Chapter 75 - Confusion (1/2)

Chapter 75 – Confusion

【Schwarz]

I didn’t understand what happened.

If you think about it, it all started with the words from the woman named Yuri.

She spoke as if more reinforcements existed, but her statement was equally confusing for us, her allies, as well.

After all, in the middle of this desperate situation, she suggested to the Emperor that it might be better for him to step down from the throne.

This woman might be insane.

I wasn’t the strange one to think so. Certainly, Yuri and Ditzen occasionally talked about something like that behind us, but since the situation progressed to this stage, it’s surely nothing but a sham.

With the skills of the Emperor, a veteran of hundreds of battles, we were brilliantly corned to this throne room. Behind us was a horde of soldiers, impossible to break through, in front of us an impregnable wall of court magicians and knights of the imperial guard.

And even the Aifa, on whom we counted, was taken hostage.

If there was a force about which Yuri has spoken, in this situation it was a long overdue to throw it into the fray. Because it obviously would be of no use if we all were to be arrested here.

But that confusion of mine was shattered by a thunderous roar and piercing shockwave.

The sturdy doors of the throne room, that could repel even high-level magic, were smashed along with stone walls like thin wooden planks.

Don’t tell me they brought a battering ram inside the castle?

Such silly thoughts surfaced in my mind and immediately disappeared.

「Shoot fire arrows!」

「No, ice or stone lances! Don’t allow them into the throne room!」

With that shout, several spells rushed towards the destroyed entrance, but all of them disappeared in an instant.

As I stood stunned, unable to grasp what was going on, Fiatora sent me flying with a kick from aside.

「Wha—」

With such ease, even though I’m wearing armor… Is this really a woman’s power?!

I rolled on the ground with those thoughts and then raised my head. A silver blade swung down there.

I reflexively moved, seeing the blade in front of me.

「Kuh!」

Deflecting the blade I kick the attacking knight in the gut.

「Schwarz-sama! To the back!」

Fiatora screamed while firing off spells, knocking away two knights approaching me.

「Thank you…!」

I replied while retreating. I feel a bit pathetic having young magicians stand in front, but for the future of the Empire, I cannot afford to die.

「However, we won’t be able to get through this crisis just because we received a bit of reinforcement…」

I said while recovering and raising my head looked in front of me.

My perception of the situation was quickly overturned.

Because when I noticed, half of the knights were already scattered by unknown golems.

The golems were moving at a speed that would not allow knights to avoid… No, at a speed that even I, who stood at a considerable distance, had trouble following with my eyes.

Surely a bit small for golems, but even so, they were too fast.

「…Wha, What, What? What is going on……?!」