Victory
A full-fledged war broke out a day after Leon and his party left to attack the dungeon.
The preemptive attack started with Princess Ailee.
General soldiers with low mobility were placed on standby in a garden near the forest where the monsters were stationed, and 3 knights and 500 horsemen mobilized for this war were deployed to launch a guerrilla operation and attack the monster army first.
But it doesn’t go deep.
Well-trained knights had the mobility to roam freely through the forest even if they got off their horses and jumped on their own two feet, but at least the horsemen had to run on flat ground in order to win the battle for mobility with the monsters.
So, the horsemen were put on standby at the border of the forest, and the knights first stimulated and lured the demons, and when they popped out of the forest, the war began in such a way that the horsemen hit their sides.
The knights and horsemen hurried out, leaving behind the monsters whose lines had collapsed.
Skilled knights take the backs and kill the fast-footed monsters, lead the horsemen, and lure the monsters back to the hill where the main camp is waiting.
And there, the second round, the archers, mages, and 5 magic corps spread a barrage to block the rushing of the monsters with speed, and while the heavy armored soldiers held out their deterrents, the knights and horsemen turned and struck their sides again.
Assaulting infantry and mages.
The geographical advantage was overwhelmingly good for the Philo Kingdom Army.
The Philo Kingdom army occupied the high ground on a high hill and carried out a thorough defense battle, and while the monsters climbed the slope, their overwhelming physical ability had to be halved, and the fireballs and poisons they spew out did not fly long distances. He fell on the borderline of unsuccessful battles and often inflicted damage to the same monsters.
On the other hand, Philo Kingdom’s arrows and magic flew farther away.
Being able to pour powerful magic freely because you don’t have to worry about being swept away by your allies gives the wizard psychological stability.
What you need to use magic is magic and mental power.
Among them, it plays an important role in saving the consumption of mental power.
In addition, Princess Ailee has been supplying a large amount of mana potions through an agreement with Leon and Mary.
If only the consumption of mental power could be saved, the magic bombardment could have been poured out.
At this rate, I thought that I would be able to lead the war to victory more easily than I thought.
But it didn’t take long to realize that it was an illusion.
Some of the knights who were leading the horsemen and running around the hill and hitting the side of the group of monsters were injured and ran to Ailee and reported it.
“The supporting forces of the demons have been confirmed! At least 3 brigade-level troops! We are approaching as if besieging all three directions except for the Vanguard of the Demon Realm!”
It wasn’t just that the monsters didn’t know the strategy, so they weren’t being lured by Princess Ailee.
Even if there was a great sacrifice in the vanguard, he calculated that if he could use the hidden forces to surround the Philo Kingdom Army, he would have a strategic advantage.
The reinforcements, which had been hidden in the dimensional rift until the last minute of the war, came pouring out after the war started, so it was completely unpredictable by the Philo Kingdom Army.
Princess Ailee made a quick decision.
“All wizards spread wide-area magic with the greatest power to attack the northern forces. Immediately after that, the knights and horsemen open the way, and the infantry and mages follow them! The heavy armored personnel guard the back line of defense and stop the monsters from pursuing them, and the archers support it!”
Using the slow-footed heavy armored personnel as a scapegoat, the rest of the troops broke through the northern forces and escaped the siege.
It was an instruction to give up the geographical advantage of being situated on a hill, but it was decided that if the siege continued like this, it would be annihilated.
At the time when the reinforcements from the Demon Realm, which were not expected in the first place, arrived, the defeat of the Philo Kingdom army was nothing short of predetermined.
Now, Princess Ailee is thinking about how little damage can she do to shake off the pursuit of the demons and escape.
With Princess Ailee’s quick judgment, she succeeded in drilling a hole in the northern siege of the demons, but instead had to sacrifice more than half of the heavy armored personnel.
Not only that, but due to the attacks of the monsters that had been narrowing the siege from the east and west, the Philo Kingdom army had to collapse and inevitably suffered a lot of damage in the midst of a fierce battle.
“Retreat! Retreat!”
Princess Ailee saw the soldiers who had been swept away by the demons and left behind screaming for their lives, but she had no choice but to make up her mind and shout.
To save even one more troops.
A war lost anyway.
If Princess Ailee wanted to live alone, it would have been possible to run away with only the knights and horsemen with good mobility.
But Princess Ailee did not.
Knights and horsemen are the last stronghold that can withstand this dire situation.
Utilizing his quick mobility, he fought to the end against the attacks of the monsters on a whim.
However, the stamina of the knights’ Auras and war horses was also low, and they were overtaken by flying monsters and eventually had no choice but to be surrounded.
Princess Ailee shouted for a decisive battle and ordered unity, but the soldiers, frightened, protested at the headquarters and scattered.
It was because he had already seen a large number of heavy armored soldiers being sacrificed to stop the pursuit, so his morale had fallen to the point where he could no longer drop.
Some soldiers succeeded in escaping through the gaps in the encirclement created by the activities of the knights and horsemen, but it was unclear whether they would be able to escape from the pursuit of the monsters.
Princess Ailee had no choice but to express her displeasure.
In the original history, the division commander of this war survives.
However, in this history, the division commander has changed.
It was because Leon saved Princess Ailee, who was originally destined to die in the mining city of Aios.
Although Princess Ailee did not inform the history of such a past, she felt that the current situation was her responsibility.
At the time of escaping the siege, leaving the heavy armored personnel behind, Ailee made the sacrifices of the soldiers.
However, their screams and resentment for rescue shook Princess Ailee’s heart.
In order not to undermine their noble sacrifice, Princess Ailee had ordered knights and horsemen to protect the soldiers.
And that judgment was wrong.
Although it is a consequential story, he was blinded by the greed to minimize the sacrifice in a defeat, and it meant that he had to sacrifice even the knights and horsemen who could have survived in the first place.
Fortunately, most of the troops who left the line and fled were ordinary soldiers.
Even though they feared death, they did not run away.
Even if they could safely escape the battlefield and survive, they knew well that if it was known to the family that they, from a noble family, had survived alone, leaving Princess Ailee behind, they knew that they would be worse off than dying quietly.
If it was a fate that had no choice but to be with the princess even if she died, and with the princess even if she lived, she had no choice but to stand together with the princess as the center.
Fortunately, it was the fact that the magicians still had the power.
The performance of the mana potion that Leon has improved over the past half year is amazing, and while he was busy escaping without even having time to use magic, all of his magical power was restored.
Instead of the already consumed knights, the wizards spread out a strong barrier and held out, and poured wide-area magic on the besieging monsters.
But the answer has already been decided.
No matter how overflowing the magical powers of wizards, their mental power had to be limited, and at least considering the number of monsters surrounding them, the chance that Princess Ailee could escape alive was infinitely low.
And as if driving a wedge into such despair, Princess Ailee and her party could see it.
It was the appearance of an A-class monster boasting a huge size.
If he was determined to attack, the defensive wall formed by magicians at the level of 6 circles could only be shattered with a single blow.
But instead of approaching the defensive wall, he suddenly went somewhere,
I could confirm that the giant fell down with a huge explosion.
In fact, the roar continued to be heard.
However, in a situation where life is coming and going right now, it is not a situation to prioritize the binge sound from afar, but just pretending not to hear it even if it is heard.
And soon the siege was wide open and they could see who the main character of the riot was.
“Leon?”
“Master Leon?”
Leon appeared with a gigantic Warhammer on his shoulder and looked around.
“Dice, how popular are people around you?”
Nyaan~
At least, except for the troops gathered around Princess Ailee, no traces of living people were found around her.
Seeing this, Leon smiled and said.
“The Hwarang Wizards changed the power compact railgun to the bombardment mode. Fire from the ready gunner.”
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Jiying!
Kwaguagua—Gang!
Eight beams of light were emitted all at once.
The bullet of the rail gun, which exploded at a speed of 2 kilometers per second, pierced through dozens of monsters as it was.
And Leon jumps after him.
Those who knew Leon and those who didn’t were astonished at the sight.
Leon’s signature magic is hatching thunderbolt.
Thunder from his whole body, a ray of lightning over his head, and wings of thunder.
Not having it is like being naked.
However, Leon, who leapt, jumped into the middle of tens of thousands of monsters at once.
“no······!”
When someone opened his mouth like that, Elyos Rarael, who arrived late, responded with a tired expression on his face for some reason.
“Perhaps it will?”
I don’t know what’s going to happen or not, but at Leon, who jumped into the sky, the demons started spewing magic, auras, fireballs, and poison gas.
And Warhammer started to glow white.
The mass of the extended, which was triggered by the Holy Spirit, reached its limit and hit the air,
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa——!
The resulting shock wave swept around Leon’s body, scattering all the attacks.
However, even that was just a preliminary action to shoot down Warhammer, so compared to the infested monsters, Leon’s tiny body fell in the center of it in a parabola, and Warhammer struck the ground.
The whole earth is turned upside down and the monsters within its range are crushed.
The resulting shock wave swirled under Dice’s control and lifted its head from the ground, as if six earth dragons had opened their mouths to swallow monsters.
Only Leon survived in the storm of the shock wave.
With Warhammer on his shoulder, he looks back and speaks leisurely as if he had been out for a walk.
“You have worked hard so far. From now on, leave the back to me and retreat.”
Leon also experienced a lot of defeat.
At this time, she knew how important it is to stop the pursuit, so she told Princess Ailee.
“Ha, but…”
Princess Ailee muttered in embarrassment.
Is it really possible?
Until recently, I thought that she was going to die.
While crying out for a final battle, he thought that all he had to do was use his last remaining willpower to lead even one more monster to his companion.
However, that situation changed completely with only one person participating in the war.
I couldn’t believe it even when I saw it with my own eyes.
With just one hammer, 30% of the many monsters evaporated as it was.
And it continued to evaporate.
However, it was a very familiar sight to Lloyd Farostel, who participated as one of the four brigades.
“Ah, you monster.”
The figure of Levis Farostel, the third in the succession line, who once evaporated the monster wave with a single gesture during a family mission, seemed to overlap with the present Leon.
And seeing Leon like that, Lloyd thought.
‘I don’t think the 7th place in the succession line is that bad.’
And at Leon’s hand gesture, wielding the hammer again, the number of monsters was halved.
Having confirmed this, Leon realized that his judgment was wrong and said.
“Ah, sorry. There’s no need to retreat. The remaining parties will be dealt with soon, so please wait on the spot.”
As if hearing Leon’s words, the remaining monsters scattered and started to run away.
With just two hammers, the war had turned upside down.
However, he had no intention of letting go of the fleeing monsters.
Leon ordered the Hwarang Magical Division, and the hero, his companions, and Elyos Rarael followed the demons and started to deal with the remnants.
The war, which was originally supposed to be defeated, ended with the victory of the Philo Kingdom Army.
No, to be precise, it should be a victory for Leon Farostel.