Hakai No Miko Volume 1 Chapter 65 (1/2)

“… Birds, huh?”

It was several birds that took off from the forest located east of the enemy ca unusual

But, for sohed on Darius'happen?”

One of the soldiers, who noticed Darius staring at the flying birds, calls out to hiuess those are birds”

He states the bare truth while wondering why this worries him so much Thereupon, the soldiers turns his eyes in the same direction as Darius

“… Ah, soht?”

Even while he said so, another batch of birds took off

“Perhaps they have been surprised by the regiments' spirit”

Due to the words of the soldiers, which felt like a joke, Darius feels an i been hit by a blunt weapon on his head

“Wh-… What did you say?”

Darius bends himself forward from the chariot and intently stares at the eneht behind his going!?”

The soldiers confiruously, “It's not very visible fro what the soldier was saying, Darius shi+fts his attention towards the zoan a his eyes, Darius fixedly stared at the cloud of dust, but he suddenly opened his eyes widely

“… We have been had!”

As if round causing it to sway Due to that the duered on his feet and was about to fall, but he ed to steady himself on his chair with both of his hands

“Have the unit return in a hurry! Messenger! Infor infantry battalion to prepare for an enemy ambush!+ Drums! Hit the drums!”

“What happened, Your Excellency!?”

Once asked by the soldier who beca all of a sudden, Darius points at the cloud of dust raised by the zoan ah the dust is rising up, the zoan have not been visible at all since a while ago!”

Now that hearound with quite the force, but so far the zoan are not visible It'd be strange if the zoan weren't able to shorten such a distance with their leg strength

Spitting out the bitter taste of regret spreading within his mouth, Darius said,

“Those are du to be many with a few soldiers!”

Darius' assu up the dust arebundles of brushith ropes they had coiled around their waists They cause a large cloud of dust to rise up by running side to side,others believe that there are several hundreds of military forces present at that moment

“Dummy soldiers, you say!? But, for what reason!?”

Darius turns around and thrusts his finger into the direction of the enemy camp due to the soldier's surprised outcry

“It's the forest! Birds have flown up from the forest one after the other!”

Because the birds have taken off, it htened them

However, that's not because of the heavy spear infantry regi that the rebels, who are a lot closer to the forest, had raised battle criesti like the heavy spear infantry regiments Also, Darius wondered whether it was because of the white s at the wind direction, that was ihtened the birds inside the forest at this tiht now

“The real ambush unit was at the enemy camp! The white s traps located near the ene a part of their soldiers who have moved inside the forest behind their encampment!”

The commissioned officers and soldiers nearby were lost for words

“If it goes on like this, the right-wing infantry battalion will suffer an attack froht rear by the ene infantry battalion! The ene to approach fro the forest!”

As if waiting for those words of Darius, an aroup dashed out fro war cries

“N-No way! No matter how you look at it, it's too early!”

Even Darius is no fool

There's no way that he wouldn't watch out for a forest if it's close to the enemy camp

However, that place is a deep forest where the trees are growing densely Such a forest that doesn't allow soldiers tobut a wall that protects the encampment's eastern flank If that wasn't the case, Darius' side would have likely formed a unit to attack the ene soht of hand, the rebels had a unit h barely any time has passed since the s frohly 800 zoan warriors

That number is equal to almost all zoan that were present in the enery voices due to that

“Unbelievable! Not an ambush unit, but the main force that was inside the enca their already se nuo around to our flank!? Are these guys crazy!? Isn't that nothing more than suicide!?”

It was a tactic that completely deviated from the common sense of battle

But, no matter how much they cursed at it, it was impossible for the watched by the enraged commissioned officers with bloodshot eyes, the zoan first assaulted the right rear of the right-wing infantry battalion that protected the flank of the heavy spear infantry regi infantry battalion should have held back an ene to attack the flank of the dense formation

However, what actually assaulted them wasn't a small ambush unit, but a number of zoan who exceeded their predictions by far Moreover, because the attack didn't originate fro infantry battalion, which got completely outwitted, was completely routed without any athered even further momentum due to that, finally drove into the flank of the dense formation

“Are you asleep!? Hurry and turn around the unit! Reorganize the formation!!”

Darius shouted in a thunderous voice at the co about in confusion due to the unexpected situation The coers, who finally snapped back to reality due to that, transmit the orders to the forces

However, no matter how much they yelled, a unit that started to move once won't stop that easily Even as the coers frantically passed on the orders, Darius had no option but to grind his teeth in vexation due to the unit that wouldn't move as he expected

At this point we revert the story to a time a little bit before this

“Garail!”

Once white snited by Dvalin, the zoan led by Garau retreated from the fence as instructed by Souma, and yielded their place to the dwarves and dinosaurians

“Now then! Ti spirit! Get into it!”

They line up at the fence in order to hide the zoan, and hit the ground with the butt ends of their long-handled spears and shout excitedly alongside Dvalin's encourage heavy spear infantry regiments

“”Uooooh!!””

Under the cover of those very loud yells, Gara and moved to the rear of the encampment

They headed to the entrance towards the byroad leading through the forest

It was a path opened up by having all the dwarves, except for a little bittheir efforts in this direction

Even though it's called a path, there's not much difference to an animal trail As aanimal trail for the majority of the distance The path's width is narrow to the point that it only allowed at the verynext to each other, and even then, it would be a tight squeeze The path had been flattened and solidified by the dwarves dropping rocks on the ground many times over, but as they didn't have the time to remove thick tree roots and rocks, there are also places with extre through it like this