Log Horizon

After noon, Minori and the others were on their way to the town of Choushi.

I was tired, but I had not lost my vitality from one line.

It was only one night, but the intense time spent in the dark had the effect of sharpening the potential of the Minori and their five. Of course, the battle that followed from "LaGranda's Company" raised their level a few times.

Every time I repeated the battle, the collaboration gradually grew sophisticated, so much so that sometimes it seemed that I could understand my fellow men's thoughts without speaking up.

The five minnows walking down country roads are more relaxed than they were when they were in the woods, but they still weren't loosening their guard. We can observe the surroundings so that each other covers each other's blind spots, but still walk away in a soothing atmosphere.

(Although the battle is still scary...)

Though scared, Minori thinks he has nothing to fear anymore.

What really frightens me is the feeling of fear flowing through my veins and my hands and feet shrinking and letting go of my raw from me. That's similar to "giving up".

In this world without "death", "giving up" has the same meaning as "death". Conversely, if we don't give up, we have a chance. Whether you're shuddering or shaking, something could happen if you stand.

Time was too late to say morning.

Before noon, maybe?

"Whoa, whoa!

Resting around the bush was a line of direct successors, as confirmed earlier in the reading. There are also Chan Tai, Xiaolong and Rezaric.

In this other world, the equipment is automatically cleaned by its resilience if it has the degree of dirt. The equipment is set to be durable, and the amount of wear and tear that occurs during normal use is only a small amount. More than just a few as numbers, reality such as dirt leans closer to the numbers - that is supposedly the reason why dirt falls off.

On the other hand, however, than the degree of wear and tear is set, the rough handling definitely crushes the numbers themselves. Specifically, weapons and armor are gradually destroyed by prolonged combat. This is the reason why it needs to be repaired regularly at weapons stores and armor stores.

Four in front of Minori. All four skilled 90-level Adventurers are several times more powerful than the Minori and others. But relying on its strength, it must have jumped into the middle of Goblin's looting unit and repeated its attacks with scattered chaos.

Even though they fought in a guerrilla formation around the two Swordsmen (Swashbucklers), their intensity must not have been the ratio of the Minoris.

"It's okay. Shit, Towya. Did you protect everyone?

"Yes, direct sishaw!

A direct line stroking Toya's head responding with the most salute.

Serara jumping too fast.

Minori briefed Xiaolong and Rezaric on last night's battle. They both looked relieved. Regardless of Xiaolong, Rezaric is a major guild therapeutic cleric (Cleric). Minori, wondering if maybe we could attack our own selfish behavior, was tickled with that care, and I'm sorry.

They didn't mean injuries, but they also drained each other a lot. As much as I thought Minori and the others would run out of potions along the way.

The attack of the Goblin looting unit decreased as the morning sun rose, obviously as the waves drew. I guess they also understand their characteristics and numbers and the effectiveness of night raids.

Minori and the others let the enemy retreat and pull up close to the city.

"Well, let's make this about it and go back to the city. Until I see it with these eyes, I'm worried."

The serious-looking "Therapeutic Cleric" (Cleric), the "Black Sword Knights" lesary tells. A line nodded at the word, walking out for the town of Choushi all the way.

Summer morning over a bloody night, but the sky is blue.

A strong, cheek-beating tidal breeze characteristic of Zantreef crosses the field from the coastline.

In the light of the bright sun, the distant scenery and fields showing shades of white flying, and the shadows of Buna and Keyaki on the farm road were beautiful in contrast.

Moving on for a while, the Goblin corpse begins to catch my eye. Not left on the street, clumped over there, clumped over here, I guess the [Adventurers] fought against Goblin here last night.

"Sounds like you were doing it. That's my sister with my chest."

My direct line squeaks happily.

That is exactly what it is. Even Minori and the others never thought that the idea of an invasion could protect the town of Choushi. Minori's companions and their direct successors fight the enemy Goblins as guerrilla troops in those mountains. It's a forced guerrilla tactic, exploiting the advantages of surprise attacks and night vision to reduce the number of goblin platoons anyway.

If this reduces the number of Goblin troops, the hands of the attack against the town of Choushi will be loosened and defenses will be possible...... that was the tactic set up by Minori.

Minori doesn't know the professional language at this point, but the operation the Goblins were taking is a saturation attack. This is a tactic of destroying enemy positions due to an overwhelming difference in troop numbers.

For example, if it's a one-on-one, or platoon battle, Goblin loses to the Adventurers. Some troop differences are reversed by the ability of the Adventurer to fight.

So the Goblins roll out small units in unison that the adventurers can't handle. Of course, a small number of Goblin platoons will be held back by the Adventurers, but the Goblins just have to hit a wealth of material against the "holes" that inevitably arise from the difference in numbers.

Break in from such a "hole" and hit the fruit called the town of Choushi, and if you set fire to it, it would be a panic outbreak. The adventurers are out of control and confused as to whether they should go back to town and finish looting the Goblins or continue fighting the Goblins in front of them.

This is how I destroy all the confused Adventurers. It was also a traditional tactic when the Goblins invaded.

But Minori and the others started the attack earlier than the Goblins, and further away from town.

Minori's idea of planning this operation is simple.

The Goblins have no base to protect. Minori and the others have bases to protect. Moreover, the base (the town of Choushi) has no fences and is susceptible to intrusion. This is a weakness and the Goblins have no weakness. As a result, the battle becomes unfavourable.

- If so, we can fight where our weaknesses do not concern us.

Simple and simple conclusions. Of course, as long as it was accompanied by strength and courage, then, we were forced to implement the conclusion.

The Minori's maneuvers reduced the chain of command and the Goblins still tried to settle the night raid according to their early goals. The city of Choushi was attacked.

However, Minori and the others' maneuvers were not intended solely to reduce the number of goblins. A few times the number of goblin platoons actually destroyed by the Minori were to spend more time than necessary trying to alert or bypass the Minori in the mountains. That way, the Goblins can't possibly do it, such as simultaneous attacks with their footprints in place.

Saturation attacks have an eye for creating a situation in which the enemy is unable to respond due to a single concentration of force. The goblins, who were mistimed to assemble and attack, nevertheless attacked the town of Choushi as ordered by the Force Leader, but that would have been the feather of rolling out the worst hand from the Goblin tribe, "repeating the assault in turn, little by little, from the troops that arrived".

And if it's a sporadic raid to that extent, even "adventurers" who are still low in strength or can't get enough.

Lost in direct persuasion, Marielle persuaded members of the summer sleepover group to defend the town of Choushi until morning.

"Welcome back!

"Oh, welcome back!

"Are you tired?

If you enter the town of Choushi, the familiar (adventurers) will give their voices to Serara and Xiaolong. These two have wide faces in order to be in a position to take care of newcomers in the March Alliance. Chan Tai, direct line, and Rezalik also seem to be interacting with veterans (adventurers) with information.

The streets throughout the solidified city show no signs of roughness.

It seems the Goblins were unable to break into the town.

"Heh. What the hell? I did it."

The voice of my brother who proudly tells me. Minori gave you her gaze, and in the sunshine, there was a towya with a big grin like a child.

Minori sees that smile and her chest warms.

Minori's brother crossed the night without cloudy brightness. Minori also naturally got zero laughter. I was also delighted to have been able to protect the Lundelhouse. On the offered fist of Towya, Minori hits his own it.

"Minori, no! Everyone from the" Landlord "said they would provide a place to sleep in the tavern! Off time, let's take a break in turn ~ Huh! I don't know yet."

"Miss Minori, and Toya. They're gonna let me wipe your face. Thank you for your generosity."

Towya and Minori start walking to the voices of fifty bells and Lundelhouse screaming from across the street. The footprint, in the summer sun, was light.

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Prototype steam engine-mounted transport vessel (Okupete).

There is plenty of room on board for experimental vessels combining large outer ships with steam engines, originally to verify the potential for mass transport. It is also not to be missed that there is no need for fuel reserves because steam engines are made more compact and use heat (salamanders) by the Summoner (Summoner) as fuel than the outer ships actually used on Earth.

An outer wheel ship (paddleship) is a type of steam engine ship with giant waterwheel-like wheels on either side of the ship. The steam engine will rotate these two outer rings and "row" the water with that rotation.

From a performance perspective, outer ships (paddleships) are less efficient than rotary-wing ships (screwships). You lose in L.A. when you convert the same energy into propulsion.

However, due to the difficulty of working with and mounting, the city of Akiba at the moment had made a decision that the construction of an outer ship would be reasonable, and experiments had been overlaid.

An outer ship that loses to a rotary-wing ship in terms of propulsion efficiency, but on the other hand, for reasons that do not require a depth of drainage, it is a great way to go down the flow of smidahs, as it is now.

The steam engine experiments carried out on small ships, such as the "Roundtable Conference" were successful less than a week after the establishment noise, but two months after that, the prototype steam engine-mounted ship that finally arrived was the "Okupete".

About 130 adventurers are currently aboard the Ocupete. I have the impression that there are a lot of people, but I don't have the impression that this large ship is so overflowing.

Rainesia stood alone on a deck close to the bow of the ship. Not that I have never been on a ship, but this ship makes a heterogeneous voyage from a sailboat. The power progression that tore the waves apart made them uncomfortable, but the speed was fast.

The adventurers around them walk around to relax in a thoughtful attitude or prepare in haste. Its members vary, but with nearly half wearing the same crest coat as Crusty, it could be expected that he was from the same household.

Rainesia felt more and more like it.

I'm not seasick. As the daughter of the lord of My Hama, large and small, I have been familiar with the ship from an early age. This sinking mood is against the temperament of being too much of a cannon.

(I said it again...)

Why is it that you, the human being, who is troublesome and familiar with people, cut off a great deal when you have to? I don't know if that may be the "perfect ladies education" rampage that has lasted since childhood, but I can't help but hold my head for it.

(He said he counted from last night. Being a woman, she made a scene by boarding the Lords' Conference, crushing the faces of grandfathers and lords, and selling fights to monster men... and then the two of them fled.... held by Griffon)

Rainesia remembers the warmth in Krusty's arms and gets dressed as she depresses.

(I'm not... So, about the city of Akiba, embarrassed clothes. Although I am still wearing it.... give a speech like that)

I hold my head.

I can no longer believe myself.

But as for her, I wanted to stick to courtesies and promises.

Being a "earth man", she is not like an "adventurer". Even the knowledge I knew in my head, until I stood there, I didn't really feel it.

She doesn't know such a group that all those high knights combine the brains of a civilian at the same time.

If people are called heroes, they know.

There will also be an "ancient species" that combines the sword moves of a knight with the magic of a wise man. I don't think that's an intrinsic problem. I can't put it well, but the weirdest thing is "there are thousands of people like that very normally".

She thinks the Lords' Council, which believed it was possible to negotiate with the Adventurers by threatening them in the first place or flirting with the rewards of nobility, missaw its essence. What kind of negotiations were we going to make against people with all that comprehension and richness, rewarding them with the rewards in their common sense?

It goes hand in hand with the fact that invitations to gems and dance parties do not motivate Rainesia in any way. She even wants to live a sleepy life eating all over the cotton pyjamas.

The Adventurer is the same where the Fae life form is. Gems, gold coins, status and territory can't be rewards or anything like that. Thinking about it, is this all we can do now, plead and promise?

(I'm more or less a woman, and I don't have a politically oriented education... Don't you have no choice)

Even if it is small, it promises, and you gain faith by piercing it.

When you expose the Adventurer to danger, you take the same risk yourself.

Only as much as that piles up, I can think of Rainesia.

(That's what I did...)

I thought I was going to the battlefield. Isn't there something wrong with your head? Could it be because of this odd... costume with a lot of leg exposure?

She wants to crouch, but the common sense that she has to stretch her spine and continue to stand sober in a crowded environment because of years of education is too stained to even weaken.

I was put in the mouth of a young man who laughed and laughed and said "siloe". The tears seem to twitch with the rest of the spiciness.

"I regret to hear so much about the momentum, but I can't even withdraw it. You look like you're wearing it."

"Hih."

When did you get close behind it? The words of Krusty, who stands in the way of the sea breeze, jump up like the current has been shed.

"Heh heh. Master Kuklasti, isn't that true?

"I'm in the mood."

Leinesia, briefly snapped by the tangle of words, turns her "sad" expression towards the waves.

"Sounds good."

"... Gu. Well, yes. - Don't get me wrong, do you?

I have no regrets. I'm asking you to risk your life, so it's natural to take a trip yourself or to stand on the battlefield along with it. No, I don't think it's the life of me, or the sword of the ten adventurers. This one, that one... "

"I don't mind."

"Huh?"

Raynesia feels uncomfortable only for a moment with the colour that pervades Krusty's words. However, the discomfort was drawn back to me in the voice of the sailor announcing his arrival.

- Fast.

What speed does it take to carry more than a hundred knights, not just to cross the bay, but to arrive after noon? Only about fifteen minutes have passed since you went out to sea.

If you notice, in your sight, the familiar "Grey Princess Castle" (Castle Cinderella) of My Hama is getting bigger.

Looks like this big ship is about to board the bay shoreline. I see Mayhama residents working in the harbor fussing over unfamiliar black and huge ships. Rainesia, as the only Mayhama 'earthlings' on this ship, will have a role in reassuring them.

Crusty urged me to wipe my hands from the bow of the ship. She had no shadow of a lazy, human-hating princess.

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Meanwhile, leading the Akiba Expeditionary Force HQ was the General Staff Headquarters, which focuses on Siloe.

The strategy taken by Siloe and Crusty this time was one that placed more emphasis on "awkward speed" than "skillful slowness". The goblin army that swept up in the heart of the archipelago doesn't know what moves to make in the future. But it's clear that if you eat up all the food in the mountains, you'll invade any town. It is not obvious at this point where the tip of that attack is headed, but it is obviously losing initiative in the defensive battle.

The fact that the opponent has the right to choose the battlefield is a major disadvantage, he said.

In order to salvage it in this phase, speed is of paramount importance.

Fortunately, the Akiba-Mihama hits a relatively safe and undeveloped area in this devastated different world as well. The challenge in mobility is to say where to cross the Great River after going southeast through the city of Akiba.

Because such relatively safe marching routes are predicted, Shiloe abandoned "gathering large armies in one place for a neat march," forming small units from ready "Adventurers" and sending them out early in arrow succession.

The Shiloe and their staff headquarters consisted of Shiloe and Karasin and a dozen talking squadrons.

Contact networks are formed on a joining guild basis, and solos (Adventurers) who participate individually are also enrolled in this communication squad.

Through this development, Shiloe and the others were also creating high-speed communication/reporting networks at all military levels. Of course, we can't take the time to build this communications network. This is the result of giving simple instructions to request mutual communication on an Alliance basis, as well as mutual friend list registration with the correspondent at the confirmation of participation stage.

The advance units that have travelled are also connected by a liaison network, as are the core units and the post-supply packing units.

The problem now facing the Shiloe and other staff headquarters was how to organize an alien expeditionary force with unparalleled communication capabilities.

(First of all, rostering by level... this is all hard on the move. Oh, do you want to sort by destination?)

For now, the destination was around Matsudo in the old world. From the capital of Mai Hama, it becomes the north and the middle point with my grandson, where the hills begin. The neighborhood, according to the knowledge of Siroe's "Elder Tail", had many abandoned buildings in the old world and was an unfavourable terrain as a battlefield.

But there will be no other suitable candidate, so there will be no choice.

According to the reading correspondence, "Okupete" was moved to the abandoned port of Narasino with a handful of "earthlings" informants on board after a stop in the capital of Mai Hama.

The total number of advance strike battalions commanded by Crusty is 96.

Platoon (party) consisting of six "Adventurers". A squadron (full raid) consisting of 24 men gathering four of its platoons. Furthermore, Legion Raid, a battalion that binds four squadrons. This group, composed of 96 members of the General Tax, was the largest number of battle units in the "Elder Tail".

Krusty looks like a scholar with glasses, but its interior is a charisma filled warlord who heads Akiba's city's largest, or D.D., the largest battle guild on Japan's servers.

He would also fully understand the need for this strategy and the speed of the march. Even after travelling to Narasino, it is visible to march without shifting time.

When Shiloe cleverly explores the bag on the horse, she retrieves a map for her phone.

From the abandoned port of Narasino, to the central forest area where the Goblin main unit is thought to be located, it is about 25 km in a straight line to the northeast. If it's a march by the normal knights in this world, you'll also need to see two to three days, but if it's Krusty, or even tomorrow morning, it could open the end of the battle.

Meanwhile, this main unit is not traveling by sea, but by horse on land. The line has been stretched for a long time, but it has not been packed.

(Low level builds a garrison about 5 km north of Myhama, or...)

Siloe follows the map at her fingertips.

Analyze the terrain within the range centered on My Hama, or choose a candidate as I recall the zone characteristics. The garrison will provide defensive formations and policing around low levels, and will also serve as a staging ground for supplies. It will also require some breadth.

(Midland Equestrian Garden)

Eventually, the fingertips clumped together was where the small green oval was painted. According to Siroe's memory, it is an equestrian garden with a similar appearance to a huge coliseum. No vicious monsters other than wildlife appear around. It would be an ideal place.

"Communication squad! Please pass it on. Once the target point for the Northbound Army is the Midrand Equestrian Garden. Keep the selection team on the beach. Upon arrival, the advance units will be perimeter alert and ready for camp. Remove the rubble and create a square."

Various possibilities dawn behind Siloe's brain.

Its side, which lifts up its glasses to fill its breath, shows intense concentration, giving it a glassy atmosphere.

(Either way, this battle is an electric shock. I don't even pay that much attention to the supply line...... The total number here is......)

Shiloe's current command of the Expeditionary Force has just come to a total of 1200. Approximately 10% of the 'adventurers' in the city of Akiba will be in this battle. Speaking as a percentage of combat players who have removed craftsmen, they jump more than double.

All of them, including Siloe, have had no experience of large-scale combat so far. But Leinesia's speech must have caused so many [adventurers] souls to raise a hot flame than Leinesia had thought. The morale you see in the eyes of a small unit going north after Siloe is high.

Siloe's role is to steer this battle successfully while avoiding trouble without frustrating its high morale.

People say there are things they can learn from failure. But when it comes to this expedition, Siloe thinks there's nothing she can learn from failure.

The confidence and pride of the Adventurer. voice in this world in the future. Survival in this world. And above all, "convinced" and the autonomy of the city of Akiba. All conditions demand a "victory" for the Shiloes.

You can't lose.

Besides, 1200 is also enough power to actually win. It's not Soudirou, but it's "if one of you defeats ten goblins, that's fine."

The role of Shiloe was to remove unexpected troubles and direct the struggle of 1,200 Adventurers in a certain direction on the front line.

(To the Midland Equestrian Garden, you mean ten kilometers? - You don't have to hurry to get there after noon. So camping this evening. and the organization and organization of 1,200 people.

Half of them shall respond to the Goblin tribe by perimeter security and extensive opponents. He then leads the other half, follows Mr. Crusty and carries out an attack on the Goblin main unit. Or should we leave the defense of the city to the "earthlings" and lead all the armies to the mountains -)

- Siloe let the horses walk, drawing various simulations about the forthcoming battle behind his brain.

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Meanwhile, Crusty's march was faster than the fastest Syroe had ever thought.

He spotted his aptitude from the on-board interview and quickly completed the formation of the battalion (Legion Reid).

Even when it comes to organization, this is quite difficult.

Every spell, for example, is, but there is a limit of range. The average range of healing spells is 20 m, as well as the Covered Curse of the Bard (Byrd) has a maximum range of 20 m.

In other words, it indicates that only allies in the range can be covered or recovered, and a unit called Platoon (Party) is available as a criterion.

Paradoxically, the battle scale of a party assumes collaboration within a distance of 20 m.

It will then emerge that all sixteen parties included in the battalion (Legion Reid) need, at a minimum, two warrior positions as escorts and a recovery.

The Squadron (Full Raid), a combination of the four parties, must also observe this principle and organize itself in a balanced manner.

On the other hand, however, if we braid all the troops homogeneously and well, that would be the end of it, not so.

If you think about different cases, you have to have characteristics for tactical purposes.

For example, if only one restoration position was placed at every party, there is a possibility that a warrior will not be able to accept the attack of the enemy's Great Warcraft. I would like to place two recovery positions and three, if I may be greedy, in the forces that are expected to fight the Great Warcraft.

But on the other hand, if there were no attack force with many attack positions, there would be no sword-like force to destroy the enemy at times of need, and the battle would enter the war of attrition. When all units have a uniform balance, their ability to respond is reduced.

In addition, these elements are not established without the usual collaborative training.

It would be desirable for people belonging to the same guild to be assigned to the same or proximity party, considering the training effect. On the other hand, if you are a well-known skilled (adventurer) on the server, you may also see movement as if you have been trained at any party.

On the other hand, besides compatibility by the profession of the individual adventurer who said so, there are also problems of getting used to combat and adapting to the chain of command.

Even in a very common six-man platoon, it is common sense among veteran players that it is important to speak up in collaboration during battle.

The level of chaos on the battlefield has to increase if it is also to be a full raid with 24 people in total. Who should do what? Decisions such as whether to focus on recovery, attack, or position are frequently required.

In order to do this, it is imperative that you determine a leader for each party and secure a line to receive instructions from the Squadron Commander (Reid Leader). The Squadron Commander will then receive instructions from the Battalion Commander (Legion Leader).

Meanwhile, when Elder Tail was a game, there were not many quests or events in the game that required Legion. Because, at a certain time, the difficulty of attracting nearly a hundred members with a certain level of proficiency is endless. In addition, the training of nearly a hundred members to collaborate organically is an unimaginable difficulty.

In other words, for regular players, content that is too expensive to challenge is battalion-sized matches (Legion Wars). If a lot of players can't challenge you, even as a game operator, you can't go there putting the center of gravity of development.

In the end, Legion War became content for some limited high-level players, thus a situation in which the winner had been promised immense wealth and fame, but few challengers.

Since Elder Tail was still a game, the group challenging Legion War has been D.D. Krusty, the guild master of "D.D.", is not even one of the twenty Japanese servers, he is one of the most experienced commanders on a regimental scale.

He draws on the experience to incorporate organization at a rate that makes everyone feel flattered. The division of personnel seemed to be an appropriate combination, and when quantified into subdivisions, it was well justified.

A line of Krusty and the others descending from Okupete will form their own soldiers into 96 battalions for advance strikes and 12 escorts and observation squads to protect Rainesia. Having checked the overview of the surrounding terrain from the "Landman" guide, Crusty began marching at the speed of the wind as he added that information to the military map.

The squadrons that make up the battalion are each given numbers from the best to the fourth, and will also land on the deep Zantreef peninsula in the afternoon. Aim is the west of Kasmi Lake. The distance is 24 kilometers.

The Akiba Expeditionary Army, riding horseback at the same time, goes all the way north for the looting army of Goblin. While switching fights alternately, a line runs through the old national highway, which is no longer decaying, due to the speed of the disease.

Go ahead! Go ahead!!

Crusty led the advance expeditionary force into the enemy's ranks.