334 Episode 327 Team Keel ② Borderline (1)

Two of Team Kiel and one of the bodies continue to move south, though it's been three days since we left Allen and his team.

'It's kind of a growing city,'

As Krsna, astride the bird B summoner, peered down, noticed about the change in scenery.

We've been going straight to the south, but the village was almost gone.

After three days, the pillar of light that Keel and his team were aiming for still continued south.

According to Sophie's story, in the west of the Confederacy, around the pillar of light stretching into the heavens, the pagans are running amok.

Kiel also straddles the summoned beast of bird B with Krsna and checks out the villages, bridges and other artifacts that have begun to pop up in the grasslands.

Even from overhead, I don't see any burning or destroyed houses, which suggests that the pagan rampage must still be a long way to the south.

Yeah, I guess so. I'm not sure if this is a royal castle. I'm not sure if this is the capital of the Kingdom of Carvalhalla, if there is a castle.

We pass over a large castle town and a building that seems to be a royal castle in the center of the town, where there were small and large towns and villages popping up.

It appears to be the Kingdom of Carvalhalla, one of the two kingdoms we heard about yesterday.

The first angel, Merus, has lived for about 100,000 years, but he is omniscient, omnipotent, all-seeing, and does not remember everything.

He spent most of his efforts on carrying out the instructions he received from the creator god Elmea in the divine world and working with the Elmea Church.

Such Merus is aware of two countries to the south of the Confederation, the Kingdom of Carvalna and the Republic of Karonea.

The two countries are adjacent to each other, with the Kingdom of Karbarna in the north and the Republic of Karroneer in the south.

Originally it was a single country, but the people of the southern part of the kingdom rebelled against the Kingdom of Carvalhalla and founded the Republic of Karonnea as a republic, which became independent 10 or 20 years ago.

They do not seem to remember the year of independence in great detail.

At the time of independence, there was a great deal of blood in both countries, and it seems that the two countries are surprisingly bad with each other.

The largest and most populous royal capital of the Kingdom of Karbarna was in sight, yet the pillar of light continued to grow beyond it.

I don't know what the purpose of the demon king's army is, but I suspect it is to give birth to a large number of pagans.

I'm not sure if they are headed to the Karolinea Republic, which is beyond the Kingdom of Karbarna, Keel thinks.

The state of the royal capital is calm and peaceful itself.

He continued onward toward the end of the growing pillar of light.

D'onn!

Then, with a crashing sound, flames go up.

It seems to be more than just one or two.

'They're fighting!

"Pagan?　Hmm?　Is this a fortress? Does that mean this area is on the borderline?

Keel gazes around to see what's happening, trying to get a full picture of the situation.

The first thing you see is a large river flowing vertically east-west from the point of view of Keel and his friends, who were heading south.

Over the years, the river has carved the ground, creating a slope around the river.

Since the ground has been cut so much, the surface of the river is many meters below the ground, and its banks do not seem to be easy to cross.

There is a large bridge in the river that has already been destroyed and is sinking.

A fortress sits across the large bridge at regular intervals to protect themselves from each other.

Kiel and the others recognize this river as the border between the Kingdom of Carvalna and the Republic of Karonnea from the fortress, which is like a large river.

It is a common practice to draw the border line with mountains and rivers, and it is also a common practice in national defense to build a fortress on the border line to protect against invasion from other countries.

In the northern part of the Latash Kingdom, there were also fortress cities established to defend against the Ghiamut Empire.

Kiel grits his teeth.

If my prediction is correct, then we are not fighting in the Republic of Karonnea, the southernmost part of the Confederation.

I've been looking at the royal capital just now, the northern kingdom of Carballona, which we flew over.

It seems that fire is coming from the fortress on the side of the Carlonea Republic.

I can't feel that they are fighting.

It seems that the stronghold on the Karlonea side has fallen into the hands of the infidels.

This means that the Republic of Karonnea has already fallen into the hands of the infidels.

The evildoers are different in appearance from the Elmar Church, and their lower bodies look like large goats.

They crossed the river and nimbly climbed up the slope of the river bank to the outer wall of the fortress, where the river had carved out a bad foothold.

More than 10,000 of them are wriggling around the fortress.

This may be the defensive battle of the Karbarna Kingdom has just begun.

They desperately aim at the large magical beasts, shooting spells and arrows, but they seem to be outnumbered.

The fortress is surrounded by wriggling deformed pagans and magical beasts, and the layer of enclosure is getting thicker and thicker.

I don't even know if we can last the whole day under this attack.

And it's not only the evildoers, but also large beast strains of demonic beasts can be found scattered about.

Compared to the outer wall of the fortress, the magical beasts feel much larger.

Although the magical beasts are large, the fortress doesn't seem to be any taller than that.

It may have originally been built for the purpose of fighting and defending against the divided Karonnea Republic, and although it is high enough for human opponents, it is less than 10 meters high.

For the battle against the Demon King's army, you need an outer wall at least twice as high as this one.

''Let's go join them.

Yeah, you're right. At this rate, this fortress won't last that long.

It's clear to everyone that we are outnumbered.

Keel considers his strategy for future responses to Krena's words.

"Well, then, Krsna, Keel, and Central are in charge.

"Hmm?

As Crenna and Kiel go to help the fortress about to fall, Merus, who is in front of them, indicates his fingertips in the distance.

'Apparently, there are three fortresses. I'm not going to be able to get to the bottom of it. I'll leave that fortress to you.

Seriously, there's more than one. Okay.

Yesterday he told me not to speak in honorific language, so Keel will speak in hush-hush.

There were three fortresses across the river, three on each side of the river.

Kiel was looking at the largest fortress in the center of the three east-west-lined fortresses on the Carvalhalla Kingdom side.

It looked quite small, but there was one smaller fortress each east and west.

Merus instructed Bug A's summoner, who shared his vision, to spread out to the side and come towards us.

His overwhelmingly wide vision allows him to grasp the situation.

Merus eradicates the evildoers and demonic beasts that come up the river bank in the two fortresses Walla Walla and the river bank.

So he tells me that the defense of the largest fortress in the center should be left to Krsna and Keel alone.

Kiel replied that it was no problem, and it was decided that it would be done.

I'm used to fighting with Merus and short words and gestures, as I've been doing it with Allen for a long time.

Allen's instructions are short anyway.

There were frequent times when I would hear them later and find out what they were about.

During dungeons and other meals, we came into study session time to find out why Allen gave such instructions and how we should have moved.

Crenna and Keel straddled the bird B summoned beast and plunged straight and into the most massive part of the front line of demonic beasts at once.

The outer wall is low, and if you are an A-ranked demonic beast, if you reach out to it due to its large size, it will reach the soldiers above you.

On top of the not-so-high defensive wall, there are many corpses of soldiers who have been crushed or twisted into chunks of meat.

'Gah!

"Captain Muhan

"Stay away!　Nuguaaaah!

One of the soldiers, called the captain, was grabbed by a large monkey monster beast that reached out randomly.

The splendidly decorated helmet fell to the ground upon impact.

He tried to shake it off, but it crunched and easily shattered the armor.

Then, the soldiers desperately tried to swing their swords to retrieve their captain, but they couldn't make a scratch.

It seems that the soldiers on the outer wall are not configured to fight against the demon king's army.

The five continents alliance has decided that the battle against the Demon King's army will be fought with talent, but this is just a borderline fortress that has nothing to do with that.

From the low wall of the fortress, it is clear that this is not a fortress built for the battle against the Demon King's army.

And there don't seem to be that many talented soldiers defending such a fortress.

''Let go of Captain Muhan!

The soldiers are waving their spears in a desperate manner.

The soldiers continue to wield the full force of the blow to save the captain, but even the bristles on their hands can not be cut.

The fur of the Great Ape Monster Beast is a high-pitched sound as if it were a spear thrust into steel.

The Great Ape Demonic Beast seems to be an A-ranked monster beast, so there must be an overwhelming status difference.

The world of talent and status difference, too, has produced a desperate difference in ability.

The status of those without talent would only be a few hundred, even if they worked hard.

A-ranked demonic beasts reach thousands.

Even if they grabbed the steel spear degree, the status gap was unlikely to be bridged.

The great ape demonic beast grinned and slowly put strength into the hand that grabbed Captain Mu Han like a doll.

''Guaaaah!

Armor is abducted, bones are crushed, and with a scream, Captain Muhan vomits blood.

He does not withdraw his hands from the top of the outer wall when attacked, probably to teach the soldiers to despair.

By slowly grabbing the captain's class, he would greatly lower the morale of the soldiers.

Or maybe it's just because it's fun.

The big monkey monster's grinning won't stop.

When Captain Muhan could no longer even scream, a woman with a flutter of pink hair came down from the sky.

''Yaaaah!

"Ag!　Guppyaaaah!

And before landing on top of the outer wall, he swung the great adamantite sword down on the two arms of the great ape gripping Captain Muhan.

No matter how much the soldiers slashed, it cut through the human tall arm of the great ape, which could not even cut the hair, let alone the thin skin of the monster beast, like butter.

For a moment, I didn't understand what it was, but when I saw my own arm that fell with a loud thud against the outer wall, I finally felt the pain.

Clutching the cut off arm with his other hand, the great ape monster beast screamed out.