Kuro no Maou

The next morning. The 26th of the month of the ice-crystal. It was around the time my stomach settled after lunch.

Finally, to Fortress Alsace, a white mist crept in.

"All hands, intercept posture! Hurry, the octopus monster will be here soon!

"Hey, fire! Burn the fire!

Inside the castle in a rush to Russia. That's where the anger rises, and the butterflies and soldiers run down the aisle.

This noise is exactly the same as it was just before opening the end of the war in the Galahad war. I guess the atmosphere on the battlefield is the same everywhere.

"You're ready, Yuri, Ursula"

"Yes, brother"

It's okay. It's okay.

Ursula with a calm expression, as I forgot yesterday's farewell. This time let the guards focus on the guards in a place protected by fortress defenses, so they should be able to fight safer than they did during the retreat.

Sariel, on the other hand, can be inferred that he can't see his face, but is still as faceless as usual.

She's on my back now. I put wind rapiers on my hips and the pouch I gave them yesterday, fully armed.

Yes, this time, I want Sariel to protect my back.

As long as my complex mood is outwitted, she is a more reliable partner than any other. A former apostle, no matter what. It instantly kills a big armored bear without hands and feet, because it's a monster.

"All right, let's go"

I already have my black armor helmet on. Take the steel Zweihander and the flame flamberge. I left the room.

First, head to the hall on the ground floor. I have roughly grasped the structure in the fortress within yesterday, so I will not get lost.

"Oh, here you are, priest."

Village vigilantes, including Ryan, assembled in the large hall in front of the main entrance to the castle.

Given the size of Gratney Octo, this will also be a total force battle that puts all of its power into play, but basically it will be Baron Hellman's Alsace Fortress defense team that stands on the arrow. Vigilantes are treated like reservists. But it won't be such a sweet war situation that none of them show up.

"Ryan, how are you getting ready?

"Hehe, this is a front-line crusader base, only weapons are more visible."

The number of soldiers is there, and this Alsace fortress still has a large quantity of weapons left. Just because we lost once in Galahad doesn't mean the Crusaders pull back. Whether we make a second invasion, or defend ourselves, we still need to leave supplies here.

I'd love to smash it all up, but this time we can fight without worries in terms of weapons and food.

"Stay on the defense in the castle until we have a request to leave. Don't come forward, all right?

"I'm not a wacko to be taken apart by a knight for sticking up in a place like this. Well, we'll make it."

For now, you can leave the vigilante's command to Ryan, and he'll be fine.

And he has one more thing to leave to me.

I turn my face to Ryan and say it whispered enough to cage in my helm.

"Ursula, please"

"Oh, now I can help, but I'll stop you."

Ryan also regrets Leki's death. You won't be treading the same.

"Look, Ursula. As we talked yesterday, act with the vigilante. If you're going to go out, cover everyone from inside the castle. Never come forward."

"... Yes, Lord Chloe"

With a slightly blurred face, Ursula nods. After all, is it a dissatisfaction on the inside?

"The appearance of vigilantes may mean that we are allowing enemy incursions into the castle. Don't be alarmed if the avant-garde protects you."

It's okay. It's okay.

I'm anxious, but I know what I can do. About repeating my precautions like this.

Beyond this period, there is nothing more than fighting and winning.

"Lord Chloe, be careful"

"Oh."

Sister Yuri, please be safe.

"Yes."

The words of farewell are short. Me, Sariel, Ursula, we don't need to talk about anything more.

But the thought of being pulled hard behind my hair made me look back only once and speak to Ursula, who seemed lonely.

"Hey, Ursula, if we can make this fight work, let's go back to the village together"

"What... are you okay?

"Oh, build Leki's tomb, mourn - then let's think about what's ahead, then"

"Yes, Lord Chloe!

I remember the tingling pain in my chest on Ursula's smile that she finally showed me.

Just parting time buying. Problem postponement. She's so, so happy that it won't solve anything.

"Open the gate, please."

While I feel guilty and disgusted with myself, I walk out of the open gate alone - no, with her behind me, with me.

"Come on, let's go, Sariel"

"Yes."

As such, I join Sariel in the Second Alsace Defense Battle.

"-" Big Wind Wall (Ale Lampert Defan) ""

The Windy Wall (Yale Lampert Defan), an advanced range defensive magic of wind simultaneously activated from all sides, blows up the impending white fog if you don't cover up the Fortress of Alsace.

Along with the roaring wind sounds, the wind walls hold back the fog looming so far. Its range extends to around the opposite bank of the river flowing across the walls. Just as the giant cylindrical shape surrounded the entire Alsace fortress, a great wall of wind emerged.

"I knew with all the numbers, the magic effect would be terrific."

I was grand and royal with Saliel on my back to the wall directly above the main entrance of the fortress, watching the activation of a massive junction like a small typhoon.

This junction, the fog control of Gratney Octo, has finished perfectly planted within yesterday. Apparently, it works well and reassures me. Normally, there is no point in expanding the boundaries at wind speeds to such an extent that an arrow cannot be fully played, but it is an effect that is too much for spraying drifting fog.

The junction now unfolded by the tearful efforts of the Crusader-style sorcerers (Windmerges) covers completely up to the sky and protects and cuts clear blue sky ceilings. Now, this time, they'll take you up, and you won't have to worry about a descent operation.

"Wind Mage (Wind Merge) Troops serve to maintain the bond! Defense teams do whatever it takes to protect the sorcerer! If this junction disappears, it will feed on flying octopuses!

"Archers, set up fire! It should be time to come out!!

Above the walls, the Crusaders have already deployed. If everyone sets up fire arrows, the flaming light lines up nicely like a little illumination.

The soldier is consolidating not only the front where I stand, but all four sides without gaps. If the opponent is a human army, he will not be turned behind from this terrain. In fact, when I was a kid, only a handful of irregulars, the Cyprus Experimental Unit and Mass, never got around to the big army.

But for those flying in the sky, terrain can't be any impediment to marching. Already the fog is full of all directions, with only the wind junction protecting the Alsace fortress as a blank zone.

All we have to do is push us from whatever direction we want toward the middle of the cage.

It's tough not being able to concentrate on one direction only, but I couldn't have prepared anything to limit their formation.

Therefore, we have to deploy defensemen on all walls, east, west, north and south, in preparation for our defense to be somewhat diminished.

The walls of the Alsace fortress are approximately ten meters. Although it would be significantly inferior to the Great Wall of Galahad, it would not be a good fortress. The height you can count on to prevent the octopuses that seal your ability to fly.

"... are you here"

Several round silhouettes float across the thin, foggy shore. They walked out across the white darkness without sound as they crawled through the ground, still groaning their tentacles in disgust.

Both octopuses flatten out to fill the banks of the river so that this one stands neatly against the wall with a bow. In the long run, the ground seems to be moving as it slipped green.

"Oh, my God..."

"Wow, it's super kidding..."

The Devil's Fish (Devilfish), what a described octopus monster, leaks such screams from time to time from the face of the Fortress Defender, who first saw Koitzla.

The monsters, who looked different and vain, began to swim swimming with Swiss as they floated on the river, without their desires and flowing rivers. After all, only octopus and underwater behavior is good. No deep river or water moat can be any stumbling block to them.

Counting from opposite shores is also ridiculously countless octopuses gushing out of the fog one after the other, coming across the river in a straight line without hesitation. I'm guessing they're totally complementing our prey.

Octopus increasing in acceleration. Around the river surface has been buried by about half with green heads, the limits of patience finally came to the Crusaders.

"Let it go!!

The Crusaders open the edge of the battle, just as they could not withstand the green fear of pushing over.

The countless fire arrows unleashed to pull the scarlet tail literally fall over the head of an unprotected octopus as a rain of fire.

Shortly afterwards, it rings from the river in unison: "Geeeeeeee!" A great chorus of tall discord. Few soldiers seem to be honestly happy that the octopus, vulnerable to fire, is raising the voice of suffering, but it works. The creepy chills running on their spines stir up fear and disgust for them instead.

"Don't let him near me! There are as many arrows as there are, keep shooting!

"Fire Mage (Fire Merge) Troops, draw more and then shoot! Our magic power is not infinite, do your best, avoid wasting fire!

However, no matter how weak they are, they are not weak enough to die after about a single fire arrow. Four or five bottles won't turn fire all over your body unless you punch them in, and if you get shot across the river, they will sink on the spot and quell the fire.

As they roam around screaming in agony, they soon land to this shore and creep up to the walls.

As the octopus tentacle touches the wall and begins to crawl up with cheats, it is the turn of the fire crucifixion.

"-" Flaming (Ignis Blast) ""

The flamethrowing emitted simultaneously swoops away to lick the walls, relentlessly sending the sticking octopus into purgatory.

After the flaming tongue passed, the fire-milled octopus tumbled down and let it sweep brilliantly without missing the enemies in range.

All right, this is going to prevent it well. The rest depends on how much magician troop magic you have.

"Hey, look! There's a big one out there!

A good eyed archer found its presence across the fog as soon as possible. Will you come out early, I'll whisper my tongue inside.

Ten-metre octopuses appear on the opposite shore, standing and walking like Martians with great tentacles, as the Crusaders grovel.

One, two, three - together, as many as eight large octopuses go to boast of the giant. Perhaps the same number has emerged from the other three directions.

The opponent has also put in an incomparable amount of material when the 203rd supply base was attacked.

"Big guys are dangerous, we need to get this over with."

A ten-metre individual releasing a powerful acid brace is already cautious in yesterday's military debate. Naturally, in preparation for that, we will be able to guard the Sorcerer Squad with defensive magic.

Besides, a crossbow gun (barista) mounted on the castle wall will also enter the firing position to prevent the Mage Squad, which is the key to the attack, from falling over the side of the defense. He swirled with a critical metal noise, loaded with thick, long arrows like a marutai, and set his sights on the great octopus, which slowly crossed the river.

However, it will be difficult to get rid of them with this barista alone. Instead, I haven't expected anything from the beginning.

At this stage, I will defeat the Great Octopus, but it is my role. I don't have to worry about running out of ammo today. Shall I let you shoot me fully?

"Demon Sword (Sword Arts)/Rift Blade Matrix (Blade Storm) -"

- The octopuses are retreating.

It was thought that a one-off offensive would continue, but the enemy's offense inadvertently stopped. Like zombies pushing from next to next, they keep jumping into the flaming kill zone, stopping forward and flipping sharply, as if they remembered something called fear at this moment. The momentum that scattered the spider child returned to the mist that lingered opposite the shore at first sight.

"Look! They're getting away!

"Oh, I did it! Our victory!!

Crusader soldiers boil down to an apparent retreat in everyone's eyes.

Until this point, we had managed to prevent invasion at the walls, but it was an unpredictable battle situation. Is the battle time roughly two hours?

Though few victims were out yet, both soldiers and magicians were wearing out so much that they could not hide their fatigue.

The sorcerer continued to use magic through everyone, and the soldier shot the bow uninterruptedly and slammed down the octopus climbing against the wall with a spear or a large pine light that lit a fire at the tip of the marutai.

I should say that I held out well before an infinite number of enemies.

But it's quick to reassure me that I won here.

"... Coming"

Even when they fought at the 203rd supply base, they disappeared unexpectedly. Just after Leki was stabbed.

And when I tried to get into the village again looking for the grabbed leki - the arr showed up.

"Oh, hey, what, are you allergic!?

"You're lying... the mountains are floating..."

It wasn't a coincidence. This time too, he lets all his men down and then shows up with that huge, too huge body.

In the fog, a black shadow emerges. It spreads instantly like a dark cloud that can stand in, and in front of us, it shows off a giant like a mountain.

Beyond the thinly smoking fog, it is finally apparent to everyone that there is a huge gratney oct floating in the castle comparable to the Alsace fortress.

"I knew it was unusually big."

"Neither have I ever seen a monster that huge"

Well, Sinclair is not as demonic as there are all these super giant monsters.

For me and for Sariel, I've never seen a big guy like this before.

By the way, I stand somewhat sideways so that even Sariel on my back can see me. It's not a wack that cares about anything else. Because we have to keep a good look at the enemy.

"Look, it's the real deal from here."

"Yes."

It is merely an outpost, such as preventing all the miscellaneous fish from being walled. My purpose is to crusade him, the monster of the trials, from the beginning.

Of course, I'm not putting clearing the trials first. If you can get out, that's fine...... it's unlikely that this Te monster will give up the bait in front of you and retreat lightly. Which way, there's no other way for us to survive than to defeat it.

"Do you want to set it up"

"Oh."

Operation to defeat Gratney Octo, well, it's like you can't even call it an operation, but I've already explained it to Sariel.

"The more you look at how they come out, the more you can afford it - eh!?

An awesome gust of wind blows through the moment. Step on it reflexively and enjoy it.

So much for the helmet, armor and sariel on too much wind pressure that the belt seems to come off and blow away at the next moment.

"... n"

Looking at Chirali and how she was, Saliel was holding back so that a big headscarf hiding her face with her left hand wouldn't fly away. Yeah, the headscarf doesn't have to fly, but you're going to blow yourself away.

I force my sword into a volumetric 'shadow space (shadowgate)' and then hold it directly by my hand so that Sariel on my back doesn't fly away.

"Damn, it's this just breathe. I don't know."

The culprit who causes this gust, regardless, is the lagging Gratney Octo. A huge mouth opens like a gateway to hell at the bottom of the main body, and this wind is pouring down towards it.

I'm just breathing. I probably didn't realize it right away because the scale of the phenomenon that happened was too large. Who the hell thinks a breeze like this just breathes in? Even when a dragon shoots a brace, it doesn't blow strong winds this far.

The fact that Gratney Octo is taking in an enormous amount of air commensurate with that giant is obvious from the foggy movement that fills his surroundings.

Can he himself fly without the buoyancy of a magical mist? I don't mind losing all the fog around me at once, and I roar and suck it to the big mouth.

"Uh-oh! Oh, falling!

"Get down! They're gonna blow you away!

"Hey, keep your hands off me! Don't let go, never let go!

Horribly long, one breath. Soldiers on the walls fall into chaos because of stormy winds. Everyone can just enjoy not being blown away and can't launch an attack against Gratney Oct.

Even I couldn't get my hands on it under these circumstances.

"- Stopped"

Surprisingly, the wind stops. Free from beating wind pressure.

If you look up again, you suck all the fog that was wrapped around you like thin silk, and the figure of Gratney Octo floating in the blue sky. It floats like a cloud, but when I look at it this clearly, it strikes me as uncomfortable as if I were even hallucinating at a green mountain in the air.

But Soyts did float in front of Fortress Alsace - trying to release the braces. The mouth of hell is opened again.

"First off -" Black Earth Wall (Shield Deer Earth) "!

"'Wind Shield (Ale Sild)'"

At the same time as me, Sariel was exercising defensive magic.

As a magnificent pitch-black wall was erected over the walls, I learned the feeling of a breeze that enveloped my entire body - soon after, my vision closed to a white monochrome.

"Damn, this is... foggy!?

I thought it was an acid brace like a big octopus, but it wasn't a poisonous purple claw that filled the surroundings.

This white fog itself has no direct attack power. From what I've seen, from what I've felt, there's nothing special about it.

I'm first relieved that it's not poison fog, but soon I realize it.

"The fog doesn't clear...... what happened to the junction!?

"It's not broken. But the momentum of the braces pushed the fog in"

Description of Saliel, who is calm everywhere. It was the right analysis so that Tsukomu could lose his temper.

"Damn, they did it. With one brace, it's a form reversal."

The wind junction just plays the mist drifting from the outside, and it has not become a stream that drains the air that lingers inside. Once it's full, there's nothing you can do about it unless you radically change the surgical formula and change the airflow itself.

And in order to completely exhaust the enormous amount of fog that covers the entire Alsace fortress, it will require a massive preparation carved out of the magic formation, just like the junction. I mean, getting rid of this fog right now is impossible.

Just then I took out my sword again, thinking about it.

Bechari, and the sound of a rag tapping onto the floor sounds from my feet.

"Kee!!

With such a chirping, there was also an abominable green octopus on the walls.

"Let's hurry, Sariel. This place won't last long."

I burned down the octopus with a flash on my left flamberge, and I ran out toward the stables at a glance.

The war situation leaned to disadvantage at once. Now that the fog has allowed us to break into the fortress in one foot, this place, like the 203rd Replenishment Base, will now move to the White Soldier Battle of Hell.

But the early appearance of Gratney Octo, the boss, also allowed this one to hit one hand in deciding the battle.

The Gratney Octo crusade I've been thinking about is simple and clear. Get into the giant of the guy floating in the air, direct attack.

Going is Saliel's manipulative pegasus, and returning freely falls. Now I have The Demon King of Steel (Overgear). Zero impact to the extent of free fall is easy to accommodate.

True, an unbeatable and perfect operation. The problem is that every itinerary is quite difficult... but there is no other way, and I have cut a great deal in front of Baron Hellman.

Come on, let's get ready and try to head on an empty journey with Sariel.