Kuro no Maou

Taking the life of the start of the attack, Heavy Knight troops, the vanguard of the Crusades, are set in motion.

The Heavy Knight, wrapped all over his body in heavy full-body armor (full plate armor) and proceeding side-by-side with a huge large shield (tower shield) and a spear axe (halvard) in his hand, unleashes a sense of intimidation like an impending steel wall.

"Don't shoot me yet, I won't let arrows or attack magic get to me anyway"

Chrono speaks to adventurers carrying weapons for ranged attacks, starting with bows, in front of the fence.

Heavy Knight's troops have already set foot on the bridge over the river and are within the range of the bow, but Krono does not issue an attack order.

"The enemy's biggest defensive force, as far as we can tell, was no heavier armored soldier."

It was not Lily who stood beside Chrono, but Irina, the eldest daughter of the three Elves.

All the sisters are on the spot, rolling their magic to shoot with Wind Thunder Bow (Silflight), a magical bow that puts their impending enemies in their hands.

"You're going to kick the front with a heavily armored knight first, and then storm the infantry.

Something like replacing a siege weapon, or if it's true, it'll break through without difficulty with a wooden fence or barbed wire. "

If we allow the heavy knight to approach us like this, the main entrance will be broken through lightly and the path of the succeeding troops will be cut open.

If the gates are broken through, there is very little that can be done to stop enemies that prevail in overwhelming numbers, the village of Alsace will fall by noon instead of sundown today.

"Apparently, it's enhanced by magic, and -- you can see the defensive magic of light unfolding, too."

"Then it really doesn't work with arrows or attack magic, it looks like the defense of an iron wall."

In the former world of Chrono, the history of armor was closed by the appearance of guns.

Covering your entire body with a plate of steel won't stop the bullet, if the main force of the soldier becomes the gun, the earliest armor is just heavy.

But in this world, magic enhancements can prevent bullets perfectly.

Therefore, the silver armor looming in front of Chrono exerts a stronger defense than it looks.

It is expected that it will be difficult to stop their assault with the firepower of the Alliance of Adventurers.

Fiona had told Chrono that, uh, heavily armored troops had lined up and were also capable of exercising very powerful defensive magic by activating compound magic (union).

The Heavy Knight's unit specializes in preventing attacks from a distance in order to compensate for its low mobility.

So what are we going to do, how do we stop an army of heavy knights who boast a powerful and incomparable defense, a situation that we should have thought about so already and are utterly desperate? But

"Chrono, your face is laughing."

"Oh."

Chrono made me laugh.

"That makes me laugh, because these amateur martial arts really work -"

Already the legions of heavy knights plug about in the bridge, allowing the marching noise to tread on the heels of steel so close that it reaches the ears of the adventurers.

Yes, the enemy is in the middle of the bridge.

Now, blow up the bridge.

The moment he heard the sound, Knolls felt countless regrets.

Why did you let the bridge in front of you proceed without much scrutiny?

Why did the enemy deliberately lay a line of defense in this place with the river?

Why did you insult me that there were no traps or anything over this period?

It's all too late now, I regret it because I'll regret it later.

No matter how sorry you are, the lives of the soldiers you lost will never return, and yes, the silver beauty of the heavy knights who sank on the river will never return.

Doddon!!

The explosion sounded.

"Ba, silly......"

Both Knolls and the soldiers waiting to storm next door were instantly reluctant to accept the sight in front of them.

The wooden bridge on the river, at a glance, is built so sturdy that you don't have to worry about breaking even if you have many carriages going through it.

No matter how much heavy equipment you say, there's no way a knight could collapse to the point of crossing in a group.

But there is no way that it will collapse, it must not collapse, and the great bridge blew the blast flame out of its supporting bridge leg, and at the same time it collapsed brittle.

By the time I realized it was too late, the enemy had worked on the bridge beforehand, that's all.

The foundation was cut off, or the wood was drained to measure the weakening of the structure, and the bridge was blown up and destroyed by some kind of magical remote manipulation so that it could collapse at the right time.

Bombing by magic is not impossible if a few magicians are intermediate in time and magic, such as painting magic formations or installing magic equipment (magic items), or pouring more magic than the allowable amount of magic into a wand (rod) that houses attack magic at once.

"Such an idiot!!

Knolls' cry is scratched off by the rattling and the noise of the bridge crumbling away.

Bridges falling apart in the air, and several heavy knights falling unnecessarily.

Heavy knight with a powerful and incomparable defense that prevents arrows, flames and thunder, but thrown toward the deep river surface, they are too powerless.

Neither the stubborn armor that nullifies any attack, nor the defensive magic of light, makes sense if it sinks in its entirety.

However, the overwhelming weight of that steel makes it an inescapable coffin that humans cannot surf.

"Shh, move on! Help the Heavy Knight!!

Knolls lays down his life for salvation in front of Bashabasha and the poor Heavy Knight, who also sinks one after the other to show resistance.

Probably not helping more than half of them, but if you don't help one or more.

Whether the thought stemmed from the pure goodness of saving his subordination or from wanting to lighten up a bit of responsibility for destroying the Light Heavy Knight Troop by his own guard, Knolls led the soldiers out with no variety of emotions.

"Look, whoever falls into the shallow depths of the water is safe! Hurry and pull it up!!

The Rhone River was not as desperate deep as swallowing all the heavy knights, and you can barely see the tip of the canopy coming out of the water and desperately trying to reach the shore.

If at least they don't help alone, the thought will crumble away, even if by further roar.

"What is this noise..."

Dododo, a river-like roar sounds from upstream, gathered and flooded with heavy rain.

Impossible, everyone in the soldier thinks, but the sound gets louder and louder.

It's not even a grain of sunny weather, rain, etc. today, there's no way the river is going to get more water.

But the sound is almost there,

Dodd, dodd, dodd!!

At the moment of recognition, a giant twist of water swallowed and flushed all those present in the river without distinction between the dead and the living.

For just a few seconds, a waterfall swept through the river surface, pushing all the heavy knights there away and wiping them completely out of the sight of the Crusaders.

About a few hundred meters upstream from the collapsed bridge, there was a witch standing on that river plain.

"Is it good to be like this"

Fiona Soleil, a runaway witch with hectic control of magic by making her a member of the Chrono adventurer party Element Master.

And he is Teng himself who pushed away the heavy knights thrown into the river with artillery water.

The method was simple: Fiona hit the Rhone with a huge amount of water exerted by the biggest water attribute attack magic available.

The water attack originally required both weir construction and time for water to accumulate, but Fiona substituted only one magic shot for those two conditions.

"Oh, it's a great success, Fiona"

In Fiona's hands a shard of crystal emitting a pale, white light, from which the voice of Chrono can be heard.

This shard of crystal had the magical effect of interacting with a distant opponent based on Lily's psychosensitivity (telepathy).

"The enemy will soon realize there are mages upstream, too, and hurry back here"

Copy that, sir.

After a short exchange, the crystal shards were scattered in Fiona's hands.

The communication time is short and disposable because it is a rapid product that has not been properly designed or constructed.

No matter how magical you say there is, it is impossible to create a device as versatile as a cell phone, but it is now sufficiently useful with this degree of functionality.

"Phew, I'm not very good at water magic."

Fiona starts walking towards the village as Chrono told her when she throws down a short wand (wand) of water attribute enhancement that has become useless in one magical exercise.

"I'm hungry because of the use of unfamiliar attributes, I'd love to have ice candy"

I didn't hear Chrono say that you had just had breakfast.