207─Gremory Eldin Ishtar Elmark
As Prince Raymond said before setting out, the horrors of war could not be disguised with any rhetoric.
Unpleasant sounds are constantly heard.
A sight you don’t want to see unfolds with no place to look.
That was the essence of war and everything.
Kuhhh…… Heh, heh!
Like killing a crawling ant by stepping on it.
Everyone here was witnessing how simple and futile a person’s life was being lost.
Unable to reverse the magic that covered the sky and return it to its original magic, those that hit it directly instantly robbed countless of our soldiers’ lives.
Bodies that were not damaged enough to be ministered to were raised by warlocks and wielded spears and swords even after death.
Under the feet of the two entangled empires, things that no longer move even slightly……
It wasn’t a human body, just pieces of flesh that were once human.
Of course, even the knights and the wizards under their protection.
He lost his life in vain due to a sudden attack by an enemy knight who penetrated through the gap that appeared in a split second.
And the only thing that such elite troops have in common with individual soldiers is.
At the moment when everyone dies as one.
He dies while calling out to his mother, father, son, and daughter.
…… Of course, no one heard it.
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The song of spears and swords, covering up all those earnest cries, was echoing through the battlefield like the sound of a giant drum.
* * * * *
The wires become strange.
It is not a war of attrition taking place in the center where the two meet……
The Ernes Empire was drawn from the left, and the Elmark Empire from the right, as if slowly eating away at the enemy army.
The reason is because there was no one on the left to stop Fersen.
On the right side, there was no one to stop Empress Gremory.
‘What’s more disappointing is that it’s not the real woman, so you should come.’
Isn’t it okay to kill more enemies than the number of allies dying?
Thinking like that, Empress Gremory swung her sword at the front line on the right.
Her sword contained neither honest beliefs nor earnest wishes.
Following the strange smile on her lips, only the joyous pleasure that war brings lies at the tip of the sword.
Wow!
The soldiers were cut like paper by the slashing slash.
The soldiers caught in the aftermath of the sword wind are crushed like clay.
“Uh, huh…… !”
And when Empress Gremory saw the very young-looking soldier of the Ernes Empire in front of her, she threw out her sword as if she thought of a funny prank or something to protect him.
Then, countless bodies of our soldiers were piled up in a circle near the soldier, who was filled with fear and terror.
The young soldier was so upset that he couldn’t even properly throw out the spear he was holding and shed tears.
“Huh, huh!”
But after repeated ridicule, the young soldier finally burst into anger and threw out his spear……
Sweet!
The tip of the spear broke miserably without making even a light scratch on the hem of Empress Gremory’s clothes.
“Ah…… “
Immediately after that, as her eyes met the Gremory Empress, who turned her head, the young soldier lost strength in her legs and flopped down on the bodies of her comrades, shaking.
“Uh, mom…… “
Because my instincts knew that I would die soon.
At the moment when he lost even the weapon to resist, all the young soldier could do was desperately call his mother, who was waiting for him to return from his hometown.
Soon, Gremory took his gaze away from the young soldier and looked forward again, and the soldiers of the Elmark Empire quickly flocked behind the young soldier.
The spears and swords they wielded, cut off the soldier’s neck……
Hey!
I couldn’t drop it.
“Big!”
A large hand grabs the back of the soldier who is sitting down and pulls him.
“Arrange your battle lines!”
At the same time, with the footsteps of horses blowing up dust, the knights of the Ernes Empire arrived after digging into the flanks of the soldiers of the Elmark Empire and corrected the collapsed battle line.
Prince Raymond, who drew his sword and cut down the enemy soldiers in the center, spoke to the soldier who was looking at him with a blank expression.
“Come to your senses!”
“Ah, ah…… “
“There are weapons lying around you! When you feel lost on the battlefield…… ! Always look ahead.”
I promise.
As I swore.
I will not hide behind your backs.
Always show your back to them in front of you.
“Never get lost in this battlefield. “I will become a light.”
“Okay, okay…” … !”
Hearing Prince Raymond’s cry, the young soldier hurriedly wiped his tear-stained eyes, grabbed the spears that his fallen comrades had dropped, and raised his body.
Prince Raymond has no talent for his magic.
Although he may have learned swordsmanship, he is no different from himself.
But seeing him standing at the forefront, swinging his sword without fear of death, filled the young soldier with tears.
The burning lights of the battlefield are too insignificant to drive out the darkness……
The young soldier is a light on the insignificant battlefield.
He wanted to protect it with his own spear.
‘It’s funny.’
On the other hand, despite the fact that she was in an isolated situation, Empress Gremory did not lose her composure and instead sneered.
The battle of Elialta Canyon will not end with only one Prince Raymond losing his life.
Even if we give a high value to the power he possesses, it is the share of three soldiers.
But isn’t there something called symbolism?
At least the moment he lifts his head, the morale of the Ernes Empire’s army will plummet.
Of course, there were Auror Knights standing next to him, staring at him with bloodshot eyes.
It wasn’t very difficult to get through that and kill Prince Raymond.
‘It is nonsense to say that a sword is a lover on the battlefield.’
Lightly swinging the sword, shaking off the accumulated blood.
Empress Gremory, lifting her left foot, surrounds him with indescribable magic leaking out and slams it into the ground.
Quang!
Then, to the extent that it was hard to believe that it was carried out by a human body, the earth that had received the violence shook and trembled like sea water.
When the posture of the Auror Knights guarding Prince Raymond’s back was momentarily disturbed by the rising earth, Empress Gremory did not miss that moment and drew her sword wide back……
──!
I just threw it away.
Paang──!
Thanks to physical ability that transcends human limits, the act of transcending the speed of sound for an instant causes a belated noise as if the air is being torn apart.
And thanks to the rotation contained in the sword as it flew out, a spiral-shaped wind swirled around, and the battle line of the Ernes Empire collapsed like a child.
Soon, Empress Gremory, who had the only vision to follow the sword’s trajectory, saw that the sword she had thrown broke through the Auror Knights’ blind spot……
She had no doubt that Prince Raymond’s body, pierced through his back, would be rolled up in a clockwise direction.
Yes, she certainly had no doubt about the result.
Sparkling──!
Cow!
Like a ray of dawn shining in the dark sky.
With her tremendous magical power, the current that transformed her nature fell to the ground like her thunder, burning her own sword without leaving a single ash behind.
Patter.
“…… “
Empress Gremory, who was watching it, turned her head to her left, greeting the stone fragments flying in all directions from her fallen thunder.
Pazy!
Even though the distance is quite far away, the residual currents left in her wake eat away at the magical energy flowing through her body.
Her sword, which left her own hand, was clearly engulfed in an enormous amount of magical power.
It canceled out all of her magical power and burned her own sword.
This means that the lightning strike a moment ago contained more magical power.
As expected, beyond the messy battlefield where her own soldiers and the soldiers of the Ernes Empire are intertwined in battle……
I saw a man walking hurriedly, with a beautiful woman with a gloomy energy at his side.
And four corpses wearing uniforms with the symbol of the scales engraved on them, wielding swords and spears neatly held as if to cover the surrounding area.
Because of that, Gremory easily realized that her man’s identity was Fersen.
He had killed so many of his own soldiers that he was drenched in blood, and the sight of him looked like a demon.
Ttogak.
Fersen, on behalf of the disorganized Auror Knights, stopped as if guarding Prince Raymond’s back.
In response, Empress Gremory bent down and picked up a sword lying on the floor and laughed like a child.
“The main woman won.”
Winning in a childish battle of wits in a place called the battlefield.
She felt good for some reason.
* * * * *
Prince Raymond is also guarding Fersen’s back and looking ahead.
Ferzendo stands behind him and looks at Gremory.
He didn’t say anything and tried to do his best in the given position.
If it is the duty of the roof to protect the foundation, then it is the duty of the pillars to support the roof.
“…… “
However, unlike Gremory, Fersen did not have that much leisure.
Including Isabel and her previous family heads, a total of 13 bodies are being ministered to by her own magical powers.
Of course, since the former head of the family is self-controlled, the consumption of magical power is relatively low.
Even so, working with such a large number of them, whose level was by no means low, caused an exponential consumption of magical power.
The reason Gremory bothered to engage in such a childish fight was probably because she had a clear calculation that she would come first.
No matter how this battle progresses, your magical energy will be depleted first.
The reason he did not open the gate to the underworld right away when the war started in the first place was when his magical power was depleted first.
Accordingly, that was the only means to defeat Gremory.
But even if both you and your enemy know that.
Ferzen did not show any signs of weakness, but faced Gremory, who was gradually closing the distance.
“Don’t you think it was too arrogant for her to come to meet her real wife with only her four family heads?”
“…… “
“Besides, what on earth is a roof and what are pillars? “The unsightly behavior of weak things licking each other is truly unsightly.”
“…… “
“It happens more often than you might think for a roof to collapse under intact pillars first. However, it might be fun to break the pillars one by one and make the roof collapse.”
Are the screams echoing from the battlefield and the song of countless spears and swords deafening?
Her voice was heard very clearly through the gap.
Then Fersen exhaled lightly and opened her mouth.
“Empress.”
Corleone Wayne Barretta Alfred.
She hated her damn old uncle, but Fersen hated her to death.
At least I agreed with what he said, that noble character does not exist on the battlefield.
Even if you are standing on the battlefield seemingly fine.
Because she was a Ferzen who had never experienced war, she harbored fears no different from others.
Even now, when she closes and opens her eyes, she imagines herself welcoming the morning with Euphemia and Uriel in her arms.
However, that cannot be achieved in the current situation.
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And once again, if only she could return from this battlefield to live that life.
No, if only she could not forget her way back.
Fersen could do anything.
“You seem to have an ambition to be remembered as a conquering king who will go down in history. But do you know what you look like now? The soldiers and nobles of the Elmark Empire feared you rather than relied on you. But even he is trembling even more at the death he faces now that the war has begun. The fact that I was unable to control my fear of dying at the hands of the enemy means that I failed to even try to rule as a tyrant. “The title emperor seems a waste to you, who, without realizing it, is wielding a sword in the midst of enemy forces like a tomboyish girl.”
“…… “
“But is the swordsmanship you are confident in free of unnecessary elements? That’s not it either. The posture you hold your sword in is informal, and it indicates that you have not had a proper teacher due to your arrogant personality. Although you may have never experienced defeat thanks to your talent for magic, your self-taught sword skills make you look like a girl who put on strange makeup in her haste to become an adult quickly. No, the shallowness that subtly seeps in there…… Did you use your position to covet men as you please?”
“…… “
“It is clear that you are holding a sword, but it looks like you are holding a man’s genitals, which shows your usual behavior.”
“…… “
“Gremory Eldin Ishtar Elmark. At least make me aware that I am face to face with the head of a nation and not a prostitute who does not know her subject.”
“Ha, ahahahaha!”
In fact, there was no flaw in her posture.
Although it is true that she did not have a teacher who taught her swordsmanship, it is a simple criticism that her swordsmanship, which she honed on her own, appears to be flawed.
However, this is not a confrontation.
Because it was a clear war, there were no set lines that had to be followed.
In that case, isn’t it natural to use provocations to excite the opponent in order to slightly increase the odds of winning?
“It’s funny how unexpected and venomous words come out of her pretty face.”
“…… “
“Are you so afraid of this sword that you taunted and provoked her real wife?”
Gremory, brushing her signature blue hair, adjusts her posture.
“Later, before I kill you when I capture you alive, I will at least sprinkle urine on your pretty face. Watch with your own eyes to see how absurd the words were, and then leave.”
Soon, strength goes into her hand holding her sword.
A little more than usual.
No, very much.