Inner defense personnel were lined up along the wall.
Noah stood his ground and spread his senses far and wide.
‘To the left, Tiu, to the right, Felix.’
They were far away from each other and kept a distance that they could respond to after transmission if something happened.
‘It’s quite a long distance away, but I still have room.’
As the number of personnel was randomly selected, there was a limit to efficiently deploying them in the right place.
Thanks to this, the arrangement of the Mercury side was divided according to the general level.
‘Not only did my senses become more sensitive, but the range also increased.’
Tolerance is wide.
Naturally, Veronica placed the personnel as sparsely as possible.
Originally, the only thing Noah could recognize was Tiu and Felix right next to him, but the people beyond were also sensed.
‘Beside Felix are seniors, and next to Tiu are people from another country.’
Being able to detect allies farther away meant being able to detect enemies farther away as well.
It felt like I could cover the whole area by myself now.
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no,
It was already ‘seen’.
“come.”
There were countless citizens living in Stellarium, and among them there were those who were not knights but had knight-level auras through long training.
However, the aura that had learned swordsmanship and had a fighting spirit felt completely different.
“You’re approaching this side as if you were surrounded. Did you realize we weren’t going to go outside the inner walls?”
From the looks of it, the other members of the wall seemed to have noticed it, too.
-They come in leisurely with their stomachs open?
“Looks like they’ve figured out we’re not coming out of the walls.”
-Seeing you openly camped out in front of me makes my stomach ache for no reason.
It seemed possible enough to sneak out and cut only those who jumped out and come back.
Still, I had to endure it because I even made a promise to Veronica.
“Looking at the number of people, I think we can stop this side enough… … for a moment.”
For a moment, Noah’s senses caught a strange sense of incongruity.
A strange movement felt among the citizens.
‘Coriander.’
Stealth would have been difficult to catch if not for the special training with Theodore.
Someone with considerable skill was openly approaching this way.
“Tee, can you see that?”
-That’s it?
“A very strong guy on the side of the red dome-shaped building at 11 o’clock.”
-I don’t feel it yet. Seeing as I can’t catch it even though it’s closer to me, it seems like he’s quite talented… … I’ll let everyone know at once.
Subsequently, the same information was relayed to Felix, but since they were farther away than Noah, no one could catch who Noah was talking to.
Noah was the only one who sensed the opponent.
“It started to move… … !”
At the same time, a transmission message arrived from Felix.
– Noah, change the layout.
“now?”
-This is an order from Senior Leo, the field commander. You and I deal with him.
Leo was the highest-ranking figure in Nightray.
In a situation where Veronica is in command, it is only natural that his right to speak will increase.
It was inevitable that he would take on the role of field commander in the area where Noah and his party were deployed.
-The defense line will be readjusted. We just have to deal with him.
“It’s just fine.”
Noah left only those words and jumped down the inner wall.
“Follow me!”
“Already came.”
Felix caught up on his own before Noah called him out.
“What is his current location?”
“I’m not moving from there. He must have noticed that I saw him.”
“I still feel nothing. You should think of him as an excellent dark knight.”
Felix said that, but on the other hand, he was surprised by Noah’s sense.
‘I thought there would be no one comparable to me among my peers.’
Noah is obviously strong, but he was confident in his senses.
Felix’s comparison target was his older brother, Allen, since childhood.
“If you look at the stealth technique, it’s almost like the Ribéry Royal Guard.”
“… … When did you see your bodyguards again?”
Noah climbed the roof of the building with Felix.
Opponents were still waiting for them in the same place.
So, the one who greeted the two of them in the alley was a blond-haired young man wearing a plain white mask.
“It’s a mask. All names appear on the list of contestants, why?”
“… … .”
“Are you saying you don’t want to mix things up? Well, if you are a knight, you should speak with your sword.”
The three drew their swords at the same time.
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meanwhile at the same time.
Leo felt his stomach ache.
“What the hell happened?”
When Noah and Felix stormed off, they thought the situation was still under control.
It hurts that two of the main forces in this direction were missing, but the enemies weren’t particularly swarming.
Even if you invest that much power, the remaining personnel can sufficiently block it.
It would have been better if Noah and Felix quickly cut off the strong side of the siege and rejoined them.
The problem was that it didn’t seem to work the way I thought it would.
“Suddenly, the reaction disappeared. did it happen? No, I didn’t feel like there was a battle.”
The reaction of Noah and Felix, who rushed forward, suddenly disappeared.
The sudden disappearance of the presence of personnel within his detection range could be considered in several cases.
“Either you hid your aura yourself, or you covered it with something that blocks your aura, like star fragments. In this case, the latter is what you can think of.”
That was bad news.
It means that you have fallen into a trap that the other person has dug.
“My back hurts. Since the two of them were empty, the siege guys began to gather here.”
The Mercury side deployed personnel by distributing the combat power as evenly as possible.
All areas are equally dangerous, so the strong and weak participants are equally distributed.
“Noah and Felix are both ‘strong side’ personnel who have attained level 4 swordsmanship. With those two missing, it must look like there is a hole on this side.”
You know who is strong and who is weak.
On this side, Noah, Felix, and Leo were assigned as strong people.
Since two of the three were missing here, it was only natural that the siege personnel who were looking for a breakthrough would rush in all at once.
“Everyone hold your position! Even if you’re going to back off anyway, don’t give in too easily until the battle!”
If you just keep falling back as they come, there was no reason to deploy forward at all.
Distance is soon time.
It was important to get out of it as slowly as possible while making it seem like a fight.
‘But it’s the first time I’ve seen you today, so there’s no way you can control it. I should lead with the thought that the unity of our allies is at the level of a ragtag.’
However, there was something Leo didn’t expect.
“Hey right! The enemy has entered the engagement range! Get out now!”
-no. Do you think I can stop it alone?
The opponent was climbing the wall, so I called to fall, and I ignored the order from the start.
There was no way that knights with strong self-respect would just follow what others said.
Ignoring the order, he rushed against the four by himself.
“If you fight like that for a while, there will be a hole in your defenses… … .”
– Did you stop it?
And won.
The opponent was more mischievous.
“her?”
-It would have been much more dangerous if I just hit the other side at the same time, but they just came and hit me. There seems to be no order.
The lack of a unified chain of command in a fight fought in groups of one hundred was fatal.
No matter how much the knights are superhuman and individuals can be stronger than the group, the group is still a group.
The stronger the individual, the stronger the group.
If the uncontrolled minority attacked separately against the controlled majority, it was just sorted out one by one.
-Insufficient staff at 6 o’clock!
– Divide the children in half at 9 o’clock!
– There are 14 people here, but they are all weak. I’ll organize it and go to support.
If you win, you know how to unite.
Originally, dissatisfaction belonged to those who lost, and it was normal for the dissatisfaction to disappear once you won.
In that sense, the Suseong side became a completely different team with their victory in the first encounter.
-This is the circular boundary team. I think there was a skirmish. Are you okay?
“I think it can be resolved on its own from this side without the need to retreat.”
-Do you have any spare time?
As the defense line reliably blocked the enemy, calls came in from other directions as if they had waited.
-The area next to it is breaking through faster than expected. If you can afford it, please provide support.
“Already? What happened?”
-Breaked the wall and came in.
“what?”
This round was basically a game in which the attacking side had an advantage.
Suseong had to block all the people, and Siege was a game where anyone could push only one person to win.
The only thing that struck the balance here was the condition of ‘disqualification if damage is done to civilians’.
-The wall is not a civilian facility.
“But how about the walls? Stellarium’s imperial palace and inner walls are not pierced by piercing them.”
The outer wall was an ordinary wall because it was added later, but the inner wall was a defense facility built in the early days of the empire.
Star fragments were scattered all over the place, and the outside was infested with monsters.
The inner wall made by spending a lot of star fragments had additional functions.
“The inner wall is like a huge sword that is connected to the imperial palace and receives the emperor’s aura. Unless the emperor left the imperial palace, how could the resistance wall, which is no different from Master Knight’s sword… … .”
– I’m a foreigner, so I don’t know, but isn’t it true that you’re absent? I didn’t even attend the opening ceremony.
“this.”
Unfortunately, the Emperor was truly absent.
This had to go to help.
‘There are no strong guys here. Even if a few more people fall, I’ll be able to stop it enough.’
Originally, the purpose was to delay time, so it was like overinvestment to block it perfectly like now.
If one side is pierced, everyone has to retreat anyway, so it is correct to give strength to the pierced side.
‘Noah and Felix… … Well, if it’s that level of skill, there’s no problem.’
As long as there is a condition that it should not cause damage to the surroundings, it will not be easy to receive concentrated attacks.
It was almost impossible to wipe out such talented people in an instant.
Even if I fell into a trap, I didn’t worry too much.
After completing his judgment, Leo called those under his command.
“Leave only a minimum number of people to assist Noah and Felix, and the rest move on.”
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At the same time, the two people Leo had entrusted to him were rolling on the floor in rapture.
“Keugh… … !”
The moment Noah’s aura was hardened the moment he crossed swords with the mysterious opponent.
No manifestation of sword skills, no use of rigid body techniques, no transmission of sound.
‘In the first place, the aura itself in this space is strange!’
Starting from the alley they entered, the aura around them was strangely stable.
The three knights raised their aura, but it doesn’t make sense that they were so quiet.
At the center of this silence was the masked man.
This space was already under his control.
“hmm. Two people came at the same time, so I was a little confused. You are Noah.”
“What. Are you the kind of person who wants to knock me down and become famous?”
“I? I am famous enough without it.”
The man took off his mask and said.
“I wanted to meet you, Noah.”
Of course, no matter how famous the other person was, Noah didn’t know that.
“So who are you?”
“Leyterard.”
“How do I know who Leyterad is… … What is it, Felix? Why are you trembling like a dog that wants to poop?”
It was the same as the guys from the 8th family to ask for a name without any bottom or end.
When Noah, annoyed at lying down without using his hands or feet, became harsh, Felix grabbed him by the shoulders.
Shaking his head as hard as he could while breaking out in a cold sweat, he looked quite impatient.
“You may not have heard the name. It’s usually called the Bright Emperor.”
“yes?”
“Also called the emperor a lot.”
The world’s most famous human being stood before him.
“I missed you, Noah.”