Episode 44
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The Purifiers of the Red Tower. The number of people roughly estimated on horseback is around a dozen. These dozen or so ‘Purifiers’ are processing their red magic and burning with murderous intent.
“Geuuuuuuuu!”
Pursuing Dale’s cavalry of three hundred knights, with hundreds of orc riders assisting them.
It’s the worst case scenario.
Against the magicians of the Red Tower, forming a line and charging with cavalry would be tantamount to suicide. In the face of their overwhelming firepower, it would be like openly asking for them to bombard this place.
The true power of the knights lies in the tactical destructive power that comes from thorough organization. And the scary thing about the Red Tower was that it blocked that very organization. The Red Magicians are not called the ‘God of War’ for nothing.
However, if they unilaterally disperse, the orc riders chasing them will catch them by the ankles.
‘Things have become a headache.’
Thinking like that, Dale was about to turn his gaze to the ‘tentacle’ that was squeezing his heart.
“Get off your horse, Dale.”
The voice of the elf wizard, Sepia, was heard. Regaining his usual composure and calmness. Dale did not hesitate at Sepia’s words. There was no way Dale would not know the meaning of what the elf wizard of the 6th circle was saying.
He dismounts and leaves the scattered cavalry behind, following Dale’s orders.
With his escort knight Charlotte by his side.
“The rest of the cavalry, just follow my orders!”
Dale shouted at the top of his lungs at the cavalrymen who were shaken by the sudden dismounting of their commander. Immediately afterwards, the orc riders and purifiers began to gallop, aiming for the ‘Black Prince’ who was standing defenselessly on the frozen ground with both feet.
“Ice crystal.”
Sepia opened her mouth softly in front of the enemies who were quickly approaching.
As a snow elf and a 6th circle elf wizard with the water attribute, blessed with the land of Saxony, she has made up her mind to protect her disciple and fight against the enemy.
“Swirling.”
Sepia opened her mouth. It was a voice that resonated with such clarity and transparency. It was a sound that was incomparable to anything else.
At the same time, the world froze.
A storm of ice crystals began to swirl around her feet.
Phew!
Hundreds of wolves and orc riders galloped towards the two, all of them caught in the whirlwind of cold air swirling around Sepia’s feet, and they froze in place, like ice age fossils trapped in ice.
Only a few, the Purifiers, protect themselves against her cold with ‘Armor of Flame’.
“Repel your young knight, Dale.”
Sepia opened her mouth in the midst of the cold storm.
“I, I have a duty to protect Dale… … .”
Charlotte, who understood the meaning of those words, adjusted her grip on the sword.
“shallot.”
But Dale just shook his head quietly.
“It is the lord’s order.”
“… … .”
After a moment’s hesitation, Charlotte nodded.
“Get on the horse and never let go of the reins.”
After saying so, Dale took Charlotte on his horse, along with the heavy burden she had to carry out.
“Let’s retreat to the starting point and inform Father of our situation.”
“……okay.”
Charlotte nodded. It was not as if she could not understand the weight of the order given to her.
As Charlotte moved away, the ‘Shadows of Flame’ emerged from the swirling cold storm. Standing on two legs, their bodies covered in blazing armor of flame. Twelve Purifiers of the Red Tower. Not a small number.
Dale’s cavalry, now scattered in all directions, is finishing off the orc riders.
“Why is the Red Tower acting together with the demons?”
Dale asked.
“… … .”
The shadows of the flames did not answer.
Purifier.
A mad enforcer who fanatically believes in the flames of the Red Tower and does not hesitate to burn himself. For them, the only thing that matters is burning the enemies of the Red Tower.
For Purifiers, the pursuit of magic is all about ‘how to burn enemies in what situation’, and any magic other than that intended for killing is a luxury.
It would not be an exaggeration to call him the ‘Knight of the Red Tower’.
As magicians, their individual abilities are incomparable to those of Elder Sepia of the Blue Tower, but their true value lies in their ‘organizational power as a group’, as their nickname, ‘Knights of the Red Tower’ suggests.
The shadows of the flames stretched out their arms in unison. The bloody magic swirling from their hands combined and created an upward effect.
To unleash the karma of hell that will blow away Dale and Sepia in one blow.
“Ring out.”
But Sepia snapped her fingers again.
With a harmony that is elegant, yet has an inexplicable unpleasantness.
“… … !”
The barrage that should have been blazing fireworks died down like a fleeting candle, buried in a landscape that seemed to be sleet falling.
I could tell right away that it was the blue tower’s technique that focused on defense and disruption rather than attack.
Disarm… … It’s a dispel magic.
Countless particles of blue magic power are generated from Sepia’s hands, scattering in all directions.
A special skill of the Blue Wizard, which involves breaking the structure by interfering with the formation of magical power and blocking the source of magic.
《Blue Dissonance》.
Seeing that sight, Dale also did not hesitate.
“Knights of Saxony, now is the time!”
Since magic that requires a certain level of complexity is blocked by the ‘Dissonance of Sepia’, there aren’t many actions that a magician who can’t use high-level magic can take in the face of charging cavalry.
“Charging!”
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So, the Saxon black cavalry began to charge, forming their ranks.
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That moment.
The orcs are endlessly trying to force their way through the ford, and the main force led by the Duke of Saxony is engaging in fierce defensive battles against them.
A wall of heavy knights armed with heavy armor and the desperate struggles of orcs to break through it.
The elders of the Black Tower and the Black Tower under their command also watched from a distant slope, with countless young Black Tower shamans behind them.
“Eris.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Watching the situation, the black gong opened his mouth softly.
“Send the children to the crossing point commanded by Baron Kennet and Captain Johnes.”
Pointing out a relatively weak point in front of the orcs’ forced breakthrough.
“I will follow the Lord’s orders.”
At those words, the secretary of the Black Tower, Eris, silently nodded.
‘children’.
The young black magicians of the black magic tower who had been silent behind began to move. For the magicians of the black magic tower, the battlefield is a place of learning that cannot be compared to anything else. Death is everywhere, and the truth always exists in death.
At the same time, the lords who had gathered under the name of the Duke of Saxony engaged in a bloody battle, and the intensity of the battle heated up to a certain level.
“… … It’s done now.”
Finally, the Black Knight opened his mouth. Towards the Black Guard, the best black magicians of the empire, clad in pitch-black robes. To put an end to this battle.
I was trying to give an order.
“Now, Your Excellency the Duke of Saxony!”
It was shortly afterwards that the young knight Charlotte arrived with a message from Dale.
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The cavalry began to charge in line, and twelve Purifiers began to move against them.
Streams of flame crash down, hitting the ground and scattering in all directions.
A quick, instantaneous blast that is not affected by the Blue Dissonance. However, it has enough firepower to wipe out the cavalry charging towards you.
“… … !”
From the flaming armor surrounding the Purifier, streams of fire shot out and struck the cavalrymen. Dale and Sepia easily raised a wall of cold to block their attacks. Although the cavalrymen’s charge was also stopped by the sudden wall of cold, it was better than having casualties.
Two water-attribute magicians built a shield of ice on the blessed land. They strengthened the bond to the point where it could withstand the heat of the Purifiers, in other words, they added a rapid cooling formula──and Dale added the formulas of fragmentation and sharding to the ice wall.
Immediately after defense, to burst the ice wall for offensive purposes.
The cavalry charge was nothing more than a ruse.
Shard Magnum.
A large wall of ice exploded, sending countless shards of ice flying like sharply-cut shotgun shells at the flame armor surrounding the Purifiers.
But before it can reach the shadow of the blazing flame, the ice projectile melts away in vain.
‘… … !’
A flame is the result of the combination of the three elements of heat, matter, and oxygen… … Heat is ultimately a measure of the intensity of the molecular movement that makes up a substance.
Just as coldness refers to the concept of molecular movement becoming less and less frequent, it also refers to the concept of moving closer to a state of stillness.
But the armor of flames that melts even the ice combined with Sepia’s formula.
‘It can’t be possible.’
We are not fighting on the hot sands of the earth. In the frozen soil of Saxony, you can start a fire that can melt even the ice created by the elders of the Blue Tower? What on earth can you do with it?
It didn’t take long to get the answer.
As the ice wall protecting the cavalry vanished, the twelve Purifiers scattered in all directions. Most of them were exposed to Dale’s charging cavalry, and several of them broke through the cavalry’s encirclement and closed the distance with Dale and Sepia.
Right after that.
“Shadow Bullet.”
A ‘shadow bullet’ that could not be melted by anything like fire struck, and one of the Purifiers fell down, riddled with bullets.
Right in front of Dale’s nose.
The robe fell away, revealing his face. It was a living pile of ash, his skin scorched by the flames and his bones melting away.
“… …What is your purpose?”
Dale asked the Purifier, who had fallen to his knees.
“Hee, heeheehe.”
I wasn’t really expecting a plausible answer.
“Soon the whole world will burn… … !”
As expected.
“The world will burn, and from the ashes they will descend… … !”
All that follows is a series of mad rants, accompanied by twisted smiles.
Kwaaang!
At the same time, an explosion occurred. An explosion so powerful that it engulfed everyone in the area, including himself.
‘Self-destruct magic!’
I could see it and intuitively feel it. Only then did I understand. It wasn’t like he was wearing some kind of armor made of flames.
The Purifiers of the Red Tower here were burning themselves from the beginning. Not their armor, but their own flesh, blood, and bones.
Dale’s blood ran cold as he realized that fact.
A baptism of fire engulfed Dale’s cavalry within range of the explosion, and even Dale and Sepia were no exception.
Just one out of twelve explosives.
