51. Heading to the Academy (2)
“Production.”
Block the wagons with a wall of earth and stones. As long as the wagon is not lifted, Karina cannot be harmed. I told the knights, who were surprised by my skills, to protect them, and then jumped into the battlefield where a melee was taking place.
Goblins, orcs, werewolves, trolls, unknown monsters… In the middle, I saw humans wearing suspicious costumes shouting something and jumping at the knights. Are those the Harpas Church bastards?
What kind of bullsh*t is this?
Where did they come from?
And did everyone drink alcohol? Why are your eyes so red? If you look closely, it looks like it may have exploded. Just looking at it makes me feel insane.
At first glance, this is not a normal state. And what happened to the damn guards, so no one noticed until they got all the way here. Looking around, the soldiers were gnawed bit by bit without forming a rank.
Has nothing happened for a month become poison?
It was an overly loose trip, but I didn’t expect it to be so relaxed that I didn’t notice the raid. In the first place, it might not have occurred to them that they would be attacked with such a large army.
“…First of all, we must protect non-combatants.”
I quickly scanned the surroundings to see the priests and servants gathered in one place. The soldiers are guarding the surroundings, but they seem to be pushed back little by little by the onslaught of the trolls. I kicked off the ground and ran behind the troll. I don’t know if they have the same weaknesses as humans, but the priority was to deal with the one who troubled the soldiers the most.
Earthen structures won’t be able to do any meaningful damage, so this time…
I used the skill right behind the troll.
“Production.”
The ground goes out. The body of the troll, who boasted a height that seemed to be 5 meters on the suddenly lowered ground, slanted and adjusted to eye level. At the sudden situation, the soldiers’ faces were wet with embarrassment, and they could be seen over the troll’s shoulder. Before the troll came to his senses, I climbed onto his shoulder and stabbed him in the back of the head with the blade of a shovel.
Once, twice, three times.
There was no tree that couldn’t be felled by taking 10 shots, and the troll’s movement began to slow as he stabbed the back of the head like crazy. The soldiers soon noticed and attacked the troll’s limbs to keep it from attacking me. In the end, even the fearsome troll with our pincer attack had his head split in half and had no choice but to lie down on the dirt floor.
“Are there any injuries?”
“Yes. Thanks to…”
Seeing the uncleaned soup marks on his mouth, he must have hurriedly picked up a weapon and fought while eating. I couldn’t even eat properly and looked at the soldier caught up in this mess and said.
“Then, I will be in charge of this side, so apply for other places. Spread it to your colleagues.”
“Yes? But…”
“There are ways.”
“…I got it.”
Neutralizing the troll seems to have added credibility to my words. It might be better to use this opportunity to appeal to the soldiers a little more. In terms of the military, this is the level of an engineer company.
Perhaps.
The soldiers, fortunately, were not stubborn and scattered to help others. All that remains is the priest and servants. I cried out to them, terrified.
“Priests! And servants! Everyone unite! You must not move!”
At my words, the priests and servants clung to each other. Well, good to hear from you.
It’s all thanks to you making everything during this boring trip.
I checked the rough estimate with an eye test and put a shovel on the floor.
“Production.”
A gigantic dugout made of earth, unpretentious to the point of being rugged, surrounded the priests and servants. It’s hard to say it’s very strong because it’s only made of soil, but at least it’s hard to break it with flying stones or clubs.
I made a simple moat with safety bread to block the goblin’s access.
If this is enough, it should be fine.
I took my eyes off them and looked around the battlefield.
Where did Milia and Lenny go? Regardless of Lenny, Milia must have only enough fighting skills to compete with Chihuahua. I kindly stuck a shovel into the heads of the goblins that were rushing at me and went looking for Milia.
“Milia!”
“John! Help me!”
I looked at the orc following Millia, who was running towards me in tears. The orc, holding a rusty ax that he didn’t know where he picked it up, seemed to be appreciating Millia’s red hair, and he didn’t care about anyone else, only chasing after Millia.
“Production.”
I set up an ankle-high obstacle between Milia and the orc, and when the orc fell and exposed an opening, I kicked the ground. The head of an orc approaching, a green bald head stares at me. He tried to block the attack with an axe, but was unable to block the attack in a collapsed position. I pulled the half-retracted shovel blade out of the orc’s head. A mixture of brain and blood flowed from the cracked head.
It’s an eerie sight.
“John! I was scared!”
Don’t stick around. My clothes are sticky because my brain is splattered.
“See that building over there? Go there.”
“Okay!”
Millia rushed into the building I was made of.
Then let’s move on.
I threw myself into the pushing wire.
First of all, the guys dressed in Harpas Church costumes. I don’t mind killing people, but do I need to hesitate now? A hydra, a bear, or a human are all living things.
I swung the blade of the shovel at the clear enemy’s neck.
Unpleasant and unpleasant sensations flowed through my hands to my shoulders. Her head falls to the floor, splattering her blood. It’s an unpleasant sight, but it may be a sight you’ll see many times in the future. I looked away from the corpse and rolled my eyes for my next target.
One frontline is almost blocked by Lenny alone, and the northern frontline is defended by knights in formation. Where am I heading east?
I moved to the east where the orcs and goblins were uniting and pushing the front line. As you walk east, you can smell the thick smell of blood. The damage situation was serious in the east. I wonder if 10 people died? I passed the soldiers dragging the wounded behind and approaching the battlefield.
Come to think of it, this is the first battlefield.
But I wasn’t afraid.
After fighting a monster bigger than an elephant for 10 years, you can keep your composure in any situation.
I put the shovel on the ground and closed my eyes for a moment. The image comes to mind clearly. What structure do you need now? I remembered the structures I had built.
Walls, pillars, moats, houses…
That would be nice.
“Production.”
A wall rises behind the enemies. It was a wall to separate the monsters in the rear from the monsters rampaging in the front.
I used my skills repeatedly to split the eastern battlefield in half and put a period on it.
“Production. Produce. Produce.”
No matter how powerful an army is, if the ground collapses, it cannot use its strength. I built a barricade out of earth, spiked with sharp spikes, to fend off an army of rampaging monsters.
“Get back slowly and regroup!”
It seems that the words he shouted until his throat hurts were fortunately heard by the soldiers, and the soldiers retreated little by little and reorganized their lines. Those who are too injured to fight are left out, and those who can fight calmly take down the attacking monsters with shields. No matter how madly the monsters charged, the numerical advantage was on this side.
It was an expeditionary force with a whopping 1,000 troops.
“East is fine now, South is…”
…I didn’t check Karina’s side because I was checking the battlefield. I ran straight to the carriage.
Fortunately, it was quiet around the wagon. The knights who were wary of the surroundings saw me and started talking to me with a welcome face.
“What is it?”
“How is this place?”
“Damn monsters have attacked, but I defeated them all.”
Looking in the direction the knight pointed with his finger, I saw the corpses of fallen orcs and goblins. Seeing that two of the trolls had also been knocked down, it seemed that they had dealt with the enemy with certainty, befitting the elite knights chosen to escort her saintess.
I turned my gaze to check the wall. There are some broken parts here and there, but it is still intact. I repaired the wall with my skills, then turned my gaze back to the battlefield.
The battle isn’t over yet, so I have a lot of work to do.
The night on the battlefield is not over yet.
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The battle, which lasted from midnight to dawn, came to an end only when the morning sun slowly rose.
The sight of the soldiers collecting the remains of their dead comrades and the priests searching for the wounded and using healing magic made them look away.
A dark expression was evident on the faces of all who participated in the war.
It’s natural.
There is no way anyone would be happy that a colleague or a subordinate died and survived.
“Thank you. Without you, it would have been devastating.”
“…No.”
I couldn’t even speak rudely to an elderly person, so I tried my best to answer with respect. A knight by the name of Carbonaro, with his handsome mustache, looked genuinely grateful. It was a little burdensome to see the way he looked at me from the level of a servant until yesterday had changed.
From noble mtl dot com.
Those eyes are a little uncomfortable.
It’s not my taste to lose by staring at a guy like that.
If Karina looked at me like that… Hmm.
“Hey, are you thinking of joining the Knights?”
This sounds like a graduate student recommendation. I have no intention of becoming a knight. I just want to live in peace, but I can’t throw myself away from limb.
“I have something to do.”
“Sorry.”
I evasively brushed aside the invitation to join the knights and asked what I was curious about this raid.
“What happened anyway? I’m sure I put up a sentry, but it’s so easy to break through…”
“…It seems that the soldiers standing guard have been affected by hallucination magic. I didn’t know that they would come out with monsters and attack them. It’s my fault We had to think of countermeasures against attacks like this. I can’t imagine they would attack an expedition with this much force…”
“You must be nervous from now on.”
“Yes.”
An unconcealable worry appeared on Carbonaro’s face.
It’s natural.
It took a month and a half to arrive at Calon Academy at the earliest.
Our path is obvious. The possibility of traps and ambushes along the way cannot be ignored. Besides, what they brought was not even a human, but a monster. I don’t know how to do it, but it seems like he brainwashed monsters and led them around, but it means that they need to replenish their troops more easily than this side, so it’s a very cumbersome opponent.
But we didn’t have many options. Thinking of Karina’s physical condition right now, even if she ran with her full power, it would have been barely enough.
In the meantime, it was obvious that more raids would continue, and there was a possibility that a trap had been dug.
But even so, we must move forward.
“…I have a way.”
It’s a plan that suddenly came to mind, but it might be better than I thought.
“Oh, yes, something?”
I began to explain the strategy I had in mind to the commander.