Clouds flowing in the wind covered the sun.
A few minutes after the Sakurai rushed into the cathedral, the Knight Puppet Army led by Joseph stepped directly in front of the cathedral.
Once full of light, the corridor was dim and full of wounds from the battle with the monsters.
The split of Planaria Slime grew there, and some of the statues of the seated gods collapsed rather than scratched.
Joseph does not move his mind to the sight of a believer collapsing with dizziness.
He knew that most of them were caused by the battles between Sakurai, and he was so focused and vigilant that he didn't care about the cathedral's tragedy.
"(In just a few minutes, you can't do much with a trap. the trap with the yarn used by that rapist at best.....)"
But that man doesn't know what he's going to do.
That's why Joseph slowly advances his troops with the utmost vigilance.
The number of troops is 100, excluding those destroyed to the point that they are not reusable.
Seventy percent of them were general knights with swords, the rest were bowed and a few were wizards.
Joseph continues to consume magic power just by moving the dolls, and the fuel consumption will soon deteriorate if it becomes a battle action.
If I were to operate more than one wizard, I would need a huge amount of magic power.
If you move up to three digits at the same time based on those numbers, you can't move them without counting them even if you have a Joseph.
The amount of magic power on the setting (data) in his original work was at the top of the production, in the kanst state, but it never meant infinity.
Knights swinging their swords as they walked across the center and left and right truths.
Leveraging a number of strengths, Operation Roller destroyed several traps of thread that Sakurai thought to have created, as Joseph had aimed at, and reached the halfway point of the corridor... and the smoothness of the trap made Joseph feel a little uneasy.
"(He doesn't show up and doesn't react. Really escaped--) ─ ─ No, it's upstairs."
But the anxiety was quickly resolved.
There's nothing to think about, because it was a simple answer.
Sakurai and the others ran away before the number of disadvantages, so they should choose to counteract the disadvantages as much as possible in the actions that they can take within a few minutes of disappearing from their sight.
The upper level of the cathedral, where the answer can rise from the back of the corridor, from the off-limits. It is the path leading to the spire.
The road up to the spire is narrow.
If you're a good-looking Knight Doll, you can only have three of them side by side. If I wielded my sword, I could only have two swords at a time.
Then we can crush Joseph's many profits and push their quality profits to the advantage.
If Ayako and Sakurai continue to fight in place of each other, we may find a chance to win against our army, which will certainly be deployed from time to time.
"(A trap that takes advantage of the terrain of the cathedral... but it would only be a painstaking measure)"
You can't make use of numbers on narrow roads, but you can take their narrowness in the opposite direction.
Joseph realizes that his combat skills are hard to say by flattery. Because there is a self-identification that I am a human being in the field of research and technology.
However, I still assume that I have to go to the battlefield, and I have a hand to close the gap.
“If you're waiting for the path to the spire, you can use the narrowness of its aisle to prepare a doll with an unavoidable means of attack.”
[Dollmaster] does not create only humanoid dolls.
A good surgeon can create and manipulate even a wide variety of animals as dolls.
"(That said, do I have to create unknown dolls that the other person doesn't know anymore than I do?)"
In that case, it would be better to combine "Thorny Quadruped Beast (Halibut)" and "Spherical Deformed Beast (Armadillo)".
The thorns use the knights' swords, mix a few knights and increase the volume to make a fine slaughter doll that fills the path and thrusts forward.
And just in case, we'll give the opponent time, but we'll continue the roller operation until the spire road is clear of the trap that exists in the gallery.
However, I thought I should leave one of my scouts alone when I tried to dismantle the nearby knights and turn them into small birds.
"Oh, oh, oh"
There is one giant statue of a god sitting in the corridor, the Fire Ghaju Earth God.
Sakurai leaped up from behind his head and attacked from above with a flame entwined in the sword in his hand.
Fire Sword ─ ─
The target is a middle-aged knight who can take command backwards. Surrounded by archers and wizards, he was assumed to be Joseph.
In fact, it is in the center, and Sakurai is cut off by a sword accelerated by the flame that surrounds the head of the middle-aged knight that Joseph is riding.
― Waterfall Fire
Then, as Sakurai rubbed the tip of the sword down at the knight's feet, a pillar of flame suddenly spurted up and enveloped the enemy's body.
Although the flame disappeared in about 2 seconds, the knight's body that was burned inside was black and charred.
The metal armor wrapped around her was red and discolored by heating, and it was heavily distorted by the impact of gravity pulling her down on the floor.
"This is unexpected. I didn't think you'd come out."
However, the body of Joseph, who was on guard, including the ambush, noticed Sakurai on the verge of having his head amputated, and had already moved to another doll via the magic wire.
This time, he was a young man with a magician's wand with a freckled face on his green hair.
"I thought I was waiting in a narrow aisle because I didn't like the number of disadvantages, but I didn't think I was alone. I can't believe you're coming out into this enclosed place."
The Commander's beheading tactic.
It is naturally a matter of putting oneself in the midst of the enemy, and if it fails, one will face a cliché on all sides.
Of course, Sakurai was surrounded by wizards who were preparing for the attack with their bows and arrows squeezed in all directions.
Sakurai, on the other hand, quietly restored his sword even though he had failed the ambush, keeping Joseph at the center of his sight, but being alert to the movement around him.
I don't show you any impatience. Until now, the high tension showed a strange calmness, which was disturbed by Joseph's feelings.
"Hmph. It seems that you have a high understanding of me for some reason, but it seems that this is not the case with the technique of [doll function]." And the same goes for my demonized nature in "Obsidian's Sword". "
In addition to reaching out to my beloved daughter, I have a one-sided understanding of myself even though I am not a parent and child.
In the presence of this scrap of hateful filth, which should not exist, Joseph's anger circled, and he was able to open his mouth in a surprisingly calm voice.
But that fervor did not go away.
Whether he listens to the words spoken or not, Joseph is further frustrated by Sakurai's silent stance on his sword and repeats his words.
"Unleashed from the flesh by demonization, I became an entity that embodies the soul of the ghost. Unlike the conventional [doll user], I can travel between dolls through magic wires. Its movement is invisible and fast. The unique immortality of the ghost species is also combined, and it is impossible to kill me to the extent that it is attached to the daiba."
"Even if you say immortal, it's just 'it's hard to kill except for a magical attack'"
"Oh, were you a wizard?" I only looked like a swordsman. Or do you rely on the sacred magic used by the saintly daughter? I'm not weak enough to be eliminated by a magician like that. "
Even if Ethel was a sacred magician enough to ascend Joseph, it would be better if she escaped to a doll outside the boundary, although she was hungry at the time.
Then, they formed another army outside and attacked Sakurai, who had emerged from within the barrier.
If you can't, you can escape to the doll in the safe zone... and one day kill Sakurai by repeating.
If I had killed him, I wouldn't have existed. Now, the unpleasant gaze of swallowing your body from Sakurai will definitely disappear.
"You have already been defeated." You failed in a surprise attack, and you don't have the means to kill me, so you're exposing yourself like this. "
I still have the advantage, and no matter how I roll, I am not just a loser.
Even if I tried to outdo this place, I would always pick up the winning one day.
Joseph has already won a strategic victory. Joseph repeats that fact over and over again, and he becomes absolutely convinced.
"Even if you win here, I will keep aiming at you with my new body." I can't be beaten. "
Why do you keep saying things like you're proud?
"You die more than I've decided to kill." The days of peace have already been lost. "
So why are you speaking up like you're inspiring yourself?
"You hurt, defiled, and raped my Caizi. If it hadn't been for that unforgivable sin, we wouldn't have killed each other like this... you would have drowned in your own foolishness!"
So why are you roughing your voice to keep yourself away?
"That's why... that's why...!"
Joseph's inability to translate emotions emerged from his opposition to his face.
I know that it is definitely caused by Sakurai's gaze in front of him.
As usual, it is only good to ignore the gaze of others, but for some reason you become strongly aware of it.
"That's why I want you to stop your unpleasant gaze right now!"
Joseph shouted unexpectedly that he could not bear the discomfort.
Then Sakurai, who had received the words, gave an expression that said, "What exactly is it?", and after a few seconds, she spoke up as if she was convinced that it was "Ahh" and finally returned the words.
You're scared, aren't you?
Joseph bit his back teeth in anger.
If there was a sense of shame toward my own intimidation, I felt a strong rage that Sakurai had noticed it and made me aware.
Joseph Asanaga is not a warrior.
Although the battle could be carried out to some extent, it was entirely through Caizi, and especially in the fierce battle, Caizi stood on an arrow and her gaze and awareness were all poured on her.
He had never experienced such things as standing in the forefront with a clear will, and for him, the battle was always between a trusted warrior named Ayako.
I went to the front in a curious way, and I chose to fight without knowing the battle in the true sense of my anger... and Sakurai's quiet murderous intent began to show my face.
As far as he knew, it was the first time that Caizi had not been on the battlefield.
Hahaha
The "fear" emotion that arose in Joseph.
Sakurai, who saw through it, opened her eyes with pleasure, raised her mouth wide and gave a fierce smile.
His eyes will not miss the prey (Joseph).
Just as he hid his passion in his sober voice, Sakurai continued to hide his desire behind the murderous intent that stood in his sight.
And now, Sakurai, who was convinced that it was mentally superior, revealed his desire without concealing it.
My experience.
Joseph clearly understood the meaning of the gaze that was not uttered in words, and at Sakurai, who recognized himself as a bait, he realized the impatience that came again from fear.
Fire Sword!
"Huh!?"
Chaos affects the first move. Therefore, it is inevitable that Sakurai took the lead.
The flames burst out from the sword that Sakurai had swung. It instantly turned into a giant snake of flame that was intertwined.
"Shoot the bow and arrow!!"
[Snake]!
It was already too late, and six snakes swallowed up the surrounding knights and swept the vortex. The dimly lit interior of the cathedral is illuminated by a sparkling flame.
The arrows were scattered, and some wizards who were delayed in defending the barrier lost their function as dolls.
"(Nearly half of the archers were burned!? But even if you can't act, you can still maintain the magic line! Uncarbonized parts can be reused later as materials! No problem! No problem!)"
Moving his consciousness to one of the surviving wizards, Joseph retreated with the surviving archers, forming a semi-circular enclosure from the outside of the flame vortex.
At the same time, he moves the knights who were lying around the cathedral and decides to buy them time to build more sieges.
Instructing an attack at the stage of appearance... while thinking so, Joseph stares at the rising flame without blinking. He continues to stare.
Wow.
Eventually, a figure shakes from the flame.
It walked out with more radiant eyes than the flames that burned and flourished behind it, proclaiming an overflowing joyful voice high.
"It's time to level up...!"
Shoot!
The white tooth crack ran over his face, and Sakurai ran like a beast in front of the released arrows and magic.