The Death Mage That Doesnt Want A Fourth Time 61 (2/2)
They’re already half-disordered… To think that a huile Zakkart apparently once spoke of using the power of the people to help each other, but…
Isla, as officially nothing h behind her helle spear She began to wonder whether there had been any point in enduring the feelings of constraint in order to sneak into the expedition ar so
“Isla-sama, should we make our moves on our own?” her aide asked quietly
Isla reconsidered her previous thoughts “No, ill proceed like this,” she replied “It is not as if there has been any harth, their numbers This is not a problem”
The reason Isla gave this answer, and the reason the expedition’s leaders were so thoughtlessly outraged, was one and the same
They wouldn’t lose Victory was still assured
They were all still aware of this
Each of the soldiers in the expedition ar a Rank 3 monster on their own There were six thousand such soldiers There was even an A-class adventurer and a Va specialist on top of that
The ene the enemy, but only a tiny portion of the expedition army are of that
And as for the number of enemies under the Dhahold had heard numerous ti Talosheim
A Spiritualist Dhampir and his subordinate Ghouls that would nuathered some more subordinates, there was no way that their numbers would exceed this expedition army Soht be ae in, incapable of any organized movements
That hy that at this point in tile er
“I feel like this was more effective than I’d expected… I had lots of other plans in case this didn’t work, but whatever,” Vandalieu said to himself
The expedition ar their forhting their battle against their persistent eneate
“Now then, third wall… commence attack,” Vandalieu whispered, now that plenty of eneht to move back to the second wall
“That brat, he’s runni– what the hell?!”
As Riley and the rest of the ar It had indeed been worn out, but they hadn’t expected it to collapse all at once They stopped unconsciously in surprise
“It was a trap!” Gordan shouted “But he was too hasty; it see to trap us under the collapsed wall, but we are still too far away!”
The breaching unit had taken soe, but their ht be broken, they would not die
Now all that was left to do was to cliht, but the eyes of every single member of the expedition army widened
They could now see that on the other side of the collapsed wall, there was another, white wall, slightly shorter in height but sturdy-looking
“Wha–?! There was nothing in thetalls!” shouted Chezare
“da you to pull the troops back!” Mauvid said, urging hiive the command
“Indeed… Archers, back up the breaching unit as they retreat! Each unit should te orders, Chezare makes a foolish sound of confusion
The wall they had thought to be collapsed had stood up
Letting out resentful groans, Stone Golems and Rock Golems that had been part of the wall stood up There were easily more than a thousand of them
The stone men ran towards each unit of the expedition arested they couldto strike the soldiers down
“R-retreat! Retreat!”
“UOOOH! Raise your shi+elds! Show them your front, not your back!”
“Maintain your formations, where’s the pride of the heavy infantry!”
There was some distance between the Stone Gole on the wall Theunit
They hadcrushed to death under the wall that had suddenly collapsed, only to be surrounded by stone giants They would certainly be beaten to a pulp
And the iron city gate they had been trying to break down had transformed into a Rank 6 Iron Golem
It see unit had preserved its ive up until the very end, but its fate was in a precarious state
“Rescue the breaching unit!”
“Black Bull Knights’ Order, advance! Do not slon! There is nothing to fear from these lifeless Golems!”
The expedition ar shi+eld-nation’s prided elite Naturally, they had experienced the battlefield hts to the soldiers, possessed strong bonds as comrades
And for them, a thousand Golems were not lethal enemies
Even with Chezare and General Mauvid frozen in surprise in the stronghold, each of the expedition ar their own decisions all over the battlefield The same applied for those led by Riley and Gordan
They ca their individual strength and coordinated abilities, they struck down the stone giants that were groaning and swinging their fists
At this rate, they would be able to defeat all of the Goleain their formation
At that ave the order to the Cursed Weapons, the crossbows in the second wall and the trebuchets installed on the rooves of Talosheis
“Fire”
“Gah!”
“Gyah!”
“Hyih! Boulders are flying… gyih!”
Some of the crossbow bolts pierced the Rock Golems, but as the Rock Golem numbers had been reduced, around two thirds of theets in the expedition army
And no matter how elite the shi+eld-bearers and heavy infantryht by the trebuchet boulders falling from overhead
Even as they saw the boulders’ trajectory and tried to run, the re so and as the word “heavy” in “heavy infantryest, they were incapable of fast movements
“No way! Large nuainst?! General, what does thisfrom us?!” Chezare demanded
“I-I don’t know! I don’t know anything, either!” Mauvid shouted
“You intend to keep your mouth shut at a time like this?!”
It wasn’t unusual for demi-humanoid monsters to use bows and arrows, but Chezare didn’t know anything about the trebuchets Trebuchets were not easy to construct in the first place In the Ado them were forced to join Guilds and monitored constantly so that they would not build them without approval
But trebuchets existed in Taloshei boulders on the expedition army
Despite there being no records of the titans having the technology to use trebuchets
Could it be that the Dhaht
However, the reality before his eyes was that boulders were being thrown at the soldiers one after another, crushi+ng them as they tried to flee
“damn it, retr–”
At that moment, the captain of the mercenary band… Isla, interrupted “With all due respect, I believe this is where the entire army should press on”
“You bastard, a mere mercenary shouldn’t interrupt!”
“That’s right, you’re just a coho is still staying in the stronghold! Are you trying to force more losses upon this army?!”
Chezare’s aides reprimanded this insolent mercenary, but of course, Isla took no notice of them
“From what I can see, the soldiers on the battlefield are in chaos,” she said “We cannot expect a smooth retreat in this situation And the heavy infantryets Once the soldiers close in on the deeper wall, the trebuchets will no longer be a threat The enemy is currently only a thousand stone er than they are Once we overcoain our formations”
There was some truth to Isla’s words She did indeed possess the cold-heartedness to ignore the loss of soldiers, but it wasn’t uncommon on the battlefield for ten sacrificed lives to save a thousand
And if the heavy infantrymen held their forh Vitality, being hit by some ordinary arroouldn’t be a problem
“A-alright! All forces, advance!” Mauvid ordered
Chezare turned to him in surprise “General?!”
The truth in Isla’s words would only apply if the enemy was out of trump cards
If the second fortress wall turned into Golems as well, the trebuchet fire would never cease And not a single Ghoul had been seen yet
It was possible that they were busy operating the trebuchets, but Chezare had a bad feeling about this
“Silence! This is my order as the supre as Chezare He had been shouting for the arree turn on his stance
He had done so based on Isla’s proposal
His tone re itself here and there If he were to disobey, it was possible that the Va their deal and erase him
“I-I a to make use of you lot as well!” Mauvid shouted
“Of course, General,” Isla said calmly “We must earn our pay, after all”
This exchange between the that he would abandon her if she wasn’t useful
But in reality, there was noIsla’s command
“Ngh! Mountain Breaker!” High Priest Gordan’s war club sh a boulder
“Great Whirlwind Thrust!” Riley’s spear pierced through another
Flark silently sentwith his shi+eld
“Great Healing! Here, stop looking so exhausted and keep fighting!” Messara shouted, healing the wounded soldiers on the frontlines
“That’s right, get a hold of yourselves,backup with his continuous movements
Most of the Golems were defeated and even the attacks of the trebuchets were being dealt with, so the expedition aran to recover With the shi+elds of the heavy infantrymen raised and for to fear
As the boulders broken by Gordan and Riley had been the ‘Gole, they had successfully hold and h Gordan and Riley wouldn’t have noticed and si boulders
But because they had begun to break the boulders mid-air, the rest of the expedition ar mid-air by themselves
“Hmm, it seems that even the human army can come in useful,” one of the Vampires commented
“If they weren’t, Ternecia-sa,” said Isla “Let’s go, just don’t be conspicuous before they break the fortress wall”
“Yes, Ma’am!”
But obeying the order of, “don’t be conspicuous,” would become difficult by the time Isla and the Vampires reached the battlefield
Sohed
The status of the average elite soldier of the Mirg shi+eld-nation:
Name: Heavy infantryman
Race: Human
Age: In the 20’s or 30’s
title: None
Job: Heavy infantryman
Job level: In the 50’s to 70’s
Job history: Apprentice Soldier, Infantryman
Passive skills:
Enhanced Attribute Values: Under Command: Level 2
Enhanced Attribute Values while equipped with metal armor: Medium
Enhanced Attribute Values while equipped with a shi+eld: Small
Active skills:
Martial-type skills: Level 3
Martial-type skills: Level 2
shi+eld Technique: Level 4
Armor Technique: Level 4
Coordination: Level 4