Chapter 986 – #99. Three Thousand Concubines and Emperor Gaiden (44)
“Kill everyone!!”
“Wow!!!”
It was clear that the enemies who fired arrows at them while hidden in the bushes were close to them.
Soldiers were dying in vain from the shower of arrows.
I couldn’t keep doing nothing.
And as the earthquake stopped just in time, the spirit of the knight quickly returned.
At least the earthquake had stopped, so I thought I should start retreating.
If you increase the distance, the soldiers won’t die in a barrage of arrows.
‘In addition, I have to make it come out of the bush!’
It was a situation where the enemy soldiers were hitting us one-sidedly as they were hidden in the bushes.
It was necessary to push the formation back a little.
“Retreat!!! Leave the formation behind!!!”
Unfortunately, however, the knight’s choice was nothing short of the worst.
Her order to retreat added to the confusion of the soldiers.
“Retreat? Retreat? Where?”
“Sir, are you telling me to run away to the cliff?”
“Nonsense. How do I get there!”
“You never know when another earthquake will happen…”
The soldiers were isolated, unable to go forward or backward.
“What are you guys doing!! Step back!!”
“If you go backwards, isn’t it a cliff! You can’t retreat there!”
“What?”
“What if I fall and die!! The earthquake may have collapsed the road!”
Belatedly, the article made her realize what she had overlooked.
Retreating after an earthquake and not knowing how many soldiers survived?
It was a narrow road in the first place, so retreating there was no different from falling into a trap.
On top of that, the two worst things, the earthquake and the cliff, were terrifying the soldiers.
“Cha, I’d rather fight and die.
“…”
And he died with an arrow stuck right in his forehead.
Had he gone to the cliff, he might have lived.
“There’s been a commotion. Are the Geos Empire’s army originally this ragtag?”
Even in this situation, the paladins were frowning with lofty expressions.
What was more upsetting was that the soldiers who came with the Paladins were not confused and formed behind the Paladins.
It was a look that was too much compared to the Geos soldiers who were wandering around.
‘To get out of here, we have to cooperate with the Paladins. Let’s not cause trouble by arguing.’
Going to the cliff is the same as going to die.
In the end, the only place to retreat was the front, and the only reliable people to help were the paladins.
“I’m caught in a complete trap. I have to break through the front to get out of here.”
“Hey, who doesn’t know that? Even if you calmly prepare for it, look at the soldiers now.
The one who spoke with contempt for the soldiers was a paladin who had just joined the war.
Unlike the existing paladins who became relatively humble (?) While fighting the emperor, they were paladins whose pride was stiff and stretched like new bills.
It was obvious that getting their cooperation would not be easy.
The knight was twisted inside, but he couldn’t show it out, so he gritted his teeth inside.
“Soldiers will calm down after some time. After all, they are beings who have no choice but to follow our orders. It’s important to come up with countermeasures now.”
“In the current situation, do we need to think about countermeasures for a long time? It’s just a matter of breaking through the front.”
“Can you really penetrate the front?”
“There’s nothing I can’t do. Huh!”
Looking at the confident paladins, the knight felt ominous.
I had a hunch that it would not be too far to see that face distorted.
“By the way, go back and make sure to catch the spies first. Who would have known that you’d get stabbed in the back like this without even starting out? Because of you, I experienced a disgraceful failure.”
“It is not yet clear who stole the information.”
“Ha! Are you doubting us? You dare?”
Do you dare?
I don’t think there’s anything to be sure of, but the other side said with a very straight face.
“At least from our side, it’s impossible. You’re not suspicious of the priests who swore to God, right?”
I don’t know who the heck stole the information from them…
Later, I will definitely find the culprit and tear him limb from limb and kill him.
And I hoped that it was a spy who entered the temple, not our side.
“I don’t think this is the time to figure out who the culprit is. Wouldn’t it be more important to get out of here alive?”
“As you can see, it doesn’t seem like our problem?
…Unlucky bastards.
I was pissed off, but the paladin’s words were right, so the knight gave orders to the soldiers while screaming.
“Be alert and fight! You have to fight to live!! Don’t retreat, fight!! There is no place to retreat!! If you don’t want to die, fight!!”
Forming formation and fighting like the Paladins and the others was already impossible.
At times like this, it was best to just shout to the soldiers to die and fight.
The fact that there was no place to retreat was something that even the wandering soldiers knew.
In the end, the soldiers spit out swear words at the knight’s cry and rushed forward with strength in their hands holding swords and shields.
“Sipal!!! I knew this would happen!! Die!!!”
“Somehow, my dream seat was a mess!! Jeenjaaang!!!”
They are soldiers exhausted from the arduous march.
I know I have to fight to live right now, but it wasn’t easy to make up my mind.
“There’s nowhere to retreat, you bastards!! Charge!! Get out!! Go forward!!”
Even in the midst of all the hectic fighting, thunderous shouts from knights poured out on the hesitant soldiers.
As they began to advance while blocking the arrows with their shields, the soldiers had no choice but to follow them crying and eating mustard.
Tookung!! Tookung!! Tookung!!
Wow~!! Kwaaaaang!!!
As they gave up running away and started approaching, huge stones and magic began to fly as if they had been waiting for them.
“Aaaaagh!!”
“…There’s even a wizard?”
Since when did you know about our plans?
Did the wizards do the earthquake earlier?
Or… The emperor again?
The knight’s head gets complicated.
“Damn it… The fact that there’s even a wizard means they’ve made up their mind.”
“We have nowhere to go back to. We have to fight and break through.”
The paladins also felt a sense of danger, and their expressions became serious.
The enemy’s momentum, still hiding in the bushes, was unusual.
“Even access is not easy.”
“It’s a problem even after it’s pierced. Can you fight properly in that forest?”
It was in a thick forest where even swinging a sword seemed difficult.
“Is there any way to lure the enemies to the rear?”
“Isn’t there even a wizard? Distance is useless without them. We will control the distance with magic as we have stepped back.”
“What the hell are the latecomers doing!”
Although they scraped together the number of people they had, it was a moment when they regretted the absence of the knights and paladins who were moving along with the second team.
If they were all together, they would have been able to press on and get close to the enemy, regardless of arrows or magic.
However, the reality was that it was a frustrating situation where it was unknown how many people in the back would survive.
“If you don’t want to die, fight!!
I was moving forward somehow at the expense of the soldiers, but since they were also human, I was afraid that I was gradually moving forward.
“Even if the plan wasn’t discovered…Damn it!!”
The paladin gritted his teeth.
I came to kill the emperor, but the situation where his life was threatened without even seeing his face seemed to hurt his pride.
At that time, the enemies finally came out of the bushes and revealed their hiding bodies.
They seemed to know that hiding in the bushes was unreasonable when they came this close.
Just as we were at a disadvantage in fighting in the bushes, it was natural for them to find it cumbersome to engage in close combat in the bushes.
“I-That’s a lot?”
“Crazy..!”
The problem was that the number of soldiers protruding from the bush was greater than expected.
Gulp-
‘I don’t know if this place will be my grave.’
It was the moment when the knight had such a resigned thought.
“I asked how many people they brought to kill me, and they brought more than I thought.
“No way?”
He was a real emperor.
I was sure because I had seen the face-breaking images of the imperial emperors before.
And in the first place, it couldn’t have been normal for a tall man like that to wear fancy armor.
Whether alive, dead, sick, or fine.
The knights couldn’t help but be astonished at the fact that the emperor, who had not appeared on the battlefield as if he had evaporated, appeared in front of them calmly.
“You bastard…!!!”
The knight realized that the emperor was not groaning in bed sick as rumored.
And I realized that this situation itself was their trap.
‘I’ve been playing around since the beginning.’
Still, it was better not to notice now.
If the soldiers found out, it would only lower their morale.
Rather, she spoke to boost the morale of the soldiers by using the Emperor as bait.
“Looking at your face, at least you’re not a substitute. You’re the real emperor. I don’t know how big the liver lump is, but I’ll make you regret the choice you made!”
The Emperor’s presence here was comforting in the worst of circumstances.
It was a much bigger sacrifice than expected, but if he could kill the emperor, he could count it as a sacrifice worthwhile.
Of course, the positions of the parties are slightly different.
Malevolent malevolent-
Unsurprisingly, the words of the emperor brought out by the knight made the soldiers agitate.
“Emperor?”
“Is that man really the emperor?”
“I came to kill the emperor…The emperor came in front of us on his own feet?”
