Chapter 242 – Battle to Retake Zenon Plains [Battle of Enakan Plains (6)] *Christmas Commemorative Marie Santa Illustration*
Battle to recapture the Zenon Plain 〈Battle of the Enakan Plain (6)〉
“Hmm… Viscount Amin… I heard that His Excellency, the Duke of Thiruen, had some fun with us some time ago… I would like to have some fun with him too, but the situation is not conducive… You understand that I need to end this as quickly as possible. Please give it to me”
Viscount Amin’s forehead twitched at the Marquis Graze’s words that he would end him soon.
“Well… I don’t know what I heard from that proud Duke of Tiruen… But if you think that the person I was then and the person I am now is the same, it will hurt you a lot.”
“What is that…”
“You’ll understand when you cross swords!!”
The Marquis of Graze and Viscount Amin, who had been measuring the distance for a moment, rushed towards each other without even saying who would go first.
“Haaa!!”
“Kaaaaap!!”
The moment Viscount Amin’s sword collided with the Marquis Graze’s sword, a tremendous sound rang out.
Kaaaaang!!
The bluish sword energy of both swords was flowing, revealing their deep murderous intent towards each other, and both swords radiated brilliance and flew toward each other’s necks once again.
Since the swordsmanship styles the two had learned were almost similar, with heavy swords emphasizing power rather than speed, their swords collided with each other as if they were crushing each other, and the impact shook the battlefield.
Kwaang~!! Flash!! Kaaaaang!!
Every time swords collided, explosions and metal sounds echoed through the battlefield, and as shock waves erupted everywhere, the soldiers were scared and had to run away.
“Bloody hell, avoid it!! If you get caught in their by mistake, your body will be torn apart!!”
“Soldiers, never go in there!! Knights, don’t let enemy knights get involved in the fight!!”
The knights of the Royal Guard led by Viscount Amin began skirmishing with the knights under the Marquis of Grace. The soldiers who saw this also started fighting again, and the blood clotting process resumed.
As time passed, the swordplay between the Marquis Graze and Viscount Amin became harsher, and it did not take much time for them to realize that they were not easy opponents.
‘Damn it! It’s not that easy!! His Excellency, the Duke of Tiruen, said he was an easy opponent… But am I still far from being able to match his level? Or the author… In a short period of time…’
The Marquis of Graze mobilized all the skills he knew to deal with Viscount Amin.
However, his skills were almost equal, and he even showed signs of being subtly inferior to his opponent in all aspects, including the weight and sharpness of the sword and the power of the sword, except for speed.
‘Shit!! I can’t believe I was pushed out of the heavy sword! I can’t admit it!!’
The Marquis of Grace was angry because he was secretly proud of his skills as being just below the Duke of Tiruen.
Viscount Amin’s eyebrows furrowed slightly as he, filled with anger, pushed more mana into his sword.
‘Whoa~ I’m overdoing it in the end… I haven’t been able to keep up with the speed so far, so I haven’t been able to win… But if the author overdoes it… The story will be different. Anyway, it feels like I’m seeing my old self… I’d like to say something… But I can’t teach my enemy!!’
After making up his mind, Viscount Amin began to slowly receive the Marquis Grache’s sword, showing softer movements than before.
“What are you doing? Are you trying to play with me? Come at me!!”
“Heh! I am doing it right now. If you are strong, you will be able to bend this type of sword.”
If he thought rationally, all he had to do was widen the distance again and engage in exploration again, but in his anger, he couldn’t think of such a decision.
Moreover, factors that clouded his judgment continued to appear.
“Kaaaaa!! Damn it!!”
“Marquis! I’m sorry!! We’re not good enough… Ugh!!”
The screams of his knights coming from behind told him that they were being suppressed or killed by the knights of the Balkan Guard.
“Aaaaah!! Help me! I don’t want to die!!”
“The right side has been breached!! Support over there… Wow!!”
Moreover, as his troops in front of him were increasingly pushed back by the Balkan corps and began to be completely crushed, his heart became increasingly anxious.
Therefore, the Marquis of Graze swung his sword impatiently, but Viscount Amin only accepted his sword with more leisure, and his mana hole was gradually emptying.
Moreover, the bad news for Tesseito’s infantry did not end there.
“The 5th Corps stops fighting and advances to the enemy’s headquarters!! Burn the enemy’s supplies and seize their war horses!!”
‘Oh, no!! If supplies and war horses are lost, the foundation of the Zenon Plain will be shaken…’
It was the voice of Arnim, the commander of the 5th Legion, that was completely decisive, and when he heard the unpleasant voice of the enemy heading towards the headquarters, the Marquis of Grace bit his lip and raised his sword high.
“I will put my soul into this blow!! Viscount Amin! If you are a knight, I hope you will take this attack head-on!!”
At the words of the Marquis Graze, Viscount Amin also changed his posture back to its original state and stared at his opponent.
The posture of the Marquis Graze, who raised his sword high and extended his upper body extremely forward, expressed his will to kill with a single blow, so Viscount Amin also swallowed his saliva.
‘Well… If we just take the time, our army will win by a landslide… But as the author said, we can’t insult the end of a master-level knight. Anyway, this is the end of the author’s attack. As the mana hole is emptying, the power of the sword energy is not coming out properly… If that’s the case!!’
Viscount Amin, determined to fight head-on, raised his sword high in the same posture as his opponent, and at the same time, the two masters’ new forms quickly crossed each other.
Suddenly!
With the sound of splitting fabric, the body of one of the two people who had crossed fell to the ground, and the long battle between the Balkan Empire and the Kingdom of Tesseito over the Plain of Zenon began to come to an end.
While the left wing collapsed and the central army struggled, the Duke of Tiruen on the right was also fighting a fierce battle.
“Damn it!! These damn spirits!!”
Squeak! Squeak!!
An eerie sword energy erupted and destroyed the lesser wind spirits that were targeting and attacking him.
However, countless spirits continued to shoot wind blades and fire arrows, and below, the earth spirit set a trap targeting the ankles of the horse he was riding, so Duke Tiruen attacked the spirit with his sword and used horsemanship. He showed off artistic moves to avoid traps.
“Wow~ That guy is really fast? I think his evasion speed is almost faster than his.”
“It looks like you trained hard after losing to Catherine? That’s right… For this Isabella…”
Isabella threw the fireball in her hand and a violent explosion erupted towards Tiruen.
Fuuuuu!!
Haha, how do you feel about this Isabella’s 5-layer compressed fireball? I may not be able to match Jennifer’s level yet, but if it’s this good… Chiit!!”
Isabella had expected at least some injury, but she clicked her tongue as if it was a waste, as she saw several wizards following her behind Tiruen, leading her horses and chanting her defensive magic.
“Your Highness the Princess! Avoid both of you!! We will take care of this!!”
“We are fine. Without us, who would take charge of that fearless master? If soldiers or ordinary knights handle that sword power… You can imagine the damage, right?”
“So, leave Duke Tiruen to us, and the corps commanders only focus on commanding their soldiers. This is the first battle of the royal guard corps protecting His Majesty the Emperor… Please keep in mind that if you lose, it will be different from a normal defeat.”〈 Br〉
At Isabella and Marie’s frightening words, Baron Hart, commander of the 2nd Guards Corps, and Melentine, commander of the 3rd Corps, swallowed their saliva, expressed their respect, and ran back toward the command post.
“Archers, fire at the enemy cavalry!! You must reduce your speed as much as possible!!”
“Sylphid!! Continue to attack and keep in check the leader! Sylph! Make the arrows fired by our archers fly at even faster speeds!!”
As the archers fired arrows according to the orders of the corps commanders, Marie remembered the battles she had experienced in the land of the elves and used the spirit to make the arrows go faster.
Only the 1st cavalry corps of the right wing of the Tesseito army, led by Tiruen, showed brilliant maneuvers and avoided the arrows flying towards them, but the speed of the arrows assisted by Marie was faster than they imagined, so they killed nearly 300 with a single shot. It had the effect of causing several cavalrymen to fall to the ground.
“Gnome! Turn the ground in front of mud!! It should sink to the point where the horse steps on it!!”
When it came to her one-on-one battles, she was Marie who showed less fighting power than Isabella, but once she entered into a large-scale battle, her story was completely different.
Due to Mari’s spirit magic, the Tesseito cavalry lost its mobility and had to continue to be targeted by arrows. Tiruen tried to check Marie’s spirit magic from a distance by shooting sword energy, but due to Isabella’s defensive magic, he fired sword energy. Disappeared without a trace.
“Damn it!! If we keep going like this, only our cavalry will be one-sided… The enemy’s heavy infantry is setting up a defensive wall like that, and if we continue to struggle like this from a distance…”
“Your Excellency!! It’s urgent!!”
Moreover, the two pieces of news that reached Tiruen made his heart flutter.
“W-What?! The left wing has been completely defeated, and the central army is already in danger of falling?”
The cavalry led by Mullah was the main attack, and Tiruen, whose goal was to tie down the two enemy legions here, gritted his teeth.
“And there is also more news!!”
“Something!!”
When his advisor who delivered the news whispered something, Ti Luen closed his eyes for a moment and raised his standard high.
“All forces!! Reversal!! Get out of here!!”
Due to his decision, the right-wing cavalry of Tesseito’s army quickly fled the battlefield, leaving behind only about a thousand corpses.
“What is it? If you were going to retreat in vain like this… Why did you try so hard to break through?”
“Hohoho, wouldn’t you say my spirit magic was that difficult to deal with?”
“Oh, but the power of the sword is really brutal. It’s a shame because it’s from a long distance. If I had allowed access, my shield would have been shattered in an instant? It’s almost as powerful as the power that Yuno emits, isn’t it?”
Melentine, the commander of the 3rd Corps, quickly ran up to Isabella and Marie, who were chatting while watching the soldiers of the Guard Corps clear the battlefield.
“Your Highness the Princess!! They are here urgently!! They say the enemy cavalry has taken a sharp detour through the forest on the left and is heading towards the headquarters at high speed!! Although the 2nd and 3rd Guards Corps departed in a hurry, the news is that time seems to be running out. !!”
Melentine’s report made Isabella and Marie’s faces turn pale.
“Well, if it’s the headquarters…”
“Could it be that you have a mother?”
“Yes! That’s right!! At the headquarters where the Empress Dowager and the Minister of Defense are located, only a few Guard Knights and about 1,000 defenders remain, and the enemy cavalry is scheduled to arrive in 10 minutes!!”
Before Melentine finished speaking, Isabella and Marie quickly flew away using flight magic and the wind spirit.
‘You must be safe… Mom!!’
‘We’ll be there soon!! Just wait a moment!!’
*Christmas commemorative Marie Santa illustration*
