230. Defensive battle (3)
The ice wall base has fallen!
At that news, there was a heavy silence among the group for a moment.
“It is said that the Glacher Trolls who attacked showed an unusual appearance. They said that they performed a trick of disappearing, as if they were melting into the ice of the ice wall. It is said that they had no choice but to abandon the ice wall.”
“That can’t be possible….”
Since its predecessor, the Margrave, took a long time to complete, the Ice Fortress has never allowed a single intrusion by a demonic beast.
Although the possibility of being breached was considered, the shock Orden received was beyond words. Because it was a barrier that had already been standing strong even before he was born.
“The entrance to the ice walls looks like that. Is the troops retreating well?”
On behalf of the frozen Orden, Seongjin, who had maintained his composure, asked a question to the guard captain.
“Fortunately, the second ice wall was expanded last night by order of the head of the family. Although it is slow, the retreat is proceeding smoothly. It’s just….”
After speaking up to that point, Sir Sebastian’s gaze caught a glimpse of a group of soldiers passing by.
They are each holding tools such as pickaxes, hammers, and chisels and are moving around at a pace. At a glance, I could tell what they were moving for.
“In the case of the first ice wall, work was still in full swing, so it appears that the troops gathered there are stranded. We are currently working on widening the entrance on both sides simultaneously.”
Still, it seems that Margrave Sigismund did not heed Seongjin’s warning in vain. Seongjin breathed a sigh of relief.
“Anyway, it would be unreasonable to send support right away from the territory.”
“Yes, sir. It is difficult for the retreating soldiers to move now. I just hope that the remaining Wolf Knights in the rear will hold out well.”
Sir Sebastian’s voice as he answered like that was extremely calm. Even though his wife, Sir Ilma, is fighting a difficult battle in the rear.
Maybe deep inside you want to run alone.
However, now that the Margrave and the Wolf Knights are away, the only person responsible for the safety of the territory is Sir Sebastian himself.
Seongjin thought as he looked into the guard captain’s steadfast black eyes.
‘The more I look at her, the more I think Louise takes after her father.’
Louise.
As my thoughts naturally turned to her, I suddenly remembered a faint thought that had passed me by like a dream while I was piloting Bingsu No. 1.
-Lowering. I now have to go a long way from which I may never return.
Was that really Louise’s voice? This is unknown at the moment.
Perhaps it was simply an auditory hallucination created by Seongjin’s premonition. When she left for her flower garden, she had a strange feeling that if they parted ways like this, they wouldn’t be able to see each other again for a long time.
‘But if it was really Louise… … .’
They said they would come right away after confirming the reality of the flower garden, but then suddenly they have to go somewhere?
What on earth did she see there?
‘… no!’
Seongjin shook his head and stopped his thoughts of going the other way.
‘Louise, she’s the one who knows what to do. For now, we must first solve the problem facing the territory!’
Seongjin looked around and cleared his head.
“Are they the fourth troop that was supposed to leave today?”
“Yes, sir. As soon as I heard the news of the base’s fall and retreat, I decided to build a new defensive position here. It’s something I’m not used to, so I need some guidance.”
As the guard commander said, the hastily conscripted soldiers were forming a textbook defensive formation under the instructions of several senior soldiers.
Since they had been accustomed to fighting on ice for a long time, it was like their first time facing a magical beast on flat ground.
Some troops are building low log fences, while others are diligently clearing ice and snow with shovels. Perhaps it was because I heard that the Glature Trolls were fusing with ice.
Still, under the command of Sir Sebastian, preparations to face the enemy are progressing steadily. In this situation, what Seongjin could do was decided.
“Grand Duke. Hurry up.”
Seongjin said, patting Orden’s shoulder, who was still in shock.
“We can use Bingsu No. 1 to widen the ice wall at once. The retreat of the troops will be even faster. After that, let’s immediately support the remaining Wolf Knights in the rear.”
“Lowering…….”
“The reason the Wolf Knights decided to abandon the ice wall was probably to fight them in places without ice. As long as they move away from the ice wall, they are still just regular Glature Trolls.”
Then, Sir Sebastian looks at Seongjin from the side with an expression of surprise.
what? why? what? If you guessed that too, shouldn’t you have told this guy a long time ago? Because he’s just watching blankly, this simple guy thinks the whole world has collapsed.
“Furthermore, even if it fell to the enemy, it would not be easy for them to completely collapse that thick tertiary ice wall. There is absolutely no way a few Glacher Trolls could handle the volume of ice.”
“That means….”
“Even if there is a hole, it is only a small part of it. The large army of Lycan Slope will not come across the ice wall and flock to the territory at once.”
At that explanation, light slowly returned to Orden’s eyes.
“Yes, that’s right. Just as you said!”
“If you understand, move quickly!”
Then the red-haired inquisitor who was watching next to me grinned and waved his hand.
“Then, I will stay here and take care of the injuries of the retreating soldiers. May the Lord’s blessings be with you both as you carry out this important mission! I hope you return safely.”
Of course, before I could move a few steps, Seongjin caught me by the waist and dragged me away.
“Where are you running? Spokesperson of the Heresy Tribunal. I need to serve as proof that our shaved ice No. 1 is harmless.”
“…Please save my life, my dear.”
* * *
Before the ice wall base fell.
The Wolf Knights, who faced the Glacher Trolls in the snowy fields, initially formed into groups and dealt with them smoothly.
In particular, old Vincent, who had been on the battlefield for the first time in a long time, flew around the battlefield as if he had wings.
Flutter! Flutter! Whoops!
The ice monster’s body is cut into pieces by the old man’s powerful sword strike.
Woooooo-
The Glacher Troll, which was struggling as it quickly lost ice, eventually laid down on the snowy field with its heart exposed and defenseless. And with her single sword, my heart was shattered and I remained silent.
“Go for it as much as you want! Wahahaha!”
The old man’s loud laughter echoes through the snowy fields.
In that way, they quickly reduced the number of glamor trolls. Soon, seven out of thirty were completely unable to act, and the Wolf Knights were dealing with the remaining ice monsters without much trouble.
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So they didn’t care when a Glacher Troll got close to the ice wall.
Anyway, it is a huge wall of ice that is more than four times the height of the body. When you reach the bottom, it is a thick barrier that is just over 15 meters wide. No matter how hard you hit something, it’s probably going to crack.
The strange thing happened then.
Ugh.
This is because the Glature Troll that touched the wall became one with the ice wall and froze.
Although he had lived dozens of lives guarding the boundaries of the demon world, old man Vincent had never seen anything like this.
“Ugh?”
The old man’s eyes widened, and Sir Ilma shouted as he ran towards him.
“Vincent! I guess there’s a reason why the Lycan Slopes put Glacher Trolls at the forefront! Could it be that they’re trying to gather together on the ice wall and create a bridge to cross over?!”
“what?”
The old man, who had a puzzled expression on his face, soon burst into laughter.
“Hahaha! Even so, it’s all useless! All you have to do is cut it all up before it comes together properly!”
Rather, wouldn’t it be a gentle target because it’s frozen?
“I’ll cut your heart out in one fell swoop like this!”
In this way, Dekaron Knight’s sharp sword mercilessly cut into the frozen Glacher Troll.
All of the giant figures clinging to the wall were cut off, and the surface of the ice wall regained its smooth appearance in an instant.
however-
“…doesn’t exist?”
The ice heart that should be inside the guy’s body is nowhere to be seen.
Kuuuuuung-
It was then that a small vibration occurred.
“…no?”
A battlefield where gigantic beasts run rampant. I could have just dismissed it as nothing.
‘No way?’
Dekaron Knight’s keen senses recognized that the vibration was coming from deep inside the ice wall.
At that time, a Glacher Troll ran past the old man and stuck to the wall again.
Ugh.
The startled Dekaron Knight hurriedly cut down the giant, but as expected, no heart was found in its body.
“What the hell is this….”
And one. Another one.
While the old man and the Wolf Knights were panicking, there was a gap in their defense and several more ice monsters were frozen on the ice wall.
If you rush over and cut it open, you still can’t see the ice heart. As if it had completely melted into ice.
“no way……!”
Lord Ilma took a deep breath as he remembered the creepy family. The fact that they completely melted into the ice wall… … .
And unfortunately, her ominous imagination quickly became reality.
Kurrrrrr.
The top of the ice wall seemed to be shaking, and then suddenly, a huge Glacher Troll rose from the top of the ice wall.
Woooooo-
The soldiers, who were standing dumbfounded by the sudden situation, were thrown down the ice wall like fallen leaves by the arms of the ice monster, which was swinging at random.
What awaits them is ice 40 meters below.
“Aaaahhh!”
“Aaaah!”
Thump thump thump.
Soldiers hurriedly rushed to the ladder to avoid the demonic beast stalking the ice wall.
However, as people began to hang on to the ladder indiscriminately, the ladder lost its balance and fell to the ground along with the soldiers.
Pow! puck!
The eerie sound of something breaking reverberates one after another.
Coo! Boom!
The vibrations from the ice wall also began to gradually increase. Now, all the Wolf Knights in the snowfield can feel it.
Oooooh-
To make matters worse, a series of long howls rang out from the chippy leaf forest in the distance. The units of the Lycan Slopes, who had been holding back until now, began to move in unison.
It was a nightmare.
‘The ice… Ice, which had been a strong defensive wall until now, is now becoming a greater threat than anything else!’
Sir Ilma’s decision was quick.
“Vincent! Matriarch! We must move our troops to a place where there are no ice walls! We must go to a place where there is no large ice where they can hide themselves!”
As the Wolf Knights, who had lost their ropes and pulleys, managed to climb up the ice wall on their own and move inside the base, the Glacher Trolls, who had no more hesitation, crossed the snowy field and crashed into the ice wall as much as they wanted.
Coo! thud!
Following the guy wandering around on the ice wall, ice monsters wandering around the base soon began to appear one by one.
When the Wolf Knights attacked all at once, they were able to take care of him quickly, but other Glacher Trolls, who sensed his scent, clung to the ice wall again and hid themselves. And it appears again in a completely unexpected place.
Several unlucky soldiers fell victim to the ice monster’s fists again.
‘If we replace our troops, we can somehow survive. But if things continue like this, the unnecessary damage will be too great!’
The Margrave also quickly came to a conclusion. It would be much more advantageous to deal with them if they retreated and dragged them to the rear.
But it was not easy to retreat.
Although the entrance to the ice wall was widened overnight, it was still not enough for a force numbering over 700 to move quickly.
It was a time when I was supporting the slow retreat and struggling to deal with the Glacher Trolls who had come and gone for a long time.
They received incredible news.
“Matriarch! The first and second ice walls have completely collapsed!”
… what? how?
And they were soon able to see the answer with their own eyes.
Boom boom boom!
In the narrow retreat road leading to the second ice wall, a huge Glacher Troll proudly appeared.
“Aaaah! The Glature Troll is attacking! It’s in the direction of the territory!”
“Has the territory been hit? Is it an enemy bucket!?”
and.
“No!”
“It’s our troops! Get back now!”
They hear a somewhat familiar voice explaining this.
“…Grand Duke?”
“To the lowest level?”
A person is riding a Glature Troll? It was a sight that I could not easily believe even when I saw it with my own eyes.
However, the Glature Troll that rushed into the base quickly calmly crouched down and stretched out its arms to the floor. From anyone’s perspective, it was a meticulous move to safely disembark the people on board.
“Am I dreaming right now?”
Old man Vincent mutters with a lost expression.
Hwiik.
Prince Mores, who jumped off the ice monster, approached him with an angry face and shouted.
“You frustrating old man!”
“…what?”
As an old man who had been revered as a Dekaron Knight and a great general of the Empire his entire life, it was an insult I had never heard before.
“This brat is actually a prince…!”
However, Seongjin shouted at the old man, Vincent, who was in tears.
“Are you doing this now? Shouldn’t we catch the guy who controls them first! Why is Dekaron Knight doing such a foolish thing?”
“What…?”
The old man’s eyes widened at the unexpected words, and the prince seemed frustrated and pointed his finger at one side of the cliff surrounding the base.
“You really don’t know that?”
“……!”
Only then did the old man open his eyes wide.
On the cliff the prince points to with his hand. In the dark shadows of the trees.
Dekaron Knight, whose senses were sensitive enough to catch demons even without divine power, immediately identified a suspicious presence when given the opportunity.
That ominous and evil feeling.
Just like that of a demon species.
“…How on earth?”
Does that kid know of a sign that even he couldn’t catch?
Then the young prince gave a firm command to Dekaron Knight. A strange sense of intimidation, one that was difficult to resist, enveloped her entire body.
“What are you hesitating about? Catch that guy right now!”
fantasy,
