Episode 279: We all live together and we all die together (2)
The messenger, unaware of this, was so intoxicated with pride that he reported success.
He now grabbed Gillian’s leg and began to plead.
“Sir, spare me. If I don’t take you with me today, I’m dead. Didn’t you clearly say you would surrender? I didn’t give you enough time!”
“I said I would do it if I could convince everyone. I will do it if you give me another week.”
No matter how much the messenger pleaded, Gillian remained unwavering.
Eventually, the messenger returned with a pale face and reported.
“Oh, there are still some who haven’t been convinced… … so please give them one more week.”
Harold looked at the messenger with murderous eyes. He was not stupid. He had figured out the situation by looking at the messenger’s reaction and the time it had taken.
Slurp.
He immediately drew his sword and growled.
“Because of your whining, I’ve been ridiculed by those lowly guys again.”
Harold’s pride was in his high honor and dignity. But when he suffered this humiliation, the anger he had previously felt from Giselle came back to him.
The messenger fell to the ground and begged.
“Please, spare me! I must! I must persuade you again… … .”
“Persuasion? You’re trying to persuade me again after you’ve already wasted a week of my precious time and smeared my face with it?”
“Yes, yes! This time for sure… … .”
“Shut up!”
Phew!
Harold himself was a knight of high rank. He swung his sword in anger, and the head of the prone grim reaper exploded in an instant.
Harold, still angry, continued to attack the messenger’s body.
“This pathetic guy!”
Phew!
“I can’t even convince those lowly guys!”
Phew!
“Me! To Giselle and her men! How long must I endure such humiliation!”
Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter!
No one could stop Harold from mutilating the corpse with his devil-like face.
I know that it’s because the anger that has built up over time and the impatience from being pressed for time have exploded.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
“after…….”
Only when the body was completely mangled did Harold stop his work, sweeping his hands up his head.
Unlike his usual dignified and neat appearance, he looked quite disheveled.
Harold’s eyes began to fill with life again as he looked at the corpse before him.
It was a murderous intent directed not at the messengers, but at the Fenris army holed up in the fortress.
“These lowly creatures dare to use such a cheap trick… … .”
It wasn’t Harold’s fault. Although he had preconceived notions, he had no choice but to rely on the messenger’s report since he had not met him in person.
Since he was a fairly capable guy and spoke confidently, I believed him and gave him time.
But in the end, the persuasion failed. He couldn’t stand the thought of those lowly people making fun of him and stealing his precious time.
In the meantime, Fenris’s forces would have been refitted and fully recovered from their wounds and health.
Chaenggrang.
Harold threw down his sword and glared at the adjutant next to him.
“Destroy that fortress completely immediately.”
“Oh, I understand.”
“And then capture all those guys and tear their limbs apart.”
Now, there was no choice but to take their time and win for sure. They planned to use their overwhelming superiority in power to trample the fortress itself.
It was a necessary step to capture Giselle, but it was also a way to instill fear in those lowly, arrogant guys who had made fun of him.
Harold continued, gritting his teeth.
“I’ll give you three days. Then tell Willow. My men can’t completely block magical attacks, so kill everyone you can.”
At the command of the enraged Harold, the catapults and wizards were brought out again. They also brought rams, but did not use them.
There was no need to break through a single narrow gate and advance step by step. They could simply tear down the walls and surround the enemy from all sides.
The plan was to calmly take advantage of the large army and pressure Fenris’s forces.
“Shoot!”
The attack began as Desmond’s army commanders shouted loudly.
Boom! Kwaaang! Boom!
The magic spells cast by wizards and the boulders fired by catapults pounded the walls of the fortress without stopping.
As soon as the enemies moved, Fenris’ army immediately prepared for battle.
“Step back!”
When Gillian shouted, everyone hurriedly descended from the walls. There was no point in standing on the walls when such a massive attack was coming.
I couldn’t fight back anyway, and it was obvious that I would get hit and die if I hung around nearby.
Gillian glared at Desmond and took a deep breath.
“It’s better this way.”
The enemy seemed to be planning to destroy the fortress to reduce the damage. However, Gillian’s goal was not to defend this fortress. His top priority was to stall the enemy and buy time.
“I guess we can avoid close combat for the time being.”
I had already bought a week of time by struggling with the messengers, and now I was going to buy even more time before the walls came down. This situation was absolutely welcome.
There’s just one problem.
There is a monster in the enemy camp that can attack even the friendly forces that have retreated inside the fortress.
Boooow!
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Willow, floating high in the air, cast her spell while looking down on the fortress.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Countless boulders began to fall from the sky and destroy the inside of the fortress.
“Damn it! That kid’s back again!”
“f*ck! If Vanessa had come, you’d be dead!”
“Stop showing off, you punk!”
Willow laughed as she watched Fenris’s men run around, only swearing and avoiding her.
“Those worms. Why did you waste time trying to persuade those guys?”
How dare those lowly guys act so cocky just because they’re fighting. Willow didn’t object to the persuasion since it was Harold’s order, but deep down she didn’t like it.
These vermin-like guys should have been wiped out from the start, without any persuasion or anything.
It was a shame that we should have seen the end of the battle a while ago. At that time, the enemy commander Gillian and Baron Hutton were so weak that I couldn’t get involved even if I wanted to.
But today is different. It’s much easier to use magic without allies.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Even as Willow was destroying the inside of the fortress with her magic, she carefully observed the surroundings. The walls were slowly crumbling from the outside due to the attacks of the catapults and wizards.
“I’ll leave the other side to their own devices and go catch a few bugs.”
But then, he saw some of the spells he had cast inside the fortress disappear.
It was magic that fell right around the knights in black armor.
Thanks to the disappearance of the magic, the soldiers gathered around the knight were unharmed. The boulders simply destroyed the buildings and supplies inside the fortress.
“Hmm, that’s strange. You’ve been preparing for magical attacks in your own way. You’re definitely not a wizard, but how did you do it? How many artifacts do you carry around? It’s frustrating not being able to see it up close.”
Willow, as a wizard, was very curious about the current situation. However, he could not have imagined that all of the armors of the Fenris knights were artifacts.
Who would think that one knight would carry the budget of several years for a small estate?
When trying to find an answer within one’s own common sense, one could find an approximate answer, but it was impossible to find the exact answer.
Gillian ground her teeth as she watched Willow leisurely watch.
‘I could have lasted longer if it weren’t for that guy.’
Those kinds of wizards are always the problem. Especially high-circle wizards can turn the tide of battle in their favor.
Because it attacks a wide area with boundless destructive power, it is very difficult to deal with.
Especially if they are so far away and under the same protection.
If there had been a magician on the allied side, we could have kept each other in check by destroying each other’s magic, but unfortunately there were no magicians here.
“Shoot first!”
At Gillian’s shout, the soldiers fired arrows. Nearly a thousand arrows flew in such a way that they almost completely covered the space where Willow was.
But Willow snorted as she watched the arrows flying towards her.
“How pathetic.”
Tata tata tang!
The arrows could not penetrate the shield spread out in front of Willow. In the first place, there was no way that the attacks of ordinary soldiers could penetrate the magic power of a 6th circle magician.
Willow, who had been laughing at Fenris’s army, began to gather magic power in her hands again.
“I’m tired of just looking. I’ll just kill everything and find something new. Why don’t you try stopping this too?”
Large-scale area-of-effect magic inevitably reduces the power of each attack.
But what about powerful magic that focuses all of its power into one point? Can such trivial tools stop it?
He was a little hurt by the fact that his magic was still partially blocked, just like it was a few days ago, so he poured all his magical power into it.
Kwajijijik!
A powerful electric energy began to gather in one of Willow’s hands.
Normally, I wouldn’t have used magic that consumed such a huge amount of magical power. However, in a safe situation where I was protected by my allies, there was no need to protect myself.
Kwajik! Kwajik! Kwajik!
Gillian shouted as he noticed a tremendous amount of magical power concentrated in one spot.
“Throw the spear!”
Wedge!
The knights threw their mana-infused spears with all their might.
Kaang! Kaaang! Kaang!
“Huh?”
Willow’s eyes opened wide at the fairly strong attack.
Every time it was hit by a spear, the shield’s magical power would greatly fluctuate and its strength would be weakened. That means each attack had great destructive power.
“Are you saying that all of them are really intermediate level knights or higher?”
As a 6th circle magician, he had to be at least that level to inflict this much damage on his shield. Willow was once again amazed by Fenris’s power.
Soon his eyes became sharp.
“As the Count said, we must kill as many as possible.”
The Fenris guys are all hiding inside the fortress. There is no way to kill anyone with attacks from outside the walls right now. If I kill at least one more guy, my team will suffer less damage when we confront them head-on.
Kwajijijik!
The electric energy now gathered in Willow’s hand was incomparably greater than before.
“Shall we go and see it?”
As Willow casually scanned the fort, thinking about what to attack.
Whiriliriririk!
“hmm?”
An axe flew at me with terrifying speed. For a moment, I thought I would die if I was hit by it.
“How dare you!”
With an impression, he released a bolt of electricity in the direction the axe had come from, intending to kill the insolent bastard who had attacked him.
Kwaaaaaaaah!
As the blue lightning was released, an axe flew from below and struck Willow’s shield.
Immediately after a tremendous roar that seemed to shake the heavens and the earth erupted.
“Kwaaah!”
Willow screamed, clutching her left shoulder.
The shield had already been broken, and his left arm had been blown away along with the axe.
Willow fell to the ground, bleeding profusely. His body would have been torn to pieces if Desmond’s knights and wizards waiting below had not caught him.
“Eww!”
Willow, who had lived an elegant life, could not come to her senses due to the pain she felt for the first time in her life.
At this moment, I couldn’t think of magic, war, orders, or anything else.
“Quick, bring Willow to the rear!”
The 6th Circle Wizard is a precious being. Everyone around him clung to him and safely carried Willow to the camp.
The best potions were poured in there, and the medics were all busy treating his shoulder.
The Fenris troops inside the fortress all looked at Gillian with blank expressions.
Cheeeeeeek!
Gillian’s body wasn’t normal either. He had been hit by a direct 6-circle lightning magic and was emitting steam from his entire body.
“Ugh… … .”
Gillian couldn’t hold out any longer and fell to her knees.
Blisters rose all over his body and the smell of burning meat filled the air.
“Instructor!”
The knights ran over and tried to help Gillian up, but Gillian still waved his hands and got up on his own.
‘You are indeed strong.’
He was indeed a high-circle wizard. He drew everyone’s attention to himself as he saw the enormous magical power gathering.
Fearing that the knights and soldiers would suffer great damage, he hastily drew out all his mana and threw the axe.
At the same time, he stepped forward and blocked the magic that was pouring out with his body. He was still recovering from the injuries he received from Baron Hutton, so he almost died.
If the dispel that activated from the armor of the knights around him hadn’t weakened his magic, he might have really died.
“Phew… … .”
Gillian’s body was no longer normal. With his chest pierced by Baron Hutton and Willow’s magic, he could barely sit up.
But his eyes still burned fiercely. I could feel his strong determination to somehow catch the enemy’s ankle.
That’s why the knights around them couldn’t say anything.
“Back off a little further. There’s nothing we can do until the wall falls completely.”
Boom! Kwaang! Boom!
The enemy attacks were still fierce. Even inside the fortress, magic and stones occasionally flew in, destroying buildings and materials.
The weapons available for counterattack were limited to begin with, and even those were all destroyed in the first battle.
Fenris’s forces retreated a little further and had time to regroup.
Gillian also rested and healed his body. There was no place on his body that was not now wrapped in bandages.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Desmond’s army’s attacks continued day and night. The noise was so loud that it was difficult to sleep.
‘Just hold on a little longer… … .’
Gillian looked at the wall with longing. The sooner the wall fell, the more time he could buy.
In the face of such overwhelming force, all he could do was to hold on and continue fighting.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
After three days, the upper part of the wall was now completely destroyed.
Still, it was difficult for the soldiers to enter easily. Harold muttered with a frown.
“It’s incredibly strong. It wasn’t like this when Count Cavaldi ruled. How much reinforcement did they put in?”
Even though the enemy had no weapons left and they attacked openly for three days, the walls still did not collapse.
The first order that Giselle gave when building the fortress was to increase its durability. In particular, fortresses in key locations such as Stonehaven were to be much stronger than other fortresses.
Harold clicked his tongue. Time was being delayed so much in such an unexpected place.
“Don’t stop, keep pouring.”
With the walls lowered, Harold thought about pushing his troops back in, but he soon shook his head. It was obvious that even if he did that, it would only result in the same fighting as the first day.
It’s a strong fortress, but it’s not an indestructible fortress. Desmond’s army really kept on attacking the walls.
Kwaaang!
As one side finally collapsed, other parts began to have problems.
After pouring attacks for several more days, the fortress collapsed in many places and became an ugly sight. It held out longer than expected, but it was destined to eventually collapse.
Harold gave the order without hesitation, his face fierce.
“All forces, seize the fortress immediately.”
