Chapter 127 – The Decisive Battle That Determines the Fate of the Empire (7) *Kurimu’s Maid Battle Outfit Illustration
A decisive battle for the fate of the empire (7)
The moment Jennifer was knocked unconscious by Yuno, Eliza also took the victory by slightly cutting off the arm of Count Kashu, who was opposing her.
“Surrender. The Count knows very well that you have no chance of winning.”
“Not yet… Not yet…!! I haven’t lost yet!!”
Count Kashu did not admit defeat and increased his momentum by raising all the mana in his mana hole, but when he saw Yuno, Isabella, and others trying to surround him, he was shocked and stopped his movements.
“Ugh… Let’s wait and see, you traitors!!”
In the end, Count Kashu turned his gaze to some of his direct knights and left the battlefield with them. Kurimu fired an arrow filled with the power of the spirit, but as if he still had some strength left, he blocked the arrows aimed at him. We defeated everyone and returned to base.
When Count Cassu fled, other knights in Heinrich’s army who were not directly under his command surrendered to Juno, and Juno accepted their surrender, filled them all with magic spheres that were mana seals, and instructed his knights to escort them to the main base.
“Whew~ Thank you for coming, Sister, Mari, Kurimu, and Miruku. I wasted so much time with Viscount Amin that I almost put Eliza and the teacher in danger.”
“It’s okay. But maybe it’s because of that I was able to catch Master Jennifer safely.”
Isabella comforted Yuno, who was blaming herself, by patting Jennifer, who was wearing her magic suppressing arm, with her foot.
“Anyway, it was terrifying. No, I only felt this level of magic power from Miri, who was running wild. How can a human have this level of magic power?”
“That’s right. No matter how much of a genius Master Jennifer is… There is a limit to human magical power. It makes no sense for the four of us to attack and level the playing field.”
Even Kurimu was thrilled by Jennifer’s magical power and shivered for a moment as if she had goosebumps.
“Cluck, cluck, cluck!! That’s probably because that bitch Jennifer extracted the life force from the boys.”
“Count Liechtenauer! Are you okay?”
“Master!! I guess you’ve come to your senses!”
Eliza and Marie ran to Liechtenauer, who was coughing and waking up, and helped him up.
“Count Liechtenauer. But you are extracting life force? Is that possible?”
“I don’t really know if it’s possible with magic, but Jennifer said a while ago that the secret to becoming young while fighting God was stealing the source of mana that people have. It is presumed that it made the body young and also amplified the magical power.”
Isabella tilted her head at Lichtenauer’s answer.
“But… Master, there was a way that he was a bit biased towards men, but not to that extent. Why did it become like that?”
“I’m curious about that too… I’ve always been a bit selfish and self-righteous since I was young… But I wasn’t the kind of person who would commit such evil acts. If I had been, I wouldn’t have gotten married.”
Marie next to him smiled sinisterly at Lichtenauer’s stern appearance.
“If you just look at her sleeping, she looks gorgeous. Hehe, but even though she is divorced, I have seen her wife look younger. Do you have any regrets, Count Richtenauer?”
“There is nothing like that. We met and got married through the introduction of His Majesty, but we had no love for each other.”
“Oh my! Marie! You know that Count Liechtenauer is dating one of Prince Prinz’s maids, right?”
“She’s right! Was she Maria? She was tall and quite a pretty maid. But she’s huge in age, isn’t she? Maria is now 23, so she’s almost 30 years older than her?”
When the topic suddenly changed to his love story, Lichtenauer kept clearing his throat.
“Hmm!! Your Highness Yuno! This is a battlefield! There is no time to stay like this!”
Juno also seemed to come to her senses after hearing Liechtenauer’s words, and asked Liechtenauer to escort the suppressed Jennifer and Viscount Armin to the main camp, then raised her head and looked at the battlefield.
“Isabella, please use a loudspeaker spell. Marie, you can use the wind spirit to make me fly higher.”
“Wow, I’ve exhausted all my magic power, but really~ You really can’t do it without this sister, huh? Giggle. Instead, should I give you something steamy tonight?”
“Brother, me too!! I didn’t tell you that I was preparing for war these days, but I missed your dick so much~”
“I understand. It’s been a while since I’ll do a lot for you both tonight, so don’t worry about that, just do it quickly.”
At Yuno’s urging, Isabella cast a loudspeaker spell and Marie attached the wind spirit, and Yuno’s body soared high into the sky.
“Whew, this should be enough. Anyway, it looks like our main base suffered some damage… Heinrich’s army also suffered quite a bit of damage… Still, I’m glad that the left and right armies of both armies are fine.”
Since there was a promise made to the imperial army’s corps commanders before the battle, Yuno, who did not want the imperial army to suffer damage that could lead to annihilation, decided to surrender the enemy soldiers.
Therefore, Yuno raised his voice by carrying mana around his neck to convey his words to the entire battlefield.
“All soldiers, listen up! I am Juno Alexander Windrage von Balkan, the Third Prince of the Balkan Empire! Count Kashu, Viscount Armin, and Magic Tower Lord Jennifer, who were Heinrich’s army’s trump cards, were defeated by my hand!!”
When Yuno’s cry was heard that the two masters and the archmage were defeated, Heinrich’s army began to murmur.
‘What? Are you saying that all the masters were defeated? And also the magic tower?’
‘Isn’t that a lie? Count Kashu is the second-strongest master in the empire!!’
‘No, I saw Count Kashu returning to the base looking like a mess a while ago. Moreover, it seems that Viscount Amin and Jennifer haven’t even returned.’
Certainly, the roaring noises that had echoed throughout the battlefield just moments ago had completely stopped, so the soldiers of Heinrich’s army began to hear Juno’s words with increasing credulity.
“Especially the soldiers who served in the 1st, 4th, and 5th Corps will know well! What I did to occupy Streve! How this Juno sacrificed himself for the Empire!! You will know that too! I will do this! Is this someone worthy of betraying the empire? Is this Yuno a traitor to the empire?”
At Yuno’s shout, the imperial legionnaires stopped fighting and only looked at Yuno. Naturally, the Prinz army also stopped fighting and looked at Yuno.
“I, Juno, swear on my name! The one who betrayed the empire is not me or Brother Prinz, but Heinrich, who is currently calling himself emperor!! He assassinated my father, Karl III, who led the empire to great heights, and took the throne. He is a true traitor to the empire!!”
Yuno continued to speak as the imperial troops were making noise.
“What is the current state of the empire? What does the empire led by the corrupt emperor Henry look like? Crazy for power, he handed over the Plain of Zenon to Tesseito to attack his brothers, and as a result, a serious food shortage occurred throughout the empire. Harvest season. Even after all this time, the people are starving, refugees are popping up here and there, and the imperial army is not receiving proper supplies!! Think about whether you are loyal to that corrupt emperor or to this Balkan Empire!!”
The failure of the Imperial Army to receive proper supplies was more largely due to Mayer’s army’s bluster, but the soldiers of the 1st and 4th Corps, who had to march with only 1/2 of the regular rations each day until a week before arriving in the eastern region, They began to respond actively to Yuno’s speech.
“What the Prince said is correct!! We will follow His Highness Yuno from now on!!”
“The Emperor Henry, who handed over Streve, which we occupied with blood and sweat, for free, is the real traitor!!”
“We must follow His Highness Yuno and attack that corrupt emperor!!”
‘After all, what motivates soldiers is food… You will have to pay the price for neglecting the most important supplies!! Heinrich!!’
Yuno smiled at the sight of the 1st and 4th corps and accepted their oath of loyalty.
Several lower-ranking commanders who saw the incident tried to stop it, but the soldiers’ spirit as they began to run away was brutal.
In the end, the 1st and 4th Corps standing on the left and right wings turned their spear points in the opposite direction at Yuno’s speech, while the Capital Corps and 3rd Corps in the center turned their heads back and forth in embarrassment.
The 3rd Corps, which came down here from the Eastern Front without much difficulty thanks to the Windrage Army’s control of the Leon Kingdom Army, and the Capital Corps under Emperor Heinrich’s direct control received intensive supplies even during difficult times, so Juno’s speech did not make much of an impact, so it was the tip of the spear. I couldn’t believe the ally who turned it the other way.
“Hey guys!! Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
“Don’t we all have to work together to defeat the enemy? If we push the center of the enemy just a little harder, we can win!!”
Despite the words of the Capital Corps and the 3rd Corps that tried to persuade them, the spear tips of the soldiers of the 1st and 4th Corps did not waver at all.
“Now our army has no Master or Archmage, so how are we going to deal with His Highness Yuno, the Master?”
“You guys haven’t had any battles in the past 10 years, so you don’t know the difference between an army with a master and an army without a master?”
“If you want to die, die alone. You idiots!!”
“This is the true path to loyalty to the empire!!”
The reason why the 1st and 4th legions surrendered to Juno was partly because they clearly remembered Juno’s majesty in breaking down the castle gate alone at Streve.
Still, the soldiers of the 1st and 4th Corps did not attack the Capital Corps and the 3rd Corps, which had been allies just moments before, and the Prinz Army also stopped its attack with Yuno’s connivance, so the Capital Corps and the 3rd Corps were able to safely retreat to the base. Br〉
*Illustration of Kurimu coming down from the sky to save Yuno
