Volume 9 - Chapter 34 – Repelling the Enemy (1/2)
09-34 Repelling the Enemy
“Reiko, good job. Can you head to Egelea next?”
“Yes Father, without a problem.””
“That’s good, since I’ll be intervening at Egelia using the substitute puppet.”
“Understood, we’ll be heading there too.”
Tetrada’s battlefield had become paused, so Jin decided to next intervene at Egelia Kingdom’s capital Asunto.
Considering the distance from Hourai Island, by now Raptors from 6 to 10 and Falcons from 6 to 10 should have arrived.
Jin projected the picture from the substitute puppet that was on Raptor-10 onto a magical display.
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“[Storm Rush]!”
“Eek!”
Laila chanted [Storm Rush]. She frantically chanted it to defend against the enemy golems approaching her from the front.
The wind-attribute advanced level magic had enough strength to push the golems all the way back to the end of the hallway. In the aftermath her allies were also repelled but that was a trivial thing.
“*Wheeze*, *pant*”
“You did it, Laila! You can do it if you try!”
“Elder sister…”
Laila slightly blushed when she received praise from her excellent sister.
“Now, Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Your Highness, go downstairs at once!”
They couldn’t afford to waste the time Laila earned them, and the Imperial Guard Knights took the lead followed by the king, the queen, the prince, the golem Lotte, Lila, and finally Laila’s sister Airi as the rearguard.
Unfortunately they had no leeway to worry about the knights on their side who were beaten by the golems.
They somehow got down to the first floor hall where there was a crowd of wounded knights.
“Golems are coming from here too?”
Just where had they invaded from they wondered, as ten golems of the same type as the ones who attacked from the rooftop were rampaging in the hall.
“Your Majesty!”
Raising his voice to nearly a scream, the Minister of Magic Kelhidore yelled. Surrounding him were wrecked piles of Imperial Guard golems.
“The strength of those guys is unfathomable! It compares with the strength of that Reiko from the golem party!”
“What?”
“It can’t believe it, is that Jin guy pulling the strings behind the scenes?”
The one who spoke was the Minister of Defense Judol.
“Incorrect.”
A certain maid golem immediately refuted those words.
“Lotte?”
“Father wouldn’t build clumsy and unrefined golems like those. Those are the golems of the Unifilers who caused earlier uproar.”
Lotte declared.
“For Father’s honor.”
Lotte said and tossed the tray in her hand aiming at one of the golems who was approaching prince Ernest and the others.
It was the steel tray Jin had made.
Clang, with a harsh sound the tray embedded itself in the enemy golem’s chest. The golem stopped moving with its Magi Device destroyed.
Lotte quickly recovered her tray and caught the fist of another approaching golem with the tray.
This time there was a high-pitched noise and the tray broke. But, the enemy golem’s fist also broke.
“The tray bestowed to me by Father! How dare you!”
This time Lotte grabbed the steel mop she had been diligently carrying on her back.
The mop’s end became larger and heavier and she wielded it like a mace-type weapon.
The mop Lotte struck with flattened the enemy golem’s cranium.
The high-grade golem’s vision came from the eyes in its head. In other words, by destroying the head meant removing its sense of sight.
It wasn’t enough to destroy it, but the warped head no longer received enough visual information.
With her next blow, Lotte destroyed the enemy golem’s chest. With this two of the golems were destroyed. Eight remained.
“Lotte! Alright! We understand! Please protect His Majesty and His Highness!”
As you might expect, even the Minister of Defense Judol was compelled to accept that if Lotte was destroyed now they’d lose a considerable amount of combat potential. And so he judged they couldn’t afford to lose Lotte who was the royalty’s protector.
Receiving the orders, Lotte backed down, and in that brief gap.
“Your Highness! Watch out!”
Aimed at prince Ernest, the [Flame Bullet] spell came flying. The shots numbered around 50.
Once she noticed, Lotte swung her mop to intercept them. But the blunt weapon wasn’t something that could knock down all 50 of the [Flame Bullet]s.
About half of the [Flame Bullet]s were about to strike Prince Ernest.
“Your Highness!
Someone screamed. Prince Ernest resigned himself to being shot and close his eyes while covering his head.
But no matter how much time passed the shock didn’t come. Timidly, prince Ernest tried opening his eyes.