718 Episode 0718



After gliding from the night sky, Ray and Sett successfully land near the center of the position without making any noise.
 I checked the surroundings with a breathless breath, but fortunately there was no sign of being found on the watch.
 It is probably not enough tension because it is already a night watch after a dinner close to a banquet, and it is only a day away from the imperial capital, and there is a sense that it is completely within their sphere of influence.
 Not all of them are relaxed, however, and some of them keep a good watch.
 Nevertheless, I didn't expect anyone to fly in the sky at night and break into the position, and few were paying attention to the night sky.
 Alternatively, more than a few might have been wary of the sky if there was widespread information that Ray might be cooperating with the rebels.
 However, Ray's cooperation with the rebels has not yet been confirmed, and if he knew that information, there was no doubt that some of the people who knew Ray's success in the spring war and the competition would run away, and even if he didn't get anywhere, morale would inevitably fall. Those circumstances kept the unconfirmed information secret.
 In fact, it was the Wyverns who were at the edge of the position that noticed Ray and Sett coming in from above.  
 Wyvern, who has one of the few Dragon Knights in the expeditionary force, is aware of Ray and Sett's presence with his excellent five senses, but is overwhelmed by the difference in rank, and instead shrinks in horror.
 If he had a partner, the Dragon Knight, he might have encouraged Weiburn to take some action.
 But it was a disaster that the Dragon Knight and Weiburn were in separate places.

"... well, no one seems to have found him." Can't you do it, Seto?"
"Glu".

 As Ray asks in the dark of the night, Seto purrs softly.
 Seth knows what this is like, too.
 If we mess up here, we will find some of the short-range troops riding to this position, and we will probably be surrounded and wiped out.
 In order not to do so, we must make sure that the night attack here is successful.

(If there were fire ore, the damage could be much greater, but if they were to be so powerful, they might get involved in the shortstop.)

 Flame ore causes fatal damage to shortstop troops as they gather near the entrance to the punitive position.
 Ray suddenly shakes his head slightly and concentrates his attention.
 From nearby tents, soldiers' shrieks and the sounds of insects symbolizing autumn nights.
 for about half an hour Eventually Ray confirms that the previously promised time has passed, and then turns his eyes to Seto.
 You must have understood the meaning of the gaze. Seto aims to... sing briefly to what appears to be the center of the position and activate the tornado.
 Watching the tornado, Ray also began to chant the spell with his death size in his hand.

"'Fire, manifest thy blazing force as a whirlpool,'

 Along with the spell, it throws a tornado at a mass of flames produced in a death-size stonghold.

"A whirlwind of fire!"

 a tornado of wind and a tornado of flame Watching the two overlap, Ray then uses the wind's hand, which is also a death-size skill, to touch the wind and flame tornadoes and pour Ray's magic into the wind tornadoes that were about to burn out.
 At that moment, the wind tornado, which was about to be eroded by the flames, gained strength and grew to be as large as the flame tornado.
 The two tornadoes, flame and wind, are of the same size and overlap…the next moment they merge into a fire whirlwind.
 Around this time, soldiers who had sensed abnormalities in the position by the voices of guards were rising, and some were rushing out of their tents.
 However, when you see the fire whirlwind in front of you as soon as you leave the tent, you can't help but be dumbfounded and dumbfounded without understanding what's going on.
 Still, the soldiers far from the fire whirlwind were still lucky.
 Soldiers in tents near the fire whirlwind were burned to death without knowing what had happened the moment they went out.
 It's not just soldiers who have come out. Tents that exist near the fire whirlwind gather together and swallow into the fire whirlwinds: soldiers who were still asleep inside, soldiers who were about to wake up to the disturbances outside, and soldiers who were about to hurry up and put on their armor.
 Furthermore, the fire whirlwind created by Ray's magic grows in strength over time.
 It was when some of the stunned soldiers were swallowed up by the fire whirlwind with screams.  
 A fire whirlwind near the center of the position had already burned nearly a thousand soldiers by this point.
 However, as if it were still the beginning, the fire whirlwinds grow in size over time.
 Swallowing people, swallowing tents, swallowing carts loaded with supplies, and unfortunately swallowing horses pulling carts and warhorses near them.
 The roaring fire whirlwind does not stay in one place, unlike the one used on the Celemus plain, and moves around in the position of the punitive force as if it could not bear its own weight.
 The speed is very slow, but because of the size of the fire whirlwind, and, above all, because of the heat emitted in a wider area than the flames seen around the whirlwind, the sight of people dying without touching the whirlwind is worthy of being called calamity or natural disaster in the literal sense.
 Within a few minutes of the fire whirlwind, the elite punitive force prepared by the First Prince's faction was almost half destroyed.

"Leave, evacuate! Get out of the position and get back on track. Hurry up, hurry up!"

 Such voices are heard all over the position.
 However, the misery of the punitive force is not over yet.
 The roaring sound of the fire whirlwind often prevented the soldiers around them from shouting for withdrawal.
 Still, some people have managed to escape from the fire whirlwind, but those who can't hear it simply stop to be charmed by the huge fire whirlwind that approaches them, or they are paralyzed by fear and engulfed by the fire whirlwind and burn their lives.
 And the time for disaster is not yet over for those who have heard of evacuation.
 Protective fences set up to protect the positions from bandits and monsters prevented expeditious evacuation of punitive soldiers.
 In order to escape from a position that is being trampled down by a fire whirlwind, we have to head to a place that has no protection fence covering the position, and many people have died in the confusion.
 Furthermore, the punitive force's misfortune continues.
 When you try to get out of the fence, naturally there is not enough space for more than a dozen people and dozens of people at the same time.
 The killing of soldiers trying to escape by themselves through the narrow entrance.
 There is no such thing as the elite troops of the First Prince's faction.
 Fear of when the fire whirlwind will start to sway, he is in a state of depression trying to escape the scene by himself, pushing his comrades out of their positions, drinking and laughing together until a few hours ago.
 Even if you're pushed aside, it's your life to pay for it if you take the time here. Naturally, some people would not accept such fate in silence, and would draw their own weapons to get rid of them.
 If we were to be calm, we could have all worked together to destroy the fence.
 No matter how hard the fence was to deal with monsters and thieves, 10 people could have pulled it out or knocked it down if they worked together.
 But... a huge fire whirlwind that could only be called a natural disaster or disaster from behind could not make such a cool decision.
 Also, this place is about a day away from the imperial capital, and it may be because he was completely discouraged that he could still feel safe.
 The punitive force was driven into deadly confusion, as if to prove that they were inferior to the other soldiers in a relaxed manner.
 Particularly disordered were those who took part in the Spring War. Many people are in a state of semi-depression because they have seen the fire whirlwinds trample the battlefield with more force than they can describe as such.
 It's bigger than the fire whirlwind seen in the Spring War, and it's moving freely and vertically, although it shouldn't have moved much before. ...the more threatening form of the fire whirlwind had given a greater sense of fear to those who knew it.
 Many of them have already wielded weapons beyond their spiritual limits and slashed them at random.

"He's... he's here! He's dead, he's dead, he's dead, he's dead."Oops!"
"Yes, calm down! d*mn, but we must calm down now... well, the stockade is still too good to manage!"

 One of the aristocrats in the expeditionary force manages to capture the rampaging soldiers and screams at his men around him.
 In the meantime, fire whirlwinds have moved freely throughout the camp, continuing to cause more damage.
 By this point about 70% of the punitive force had already lost their lives.
 However, the number of people who lost their lives due to a conflict between confused soldiers was over a hundred, which shows the current aspect of the punitive force.
 Confusion: The position of the punitive force, which had been in such a state of chaos that cannot be described in such words, should already be described as a cage to lock up the punitive force rather than as a position.
 ...yes. That's what Ray is aiming for.
 It is only natural to set up a fence around the position to deal with thieves and monsters, which can also be used as a cage to lock up those inside, as well as to prevent attacks from outside the position.
 There could have been a way for more people to survive if they could work together in the face of a near-fire whirlwind.
 But few people can do so when their lives are at stake. Knights and nobles would have kept some cool, but it was impossible to ask ordinary soldiers for it.
 The result was soldiers rushing to the door of the stockade, and it was not yet safe for those who were lucky enough to escape.

"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you've managed to survive!"
"Oh, and what the hell is that? A tornado of fire..."
"I've heard of it for a moment," Look. We lost the Spring War...
"Hey, wait! What's that? Is crimson cooperating with the rebels?""I don't know if you're cooperating with the rebels, but at least you're sure they're against us. or suddenly we'll make a tornado of fire in our position!"

 Soldiers who try to look at their comrades who suddenly make strange noises in the middle of their conversation see a shadow for a moment by the fire whirlwinds burning in their positions and the moonlight pouring down on the ground, and then their consciousness falls into darkness.

"Why... an arrow?"
"Hush!"

 Another person dies when an arrow sticks in his forehead.
 After that, the rest of the soldiers finally realize they are under attack with bows.
 He tries to speak to several survivors in a hurry, but is shot in a mountainous fashion and penetrates the top of his head by arrows falling directly above him, killing him instantly and collapsing to the ground.
 Yes, this attack is being carried out by a detachment led by Ray -- in effect, Pearnicus.
 Although the number of people was only about 30, it was not so difficult for those who were trained to survive without being desperate by Ray and Seto to shoot with a bow in the midst of the brightness of a fire whirlwind.
 There are about five entrances and exits in the position. Six soldiers are sent there, each of whom continues to shoot a bow at the soldiers of the punitive force who come out of the entrance of the fence using a bow and arrow.
 Of course, considering the number of people, it is not possible to shoot everyone who has escaped.
 Still, the blow of an arrow, which seems to leave a gap of relief that it has finally survived the chaos, continues to kill many people.
 ...the worst night and night of disaster for the punitive forces is not over yet.
 It's not dawn yet.