72-72. Defensive success

We desperately needed to defend the defensive wall.

The wizards who came to reinforce us were numerous, able to cover most of the defensive wall, and, as Rico said, could use enough magic to properly shoot down the iron ball.

However, it still wasn't possible to shoot down a hundred percent of them, and there was a pretty good chance they would fail, so other than the area I was defending, the iron balls had hit me several times and were in tatters.

By going to the most battered spot, I managed to prevent the barrier from being broken.

After defending it for a long time, the iron ball stopped flying.

Are you out of ammunition...?　Did you keep this one alive...?

I stood on top of the wall for about twenty hours, straining my nerves, but in the end it didn't fly.

After that, we began to take turns keeping watch, but still no iron ball flew.

It's still impossible to be completely careless, but I think I managed to protect the barrier from the iron ball.

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f*ck, you're out of ammunition.

The brave Hiroshi, who had been throwing iron balls from behind, had lost the balls he was throwing and was clucking his tongue with an abominable expression.

His iron ball wasn't made by himself, he had his subordinate wizards make it for him.

Making a giant iron ball was quite difficult magic and not so easy to make, and the amount of MP consumed was also high, so the amount that could be made by one person was limited.

I had gathered about fifty wizards who could make an iron ball and had them make it, but finally all of them ran out of MP and couldn't throw it.

''What shall we do? We didn't break it, but it looks like it's in a lot of pain, so what else should we do, let the soldiers push it harder?

Well that's a waste of time, isn't it?　It's just too cool to be in a place like this all the time.

Life on the battlefield was never, ever easy.

The bed was hard, the food was not very good, and it was unbearable.

Hiroshi wanted to go back to the castle as soon as possible, eat good food and sleep in his fluffy bed.

''Ha........there's no choice......if we can't destroy it even if we aim at it from the outside, then we'll have to destroy it from up close......''

''Hiroshi-sama, I think that's a bit dangerous. The enemy is powerful enough to prevent Hiroshi-sama's attacks.

What am I going to do?

Hiroshi glared at Aleverus.

Aleverus deflated, bowed his head and apologized.

''Hmm, well, you're right, Sun's guy got beaten up too. It's Mazzy to be careless.

Hiroshi thinks. He was the type among the brave men to think things over carefully.

'But I don't want to waste my time... hmmm, what to do... well, it's not a problem to get a little closer to the barriers, right?　And after that, we can just leave right after that.

It was only among the brave men, though, and they were more optimistic than normal humans.

''Well then, I thought we could break down the wall without any danger.

All right, let's go with that.

Hiroshi immediately began to prepare to go to the front of the line himself to break down the defensive wall.