The knight and the force he led were trapped within the walls, and he found himself unable to do anything about it.
He—a loyal retainer of the Albert house—had participated in the recent war against the Schneger house, and there, he saw the might of Raul firsthand. Due to that, he thought victory would come easy this time as well.
Things didn’t go as expected though.
Some time ago, they heard a thunderous roar, making them shiver with the thought that monsters from the nearby monster-infested areas were set loose to attack them.
Yet, things remained calm and seemed to remain so for some time. And after a while of it, he and the soldiers have grown bored and sat on the ground.
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“!?”
He suddenly heard a voice. Without thinking, he looked around to find the source, but the soldiers around him were minding their business and were unlikely to be the one that spoke to him.
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“Directly into my mind…?”
Regardless whether it was through magic or a Gift, the fact that they had an enemy with such ability was enough to make him increase his vigilance.
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“W-what!? Stop spouting lies! There’s no way Raul-sama’s been defeated…!”
Having heard that information, he shouted without meaning to.
This caused a stir among the soldiers, leading him to think that this was part of the enemy’s trap.
“You’re just saying that to rattle us up, aren’t you!? We won’t fall for that trick, you bastard!”
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“Ghh…”
What the other person made sense to him, making him unable offer a rebuttal.
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“Your instructions…?”
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“Ghh…”
Having heard his side of the conversation, the soldiers talked among themselves. Things like “was Raul-sama really defeated?”, “then, is the battle over”, “I hope they’ll let us out of here soon” could be heard here and there.
Like that, it was now impossible to maintain morale without doing what the voice instructed.
“I understand…we surrender.”
He then gave instructions to the soldiers to throw down their weapons to the ground.
In the first place, the soldiers didn’t really support the justification for the battle that they were given. Add to that the unheard-of things that happened—like the maze and how it trapped them with its walls—and it was really to no one’s surprise that not a single soldier was against surrendering.
*zuzuzuzuzuzu*
“The walls…!”
“We can finally get out!”
The walls that locked them in moved, allowing them to get out of the enclosure.
There was still the maze to contend with, but the voice provided them with accurate instructions on how to overcome it. Before long, they saw the city in the wasteland.