Chapter 245 – War Deterrence
The basic gist of Operation Drop-ship was to block the attack of Gungnir, the enemy’s trump card, and then fly straight to the Great Forest on Gabriel and take the World Tree hostage to threaten it.
The elves consider the World Tree extremely precious, calling it the Mother Tree, so they thought it could be an appropriate threat.
After hearing this explanation, the executives of the Demon King’s Army and Deberg expressed their disapproval.
“No matter how powerful you are, Patrasche, how can you block an attack that even the Demon Lord could barely block?”
To Walter’s question, I answered with a meaningful smile.
“It is quite possible.”
“So how…”
“I was ranked 8th.”
The moment I said those words, the conference room became quiet as if we had made a promise.
Walter must have been equally surprised, as he was looking at me with his jaw wide open.
Wow, it’s possible to express such rich emotions even with a lion’s face.
“What do you mean? The 8th level?!”
“That’s how it happened. I trained desperately with the desire to avenge the Demon King…”
The moment I said those words, the Demon King Army executives looked at me with moved expressions.
“Ugh… I believed it! Damn it!”
“I thought it was a parachute, but it was actually an airborne unit…”
“Patrasche, you are the truly loyal dog of this era…”
Are you really okay with this, Demon King?
As I was looking at the sensitive Demon King Army executives with a bewildered expression, like an adolescent girl, I noticed Ozma sitting at the head of the table.
Then, perhaps thinking I was giving him a signal, Ozma cleared her throat and opened her mouth.
“Then let’s try Patrasche’s strategy.”
Because you have to lose anyway.
Then, the guys who had just been shedding tears and praising me as their loyalists shouted at the same time with their spirits up as if they had never done that before.
“”Yes!””
***
The bloody battle on the Desmond Plains began again after about 10 days.
This time, the Elven Wood side seemed to be making a desperate effort as well, sending all the troops they had left behind into the battlefield.
To be honest, I was shocked by the visible increase in troops, but considering that Elven Wood was also in a corner, it wasn’t that bad.
“Then, I would like to ask everyone to take care of me.”
According to the explanation of the captured Mizar, there are a total of 7 Septentrions, including himself, who served as the temporary leader. One of them was captured by the Demon King, and Mizar, the person involved, is being held captive, so there are currently a total of 5 remaining. It is.
On the other hand, there were a total of 6 people left, including me, Sofia, Vanessa, Glinda, Walter, and Gabriel, so we were relatively relaxed.
Just like the last battle, we decided to take on a Septentrion, one per person, and then we dispersed throughout the battlefield.
After everyone left, I, who was left alone, took a deep breath and flew high into the sky using flight magic.
Quaaaaa!
The sound of wind hitting the barrier around the body can be clearly heard.
I rose high into the sky, breaking through the clouds at a speed close to the speed of sound, and looked down at the ground.
Because we were so high up, everything on the ground seemed distant, but considering the explosive power of the Char Bomba that was simulated in theory, even at this height, it was quite breathtaking.
‘Should I go up a little more?’
Just in case something happened, I decided to increase altitude a little more for safety, and stopped flying only after reaching the stratosphere.
“Whoa-“
Now I can only see white clouds and blue sky everywhere.
Just looking at the open scenery made me feel liberated, to the point where I felt like I was forgetting that we were at war.
Of course, my purpose for coming here was nothing else.
This is to plant a booby trap in preparation for Gungnir’s strike, which may strike at any moment.
I took out the Orichalcon staff from subspace, concentrated my mind, and cast a spell.
8 stacks of ether.
Octa Spell-
「Char Bomba」
Pong!
Now, instead of being the size of a soccer ball or basketball, a huge lump of magic power over 2 meters in diameter is sticking out from the tip of the wand.
The amount of magical energy used was so enormous that I quickly became tired even though I had only used one magic spell.
But the job wasn’t over yet, so I immediately came to my senses and installed a detonator around the sphere using fire magic.
This is to explode this ether sphere at the timing I want.
‘This is all ready.’
Now that the Gungnir countermeasure is over, I have to go back to the battlefield and help others.
That was when I turned my back thinking that.
Saaagh!
A sharp blade of wind flew from somewhere.
“!”
I hastily deployed my shield and looked around.
However, the enemy who fired the wind magic just now is nowhere to be seen.
‘Camouflage?’
I immediately realized the identity of the magic the enemy was using and used my eyes to read the wind flow.
“Is it there?”
“Pfft!”
When the magical bullet was fired towards the place where the wind dispersed unnaturally, the camouflage magic shattered and the enemy who was hiding his true identity was revealed.
“Elf?”
The enemy was a blonde elf.
As soon as he made eye contact with me, he immediately used camouflage magic again to hide himself, so it seems that his specialty is hiding using wind magic.
However, in front of me who knows how to read the wind flow, hiding using magic is practically useless.
In order to take advantage of the psychology of the elf who seemed to be unaware of that fact, I walked away from Char Bomba, pretending to be looking for him.
Then the blonde elf naively chased after me and did not miss the opportunity.
Thump!
“!”
The blonde elf, whose pupils were wide open, probably didn’t think that I would suddenly grab him by the collar while hiding.
But regardless, in order to get him away from Char Bomba, I began to fall vertically to the ground, blowing out wind from my back.
“Let go of this!”
Perhaps because the sound of the wind blowing was painful because of her sensitive ears, the blonde elf who was grabbed by my collar tried to shake off my hand with a frown on her face, but unfortunately, her basic physical abilities were different.
I held onto her collar tightly and whispered in her ear with an evil smile.
“I’m sorry, but you have to come with me.”
***
Right at that time-
Unfinished battles were continuing throughout the Desmond Plains.
“Cantabile!”
“What a fool! My skills have improved in such a short period of time!”
Sophia freely wields water magic and the Auror Sword, and with her natural talent, she has begun to overwhelm Alcor, a 7th rank mage.
“That disgusting look! I’m used to it now!”
“Kaaaaak!”
Vanessa was unable to show off her skills at first due to psychological resistance, but now her annoyance grew more than her fear, and she began to show her true skills.
“Unfortunately, it looks like the fight ends here.”
“… Excellent.”
Boom!
After a fierce hand-to-hand combat with the earth mage Pekda, Walter won by a margin of one piece of paper.
“Dube, I’m sorry, but you can’t beat me with your skills.”
“Aaaaah! Just die!”
Even Glinda, who had the upper hand from start to finish with her absolute pride.
“Damn! Damn! Damn!”
Mayer Griffith, feeling anxious as he heard news of defeat one after another from the battlefield, finally pressed the launch button for Gungnir, a satellite weapon.
Kiiiiing!
Then, the main dock of the magic satellite Gungnir floating in outer space opened, and the huge spear of God began to fall towards the ground once again.
As it breaks through the atmosphere, the red-hot appearance due to gravitational acceleration resembles a comet.
The disaster that had taken countless lives in the previous two battles fell straight towards the ground this time to inflict equal death on all things.
… But this time it was a little different.
No, to be precise, I should say it was an unexpected absurdity.
The Spear of God, which was pointed straight at the ground, touched a booby trap set up by a magician as it passed through the stratosphere, creating a scene that no one expected.
The sight of the enormous violence that no one could resist being consumed by even greater violence-
Everyone on the battlefield watched it vividly.
***
Oppenheimer, one of the scientists who participated in the ‘Menhatton Project’, which developed the world’s first nuclear weapon, said this.
Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
(I have now become the destroyer of the world and death.)
And the feeling I was feeling right now was very similar to this.
‘What is this?’
Even though it was strong, it was too strong.
Fat Man, who was used to tear down the walls of Constantinople, also had tremendous power, but not at this level.
When I named a magic series using the ether element the name of a nuclear weapon, it was only a ‘metaphor’, but Char Bomba was not a metaphor, but seemed to have almost the same power as an actual nuclear bomb.
I don’t know what variable occurred, but the explosion power is much stronger than expected in theory.
Although it clearly exploded at an altitude of more than 800 meters, the crater was large enough to be observed from the ground and its overall diameter seemed to be well over 6 km.
As if a midnight sun phenomenon had occurred, the fireball that dazzlingly illuminated the entire sky slowly disappeared after consuming all the clouds within its range and Gungnir’s strike.
“… It is the power of God.”
One of the elf soldiers who had watched the scene from beginning to end muttered this and let go of the weapon he was holding.
It may have been a signal, but the Elven Wood soldiers who had been fighting fiercely with the Allied soldiers just moments ago began to let go of the weapons they were holding, one by one.
Thanks to this, I was in the middle of a fight with the blonde elf who attacked me from the sky, and I couldn’t help but be dumbfounded when I saw that scene.
‘This is how it works?’
It was truly an unexpected development.
