Volume 7 Chapter 5 (1/2)
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Chapter Five: The Ancient City of Saxe-Gotha
Roughly a mile out fro area for the assault, the three hundred and fifty troops of the De Vineuil Battalion were awaiting the horn to signal the beginning of the attack
Today, fifteen days after the landing, the allied ar their offensive
Leading the 2nd Co intently at the mist-covered city of Saxe-Gotha
“Company commander, sir!”
The sergeant on guard at his side, Nicola, spoke in a soft tone
“W-hat is it?” Guiche stammered
“You dropped your wand”
Guiche immediately looked below at his feet and saw his rose-shaped wand lying on the ground
He frantically picked it back up and shoved it into his chest pocket, while trying to maintain the solemn expression on his face
“Company commander, sir!”
“W-what is it?”
“Although it ht not be o take a leak first”
Guiche ilared at him and exclaimed,
“I’ve already gone!”
“That’s good, then,” Nicola replied while grinning
“There’s nothing to be nervous about According to the reports in the past few days, the enemy’s cannons have all been destroyed by our fleet’s bouard the streets”
“Those d-demi-humans are incredibly ferocious, and their bodies are massive”
“But they are foes that are incredibly easy to lure into traps,” Nicola re ahead
Guiche observed the s a musket This was the first real battle he had participated in, and there was no one else he could rely on With such thoughts in his er than any lunkhead he knew
“However… from where could we start our assault? The whole city is surrounded by those huge rock walls…”
Hearing Guiche’s concern, Nicola nodded his head
“So to come to ‘open a route’ for us soon”
After so by, a fleet of battleshi+ps appeared in the skies above The ten battleshi+ps, by then all neatly lined up in a row, proceeded to bo battleshi+ps’ firepower, the enemy was completely powerless
“Boom—! Boom—! Boom—!” Accompanied by the thunderous roar of cannon fire and thick clouds of san to cru fro area Under the barrage of cannon fire, the walls along the battlements collapsed
And then, appearing right in front of their eyes, was a group of huge olems
“They ht to himself
Since he hioleh they were slightly s Dirt, whoe The hly twentycloser to the collapsed walls
On the backs of thethe family e a fast them, instinctively yelled out loud,
“T-that's olem!”
Iton its back bore the emblem of the Gramont family, ‘A Rose and Panther’
At that instant, with a whoosh, a large object of so the wall Wha a gaping hole The golem immediately lost its balance, and collapsed into a heap onto the ground The ole many of them as they were struck by its fire
“What in the world was that?” Guiche gasped
“It’s a giant ballista,” Nicola replied immediately “I’m afraid they're probably operated by the orcs It's a three iant bolts If a human were to be struck by it, they would surely be sned to be used against people”
Guiche worriedly watched his brother’s gole, but fortunately, the
“Is the Company Commander aGuiche’s excitement
“I’est son”
Hearing Guiche’s reply, Nicola's eyes opened wide in astonishment
“That ht you to a lowly musket battalion like ours? With your father’s naimental headquarters, wouldn’t you be able to join any battalion you desire?”
“If I were to use er because of my merit?” Guice replied as he looked to the front
Nicola was unable to say anything, but after a while, he grinned and slapped Guiche’s shoulder
“I like your kind of attitude, youngback holory!”
Soon after, a squadron of dragon knights arrived as well Heading straight towards the ballistae on the battleon fire, they quickly silenced the ballistae
Finally arriving at the foot of the collapsed wall, which had been turned into rubble by the cannon fire earlier, theaway the rubble
“They'rean entrance”
His h that entry Guiche’s entire body began to tremble uncontrollably
“You're shaking?”
“…E-even though I would really like to say it's due to the exciteh…”
“Heh, being honest is a good thing, you will never succeed on reckless courage alone But, you can’t be too cowardly either Regardless, just let me take care of it”
Nicola raised his hands towards the roughly hundred musketeers behind hiuard This cohly hundred and fifty men, were the soldiers under the command of Guiche
“Prie—!”
The musketeers then leisurely loaded their barrels with bullets and gunpowder
“Coht this?” Nicola pulled a length of slow match towards Guiche
Guiche nodded, and cast an ‘Ignite’ spell on the cord Acco, a burning s in the air Nicola called a soldier over, and handed the ignited cord over to be distributed ast the other soldiers
“This is a slow iven by our couished!”
The response that returned lacked any sense of enthusiasm
Ruolems cleared away the wall At that moment, Nicola poked Guiche in the waist and said,
“Coo”
Raising his hile still tre, Guiche yelled out,
“G-G-Gramont Company, forward!”
The veteranfootsteps It was only then that Guiche realised – it was only his own coe hadn’t been passed down from the top yet!
“Hey, Sergeant—“ He was about to voice his co Nicola’s calm and confident expression
Once a co, it was almost impossible to halt their advance, and thus they could only continueforward
A few seconds later, an order to “Charge!” resounded from the ranks behind
Like a surging tidal wave, soldiers, knights, and assorted others all stormed in their direction
“We're all old veterans after all If we don’t start out a bit earlier, on’t be able to keep up”
Probably because they had set out earlier, Guiche’s co the battle into the city
“But ere the first to get here!” Guiche shouted as he prepared to storrabbed him
Ied in were sent flying back out together with theirin front of Guiche in a miserable state It see orcs, waiting for simple-minded fools like them to deliver themselves to their doom
Enormous monsters with a size at least five tiroup of orcs spotted Guiche's party and immediately storone treasure-hunting with everyone; how they had been aolems had been pummelled into oblivion by them back then
A sense of dread welled up within him
“Fire! Fire! Quickly, fire!” Guiche began to yell frantically
“Don’t fire just yet! Couy furthest at the back! Quickly!”
Then, acting accordingly to what he had said, Guiche waved his artificial rose Erupting fro of the orc at the back
With a ”Crash!+” right in the middle of the narrow breach in the wall, the orc tripped over
“1st platoon! The leading group is your target! Fire!”
Without delay, Nicola issued the order to pour volley fire onto the orc at the head of the approaching group
The thirty or soorc, shredding it to a honeycoround as well, blocking the advance of the group behind theo, Nicola bellowed his next order without hesitation
“2nd platoon! Fire—!”
Although the orcs were capable of waving their clubs about even after a barrage of bullets, they still couldn’t endure the impact of the dozens of bullets fired at such close quarters
The orcs which were trailing behind decided to retreat, but between the narrow breach of the wall and the orc at the rear that had been knocked to the ground by Guiche’s ic, they were unable to move At the front, they were obstructed by the corpses of their allies Just as they stuh, they were greeted with the volley fire of the re musketeers
The last few re pikemen and were quickly eliminated
Staring at the twenty or so orc corpses on the ground, Guiche exclaimed in admiration,
“S-so powerful”
While he instructed the rin
“It's because these guys are very si straight at them”
The veteran sergeant laughed as he patted Guiche’s shoulder
“Cohest merit”
And just like that, the ragtag Battalion demonstrated an extraordinary level of solidarity Meanwhile on another front, was the solitary ”trump card” of the allied army
It was Louise and her familiar
Saxe-Gotha was built upon a relatively high mountain Encircled on all sides by a wall, a main road shaped like a five-pointed star was constructed within Legend says that this was the first city built by the Founder on the continent of Albion; Whether this was the truth or not was impossible to know
However, it was only the five roads of that pentagran, within it was a complex of countless side streets and disorderly alleyways It was no different than the other cities that could be seen all over Halkeginia
At the h a ser firrasp, followed closely by the various uise
Chasing the ogres; both were giants that hly five meters tall
Fortunately, this being a s to squeeze through Because they were crashi+ng through protruding walls and s alike as they chased through, it took them quite a while If it had been a wide open plain instead, Louise and theht up to in an instant
To find out why Louise was running back and forth through the in from the mission that they had accepted
In the simplest sense, their objective coincided with that of the assaulting main force: Infiltrate the city froinal purpose was to use ”Illusion” to create a phanto the enemy into disarray…
“Why did you have to suddenly yell out like that?! Hey!” shouted Louise as she ran
Three hours ago, they had snuck into the city under the cover of darkness
“Didn’t I already tell you? No matter what you see, don’t act surprised! Hey!”
“B-but It's too big! That troll thing! That ogre or so!”
The thing is, Louise’s Voidincantation period
Just as she was chanting the incantation on a street corner whilst pretending to be preaching, an Albion noble responsible for patrolling went over to inquire:
“Who are you people supposed to be?”
“We are participants in the Founder’s Rite of Passage, which has brought us to this ancient city of Saxe-Gotha We wish for Albion to achieve victory, so we are currently praying to the heavens”
Although René had said so without blinking an eye, the patrolling ician, with a peculiar expression, still asked
“Don’t tell me you're spies sent by Tristain and Germania?!”
Louise hastily shook her head rapidly
René also shook his head
Then Saito, noticing the huge troll standing behind the ician, inadvertently cried out loud:
“It's so big! Just what is it?”
The ht his face close to Saito, who had unwittingly cried out “A very rarely seen face”
I’ht posture The ician meticulously measured Saito up
“Let me ask you - who is the General that commands the 2nd Army of the Holy Republic of Albion?”
Saito tensed up
A general!? How a around him, all he could see were the beads of the sweat on everyone’s foreheads crap, the success of the mission depends all on eneral’s name is
The ene fiercely at him, and said,
“What’s wrong? You don’t know? You don’t even know the name of the General who protects this place? Do you really hail from Albion? Spit it out!!”
Saito’s ed into disarrayhis mind was completely blank
“Tokugawa Ieyasu”
He eneral’s names, he only knew this one
“What Tokugawa Ieyasu?! Where’s he froive a more appropriate answer?!” shouted Louise as she ran
“It’s not like there was another choice! He was the only one I knew!”
“Whatever, I won’t blame you for now”
No, rather it was all his fault, but nothing could be done now Louise continued,
“But why didn’t you just take care of them like usual? There was only a few of them!”
When Saito had replied “Tokugawa Ieyasu”, the“Suspicious persons!” and launching a surprise attack with the troll
Saito was originally going to block their attacks but was sent flying by the troll in one hit