Episode 17
Episode 12. The bragging rights and first battle He said grandiosely that it was a ‘military trial’, but all he had to do was set up a few chairs.
However, it was unusual for a commander to directly hold a trial to judge a single soldier during wartime.
Yuma was in a situation where he had nothing to say even if his throat fell off.
But Yuma knew better than anyone else that that couldn’t be the case.
Yuma was tied up with a rope and brought to the simple courthouse. And two of the beaten soldiers who did not faint came along as witnesses.
“My name is Yuma. Leave the rest.”
When Duran ordered, the enlisted men and knights, except for Randel, gave a short salute and went back.
Yuma stood erect without bowing his head.
“Hmm.”
Duran sat down on a chair, crossed his legs, and looked Yuma up and down.
Outwardly, he was a very ordinary boy, except for his rather strong body and handsome face.
But it was visible in Duran’s eyes. The aura of aura naturally permeates Yuma’s body.
It was already clear that he could handle Aura better than most sword masters. That is the body that has been blessed by the Aura.
It was a thing.
“Have you come with a letter of recommendation from Haiwan and defeated your allies as soon as you arrive?”
“sorry.”
“It doesn’t seem like the attitude of a sorry person.”
Duran snorted when he saw Yuma’s confident attitude.
It’s been a long time since this kind of crap.
I was bored because of the already lukewarm war.
Most of the Armed Kingdom forces opened the way without a proper resistance. A country that is already stained with corruption so much that it is hard to even consider it a country.
Rather, there were some people who welcomed the invasion of the imperial army.
After thinking about it for a moment, Duran’s forehead wrinkled.
“Why were you guys right?”
“That boy hit another soldier without hesitation and rushed to subdue him, but was hit.”
“suddenly?”
Duran looked at Yuma and said.
“A soldier hit me because he wanted to fuck me tonight.
As he fell, nearby soldiers rushed in.”
Isn’t this completely like saying you did well and I did well after a fight between children.
When Duran returned to the Empire, he vowed to find military discipline officers and deal with them one by one.
There was not a single person who handled the work to my liking.
Duran bit the soldiers who came as witnesses. It was with the order to find the person who molested Yuma for the first time and to inflict 10 whips.
“ruler. That bastard was whipped.
What punishment should I give you?”
“The death penalty is better.”
Randall, who was standing in a relaxed posture, answered. Because of that guy, the back of my head that was hit by Duran was still tingling.
Randell got another shot in the back of the head.
“Oh wait.”
Duran, who was repeating the name Yuma, suddenly opened his eyes as if something had come to mind.
“Are you the Yuma that the first princess said she saw?”
The fact that the first princess came out of Duran’s mouth was completely unaccounted for.
Of course, Yuma expected to be asked questions such as his personal details, who he learned from, how he came to deal with Auras, and what he wanted to become.
Yuma remembered the day he met Jishka Rosé on the mountain behind the Hwangseong Excreta Treatment Facility.
It was an extremely trivial matter from the princess’ point of view, but she never thought she would tell Duran about it.
As far as Yuma knew, both Baris Cannon and Duran Jacques had a static relationship with Jishka Rosé. Yuma decided that there was something he didn’t know.
“I am that Yuma.”
“It is a strange thing. A commoner with no background is known to Zishka, Haiwan Woods, and now I know. Plus, he’s an amazing Auror user.”
“Auror users?”
Randel asked in surprise.
Even in the Zach family, there were only a handful of children who dealt with Auras at the age of 16. Even that was not working properly.
“Who else do you know? After saying this, you can no longer be seen as an ordinary commoner with no background whatsoever.”
“I know the Arch Mage Sir Cahel Phobian and Mr. Hugo.”
“There are only amazing names coming out.
What are you doing?”
“I am an employee of the Puang Merchants. Now, I am a soldier who volunteered for the battlefield.”
“Blow him twenty times and bring him back to my tent.”
Yuma was hanged from a tree and whipped.
The whipper was the centurion who first shouted for Yuma’s letter of recommendation.
The centurion swung his whip with ambiguous intensity.
The wounds caused by punishment were not deep. The centurion even applied disinfectant directly to Yuma’s back after the beating was over. With the words of good wishes.
Yuma went to Duran’s commander’s tent and talked all night.
* * * A month later, Yuma stood as a centurion at the forefront of the battle for the fall of the capital of the kingdom of Ahmad.
All the soldiers hit by Yuma were assigned as Yuma’s subordinates.
During the rest period, the soldiers served Yuma hospitably in their tents. From the point of view of the common people, Yuma was no different from that high-ranking person.
The armor was used as it was for supply, but the weapon was not a spear that was given to general soldiers, but a sword that fit Yuma’s main specialty.
“You’d better have a sword that uses both hands at the same time.”
It was the bastard sword that Duran had chosen himself.
“All forces forward!”
Duran announced the start of the battle in a loud voice.
His voice was so loud that he could feel the air contort.
Randall had slightly covered his ears beforehand.
Wow!
As soon as the soldiers started running, Ahmad’s final struggles began at the same time.
In fact, it was a battle with an obvious outcome.
The royal family and corrupt nobles of Ahmad Kingdom had already delivered secret letters to Duran. They would surrender as long as their lives and property were preserved.
Of course I refused. Why would they guarantee goods that can be eaten for free with the slightest touch?
Duran added a special prize along with prize money to the supply and demand of the royal family and corrupt nobles of the Ahmad kingdom.
Article recommendation letter.
The soldiers ran frantically towards Ahmad Castle.
Thousands of shouts can be heard from all sides, and the ground shakes after an earthquake.
If I hesitate even for a moment, I feel frustrated that I will be stepped on by my allies advancing like a herd of bison.
If a crazy ally stabs me in the back, I don’t think I’ll be able to argue.
It’s so confusing.
You don’t know when the magic bombardment will fall and die one by one. It is difficult to even check the position of the artillery fire because of the back of the head of the allies.
If you were an ordinary infantryman, it was right to feel that way.
However, even though it was Yuma’s first battle, he accurately grasped the direction and target he was going to run.
Yuma first used her swift speed twice in a row and moved forward in an instant.
The knights in the front row were riding horses.
“Aww!”
Soldiers in the immediate vicinity of Yuma were hit by arrows and rolled on the ground. The soldiers continued to run, stepping on the dead bodies of their allies.
It was because there was a higher chance of survival if you somehow managed to dig near the wall.
Immediately grasping the situation, Yuma picked up a corpse and used it as a shield. Every time an arrow was driven into a corpse, a thumping sound was transmitted.
Soon after, the enemy’s magic bombardment followed.
However, the magic bombardment of the Ahmad kingdom army, which had already lost 80% of its wizard power, was not as good as the rain of arrows.
The knights encamped around the Aura and fired magic bombardments.
pop!
Yuma was also able to offset a single magic bombardment.
Yuma stood next to the bastard sword loaded with the aura and fired a single shot as if hitting a ball.
As the vanguard reached the halfway point, arrows rained down.
Soon after, the gates of Ahmad’s castle opened and the enemy soldiers poured out.
Yuma threw away the corpse and moved holding the bastard with both hands. It was a posture conscious of cavalry.
The enemy’s cavalry was not numerous. Just over two hundred.
The kingdom of Ahmad, already driven to the brink, was no different than sending its troops to die.
The cavalry reached the vanguard.
The intimidation of the cavalry felt by the infantry was enormous. It felt like the cavalrymen were riding not horses, but gigantic monsters.
Enemy cavalry was sweeping through the infantry.
Yuma inferred the movement route of the cavalry and refined the aura of the bastard sword.
“Wow, it stands out the most.”
Yuma’s Bastard Sword, which shone in razor-sharp blue, could be seen by Duran and Randel, who were looking down on the battle situation from the high ground.
“Ahhh!”
Yuma was constantly swinging his bastard sword and paving the way.
Yuma was the only infantryman in the Ahmad Kingdom Army or the Imperial Army who freely used the Dark Blue Sword Aura.
In the first place, Yuma was not a person to participate in the battle as an ordinary infantryman.
Some of the enemy cavalry, which the knights missed, stirred up the infantry. The cavalrymen used their spears and lances to kill the foot soldiers like sausages.
Yuma flung herself into the position of the enemy cavalry.
Shuuk!
As Yuma drew near, an enemy cavalryman brandished a lance and raised his horse’s forefoot. It was to be trampled to death.
Yuma dodged the cavalry’s lance and at the same time rolled forward and used the recoil to swing the sword low.
Hey hey!
The four legs of the horse the cavalryman rode were cut off like a stick.
As the cavalryman fell along with the horse, the rest of the soldiers charged and thrust spears into his neck.
Yuma wiped the blood from the horse on his face with the palm of his hand as he searched for his next target.
“Hey… He’s really cool, isn’t he? Doesn’t it deflect the magic bombardment, or doesn’t it find and catch the cavalry? Why did a guy like that come in as an infantryman?”
Randall said admiringly.
“The goal is only to be the captain of the upper tier escort.”
“yes?”
“I heard what he was doing all night in the tent that day. After hearing it, I was so coveted that I asked him to become my adopted son several times, but he never listened. I have to protect the Puang statue.”
“Why do you make it so complicated?” Anyway, now I’m an enlisted soldier.”
Duran hit Randell on the head twice.
“Those guys can’t do that.
It’s different from weak people like you. That guy is my perfect successor.”
“Can I go down and kill him right now?”
“I’m lucky if you don’t die from attacking Ash.”
“Eh, no matter what, I can’t believe I’ll lose?”
“Until yesterday, I didn’t think money was going to beat you. But look at me now.”
Duran pointed his finger in the direction where Yuma’s bastard sword was shining.
Covered in blood, Yuma mercilessly swung his sword and slashed enemies.
The more each person was cut to pieces, the more Yuma seemed to be searching for the enemy more tenaciously.
Enemy foot soldiers were already moving away from Yuma’s side.
It was as if an invisible boundary had formed near Yuma.
One of the enemy generals who saw this rode on a horse armed with barding and charged at Yuma. It was the longevity that the knights missed while frantically slaughtering the enemy.
The lower the level, the tighter the whole body is wrapped. That was Yuma’s theory.
Most of the strong people Yuma had met since his time as a eunuch wore efficient armor.
‘Courage will be acknowledged.’
Yuma set an example for the enemy commander who did not hesitate to rush after seeing his sword aura.
Physically, it was a bit of a burden, but Yuma jumped up using the swift speed. The enemy commander was brave, but his heart was pierced with a single sword and he was killed in action.
“Do you think that is like a sixteen-year-old boy entering the war for the first time?”
“Well, I don’t think so. That technique is a bit strange.”
“That child is already at a level that even you can’t be sure of. though you are still stronger Anyway, catch him somehow. I need to see the princess when I get back.”
Due to the knights and Yuma’s performance, the enemy’s morale was already completely low.
The troopers were captured without leaving a single chance.
Now it was the turn of the magic bombardment or siege weight to break down the castle gates.
However, Duran’s unit did not have those two.
Because there is Duran.
“Let’s go slowly.”
Duran rode his horse towards Ahmad Castle.
More than the kingdom of Ahmad on the verge of destruction or the remnants of fallen enemies, it was Yuma who kept catching his gaze.
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