Episode 336 Episode
Ill. All-out war (4)
Two more extreme Aura Blades caused cracks in the air. To the approaching demon soldiers, it was no different than a forest made of blades.
The demons, who were swept away by the rift and dropped their limbs, closed their eyes, not knowing why they were dying. It is cut off without being able to avoid the cracks created by Dalida.
Shouts erupted from the ranks of Allied troops watching from afar.
Yuma thought of their fraud and did not show it, but he was not very comfortable.
Maybe it is because the soldiers who are dying now may have been civilians just a short time ago.
‘But I can’t leave him alive just because it’s a pity. It would be nice if I could free the soul after ascending to the throne of the Demon God.’
Randall’s twin swords also glowed with a blue aura, leaving afterimages everywhere among the enemies.
To those who were not high-level unmanned people, Randall’s movement was only visible as something flashing.
Despite swinging the twin swords so swiftly, the enemy’s head was precisely cut off.
Hundreds of demon soldiers have already rushed at them, but no one has been able to even touch the collar of the two.
‘There is no command, and there is no commander. Are those guys waiting inside the pillars that will rise later?’
Currently, there are about 40,000 soldiers in front of Yuma and Randel.
With only two warriors stirring between them, it was unavoidable that the majesty of the number 40,000 would be diminished, but in fact it was a huge army.
The 50,000 troops of Yuma, which can be called the ‘allied forces’ of the East, were.
The scale of the war, which totaled close to 100,000, was, in the first place, one of the few in human history.
It was difficult for Yuma to comprehend Amanzo’s intention to have such a force built without any command. Randel felt the same way.
‘The Demon Soldiers I’ve seen so far either feel fear or have fear, but these soldiers are just like monsters.’
It seemed like he was dealing with an orc rather than a demonic soldier.
His fighting power was somewhat lower than that of the Orcs, but his blind habit of not backing down no matter how much he cut him was like that.
“friend! It’s strange that these don’t have a command. With over 40,000 troops, why are you neglecting it so poorly?”
Randall shouted as he slashed the enemies with a nonchalant face.
Yuma shrugged and came forward and fired a sphere. Dozens of demon soldiers exploded and disappeared without a trace.
“Let’s go through the castle first!”
I didn’t mean that if you go to the castle, you might find out why. It was a story that stemmed from the confidence that the enemy could defeat them no matter what strategy they had prepared.
Yuma came to the place where the sphere exploded and went in with a swift speed.
On top of the round dug ground, Ascalon, whose aura was overlaid and the blade extended several meters, swung.
Sak! As a long horizontal line was drawn in the middle of the battlefield, purple blood splattered. The enemy soldiers in the ranks immediately behind them only charged at them even though they were covered in blood.
It wasn’t strong, but there was a corner that made me lose my hair.
Randall gritted his teeth and took a seat next to Yuma.
It was like a wave-like formation of distant demon soldiers attacking the two. However, the two moved forward without hesitation and swung their swords.
“The high ground is being completed! The spirit troops and the artillery units must be positioned quickly!”
Unlike Yuma, which looked almost like a demonic landscape, soldiers in the ranks of the allied forces at the rear of the battlefield were moving and raising a gentle dust.
Even while the allied forces formed their ranks around the column, the enemy’s new burrows did not spring up.
At that time, the commanders also felt a sense of incongruity.
More than 3,000 of the 40,000 enemy soldiers had already been cut down by these two swords.
In other words, the demon army is meaninglessly consuming their troops.
“Why are they not responding? Isn’t there something different, mutt?”
Natalie asked, grabbing Rakir as he climbed the central hill.
[Kahahak! What can be! Looks like Amanzo is on the defensive! Seeing that I can’t feel the demon lord-class demonic energy at all, it seems that Galos also stabbed that lesser demon god in the back!]
“Lakir-sama, there are very few proper schemers in the demon army, but this seems strange to me too. Even if the total number of enemy troops is 150,000, 40,000 is almost 30%, but they just throw it away.”
[Well, Kihee. It might feel that way from the insignificant gaze of humans. But that’s it. What do you two think of Amanzo?] “Yes?”
Rakir shook his head and continued. This is why talking to yourself
about humans… was a bonus.
[That person is a demon. Do you think the number of soldiers has meaning to the Demon God? He’s testing his master. I want you to go through all of them. To me, it seems like it means that if you can’t do that, it’s not worth fighting directly.]
Rakir, who said that, didn’t look like a cute puppy as usual. It was a voice that harbored the cynicism of a ruler of the underworld.
[While the lord was getting stronger, Amanzo wouldn’t have been playing either.
If it weren’t for the restrictions on intervention, there would have been a gap between Amanjo and the lord that was impossible to fight in the first place. Such is the existence of God.]
“Where does this mutt raise his voice? Why do you seem to be taking Amanjo’s side? Would you like to look around?”
[Kareung! How rude are you for taking Amanzo’s side! I am here because I believe in my lord. If I didn’t believe it, I would have been slaughtering you guys over there girl!] At
least five, at most twenty.
It was the number of Demon Soldiers who lost their lives every time Yuma and Randel swung their swords.
In addition, the blades were drawing a trajectory so fast that only a faint afterimage remained, so more than a hundred enemy soldiers were annihilated in a matter of minutes.
But the number of 40,000 was truly staggering. Although they had already slashed over 3,000 enemies, there was no sign that the two men’s dark vision would be open.
Rather, it felt as if the number of enemy soldiers had increased compared to before.
This is because the density of demon soldiers attacking the two is increasing as time goes on.
Yuma and Randel were advancing little by little, covered in foul-smelling purple blood.
“Oh, there is no end! How long do you have left to the castle?”
It must be a while! It looks like the hills have been erected, so the shelling is about to begin!”
“I’ll catch my breath.”
The artillerymen and spiritists went up to the hill and were measuring the position of the artillery fire.
At the command of the commanders, the muzzles of the gunnerys moved back and forth.
Fortunately, it was not difficult to determine the firing position as Yuma and Randall were moving in only one direction.
“Waiting for bombardment!”
“Waiting for bombardment!”
Located on the central hill, Prince Ilan raised a red flag high.
The commanders of the hills far away to the left and right saw him and raised their flags alike.
Elementalists were to strengthen the bombardment rather than a direct attack.
The summoned lower-intermediate and lower-level spirits began to gather the wind behind the magic bombardment machine.
“Shoot!”
Illen shouted, dropping the red flag vigorously.
At the same time as the gunners spewed fire, the wind that had accumulated in the air was released and accelerated the shells.
100 accelerated shells drew sharp oblique lines in the sky and rained down on the enemy soldiers like meteors.
Kurur…!
Wherever the shells landed, smoke rose.
From Yuma and Randell’s position, no cannons could be seen falling, so they had to guess the firing position by sound alone.
[Kahak! Human firepower is insignificant. I’ll show you what a proper bombardment is!]
Rakir shouted, stretching Quitel forward. As I began to chant incantations in the language of the underworld, the common mana gathered at the end of Quitel.
It was the black magic of the underworld.
[Master! Come on!]
The next moment, the allied camp was shocked to see the black ray written by Rakir.
A thick beam that would never fall even compared to a tolerable Dragon Breath struck the middle of the battlefield.
More than a thousand enemy soldiers were oxidized in that single attack. It was noticeable that the number had decreased. Natalie couldn’t close her gaping mouth.
Thanks to Quitel’s magical power, it was a firepower that was possible because it was slightly out of the intervention limit.
Of course, even with Quitel’s help, it was not possible to fire this kind of magic continuously.
“Crazy…. That mongrel dog is the demon king.”
[Khahaha! shoot! Keep shooting!
You humans!]
The bombardment continued without a break.
In the meantime, Yuma and Randel were able to get quite close to Rimt Castle. Although they were not visibly tired, their breath was hotter than when they first entered the battlefield.
“Sir Randall! Aren’t their burrows coming up in the back?”
“doesn’t exist! Slowly opening the way for the foot soldiers… no, wait.
What is that!”
Randel, who had been wildly swinging his twin swords, suddenly stopped and looked behind him.
There was a distance of about 3 kilometers between Yuma, Randel, and the allied forces. And in between, there was only a desolate plain without a single blade of grass.
But the middle of the plain suddenly turned upside down. No, to be precise, the den of demons that Yuma and Randel were waiting for rose up.
Oysters the same size as a single mountain.
It was incomparably gigantic compared to the oysters I had seen before Niackle or Lagatino.
“Friend Chi. I guess our calculations… got it wrong. The things that are pouring right now from there.”
“They are all demon soldiers.”
Yuma was also quite shocked.
The largest enemy army Yuma thought was 200,000. Even that was a deliberately high figure that the bookmakers had rated as less than 150,000.
Therefore, there had to be no more than thirteen or four burrows of demons that would rise from the plains. Such an absurdly large cave should not rise.
‘How many soldiers are coming out…?’
It couldn’t even be measured. Like bees pouring out of a beehive, black soldiers were constantly jumping out of the huge burrow that had risen.
From Kuzan to this place, Yuma has been marching while watching 50,000 troops every day.
In other words, he knew exactly how large the 50,000 soldiers were when they were united and when they were scattered, and how far away they needed to be to capture them at a glance.
However, the enemy forces pouring out of the ‘dungeon that has just risen’ could not be contained in Yuma’s field of vision.
“Friend, I’m trying to laugh because I’m so stupid right now. It’s not on the scale of 50,000 or 100,000 to 150,000.”
The number of Demon Soldiers coming out of the cave was 1 million. More than 70% of all civilians living in the western mountains became soldiers.
“That’s why they used 40,000 troops as bait…”
“Unless a miracle happens, it will be difficult to return alive. If I want to be able to see Katherine’s face after I die, I must save my friend from now on.”
“What do you mean you are weaker than me? Be alert, because this time you will have to break through 1 million, not 40,000.”
Yuma, who had been looking at the cave, turned around and looked at the top of Rimt Castle for a while.
Amanzo was looking down at Yuma from the highest seat of Rimt Castle.
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