Chapter 177: 180

Translated by Confused Cadmar

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Chapter 180 - Decisive Battle

"It's more defensive than I thought it would be..."

"Yes. More than I imagined. I've heard that Barca is good at building castles, but I didn't expect them to be so good at sieging, as well..."

"I did not expect them to be able to repel such a large number of us, Zedan."

"Yes, my Lord. To be honest, the spell that creates walls is more troublesome than I could have ever expected. I've never even experienced enemies being able to create walls in the middle of a siege, let alone repair them."

　A small castle built by the abominable Barca.

　When I heard that the detachment was having trouble with such a hastily built castle, I wanted to reprimand them in my heart for what they were doing.

　But there was a good reason for this castle's resistance.

　Even though it was small, the castle could probably hold about a thousand soldiers if it was packed.

　The castle was surrounded by walls and protected by water.

　The building had been built on the land between the river and the confluence of the rivers.

　By using the water from the river, it was so well defended that it was hard to believe it was a hastily built castle.

　Moreover, the method of interception from the castle was also disgusting.

　They would surround the castle and launch stones at the attacking army.

　The stones would reach farther than the banks of the river.

　They must have been trained to throw stones in a certain way because the accuracy of their attacks was quite good.

　It was a really nasty way to attack.

　However, what was more troublesome was Barca's magic of creating more walls.

　In the beginning, when Barca's presence was first heard in the Arbalest territory, his magic was almost always ridiculed.

　What is there to fear from a knight who possesses wall-building magic that has no offensive power whatsoever?

　In fact, I thought so too.

　When I heard that the proud cavalry of the House of Uruk had been defeated by Barca, who possessed such low-class magic, I felt that they had fallen to a lower level.

　However, when I actually saw and experienced it with my own eyes, I understood its troublesome nature, because the walls keep building up.

　A small castle surrounded by water from the river is being attacked by us, but the position of the wall changes with each passing day.

　As they fought every day, or even during the night, they were building new walls, expanding the area of the castle.

　The castle is growing day by day.

　That is exactly what the Arbalest army is seeing now.

　Something that is unthinkable to our common sense is right in front of our eyes.

　As expected, this castle could not be left unattended.

　If we overlooked it, a new castle that would threaten the Arbalest territory would be built here.

　Fontana's and Barca's castles will be built here, replacing the impregnable water fortress Paramea.

　We had to prevent that at all costs.

　Yes, we had successfully fallen into the enemy's trap.

　We were supposed to launch a well-timed attack with the Uruk family, but they forced us to attack the target in front of us and bought themselves time.

　Everything was as they wanted it to be.

"My Lord, it seems that we cannot choose our means. Any more time that passes will only benefit the enemy and will do us no good whatsoever. I think we should launch an all-out attack with all of our forces here, even if we have to prepare for some losses."

"Yes, I agree. Okay, Zedan. I will leave everything to you. Right now, our first priority is to take down that castle."

"Yes, I understand. Sir, I'll do everything in my power to make sure the castle is destroyed."

"I'm counting on you, Zedan. I expect a good report."

　I bowed my head and left immediately after receiving my master's instructions.

　This one battle will bring down the castle.

　No matter how much damage we sustain.

　I sent out a message to all the knights, and with the main force, we crossed the river and advanced towards the castle at once.

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"Don't stop!　Keep attacking!　They are outnumbered. We must push through!"

　The castle is located between the rivers.

　We crossed the river towards the castle and started to attack it.

　It seems that they saw that we were advancing with all of our forces and rushed to launch a stone-throwing attack, but it was futile.

　We already knew from the previous battles how long it would take for them to launch another attack.

　In addition, it seems that they were ready to throw stones no matter which direction the castle was attacked from, which is also a bad idea in this case.

　By attacking from one direction, we could limit the number of stone-throwers they could use and move forward in between the timing of the stone throwers' attacks.

　By doing so, we succeeded in crossing the river and getting to the castle while limiting the damage.

　Once we were this close, the stone-throwers would not attack us.

　The rest was the same as a normal siege.

　All we had to do was to attack at once and bring down the castle.

　That was all we needed to do.

　Dawn！！！！！

　That was when it happened.

　I heard a tremendous sound coming from across the river.

　I wondered if it was because I was distracted by the attack on the castle in front of me.

　At first, I didn't know what it was.

　No, that's not quite right.

　I just couldn't understand what the sound meant.

　It was the sound of lightning striking.

　Before I knew it, the sky was covered with clouds and it was dark.

　But was this really natural?

　It might have been, but there is a possibility that this is not a natural phenomenon.

　The head of the family.

　It's higher-level magic that the head of the Arbalest family is proud of, the [Distant Lighting].

　Terrifying magic that is unleashed by my Lord using immense mana.

　When the spell is cast, the surrounding area is robbed of light by the clouds gathered overhead, and gets obliterated by an indefensible lightning strike from the heavens.

　It is a magic that is worthy of being the Knights' lord's magic.

　Was that just the sound of thunder?

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　Or was it the Lord's spell?

　No, it was too optimistic to think that the weather would break and lightning would strike at this time by chance.

　But why would the master need to activate [Distant Lightning] at this time?

　That was when I thought about it.

　The light and sound of thunder arrived again from the direction of the main camp.

"Did Barca, Ars von Barca show up? How did he get here?　Wasn't he traveling west? No, that might have been a distraction! If that is the case, we must hurry back!"

　I cannot believe this.

　The timing was when I commanded the entire army and attacked the castle.

　In other words, the moment when the main camp was the most vulnerable.

　Ars von Barca came out just as if he was aiming for that moment.

　If it wasn't for him coming out, there's no way the Lord would have unleashed magic just now!

　Moreover.

　The second use of the [Distant Lightning] has already been activated.

　That means that in the first [Distant Lightning], he did not defeat Barca and had to launch another attack.

　Did that bastard manage to prevent the attack that is supposed to be impossible to defend against?

　No, that's not possible.

　It has to be impossible.

　However, a bad premonition persisted in my mind.

　I was struck by tightening anxiety in my chest and immediately moved toward the main camp.

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　Even though I had crossed the river to get closer to the new castle that Barca had built, I was once again taking the route back across the river.

　Basically, this river is not that deep.

　At its deepest point, it was probably only chest-deep.

　Unlike Lake Paramea, there are no ferocious mamonos here.

　Therefore, when I led the army, we went straight into the water, and when I returned now, I was trying to cross to the other side of the river while fighting the current of the water as well.

　As my movement speed slowed down, I could see the main camp where my master was and the enemy cavalry approaching from beyond.

　I looked into the water and saw the cavalry.

　The mounts were, indeed, white Magic-type beasts.

　A man was riding on top of Barca's Familiar at the very front, and they were all galloping towards the main camp where the Lord was.

　And then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a surge of mana.

　A frightening amount of magic power was brewing in our camp and being released into the sky.

　That was the activation of the [Distant Lightning], the pride of Arbalest.

　The magic power that was released towards the darkened sky triggered the undefendable【Distant Lightning】.

　Light covered my vision along with a loud noise that made me think I might go deaf.

　At the same time, I felt the vibration of the air caused by the thunder on my skin.

　There's no doubt about it.

　This time, without a doubt, the【Distant Lightning】was activated.

　This must have wiped out all of Barca's cavalry that was closing in on us.

　However, when my vision returned to normal, I saw something that was impossible.

　The Barca cavalry, still alive and well, were continuing to gallop towards the camp as before.

"Why?!　Why aren't they dead?!"

　I shouted as I waded through the water.

　In all likelihood, the cavalry should have been attacked by the distant lightning earlier.

　I think it was not unreasonable to shout, "Why?"

　But once I had shouted, I regained my composure and noticed a slight difference in my vision from the scene I had just seen.

　What the hell was that?

　In a slightly different place than where the Barca cavalry had run, something had appeared that hadn't been there before.

　It was a tall pole.

　What I could see from my position was just a really tall stick.

　It was white in color.

　The stick stood as if it had been left behind after Barca had run past.

　But the height was unbelievably high.

　It must have been as tall as five of the walls they had built, normally.

　Moreover, it seemed that there were other tall white poles that I hadn't noticed before.

　There were several similar things erected in the area where the opposing cavalry probably passed.

Some of the sticks seemed to be sooty and blackened, and I wondered, "Could that have been used to seal off the distant lightning?"

　I suddenly thought of that.

　It's not clear how, but Barca has definitely prevented the Master's attack.

　However, looking at the situation, the only things that had changed before and after the activation of the distant lightning are the poles.

　And then I felt mana rising in the main camp again.

　Once again, the Lord was unleashing his spell.

　Earlier, I had been looking at where the Lord was, but now I looked at the encroaching Barca cavalry.

　And then the cavalry also reacted, as if they sensed the increased magic power in the camp.

　Several beasts jumped out of the group.

　They seemed to have no humans on their backs, and unlike the ones with riders, they had horns on their heads.

　Could they be the horned Barcan Familiars that can release rumored magic?

　Those white beasts were moving away from the cavalry.

　When they ran some distance away, they triggered magic.

　I see.

　It was created by the spells of those Magic-type Familiars.

　In my vision, I saw another one of the mysterious white poles had appeared.

　Then, the lightning that was caused by my master using [Distant Lightning] hit the pole.

"I'm sure they've been using those sticks to prevent master's [Distant Lightning]... But ......."

　That's impossible.

　Who would have thought that it would be possible to guide the position of lightning?

　However, I felt that I saw something more impossible than that.

　That is to say, that tall white pole is a spell that exists only to seal Distant Lightning] that only the head of the Arbalest family uses.

　There should be no such thing as magic to just build such a pointlessly tall pole.

I could only think that that thing was made to be anti-Arbalest.

"Barca...... Barca's magic was created to fight the Arbalest house? Only to defeat our master ......."

　When I saw the scene shown to me from the river, my feet stopped before I knew it.

　An existence named Barca suddenly appeared in the Fontana family.

　Barca had scratched and clawed at Fontana and even inflicted painful damage on Uruk.

　But the real target was our Arbalest.

　He had created a spell that prevented [Distant Lightning] just to defeat the head of the Arbalest family.

　As I realized this, the Barca cavalry charged into our camp.

　The moment I saw the flames rising from the sword held by the cavalryman running in the lead, the mana of my Lord who was about to release his spell again... dissipated and disappeared into the air.

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