Hakai no Miko

It was one big, round stone that Huakis rolled at the foot of the horse he rides.

About the size is slightly larger than the human head. Impossible with natural stones, that almost completely spherical stone is definitely a baked stone heated enough from where the underlying weeds are scorched black.

Old memories come back to life in the back of Hyuakis' brain looking down at it.

That was the sight of myself asking someone a question before a stone very similar to the round stone I was looking down on was piled up like a mountain.

When and where would that have been?

The opponent replied to himself when he asked why he would take the time to process the stone round, if he could use the natural stone in the area as it was.

If the stone is round, it will not stop immediately if it falls to the ground, and you will roll over and kill the enemies nearby. He also said that burning the stone is to make the stone crumble and scatter with the impact of the drop, or even just its small fragments, killing power.

Who was the one who answered that?

The next moment, an electric shock-like impact runs behind Hyuakis' brain.

"That, in the fort of Roylops...... a stone thrower?! Yes, that's the captain who was dealing with the stone thrower!

When Huakis makes a noise and raises his face, he gazes at the fort that has become the enemy formation.

"No way, they...?!"

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Captain Gaius, wake up.

He was apparently unconscious as a result of the sudden and intense shock. If you notice, you are lying on your back on the ground and falling.

How the hell were you losing your mind? Sensibly, I don't feel that long.

I felt the pressure of being put on something heavy in my lower body, and lowered my gaze, and there was the carcass of a horse sprayed with blood bubbles and breathless on it. It can be inferred from the bending of the thick horse's neck letter how much impact it would have had.

He was the captain of the Gaius regiment who managed to get out of under the horse's carcass and wake up his body, but as soon as he put his strength into it, a severe pain runs through his lower body.

Did you hit your hips when you fell down, your lower body doesn't move? If you manage to wake up just your upper body and look around with that pain, the soldiers you were leading are in a state of confusion.

"What the hell happened?! Somebody report the situation!

One of the soldiers who was close to it rushed over. When Captain Gaius reinforces his voice blocking the words of a soldier worried about his injury and asks for a report on the current situation, the soldier explains in a desperate shape.

"Probably an attack by a stone thrower!

"A stone thrower?!"

"Ha! My regiment is devastated!

As the soldier replied, the regiment's situation sucked.

When it comes to the shields of the heavy-duty spear infantry who never even threw Zoan's stones, it's just something humans can have. There was no way such a shield could have gotten through the stones of a stone thrower that would have flown hundreds of melts of big stones. The stone-throwing crushed the shield that was erected like thin ice, and crushed every armor that wore the body of the soldier that was beyond it.

At this time, the number of stone throwers prepared by the Ethereal Horse is more than fifty.

But no matter how much the goal is a lateral formation from three thousand people, it is a projection of a bump production without any test shots at all. Only about 60% of the stone throwers provided could be hit by the enemy.

However, it was fortunate that the attacked "black wall" side had taken a dense formation.

A stone was thrown where the soldiers were overcrowded. One or both of the direct soldiers were killed instantly, and four or five more soldiers around them were wounded after eating the convoy.

In addition, stone-throwing, which did not strike directly, has also fallen in front of the majority of them without reaching dense formations.

Many of those stone-throwing didn't end up falling on the spot. When the rounded stone rolled into the walls of the heavy-duty spear infantry with the thrown momentum, it crushed the foot of the heavy-duty spear infantry so that the ball of boring knocked down the pin.

In this way, only one simultaneous projection by a stone thrower instantly caused more than two hundred casualties.

Captain Gaius barks.

"About a stone thrower, what are you confused about!

My colleagues call me a flying man-eating ghost (Auga) if they see my enemies, but barbaric courage isn't the only reason I became a leader of the "Black Wall" regiment. When you understand the situation immediately, give the best instructions.

"Attack the enemy formation immediately! If you're a stone thrower, you just have to get inside the range!

I can't think of a retreat. Behind us are heavy-duty spear infantry in the rear row. If we try to retreat now, we will bump into succession, and instead we will remain on this spot.

Besides, the predominant stone throwers of this era throw stones with mountainous curves. For this reason, it is safer to go in front of the landing point rather than retreat.

"You can mess up the line! No, pieces do less damage by throwing stones! Anyway, move the soldiers forward and get them to the fort!

He was a soldier who was instructed to go to the confused regiment to issue a decree, but his leg stops.

"Roe, Commander of the Regiment! Give me that...!

What the fingers of a consternately trembling soldier showed was a fort that would become an enemy formation.

Captain Gaius, still ridden by the horse's carcass and unable to move his lower body, manages to twist his upper body and look at you.

"Hey, what...?!"

As Captain Gaius watched, the walls of the fort, built with the pointy Marutai on the ground, slowly fell. Whether it's because of watching from afar, or because of extreme tension, the walls fall down terribly slowly.

But when the wall collapses, I can see that it was neither an illusion of the eye nor a phenomenon due to a state of tension.

Oh, my God, the walls that fell to the ground splattered apart. If you look at that fragment, you can see that what was thought of as a whole wall was actually just a thin plate on the upper edge that crept through the contents. The slowness of the fall was also due to the lack of weight for the area and the resistance of the air.

And Captain Gaius was stunned by the sight inside the revealed fort.

There it was, a flock of sloppily arranged stone throwers.

They were stone throwers of the kind known as onagars. Onagar, a stone thrower that twisted a bunch of ropes that made animal tendons, hair, etc., and used its backlash to project stones from a single arm tree (arm), was lined up to fill the site inside the wall. All that, hidden in a wall that had fallen earlier, the grounds were built on many steps of wooden platform, on which there was also a narrow and stone throwing machine.

And even more dozens of cattle were lined up in front of it.

It is the cattle that were used with the Great Dragon to transport materials and food. But the cattle, which were for transport, were now rope-bound with sharp and pointed wooden piles all over their bodies, and their asses were mounted with piles of wood (shiba).

"No way, they...!

As if to meet the worst expectations of Captain Gaius Regiment, when Dwarves and humans emerge with pine lights in one hand, one cattle after another lights a pile of wood on their backs.

He's usually a slow walking cow so that he can walk and metaphor his feet slowly, but he literally doesn't have a fire on his ass. When the cows lifted up their scream-free voices, they began to run as they shook their heads violently as they splashed whoever out of their mouths.

Besides, cattle aren't the only ones pushing through. The cow was connected by a rope with a simple wheel attached to a round too with a pointed tip. That's what the rambling cows are driving at, rattling and making terrible noises.

"Is that a chariot...!

As Captain Gaius muttered, it was a punch truck, a type of siege weapon called a broken castle hammer used to crush walls such as castle fortifications and empty the entrance.

An assault car towed by a cow comes into the "black wall".

The wild cows thrust the heavy-duty spear infantry at its horns, kicking it with their hooves, and crushing it with its giant. The impulse car that came after all the confusion broke into the confusion and blew up many more heavy-duty spear infantry.

To the sight, Captain Gaius rages.

"You said it was a stroller?! Heh, don't be ridiculous!

At that time, a cow rushing toward us caught his leg and fell. But the impetus of the tanker that was being towed by that cow never stops, pulling the rope that was connected to the cow and continuing to run this way.

And that impulse came straight to Captain Gaius, who collapsed as if he could be drawn.

"Our 'black wall', so you still say you used a siege weapon to crush the wall?! With such a kid's reasoned hand, our - our 'black wall' can do it?!"

Captain Gaius screams as he stares at the impending impulse to himself.

"I'm kidding!!"

The body of Captain Gaius, who cried out like that, was flown to the chariot and danced high.

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"Our army is devastated by attacks by enemy stone throwers and assault vehicles!

"Heavy Spear Infantry Regiment, we are confused! There have also been reports of stone throwing landed where the Gaius Regiment Commander was!

"An enemy tank is rolling over, in an obstacle! You are blocked from proceeding, and you cannot march as you wish!

Huakis opened his eyes in amazement at the sudden reports that were brought to him one after the other.

From the position of the Huakis, I could not see the details of the fort filled with a stone thrower, but nevertheless if I saw that stone throwing took place at the same time on such a wide scale, I would know about it not being one or two stone throwers.

But what I don't know is where the hell did you get all this rocket-propeller and tanker from?

Ever since the enemy built the fort in one night, this place has been constantly monitored by scouts while winding far. In that surveillance, if you bring in so many siege weapons, you'll catch your eye even if you don't want to. Yet no such large quantities of siege weapons have ever been reported to have been brought in at one time.

And yet, how did you get so many siege weapons in there?

After thinking that far, Huakis realized "what if".

Didn't you bring it in, did you build it there?

But it immediately raises new questions.

It takes a significant amount of material to build this number of siege weapons. If you bring in so much material, the scouts can't be unusually unexpected.

But soon Huakis denied his thoughts.

No! Weren't they in front of us, carrying materials in grandeur! It's just that we didn't tie it to a siege weapon.

Yes. Weren't they carrying loads of wood, stones and other materials? Tons of materials just to build a fort!

Since when did we assume we were building a fort over there? Why did you think that?!

Huakis, who so badly used his brain that he seemed to overheat and ignite, scrutinized the information he had ever learned, recalls.

Sources that the rebel slaves were building fortifications must have been the traffickers.

Yeah, I heard about it from the pedestrians who used the bridge. The fort that was built overnight was Haribote, and the real fort is now being built. So we assumed that a lot of that material would be used to build the fort.

So who taught it to the pedestrians?

And Hyuakis, raise his voice softly.

"It was enemy soldiers who boasted that the fort was halibote and in the midst of building a true fort......!

Hyuakis' blood-running eyes open to the limit.

"We had swallowed the rumors that the enemy soldiers had intentionally spread!

The enemy soldier's bragging was all assumed to be a provocation to King Walius.

No, I guess it actually also meant provocation.

But the real aim, it wasn't.

"Their real aim...!

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"Quick! Can't you take the exterior yet?!"

Inside of it, where the wall fell, a pale horse was raising his voice.

It was the dwarves against whom the voice was directed. They continued to work in desperate shapes around a fort that looked like a rock in the distance but was actually made up of thin plates of sand solved with paste.

In time Norzuri, who received some reports from one of his countrymen, gives a ho relief look before shouting at the Ethereal Horse.

"Excuse me! It was the rope that got tangled up. I just disconnected him!

The pale horse who hears it also strokes his chest down with a ho. But I can't stay calm like that. Orders Norzuri immediately.

"Hurry up! As soon as you disarm the exterior, attack!

"Whoa! - Hurry up and cut off all the ropes! Disarm the exterior!

The dwarves cut off the rope in the ordinance of Norzuri, who had received the life of the Ethereal Horse.

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The sight was also visible in the eyes of Hyuakis.

The walls of the fort have collapsed. Until then, the walls, which I thought were rocks, became thin wooden plates, making noises and peeling apart.

Staring at it, Huakis leaks a grudging voice.

"Them! Son of a bitch! Son of a bitch! Didn't you build a fort or something from the start?

And what emerged from beneath the peeled off wall were three giant objects.

"Your aim was not to build a fort! Your true purpose is to..."

It is a three-unit equilibrium hammer caster (Trevuchette). Already three equilibrium hammer throwers were able to shake up a giant hammer (stool) and fire stones at any time.

"- It was about building a siege weapon to crush us!!"

The giant hammer of the equilibrium hammer thrower made a noise and fell to respond to that Hyuakis cry.