Kuro no Maou

The month of red flames was about to pass.

The Imperial Army is coming--at last, the news has arrived in Beldoria.

The Atlas desert fleet was identified a few days ago. And today, the 31st of the month of the red flame is presumed to finally reach Beldoria.

That being said, the Imperial fleet's location has been accurately captured, as the neighborhood has unmistakably sent out scouting Dragon Knights, who have been checked directly from above. Among them was the sky battleship Shangri-La, which leisurely traveled through the sky.

It's finally here.

From the royal castle, which overlooks the port of Verdoria, the gateway to the Great Desert, Rasheed, the Dragon Prince, who was responsible for the defense of the motherland, saw countless desert ships appear from across the horizon in the early morning on the 31st.

Substantially, a reconfiguration of the Allied fleet that attacked Karamala. No, there is some information that the main vessel has been refurbished by the Empire, and the Skywarships will be much more powerful than the former Allied fleet.

To invade a small country like Verdoria, there was an overpowering force.

It would be less of a hassle to keep attacking intermittently by holding back the target as much as possible. That is why it would be the easiest strategy to leave the Beldoria assault to the former major nations of the Atlas, headed by the Kingdom of Gin Atlas.

Although there is some support from other countries by land, in the case of the war of attrition, there is no comparison between the empire that controls all of Atlas and the power of Belgrade. The mighty Dragon Knight Squad is exhausted. Even though Rasheed was proud to be the strongest Dragon Knight, he understood that he could not beat the Rock in time.

But the Empire can't beat time.

It was your defeat to rush my Verdoria as a small country, Demon King Chrono.

One day. Drop Beldoria in one day.

That's right, Demon King Chrono was flying to the Imperial Army.

The enemy is small. This is an overwhelming army. It is only natural to say such good things with dignity to boost morale.

But Rasheed already knew the real reason why Chrono wanted to capture Verdoria as soon as possible. The Chrono Expeditionary Force, coming from far away from Avalon, is the Empire's greatest enemy.

Later, because the big opponent was holding back, I quickly cut off the grief of the guard. It's by no means a mistake, but that's why it leads to the idea that you can crush it in just one day.

"Hmm, I'm looking forward to seeing what you'll see when Shangri-La is taken away and turned upside down."

According to the rumor, Chrono was just as vicious and ruthless as a demon king. Above all, with the irreplaceable power gained by the protection of the demon king, the frenzied warrior thoroughly killed the enemy in a fierce battle, the city was burned up, the treasures were taken away, the women were raped, and if they were beautiful, the men were ————, and so on.

However, in fact, the strength that has been created in the desire city of Karamala, and the skill of controlling the atlas, is to serve a beautiful princess headed by a fairy queen, so all the rumors will not be false. In Rashid's opinion, 60% of the rumors are correct.

“Your Highness Rasheed, enemy fleets are gathering offshore.”

Hmm, you're right.

The chief of staff next door calls out to Rasheed.

The Royal Castle of Verdoria sits on a hill overlooking the capital's harbor, and the Imperial fleet that kept appearing beyond the horizon was well visible.

But at this distance, this number. We should be able to see enough of their shadows from the harbor in the first place.

I can't help but be surprised by the overwhelming fleet of enemies that has finally emerged.

”Hurry up and don't try to imitate me”

Huh, I'll repeat the order.

"Our purpose is the Sky Battleship Shangri-La, only one point." Until this is done, we must stop the enemy from landing and protect the harbor. ”

I know that there is a difference in strength of less than an hour a day when it comes to a front-end fleet battle. Therefore, the port is only used as a substitute for the fort with warships that muster the power of the Verdorian Navy.

It would be humiliating for the Navy to keep the ship shut down and fight the enemy, but this is the best we can do to protect the country. Because of their boring pride, Rasheed is not willing to risk wasting valuable defensive power.

If you ignore even the pride of the Navy, the harbor, which is a beautiful cove, is a suitable terrain for protection. No matter how many enemies you have, you can only have a limited number of ships at once.

In addition to the warships that were lowered and docked, the harbor area was extensively guarded, albeit suddenly.

With a limited number of hostiles coming down, we have enough defensive power to hold them off. Hopefully, just defending it will overwhelm us for a few days.

"If you take a little time to land from the harbor, Shangri-La will be out in no time."

Chrono has no choice but to drop it in one day. Cease sightings, put the biggest and strongest Shangri-La on the front lines, and destroy the port's defenses with air support.

All you have to do is break through here, and we'll leave the rest to the numbers and momentum. I will see the destruction of a small country that is not elegantly taken from the sky again, but I will not let that happen.

“When Shangri-La starts attacking the harbor, it's her biggest chance to get in. Look, we'll wait for this plane. Defend the harbor until you attract your only chance."

Haha, as His Highness Rashid said!

The time has passed without any help from the big fleet, which has thoroughly defended itself and is constantly gathering in front of them.

"...... Are they still moving?"

“I can't see you moving while you're docked offshore.”

By the time the sun had risen and a refreshing summer morning had begun, the Imperial fleet had rallied.

I was expecting to launch an assault once we had all the numbers, but the Imperial fleet kept its spooky silence.

I can't believe that it's the time to negotiate peace that has come to fruition.

"No, no, nothing like that..."

The messenger I sent ended up being pushed without even reaching the negotiating table. It was a palliative time machine that I did not expect from the original, but it was so quiet that I could only think that it had succeeded.

"What... what are they waiting for...?"

It was at the time when the military council began to consider whether we should take some risks and explore the thoughts of the invisible enemy.

* Giggle *...

I felt a small sway that I thought was due to my mind.

The fact that it is not due to the mind gradually changes into a certainty due to the growing vibration.

"Hey, hey, something's shaking."

It's an earthquake!

"Are you kidding me, at a time like this..."

As an earthquake, it was only a small one, but it was just on the brink of a battle, and Ryoka ran agitated.

It is true that bad luck is not good, but if you are disturbed by such a thing and struck by surprise, you can't even put your eyes to it.

"Yes, you guys, quiet down."

Rashid's arrowhead tried to swoop on the chivalrous and calmly settle down.

"So, Your Highness... the desert..."

“What is the desert!”

The moment Rasheed turned around to reveal his frustration at being called to interrupt the dialogue, Rasheed forgot the rage that was supposed to rise.

"The desert is moving..."

It was a fetal movement of visible and intense quicksand.

From the moment we were notified that we were not going to surrender to the Elrod Empire, that we were going to eat shit, the quicksand for the desert trade was stopped.

I know that Goddess Atlas has the power to manipulate the quicksands of the Great Desert, and that the Queen reigns over the Pandemonium. With the quicksand actually stopping, there's no doubt about it.

The quicksand that was supposed to come to a halt will be a natural next step in the Empire's fleet's assault.

However, the quicksand's momentum was unusual. Even in the season of heavy storms, it has never been so rough.

Sand waves swell as if a giant sandworm or fortress whale is diving in a swarm. Desert ships lined up in rows swaying and swaying in the midst of high waves of sand rushing like fury.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"

If you're not talking to Yasuyasu, you'll be noticed the next moment. Rashid wasn't the only one. Even those who panicked at the shaking of the ground and the violent flow of sand were made to understand.

With a violent wobble and roar, the sole came.

Zudododododo--

It's a tsunami ahhhhhhhhhhh!!

Someone screams. Everyone thinks so.

It was too obvious what had happened.

Like the bay where this port is located, the walls rising high from the left and right, no, a tsunami of sand as huge as a mountain came.

We can only look down on the violence of nature from the height of the royal castle.

Rasheed was ashamed to be the first to think that he could not reach this point the moment he witnessed the tsunami of sand.

But it's hard to blame it. People are too helpless to face the threat of nature.

Even just looking at it from the safe royal castle, it was a sight of its spine freezing. No one can stop a wave of sand that is much higher than the bulwarks built in the harbor.

Yes, the mainstay of the Beldoria Defense Force, already in the harbor, could only watch the impending tsunami with fear and despair.

"Ahhhh!"

The moment I thought about it, the tsunami that was coming from the left and right of the bay just bumped into each other at the harbor. The huge amount of sand that builds Koyama swallows everything there.

First, a desert ship full of fully armed sailors, lined up with squirrels. The warships gathered together with the strength of the Navy are so scattered that the toy is scraped away by the child who raised the toy.

The brave and determined warriors at the forefront of the defense of the motherland disappeared into the sand in an instant without pulling out their swords.

The Beldoria fleet that built the first line of defense was literally wiped out, but that was just the beginning. Of course. The tsunami just turned upside down the ship that was docked in the harbor, and it couldn't have been more satisfying. Nature does not ask how people are feeling, and we never forgive them.

Just how many ships floating on the sand got involved, and the tsunami's momentum continued unbroken. The vast mass of the harbor is naturally spread out in front of us.

It is a port defense line that brings together a determined defense force that will definitely stop the enemy from landing.

The soldiers who had been standing on the wall that had been razed in the past month or so, decided not to fall back, threw out their weapons and ran away in a hurry.

Rasheed, who watched from above, was like an ant without feeling reprimanded for the soldiers who ran away unnecessarily, and only his thoughts that he was just watching came to his mind in a daze.

And the soldiers like ants are still trampled like ants. There was nothing to resist, just swallowed up under the sand.

"Ah, ah, ahhh..."

By the time such a meaningless moan leaked, it was all over.

There is no harbor where many soldiers can defend themselves.

It's just a sandy, lonely Atlas Desert. Only part of it spreads. Filled with the bulwarks they built, the only thing floating on the surface of the sand was a shattered ship or the wreckage of a building.

Drawing a gentle downward slope toward the desert, the capital city of Verdoria was eroded into the desert by about a third of its port area.

The frontline defense team was destroyed without a trace.

The only thing left was the rear units waiting for us in the city. Only the guards in the Imperial Castle and the Dragon Knight Squad led by themselves.

Beldoria's defenses were already less than half as strong at this point.

"I, this is... this is the demon king's way!!"

"Wow, I did it!" We did it, Chrono, it's a big success! "

And then, with innocent joy, little girl Lily came back to my lap, sitting in the captain's seat. The sparkling adorable eyes that look up at me seem to be complaining of praise and praise.

Ahh, I'm about to tremble at the fall of this pure innocence and the tragedy unfolding under my eyes.

"Oh, well done." It's a big success, Lily. "

"Ehehehe"

I stroked Lily's head as naturally as I could.

Meanwhile, I turned my attention to the huge main monitor projected on the front of the headquarters.

The enemy's avant-garde is brilliantly devastating.

The harbor of the capital of Verdoria is disastrous. They swallowed up all the berthed warships and fortifications, and all the soldiers defending them, and they were ravaged by the sand.

In the words of the inhabitants of the Great Desert, it was as if the goddess Atlas was angry.

Of course, this was not the will of the goddess of the desert, but an attack caused by Lily's hand.

The ability to control quicksand obtained by controlling the Great Labyrinth and securing Carlamara's original monolith. This tremendous power of manipulating nature has brought back the Allied fleet that attacked us, but it is new to my memory... If we can harness this power to the full, we will be able to launch a disaster called a tsunami.

The purpose of the Allied fleet is to capture them as they are, so we didn't sink any of them. If it was to make Lily really angry, Admiral Sherghail would also be an algae scrap from the sandy sea.

It was such a terrible quicksand operation, but of course, only the Atlas Desert could use it effectively. The Empire, which now controls all of the Great Desert, has no choice but to strike with this power, leaving Verdoria behind.

Powerful and incomparable like a trump card. But if you don't turn it off when it cuts, it won't. That's why I cut it.

I'm sorry for Verdoria's serious defenses, but I decided to break it with this Atlas-exclusive move.

"'Atlas Wrath' succeeded. Start landing."

Haha, please leave it to our Atlas fleet!

Connected communications lead to Admiral Sherguille of the Desert Fleet.

It was hard to tell by the complexion of the crocodile-shaped lizard man, but I guess it wasn't my imagination that it seemed slightly faded.

He is a people of the raw Atlas, and I strongly feel how threatening it is to be struck by the Great Tsunami in the desert. If you can show off that you're going to be attacked by such a catastrophe, you'll be more afraid of being directed at your hometown than of being happy to hit your enemies with a heavy blow.

“Tell me if the quicksand doesn't stabilize. I'll have Lily adjust it."

"With such a rough wave, we don't have much to do." Don't worry, your Majesty will never expose you. "

I got a terrifying response. You can easily ask me for more... Well, I don't think we'll have a problem getting our desert ships into the capital.

Well then, let's go to land.

Will. All for Elle Road!!

Cut off the communication with the Admiral along with a fervent salute.

"Let's get on board and finish the fight." Let's start with the landing squad cover -- don't let your allies get involved, Fiona. "