Chapter 37 (2/2)

“A desperate barrier using carriages, huh? Pay theh!”

It see on defending the Eastern Gate so much that they would not be able to defend the Western Gate properly had been spot on Although the fast thinking to try to stop the advance of the tanks using carriages was commendable, the defense was too weak to stop these tanks The captain of Tank No 4 gloated and gave the order to advance

The battering rae their way forward, and the carriage started to give way, creaking But then it suddenly stopped, and the loud noise of the tank h pitched whine and the sound of ain

“What happened!?”

“Controls unresponsive! This isthe gears are slipping–”

“It’s oil! Oil is spread on the stone pavement, and we can’t move forward!”

The plan Basclay had come up was to spread oil all over the paveate intentionally, luring in the tank and then sealing itsthe carriages into their proper place in such a short time could not have been possible without Kou’s help And then–

“Alright! Set it on fire!”

They threw heaps of dried grass soaked in oil on the tank that was stuck, surrounded by carriages, turning its wheels in vain, and then set fire to it The tank was built to withstand light fire attacks too, but the grass was a special s, and the tank was soon completely enveloped by smoke

“Vuouau” Here we go

The tank tried to escape by turning around, but since it was surrounded with carriages laden with heavy stones, it couldn’t move much at all Then the other tank caap in it’s ar a connecting mechanism, it then attached itself to the body of the first tank, which was surrounded by fla the first tank with it

“Close the gate! Put out those flaineers and Kou, as soon the space is cleared, !”

Co out orders Before the tanks that had retreated recovered and charged again, they were going to start on the next plan The half burned carriages were ate to act as a barricade, and taking the fact that the tank could break through the the pave a hole The earth had already been plowed up where the tank wheels had dug in, so they were going to use that as a starting point to dig efficiently

“Hurry it up! The depth will be fine at about 1 Luuka Make sure that shape of the hole is such that the tank cannot climb back out”

“Vuuouoau” I’ too~

When Kou started to help with the digging, in ale way of digging, as the earth that was supposed to be coh to completely encapsulate that tank was prepared The tanks were constructed in such a way that if one fell into the hole, the other would not be able to go over it to cross the hole

It was quite different froinal plan, but in a way Commander Basclay’s plan to use the enehtly different form

“Great work, Kou We’ll be fine here now, so go reinforce the Eastern Gate”

“Vuuavuau” Got it

Urged by Basclay as now extruding the atic Wheel and headed towards the Eastern Gate to help Elemerl and the others

The walls of the Eastern Gate which was undertaking the full brunt of the attack by the Na’Hato because of the attacks of flame barrels and the mechanized tanks

“Get away fro to collapse!”

“Ene to fire arrows!”

“Fire back!”

One of the mechanized bow that Kou had torn off the tank was set up in theof a building near the gate, and one of the bowmen positioned there fired of an arrow The enemy fired off a volley of arrows that lers that were late in getting away from the wall, but because e was ate and the wall had already crumbled under attack by the tanks

“The tanks are blocked by the rubble, and can’t co to rush in Get ready to intercept them!”

“Alright, it’s our turn!”

The Adventurer’s and the Defense unit lead by Gashe rushed forward, and getting into the the streets assigned to the troops And soon after, the Na’Hato a battle cry The soldier that had been the serving as the first one through was i with the mechanized bow

“Don’t let them into the city! Push them back! Don’t let them remove the rubble!”

“Elmerl! An attack froerous there!”

Even if they were blocked by the rubble, the tanks could still fire thereoff round after round like an artillery battery With their backs to a wall, the guards equipped with shi+elds protected their leader Elh, but they wouldn’t last long under the constant fire from the tanks

El, and the arrows then began targeting the other Adventurers and the Defense unit

“Uwaaa! Th-This is bad!”

“We’ve got to do so about these arrows firstCh!”

As the Defense unit got busy dodging the arrows froin re the rubble If this went on, the tanks and the enemy soldiers would enter the city They tried to concentrate arrows and ic attacks on the tanks, but even when the tank received a direct hit froic attack, it didn’t even move What wasfire from the mechanized bows in the area where the attack ca less and less frequent, and didn’t even amount to diversions

“This is badWe have to drop the attack power of the tanks somehow”

Suddenly, the tank just in front of the gate changed his target and began firing at so at the far end of the street, as if it had noticed so When El over to them from the other end of the street

“Vuuouvuvuoovuaau” Elmerl-saaaann!

“Kou! What happened to the defense of the Western Gate?”

Sliding through the rain of arrows that resulted from the concentrated fire, Kou joined up with Elmerl and explained to her that the situation at the Western Gate had been mostly resolved, so he had been come back to help them

“Vuououo?” The wall looks a bit broken, you know?

“Ahh, we’re in a bit of trouble hereIt looks like you’re unaffected by the arrows Can’t you silence that thing over there?”

“Vuoua?” I just have to break it?

“Well, if the tank stops er”

Nodding, Kou confir in a position where his allies would not get caught up in the fire before taking out the internal-coe And then, ai the rubble around theer

In answer to the tanks’ incessant firing, Kou began to return the favour a hundred ti bullets on them As the bullets impacted they let out smoke and sparks They e aet the Na’Hatome forces to prepare to flee

The soldiers clearing the rubble all decided that this was too much and retreated behind the fallen wall and hid themselves in the shadow of the tank

Using the Magic Wheel, Kou i the internal-coic weapon that he had used just as a diversion in his diic Haift froed pretty easily if you tore off its armor and hit it If that was the case, then he could just use this Magic Ha with it’s armor

First of all, he would aiear shaped wheels on the side of the tank to stop it in its tracks Aih, and then swinging it doards he pressed the switch on the handle, igniting the internal-coh pitched whistle-like sound, the head of the hammer was explosively propelled forwards and doards from the explosive forces expelled out the back and buried itself into the side of the tank

“The ared!”

“shi+t! What is with that superhuth! Retreat at full speed!”

With its re wheels, the tank tried to retreat Kou nih above his head, dealt another blow to the tank The rear arht and stopped whilenoises

“Tank No 3 is down!”

“Rescue the crew and retrieve the tank body! We have to do soolem”

The other tank retreated a bit and pointed it’s battering ra off the mechanized bow off of the body of Tank No 3, the tank accelerated towards him Hmm, how should I deal with this? Kou pondered Just before the tank made contact, he pulled the coe

Because the huge body of the golely coht that they had defeated it and began to cheer

Ele Kou had been causing, and took this chance when the eneanized her own forces In the battle the other day, Kou had had disappeared after destroying the tank, only to turn up later Elmerl knew that Kou was an immortal existence and was not worried

“Retrieve the wounded and carry them to the rear! Ask Richello and the others to heal them! Gashe, you and your unit block that hole in the wall! The rest, reate!”

The front of the gate was conveniently blocked by the body of the destroyed tank, so Elmerl sent the Defense unit to the hole in the wall, and then turned her attention to the Na’Hato to retrieve the body of the tank

With a loud bang, the ar the roof of the tank flew off It was the tank that had used the battering ram and then came to the rescue of the other tank As both allies and ene what had just happened, the rear door of the tank opened and the tank crew ca out Fro banging, and the tank body continued shaking for a while, after which the side ar out

What the hell is that!? Is what both allies and eneht The next instant, “that” gole the Na’Hatouard to rejoice

Kou had passed through the tank in his spirit body as it had charged at it, and getting inside the body of the tank, he had deployed the coe from inside the tank You alole

Having lost their tanks, and so their et pushed back Just then, a ate

“Reinforcements from Curacall have arrived!”

TLN: End of the 7th Arc, “Invasion of the Na’Hatoe thanks to Rujikorn Lertvorapreecha who sponsored chapter 36 and 37, and made sure the Arc reached it’s conclusion