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"All right, I'll take his blood, Alphonse."

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"Hey, wait a minute, Norn. There are still people around.

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　He defeated a man called Meteor.

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　Norn sees this and tries to drink the blood of the meteor.

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　But this is not the time for that.

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　This is the very spot where the soldiers of Grougalia landed in the middle of the island.

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　There are more soldiers besides the meteors.

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　They won't leave me alone after I killed the meteor.

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　The soldiers around us attacked us near the fallen meteor.

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　Bow attacks poured in from all around us.

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　I took cover behind the Valkyrie Norn, but not the humanoid one, and swung my magic sword.

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　I swung my magic sword at him, knocking down arrows as they flew past me and dodging.

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　The fact that all the soldiers around me were shooting arrows at once saved my life.

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　Most of them hit Norn, who was made of blood and felt no pain.

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　Then, protected by his body, I leap out of the shadow of the arrow at the exact moment when the arrow attack is interrupted.

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　Keeping my center of gravity low, I run through and attack the archers.

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　I guess many of them are good with bows but not so good at close combat.

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　Compared to my sword, which I have learned the swordsmanship of the sword saint trained by Ai, many of them are by far the weakest in melee combat.

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　Some of them try to keep a distance from me and try to shoot a bow.

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　Or they give up their bows and try to fight with swords for when they are approached.

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　Regardless of the situation, they close the distance by using [Shrinkage] and slash with their magic swords.

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　The archers of Grougalia fall one after another.

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　Seeing this, the rowers of the ship seem to panic.

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　Not all of the men on board the ship that landed in the middle of the island were archers.

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　In fact, in terms of numbers, there were more who were just rowing the boat without a bow.

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　The rower came all the way to the landing point, saw me cutting down the archers, and tried to escape in a hurry.

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　He forced me to get into the boat, maneuvered the oars, and went out to the river.

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　When one or two of them did that, the others who saw it hurried to imitate them.

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　Pushing and shoving each other, they rowed the boat to save themselves.

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　Some of them could not get on the boat and were dragged along the surface of the water holding onto the hull.

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"Wind ....... I'm satisfied. His blood tastes good."

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　I maneuvered my magic sword and fought the archers, and they fought back, trying to finish me off.

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　Around me, the rowers were in chaos as they ran for their lives.

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　Yet, only Norn was moving on his own accord.

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　He seems to have enjoyed the blood of the meteor.

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　He came up to me, saying he was satisfied.

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　The Norn, in the form of a bright red mounted animal, approached me speaking human language.

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　To the others, this may have been quite an unusual sight.

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　Grougalia, who had been attacking me until then, slows down.

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　The archers are watching Norn warily.

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　I guess it can't be helped because they don't know what he will do.

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　But when I feel the attack slow down, I choose to run away.

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"Let's get out of here, Norn!"

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"Hmm?　Don't you have to suck their blood, Alphonse?"

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"It's not safe to go any further. I'm getting away, Norn. Put me on your back.

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"Sure. Then let's get the hell out of here.

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　I put my hands on Norn's body as he comes to me and quickly jump onto him, putting all my strength in my arms.

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　Then, almost as soon as I sat on Norn's back, Norn started to run.

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　I knew he was fast.

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　His quadrupedal speed did not allow the archers of Grougalia to even attempt a pursuit.

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　He kept accelerating, and in no time at all, he was back at Ian's side, who was on the rampage.

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"We beat the meteor, Ian."

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"Already?　You're early. Well done."

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Thanks. How's it going over here?

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I'm okay, but the other mercenaries seem to be having a hard time.

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　Ian, transformed into a giant, is fighting, wielding a sword at will.

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　When I spoke loudly to him, Ian replied in a loud voice.

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　I also noticed that the archers who had been attacking Ian seemed to be a bit upset, as if they had heard my words about defeating the meteor, but let's put that aside for the moment.

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　It seems that Ian was not hurt too much by the attack with the bow of the Juumagi.

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　But it was not so easy for the mercenaries.

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　The archers of the Gulagarians were much stronger than the mercenaries who lived at the foot of the mountain and were also mere men-at-arms.

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　The archers were so strong that they were equivalent to knights.

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　Against such an opponent, the mercenaries belonging to the Barka Mercenaries were struggling, though they were fighting hard.

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　They seemed to have managed to resist while protecting themselves with the walls they had built in advance.

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　The reason why this line of defense has not collapsed even now is only because of the efforts of Ai and Elvis.

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　When Ian told me about this, I immediately went to cover them.

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　Riding on the back of a conspicuously colored Norn, I attack the archers from behind as they move to attack the defense line.

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　After a while of pincer attacks like that, I finally succeed in joining up with Elvis and the others.

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　So far, so good.

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　I've secured the soft magic tree, and Oliva and the others are carrying it.

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　In the meantime, I have been able to defeat the meteor and other glugaria soldiers and buy some time.

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　But we still have the biggest job of all.

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　Our own retreat.

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　If we, the last of us left in the middle of the island, do not make it back to the Orient alive, it will not be a successful mission.

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　Thus, the Barka mercenaries, who remained as the Lords of the Orient, finally began their own retreat.

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