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"Ars, I hear a wolfsbane is rising from the northeast watchtower."

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"Oh my god. Bite, get the cavalry together. Let's go.

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　It had been a while since Vargas and Dad had brought in new recruits.

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　We were repairing the walls of Fort Einrad, and training them how to use the pitchforks, when we heard a call from my brother Bite.

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　It seems that a wolf smoke is coming from one of the watchtowers he had built to monitor the movements of the Uruk family.

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　Not my father, but I had a little doubt that the Uruks would not attack us if they saw that our fortress had been fortified to such an extent that it had changed the shape of the Einrad hill.

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　But it seems I was wrong.

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　My brother Bite and I mounted our Valkyries and rode them to the northeast.

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　The valkyrie is a small, thin, and very lightweight machine.

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"Over there. From there you can see the Uruk army."

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Okay. Thanks for the tour.

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　They raise a smoke signal at the watchtower to warn of the strange events in the distance.

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　So it seems that the movements of the Uruks, as reported through several watchtowers, were still in their infancy.

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　It seems that they have found an army on its way to us and have informed us of it.

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　The progress of an army takes longer than expected.

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　It takes time just to move a large number of people together, but they also have to carry food and other goods along with them.

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　The larger the army, the slower it marched.

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　In particular, Fontana and Uruk know this and have not built roads, so it seems to take even more time.

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　In some places, only about 15 km of road can be traveled in a day.

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　Therefore, we were able to detect the movement of the slow Uruk army earlier, and we have a quicker way to move, the Valkyrie.

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　We could see with our own eyes that the Uruk forces were actually advancing at a distance from Fort Einrad, which was still a defensive position.

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"I'm glad the watchtower helped, but this is tough..."

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"There are so many. The Uruks must have pulled in that many men. Hey, Ars! How many are there?

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"I don't know exactly, ......, but at a quick glance, I'd say there are at least 3,000 and at most 5,000 people, Bite-brother."

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"What do we do?　Shall we launch an attack?"

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"No, Barka has about 200 cavalrymen. Even if you include the horned ones, their numbers are too few. That's impossible.

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"So we're just going to walk back to Einrad?　But even with all the new recruits in Einrad, we are still outnumbered. What are you going to do?

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"Hmmm, yeah, I guess so. ......"

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　The soldiers stationed in the watchtower led us to a position where we could see the entire Uruk army.

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　After checking the number of our opponents there, my brother Bite and I were left wondering what we should do now.

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　It was because there were more opponents than we had expected.

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　I don't know the exact number of them because I was watching them with binoculars from a long distance on the plain.

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　But there were a great number of people moving about.

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　It was difficult to count the number of people, since they were not walking in a straight line, and they seemed to be carrying their belongings with their messenger beasts.

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　Therefore, we manage to estimate the number of people they are moving, although the difference in numbers is quite wide.

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　However, the number of the number of the Balkan army was apparently more than the number of the Balkan army.

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　I did not bring all those with the surname of Barca from Barcania.

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　I could not leave the new town I had built unprotected.

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　Therefore, I brought about 200 men with the surname of Valka as cavalrymen to ride on the Valkyries.

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　When Carlos and I came to Einrad's Hill, we had recruited more young men who had come to Vulcania to starve, so that we had about 200 men.

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　And now, with Carlos' permission, I have newly recruited men from Vulcania, the city of Fontana, and the villages near the hill of Einrad, so that I have about a thousand men under my command at Fort Einrad.

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　Can this number stand against the House of Uruk?

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　If their number is 3,000, they will attack us with about three times as many men as we have forts that can be defended, and we may have a good match.

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　However, we have never fought a defensive battle before, and we are not sure if we can handle it properly with all the new recruits we have.

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　However, if their strength is about 5,000, it is five times as large as ours.

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　That may be very tough.

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　I mean, isn't Carlos and his men attacking the northern city right now?

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　The Uruks must be very strong to send out additional troops to recapture Einrad while there is a war going on there too.

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　It must mean that they are desperate.

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"For the time being, we must report this to Master Carlos and Fort Einrad in the north. Let's send a messenger.

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"Right. I'll send some people.

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"Brother Bite, send someone north who knows the area. I'll also write a note for him to come to the rescue.

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"You need help?"

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Of course you do. I was ordered to defend Fort Einrad. That means if we're going to fight the enemy, we'll be holed up in the worst case scenario. And if we're going to be besieged, we can't do it without help from the outside.

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"So you're just going to let them go on their way and do nothing, Ars?"

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"...... No, that's no fun either. Let's at least give them a little nudge."

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"That's the way to do it. So, what are you going to do?　Are you going to ride up to them and shoot magic attacks at them as you usually train?"

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"No, there are too many of them to do that. If they attack us with bows and arrows, even if we are riding, we may be damaged.

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Then what are you going to do?

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"It's obvious. Night attack. We attack at night, after dark. Hopefully, we can make them turn back.

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　Thus, we, the Balkan cavalry, prepared to launch a night attack against the army of the House of Uruk, which numbered in the thousands.

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