Sanzen no Souru Supina
■ Sixty-third night: separate actions
"He said he would add Snow to the infiltration squad... Is that for real, Isma?
"What are you gonna do with a joke on such a groundfield, Sa? Seriously, it's nothing but serious."
In retrospect of the interaction a few hours ago, Ashle held down her temples.
The place is the courtyard of the apartments of the Ashles.
The heavily tilted sun reflects against the white wall to gently illuminate the world.
But if you listen to the unusual hustle and bustle that mixes in there, it makes you realize that this city is just about to become a battlefield.
Following the declaration of war, the main unit of the Osmadra Imperial Army finally appeared.
I can hear the ringing sound of military music, even here.
Ashle sighed today, not knowing how many times it would be.
Think of your obedient snow, not to give thought to the imminent battle.
She is now working with Isma and her infiltration team.
Because Snow accepted the proposal from Isma.
That's every Izma renter who visited Osmadra to declare war and start the operation.
"Well, as planned before," Isma said, stopping Ashley from trying to take a seat.
It's like, I don't care. It's just a confirmation.
"After all, Snow, why don't you go undercover?".
Of course Ashley ate the suggestion, which was too abrupt.
But the opposite Isma is just a true face and repeats, "I mean it, it's just a taunt".
How can a word like "serious" or "bullshit" diminish credibility when said many times?
Ashley also thought it would be this guy in front of her who's probably the most contributing person in the world even though he's lowering his "serious" and "taunty" trust in that sense.
"Because... Snow has been practicing working with us for the past few days."
"If you can work with Ashley and the others, it's up to you to do better with me. You're Barton's grandpa to Norman's husband, headed by this Isma?! Skilled, skilled, and mature men's triplets, right?! Sure. Safe. High yield, right?
"So... why all of a sudden... at a time like this"
Ashley asked Isma about the rationality of the reorganization.
Why try to decide on such an important matter without prior contact?
I had no idea what Isma was thinking.
"Hmm, I also know Ashley's confusion. I was wondering if I should leave you to the defense at first, Snow."
"If so..."
Ashley and Isma had reached an agreement to split the squad in two in the next operation.
One is infiltration squad.
This will consist of a member with expertise in a solo infiltration mission called Norman and Burton, headed by Isma.
The purpose is to put a spiritual shake on Emperor Vibronze: Lucatius XII, thereby revealing the location of the Book of Magic (Grimoire): Vibro Valeri and the path leading there, and ultimately the troops that will take this away.
It is a position that requires subtle rush and ad hoc judgment in an occasional setting.
The other is the Defense Corps.
This is a unit that focuses primarily on the defense of Heliatium with Ashley as its leader.
The organization distributes Scion and Ashley to the avant-garde, with Earthspider princess witch Taele Elma in charge of both wings.
In addition to Ashle, who boasts long-range super-attack abilities, and Scion, who acquires extensive extermination moves, the bearer of psycho-manipulative spells that are immensely effective against the crowd and the great army = the princess witch of the earthspider consolidates both sides. This squad focused on pure combat abilities and coping and manoeuvring against the army and the crowd, rather than covert or tactical talents.
Nevertheless, when it comes to why the Ashlets are naming the defense forces in an attempt to attack Heliatium, that is only because this battle is, in a sense, a two-fronted operation.
It is the main force of the Osmadra Empire, with a large army from 200,000, that is now pushing this city to fall.
It is the expectation of the great muscle that the opposing Heliatium defense forces will not reach eight thousand no matter how many soldiers they gather.
Indeed, before receiving a formal declaration of war from the Osmadra Empire, the new Pope: Crusades (Crusades) from Vergines I had been activated, and recruitment of soldiers had taken place in Heliatium.
However, this was in the name of preparing for an unprecedented battle that the Crusade announcement would provoke, and no further clarification was given as to the specific purpose of the recruitment.
It is only natural for countries that perceive the chance of war to move towards securing defensive forces, so they will not take it away and catch the attention of others.
Rather than that, only the Union of Small States in the matter, below the Vibronze Empire and Trantrim, was an Ixist country in this neighborhood.
Now that the coalition of small states has also collapsed, it was only natural, if not natural, for Heliatium to examine its defensive line power.
The movement became hasty only after the movement of the forces led by Askariya was conveyed.
Recruitment officers recruiting soldiers at the same time as heightened tensions rallied the crisis, urging citizens to join the war.
This is not just war.
It is the capital of the nation, the showdown that betrayed its survival.
The national treasury was opened up and weapons and protective equipment were distributed, although it was an age-old thing.
Well, that's how the citizens gathered are about 4,000.
My former regular strength - the so-called knight and soldier - put the squire and even the martin in the calculation, somehow 1000.
There's almost the same number of mercenary units around Extram, Esperalgo.
How many residents of the longtime National Alliance of Commercial Cities based in Heliatium will be added here.
It was a big anticipation that it would be better to deliver it all together to 8,000, and the numbers when we actually heard the opening of the war were not a big betrayal of this.
That battle power difference is actually more than twenty-five times.
It is a very basic arithmetic in this time of war that when dealing with a robust castle fort, a stopover requires three times the strength of the defensive side, but that is if the attacking side and the defending side of the uniform were about the same, but first the digits are different.
Furthermore, in this battle, a significant number of state-of-the-art artillery were deployed to the nearest Osmadra Imperial Army.
At this time the heliatium side was indeed inside a solid wall called the strongest in the western world.
Around the northwest side of the city, it is even a triple giant wall that partially covers the sea side.
The walls of the first castle are low, but just before them, deep moats of 20 meters wide are strewn.
Ten meters of thick walls between the sows from there.
This is thick enough to be called a square rather than a aisle at the top, with defensive baristas and stone throwers distributed.
And Mizume, the average height of the last wall is twenty meters, the highest point is thirty meters at the tip of the spire, part of which is the largest barrier in the world at the time to share with Gillel's water bridge.
Then the army that broke this wall and marched to Heliatium, in the past history, does not exist.
I allowed the Crusades (Crusades) to ravage because they landed, as first friends, from the sea side behind them.
Born and raised in Ashle, the Pope's territory of the Extram Pope's Agency originally had no other stunning and more robust walls than looking over all of the Idareia Peninsula.
Honestly, Ashley thinks it's hard enough to hold your head if you're ordered to attack.
But the walls are due to the way they were before the advent of a powerful siege weapon called a cannon.
First of all, the ancient unified dynasty: the foundations of the walls, originating in Agantilis, were created as a junction that inhibited metastases and spell attacks by alien powers.
At present, what the citizens of Heliatium see has undergone additional modifications over its foundations in future generations, but its function as a juncture has not been lost.
Ashley and the others have ascertained the fact as they strolled through the Heliatium.
The foundations made of intricate tattoos and geometric stone combinations, as well as the additions reinforced by catachism that can be covered on them, have preserved the township of Heliatium, which is also a historical heritage, both in its work.
However, that castle fort is not in a manner made assuming a physical high mass direct hit = artillery fire by artillery.
This is also true at the base of the walls during the Agantilis period.
A unified dynasty in which the presence of alien powers was supposedly more common than today: in Agantilis, the defensive capacity that the walls and fortifications of the capital, located in the heart of the world, should have, was not due to physical destruction in one way or another, but rather to direct raids on political centres using metastases and disguised manipulation, invisible and non-physical attacks starting with spells, plus defences against the spread of plagues, etc. - made as bouncing intrusions, knowing the existence of hostile will before it.
Civil grass could have thought that wars using super-attack capabilities and powerful weapons of destruction took place in distant peripheries… it could also be said that they were a mixed time.
But the unified dynasty was lost.
In the dark times that then covered the world, the fortress evolved into a thick, moat equipped and tall snail to protect people from the bouncing trek (just about everywhere) of the Eleven Families of Demons and the flames of war that ensued everywhere.
It is also proof that the time has long elapsed for war in the human area to be decided by means of a blade.
Right there, a recruit weapon will be put in place that overshadows previous common sense.
This means that Operation Siege from shelling with artillery used by the Osmadra Imperial Army and about to be tested is a dimensional war that the world has yet to experience.
Ashle, who was on Aska's side for only a few months and saw and heard about the power of the artillery and how it operated, could have predicted that this would be a hell of a war.
If the artillery was operated on that street, would this battle be decided in one piece without going through a lengthy process such as the Battle of the Castle?
At that time, what deeds will the two hundred thousand armies, drunk in the great victory, plunge into the city?
Such fears made Ashley decide on her role.
This was also about the interests of the land.
It is unclear how many and quality "spindle capable men" are currently in Heliatium and how many more of them are capable of long-range attacks… it is possible to sweep and inflict considerable damage on the forces of Osmadra lined up from above that castle fort if it is only Ashley.
Ashle's portable dragon spear: Shivnir boasts a range of over 1000 meters (just as it is known).
Its power can bury a hundred soldiers in a dense formation under one blow if it strikes directly.
This is an overwhelming figure compared to state-of-the-art artillery, according to old siege weapons such as stone throwers.
More importantly, inside the helium, the "spindle" is easy to handle = it also has similar properties to the "closed corridor".
If so, as long as it is arranged in its fortress, it will be possible for the Ashlets to unilaterally shell the outside enemy.
Paradoxically, if Osmadra's Spindle Capabilities break through this fortress, the whole city will also be targeted for long-range and wide-ranging destruction attacks.
Once the true knight maidens' sexuality and their ability to fly, told by Aska, are put on the front...... Osmadra's new weapon: Once the cannon is fully operational and cooperates with them...... just thinking makes my spine cold.
No matter how solid the walls may be, it is impossible to hold back those who go in the sky.
And what the hell happens when their attacks pour out of the sky?
The number of casualties, and especially the fact that the citizens would be in the wrong digits, was unmistakable without having to raise the example of the former Catel Island defense battle.
This is the biggest reason Ashle has decided to defend Heliatium.
And there was a Snow position in the middle of that defense force - in short, an operation to protect her by all the Ashlets.
So Isma's suggestion to integrate Snow into the infiltration was something that would completely overshadow the underlying outlines of previous operations.
As for Ashley, who decided to take responsibility for her life as a former knight, it is also an uncomfortable suggestion to understand.
But King Earthspider, as usual, floated (hiccup) and lined up his reasons.
"I thought about the colors after that, but it's getting dangerous," he said.