Chapter 578
Chapter 578 Is This Really Happening? (1)
The 5th and 6th Corps of the Army of Atrode were dealt with by Yulien.
Meanwhile, the 9th and 10th Corps, which were moving separately, were handled by half of the Ruthania Army led by Tenant and Parniel.
As for the 7th and 8th Corps that ambushed the Allied Forces at the start, they faced the remaining half of the Ruthania Army led by Claude, just as Count Bifenbelt had suspected.
That is why Ghislaine was able to move freely and launch an attack on the 4th and 2nd Corps of the Army of Atrode.
The 7th and 8th Corps, being in close proximity, joined forces to fight against the Ruthania Army.
However, they found it hard to withstand the Ruthania Army.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Gillian’s axe mercilessly struck the priests.
Two priests rushed in, but he did not retreat even a step. No, instead, he overwhelmed them.
“Oh, Goddess!”
Piote was constantly emitting divine power from behind Gillian.
Chiiiiieeek!
“Ugh!”
The priests struggled to muster their strength due to the divine power surrounding them.
Their vitality was weaker than usual, and their bodies were continuously burnt by the divine power.
In that state, fighting against Gillian just meant they couldn’t help but be overwhelmed.
But Piote wasn’t the only one interfering with the priests.
“Hol!”
Thwack!
“Clap!”
Thud! Thwack!
Someone was using magic from a short distance, throwing stones. The stones were popping out from their sleeves at a pretty fast speed.
While their body was constricted by divine power, they were fighting against a superhuman. Even if the force wasn’t strong, the stones flying from the side were extremely annoying.
“That guy!”
Finally, one of the priests attempted to take care of the magician first. However, he was hit on the back by Gillian’s axe.
Crack!
“Ugh!”
The priests were close to losing their minds. With their nerves scattered, they couldn’t fight properly. The divine power also prevented their bodies from recovering adequately.
“Hol! Clap! Hol! Hol!”
The one shooting stones from the side was Alfoy. He realized that this mischievous magic had a tremendous effect in battle.
In combat against superhumans, maintaining concentration was essential above all else.
However, there was no way that Alfoy could keep up with the speed of superhumans. He was merely hurling stones at the fighters engaging in close combat.
And that also caused damage to his allies.
“Hol!”
Thwack!
While focusing on fighting, Gillian turned his head, glaring as a stone hit him on the head.
It wasn’t a dangerous attack, so he let it slide, but it was quite annoying.
“……”
“Uh, sorry.”
In the midst of the awkward silence, Alfoy decided to change places. It probably would be better for him to help someone else.
By this time, the priests were already in tatters.
This was the combined result of Gillian’s skills, Piote’s divine power, and Alfoy’s incessant pestering.
Crack!
“Gugh……”
In the end, the priests were killed with Gillian’s axe striking their necks.
The two priests facing the other way couldn’t muster any strength either.
That’s because Belinda, who inherited Anette’s vision, was there.
Whoosh!
Dozens of daggers moved swiftly, surrounding the advancing priests. Each of them was emitting an aura blade.
“Wh-what is this?”
The priest trapped between the daggers blinked in disbelief.
Not only were the daggers flying on their own, but they were also emitting aura blades.
How on earth was he supposed to deal with this?
Of course, he didn’t even need to. The daggers moved on their own, mercilessly striking down the priest.
Papapapapapack!
“Gaaaah!”
The priest screamed. It felt like being surrounded and butchered by dozens of knights.
Trying to escape, he found that despite his strength, his skills were pitiful, and he couldn’t break free from Belinda’s techniques.
Papapapapapack!
The daggers relentlessly followed and sliced the priest. No matter how much the priest wailed and tried to fight back, the daggers didn’t easily detach themselves from him.
Anette, Belinda’s master and the leader of the Shadow Knight Group, was the strongest in the Ruthania Kingdom.
The techniques she used boasted tremendous power by themselves.
“Guuuuuugh……”
In the end, the priest couldn’t escape from the prison of daggers and was left bleeding to death.
Belinda, having smoothly killed one priest, turned her head. On one side, Kaor and the knights were gathering to beat another priest.
Seeing that, Belinda shook her head.
“Just leave it to me.”
Kaor, insisting he’d take care of one himself even if he died, was rallying his companions to push through.
The man who said he would overcome the wall was attacking the priest with a group like a back-alley gang.
“What the heck?!”
With such a tremendous number of knights charging in, the priest was bewildered.
Their equipment was so good that no matter how much he fought back, he couldn’t kill them. He’d heard rumors that they wore magical armor in Penris, but he never expected it to be this sturdy.
What’s more, just as he received one blow, another would rush in to attack. At this rate, he feared he would exhaust himself to death first.
In fact, Kaor and the knights had captured priests this way before.
The ones who had gotten a bit stronger and gained experience were diligently pressuring the priests.
Leading the front, Kaor shouted.
“Yaya! Push a bit more! Fall back when I say so! If you take some pressure off, I’ll go one-on-one! Once we take that guy down, I’m crossing that wall today!”
Kaor hadn’t forgotten the day he randomly pulled out an aura blade. He believed that as long as he kept beating down on superhumans, it would slip out again.
Yet he had no intention of confidently going for a one-on-one showdown right now. That could cost him his life, so he intended to strike after wearing down his opponent.
In other words, he was thinking of sneaking across the wall.
Belinda clicked her tongue at that sight.
“Seems like crossing the wall is a wash this time.”
Kaor enjoyed fighting, but he loved playing even more.
And with such luck on top of that, he continued to fail in building his own solid world.
“Waaah!”
With the priests trapped, the remaining forces couldn’t contend with the Ruthania Army.
Ting! Tink! Ting!
“My weapon isn’t working!”
Leading the front of the Ruthania Army were Penris soldiers who had been reinforced before the expedition. They were all equipped in Galbarium armor like a mobile army.
The kingdom soldiers who had been integrated were poorly equipped compared to them, so the Penris Army took the front lines.
With their overwhelming defense, they pushed against the Army of Atrode.
At least the magical forces were barely holding their ground against the Ruthania Army. That was only possible because Vanessa and high-level wizards had been scattered all over the place.
And there was someone here who had made a new resolution today.
“I’m going to fight too!”
“Princess, it’s dangerous. Moreover, we’re talking about killing people here.”
Skoban, the head of the escort, blocked Elena, who was stepping out with a gigantic hammer.
Elena had only fought monsters until now. She had never truly killed people on the battlefield.
While people had stopped her, Elena herself had avoided it on purpose too.
However, through the experience of war, she was gradually coming to a realization.
“I am a princess! If I don’t lead the way and back off, who will follow me? How can I protect anyone!”
“Princess…… Please.”
Skoban’s face contorted in desperation. Why doesn’t this sibling of his ever listen?
Ricardo, who had become a vice commander as a knight of honor, also had a gloomy expression.
“If anything happens to the princess, we die.”
It was different from when all forces were gathered to protect Elena. They weren’t just fighting common cracked beings.
They were dealing with humans. That meant they could use their heads and exploit the situation. Skoban hoped that Elena wouldn’t get involved in combat as much as possible.
An elite knight might suddenly target her or attempt an ambush.
“Can’t you at least just watch?”
Usually, the role of a princess was to shine as a beautiful flower in the royal family.
But Elena, who had grown up facing the harsh northern winds, had no intention of living that way.
For the people of Perdium, battle was a destiny and a way of life. That temperament remained within her.
Elena’s eyes sparkled as she continued speaking.
“I learned something by watching my father.”
“What is… that?”
“When it comes to protecting people, you must never shy away from danger. So I will go too!”
Elena dashed out recklessly with the hammer in hand.
Rachel smiled at Skoban and then hurried after Elena.
Skoban heaved a sigh as he watched them go.
“Let’s hurry and follow.”
“Ugh… brothers and sisters…….”
“Let’s not overthink it. It’s just that we’ve got one more impetuous person added to the mix.”
Holding back a sigh, Elena’s escort was busily on the move.
“Phew, phew….”
With enemy soldiers before her, Elena took a deep breath. Since her allies had the upper hand, there wasn’t much danger around her.
But it was another issue for her to get involved in the fight. It wouldn’t be easy smashing a person’s head with a hammer.
‘I can do it. I can do it.’
Elena raised the hammer high. However, even as the enemy soldier charged at her, she found it hard to swing it down.
“Die!”
Instead, she could only flinch at the fierce momentum radiating malice.
It was different from fighting monsters. The madness of battle was hard for her to endure.
Her body naturally stiffened. Indeed, it wasn’t easy to crush a person and turn them into a squid.
Whoosh!
Rachel swiftly approached from the side and cut down the enemy soldier. Having felt the fear of death due to her illness, she quickly adapted to this kind of situation.
Skoban drew closer and spoke to Elena.
“Princess, please withdraw now. Leave this to us.”
“Ugh……”
Elena bit her lip. Everyone was fighting hard while she was just afraid.
Even Rachel was moving so boldly.
“I can do it too!”
In her childish stubbornness, she tried to insist a little more.
While her allies were overwhelmingly pushing forward, sacrifices were inevitable.
The soldiers from the kingdom weren’t wearing Galbarium armor, after all.
‘I must fight if I can save even one more person!’
As she was thinking of a way, she glared at the enemy soldiers and pictured Ghislaine’s face.
‘That’s my brother, that’s my brother. Oh wait, maybe that’s not so good?’
Aiming at her annoying brother’s face seemed worth hitting. But still, killing someone with that was a bit against her conscience.
‘Ugh, fine, let’s just go!’
Shaking off her stray thoughts, she closed her eyes and dashed forward.
“Yahhh!”
Then, she quickly leaped into the midst of the enemy soldiers and swung her hammer down.
Kwahhhh!
“……”
Suddenly, the surroundings fell into silence.
A massive hole was dug into the ground. The enemy soldiers all retreated in horror.
With that one hammer swing, how many people had just died?
“Huuh! Huuh!”
Elena exhaled heavily, her face flushed. Her heart felt like it was about to explode.
Looking at the lowly buried dead enemies, waves of nausea washed over her.
She gritted her teeth and held herself together. Since it had come to this, she decided to think no more.
It’s hard the first time; the second time isn’t so bad.
Now it’s really just a charge.
“Yahhh!”
With eyes closed, she dashed forward, wildly swinging her hammer. Rachel ran alongside her, matching her pace.
Skoban and Ricardo hurriedly chased after Elena.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Elena truly charged like a raging bull. With every move she made, a path opened up.
“Ugh!”
“It’s a monster! A monster has appeared!”
“Block her!”
The soldiers of the Army of Atrode fled in a panic.
The higher-level ones were already fighting other soldiers or dead. The regular soldiers couldn’t withstand Elena’s monstrous strength.
As they witnessed the straightforward path being cleared, the soldiers of Ruthania erupted into cheers.
“Waaaah!”
“Truly, it’s the princess!”
“Destruction Princess! Destruction Princess!”
Standing at the forefront with the title of princess. And she was showing overwhelming destructive power while at it.
The Ruthania Army, who already had the upper hand, saw their morale soar immensely.
“Follow the princess! Let’s crush the enemies!”
The soldiers followed Elena united in spirit.
Thus, everyone was fulfilling their respective roles well.
Debtor Cain, Resolver Max, and even Dugly Squad members who had joined by chance, along with many others who had various reasons for joining the Ruthania Army.
Everyone was doing their best at their assigned missions, making it impossible for the war to be difficult.
They eventually annihilated the Army of Atrode with overwhelming force. The enemy commanders had also been captured as prisoners.
Thus, the battle ended. No, everyone thought it was over.
But those who caused trouble were always bound to be around.
“Hey! Everyone step aside! Now I’m going to take him one-on-one.”
The battle was over, and the Ruthania Army had won. But one priest of the Army of Atrode was still alive.
Beaten down, the priest was covered in wounds and gasping for breath.
And exhausted as he was, Kaor shouted at everyone to step back.
In the end, everyone, unable to resist Kaor’s insistence, widened the distance. Before they knew it, the two were enveloped by the Ruthania Army.
Kaor took a deep breath and lifted his head.
“Whew, was this how a lord felt?”
Ghislaine had quite a bit of experience with one-on-one duels. Back then, everyone used to watch like this.
It was immensely satisfying. Everyone was looking up at him.
In reality, their expressions were filled with disdain, but Kaor didn’t think so.
Kaor waved his sword at the wounded priest.
“Let’s see what we can do, just the two of us. If you win, I’ll let you go alive.”
Anyway, it was time to cross the wall. The priest before his eyes would make a good meal.
Kaor smirked arrogantly, while the surrounding people frowned at his pointless suggestion.
