The Strategist Knows Everything

"I see. I'm confident."

Night.

When we joined the belated ship, we were approaching the port of Velis for a night raid.

There were several surveillance ships on the Imperial side, but they're all powerless with the Princess's "Save It”.

"Magic Attributes/Freezing. As of that rare user, His Royal Highness Leasia, it's a defect as a weapon."

Erica's sister, who was on Narvis' deck with me, said so as if she was scared.

Sure, only the princess would be able to create the sight in front of her.

In front of me is an Imperial ship that has been frozen for most of its hull and has become immobile.

Right now, we're passing by.

Amplify the magic power of the princess and smash it with a cannon.

Simply put, this seems to be the case, but maybe, it's more complicated.

"Can Erica's sister's flame also be amplified?

"Come on? But isn't it hard? At the end of the day, it's a reproduction of concatenated magic, so you won't be able to do it, but the flames will melt the cannon."

"You know what? Speaking of which, the princess said you can't shoot so many shots."

"It's His Highness Riaria's own problem. I don't care how amplified you are, because the magic of His Royal Highness Liasia is what it is, so if His Royal Highness no longer has the magic of His Highness Liasia, it's over."

Convenient and irrational witchcraft has its faults.

Sure, Yukito's brother will carry out sorcery attacks at the required locations, but he won't let you do most of it in a row.

Was that putting the sorcerer to rest?

"It's time to land. Get ready, both of you."

When I was thinking, Micah called out to me.

The harbor is just around the corner.

You don't envisage night raids from the sea, you don't even stand guard soldiers.

After we land, we take the horses as far as we can, while destroying the Imperial facilities if we can.

The destruction of this facility will inevitably require fire power, so it will inevitably be in charge of the second unit.

The rest of the unit is tasked with ensuring the safety of the second unit and disrupting the enemy.

However.

"An empire is a country we haven't done yet, but what kind of country is it?

"The Empire is the largest country in the five powers, while at the same time it is the most technologically developed. The military is characterized by the use of" demon guns ”that mechanically reproduce magic."

"Mechanical reproduction of magic? Can they all use magic?

I react to Mikana's explanation with my face up.

How troublesome.

It's more troublesome than Albion that we can all use magic.

But Erica's sister shook her head left and right at my words.

"No, I'm not. Everyone can use a degraded version of magic. Power, range, hit rate. Which falls a few steps short of magic. I wonder if it's as good as the speed of activation. That's a slight difference, and more importantly, it consumes more magic than normal magic, so if you're a normal person, stop it with a few shots."

"What is it, it... what does it mean to use it?

"We won't have one. But there is one in the Empire."

I'm not sure what Mikana means.

Even if it doesn't make sense to us to use it, it makes sense to use it over there.

What's the meaning of this?

"Even if there's no point in people being able to handle things like swords, bows, or magic enough, there's a solid point in people not being able to handle them satisfactorily. Whatever we use, kids use it, but there's little difference in power or range."

"Uh, hang on a second. Now organizing"

"That means it's a weapon of the weak. The biggest advantage is that anyone can use it."

I see.

It was easy to understand, although it was explained to Micana and her face.

Anyway, you're saying that the Empire uses a demon gun to match the number of degraded magicians.

"The Empire, no, the people of the western part of the continent are neither superior to magic nor highly physically capable. When it comes to this, they have used their wisdom to bridge the difference and overwhelm their opponents in numbers. That's how the Imperial Army was built. It's a pain in the ass knowing how weak it is."

"There is another problem……"

Nicola's sister appeared on the deck in a flimsy foothold.

This ship made some pretty eggy moves to get around to the enemy ship's blind spot. Nicola's sister must have fallen from seasickness because of it, but has she managed to come back to life?

My face is still slightly blue, but well, is it as good as standing and walking?

Ars's old man, a combination of hangover and seasickness, hasn't come out of the room yet.

"Nicola's sister. What's the problem?

"The Imperial Troops are proud of the Imperial Troops. In time, you two are being sent to Velis. One is" Admiral ”Carl Beckenbauer. This guy should probably be at sea, so I think he'll be fine. The problem is, the other one. This is" Army General ”Torsten Bergius. You should think you're in the harbor."

"Why are there so many famous generals before we go? I really doubt that."

To Erica's sister's words, we look.

I agree, if you dare put it in your mouth, you'll feel heavier.

Teng himself is floating. I don't even think about losing.

"Even if the Army General comes out, the operation is contemplated for once. The purpose is to leave the harbor, and if we don't do it properly, we'll figure it out."

"What do you do when you have to do something decent?

"Alas? You don't have to ask, do you?

"Needless to say, it's a forcible breakthrough"

Nicola's sister is in a hurry for a noisy statement.

It is best not to fight, and even if we meet, we should run away. Yes, Nicola's sister said.

But I can't imagine a war general letting us get away easily.

Maybe we'll be fighting.

With that in mind, we got ready to land.

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The night raid on the harbor went so well as to be interesting.

It was a night raid from the sea where the Imperial Navy began to withdraw and thought it was holding back the sea.

Instead of predicting, I guess I didn't even predict.

The Imperial Army was in havoc and several facilities in the harbor had already been bombed by a second unit led by Erica's sister.

The fire burns into the building and the damage gradually spreads.

It's a complete surprise. It can be described as a success because Knox has responded well to Yukito's brother's unscrupulous manoeuvres.

"Damn. There are only a lot of boulders..."

Close to the Imperial soldier who had a black demon gun toward us, cutting it off, and squealing so.

The demon gun builds up at the moment of shooting and glows slightly.

If you get close in the meantime, you can defeat your opponent without having time to shoot.

Nevertheless, it's a one-on-one story, and when you get one-on-many on a boulder, you can't even say that.

So I've been running around since just now.

My squad's role is Yang Dynasty. However, my men are already starting to retreat. If it's not time for me to retreat, they'll leave me around.

I'll try to find if the horse is connected somewhere, but I can't find it anywhere.

Is this the only way to run hard?

I thought so, trying to get to the exit of the harbor, and I stopped.

A red-armed man with an oddly shaped spear.

Because he stood in front of me.

The word "tough" is the right face, making you feel like a soldier with short pruned golden hair or sharp gray eyes.

If you look closely, the red armor is oddly cool. Machine-like armor.

And the spears are the same.

The spear is about the same length as the owner's man, with a double-edged blade on the tip and a circular box-like thing attached underneath it.

The armor you're wearing and the armor you're holding is a strange man.

But strong.

I knew at a glance.

This guy is a strong man who's been through a lot of training grounds.

"I didn't know you were going to launch a night raid on our Imperial Army faction... which unit?

"Look. If you don't know, I'm not going to name you. If you really want to hear it, you can ask it with strength, right?

As I provoke, I feel sweating in my hand holding the pattern of my sword.

This guy sucks.

This is not the first time I think it's suspicious if I can win. But I've never felt the creeps from this guy before.

My mind tells me. He said I shouldn't interact with this guy.

But if you turn your back here, they'll definitely kill you.

The only way I'm left alive is to fight this guy and somehow take him down or make him immobile.

When I lay down my sword, the man with the red armor lays down his spear with both hands.

"Now let's try to do that!

A poke from a simple penetration.

But that was incredibly fast.

At the same time as the other move, this one moved, but they were already stepping into time over here.

Judging that it is impossible to avoid it completely, he decides that it is impossible to escape the spear with his sword.

Place your sword at the end of the spear and deflect your spear to your left.

There is an unusual load on the arm. That means that's all the spear blows are heavy.

A spear passing to the left decides the ground in the aftermath with a roar and a blast.

It is not usually possible to determine the ground in the aftermath. If you hit it directly, you won't be sorry for the penetration.

Seeing a spear blow, my body is about to retire unexpectedly, but I manage to keep it between swords.

At this distance, I'm faster.

He jumped into the pocket of a man hanging from a spear and waved his sword up from the lower section in a flow motion.

Poking could avoid it. It is difficult to avoid slaughter. The problem is, it's powerful, but if I slash it, I can cut off every piece of armor.

That's what I thought, but my sword was taken.

by the man's left arm.

I realize that the one on a man's left arm is his hand to receive the sword. Was it for this reason that it was heavier than a normal armored hand?

While I regret it, the spear is pulled back and directed at me.

As he manipulates his own back-length spear with one hand, the man's strength is pulling out of the group.

In a situation where the sword is held by the hand, it is impossible to flush the sword as it did earlier.

I didn't know if I would make it, but I fell and rolled to the right.

Make sure the spear sticks at the edge of your sight where I was until just now. The fact that I wasn't lost played a role. If I'd been a little lost, I'd be dead.

"It's a big deal that year. You seem to have a gift for martial arts. Plus, it seems to be stepping on the number of places."

"I'm glad to hear your compliments. But I'm not here to be praised."

Place your sword on the upper level.

You will expose your body to the opponent, but instead, you can attack intensely.

That armor is hard. You can't break it just by slashing or poking it normally.

"I see...... I'll entrust it to a blow...... ok. Then I'll respond with a single blow."

A man pulls his right leg and sets up a spear with both hands. It's not a rush attack like earlier. That's to intercept a nearby opponent.

If I get into his time, they'll intercept me fast.

But I can't keep gluing here forever. If we don't make it to the entrance to the harbor, only one of us will escape.

I decided to help Yukito's brother. I can't just sit here and eat my feet.

Strong in my will, I stepped in time for a man.

A man pokes at me.

I waved my sword down towards the thrust.

First, play a troublesome spear and decide with a second hit.

There is no second blow to a man who is hanging everything on a single blow. Play this poke and I win.

"Sweet!"

A man screams.

The circular box that was under the spear blade glowed.

The light intensity is small for the blind eye. No. Something.

But I don't know what that is, and the sword and the spear try to bump into each other.

That moment.

The spear blade stretched.

My sword, which clashed on the verge of surviving the spear, broke into its own body without receiving the spear's power.

And the shock reached me.

I'm blown away by the blast.

For a moment, I can see the starry sky. Even though I thought it was beautiful, the pain ran all over my body.

It took me a little while to figure out I got slammed to the ground.

"Damn... Ku..."

"With a weapon called Boostspeare, developed by the Imperial Engineering Department. It explodes sorcery inside the circular part, and its impact causes the spear blade to pop out. As you can see, there's a problem with durability."

If you manage to wake up your painful body and look at the man's spear, there are cracks everywhere and the blade is almost shattered.

This sword is useless, too, but the situation isn't five minutes.

"It would have been dangerous if there had been no difference in weapons. Let's just ask him his name one last time."

With that said, the man took out a demon gun in a different shape than the average soldier had and pointed it at me.

I knew you had it. You'd have about a spare weapon, I thought, but I didn't want you to hit it.

"……… Knox." Captain of Part V "…… Roy"

"I see. I saw that black coat and thought it might be on the way... That's why I'm strong. Praiseworthy. But you didn't have any luck."

That said, the man puts his finger on the trigger.

Somehow I read the finger movement, and I have to avoid it. It really kills me.

If you misread a little, you're done.

Pain interrupts concentration, and more importantly, it doesn't move as the body thinks.

But this isn't where it ends.

"Ha... my bad luck isn't normal......?

"Right. Then let's hope for a reversal play from here. For once, shall I name it too? Torsten Bergius, Chief Commander of the Imperial Army," Army General ”. Roy of Knox. I'll never forget your name."

"Oh? Then could you remember my name, too?

A giant fireball flies from the side of Torsten with his voice.

Torsten flies wide rearward to avoid that fireball.

"Who are you?"

"Knox." Captain of Part Two. It's Erica Furnill. Remember, colored man. "

"Rescue."

"No. It just happened to take a street."

Torsten tries to move to the voice from the blind spot, but an arrow that flies faster than that strikes out Torsten's demon gun.

"Shit!"

"Shall I name it for once? This is Mikana Hazard, Knox“ Part IV Captain. You know me, my lord Bergius. "

I'm making a complete fool of myself.

But Torsten doesn't mess with words that can also be taken as Micana's provocation.

Calmly compare Erica's sister to Mikana, and look further back at the two.

"Looks like you should leave here. All three Knox squad leaders are bad for boulders."

Three?

Because you can't count me as a fighter.

"What is it? Running away?

"I do not fight unscrupulously. I won't fight you with my bare hands. Ars Crowe."

That's what Torsten tells Ars's old man, who appears pretentious.

"About three years ago? I came here to settle then... well, if you want to leave, you can leave. Retreat quickly."

"Let me do that."

Torsten flies backwards several times and disappears into the shadows of the building.

When we talked about it now, I thought I knew Ars' old man.

"You were safe fighting him, weren't you?

"Thank you, thank you... If Erica's sister was too late, she'd be dead. You know him?

"Old times. I've done it on the battlefield. If I hadn't had the help of my people, they would have killed me then."

"Oh well. But... the next time I do it, I win."

"Yes, sir. Now that you know how powerful it is, let's get out of here. I'm pushing Nicolas to take command of all units. She's crying again."

Well, I kind of felt that at the time I wasn't here, but was Nicola's sister pushed to take a losing role again?

I have to apologize later.

While I thought so, I dragged my sore body closer to the horse Erica's sister had brought.

"Oh, yeah. Nicola's sister, Mikana, thanks."

"Alas? Are you being honest today?

"It just happened to take a street. You don't have to worry about it."

"It is. People thank you honestly, so take it honestly."

"There's nothing to take from a loser"

"Holy crap............!

"Fine, let's go!

We got out of the harbor while having that usual conversation.