Chapter 76 – Meyer and Baron Kimberly’s Painful Day (2) *Cordelia Illustration*
Meyer and Baron Kimberly’s painful day (2)
The time when Baron Kimberly was painfully writing down his report. Mayer gathered the guards of the southern villages and arrived at the entrance of the mountain range with a total of 1,000 troops.
“Stop! Who are you?”
“This is Mayer, the garrison commander of the County of Tesidanicana! Here is my identification card and a baton that says I am acting on behalf of the Count!”
One of the rangers on guard checked Mayer’s ID and guided him to the ranger captain’s office.
Haha. It’s been a while since I last saw you. Mayer. Now that you have achieved success, are you Captain Mayer?”
“Huh? William? Is that you? Didn’t you say you were retiring too? It clearly said on the unit member list that you were replaced a year ago?”
“Kkkk What is the position of captain… I got fired thanks to saying the wrong thing to Boras, that bastard… But the members of the unit asked me to lead the unit, so I am in charge of actual command. I want to retire, but if there is someone I can trust, I won’t have to beat them up or anything. “Mayer, I guess you’re still being held prisoner by your wife. I heard you received a lot of money in prize money from the last war. I guess you’re still doing this?”
“Keuuuuu!! I told you to stop talking like that!! Is that what you’re going to say to a friend you haven’t seen in a while?”
“When we got married, she boasted about living in the neighborhood, but she lived there very tightly…”
William and Meyer, who were happy to see an old friend, chatted for a while, then opened the map and returned with a serious look on their faces.
“Let Saddam stop here for now. We’re in a hurry, so we don’t have time to do this.”
“Damn it! After teasing me so much… So what’s the current situation? First, after hearing the report that monsters were coming, I immediately gathered my troops and set off, but I haven’t heard anything since.”
“First, the existing traps that were dug as much as possible were effective, greatly reducing the number of small and medium-sized monsters such as goblins, orcs, and kobolds in the first line. Currently, they are blocked in the second line, but some ogres and basilisks have joined. With only 400 Rangers, they will soon be breached. I told them to retreat and lure them this way before casualties occur, so they will come by dawn.”
“Basilisk? Are you prepared for the petrification curse?”
“If Boras had stayed there, it would have been a big problem, but fortunately, His Royal Highness wrote a letter while passing through here, so we were able to receive supplies from the Kimberley administration through the Kimberley administrator.”
“It’s a good thing. I saw that there was a ballista on the way, so we can take out the ogre with that! Our troops will form a square and try to hold out. I think the rangers will have to take charge of the attack.”
“Okay! Let’s give it a try! I will put my honor as a Nikana Ranger on the line and make sure that not a single monster crosses this border!”
Meyer gave his troops a rest and stayed up all night discussing strategy with William.
Early morning. The Rangers who retreated due to the large army of monsters joined the 100 troops at the Ranger headquarters, and Mayer and William woke up the resting troops and formed a square.
“You there! The shield is sticking out!! If you don’t heat it properly, it will break right through!!”
“Old soldiers, check the new soldiers’ weapons!! Don’t forget that if the new soldiers die, it’s your turn next!!”
“Ranger unit check the supplies once again!! We have to eliminate the basilisk!!”
William and Meyer were jumping here and there, yelling. Then, they noticed a cloud of dust forming in the distance and monsters flocking in.
“Coming!! There are about 700 orcs and kobolds here!!”
“Prepare the trap!! Archers, load a volley of arrows!!”
Doo doo doo doo
As a horde of heavy orcs came running, the sound of the ground shaking was heard, and sweat beaded from tension on the foreheads of the soldiers holding shields.
“Raise it!!”
With William’s signal, the wooden barricade hidden in the dirt went up, and numerous orcs and kobolds began to be impaled on the wooden spears stuck in the barricade.
“Kkuiiiiik!!!”
“Kuwae!!”
The orcs and kobolds who were about to be stabbed by the wooden spears screamed, but they were pushed by the monsters that kept coming, and they continued to be skewered by the spears. However, the number of orcs coming over the barricade was greater than the number of deaths, and the rangers’ arrows were fired as soon as William’s hand was lowered.
Easy profit
About 400 arrows flew through the sky and killed the monsters, but the orcs did not stop with just one arrow, and the number of kobolds was too many.
And then a group of orcs and kobolds attacked the guards of Tessidanikana Territory.
“Hold on!! If this place gets breached, our family will be in danger!!”
“Pull up your shield!!”
With Mayer’s encouragement, the shield soldiers in the first row firmly raised their shields.
Kwaaaaang!!
“Aaaaah!!”
With a sound of cheers that was almost like a scream, the battlefield became quiet, and the monsters’ advance finally stopped.
“Push!!!”
Following Mayer’s instructions, the shield soldiers pushed their shields to push away the orcs, and at the same time, two rows of spearmen pierced their spears between the shields.
“Kwaeeeeek!!”
“Kwiiiiik!!”
The orcs swung their crude weapons with much greater strength than the humans, but the shield soldiers, who had succeeded in blocking the charge once, gained confidence and actively blocked the orcs’ attacks, and once again the spears pierced the orcs, and they began to fall.
“It’s no big deal!! Kill them all!!”
Haha, we’re betting on who can kill more people!!”
“Isn’t it decided that you will live there? Hehe”
Some kobolds tried to resist by throwing stones at the defenders, who began slaughtering the orcs with ease under Mayer’s command, but the rangers sniped them and got an arrow stuck in their neck.
The defenders, who had finally annihilated the monsters, began clearing the battlefield according to Mayer’s instructions. After confirming and killing the monsters stuck in the barricade, they were taken out and used to reinforce the fence in front of the base, and the smelly kobolds’ corpses were loaded onto a catapult and thrown over the mountain range, hoping for the monsters to eat them.
Haha, it’s not a big deal, right? Captain?”
“I think it will end easily at this rate.”
However, Mayer’s expression was completely frozen, and the smiling guards looked at him quizzically.
“Um… Captain?”
“Can’t you guys hear that sound?”
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thump
As the soldiers listened to Mayer’s words, their faces turned pale. And at the same time, the ranger who was watching shouted loudly and spread the word about the situation.
“Emergency!! A horde of monsters is approaching!! The enemies are four ogres, five basilisks, three cyclops, and about 300 orcs running together!!”
“What… What? There are 12 giant monsters? William, can you stop this?”
Since William had far greater experience dealing with monsters than he did, Mayer asked William for a solution.
“Whew~ I guess I’ll have to bury my bones here…”
But when even William seemed to have no answer, Meyer felt his body relax.
‘Damn Yuno, am I going to die here because of this bastard? Still, if we want to save my wife, we have to reduce the number of monsters as much as possible…’
“Even if we die here, shouldn’t we buy the territory’s residents as much time as possible? Let’s do our best.”
“You’re right! Well, you may be saying that you’re trying to protect your wife… But you have a point.”
“No, this guy is still!!”
After chatting casually, the two commanders regained their courage and moved forward toward the soldiers.
“Now, monsters called ogres, basilisks, and cyclops are approaching us!! And we will probably bury our bones here. But won’t we be able to hold out just long enough for our loved ones to escape and for reinforcements to arrive? ?”
“Yes! I can endure it!”
“Kuuuuu Crazy people… Your poor spear skills won’t even hurt the ogres and cyclopses, and if you get petrified by the basilisk, you’ll just die. Is that okay?”
“Yes!!”
“Yes… But if there is one silver lining, there will be relief troops from Count Grime heading to Chiese Castle. So, we will hold on to them as much as we can!”
“I will take your orders! Captain!!”
As soon as Mayer finished speaking, two ogres and three basilisks appeared in front of them, making loud footsteps.
“Fire the ballista!!”
Bang! Bang!
As soon as William’s command was given, four ballistas were fired at the ogre, penetrating its stomach. However, even as the ogres were bleeding, they pulled out the huge wooden spears that pierced their stomachs and rushed at the soldiers, screaming with rage. The soldiers dodged the ogres’ feet and stabbed the ogres with their spears.
“Kaaaaa!!”
However, as soon as the first victim was found, screams were heard from all over the place. The ogre raised his blood-stained wooden spear and swung it wildly at his soldiers, who were hit by a huge tree and flung his body here and there.
“Reload the ballista once again!! Rangers, lure the Basilisks as much as possible!! Don’t let them approach soldiers who don’t have supplies!!”
William commanded the rangers and directed them to fight as efficiently as possible. However, the basilisks were not easily lured, and the number of regular defenders was petrified, and the rangers also began to be injured little by the basilisks’ tails and claws.
“Holy shit!! Are you pissed about this?”
Meanwhile, a ranger jumped out from the battle line and started taunting the Basilisks by shooting arrows into their eyes.
“McMorin!! It’s dangerous!! Go back to the ranks!!”
“Young man!! This is the only way. If we keep it like this, we’ll all die anyway!”
He hit all the basilisks’ eyes with his arrows with a strange skill and ran away towards the plains, and the basilisks roared and chased McMorin.
“That crazy guy!! But thanks to that guy McMorin, I bought some time!”
“Captain! The ballista has been loaded!”
“Fire right away!! The target is those two guys running rampant among the defenders!!”
Kwaaang!!
As instructed by William, the ballista was fired and flew towards the ogres.
The two ogres, preoccupied with slaughtering the defenders, were unable to avoid the ballista and were hit in the chest, killing him instantly.
“Lord… He’s dead, right?”
“Dead!! The ogres are dead!!”
The soldiers were happy, but their joy was short-lived. Two more ogres and a cyclops appeared, and despair appeared on their faces.
“Hold on!! Raise your spear!! Don’t you guys have families behind you? If you survive here, are you going to go home and tell your family that you came here after urinating like cowards?”
“Kaaaaa!!”
“Aaaaah!!”
Mayer’s provocative encouragement gave courage to the soldiers, and although only about 800 people with various injuries remained, they shouted and fought against the ogre.
“Die! You monsters!!”
About 30 people surrounded the ogre and entered with spears at once, but the ogre raised the huge club it was carrying as a weapon high in the sky as if it had not suffered any damage.
The soldiers closed their eyes tightly, thinking they were dying, but they did not feel any pain, and carefully opened their eyes to look around.
“Soldiers!!! Cheer up!! We’ve come running!! Reinforcements have arrived!!”
The ogre’s club strike was stopped by Cordelia’s sword, and behind the scenes, the troops were rapidly throwing spears at the ogre.
“Reinforcements!!”
“The drivers have arrived!!!”
When the two knights under Cordelia also started fighting against the Ogre and the Cyclops respectively, the situation of the war turned around, and the soldiers showed their courage and threw spears at the monsters. Unlike before, the spears were driven into the bodies of the monsters one by one, and hope appeared in the eyes of the soldiers. It dwelled.
*Illustration of Cordelia deflecting the ogre’s blow
