Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki

Watch Ashno with binoculars from outside the scope of Ashno's wind detection magic. Pretty weak, as I see it.

The bloody bandage wrapped around my right arm hurts.

She walks at the head of the Imperial Army and always uses the magic of exploration into the ground.

When I found the mine, I was giving instructions not to stab the flag on it and step on it.

Probably because it's hard to detonate that one safely. It's a prudent and reliable way. As a result, the march is much slower.

Ashno holds his head from time to time. It's caused by an overload on the brain.

High Elf has the best value for all underground feng shui mana, but Mana only helps, and in the end it is Ashno himself who exercises magic.

As long as we keep walking ahead, we have to run the magic of mine detection. I can't even let down the accuracy of wind sorcery more than there is such a thing as a barista.

Ashno, to say the least, would not be insufferable.

That's why I can strike offensive hands with confidence.

"Come on, let's go. Everyone's hiding a cluster bomb."

I was relieved to see how this was going. At least, Ashno won't react as long as he's at a distance.

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Cluster bombs were hidden in the safety house where they were making some.

The point where there are relatively few shields and many enemies can be placed within the killing range in order to take advantage of the proximity of the path they pass through and yet the effects of cluster bombs. When that happens, there are a limited number of points to be set up.

Less chance.

Especially this time, I'm less alert. First time with a high success rate. We must succeed.

"Long, awesome, heavy."

"Yeah, it's small, but it's packed with over two hundred grenades."

I reinforce my physical abilities and carry a spherical cluster bomb with Loreu that will be two meters in diameter.

And Ashno's surveillance is left to Lucier.

"Speaking of which, Cyril, that's what happened when I landed. You've never even seen a cluster bomb used before, have you? Amazing?"

Lucier asks me as I peek into my binoculars.

"Yeah, crossbows and baristas look like toys to me. This isn't an interpersonal. It's an anti-military weapon."

Even when it comes to opposing armies, it's still underestimated. Cluster bombs with a diameter of two metres undisputed fly over tactical weapons and are classified as strategic weapons.

This changes the way war works.

We hide on a chopped cliff and drop off a group of Ashno's leaders passing by.

In addition, we continued to see a group of enemies, spanning five kilometres, passing by for about two hours.

And a backward group. Here comes the group we should be after.

"Lucier."

"Yeah, I'm fine. There's no sign of Ashno coming back."

"Okay, okay."

I breathe heavily.

Get ready. Be a ghost.

"Loreau, let's go."

"Okay. Long"

Loreu and I will join forces and throw a huge cluster bomb at all costs and put it on the wind.

And spinning fast over the enemy's head.

More than two hundred small improvised grenades descend from the gap of the sphere one after the other.

It is adjusted so that it is efficiently varied with elaborate calculations.

Calculately, all grenades fall under the cliff, so the damage won't reach this far, but I'll have wind curtains just in case.

"Everybody down, keep your mouths half-open and your ears shut"

I give instructions to the Luciers.

Especially the well-eared Yukino desperately held his ear tight.

And here it comes.

Multiple, multiple, explosions overlap. One grenade at a time burst blast and fragments ravaged the Imperial soldiers.

Cluster bombs have an effective range of up to one kilometre.

The sound of the explosion smears countless screams.

I will start the wind magic and quickly examine the damage to the Empire.

... two, three, two dead. Seven, six, five wounded.

Approximately, it dealt a fatal blow to 10% of the Imperial soldiers.

Surviving soldiers are also disturbed, screaming and angry at the sudden Hell paintings. Reality is not acceptable.

"Shit, Cyril, what is this, with just one bomb like this..."

Lucier was out of line.

Loreu and Yukino, too.

In this day and age, there was nothing that could easily kill people so far. The overwhelming death so far would have been something the three of us could not even imagine.

But I made it.

"Let's talk on the run"

I turn my back on this tragedy and run away. Luciers follow me.

"In the first place, a way to broaden the range of effects of bombs is to increase the firepower purely"

Start the narrative.

"But if you try to double the range of effects, you're gonna need eight times as much firepower."

Yes, to expand the effective range of the bomb, we have to multiply the energy by three. That's very inefficient.

"So you said you were using a bomb. I think it's best to sprinkle a small bomb wide enough."

That's the beginning of cluster bombs.

"But. It had unexpected secondary effects. A bomb is a shock that spreads out of the center. The enemy can miss power by being blown away because it is only struck from one direction, and if the obstacle is pinched, the power is attenuated"

The bomb is less lethal than it looks.

The further away you are from the center point, the more powerful you are exponentially weakened.

"But cluster bombs are different. There are countless central points of the explosion. Humans in the range of effects are impacted from all sides, front, back, left and right. The shock escape is nowhere. We'll be crushed by the impact from all directions. Blast pressure within the effect range, dozens of times more lethal than normal. Just to be clear. Once used, this weapon invariably causes genocide. I can't control it. That kind of weapon."

Finally, we came to a point where we thought we were safe, so we leaned against a tree nearby and sat down.

Everyone was shaking when they heard my explanation.

"What, what. Why do you have something like this!?

Loreau shouts.

He's scared. There's a cluster bomb ravaging hundreds of lives so lightly.

And I'm heartbroken for committing murder until it's unrealistic.

"Loreau, I should have explained from the beginning that cluster bombs are these kinds of weapons. Don't turn around now."

I say quietly.

But Loreau doesn't seem convinced, and he looks at this one whenever he says something.

Like that, Yukino stood between me and Loreau.

"... Master Loreau, don't you want to use this? Is Master Loreau afraid to kill a lot of people?

Yukino asks Loreau in a quiet tone.

"Become, Yu, Yukino.... that, what. I am."

I thought Yukino was blaming me for being in love, and Loreau was in a hurdle.

"What do you want? Then Yukino does it differently. Yukino helps Brother Cyril instead of Lord Loreau. It's full of it, killing people in the empire"

Loreu's body hardened after hearing Yukino's words.

"Brother Cyril said you can't win without using a cluster bomb. Then I'll have to use it. The Yukinos know.... what happens if you lose to the Empire. Yukino's people who went to another village, they were all killed. He was killed and took the demon stone and tail. Yukino is absolutely no match for all the important people in Elsier. For that matter, I will do any terrible thing."

Yukino didn't like Loreu. I was always frightened by my big body and voice.

Such a girlfriend looked straight into Loreau's eyes and said she would fight.

I remember Ku saying that Yukino was already a fine warrior.

I put my hand on Yukino's head.

"Loreau. What do we do?

"... I'll do it. Even I'm important to my people."

"Well, thank you"

I'll set aside a beat and make a hoard.

"Guys, let's talk about what's ahead from here"

Everyone looks at me with serious eyes.

"The best ideal is for the Empire guys freaked out by the power of cluster bombs to escape. Anyway, two hundred people died and seven hundred people were injured. No matter how many Imperial soldiers say there are more than 10,000, it's no harm you can ignore."

Anyway, 10% loss. The destruction of the army in the fact field if it has a loss of 30%.

More than anything......

"Loreau, you said you were so scared of killing weapons at once. The enemies who eat them will be scared dozens of times more than you are. I'd run away."

Perhaps the renegades will always leave, and even those in positions of command will want to escape.

Cyril, what if you don't run away?

"In that case, we'll have to fight. Beat the cluster bomb until you're unwilling to fight with it"

There are six more points to be set up.

If the operation goes well, another four thousand can be shredded.

"Hit me, slap me, weaken me, then if I get to Elsier, I'll be another stepper at Cage Castle Battle"

"Okay. Cyril. So let's go."

"Chief, I'm not dependent, either."

"Yeah, Yukino Believes in Brother Cyril"

The reply of the Trinity returns.

I think I can do something about this.

I smile.

And there's one thing I didn't say on this occasion.

The minimum condition for a cage castle fight is for someone to stop Ashno.

If she moves freely, lightly, Elsier will be dropped.

I think I'm the only one who can stop him. If they got to Elsier, I was gonna give Ashno a ride.

Depending on her physical condition, she gets kicked out of nothing. How weak it made her, it was also deeply involved in winning and losing.

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Then, for as long as a month, he continued to fight while distancing himself from the Imperial soldiers.

About twice, we have successfully raided cluster bombs.

Thanks to this, the Empire has more than a thousand dead and more than three times as many wounded soldiers.

In addition, thanks to its focused aim at the rear, it blew up food and drove some of the carriages carrying luggage to unusable.

Thanks to this, I am able to slow down my legs considerably.

The limits of Ashno walking ahead are also close.

I'm doing a lot of trial and error trying to manage the raid with the cluster bomb, but that's adding extra strain to her.

Can this, or can it be wiped out by the time it reaches Elsier?

I expect that.

But the anomaly happened when I was preparing for the fourth raid.

"Cyril, Ashno disappeared from the beginning. I'm looking for him, but I don't know where he is."

I raise an astonishing voice from Lucier, who was telescoping Ashno.

"But the march is going on, isn't it?

Lowering Ashno means becoming irresistible to mines.

Does the Empire accept that?

And the answer came right back. An Imperial soldier stepped on a mine and blew it.

"Long, those guys. Aren't you afraid of landmines?

"No, you're not. Look closely."

I give Loreau my spare binoculars.

"What the hell!? Those guys, how can you do this!?

We have an Imperial soldier with a spear a short distance away, letting the wounded walk at the head.

At last, they are dumping their luggage and removing the mines by trampling the wounded in their luggage.

... is, indeed, an effective method of warfare. But can Ashno carry out this inhumane operation?

The question was quickly taken up as well.

One of the four Dukes of the Empire, Duke Voldek, was behind a group forcing the wounded to walk.

Convinced. That guy gives those instructions.

"What do we do? Chief, do you want to attack me?

"No, let's give up this point. It's okay, I've achieved my minimum goal."

More than 30% of the casualties were sustained.

And the success of the enemy's significant stepping stone.

Weakening of Ashno.

You can say this expedition was a great success without complaining.

"Guys, from here on out, if we can find Ashno, we'll carry out the attack. Wait for a chance, don't push it."

That's how we go along the road to Elsier, watching the Imperial soldiers.

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In the end, I only had the opportunity to unleash cluster bombs twice until Elsier reached them, one of which was shot down with a sniper using Ashno's bow from a kilometre away, drastically reducing the effect.

It's just that they took inhumane manoeuvres, overlapping with cluster bomb fears and a lot of defectors.

I was able to reduce the intact soldiers to about 4,000.

Thanks to a thorough halt, the arrival of the Empire in Elsier can be delayed by February, and the Empire's soldiers are worn out and running out of supplies.

A group of their leaders saw a huge protective wall protecting Elsier and looked taken away. I guess I didn't think Elsier was building such a fence.

... From here, the Battle of Cage Castle. And the direct confrontation with Ashno begins.