feiniaonovel Chapter 180 : Chapter 180
Chapter 180 : Chapter 180
Chapter 180
The Orcs’ unpleasant breathing sounds covered the fortress.
The Legion’s unified footsteps coming from below the wall were enough to shake the fighting spirit of the soldiers guarding the wall.
- Grrrk.
Lina, having dealt with an Orc that climbed onto the wall, shook off the blood on her dagger and looked around.
“Shoot! Keep shooting!”
“No one will be able to covet the fortress!”
The fortress commander shouting and encouraging the soldiers was visible.
Knights threw themselves to deal with Orcs climbing onto the wall, and soldiers repeatedly swung axes to cut the grappling hooks caught on the wall.
“Don’t let a single one live!”
A knight shouted with all his might.
Swinging a sword covered in Orc blood and slime, the knight shouted with all his might.
“The fortress will never crumble!”
Did he really believe that, or was he shouting to believe it?
Lina couldn't be sure since she wasn't born in a knight family nor trained as a knight, but she thought it was probably the latter.
“Kill, kill! Don’t let a single one live, kill them!”
The fishy body odor of Orcs, the rancid smell of boiling oil and the acrid smoke of burning Orcs, the stale sweat smell from excited soldiers’ bodies.
And the suffocating stench of Orc corpses.
The suffocating smell of the battlefield tickled the tip of her nose.
“Captain!”
Lina looked at the Black Noble Troop gathering around one by one.
From the battle in the forest, the sudden retreat, to the siege warfare that followed without a break.
‘Everyone is at their limit.’
It wasn't just the Black Noble Troop.
Though circumstances differed slightly, the fortress’s regular army, the Royal Army, and the Northern Noble Alliance were all the same.
They were only moving due to the excitement of battle; no one was not exhausted.
“As expected, the Royal Army isn’t coming?”
Turning her head at the question from the side, she saw the Prince smiling awkwardly.
“Prince.”
“Oh my, don’t do useless things. I’m not such a moron to receive greetings in this situation.”
He stopped Lina, who was about to greet him according to etiquette, and asked again.
“So, is the Royal Army really not coming?”
Lina nodded.
“We received a report that they arrived at Lier, but it doesn't seem likely the Royal Army will move from Lier.”
The Royal Army only came as far as Lier to get food.
Lina accurately grasped the Royal Army’s plan.
“Unless they are certain the war is over, they probably won’t move.”
At those words, Trimia, looking around the wall, spoke with a dark face.
“The situation isn’t good right now. Rather, I should go personally and ask for help…….”
“If you intend to become a hostage, I won't stop you.”
“Tsk, as expected.”
Trimia, clicking his tongue slightly, muttered while looking at the Orcs swarming the wall.
“They are desperate .”
Lina nodded at those words.
“Because they really came to die.”
The Tyrant didn’t move the Royal Guard to capture the fortress.
He merely used the Royal Guard as disposable pawns to buy time from an unknown enemy.
Watching the Orcs rushing towards the allies foaming at the mouth, Trimia opened his mouth.
“…Even when Ian warned us, I thought this couldn’t be possible. Because the battles until now were too easy to even be called battles.”
The swords of the knights waiting on the wall pierced the Orcs’ bodies one after another.
“Right, that was closer to hunting. Digging appropriate traps, taking them out with arrows from an advantageous distance, and collecting the remaining loot on the battlefield, hunting.”
Until now, Moner had never been cornered in a crisis.
Ian strictly insisted on advantageous battlefields, engaging only in battlefields where he could definitely win against the Northern Kingdom or the Prince’s army.
“So, naturally, I couldn’t understand the words to prepare for war.”
Watching the Orc approaching the knights even with its body pierced, Trimia shook his head as if tired of it.
With every step, much blood from the wound soaked the floor, but as if that didn't matter, the Orc spewed metallic breathing sounds and struggled to approach the knights.
“An enemy that neither tires, cries in pain, nor fears death. I thought such a thing couldn't be possible. Without knowing it, I was thinking there was nothing scary about a few Orcs.”
However, the Orc swinging an axe even while pierced by a sword was the proof.
Proof that there is an enemy that neither tires, cries in pain, nor fears death.
“Can we really hold out?”
Trimia continued calmly, looking at Lina.
“If we can’t hold out, even just the Black Noble Troop and the Special Mission Unit…….”
“You don’t need to worry.”
Before Trimia could finish his sentence, Lina spoke.
“Because my Lord anticipated everything.”
* * *
- Quickly! Quickly!
Calua, sitting on the head of the giant Ogre, shouted repeatedly while stamping his feet.
- Big and slow species! Move faster!
Teheki, watching the scene from the side, tilted his head.
Telling a slow species to move faster, isn’t this true violence?
“More than that, what is so urgent?”
Teheki, knowing the Tyrant’s energy had disappeared, couldn’t understand.
“I don’t know what trick Moner’s Young Duke used, but the Tyrant isn’t here. There’s no way he would abandon the Royal Guard, which is practically the entire Legion, without reason, so he must have run away. The war is already over.”
As Teheki didn’t know the exact situation, he thought so.
- Calua doesn’t know such things.
The unidentified monster just tilted its head as if asking what that meant.
Calua actually didn’t know at all how this war was flowing.
Ian explained it about ten times, but it was too difficult and boring.
Stamping his feet and urging the Ogre right now was just him playing a prank after realizing this giant species was actually kind and gentle.
Calua, tilting his head for a moment, urged the Ogre by moving his tail this time.
- Quickly, must go quickly!
Thinking that if Ian saw him sitting on the head of such a giant monster, he might realize the greatness of a dragon.
- Heheh, move faster! Gentle and slow species!
At the shout of the dragon filled with dark desire, the Ogre moved his body silently.
* * *
“Ogre, Ogres are visible!”
At the soldier’s scream-like shout, Hoodwock raised the artifact and looked ahead.
“They really came…….”
Ogres.
Did I ever think I would see an Ogre in my life?
“You, find Captain Vergil and the Black Noble Troop Captain and tell them the Ogres have arrived. You check on the Count’s situation.”
Hoodwock, after giving orders, turned his gaze to check the situation on the wall.
“Team 1 and Team 2 will assist the Royal Army and the Northern Noble Alliance. Even if told beforehand, they are guys who will wet their pants seeing real Ogres. It would be troublesome if they space out and the defense line gets breached.”
The commanders of each unit already knew Ogres were helping Moner, but knowing and seeing directly are different.
The appearance of Ogres would bring considerable confusion.
Now was the time to minimize that confusion.
“Team 3, go south and check the situation.”
“Yes!”
“Tell everyone that since the Ogres are here too, just hold out a little longer.”
“Yes!”
After the busy Black Noble Troop disappeared, Hoodwock raised the artifact again to check the front.
“But why is the Captain’s pet on the Ogre’s head?”
Hoodwock, tilting his head at the incomprehensible phenomenon, shook his head and thought.
“Well, it’s the Captain’s pet.”
Knowing well that trying to understand anything related to Ian only gives a headache, Hoodwock gave up understanding.
* * *
“N-No!”
- Grrrk.
A soldier with a youthful face that hadn’t even lost his baby fat shouted with a pale face seeing the Orc climbing the wall.
“Don’t come! Don’t come!”
If an Orc climbs the wall, blow the whistle.
Never leave your position.
Immediately call the Decurion of your unit and hunt by surrounding based on the decad.
If one side of the defense line is breached, the entire wall collapses.
Explanations and warnings heard countless times, but none of them came to the soldier’s mind.
‘I, I don’t want to die!’
The moment he faced the glistening eyeballs, his mind was filled only with the thought of not wanting to die.
“Uwaaaack!”
The moment the soldier threw his spear and turned around.
“Don’t worry.”
A red-haired woman appearing from somewhere swung a flail and said.
“I am here.”
* * *
Leaving the dazed soldier standing in place behind, Reina, who was running, stopped abruptly.
“Huh?”
Looking around at the familiar energy felt from somewhere, she saw Ogres approaching from afar.
And the cute monster flapping its wings on top.
“…Lord Calua?”
Wondering when and what he was doing there for a moment.
Reina burst into laughter seeing Calua lifting his head in a solemn posture as if he had spotted her.
“Really, he’s unstoppable.”
Even the blood-smelling battlefield didn’t matter to Calua.
Only the fact that he successfully completed his mission and climbed onto the head of such a huge monster mattered.
She waved her hand slightly, thinking he clearly didn’t realize he wouldn’t be seen well because he was too high up.
* * *
- Saw it! Saw it! Reina said I’m the best!
Calua, flapping his wings in excitement, shouted quickly.
- Let’s go! Sweep them all away!
The Ogres, having already started the battle, swung logs like clubs.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!
Realizing they couldn’t ignore the Ogres, the Legion split in two and began to deal with the Ogres.
“Ho… Was this planned?”
Teheki admired seeing the split Legion.
“Moner’s young master is wise.”
If they had fought desperately like before, there might have been damage to the Ogres too.
However, the Ogres, grasping that the Legion in formation wasn’t an easy opponent, focused on slowing down the Legion’s advance, and a standoff continued.
“This should be enough to buy time.”
Teheki calmly grasped the situation.
“Human fortresses are sturdy, but they cannot block Orcs. That’s why he used the Ogres.”
The war is already over, but the Royal Guard remains.
The Ogres were a card to block that Royal Guard even a little.
“Besides, that energy…….”
Teheki, chuckling at the refreshing energy felt from the south, muttered.
“I thought it was a human war.”
In the south of the fortress, Dark Elves were waiting.