Episode 79 I’ve been waiting for this day. (2)
“What, what the hell is this?”
A huge wall of fire completely surrounded the enemy forces.
I couldn’t even retreat, let alone move forward.
Everyone was dumbfounded and shocked by the sudden appearance of the phenomenon.
Victor was the first to come to his senses and shouted to the wizards next to him.
“Destroy the magic! I say, dispel it!”
But the wizards were wide-eyed and unable to move.
“Uh, we can’t break this spell.”
“What? You guys are wizards!”
“This is magic that transcends our circle.”
One of the wizards continued, stuttering.
“Look at the light. Does this look like normal magic? Have you ever seen anything like this? Even the tower lord of a great magic tower cannot use this kind of magic. We cannot dispel this magic.”
Another wizard spoke, glaring at the wall of fire.
“This is a 4th circle magic. But the one who cast it is not a 4th circle. At least… … .”
“at least?”
“… … More than 7 circles.”
“Don’t talk nonsense! There are only two 7th circle wizards in the kingdom! And there’s such a high-ranking wizard here?”
Victor gritted his teeth and shouted, but the wizard muttered to himself as if he couldn’t hear him.
“No, even a 7th circle magician wouldn’t be able to do this. What the hell is this? This is beyond the concept of normal magic. It’s definitely not the power of an individual. What is it? A magic circle? An artifact? There must be some kind of device. There must be a medium.”
Even in this time, the wizards prioritized satisfying their own curiosity over defeating their enemies.
They began to tear through the fire barrier and analyze the patterns of magical power.
But Victor had no interest in the principles of magic.
“The Count sent you here in case there was a wizard. But you can’t solve it? You’re just watching it leisurely!”
“Well, there’s nothing we can do.”
“Even Your Majesty would not have expected this.”
Victor felt his hair stand on end at the two wizards’ excuses.
“Ugh, you useless things! Isn’t this what we came here to prepare for?”
The reason Count Desmond gave him two wizards was to prepare for the possibility that Ferdium would use the money from selling the runestones to invite wizards.
But even the thorough Harold did not think that there would be more than 5th circle magicians in Ferdium.
In the entire kingdom, there are not more than 50 people in the 5th circle or higher.
No matter how much money he had, the only people Ferdium could bring in during that short period of time were 4th circle magicians.
I thought that even that would require some luck to be invited.
“Are you saying that even the Count didn’t expect it?”
Victor muttered to himself and then raised his head.
A siege became impossible because of the wall of fire blocking the way on all sides.
I had to wait until the magic wore off.
There’s fire everywhere, but if you run fast you should be able to get away somehow.
“We’re falling back! We’ll regroup and advance again once the fire is out! Get out of this area as fast as you can!”
Just as I was about to shout loudly and turn my horse’s head, one of the magicians spoke.
“Come to think of it, there seems to be an unusually high concentration of magic power here. Something feels strange… … .”
Gurrrrrr!
At that moment, the horse they were riding stumbled. The wizard was unable to continue riding and grabbed the reins.
Vanessa cast the next level of magic.
The golden magic circle engraved in her eyes circled around once.
Crispy!
The runestone bracelets she and Alfoy were wearing were turned to dust and scattered.
The wall of fire was just a means to temporarily tie down the opponent in one place. The real thing was about to start.
The magical power that had been absorbed into the surroundings gradually took shape.
It soon permeated the land and met something that was waiting beneath the ground.
Finally, the conditions were perfectly met.
Vanessa muttered softly.
“… … Flame Strike.”
The earth shook and magical power exploded out.
Kuung!
Krrrr!
Kwaaaaang!
Dozens of huge pillars of fire rose up from various places with a roar that seemed to shake the heavens and the earth.
“Eww!”
Victor’s soldiers screamed and burned as they were burned.
Those at the center of the pillar of fire were reduced to ash and disappeared without even being able to scream.
“This is!”
Kwaaaaang!
Even Victor and the wizards could not escape the explosion.
The battlefield was a complete mess.
The survivors began to scream, throw their weapons, and scatter.
“Eww!”
“Save me!”
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“Get back! Go back!”
Fire and fire fill the four directions.
The giant pillars of fire grew in size, devouring siege towers and ladder carts.
Soldiers with their bodies on fire roll around on the floor.
The soldiers of Ferdium inside the gates watched the hellish scene with bated breath.
Who on earth prepared something like this?
Zwalter, who had been out of his mind, staggered, barely regained his balance, stood up straight, and looked down.
Unlike the confused soldiers, Giselle and the mercenaries seemed calm.
“No way… … You, Giselle?”
At that moment, Vanessa collapsed, spewing blood.
A nearby mercenary caught her as she fell through the air.
Jiselle looked back for a moment and opened her mouth.
“Belinda, take care of the wizards.”
“Yes? Yes, yes!”
Belinda and a few soldiers carried the fallen wizards back.
Jiselle turned around and started walking away. The mercenaries followed behind her.
Zwalter shouted loudly.
“Giselle! What are you doing!”
But Giselle neither answered nor stopped. Zwalter shouted again, urgently.
“Stop! Stop! Stop it now! We’ve won! Everyone will run away from that fire! Why on earth are you trying to get out? It’s a sea of fire outside!”
Only then did Giselle stop walking and look at him.
A dry answer came back.
“Because I have to kill you.”
“what?”
“We will catch and kill all those who run away. We must make them realize the painful price of overstepping Ferdium.”
“Are you serious… … .”
“In the future, enemies targeting this place will think twice. Whether they have the courage to risk their lives.”
Kuung.
A wild murderous aura emanated from Jiselle. It was the kind of aura that only someone who had lived by piling up corpses could display.
Zwalter felt goosebumps all over his body when he saw his son for the first time.
How on earth can he display such momentum?
But right now, the priority was to stop his son.
“I understand what you mean, but how can I get into that fire?”
Even if you protect yourself with mana, there is a limit to how much fire you can deal with.
Most people who try to break through clumsily will end up dying.
But despite Zwalter’s desperate cries, Giselle only smiled silently.
* * *
Count Thamos, who was watching from behind, was startled by the flames that suddenly rose up.
“What, what is this? What is this? Why is there fire all of a sudden! There’s nothing there!”
I can’t even figure out what the heck is going on or what the phenomenon is.
The soldiers who were on the outskirts managed to escape, but many more died.
Some people managed to escape even though the fire was burning, but they died shortly after.
As Thamos stared blankly, one of the young staff members shouted loudly.
“Wake up! We must give the order to retreat! Blow the trumpet and send the remaining soldiers ahead! We must rescue the wounded!”
The staff member continued speaking urgently to Thamos, who still could not come to his senses.
“This isn’t a forest. The area is wide open and there’s nothing to ride, so once we get out, we can regroup and gather our troops!”
One of the reasons why fire is so scary is because the fire can spread quickly, burning nearby trees and other things.
But in a plain like this where there is nothing special, it will not spread much and will die out quickly.
“You, you are under the secretary… … your name was Lowell? What if the enemy is chasing you? We, we should run away even now… … .”
“The enemy can’t come through the fire either. They’re probably waiting for us to escape or burn to death. It would take time to come by going around the other gate. We have to move now.”
At Lowell’s words, Thamos stammered and asked again.
“No, but… … if they come before we can gather our troops… … wouldn’t it be better to just run away?”
“Ah, sir… … No, my lord! Even if we surrender, we’re finished if we don’t have any troops left! If we have any troops left, we can at least negotiate a surrender! We have to leave with at least one more person alive!”
“That, that’s right. That’s right. Move the wounded! We’ll retreat as soon as we gather enough!”
As Thamos shouted urgently, the escort troops remaining in the rear moved.
Although he only had a few hundred men, this was all the troops he had left.
* * *
Meanwhile, Jiselle looked back at the mercenaries, tapping her armor.
“We can’t last long. Kill them as quickly as possible and then strike the rest.”
The black armor worn by Giselle and the mercenaries was made up of the inner skin of the Dirus Ent.
Since it is a material that can block the flame magic of the 4th circle, it will be able to withstand that huge magical fire for a while.
Gillian said, shaking her head.
“It’s probably the most expensive ship in history.”
“That’s right. I blew all the rune stones I brought this time.”
“Don’t you feel sorry for the rune stone?”
“Money is just a means to an end.”
Even the mercenaries who had followed orders without knowing what was going on only then could figure out what Giselle’s strategy was.
Since war was declared, Giselle had her mercenaries bury a lot of runestones in the ground outside the castle.
“I thought you were hiding it in case it got stolen, but I didn’t know you’d use it like this. All those guys are just getting swept away.”
“Isn’t it a shame?”
“I tried to dig it up later and take some, but it all ended up exploding.”
The mercenaries laughed in vain.
Normally, he would run away with all those runestones. That’s enough to last him a lifetime.
But to blow up all those runestones for a trap that’s only going to be used once.
I couldn’t tell whether to say it was great or too much.
“Still, that woman is amazing. She is a true magician.”
“What circle is this? Are you a great wizard?”
“I thought she was just a maid.”
The mercenaries were impressed by the results, but the truth was a little different.
Even if she had received a lot of magical power transfer, Vanessa would not be able to explode this many rune stones at the same time.
I just detonated a few of the rune stones.
However, all the rune stones were engraved with spells such as focus, chain, and explosion.
Before war was declared, Vanessa diligently practiced her magic under Giselle’s orders.
It was a task that could only be accomplished with her exceptional magical theories and senses.
Jiselle had been preparing this trap since she dug up the runestone in the Forest of Demons.
Bringing Vanessa from the tower was part of that.
And finally, it’s time to make those who invaded this place pay.
It was time to let out all the anger I had been holding in.
“Kill everyone you see!”
Jiselle ran out shouting loudly.
As Gillian and Kaor followed, the hesitant mercenaries also gritted their teeth and chased after them.
“Okay! Let’s go!”
“I said it was okay, so it should be okay!”
“Let’s catch them all before they run away!”
Cheeeeek!
The inner skin of the Dirus Ent began to dry out and emit steam when it came into contact with fire.
“Oh, it’s warm! It’s warm!”
“Can you hold out?”
“Let’s kill him quickly and get out!”
There were still quite a few survivors in the battlefield that had become hell.
The mercenaries chased them with all their might, swinging their weapons as they ran away to escape.
“Kwaaah!”
Enemies struggling in the fire fell in vain.
While the mercenaries slaughtered the survivors, Jiselle searched for someone in the flames.
‘We have to kill this bastard Viktor first.’
Even now, Viktor is strong. It was clear that he would become a formidable opponent as time passed.
In this war, we had to find and kill them.
‘It would be fortunate if he died from a direct hit from the pillar of fire, but… … we need to check at least the body parts.’
Jiselle ran through the terrible screams of enemy soldiers coming from all directions.
‘Found it.’
And finally, they found a man standing alone in the flames.
“Kuaaaaah! My army! How dare you attack me!”
Victor was screaming with rage.
Half of his face was still covered in blisters, and his armor was broken and dented in places.
Still, he was alive.
“I’ll kill you all! I’ll rip open your stomachs, cut off your heads, and hang you on the wall!”
Both eyes sparkled with madness.
I can’t go back like this.
I must single-handedly cut off the heads of Lord Ferdium and his vassals.
Even if he died here, it was the last way to save his honor and face.
Just as Victor was about to leap towards Ferdium Castle, gushing out mana.
grasp!
Something shot at him through the flames.
