275 – Finding Hope (2)
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I wonder if there is a passage through which underground water rises from somewhere, and a vast wetland was suddenly formed in the middle of the meadow.
It wasn’t just that the grass was soaked in water, but as if to prove that something gigantic was rolling and playing happily, it was decorating a part of the beautiful meadow while turning into muddy water.
And on one side of the marsh, where the low, curved ‘hill’ might not be too conscientious to call it, but the ground was slightly raised anyway, Chester was digging with Anubis.
It is true that Anubis is reluctant to handle it as harshly as a shovel, considering its high performance and unknown outstanding ancient technology.
But Anubis’ strength. And the light curtain that naturally spreads around Anubis. These two things made it possible to shovel freely without worrying that the blade of Anubis would be broken by hitting a rock or that soil grains would dig into the inside and break it.
While Chester was digging with Anubis, Monia and Senna also used a plank to help dig a hole by digging and scraping the soil near Chester’s digging.
The three diligently dug a hole in an oblique line downward to the ground and dug again to make a pit where the three of them could lie down.
After making a pit, he made a frame by tying together the long, flexible tree branches he had brought along the way, and installed it over the pit.
Next, we take the surrounding piles of soil tightly entwined with weed roots, cover them with the soil above the pit for simple camouflage, and cover the entrance with tall bushes.
“How is it?”
When Chester entered the pit with Anubis first, Monia and Senna, who looked at the pit from afar, said neither Chester nor Anubis were in sight, and even the location of the pit they had dug a moment ago was a bit confused and said with satisfaction.
“Good!”
“I think this is perfect.”
Monia and Senna went into the pit in turn, and the three men and women lay down in the narrow pit and began to look at the wetlands outside the pit.
Chester picked up a telescope from the ship, and Monia and Senna divided the rings of the stargazer one by one and used it as a telescope to look outside.
How long has it been like that? Just as the sun rose from the highest point in the sky and began to sink to the ground, the owner of the marsh appeared.
“Come. Monia, Chester! I’m here!”
It was Senna who found it.
The moment they confirmed the direction Senna was pointing, Chester and Monia couldn’t keep their mouths shut.
“…… What is that?”
The two of them have really seen everything in their lives.
Monster humans appeared on the Matoto continent. Fantastic animals and plants on the Tongdan continent.
However, perhaps the thing that shocked them the most when they discovered a creature was the rhinoceros they saw when they went upstairs on the floating island to recover from Chester’s injuries.
A creature as stout as a spear that can never break, capable of trampling on the huge and strong trees of the floating island like a bush.
I can’t forget the majestic majesty that I can only think that people will never be able to deal with.
But now, Chester and Monia were feeling the same thing.
“…… That one is very far away.”
Monia, who was looking at the wild boar in hopes of a star, put the ring away in embarrassment, but even after she removed the ring, she could clearly see the shape of the wild boar from this distance.
How did the towering tusks come about? What is the pattern of the fur? Starting from that appearance, you can even recognize the shape of the huge muscles that move with each step.
The moment she noticed that a sword stuck in the boar’s back changed its angle and reflected the sunlight in line with the boar’s steps, Monia forgot her words and looked at Sena.
“What is that?”
Senna was also taken aback.
That’s right, I knew from experience that if you have several weapons like Hope, even humans become huge and ugly like monsters. He saw it himself and fought, so he couldn’t not know.
However, even those three countries did not know how she would change when an animal heard Hope.
Animals with physical abilities that can only be called monsters compared to humans even in normal conditions. How would such animals change if they had Hope?
Evidence of that was appearing right in front of my eyes.
“…… I’m glad I checked in advance.”
Chester broke into a cold sweat.
What would have happened if I had met that wild boar without knowing anything?
The boar, which was gradually expanding its territory, and the Chester family’s range of activities overlapped, and the moment they recognized that it had ‘invaded the territory’, that person’s forearm-thick tusk would have pierced the Chester family.
‘I’m glad I knew in advance.’
I was really, truly fortunate. With that thought in mind, Chester aimed at Anubis.
“Chester! Are you going to catch me now?”
“Originally, I was planning to set up a trap after seeing it, but… ….”
Chester stopped his horse halfway through and chinned at the boar.
The two also realized. That’s a monster that doesn’t make sense. Not only the traps, but all the weapons they have now won’t work.
The reason is simple.
That wild boar is too big.
The only thing that would work would be a machete, but in order to use even that machete, you have to meet the heinous condition of approaching a wild boar.
‘…… It would have been nice to have Rex.’
If Rex had been there, he would have effectively dealt damage by throwing stones.
But no.
Then, the only thing left was the last resort.
Bombardment of Anubis.
‘You have to align your head accurately.’
Fortunately, unlike arrows, Anubis’s cannonballs do not have any falling off, and when aimed, they fly straight toward the target.
“… ….”
Chester breathed as much as he could and waited for the moment when the boar could stop moving and aim for the head perfectly.
You just need to be able to match. What he now has in his hand is a weapon capable of destroying even a castle wall. So you just have to match.
If you miss it, that huge monster will come charging you.
Can I avoid it? Or, if you spread the veil with Anubis, can you stop it?
‘I don’t know how.’
Perhaps Chester’s tension was conveyed, and when he suddenly announced that he would catch a wild boar, the two panicked people held their breath.
How much time has passed?
The wild boar, who had been rolling around in the wetland until the sun went down and the world started to turn red, finally stopped its noisy movements and fell asleep, whether it was tired or sleep.
The wild boar falls asleep, and the moment comes when you can aim for the head without a single twist.
Chester fired Anubis’ bombardment without hesitation.
* * *
The knights of the duke, who rushed with a force stronger than the arrows shot, smashed the castle gate with one rush, and broke into the castle occupied by the enemy with a fight.
“Ooh, wow!”
“The castle gate has been breached! The castle gate has been breached!”
“What?! What did the other guys do!”
“Hey! You look! A troop of knights rushed in and the gate was destroyed! How are you going to stop that! That one!”
The duke’s army was very different from before, when it was mainly composed of the Sky Knights.
First of all, unlike the past, which consisted of various types of soldiers, all types of soldiers have been unified into one ‘knight’.
Next, all the knights were wearing armor made of an unknown black material that had a somewhat sharp and pointed feeling rather than common armor and barding.
It was also unusual that none of the knights lined up in terrifying numbers was holding a flag with a pattern representing their clan or self.
What was even more unusual was the eyes.
No matter how much armor is used to protect the body, it is natural to have eye sockets in order to secure sight and fight.
From arrows with really small eye sockets for recognizing enemies and allies, to large eye holes for better visibility. There were many types, but none of them were helmets without eye sockets.
But chivalry and horses, the duke’s new army was fighting across the battlefield without an eye socket.
Lastly, weapons.
Not all knights are holding weapons.
They were not carrying weapons. Because the armor itself they were wearing was a weapon.
One of the duke’s knights was running and saw an enemy aiming his ballista in the distance. The knight moved his horse and quickly moved closer to the ballista, moving his armor and beginning to deform one arm.
The knight’s transformed arm was shaped like a muzzle with a slightly wider rim, and the knight fired a harpoon through the muzzle of the arm and hit the body of the soldier aiming the ballista.
“Uh, ahh!”
“Go away, you monster!”
Then, when other soldiers stab him with spears, he transforms his arm into a long knife and swings it roughly, cutting down all the soldiers.
A knight made spikes on his horse’s legs, ran vertically up the wall, transformed his armor and his horse’s armor on top of the wall, made huge spearheads, and rushed to crush all the soldiers on the wall.
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A knight transformed his body armor into a giant wall and blocked the flying ballista from the front.
Of course, the armor broke and he rolled on the floor with his horse, perhaps because he couldn’t just block the ballista, but he jumped up from his seat while trembling and jumped on his horse again and ran to the battlefield to fight.
Black knights have recently started appearing around the duke’s territory, slaughtering the invaders who occupied the country and reclaiming the country.
Appearing in the duke’s estate, people feared them, calling them duke’s knights or duke’s demons.