Volume 9 - Chapter 31 – New Weapon (1/2)
09-31 New Weapon
Content warning: death
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On the 22nd of April, at Egelia Kingdom’s capital Asunto.
The castle walls rose to a height of ten meters, and the Magi Formula inscribed on it gave it resistance to magic.
This wall was thought to be impregnable, protecting the castle inside against all outside invaders.
That is, until this very morning.
“Good morning. Shift change.”
“Good morning. Everything’s normal. I’ll leave it to you.”
At sunrise, the soldiers guarding the castle gate had a shift change. The cities around the country borders were being exposed to the horrors of war, but the imperial castle was still supposed to be peaceful.
Suddenly a fireball came flying in and caused an explosion. It was a [Flame Ball].
“Wh– what’s going on!”
Even the soldiers who had been in the guardroom turned up. Then another [Flame Ball] came flying.
“U–uaaaahh!”
“Aaaaargh!”
Two soldiers who were not only without shields but without even armor took a blow from the [Flame Ball] at point-blank range.
A third [Flame ball] then directly hit the soldiers’ lodging house.
It was only then when they had the leeway for ascertaining where the [Flame Ball]s had flown in from. They came from above.
“Wh, what is that…”
“It can’t be…”
The soldiers saw a mysterious vehicle floating in the air. It looked like a large ball with a basket attached underneath.
Five of them were floating in the air.
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The same day.
The fight between Frantz Kingdom’s army and Cline Kingdom’s army was continuing with the dominance of Frantz Kingdom’s army.
The army of Frantz Kingdom’s which captured Storsk then made Glaisher fall, occupied Coshes, and was now currently approaching the provincial city of Tetrada.
Tetrada was made to be more or less a fort city, and Cline Kingdom’s third chivalric order was there to meet the enemy.
Lithia Fahlheit’s father, the deputy leader Nicholas Fahlheit was standing in for the leader who had been wounded in a battle some days ago and had taken command here.
“Deputy leader! Look!”
One of the soldiers pointed at the skies when the dawn broke.
“What?”
“That’s a…”
“It, it can’t be, it’s… flying?”
Five huge balloons were floating in the sky about 100 meters above. And then magic was fired from the baskets hanging down from them.
“Uargh!”
It was the intermediate level lightning-attribute magic [Thunderbolt]. Many knights fell.
“This is bad! Everyone, use anti-magic shields!”
Anti-magic shields were as their name suggests resistant to magic, but weak to physical shock. It was possible to make shields with both characteristics but then they would end up becoming heavy.
This was because an anti-magic shield needed to be large enough to conceal the user’s body, as if it wasn’t large enough then the damage would travel along the uncovered portions.
If you made them robust enough for physical resistance, the result could be easily guessed. Taking a heavy thing like that to a fight was something only a golem could do.
And then two of those golems came down from the baskets.
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“For now, eight aircraft have been dispatched to Egelia’s capital and five to Cline’s battlefield.”
“Good work. Surely they never expected to be attacked from the sky.”
“In all honesty, ancient technology sure is magnificent.”
“Ahahah. One of our goals is making a display of that power too. Along with letting them taste the despair of defense being impossible, let’s show off man’s dream of flying in the air.”
“How about the superweapon?”