Chapter. 16. Saints and Perfectors (8)
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A spacious but humid and stuffy tent.
Horses symbolizing each unit were placed on a large map, and those who appeared to be knights had a heated discussion without even taking off their armor, but when we appeared, they fell silent as if they had made a promise.
“Lord Agath. Could it be that he…?”
“It will be the one you know. This is Professor Saint of the Gwangmyeong Church. “You arrived in Roderick this morning with supplies.”
Jump up!
“I believed that the Holy Son would come with us! Because he came down from heaven!”
“Thank you for coming! “I’m Siran Kalad, the Castle Knight!”
“Let’s say hello later. I have something to talk with the saint for a moment, so I would like you to leave the room. “At this point, you guys, please get some rest.”
“But-”
“It’s an order. Or were you given the status and authority to intervene in the conversation between the Saint of the Church of Light and Commander Roderick?”
“…I’ll wait outside.”
At Charlotte’s frost-like voice, the knights saluted like swords and ran out of the barracks.
As Charlotte took her seat, one of the drivers who had just left left the tea in front of me and the soup and bread in front of her and stepped away.
“…It’s not food worthy of serving to a saint.”
“If a priest skips meals on the battlefield because he is frugal, I will hang him. I also skipped breakfast, so let’s talk while eating together. hey-! “If there’s a paladin outside, bring me some food too!”
“yes!!! “Receiving the Holy Word and giving the highest sacrament-”
“I knew these bastards would be like this. I told you to stop messing around with me and go help the priests! Please uphold that prophecy! No need for an escort! go! “Just go!”
“I will take the bar!”
I called just in case, and it was just as expected. It seemed like they didn’t do the purification work to make sure the footsteps weren’t from just one person and were assigned as my escort.
Not long after, a paladin came running towards me, putting down soup and bread full of ingredients and leaving, and Charlotte’s laughing voice came in front of me as I sighed.
“You have a loyal subordinate.”
“What is loyalty? “Even if you bring in the entire Holy Knights and say that you don’t need an escort, even if you say that you can’t escort me, I won’t listen to you.”
“Hehehe. Even though our actions are different, our intentions are the same. “You can tell that they respect you just by looking at their envious eyes.”
“Shit. Let’s say yes. “Oh, what’s on the table right now is the situation board, right?”
“Yes. “The square piece is your friend, and the round piece is your enemy.”
The horses the knights had been moving on just moments ago were scattered quite chaotically on the map, but there was no difficulty in grasping the general shape of the battle lines.
“…Is this real?”
“…Let’s eat first and talk. “The raids are so irregular that you have to fill your stomach when you can.”
“No, it’s not like you’re going to skip the meal right now! Why is this happening! Some idiot made a mess of wires! They said they were winning! They say we are winning! “It wasn’t just a story, it was even stated that way in the church’s official information!”
“…So you said let’s eat and eat.”
When I saw Charlotte turning her head and eating the soup as if she didn’t want to look, I understood why she said that.
Roderick’s map full of all kinds of symbols and words.
Looking at the friendly army’s battle line depicted above made me lose my appetite.
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Tak. widely. widely. widely.
“This circular pillar represents the central chamber of the enemy offensive.”
“aggressive? “Not defense?”
“I’ll give you a detailed explanation after I’m done. And like this – the enemies are divided into the Western Front and the King’s Land, centered around the Chamber Maid. This is the front line from about two months ago.”
Charlotte moved her horses without any hesitation, as she was aware of the battle situation not only here in Roderick but also in other regions.
“…Not bad?”
“It’s not bad. In reality, the war situation at the time was quite hopeful. Named attacks, which appeared frequently and inflicted devastating damage on the friendly forces, were reduced to less than half, and in addition to the Named, the elite Mute unit, known as the Blue Mantis Front Breaker, etc., also became less active, allowing the friendly forces to recover the lost territory and deal with the damage that had brought them to the brink of destruction. “I recovered and achieved success, including killing several enemy chamber maids.”
A good picture for anyone to see. By fortifying around the castle, the exchange rate between the enemy and allies was increased, and as the enemy’s elites became scarce, the friendly hero units that had some free time were turned to the infiltration team to take the head of the chamber maid, the top priority target. It was a situation where if we fixed the front line like this and raised the defense with the support of troops from the empire and advanced slowly, we could safely make additional gains…
Tak. widely. Sigh. Sigh –
As the words continued, both Charlotte’s and mine had expressions as if they had encountered something disgusting.
“I’m so shocked that I’m not even sure if I saw it properly. “It was real.”
Our troops, who had built a strong garrison between the castles and were connected by a thick defense line between the western front and Roderick, suddenly lined up toward the eastern side of Roderick and were sitting in a long line like a crane-winged formation. As the defense line became longer, the troops supporting each element became thinner, the outpost connecting the castle and the castle fell, the supply route was cut off, support for allies became difficult, and the place was completely isolated as a chamber maid was stuck between the castle and the wall. There was also.
The friendly formation, which had maintained artistic balance through perfect distribution and positioning, was transformed into a long, thin, multi-faceted battle line with some areas idle and others dying. The supply system, which had been steadily delivering to other castles when supply was only sent in two directions, the Western Front and Kingsland, was split to send supplies to various parts of the extended front, and then was attacked and completely cut off – this is the current situation.
“He’s a spy.”
“….professor.”
“He must be a spy! That guy is there! Skin Crowler, Insomnia Crab, etc. A guy who preys on people and manipulates them! There is no way an order like that could have come from the mouth of an ally! “I have to send heresy inquisitors right away and wipe out all those bastards!”
“I am not a spy, nor am I being manipulated. “Zigis Palem, the commander of the Teldrat Support Forces, drafted the ‘siege and annihilation’ operation with a very clear and sane mind, and gave the order with the consent of more than a majority of the commanders present at the meeting.”
“Then that means they are all spies! There’s a very grown-up guy over there called Falcatus, but at least he didn’t know what it was-”
“Professor. All commanders, including me, are regularly examined by priests of each denomination. Mute, the descendant of the evil god, cannot avoid their eyes.”
“Then why did you vote for such a fucking idiotic operation! “If I had studied as a rural vigilante for just one month, I wouldn’t have done something like that idiot!”
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
have to calm down, but the rumor that a saint has come down from a flying ship immediately brings some life back to the eyes of the soldiers who looked like dead fish, but as soon as the saint comes, they repeatedly scream, ‘You’re screwed!’ and the floor falls. Your morale will plummet to the bottom! I was trying to create a calm and hopeful appearance!
‘This… is catastrophically wrong!’
In just a few months, a healthy front line turned into a critically ill patient who was hit by a 5-ton truck at full speed. Damn it! Damn it!
‘Two months. No, it started to work properly after a month. ‘One month is exactly the amount of time I moved in the desert.’
What makes me even more upset is that it was a situation I could have easily prevented.
After finishing my work in the Empire, I chose the direction of progress on the hot air balloon in Astrad. Should I go to the Eastern Great Desert or go straight to Roderick?
I chose the Great Eastern Desert, and thanks to that, I killed Falcatus, killed enemy elites, and obtained special A+++ strategic weapons called GG’s Truth and Oil Mage – but thanks to that,
Roderick, who was another option, scored an own-goal hat-trick that will go down in history. I did it.
widely. widely. widely. widely.
After reading the charter, I can roughly understand what he was thinking.
Looking at the overall battle situation from a few months ago, our army’s round and thick formation was in the shape of blocking the enemy’s brunt of the attack, centered around the chamber maid. It is as if the left and right wings could reach the enemy’s tail if the friendly formation were extended a little to the right and advanced forward.
If you look at its shape, it really looks like a sample of basic hammer and anvil tactics. In terms of defense, the idea was that if the world’s top-class Castle Knight and Roderick’s excellent knight power were the center and held the enemy tightly, the western front and the newly expanded eastern formation would form two wings to surround the enemy with mobility and fight them off.
The problem is that the chamber maid, the backbone of the enemy’s offensive, has completely different properties from the fortress, the center of our troops.
‘It’s not just a building. From there, troops come out and nutrients are absorbed! Chamber Maid itself is an all-in-one pack that provides supplies and reinforcements! ‘If you siege a human castle, it will dry up and die because you will be cut off from supplies and support, but those bastards have nothing to gain by besieging it!’
Let’s say the siege is like that. If you spread the front line thin and wide like that, it would be better to concentrate your troops on both the left and right wings and take losses with the determination that today is the day of destruction! It should have been crushed in a short battle while Kingsland, which acts as an anvil, supported it!
As damage accumulated while the wires were being stretched, I thought, ‘Oh, isn’t this it?’ So I gave the troops from both wings who should have been hammers and sent them down to the front lines where they were exploding. This is what they say, thanks to the fact that they created a thin, wide, meaningless siege net that didn’t do anything, and this whole mess came about.
It is said that the hero units that protected Kingsland were also called in for the operation and were all scattered. So, the capital of Shiva’s strong kingdom of knights was destroyed like this.
Wow…. I’m completely amazed.
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– takealook: Renya Mudaguchi, who is in the underworld, will do somersaults, saying that he has finally met a famous commander who can compare to him.
– Jokass: This means that if you came to Roderick, you would have to deal with all the named and elite troops who should have died in the desert instead of getting allies like an iron fortress that included imperial troops. Which one was more beneficial?
– professor: …. Look for Teldrat Commander-in-Chief ‘Zigis Palem’ in the community. Is it listed on the list of nobles in the 3rd world?
– Jokass: There is.
– professor: How much of an idiot are you? What are your weaknesses? What is the size of the family or territory?
– Jokass: That… is a bit strange? Palem family. Duke Gaju, one of the contributors to the founding of Teldrat. It is a territory with one of the few highlands in Teldrat, and thanks to the environment where cold and hot air intersect, it has become wealthy by cultivating medicinal crops. And… I heard he has good hair?
– professor: What bullshit. Renewal How can Mudaguchi be so smart?
– Heungan Mandu: It’s real. He’s a pretty well-known guy, and although he’s weak as hell, it’s clear that he’s resourceful. It’s not just one or two people, it’s the majority of the reviews.
– professor: By the way, is that credible information? Isn’t there more than one or two things that have been picked up and moved to the community?
– Heungan Mandu: Certain. Uh… Anyway, I’m sure. One hundred percent.
– professor: What is that ambiguous attitude?
– Jokass: Find out later. Anyway, definitely. I also guarantee it.
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The source of the information is questionable, but since they all say it is correct, it means that our renewal Mr. Mudaguchi is a surprisingly smart and capable commander.
As the priest checks regularly, the possibility that he is a spy with bugs in his brain is ruled out.
It is absurd to say that a smart asshole would come up with a more beautiful strategy than a blind man scribbling on a map.
“…This fucking bastard?”
It means that it was done that way on purpose.
The battlefield was limited to Roderick without expansion through quick response and coalition.
Prolonged war.
And the situation has become so dominant that the intelligence agencies of each country say, ‘We can see victory.’
Roderick lost all his impending victory and national power and became famous.
“…Who is the commander of the Allied Forces who approved?”
“Zigis Palem, commander of the Teldrat reinforcements. Free Trade Coalition Commander Duer Fel. All commanders of nearby small countries centered around two commanders. Each denomination abstained.”
“Actually, all the commanders except the church. Ha, noble bastards, really…!”
All the information pointed to one conclusion.
In essence, a country’s activities place its own interests above all else.
At first, when Roderick’s territory was being breached, they thought it would be hot and sent reinforcements, but for over a year and a half, the battle took place only within Roderick, and even as information circulated that ‘victory had been secured,’ they began to slowly extend their back pockets toward Roderick.
“I blocked it well… but I blocked it too well….”
When I look at old gossip or news, I sometimes see people who are much more educated and smarter than me, doing idiotic things to the world. Could it be that those people were really so stupid that they did something like that? If we go around and find out the inside story, the result of such idiotic behavior is that the benefit he was pursuing arises outside of our field of vision, so he does it despite the embarrassment.
The antics of Teldrat Commander Zigis Palem are also in that context. Now that the end of the war is in sight, we are beginning to settle down.
I looked at the terminal symbolizing each long line of wires. All reinforcements from Teldrat were deployed to the front lines adjacent to Teldrat, and reinforcements from the Free Trade Alliance were stationed in the lands adjacent to the Free Trade Alliance.
When the war ends and the human era returns, the devastated land will be restored. At that time, they did not spare any support both materially and spiritually, and they planned to rebuild the village, relocate people to the empty land, and not move away from that land.
protest? Where would the fallen Roderick royal family, who sold everything they had, have the power to protest? There is no United Nations in this era.
“Oh, it’s niggling. Oh my goodness. “Aristocratic bastards are really disgusting.”
“I made it clear, but I said we would talk after we finished eating.”
Charlotte said, looking at the bowl of soup that I had put away because I couldn’t get it down my throat.
“First of all, it is several times more difficult to restore the already stretched wires. “Mutes have already been in place for a long time, and if the combination is wrong, there is a high possibility that the already thin wires will become even thinner and areas will be wiped out.”
“I guess so. “Because cleaning up poop is several times more difficult and dirty than actually pooping.”
widely. widely. widely. Tap….
Roderick’s words, settled in Kingsland under deepening worries, tapped on the map for several minutes.
The professor jumped up from his seat, putting those words into his arms.
“let’s go.”
“Where do you mean you’re going?”
“Where are you?” This is where His Majesty King Siod IV resides. In the first place, why is the knight commander abandoning that perfectly fine castle and digging up plans in this smelly and humid barracks?”
“…Your Highness is very afraid of the smell of blood.”
“…Rodrik’s King of Knights?”
“He lost both his brother and father in front of his eyes at a young age. “It’s not something you have to look at with colored glasses.”
“No… ha, well, let’s say so. Anyway, let’s go. “Here, I will cure His Majesty the King’s fear of blood with the mysterious and mysterious divinity of the Holy Son.”
No matter how much I thought about it, there was no way to overcome this situation other than him.
‘Anyway, the battlefield is Roderick. Roderick suffered the most damage. Roderick is also located at the center of the battle line. When the king starts speaking, he cannot not have a say!’
We need to coax him and somehow make him a king who commands the battlefield and is at least half of the half of Gainax.
If I don’t come out on my own, I have to destroy the castle I’m stuck in.
Other than that, I couldn’t see any way to overcome this situation.
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