Chapter 13 (2/2)

She fires to survive

「The enemy approaches!」

「You really kno to spoil my mood! Archery unit, fire! Heavy infantry unit, advance!」

As they receive covering fire from the archery unit, the first row of heavy infantry units immediately ready their shi+elds and advance

You could see the shock in every single enemy soldier before the

If they did, they would be trampled by their allies behind them

They soon clashed, and the heavy infantryan to be sed by the soldiers behind theth

Spearheads went flying out through the open spaces between the shi+elds as the heavy infantryan to take the lives of the fallen enemy soldiers

Seeing the enemy ranks had crumbled, the heavy infantrymen opened their wall

Liz, Tris, and the light infantrye

They take down the injured eneht

During that time, the second row of heavy infantry units who had been on standby regroup with them

「We’ll keep up this pace and push them back!」

There is little doubt that nothing ison the very front line

Truly, rather than fear, the faces of the soldiers showed nothing but a desire to protect their master

Despite their situation of being outnumbered, their zeal overpowered their fear

Fro ly, they fell with ease

However, the scary thing about getting caught up in the s

「… No」

Liz whispered as she looked up to the sky and saw it

Her face is pale Not noticing this, the light infantry their master behind

Tris looked back with a puzzled face

「Princess, are you wounded?!」

「Tris! Look up!」

Her distressed cry almost sounded like a shriek

「Hurry, your shi+elds! Cerberus, come here!」

She draws in Cerberus with her left hand, and gives a signal to her allies with her right, but it was already too late

The light infantryht

A fewof arrowheads co down

The enemy attack, which even hit their own allies, turned the battlefield into chaos

The ground was completely covered in arrows Small pincushi+ons dotted places here and there You could barely tell they used to be people, let allow discern whether they were friend or foe

Not a single person was ht infantry unit had been completely annihilated

「Princess, are you all right?!」

Tris had a number of arrows pierced into his back, but based on his movements, it didn’t seem to be fatal

The tide of the battle corasped the current situation, the heavy infantry unit is crestfallen

In an attempt to restore morale, Tris yelled out

「Heavy infantry unit, reset your formation, immediately! Fortify the entrance and stop the enemy’s advance!」

「Yes, sir!」

As he gives out orders, he forgets his own pain and rushes over to Liz

「Looks like ere a bit careless…」

As Liz’s face twists in pain, she pulls out an arrow lodged into her left arht one

Cerberus licks the blood pouring out as if worried Liz pets his head to reassure him

Next to her, a number of heavy infantrymen pass by and immediately erect an iron wall

「We have to treat that wound right away…」

「It’ll be fine if I tie it up More importantly, the status of injured…」

「We’ll leave that to someone else For noe need to—」

「Infantry Captain Tris!」

The one who interrupted the old soldier as he was about to scold Liz was a heavy infantryman

For soency like this, Tris turned to hie in his expression

「What is it?!」

「There is a change in the enemy’s movements!」

Tris’s veins began to bulge on his forehead as he heard the vague report, and Liz furrowed her brows

「Give me a detailed report!」

Tris lends his shoulder to Liz, then approaches the iron wall and rebuke the soldier

「B-But… please, look over there!」

An inexplicable scene unfolded in the area to which the soldier pointed

Around 200 Imperial soldiers were lined up with their arms tied behind their backs

Aand came forward

「What are they planning to do…?」

As the man drew his reverse blade sword from his waist, he placed his foot on an Imperial soldier’s shoulder and forced his head down

Is down and sends the I

After a spray of blood flies out, the man kicks the dead body away and looks toward Liz as he smiles

『Hear me, Sixth Imperial Princess! If you surrender quietly, I will stop the executions If you continue to resist, I will cut off the heads of all the Imperial soldiers here!』

「How absurd!」

Tris’s face flushes red in anger

Quietly and intently, Liz listens on, at the brink of tears

『I don’t care which you choose, because either way, you will be captured, and you will become a slave We won’t let you lead a lonely life! You will be well taken care of each and every day! Every single day!』

He begins to cut the heads off of the Imperial soldiers in an unconcerned way, as if it were some tedious work

It was an atteht

『Now, decide, Sixth Imperial Princess Celia Estreya!』

His blood-sht