ALL NOVEL chapter 120
120 – War begins (3)
Two weeks after war begins. In the winter weather that had already entered December, the knights exhaled white breath and gripped their swords.
The target is Hatan, and Hatan has not officially responded to the Empire’s advance.
Instead, what Hattan saw was a shadow that covered the entire Duchy of Hattan.
Even in the subjugation of Roman, some people have already seen the shadows, completely going against the will of the empire.
In the end, the imperial army had no choice but to turn the tip of the sword towards Hattan.
“It was supposed to happen in the first place, but it’s frustrating to see it really happen.”
“…Still, the three generations will remain loyal forever. 3Rd generation, it seems like it was a 5th generation family until last year.”
Kain, the head of Medivh, opened his mouth.
What you see in front of you is the corpses of warlocks already piled up like a heap,
A black magician who has grown to the size of a swarm of rats in an epidemic-ridden city.
It was no different from being more difficult to deal with than anything else.
The best wizard in the world is called Azest, but
Medivh, as a family famous for magic, had a completely different magic system from Azest.
If Azest had the best magic for massacre, Medivh was called a specialist in barrier and bondage arts.
It could be said that Medivh was the only power that could ‘block’ and ‘defend’ the magic of the black magicians, and at the same time ‘count backward’.
It is Medivh that plays the role of protecting the knights while defending until the time Aest can create magic. Kaisel nodded while looking at Kane.
Perhaps if it hadn’t been for them, they would have suffered devastating damage and retreated right away.
About 9,000 knights marched out at the start of the war.
Considering that the number of casualties so far is close to 100…If we can save 70% of this power to Hattan.
Perhaps it is possible to completely eradicate extinction.
‘But it’s too late.’
In the war decades ago, the empire lost 30,000 knights.
It was called the heyday and it was defeated like that even though it had close to 50,000 knights.
No matter how high the level of magic was, I couldn’t underestimate the value of annihilation.
It wouldn’t be strange if this force itself was wiped out right away, but fortunately, morale was still high.
“Your Majesty’s speech seems to have had a solid effect.”
“That’s right, after all, if I’m fighting for my family, not many people will run away.”
According to the art of strategy, the momentum had to be stronger than ever, but the fighting time had to be short.
There must be a limit to maintaining this scam as much as possible,
I wanted to teleport and attack Hatan all at once. The shadows surrounding Hattan completely blocked the access of magical power.
It was said that it was almost impossible to use magic from the outside through the inside.
“Maybe they prepared in advance after watching the Roman subjugation. If it’s Mr. Azest’s Meteor, it’ll be possible to devastate all of Hatan.”
“Shouldn’t they only cut down on their strength with only the knights? I don’t want to consume a lot of power.”
“Still, Your Highness is still there. Sir Theorard is also there.”
And. Cain, who turned his gaze toward Kaisel, quietly moved his lips.
The most important person in the attack on Hatan, and a name that should never be lost in the extermination subjugation.
“…When will Evan Fried join you?”
“I don’t know, I don’t know for sure about that.”
Kaisel shook her head and let out a sigh.
Evan Fried’s participation in the war was not purely based on the opinions of the parties involved.
Unless the emperor forcibly issues an order, since even the emperor gave him autonomy, there is only one person in the world who can interfere with Evan Fried’s movements.
“It’s a public wife.”
“It seemed like they lived on a tightrope. How the hell did he live on the side of Juris’ Sogaju? No matter how docile Evan’s personality is… It’s awkward.”
“Isn’t there something we don’t know about? And I don’t think there are too many women who rush their lovers to fight annihilation.”
That’s right. Kaisel didn’t bother spitting out her words floating in her mouth.
If Evan joined the Imperial Army and fought, the advance would have been much faster, but Evan’s participation in the war was virtually postponed.
The official reason is to ensure the transfer of ownership of Ascalon,
And the unofficial reason was that Irene Uris said that there was still work to be done before Evan’s participation in the war.
Since nothing had been revealed yet as to what he was supposed to do, Kaisel licked her lips and turned his gaze toward the outside of her barracks.
A full-scale war will begin tomorrow.
Worst case scenario… Wouldn’t the ancient dragon Mabet resurrect on the day the red moon rises?
However, it was an army gathered with the worst in mind.
“What I am thinking now is how to achieve maximum success with minimum damage.”
“To be honest, it is greed. It would be comfortable to assume that at least 3,000 will die.”
“I think losing 3,000 here is brazen. Maybe you or I could die.”
“If Your Highness passes away… Even if the extinction is finished, the empire will be ruined. It is clear what the end will be.”
Kaisel smiled and tapped his epaulet and gently closed his eyes. He had no intention of dying.
There weren’t that many deaths because I became a Master each,
Perhaps it would be fine as long as the ancient dragon Mabet was not revived and fought.
“Shall we go soon?”
“Is it tomorrow?”
“I hope Evan joins me tomorrow…But I don’t know if it will work out that well. I’ll have to bump into it, aiming to finish it as quickly as possible.”
Fire – Ashes fly from burning torches. Embers mixed with the wind melted the snow and started running backwards.
Kaisel narrowed her eyes as she looked at the fluttering flags and the perfectly lined knights.
The thick aroma of war clouds stung his nose. What I felt along with the fishy smell of blood was the darkness felt far away.
Kaisel again ordered the march.
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Kwaang-!
Wars did not start through a specific signal.
Eye contact, checking each other. At the same time, there were no rules in this act, which began with stamping one’s feet and facing swords.
If it’s two forces that hate each other and know that each other’s end is destruction.
The fight was only going to be tougher than ever.
The goal of the knights was the duke’s residence in the center of the Duchy of Hattan.
A place that can be reached in a day at the speed of knights,
The knights who ran while tearing through the outer defense line, which had been pierced in an instant by the magic of the wizards, began to slaughter the black magicians.
As each individual possessed an expert level or higher, the warlocks who were not properly lined up were unable to defend themselves and retreated in a hurry.
Kung-! The knights’ feet stomped on the ground and moved forward. The sword in my hand is stained with flesh and blood,
I cut the shadow in front of me with mana and evened out my breath. My heart raced.
At this moment, the knights were not vigilant at all, knowing full well that they would die if they were slightly twisted.
The crown prince fights in front. The two Masters of the Empire were in line. Like wedges, like arrows that split the wind and rip the sky.
The knights riding the sharpened momentum are rapidly advancing.
Stepping on the ground, crushing corpses, moves forward. Kaisel looked around and checked the future.
3,000 Knights following him, and 2,500 knights tearing off their wings on either side.
Except for the 1,000 knights left for the rearguard, most of the knights were advancing forward.
It was easy to break through the outskirts, but the opponent was a warlock.
Preparing for unexpected situations is probably the most important thing.
What Kaisel saw in front of his eyes was a gigantic giant whose size was incomparable to humans.
Kaisel, who discovered the black giant’s fist, opened his mouth and shouted loudly.
“All troops – Disperse!”
Koo-ung! With a roar, fragments of the split earth hit the knights.
At first glance, there were not one or two giants boasting a size of 15m.
Fortunately, the damage suffered by the articles that spread in an instant was insignificant,
Kaisel clicked her tongue after reading the shock on their faces.
“Everyone, scatter, I deal with you.”
Golems created with black magic, Kaisel raised his sword after confirming that mana was seeping into the golem’s body.
Even breathing, at the same time circulates mana throughout the body. It would have been better to throw the words away.
In the first place, the master’s body was able to move faster than a horse’s mobility.
Tooquaang-! Kaisel’s sword collided with the golem and emitted a blast.
Twisting her waist, she stepped on the ground again, and the body that rotated in that way thrusts her sword toward the golem’s arm.
Kagagak- A sword that pierces through, Kaisel’s eyebrows furrowed at the sensation of cutting through a stone.
Isn’t it harder than expected? It was fine now, but it would be difficult to deal with such a golem if other knights other than the master were attached to it.
Severing the golem’s arm, mana surged again.
Blue flames covered his body, and Kaisel, who held the flames in his sword, drew a diagonal line in the air.
The sword moves from the right to the bottom left, drawing a line, leaving a large mark on the golem’s body.
As time passed, the traces left on the golem’s body began to grow.
Proof that the body gradually adapts to fighting. Kaisel took a breath and stepped on the advance again.
I dodge her fist as it reaches her face.
She bent her back, and at the same time, using that elasticity as a driving force, she stepped forward toward the heart of the golem.
Paang! The gap narrowed in an instant, recalling the need to destroy the core when dealing with the golem, Kaisel’s sword pierced her chest.
“Theorard! There is a core in the middle of her chest!”
“I already broke one. Watch out next to you!”
The processing is quicker than I thought. When Kaisel clicked his tongue once and pulled the sword out of the golem’s body,
The golem, which had lost its dark color, collapsed toward the ground.
Now one, Theorard has taken care of one. Wouldn’t it be fine to deal with the rest with the knights?
The process of dealing with the golem was easy. It would have been a headache if the warlocks had invaded while dealing with the golem, but
With the confluence of the wizards, Kaisel, who instantly dealt with three more golems, looked around her and opened her mouth.
“Looks like it ended too soon.”
My eyes narrow. What I see in that thinned field of vision is the duke’s mansion stretching toward the sky,
The duke’s residence, which looked like a spire, exuded an ominous aura, just like the one seen in Roman.
However, it won’t be as strong as Roman’s power. Why didn’t they fight back strongly from the beginning?
Kain’s thoughts also reached it, and he looked at the spire with a slightly serious expression.
“Strange. Aren’t you too fast?”
“I think we need to look around a little more. The enemy is Hattan. There may be some traps.”
“…That’s true. But I can’t delay too much, so it’s troublesome.”
The momentum was good. However, this momentum could not be maintained all day.
If we set the deadline for the fight to be three days, we would have to reach that spire by at least tomorrow to see the possibility of achieving our goal.
As long as the opponent is Hatan, it might be too late. I couldn’t move too fast either.
Hatan of the shadows, it was the 5th most secretive family, and the 5th most quiet family.
Since Hattan was mainly in charge of assassins and information gathering, it was clear that he had mastered traps.
Extermination and Hattan, perhaps the most difficult place when time is delayed is Hattan.
Kaisel, who was checking the knights’ condition for a while, looked at Theo Rad and opened his mouth.
“…Advance. Doesn’t it make a difference even if you’re here?”
“Looks like you need to be careful.”
“I believe in Medivh. Knights don’t know that.”
As Kane sighed after laughing for a moment, Kaisel raised his mana and scattered the area around him.
Blue mana flies into the sky, and at the same time her feathers are scattered everywhere.
The blue feather will soon become a blade. After seeing the dead bodies of the warlocks being crushed by the feathers, Theorard pursed his lips.
“Are you going by electric power?”
“That’s how it should be. I am a little anxious.”
With those words, Theorard also raised the area, and Kane quietly resonated with the circle around the completely changed momentum.
After a bit of defense against the unfolding magic circle and the darkness of black magic by linking the knights in chains, Kane stepped back and looked at Kaisel.
I’m sure I’m confident in the back row, but… I couldn’t even guess how much Hatan would have prepared.
I hope everything goes smoothly, but Kane, who looked around the morale of the knights for a while,
She moved her steps toward the rear row again to prepare for defense magic with Azest.
Keep going. The goal is the demarcation line that is not far to the place where the duke’s residence is located.
From Hatan’s point of view, it was the last line of deterrence to stop the enemies coming to the duke’s residence,
From the point of view of the Imperial Army, it was the only road to the duke’s residence and the last obstacle, and they had to capture it.
However, there were no walls here. What was left was plains and troops where not even the slightest life could be found.
Caesel laughed at the sight of a wave of black people in the distance.
I wondered why they weren’t even defending themselves until now, but this is what they were aiming for.
I could see tens of thousands of enemies in every direction I looked around.
The waves of people painted black looked like a swarm of ants.
A vast plain. The only place to go through this place is the one road I walked all the way to here.
Kaisel, who was ignoring them and calculating the odds of going back, slowly moved her hand toward her waist.
“Your Majesty said. We might have to fight a reckless, brutal fight that will probably not pay off.”
His hand holding the sword trembled. Are you nervous
It was an emotion he had never felt before, but he was trembling silently in front of tens of thousands of enemies.
To be precise, I was trembling. Pass- The feathers that soared into the sky began to crumble in the wind.
Blue mana was shattering and falling like snow.
Kaisel raised his sword towards the star-like light embroidering the sky that was gradually darkening, and continued her words.
“I guess now is the time.”
There is no retreat.
The expressions of the knights gradually hardened as they realized that the only things they could trust to survive here were the sword in their hand and the mana in their hearts.
Sweat dripped from the armored hands, and some knights’ legs trembled, while others clashed their teeth.
But no one thought of running away.
I know that if I run away, I will die, so if I run away from here. Because he knew that dying was his family.
“No one can guarantee your life. But if you want to live, fight with the will to die.”
Flame, blue flames rose from the bodies of Kaisel and Theorad.
Each other’s realm wrapped around them, making the warlocks who were in charge of the opponent’s battle line burn with the flames.
I get courage from that appearance. The sword forged by an unknown blacksmith echoes with blood.
The feet step on the ground as one, and the vibration through it harmonizes with the heartbeat and becomes one.
“Do you want to live?”
No one answered. Kaisel also didn’t think anyone would answer that.
However, I could easily understand what everyone wanted. Who would want to die
Evil, good. In the end, I hope for life. That’s why I take up my sword.
Equipped sword, blazing blue flames stick to the sword. With determination, with morale that is still rising. So the knights started running.
“…Advance.”
A total of 9,000, the swords wielded by the evil knights cut through the approaching black magic and aimed their tips toward annihilation.
Breaking the heart of a golem dozens of times as large as a human,
Rips off the grip of the black magicians who reach out to him.
Feel the pulsation of your beating heart and feel that you are still alive.
I swing my sword as the flowing blood is still circulating inside my body.
What he wants at this moment is not the safety of the empire or the survival of his family, but only his own survival.
It may be selfish, but knights burn their lives in the most primitive desire.
They come back alive.
Absolutely.
In this hopeless battle, the thoughts of the knights were all simple.
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“You don’t have to send me off here.”
“I just came. I don’t even know how to ride a horse.”
At Irene’s words, Evan smiled lightly and hugged her by the waist.
Irene, riding on a pure white horse, looked at Evan with a little pity, but
Couldn’t she help it? Because she won’t be able to fight this war herself.
“Still, His Highness the Crown Prince won’t say anything. It’s a bit late, but this level of power will help.”
“Are they all wearing Count Kasim’s armor?”
“There are few of them, but they are probably more useful than the 9,000 Imperials. Against warlocks, it will be more effective than any other knight. Of course not more than Evan.”
Counting the number of knights behind her, Evan smiled awkwardly.
She thought she would lead the knights. Although he follows his orders thanks to his accumulated reputation,
Still, it didn’t seem appropriate to lead 1,000 knights.
“Then, I’ll be back.”
“You’re not coming back injured, are you?”
“How could that be? I’m going lightly. There will be no one stronger than Viltain.”
Now very used to it, Irene, who hung her white handkerchief on Evan’s chest, frowned at her. She
There was a time when she didn’t know the meaning of the handkerchief, but now she knew exactly what it meant.
She wishes for the safe return of the person she loves.
Irene kissed Evan’s cheek and smiled quietly.
Evan also saw her handkerchief hanging from her own chest and smiled as he recalled her past memories.
“Let’s go.”
After that, she wanted to add something like that, but Irene shook her hand as she promised to do it next.
What you see behind Evan is the setting sun. And a spire rising toward the sky.
In the back of Evan leading her knights, white flames began to soar.