episode_0242

Battle to recapture Zenon Plains

“Hmm… Viscount Amin… I heard that His Excellency, the Duke of Tiruen, had some fun with him some time ago… I would like to have some fun with him too, but the situation is not conducive… I need to finish this as quickly as possible. I hope you understand”

Viscount Amin’s forehead twitched at the Marquis Graze’s words that he would finish him off immediately.

“Well… I don’t know what I heard from that proud Duke of Tiruen… but if you think that the me back then and the me I am now are the same, it will hurt you a lot ”

“What is that…”

“You’ll understand when you cross swords!!”

The Marquis Graze and Viscount Armin, who had been measuring the distance for a moment, rushed towards each other without even saying who would go first.

“Haaaa!!”

“Kaaa!!”

The moment Viscount Amin’s sword collided with the Marquis Graze’s sword, a tremendous sound rang out.

Kaaaa!!

The bluish sword energy of both swords was flowing, revealing their deep murderous intent towards each other, and both swords radiated brilliance and flew toward each other’s necks once again.

As the style of swordsmanship the two had learned was almost similar, with heavy swords emphasizing power rather than speed, their swords collided with each other as if crushing each other, and the impact shook the battlefield.

Kwaang~!! Flash!! Kaaaang!!

Every time swords collided, explosions and metal sounds rang out on the battlefield, and as shock waves exploded everywhere, the soldiers were frightened and had to take refuge.

“P, avoid it!! If you get caught up in that wrong thing, your body will be torn apart!!”

“Soldiers, never go in there!! Knights, don’t let enemy knights get involved in the fight!!”

The knights of the Royal Guard led by Viscount Amin began skirmishing with the knights under the Marquis of Grace. The soldiers who saw this also started fighting again and the blood clotting process resumed.

As time passed, the swordplay between Marquis Graze and Viscount Amin became harsher, and it did not take much time for them to realize that they were not easy opponents.

‘Damn it! It’s not that easy!! His Excellency, the Duke of Tiruen, said that he was an easy opponent… but am I still far from being able to match his level? Or the author… in a short period of time…’

The Marquis of Graze mobilized all the skills he knew to deal with Viscount Amin.

However, his skills were almost equal, and he even showed signs of being subtly inferior to his opponent in all aspects, including the weight and sharpness of the sword and the power of the sword, except for speed.

‘shit!! I can’t believe I was pushed out of the heavy sword! I can not admit it!!’

The Marquis of Grace was angry because he was deep down confident that his skills were just below the Duke of Tiruen, and he could not bear to admit that he was being surpassed by Viscount Amin.

Viscount Amin’s eyebrows furrowed slightly as he, filled with anger, pushed more mana into his sword.

‘Whoa~ I’m overdoing it in the end… I haven’t been able to keep up with the speed so far, so I haven’t been able to win… but if the author overdoes it… the story will be different. Anyway, it feels like I’m seeing my old self… I’d like to say something, but… I can’t teach my enemy!!’

After making up his mind, Viscount Amin began to slowly receive the Marquis Grache’s sword with smoother movements than before.

“What are you doing?! Are you trying to joke with me?! Attack properly!!”

“Heh! I’m doing it right now. If you are strong, you will be able to bend this type of sword”

If he thought rationally, all he had to do was widen the distance again and engage in exploration again, but in his anger, he couldn’t think of such a decision.

Moreover, factors that clouded his judgment continued to appear.

“Kaaaa!! Damn it!!”

“Marquis! sorry!! We’re not good enough… Ugh!!”

The screams of the knights under his command coming from behind told him that they were being suppressed or killed by the knights of the Balkan Guard Knights.

“Ugh!! help me! I don’t want to die!!”

“The right side is open!! Support over there… wow!!”

Moreover, as his troops at the front were increasingly being pushed back and crushed by the Balkan corps, his heart became increasingly anxious.

Therefore, the Marquis of Graze swung his sword impatiently, but Viscount Amin only accepted his sword with more ease, and his mana hole was gradually emptying.

Moreover, the bad news for Tesseito’s infantry did not end there.

“The 5th Corps stops fighting and advances to the enemy headquarters!! Burn the enemy’s supplies and seize their war horses!!”

‘Oh, no!! If supplies and horses are lost, the foundation of the Zenon Plain will be shaken…’

It was the voice of Arnim, the commander of the 5th Corps, that was completely decisive, and when he heard the enemy’s disgusting voice heading towards the headquarters, the Marquis Graze bit his lip and raised his sword high.

“I will put my soul into this blow!! Viscount Amin! If you are a knight, I hope you take this attack head on!!”

At the words of the Marquis Graze, Viscount Amin also changed his posture back to its original state and stared at the other person.

The posture of the Marquis Graze, who raised his sword high and extended his upper body extremely forward, expressed his will to kill with a single blow, so Viscount Amin also swallowed his saliva.

‘Well… if we just take the time, our army will win by a landslide… but as the author said, we can’t insult the end of a master-level knight. Anyway, this is the end of the author’s attack. As the mana hole is emptying, the power of the sword energy is not coming out properly… If that’s the case!!’

Viscount Amin, determined to fight head-on, raised his sword high in the same stance as his opponent, and at the same time, the two masters’ new forms quickly crossed each other.

Suddenly!

With the sound of fabric splitting, the body of one of the two people who had crossed fell to the ground, and the long battle between the Balkan Empire and the Kingdom of Tesseito over the Plain of Zenon began to come to an end.

While the left wing collapsed and the central army struggled, the Duke of Tiruen on the right was also fighting a fierce battle.

“Damn it!! These damn spirits!!”

Squeak! Squeak!!

An eerie sword energy spewed out, destroying the lesser wind spirits that were targeting and attacking him.

However, countless spirits continued to shoot wind blades and fire arrows, and below, the earth spirit set a trap targeting the ankles of the horse he was riding, so Duke Tiruen attacked the spirit with his sword and used horsemanship. He showed off artistic moves to avoid traps.

“Wow~ That guy is really fast? I think my evasion speed is almost faster than my brother”

“It looks like you trained hard after losing to Catherine? Well… for this Isabella…”

When Isabella threw the fireball in her hand, a violent explosion erupted towards Tiruen.

Fuuu!!

“Puhahaha, how do you feel? This Isabella’s 5-layer compressed fireball? Even if I can’t match Jennifer’s level yet, if it’s like this… Chiit!!”

Isabella had expected him to at least cause injury, but she clicked her tongue as if it was a waste when she saw that behind Tiruen, several wizards were following him on horseback and chanting defensive magic.

“Her Royal Highness! Avoid both of them!! We will take care of this!!”

“We are fine. If we weren’t there, who would take charge of that awesome master? If soldiers or ordinary knights handle that sword… you can guess the damage, right?”

“So, leave Duke Thiruen to us and the corps commanders only focus on commanding their soldiers. This is the first battle of the Royal Guards protecting His Majesty the Emperor… Please keep in mind that if you lose, it will be different from a normal defeat”

At Isabella and Marie’s frightening words, Baron Hart, commander of the 2nd Guard Corps, and Melentine, commander of the 3rd Corps, swallowed their saliva, expressed their respect, and ran back toward the command center.

“Archers, fire at the enemy cavalry!! You must reduce your speed as much as possible!!”

“Sylphid!! Continue to attack and keep in check those who are in the lead! Sylph! Make the arrows shot by our archers fly at a faster speed!!”

As the archers fired arrows according to the orders of the corps commanders, Marie remembered the battle she had experienced in the land of the elves and used the spirit to make the arrows go faster.

Only the 1st cavalry corps of the right wing of the Tesseito army, led by Tiruen, showed brilliant maneuvers and avoided the arrows flying towards them, but the speed of the arrows assisted by Mari was faster than they imagined, so they killed nearly 300 with a single shot. It had the effect of causing several cavalrymen to fall to the ground.

“Gnome! Turn the ground in front into mud!! The moment the horse steps on his hoof, it should sink in!!”

In one-on-one combat, Marie showed inferior fighting power to Isabella, but when it came to large-scale battles, the story was completely different.

Due to Mari’s spirit magic, the Tesseito cavalry lost its mobility and had to be constantly targeted by arrows. Tiruen tried to check Marie’s spirit magic from a distance by shooting sword energy, but due to Isabella’s defensive magic, he fired sword energy. disappeared without a trace.

“Damn it!! If we continue like this, only our cavalry will be one-sidedly defeated… The enemy’s heavy infantry is setting up a defensive wall like that, and if we continue to struggle like this from a distance…”

“Your Excellency!! It’s coming soon!!”

Moreover, the two pieces of news that reached Tiruen made his heart flutter.

“What, what!! Not only has the left wing been completely defeated, but the central army is already in danger of falling?”

The cavalry led by Mullah was the main attack, and Tiruen, whose goal was to tie down the two enemy legions here, gritted his teeth.

“And there is also other news!!”

“Something!!”

As his advisor who delivered the news whispered something, Tiruen closed his eyes for a moment and raised his standard high.

“All troops!! Reversal!! Get out of here!!”

Due to his decision, the right-wing cavalry of Teseito’s army quickly left the battlefield, leaving only about a thousand corpses.

“What is it? If you were going to retreat in vain like this… did you really try so hard to break through?”

“Hohoho, wouldn’t that mean my spirit magic was that difficult to deal with?”

“Ugh~ But the power of the sword is really brutal. It’s a shame because it’s a long distance away. If I had allowed access, my shield would have been shattered in an instant, right? It’s almost as powerful as Yuno’s power, isn’t it?”

Melentine, the commander of the 3rd corps, quickly ran up to Isabella and Marie, who were chatting while watching the soldiers of the Royal Guard corps clearing the battlefield.

“Her Highness the Princess!! It’s coming soon!! It is said that the enemy cavalry has taken a sharp detour through the forest on the left and is heading towards the headquarters at high speed!! The news is that although the 2nd Guards Corps and the 3rd Corps departed in a hurry, time seems to be running out!!”

Melentine’s report made Isabella and Marie pale.

“Company, if it is the headquarters…”

“Surely you have a mother?”

“Yes! you’re right!! At the headquarters where the Empress Dowager and the Minister of Defense are located, only a small number of Guard Knights and about 1,000 defenders remain, and the enemy cavalry is scheduled to arrive in 10 minutes!!”

Before Melentine finished speaking, Isabella and Marie quickly flew away using flight magic and the wind spirit.

‘You must be safe… Mom!!’

‘We’ll be there soon!! Hang in there!!’

*Christmas commemorative Marie Santa illustration*