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"You're more defensive than I thought, ......."

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"Yes. Yes, much more than I imagined. I had heard that Barca was good at building castles, but I did not expect them to be so good at fortifications.

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"I did not expect you to be able to bounce back so well against such a large number, Zedan."

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Yes, my lord. The magic of building walls is honestly more troublesome than expected. I have never even experienced the ability to create a wall instead of repairing it in the middle of a siege.

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　The little castle that the d*mned Barka built....

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　When I heard that the detachment was having trouble with such a hastily built castle, I wanted to reprimand them in my heart for what they were doing.

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　But there was a good reason for this castle's defense.

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　Though small, the castle could probably hold about 1,000 men.

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　The castle was surrounded by walls and protected by water.

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　The new castle was built in the middle of the river leading to Palamea.

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　The castle was built on the land between the confluence of the rivers.

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　By using the water of the river, the castle is so well defended that it is hard to believe that it was built so quickly.

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　Moreover, the way to intercept from the castle was also very impressive.

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　They would surround the castle and send stones toward the army that was about to attack.

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　Stones reaching farther than the banks of the river.

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　They must have been trained in this kind of stone-throwing attack, for their accuracy is quite good.

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　It is a very nasty way of attack.

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　But what was even more troublesome was Barka's magic of building walls.

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　When the story of Barca was first heard in the Arbalest Domain, Barca's magic was mostly ridiculed.

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　What could a knight be afraid of with a wall-building magic that had no offensive power at all?

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　In fact, I thought so too.

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　When I heard that the pride of the House of Uruk, the cavalry, had been defeated by a Balka with such lowly magic, I felt that the House of Uruk had fallen to a lower level.

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　But when you actually see it with your own eyes and experience it for yourself, you will understand its troublesome nature.

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　Because the walls are being built up and up and up.

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　A small castle surrounded by the water of the river is being attacked by us, but the position of the wall is changing with each passing day.

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　They are building new walls as they fight, or even during the night, expanding the area of the castle.

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　The castle grows day by day.

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　That is exactly what the Arbalest army is seeing now.

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　What we cannot imagine is right in front of us.

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　This castle cannot be left unattended.

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　If we fail to see it, a new castle will be built here that will threaten the territory of Arbalest.

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　In place of the impregnable water fortress of Palamere, Fontana's and Barca's castle will be built here.

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　This must be prevented at all costs.

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　Yes, we had fallen right into the enemy's trap.

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　We were supposed to make a well-timed pincer attack with the Uruks, but we were forced to attack the targets they had prepared in front of us, buying us more time.

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　Everything was as they wanted it to be.

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"My lord, it seems that we have no choice. It seems that any more time will only benefit the enemy and do us no good at all. I think we should launch an all-out attack with all of our forces here, even if it means taking some losses.

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"Yes, that's right. Okay, Zedan. I leave everything to you. Now, our first priority is to take down that castle.

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Yes, sir. I will do everything in my power to make the attack on the castle a success.

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"I'm counting on you, Zedan. I expect a good report from you.

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　He bowed his head and left immediately after receiving the master's instructions.

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　This battle will bring down the castle.

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　No matter how much damage we do.

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　He sent out a messenger to all the knights, and with the main force in full force, they crossed the river at once and advanced toward the castle.

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　The castle was the first to be destroyed by the enemy.

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"Don't flinch!　Keep attacking!　They are outnumbered. We have to keep pushing!"

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　A castle between two rivers.

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　They cross the river toward the castle and attack it.

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　It seems that they have hurriedly launched a stone throwing attack when they saw that we are advancing our whole army, but it is futile.

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　We already know from the previous battles how long it takes for them to make another attack.

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　And it seems that they have been trying to throw stones from any direction of the castle, which is also not a good idea in this case.

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　By attacking from one direction, they would limit the number of stone throwers they can use, and they would move forward in between the timing of the stone throwers' attacks.

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　By doing so, they succeeded in crossing the river and getting to the castle while limiting the damage.

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　Once we are this close to the castle, the stone throwers will not attack us.

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　The rest is the same as a normal siege.

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　They attacked the castle in a single bound and took it down.

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　That should have been all that was needed.

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　Dawn ！！！！！

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　That's when it happened.

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　A terrible sound came from across the river.

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　Perhaps it was because I was distracted by the castle attack in front of me.

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　At first, I did not know what it was.

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　No, that's not exactly right.

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　I did not understand what the sound meant.

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　It was the sound of thunder.

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　Before I knew it, the sky was darkened by clouds.

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　But was this really natural?

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　I don't think so, but there is a possibility that this is not a natural phenomenon.

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　It is the master.

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　The Lord of the House of Arbalest is proud of his high magic, "distant thunder.

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　A fearsome magic unleashed by the master of the house who possesses immense magical power.

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　When this magic is invoked, the surrounding area is deprived of light by the clouds and obliterated by an indefensible strike of lightning from the heavens.

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　It is a magic that boasts of overwhelming power, and is worthy of being the highest rank of the knight as a nobleman.

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　Was that just the sound of thunder?

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　Or is it the master's?

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　No, it is too optimistic to say that the weather will break and lightning will strike by chance at this time.

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　But why does the master need to invoke [distant thunder] at this time and this place?

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　That was when I thought so.

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　The light and sound of thunder came again from the direction of the main camp.

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"Valka, has Ars von Valka appeared?　Did you come at this time?　How?　Hadn't they been moving far to the west?　No, that's not the point. If that is the case, we must hurry back."

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　Oh, my God.

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　The timing of my attack on the castle, with my entire army under my command.

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　That is, when the main camp was at its thinnest.

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　Ars von Valka came out just at that moment.

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　Otherwise, there is no way the master of the castle would have intercepted him by unleashing magic.

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　And what's more...

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　He's already fired a second shot of "distant thunder".

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　That means that the first "distant thunder" did not defeat Ars von Barka, and he attacked again.

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　Did he succeed in preventing an attack that he could not defend against?

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　No, that's impossible.

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　It is not possible.

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　But I had a bad feeling that would not go away.

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　I was struck with a tightening feeling in my chest, and I immediately moved toward the main camp.

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　I was so worried that I immediately moved toward the main camp.

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　After crossing the river to get closer to the new castle built by Barca, I was again moving along the route back across the river.

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　The river is basically not that deep.

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　At its deepest point, it is probably chest-deep.

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　Unlike Lake Palamere, there are no ferocious water monsters.

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　Therefore, when we attacked the river, we went straight into the water, and when we returned like this, we were trying to cross to the other side of the river while fighting against the current of the water.

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　My eyes, which had slowed down to a crawl, were able to see the main camp with the master and the cavalry approaching from the other side.

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　I looked at the cavalryman through the water.

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　It is a white monster, after all.

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　A man is riding on top of a Barka's beast, and they are galloping toward the main camp where the master is.

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　Then I caught a glimpse of a surge of magical power at the edge of my field of vision.

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　A terrifying amount of magical power was being kneaded and released into the heavens at the main camp of our arbalest.

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　That is exactly the activation of the "distant thunder" of which Arbalest is so proud.

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　The magic power shot toward the darkened sky, and from there, the defenseless [distant thunder] was activated.

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　Light covered my vision with a loud noise that made me think I was going deaf.

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　At the same time, I felt as if I could feel the vibrations in the air caused by the thunder on my skin.

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　There was no doubt.

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　This time, without a doubt, the distant thunder was activated.

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　This must have annihilated all of the Barka cavalrymen that were approaching us.

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　But when my vision returned to normal, I saw something impossible.

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　The Balkan cavalry, still alive and well, was galloping toward the main camp as before.

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"Why!　Why aren't they dead!

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　I couldn't help but shout that as I waded through the water.

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　In all likelihood, the Barca cavalry should have been attacked by the [distant thunder] earlier.

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　It was only natural for him to shout, "Why?

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　But once I regained my composure, I noticed a slight difference in my vision from the previous scene.

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　What the hell was that?

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　Something had appeared in a slightly different place than where the Barka cavalry had run, something that had not been there before.

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　It was a tall pole.

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　From my position, all I could see was just a stick, really tall.

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　They are white in color.

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　The bar stood there as if it remained after Barca had run through.

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　But the height is unbelievably high.

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　It must have been about five times the height of the wall that Barca had built.

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　Moreover, there seemed to be other tall white bars that I had not noticed before.

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　There are several similar bars erected where the Barka cavalrymen probably passed.

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　Some of them seemed to have turned sooty black.

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"Could it be that they sealed the [distant thunder]?"

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　I suddenly thought of that.

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　I don't know how, but Barka is definitely preventing attacks by the master's [distant thunderbolt].

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　However, looking at the situation, the only thing that changed before and after the activation of [distant thunder] was the stick.

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　Then, I felt a surge of magical power in the main camp again.

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　Once again, the master is releasing magic.

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　I had been looking at the main camp where the master is, but now I look at the running Barca cavalry.

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　Then the horsemen of Barca also reacted, as if they had sensed the surge of magic in the main camp.

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　Several messenger beasts jumped out from among the cavalrymen.

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　They seemed to have no man on their backs, and their heads were covered with horns, unlike the human-riding beasts.

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　Could it be the rumored horned beast of Barka that can release magic?

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　A white hexenbiest moving away from the cavalrymen.

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　When it ran some distance away from the cavalrymen, it activated its magic.

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　I see.

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　Was that white hexenbiest created by magic?

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　There was the mysterious tall white pole that I saw earlier.

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　And then the master's [distant thunderbolt] struck it.

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"I knew it, that stick was preventing it. ....... The master's [distant thunder]. ....... But ......"

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　That's impossible.

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　Who would have thought that it is possible to guide the position of lightning falling from the heavens?

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　But I felt I had seen something even more impossible than that.

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　That is, that tall white rod is a magic that exists only to block the [distant thunder] used only by the head of the House of Arbalest.

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　The magic that erects such a tall, meaningless pole should not exist.

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　I could only think that it was made for the purpose against Arbalest.

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"Barka is ......, was Barka's magic made to fight the House of Arbalest? Only to defeat our Lord ......."

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　My feet stopped before I knew it at the sight shown to me from the river.

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　The sudden appearance of Barca in the Fontana family.

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　Barka, who has been causing havoc in Fontana and even inflicting severe damage to Uruk.

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　But his real target was us, the Urbalest.

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　They had devised a spell to prevent the lightning only to strike the head of the House of Arbalest.

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　When I realized this, the Barca cavalry was charging toward the main camp.

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　The moment I saw the flames rising from the swords of the leading cavalrymen, the magic of my master, who was about to unleash the [distant thunder] again, dissipated and vanished immediately after it rose into the air.

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