Chapter 1193 – #281_All-Out War (8)
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Gehenna’s right wing unit adopted the crazy tactic of turning the middle of the desert into a sea.
Leruet’s power on the sea was truly overwhelming.
-Chaaaaa!
Not one, but dozens of waves that rose to hundreds of meters.
It swallows most attacks whole, and crushes them with force no matter how well the defenses are put up.
The familiar army that has been drawn from the main army is nothing more than the daily bread of the Nukelabi Dynasty ministers who travel between tsunamis and tidal waves.
“Run! All you have to do is retreat from the sea and fall further back!”
“Didn’t you see it earlier? Even so, they will follow me!”
Even if we tried to escape from the sea, the enemy’s home ground, there was little point.
A tsunami that nearly scoops up the ocean to the bottom quickly creates another ocean.
Haha! I can’t! Can’t! How do I deal with that!”
A dispute mediator belonging to the same corps who had come forward with great enthusiasm burst into laughter as if he was dumbfounded and retreated.
A dispute mediator is a judge who executes witches who disobey the ruling when bloodshed occurs in Hexennacht.
They are proven combat personnel.
However, I was horrified to see that the crushing blow that pierced the gap was not only eaten by a wave swinging like a normal blow, but was also crushed.
Dispute mediators were not the only ones who launched an offensive against Leruet.
“Hit and run away!”
“Don’t fight from the front, aim for the blind spot!”
“Wait until you get tired!”
The Farpa Unit and El Task Force, members of the East Corps, also attempted to induce the consumption of Lruet through planned hits and runs.
However, the Witch of the Deep, who gazes vaguely at her enemies with her arms crossed, does not show any sign of fatigue, let alone a single drop of sweat.
“Are all the 23rd rank monsters like that?”
“You try something too! “It’s an old witch!”
Criticism was poured out on Elara Kronos, the leader of the eastern corps, the Witch of Time.
She is the one who established the strategy of the same legion, so she says.
“You’re doing great. I won’t ask you to risk your life, so keep poking around. “It’s not an attack that has a wide range but is slow so you can’t avoid it, right?”
However, Elara, who stuck to her office her look her even on the battlefield, did not even blink an eye at her complaints her.
“If you do it through a hole, it’s all right… ” . Does she know how much her liver becomes cold every time she avoids it? Once you get hit, it’s over!”
“Let’s retreat first, right? “It’s the bait over there anyway.”
“The plan was flawed because it misjudged the enemy’s defense capabilities. “Is this enough?”
Elara responded to the pouring complaints.
“This bitch and that bitch are getting older and whining. You idiots! Do you know this is a kindergarten? Just get rid of at least one guy. “I will find it and put it on the Orcelia table.”
Unlike the Eastern Legion camp, where complaints and dissatisfaction poured in, Gehenna’s morale was slowly rising.
It is clear that the much larger East Corps is having a hard time due to the strategy prepared by the Emerald Tablet and Lulue’s great performance.
“Nukelabi, how about we keep the momentum like this? Both the central and left wing units are in a difficult battle. “If I were to organize one front and join the central unit, it would be a burden.”
“…”
Luisa Moiety, a Maygas-level member of the Emerald Tablet and a ‘witch of softness’ whom Siwoo had lured in the past to steal information, spoke carefully.
This is a proposal to try to increase the odds of victory rather than continuing a passive confrontation.
This also means that we will soon switch to an active offensive, starting with Lulue’s special move ‘Trident’.
“Just wait a little longer.”
“But…”
“They told me to wait a little longer.”
At first glance, the situation seems favorable.
The Eastern Corps, which has a much larger number of troops, is tied up on the outer front without achieving significant results, and the various offensives that it attempts are unable to break through the thick waves.
If the enemy induced attrition with a foolish hit-and-run strategy, Lulue was confident that he would fight for another three days.
“…”
However, an inexplicable discomfort made Leruet’s eyes cold.
In the past, Leruë fought against Lydia and was defeated.
This is because, as the enemy intended, we fell for the trick and over-spent our power.
From him, I learned that you should always be careful when making a fatal move, and in Leruet’s opinion, now is not a good time.
The prestige ‘Sea God’s Spear-Trident’ is not a magic that can be easily handled even by Lelu, who has a large homunculus level magical power.
If the Trident is used and the victory is not guaranteed, the entire defensive capacity of the right wing unit, which relies heavily on Lerué, will be greatly reduced.
Is hesitating to make a decision now really the wisdom gained from the past, or is it an unnecessary caution created by being caught up in past experiences?
It was not easy for Leruet to make a choice.
But this war is not just about Leruë.
No matter how powerful Lulue’s wide-area magic is, it is impossible to handle all the witches on the front lines alone.
The enemy’s attacks continued beyond the radius of the sea, and the witches of the Emerald Tablet are desperately trying to block them.
“Aaaaah!”
“Riul! “You bastards!”
“Don’t back down!”
“Go back!”
“Kill them all!”
Screams and death heard from all over the front lines.
Wishes passed down for generations are fleetingly lost.
The safest way is to watch the enemy’s movements and ‘just do it this way’.
On the other hand, if you show your true spirit right away and repel the enemy, you can minimize the sacrifice of your allies, but if you fail, you have to take on quite a big risk.
“…”
This stalemate was paid for with the lives of the witches who trusted Leruet and went to the front lines.
After much thought, Lerué made his move.
“Sink deeply.”
The ministers of the Nurelavi Kingdom, who had been unilaterally slaughtering the familiar army, gathered in one place.
A great old monarch and conqueror of the deep.
A mythical being from afar.
The sea god opened his eyes at the queen’s call.
——Oooh!!!!!!!
“Destroy them all.”
The sea god blinked his single blue eye and answered the loyal queen, then twisted her body.
In his hand he made of rough waves, the ‘Trident’, the sea god’s trident that controls tides, currents, storms, and earthquakes, shone in the breaking foam.
-Kwagwagwagwa!!!
When the trident points to a point, the three soldiers who were pressing hard on the side of the front line retreat in a hurry.
The waves of Leruet’s Plain Horse Sea are destructive and huge.
However, the signs of movement are clear and it is difficult to make irregular movements.
However, Trident immediately creates waves at the point it is pointed out.
It is an attack that comes rushing in from all directions, front, left, and right, and its power is also much stronger.
In an instant, the three witches on the enemy side became prey to the waves and disappeared.
“Whoa…”
Certainly, summoning a sea god and using a trident to project firepower have high costs in proportion to their power.
Even Lerue, who has no memory of struggling due to her lack of magical power, can feel a handful of magical energy draining away from her.
In this situation, quick resolution is essential.
Lerué drew out half of her magical power.
The surge of her magical power, reminiscent of the glimmer of bright blue seawater, weighs heavily on Leruet’s son-in-law.
“I will sweep it away once and for all.”
As the tip of her spear her points towards the enemy’s central camp, L’Ruye’s magic spreads explosively.
“Something is coming!”
“Get ready!”
If it is indeed a fight, they will try to respond calmly, like seasoned warriors, but resistance is meaningless in the face of the waves of the Queen’s wrath.
If you block it, it will break it, and if you avoid it, it will snatch it and trample it.
The ‘wave’ applied when the opponent’s defense and evasion capabilities were shaken by the suddenly changed pattern was definitely enough to calm the enemy.
————!!!!!
“Quaaa!!!”
“My, my…” “My arm… !”
“Damage! Avoid it!”
Cloudy blood spread in the seawater mixed with sand.
Those who were confident in their skills somehow saved their lives, but the witches who were not were crushed without a scream like ants caught in a child’s prank.
With just one strike, the East Corps’ line completely collapsed.
It was a destructive force that even the Gehenna witches on the same side could not keep quiet about.
“Is it enough by now?”
Elara, who was leisurely looking around in the camp that had become a mob, was suddenly grabbed by the collar.
She probably lost a close colleague or lost a subordinate.
“You crazy bitch! “You don’t have to do anything!”
“You’re going to do it now.”
“If only I had done it sooner…”
Elara mercilessly removed her hand and cited her starting words her.
“We are just observers.”
That moment.
The sound of a huge clock winding in the vast battlefield rang like the heart of a giant.
As the sound of the wind-up gradually slowed down, the noise of the battlefield stopped all at once.
The steps of the witch who was trying to escape while screaming slow down, the water droplets from the broken waves stop, and even the smoke created by the explosion maintains its shape.
The battlefield that stopped with the dance of life and death scattered across the sand dunes was as beautiful as a painting.
This is a scene that only the ‘Witch of Time’ Elara Kronos can see.
-Tick tick tick
Elara gestured lightly and rewinded the string connected to her mainspring.
The battlefield began to move dynamically like a graceful ballet performance.
A witch who had been torn to pieces by the waves was reassembled, the collapsed familiar army was restored to its original place, and the magic rushing through the air slowly returned to the tip of the wand along the path it had flown from.
Eventually, even the inland sea created through the ‘Reverse Netherlands’ project disappeared, as if being eaten by the dry land of the desert.
The noise that had stopped flows again, and the time that had flowed against the universe finds its proper direction.
“Kaaaaa…” ” . Uh? What? Me, I would have died…”
“Where is the damn sea? “Who is the Witch of the Deep Sea?”
“Deja vu? “Is it right?”
The battlefield, which had become a melee, returned to the save point and was reset to the same way as when the eastern corps and the right-wing corps first faced each other.
This is the ‘branching point’ of Elara Kronos’ abilities.
The power to return events in a pre-designated area to a specific point in time.
However, Elara’s miracle is not fair to everyone.
Elara intervened at her juncture and left the conditions in her favor.
“This…”
Lerué intuitively realized that Elara had reversed the events that had occurred throughout the Eastern Front.
It is an instinctive realization that can be felt only because you are standing at the same eye level as Elara in this battlefield.
But there is something that has not gone back.
First of all, the memories still remain.
The magic power consumed by summoning the sea god and using the trident was not recovered.
The inland sea created by the Reverse Project has disappeared as if it never existed, but only traces of the alchemy reagents that were prepared have been used.
“This is the last time. Once a branch point has been used, it cannot be used again. There are many difficult conditions.”
“…”
“I discovered the special move the enemy had prepared, and I disabled it. To balance things out, we had to revive the Gehenna witch, but we also brought back the subordinates who were whining that you were dead. “Now the Witch of the Deep Sea won’t be as scary as before.”
“…”
The witch, who had been protesting fiercely against Elara just a moment ago, was speechless when she saw the magic that performed such an absurd miracle.
Magic is definitely great.
But is this really possible with magic?
“What are you doing? Run.”
“Yes, yes… ” !”
Elara let out a sigh and kicked her witch’s ass as she stood there dumbfounded.
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