Chapter 111

The front and back were blocked. The Imperial Knights were busy blocking the pouring attack.

Swching!

Chaeeng! Chaeng!

Everyone clenched their teeth, striking the pouring arrows with their swords and deflecting them with a shield on the side of the horses.

How… would they be able to counterattack? They were increasingly injured and weak, but the enemy continued to carry out long-range attacks without any damage. Their momentum was bound to be dampened.

Neeeigh!

Fortunately, the owner avoided the arrow, but the horse with the arrow in its hip raised its front hooves high and cried. When one horse ran wild, the other horses were also agitated, looking ready to jump out in all directions and run wild.

Puck! Puck!

Then Spot appeared, fired up. The horses calmed their excitement as they looked at the black and white horse. The horse stung by the arrow was surprised and jumped out of the road.

“Ugh!”

Colleagues tried to catch it from the inside but missed by a hair’s breadth.

Swaegh!

Pu-pu-puck! Puck!

Along with the sound of the wind cutting, the horse and the knight on the horse were pierced by arrows, turning into a hedgehog.

Blood oozes from the bodies that have fallen to the ground. The dry forest was wet with red, and the marks left by human palms looked like early autumn leaves.

“Damn. Are we not bait after seeing all this?”

When is the 2nd Consort coming? When Prince Raymond clenched his teeth and murmured, the knights around him were startled because they couldn’t answer.

Some were displeased with the people who kept saying they would die since the 2nd Consort left.

“Otherwise, how could you overthrow the rebels with this number? Their side is almost a quarter of the empire, covering the entire west!” Raymond vented his anger.

“Try to hold on as well as you talk! You know we won’t be able to stand it if they attack us all at once. Why do you think they’re only shooting arrows from afar?”

It was to take Raymond hostage. The Imperial Knights had a large number. If the rebels didn’t reduce the number first, they wouldn’t know what would happen.

Kaang! Kang!

“Why are you looking away while being attacked by enemies?” Count Dyke struck out an arrow and signaled the horse-bearers at each end of the road.

Neeeigh!

The knights leading the horses that had lost their owners released the reins they were holding and, at the same time, kicked them hard at the behind and scratched those that didn’t respond lightly with a sword.

Neeeigh!

Many horses bounced off the road. They slammed and kicked the enemies standing among the trees.

“What is this!?”

The enemies were startled. They let go of their arrows and drew their swords. It was a cramped and rough place to ride horses, but it wasn’t to the extent that the horses alone couldn’t protect themselves.

A few couldn’t get out of the trees and crevices or fell with their heads hit hard, but most died at humans’s hands.

It would be good if things died down since the surrounding enemies were peeled off from the inside, but the situation wasn’t good.

Puack!

Ossel, the deputy commander of Count Guillaume’s knights, who pulled a sword from the neck of a dead horse, stopped on the road through Korobo Forest and looked at the trapped Imperial Knights.

“What about the 2nd Consort?”

“I haven’t seen her since.”

“Why are you reporting this now!?”

“We thought she was hiding among the knights. But we couldn’t find anyone except Prince Raymond after more attacks.”

“Damn it, you fool!”

Ossel was concerned. Seeing that the Imperial Knights were moving in perfect order as if they had been expecting their attack, it seemed difficult to get as many results as they wanted, even if they spent time like this.

In addition, he was sick of glancing around as if he were waiting for something. Let’s secure Prince Raymond’s whereabouts as soon as possible. The other one will work after that.

“Close the siege to the third row!” Ossel shouted, his voice echoing in all directions. The three inner lines separated and shrunk in the thick circle surrounding the Imperial Knights.

Gradually losing the shape of a circle, it blended with the Imperial Knights on the road to form a new circle within the circle. When Ossel went inside and jumped to get only Prince Raymond out-

Thuuuud!

He felt a strong vibration shaking the floor. Is this the sound of footsteps?

Ossel and the rebel knights and soldiers turned their heads towards the vibration. Withered trees abound. Isn’t that place completely off the road?

It wasn’t a place to come by horse. Besides, where did such a large cavalry causing such a tremor come from? While Ossel and the rebels paused, the Imperial Knights united themselves.

“What the hell is going on?” Raymond was so curious that he stretched out his neck.

Khuuuuang!

The cry of monsters was heard.

At the same time, he saw a black soaring into the air from far left in the direction they were running and falling to the ground.

Not a few. There were dozens, hundreds of whatever it was running.

The size of the black grew as the monster approached the road where the Imperial Knights were located. Count Dyke said when the black looked the size of a walnut, “It’s a person.”

That’s right. It was a person.

Khuuuuuang!

And there were monsters. Even though it was still quite a distance, through the trees and the rebels, one could see the grayish-green and blue skins of trolls and ogres.

“Is that…?”

“Is that the 2nd Consort coming at us?”

The Imperial Knights looked back at each other. Regardless of who came first, their body trembled with goosebumps.

Elisha pushed forward by creating a wide boundary from side to side instead of digging straight like an awl.

If the scope of defense were narrow, the rebels would build a thick wall to deal with the monsters while at the same time attacking the Imperial Knights from behind.

But in this situation, the rebels could only make the most of their power by building a thin and wide wall. It wasn’t difficult. But just because it wasn’t difficult didn’t mean it wasn’t dangerous.

Elisha became bait and shook the monsters to disperse them. In this way, the rebels were faced with the sudden appearance of the monsters.

“Stop them!”

Scghok! Schok!

The troll was cut with a sword, but its regenerative power was so great that the cracked green skin was reattached, and the blood stopped immediately. Trolls and ogres were powerful monsters that were difficult to deal with.

However, the bigger problem was that the types of monsters Elisha drove were different, and each had distinct characteristics, so the way to deal with them was different.

Some must be aimed at the eye; some must be burned simultaneously as it was wounded. Another must be decapitated, lest it kept coming alive.

If you had to change the way you fight during the melee constantly, the fight would be many times harder.

“2nd Consort! Did you cause this!?”

A knight who appeared to be in charge of the rebels ran and shouted. Elisha clicked her tongue, thinking the real thing hadn’t even shown up.

Behind her, a little far away, Forges pounded the ground with their roots. They were the disaster Elisha was trying to bring.

“Ugh!”

“Sa-save me!”

Since there were so many rebels, they were often caught up in the attacks of huge monsters and were often injured or pushed out.

The weakness that prevented the Imperial Knights from escaping was also applied to them.

“These are the ones we originally caught! Calm down!” Ossel shouted as he struck a sword in an ogre’s head. He then jumped and went down over the shoulder to the other side. Blood spewed from the sword pulled out at the end, and the ogre’s head fell to the floor.

The count’s knights, awakened by the deputy commander’s rebuke and encouragement, stepped back and started in earnest.

Four or six people started working together as a team. In a place where talented people gathered, a monster already had its limbs cut, and only its body was flapping on the floor.

“Huu… Huu…”

The knight who went to the outermost circle and attacked the back of the monster wiped his sweat and caught his breath. He saw his colleague, thinking his skills had improved quite a bit.

The colleague shook his hand wildly and kept pointing over his shoulder. The knight turned his head back.

He could see a branch stretching out like a whip. As soon as he noticed it, it straightened the tip and penetrated his neck.

“Khruuuh…!” The knight gasped and fell to the side.

“F-Forge!”

The other knight was also strangled with the last cry, wrapped around the branches of Forge. Ossel’s eyes soared as he saw the troops he’d brought from nearby territories caught by the Forge and dying.

“2nd Consort! I will kill you! I will never forgive you!” he wielded his sword and screamed.

***

While the rebels on the left focused on the monsters, Elisha passed them and headed for the inner path. On the road, the Imperial Knights only stared at her.

They didn’t look very good, but it was fortunate that their numbers didn’t decrease that much. Beyond the knights of the Imperial Army, on the right side of the road, the rebels besieging the party from afar were approaching.

The rushed appearance seemed like they didn’t want to attack the Imperial Knights but to cross the street to help their colleagues on the left, who were being attacked by the monsters.

Of course, some didn’t forget their mission, and some believed they should not lose sight of the 2nd Consort Elisha, the culprit behind all of this.

Swaeegh!

While crossing the street, some rebel knights suddenly jumped into the party and wielded their swords.

The rebel knights, who were cleaning up the Imperial Knights under the command of the deputy commander, also started to move again.

The bigger problem was that while crossing the road from right to left… Some rebels circled where the fight took place to reach the other side, but quite a few tried to push and cross the road blindly.

Elisha snapped her fingertips.

Swhaaaa!

A rising stream of water created a wall and surrounded the place where Elisha and the Imperial Knights were located.

It was like a small wall, or a peaceful and beautiful landscape.

The outside reflected in the clear water was distorted. Elisha cut the knight about to hit her, and red blood was splashed over the clear water. While fighting, she said to the Imperial Knights, who merely stared at her.

“What are you guys doing? Kill them so we can move one.”

The cold words made the knights gulp.

“Move your hands.”

Elisha spoke again in a cool tone and demonstrated first.

Like this!

“Uaaagh!”

That death cry became a signal. Blood was collected in the walls of water cut off from the outside world.