Isekai Taneuma

When Feng and the others realized the anomaly of the Great Forest, the Hermes War was about to enter a new phase in the Herculean realm. Numerous imperial provocations have finally led to a heavy-handed Federation Council decree on the Hermes expedition.

Due to the huge war expenses and the negative impact on the deal, the people who were trying to win horses after an earlier victory were surprisingly more aggressive against the parliament that was running in the middle of the year. As a result, a significant number of soldiers gathered despite the foreign expedition.

Isaac XI, aiming to return to the land, wanted to drive this extra momentum into the Empire... but between the Empire and the brave realm, there is a vast forest. I had to say that entering the Empire through here was reckless, as you know.

It is simply impossible for a large army to go through at once because the road is too narrow. The Imperial Army is waiting for the exit, and breaking through is a difficult task. Having broken through it, I am worried that I will be cut off from the station this time. In the previous offensive and defensive battles in the Alma kingdom, the Empire was forced to retreat because of this weakness. And the brave army won't be able to follow the same path.

But when it came to other ways, there was no such thing, and although the brave army fought for the rest of the army, they couldn't get into the Empire in the middle, so they held their hands.

Mobilizing the army takes a lot of money, and smoking in the territory is a waste of money, so it will be a matter of time before it is disbanded. The brave army is operated with taxes, so it's quick to spread reluctance. Out of the question, the Empire knows that, so it may dare provoke. Even if we don't get the money, we're waiting for the Federation Congress to take root, not to run a deficit at war expense.

Of course, I can't forgive that, so I'd like to let the Empire blow it up anyway, but I couldn't find a plan to do that. By relying on lizard merchants who are used to walking in the woods, it is possible to break into the Empire without going down the street, but of course it is impossible to move the army. Then, there was a suggestion that a small number of hermes would enter and be disturbed from the inside, but unlike in the forest, even if they did that in the plains, it was a drop to be suppressed immediately.

There are four other countries in the Empire as well as Hermes. There were plans to raid those countries by sea, but before the raid, there was nothing I could do because there was no concept of a warship. I may be surprised by the state of the ocean, but in the first place, only the brave leader actively traded in the open ocean in this world, and there was no need for warships.

It's too dangerous to carry a large number of soldiers without a frigate, so the idea of crossing the ocean was rejected… but these were the tips for planning the operation.

Appreciated for his earlier work at Fort Bohemia, Waltstein, who was officially appointed General of the Brave Army, asked the Federation Congress to impose an economic blockade as an exception during the war.

The empire, which takes on a prehistoric state of serfdom, centered on priestly lords, was overwhelmingly fragile in its economic base compared to the warriors.

In fact, through the continent's western route, the Brave Leader had dealings with Bohemia and the Seto kingdom that controlled it, and if it stopped, the Empire suffered from a shortage of all supplies. Silver from northern Bohemia was spinning the imperial economy, and the two countries, which had been cut off from each other before the building, were connected through a new continent.

Also, because it is serfdom, it was inevitable that the food situation would be affected if the war lasted so long. It is now autumn of harvest. The Empire was punitively gathering troops from Hermes, but ironically, that Hermes was the Empire's vast pantry.

Hermes, who had lost their labor, had insufficient manpower in the autumn of the harvest, and sometimes had less cultivated area than usual, and the fields were no longer cropped anywhere and were not expected to harvest enough to satisfy the stomachs of all the Empires.

In the Empire that came there and suffered an economic blockade from the Brave Realm, the cereal market was exorbitantly high, and in Hermes, which was affected by it, famine was about to begin.

They are not bad, but they run out of money, they run out of food, and besides, they are driven out to war. Originally, even within the Empire, the hermetic people with dark colors began to wonder why the Empire should be good until they encountered this kind of situation.

At that time, there was a rumor in their ears that Isaac XI would triumph. He will lead the army home. In fact, the brave army is now enlisting for the Empire. The war-ravaged warriors are furious and about to avalanche into the Empire. For the people of Hermes, this seemed more like a liberation army.

The Imperial General said it was just hypocrisy, and the Brave Army couldn't even get through the forest in the first place. But then why did the Imperial Army enter the brave realm and flee back? Is it not a lie of those who are at a disadvantage that they say? The people of Hermes, who began to live in distress, were anxious for the heroic army.

Meanwhile... Isaac XI was really back in Hermes when the air was brewing in the territory.

Instead of going through the large forests of the south, which the Imperial Army was alert to, he went north of the Imperial Army through Bohemia, where he drove his newly acquired Lieutenant Terry to the nearby villages. It was to fully mobilize the Hermes, his parents, brothers and relatives, to spread rumours of Isaac's return.

Ser Hermes came back after the time of the female ambush. If the Empire continues to rule like this, the people of Hermes will be exhausted. We will rise up together to welcome our king.

Rumors spread around the wilderness and quickly spread all over Hermes. And when the people of Hermes, who had been in trouble, actually recognized Isaac XI there, they exploded dissatisfaction with the Empire and stood by him without a soul.

The Imperial Army panicked at the rise of the people in the north, not from the outside, but from the inside, and not from the alarmed south. I did not expect Ser Hermes to take such bold action, and the Imperial Army, which was completely behind him, hastened to form an army to fight the insurgency immediately.

After all, it was the peasants who rose at the same time. Without a crude weapon, there was not enough practice. The Imperial Army was overwhelmed in numbers, and there was nothing to lose.

Nevertheless... the Imperial Army soon began to withdraw from the city of Phoenix on the front lines, instead of sending in rebel suppression troops.

Why? Because the geography didn't allow it.

Hermes is an elongated country from east to west. The Imperial Army was at its westernmost end to stop the Brave Army, but if it turned around, it would be the deepest part of the Hermes kingdom, and if the insurgency persisted, the Imperial Army could be isolated in enemy territory.

The rebellion was small and certainly flying. Behind it, however, is a mountain of Bohemia, and no matter how many kicks the rebels were scattered, running into it would have done it over and over again.

Rumors of Isaac's return have already spread throughout the country, and if we tackle the rebel crackdown here, there was a risk of successive rebellions elsewhere. Therefore, the Imperial Army had to retreat in order to crush the bud.

Thus Isaac XI triumphed over Hermes without a single army.

He regained his former isolation, where the Imperial Army was based, and soon the brave army reunited through the streets. The Hermes War, which began with Isaac XI's rebellion and lasted six months with the heroic leader, was finally about to end.

The Imperial Army was upset at Isaac XI's return. No wonder no one expected him to set foot on the soil of his homeland once he had been hunted down there. Especially the upset soldiers from Hermes in the Imperial Army, who escaped one after the other because of their loyalty to their homeland lord and to the Empire.

As it stands, I don't know if it will be helpful even in battle. The Empire started conscripting in a hurry... but there was an unexpected sidewalk. Seto decided not to join the war.

Such betrayal could not be tolerated, and the state of Seto was strongly condemned. But there were circumstances that they could not withhold, no matter how much they were blamed. Originally, Seth was located in the northern part of the continent, bordered only by Bohemia and tended to be mountainous, with poor soils. Fortunately, it was financially blessed because it produced silver from Bohemia, but on the contrary, because it had good wings, the opening of the country was slow and it relied on imports of food from abroad.

However, Hermes, the Empire's food depot, is now full because it is famine and other countries eat it themselves. In this way, Seth's deal with the Brave Leader was too big to move.

Of course, if other countries help Seth, they don't want to betray him. However, the three countries will not last long if they lose the food supplied by Hermes in normal times and the supplies from the new continent are denied.

As long as the war continues, the economic blockade from the brave realm will continue. By expressing their disengagement, Seth is allowing them to trade how much they eat. Can the other three countries still say they can't die without eating Seth? That said, they couldn't get out any harder.

For the first time, the priests who did not show any interest in the economic onshine knew the decisive difference with the brave realm.

Now... if this allowed the other three countries, Cain Mitra Orpheus, to reflect on what they had done and lean towards a disgusting mood of stopping the difficult war, the opposite was true: they burned the flames of anger out of their irrationality and remorse for losing to the human they were looking down on.

In this way, many priests fought for the prestige of the Empire and assembled themselves in Hermes. The Imperial Army, which placed the useless Hermes soldiers in the rear to contain the insurgency and reconstituted the priestly soldiers as its nucleus, formed itself in the barn in the middle of the Hermes kingdom to prepare for the advance of the Warrior Army to the east.

The opposing brave army could not conceal the color of a little upset before the Imperial Army, which had unexpectedly poured in a large number of saints. War is a means of diplomacy, and that is why it is done at the end of every political effort… It was a miscalculation that an economic blockade to cut off even a little of the enemy's power would turn out to be like this.

However, since we are waging war on the Empire, of course we were prepared for the saints. The valiant army led by Waltstein marched east with Isaac entrusting it with a backup when it entered Hermes territory. Formed to the west of the Great River flowing from Bohemia to the Great Forest... the Imperial Army was on the other side of it.

The battle began with a single shot.

The two armies on both sides of the river disliked the risk of crossing the river and could not move with each other. So the Imperial side attacked the heroic army's avant-garde with ancient spells by the priests, and the heroic army engaged in a spell battle with the rifles equipped to the entire army and the modern magical users. The magic of insanity is the SAN value sharpening.

Whether Insanity works or not depends on the situation at that time, if you know it, it is a magic that is very ineffective, but once the SAN value drops, it does not recover easily, and when it reaches zero, it falls into a state of panic and becomes unable to fight. Moreover, with the addition of a level down, the Imperial Army chewed the umbilical cord in an unusual battle in which they could have unilaterally attacked with ancient spells, but were able to fight each other while checking their range.

However, if there were fewer ancient spells, there would be fewer modern magic spells, so now that many priests are fighting for the prestige of the Empire, there must have been a thin place to find the barrage.

When the Imperial Army identified the location of the phase surgeon in the spell battle and found the hole, it concentrated on it, launched a river crossing attack with the physical abilities of the priests, swept the Warriors army's spell squad and settled it all at once... Suddenly, when the Warriors army sealed the movement of the priests in the spell battle, several canoes suddenly flowed upstream. Watch out for attacks from the water, but no one is on the boat, and the boat just drifts away. What the hell does the Empire want...? It was an army of brave men who twisted their necks, but soon understood why.

The width of the river, which is about 50 meters, is relaxed on the canoe flowing from upstream by the priests, and quickly runs through. The unconscious movement became an ambush, and the corner of the brave army fragilely collapsed. And the priests used all the divine moves that they could to defeat the soldiers of the valiant army.

You can no longer be fooled by the priests who overwhelm you with your physical abilities. The brave army responded desperately to the enemies they had embarked on, but they could not be effective with just a lead ball, and those who pulled out the silver sword were targeted as soon as they found it. It seemed to me that it was only a matter of time before they came to the main team.

But it was then. Something was fired into the mountains from the rear main battalion to which the saints were aiming. Explosive bombs like fireworks fired from a short barrel are launched over the heads of the crossing priests. And when the balls that were ignited by the conduction line were poured over their heads, something poured down, and there were bumps and holes in their bodies, and the smoke came up from them with a noise.

The priests bewildered by sudden events... then someone said, "Silver! When they realized what they had done, the priests, who appeared so refreshed, began to return to the path where they had eaten bubbles. Too much haste, some priests unbalanced on the canoe and fell unusually into the river.

This was Waltstein's secret to the gods. He conceived this from the last fart Isaac and his men heard of Pizarro being chased.

A priest is immortal and immortal, and if he doesn't die, he won't get hurt. But that's why they're terribly afraid of hurting their bodies a little.

It would be more effective to defeat the priest with wounds such as silver bullets and plant fear that he might die, rather than beating him with overwhelming firepower. There were ugly holes in their bodies, and many of them lost their warfare and left the front just by seeing it.

The advent of this Recruit Weapon triggered the onslaught of the Brave Army. They saw an opportunity for the priest to show his back, and Skarsaha, the leader of the high-ranking adventurer, appeared on the riverbed downstream to poke the grim side.

As a result, the Imperial Army also arrived at a shallow crossing point, and a turmoil broke out between the two forces.

The two armies bumped into each other in the river, and the sound of the sword and sword bumping into each other was the only thing that stuck in the battlefield.

Initially, adventurers accustomed to fighting overwhelmed the Empire's farmers, but eventually the Imperial Army began to push them back when the priests mistakenly joined the farmers.

Originally, the priests who were reluctant to enter among humans appeared in the mix of agricultural soldiers without pretending, and the elite of the heroic army who suffered an unexpected ambush collapsed. However, when the brave army filled the status gap with Scarsaha's Battle Song, the high-ranking adventurers worked harder than expected and were crushed by the saints.

The battle continued with the defense of the retreat, and only a long time passed, both of which remained decisive. As time went by and the western sky turned red, the commanders of the two armies avoided wearing each other out and began to look for drawbacks.

If it goes on like this, it's as if I don't know which one will win. Instead of continuing the depletion war, we should temporarily retreat today and prepare for tomorrow. Waltstein made that decision and was about to send a signal to the entire army to withdraw at the right time.

Suddenly, a flock of more than tens of thousands of birds flew at once from a large forest spread south of the battlefield. In a flock of birds covering the sky, a shadow fell on the battlefield for an instant, as if the night had suddenly arrived. It is not uncommon for a swarm of birds to go to bed in the evening, but it must be said that this number is strange to the boulders. In the first place, the birds are supposed to go back to the big forest, but what do you see coming out the other way?

The two armies stopped attacking each other and turned to the big forest, showing anomalies.

Then, from the other side of the trees that the birds jumped out, something like a ground sound came closer and closer... and I thought that the sound was getting bigger and bigger, and this time, like a mountain tsunami that was pushing in, the trees in the forest started to fall down without the wind blowing one after the other.

Originally, trees were not supposed to fall in such a strange way, and the two armies were suspicious and alert to each other's new weapons, and now stupid and huge shadows popped out of the trees that had been knocked down.

A huge orchid swarm emerged from the woods with trembling earth sounds from the bottom of Gorn Gorn and stomach. It jumped from among the torn trees to the plains, spreading in a semi-circular fashion as if it were infiltrating water.

A herd of bloody orcs is approaching in search of prey. However, the two armies that had just fought between humans could not comprehend what was happening, and as if they were other personnel, they could only observe it vaguely.