Chapter 74

Raymond was thrown from the Valkyrie he was riding onto the ground.

The ice spirit sword in his right hand had grown much longer than its original length, and its tip was touching the ground.

Thanks to this, the trajectory of the swing aimed at me had been deflected.

I managed to escape an attack that was supposed to be unavoidable.

However, this didn't mean I was safe.

I had to decide the outcome of the battle at the moment Raymond fell to the ground.

To be honest, I was inferior in physical ability.

While he was trying to get up by putting his hand on the ground, I ran over to him.

However, my attack was blocked.

Not by Raymond himself.

A knight who was near him rushed over and blocked my attack.

"Get out of the way!!!"

I swung the Hard Fang Sword against four knights.

However, my attack was blocked by the metal swords they held.

It seemed that the ice sword created by the ice spirit sword wasn't that hard.

It was probably designed to be sharper and specialized for slashing.

That's why it could be shattered when clashed.

However, it wasn't so easy to break with iron swords.

Still, every time the Hard Fang Sword and the iron swords clashed, the other swords chipped.

I swung my sword several times while controlling my magic.

I reduced the amount of magic I was using for my eyes and increased the amount of magic I sent to my body.

As a result, the movements of my opponents seemed to speed up slightly, but my own strength increased.

The faces of the four knights tensed.

That was understandable.

Four knights who had been trained and had fought in many battles couldn't even damage a child.

Moreover, after I redistributed my magic, I started to overpower them.

However, they weren't as easy to defeat as peasant soldiers, which showed the strength of knights far exceeded that of ordinary people.

However, the situation soon changed.

My Hard Fang Sword hit one of the knights' torsos, shattering his armor and sending him flying.

The well-coordinated movements of the four knights that had been holding me down collapsed.

After that, it was only a matter of time.

"This is the end."

The Hard Fang Sword, swung horizontally, struck the last remaining knight.

Four knights now lay on the ground, severely wounded.

I was panting heavily.

My body felt extremely heavy.

Fighting four at once was exhausting.

Perhaps my brain was the most tired because it had to process information about the movements of my opponents instantly.

I was completely exhausted both mentally and physically.

However, I couldn't let my guard down here.

After cutting down the fourth knight, I waited for my breath to steady slightly before looking around.

Clank.

At that moment, the sound of ice shattering was heard.

It was the sound of Raymond's ice sword attack from my diagonal rear, which I barely blocked with the Hard Fang Sword.

"Enough, stop this futile resistance. It was impressive that you defeated the knights, but you must have no strength left."

"No, you're the one who should give up, Raymond. I, no, we have won."

"...What are you talking about? I will defeat you, command the army, and quell the riot. There is no future where you win."

"That's why you're wrong. You fell for my tactics."

"What? ...Nonsense, what is that?"

Raymond was speechless at my words.

He must have finally realized the existence of the decisive blow in this battle.

※ ※ ※

I, the part-timer, and Vargas charged into the Fontana army.

Behind us, the people of Valka Village came together and pushed through the gap I had opened in the formation.

Raymond's goal was to lure me out.

Under this situation, his prepared strategy seemed to be working well.

However, he couldn't hide his surprise at our strength.

However, I couldn't stake my life on this charge alone.

For us, who couldn't achieve a fundamental victory by fortifying, it was necessary to meet and defeat the Fontana army that was coming to attack Valka in the field.

It wasn't enough to just win.

We needed a decisive victory that anyone could see.

However, even if I had taught the villagers to use magic, we were still outnumbered.

We needed at least one tactic to win in the field.

The tactic I thought of was just one.

It was to make the Valka forces appear to launch a concentrated charge and then attack from another direction.

However, our forces numbered only about 100, and if we dispersed, we risked being crushed during the charge.

Moreover, if our numbers were small, there was a possibility that the enemy would notice.

Therefore, I used a force that the Fontana army didn't recognize to launch a flank attack.

It seemed to have been successful.

The effort of unnecessarily fortifying the northern river position with walls had paid off.

Raymond must have focused his attention on the makeshift fortifications.

He never would have guessed that this was my true intention.

I fortified the position with walls to draw the attention of the Fontana army and prepared a separate force.

A force that was different from the people I gathered from my village and the neighboring village.

That force now appeared before Raymond, scattering his forces, the Fontana army.

"Come, Valkyries!!!"

The force that launched a surprise attack from the side on the Fontana army.

They were not human.

They were a group of Valkyries that had crossed the river in a wide arc from the northern river position I had created.

They were not the Valkyries Raymond was riding.

They were the horned Valkyries, my highest combat force.

Beings that could use the same magic as me.

They charged in, using [Body Reinforcement] and firing [Shotgun] at soldiers who obstructed their advance.

With just one charge,

Raymond's Fontana army was reduced to a state of collapse.

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