208 It took two weeks for the Hwamaek Line army to reach Zahid Castle, the center of the rebellion.
No matter how many other punitive forces are scattered throughout the country, the nominal main force is McLane.
Although sporadic attacks were expected, the advance route was quiet.
‘Are we going to launch an all-out war in one place? ‘Do you think that will happen?’
Only after arriving at Zahid Castle was Logan able to clearly answer that question.
I discovered familiar weapons, firing crossbows, lined up densely on the wide castle wall.
“Is this how it comes back…”
It was distributed to strengthen the power of the kingdom.
“It has already been released throughout the kingdom. But I didn’t know it would have ended up in the hands of the rebels.”
Viktor, who had begun to take on the role of adjutant after returning from the Empire, answered Logan’s lament.
“You said that the one who appears to be a knight seems to be over 500, and did you say there is also a top rank?”
“Yes. There are three confirmed ones.”
“Could there be more?”
“I’m just telling you this just in case. The last reported number of soldiers exceeded 10,000.”
“Well, that doesn’t matter, right?”
“yes.”
Logan also smiled at Viktor’s confident answer and stepped to the front of the line.
Then he let out a roar that resounded throughout the battlefield.
“Rebels in the castle, listen!”
The eyes of everyone on the battlefield, both friendly and enemy, focused on Logan.
“Those who serve the descendants of old tyrants will be executed, including their entire families! Anyone who does not want to die, put down your weapons and surrender now! I will personally guarantee leniency!”
A word that encourages surrender.
“Of course, the nobles who incited Clavis and created this situation will be executed without leniency. Don’t listen to those who will die anyway and put down your weapons. If you surrender, you can live!”
Voices openly aiming to cause chaos among the soldiers created commotion throughout Zahid Castle.
And then.
“Don’t be ridiculous!”
This person appears on top of the castle wall and shouts at them.
“Who would believe the words of a slayer who killed even the royal family members who had nothing to do with the war? Logan McLane, you are a tyrant!”
His voice silenced the commotion in Zahid Castle.
“We will not stop fighting to escape from the tyrant’s rule and reclaim His Majesty Clevis’ proper rights!”
“Wow!”
As soon as the middle-aged man with blue hair that contrasted with Logan finished speaking, the soldiers’ cheers rang out.
Logan looked into the guy’s brown eyes from a distance of several hundred meters and smiled coldly.
‘It’s him. A top-class knight who first appeared in the rebel army.’
Although they were not as good as superhumans, the value of top-class knights in Grandia, which was not even an empire, was significant.
And most of them were well-known under wealthy lords or noble families.
‘But then that guy suddenly jumped out next to Clavis.’
At least that guy probably knows what’s behind this situation.
“Let’s eradicate the tyrant Logan McLane, who is disrupting the country by setting up a puppet king, here today!”
Eat.
Logan listened to the guy’s provocation and pulled out his sword and raised it in the sky.
“Those who surrender will live, and those who resist will die. I will show you the power of the tyrant you speak of!”
A voice filled with overwhelming force echoed throughout the battlefield.
“I’ll crush you!!”
The moment when the tip of Logan’s sword points towards the castle.
From the center of McLane’s camp, stones glowing red flew into the castle walls.
‘your majesty. If you thought I would suffer greatly from the rebels since McLane’s elite is missing, you are sorely mistaken.’
Logan smiled as he looked at Liberatio, who had begun to lay waste to the castle walls.
McLane’s weapons used in the civil war were already well-known throughout the kingdom.
Because they were weapons that ordinary people could use to injure knights and wizards.
Among those interested in strategy or tactics, there were those who said that McLane’s weapon would be an indicator that would change the history of warfare on the continent.
However, most people’s attention was focused on the ‘powerful’ knights of McLane and the ‘non-superhuman’ Logan McLane, who defeated Jordan Walter Maim.
Adding to that, there’s Clayton, the mage.
Knights, heroes and wizards.
The culture that has been built up over a thousand years has unconsciously drawn attention to them.
Moreover, after the civil war, this trend became more severe when Logan began distributing repeating crossbows throughout the country.
Because weapons that anyone could have no longer seemed special.
In addition, the second weapon, Liberatio, was not distributed externally in the first place under the false excuse that the necessary materials were scarce and production was low. In addition, there was an assessment that it was less effective in sieges or melees due to its limited range.
Of course, as it has already been a year since the civil war ended, improvements have been made smaller and lighter than before. However, it was impossible to escape its inherent limitations.
However, McLane had talents who could utilize it on a completely different level.
That’s it.
The huge golem, which was about 3 meters tall, had an unusually thick right arm.
The thick right arm picked up several blue stones from the cart and swung them at the exact angle toward the castle wall.
The throwing was an action that accurately calculated the pressure the stones would receive while flying, and the red-hot stones immediately hit the soldiers on the castle wall.
Kwaaaang!
bang! Quang! bang!
“Ugh!”
“What is this!”
“Save me!”
A deformed golem that throws three bombs at a time at a precise location.
There was a person who could move as many as 50 such golems.
“Clayton, you are amazing too.”
“Haha. The combination of the improved Liberatio and my Golem Army will be better than five or six most mages.”
Clayton responded to Logan’s compliment with a proud expression.
There were a few beads of sweat on my forehead as I was controlling the golem, but as long as the golem didn’t break when hit, this was just light exercise.
Moreover, the staff-shaped artifact currently in his hand, Kelahan’s Staff, is an artifact that absolutely assists in the operation of Mana force, not Mana.
It was once Juan Douglas’s favorite artifact, the greatest artifact.
“It definitely has the firepower of five or six mages. That’s because it costs a bit of money.”
Compared to Scroll, it is ridiculously cost-effective, but Liberatio also costs a lot of money.
If Dwayne saw his liberatio being reduced to nothing in real time, it would be hard on his heart.
But Clayton was smiling.
“What do you think? It’s worth it.”
As he boasted about how great the feast of destruction he had created, there was not even a trace of the peace-loving wizard he once was.
As for Logan, he felt a little guilty because he seemed to have corrupted a good wizard.
‘Because it’s necessary.’
There was value in this sight to the point where I thought it was okay.
“Because there are those kids there too.”
Following Clayton’s gaze, I saw his students each moving a golem.
As the Golem Tower grew into McLane’s symbolic tower, dozens of apprentice wizards were created, but so far, only the existing disciples were worthy of being sent into battle.
But they were enough.
Especially Greek and Enan Truth. Their golems, now wizards of Circle 4 and 3, were much larger and more powerful than Clayton’s golems.
In particular, the Greek golem seemed to have modified both arms for throwing, picking up 4 to 5 liberatios with each hand and throwing them accurately at one point.
Wow!
“Aaaah!”
One attack is almost equivalent to a 4-circle fire spell.
But the one who stood out the most was Victoria, who was now starting to look more like a lady, but was still a young teenager.
‘After all, geniuses are different.’
She was holding Atlan’s staff and moving ten 2m-sized golems at the same time.
Unlike the golems of the executioners, they were only throwing Liberatio one by one, but manipulating ten golems so that they could precisely hit the target on the castle wall at the same time seemed much more difficult, even to someone unfamiliar with magic.
“her…!”
As Logan stared blankly in admiration, Victor, with a proud expression, joined in and boasted about his younger brother.
“Lia has already achieved the 4th circle not long ago. Moreover, her application and mana control abilities are said to be even higher. Clayton is so proud that she is a genius who will go down in history.”
“I heard that too, you bastard.”
Although it was criticized, it was something worth bragging about.
A 4th circle wizard at just 16 years old.
Maybe, no, he was definitely a talented person who would become another mage.
Logan felt reassured again and turned his gaze back to the battlefield.
On top of the castle wall, which was already in chaos due to the golems’ magic bomb bombing.
‘Half of Liberatio’s supply has already been used. ‘This is enough.’ In
an instant, about half of the Liberatios carried on dozens of carts collapsed.
It was only natural that the golem army was consuming close to 200 pieces just by throwing it once.
In return, the soldiers on the castle wall could not even dare to raise their heads again and only screamed, and the enemy’s elites all hid inside the castle wall.
‘There is no need to waste any more supplies.’
Now is the time to finish it off.
“Lord Luther!”
“I was already waiting!”
Luther Kyle, who had been holding his favorite bottle for a while, answered in a loud voice.
“Let’s break down the castle gate first.”
“Okay. Then I…”
“No, I’ll go first.”
“ha ha ha. Yes, willingly.”
Luthor, guessing what Logan was thinking, naturally took a step back.
And then,
“If you can stop it, try to stop it!”
Logan, engulfed in golden light, roared with a booming voice that even drowned out the sound of Liberatio’s explosion. It ran towards him like lightning.
“It’s him!”
“Red hair!”
“He’s running alone!”
As if the giant running behind Logan wasn’t even in sight, several knights who were holding on to the castle wall to secure an outside view shouted at the same time. As if in response ,
a rain of quarrels fired by the surviving soldiers poured down on the running Logan.
But it was useless.
‘There was no need to use Aurors.’
The golden force blade emitted from Logan’s sword formed a circular barrier in front of him.
”
Monster…”
“Quickly stop it!”
“How on earth…?!”
Just charge. Logan, who gave a scream of fear to the soldiers on the castle wall, smiled fiercely and raised his sword.
Then, a beam of golden light shot up over 30 meters and soon took the shape of a large sword. And
then , “
Collapse
!!”
The giant’s sword, with incomparable power, cut the castle wall diagonally with the castle gate at its center.
The iron bars prepared inside the gate, the chivalry waiting on top of it,
and even some of the knights who were preparing to charge inside the gate.
“Hap!”
Not only that, the giant’s sword swung again and completely destroyed the central castle wall, including the castle gate.
Rumbling. Rumbling.
Quaaaaaaang.
The sight of one human destroying the castle wall itself.
The unrealistic feast of destruction. All movement on the battlefield subsided.
Then, a moment later, the moment the rising dust subsided.
“Everyone kneel! Those who resist will die, and those who surrender will live!”
Many soldiers dropped their weapons in fear at the shouts of the red-haired monster scattering golden light.
‘You damn monster!’
Richard, the blue-haired top knight, also screamed inwardly.
Even when he had lost dozens of knights in an unbelievable long-range bombing raid, he was not this gloomy.
I heard that he beat a superhuman, but isn’t this too much to do?
’30m is too much.’ You’re wielding a Force Blade that’s stronger than ever. Who would believe you!’
It seemed more realistic that he was an Auror user.
He felt a distant sense of pressure, but he could not back down from here.
So he shouted contrary to his true feelings.
“He is alone! Kill!”
He got on his horse and pulled out the Force Blade.
“Now is your chance!”
“Come to your senses!”
His colleagues Derek Klang and Cooper Pulson who were next to him responded and encouraged him to join him in the battlefield.
“Wow. Ah!”
The knights responded to the leadership’s instigation, which had no way to back down.
It was not because everyone was stupid.
The reassuring power of numbers gave them the courage to resist the overwhelming violence in front of them.
The bombing and the huge force blades from just a moment ago gave them the courage to resist. Even though it was reduced, the remaining knights, who still numbered close to 500, fully armed themselves.
“Charge! End Logan McLane!”
Heehee.
He rushed over the collapsed castle wall.
“You’re saying we’re all going to die, right?”
A golden light appeared along with a cold voice.
Gaaaaaaa!
Then, with the sound of something exploding, three top knights appeared. At the same time, he rolled around on the ground.
“Big, big.” Oh, Auror?!”
“Cough! Superhuman?”
“Nonsense!”
The faces of the charging knights turned blue at the scream-like shouts of the three top knights.
Plus.
“Puh-ha-ha! Who said you were alone?!”
Wow!
Before you knew it, they were next to Logan . The giant standing side by side swung a war hammer as big as his own body and blew away the entire cavalry in the lead.
“Luther Kyle!”
“Half-giant!”
“They’re coming from behind too!”
Behind him, the Golem Master, who is now famous throughout the kingdom, created About 50 knight-level golems were rushing in, and next to the golems that went into direct combat instead of throwing bombs, about 50 knights from McLane were rushing in.
In addition, regular soldiers started moving from far behind . It was an enormous burden for the rebel knights, who had been defeated by the soldiers who were supposed to stop them in front of them.
“Anyone who resists will die.” Logan’s golden aura with a
cold
smile was cast on the enemy knights like the touch of a grim reaper.
