Volume 9 - Chapter 32 – Battlefield (2/2)

“Gyaah!”

“Uaaargh!”

“Aagh!”

Due to the lightning magic [Thunderbolt] fired from the flying balloons the five knights ended up lying on the ground.

“T-this is bad!”

Using that opportunity one of the golems reached the staircase leading down from the walls.

“Shit! [Flame Lance]!”

As a last resort, Nicholas fired the most powerful fire magic spell he could. Its target wasn’t the golem, but the stairs.

The stone staircase was smashed up by the [Flame Lance].

Even though it was a golem, it probably wouldn’t be able to jump eight meters down from the walls because of its height, was what Nicholas was thinking.

But his expectations were completely mistaken. The golem which wasn’t alive had its large body manipulated to jump.

Eight meters was a height a human absolutely couldn’t fall from safely.

There was a thunderous noise and the stones of the pavement were smashed and scattered around. The golem stood up even though the lower half of its body was crooked. But its ankles were broken and knees twisted in odd directions. It was obvious to anyone that it wouldn’t probably be able to move any more.

However, the golem’s task was to open the gate. For that, a magical blow would suffice.

“People down there! Do not let that golem near the gate!”

Nicholas yelled at the top of his lungs. The ten soldiers guarding the gate pointed their weapons towards the golem.

“Gyaaaah!”

“Uagh!”

If they paid attention to what was below, magic attacks would be fired from the sky. If they paid attention to the skies, the golem still remaining on top of the walls would come to attack them.

“Guh, to think that attacks from the sky would be this troublesome!”

It was most likely something no one had thought of before, attacking from the sky. Nicholas was experiencing it with his body firsthand.

Getting backup from the sky, the golem dragged along its body and finally arrived at the gate. Then it pointed its intact right hand towards the gate and fired a spell.

It was the same [Flame Lance] that Nicholas had used. But its power was an order of magnitude higher.

Ten times the amount of flames that had been in Nicholas’s [Flame Lance] struck the castle gate.

The bronze latches and the iron hinges were blown away.

Then slowly the castle gate fell towards the outside.

That meant the defeat of fort city Tetrada.

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A town in Egelia Kingdom, Storsk. Duke Blue and Earl Kuzuma had finally arrived there along with their troops. They were for defending the capital city Asunto.

Blue Land was left in the care of Earl Guarana.

“My late father also fought against Celuroa Kingdom. So for the sake of my country, I’ll fight like him!”

His fiancee’s, Beana’s, worried face came to his mind, but Earl Kuzuma had put aside his personal feelings due to the country’s crisis and had gone to war.

“Tomorrow night we’ll probably reach Asunto.”

Duke Blue muttered while preparing to depart, and at that moment.

Suddenly Earl Kuzuma who was looking up at the sky felt that something had passed in front of the sun and strained his eyes to see.

“What the?”

There was something, and it wasn’t birds. The things were in a single group flying high in the sky. The direction they were headed towards was where the capital Asunto was.

However, curiously he didn’t have a sinister feeling about it.

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“The castle gates are open!”

“Alright, the first and second companies…”

The moment Frantz Kingdom’s attack was about to begin.

A giant shadow blocked the sun.

Looking up, a object could be seen flying.

It had four wheels arranged in a square, and connected to the structure crosswise two ropes which came down and were holding up a plank. And sitting on top of the plank was a huge golem which had never been seen before.

The mysterious flying object slowly descended as the huge golem on it glared at both Frantz Kingdom’s army and the city of Tetrada, then it got down and stood up on the spot.