episode_0091

Sigurd, the founder of the Sigurdians, had many children as he displayed bravery on the continent.

According to records, the number was so great that one could not count them on both hands.

But it was common in that era.

It was not a choice but an obligation for a powerful ruler to have as many descendants as possible.

Sigurd also followed the social trend and had many children.

As a great hero who scolded the continent, he had a great responsibility to pass on his great bloodline to future generations.

The child born that way was over twenty years old.

Sigurd appointed the eldest, the most outstanding of his children, as his successor and passed on his kingdom.

He retired a little early, thinking that his time was past.

Fortunately, the eldest son, who succeeded him in leading the kingdom, also led the kingdom well. This was possible because his abilities were far superior to those of his younger brothers, thanks to his strong heritage from Sigurd.

In addition, although Sigurd was retired, he was still alive and well and highly influential, and he valued the friendship between them, so the relationship between brothers and sisters could pass without much friction.

However, this was only possible while Sigurd was alive and his eldest son was ruling.

The children who inherited Sigurd’s blood were over twenty years old. As those children got married and had children, their number quickly doubled.

What this meant was that there would soon be more successors to become king.

Fortunately, Sigurd’s eldest son gave birth to descendants quickly, so Sigurd’s kingdom was not shaken until then.

The problem came after that.

Sigurd’s children, who had inherited the throne from his eldest son, saw their descendants at a too late age.

As a result, a civil war broke out as the remaining heirs to the throne began to seek the position of king.

The civil war continued for a long time. The long civil war was enough to collapse Sigurd’s kingdom, which was a wealthy nation and a strong military force.

All the strong soldiers died in the never-ending war, and the once fertile land became barren.

However, the heirs who had their eyes set on the throne were only interested in eliminating their rivals. As if everything else was okay, the game of chicken continued with the only goal being the throne.

The surrounding countries, who were waiting for the fall of Sigurd’s kingdom, did not miss the unexpected opportunity. Starting with the border territory, metallurgy began to be eaten away.

Ten years after the civil war began, the next successor to the throne was finally decided.

Although all that was left of Sigurd’s kingdom was the capital, he had to witness the enemy soldiers making their final advance towards the capital.

In the end, the kingdom founded by the great hero Sigurd was destroyed by his descendants.

However, not all of his descendants were extinct. There were people who survived even in the worst situations.

They gathered around clans to form tribes, and over time, they boasted a size similar to that of the nobility of a considerable empire. At that time, each tribal leader formed an alliance to prevent invasion by foreign powers, and that union became the Sigurd Tribal Union that continues to this day.

At this point, it was safe to call it a kingdom, but they maintained the form of tribal union. This was to avoid following in the footsteps of the kingdom that collapsed due to a battle for successor in the past.

However, many people in the empire who did not know this fact disparaged the Sigurdians, whom they called a tribe, as barbarians.

Less civilized

Is technology outdated?

Malicious rumors such as this were also quite widespread.

Of course, anyone with even the slightest sense of awareness knew full well that the Sigurdians were not barbarians, as they said.

Even though it was destroyed, the kingdom that became the predecessor of the tribal union was once a huge kingdom that swallowed up a large part of the continent.

If such a kingdom fell, would its entire legacy be lost?

‘The answer is no.’

It is said that there were many people who were blind to the throne during the civil war, but not everyone was like that.

Among them, the ancestors of each current tribe predicted that the kingdom would fall, so they shared the kingdom’s technologies and kept them among themselves.

It is true that a significant portion was lost in the process, but it did not disappear completely.

In particular, most of the data on the Giant God Soldier remained because they were desperately protecting it. Thanks to this, Sigurd’s tribal alliance was able to maintain a high level of magic engineering enough to wage war against the empire.

Above all, there was one thing they had that was different from the empire.

A giant weapon that only the warchief can give permission to operate.

Fafnir, the ancient giant god soldier, was that.

***

Gilbert, who gave the order to march, stood at the vanguard of the unit upon sortie.

It may have been good for morale for him, who was originally the commander-in-chief, to be at the forefront, but from a strategic perspective, it was a handshake.

This was because if he were to become incapable of combat, there was a high possibility that the command system would collapse.

Fortunately, it was possible to replace Gilbert because Fermo was here as his assistant, but from the perspective of Fermo, who was his lieutenant, he could not sit by and watch Gilbert’s actions.

[Commander in Chief! In which unit does the commander-in-chief take the lead?!]

“Deputy Commander Fermo. I believe in the Lord.”

[Is that what you want to say now?]

“I will listen to the nagging later. We will soon encounter the enemy’s vanguard.”

[Ha… I understand. From now on, we will continue after the battle is over.]

“I will keep this in mind.”

With those words, Gilbert ended communication with Fermo and was able to confirm the troops of Sigurd’s tribal alliance advancing in the distance. He stopped the entire army’s advance by opening an entire channel and checked the plan once again.

The operation he was thinking of was based on tactical combat, so he had no idea how it would work now that it was a reality. It could have been some kind of trick, and in some ways it was a strategy that could be devised because I knew the Sigurdians well.

If everything goes well, the war could be ended without major damage, but if not, we would have to deal with the aftereffects of the war for a while.

I did everything I could.

Having done everything we could to prepare, all that was left was to proceed as planned.

[The distance to the enemy is about 1km. Be prepared.]

CT-777’s warning sounded in the cockpit along with the red light turning on.

Gilbert gently gripped the control stick and focused on the giant soldier at the forefront of the enemy army.

A huge iron sword with a golden body and strapped to its back.

He instinctively recognized the identity of the giant bottle.

One of the ancient giants that boasts the highest level of performance in tactical combat.

It was Fafnir.

[For Sigurd!]

A rough, but powerful cry was amplified by loudspeaker magic and rang loudly throughout the valley.

The person on Fafnir pulled out Gram, Fafnir’s unique weapon, as if he was planning to suppress the ship, and swung it toward Gilbert’s giant soldier, filled with blue mana.

It seemed like he was willing to cut down the cockpit with a single sword, but this was not Gilbert who would take it easy.

Gilbert also infused golden mana into his iron sword and swung it towards Gram.

bang!

Perhaps because the swords filled with mana collided, the mana wave spread like a storm. The water in the valley jumped up for an instant, and the birds were startled by the loud noise and flew up, clapping back and forth.

The pilot who was controlling Fafnir may not have anticipated that his attack would be blocked, but chose to retreat rather than continue the attack.

Thanks to this, there was a brief lull.

Gilbert took advantage of this opportunity to quickly check the durability of the iron sword indicated by CT-777.

Has this been implemented?

Gilbert clicked his tongue.

Gram, the unique weapon of the ancient giant god Fafnir, had one special ability. That was to spread a force field that disrupted the mana cohesion at the point of impact.

Although it did not completely erase magical power, disrupting the cohesion of mana was itself an amazing ability. If you tried to stop Gram without thinking, you could have suffered great damage due to the disordered mana cohesion.

That wasn’t all.

By swinging the sword at the flying magic, it was also possible to perform a pseudo-parry. This was also thanks to the force field that disrupted mana cohesion.

When this feature became known, there was an uproar in the community for a while, saying it was a fraudulent feature. This was because parrying, which requires a high level of skill, could be implemented simply by swinging, which was no different from the auto-parrying function.

Because of this, users did not hesitate to upgrade Fafnir, who has Gram as his unique weapon, to Tier 1 Colossus.

It’s not that there is no way to deal with it.

Gilbert curled the corners of his mouth as if he was having fun.

Since we had confirmed that Gram had the same abilities as the game, all we had to do was to respond appropriately to him.

A force field that scatters mana?

Superior specs of ancient giant soldiers?

Tier 1 Colossus?

Anything ahead of that is always stagnant. The current situation was not difficult at all for Gilbert, who had even achieved the feat of defeating a giant god soldier with his bare body.

“CT. The Golden Colossus’ great sword has a force field that scatters mana.”

[Analyze input information and situation. The match rate is estimated at 90%.]

“High probability.”

[The waves generated before the sword collided were analyzed. Considering the high-quality analysis of the article, the information consistency rate is close to 98%.]

When I said a few words to help analyze CT-777 and saw that the results were immediately obtained, the words came out to me.

[Looking for countermeasures based on information. road. This takes time.]

As soon as the analysis was completed and defense measures were put in place, it occurred to me that CT-777 could grow as an artificial spirit comparable to Precia.

“It doesn’t matter. The countermeasures are already on my side.”

[I will collect combat information.]

When Gilbert said he had a countermeasure, CT-777 declared that it would collect combat information rather than analysis. It was a visible change in the bonds built up through the various battles.

As Gilbert, he was also pleased with the changes in CT-777, so he answered by nodding his head.

The brief lull was broken by Fafnir’s attack. It took quite a while to recover, perhaps because blocking Gram’s blow was more unexpected than expected.

Instead of fighting back head on like in the first clash, Gilbert responded by parrying. The Gram opponent method, which was broken by the collective intelligence of users, was a way to use the system.

It was possible to receive attacks at the correct timing and block Gram from deploying his force field.

Wasn’t splitting magic also a technique using parrying?

In the end, if I responded by parrying Gram, who had been fed a lot of auras, I was able to block the attack without causing damage to the weapon itself.

visor! visor! visor!

Gilbert, who was able to bounce off the heavy Gram, was showing off his handling skills that were almost miraculous. No matter how skilled a knight was, it was difficult to parry so skillfully.

No matter how much he could link with an artificial spirit and control the giant spirit soldier like his own body, in the end, it was not his real body. Unless you were a high-level knight, it would have been impossible to parry so effortlessly.

However, it was not difficult for Gilbert, who had become rotten due to stagnation. Even his control ability was 100, the theoretical limit. It wasn’t even a task to move the giant soldier as if it were his own body.

The two giant gods, who had divided a dozen sums in just a few seconds, came to an end with Fafnir retreating again.

[Who are you?]

A familiar voice was heard from Fafnir.

It was the voice that had awakened the warriors of Sigurd’s alliance a while ago.

Gilbert knew very well who this voice was.

Brynhild Vanir.

He was the great warrior of the Vanir tribe and the key figure in the Sigurdian attack part.