“You bastards! The next person to take a single step back will find their head flying off their body after a meeting with my blade!”
“……”
Separate from his excellent skills as a tactician, he was also a knight.
A readied soldier sent to battle by the command of the royal family.
“The magicians will definitely support us from the back. We just need to hold the line!”
The weakest nation on the continent.
Continued expedition failure.
Everyone here desired to wash away those disgraces.
In the eyes of Sir Murrow, there was a certainty that, in this battle, only victory would follow.
Schwing!
He unsheathed his sword from his hip and raised it high.
“At the edge of the King’s sword!”
“Lies great victory!”
Step!
The soldiers wielding pikes took a step forward, and readied themselves to turn the charging mudmen into skewers.
Simultaneously, the shieldmen stood next to the ones holding the spears and protected their bodies.
Behind them, the remaining soldiers prepared to fight.
And at the very back…
“Great… victory!”
The archers’ arrows thundered down like a storm.
Boom! Babababboom!
With the final shout by Sir Murrow, the force of 3200 collided against the endless tide of mudmen.
Crack!
The formation threatened to break the instant they collided, but they moved with practiced grace and maintained their positions.
However…
“Damn it.”
“Hold! Keep holding!”
It truly was too lacking.
Although an individual mudman was weak, their overwhelming numbers would lead to our defeat.
It looked only destined that they would hold on for but a few minutes before being trampled underfoot.
Yeah.
Theoretically, that should be the case.
There was no way for a force of 3 000 to defend against 500 000.
However, there were existences that could flip this natural outcome on its head.
“You dirty mudmen bastards! Let’s make a bet to see who kills the most!”
“Sure!”
“…One!”
“I’m already at three!”
With Commander Murrow at the forefront, the Golden Light Knight Order were real knights. Even inside the weakest nation, they were the few that had their talents acknowledged.
A knight at the edge of 5th-rank was deadly, and the aura blade these people emitted were enough to slice through dozens of mudmen at once.
While these knights were holding the line, a few soldiers on horseback cleaved through the mudmen.
Their combat capabilities weren’t so easy to dismiss them as those of a ‘weak country’.
Ten to one.
No, even killing a hundred for each knight was easily doable.
And the one who clearly stood out from among these knights…
“Look at that! It’s Sword Wind!”
“Holy crap…”
Ten thousand to one.
No, even higher odds were possible for this old knight.
The man who easily shot out both Sword Spirit and Sword Wind.
Spear Saint Bolvar Patten.
“I-is that truly the martial arts of a human…?”
Flick!
With a swipe of his spear, dozens of mudmen were destroyed, and the spots he swept through were left devoid of life.
The storm that brewed at the tip of his spear forbade the mudmen from even approaching.
It truly was just a slaughter.
However…
“Euk! Kugh!”
“Everyone! Keep going!”
The expressions of the soldiers started to darken one by one.
“Dammit! How come there’s no end to them…?”
No matter how incredible the Spear Saint was, it was still impossible for him to face them all by himself.
Although the others wished to help him more, seeing the endless swarm of mudmen, a sense of futility started to set in.
And unlike the mudmen’s numbers, their stamina wasn’t endless.
“Keep holding! The sea is behind us! We can’t fall back any further!”
The formation was being pushed back, and at some point, the sea water had started lapping at their feet.
They were getting tired.
A big change needed to happen.
It was then.
Vwoong—
A strong wind started to billow from behind the knights.
“…Euk!”
Looking behind them, a black-haired boy donned in leather armor moved like the wind.
And the place the boy ran was at the center of the mudmen.
Not even giving them a chance to pick out the boy’s face, explosions began to burst forth.
Bang! Boom! Baboom!
The number of explosions continued to increase without limit, and holes started to form in the Red Plain of countless mudmen.
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