Translator: AkazaTL
Pr/Ed: Sol IX
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Chapter 69 : Battle of Rodlan (3)
Checking that the beams of light from Mass Teleport could not pass through the barrier, Helkane nodded with a smile of conversion.
“Stay calm! If you don't panic, it is nothing. Mass Teleport cannot have a compelling force against knights or mages!”
Helkane shouted with a loud voice, loading his voice with the energy of aura.
The reason why Mass Teleport, which could completely disintegrate the opponent's formation depending on how it was used, was not passed down and beca lost.
Mass Teleport could not exert compelling force on users of mana derived from runes and Blade Aura.
“What is this? It is just loud but doesn't have much effect?”
In fact, the Royal Guard Knights of Simmach who were directly hit by Mass Teleport were slowly coming to their senses.
Those who left the formation or were transported to the Reichart military camp were only regular soldiers or nobles.
The knights and mages were all keeping their positions.
“Mother, this is the reason why Hein did not bring regular soldiers.”
“Right. Conversely, they could have been transported to our camp.”
Even if he disintegrated the formation of regular soldiers, the effect would not be fatal.
Because ultimately, those who lead the battlefield were knights and mages.
“Mother, it seems the end is slowly coming into view.”
As ti passed, the beams of light that struck down as if covering the sky slowly subsided.
Helkane and Rishu faced each other and nodded.
Now the ti for counterattack had co.
However…….
Flash!
“U-uaaah! Where is this!”
A beam of light struck down near the curtain of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers.
In the spot where the light disappeared, a one-ard man with an exceptionally obese body appeared and looked around.
“Grand Madam Vispon, Young Master Helkane! Please save . That light, the light…….”
Bosman Alphonse.
With a completely insane expression, he rushed toward Rishu and Helkane, almost crawling on the ground.
‘He has gone completely mad.’
Helkane frowned while looking at Bosman, who was crawling toward him on all fours on the ground.
Helkane had also heard well that Bosman’s condition was not good after he returned to Abysin after being detained in the Reichart territory.
Facing him in person, his condition looked even worse.
“S-save . Grand Madam, please, please, that light…… please, Father, Grand Madam, aaaack!”
Did he fall into a panic? Whenever a beam of light flashed, Bosman let out a scream like a seizure and rushed toward Rishu.
“Calm down, Sir Bosman.”
“Grand Madam, Grand Madam, Young Master Helkane. I am scared. Please, …….”
“Ehem! Did I not tell you to calm down!”
Helkane stopped Bosman, who had an unsightly appearance.
He, who did not have a speck of talent in rune abilities, was not a target of restraint for the Dragon Tooth Soldiers.
“Young Master Helkane, s-save…….”
Bosman, whose way to Rishu was blocked, now hung onto Helkane’s embrace, pouring out tears and snot, begging him to save him.
“I told you to calm down!”
Eventually, Helkane, unable to overco his irritation, yelled out and grabbed Bosman’s shoulders to make him stand.
“Did you not hear what I just said! Reichart’s magic will end soon, so just a little……!”
At that mont, the eyes of Helkane, who was holding Bosman’s shoulders, turned huge.
“He…… lkane…… Sa…… ave…….”
Bosman’s body, which was already chubby, swelled up like a balloon, and capillaries began to appear clearly all over his body.
“Sa…… ve…… …….”
Even while his whole body was swelling up tight, Bosman floundered his hands and sent a signal to save him.
The mont it reached the peak where it could not swell up anymore,
“Helkane!”
“Mother!”
Helkane shouted like a scream and embraced Rishu’s body.
And at the mont he wrapped his and Rishu’s bodies by exerting the maximum Aura Shield he could display…….
Bang!
A trendous explosion sound and roar burst out.
“Cough, cough.”
“Mother, are you alright?”
After the roar subsided, Helkane hurriedly examined Rishu’s condition.
Since he protected his body with armor and the Aura Shield, he did not suffer fatal wounds despite the explosion.
“Haa, thanks to you, there is nothing wrong.”
Rishu also seed to have no particular problems, perhaps thanks to the Aura Shield Helkane deployed to the maximum.
“……!”
However, Rishu, who suddenly recalled sothing, looked at her hand with a frantic expression.
“That is a relief.”
Checking that both of the 2 rings sealing the essence of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers were safe, Rishu let out a sigh of relief.
“What on earth is this…….”
Then, looking at Bosman’s body which had turned into pieces of flesh and lumps of blood, she frowned.
Pieces of flesh flying in all directions and damp blood.
This was sothing that even she, no matter how bold, could not help but frown at.
“Hein, how could such a terrible…….”
However, the mont Rishu shook her head and let out a sigh of relief again,
Slither-
The third knife I prepared revealed its appearance.
What entered Helkane’s eyes, having turned his head at the sound of a snake flicking its tongue, was a green light inside Bosman’s lump of flesh.
The green light that stayed in Helkane’s vision for an instant leaped in a flash.
What the green fang aid for was,
“Mother!”
Crunch!
The ancient snake ‘Gorgon’, having moved onto Rishu’s palm before anyone knew, opened its snout wide and bit the Dragon Tooth Soldier’s sealing tool.
“No!”
An urgent scream burst out from Rishu’s mouth.
But after Gorgon’s fangs had already pierced both sealing tools.
Woooo-
The sorrowful crying sound that burst out from the mouths of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers, who lost the essence they had dearly kept, overturned the field.
“Mother, you must avoid it! Soon the military forces of Reichart will arrive here!”
Helkane, who finished grasping the situation belatedly, grabbed Rishu with hands stained with the blood Bosman scattered and shouted with an urgent voice.
“I…… cannot do that.”
“Mother!”
“If we retreat from here, what will happen to Redin? No, I absolutely cannot retreat futilely like this!”
Rishu scread while losing her cool, unlike her usual self.
However.
Woooo-
The Dragon Tooth Soldiers had already lost their sturdiness and were staggering.
Rishu’s bloodshot eyes watching this could not overco the passion and shook greatly.
“Mother, I will escort you, so please follow !”
“Will you not let go of this!”
Eventually, Helkane forcibly hugged Rishu in his arms and went toward his tent.
If they just went to the tent, they would be able to return to Abysin sohow using the portal scroll there.
“I said let go, you punk, will you not let go of this imdiately!”
Rishu struggled violently.
Eventually, Helkane ended up yelling at her.
“It is already wrong, Mother! The mont the Dragon Tooth Soldiers collapsed, the chance of victory disappeared for us! In the end, Mother and I fell for Hein’s move.”
“Wh…… at?”
“Hein’s target was Bosman from the beginning.”
Drip.
Red blood eventually flowed from the corner of Helkane’s mouth, who bit his lip too roughly.
He shouted with a blood-clotted voice while hugging Rishu, who still hadn't grasped the situation.
“The spell was a bait. The purpose of the bastard using Mass Teleport was not to make Mother break away, but to move Bosman to Mother’s side without being suspected!”
***
At that ti, the Reichart camp was located on the other side of the field.
“All forces prepare to sortie! We will grind up those filthy bones right here today and condemn the insects gnawing at Zodiac.”
Confirming that the Dragon Tooth Soldiers who lost their essence were crumbling, I gave the sortie order to the waiting Reichart knights.
“Ares, we shall receive the Young Master’s order!”
“Hels, all personnel have finished preparing for sortie!”
“dena, we can march out imdiately!”
Voices announcing that the commanders of each knight order had completed preparations for sortie rang out.
And,
“Commander, all preparations are finished!”
At the mont Ismael, the Vice-Commander of the Haken Knight Order, announced that preparations were complete as the last one,
“For the lost honor!”
“Waaaa!”
Neigh!
1,500 knights with at the head started charging toward the enemy camp with a spirit like raging waves, along with the sound of horse hooves shaking the earth.
“Hiyah!”
The one who encountered the Dragon Tooth Soldiers first at the very front of the Reichart camp was .
Clang!
Two swords gathered together slashed down diagonally in both directions.
Slash!
The Dragon Tooth Soldiers hit by that slash collapsed futilely like a pile of burnt briquette ashes.
The number of Dragon Tooth Soldiers pierced by a single slash was three.
Superhuman strength and regenerative power that seed immortal were all just vain stories to the Dragon Tooth Soldiers who lost their essence.
Ping- Whoosh!
A Dragon Tooth Soldier archer who had not collapsed yet and maintained its form pulled a magic bowstring, but I held the reins of the horse with an appearance of not caring about arrows at all.
Ting- Tang!
The magic arrows that lost their power could not pierce my Aura Shield and scattered into the air.
Confirming that fact, a smile rose to my lips.
The Dragon Tooth Soldier that lost the sealing tool could not beco a threat.
‘Done!’
My gamble, no, calculation hit the mark.
I said it was a gamble in front of the commanders last night, but in fact, my plan was closer to a ticulous calculation than a gamble.
First, with the troops we currently possess, we cannot defeat the Dragon Tooth Soldiers.
Second, the best way to neutralize the Dragon Tooth Soldiers is to destroy Rishu’s sealing tool.
Third, it is impossible for to infiltrate Rishu’s camp and launch a surprise attack.
Fourth, but I have Gorgon who infiltrated the enemy camp.
I, who organized these four facts, set up a plan to infiltrate Bosman, Gorgon’s host, to Rishu’s side and destroy the sealing tool.
And to make this plan succeed, I had to make Bosman approach Rishu without being suspected.
Because to make Gorgon’s surprise attack effective, I had to reduce the distance to the target to within 2~3m.
‘Would a character with a lot of suspicion like Rishu tolerate Bosman approaching her?’
In normal tis, it would be impossible for Bosman, who possesses practically zero martial power, to penetrate Rishu’s guard and approach her.
Therefore, for Bosman to approach Rishu’s side, it was necessary to make the situation chaotic.
And the thod I selected for this was exactly the lost magic ‘Mass Teleport’.
‘If Bosman tried to approach her without a particular reason, Rishu would have suspected it too, but if he appears due to the influence of Mass Teleport, she wouldn't imdiately guess there is an intention in the approach in a chaotic situation.’
Bosman being transported next to Rishu was also not a simple coincidence.
Only one case among the cast Mass Teleports.
Bosman’s teleporter was cast by , not Sherazade.
If it were the original way, Mass Teleport has a principle of random movent.
However, Alexar, whose expertise was outstanding enough to resurrect a lost spell, could move within a margin of error of about 20m.
Since the magic curtain created by the Dragon Tooth Soldiers gathering together inford of Rishu’s location accurately, it wasn't a difficult task either.
‘There is a chance of victory.’
The remaining problem was how to reduce the distance between Bosman, who fell outside the margin of error, and Rishu to within 5m, but,
‘Gorgon earned its keep.’
Fortunately, Gorgon, settled inside Bosman’s body, perford superb acting.
My plan fit perfectly. The tide of the battlefield tilted in an instant.
“Go out and die!”
Turning my head to the rear, the appearance of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers who lost power being ravaged by the knights of Reichart entered my eyes at a glance.
The Dragon Tooth Soldiers who lost their essence were powerless enough to look like straw dolls that were just big in size.
“Retreat! Retreat!”
“There is no chance of victory like this! Damn it, damn it……!”
“S-save! Cough!”
The Royal Guard Knights of Simmach, who relied only on the Dragon Tooth Soldiers and didn't make proper preparations, were also collapsing futilely.
“Hah!”
Judging that there would be no great difficulty in tidying up the situation even without , I turned the horse’s reins largely to the left.
Slash-
Bang!
And I cut down three bone dolls blocking my front all at once.
‘I won't let you go!’
***
“Helkane, I…… cannot go like this.”
“Mother, do not say such words. If we go to the capital, so way will be seen.”
Even while answering, Helkane did not stop his hand movents to operate the Town Portal Scroll.
“Do you not know as well? Since the Dragon Tooth Soldiers and Simmach were annihilated here, even if we go to Abysin, what remains for us is full of worthless things.”
“…….”
Did she accept the situation and give up now?
Unlike Rishu who showed a futile smile, Helkane shook his head with eyes full of venom.
‘I cannot, I cannot end it like this. I still have many things to do! First, I will escort Mother to the capital and then escape Zodiac. Then an opportunity will co again.’
Helkane waited for the Town Portal Scroll to activate with an anxious expression.
Since he just input the incantation now, the portal would activate in just about 2~3 minutes.
‘Please, please.’
Whirrr-
Ti that felt as long as eternity flowed,
And finally, the scroll began to emit light.
“Mother, we must go.”
“…….”
Helkane moved his steps onto the magic circle while forcibly hugging Rishu, who still had no answer.
At that ti,
Crumble-
The sound of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers, which he had set up just in case, turning into a pile of ashes was heard.
Helkane reflexively turned his gaze toward there.
There was Hein, staring at him while holding swords divided in both hands.
The gazes of the two people tangled in the air.
‘……!’
In that short mont, Helkane felt the fear he had tasted a while ago.
The distance between the two people was about 100m.
The ti remaining until the activation of magic was now barely a few seconds.
“Haa!”
Hein swung his sword without hesitation.
Swoosh-
The magic circle emitting light and the bundle of Blade Aura pouring out from the tip of Axion were almost simultaneous.
But unfortunately, the bundle of Blade Aura assaulting the two people was a little faster than the activation of magic.
“……!”
Helkane reflexively drew his sword and blocked the bundle of Blade Aura.
However.
Shatter-
Helkane’s sword, directly hit by Hein’s attack, could not withstand the power and broke into pieces.
“Kugh!”
The Blade Aura that was not completely extinguished hit Helkane’s left eyeball as it was.
Flash!
Ending with that sharp scream that heavily bore the sll of blood,
The mother and son, Rishu and Helkane, were wrapped in blinding light and hid their figures.
“Che!”
In the spot where the mother and son disappeared, only blonde hair covered in blood was rolling lonely on the dusty ground.
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