Chapter 133
133Tuesday Byeolcheol Transportation Mission
"Deploy a separate unit."
It was an urgent decision.
Now that the moon fragments have fallen to the wrong place due to the devil's intervention, Leon announced the deployment of a special force to retrieve the fragments..
Agnak, a great saint, presented her opinion..
"It will be dangerous. It's not like the devils knew what they were doing, but they probably knew something was there.."
"I know. However, that special season was an opportunity that Director Isabel Shin risked her life to create. We must secure it.."
Yes, I can't give up. Even for the sake of the future, Leon cannot choose the option of giving it up..
"Fortunately, Byeolcheol is like a lump of pure holy power. Most demons will disappear just by touching them.."
The summoning of a star that only strikes the evil ones without causing any damage to the good ones..
It passed through the atmosphere and destroyed over two hundred thousand demons. It is the greatest violence that can be caused by divine power..
"Jim can't go out on his own.."
"The obvious thing to say… ! Your Majesty, please leave it to this work! I will retrieve the fragments and come back.!"
As soon as Loxley thought of the possibility of Leon coming out in person, he was startled and went out..
It's the Allied Forces. This army won't function without Leon..
Even though the army is less than 200,000 strong, why don't 10 million demons attack at once?.
There are powerful people called the Holy Grail Knights, but above them is the Guardian of the Holy Grail, the Lionheart King..
If Leon is killed, the Allied Forces will collapse at once. This was not a gloomy prediction or assumption, but a clear truth.
"Lord Antok."
"Please speak, Your Majesty.."
"The fragments of the moon shot by Priest Isabel can only be disassembled by iron and blacksmith priests. You will take responsibility and lead a separate team to secure the fragments.."
"Your Majesty, how much discretion is allowed in forming a separate unit??"
"Two saint-level people. As it is a small elite, select the best.."
Antok looked a little perplexed at those words..
He also knew Leon's intention to attach importance to the safety of the detachment. But what can we do about the defense of this place if two Holy Grail knights are missing??
The reason why the numbers, which are already dozens of times different, are somehow symmetrically balanced is because of the existence of the Holy Grail Knights..
What happened when the strongest Holy Grail Knight, Lord Vulcan, went missing recently?──
"Your Majesty, can't you give the Grand Duke of Dragonia an order to retreat??"
"Impossible. The Archduke and the Northern Army have made a choice. Jim can't force it.."
The members of this coalition are nominally equal, but that does not mean they are actually equal..
Lionheart, which gathers the survivors of a fallen nation and is the actual greatest force, is the absolute symbol of this allied force..
But the Dragonian Northern Army was different..
Long ago, the Grand Duke of Dragonia, who founded Lionheart with the first Lionheart King, was a dragon slayer who successively killed the dragons that were the kingdom's greatest enemies at the time..
Therefore, the first Lionheart King made Dragonia semi-independent as a grand duchy and made it his eternal ally..
They are the representatives of the North and a barrier against barbarians. The Lionheart Kings can never treat the Dragonian Prince like they do below him..
"Grand Duke Carina will not return.."
"Then your majesty."
Antok continued the previous topic..
"Please include those two among those who have joined the coalition this time.."
"……Are these the ones brought by Lord Gillingham??"
"Yes, when I heard them, they all said they had extraordinary skills. In particular, a woman named Beatrice and a heterogeneous race called Yacht Spinner. they will be of great help."
"……."
Leon thought for a moment. Only he knows that they are saints and saints ordained by his future self..
In the end, unlike themselves, who only recreate the past, they have real lives..
I wanted to escape this place with as little danger as possible, but…….
'It doesn't make sense to waste two strong men of the Holy Grail Knight level..'
Han Ha-ri and Cheon So-yeon are strong at the leader level, but they are not comparable to the Holy Grail Knight..
Those two would be able to overcome most threats on their own..
"From now on, it's a battle of speed. Hurry up and secure the moon fragments and return.."
* * * *
Two knight corps of about 500 knights and a company of freedmen's light cavalry literally ran towards the moon fragments at lightning speed..
Lionheart's warhorse had the stamina to endure a three-day race. Even the cavalrymen, who considered such warhorses the pride of their country, could not help but be horrified to see the strange figure leading the way..
"……kyung. Is that really a living thing??"
One article's question was reasonable. It was the same with Antok..
-Many, Many, Many!
Eight steel bridges running across the ground. The steel spider, which is dozens of times bigger than Lionheart's steed, runs at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour..
Even this was restrained in order to keep pace with the warhorse that was barely following behind..
A strange steel creature that has never been seen on any continent or kingdom..
Can you believe something like that? The answer to that question was simple.
"Heto is a knight chosen by God. Ariana was appointed as a Holy Grail Knight. Isn’t that enough?."
The Knights of Lionheart are particularly stubborn and inflexible, but it is the Lionheart King's orders and the choice of the pantheon that allow them to demonstrate infinite flexibility..
Your Majesty has ordered, but are you going to protest??
The gods chose it, but how can a mere creature understand its meaning as deep as the deep sea??
Knights are ready to accept anything as long as it isn't something as bizarre as converting demons or orcs to become knights..
Apparently, among the special forces, the only people who stand by Yaphy, who is a strange person, are Sir Antok, who is infatuated with his abilities, and Beatrice, who was originally in the group..
-Kikluk!
Yapi stored drones with exhausted batteries in the fuselage, flew a secondary drone reconnaissance party, and displayed a holographic map that integrated and mapped surrounding information..
"Oh... What kind of magic is this??"
Sir Antok approaches, admiring the 3D map with detailed terrain and forest views. Yapi let out a confident squeak..
- A piece of an integrated reconnaissance system that cannot be realized with the technological level of barbaric organics. The excellence of this machine is the best in the pantheon.
"Haha, indeed. It's all-purpose. He is also my disciple."
Yapi looks slightly dissatisfied with Antok's remarks..
- Correction of name is recommended. You are only a technology provider. I do not have the intellectual capacity to force a priestly relationship on my partner..
"Hahahahaha!"
It was Antok, laughing and tapping the mechanical leg of Yapi, who was twice his height..
"It looks like you've become friends.?"
"Yes it looks?"
"There aren't many people among us who can have a conversation like this with Sir Yapi.."
Yappy tends to deal with most opponents mechanically. At least Hari can be said to be friendly, but should we call it friendliness or one-sided flirting?.
In that respect, the sight of Yapi being unable to move from Antok was refreshing to Beatrice as well..
'Since Sir Yapi is the embodiment of rationality, he seems to be coveting Sir Antok's skills..'
Is there something in common between the knights of iron and blacksmithing??
Beatrice expressed her regret, saying that it would have been nice to have met Lord Zereah at least once when the gate was first opened..
"Lady, I'm sure you've figured it out.."
"Yeah, that's strangely calm.."
In addition to searching for Yapi, he did not neglect reconnaissance through light cavalry..
Nevertheless, no movement is visible until the moon fragment heads to the place where it fell..
"There's no way they're letting this chance go by."
"They'll probably be attacking you from the moment you start mining fragments.."
The question is how many devils and what level of devils will come. But they probably didn't expect that there would be three Holy Grail Knights in this separate unit..
I arrived at the place where the moon fragments fell, as if it was worth the day's running since last night..
"That's it."
The fallen pieces of the moon created a huge crater, but they were not damaged in the slightest and were emitting a colorful light..
It is a fragment that the Moon Goddess allowed even at the expense of her own divinity. Her priest had shot her to the point of risking her own life..
"start extracting."
Antok went straight to the huge moon fragment and started hitting it with a hammer and chisel..
"Sir Spinner. come and help."
-Kikluk!
Antok and Spinner. In addition, dozens of blacksmith priests.
While they joined forces to disassemble the star iron from the moon fragments, Beatrice manipulated a large-scale defense barrier and established a fort..
'If I were them, I would attack at this time..'
They will not miss the defenseless situation of extracting star iron from the moon fragments. Now, the success of the Byeolcheol transportation depends on how effectively we can block their attacks..
"Build your base and prepare for battle. This moment is the most vulnerable."
Fortunately, this side has an overwhelming advantage in information warfare..
100Eight free men's light cavalry were frequently exploring the surrounding area, and drones flown by Yapi were on long-distance surveillance missions..
No matter how secretly they run, you can definitely catch them from here..
The problem is the size of the opponent. The number of demons exceeds imagination..
Even now, even the kingdom of the gods was powerless in front of the waves of evil species infinitely proliferating through the Demon Gate..
But why are they still able to endure despite this overwhelming disadvantage?.
'Only three Holy Grail Knights. Inadequate numbers can be dealt with with overwhelming force. The difficulty is how many high-ranking demons will come?.'
The army of demons is so numerous that it is overflowing with corruption. That means there are a lot of cultists, demon followers, and high-ranking demons to command the lower-level demons..
-Kikluk! Capturing enemy movement. I will display a hologram map..
Yapi, who was mining moon fragments, captured the enemy's movements with the drone he was operating at the same time..
In the hologram, black spots can be seen targeting the sides of the detachment that has established a position..
When Beatrice skillfully moved her finger to zoom in, she saw the monster spiders she had seen before and the wolf monsters with strangely huge molars..
"It seems like the enemy has also formed a mobile force and arrived as quickly as possible.."
On top of the monster spider and wolf monster are somewhat familiar goblins and small demons. Even considering their combat power, monsters that are three to four times larger than warhorses are threatening based on their size alone..
"They're approaching! About thirty thousand!"
There are many. This side sent only the most elite cavalry in a small group, but the devil's side boasts of overwhelming numbers, and their mobile troops alone are that much..
"Shooter ready! shoot!"
The freedmen's light cavalry raised arrows. In their demonstration, arrows shoot out and hit spiders at a distance of well over 500 meters..
"That's awesome. Is it like a magic bow??"
When Beatrice asked with admiration, a knight sitting next to her answered cheerfully..
"These are longbows consecrated and made by Heto's priests. It can penetrate even the tough skin of orcs.."
"I know you hate long-range weapons, but surprisingly, you use them well when using the military.."
The knights scratched their cheeks as if embarrassed by those words. But they also had something to say.
"Take the javelin!"
Each knight took out one of the spears mounted next to his horse. Unlike the assault spear, it is a javelin that is sharpened for easy throwing..
"shoot!!"
The knights concentrated their holy power into their spears and fired them at the group of monster spiders. Then, a rush of javelins made a terrible noise..
-Keeeeeeee!!
The monster spider let out a scream-like scream, perhaps because it had read its unusual energy, or perhaps sensed its own demise. next moment──
-puck! puff puff puff puff puff!!
The spears thrown by the knights completely pierced through the monster spiders..
"Anyone whose attack power is weaker than that of a bow cannot become a knight. This is why ranged weapons are inferior.."
"that. This is a fact I know very well from Your Majesty.."
Beatrice smiles. She and Yapi, who was conducting her mining operation, also joined the offensive..
-Deployment of drone firepower. Christmas celebration begins.
Yacht Spinner did not only make weapons in the pantheon. Yappy, who can create the tools he needs anytime and anywhere, created a lot of Holy Granate bullets for his own use..
-Todadadadadada!!
Christmas fire pouring down with a terrible roar. All bullets fired from the body of a living saint are imbued with holy power and cause fatal damage to demons..
The results achieved by Yapi's high-velocity autocannon are more remarkable than the arrows fired by hundreds of free knights..
Antok was amazed as to where such a monster came from, but the real 'conversation power' had not yet been cast..
<Spell Strengthening>, <Double Activation>, <Rank Up>, <Triple Maximum Strengthening>──
"This is?!"
A familiar magic formula. But the caster was the magician queen of another world..
──Principle interpretation. remake magic
"Ramanta's thunderbolt... Was it?"
-Kwakwang!!
A huge thunderbolt falling around the magic circle. It causes a huge explosion in the middle of the monster spiders. It's not just this.
──Principle interpretation. <Expand the scope of effect>, <Diffuse the scope of effect>
Beautiful fingers stretch out dancing like a conductor in front of an orchestra..
Even on horseback, her elegance is not damaged in the slightest, and the thunderbolts that fall scatter in all directions as if representing her will..
-Qua! Quack! Kwakwakwak! Kwaaaaang!!
A thunderbolt that explodes and expands its range from where it lands. It was connected like the legs of monster spiders and stretched out in all directions..
-fujik!
-Kwasik!
And the monster spiders that the lightning passed through exploded like bombs as their internal flesh could not withstand the instantaneous heating..
"That's amazing... Even the Elector of the Empire would be unable to perform such massive magic.."
"The level of wizards in this world is not bad at all. It evolved in a destructive direction to fight against the Holy Law.."
Yes, the magic of the Elector Counts and other wizards never runs out..
Then, what is this magic queen who interprets and applies the principles of the magic of the electors just by seeing it once??
Antok had no way of knowing, but he carefully guessed that she might be an archmage who inherited the blood of the Empire's Elector Queen..
-Tweet…….
-Kieeeeek!
Ten thousand monster spiders flinch from the terrible firepower of the enemy. Before we even got close, thousands of casualties had already occurred. It was natural to feel fear.
"The enemy's brunt has been cut off... I wish you would hesitate a little more.."
Beatrice hoped to gain as much time as possible. But they will try to get in and hand-to-hand combat will be essential..
'If that was all the enemy had, I might be able to stop it... Of course it's not everything.'
As Beatrice expected, the sky was far beyond Yapi's detection range. There, the eyes moved as they watched the separate team mining the moon fragments..
[Bring in troops one by one. We'll wait for them to finish extracting the fragments..]
Demons were flapping their wings in the clouds of the sky..
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