Chapter 2.2 - The defensive War with a Large Disparity in Military strength of Oran City Part 2 (1/2)
Located in the southern part of Ximengsi Continent, Oran City, the capital city of Owles Kingdom, faced an unprecedented crisis as the Augusta Empire’s vanguard army attacked the city walls. Although there were only a bit over a thousand enemy soldiers, the number of defenders was even less than the original hundred soldiers who had stayed behind as the royals had fled. Upon seeing the wave of Augusta Empire’s Black Knights charging toward them, many who had never experienced war simply tossed aside their flimsy chest plates and weapons and fled. Now, the defenders atop the wall numbered two.
“Really! These cowards are all just useless goods!”
“Big Brother Clyde, aren’t you alone enough? If those useless teammates had stayed behind, they would have just been a burden.”
“Lucifer, I think you too could take care of this alone.”
“That’s impossible. Fighting, killing—I don’t like such things.”
Clyde looked at the smiling Lucifer leaning on the city wall beside him. He absolutely didn’t agree with her; that this bloodkin Lolita didn’t like to fight and kill was absolutely a lie. It was impossible for an existence of her level to be peace-loving and live freely beneath the sunlight. After all, that time when they had met for the first time, a squad of Light Church had been chasing her. Although Clyde still didn’t know the reason for that, he knew enough to suspect that something about her was incredibly valuable, enough so that she’d have to kill to protect herself.
Augusta Empire’s vanguard of Black Knights quickly rushed over, and the worn-out city gate of Oran City simply crumpled beneath their onslaught. The first war-horse directly rammed it and broke through, rearing in the square just behind the splintered gate. Clyde casually grabbed a dropped sword, jumped down from above the city gate and met the enemy head-on. He didn’t know any martial skills, so he simply hacked at the enemy.
When the Black Knights’ war-horses approached Clyde, although they had undergone rigorous training, they were still so scared by his mysterious power that they collapsed and died, their mouths frothing in terror. The Black Knights who were caught unprepared directly fell down from the war-horses. Seeing their sprawled forms, Clyde took advantage of their vulnerability and quickly walked over before slamming his sword down. However, since their black armor belonged to the heavy armor category, the sword he brandished shattered upon striking their formidable armor. Amid the sound of breaking steel, not a scratch was left on that polished black armor.
“This level of weapon can’t cut through our armor, fool! You… cough cough!”
“What did you say? I couldn’t hear.”
Clyde threw the sword’s hilt away and directly punched the knight, interrupting his mockery. A bloody hole appeared on the speaking Black Knight’s chest, and he died on the spot, unable to complete his sentence. Upon seeing this, the other Black Knights were stunned. The armor they wore could easily block arrows shot from even general-level crossbows, yet this fellow could actually pierce through their black armor with his bare hands. His fighting power was too abnormal!
While the Black Knights were absent-mindedly digesting the frightening event, Clyde swung his fists around and attacked all the knights within his range, killing quite a few Black Knights before they could move. Because the city gate was not too big, only one or two people could pass through at a time, and none could enter since Clyde had blocked the only path into the city. In this situation, the Black Knights were unable to display the advantage of their superior numbers and were forced to fight Clyde one-on-one. Soon, a dozen or so Black Knights had died in Clyde’s hands. The path through the destroyed city gate was quickly littered with the corpses of Black Knights and became even more crowded, making fighting Clyde even more difficult.
“Damn, this fellow is at least a S-ranked mercenary. Quickly retreat! We’ll enter the city from different directions. He can’t block everywhere.”
Upon seeing that they couldn’t break in via the city gate, they turned around to retreat, planning to smash through the wall in multiple places so Clyde wouldn’t be able to react. Unfortunately, their decision to retreat was a little too late. From the city wall, Lucifer launched a magic attack. With a roar, a ball made up of strange bright-red flames fell from the sky. That fireball seemed to have consciousness and automatically flew toward the fleeing Black Knights. Upon contact, those Black Knights would burn on the spot, leaving only their wails of pain behind as their ashes floated down.
“Retreat! They have a magician! Retreat!”