Chapter 154 – 1. Talos, and the Spear and Shield (8)
Seeing Roa and her two sons running from far away with pale complexions, probably because she had heard the news of the deaths of Merkin, Ar, and Ner, YuRia felt as if she was suffocating again.
The news of Merkin’s passing must have come even louder to Loa and his children.
Especially for his sons, Ar and Ner siblings were older brothers and sisters who took care of them since they were born, so considering that they have been close to real siblings, the news of the death of the two children must have been almost as shocking as Allen’s.
At the sight of Roa’s expression as she let out a quick breath and grabbed her shoulder, Yuria could not bear to look into Roa’s eyes, so she quietly lowered her head.
“Yuria… Isn’t it? Merkin died?”
“Mom… Really? That her grandfather died?”
“Isn’t it? Are brother Ar and sister Ner really dead?”
YuRia’s small body trembled helplessly at the touch of them holding her own body and asking her again and again.
But that didn’t change the reality, and even though Yuria wasn’t as good as her Roa or her sons, she still couldn’t get out of the shock, so she couldn’t say anything.
The three of them, who denied the reality and clung to YuRia, had no choice but to accept her reality after seeing her.
And when Yuria heard this news first, she was able to have more time to deal with her emotions, but realizing that she was suffering like them, the actions they had done to her made her more painful. Realizing that she had done that, she just quietly lowered her head.
Roa and Yuria just crouched down and hugged their two sons together and shed tears quietly.
YuRia, who was immersed in sorrow with her family, was supported by Cashwyn, and she couldn’t say anything when she saw Allen who arrived with a pale complexion staggering with an inexpressible expression.
Arlen, who had been supported by Cashwyn, staggered towards us with a very devastated expression, away from Cashwyn, but looking at us, who were so devastated like himself, in the end, without saying anything, he fell to his knees on the floor. He knelt down and stared blankly at us.
Allen, who understood everything just by looking at us, even if we didn’t say it, grabbed Cashwyn, who was standing next to her, and began to weep.
“Ah, Allen!!”
Cashwyn hurriedly hugged her Allen next to her and tried to calm her down somehow, but Allen couldn’t calm down and howled, and Elsa and Liza, who had flown in the sky without realizing it, landed next to Allen with their faces turned blue. Sat down
And seeing her mother screaming and letting go of her neck, the two of them had no choice but to admit that the truth was true.
If you are still young, then young. That my aunt and uncle, who had just entered adulthood, had died.
“Uh, Mom…”
“Ahhh…”
As Allen looked at her own two daughters, her eyes returned, albeit a little, and he hugged her two daughters.
Looking at those scenes, Yuria was at a loss as to how to apologize to them.
The price of not thinking for yourself while relying too much on foreknowledge came too high.
Even after being beaten so many times, she still couldn’t change her habit of relying on wisdom, and in this sad situation, Yuria felt so guilty that she felt like going out of her mind.
A little bit… Couldn’t you have foreseen this situation enough if you thought about it a little yourself?
She wonders why she could have prevented this debacle herself.
Just like the time she was beaten by Crea, Yuria, who had been beaten one-sidedly again, was in a daze.
The scars of that day are still deeply lingering, but is this happening again?
However, the situation around them did not give them time to heal the scars deep in their hearts.
Recognizing that Crimson Ant was closer than expected due to the data brought by Er and the situation with this monster, the Count hurriedly convened a meeting of nobles and at the same time sent a messenger to the palace.
The data that Er, who was a half-dragon, received from his parents was just as shocking.
The count, who thought that if he did well, he would be able to stop the Marquis on his own line, was shocked that the reality that had come was beyond his imagination, and admitted that this was not something he could possibly solve on his own line.
The alloy spear that imitated the tail of a scorpion, which he thought would work well against the Crimson Ant, was a weapon that could catch the Crimson Ant only if he was lucky. Looking at the Crimson Ant’s revealed ability, it was difficult for the alloy spear to easily penetrate the Crimson Ant’s shell. Even if you break the carapace and pierce the blade into the body, the life force of the Crimson Ant is too strong to cause death or inability to fight.
Acknowledging that they could not deal with the Crimson Ant with the things they were preparing now, the nobles who had been summoned urgently had already arrived after hearing the rough information, so they all sat down with strange expressions and looked at the materials the Count had arranged, looking at each other more and more. His expression began to harden.
This was not at a level that could be solved on a territory-by-territory basis.
Beyond the concentration of national capabilities, this was the moment to focus the capabilities of mankind.
Analyzing the current situation, there were only two countries that could survive this crisis alone.
One empire.
The other is Gash, a united kingdom of different races.
The power of the Empire was already something incomparable to other kingdoms, and Yuria judged that the Talos created by the Gash Allies would be effective against ants.
In fact, as a result of investigating based on the Talos gifted from them, I was able to conclude that Talos’ durability and strength would be enough to crush the body of the Crimson Ant.
Above all, if you listen to the merchants who went to and from Gash, Gache has been slowly producing Talos to replace Titans that have become outdated items for moderately demonstrating technology until now, but now it has literally mobilized all of the nation’s capabilities to mass-produce. Was in the shape of
“Count… Now that it’s like this, why don’t we ask Gache for help? Your daughter, Mrs. Lionheart, has a close relationship with Gache, so there must be some way.”
“… But I wonder if Gash will send Talos, a strategic item. That skill goes without saying.”
No. Even if technology is given, can we really use it?
In the first place, even though Yuria had all the skills, the technicians and magicians of this country were not ready to absorb that knowledge and skills, so they built an academy, built a mage tower, and built a workshop to train craftsmen.
Above all, if they think of the Talos, which are powered by the magic of the World Tree, how can they operate the Talos?
Currently, the Magic Tower is intensively researching that part, but the problem still seemed too far away to be solved.
It was a situation that required more time.
In contrast, Crimson Ant’s crisis was already right around the corner.
“First of all, based on the information obtained through flight reconnaissance by Ms. Allen, the wife of Mrs. Lionheart and the current Mage Tower owner, Cashwynn, and their two children, there are less than 10 days left until the Crimson Ant arrives. Even now, all strategic assets should be put back”
“By what number?”
“Coincidentally, there is a subspace warehouse developed by Mrs. Lionheart and a gate system connected to that warehouse. We urgently need to send a wagon to the back and move supplies to the back as much as possible. Ultimately, it will be the last resort in the war against Crimson Ant. We should build a large subspace warehouse and move all supplies there.”
Yuria, who had been quietly listening to them, nodded slightly.
It has already been said that the nuclear explosion itself is the use of a spleen that can not be used now, and now that the world itself is not good at nuclear explosions, using nuclear explosions again will bring about worse things.
If this is something that will only end with Yuria herself, she will grit her teeth and try, but if it happens again as a catastrophe involving everyone around her like now, how should she deal with it then?
It would be better for Crimson Ant to come only on the ground, but Yuria, who was swarming with unknown flies and locusts, could not find an answer.
In a way, this was also a warning to himself.
A warning not to mess with causal anymore.
Even though she had the power and knowledge to solve certain semantics, the fact that she couldn’t use them properly made Yuria more distressed.
“First of all, we must hurry up mass production of sub-space wagons in order to move all tactical and strategic assets.”
“Which area is likely to be the furthest behind in the war against Crimson Ant?”
The nobles who looked at the map were able to pinpoint a place that seemed to be the last place as a result of analyzing the places where large-scale monster disturbances had occurred and the information Allen, Elza, and Liza had gathered.
“Is this really a coincidence? It must be the capital.”
“I don’t know where these things came from.”
If you think about it, it was.
The number of these increases really quickly, so there is nothing strange about the current situation, no matter where they started. Even so, it must have started somewhere, but where did it come from?
“It’s a fight that will end when we wipe out all of them anyway, so the origin is important, isn’t it?”
At the words of a certain nobleman, everyone looked at him.
“It’s important. Maybe this fight won’t end unless we catch the first one.”
“There is no queen ant. Perhaps the reason why the Crimson Ant, who thought it disappeared, reappeared is because the Crimson Ant, who had been gathering strength in the past because it couldn’t catch the queen in the past, reappeared.”
At that, everyone was silent.
If this data about the Crimson Ant came directly from the dragon, then the damn queen ant was hiding from the dragon’s eyes and reappeared.
“I’d rather not have a queen ant”
“Even dragons have missed it. There’s no way we can do something like that.”
At those words, the count groaned and pondered for a moment.
“Anyway, what’s important right now is clear field tactics. Everything that the Crimson Ant can eat must be bitten to the rear.”
I had to make those ants starve as much as possible until winter came to win.
The more they fed, the more their numbers would increase, and that would pose a greater danger to the continent.
“But will other territories take the same strategy as we did?
“Above all, we haven’t received any response from the palace yet. If this continues, it will become unclear whether the goods will be transported, let alone the residents of the territory.”
The count clutched his head as if his head hurt.
It’s urgent, but why are you still…
“For now, it’s better to prepare to move to the last place as much as possible within the territory…”
YuRia, who had been immersed in thought while watching the meeting of the nobles, suddenly remembered a fact.
Before Er left, he remembered some of the facts he had told him.
“Count. Crimson Ants rarely touch places where there are no creatures.”
“Hmm?”
“Push all supplies into the subspace warehouse just built and bury the subspace warehouse! Then Crimson Ant will ignore the subspace warehouse.”
What about the count? And jumped up from the spot.
“Immediately send subspace wagons to the territory and order them to sweep all supplies into the warehouse! And order the workers to build up and bury everything that can be piled up around the subspace warehouse, such as rocks, stones, gravel, sand and soil. ! Hurry!!”
Although the sub-space warehouse was built on the ground so that it could be taken out directly from the warehouse itself, it was originally a sub-space space that expanded the space beyond the street to the maximum like a magic bag.
From the beginning, it was not to go inside and take out the goods, but to take out the goods through the gate in the warehouse.
In fact, this gate was no different from the gates on the subspace wagons.
Except that it was larger than the doors on wagons.
“Start clear-field tactics. Then, in preparation for a situation where permission is lost in the capital, find a place to build a super-large sub-space warehouse in advance and prepare to build it as soon as permission is given. Where is the best place to build a sub-space warehouse? Easy?”
The nobles looked at the map for a long time again and debated over and over again.
Seeing them like that, the Count became very bitter.
I can’t believe I have to abandon this territory that I’ve been protecting for generations.
Of course, we will put an end to all of them this winter, but what will happen to mankind if we do not annihilate them within this winter?
What is the state of the empire now?
Will he be able to come back to this land again?
Is the capital properly grasping this crisis situation?
In a difficult situation in many ways, he shook his head at Hwihwi.
What mattered right now was survival after all.
It is also a matter of the survival of the entire human race, leaving the level of one’s own territory or country.
In particular, the fact that the dragons have such a detailed understanding of the Crimson Ants must mean that they also cooperated in eradicating the Crimson Ants.
Then there was definitely hope.
This time too, if the dragons participate in the battle, something will work out.
However, the Count felt uneasy when he thought that the dragon had summoned his daughter in such a hurry.
Why did the dragon summon his daughter?
Meanwhile, while the count was thinking about what he should have done to deal with the huge swarm of ants that came like a dragon covering the whole land, his complexion turned white.
“Couldn’t it be… Are you trying to burn down the entire land where the ants prosper?!”
No. If you apply heat, the ant swarm will revive even in winter, so you might use some other method.
But the count couldn’t let go of that thought.
I don’t know what to do, but it seemed that the dragons were going to erase everything from the land, including Crimson Ant.
No matter how you think about it, there is no reason for her to call her own daughter.
“Then, all the more, we have to put all supplies and people in the last place.”
If he’s right, this wasn’t just a matter of fighting the ants.
In order to survive the clean-up of the dragons, which seemed to be in full swing in winter, everyone had to hurry back.
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Swarms of ants, making grotesque noises, struggled in the wire netting that bound them.
And the dark things that fall countless times on the bodies of such ants continue to grow among the ants! Bang! It exploded and shattered the bodies of the ants.
A sturdy shell? It didn’t matter.
What the explosion broke was not the carapace, but the joints connecting the joints of the ants’ bodies.
Their heads fell, their legs fell, and the ants that struggled in the barbed wire and nets were being smashed into pieces like that.
Wooooong -!! Wooooong -!!
Kwagang!! Quagga River!!
Kugoong!!
The observer, who was looking at the impact point with a telescope from far away, waved a red flag repeatedly. It meant hit.
“Effective agent!!”
“All artillery units reload!! Fire continuously at the same coordinates!”
After cleaning the gun barrel and reloading the gunpowder and shells, the cannon finished heat dissipation at the same coordinates and lit the wick.
As the flames of the burning wick disappeared into the cannons, the cannons spewed out flames with a continuous roar, and the huge iron mass began to shake and shake.
Kugoong! Kugoong! Kugoong!!
Although it is a primitive cannon that fires for battle, let alone a jutoe, the weapon used by the imperial army was clearly a cannon.
It is not an iron ring, but a cannon that fires incendiary bullets filled with gunpowder and pieces of lead inside.
Like that, the Crimson Ants were screaming and being beaten over and over again with their legs tied to iron nets and barbed wire.
Contrary to what was called the epitome of such terrifying fear.
Seeing the empire dealing with the Crimson Ants with ease, Thebenoa quietly watched the scene and was quietly relieved to see the results of extremely accelerating the development of science and technology, even while banning all kinds of abilities within the empire.
Of all the ways in which he could intervene among countless possibilities, the only way for the empire to survive.
Therefore, the preparations built up over thousands of years, greatly limiting their possibilities, spewed fire here today, and the Crimson Ants melted helplessly before the might of the Empire.
While shelling for a long time, an observer raised a white flag.
It was a sign that the durability of barbed wire and iron nets had reached its limit.
“Retreat!!”
Quickly, they started loading supplies towards the trains in the rear.
The steam locomotive, which boasts a large size, began to raise the temperature of the boiler and began to emit white steam along with black smoke.
“Hurry!! Give up items that are less important! Hurry and retreat to the 2nd line of defense!!”
“What about the trap setting?”
Even while everyone was busy moving, some soldiers were looking at the front with a spleen expression.
“Time limit setting is complete! 25 minutes until detonation!”
“Hurry up everyone!! If you don’t want to die with those ants!!”
The imperial army, which was very noisy but very orderly and moved in perfect order, boarded the train and left as if the turmoil was a lie. Even so, the Imperial Army arrived at the place where the battle was fought for a long time, and continued forward without hesitation. Moved forward
An intellectless being.
That weakness invariably inflicted great damage on them.
Chi profit…
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A vast area was overturned all at once, and a huge explosion covered the entire surface.
The gigantic explosion that started from the ground literally blew up an entire area, and more than 100,000 ants have been wiped out in one fell swoop.
Looking at this, it seemed as if the empire had won right now, but it wasn’t like that.
On the overturned ground, which was so hot that smoke still rose, the dark waves that came from behind once again covered the land before I knew it.
There were still very many ants left.
However, the Empire also still had a lot of things they had prepared.
This battle was just a skirmish for both of them.
The war between the Empire and the Ants has just begun.
