Vol 2 Chapter 17 (1/2)

While Edgar was chasing the Tellestarles in his Earlecu Knights and the Red Rabbit Knights was entering its clihts was littered all over the floor, the fire shot froe

Ernesti observed the intense fight fro with joy froht now, his face was full of regret

“ They destroyed the h”

On the floor behind him were several Karrdator that were destroyed by the Copper Fang Knights Eru’s gaze kept switching between the wreckage and the battle

“Silhouette Knights are having a large scale battle in front of me, but, I don’t have a e in without one But, joining a fight between robots without piloting one is too unsightly! That’s unforgivable… But, without the all-important machine…”

Eru lifted his head towards the sky, sighing the deepest regret ever in his entire life After giving his all towards robots, he couldn’t forgive hi and not taking part But, joining the fray without a ainst his sense of aesthetics

That hy he barged into the workshop shortly after the battle started, but, he could only see wreckage all around hi him further

As he was filled with regret, the Knights in the courtyard were falling one by one, and the fight would be over if this goes on Pressured by his feelings of anxiety, he made a decision

“ Alright, I will steal aI can’t do if I put my mind to it!!”

Once he made his decision, Eru acted swiftly He fired a hu the battlefield from there closely Even with Eru’s skills, it wasoperated With the persistence of a snake, agility of an eagle and the silence of a spider, he waited for a chance to come

At thisin the corner of his eyes It wasn’t in the courtyard where the Silhouette Knights were fighting, but froate that was destroyed by the Tellestarle Looking closely, he could see two carriages hurrying in through the debris of the gate

Sooing on Eru’s puzzle as he spied soon His eyes widened with surprised for a moment, and jumped into the air The silver flash left the sound of an explosion behind and ht sky

“Hey, can’t we go faster!?”

“This is the lio any faster!!”

A carriage was sprinting along the paved road with extraordinary speed The Boss, who stuck his head out fro the student to accelerate The horses pushed to run at full speed were already foa at the mouth as they ran, roup had a reason why they were in a hurry

At this ti the Tellestarle that attacked the The Boss had to report this to the fort

But, when the group reached the vicinity of the fort, they were duned over the Acquart Forest was glowing bright in the dark from the flames that erupted all over

“Hey, what in the…”

Fortunately, they arrived at Fort Casadesus before the horses had fallen fro buildings and the intense fight between Silhouette Knights They couldn’t understand the situation and just ree at the fort frohts, bu,t there was no telling if it was safe inside, either

A silver bullet landed before them as they stood there baffled Eru used ‘air suppression’ to cushi+on his fall after leaping down fro steadily before theroup stunned, and the silver bullet asked while tilting his head:

“I ondering who it was, isn’t this the Boss? What are you doing here? This is a battlefield here”

“Ah, silver boy!! What is happening here!?”

Eru cal aardly as he explained:

“I don’t really understand, either I heard there were thieves entering the fort with Karrdators while posing as the Red Rabbit Knights They occupied the workshop, stole the Silhouette Knights and created this disaster”

As he was explaining, the flash of Overed spells and explosions continued, the chaos was still ongoing The Boss and the students listened to Eru with their back to the battlefield The expression on the Boss suddenly changed

“ Oh right, it’s the Tellestarle… We encountered Tellestarle on our way here, and they attacked us without any warning!! Edgar and Di intercepted them, but I don’t knohat happened next Were they the thieves!?”

The Boss clenched his fist furiously while Eru besides hi

“I see, so the thieves were targeting Tellestarle… No, I should say the ‘newincident’, what a bind I didn’t think such a ‘cliche’ would happen to me”

Luckily, Eru’s s were covered by the noise in the battlefield and the Boss didn’t hear it There was no telling how they would feel if they were to hear that, but right now, the Boss, who didn’t know that was full of wrath He re and turned to Eru

“And, what are you doing?”

“I aht Remember that I said the thieves occupied the workshop? The machines they didn’t used were all destroyed… I couldn’t do anything but bite on ht before me The actions of the thieves were rational, but, itto steal a Silhouette Knight… Well…”

Eru ended his explanation and looked at as behind the Boss He pointed at the wagon with an ominous smile

“The arht?”

The Boss stroked his beard The last cargo on the wagon was the blue armour only Eru could use

“Yeah, the little ones asked ht, they took off to chase the Tellestarle”

“They are here, too? And, they are chasing the Tellestarle? How envi… cough, cough, dangerous, I have to help theht now!!”

“Hey, you are enjoying this too ”

Eru gave a perfunctory acknowledgement and boarded onto his Motor beat After the chest arh its entire body and it stood up slowly as the crystal tissue contracted The Boss couldn’t see Eru, as behind the armour, but a joyous voice caine Eru’s expression

“Activation coht Let’s have a good fight I will settle things on this side and then assist theo!!”

Before finishi+ng his sentence, Motor beat jue The churning sound of the winch overlapped with the noise of co the wire anchor into the night sky, guiding Motor beat onto the battlefield Under the shi+ne of the lint that was proht from the sea of fire

The Boss spent quite a while chasing the figure of the Motor beat leaping onto the roof and running He sighed in resignation, turned around and said:

“I don’t think a duel level Demon beast is as scary as him Eh, there’s no need to sy else we can do, let’s escape”

The group ca him and rushed to the entrance of the fortThe owl hooted and the nocturnal wild aniht ht, the aura of a battle crept into the usually peaceful Acquart Forest

The giant intruder h the forest They knocked away branches getting in their way, flattening everything under their feet, shaking the ground Kerhild Hietakangas, the Captain of the Copper Fang Knights had a sour face while piloting her sprinting Silhouette Knight— Tellestarle She tightened her grip on the control stick and relaxed the pedal which was pushed to the limits

“Tch! It would be bad to continue running like this”

From Fort Casadesus to this place, she had piloted Tellestarle and ran for quite a long distance That hy she noticed the n that theup

There was still quite so the rendezvous point with the Wendebadalla If she carried on like this, the mana would be exhausted before she reached the destination and forced to stop all h the power output was— No, the high power output, the new models was the cause for the h est weakness still remained unresolved Kerhild didn’t care about all this, instead of the theory; she wasmana

“We probably can’t run any ht”

If she pushed on, there was a good chance her ht up At that point, they would definitely lose even if the opponent wasn’t a new model She decided to crush the pursuers co would lead to an inevitable defeat Clicking her tongue, she gave a gesture to her underlings, stopped the Tellestarle and turned around Apart fro of the ether reactor, the forest was quiet once again Kerhild glared at the approaching white Silhouette Knight on the holocasually

On the pilot seat of Earlecuar saw the Tellestarle decelerating and smiled

“ It see low”

The two Tellestarle gave up on escaping and waited for Edgar to coar’s guess was spot on

“We still have plenty of e in that area I will attack straight on, you till focus on disruption and support Do not charge in!!”

The Silhouette gear running by the feet of the Silhouette Knight saluted half-heartedly and disappeared into the forest Edgar suppressed his sigh and focused on the Tellestarle, atte to conceal the moveh the forest, creating a large explosion when they hit the trees But, Earlecu the distance fearlessly

“Tch! He saw right through us!!”

Realising the shots from the back weapon were just a waste ofit Unlike the Red Rabbit Knights, the cadet was inexperienced, but, faher opponent than she had anticipated All the tactics Kerhild could think of ithin the expectations of the eneh her machine had better performance, she was still pushed to this point

“Split up, pincer attack!”

She decided to fight honestly in the end, utilising their advantage in number to its fullest The band member nodded and attacked Earlecumber

In the dark forest, it was easy to find a Silhouette Knight that reflects light faintly The presence of a ten meter tall body was difficult to conceal even in the darkness Edgar noticed the pincer formation from the Tellestarles i hiar closed in on one of the enemy— the Tellestarle piloted by Kerhild

There was no way the Tellestarle would stay at the sa its position Earlecu two htto flank to the back of Earlecue as theyfor the best position

So around the forest, concealed by the noise of the three Silhouette Knights It was an arht— the Silhouette gear, Motor beat Chid and Ady hid the quietly froht’s attack range, observing fro heart

Looking froe…

Chid spent a lot of time with Eru in the pilot faculty, so he had plenty of chances to see Silhouette Knights and had gotten used to the it as a hostile enemy, the machine’s size and prowess hts were the strongest weapon of humanity, which meant there were no other huht The ability of the Silhouette gears were still unknown, but, judging frohts

A strong and big adversary… When Eru was fighting the Behemoth, it probably felt like this

Chid took a deep breath, drawing the sword from the back of his machine, as if he wanted to sever the fear in his heart The blade was longer than two metres, an oversized two handed sword There wasn’t any weapon that suited a Silhouette gear; this was soiant sword that was difficult for ht size in the hands of the Silhouette gear

I can’t run now The people who took Tellestarle are infuriating, I will never catch up tO teacher if I back do, let’s do this!!

Chid breathed in deeply and rested the sword on his shoulder So herself with her ballista, and waved at her with his sword

“Okay, let’s do this!”

Chid’s Motor Beat raised its ar The arrow head with crystal tissue built inside flew to the top of the trees nearby, embedded into a Y-shaped tree fir Ady, as one step behind ca her portable ballista

“We need to ‘support’ properly!”

Chid’s Motor beat reached the top of the trees, kicked at the branch, and charged ahead At the sae Steel arrows flew through the air, splitting it

The two Tellestarles worked in concert, forcing Earlecumber into a corner Earlecu a few steps back If the situation didn’t improve, the pilots would be under treEarlecu a serious expression and strong concentration He was at an overwhel for the chance to counterattack His strong determination frustrated Kerhild and her minions who outnumbered him

The opportunity presented itself at this moment

Kerhild and the Copper Fang ns of otherto attack the back of Earlecu in, he aimed the sword at Earlecumber’s back

After taking the first step, so flashed between Earlecuht in the woods, that thing reflected a threatening htthe entire tree

“An attack!? Enemy reinforcement!!”

The shocked KnightThere was another force beside them and they were clearly hostile to the Tellestarles This was a huge surprise to them, as the Tellestarle could afford to do a pincer attack because of their nue The appearance of another ene them hesitant to proceed as they searched for the unseen enemy

Seeing this, the twins smiled The attack just now halted the ht)Chid’s Motor beat was ht’s head, kicking off the trees to accelerate It then raised its sword, ai for the head of the Tellestarle

“Woooahhh!!”

As the Knighthu speed The unexpected attack surprised hi the body of the machine The machine stopped in its tracks and turned its head unnaturally The extended two handed sword stabbed at the inside of the hel sounds and sparks The Silhouette Knights were tough with its utilisation of physical boost e, the crystal eye was as good as new But, the unnatural evasive movement made the Tellestarle lose its balance

The twins didn’t let this good chance get away and continued attacking Ady’s Motor beat was standing firravity as she ai without hesitation Lock and load, whenever the dull sound of energy being released was heard, giant arrows that could easily be iven her the bearings, allowing Ady to unleash a storm of arrows at the unbalanced Tellestarle

Seeing the Copper Fang Knighttoyed by the attacks froed his cautious approach and closed in on Kerhild’sthe twins could hold up the Knight member’s machine, so he had to fully utilise this opportunity and take some risks

“Prepare to die!”

The sudden ambush and the cadet itched to the offensive made Kerhild even more frustrated

“These rascals!! Don’t look down on us!!”

Unlike the hesitation earlier, the Tellestarle’s sas full of terrifying power The change was incredible

Facing this attack, Earlecue and took the hit head on Tellestarle’s poas on par with the heavier ar will definitely lose in a direct confrontation Other than ar Tellestarle’s sword for an instant This was Edgar’s anti new model skill he came up with from his past experience It would be useless once the opponent became aware of it, so, he couldn’t repeat it too often; it was a double edged sword That’s why Edgar chose to show his hand to his adversary at the very beginning The stalemate would be broken once the Tellestarle used more power Before the Tellestarle could do that, Earlecu the Tellestarle’s sword along with it

“This guy!?”

Earlecu the shi+eld withdrew, and pushed out towards the Tellestarle with great force This was known as a kite shi+eld, the diah it was blunt, it still ar aimed for the arm The arms were closely related to the attack power, and structurally speaking, they eaker than the other parts

A weird sound came from the arm of the Tellestarle The idea of a follow up attack flashed through Edgar’s mind, but he turned and backed away instead The next second, a barrage of spells fro moments earlier

“It’s not going that well…”

Edgar observed his opponent cal The enemy didn’t realise his shock and retracted the back weapon and didn’t pursue Edgar’s earlier attack didn’t cause critical daripped tightly in its hand Tellestarle’s calar’s shock into caution

“My apologies to you, cadet”

The Tellestarle said suddenly There was no ear even more cautious

“To be honest, I had been underesti you because you are a cadet In the end, you have proven to be really capable”

The movement of the Tellestarle became slower as it took up a stance, the stiffness in its movement disappeared Even with an unfa such a long distance with it That’s right, she was the Coular Order of Knights, but the title wouldn’t be bestowed on one without ability

“As otten rusty fro of the copper snake’!!”

Before she finished speaking, Tellestarle attacked with movements that were faster than her initial strike The fierce attack was sudden and took everything Earlecumber had to withstand it

“Strong! It’s a tough opponent!!”

Earlecumber kept a safe distance and defended with its shi+eld probing the next step it should make The white and steel colored Silhouettewith the roar of their machines

The Copper Fang Knights ht between Earlecurily from an unexpected development of events:

“These things keep squir around!”

He could hear the sound of his ene it hard to deter his sildly in frustration, but didn’t hit theiant lance hit the outer skin of the Tellestarle, causing sparks

This situation had been going on for quite some ti around the forest; the other firing arrows as big as a lance froether seaht member around completely

The size of the adversaries was ht, but this was an advantage in concealing oneself in the forest, helping with the sneak attacks Their individual attacks were nothing insignificant against the Silhouette Knight’s arher than it looks But, a hit to the joints would be critical even for a Silhouette Knight

They couldn’t deal significant daerous presence that couldn’t be ignored Unfortunately, the Copper Fang Knight thought the opponents were too s at the enee of lance attacks fell on his unguarded back

The worst thing was the Tellestarle he was piloting had Silhouette ar and low endurance couldn’t withstand the burst of lances, and lost its functionality froe

Realising things were getting dangerous; the Copper Fang Knight went on the defensive But, it was too late The Tellestarle had lost one of its advantages Even though he adopted a defensive position, it resulted in hi attacked one sidedly

The Copper Fang Knight member was as furious as a wild beast pricked in the butt, and he thought about how to take down these da distance attacks was cautious and kept a certain distance, and would flee if he went near He should dispose of the opponent in ’s movement, or at least keep up with the opponent’s speed with his eyes, the plan would end there While the Knight was forcing his er to think, the ene his wrath

Suddenly, a ray of h the trees onto the Tellestarle’s crystal eye The Knight saw the ie captured by the holo monitor and inspiration struck His expression was like a wild beast that found a prey and couldn’t wait to pounce

After his nu the tough Silhouette Knight Basically, Silhouette gear had about the same attack power as huhts with it Even though Chid tried increasing speed and aih to allow that

Edgar senpai is right, we could only stall for tih, but I still can’t—

Chid’s Motor beat accelerated by swinging on the wire anchor and jumped He released the arrow head ereat force Chid focused and kicked at the tree branch to accelerate, attacking the Tellestarle that had turned around to defend against the attack fro for the shoulder joints was blocked, ending in failure

As Chid’s Motor beat was preparing to retreat, the Tellestarle behind wasin a different way than before It had probably lost its coetation was thick in this area; the rando from the strand crystal tissue bashed the trees and branches, sending it all over the place

“What’s with that, it’s dangerous—”

Does he really think it will hit just by swinging wildly? Chid felt the pilot of the Tellestarle had lost his cool and laughed lightly He understood how his opponent felt, as Chid couldn’t bring the Tellestarle down and was troubled, too The Tellestarle kept repeating itssome of the trees, but it didn’t affect Chid’sChid approached the Tellestarle once again

Just as the Knight expected, the Silhouette gear reflected the e of the trees It was bright in the diht, atching the surroundings

“There you are!! Found you!!”

The Knight as toyed with swung his sith all his ht It was a fatal situation for the Motor beat that was using the darkness of the forest and its se directions, but the sword swinging doas faster than him The irony was that this attack, which contained all the hate and anger of the Knight was more powerful than any of his previous attacks

“Chid—!”

Ady stared idened eyes and screa action, but, it was too late to attack with theon to faint hope and ran

Chid felt all the blood in his body flowing backwards as he stared at the sword of the giant that was closing in with frightening speed He re It was related to his teacher— Eru The advantage Eru has, was his agility and ic abilities Didn’t Eru teach him the spell to ‘accelerate in mid-air without footholds’?

“Waarrgghhh!!”

Silhouette gears was a structure made from metal frame and operated by crystal tissue, while crystal tissues were a catalyst that acted as a ic

Chid kicked out his legs strongly, channelling his s At the same tiards to force or control, the burst of air exploded like a bomb The spell named by Eru as Air Thrust violently twisted the iant’s blade went through the space Chid’s Motor beat was in moments earlier with destructive force

“Wooahhh—!?”

Chid who almost died under the sent out of control inin the air like Eru, and couldn’t follow up after forcing hi on a lifeline, Chid shot out his wire anchor as he was spinning out of control

Fortunately, the wire anchor latched into a tree branch securely, and would allow Chid to regain his balance by retracting it But, before Chid could put this into action, he faced the proble out

“Kya!”

The wire anchor that had been pulled to itsed its direction to the side It was anchored to a tree by the wires, spinning around it in al force, Chidand screaht andfrom his earlier ic taught by Eru personally— and used the air to slow hiround Chid, as about to crash heavily into the ground“Phew… That was close… really close…”

Because he was using large amounts of mana recklessly, Chid panted hard to replenish hisheart as he stood up It’s not just the drop in his mana that made him tremble; the near death experience played a part, too