Chapter 89: It’s just a loach

“The Alliance chose a strategy of achieving localized results, rather than launching a counteroffensive across the entire front.

The main goal was to recapture some of the outposts occupied by the demons and to build a more stable defensive line.”

• Listening to Leah, she sounds like a total military nerd

• She’s not interested in modern weapons, maybe just a history buff?

• One thing’s for sure, I’ve never seen a woman around me talk like that

• What?

You have women around you??

“For example, there was the operation to recapture Drakenfels Citadel.

A strategic point in the center, captured by the demons in the third year.

Arden performed a feint maneuver to concentrate the enemy’s forces to the east, and deployed a two-stage tactic of infiltrating an elite unit into the citadel through the western cliffs.”

• Who is Arden..

“Don’t you remember?

The human general who led reinforcements in the battle of Grasni Fortress.

He wasn’t famous as a great commander at this time, but he was already called ‘the eye of the army’ among his soldiers.

In the sense that he sees through the enemy’s movements on the battlefield.”

• If it weren’t for Arden, Leah wouldn’t have debuted as a Vtuber

• Thank you, Sensei, for bringing reinforcements…

“However, the demons reacted quickly and succeeded in reorganizing.

Before the main force could enter through the opened gate, the internal forces were in danger of being isolated.”

It was a battle I didn’t participate in, so I had to relay what I heard.

“At this time, the heroic knight Conrad Stolburn exerted his bravery and broke through the enemies guarding the gate in an instant, and beheaded the demon commander.

The main force of the Alliance rushed through the opened gate, and after a fierce battle, they recaptured the citadel.”

I achieved results in a different place from them.

“I was active in Grimloeven Gorge.

This is a place used by the demons as a fluid base.

There was no fixed base in the gorge itself, but watchers and ambush forces were deployed in shifts.”

I was deployed with a small reconnaissance team and first eliminated the enemy’s main snipers.

Among them, there was a particularly outstanding sniper, and we continued a tense battle in the shadows, where the hunter and the hunted kept changing.

In the end, I won, with a little more patience and a little more accurate arrow.

After that, the situation turned in our favor.

• Oh, I think it’s the first time I’ve heard of a full-fledged sniper battle

• It’s good because it’s tense

• Camouflage, distance control, breathing, psychological warfare description… Have you watched any sniper movies lately?ㅋㅋ

• What’s the furthest distance you’ve hit an enemy?

“The standard for measuring distance is not the same as here, so it may not be accurate… um.

If I convert it roughly, it was over 1500m.”

• Eh

• Are you going to do research like this, Leah?

• She just throws it out thereㅋㅋㅋ

• Are you a sharpshooter?

• Even sharpshooters can’t do 1500..

• What fantasy is this

• It’s fantasy, right?

• Ah

“By the demons retreating, the Alliance was able to operate the supply lines more stably.”

And there was one more thing.

“There was also the victory of the Fjord Siege led by the dwarf Balgrim.”

When I kept silent for a moment, a question came from the chat.

• So?

• Why did you stop talkingㅋㅋ

“Ah, that’s all about the Fjord Siege.

They won.

The end.”

• That’s it?

• Why is this one so shortㅋㅋ

• Found it, the crack in the setting’s armor

“Because after hearing the news of victory from Balgrim, I didn’t ask any more.”

• Amazing.. You manage to make an excuse somehow

• You’re getting away with it again?

• Leah is just a slippery eel

• Leel

“As the Allied forces continued to achieve results in a series of operations like this, the internal atmosphere began to change.

The Allied forces, who had been on the defensive throughout the war, began to have hope that they could push back the Demon Lord’s army.

Discussions about a larger counterattack began in the leadership at that time.”

In the command tent, all the heroes who had distinguished themselves had returned, except for the Archbishop and Seraphil.

Opinions were being raised about where the next target would be, and that it was time to prepare for a large-scale war.

Suddenly, the door of the tent was violently opened.

A dust-covered messenger staggered in.

He had no injuries, but he looked exhausted.

All eyes in the room turned to him.

“…Carmora, has fallen!”

The hoarse, cracked voice froze the room.

The hand pointing to the front line on the map stopped, and a low murmur spread among the officers.

“Fallen, what do you mean?”

Rodian II straightened up and asked.

“The city has been completely destroyed!

A single dragon burned the city!

The walls collapsed in an instant, and the center of the city melted in the flames.”

• Leah trying to imitate a male voice is cute

• She’s good at actingㅋㅋ

• It’s a different voice from Rodian I heard last time… Did he get younger?

• It is said that he has become a TS~

• If there’s such magic, I want to try it once…

• Hey;;

“Everyone was so surprised.

Because a dragon that was extinct suddenly appeared.

But, even at this point, there was a little hope.

The hope that it might just end as a tragic accident.”

But that hope was immediately shattered.

By the messenger’s following words.

“It’s a new Varnok!

According to the survivors, he proudly declared himself to be the 2nd Seat, Alduras.”

It was revealed that an overwhelming being that could erase a city single-handedly had become an enemy with clear malice.

“The command was in shock.

Because it was an air raid in the west, which was considered relatively safe, not in the area where the front lines were concentrated.

The Allied forces, who had been raising morale with a few achievements, were suddenly in a crisis where they had to re-examine the entire front line.”

• Can I understand it as a nuclear drop on a city?

• If it’s the only dragon, it would be about that levelㅋㅋ

• But it’s not just once

• If there’s no cooldown for city destruction, isn’t it too unbalanced?

“It didn’t destroy cities continuously.

Because, you know, a cavalry messenger was urgently dispatched from a nearby outpost to report to the command.

If additional destruction had been carried out in the middle, we would have heard about it on the way.”

Anyway, since it couldn’t be determined solely on the report of the cavalry messenger, it was necessary to immediately send a reconnaissance team to check the situation directly.

I was chosen to lead the reconnaissance team because I was light on my feet and had the ability to respond to unexpected variables.

“The world is going crazy.

To hear that a dragon has appeared in my lifetime.”

Balgrim, who had been silent for a while, said bluntly.

“If you get hit by that guy, you won’t even leave a corpse.”

“I won’t get hit.

And I told you, you won’t see my corpse?

I’m going to live longer than you no matter what.”

“You have plenty of energy to talk nonsense.

I’ll see your annoying face again when you come back.”

“Why are you talking as if you’re waiting?

You should take on another mission too.”

• What are they doingㅋㅋㅋ

• Leah vs Leah with a hoarse voice

• An elf and a dwarf are close..ㅎ

• They’re almost best friends

“We’re not close.

I don’t like dwarves.”

After correcting the Pias’ misunderstanding, I continued the story.

“On the way to the west, I could meet the refugees from the city.

The refugees, covered in dirt and blood, all had pale faces, and their hands were shaking slightly.

With fatigue and fear deeply embedded in their eyes.”

When I took a step closer, some of them flinched and cowered.

As if they were still running away from the flames.

“…A black shadow came down from the sky.”

An old woman opened her mouth.

Her voice was dry and cracked.

“The sun was covered.

Suddenly… the day disappeared, and it was like night came.”

Another woman continued in a trembling voice.

“That… was a dragon.

It was looking down on us.

The soldiers on the ramparts tried to shoot arrows.

But, at that moment…”

She couldn’t continue.

Another man took over.

“…Fire struck.

That flame… wasn’t just fire.

The ramparts melted.

The stones became soft.

The soldiers on the ramparts… burned on the spot.

Without even screaming.”

The eyes of a boy who lost focus stared blankly at the air.

As if that moment was still vivid in his head, he muttered blankly.

“Then… I heard it from the sky.

In a thunderous voice.”

His hand unconsciously covered his ear.

“‘I am Varnok’s 2nd Seat, Alduras!’

That sound… echoed to my bones.

I thought my heart would freeze.

At that moment, I thought everything was over.”

• Wow, the PTSD description is good

• Detail is?

Letube

• Somehow it seems to fit because it’s in the Dark Dimension

“Listening to the boy’s words, I intuited.

That there were survivors was intentional.

Alduras, who revealed his presence for the first time, had left those who would convey his show of power and declaration of war.”

And finally, I, who arrived at the destroyed city with the reconnaissance team, also realized his power.

“It wasn’t the first time I saw a burnt city, but this time it was different.

The ramparts had melted, and there was no trace of the streets.

There were no corpses.

As if it had been swept away, leaving only ashes.”

In the ruins where the ashes of the wind swept the streets, the reconnaissance team and I walked with heavy steps.

It was then.

From somewhere— a sign of life different from the wind brushed past.

I stopped instantly.

The reconnaissance team was also tense.

I could definitely feel a gaze watching us.

‘Someone is here.’

Demon Lord’s army?

Survivors?

No, there could be no survivors in these ruins.

Before I could even think, my body reacted first.

“I, just like that, dashed forward like lightning.”