ALL NOVEL chapter 10
10 – Holy Sword Ascalon
“The Four Heavenly Kings!!? The Imperial Intelligence Agency never said anything like that!!”
“Yes! From what we’ve received, we’ve heard that there are no Four Heavenly Kings in the Demon King’s army that invaded Horon Kingdom!”
“How on earth do you manage your work!!?”
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry!”
Iluen wanted to be more angry because it was like her heart, but as of the current situation, nothing could be solved by her anger,
Rather, if the retreat was delayed, everyone was on the verge of being killed.
“For now, order the knights to retreat…”
Anyway, she is at the back of the procession…
In that case, if we retreated even now, there was a very high chance that everyone would return safely.
But…
“Illuen! Lord Iluen!”
As the Marquis Geref, who was in charge of the Allied Commander in preparation for the invasion of the Demon King army, approached, she could not bear to issue all her retreat orders.
“It is said that Dantalion, the Four Heavenly Kings, has appeared ahead! Maybe this is good!? In the yard without the hero…”
“That…That’s…”
“How can I not like Illuen, a former warrior party? We haven’t even given an evacuation order to the villagers in the rear yet!”
A human aristocrat from a kingdom approached him and bowed his head asking for a favor…
For Illuen, who is immersed in elven supremacy, the sight of a human aristocrat lower than her being embarrassed was enough to give her subtle joy.
“Everything…Of course! With the honor of our noble High Elves, I will defeat the Four Heavenly Kings!”
“As expected! It’s a warrior’s party!”
“I… I will be in the lead, everyone follow me!!”
“Yes! Lord Iluen!”
The knights and soldiers of each country who were retreating from the head of the procession stopped retreating when they saw Illuen, a former warrior party, advancing with his knights, the Green Wood Knights, and nearby soldiers.
After she hesitated for a moment, she headed towards the Four Heavenly Kings and his army that were approaching after her.
The end of Iluen, who had been ignorantly charging without any countermeasures…
The Demon King’s army blocked her back, surrounded her, and abandoned her, and in the meantime, a huge number of casualties were occurring.
And after a while something happened that angered them more than anything…
“Where is Iluen!”
“Until a while ago, here… Huh? Where have you been?”
Illuen and her knights, who had been commanding the abandoned allied forces who were surrounded and unable to move, escaped the valley,
After she escaped, the Demon King’s army rushed in from both sides of the valley, and the allied forces suffered more and more damage.
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After listening to the injured knights, let’s return to the village from which we started to assess the situation.
The reinforcements dispatched from Horon Kingdom had already gathered.
“As the current situation is, let’s disband here today. I’ll go to the adventurer’s guild and find out exactly what’s going on.”
Jack and Jenny seemed like they were just waiting for a chance to ask me a lot, so I ignored them and quickly left.
Only Lucia was seeing me off with a bright smile…
As the situation was, I approached the barracks where the Horon Kingdom reinforcements were located and tried to grab someone and talk to them.
The appearance of a familiar face seemed to make things a lot easier.
“Count Rocelli!”
I shouted at Count Rochelli, whom I had met at the banquet hall of the Kingdom of Argen, and he was also looking at me with a bewildered face.
“Hero!!!”
Count Rochelli, who had a serious face because of the situation here, found me, ran to me, grabbed my hands, and waved them up and down, showing his joy with his body.
“No! What are you doing here!? I heard that you must have been involved in private activities!!”
“I was in the middle of that private activity right now. Can we go inside and have a chat?”
“Ah! Yes!! Sure! Come this way!!”
Count Rochelli was so happy that he was talking too loudly, so I looked around and headed into the barracks with the Count.
“Sorry. Warrior. Since we were dispatched in such a hurry, we ask for your understanding even if it is shabby.”
“No. It’s okay. Anyway, what the hell just happened? I heard about Illuen.”
Count Rochelli sat down in front of his desk and took out a map he had tucked away in one corner of his desk and showed it to me.
“This is where the army and adventurers are currently confined. According to the testimony of those who retreated, the elf Illuen-sama took over the command…”
“No? Even though there is a commander, Illuen is in command…?”
“That’s… I think I entrusted command to Illuen-sama after hearing that Dantalion, the Four Heavenly Kings, had appeared in addition to being a warrior party.”
To entrust command to an ignorant among ignorant people who only know how to spread their legs…
The person who handed over command to an elf who couldn’t even command a party, let alone command an army, seemed to have many problems.
“By the way… The Four Heavenly Kings? I hadn’t even heard of it…”
I have never heard of the word “Four Heavenly Kings”.
If Dantalion, the Four Heavenly Kings, had told me that he would appear in this battle, I would of course have participated…
“So are we. Apparently, the Empire’s intelligence department said that there were no Four Heavenly Kings in the Demon King’s army moving north to our kingdom…”
I also knew the same information as Count Rocelli…
Anyway, this incident was a catastrophe created by Illuyan’s ignorance + the allied commander’s lack of qualifications + the Empire’s intelligence department that lastly provided wrong information.
Perhaps the aftermath of this disaster will blow strong,
The important thing right now was to rescue the army and adventurers who were besieged by the Demon King’s army.
“Where is the roughly surrounded position?”
“It is between the valley on this side and the valley on this side.”
Looking at the topography Rocelli showed me by pointing at the map, I was pointing with my hand to the point between valleys…
Once again, I gave my heartfelt tribute to Illuen for thinking of entering such a valley with an army, then I examined the surrounding terrain.
“Is there any way to get out of here?”
“No. You have to break through the front or the back, or one of the two.”
This is the worst.
Going to rescue an isolated army in a situation where you don’t know how much power or ability the new Four Heavenly Kings have is completely different from the Four Heavenly Kings three years ago, it was close to unreasonable.
Of course, no matter how large the army of demons or the strong Four Heavenly Kings were, it wouldn’t be a problem for me,
The problem was the army and adventurers who were isolated between valleys.
No matter how much I kill the Demon Kings and go to rescue them after the battle with the Four Heavenly Kings,
In the meantime, the question was whether the isolated people could stop the Demon King’s army rushing into the valley.
I need at least someone to stop me…
“Hero!”
As he was rolling his head while staring at the map for a while, a knight guarding the village entered the barracks.
“Yes?”
“A woman wearing a black hood told me to give this to the hero.”
“What is this?”
I received a note from the knight and opened it to find a terrain similar to the map Count Rochelli and I were looking at, but with a slightly different terrain…
There, a small byway marked between valleys and valleys was not confined.
“Who gave you this?”
“Okay. I asked for his name too… But he didn’t give it to me.”
Someone gave me the info…
I suddenly remembered a person that flashed through my mind, and when I turned the note over, there was a small autograph on it.
Kir…
“Hero, do you know someone?”
As I continued to smile while looking at Kir’s autograph, Count Rocelli looked at my face and the note several times before asking.
“Yes. I know very well…”
The plan that Count Rochelli and I came up with is as follows.
While I’m drawing attention by fighting the demon army and the four heavenly kings from the rear,
Count Rochelli and his reinforcements set their sights on rescuing isolated troops and adventurers by entering the side roads.
“Hero, are you really going to be okay by yourself? No matter how much I think about it, alone and that many people…”
“It’s okay. Be careful, Count. No matter how narrow the road is, there is no law against encountering demons.”
“Yes. All right.”
“Please move with me only when leaving the village.”
“Yes.”
Afraid to run into Jack, Jenny, and Lucia on the way out, I made a plan to escape the village by hiding among Count Rochelli’s reinforcements.
Jack and Jenny were just ordinary adventurers, so it didn’t matter much, but Lucia still needed to watch a little more, so she shouldn’t be caught by them.
After leaving the village like that,
The reinforcements went around the valley and headed for the side road, and I headed towards the valley…
From the time I got out of town, I looked back, strangely feeling like I was being followed, but he didn’t seem to disappear as if he was playing a joke with me.
Every time the surrounding trees sway and the wind blows, it makes me more and more sensitive.
But that’s for a while…
As the valley approaches, the Demon Kings begin to appear one by one..
I summoned something precious that is like a part of my body after a long time.
“[Ascalon]”
Holy Sword Ascalon…
The holy sword, Ascalon, that never let go of my hand in the last war against the demon lord.
When I grabbed the handle of Ascalon, which appeared surrounded by flames, the flames that swirled around me seeped into the sword and seemed to welcome its owner.
A rough estimate of the number of monsters you can see right now is in the thousands…
Fortunately, the demons, the main force of the demon king’s army, were invisible, but if a battle were to take place here, they would soon come running.
What I can do right now is to deal with as many of these demons as possible before the demon army arrives…
Ascalon, the holy sword held tightly in my hand, sparks slowly shimmered as if it were aware of the current situation, as if telling me that it was ready for battle.