Hakai no Miko

Zoan's assaulted heavy spear infantry regiment on the side of the dense formation plunged into chaos.

It is a dense formation that originally specialised in attacks on the front, but in Holmea the spear is designed to support the spear with a spear that is even longer than that of another country and a leather string suspended from the shoulder so that it can be handled with one hand. Those ingenuities, which would have great effect if the same dense formations collided with each other, became, on the contrary, a major drawback when they allowed the enemy to approach.

I get up where I have the sight of accidentally hitting my allies with a spear pattern or hitting spears against each other in an attempt to point a spear at the Zoans attacking me from the sidelines. Even though I would say it was a long spear, it was a natural consequence if I tried to reorient without a commander's decree in a dense formation that could also be described as overcrowded.

Of course, the soldiers hung their swords on their hips as spare weapons, but very few were kept calm enough to throw away the spears in their hands and replace them with swords in front of their attacking enemies. Most of the other soldiers try to use the spears in their hands anyway, hitting each other's bodies and spears. Soldiers who have lost their calm still try to swing their spears forcefully, snatching their caught spears from each other, or spearing down their bumping allies, the excessive confusion grows.

The Zoans, who stormed there, circled the flanks of a dense formation as if they were poking a heated knife into the cheese.

In an instant, the wreckage of the heavy-duty spear infantry is piled up, and the bloodshed and the scream of the severed demon fly.

In addition, it spread with agitation among the heavy-duty spear infantry in the front row.

The upset disrupts the eartips of the spears, which until then had been arranged neatly, creating cracks in the walls made of shields.

"Now!

A pale horse who sees it as an opportunity screams.

In that decree, the dwarves threw the spear in their hand. The spear thrown jumps into a wide open shield gap, killing and wounding many soldiers. In addition, stone-throwing by the Dinosaurians and simultaneous shooting by the elves were added there, and the heavy-duty spear infantry collapsed in turn from the front row.

Though one fellow who was in the front row in front of him is pierced with a spear after another, struck by a stone, and fallen under an arrow, the soldiers who were there afterwards fear and fall back to try to stay away from the enemy a little bit. But if we imitate that in dense formations, which are just overcrowded, we will soon bump our bodies against each other by our allies.

All that or the dense formations that were being attacked by the Zoans from left to right were in a tragic situation in which the forces trying to fall from front or left to right were concentrated and, near its center, out to those crushed and crushed to death by fellow attempting to fall.

To those sights, Marius had spoken of what he thought was half suddenly self-defeating.

"Such an idiot! Is this possible?!"

It is a lapse that he would never normally do, such as forgetting and shouting at me in front of the venerable General Darius.

But that wasn't impossible either.

"Why?! Why is it that so many of our troops are surrounded by the rebels who are widows?!"

From the front, the Dwarves and the Dinosaurians, and from the left and the right, the Zoans attacked. That formation was nothing short of a siege.

But a siege is usually something that a large number of sides do against an oligarchy.

In front of us, however, a large group of heavily armed spear infantry regiments are surrounded by rebels who are widows.

"Ko, I've never seen or heard of anything like this! No military script, no history of war, says this! My lord?!"

The war situation now being waged precisely in front of Marius is a very unlikely and reckless tactic, given the common sense of the military he has learned so far. You can call it an act of self-destruction. But as a reality, the heavy-duty Spear Infantry Regiment is being pushed completely in. Marius remembered the shock of his own feet collapsing raggedly.

"Marius, Commander! I told you to give me your opinion. No! Valve your throat.

In the battlefield, no matter how close you are, you are in the position of a general and a commanding officer. This is an ugly state that can't be said to be overbearing. Darius relaxed his tone a lot when Marius lay down his face, who had lost too much blood in shame.

"Naturally, unforeseen things happen on the battlefield. But the general shall not wander before the soldiers."

Darius drank Marius in a hurry, but he also remembered the shock of the experience he had gained in action and the knowledge he had learned in books.

It's easy to say when you cover the path of battle. However, a regular path is one that builds on the rules of thumb gained from numerous battles, and it is not easy to overturn them.

But the rebels are now trying to overshadow exactly the way they always do, ready to recklessly and with the urge to die.

"Cadmos, what are you doing...!

Darius muttered the name of the trusted officer who deposited the heavy-duty spear infantry regiment.

If Darius knew Cadmos, he would soon see that it was like a thin skin that could be broken with just a few sieges, such as the siege of the oligarchs. You can break the siege by concentrating your power anywhere, and you will realize that this one will besiege and destroy each other.

But the fact that it had not yet been done enlightened Darius about Cadmos' death.

Darius grips his fist with anger and thoughtlessness.

But that doesn't make the battlefield any better. Swallow the disappointment and anger of losing a trusted officer, Darius tries to regain the course of battle.

"Prepare the conductor and the drum!

So Darius says:

I wondered what to instruct the Heavy Spear Infantry regiment here.

If Cadmos were alive, there would be no need to say anything.

"Attack" if you dare to give instructions. That's all Cadmos would read the situation and hit his best hand.

But without that Cadmos, it is Judius who commands the present regiment of heavy-duty spear infantry.

Never inferior to his qualities as commander of the regiment, but from Darius's eyes, he's still blue.

Hopefully we can spot the thin spot of the siege and concentrate our forces there, but if we try to break the siege into the dark clouds without it, the damage could instead be greater.

Attack or defense?

Darius got lost.

"My lord! What instructions should I give you?!"

Suddenly Darius mouths the decision with a squeezing voice.

"With a drum, instruct 'defense'. Until I arrive, I want you to endure at all costs...!

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"Don't panic, you guys, line up your shields! Maintain formation!

Listening to the sound of a drum slapped with a clap that meant "defense" ringing in the distance, Lieutenant Judius continued to scream with his throat slapped (or screamed) on his horse.

If there are soldiers trying to disrupt the formation, reprimand them and manage to maintain the formation.

"Relax! Side units, abandon your spears, draw your swords, and respond to Zoan! The central unit is maintaining a dense formation!

But as Darius says, Judius was blue.

I guess the qualities were sufficient, but there was a lack of experience just to bring it to life.

If there had been a Cadmos who died in battle on this occasion, he would not have just cried out for a response to Zoan or the maintenance of a dense formation.

Cadmos would have given the soldiers the hope they wanted in words.

Even if surrounded, the enemy would have inspired the soldiers by weaving factual and hopeful observations that would soon collapse in a small number, or that General Darius' troops would soon be there to support them.

But Judius could only scold the soldiers who were still trying to escape.

But it's cruel to blame only Judius.

"You guys! Grip as tightly as you can with your own troops!

The opponents that Judius yelled at are the captains who keep platoons and so forth. They were all descendants of the nobility, of whom this battle was the first line. There's no way they can even take the reins of their own troops when their first battle has turned out to be just a riot. All that or some are about to escape by relinquishing command of the troops.

Such an appearance of their own captain standing unquestionably stirred the anxiety of the soldiers, and was in a vicious circle where, fortunately, they could no longer take control of the troops and were pushed further into the rebels.

In addition to Cadmos' accidental battle death, which forced him to take command of a regiment of heavy-duty spear infantry until his minute, Judius, who was even made to wipe the butts of such noble children, was at his best to clear up the issue in front of him anyway, and could not afford to take into account the feelings of the soldiers.

It was Judius, who found a unit that was still about to collapse, shouted up and skipped instructions, but from the Zoans, the figure looked well and prominently. The soldiers are about to be pushed off without much resistance by the Zoans who are going to kill towards Judius in an attempt to take that neck. Judius threw up bitterly as he kicked those soldiers in the ass and managed to push Zoan back.

"Compared to Zoan's impatience, what is this soldier's lumbar pull?

And the primary cause of the crusaders being so pushed is the difference in temper between the fighters.

This battle was a victory and a natural for the soldiers of the Crusaders.

In any case, in addition to all this force differential, it is General Darius, who was praised as Holmeer's best general, who commands it. It's harder to find the losing element.

For this reason, many soldiers licked the battle from their noses, thinking about the use of the bounty they would receive after the battle, or giving thought to the welcome of the inhabitants they would receive in the liberated town of Bornis.

Conversely, the Ethereal Horses knew that if they lost this battle, there would no longer be any later. Everyone who participated in this battle was ready to die.

It was in the actual battle that this difference appeared in such a clear form that Judith also felt.

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But the Ethereal Horse was starting to rush.

The Ethereal Horse was also aware that the siege on the heavy-duty Spear Infantry Regiment was a very dangerous one that managed to form on top of a balance that could be described as a miracle.

Yet the heavily loaded spear infantry regiment hasn't broken down as yet as expected. The Zoans, who are now pressing, will one day have their limits of strength and strength.

No, before that, the troops led by Darius take it back. That way, they attack Zoan from the outside, surrounding a regiment of heavy-duty spear infantry, and now this one is pinched from the inside and the outside.

In order not to do so, we have to stop Darius's troops because they are any better now.

But the Ethereal Horse, who figured out how to stop Darius from here, reminds me all the more. Some of our own factions were able to do so.

As the Ethereal Horse rushed to the rear of the position, he shouted up against the trees that stood on the slopes of the mountain.

"Mr. Pipi! It's a reschedule. Stop the troops behind you from coming!

"I understand!

I wonder if a tall woman's voice has returned from the tree, scattering branches and something jumps off the perimeter.

It was eight girls with young faces.

But not human. Their arms are the wings of a large bird that flickers in the wind, and from their knees down are the feet of a bird that grows hook claws. From the hem of a unique ethnic costume with bold slits from side to thigh, a large bird tail feather peeked.

It is one of the seven races that inhabit this continent of Cerdeas, the Harpuran.

It was not long after the "declaration of iron" that their eight harpurans came before the pale horse.

"My name is Pipi Tot Gigi! I am very impressed with your words! Be sure to add us Harpurans to your handouts!

When the delegates say in a clear tone, the Harpurans fall on one knee and drool their heads as they lay their big wings on the ground.

But the Ethereal Horse got confused.

For the eight harpuans kneeling before themselves were all younger girls than the Ethereal Horse.

The girl in front of me on behalf of Harpuran, etc., was about a middle school student, no matter what I saw, a little girl who wouldn't be weird even in elementary school if she did poorly.

The large wings shining in cobalt blue seemed likely to be more than four melts (roughly four meters) to both ends if spread, but their back length is only around the chest of the pale horse at best, even if it stands upright.

He also looks a lot younger because his eyes are slightly bigger against his face. Because of this, the brilliance of the eyes that seem to feel strong also gives me the impression that it has become stubborn.

In addition, they have the same cobalt blue color as wings whose hair is unlikely to be human, up to strange habitual hair like tactile.

"Anime hair, asshole hair?! What anime did you come out of?!"

The Ethereal Horse couldn't help but think so.

Actually, Harpuran's hair is a change of blades.

The bird's blades have a stiff feather shaft at the center from which a feather called a feather branch grows to shape a single blade. This is no different even in Harpuran.

However, only the blades in the area that hits a person's hair for Harpuran have a thinner and softer feather shaft. Such wings drip and overlap, and they look like people's heads in the distance.

But it doesn't change that it's essentially a blade. Unlike hair whose appearance is determined solely by dye, the colour is created by light reflection and interference by the structure of the surface of the blade, making it so beautiful and colorful that it is not comparable to human hair. Also, what the Ethereal Horse thought was "asshole hair" would be remnants of decorative feathers like extremely optimistic birds.

The Ethereal Horse hesitated to reply when she learned to fight even girls younger than herself.

"What if I'm not mistaken?

A harpuan girl who guessed it told him, with a bitter smile.

"I'm often mistaken for a human or something, but I'm still a clean adult"

…… Huh? Huh?! "

When she saw Shemr as the astonished Ethereal Horse asked for help, she prefaced, "If you say so," before telling me.

"Harpuran looks like a child from a human perspective."

That kind of thing was a Ethereal Horse that I would like you to tell me about soon.

"Er... Gigi,?

I asked, thinking the last part would be our name, like Zoan, but the girl shook her neck to the side.

"No. Gigi is my grandfather's name. Tot is my father's name. Pipi is my name. The official name is Pipi, Tott's daughter, Gigi's son!

"You're Mr. Pipi. - Uh, that's a good name."

The truth is, a pale horse who wanted to say it was a pretty name, but decided to say "good name" without difficulty.

"Yes! Many ranks were raised in the battle against humans long ago, and this is the name my grandfather gave to the great woman warrior Pipi, known as the Rough Eagle of Blood!

Apparently, rather than a pretty name, it was the name of The Rough Eagle of Blood. And the Ethereal Horse welcomed the Pippi, even though they drew a little on their cheeks.

But the Ethereal Horses did not put such harpuans on the table of battle until now. That's not to say it kept them as trumpets. simply because he was not sure how to use them.

I heard from them that Harpuan was good at doing stone throwing from above, but only eight people questioned how effective that could be. On the contrary, if they fly over the enemy, they could instead be in the way of attacks by bows and arrows or throwing weapons.

For this reason, after the breakdown of the dense formation of the heavy spear infantry regiment, we all had to wait as liaison officers for its backup and cooperation with everyone when we stormed.

But as it stands, no one can stop Darius's troops except them.

Also, Pipi's Harpuran, who flew at the behest of the Ethereal Horse, were pleased that the time had finally come for them to be of use.

I knew the Ethereal Horse was haunting my head about how to use it because we were few. As a result, I never complained, but even though I could only watch other races struggle, I still had feelings for the lottery.

It is not hard to imagine how excited (fumbled) the Harpuns stood when they came there and finally had the opportunity to help themselves.

Pipi, who flew with a breath over the troops led by General Darius, began to throw to the humans under his eyes as he cleverly grabbed the stone in the cage with one leg and the other, whirling on the spot.

To the stones falling apart from the overhead, the soldiers turn right and left.

Some of them tried to shoot off Harpuan with bows and arrows, but on the way to rescue a regiment of heavily armed spear infantry, that's also irresistible. If you stop badly, you'll upset the line instead.

The soldiers of the Crusaders couldn't help but look up to the stones of the Harpuns from far above who couldn't reach this attack.

Such hasty soldiers are given a drink of Darius.

"Don't wander around! What falls is just pebbles! You have nothing to fear!

Darius was right, the stones the Harpurans were dropping were only large enough to be able to grip with one hand at best. No matter how high they drop you, from the top of your helmet, you can't do one takobu.

This is why Harpuran had to lag behind humans while having the overwhelming advantage of flying.

Harpuran's body is specialized for flight.

The body is so small that the Ethereal Horse mistakes it for a child because it miniaturizes the body and lightens the weight. Also, muscles other than the pectoral muscles that support the wings are incredibly thin and decaying.

Still fewer bones than other species. This is because multiple bones are integrated into one to lighten the body at all, reducing the number of bones. Besides that, the bone itself is also hollow structure, which is exceptionally lighter than other animals. To compensate for the lack of bone strength, the hollow interior is strutted with bone tissue like a coarse sponge of the eye to support the bone, but still no different from other species of bone being fragile.

Because of this frail body, which is good to say, the Harpuns have been treated not so much as slaves, but as a kind of plaything animal to love their beautiful wings.

In any case, even though human children cannot be put into labor with inferior muscle strength, or if their appearance is similar to that of a human being, because if they are treated roughly, they are easily injured, and if they do, they die of systemic fractures, so they cannot be used as sex slaves.

But Harpuan's ability to fly, gained in exchange for such a frail body, was also the best he could do just to float his body.

In battle, the Harpuns prefer ways to use their ability to fly to drop stones, throwing arrows, etc. from above to their enemies. Harpuran's flight, however, had severe limitations on loads and had the major drawback of not being able to fly with so many stones and throwing arrows.

One example of "patience that can endure until the stone-throwing and bow-arrows of Harpuan are exhausted" on the terms of the famous general once uttered by the Empire's famous general, Inkdias, is that if you return the back, the stone-throwing of Harpuan and others will only last to the extent that it ends while they endure.

"It's not enough to be afraid, Harpuran or anything!

When Darius pulled out his hips sword, he cut down one pillar after another supporting the roof to avoid the arrows that had covered the tank's head with a small temper. And I will no longer be royal on a tank with nothing to protect overhead.

The confusion among the soldiers was also perfectly healed by the figure of Darius, who with his body showed that there was nothing to fear, such as the stone-throwing of Harpuran.

Pippi and Harpuran are also in a hurry for this.

They were not large stones that were highly lethal, but had dared to pick and bring a number of pebbles they could hold.

Even though there are only a few stone-throwing stones they could hold, they only had eight Harpurans, so that the big stone would soon stop following. Aside from the story, if there was anything that could kill a large number of enemies like a lightweight fire kettle or bomb that they could take with them, they chose to at least increase the number of stone throws they could take with them beyond the lack of such a thing. But this time the choice went backwards.

One of the harpurans, realizing that their stone-throwing was no longer effective, yells at Pipi.

"I'll hit that commander directly with a stone!

"Wait!

Pipi cries out for restraint, but once the harpuan ran up in the air, he went from there to Darius and plummeted all at once.

Though Harpuran's feet can move as cleverly as a person's hands, stone-throwing from above is still difficult to hit accuracy. To target just one human being and stone him, he must thus plunge from above his target and throw a stone at a critical point.

Darius, who finds himself aiming for it, laughs small with his nose.

Give me your bow.

Darius squeezed the bow he received from the guard, releasing an arrow toward Harpuan, who came down this way. Soon after the harpuran avoids it, he receives an arrow in his chest and falls to the ground in stiffness. They were surrounded by soldiers who were around them, and they were left alone.

In the arms of its Darius bow, the soldiers cheer.

"Come on, don't leave Harpuran alone! Hurry up and line up to cover your allies!

The Harpurans had no longer lost the means to stop Darius' troops.

Originally, although the number of stones brought, however small, was prepared not to be stopped long, it is unexpected that we will be rendered powerless at such an early stage.

Pipi, who can't even go back to replenishing the stone-throwing now, had to keep swirling over Darius' head, if only to be distracted at least, biting his lips off at remorse.