Chapter 234 – Gaiden – Part 0, Chapter 9
I used to be the kind of person who never wakes up once I fall asleep. No matter how early I fell asleep, I was so weak that I woke up after 11 o’clock unless I set a notification on my phone. For me, starting a day in this world without a cell phone with a notification clock was a struggle. But these days, Mars wakes me up before I start exercising every morning, so it’s a shame.
“Well…”
But what woke me today was not the usual call from Mars. A strangely fragrant smell of flesh tickled my nose, and something suffocatingly warm pressed down on my face… No, wait. Not kidding, really choking! What is this?!
“Town…!”
Something very soft and fluffy, and at the same time quite heavy, was filling my face. I grabbed this soft and heavy thing with my hand, which I didn’t know the identity of, having stolen it in order to regain the right to breathe, one of the natural rights of living beings before humans.
“What’s wrong…?!”
“…?”
Then, at the sound of the woman’s moaning, I had no choice but to shoot her question mark in her head. What is this? Female voice? It’s not Mars’ voice…
“…Fuhaaa!”
It wasn’t until the thing that almost suffocated me fell off my face that I recognized it as a spherical, near-elliptical, flesh-colored object. So in one word, it was the heart.
But it wasn’t Marth’s chest. Of course, Mars has nothing to lose with her size, but since Mars is a body type, her breasts are large, but rather than purplish like slime, the surface is somewhat elastic. However, the huge breasts that almost killed me just now gave me a sense of security to the point where I wanted to bury my face forever like a top-notch cushion. If I hadn’t choked myself, I wouldn’t have thought to get that thing off my face.
The most important problem here is that the woman who withdraws from me with a slightly reddened face and covers her breasts is Ray, and she is a woman who has suffered great trauma from being raped by men just a day ago. No, even now, the woman who backed away because she was afraid of sticking with me, what on earth was she thinking, approaching me like this while I was sleeping? Besides, you didn’t just come close, you almost killed me with that weapon’s close chest?
What? Is this a new type of assassination attempt? But the effect seems pretty obvious. That gigantic valley definitely had a great feeling of use, and it seemed highly likely that a man who did not have a strong sense of chastity would be suffocated and unable to get out of it until he died. If only I could leave a review, everyone who has used it would give it 5 stars without hesitation.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry.”
Ray left only that one word, and she hurriedly ran away from me. Wow, but looking at it now, her hips are also very lined… Ugh, did you still not get all your cravings after mixing with Mars like that yesterday? Looking at Ray, hiding her body behind the carriage and looking this way with only her head sticking out, it seems that she is not good at having a proper conversation today.
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It took about three days to reach the city of Emerys. Still, as befits the second most prosperous cities after the capital, the security of Emerys City was incomparable to that of the city where he met Ray. Unlike the place where the entrance was open proudly, in Emeris City, at least in front of the entrance, the guards were going through the process of checking the identity of those who wanted to enter and searching for dangerous items.
Well… Actually that’s normal and average though. No matter how much a nobleman and a rich merchant instigated it, it could be said that the level of public order and civic awareness was low for the city to become a city where many women with children were taken for granted in the center of the city. Unless they’re brain-drenched with Hitomi, there’s no way that’s ever going to happen. But damn, did that really happen?
The Luminous Goddess seems to be concerned with the oracles and early stages necessary for the birth of a hero in the prime of her life, so she has not yet been able to report on what Rei has been through. If Goddess Luminous spoke to me, I could answer him, but there was no way for me to speak first. That’s why I’ve been waiting for the timing to report for the first time since I’ve been in the middle of a long time.
“Hmm. There are more troops than I thought, but it’s not to the point that we can’t capture it. Now, then. Prepare the entire army.”
I wielded magical power and commanded the undead army. To others, he may seem like the highest-ranking necromancer who can control thousands of undead soldiers with one finger, but if you look closely, that’s not the case. In the first place, the study of magic did not exist in the world I lived in, and I had no choice but to wield the power of magic based on my intuition. If it hadn’t been for the cancellation of the limit on the use of magic by the helper correction of the Luminous Goddess, the skinny skeleton soldier would not have been able to move properly.
The situation I’m causing is nothing more than forcing a machine you don’t know how to use to force it to run by simply pouring a huge amount of fuel into it. It was a level of work that an expert would be able to cause by using only 1/100th of his strength here. It’s an ignorant, stupid method, but at the same time, it’s the only method I can use right now.
“Ready, aim…”
The skeletal hands of those who were not breathing grabbed the bow and pulled the string to its limit. Those who did not have a bow roughly weaved cloth and put stones in to prepare for slinging, and other than that, all the troops were ready to charge and put them on standby.
If I poured all my strength like this, I would be able to eliminate many of the troops defending that city in one go, but that’s not the case. The reason why this act of aggression is not being condemned is because it follows the rules of the Territory War. According to the rules of the Battle of the Territory, other powers, including the royal family, cannot use their hands in a quarrel between the two territories, and cannot interfere with the outcome. Instead, Yeongjijeon forbids ‘act of raiding an opponent without prior warning’.
Yeongjijeon is a fight using the power between territories. This is because innocent civilians should not be swept away and harmed in the process. However, this was not the case that the Hermon Kingdom established such a rule for the safety of its people. The reason why such a rule came into being before the territory was for a simple and obvious reason: that the taxes to be collected would be reduced when the residents who would eventually live in the territory died.
The Hermon family’s refusal to intervene in territorial warfare and hold either party accountable for the outcome was intended to reduce the amount of tax collected at the expense of innocent subjects in order to weaken the power of the nobles by causing them to bleed each other in petty pride fights. Because it wasn’t for
“I’ll have to send a messenger. Mars, please.”
“Yeah…”
The role of herald was taken by Mars. As the commander of the territory battle, if I entered the enemy territory on my own, it was certain that I would be surrounded and captured, and if I sent an undead soldier, I would define it as a monster and deal with it right away before I even delivered a message. Also, Mars himself’s combat power was by no means low, and even if he was captured, his body could survive. She’s one of the fellow candidates for the hero, and after holding out against me for half a day, there’s no way she’ll be seriously injured by such trivial guys.
After Mars proved his identity with his mercenary plaque and entered the interior of Emerys City, sirens sounded throughout the city and went on guard. Looking at it, I was able to feel the fact that this place is completely different from the places I have been through so far. The small territories that I have passed so far just ignored the proclamation of the territorial war I sent first and just did what I had to do.
Since Emerys City itself is a well-established yolk land, it seems that it has often received territorial wars from nearby territories. Having received so many proclamations of Yeongjijeon, he has a keen understanding of what they mean.
Hermon’s royal family stated that all ‘unfortunate accidents’ that occurred during the Yeongji War were their own responsibility and would not be punished separately. In other words, even if an aristocrat who waged a war on a territory branded the common women he liked in the invaded territory as slaves because he was a greedy pig, he would never get involved.
Of course, since most of the Yeongjijeon is held incessantly by nobles to compete with each other’s petty pride, there is a kind of line that is implicitly followed, and if you really do such an idiot, rumors will fall to hell, unless you are enemies of each other. I don’t do that, but…
I don’t care about that. It’s just that the purpose of the Battle of Yeongji in the first place is that the hero needs to grow in power and gain notoriety in order to play the role of a villain to fight and defeat.
First of all, I wager a battle with the territory, and if the leader seems to be okay, I leave him alive, and if he is the youngest or the one who will never come over to my side, I mercilessly cut his throat. It’s notoriety that will accumulate anyway, and thanks to Goddess Luminous taking care of her feelings before being put into the play, she has no guilt or hesitation.
“This side’s declaration of war was delivered, and this gave enough time. The residents to evacuate were evacuated immediately, and only those who would fight would come forward. Then… Let’s start the battle.”
Like an orchestra conductor swinging a baton, I waved my hand into the air. It became a signal, and hundreds of skeleton soldiers raised their bows high in unison, and the moment they waved their hands again, the protests were released and hundreds of arrows embroidered the sky.
Tung, Tung Tung! Do-do-do-do-do-do!
The sound of the protests bouncing in succession rings out and hits the ears. And the arrows that fly in a curve pass through the castle gate and pour into it. The height of the walls of Emeris is about 9m. It is the same height as five to six adult men lined up in a row. The sight of countless arrows flying through the sky, drawing a curved trajectory and falling all at once into the castle walls…
“Hey, that’s a minister.”
There must have been an uproar in Emerys. In most Yeongji battles, at most one hundred and twenty troops would be mobilized, but right now we only have seven hundred and forty archers. Of course, there aren’t many spare arrows, so after a few more shots, these guys are going to advance with the infantry.
“Aaaaagh!”
“Keuk, kuhuhuh!”
The soldiers who stood foolishly on top of the strong wall, believing only in the strong wall, became hedgehogs in an instant and fell under the wall under a barrage of arrows pouring down from the sky. Still, it seems that they had no experience at all, and only a small number of soldiers were killed by volley fire, and most survived in the rain of arrows by covering their heads with their shields. Even if they continued to fire volleys like this, the number of deaths would be extremely small compared to the number of arrows consumed. But that doesn’t mean you can’t see the 9M high castle wall as a dick.
“Archers, load the second arrow. And the assault troops depart now.”
In line with the assault force’s advance, the archer’s force prepares to fire. Just in time to defend against the volleys rushing in from the sky, so that the undead infantry can reach the gates.
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Do-do-do-do-do-do! Ting! Ting Ting! Kagagakak! Kagagak! Kaga gak gak!
“Everyone raise your shields and protect your head! The arrows are coming!!”
At the command of the guard commander, the soldiers raised their shields in unison to protect their heads. The sound of arrows bouncing off shields and hitting the floor was deafening. It was really raining. However, what falls is not a drop of water, but a bloody arrow that will lightly take the life of a person.
“The enemies have come to the gate!”
“Are there ladders and battering rams?”
“No! No ladders, no battering rams! But… There are too many enemies! Besides, they’re not all human!”
The walls are too high for humans to climb. Besides, even if you could climb the wall, if the soldiers on the wall dropped stones, you would be hit in the head and fall. Therefore, the aspect of siege warfare has no choice but to open the door from the inside after climbing the ladder over the gate, or break the gate with a battering ram and infiltrate. But the enemies didn’t bring either? In addition, when the enemy was not human, the guard captain went to the side of the soldier who reported directly and received a telescope to confirm the enemy’s identity.
“Oh my God, Luminous God…!”
It was, indeed, an ominous sight.
Corpses with no flesh on their bodies, or with a few bits of rotten flesh barely attached, were armed with swords, shields, and armor. If that’s all, it’s just a scary-looking monster, but as soon as the number exceeds 1,000, it becomes an immeasurable fear. It’s not the Territorial War, which is called a small war between territories, but the sight of a unit of troops advancing toward this side in unison, which can only be seen in a war between countries. Was
And, of course, numbers in the terrifying form of enemies lead to a drop in the morale of allies.
“What, what is that…?!”
“Hee-ik…! Also, how many of them are coming…?”
“This crazy!!”
A force exceeding three digits is a threat enough in itself. But what if they are not living humans, but immortal soldiers who rise again even after they are killed? Already, in the minds of the Emerys guards, there was nothing but a picture of themselves being defeated.
“Everybody, calm down! Even though there are many of them, they are all infantry anyway! There are no ladders to climb these walls, no battering rams to break down the gates! Don’t be afraid, and hold your positions!”
The guard captain, who escaped from the panic, tried to boost his morale by comforting his men, but the bloody sound filled the sky.
“…Ugh! Shield, shield! Everyone, raise your shield and protect your head!!!”
Do-do-do-do-do-do-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!!!
The soldiers who lost morale at the sight of thousands of deadly troops lost their fighting spirit more and more at the sound of arrows hitting the shields they instinctively raised to protect their heads, and at the sight of their comrades collapsing beside them. Still, the captain of the guard did not let go of hope. No matter how many there are, enemies who cannot cross the walls are not a threat. However, there was one thing the captain of the guard overlooked.
“…Uh?”
Obviously, the approaching enemies are just puppets being manipulated by someone. That means that there is a person controlling the puppet, and unless that person is also an idiot, he will not try to attack the castle without any means. And, they started attacking the wall in a way they never imagined.
“Mmm… Chin…”
Skeleton soldiers upon Skeleton Soldiers, and Skeleton Soldiers upon Skeleton Soldiers… In an instant, a hill of corpses was created in front of their eyes. Riding the hill of corpses that were made by sticking to the wall, the soldiers of death, who were still innumerable, began to walk.
The terror, once spread, continued to spread out of control, and in a single day the walled city, which had been the most impregnable next to Hermon’s borders, was again in the possession of House Armageddon.
