Translator: AkazaTL
Pr/Ed: Sol IX
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Chapter 61 : In the Battlefield (2)
“Sir Mason, the first wave has been annihilated!”
“Deploy the second and third waves imdiately. Damn it, what is the ambush squad doing? They were supposed to pressure them from behind!”
A shout filled with frustration burst from Mason, who was leading the pursuit force.
Up until they surrounded the Haken bastards who were running away, Mason believed they would be ground down like soaked beans in a millstone right away.
However, the battle situation was not easy.
Haken, whom Mason thought were countryside bumpkins, were much stronger and more ruthless than they had expected.
“Aaaagh!”
Watching the hand of a Subjugation Force knight soaring into the air after being cut off, Mason bit his lip.
20 minutes since the battle broke out.
While the 30 mbers of the Subjugation Force’s 1st pursuit squad were annihilated, the results the Subjugation Force achieved were still zero.
“Oh?”
Blocking the mace wielded by a Subjugation Force knight with his forearm, Pierce spat out a provocative sneer.
Clang!
As if made of cast iron, the mace wielded by the Subjugation Force bounced off without leaving even a scratch on Pierce’s forearm.
Crunch!
Pierce reached out just like that, twisted the Subjugation Force knight’s neck, and shouted.
“Hey, you guys rember everything the Commander said, right!”
“Of course. Brother!”
“Not a single one of you is allowed to croak. Got it!”
Throwing away the knight’s body whose head had turned 180 degrees along with the helt, Pierce gulped down dry saliva.
The words Hein left before they were deployed for the decoy operation ca to mind vividly in his head.
“The command I give you all is only one. While carrying out this operation, no one is allowed to die without my permission.”
“If even one person is killed in action without my permission, I will accept it as disobedience of warti orders due to your laziness. You know well that disobedience of warti orders corresponds to a felony, right?”
“I hope you do not make a bad superior.”
Trickle.
Cold sweat flowed down Pierce’s back, which had been fine even when directly hit by a mace.
Ruminating on Hein’s cool voice that ca to mind vividly, Pierce scread out.
“Hey, you bastards! If it looks like the guy next to you is going to die, protect him with your life! Got it? If the guy next to you is about to get stabbed, just get hit instead!”
“I vote for Big Brother’s opinion too! It’s much better to get stabbed a few tis by those guys than to be punished by the Commander!”
Clang!
Crushing the Subjugation Force knight’s breastplate with a refreshing swing, Peyton shouted in a loud voice.
Was Hein’s order and Pierce’s encouragent effective? Until now, 30 minutes after the battle started, not a single casualty had occurred on the Haken side.
“All units, charge forward! We will join up with the isolated friendly forces!”
“Yes sir, Vice-Commander! Let’s run like our lives depend on it!”
Right then, a new current that would change the flow of the battlefield in an instant appeared.
The Haken Knight Order of 200 n led by Ismael had pounced on the flank of the pursuit force.
To the Subjugation Force, which couldn’t secure an advantage even in a 1,200 vs 300 fight, the appearance of the Haken detached unit could be called a truly fatally bad factor.
“Send a signal to the main unit! Tell them to send the remaining knights stationed at the main camp! At this rate, the pursuit force will…….”
Mason, watching the flank of the Subjugation Force being ground away, ordered to request reinforcents with a completely crumpled expression.
Boom!
However, before those words could end, a roar burst out from the main camp where the central army was holding out.
“Th-this is…… what is happening!”
Mason could only look at the place where the roar burst out with a futile expression.
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“Long ti no see. Helkane.”
“……!”
Unlike I, Hein Reichart, who offered a greeting, Helkane glared at as if to kill.
Grind-
If looks alone could kill a person, Helkane would have already hacked to pieces dozens, hundreds of tis.
But unfortunately, all Helkane could do was barely hold on with his blade against my Family Sword.
And Axion, held in my right hand, changed direction cheerfully in mid-air and struck down aiming for Helkane’s brow.
“Kugh!”
Helkane succeeded in quickly tilting his head back to barely avoid Axion’s blade.
Thud!
But he couldn’t prevent his body’s balance from being disturbed.
Eventually, he was kicked in the solar plexus by the kick I lashed out.
Clang! Clang!
Even while losing his balance and flailing, Helkane managed to barely parry the two swords I extended.
Slash.
Crack.
Of course, in exchange, he ended up giving away a wound on his right cheek and brow, and his breastplate.
“Ugh…….”
Suppressing the dull pain felt near his solar plexus, Helkane looked at his breastplate rolling on the ground, split in half.
If he had been a little late in pulling his body back.
What would be split in half right now would not be the breastplate, but his ribs.
‘Hein, you bastard, surely you intend to behead right here?’
The pain in his chest was not a trivial matter, but a bigger problem was the fear of death weighing down his whole body stiffly.
In fact, even until crossing swords with , Helkane hadn’t thought that he might die in this place.
Even though the mothers were different, he was my older brother and a biological son who inherited Redin’s blood.
Anyway, as long as Redin was still alive, he had believed I would try to capture him alive.
However…….
Clang!
The Family Sword and Axion’s blade flying in succession harbored undeniable, clear murderous intent.
“Kugh!”
He barely blocked one sword this ti too, but the remaining sword flew aiming straight for his brow.
Swish-
And at that mont when Axion was about to pierce his brow,
Blue light spewed out from the necklace Helkane was wearing and blocked my sword.
Bang!
Sizzle-
Unable to withstand the shock, Helkane’s helt flew into the air.
With his hair completely disheveled, Helkane opened his eyes wide.
If not for the necklace with a defensive spell engraved on it, his brow would have been pierced straight through by the blow just now.
This made it clear.
‘This guy intends to kill right here!’
The fear of death that had co right up to the tip of his nose and moved just a little bit away.
Cold sweat flowed naturally down Helkane’s back.
With just a few exchanges, he could tell that there was a difference in skill between him and that could never be crossed.
And the final defensive asure prepared just in case had exhausted its lifespan with the blow just now.
“…….”
Helkane ended up stepping backward without realizing it.
The mont he saw ravaging the main camp earlier, Helkane, feeling anger close to instinct, had blocked my path recklessly.
But that one rash choice was now strangling his neck.
Voom-
My Blade Aura, which had blurred for a mont, beca clear again.
The swords held in both my hands finished preparing to shoot out, aiming for Helkane’s brow and Adam’s apple respectively.
‘I’m going to die! No, I can’t die like this!’
Feeling conflicting emotions about death simultaneously, Helkane took one more step backward.
And before that backward step could touch the ground, I attempted a leap.
But right then,
“Back away! Young Master!”
“Young Master, you must escape. The formation has already collapsed.”
“We will take charge here, so please hurry and escape!”
Knights numbering about ten blocked the space between and Helkane.
On their armor, the emblem of Reichart was engraved without exception.
“Jason!”
Helkane bit his lip looking at the knights who appeared at a superb timing.
Knights who had followed Helkane since over ten years ago.
In the past, Rishu selected about ten young boys who were in difficult circumstances but had talent in the sword and supported them.
After they grew up, they beca Helkane’s faithful henchn, and even when Helkane abandoned Reichart, they also chose that path.
“Hurry and go, Young Master. The grace the Grand Madam gave us, we will repay with our lives!”
“Anyway, if not for Grand Madam’s grace, our families would have starved to death long ago.”
“Young Master, please take care of our families in the capital!”
Helkane’s henchn, prepared for death, spat out a word each and blocked my path.
“…….”
Watching this sight, my eyes narrowed.
Looking at it, unlike the idiots from the capital, these ones seed quite properly trained.
Slash-
“Block him! We must protect the Grand Young Master!”
The Blade Aura I exuded as a test perated straight through the ten or so knights.
‘These guys seem to have trained exclusively in combined attack formations. Their individual skills are decent too, but the sword formation ford by gathering together is creating a synergy effect.’
A minute wrinkle was engraved on my brow as I grasped the knights’ level with a single attack.
Of course, it wasn’t that their combined attack formation could inflict harm on .
The problem was that they would try to hold my ankles with a desperate resolve.
To dispose of these guys deploying a combined attack formation with the resolve to throw away their lives using only swords without using magic…
At least 5 to 10 minutes.
If that happened…….
“I’m sorry. I leave the rear to you!”
I would miss Helkane, who was hurriedly running away showing his back.
‘What to do?’
Conflict surged within my heart for a mont.
If I used the power of magic now, I would be able to take Helkane’s life without difficulty.
‘No. Let’s stop.’
I soon shook my head.
Showing a trump card in this place was too dangerous.
Although Helkane was an annoying existence, my final goal was a big shot that couldn’t even be compared to the likes of Helkane.
And regrettably, there were too many watching eyes in this place.
Since taking the risk of exposing a trump card just to catch one Helkane was sothing that didn't make sense cost-wise, I folded my lingering attachnt.
‘You are lucky this ti too.’
After sending a cold sneer once toward Helkane who was getting farther away, my gaze turned to Helkane’s henchn who blocked my path.
“We are the Harm Knight Order serving the Grand Young Master of the Reichart Duke Family, Helkane Reichart…….”
Was it to overco the fear of ?
The ten knights tried to reveal their affiliation by shouting with desperate resolve.
“Reichart, huh…….”
However, their thunderous shout stopped at the low mutter I spat out.
“You are not Reichart. You are dregs that used to be Reichart. You guys and your master, all of you.”
“Do not insult the Grand Young Master!”
Whether their loyalty to Helkane was stronger than the fear of death, the knights surrounding raised their voices to the fullest.
“The sin of daring to impersonate Reichart…….”
Clench.
The knights bit their lips while gripping their swords.
Above the heads of the knights prepared for death, my voice was heard like the declaration of a grim reaper.
“I will condemn you right here.”
***
“The enemy Commander-in-Chief?”
“He is not seen. It seems he left the battlefield imdiately after the Commander raided the enemy’s main camp.”
“As expected, his skill at running away is great. The situation on our side?”
“Although there are about fifty wounded, fortunately, there are no casualties.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. It seems the words the Commander said before the battle started were effective.”
“Well, it would be troubling if we got scratches against trash like this.”
Sitting on the chair Beverick had been sitting on until a few hours ago, I listened to the report on the settled battle situation.
“What is the extent of the enemy’s damage?”
“The damage to the soldiers accompanying the knights is not large, but more than two-thirds of the knights forming the enemy’s backbone have been killed in action.”
Out of the 1500 knights Beverick mobilized, the number killed in this operation far exceeded 1000.
Just the number of knights I finished off in the process of raiding the main camp was two hundred.
And since the pursuit squad that was caught and killed while hurriedly retreating after seeing the main camp being ravaged amounted to a whopping eight hundred, the Subjugation Force lost over a thousand knights in a single battle.
“Um, Commander, is it okay if I ask what this is?”
Ismael, having finished the report, asked while pointing at about 10 helts taking the unique form of Reichart at my feet.
“It’s nothing special. Take them and bury them.”
I said while kicking the helts with a thud, looking as if it was no big deal.
“They t the wrong master, but they were hunting dogs qualified enough to be buried.”
I picked up the telescope made of Wyvern bone that Beverick hadn’t managed to take, and asked while watching the direction the Subjugation Force retreated.
“What happened to Bosman Alphonse?”
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