Chapter 20: A Decaying City

Chapter 20: A Decaying City

When I pushed aside grass which even grows thick around the lower back luxuriantly and advanced, I saw an earthly color and a green monster walking.

An earth ogre and a green goblin.

Did a few get strayed from a group of monsters?

Are they lost or already on their route to be defeated?

Either way, it is convenient.

In this case, I can hunt alone.

Im holding a gun and shoot the green goblin.

I shot through the head of the goblin so that the bullet will pierce it.

Excellent head shot!

At the same time with a sudden shooting sound, the goblin collapsed, another one says kekeke.

Haha, you will die on your battlefield!

I tossed the matchlock gun, pulled out the iron sword.

I strike the ogre with a massive iron mass that gives off a dull sparkle with the momentum of running!

The ogre attacked me without hesitation with a gigantic club.

The power of ogre is strong indeed.

This is good and I wanted this response.

UGAAAA!

A fierce cry is given, and the ogre is using a club to me with full force.

The sharpness of my iron sword is the lowest, but there is also no worry of a nick instead.

I beat back with full force while mixing and receiving a blow of the ogre from the front.

Hard oak wood and an iron sword, the lightning-fast feeling of speed against which we beat each other.

We beat each other with full force and every time we hit each other, ferocious adrenaline runs through the brain.

Its intolerable in the strength way of life. I feel like my spirit is being uplifted.

This is the delicious taste of fantasy!

Oh, whats up!

GUGAGAGAGA!

While fighting with the ogre, I fairly felt that there are others around.

At the edge of my eye, watching another one of the goblins recovering its ability to fight and heading towards me, it swings its weapon towards me.

Its slightly wasteful, but I took the cane of a holy flame ball out and make the goblin bite the maximum blow.

It bathes with a fireball, the green goblin collapsed. In a blink of an eye, it is charred.

It isnt known whether it is alive or dead, but it is impossible for it to continue fighting.

Now, lets continue ogre!

Its companion was killed and now ferociously roaring. I kept my sword towards the ogre in front of me.

The following moves are the techniques of brute force. Though it is easy to read, my sword will not be able to keep up so I used swordplay. The ogre falls into confusion.

How is it, Hokushin Itto-ryu, stance of the wagtail!

After fighting with the ogre, I managed to strike its shoulder with a strong blow.

Although it does not lead to a fatal injury, the blade of my sword is rough, the response into which the meat of the ogre is torn.

My sword is already dull so it was not fatally injured but I was able to torn off a piece of its meat.

GYAGAGAGAGAGA!

It was hurt hard, I wish it is.

Victory or defeat will be decided by the next blow.

The Hokushin Itto-ryu, heart and star king sword!

I put my heart and soul and cut the head of the ogre off with an iron sword from an angle above.

Though the opponent is an ogre, my blood is boiling because of the feeling of slaughtering a life with this hand of mine.

The body of the big monster rolled over the grass.

It is not alive anymore.

Fuu

Remaining on guard.

I look around vigilantly.

Apparently there were no other monsters, they seem to have been annihilated.

Overlooking the carcasses of the uninvited monsters, my suppressed excitement gushes up.

Even I, can become strong.

Not just my body but also my heart.

Of course, real fantasies have no visible levels or exp, but there is a certain accumulation of battle experience on the battlefield.

With my current ability, I should be able to kill ten crazy dogs easily.

Oh! Master, what are you doing!

Sharon, who has brought a gun, run to this place.

She is being followed by my slave girl personal guard corps.

Did you need anything?

A passing-by Louise, whos holding large amount of skins and meats of monsters, quickly saw through me and pointed out my location.

Kuu a sharp fellow.

Master you cant go! Come here and make paper cartridge with me.

Ive even been scolded by Sharon.

By the way, theyre making paper cartridge while being jolted on the horse-drawn carriage.

Well, this is kind of task is plain even though I came here to go to war

Master, logistics is important task. There is time for everything.

If you say that, do you mean that until my role has come, I have no choice but to comply?

Certainly, there are many times that the importance of logistics was demonstrated.

My motherland lost a war because of that before.

If you fail to do so, you will only be there for a trauma rather than taking battle experience.

Indeed, given our current situation, no matter how many bullets we have, it is not enough.

It cant be helped, should I participate in making paper cartridges?

I am not allowed to participate in a battle.

It is a job to kill time. I do not feel like being in battle at all.

Its somewhat different from the general I imagined.

Scene Change

Finally, I came to the city of Ox of the late Ambazak barony.

I lay down on the hill that overlooks the valley and look down upon the city.

Ox is a small city, but its surface is properly laid with stone pavement.

There is a quarry nearby, and lumber can also be collected, so the whole city is like a fortress.

Originally it might have been a rigid town, but it had been captured by a battalion of monster already so the thick stone wall was deformed. The small old castle which seems strong was partially destroyed and looks like would fall with a snap.

Isnt that a person sensei?

When I say so, sensei made a stern expression.

It seems that people are living in the city which should have fallen already.

I can not see good because of the distance, but I can tell the difference between a humanoid monster and a person.

Is it so or does Takeru see that so? Im using magic of zooming, those are all zombies.

Well, do you mean people in the town are zombified?

That magic is convenient since you can see far even if there is no telescope.

I wonder if they are sold somewhere, if possible, I would like a binocular.

There are hundreds in the city just by looking and they are a very troublesome enemy for us. Well, seeing is believing. Lets just shoot a cannon for the time being.

In this case, Lyle-sensei took out a short cane and signaled artilleryman corps shoot the cannons.

A big roaring sound rings at this place near the mountain.

It is a bombardment consisting of four bronze artillery cannons and two large cannons. Although it is in a town, it should fall like the usual party of monsters we met on the way.

Even if they are under fire, they are not moving, sensei..

Thats right, I was worried about a while ago, but guns and cannons are not effective on undead monsters.

Sensei s awesome to anticipate this already. The strength of guns and cannons are not only in artillery power but also in their sound and impact.

However, the enemies are dull zombies. Even if their allies were blown to pieces, they wont react since they have no intelligence.

You can say that it is an incompatible enemy. Even if you shoot a gun, its already dead, so it will take quite some time to disable it.

Lyle-sensei sighs because our bullets are limited.

Does a sensei have any strategies to deal with them?

The city wall is already partially destroyed and there are about one hundred zombies. If I am a normal strategist, Ill have the soldiers surround them and charge for a battle of attrition,

Battle of attrition, a lot of people from Ona village will die.

Perhaps even Sharon or Sarah-chan.

That is kinda

Sensei saw my complexion. He seemed serious first then laughed.

Because you are General Choro so it is normal for you to think like that.

Sensei

It will be okay. It will take some time, but we will use a strategy that wont burden them so much.

Please.

Then itll be a long-drawn-out war. Lets begin to rebuild our base first.

He looks at a map of the town which is expanded into a folding stool. Lyle-sensei is issuing directives.

In accordance with the instructions, everyone began to move hastily.

Sensei, what should I do?

Please remember what the generals job was.

Sitting and watching

Should I help making paper cartridge?

They seem to have run out of bullets.

In the end, we encircled the city from the outside and shoot from all directions.

Zombies in the city did not move at all against the bombardment. There was no noticeable counterattack and the war situation entered a stalemate.