Maou no Hajimekata

Episode 17: Let's Draw a Bow to Heaven -5

"... you got hit"

When he opened his eyes, Oul struck his tongue. Front swinging at the tip of your gaze to the sound of beating your ear at all costs. It was in the carriage there. If it's on schedule, it should be time to make it to your destination.

"Welcome home, Master"

Spina's voice, which was holding Oulu's body, tickles Oulu's ear. She also felt that the invading forces underground had been wiped out of her division.

"How's it going over here?

"Coming Soon"

Lil speaks up from your stand. Oulu was also unexpected to lose so lightly to the boulders. Regardless of the expected invasion from directly below, the enemy also has a flying head inside to dig a huge cavity to intercept it and to intercept it full of angels.

"What's wrong?

"... no. I thought you said carriages without horses."

Faced from the side of the lil sitting on your stand, Oul told him to whine. At the end of that gaze was not the ground, but a vast forest visible far away.

This carriage is flying.

"Uh... right. No, you didn't wear a horse. I forgot."

It was the joystick, not the reins, that the lil sitting on your stand was gripping. This "Flying Carriage" by her is a type of weapon that carries about 10 humans and flies through space. Other than transportation, it has no particular ability and the speed is considerably slower than that of a flying dragon.

However, ignoring the terrain and being able to transport a large number of people, and making it relatively easy and numerical, were the best points. Led by the carriages of the Ouls, there are roughly 500 behind them, with 5,000 soldiers on board.

Now we can jump over Kansai and the fort and aim directly at the capital. An underground invasion is positive for each other and fate for each other. If one is crushed, one ambushes the other. I should have done that, but the underground side was crushed unexpectedly fast.

That said, the ambush itself did not end in failure. For turning the defense underground, the ground should be thin, and time buying was a success.

"Let's go...... attack at once!

Looking down at the gates of the capital, which were visible under his eyes, Oul issued the decree.

"It's late, so..."

"Please don't be impotent, I told you this one was in terrible shape."

'Immortality' blurred in a dressed, worn out outfit all over the dirt.

"... what's up?

"Nothing like this," sighs Merizand, asking.

"The moment I thought I knocked him down, the enemy blew up brilliantly. Every pit is buried and most angels die of crushing. If I hadn't been immortal, I'd be dead."

It was unfortunate to have been able to secure a slight cavity in the shield with an angel at his discretion. Otherwise, he would have been buried in full body soil and unable to move.

"You're still a tough opponent. Behold."

Merizand points to the sky from the balcony of the temple. What floats there are 500 'flying carriages'.

"Apparently, you're an army of demon king Oul. I didn't know you had anything like that. A spell...... no, let's call it a demon weapon"

"No, whatever your name is."

As always, with a voice frightened by Merizand detaining him in strange places. Yes, 'Immortality' looked up at the sky.

"Aren't you pretty fucked up, Arr"

"Right. Pretty bad."

Merizand nods honestly.

"There is quite a distance from Figlia to here. I would not be able to call that amount to transfer, so I was stepping on the idea that there would be no frontal attack..."

Merizand roared with a difficult look.

With that heaven-running carriage, we can carry quite a few soldiers. More than that, taking the sky is pretty advantageous. It will have to be seen as a more formidable enemy than a few.

"Well, tell me you didn't anticipate it"

Merizand pulled the string as it was difficult and rang the early bell. Several giant towers rose up in the sound of the bell.

"It's not a reason not to be ready."

The soldiers lay their bows in line on the tower.

"The other guy bothered to get me a big one. Thank you, shoot it off."

"I didn't know you even had such a tower..."

Oul shrugs as he glances at the giant tower built on the wall that surrounds the capital. It also looks like an arrow fired from above or used to cross the walls of the castle, but it is even bigger than the object for which it was said. It was clear that it was dealing with Oulu, who took tactics to attack from above.

Arrow bullets are fired one after the other from stone bows and throwers provided at the top of the tower. Oul raises the altitude of the carriage and flips it, but he can't get any closer. The bow and arrow are still unreachable distances, not to mention how much we're taking over.

"Razz..."

With a gaze at the distance, Lil said.

"Until I met Oulu, I had no idea how to build a weapon. I was just looking to create a weapon that would kill people more efficiently and effectively because it was fun to research."

From the bag placed in the carriage, Lil takes out a dull, glowing mass of iron.

"I didn't even know what that meant or what it meant. I didn't know. But with Oulu, I don't know what war is... understand what I'm building... and I stopped building weapons."

And when I turned it out, I pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"But I don't care about that at all because I'm a demon."

You're ruining everything.

Depending on Lil's firing, the Allied forces begin firing one after the other. The weapon, like a cylinder made of iron, is a cannon named "Stone Fire Arrow".

By causing a small explosion inside the cylinder, it has a structure that releases a large bullet. Structurally, it is almost impossible to use while traveling huge and poorly handled. The hitting accuracy isn't as good, nor does the sequential firing work. But there were several extra advantages to making up for it.

The first is power. You can fire bullets like a stone thrower at the speed of an arrow. Its powerful or awesome, if you are a knight in metal armor or within the effective range, blow your half with a single blow. If you lead the bullet, even defensive magic doesn't work at all.

The second is ease of handling. It does not require a high degree of smell like bows and arrows or stone throwers, and can be used by anyone with about 1,2 hours of easy training.

And the third is the length of that range. While an individual and portable weapon, its range boasts a range equal to that of large weapons such as stone throwers and stone bows.

If you shoot from above as you do now, you can even unilaterally attack a weapon that said so. This is how Lil, the devil, unfortunately waved the knowledge of Laz, who was called a witch.

The soldiers manipulating the weapon on the tower fall one after the other with a bullet of stone and arrow, falling from the tower. Lil frowned suspiciously, back-to-back with the subsequent soldiers who would tear down one tower after another to raise their pleasure.

"Weird... what do you mean?

"What's up?

Lil sets up a stone fire arrow and pulls the trigger. Without aiming, the bullet struck directly at the tower and scattered pieces of wood.

"... will not fall"

But the tower keeps standing on the spot without collapsing. Lil's calculations showed that even towers like these could have been destroyed from the roots if they had struck in as many as 2,3 shots.

"It's bigger than normal, so it's also superior in strength for that matter... so it doesn't seem like it"

Lil snorts at Oul's words. A flashy piece of wood is like a shield. The tower itself is deliberately fragile so that it has no direct impact.

Already a large part of the tower has been destroyed with weapons at the top, and the archers are full of creation. I can hardly maintain my role as a weapon. Such a thing has a fine workmanship that is as hard as possible to break...

"Don't, all armies, flip..."

Before Lil ran out of words, countless white, shining shadows popped out of the tower.

The soldiers rushed to unleash a stone fire arrow towards it, but it never struck a single shot at its appearance as it gained momentum from the shadow of the tower and headed straight over it.

"I got hit......! So this was what we were here for from the start!?

It was countless angels who rose from the shadow of the tower. He had a bow and arrow in his hand. If you come out at this close range, you can't dodge or intercept. That tower did not exist to attack, but to hide and protect the angels.

"Shit, what am I gonna do, Oul! They took the top!

Werewolf, Lil asked his neighbor Oul for help.

The formation of carriages flying in the sky is positioned about the top of the front row to prevent rivalry between them. Because that way, if you aim diagonally down, you won't accidentally hit a stone fire arrow on the previous ally.

But even when the opponent was upwards, the formation became an enemy instead. If you try to shoot an enemy, you will hit an ally.

Only those in the front row have no choice but to unleash stone arrows, but then there are not enough this time. Just making up for the low hit accuracy with the number of shots, the angels showed the bullets avoiding flickering in the air as if they were laughing at this one.

On the contrary, the arrows unleashed by the angels penetrate the carriage precisely, shooting it down one after the other. Oul erects a barrier by sorcery and painstakingly stops that shooting, but he can't protect himself to the carriage of allied armies. Each carriage should have magicians in addition to artillery handling stone fire arrows, but the arrows unleashed by the angels were powerful enough to gently break through their protection.

"Owl, give me instructions to flip!

"No. If you expose your flank here now, that's what will wipe you out."

The drawback of the carriage is that it's not easy to get around. There is no reason why the entire army should fall back on the spot. We have to arc loudly and flip, but the enemy army is unlikely to forgive us for that.

"That said, as it were...... Master"

Spina who at least finds herself trying to protect Oulu alone. At the end of that gaze, the angel crashed the hell out of him.

Was he also a missing angel between accidentally hitting the bullet of a stone arrow, before her gazing, the whole thing, the whole thing and the angels falling again?

"What the hell is this...?

Unexpectedly Lil and Spina face outside the carriage and check around.

At the end of that gaze are dozens of flying dragons and countless arrows that are released.

"Are you finally here?"

Oulu smiles with a grin.

"... the black family, Ellen. By virtue of benevolence, I came to the aid knife!

A nostalgic voice echoed into the sky.