Gamer System in Campione - Chapter 34

"Who knows? Maybe he's feeling especially generous. Unfortunately, I don't fully understand the whims of Campiones, except for two" Alice joked back with an indifferent shrug.

Gantz's mask finally broke and he started cursing some curses in Italian, which I understood perfectly: "This city could become a desert tomorrow ..." He grunted.

"That is why we are here to contain and possibly end the conflict without too much damage" Ozymandias spoke, "I will save these people from the imminent danger of Campiones and gods."

Gantz looked at me surprised and began to laugh out loud.

"What's so funny?" Ozymandias asked, my eyebrow raised.

"A Campione who actually cares about people in general. That's something I haven't heard" He continued to laugh, "Besides, considering that you yourself might be the only thing that can destroy this city."

Ozymandias just snorted as he continued on his way.

Just then, they reached the foot of the mountain.

Only two knights were guarding the base of the mountain as sentries. Probably because most of the other Knights were defeated at headquarters or stationed at the top of the mountain...

"Hey, who the hell is you-GaKA!" The Knight who saw Ozymandias lost an arm and was cut to the side by his sword when the Sun King by him, Gantz stabbed the other in the lung before chasing after Ozymandias and Alice, who continued to fly up the mountain.

"The civilians are kept inside the mountain, below the big cross. We have to enter through an entrance on the mountainside" Gantz said quickly as he ran: While a normal person can go to the forced teleportation camp on top of the mountain, Campiones will not be teleported for obvious reasons."

Ozymandias only snorted, sometimes his resistance to magic was a pain in the ass to deal with.

Ozymandias looked at Alice, "Alice, it could become a Campiones fight or worse. It might be better if you stay behind."

"Honestly, Ozymandias. You are the only one who can fight Marquis Voban on equal terms. If you are kept busy by the other Campione, you will need all the hands you can get. Besides... I haven't used my book yet."

"Book?" Ozymandias asked without understanding.

Before Alice could answer, Gantz interrupted her, "We're here"

"Already?"

"They need a lot of room for their ritual to be successful. Since the ritual site is underground, they built the entrance near the foot of the mountain" Gantz explained as he suddenly turned right and started running into the foliage.

Ozymandias ran after him into the forest, immediately his senses alerted him to a large amount of magical energy being generated from a dilapidated and unassuming hut in the middle of the forest.

And surrounding the hut were several injured or dead guards sprawled on the ground.

"Oh my ..." Alice said as she put her hand over her mouth in surprise, "Someone must have come here before us."

Gantz ran to the nearest corpse and touched its face, "It's still warm. Today is a very cold day, so the attacker came here a few moments before us. It could be Diavolo Rosso."

"All right, let's follow him" Ozymandias said as he opened the do-

SWISH

A blade whistled near his head as he tilted it to the side to avoid a stab. Immediately, the attacker came down with a blow that would have cut from his left shoulder to his groin, which caused Ozymandias to raise his hand and stop the sword by grabbing it.

"Wha-?" The attacker said incredulously as he saw his blade being held, and jumped back as he released his blade to avoid a kick, which would have turned his belly into a red paste.

"Thadeo, stop!" Gantz shouted as he stopped Ozymandias from following his attacker.

"Gantz? What are you doing with them?" The man asked cautiously, although his form became less tense than before.

"These people are from Witenagemot! They helped me escape from prison!" Gantz quickly explained his presence.

Thadeo lowered his weapons and pointed to the inside of the hut, where there was a ladder on the floor of the hut.

"Go that way. Diavolo Rosso is trying to take on Marquis Voban, but Voban is just continuously throwing dozens of Divine wolves at him so he can't get close enough for hand-to-hand combat or walking through the tunnels. I have to stay here to protect our escape route if we fail."

Gantz nodded and led them toward the ladder, where they immediately began to descend.

As they descended the ladder, the sound of chaos and battle echoed through the narrow tunnel they were in.

"Who goes there!" A man wearing a red suit similar to that of Gantz shouted as he trimmed the attacks of two of the UMAB agents.

"Aldo! Shut up and focus on the front! Thadeo won't let any hostiles get past him!" The other man yelled at the first man, swinging his big sword horizontally to prevent anyone from attacking him.

Gantz landed on the ground and ran to his companions, supporting them in their duel against five Horsemen: "Aldo! Antonio! Where is Diavolo Rosso?"

"He's engaging that damned Campione at the ritual site! He's trying to break the ritual altar, but he can't advance a meter before ten of those puppies jump on him like fucking rabbits!" The scruffy one replied, "And we can't help him, since we're the ones preventing the Knights from attacking Diavolo Rosso."

Before he could finish his speech dozens of warriors appeared and tried to advance on them.

But Ozymandias advanced by raising his sword that was bathed in his golden magic energy and cut down all the knights in seconds.

"Shit!" Aldo yelled in surprise as he jumped back from the sudden conclusion of the battle. He was a man of about twenty-something, dressed in a comfortable civilian-looking outfit, with black hair and light skin.

"Who the hell are you?" Antonio asked, also surprised. Antonio looked to be about sixty years old, his old looking face did not match his powerful looking body that held his large sword with ease.

"Ozymandias. The Seventh Campione" the Sun King replied before running towards the end of the tunnel from where the smell of blood and the sound of wolf growls and moans were generated.

In the middle of the place, a lone Great Knight was facing a pack of wolves, trying to reach the huge stone altar that rose above the ground covered with complicated runic matrices.

Surrounding him were several hooded people chanting several different arias, but melding together in a tone of malicious integrity.

A man wearing an overcoat and a gray suit stood in front of the people chanting, barring the way of a lone knight with his wolves beside him.

Seeing this, Ozymandias quickly raised his sword, he had a clear view to the altar, and although his sword was not an [Authority] the sheer amount of magical energy he was transferring to it easily made up for it.

However before Ozymandias could perform his blow he had to leap away in order to avoid a huge bolt of lightning that fell on him.

"Ohoho? You dodged that? Personally, I didn't think you were going to show up, but I guess rats tend to be the most annoying when the important time comes."