Hakai No Miko Volume 1 Chapter 68 (1/2)

“Stooop! Maintain the dense for you to stop!!”

Judius frantically shouts at the top of his lungs, but the collapse of the dense formation that had already started doesn't come to a halt The dense formation, which should be a fir its collapse du soldiers, many of the noble con this ti to be first As such there's no way for the common soldiers to obey Judius' order

At this point the collapse of the punitive force couldn't be stopped by anyone, no ave out orders

The battle had already been decided, but Sou away now, the number of soldier in the punitive force still exceeds ours by a lot If they regained their senses froanized themselves into proper files and ranks and closed in on Souma and the others, they would have no chance to win this after having devoted all their strength into that plan Even if it hly mop up the remnants of the defeated arain

Souil's back and shouted,

“We are going to sweep up the defeated soldiers!”

Hearing Souma's order, a nearby zoan soldier fiercely plays the drums

In response to that, everyone raised war cries and started to pursue the escaping punitive force

Of course the ones in the lead are the zoan who are dashi+ng on four feet They catch up with the escaping soldiers in the twinkling of an eye and knock the their throats with their machetes

“Those idiots! Do they believe that they will be able to run aith their backs turned against zoan as opponents!?”

As Marius furiously shouted that while watching that spectacle, Darius firrasped the armrests of his chair in silence once more

The time when theparties face each other with spears, but when the defeated side turns its back on the ene chased

Much less to say if their opponents are zoan who can run at the speed of a horse No et away, they won't be able to escape At this rate it was iine just how many casualties would crop up

In order to hold back this zoan pursuit, it was indispensable for any of the units to serve as rear guard, but the only ones under any proper command at this point in time were the soldiers directly commanded by Darius However, nocomposed of elites, they likely won't be able to hold back the current zoan's pursuit, which has gained its full momentum, with a mere 500 soldiers

If there was at least a narrow valley or a deep forest, they would be able to use those as defensive positions, allowing the, but unfortunately there's nothing but plains in the direction of the retreat Even the enca of tents It was impossible to expect it to serve as defensive encampment

Given the situation, it's cruel, but there's already no other choice but to abandon the soldiers ere late in escaping and are being deci zoan unit While the zoan are delayed bythe soldiers who surrendered, ithdraw to the rear There ill gather the soldiers, who anize the units We have no choice but to retreat to the city of Luo zoan

Of course even Darius feels deep sadness over being forced to let his soldiers die

He can't stop feelings of regret over why it had turned into such a crushi+ng defeat welling up

Up until before the battle started, Darius considered the rebels to be a roup

The zoan, dwarves and dinosaurians are all races that possess tough bodies and are far arded individually There's probably no chance for a huainst them in an one-on-one battle

However, a battle isn't so their individualleabout ai scared of the punitive force, they would probably escape as soon as the situation turned slightly disadvantageous while selfishly leaving the other races behind, and the whole would disintegrate

He didn't intend to underesti the zoan, who had caused a rebellion, and the slaves, who had been only released by the like that was valid

However, once we actually tried crossing swords with them, it's become absurd to consider them as disorderly crowd

Because it's an enca like having the majority of the zoan, who are the main force, circle around towards the flanks of the dense formation can't be described as clever schea in the enca their comrades' determination, splendidly cut into the flanks of the dense forroup of individuals, the ones left behind in the encampment would have followed the zoan's exaed into the dense formation either

That's not all Even at the ti the dense for while taking on ene several fold their numbers

Once I remember our arance of having the superior nuret that it was rather our side which was a mish-mash assembly of troops

Just what happened for theht about that question, discovered a single hu drawn to him

It's a huh Darius was at a distance where the child looked as ser, his eyes perceived the child with a surprising clarity for some reason

Because he had heard from the residents, who escaped the city, that it's a hu the rebels, he isn't surprised by it What astonished Darius was the fact of the hu the back of a dinosaurian— moreover, that of Tyranno

Within the dinosaurian social systeed class that's called warriors Put into human terms, it's comparable with nobles and samurai Moreover, the Tyrannos are at the top of the nobles below the ones called Royal species

A Tyranno, who fights to protect royalty by standing in front of the like a Tyranno entrusting their back to soinable All the re apes” by the dinosaurians

That guy is the rebel leader, isn't he!? That's hiet a Tyranno of the dinosaurians, who despise humans as trash because of their valor, to entrust their back to hi the proud zoan He should be able to have the elves and dwarves to abandon the antagonism between both their races to cooperate with each other He should be also able to make the whimsy harpyians put their lives on the line

The rebels haven't rallied together out of fear towards the punitive force

That boy isn't a h position either

Precisely because it's that boy, the other races are obeying

That boy is the definitely the corner stone of the rebels!

At that moment Darius recalls a dearly missed voice

『Hey, Darius What do you think is the strongesthis ti and full of wishes towards the future

The imht and they chatted a each other about various matters such as the country's future, their own future and on top of that which prostitute was a good catch while drinking booze

And at a particular tiest military force they could co his brain about ould be the best answer, a cocky prodigy, as referred to as future co them, said,

『Heavy infantry brave like the dinosaurians, sailors who know the waters as well as ineers like the dwarves, excellent archers like the elves, niers like the harpyians, and a cunning huest military force』

Due to his answer, his friends with Darius in the lead roared with laughter saying, “That would certainly be the strongest” while applauding enthusiastically

That's because it was a joke

There's a joke that reseest eneral, German commissioned officers, japanese non-commissioned officers and Russian soldiers』

A heroic Ay, the ent japanese as non-co the operation and the valorous Russians as fighting soldiers; this is so national characteristics of all nations mentioned

However, in the end it's nolike that to happen in reality That's why it's a joke

However, that strongestbut a joke, was right now in front of Darius' eyes

Moreover, it's not soue expression of “like” as mentioned by Darius' friend in the past

The brave dinosaurian heavy infantry, the skilled dwarven co elven archers, the niers, and a huether into one

As of yet you couldn't call it coest military force was already about to take form

Darius recalls the contents of Tutu's letter

Wasn't it written in there as well?

That the eneest army

“That's what it was about!?”