Episode 94 ‘Damn it. Where did such a monster come from?…’
Jerome still burned his fighting spirit until the moment he witnessed the Force Blade rising from the enemy lord’s sword.
However, in the face of that unidentifiable golden strike, I couldn’t even muster the fighting spirit.
The external force seemed to be similar to his own, but…
‘That can’t be possible.’
In the place where fighting spirit disappeared, despair and helplessness rose.
And that made the already difficult situation even worse.
at last.
Fuuuuuk!
“It’s big. It’s big.”
The red force blade pierced her own heart at the same time as it struck her colleague Theres’ neck.
‘My lord. I couldn’t fulfill my mission…’
He tried to ask his lord for forgiveness in his heart, but he wasn’t even given time to do so.
Sigh!
Because Padric cut off his head with the Force Blade and lifted it high into the sky.
“We captured the enemy general!”
Padric’s voice echoed from the castle walls throughout the battlefield.
During the war, the entire leadership of one faction was wiped out.
In a normal battle, the outnumbered troops would have abandoned their weapons and surrendered at this point.
But the knights of Bipros were different.
“I take over command! Fight until the end! Reinforcements are coming soon!”
A knight covered in blood ran under the castle wall and started talking nonsense.
‘That kind of dog…’
Logan couldn’t help but be shocked by that sight.
What does it mean that reinforcements are coming?
If reinforcements come, they will already be visible to their eyes on the walls.
However, the man who shouted may have been a man of high rank, but the frantic shouts of the enemy knight instilled vain courage in the remaining troops.
The steps that had been taking steps backwards stopped for an instant.
“Reinforcements are coming!”
“let’s fight!”
The poor soldiers, deceived by their allies’ bluff, burned their will once again.
And Logan’s speed burned as he saw it.
In this situation where work became more troublesome than expected, there was only one answer left.
“I’ll kill them all!”
Logan jumped into the center of an unnecessary bloodbath caused by a single word from a certain knight.
The moment he learned that a superior enemy force was aiming for the castle and rushing towards it, Xeric, who was leading the surprise attack team, made the sacrifice and forced himself to break through the siege and rush into the castle.
Because of this, only 15 of the 22 knights in the surprise attack team remained, but it was thought that this alone would be enough to contribute to the defense force.
With that single thought, he ran towards the castle wall, ignoring the rain of Quarrel pouring down on his head.
But the enemy was more powerful than expected.
– Captured the enemy commander!
A voice was heard as soon as we arrived under the castle walls.
“Tongue bro!”
The bloody head in the hand of the knight on the castle wall was an all too familiar face to him.
His rationality was clouded by the anger and anger welling up from deep within his heart.
“I take over command! Fight until the end! Reinforcements are coming soon!”
He induced the allies to resist with nonsensical nonsense.
He knew that it would be an unnecessary sacrifice.
But I wanted to cause even a little more damage to the people who killed my brother.
“Jeric! It’s late! We had better join the main force!”
I ignored the protests of my colleague Gale, who judged the situation calmly.
“You go. I will finish this here!”
“Jeric!”
As a clash occurred between the leading knights in command, the knights who followed them also became embarrassed and hesitated.
“Shoot!”
Pabababak!
As if they weren’t going to give me a chance to make a decision, the guys who came after me from the rear once again rained down that boring quarrel.
“Go! I’m the only one left here!”
When the knights were in danger, Jerick screamed with the last bit of reason he had.
however.
“Where are you going!”
With a shout coming from the castle wall, someone came rushing down from the castle wall.
The golden force surrounding the sword was an unusual color that was rarely seen, but it was not even noticeable.
All that Xeric can see is its red eyes and red hair.
It was a symbol of the same McLane family lineage as the one who lifted his brother’s head a moment ago.
The moment he saw that, what little sense Xeric had left disappeared in an instant.
‘That guy!’
A barrage of quarrels pouring down from behind from the soldiers chasing them.
Dozens of knights jumping down after that red head.
All of that was erased from sight.
“I’ll kill you all! Macline!”
I have already given up the thought of returning alive.
Surrendering himself completely to the madness, he gathered all his remaining strength and put it into his sword.
The blazing red force that bloomed more intensely than at any other moment in his life added strength to his wildness.
but.
“You are the one who dies.”
Sigh.
A ghost-like movement that came before my eyes as if compressing space.
The moment when I felt like I made eye contact with red eyes looking at me with cool eyes.
Xeric’s consciousness disappeared.
Skag.
Perhaps inspired by the madman’s final struggle, the remaining Tomodo troops continued their resistance to the evil.
However, at some point, Heinkel opened the castle gate and let McLane’s infantry, including the crossbow cavalry, into the castle.
With their overwhelming numerical inferiority clearly visible, they had no choice but to stop fighting.
But by then, only four Byrus knights and about 50 soldiers were left.
On the other hand, McLane’s sacrifices consisted of 14 knights who died on the castle wall and about 30 soldiers who were killed by blind arrows.
It was truly a landslide victory.
* * *
“We won!”
“Wow!”
“Long live McLane!”
The battle that started in the morning ended before sunset.
Considering that there was no real conflict until lunch, it was a decision that was made in an instant.
It also ended in an overwhelming victory, so it was no wonder the soldiers cheered so much.
However, after clearing the battlefield for several hours, the expressions on the faces of the leaders gathered at the temporarily prepared command center in the castle were not very bright.
It was a strange scene in which no one was smiling, although some people’s faces were flushed with the excitement brought about by battle and victory.
The first words of this meeting, which began after the sun had set and the moon and stars had risen, contained all the reasons.
“We have passed the critical juncture, but now the army of Bipros will come. What is the next plan, Logan?”
At Padrick’s words, everyone’s eyes turned to Logan.
However, the short answer that came out of Logan’s mouth was enough to change the expectations that were in that gaze into confusion.
“You just have to endure it.”
“…what?”
Padric asked the question on behalf of everyone.
“It won’t take more than a day or a few days at the latest. As long as you hold on, Biphros will retreat on its own.”
Even with Logan’s next words, the embarrassment did not disappear, but only doubled.
But Logan’s eyes were fixed on the full moon that was beginning to rise in the night sky.
“Grand Duke. What is that…?”
“You should at least tell me the reason.”
“Why is Bipros retreating?”
“…You will find out naturally later.”
Although he spoke as calmly as possible, the most uneasy of all was Logan himself.
‘There should be no variables. please!’
Forcefully hiding his nervousness, he continued to act calm.
“Now let’s prepare for Mercury!”
* * *
– Get ready for Mercury!
The soldiers, who were cheering for victory, could not help but be taken aback by the sudden order issued on a moonlit night.
“Defense if it’s Mercury?”
“What is it? Isn’t the war over?”
“We won, right?”
Ignorant people who simply saw the events in front of them were confused.
“As expected… a war with the count…”
“I said I was anxious.”
Those with a little knowledge sighed as they thought about the near future.
Of course, there was something else that was most important to the soldiers.
“What are you doing on this moonlit night?”
“Ai! My stomach is still sore.”
“Do we have to do this now?!”
It was hard work that had to be done while being postponed until bedtime.
The quiet night at Tomodo Castle became noisy with thousands of people pouring out curses.
“There is no time. Hurry, hurry!”
Greek sighed at his teacher’s words, but moved around busily.
What he and the priests had in their hands were dozens of collapse scrolls.
These valuable items, each worth a thousand gold, were now absurdly just being installed on the ground.
‘If I had more time, I would have set this aside and tried to do something with magic.’
But now, as the teacher said, there was no time.
At least this was possible because there were scrolls left after the dam construction.
Moreover, what the Archduke ordered was an elaborate task that required careful calculation of the destruction range of the scroll, so it could not be left to the soldiers.
‘In the end, we have no choice but to do it.’
Greek sighed and prepared moonlit gymnastics, or magic.
“Grick! Are you ready?!”
“Yes Master!”
“Enan! Turs!”
“This side is ready too!”
“Okay! Three two one!”
Flashing.
With the Greek signal, the scrolls installed at regular intervals on the ground right in front of the castle wall all lit up.
Right after that.
Rumbling.
With a loud noise, as if an earthquake had occurred, cracks began to form in the solid ground.
At the same time, the soil swelled as if it were going to explode.
The solidly packed ground collapsed, pushing dirt in all directions around the scroll.
And the pushed out dirt was moving according to pre-tuned magic and covering the gaps in the castle wall, making the surface of the castle wall smooth and flat.
Rumbling.
After repeated shaking, a deep hole with a radius of 5 meters was created under the castle wall.
In other words, it was a moat.
A long, deep pit large enough to bury a dozen people was dug along the castle wall.
An amazing sight, as the scooped-out dirt moves on its own to repair and fill the castle walls.
Those who were watching and the wizards who performed it were looking at this history with admiration.
‘For some reason, it feels like our school keeps specializing in construction.’
As he gave the golem he had created the task of digging up the hole, Clayton felt a bit uneasy.
Of course, I didn’t have time to pay attention to each of those feelings.
“Let’s move quickly. We have to finish it by tonight!”
The moment he shouted, Clayton also felt bad as he saw his disciples’ expressions distort.
Somehow, his initial goal of settling down and increasing the training time of his students seemed to have gone awry without his knowledge.
‘Oh, it must be my mood.’
Since we were promised support of 10 million gold every year, it was natural to do something like this.
In any case, if MacLine fails, the Golem Tower also fails.
Now, we were like one body.
‘No way, they caught us for this in the first place… Ah, I said I would fight the magic tower. You’re paranoid, Clayton. ‘I don’t have enough discipline.’
He shook off his bitter feelings and urged his disciples with a bright face he worked hard to create.
* * * The soldiers who came up to the castle wall at dawn at the urging of their superiors could not help but look around with startled eyes.
“Huh, was this castle wall this high?”
“The castle walls are completely smooth?”
“As expected, wizards. How can they do it in one night…” It
seemed to the McLane soldiers that when they woke up from a short sleep, the walls of the castle had become extremely smooth and their height had increased.
They could not help but be amazed once again by the power of magic.
of course.
“Sprinkle the prepared oil on the castle wall! So that it flows down without any gaps! The ten seals check it thoroughly!”
“yes!”
Their admiration soon turned into complaints as they too had to add additional elements to the great work.
However, no matter how bad their mood was, it would be less than that of the wizards of the Golem Tower who faced Logan after working all night.
“We made a moat, so you want us to fill it with water?”
Clayton’s grim face distorted at the absurd request.
“No matter how close the plains and rivers are, the straight line distance to a tributary of the Luther River would be 5km!”
“I heard the enemies will come as early as today!”
“This is absolutely impossible, impossible!”
“You’ve drilled through a mountain. You’ve dug a waterway tediously. You only need to connect a stream 5km to the river. Isn’t that difficult?”
“….”
In the end, their just and reasonable rebuttal was ignored by the oppression of those in power.
