Volume 4 Chapter 18 (2/2)

However, that seemed to be the only counter-measure they had against the golems. They were still far too relaxed. For that, again, I intended to make them pay.

The heads of the enemy commander as well as the head of the high-ranking knight exploded in the next moment. A few moments after their heads were blown apart, the delayed sounds of the attacks were heard.

”Master, task completed.”

The sky distorted and revealed Aura as she wielded her anti-materiel rifle that had smoke rising up from its barrel.

Her rifle was upgraded to be fully made of orichalcum. It was now dubbed as the ED-03AM Durandal・Avalon.

Looking closely, two people beside the knight died due only to the shockwaves produced by the bullet's overwhelming power. Of course, the bullet also pierced and killed those behind the knight.

”Thanks for your work.”

”I haven't tired myself enough yet though.”

Aura smiled and then spun around her anti-materiel rifle.

The distance between my forces and the enemy forces was just 2 kilometers.

Whereas Aura, supposing she stayed immobile, could hit up to 5 kilometers.

This entire Plain was her kill zone. Coupling that with Ruru pointing out the enemy commander to her, such things as sniping them right at the start of the war were trivial.

Moreover, she could fly in the sky so gaining line of fire was easy as well.

”Well, if things end with this, we wouldn't have to kill needlessly.”

The ideal would be for the war to end after taking out their leader. However, if their chain of command was set up properly so that they could recover instantly after losing their leaders, it would literally mean that we had to completely annihilate their whole army.

A voice then came out from the water.

”Alas, patron, they have splendidly recovered. There's still chaos on the vicinity but they are going to continue the war, good luck.”

”No choice then. Aura, sorry to push you to work harder but cooperate with Ruru and snipe the enemy from the back.”

”Oui, oui, patron. Then, let's do our best Aura-nee.”

”Yes, Ruru-chan, let's kill lots of them.”

Ruru once again slipped into another dimension while Aura became invisible again.

Anti-materiel rifles were originally meant to shoot through monstrously armored tanks but thanks to Rorono's remodeling skills which allowed her to freely incorporate orichalcum, the gun was now more than four times as powerful as it had originally been.

This latest model had been installed with a pair of twin-drive golem cores. Using those in conjunction with Rorono's Enchantments, [Hardening] magic could be used on the gun to reinforce it without taxing the user. Also, all the excess magic power would be used to activate [Acceleration] to further increase the destructiveness of the bullets.

It had so much power in fact that without the durability granted by its orichalcum body and Hardening magic, it would break apart as soon as a shot was taken.

Naturally, the recoil was absurd as well. As Rorono would put it, it was an insane gun. Unless the user could negate the immense recoil like Aura with her use of wind magic, the user himself would be killed as soon as he pulled the trigger.

And then, there were Aura's skills. The [Shooter of Magical Projectiles] which improved the attack power and accuracy of her long-range attacks; her [Jade Eyes] which was the strongest magic eye; and her mastery over the wind which she used in this case to get rid of air resistance the bullet would experience once fired.

With all of these things together, one needed to be at least an A rank monster with defensive skills and magic in order to survive. Even heroes would find it hard to escape instant death against her.

Her current tactic was to bombard the enemy as the invisible, immobile marksman in the sky. The chances of her presence being discovered were exceedingly low but even if she was somehow discovered, she could just easily switch to a highly mobile tactic.

As it stood, she was the indomitable god of death of the battlefield. And acting as her eyes was R'lyeh Diva. By agreeing to fight in this Plain devoid of cover, they signed their own death warrant.

For some time, the sounds of gunfire reverberated in the air. Alongside it was the explosion of the heads of the enemy's trump cards: the heroes. Just like earlier, the unfortunate soldiers beside and behind those targets were killed as well.

It was one perfect headshot after another.

They were being slaughtered and yet, they had no idea where the attack was even coming from. Even the so-called heroes were screaming, panicking, and dying without knowing how.

Needless to say, the enemy's morale was plummeting down.

”At this rate, it might not even take ten minutes for her to annihilate the enemies. But then again, we might not have ten minutes.”

The sole weak point of her sniping was that it lacked the ability to wipe out all of the enemies in a short time. The heavily armored vanguard of the more than 3000 enemy army was drawing considerably close. No matter how hard she tried, she would be able to take out only a few hundreds by herself before the enemy army arrived.

According to Ruru's report, the enemy predicted that I was going to order the golems to attack. They would then counter it by sending the heavily armored vanguard to stall the golems while their magic users in the rear prepared large-scale magic.

It was a good strategy if only we reacted as they expected. I didn't need to send out my golems at all because I had another way of disposing their vanguard and magic users.

”Wight, show us the might of the aerial combat corps you've trained.”

”Yes, as you will my lord.”

Wight whistled and 10 Darkness Dragons from Avalon's direction came flying to the battlefield.

The enemy soldiers that looked up to the sky and noticed them. Their reaction at the sight of the ominous dragons was the obvious one: they screamed and panicked.

Each of the Darkness Dragon carried a container. There was two kinds of containers though. One that carried large amounts of napalm bombs and one that…

Now, let's teach them what it means to rule the skies.

R’lyeh is written as ルルイエ/Ruruie and hence Ruru. It can be argued that Lulu is better but, well, it’s from R’lyeh after all.