Episode 148 Timon, a soldier from the Duchy of Douglas, thought of himself as a person with strong bad luck.
Even when all his brothers died in an epidemic that struck the village, he survived, and when he got a job as a porter for a merchant, he encountered bandits and survived alone even when the merchant was wiped out.
And even though the civil war broke out and he became a soldier, he remained in the territory as one of the few troops guarding the rear territory.
Given the life I had lived, I could not help but think that I had strong bad luck.
I also thought that the recent events were an extension of that.
When I was sent to the front line to make up for the shortage of soldiers, I thought the sky was falling, but soon an announcement was made that the war would be stopped and that we were going to occupy a village.
We did not listen to the self-deprecating comments of some who said that the real war was only postponed for a while and that another small war was created in the meantime.
Most of the soldiers, including him, thought that it was much better to go to a war where victory was certain than to go to a war where they might die at any moment.
And if you happen to make a notable contribution in that ‘easy war’, you might end up falling behind in the real war that will follow.
With that in mind, Timon bravely rushed from behind the knights.
However, the aspect of the war that actually took place was completely different from his thoughts.
Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
When the sky seems to turn completely black with a sharp sound.
“Aaaahhh!”
Soon, with a loud scream, the colleagues who were ahead collapsed as a group.
If reliable knights are advancing among such colleagues, shooting down a rain of arrows.
Kwaaaaang!
A fireball fell from somewhere, turning a few meters in radius red and creating a loud explosion.
“Kwaaaaaaaa!”
Timon couldn’t take his eyes off the sight of the knight in front of him, his entire body turning into a ball of fire.
‘What is this? ‘That’s a different story!’
Our army was collapsing more horribly than any war he had ever heard of.
And soon, pitch-black rain of death began to fall before his eyes.
“You said it was easy! You bastard said it was an easy war…!!”
Before I could even vent all my anger, which I didn’t even know who I was venting to.
Pabababak.
Timon’s body, now transformed into a hedgehog, fell down on the spot, helpless.
Timon’s bad luck was of no use in a real war.
“What the hell is going on!!”
Jordan Waltermime, who was watching the enemy’s reaction with a relaxed expression behind the friendly forces advancing toward Saturn, became distorted.
Looking at the shower of quarrels, the number of enemy soldiers crouching inside was more than 78,000 at best….
As soon as I thought that, I saw a considerable number of quarrels pouring down on the 1st prince’s army who had returned to the south.
“Aaaah!”
Although they are now together, their screams sounded unpleasant even though they were actually rivals.
‘No, there are a lot more. There are well over 10,000 people. How on earth did this happen?’
I was embarrassed, but I couldn’t defeat the military in the current situation.
“Luther! Clear the way! Find out how many people are hiding!”
“…All right.”
At Jordan Waltermime’s shout, a huge superman began to move.
As if the 1st Prince Army had similar thoughts, a superhuman with pure white wind was seen rushing towards Saturn from the south.
“come!!”
The enemy knights hesitated under the barrage of crossbows and Liberatio’s baptism.
But after that, the two figures approaching like a gale caught the attention of McLane’s troops.
When they got close to the walls.
‘Hook?’
Logan felt an unusual wave of energy from the nearby castle wall and moved towards it like lightning.
Soon, the golden snake-like force blade stretched out into the air, drawing a space where nothing could be seen.
Paaaaaaaa!
A powerful sound exploded in the empty air, and at the same time, white cold air spread and frost settled on part of the castle wall.
“Ugh, it’s cold!”
“What?!”
“It’s magic! Get back!”
While some of the soldiers hesitated in surprise, Logan turned his gaze to stare at a place more than a kilometer away.
If I hadn’t responded just now, dozens of people would have died just from the magic I did just now.
‘On that street…! Damn mage.’
But this was not the time to just leisurely swear.
Logan had no choice but to move his body frantically as he felt the strong mana wave again.
In that situation.
“Logan!!”
I turned around at the sound of a scream, and before I knew it, I saw a white beam of light shooting out like lightning from under the southern wall.
“Damn it!”
The moment Logan saw that, he gave up trying to block Juan Douglas’ magic.
‘No matter how much a mage he is, he won’t be able to keep using magic like this without preparation.’
Trusting only that, Logan swung his sword with all his might towards the superhuman who soared with white wind swirling beneath his feet.
Kwaaaaang!
Wicken Callia smiled coldly as she looked at the golden Force Blade that dared to block her.
The guy who brought humiliation to me a month ago.
It was the perfect opportunity to avenge that humiliation.
‘I’ll kill you!’
Wicken struck the golden force blade with all his might in the air.
Kwaaaaang!
However, the refreshing blow of the sword only caused the guy to be pushed away.
The guy’s face turned slightly pale, but it didn’t look like he had collapsed with blood gushing out or suffered major internal injuries that shook the very foundation of the Force, as he had expected.
‘Huh?’
Because it was a sword thrown without much energy left, Wicken was unable to understand the situation even though he was temporarily pushed down by the shock.
If the Aura was not a power of the same level as the Power of Destruction, it was natural for the lower energy to lose the meaning of existence and collapse in front of the auspicious beam of light.
It’s not a matter of the size of the energy, but of its essence.
Moreover, with his power, even if he wielded a force blade instead of an auror, it should be difficult for a top-level knight to withstand it, so how?
“go away!”
Unexpectedly, the guy actually shortened the distance and swung his sword again.
He could have avoided it and attacked the guy by using one of his skills, stepping on the air, but he had an error.
‘It must have been used as an artifact.’
And it was absolutely impossible to use artifacts in succession that would offset the impact left by the Aurors.
Even if one had several such artifacts, the body of the person involved would not be able to withstand it unless he or she was a superhuman.
With that confidence, Wicken focused his pure white wind aura again and struck the guy’s sword.
however.
Quaaaaaaaaa!
The expression he wanted did not appear anywhere on the guy’s face as he was thrown back again.
Just a slightly pale complexion.
‘It’s not an artifact? How on earth…?’
A situation so embarrassing that it made you forget you were in a battle.
Wicken Callia, who was falling helplessly down, was so surprised that he forgot to control the wind for a few seconds.
And before he knew it, a huge golden sword rising tens of meters in size fell upon his head.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanncasty!!
The biggest binge since the battle began.
On the castle wall, where all eyes on the battlefield were focused, Logan took a deep breath with a pale complexion.
“Huh. It shouldn’t be like this either.”
The lower part of the castle wall where his gaze was directed.
Wicken Kalia, who suddenly fell into the moat and looked like a drowned rat, was glaring at him with scary eyes.
Seeing that the enemy was clearly confused, he struck a fatal blow, but there were no visible injuries.
But rather than despairing, Logan smiled.
The characteristic of the Auror that I was most worried about was successfully blocked.
Moreover.
“Wow!”
The shouts of our allies suddenly erupted.
When Logan glanced back, he saw a half-giant staggering around with arrows stuck all over his body among the shouting soldiers.
‘oh my god!’
Clayton’s words came to mind when I saw Luther Kyle stumbling around like a target for arrows, unlike Wicken Callia, who had no wounds.
The characteristics of the 6th circle magic that he was able to use, Gravity Control.
– Perhaps the larger and heavier the body, the stronger the effect of this spell. So, if I were the half-giant Luther Kyle Marquis, I would definitely…
When a smile naturally appeared on Logan’s lips.
Most of the gaze of the factional coalition forces was focused on the staggering superhuman.
Because it was a shocking sight that no one could have imagined.
“Keep shooting! Kill the superhuman!”
With Padric’s voice heard from afar, an overwhelming barrage of supplies aimed at the half-giant poured in.
Luther Kyle, who kept stumbling backwards, looked shabby and did not match his powerful body.
‘I want to put an end to it.’
Logan couldn’t put his thoughts into action right away because of the sight of another superhuman glaring right below him.
And soon.
“Retreat! Retreat!”
Is it because of unexpected damage? Is it because of the incredible defeat of a superhuman?
The Allied forces began to retreat in an instant.
“What do you think? You guys!”
“I won!”
“No matter how many people come, I can’t stand it!”
Starting with the middle-aged men of the vigilante group shouting with bravado.
“Wow!”
All of the McLane forces within the Aegis let out a shout of victory.
Even without looking back, he clearly felt that the worried gazes he felt behind him had changed into sighs of relief.
Wicken Calia, who frowned at the smile on Logan’s face, did not rush back and turned toward the main base as ordered.
Only then did Logan’s eyes catch the sight of the enemy army, which was mostly far away.
Clearly well-trained.
But Logan just looked at that with a carefree expression.
‘First of all, I blocked it once. And if you’ve done it once, it’s not difficult to do it twice.’
I didn’t think I needed to use any precautions for the worst case scenario yet.
It felt like the light of hope grew a little bigger.
* * *
“Does this make sense!!”
No one objected to the booming voice.
This is because the entire command staff was in a state of confusion.
Not a single one of them could think of giving conscripts weapons and training to fight even knights.
“Calm down, Sir. But what is certain is that our forces are still superior. Don’t fret, just attack thoroughly and root out those bastards.”
While everyone was hesitating, Lutzen Talos managed to calm Jordan down by giving a straight argument.
“Ugh. That’s obvious. Huh. What is the specific strategy?”
“If you simply want to destroy McLane, there is a way to leave the 1st Prince’s army behind and take a detour to the north to destroy the town that is their center. But this is….” “
What difference is there in destroying the lowlifes? “All the people we need to catch will be over there.”
“…I thought you would say that.”
“That brat, the lord of McLane, and the mage who probably developed that bomb are all over there. I will rip the guy who played a trick on me to death and capture the person who knows the secret of that new weapon. And make sure to do it before Juan!”
bang!
The table that Jordan hit shattered with a loud noise.
“That is the ultimate goal of this war. McLane’s land mass isn’t the problem. Because our real enemies are not those arrogant bastards!”
Red eyes blazing on the broken table.
Luchen Talos nodded, looking at the ambition filled with them.
“Yes. The real enemies are the 1st Prince and Duke Juan Douglas.”
“Yes. So, you need to re-establish your strategy accordingly. So that we can achieve our goal with as little loss as possible than those guys.”
“… I understand.”
Lucen Talos answered, swallowing down many of the words he wanted to say.
“This is a war you will win anyway, and what you will gain is the weapons rather than the land. Tell Juan. Since Luther is injured like this, we will deal with that wizard.”
“…I won’t accept it.”
“I’m just saying it first. Just in case something happens. If it’s a recipe, there’s a high chance that the lord or that brat also knows.”
Jordan thought of the red-eyed brat who was suspicious of him for hiding such a huge army.
“And while I’m talking, tell them that brat is mine too. By all means! ”
“…Yes.”
He probably wouldn’t accept it.
Luchen Talos didn’t bother to say out loud the fact that even the duke in front of him knew.
