Ironclad, wham! He held the assault spear in his right hand, the "Lance", and thrust it out to the throne where we are.

''d*mn!''
Whoo-hoo!

　Me and the False Heavenly Emperor scattered and avoided it. The luxurious construction of the throne shattered unceremoniously to the point of being a mere wreck. The power is reasonably good. If the old-style heavy knight "Chevalier" is 10, this one is 8.

''Hiiiiiii!

　The False Heavenly Emperor escapes to the back of the hall at a glance. Since he's a former bandit, he's quick to run away. But I can't let him escape here.

''d*mn......... Jesty-san and the others, please go after that guy!
Oh, I see what I'm getting at.

　Led by Jesty-san, Rengetsu, Sonia, and the others chase after the False Heavenly Emperor and disappear into the back of the hall.
　Me, Ember, and Tsubaki-san remain in this place.

''Are you planning to stand up to this my iron machine soldier in the flesh? You're a daredevil.

　A grating voice came from the Iron Man, sounding like it was coming through a cheap speaker. It was probably the voice of the pilot inside.
　It was hard to hear due to the noise and cracking sound, but this voice somewhere... Ah.

'....I see. So this is where they've been escaping, huh? Huh? Dr. Bowman?
"Wha...? Hey, you! How do you know about me!'

　Huh? I knew it. The man in the middle of it is Edgar Bowman, a former Lordmare mage bachelor.
　He was stripped of his post and doctorate for causing an armed golem to break out of control and destroy the capital of Rhodome and was sent to the mine as a criminal.
　I heard that he escaped with the help of someone while he was being sent to the mine, but I see, the Golden Bend Society [Gordian] was pulling the strings.

''I see. I see. You are defective.
"Botched"? Do you call my ironborn a failure? This masterpiece that has the power to conquer Euron!
'You made it by appropriating something you stole from someone else, but don't act so high and mighty. Compared to Brunhild's frame gear, it's the moon and Spoons.
You said it!

　He thrusts the swinging assault spear at me. That's a pattern of movement.
　I ducked the spear and observed while avoiding the iron soldiers who were constantly thrusting at me.
　It seems that the control system is different from that of the frame gear. I'm sure you'll be able to read and trace the brain waves and thoughts of the pilot and support his movements to some extent. Therefore, they can mimic the pilot's movements.
　However, this Iron Armourer seems to have a certain pattern of movement to some extent. It's like a fighting game in which you can perform a move by entering a command.
　It's not as simple as pressing the A button to punch, or B to kick, but it seems to be close to that in the extreme. It might be easy to maneuver, but what about the fact that it's a human vehicle that can't handle resourcefulness?
　Or is it under the influence of warding? The frame gear has an imprinted magic that makes it less susceptible to magic, but they've cracked that too. The movement is too bad for that.

I knew it was badly done.
I'm not done!

　He ducked under the arm that had been brought out and slashed up at the elbow with Brunhild, which was clad in divine Qi.
　The right arm that was holding the assault spear 《Lance》 was cut off from the elbow down and blown away.

''Nah!''

　As he continued to slip under his crotch, he slashed both knees in the same way, severing them under one sword. The iron machine soldier fell forward from his knees and sank to the floor of the hall with a loud noise.

''Oh no...! Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid! Impossible! There's no way my ironborn can be hit!'
You call an ironborn soldier in the flesh?

　I attack Sol, who was standing there in surprise, with an "Axel". The effect of the warding quickly wore off, but a momentary acceleration is enough to catch me by surprise.

''Kuh?''

　Sol held his shield up, but it doesn't matter. The swordsmanship I wielded severed the shield and my arm as well.

''Gwahhhh!
Shut up, shut up. Paralyze.
Goooooooooo...!

　He touches Sol's body and activates the Paralysis Magic 《Paralyze》. In an instant, the opponent is deprived of his body's freedom and collapses on the spot.
　In the meantime, I sealed up the wound on his arm, which was gushing blood profusely, with recovery magic. I have a lot of questions I want to ask you later.

Now, is this the end of the story?

　I turn my gaze to Garzeld. But Yuu-man had a thin smile on his face.

''Hmph. Strong. You're strong. You're a demon warrior. If you can use magic to some extent, you're qualified. What do you think? Would you like to join the Gordian Order? When I become the emperor of the Magia Imperium, I'll give you the position of a great general when I become the emperor of the Magia Imperium, right?
General? That's stingy. You know that big guy who once told me to be on his side for half the world? I said no, of course.

　Well, the Dragon King was turned into a pack-n-child by the dragon.

Well, that's too bad. Then I'll let you die after all.
How can you say that under these circumstances? You're so proud of your partner, and your ironborn are already useless.
Who says that's all there is to the Iron Guard?

　In response to Garzeld's voice, gogo gogo........! And a low rumbling of the ground came from his feet.
　The garden seen from the walls blasted by the iron machine soldiers, and the magicians were floating all over the castle, and new iron machine soldiers were rising up one after another from within them.
　It's the same type that I beat up earlier. It's not the same type of prey as the one I just beat up, although the prey in my hand are different, such as swords and axes. There is also a guy with something like a crossbow.

I'm sure there are a thousand of them lined up in the basement.
What? I don't know if I've even looked into that. But there are no more than ninety percent of the Ironmasters here. They have already been moved to a location near the Felsen border and have been improved and reinforced. We are ready to attack Felsen at once.

　A very thorough one. No, you mean this was a bad time for us?
　But first, I had to do something about the 50 planes that were here.
　Well, I wasn't in the slightest bit of a hurry. Because──.....

"Hey Garzeld, General. Do you not hear me?
...what?

　Garzeld stops moving and listens closely, as if he senses something suspicious in the smile I gave him.
　In the distance, we heard the sound of metal clashing. I could hear the earth shaking and the clamor gradually approaching us. Boom! And the sound of something falling down caused Garzeld to become irresistible and run out into the garden.

'Nah!'

　From there, I could see the figure of an iron machine soldier who had been cut down right next to the castle. Standing next to the wreckage was a huge wisteria armored warrior and a golden orange knight.
　It's Yae's 'Schwertrite' and Hilda's 'Sieglune'.

''Ridiculous...! Why is Brunhild's frame gear...!

　Before Garzeld can flinch, the eightfold 'Schwertrite' moves as if sliding. In an instant, he closes in on the Iron Machine Soldiers around him, and slashes the raised taiji in succession, slicing off their limbs in the blink of an eye.
　Hilda's "Sieglune" also prevents the Iron Machine Soldier's assault spear 《Lance》 with her shield, sinking the opponent with a brilliant slash.
　I thought there was a possibility that the Iron Machine Soldiers might come out, so I planted a transition formation outside the wards that only Frame Gear could pass through before sneaking into the castle. The rest of us used telekinesis to contact Ruri and Benigama, and then called Yae and Hilda from the transition formation that opened in the 'hangar'. Even the warding wouldn't inhibit the telepathic communication.
　One after another, the Iron Machine Soldiers attacked Yae and the others. In terms of numbers, there are more than twenty times as many of them. They can be defeated if they are pushed by numbers. That's what they must be thinking about.
　However, even though there is a difference in numbers, our two aren't so bad that they can't lose to a bogus one. The new frame gear is not our style.
　One after another, the wreckage of the Iron Legion is being mass produced.

d*mn...!
"I don't know what you wanted to do, but give it up. I'll turn you in to King Felsen if you want, okay?
Hmmm. I knew it was Felsen's dog. But Felsen's kingdom has no future. You can look forward to the day when we succumb to the power of the Goldian Society.

　Garzeld said that and raised his staff high in the sky.
　At that moment, a dazzling flash of light emitted from his staff and he unintentionally shielded his eyes with his arm.
　When the light subsided and I opened my eyes, Garzeld was gone.
　Bassa! I heard a noise, and when I turned my gaze in that direction, a bat was about to fly away to the east. No way.........that bat was Garzeld!
　Did he use body change magic? Could it be that guy's unattributed magic?
　Either way, it's a bad idea to miss that bat. I activate my 'fly' to chase it, but it falls off when it flies about 2 meters away. d*mn, it's still under the influence of the warding!

Amber!
"Ha!

　He jumped on the back of Ember as she ran to him. He ran straight to the castle wall and jumped over it with a great leap. As it was, he ran out of the ward and quickly jumped up with his 'fly', but the bat was nowhere to be seen.

'Search. Are there any bats nearby?
...end of search. There are no bats within a 5 kilometer radius.

　d*mn. There was no way a bat could fly that fast. Perhaps it transformed into another creature. Or are they using their specialty wards to block the search magic?
　Did it escape in a hurry? ...No, there's still a way.
　I went down to Amber on the ground and used my phone to target-lock all the trees in a five-kilometer radius, including the capital, with "multiples" in order to cast a spell. It took a bit of time, though.
　And the magic I would cast on the designated trees, that is.

"Absorb.

　All at once, the trees within the range began to absorb the magic around themselves, erasing the magic in the area. This is my style of inhibiting wards. Of course my magic power is not absorbed.

'Search. Garzeld.
End of search. Southeast.

　You've absorbed the magic and unlocked the transformation spell. The effect lasts for a while, so you shouldn't be able to use your magic for that long. As long as we get away from the tree where the absorption spell was cast, that's not the case, so we have to hurry.
　I leap to Garzeld's place with my 'teleport' as I ride through the capital on my amber.
　In an instant, I transitioned and found myself in the woods on the outskirts of the capital. There, I saw Garzeld, who was doing his best to raise his staff, transforming into a bird and then quickly turning back into a man and falling to the ground. His face finds me rushing in on the amber.

''Hey, this is you........?
Nice to see you again. Well, I'll show you some interesting magic as promised. "Slip.
What?

　He deactivated 'Absorb' and activated 'Slip'. Garzeld, who had fallen beautifully, let go of his staff and fell to the spot, hitting the back of his head.
　I immediately launch a demon bullet into that fallen ground with Brunhild. That's right, the 'Infinite Falling Bullet'.
　When the effect of the slip wears off, the slip activates again. It continues on and on until the magic power that it contains disappears. By the way, the amount of magic power it contains is enough to keep you falling for three days if you leave it alone. Oh, it's not infinite. Let's call it 'Three Day Falling Bullet' or something.

'Guhaha? Ugh! Whew!

　If you keep falling down like that, you'll never be able to concentrate your magic power. After all, if you move even a millimeter, you'll fall in that direction. And it's almost impossible to stop in this situation. The first time you fall down, you're dead in the water.
　Ignoring Garzeld, who continues to fall, I take out something from the "storage" while whistling.
　Placed with a thud is an all-glass (though not exactly glass), three-meter cube. In the center of it is a dead Hedroslime carcass that emits a stench. That's right, it's a "sludge box" of horror. And it's been improved from the previous one.
　It's a nuisance if you use magic, so we should "enchanted" Absorb. I'll make sure it absorbs magic as soon as it's used. Well, I don't think we'll be able to use magic anytime soon.

One person, please...

　Garzeld, who had been tumbling, was transferred into the box with a 'gate'.

''Smell aaaaaaaaaaah!

　Hooray! And Garzeld hit the wall and pressed his nose against the wall. His face had gone beyond blue and turned white.

'd*mn it! d*mn, that stinks! Oh yeah!
'Okay, okay, I'm not done yet! This is the next one!

　When you press the button on the exterior, the speaker inside plays "the sound of a fork scratching the blackboard with a fork" and "the sound of the bottom of a china dish scraping together".

'Uhiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Oh, my God, I forgot to soundproof the room. Silence.

　I activate a muffling spell towards the outside of the box to prevent the sound from leaking out. Garzeld's voice can no longer be heard, but he's shouting something.

''────! !

　When I plug my ears to prevent sound, I inhale the stench through my nose, and when I hold my nose down, my ears do the same thing.
　Her face is a mess of tears, snot and drool. Dirty.

''Lord......... This is indeed.........'
I was pretty pissed off at him. The warding system was annoying. I don't think it's wrong to retaliate at least this much.
"I think I've overdone it...

　Really? I replied to Amber, who was pulling something back.
　This is damaging your sense of smell and hearing, but it's kind of lacking. Do you want to add your sense of sight as well?
　I filled my feet with illusions of caterpillars, centipedes and cockroaches with Mirage.

"I... Halt!

　Oh, he's finally starting to bang on the wall. But alas. Just in case this wall is made out of shining wood. It's useless because it won't break unless you use a weapon made of the same crystal material!
　Garzeld was dripping with fat sweat and trembling at the knees, exposing a figure that made me want to rush in as if it were a newborn fawn.
　Eventually, like a puppet with a pudgy string, Garzeld collapsed on the spot. He was foaming at the mouth, white-eyed and convulsing all over.
　I have a bit of an idea when I see it.

'I wonder if I can put a 'refresher' on him and get his strength back so we can see him look like that again?'
'Lord. Any more and you will go out of your way.

　Amber stopped me. Cheek.