Vol 17 Chapter 325 (1/2)
Knock and use the Front Door
“This is completely different from what you said!”
“How long do you o on!?”
“There are already nuht on How exactly do you plan on breaking through this deadlock!?”
In a large tent prepared nearby the athered and denouncedadvice
Before the Bahnseins of collapse, the alliance’s coordination was gradually beginning to decline
For a roup, they’d actually held up quite well There’s also how they were underestireatly to e
Ten days had passed since we began our attack on Centralle Expending one another as we fought, it was blatantly visible that Cles, who held the power to e here
There was no need to panic
All eyes gathered on ers and raining down jeers
“I’ve heard your army hasn’t put outon over our expenditure, could it!? And you plan to ht, the Walt House, is the root of evil after all! Siue demons who dye this continent in blood!”
Thinking that was going to far, some did try to cut in, but I held up a hand to stop them
In all truth, if you looked at it calmly, it was only natural that my casualty count was different fro for this day Our seal was different than those countries who just tacked the the way
Of course, it’s true I was looking on as they dulled their blades
“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear the latter part Keep in mind there won’t be a next ti up no er, ill face defeat Our troop morale is on a doard spiral”
For the enemy soldiers who knew they’d die fro of as to coed and trampled their comrades, and killed the enemy before their eyes It didn’t even seem as if they felt any pain
Fro every day with such a scary foe before their eyes Their staically
I stood from the seat in which I sat
“… The tool to destroy Centralle’s wall is complete In order to overcome this deadlock, ill launch an attack on Centralle But if you say we’re going off to take all the good parts, then I’ll just have to call it such We will be charging on Centralle, so those ish to join our offensive, name yourselves here”
In the city of Centralle where they didn’t kno ht in, those around began to stir But there was no one to give their name
The king of Faunbeux raised his hand
“… The Walls of Centralle are thick, and they boast a high resistance to ic I can’t think you’ll be able to breach them so easily What’s more, with the attacks we face every day, we’ve yet to install any decent furnishi+ngs onto the them is possible? I’ve sent around some hands to collect information myself, but not one of the like blow it up from inside”
Looks like he did have so Perhaps because the Seventh had put hiht I was to blon the gate from within
But this ti to use a frontal assault
“No, we’re going in fro for”
I looked to the back of the tent And the tent’s insides grew noisy
“It couldn’t be you plan to ram that into it?”
“B-but still…”
“No, it’s possible Even if you can’t breach it, it will make for a foothold”
Within that rowdy tent, I gave a light raise of s went quiet, I wpoke
“To opinions? If you have an objection, you’ll have to provide an alternative”
If you have soh to shut the should have already sent people and Skillholders to infiltrate the other side But seeing as they hadn’t gotten any results, it seems they were all hesitant
In order to break through the present situation,came to a close
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… May raced across the sky in her quilin form
She flew through the airspace around Centralle…
“Ah~ how irritating!”
The one chasing after her at full speed was a black quilin With a horn of deep red, she silently gave chase to May
But she hadn’t taken a single breath As if she were a child’s doll, that sort of quilin
“Could you cut me some slack already?”
Dodging to the side, a line of light raced dohere she had been On the flash of lightning, May felt a slight numbness
(She doesn’t get tired, and she can let off that …)
Both sides clad in electric discharge, they tried to pierce their horns into one another, letting sparks fly as the horns clashed
Looking into the enemy quilin’s eyes, she found they were blood red And there were no signs of life
“… Can you understand my words?”
While she called out, the enemy quilin showed no reaction But as she opened her s placed all over in absurd places caused even May to feel pity
Whenever she tried to conduct recon on Centralle’s interior, the black quilin would get in her way She had encountered her a number of times, and always took her on like this
But no h, or howshe rained down on her, her foe would revive in no tirow back, but that would take some time
“When I see one of my race in such a state, I do want to save theht now So you’ll have to wait for next time”
Parrying her foe’s absurd power, May sent the black quilin barreling towards the ground before running away from Centralle’s airspace
The quilin, perhaps tasked with protecting Centralle froive chase
“… I couldn’t really doeither Hah, how should I explain this to Lyle”
A disappointed May turned to look back a little further away Fro at her…
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… Monica looked upon the walls of Centralle fro fortress
As the zoom lenses in her red eyesto climb over the walls
Night It see the uard atop the ra at all
While the infiltrating soldiers found it strange, they immediately leapt to action only to collapse on the spot
Within the darkness of night, a red-haired man in a tailcoat stepped in to finish the soldiers off
“… I had heard the ene at him like this…”
As Monica observed his ht hand In an instant, Monica put her left hand in front of her face
She caught the knife’s blade in the gap between her fingers, and putting strength into her fingertips, she shattered it
As her gaze returned to the top of the raone
“I had heard, but he’s a butler model? He just had to be from a different product line, did he… this is a bit troublesome”
As she said that, Monica looked at the ground She saw the broken fragments of knife, and produced so
“For us to oppose one another in such a place… could this be yet another turn of fate?”
She spoke of some form of destiny But Monica was Monica An autoh to explain it
“Maids and butlers… who is more worthy to be of service to our masters, why don’t we settle this here and now”
It didn’t seee or destiny lay itself out before her…
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Before daybreak
Calling General Blois, Baldoir and Maksi fortress, I relayed the information I had heard from May
Taking it in, Baldoir made a conflicted expression
“Calling forth the divine beasts hat let us keep our advantage”
Maksim felt the same
“They helped us out with that monster arht they’d help us out”
General Blois looked at Maksihed
“You should think it a blessing they even lent their aid once We’re the ones who are supposed to be winning here What sort of debt are you trying to incur with the divine… But to speak to the contrary, on’t have to mull over the other problems”
I nodded
May had gone around to call out to her fellow quilins and other divine beasts But to speak to results, she couldn’t gain their cooperation The reason being with so athered in Bahnseim, the casualties from monsters elsewhere had increased
On top of that, the Labyrinths that would have originally been subjugated had been left for them to take care of
There was a possibility the Labyrinths would run a after them for us
“It seeo Well, if they’ll move to take care of the Labyrinths and ardless Let’s just be thankful”
But General Blois touched a hand to his chin
“Still, a black quilin, is it? I’ve definitely heard the ru quilin to quilin, that really is scary It won’t be a joke if it drops lightning on us from above”
The black quilin could swoop down on us from above I wanted to avoid that
“May and Marina will deal with it for us And it seems an automaton has been confirmed on the inside as well It seems Monica will deal with that one, so I think I’ll leave it to her Honestly, the autoenerate with my mana, so it’s real trouble for me”
The Valkyries couldn’t regeneration, but Monica could We’d already confirmed it Even if she couldn’t defeat the autoht with Celes
Baldoir shrugged his shoulders
“A butler model, was it? I truly do wonder why her rivalry burns so When it comes to butlers, they’re just the ones who look afterlike a maid’s superior”
Maksim-san looked fed up
“We can’t try to understand the common sense of those automatons and ancients They conduct themselves as if it’s all normal, so shall we not just accept it as so? But are we really ra into it?”
Maksim-san looked at the floor as he said it
The inally been prepared for this moment Its fortress functionality and workshop were just the overdoings Damien and the others tacked onto it
General Blois sounded intrigued
“If we can clean up our financial probleh I feel it will take a few hundred years before it can be put to practical use”
Magic Stone consu fortress used was rare metal Its maintenance took ti, it needed maintenance
“… It definitely is effective in war, but I don’t think I’ll be using it again More importantly, General Blois”
“I know If there’s any arh I do hope it doesn’t come to that”
We would be sending only a few elites into Centralle’s royal palace The rest would have the duty ofsure the enemy soldiers sprawled over the city couldn’t make their way to the palace At the same time, they would keep watch toto profit off our work
“The question’s how far thefortress will be able to advance I’ll at least want to breach the ramparts by all means”
As General Blois said that, Baldoir, Maksim-san and I nodded There, Vera came into the room
“It’s tiht?”
Four men nodded, so Vera spoke
“That’s good Professor Damien and Old Letarta are ready as well And since it seeh the walls, I’ll just say it… we’ll definitely deliver you all the way to the palace, so just make sure to do your own jobs properly!”
Seeing Vera full of confidence, I thought over how she must have overheard ht, I had left everything about the fortress to Vera
“That’s right, we just have to do our jobs Now then, I guess I’ll go and board Porter as well”
When I said that, Baldoir looked at me
“Lyle-sae, then I have nothing left to say But victory is only so one another out is the same as defeat”
His serious eyes What’s more, General Blois and Maksim-san looked just as despondent