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"Hey, general. Can I tell you something?

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What the hell, Vargas?

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I think it's time for all the generals to fight now.

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"Don't. What if I die of exhaustion?

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"No, because..." "No, because..." "No, because..." "No, because... I think we'd all say so if we were shown something like that. The general alone has defeated the entire Arbalest army.

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"No, you mustn't let your guard down, Vargas. There may be another one like the one at Thanatos. You might not die just by sinking into the water. We need to make sure we know who in the Arbalest family is dead."

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"Well, I don't know. The ice the general put out burned up like a fire and then sank. If he surfaced as a drowned body, we might not even know who he is, right?"

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"...... Well, don't say that. Let's just check to see if there are any floating around us. Maybe the leader or the knight with a lot of magic power is still alive. Check them out and be careful not to get attacked and sunk.

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"Okay. I'll try."

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"Is that all right with you, Lady Ghana?"

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Oh, yeah. Yes, sir. I'm very upset and so are my men, but we'll make it work.

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Thank you very much.

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　The Barka army marched into the Arbalest territory and the Ixian army led by Ghana.

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　The Barka and Ix armies confronted the Arbalest army at a place called Midway River.

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　It seems that the Arbalest army was trying to drag us into a decisive battle on the water in order to gain an advantage in the battle.

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　It was so drastic that they wanted to fight the battle on the water, even if they had to destroy the Midway Bridge, which the Arbalest family had spent a long time and a great deal of money to build.

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　Probably, they had studied us and thought they had a good chance to win.

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　And there is no doubt about it.

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　Barka had never fought on the water with a ship before, and could not even act in a proper group on a ship.

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　Ix's army was a little better than Barka's, but that was about it.

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　Obviously, the Arbalest fleet was better at moving ships.

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　The Arbalest fleet was clearly better at moving its ships.

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　This was a problem for our conference.

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　If they were to collide properly, they could not avoid defeat.

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　Or rather, they would be defeated almost without even a proper fight.

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　If so, some of them thought that it would be worthwhile to stop here.

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　The Midway River is the last line of defense for the Arbalests, and they have already pushed it that far.

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　So, all in all, Barka and Ix have succeeded in pushing the Arbalests closer to their capital.

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　That's good enough for us, I suppose.

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　Or, they suggested that they could bypass this point, which had been destroyed and could no longer be crossed, and head for the Arbalest capital.

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　Both of these ideas were ultimately rejected.

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　The reason was that the Arbalest family was not a true enemy of Fontana.

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　The problem for Fontana is that the Memento family, one of the three great noble families, is on its way.

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　Fontana wants to defeat the House of Arbalest as soon as possible to eliminate the risk of being caught in the rear.

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　For this purpose, they were hesitant to turn back in the face of their opponent's remaining strength, or to waste time by making a major detour.

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　Thus, they came to the conclusion that they would have to fight by water, where they would be at an overwhelming disadvantage.

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　However, I was the one who finally made that decision.

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　Of course, I don't want to die here.

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　So, I made a backhanded move to win this battle on the water.

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　Fontana's superlative magic called "summon ice spirit" and the ice flame sword that Gran and I had newly created.

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　We used them to attack Arbalest's army.

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　It turned out to be a great success.

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　In particular, their panic exceeded our expectations.

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　The head of the House of Arbalest did not attack, probably because he was surrounded by ice and on fire.

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　Or rather, since the only dangerous opponent was the head of the family, he was the first one to be frozen.

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　Before the battle, I had considered the possibility that he might use the ultra-long-range magic that the Arbalest family prides itself on, called [Distant Thunder].

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　But there was no such possibility, and the victory was complete.

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　However, this strategy cannot be used every time.

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　Because the magic used was too broad.

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　The magic that could freeze all the ships, estimated to be over 500, required a huge amount of magical power.

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　What made it possible was a magic stone taken from an immortal bone dragon.

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　A shiny black magic stone that had been housed in the skull.

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　Thanatos had smashed it with his grambalka, and it had been cut down the middle.

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　But afterwards I restored it to its original shape.

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　A spherical magic stone about the size of a basketball.

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　The magic stone contained a terrific abundance of dragon-derived magic power.

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　Using that magic power, I summoned a large number of ice spirits and froze the surrounding area at once.

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　To tell the truth, I did not try it beforehand.

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　I did not know whether I would succeed or not.

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　But it worked.

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　And they burned the frozen fleet of the Arbalest army with the water of the flowing river.

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　Using the Ice Flame Sword.

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　The Ice Flame Sword produces a sword of ice like Carlos's Ice Spirit Sword when it is enchanted.

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　However, when the user slashes with the ice, the ice turns into fire and burns the opponent.

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　At first, seeing the effect, I thought it was a combination of the abilities of the Ice Spirit Sword and the Nine-Tailed Sword.

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　But I was wrong.

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　The Ice Flame Sword had a hidden ability.

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　It is "to transform ice into flame.

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　The ice sword that appeared when he poured his magic power into the ice flame sword was only a trigger.

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　When the ice sword appeared and slashed other ice, it transformed even the ice into flames.

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　In other words, if he had prepared a large amount of ice in advance, he could even turn all the ice into flames at once by slashing at them.

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　This was demonstrated in this battle.

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　A fleet of boats and the soldiers on top of them, frozen by the summoned ice spirit.

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　Not only the ships, but also the people were frozen, but they turned the ice into flames.

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　Of course, it was not a simple flame.

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　I once turned a knight of a neighboring domain into charcoal with my nine-tailed sword.

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　The flames of comparable heat consumed the entire ship and the army of Arbalest.

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　In the end, when Vargas and Ghana examined the Midway River after the battle, they found nothing but burnt corpses.

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　Perhaps the head of the Arbalest family is still alive because of his magical power.

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　But we may not have to worry about that any longer.

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　Even if the head of the house is alive, it does not matter.

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　Most of the other knights are dead.

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　Even if the master were alive, he would have so few men that he would not even be able to cast his higher magic.

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　Thus ended the battle on the last line of defense protecting the House of Arbalest.

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　With only one result: the complete defeat of the House of Arbalest.

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