Chapter 443 – Eugenics in the New World (10)
“I go to see the situation. I’m thinking of going up to the castle wall, but you are the best person to take out of the formation. Come with me.”
“I thought so even if you didn’t ask.”
Fran’s words were our consensus. When I went up to the wall where my mother-in-law was staying with my father-in-law, Alwyn’s executives, excluding the lord, were gathered. There is also Magimagi and its black cow sponsor, Benjamin.
Conand and Benjamin’s expressions were different. In this case, Conand’s grumpy expression would have been more useful as a basis for understanding the situation.
Haha! You shamelessly came up! Look!”
As if the insect-biting expression from a few hours ago was a lie, our cheep nobleman pointed at my mother-in-law and me.
Is a life worth living? He even wore enchanted armor.
“100 ogres and trolls? No, did you guys catch 20 of them? It seems that barbarians can’t even count!!”
Benjamin pointed out the troll king’s army that was spreading out.
“Wherever you count in front of me! How many of those guys are there!”
“Looks like you’re in your thirties.”
The mother-in-law replied calmly.
Was it because I was conscious of the fact that the siege net had penetrated my absolute perforated area? They were not united, but scattered and approaching.
But the number is too small.
With that number, even if everyone had ᚦ (Thurisaz) runes attached to them, they would have been annihilated without much trouble. I opened Odin’s eyes and inspected the enemy soldiers. There is no sign of mana.
“Rooooo──!!”
Since the estate was on a plain, it was impossible to go unnoticed as you approached the walls.
The troll king, as if realizing that he had been captured by us, launched his march with a command. The soldiers advancing at a moderately fast pace looked considerably weaker, so Benjamin’s spirits grew more even.
“I see now that it was you guys who lied to the nobles! If you bow your head in front of me and pray, you might be spared execution——”
“Benjamin. It could be a bucket.”
Among the vassals, the nobleman who was pushed back corrected himself while hiding his annoyance.
“Do monsters have such wisdom!”
“It is a level of operation that is possible even for wolves. Trolls usually aren’t armed that way. It is well worth being vigilant.”
Benjamin contorted his face, and Conand quickly fell to his knees.
“Bucket or not, these are enemies to be eliminated! Mr. Benjamin! Give me and my comrades permission to engage! I will go down without lowering the gates and take their heads!”
I stuck out my tongue. Maybe that kid got a lot of shit too.
The enemy had to be strong enough to make a criminal record, but this would be the end of just slamming magic on the wall. And he seemed to think that he could not reverse his fate, which had reached the critical point, by chasing down and catching the remnants of his party.
Benjamin said with contempt that he was already disappointed in the bastard he was patronizing.
“Good night. However, it was after reducing the number of soldiers on the wall. Kill the troll king.”
“Bee, Benjamin! That’s why it’s different from the lord’s strategy!”
“Judgement on the spot comes first! My brother rolled up his tail and hid!”
Maybe the lord is in the mansion because it’s a big deal if he dies. I half-opened my eyes as I let the trivial dispute between my vassal and Byeongtak go through one ear.
‘Yangdong is certain. The question is, which is real?’
My back hurt. It is not an exaggeration to say that we are ignorant of tactical strategy. You have to know something to make an inference.
Looking back, I checked the territory from the high wall. There were few high-rise buildings, so I could see the entire estate with my eyesight.
‘Still, the vassals are cautious. The guards and our warriors are deployed at every gate.’
However, although this is good to deal with when the gate is breached, isn’t it a bad arrangement if one place collapses?
‘Still, even the Troll King wouldn’t be able to use a detour in a plain like this…’ …’
I looked up at the sky, but there were no pterosaurs floating in the sky that hadn’t yet been covered in darkness.
Ugh… !
Then Conand and the others lifted them up. The tattoos on their forearms glowed, creating a large orb.
“Shoot!”
It was similar to Dana’s light-attribute attack magic, but it seemed to be a magic that worked for enemies other than the undead. The photosphere, split into countless beams of light, preferentially penetrated the trolls approaching the castle wall.
“Deaaaaa——!!!”
Trolls in helmets rolled in front of the walls.
The guy whose torso was pierced even screamed, but the bastards with wind holes in his head were screaming and dying.
Those of us who had fought against the real troll king’s army narrowed our eyes even more.
“… The power was fine, but if you resist magic, it’s strange that you die instantly.”
“Yes. Trolls in particular have regenerative powers.”
Fran whispered, and Dana and I nodded.
This was too blatantly a trap. Even after checking with Odin’s eyes, those corpses were just lying down without any mana working.
Then Conand shouted.
“Mr. Benjamin! Please watch our brave battle!”
“No, no way! I will go down and fight!”
“… Yes?”
Conand asks back, forgetting that he was bluffing to raise his rating. Benjamin exclaimed, spattering as if he needed to speak.
“If my younger brother gets scared and hides, it is my duty as the eldest son to influence the war situation!”
“Even if the enemy is reduced, it is a battlefield under the walls! There is no guarantee that we will be able to protect you!”
“If the risk of splashing on my body cannot be ruled out, then I should not even go down and fight! Am I wrong!”
Conand gritted his teeth. Tsk tsk. I clicked my tongue.
‘You almost knocked Koga out. I’m going to use it as an unplay tool and throw it away.’
Benjamin’s goal is to become a lord. For that bastard, it was more important to score points against Yeong Ji-min and his retainers.
In other words, he was greedy for titles such as ‘defeating the troll king at the age of 50’.
The order to go down after grinding magic on the castle wall was to check the strength of the enemy with your own eyes. I wondered why he had come wearing armor, but unlike his stupid behavior, he was a pup who was acting premeditatedly.
It’s pretty lame, though.
‘Also, the vassals are rude and don’t seem interested.’
When they slightly avert their eyes, they seem to be hitting the abacus on whether or not to put Benjamin at risk in this fight.
It would be a pity if Young-joo’s brother took responsibility for searching, but deep down they also want Benjamin to go out and search.
“… Mr Benjamin. The desire to protect the territory—”
“It’s a long talk! What’s the point!”
“There is no one who can take responsibility for Benjamin-sama’s life. It’s not a life I can entrust to those self-proclaimed magicians.”
The self-proclaimed leader of the magic society, his face was turning white like a plaster cast from the continued humiliation, but Benjamin spoke nonsense.
“I am responsible for my life! Stop interfering with my fight!”
“… If you want to take responsibility for yourself. However, it is the law of the nobles of Alwyn to put the seal of the necklace on the war documents.”
“I don’t have time, don’t bother! Give it up!”
Benjamin hurriedly stamped the seal, fearing that the troll king would run away.
‘Uh… I think I just saw the scene of a judicial murder.’
The vassals are looking like platoon commanders who have lifted the guards from the cliff. Somewhere between guilt and relief.
“… Well.”
I was trying to meddle with something, but came to the conclusion that it would be hard to think that even if I tried to stop it, I wouldn’t be able to understand it.
I don’t know. Nord is a baby. I don’t care about difficult things like political warfare.
“The preparations are complete! I compete!”
As Benjamin stumbled as he drew his sword, Conand gave his subordinates a ferocious gaze.
─Boom!
They looked at each other and nodded their heads. All the magicians of Magimagi hit the lime powder on the floor of the castle wall, and the powder gathered and transformed into a white horse. It looked like a flying horse.
─All right!
As Magi Magi’s wizards boarded, the horse kicked off the wind and flew up.
They went straight to the troll king, who only gave orders from the rear. There were no surviving foot soldiers below this, and only a few clung to them as if to protect the king on the plain.
‘… Oh, what a sickness.’
And I regretted why I hadn’t looked into the Troll King first.
I couldn’t feel any mana from the troll in King’s gear.
That was the problem.
One living point. Beast Return is a magic that builds up the old god’s mana.
I rarely feel it normally, but it was absurd that I couldn’t see it even when I saw it through Odin’s eyes. Unless it was thoroughly hidden with the power of magic or something.
So——in other words, that’s what it meant.
I groaned as I untied my arms.
【Dive to Melong City…】
The troll king bastard, hit the pitch and did not participate in the raid.
[Yigl——!! Tewd——!!! (To His Majesty——!! Glory——!!!)]
─Quaang!!!
The helmeted troll hiding under the corpse rose and threw the twin axes it was holding against the wall. It was a weapon of an ancient civilization that even my Odin’s eyes could not interpret to the extent of passing by for a moment.
He is the Four Heavenly Kings of the Troll King who hid by changing the power and equipment of magic items.
“Ah, mother-in-law——!!!!”
The jungler is using a gun in front of the Nexus, but what is our team doing?
I took my eyes off the normal troll in the Troll King’s gear and hugged Fran and Dana to prepare for the impact.
Woooooung—!!!!!
An ax thrown by a twin-wielding troll shattered the walls of the castle.
