Price of Management

Nigel gives the order to make sure it doesn't work.

“I'll take care of him alone. Get the rest of them boats! ”

“Old!”

The knights fall back to take the boat. Nigel attacked John with a Knight of the Expert class.

The battle was fierce.

John struggled with Nigel and the knight with speed, but his stamina was even greater. But John struggled with it.

Meanwhile, the Horn Empire side was attacked by knights as they crossed the bank and injured their limbs by two arrows. It was because I became slow in the water.

But in the end, all the knights who crossed the dam lifted their boats together and moved beyond the dam. The Knights who succeeded in transporting the ship over the dam have crossed the dam again. Of course, Lloyd's commanding students shoot arrows, aiming for the gap. You succeeded in injuring one of the knights, but it was only a minor cut on your arm.

The knights embark on the boat, rowing, and begin their march. The arrow flies forward, striking with a weapon.

It wasn't John who was going to keep an eye on it.

‘We have to destroy that ship. ’

I decided to sink a large hole in the bottom of the boat with an error. But Nigel stands in the way of John.

“I am your opponent! ”

Nigel takes off his armor and is used to moving underwater.

"Nigel, you bore me! ’

John resolved to defeat Nigel first. The two of them confronted each other keeping their distance from each other. It was a distance you could reach when you reached for the sword.

“Here we go!”

John opens his jab. It was easier to stab in the water than to slash. However, Nigel had also anticipated this.

Nigel grabs John's right arm with both arms, lightning striking in time.

“What?! ”

John is colorful. He has a favorable position in the water, but his strength and error should not be caught because Nigel is ahead. Consequences of carelessness. And Nigel's inexperience, which he did not miss for a moment, was the moment of light.

‘It's stuck.’

Nigel grabs John's right arm with his left hand, and his right hand grabs his collar. John was pushed back to the ground as is.

John was embarrassed as he was pushed down by the struggle. It's because I realized Nigel was willing to drown himself.

But I wasn't just being beaten.

John wrapped his legs around Nigel's waist. Then they swung and quickly switched positions. Nigel turned up and down.

This guy!

Nigel kicks the wall behind his back with his left foot and climbs up again.

Then John reaches out his left hand and aims for Nigel's tits. Nigel twists his head to the side and pushes John down even harder. Two people snarling and staring at each other with bloodshot eyes. In the burning eyes, there were murders against each other.

Not like this! ’

My patience became more and more urgent. John tries to attack Nigel with his free left hand, but Nigel, who is good at physical combat, continues to move his torso around and around. Both were holding their breath underwater, but Nigel had fewer oxygen consumption than John in a position that was advantageous. At this rate, John was the one who lost.

John decides to stop a pointless attack and remain calm. I swing my left hand around and see if I can find anything.

Then I caught something on the floor.

It was a round and hard object made of metal. John swings it back and forth to Nigel.

Puck!

“Hehe!”

Nigel groans at the sudden attack. Ironically, it was the helm that Nigel had thrown off.

While Nigel was in a bewilderment, John struggled violently. John, who had barely succeeded in spreading Nigel's grip, retreated from the distance. I climbed up to the surface and finally held my breath.

“Cough! Cough...! ”

Nigel also climbed up to the surface to catch his breath.

“Phew... Phew... He's so boring. ”

“Huff, huff, who's to say... ”

The two of them looked at each other and smiled.

The boat the knights brought to Nigel's side. Nigel boards the ship with the help of the knights.

“John, you come here too! ”

Lloyd shouts from behind. John steps back, says, and boards Lloyd's ship.

“Let's go. I'll put an end to this boring fight. ”

“Old!”

Knights row at Nigel's words.

John's expression darkens. I was quite tired of doing business with Nigel. I didn't know how much longer I could fight like this.

But it was then.

“Sir! ”

A desperate cry that comes from somewhere.

It wasn't a call to John. It was a voice that resounded at the royal school where Nigel's army was.

“What is it?”

Nigel looks back.

One of the Horn Empire Soldiers is coming at you with a hard swim. The soldier who had to swim because he didn't have an extra boat, shouted with a exhausted face.

“I order you to retreat! ”

Nigel's face crumples like a piece of paper.

“What are you talking about! ”

“All forces are retreating! Huff, huff...! ”

“Retreat? You've come this far? ”

Nigel is full of energy. However, the soldier who was depleted of stamina sank into the water without any further explanation. He was unconscious.

John's group is confused because they don't know the language. It is because there was no reason for the Marquis of Juden's forces to suddenly retreat in the current situation.

“I see. That's it.... ”

Nigel chuckles, looking up at the starry ceiling. He seemed to have figured out the situation.

Nigel stares at John with a face mixed with determination and affection.

“I don't think it's time for you to die. ”

“You too. ”

John takes a beating without losing. Nigel laughs because he seems like a child who doesn't want to lose.

“Let's meet again alive. Be healthy until the day you give me that neck. I wish I was taller then. I can't even boast of catching a child. ”

“Don't be ridiculous. Who wants to see you again? I don't want to fight. ”

Nigel's smile grew bigger in John's wake.

“Good night, then. ”

“Farewell. ”

In the meantime, two people who fought fiercely, but also became closer than anyone, said goodbye to their rivals as if they were friends.

Nigel retreats with the knights.

“Let's go back to the mansion. I need to know what's going on. ”

“Huh."

On a sculpture boat heading back to the mansion, John lies helpless. I've spent all my strength. Now I wanted to sleep comfortably. But he was holding the cord of consciousness that blurred his sense of responsibility as a commander to understand the situation.

* * *

John's group struggles against Nigel in the secret passageway, and the walls of the mansion are controlled by the guard commander Bernard.

Bernard tastes like death when 70,000 of the Horn Empire have opened fire. Friendly casualties have been imminent and I've been begging for help. However, there were no spare troops to send reinforcements. He was already in a full circle of troops who were already taking shifting breaks.

Bernard yells out in despair.

“Shit! Shit! What are you doing in the castle? We've got hostiles all over us, and we need to get out of the castle and help! ”

Of course, the situation was not so simple.

The Marquis of Jurden is still shooting at the mansion, but he has set aside some spare troops in preparation for King Erik's army from the Kingdom of Leaden. The moment we left the castle to help the mansion, King Eric was unable to make a move.

The villa became increasingly desperate.

“We're done. ”

“Shit, we don't stand a chance. It's only a matter of time before we get overrun. ”

“Damn, I barely made it this far.... ”

Students, soldiers from the ligand family, mercenaries lost hope. The sheer number of Horn Empire troops climbing the walls of the upside-down wall makes no sense. It was only a matter of time before the Marquis of Ligand's Mansion fell.

But that's when it happened.