Chapter 158 – Chapter 16

Until now, the winning strategy, which had been virtually invincible against heterogeneous opponents, was broken.

I’m waiting leisurely as if to come up with the next tactic I wrote down there.

Through civil war, the soldiers who knew with their own eyes how powerful war weapons such as tanks were had only then realized the fear felt by heterogeneous people who had been transferred to the military unit.

Fear of the unknown, not knowing how or what the enemy might do.

They have been attacking unilaterally so far, but their weapons and tactics are all exposed, while the other party does not know what kind of attack they will attack.

“Whoa… Whoo…”

Naturally, the soldiers’ breathing begins to become rough due to fear and tension about the unknown.

The knights didn’t breathe as rough as the soldiers, but the usual composure was gone.

“Shall we try a long-range strike with artillery?”
“No, I would have already prepared a countermeasure for that.”

Akina shook her head at the adjutant’s suggestion.

“But the usefulness of the artillery unit has not disappeared. Secretly tell the artillery unit. Aim for the situation where the enemy and the allies are about to collide and strike the enemy’s rear.”
“Yes.”

One adjutant heard the order and headed for the artillery unit.

“From now on, it’s time for you guys to be active.”
“It seems so.”

The commander of the Knights Jeonghwa was smiling confidently, as if he had intended to clearly demonstrate how absolute their power was in this battle.

“If the enemies are not fools, we will intensively check you. We will attach a troop of knights to use according to the situation.”
“It seems like a useless help, but I will still thank you.”

He showed confidence that he could easily purify the filthy undead, especially the heterogeneous undead, with the light of God.

“From now on, I will advance the soldiers and knights. You guys can move on your own.”
“This is a wise decision.”

The power of the Knights of Purification is divine power, and it is also a special power specialized for the undead, so it is difficult to deal with it normally.

Thinking that it would be best to let her decide for herself, Akina raised her spear.

“The story has only been simplified!”
“!”

She spread her own momentum and punched the tense bodies hard.

“The battle of tactics has just turned into a battle of power! And I have never lost a battle using power!”

Akina advances while receiving the attention of all soldiers and knights.

“Enemies are the undead! Don’t fight with your momentum, fight steadily! Just watch out for that, and you’ll end up with an ordinary enemy!”

Whoops!

At the same time, she and her horse felt a surge of powerful mana that even an outsider could know.

Akina’s gift, the unity of people and horses, began.

“Full force! Forward!”

Akina did not charge with momentum, but advanced as if leading her army in the lead.

“Advance!”
“Don’t get out of line!”
“Keep up the pace!”

The lower commanders, who had been nervous until earlier, began to give orders to the soldiers as if bursting with courage rising from their stomachs.

‘Yes, we have Akina-sama.’
‘Even if there is a tank squad, after all Akina-sama is the core of this army.’
‘There’s even the Purification Knights. There is no reason for us to lose.’

Sensing the force of the revived army, Shirin smiled over her helmet.

“Did you raise your morale as the commander-in-chief?”
“Enemy, but great.”
“There has never been a knight like him in our world.”

Shirin’s lieutenants also genuinely admired the coolness of the army, which burned up.

“But that’s why it’s a pity. That we have to kill such a proud knight with our own hands.”
“Wouldn’t it be fine to revive it as an undead anyway?”
“That’s right. You’ll be repulsed at first, but if you’re a proud being like that, there’s a chance that you’ll hear about the situation in our kingdom and help. If you promise to preserve the old territory.”

For those whose enemy’s death leads to the strengthening of their allies, Akina’s noble and strong character led to the reason that they must be killed.

“What would you like to do?”
“The heart of this war is Akina and the Purifier Knights. If we don’t destroy both, this army will live on.”

Anticipating that he would not be able to afford to command once he was in battle, Shirin entrusted command to his lieutenants and headed for a position facing Akina.

Purr-

His own horse, who had been with him until his death, also blazed with fighting spirit.

“You can say that we are the strongest of the enemies we have dealt with so far. But there is no defeat for us.”

The horse nodded as if it were natural and was ready to jump at any time at the owner’s command.

“Stop! Sorcerer Musketeer! Aim!”

Confirming that she had reached the effective range of the magic gun, which had a much longer range than a normal archer, Akina decided to steadily gnaw away the enemy’s troops from a distance.

“Shoot!”

Papapapapang!

At Akina’s command, the soldiers who were forming a rank fired a volley and hit the enemy infantry made up of skeletons.

The skeleton infantrymen, who only had shields and weapons, suffered few damage to their bodies, probably because only bones remained, even though their shields were pierced.

Instead, the Skeleton Infantry, who had been hit once, collapsed and crumbled as it was a magical attack.

“Make Mist!”

Subsequently, as Shirin gave instructions to the vampires, a thick fog formed between the two armies, blocking the expeditionary force’s view.

I couldn’t feel the situation beyond the fog, as if it had the effect of dizziness not only my vision but also my senses.

Doo doo doo doo doo—-

Hearing the sound of the undead army running in a state where their vision was blocked by the fog, the expeditionary soldiers hurriedly aimed their guns at the other side of the fog.

“Stop shooting! Wizard! Clear the fog with wind!”

However, Akina, who prevented the panic of his soldiers, ordered the mages to clear the fog.

After clearing the fog with the wind from the magic corps, they found that undead soldiers were slowly moving in formation behind the fog.

The sound of running earlier was a noise made by a vampire with magic.

The tactical battle of blocking or defending with the next move continued.

There was also the commander’s desire to start the war in an advantageous phase by causing damage to the opponent in some way, but

‘Fun.’
‘This is the first tactical fight.’
‘It would be easy if we fought for it.’
‘I want to continue this fun head fight.’

Akina, who was gaining victory with the advantage of weapons, and Shirin, who had been leading the army for the first time in decades, were enjoying the battle of brains as commanders.

Two people with similar dispositions and similar commanding personalities.

The two men intuited that they had similar tendencies in that the strong men who could destroy several armies alone were engaged in a tactical fight rather than a simple power confrontation.

However, the joy of finding a suitable opponent was short-lived, and people who did not understand their fight jumped out from the side.

“Purify the undead!”
“Evil aliens! I will purify your sins as God’s agents!”

The purification knights, who had attached one knight as an escort, ran out of control.

‘Tsk. I can’t.’

I don’t like it, but it’s not a stupid charge.

Oddly enough, Shirin didn’t attack recklessly even though he had an undead soldier in charge, so if he stayed like this, time would pass without hesitation.

Still, he wanted to know why he was moving defensively by poking around a little more, but it’s a pity.

“Full army rush!”

Akina, who gave the order to rush in so that the Purifier Knights would not be isolated, fixed her eyes on Shirin.

Shirin was also looking for an opportunity to attack Akina.

“In the name of God!”

Meanwhile, the moment they protruded and attacked the undead troops, the expeditionary force’s artillery units aimed at the rear of the undead and fired.

Then, a red light magic circle was created in the air, collided with artillery shells, and exploded, but the magic circle remained intact as if there was no major damage.

As expected, it is a situation where the defense system against artillery is perfectly equipped.

Now I believe in the power of the Knights of Purification.

Every time the Purification Knights, who filled their weapons with holy power, attacked the undead, they didn’t just shrink, but collapsed like a puppet with a thread cut off.

Haha! It’s nothing!”
“Make kingdoms in your world, in our world it’s jaw-dropping!”

The Purification Knights have already shown their majesty by annihilating thousands of undead.

Divine power spreads around them like an aura, and unclean beings disappear or crumble just by passing by.

However, the undead they are dealing with are low-level undead with neither soul nor intelligence.

It has been a long time since the vampires, who could be called real ones, took refuge in a safe place.

Subsequently, the main forces of the Expeditionary Force collided, making the rift created by the Purification Knights even larger.

“Begin.”

Shirin gave the order to activate the trap magic circle, and the vampire wizards began pouring their magic power into the prepared magic circle.

Geeying!

As soon as the magic circle, which was already almost completed, received magic, it fired an ominous red light toward the clouds.

The dark clouds that received the red light gradually changed color and made the red light shine down not only on the clouds but also on the ground.

“Wizard!”
“I don’t know! It’s the first magic wave I’ve ever seen!”

The captain of the knights escorting the wizards tried to find out what kind of magic it was, but since it was a different type of magic, of course he couldn’t figure out what kind of magic it was.

That is why the wizards prepared to defend themselves if the enemy’s magic unfolded in any way.

However, it was not the magicians who told them what the magic circle’s effectiveness was, but the voice that spread from the middle of the enemy lines.

“Uh, why!”
“Oh God!”
“Sir, divine power! Holy power is gone!”

As the breakthrough of the purification knights, who had been wildly rampaging, stopped, the despair that the divine power had disappeared resonated.

“The divine power disappeared!?”
“Of course. Did you know that there was no group in our world that persecuted us with divine power?”

The reaction of the expeditionary force and the undead were mixed.

The world where the Cameld Kingdom was located had the difference of being a single god, but there were beings with divine power.

Even though there were such beings, they were the ones who created and prospered the kingdom, so of course there are many ways to respond to the divine power.

‘If our world and system were different, the work would have been more difficult. Is the existence of God a similar law in any world?’

Shirin responded that it was interesting that the conclusions the gods had reached were similar in that the system in which gods gave divine power to followers was the same.

“Thank you for being patient until now! Now it’s time to counterattack! Traumatize the enemy!”

At her command, the vampires who had been holding their breath so far began to jump in all directions.

Hwaaak!

“Ouch!? Bo, I can’t see!”
“Don’t come! Don’t come!”
“You idiot!

Vampires, who were all powerful warriors but also magicians, slashed the soldiers with bloody mist.

“You evil undead bastards!”
“Do you think such tricks will work for us!”

Of course, this method didn’t work for the knights, but the vampires wielded their weapons against them without cheating.

“Kuk!”
“You’re stronger than you think!”

It is common for vampires to enjoy the luxury of their own territory, but Cameld Kingdom has always had to be attacked by the living, so each one has lived hundreds of years and trained their skills.

Although the physical specs may be similar, the years of technology accumulated by each individual were enough to put pressure on the knights.

“Huh!”

Among them, one knight succeeded in stabbing the body of the vampire.
However, the vampire smiled and looked into the eyes of the knight who stabbed him.

“Uh… I… What did I…?”

The knight who faced the evil eye instantly made the vampire in front of his eyes look like a colleague suffering from his sword.

Awesome!

The vampire, aiming for the gap where the knight hesitated, lightly cut his throat and pulled out the sword stuck in his body.

Then, the wound quickly heals and moves in search of another enemy.

“Stand up!!”

Subsequently, when a vampire specializing in magic energized the corpse of the knight, the knight turned into a zombie who had lost intelligence and aimed his sword at his comrades.

Although she was a zombie who could not use mana, she learned prana and her physical abilities were strengthened. Knights who became low-level zombies came as a big problem.

Haha!”
“Where are you going! Didn’t you shout that you would purify us!”

The biggest problem was the purification knights, who became incapacitated as the divine power disappeared.

Until now, the Purification Knights, who had not expected that the connection between them and God would be cut off, were in a half-panic state and were busy running away unconditionally.

“Uh, why!”
“God can’t see us!”
“Aaaaa! No! I don’t want to die outside Medelgarde’s eyes!”

It was a purification knights like fanatics who could accept even death as a martyr if they thought God was watching them, but their strengths turned into weaknesses.

Losing divine power due to enemy magic means that the connection with the gods has been severed, and this place has become an unholy realm out of reach of the gods.

The Purification Knights, who thought that if they died in such a place, they could not go to the side of God even if they died, panicked and became cowards who ran away unconditionally.

“Kuu! Open the retreat of the Purification Knights!”

Akina assisted the purification knights, and the knights who were instructed to take their orders struggled to secure their retreat.

Seeing that figure, Akina couldn’t move easily even though she knew she had to step in.

‘If I move rashly, I’ll dig into my gaps.’
‘This isn’t a showdown between knights, it’s a war. How long will they just watch the unit collapse?’

As expected, Shirin was looking for an opportunity to attack when Akina tried to close the rift in her unit.

Because this is not a battle that deals with individual prowess, but a war that depends on the fate of the forces.

Shush shush shush shush!

At that time, a huge amount of magical arrows rained down from the sky and hit the head of the undead army that was pressing the expeditionary force.

“Ugh!?”
“Ba, defense! Kheup!”

The lower undead were shattered by hundreds of magic arrows, and the vampires in them suffered considerable injuries and retired.

When Akina and Shirin turned their gaze to the place where the strong magical movement had occurred, they could see Lillian and Priscilla forming camp with their subordinates, protecting Kaicent and Lilith with their bows.

“Fire at the place I’m aiming for!”
“Yes!”

Lilith pointed to the most dangerous place among her allies and tilted her bow far enough to shoot. One magic arrow began to split into several.

And next to her, who fired 7 rounds per second, Kaicent, who was also pulling the bow, was seated.

In the crisis of the allies, the strong players who had been quiet until now stood out.