is damaged, and their voices.......”

Ed immediately took a deep breath and opened his mouth. He had to tell the surviving soldiers about the weaknesses of these monsters that he had discovered.

“......Just be careful.......”

However, there was no one left to listen to him. Only corpses, organs, and fragments of arms and legs were buried in the mud.

“......Good work, Private. That was a good insight.”

A cold and dry voice was heard through the smoke. The body of the wizard in the wine-colored robe was slightly covered in mud.

“Let’s move. Other mutants will be coming soon. The demons might come. We need to return to the unit as soon as possible.”

Bell immediately headed south. Without even giving a moment’s glance to those who remained on the battlefield.

“......The others.”

Bell ignored Ed’s words and continued to move. He had to escape from the scene of the commotion as quickly as possible.

Ed blankly looked down at the battlefield. The pain of his skin melting was overwhelmed by the silence of the battlefield and he didn’t even feel it.

There was nothing.

Where the mutant’s huge whale-like hand had passed, only dust and mud remained. The debris of the building, tree branches, and broken pieces of steel that had been stuck between the floors were all buried deep in the ground.

It took Ed over a minute just to realize that there was nothing left around him.

He didn’t understand. His mind couldn’t accept the situation surrounding him at all.

“.......”

When he came to his senses, there was only emptiness in Ed’s mind. He slowly turned his gaze to find the elf lieutenant who was fighting three giant mutants alone.

His lower and upper bodies were torn apart, and his entire body was soaked in poison, turning green.

The monsters lying on either side had hundreds or thousands of bullets stuck in their bodies, and toxic poison flowed out like blood from the holes.

... ... While he and the other soldiers were barely dealing with one mutant at the risk of their lives, the elf lieutenant seemed to have dealt with all three mutants alone.

“I have to retrieve the bodies, even the corpses.......”

Every single one of those who lost their lives here were brave warriors who never lost their fighting spirit even in the face of death.

They were noble people who would give up their lives for a cause, and heroes who always lived to save others.

They were people who should not be abandoned as nameless pieces of meat on a filthy and dirty battlefield.

“Can you tell who is who? In cases like this, it would be more considerate to the bereaved families not to retrieve the bodies.”

Bell, who had already gone a long way ahead, spoke coldly to Ad, who was meaninglessly digging the floor.

The ringing in his ears tore.

“.......”

Ad watched Bell’s back as he walked down the street indifferently and said nothing.

How can he be so indifferent? After watching his subordinates die right before his eyes? Is he even human?

Countless questions tore through his mind. He felt pain. His hands, arms, legs, and even his head began to hurt.

The hand holding the greatsword shook, and Ed ended up dropping the thick, heavy lump of iron.

The huge greatsword, as big as a person's torso, was abandoned on the battlefield.