Hakai no Miko

Episode 59: March

Suddenly, tension runs in the tent at the appearance of Alexius revealing his anger.

Neither Baron Cantobias at the time could see what exactly prevented him from speaking. But I only know that Alexius' anger is not the norm.

"Baron Cantobias. What did you just say...?

Alexius was trying to pretend to be calm, but he could not hide that his voice was trembling with uncontrollable anger. Baron Cantobias replies, frightened by the magnitude of this unimaginable Alexis' anger.

"So, nothing is just a battle to hit the army, and..."

"Bye. No! After that!!"

To Alexius' reprimand, Baron Cantobias takes his breath by accident. Then I answered by trying to squeeze out that breath.

"It is also the battle of kings to ambush enemies with authority..."

To the answer, Alexius grinned niggardly.

But that's not a smile of forgiveness.

That only appeared in the form of suppressed anger and hatred in the form of laughter.

"Right, you mean...!

Alexius muttered, convinced by himself.

The battle of kings.

That is what Darius once gave back to King Walius, such as whether the prince would be the next great general, in a feast seat celebrating Alexius' victory in the first line. And that was also the word in Alexius that inspired his longing for Darius, who was called Holmeer's best general, to turn into hatred.

It's like a beast with prey in front of it licks its tongue, says Alexius.

"With that said, Sir Kai's flag was a yellow bobcat on a blue fabric... Oh! What's wrong with this? I know a very similar flag."

Alexius is right, the Baron Cantobias flag is a dark blue land with yellow thread and a side of a bobcat. And this too, as Alexius put it again, had a military flag very similar to it.

"Yes, the flag is definitely a lion's flag in gold thread on the black..."

To the words of Alexius, all alone, from the face of Baron Cantobias, his blood made a noise and drew.

Golden lion flag on black ground.

It is the flag of Darius.

As Alexius inferred, Baron Cantobias's flag was purposefully designed to imitate General Darius' power.

The next moment, Alexius exploded.

"Whoa! Still have that old admirer left! It would be an arithmetic to pull my leg to confuse (do) the old incompetence lost when I was a slave!

It is a simple proposition. But before Alexius's tremendous sword curtain, there was not even room to explain it to Baron Cantobias.

"I'll be disrespectful to you! Its neck will be done as a offering to God in the prayer of victory, so be thankful!

No joke or threat. Alexius put his hand on the pattern and even now he tried to pull out his sword.

"Your Highness! Please don't!

It was Hyuakis who stopped it.

"It is ominous to shed the blood of your allies before the battle! Not to mention things like making its neck a offering for victory prayers, like wanting the blood of your allies from God. Please don't!

Hyuakis' valves are also the best.

This also had no choice but to restrain just Alexius.

It is also due to the fact that the words of Huakis, who is also the commander of the substantial "black wall", cannot be taken lightly.

In forming the "Black Wall" as Holmeer's strongest regiment, Darius sought to differentiate himself from any other regiment by raising the salaries of the "Black Wall" soldiers, forbidding them to black-color their equipment except for the "Black Wall" within Holmeer.

It is to plant a strong sense of superiority and belonging in being a "black wall" on the soldiers.

Soldiers who were thus planted with a sense of superiority and belonging began to give precedence to victory as a "black wall" over individual activism, and became an army of strong unity that could be described as unusual in this era when individual martial arts were revered.

But at the same time, strong self-esteem for being the chosen soldier has given other soldiers - sometimes even generals - a tendency to look down.

Because of this, the "Black Wall" became an army of crooks whose power everyone had to admit, but at the same time could not be dealt with by generals full of family.

That is no exception, even if it is Alexius, the only prince of the Holmeer royal family. There is only as much military merit as border skirmishes and domestic disturbing molecules sweep of what is meant by constant victory and undefeation, it is only because there is a Huakis who will set him up that such Alexius can command the "black wall" while bending.

Breathe loudly as you breathe deeply, and vomit repeatedly, and Alexius, who manages to contain his anger, tells you to throw it away.

"Let's spare Hyuakis, and let's just save our lives. - But don't ever show your face in front of me again! Even in this crusade, it's time to go to battlefield! Heavy Orders Squad Protection! Put it on quickly!

It is a disgrace to the samurai to be kept away from the battlefield when it comes to joining forces in a society where martial arts are revered. Baron Cantobias chewed his own lips to the point of blood, but lowered his head deeply to Alexius, leaving the tent.

Alexius speaks out to the remaining generals and officers.

"Good! I will defeat the rebel slaves with all my armies! This is a decision!

And when I suddenly pull out my sword, I stick it on the table so I can sew up the map that was being spread out.

"No matter how many, if you object to this, you will be punished as treason!

No longer did anyone pinch any objections.

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And when Alexius went out of the tent, saying that he was going to rest, the Horsemen returned to their tents one after the other. After a while, only "black-walled" officers are left on the tent.

The remaining "black-walled" officers nodded silently and small, pointing their gaze at Huakis. Huakis sighs as he feels the gaze of his colleagues.

"… the result was inconsistent with Your Excellency's wishes, but not unlikely"

Only in the presence of these "black-walled" officers, there is only one person without a name to be hailed as His Excellency. Only Holmeer's best general Darius, who once founded the "Black Wall" and led them through many battlefields and won.

And the earlier interaction with Baron Cantobias was all based on a secret book from Darius saying, "Avoid a showdown in his land" and a meeting.

It turned out to be inconsistent with Darius' intentions, but there is no color of disappointment in the faces of the officers in line. Rather, there was even air drifting between the officers who wanted this development.

One officer opens his mouth as if to prove it wasn't his fault.

"But isn't your Excellency overestimating the slaves, too? We're the Black Wall."

The words contained extraordinary pride in our being Holmea's strongest army, the Black Wall.

In contrast, I do not express my approval in my voice, but I have no doubt that the other officers would agree if they saw its face.

Hyuakis the officers like that.

"... don't insult (ah, etc.) the enemy. The enemy is the one who flirted with you."

Besides, the first officer who opens his mouth just says he gets my will.

"That's it, that. Even though your Excellency said it was torn, wasn't it the hiyoccos shelled in their asses that your Excellency was led at that time! I hear some escaped to the point of a little resistance from the enemy."

What an impudent bunch of people, even provoked hatred, the officer said.

Cut it off, one angry voice after another pops out of the mouths of the other officers.

"When I heard that, I wanted to kill the soldiers who ran away!

"If we were you, we would be such a disgrace to Your Excellency...!

"I feel sorry for Cadmos and Judius too! I didn't expect you to return the favor with a vendetta while I taught you as well as we did!

Instead of anger, the officers began to grudge.

The officers who form the core of the present "black wall" join the national army admiring Darius when he was a great general, and all those who have been found to have that power. Not all benevolence promoted to the honorable "Black Wall" by Darius. They are the ones who rushed through the battlefields under Darius's command, struggled together, and shared victory.

Such their thoughts of Darius had no longer reached the realm of reverence.

Hyukis reprimands his fellow officers for verbally criticizing the incompetence of the fleeing soldier.

"Have you forgotten your Excellency's words! Whatever you say, my lord, don't care what happens to us. We were just told to give up the Holmeer country!

That was the word of a secret book sent out to the "Blackwall" officers shortly after Darius was offered discretion.

The officers, who have put blood on their heads after, also have to chill their heads before the words of their beloved Darius.

To such colleagues, Hyuakis pushes caution.

"Okay! Now, there's only one thing we can do for you! This toon will give you the rank of" Son of Destruction "!

I have no objection to fighting hateful vengeance that has disgraced General Darius. The officers nodded forcefully.

"Everyone, give orders to your liver. The enemy also flirted with His Excellency. Any measures might be used. Yume, don't be alarmed. And commanded by that one is the army of Zoan, the hegemonic of the plains! How do we respond to an assault using their legs?!"

As one of the officers moves one step forward to Huakis' inquiry, he slaps his own armored chest armor and slaps it into lavish language.

"What are you going to do, Zoan's assault, etc! The guardian of my soldiers is the Iron Wall! Let's recreate and show the Sorbiant Plains over thirty years ago!

Plus Huakis asks.

"Then how about an elf bow?!"

Plus, another officer comes forward.

"The walls of the shield our soldiers make, there's not even a gap through which the needle passes! Don't be afraid, such as an elf bow!

"Then how about the Dwarf Spear Soldier?!"

In addition, another officer raises his voice.

"Thousands of spears and other laughs held by short handed and footed earthworms! From where their spears don't arrive, our spears skewer them and let's see!

"Then how about Dinosaurian?!"

"Dinosaurian and not immortal. You can also distance yourself with a spear and clear it so you can enclose it! If the five of us were together, both of us would die, and three spears would take Dinosaurian's life!

Huakis looks around the faces of his colleagues before forcefully declaring.

"Okay! Crush the rebel slaves before we are completely skinless. And let me know all over the West End. Your Excellency trained me to say that our" Black Wall "is the strongest army!

The officers said, "Oh!" It was summoned.

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The next day, the elites of the national army led by Alexius began marching towards the crossing of the Conte River.

Darius, who received the reward, said he looked up to the ceiling silently in his mansion in the king's capital, Holmenia.

But more than such Darius, there were those shocked by this march.

"Huh? The Holmeer army is coming straight this way?

Around the same time of the hour, in a tent set in front of a fort where you can still hear the hammer wielded by Dwarves. So in front of the Zoan warrior who came to deliver the news, the Ethereal Horse will have a Kyotong face.

"Huh? Why? What do you mean?"

A pale horse who seemed unable to understand what he was talking about, but at the same time began to get intensely upset as the color of understanding began to float in his eyes.

"Soma. What the hell is going on?

The voice of Shemr, who asks strangely, also seemed deafening, and the Ethereal Horse rushed over to a table placed in the center of the tent. And stare at the map near the crossing of the Conte River spread over it.

"Why? What's this all about? Why?!"

Even though all Shemru or those who were there on the spot had a strange eye on him, the Ethereal Horse began to move vigorously a number of pawns placed on the map as he spoke aloud to himself. He was a pale horse who lined up the pawns, moved them, and repeatedly lined them up again, but his hand finally stopped.

"Not good. What do we do..."

With his hands on the table, Shemru speaks with a frown on the nagging pale horse.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Soma?

At last, the pale horse raised his face, but his face was stiff and stiff, pulling. Realizing that his eyes cared for those around him, Shemr drives away the Elf woman and Zoan warriors who came to deliver the news and asks him to be alone with the Ethereal Horse.

Then when asked again what had happened, the Ethereal Horse finally opened its heavy mouth.

"What shall I do, Shemru?"

The pale horse blushed.

- We could lose.