Evade The Hero and Flee!

Chapter 319

34. Everyone has a plan… (2) 

#1 Their situation: The situation of the Baresseryl Kingdom  

The Demon King.  

The vanguard of the evil god who almost brought the world to ruin, the one who led the evil god to destroy the world.

Already dozens of kingdoms have collapsed, and countless Knights have lost their lives.  

Countless sacrifices.  

It is said that the army of the evil god has greatly decreased because of it, but what is the most frightening thing about the army of the evil god?  

It was that he tainted everything except humans and elves with evil and incorporated them into his army.  

Starting with ordinary dogs and cats passing through the neighborhood, wolves and bears living quietly in the mountains could also be dominated by the wicked evil god and become the army of the evil god.  

Even ordinary birds become terrifying enemies once tainted by evil.  

As the beaks of small birds become as hard as steel, they forget their fears and stab their beaks at humans.

Birds stab with their beaks.  

It may seem like a laughable scene when told in words, but it would be different if you actually saw that sight.  

I heard the rumor of birds piercing human heads with their beaks and ransacking the insides, it was true that it became fearful.  

What’s scarier is that this is not a ghost story-like kind, but the truth.

It is said that a wolf tainted by evil easily jumps over a stone wall of about 5 meters, and an orc tainted by evil smashes through it with one blow.  

In the case of an ogre tainted by evil, it was said that he smashed through the gates of a small territory at once, so I wondered if humans could really confront them.

Scary. I want to run away.   

But there is nowhere to escape.

Since I was a child, I have lost my father and sacrificed everything to raise my brothers with my mother.

She already has a lot of illnesses, she won’t be able to withstand the long journey of traveling.

We have to buy time.  

The best we can do now is to send mother away from the border area to the distant capital.  

That’s why I, no, we brothers came here.

The front line.   

Instead of coming here, my sisters were able to raise the money to send my mother to the capital.  

Although we are separated now, we promised to survive and return to our mother’s side.  

So I can’t die.   

I can’t run away either.  

I have to survive and gather my family together again.

After making up my mind for a week.

Finally, the army of the evil god came close enough to be seen from the city walls.   

“Gulp!”  

I couldn’t help but swallow my saliva.

How many enemies are there?   

Thousands? No, it looks like a little more than that.   

Tens of thousands? That’s possible.  

To be honest, there was only one word I could use to evaluate the army of the evil god, which I had never seen such a large number gathered before.

Many. It was too many.  

Everything in sight was the enemy.  

Each one strengthened by the blessing of the evil god.   

Such monsters filled the land.   

“We, we can’t win…….”  

A small but audible voice was heard.  

It was the muttering of a comrade next to me trembling all over.  

That word soon spread to all soldiers like an epidemic.  

We can’t win.   

We’re all going to die.  

As I kept hearing those words, I started to think the same.   

But…….  

‘You must survive and come back.’  

The moment I heard my mother’s voice holding my hand with tears, I came to my senses by biting my lips hard.  

I can’t die here.  

Even if the opponent is an evil evil god, I will meet my mother alive.  

Kuo oooooooo!  

Then a huge roar came from the army of the evil god.   

Creakhhhhhh!

Woooooo!  

Guooooo!  

In response, the roars of angry monsters began to spread here and there.  

Despite being a great distance away, it was a scream as if screaming right next to me.  

That is a monster!   

That is the army of the evil god!  

Just as my hardened mind was about to shake.  

“Here it is.”  

“Yes.”

Two men approached me where I was.

“Kids, it’s up to you if you want to die, but don’t hold us back.”

“Seniors, it’s normal for them to freeze up like this when you tell people who were cutting grass or doing nothing to fight those things.” 

“Do you take care of them just because they are commoners? Huh? No matter how much mages are evaluated by their abilities rather than nobles and commoners in society, shouldn’t you take care of your seniors first?”

“Why are you like that, senior?”  

“That’s why you shouldn’t raise ungrateful commoners. I felt sorry for them because they were ostracized by nobles.” 

“How could I not know the grace of my wonderful senior? I just wanted to let you know the trivial feelings of a commoner for the great noble senior.”

“I feel like I’m being fooled, is it just my feeling?”

“As expected of a great senior! To notice that!”  

“This bastard is trying to fool me!”

A handsome blond man growling, and a man who keeps verbally attacking him with an apologetic face.

Seeing the staff in their hands and the robes symbolizing magic towers, these two people must be mages. 

“Ma, mages.”

“Hey, commoners, make way.”

“Yes, yes sir.”

At the words of the handsome blond with the typical appearance of a noble, we started scrambling to clear the street.

“Hey, move back more! More! More! Hey, wait! That’s the city wall behind you! If you want to commit suicide, jump forward! It’ll look like I killed you! Will you take responsibility if ghost stories spread?”

“Sir, it looks like we’ll be working all night.”  

“Damn! My skin was irritated already…”

The grumbling blond handsome man shooed away all the soldiers then started using magic.

“… Rise according to my will.”

“I will assist, senior.”

The noble mage with a serious expression using magic.

Seeing him, the mage who called him senior completely changed his expression and started using magic as well.

And after a while.

Boom!

With quite a loud noise, a huge iron lump rose over the city wall.

“For now… Should three more installed here be good?”

“Yes, senior.”

“Ugh, damn! Should have done this earlier.” 

“We have to identify the enemies’ location and install them in the right spots.”

“I know that, brat, despite how I look!”

“Yes. You’re the famous noble son of the Karan Empire’s Count family.”

“…Then treat me a bit better if you know.”

“Ah, for senior I’d even stake my life.”

“If you weren’t at least this cute a junior I wouldn’t keep you around.”  

The grumbling blond let out a sigh and used magic again.  

And so two more objects looking like huge ballistas and unfamiliar crates dropped down.

“Whew, tiring…”

The mage who sent up all the objects let out a sigh and leaned on the city wall.

“Here you go, senior.”

“What flavor is it?”

“Military rations.”

“Ugh…! This stuff tastes bad…”

“You can’t expect tasty magic recovery potions to be supplied on the battlefield.”

“Well, that’s true but… Why are our potion bottle colors different?”

“Ah, this is my precious stash of strawberry potion…”

“You should be giving that to me, bastard!” 

“I saved up and bought this myself!”

Gulp!

Right as the blond handsome man tried to get up, the commoner-looking mage chugged his potion in one go.

“Mm! Tasty.”

“When we get back to the tower, think of yourself as beaten up.”

“Tr, training?”

“I’ll tell the master to give you the hardest training.”

“Gr, great and merciful senior…”  

“Is your vocabulary lacking? ‘Great’ was repeated.”

“Hehe…”

“This bastard trying to laugh it off and get away again?”

With a frown, he stared at the little bottle like his life depended on it, then chugged it down in one go.

“Bleh! Gross as expected.”

“I have candy here, senior.”

“At least you have some sense.”

“It’s mint flavor, by the way.”  

“This devil!”

The blond man with the candy in his mouth frowned and spit it out over the city wall.

“That was the only thing left.”

“It must have been left because no one ate it.”  

“As expected of senior! Amazing deductive ability!”

“One day I’ll end up killing this bastard…”

Seeing him bare his teeth while giggling, a small laugh slipped out.

He was a good person.

Just listening, he seemed exactly like an arrogant noble. 

But in the eyes of the playing mage, there was only trust.

Someone dependable.

No matter how results-oriented mages were, no matter how talent-focused the magic tower claimed to be, nobles and commoners could never be equal. 

The worlds they were born and raised in were too different.

Yet that commoner mage trusted the noble one.

Knowing that, the blonde handsome man put up with the teasing as well.

“Damn! Just wait until this is over.”

“If I live, of course I’ll see.”

“I’ll just beat you up.”

“I’ll struggle to survive senior’s stress relief.”

The mages’ conversation, almost like banter, ended. 

And at the same time, I realized my fear had lessened a bit.

Could it have been… Intentional?

“Now, I’m taking command here. With your shabby archery skills you wouldn’t even graze the evil god army. So…”

Tap!

He raised his right hand and knocked on the huge box next to him. 

“You see the arrows here? Your job is to load the arrows here. Do your best to work fast.”

There were a lot of arrows.  

The arrow storages throughout the castle walls were full, and they were scheduled to be continuously replenished from under the castle walls.

“Just get ready. The great mage will take care of the rest.”

It was an arrogant remark. 

No matter how great a mage he was, someone so young couldn’t possibly do that much.

“…That’s what the senior mage says, but in fact it’s just like an automatic dwarf weapon firing device…”

“Shut up.”

Grip.

The blonde mage grabbed the mouth of the other mage. 

The veins in his arm were bulging as if he had finally exploded.

“Believe me. This is something the famous dwarf Black Anvil clan made for this country. Trust the dwarves.”

Dwarves.  

They were a legendary race that ordinary farmers, nobles and even royals who lived in different worlds hadn’t seen.

“D-dwarves…”

The huge iron lump began to look different.  

 Sturdier and more reliable, perhaps?

The quiver full of arrows looked amazing, and the ballista slightly larger than the one installed on the castle wall looked like it could penetrate even a dragon.

“Alright, let’s start.”

Even with the enemy forces of evil god gathering, the mages didn’t panic.  

Calmly and composedly, they began searching for targets while confirming the enemy.

“Over there.”

Following the blonde mage’s order, we started pushing the huge cannon.  

It was quite heavy, but we just had to slightly change the direction of the cannon without using magic, so we pushed it manually.

“Magic stone.”  

“Yes, senior.”

“Did you load the shells properly?”

“Don’t worry. Custom shells that amplify the power of the magical cannon! I remember your order to use them sparingly since we don’t have many!”

“As if I would forget what you remember.”

The mage who loaded Magic stone into the huge iron lump behind the cannon kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

Then,  

“Senior, I got the signal!”

“I see.”

A blue energy escaped from the mage’s body and wrapped around the huge iron.

Soon,

Kuwuung!

A huge sound echoed. 

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

It wasn’t only here.  

Although the sounds were smaller due to the distance, thudding sounds echoed from all over.

And the result was indescribable.  

“As expected of my judgement.”

“You just shot wherever they were gathered, didn’t you?”

That’s what the two mages said, but their expressions were different.

Horror.  

They opened their mouths, staring blankly at the small circles where nothing existed.

“How many died from one shot?”

“Considering the distance, at least hundreds per circle?” 

“What’s a hundred? Could be thousands.”  

The mage received a magic stone from the stunned mage next to him and poured magic into the box beside him.

“Crazy!”

With a tremendous sound, the launched arrows exceeded the normal range of arrows.  

And the power too.

“What kind of arrow is that hitting even the ogres?!”

“And the ogres are cursed by evil too.”

Even without magic, it was impossible to pierce ogre bodies with arrows.  

Furthermore, ogres blessed by the evil god and strengthened were considered beings that even non-swordmasters would have trouble properly damaging.

Yet those ogres were dying from mere arrows.

“Where…”

The mage who had ordered us to load the arrows approached the nearby ballista with a very curious expression.  

“This is an arrow made by dwarves, right…?”

The mage used magic to remove the ordinary ballista arrows loaded and loaded the specially made dwarves arrows that were said to have been made by dwarves into the ballista. Then he started aiming at drakes flying in the sky.

“Senior, spare those!”

Kuwung! 

Ignoring the other mage’s words, the ballista fired.  

“This crazy!”

The arrow flew towards where the drakes were descending and pierced one drake…

And exploded.

The aftermath was tremendous.  

The troops prepared to deal with the drakes all gaped, it was such an overwhelming force.

The scene of over ten drakes falling was simply spectacular.  

The corpses of the fallen drakes began inflicting additional damage on the evil god army as they landed on them.  

“So this is dwarves…”

Reverence, and fear.  

The power in these weapons made even the mages feel that way.

“When I get back, I’m going to beg the dwarves to make some weapons for me after spending everything I’ve earned so far.”

“I will too, senior…”

“Shut up, you poor commoner.”  

Seeing the two mages start to fret again, I thought.  

This war… Somehow I felt we might be able to win it.

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