The Branded Female Fencer

When Rhine was making the craziest of the tournaments, the battle between the surrounding knights and the Demon King's Army, led by Milnay, had begun on the outskirts of Arnelia.

The battle of the Peripheral Knights is dedicated defense. Without ever disturbing the formation, the avant-garde takes the opponent's attack with a large shield while being replaced. From behind it comes sporadic counterattacks with arrows and sorcery. Or sometimes the spear protruded from between the great shields.

The way we fight is plain, but it's a way of fighting that reduces our losses and ensures that we drain our opponents. Many sisters and monks also serve in the peripheral knights, so healing magic catches up unless it is fatally wounded.

The surrounding knights, who could afford to form a formation far enough from the exterior walls of Arnelia and the venues of the Unified Martial Arts Games because Flau had bought some time, had done enough work for their army opponents of the Demon King.

"Protect, protect!

"Don't ever let me go behind you!

"Retreat from the weak. Refill, check your gear and prepare for your next defense."

"You don't have to fight back if your opponent collapses! Make it thorough!

The Peripheral Knights is an army that will also be placed in surrounding countries other than Arnelia, composed of those who are not strong enough to belong to the Temple Knights.

However, Arnelia's immediate peripheral knights greatly cite their level of practice in repeated exercises with the Temple Knights. And because the Knights of the Temple can't move much from the Deep Green Palace, they were often even dispatched by Arnelia to hunt demons as proxies.

For this reason, the experience in action while referring to the Knights of the Perimeter is, in a certain sense, more extensive than that of the Knights of the Temple, making it a highly skilled and dominant army. Although not as individual in strength as Alexandria, it was one of the best armies on the continent in terms of proficiency and discipline.

"Even if the demon falls, leave him alone! You don't have to stab me in the stomach, but the guy from behind will crush you anyway!

"If we hold out, we win! Don't be greedy!"

Milnay has, since earlier, changed formations many times to allow him to storm. Milnay, who can communicate his intentions to the whole army with just one bark, is not unlikely to excel as a commander of one army.

But even when he became the Demon King, the way he fought was just that of teaching. If it's the way you fight as you teach it, the soldiers in the surrounding Knights know so much about it. How to prevent it and how it should be done. Every soldier understood that.

"(Stupid... why can't I get out!? Sometimes if you do have a double pull, the full-time defensive side has the advantage. But that's human talk, power talk to each other. The army of demons takes an absolute advantage in the battle between individuals. You're supposed to have an advantage with the same amount of fighting power!

I don't know Milnay. A highly skilled army means excellent means of communication and collaboration. It is easy to look at the formation of Milnay and immediately rearrange the formation.

It is the sensor that enables it, the Heavenly Horse Knight swirling over it. And it was Milnay who could do the military law as taught, but there was only one item that I really didn't like. It is a retreat. That's an extra pride to get in the way, but it's also a drawback, and that option doesn't exist in Milnay, which now only works with Alphilis' grudges.

"Then mobilize all the spare forces too! You can't take Alpha Reese's neck without losing this level of opponent!

That's when the leading demons suddenly blew up. Milnay should have retreated quickly at an impenetrable stage. Appearing right in front of Milnay's eyes, the knights put together a thin, golden body of armor. Milnay has no reason to know, for example, that it was the full body armor of the Demonic Crystal Stone and that Arnelia had become the trump card for the expulsion of the Demon King from the continent.

At the stage where I blew up a few demons in one blow, I should have thought it was weird. But there was no way Milnay, paranoid against Alphilis, could leave here. When he saw that the knights of the Demonic Crystal Stone who just showed up were less than 30, Milnay was barking at all costs and ordering the demons to storm.

"Just about 30 people, step on it! Whatever the sacrifice, storm inside Arnelia at all costs!

Arnelia's door is already tight. Alphilis is naturally mostly in the outer peace conference hall and the stadium of the Unified Martial Arts Games, but Milnay, who has lost nearly half his intelligence by becoming the Demon King, was storming without even thinking about where the key Alphilis is.

Assault that never succeeds no matter what you think. And Milnay's misfortune always depends on her having no one to speak to. In fact, Alphilis is the one who most painfully referred to the nature of Milnay in life, but there is no way Milnay, who resented that Alphilis, would listen to the others. Now we are surrounded by a horde of demons. Who will flatter her?

And against that Milnay, even more ruthless enemies were about to strike from overhead.

Continued