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Kill him, don't let him get away!

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I will give a huge reward to the one who defeats him!

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Kill all the Barca men!

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　Me and the Valka Cavalry riding on a Valkyrie.

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　The Uruk cavalry chasing us from behind.

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　The Uruk army was saying all sorts of terrible things to get my head.

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　Oh, man.

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　I wonder why the Uruks are so bitter about my victory in a fair fight on the battlefield.

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　Well, I guess I won't forgive them if they touch my people too.

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　Even as I think about this, I keep my lower body straddling the Valkyrie, keeping a firm riding posture.

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　And while maintaining a stable position, he looks backward from time to time.

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The Uruks are getting tired, brother Bight," he says. Let's slow down and hit them to lure them to the point.

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"All right, all right, Ars. All hands, we'll meet our pursuers in the rear.

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　The pursuing army of Uruks stretching vertically.

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　But only a few of the knights are mounted on mounted warriors such as dragons.

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　The others are running after them on their own feet.

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　But if they continue to run away as fast as they can, they may leave all the infantry behind.

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　They risked so much and went to the trouble of feeding on themselves.

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　It is better to have a lot of success if possible.

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　So I decided to slow down the Valkyrie and deal a blow to the pursuing army.

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　The lead group, me and my brother Bite, make a wide turn and change course.

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　We changed our direction so that we were facing the pursuing forces in the opposite direction from which we had been fleeing.

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　This seems to have surprised them.

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　The two armies collided with each other as if they were in a head-on collision.

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Ars!

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"Yes, brother Bite."

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　But we had the better of the head-on collision.

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　That's because the weapons we both carry, the Thunderbolt Sword and my brother Byte's sword, made the difference in the power of our collision.

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　We both fired electric blasts from our magic swords at the same time, judging the range of the thunderbolt sword.

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　This stopped the knights who were leading the pursuing army of Uruk.

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　Electric shock.

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　A single blow from this powerful attack could be fatal, and it succeeds in stopping their movement without question.

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　The knight and his mounted Valkyrie charge toward the electrocuted opponent, who has stopped moving.

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　Naturally, my brother Byte and I fire a barrage of electric shocks from our lightning swords to keep him in check.

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　At the same time, Valka's cavalrymen scattered bullets.

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　Although the power of a single blow is lower than that of an ice spear, the damage is not insignificant, and it is my original offensive magic with hit power.

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　While scattering the bullets, I rush forward to pierce a part of the pursuing army and quickly break away.

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"Okay, let's retreat!"

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　The attack succeeded.

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　But it only damages a part of the Uruk army.

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　If we continue to fight, our strength and magic will run out first.

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　Therefore, after striking a blow, we escape from the enemy army, change the course again and run away.

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　Repeating this running attack several times, I adjusted my running speed and guided the Uruk army to the desired place.

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"We're here at last. Bite-brother, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, but don't make the mistake of running the Valkyrie in the wrong place, okay?"

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"It's okay. It's okay. You can't make a mistake if you follow the Valkyrie running in front of you. Besides, we don't want to die if you don't tell us.

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　The chase with the Uruk army was finally coming to an end.

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　We had arrived at our prearranged destination.

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　They had been fleeing in the direction from Einrad to the interior of Fontana.

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　The trap they had set up on the way to Fort Einrad.

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　The Uruk army had been lured there.

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　However, they would not have been able to follow us so easily under normal circumstances.

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　But I think I was the bait that worked.

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　And we were not completely without damage.

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　I am wounded and bleeding from repeated assaults.

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　They must have seen that and decided that they had a chance.

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　But it ends here.

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　We, the Balkan cavalry, have entered the trap.

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　This trap could cause damage to us if we make a mistake.

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　Therefore, we prepared a place in advance where no damage would occur and ran through it.

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　The trap I had prepared this time was similar to the one I had used last time against the giant Atmos Warrior.

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　Although this was the second time, the Uruk people had suffered damage in the first trap at the bottleneck, and they had not seen the pond trap directly.

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　In other words, this is the first time for the Uruk to see this trap.

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　But it is not exactly the same as before.

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　Because here we do not have a pond like that one.

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　Instead of a pond, I dug a hole.

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　But it's not very deep.

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　Instead of being wide, it's just enough to get your thighs wet at best.

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　A very shallow pool of water.

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　That was the trap.

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　But it was a very dangerous trap that could have killed the pursuing Uruk forces.

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　In the middle of the shallow pool, there is a path that one can run through without getting wet.

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　The Valkyrie runs through it.

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　But of course the Uruks did not know that such a path existed, and instead of taking the narrow path in the middle of the pool, they stepped into the water, even at the risk of getting their feet wet.

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　They did not know that it was a man-eating monster.

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　The water was just a plain water, but he did not know that it was a man-eating monster.

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"What the hell?　My leg!

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"Ow, ow. It hurts.

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"Please help me! Somebody help me!

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　As I mounted the Valkyrie, I could hear the shrill cries of the Uruk soldiers.

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　They had stepped into the water just enough to get their feet wet, but tragedy had befallen the soldiers who were still pursuing them.

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　Not only the soldiers, but also the messenger beasts mounted by the knights were emitting cries as if they were yelling.

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　The situation was truly a scene of screaming.

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　However, those who did not know what was going on had no idea what had happened.

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　Because we did not immediately understand why they were in pain while they were screaming.

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　What would one do in such a situation?

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　If they are not too bigoted, they will go into the shallow water to help their friends and reach out their hands to them.

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　However, this was creating secondary damage.

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"That's really bad, that guy..."

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"Yes, brother Byte. That's what you get for wiping out all of Palamere. It's too dangerous to have something like that in the water.

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　The Bite Brothers and I exchange a look at the trapped Uruk army from atop the Valkyrie with our necks craned.

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　We had tried a little ingenuity in the trap we had prepared this time, and it had worked as we had imagined.

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　I was a bit taken back by the sight of it, even though I had done it myself.

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　A trap in a shallow pool of water.

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　Just a big puddle of plain water, with nothing dangerous at first glance.

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　But there lurks a very dangerous monster.

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　Palamea, an impregnable water fortress in the Arbalest territory.

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　The Lake Palamere Demon was a factor in defending the fortress in the middle of Lake Palamere, but it was the final push that brought about Palamere's downfall.

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　I had captured it and brought it back.

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　The monster was what we call a slime.

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　A watery monster that you can't tell where it is once it's underwater.

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　However, when removed from the water, the gel-like body of the monster would approach the water in which it was hiding and dissolve it with acid to capture its prey.

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　I had been lucky enough to capture a slime with such dangerous characteristics, and had brought it with me in a glass container I had magically created to store it.

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　I used it as a trap for this huge pool.

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　Yes, this pool with its shallow water level was a hunting ground for man-eating slimes.

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　The Uruk forces, unaware of this, were slipping into the water, having their feet melted and falling over, their whole bodies immersed in the water, and their bodies melted even more.

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　When we went in to help them, more and more damage was done.

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　Moreover, more and more Uruk soldiers came from behind them, who did not know what was going on.

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　Thus, the leading forces of the pursuing Uruk army, including many knights, were melted by the slime, and the following forces, seeing this, turned to the right and left to save them, and came to a complete standstill in the hostile territory of Fontana.

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