381 The western wall of Hwanoviens.
Doo doo doo doo.
Even when the war began and the sound of cavalry pounding the earth was heard from all directions, Victoria was staring at only one place.
A knight charging at the center of the advancing 4th Legion, wearing red armor with a golden dragon engraved on it and holding a red sword.
– It would be nice if our participation in the war leads to victory for the Holy Kingdom, but honestly, it is difficult considering the overall strength of the empire. So realistically, the best we can do is….
“Reduce the Empire’s superhuman power.”
“hmm?”
As Victoria recalled Eilen’s words and repeated them as if she were making a promise, the knight standing next to her turned to look at her.
“Aaron. What did you just say…?”
“Oh no. I was just talking to myself.”
“Hmm… I guess you’re nervous as expected.”
A knight with an elongated body that looks even skinnier due to his height of over 2 meters.
Too thin for a knight. The man, who looked a bit awkward wearing silver full-body armor that seemed to be tailored to his body type, showed a confident smile under his helmet and took out a silver spear carried on his back.
“Don’t worry. As promised, I will not let anyone come near the mage.”
It was a bizarre sight, as if a slightly thicker spear was holding another spear and making a fuss, but Victoria felt reassured by the sight.
That funny-looking knight was none other than Saint Spear Anthony Everett, one of the three vice-captains of the Knights Templar and the successor to the Holy Sword.
But that was why Victoria shook her head.
“You don’t have to escort me. Vice-captain, you should take charge of the Blood Knight.”
Victoria held up a staff as tall as herself and pointed at a knight in red armor charging from the center of the 4th legion in the western part of the empire.
One of the Empire’s superhuman forces and commander of the 4th Corps. Blood Knight Orlando Brown. The only thing that could handle him on the western wall was Anthony in front of him.
Victoria thought it was a reasonable decision, but Anthony smiled softly and shook his head.
“Haha. He will come right here. If he sees Aaron’s magic, he will instinctively know who to deal with first.”
It was a plausible statement, but Victoria smiled bitterly. This was because he looked completely different from when I first met him two days ago.
– You said you were providing reinforcements, so are you planning on having a babysitter?
Even in front of the new sword, he showed his dissatisfaction and openly criticized him.
It was something that could not be helped.
Victoria had limitations in her ability to disguise herself due to her short height and body. Although he naturally played the role of a dwarf male mage in his early 20s, that appearance also became an obstacle.
Also, unlike the rest of the party, he was a mage, so the problem was that his skills could not be accurately judged based on his external strength alone.
Thanks to this, Victoria had to unintentionally show off her skills to the allies even before the war, and this was the result.
“Are you planning on being a good babysitter?”
“…It’s not good for a man to be so mean-spirited. He’s such a handsome young man… Tsk.”
Anthony, who seemed embarrassed and avoided Victoria’s gaze, aimed the spear at the front again.
“Considering Aran’s magic, this is tactically correct. So stop chatting and I’ll have my fill of swearing after the war is over.”
“I will remember that promise.”
Victoria smiled and slowly held out her staff as she looked at the knights running at the head of the 4th corps.
‘Kellahan’s Staff’, once used by the sorceress Juan Douglas, the most powerful person in the Kingdom of Grandia, began to glow dark brown as it accepted her magic.
An effect that amplifies mana force rather than mana. The treasure, which was evaluated as a 5th circle artifact based on its effect alone, began to convey its full power.
Ugh.
Magical power rising. In that uplifting feeling, Victoria calmly organized her thoughts.
– Now it would be better for you to write this.
A treasure that the teacher replaced with the Staff of Atlan, which he used before, on the pretext that it was better at handling the wind attribute. Perhaps it was because he was concerned about his disciples heading to the battlefield.
In order to return the favor, I had to show solid results.
‘No golems.’
The best magic he could do now was sealing.
The case was different from the rest of the party.
In cases where the color of the force was unusual, there was a sufficient risk of identity exposure, but that was only an estimate. Even if there are people using the same color force in McLane, it is not grounds for the empire to put pressure on the kingdom.
However, if golem magic appears in war, it will immediately be identified as McLane’s golem school. The Golem School, which is on the magical side of the prosperity that McLane has recently achieved, was already very famous in the eastern part of the continent.
However, even though it was not a golem, Victoria was confident. This was because he was convinced that his accomplishments were that special.
‘Enhanced single attribute. This is the right path for a circle wizard to follow.’
A system that has disappeared from modern magic.
Now she seemed to vaguely understand the reason.
For some reason, the amount of mana was decreasing over time in the current continent, and it was much easier to overcome the wall by learning other attributes rather than focusing the disappearing mana to overcome the limit. Of course, even that requires talent that would be unthinkable for a criminal.
‘But that’s also kind of expedient.’
A wall you overcome through expedient means only makes the next wall much thicker and taller.
Victoria guessed that this was the reason why there had been no 7th Circle archmages in recent hundreds of years.
That wasn’t all.
Although a single-attribute mage may have less versatility, he or she is simply superior to a dual-attribute mage in terms of magical power.
As if the magic she was about to cast now was much more powerful than her teacher’s.
“Reverse Gravity.”
The moment the calm voice rang out, brown magic spread across the ground.
Wooooow.
The earth wants to embrace everything in its arms. The magic that reversed the nature of its embrace blew the imperial knights who were about to jump towards the castle wall even higher into the sky.
“Aaaah!”
“Ugh!”
“What is this…!”
In an instant, dozens of knights soared high into the sky, and the soldiers on the castle wall who were watching couldn’t help but widen their eyes in bewilderment.
Of course, the parties involved were even more amazed as the tower soared two to three times higher than the 20-meter wall.
In that situation, a calm voice rang out again.
“Gravity Control Heavy Pressure.” The
brown mana that spread out again brought them down from the sky, with dozens of times more force.
“Ugh!”
“Oh my…!”
“no!”
Soon, the knights became human-sized weapons that fell from the sky and crushed the advancing imperial troops.
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
“Aaaah!”
“Save me!”
The knights covered in blood and the soldiers crushed beneath them.
At that gruesome sight, some of the troops at the main base of the advancing imperial army hesitated, and even the knights who were lucky enough not to be targeted by the magic could only stare blankly down at their fallen comrades from the castle wall they had jumped to.
That moment of silence determined the momentum of the early stages of the battlefield.
“Wow!”
“Kill!”
“There is a mage in the Mage Holy Kingdom!”
“Damn it! Where are you!? Find the location quickly!”
The soldiers of the Holy Kingdom were in great spirits and the knights of the Empire were in extreme confusion.
Victoria took advantage of the hectic moment to throw the imperial knights into the air twice more and then slammed them back down to the ground.
Quaaaaaaaaa!
“Ugh!”
“What the hell!”
And it was not until that moment that the knight in red armor at the center of the imperial army began rushing towards Victoria at a frightening speed.
– Behind the sacred spear. Kill the mage!
A shout that resounds throughout the battlefield.
“Whew. From now on.”
At that moment, Victoria wiped away the sweat that had begun to flow from her forehead and began to take a deep breath and conserve her magic power.
Looking at her like that, Anthony grinned.
“Look. Didn’t I say I would come this way?”
“be careful.”
“Of course. Orlando is the opposite of the Holy Law.”
Anthony, who aimed his spear at the running blood knight, did not look back even from the corner of his eye.
It was not an empty phrase to say that it was in opposition to the law of nature.
Blood Knight Orlando Brown had the strange ability to control blood.
It may sound a bit absurd to say that it can control blood, but in reality, it was a bloody trait that could make an ordinary soldier who had not awakened to the Force vomit blood and die just by glaring at it. In addition, the wound caused by the sword he swung with determination had an effect similar to a curse that could not be easily healed by holy magic.
That wasn’t all.
‘Did you say that when the author’s face turns red, it means that he is maximizing his physical abilities? ‘It temporarily gives you several times more power.’
It has a buff effect similar to the holy method used by a paladin and ignores the opponent’s healing ability.
I heard that Anthony also struggled quite a bit in the last battle because the Paladin had characteristics that offset the advantages seen by the regular knight. Because he was unilaterally tied up, the army, which was already at a disadvantage, almost collapsed.
But things are different now than then.
“It would be a different story if we had the help of a mage.”
“I will do my best.”
Victoria tensed at Anthony’s words and looked ahead.
It won’t go as easily as he said. Unless the other superhuman is a fool, he won’t attack her and Anthony alone where she and Anthony are together.
And the idea was exactly right.
“Open the way for the corps commander!”
“Push with the number of people!”
“For the Empire!”
Imperial knights with crazy eyes flocked to the castle wall where they were located.
The formation is biased, as if the others are not even being considered. Elsewhere on the western wall, it was an extremely irrational move that made defense much easier.
However, the moment the number of knights rushing at him reached its peak, the target could not help but feel tremendous pressure.
“Stop it!”
At Anthony’s shout, the surrounding Paladins gathered in unison, but there was a clear limit to the number of forces that could be concentrated in the first place.
However, the Holy Knights, armed with the same crazy beliefs as the Imperial Knights, were not afraid of hundreds of enemy soldiers.
“For God’s sake!”
“Heavenly punishment to the enemies!”
When Anthony and the Holy Knights blocked the Imperial Knights, the gravity that suddenly became heavier stopped the Imperial Knights who had gathered in a narrow area.
“Ugh!”
“My empire…!”
“Only your Majesty…”
The sight of the imperial knights falling as soon as they rushed in was like a moth jumping into a flame.
Fuuuuuk.
“This is divine punishment!”
Soon, the moment when Anthony pierces two knights at once with a completely different face than when he smiled at Victoria.
A red beam of light flashed between them.
Skag.
“Pfft!”
“Blood Knight!”
A red slash drawn near Anthony’s neck. Fortunately, the wound was shallow.
The gaze beneath the enemy helmet that suddenly appeared next to the pierced imperial knight clearly expressed the feeling that it was a waste.
‘Stealth? ‘He also had this ability?’
Anthony’s eyes widened at the new ability shown by the enemy commander, and Victoria screamed at him in confusion.
“opportunity!”
Magic power surged, and for an instant, her brown eyes regained their original red and blue color, but no one focused on them in such an urgent situation.
At the same time, the magic power that had been holding down the enemies in the area was concentrated on the enemy corps commander.
Wooooow.
Instant transformation and free control of the magic that has already unfolded. This was also one of the greatest benefits of attribute enhancement.
“Pfft!”
“bout!”
The unexpected number divided the joys and sorrows of the two superhumans.
The blood knight, who was about to retreat, suddenly slowed down, and the spear of the paladin, who specialized in charging with reckless thrusts, stretched out in front of him.
Fuuuuuck.
“Whoa!”
“Eurachacha!”
The Blood Knight is frantically pushed away with his side pierced, and Anthony rushes in front of him.
The moment when superiority or inferiority is decided in an instant.
‘Finish it!’
As Victoria bit her lip, an arrow filled with red aura was seen flying into her eyes.
Sigh.
“Ugh!”
Auror arrows flew from somewhere and were sniping at the imperial knights.
It was welcome, but at the same time, unwelcome support.
Because it was clear what it meant.
‘The queen!?’
– Keep in mind. Reducing the empire’s power is important, but the first thing you need to take care of is the safety of your party.
The words of Logan, the brother and sister’s benefactor and monarch.
As Victoria tried to finish off the enemy, her magical energy suddenly changed and her body began to move quickly, sliding across the stones of the castle wall.
