Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 94

“Bloody hell,” Jerome muttered. “What kind of monster is that?”

Jerome was ready to fight. His heart beat fast with courage. But then, he saw it. A golden light burst from the enemy leader’s sword. It was like fire, but made of pure gold. It was a sword glowing with magical power, called a Force Blade.

Against that golden flash, that strange and powerful magic, Jerome’s bravery faded. The power felt as strong as his own, but it was different, strange.

“This can’t be real,” he thought, his mind racing.

Fear rushed in, pushing out all his courage. He felt weak and helpless. And that made everything even worse.

In the end.

Poooook!

“Keh, Keh-heuk.”

The red Force Blade pierced his heart at the same moment it pierced the neck of his comrade, Therese.

“M-My lord… I failed to complete my mission…”

He tried to beg his lord for forgiveness, even if only in his mind, but he wasn’t even granted that much time.

Chwaaaak!

Patrick beheaded him with a Force Blade and raised his head high.

“We’ve won! We got their leader!”

Patrick’s voice echoed across the entire battlefield from atop the castle walls.

During the war, the command structure of one side had been completely destroyed.

In a normal battle, the weaker forces would have given up and surrendered at this point.

But the knights of Bipros were different.

“I will take over command! Fight to the end! Help is coming soon!”

A knight, covered in blood, ran up beneath the castle walls and shouted.

“What a bloody idiot…”

Logan stared, his mouth slightly open. *Did he really just say that?* he thought.

What reinforcements were coming?

If reinforcements were coming, they should already be visible to those on the castle walls.

But whether the shouting man was originally of high rank or not, the crazed enemy knight’s cry gave the remaining troops false hope.

The footsteps that had been steadily retreating stopped in an instant.

“Reinforcements are coming!”

“Let’s fight!”

The poor soldiers, tricked by their ally’s bluff, found their will to fight again.

Logan clenched his fists. This foolish knight was making things worse.

In this situation, which had become more troublesome than expected, there was only one answer left.

“I’ll kill you all!”

Logan plunged into the heart of the unnecessary bloodbath created by one knight’s words.

The moment Jeric realized that a superior enemy force was charging towards the castle, he forced his way through the encirclement, sacrificing his men, and charged towards the castle.

As a result, the raiding party of 22 knights was reduced to only 15, but he thought that would be enough to help defend the castle.

With that single thought, he ignored the rain of arrows pouring down on his back and ran towards the castle walls.

But the enemy was stronger than he had thought.

– We’ve taken the enemy commander!

The voice reached him as soon as he arrived beneath the castle walls.

“B-Brother!”

The bloody head held in the hand of the knight on the castle wall was a face all too familiar to him.

His reason was clouded by the resentment and anger that surged from the depths of his heart.

“I will take over command! Fight to the end! Reinforcements are coming soon!”

He was making his allies fight with ridiculous nonsense.

He knew that it would be an unnecessary sacrifice.

But he wanted to hurt the ones who killed his brother as much as possible.

“Jeric! It’s too late! It’s better for us to join the main force!”

He ignored the protest of his comrade, Gail, who had made a cool-headed assessment of the situation.

“You go. I’m going to end it here!”

“Jeric!”

As a conflict arose among the leading knights who held command, the knights who followed them also hesitated in confusion.

“Fire!”

Tap tap tap!

As if not giving them time to make a decision, the ones chasing them from the rear once again poured down that tiresome rain of arrows.

“Go! I’m the only one staying here!”

Jeric shouted, using the last of his reason to protect the knights who were in danger.

But then.

“Where do you think you’re going!”

With a shout from the castle walls, a figure shot down from the walls like an arrow.

The golden Force that covered the sword was an unusual color that was rarely seen, but it didn’t even register in his eyes.

All Jeric could see were the man’s red eyes and red hair.

The same symbol of the Maclaine family bloodline as the one who had raised his brother’s head a moment ago.

The little bit of reason that remained in Jeric vanished the moment he saw it.

*That bastard!* he thought.

The rain of arrows poured out from behind by the soldiers chasing them.

The dozens of knights jumping down after that red hair.

All of those things were erased from his vision.

“I’ll kill you all! Maclaine!”

He had already given up on the thought of returning alive.

Completely giving himself to madness, he used all of his remaining strength and put it into his sword.

The blazing red Force, which flared up more intensely than at any other moment in his life, added strength to his wildness.

But.

“You’re the one who’s going to die.”

Chwaaaak.

A movement so fast it was like magic, coming right before his eyes.

The moment he thought he had made eye contact with the red eyes that were looking at him with a chilling gaze.

Jeric’s consciousness disappeared.

Skak.

Whether it was because of the madman’s last struggle or not, the desperate resistance of the remaining Tomodo troops continued to the end.

But the moment Heinckel, who had gone down at some point, opened the castle gates and brought Maclaine’s infantry, including the crossbow cavalry, into the castle.

The overwhelming number of enemies became clear, and they had no choice but to stop fighting.

But by that time, only four Bipros knights and about 50 soldiers remained.

On the other hand, Maclaine’s losses were only fourteen knights who died on the castle walls and about 30 soldiers who died from stray arrows.

It was a complete victory.

* * *

“We have won!”

“Uwaaaaa!”

“Long live Maclaine!”

The battle that had begun in the morning ended before the sun had even set.

Considering that there hadn’t even been a proper fight until lunchtime, it was a truly quick victory.

And since it had ended in an overwhelming victory, it was no wonder that the soldiers were cheering so much.

But after several hours of clearing the battlefield, the leaders gathered in the makeshift command center in the castle. Their faces were not so bright.

It was a strange sight. Some people’s faces were red with excitement from the battle and victory, but no one was simply laughing.

All the reasons were in the first words of this meeting, which began after the sun had set and the moon and stars had risen.

“We’ve won this battle, but now the army from the Bipros mainland will come. What’s the next plan, Logan?”

At Patrick’s words, everyone looked at Logan.

However, Logan’s short answer surprised them.

“We just need to hold out.”

“……What?”

Patrick asked again for everyone, but.

“It won’t take less than a day, or more than a few days at the latest. If we just hold out, Bipros will retreat on their own.”

Even with Logan’s continued words, the surprise did not disappear, but only increased.

However, Logan’s gaze was fixed on the full moon that had begun to rise in the night sky.

“Grand Duke. What does that mean……”

“You have to tell us the reason.”

“Why would Bipros retreat?”

“……You’ll find out naturally later.”

He tried to speak as calmly as possible, but Logan himself was the most worried of all.

*There must be no mistakes. Please!*

Forcibly hiding his worried heart, he continued to act calm.

“Now, let’s prepare for the defense!”

* * *

– Prepare for the defense!

The soldiers, who had been cheering for victory, were surprised by the sudden order given on a moonlit night.

“Defense, so, defend?”

“W-What? Isn’t the war over?”

“We won, didn’t we?”

The ignorant ones, who only saw the events in front of them, were puzzled.

“As expected… a war with the Count’s family….”

“I said it was going to be uneasy.”

Those with even a little bit of knowledge sighed as they thought about the near future.

Of course, the most important thing for the soldiers was something else.

“What is this in the moonlight!”

“Aish! My body is already aching.”

“Does this have to be done now?!”

It was hard work that had been pushed back to bedtime.

The quiet night of Tomodo Castle became noisy with the curses pouring out from thousands of people.

“There’s no time. Quickly, quickly!”

Grik sighed at his teacher’s words, but he moved busily.

What he and his disciples held in their hands were dozens of Collapse Scrolls.

These precious items, each worth a thousand gold, were now being used on the ground.

*If only we had more time, I would have set this aside and tried to do something with magic,* Grik thought.

But now, as his teacher said, there was no time.

It was only possible because there were scrolls left over from the dam construction.

Moreover, what the Grand Duke had ordered was a delicate task that required precise calculation of the scroll’s destruction range, so it couldn’t be left to the soldiers.

*In the end, we have no choice but to do it,* Grik thought.

Grik sighed and prepared for the moonlit gymnastics, no, magic.

“Grik! Are you ready?!”

“Yes, Master!”

“Enan! Turse!”

“We’re ready too!”

“Good! Three, two, one!”

Bzzzt!

With Grik’s signal, the scrolls installed at regular intervals on the ground right in front of the castle walls lit up all at once.

Immediately after.

Rumble.

With a roar as if an earthquake had occurred, cracks began to appear in the hard ground.

At the same time, the soil swelled up as if it would burst.

The firmly packed ground collapsed, pushing the soil in all directions around the scroll.

And the pushed-out soil moved according to the pre-tuned magic, covering the gaps in the castle walls and making the rough surface of the castle walls smooth and flat.

Rumble.

What was created at the end of the continuous vibrations was a pit that was deeply dug in a 5m radius below the castle walls.

In other words, a moat.

A deep pit that could easily bury a dozen people was dug along the castle walls.

Even the astonishing sight of the dug-out soil moving on its own to repair and fill the castle walls.

Those who watched and the wizards who performed it were looking at this history with admiration.

*I have a feeling that our school is becoming more and more specialized in construction,* Clayton thought.

Clayton felt a little uneasy as he had his golem compact the pit.

Of course, there was no time to pay attention to such feelings.

“Come on, let’s move quickly. We have to finish it tonight!”

Clayton’s face wasn’t very happy either when he saw his disciples’ faces twist at the moment he shouted.

Somehow, the initial goal of settling down and increasing the training time for his disciples seemed to have gone wrong without him knowing.

*Eh, it’s just my imagination,* Clayton thought.

It was natural to do this much since he had been promised 10 million gold in support every year.

After all, if Maclaine fell, the Golem Magic Tower would also fall.

They were now as close as one body.

*Could it be that he was trying to catch us from the beginning… Ah, I said I would do the Magic Tower. It’s just me being paranoid, Clayton. I need more training.*

He shook off his bitter feelings and urged his disciples with a forced bright face.

* * *

The soldiers who had come up to the castle walls from dawn because their leaders told them to could only look around in surprise.

“Heo, was this castle wall this high?”

“The castle walls are completely smooth, too?”

“As expected of wizards. How did they do it in one night…….”

To the Maclaine soldiers, it was as if the castle walls had become incredibly smooth and taller after they had slept for a while.

They couldn’t help but be impressed by the power of magic.

Of course.

“Pour the oil you prepared on the castle walls! Make sure it flows down without any gaps! The squad leader will check carefully!”

“Yes!”

They also had to add additional elements to the great work, so their admiration soon turned into complaints.

But no matter how bad their mood was, it would be less than the wizards of the Golem Magic Tower who faced Logan after working all night.

“You want us to fill the moat with water?”

Clayton’s grim face twisted at the absurd request.

“No matter how close the plains and the river are, the tributary of the Luther River is only 5km away in a straight line!”

“You said the enemies are coming as early as today!”

“This is absolutely impossible, impossible!”

“You’ve pierced through mountains before. You’ve dug waterways to death. The river is only 5km away, and you only need to connect the water flow, so why is that so difficult?”

“…….”

In the end, their fair and reasonable argument was ignored by the powerful.