109 – Chapter 36. Come down from the sky – 1
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Erif left first and prepared for departure, but the ground forces were not ready, so the other helicopters had to wait a bit.
After a brief conversation with the operational staff to coordinate the schedule, Chermia looked around the ground forces to accompany them.
The ground forces of the Holy Kingdom Army were lined with numerous special mounts.
Seeing the vehicle carrying a large weapon on its back, Chermia tilted her head.
“What kind of weapon is this?”
“This is a ‘Cyclops type’. You can think of it as a mobile anti-aircraft gun.”
“Oh, it was an anti-aircraft gun.”
The aircraft power of our allies has just entered the mass production system, and the pilots were close to beginners, but the enemies were overflowing with aces, and the fighters had better specifications and many more.
It was a kind of asymmetric force, and to overcome this, many anti-aircraft vehicles that can move with the ground forces were prepared.
In addition, the large tank ‘Behemoth Chariot’, which is a deteriorated version of Chromium shared by Master Chromium, and the ‘Salamanda’ type, a flame-throwing vehicle with many medium-level flame spirits, etc.
There were many unusual models that had not been seen before.
Cermia looked at them frantically and returned to the heliport five minutes before departure.
“Yes? Is the saint going too?”
Ireana in her pilot suit nodded her head eagerly.
“Of course. I also learned a lot about how to fly a helicopter.”
“But… ….”
When Chermia was unable to continue her words, the paladin standing behind Ireana shook her head toward Chermia.
“We stopped, too, but the saint was so stubborn… ….”
When Ireana glanced back at her, her paladin flinched and let her sigh.
“Thank you. Commander of the helicopter unit. Please protect the saint.”
“I can’t say for sure. It can be dangerous if you don’t fully control the airspace.”
“I know. It’s a story I’ve always heard while learning directly from Erif.”
Come to think of it, I’ve heard that Chermiado Erif taught her Saint.
It was not polite to not trust the direct disciple of her best friend.
Chermiah nodded her head countless times.
“Instead, if it becomes dangerous, you have to step back immediately.”
Ireana nodded her head with her determined look.
“I’ll make sure it doesn’t bother you.”
Hearing the advice of her worried paladins, Chermia boarded her own helicopter.
Like Erif’s helicopter that departed earlier, her helicopter had two paladins on it.
“Thank you.”
“Yes. We rode on the orders of the saint, but what are we going to do?”
“Well. We only know that it is the will of the captain.”
She was worried that she wouldn’t get caught by the Paladins for nothing, because Chermia didn’t hear the details either.
But she trusted Erif.
If she was her own best friend and one of her humanoid spirits, she must have meant something.
Chermia took the twenty paladins of the Holy Kingdom evenly on the helicopters of her troops.
They came here mainly because of the escort of her saint.
So, as long as the saint decided to accompany the helicopter unit, she actively agreed to ride a helicopter.
‘If you’re in a car, you can drop it in a suitable place. They are monsters who say they can catch tanks with swords, so they won’t fight very well.’
With that in mind, Chermia started her engine.
After a while, the helicopter units with Ireana started taking off one after another.
Click
The scene where more than ten helicopters form a formation and move along with the tanks in the sky with high clouds flowing leisurely was captured on camera.
If you were to ask a war reporter of the Holy Kingdom to pick the best photo of the war he took, he would have said that it was a photo of a helicopter he had just taken.
Wandering around the outskirts of the city, he prioritized eliminating enemy tanks.
The enemy’s fighter force was not very large and the runway was far away, so the enemy didn’t have enough anti-aircraft guns.
At least, there were a few anti-aircraft guns of the old specification to catch the helicopters the Holy Kingdom had, but even if that was the case, it was fine, and it didn’t fit in the first place.
While I was cooking the enemy’s ground forces, the body shook slightly and the rotor sound suddenly increased.
The speed was also quite slow, so I hadtily dodged the enemy’s anti-aircraft guns.
It was a little dangerous.
“How old is it?”
“About 15 minutes.”
Thanks to the request in advance, I was able to know the approximate time for spirit strengthening.
15 Minutes is not bad.
It wasn’t too long, but it wasn’t too short either.
In my opinion, the magic power now is enough to be used a couple more times in the future.
Just in case you didn’t know, I took the rice balls out of the bag next to me and ate them.
I was controlling and attacking at the same time, but I felt the shaking eyes of the paladins.
If you use a lot of magical power, you will become hungry, so you can fight while eating.
I’m looking at you with strange eyes.
Oh, maybe they were hungry too, but they didn’t share it?
“Would you like to eat one?”
“Oh no, Erif-sama. Eat a lot.”
The waitress with a husky voice creaked and waved her gauntleted hands.
I guess I’m not hungry.
In the end, I went around the outskirts of the city eating three rice balls.
I could see the ground forces of the Holy Kingdom that had just departed from the far south.
The enemies that were individually defeated by me started to gather in the north of the city in a hurry.
In my mind, I wanted to deal with it by firing a large-scale bombardment over there, but there are a lot of weapons capable of anti-aircraft attacks.
If you pay attention to defense, the consumption of magic will increase, so leave that to the ground forces.
“Oh. This is Seraph 1. Enemies began to gather. The coordinates are-“
When I called the coordinates of the place where the enemies were gathered and looked around to see if there was anyone else to deal with, I saw something unusual near the northern horizon.
And after a while my intuition signaled a danger.
If you leave ‘that’ as it is, the damage of your allies will be severe.
I approached ‘it’ while bypassing the enemies.
“That’s… ….”
The paladins seemed to have noticed something, too, sticking their heads out of the chairs and looking over the windshield.
“Oh my God.”
Something huge was approaching at high speed, overturning the ground.
“It seems to be an Earthworm-type monster.”
“Are you strong?”
The male knight nodded his head heavily.
“It is a very strong monster. He lives mainly in the desert area of the western Pavis continent, but I wonder how he got here.”
“The demons must have smuggled it.”
I put on the helmet that the waitress had taken off after a short laugh at my words.
“That guy hides in the ground and only pops out when he attacks, or even overturns the ground to overturn the tanks. It’s hard to get the timing right because he has to attack and he’s on the ground.”
“Well. He’ll have to wait for him to pop out and then he’ll attack.”
“That’s right. But then…….”
“The problem is that the sacrifice of our allies is inevitable.”
I wonder where there is no war without damage, but that earthworm’s attack was a bit different.
If he overturned the ground while he was busy dealing with the enemy’s ground forces, there was a possibility that he would be helpless if he shattered his allies’ formation.
I said it was too easy, but I was preparing such a trump card.
His hands were trembling a little.
Is it tension or excitement?
I also grabbed the lever with an indistinguishable feeling and moved to the vicinity of the overturning ground.
I have nothing to do when I arrive.
The Hellfire fired one shot, but it only produced a brilliant flame on the ground, but could not penetrate into the basement.
After making a few pointless attacks like that, he started to react.
The guy who was digging through the ground suddenly stopped.
Then, out of the blue, a huge brown insect appeared in the wrong place.
I didn’t expect it at all because the ground was in good shape.
[[Captain!]]
“Everyone, take a defensive posture!”
Earthworm spit something out before I could even finish my words.
A long, thick, sticky thread passed right next to the body.
With reflexes close to instinct, I managed to avoid it by moving the lever in the opposite direction.
The thread that used to cut the sky fell to the ground and created a long line on the floor with the feeling of being ‘cracked’.
“It’s dangerous.”
“I will. If you hit it right, you’ll fall right away.”
“Guys. Don’t mind the noise and hit the wind barrier at the bottom of the body. [[Elemental Enhancement]]”
[[Yes!]]
A thick curtain of wind that could be seen immediately appeared under the main body.
Earthworm fired the thread again, but it was blocked by the veil and ripped to pieces.
Okay. The defense is…….
There was no means to attack from this side.
The curtain of wind had to cover the rotor and tail side, so it was distributed in a range of over 30 meters in diameter under the main body, and there was no means to ignore the curtain and attack from this side.
“What will happen if I shoot Hellfire in this state?”
[[[You can see the Hellfire exploding right in front of you, boss.]]
In that case, it might be better to protect the rotor from falling and grind the Hellfire when it pops out.
The paladins and spirits who heard my plan expressed displeasure.
“It is too dangerous.”
[[That’s right, Captain. After our reinforcements are done, we may not be able to cover enough range to block the thread. It’s better to inform your allies and bring a weapon that can catch him…….]]
“The ground forces are already engaged.”
I saw helicopters coming and going on the outskirts of the city in the distance.
The smoke and flashing magic were seen intermittently.
Realizing that the attack didn’t work for me, Earthworm ignored this and started moving as if it was about to go to the battlefield.
“How much reinforcement is left?”
[[8 Minutes left]]
“That would be enough. All paladins. Please prepare.”
“Yes?”
“I have a plan.”
The magician who was controlling the Earthworm lost his appetite.
That silver helicopter was clearly a ‘Misfire’.
If only that guy was caught, the fame and success of himself and his clan would be guaranteed, but there was no proper means to attack him.
The thread attack of conversion was blocked by the shield, and the attack that overturned the ground was of no use to the opponent floating in the air.
Reluctantly, while trying to lead Earthworm to a ground battle, Misfire suddenly broke the shield.
The demons clap their hands as they prepare their weapons with the wind curtain wrapped around their feet like a thick fog under their wings.
It seemed that the strategy had changed because it was impossible to attack with the shield on from the other side as well.
‘You stupid b*tch. It makes me realize how big of a mistake that choice was.’
The demons prepared to stick out the Earthworm’s tail, pretending to spit out threads, and stick out his head.
Just before the Misfire swiveled her nose and fired fire at her tail, Earthworm withdrew her tail.
And with its head sticking out, Earthworm spit out a thread and succeeded in attaching it to the body of the Misfire.
‘It’s done! He’s ours now!’
The demons prepared their next attack with their eyes shining.
The head and tail alternately spewed a thread to fix the Misfire.
While floating in the sky, the helicopter, caught by a thread connected to the ground, was making pathetic gestures like a butterfly caught in a spider’s web.
The demons smiled of conversion.
‘Now it’s over!’
The nose of the Misfire was fixed to one side and could not be turned.
Cautiously turning back and sticking out its head, Earthworm opened its mouth wide and prepared to attack.
It takes a long time to gather power, so it is not used at all, but it is the most powerful skill among ranged attacks.
Black energy began to gather around Earthworm’s mouth.
Five seconds forward.
Before launching an attack that can inflict great damage no matter how much the humanoid spirit body is hit properly.
The spatula
“aaah!”
The demon who linked Earthworm and himself suddenly screamed and collapsed.
I couldn’t get my head around the feeling of being split in half.
He felt death.
‘Why? Why is death…… ?’
He came out through the hidden bushes and could see why.
Earthworm was lying with its head cut in half.
And he was also decapitated by the sword attack, and the magician ordered the Earthworm.
“Are you ready? Then go!”
“Uh, ji, really- uh!”
“I will go.”
Taking the waiter who complained of a weak fear of heights, Namgisa flew out of the helicopter.
It wasn’t that I jumped out of nowhere.
With the wing unitary parts that I borrowed one by one on the back, the Paladins on the drone whose performance was improved by spirit reinforcement moved to a place a little further away from the helicopter, barely balancing.
And similar to the ‘sanctuary of mist’ made from the water-wind attribute manastone that Arumanan gave me before, I also made a manastone that hides the presence and gave it to them.
AKA ‘Mirage Sanctuary’.
An object that disturbs the user’s position by containing the elements of fire and wind.
I had never made anything like this before, so the duration was only 3 minutes, but that was enough.
The Paladins who activated the Manastone containing the Sanctuary of the Mirage carefully descended to the ground level.
And the Earthworm’s thread attack started.
He went back and forth to see if he was trying to pupate me at all, spouting threads with excitement.
He flew Hellfire in the middle and even acted as if he had been unintentionally attacked by him.
I’m going to be acting with a helicopter.
“The lever doesn’t move well.”
I couldn’t move because the thread was too much.
If the rotor was wrapped around it, it would have fallen to the ground as it was, but the shield spread under the rotor was blocking it well.
Instead, the thread was glued to the body.
And finally, Earthworm fully exposed its torso and prepared to attack.
Fixing the nose and attacking from behind was not just the idea of a bug. Surely there must be a guy who controls him.
And he was deceived.
The paladin jumped off the drone.
A paladin who jumped from a height of at least 20 meters and raised his sword high.
Wind is the opposite of Earthworm that lives on the ground.
The sword began to take on the element of wind.
The sword that contained the storm fell on the head of the monster without eyes.
Earth Worm with a body diameter of more than 10 meters was cut in half and died.
While the fallen monster was spouting thick yellow bodily fluid and wriggling with post-mortem rigidity, another paladin staying in the air manipulated the drone and flew somewhere.
The demons, who were walking staggeringly out of the bushes a little far away, fell off their necks at once with the paladin’s swift blade.
“Huh.”
The operation was successful.
I was able to safely block the Earthworm, which could have overturned the ground forces of the Holy Kingdom.
After a while, the paladins and spirits from the ground struggled a bit to get rid of the sticky thread.
From now on, there will be more powerful and special abilities like this.
“!!”
Like ‘that guy’ on a fighter jet flying over there.
A squadron of red fighters appeared through the clouds hanging over the horizon.
A strong presence that can be seen from afar.
The rematch with the vampire is approaching.