Eternally Regressing Knight Chapter 709

709. Intuition is running through my head

“You still have a chance. Come under me. I will give you what you desire.”

I don’t know where he was speaking, but the words of the alchemist Dmul rang in everyone’s ears. In the midst of it all, a faint sweet scent wafted out, as if he had cast a spell, but it was a scent that only Encred could smell.

“Give it up, Tempe. As DeMuel said, what can two swordsmen and a girl do?”

Hescal spoke and raised his left hand. Then another group of monsters came rushing in behind him.
Hescal raised his right hand again and the group of monsters increased.

‘The troops were divided.’

Encred’s gaze moved left and right.
It was strange that the monsters were lined up like an army, but they were divided into different branches. When Hescal raised his left hand, they were scalers riding lizard beasts.
The lizard beasts riding scalers flicked their tongues. The pouring rainwater flowed between their eyebrows and along the bridge of their noses, forming streams. The brow ridges rose upward, creating a long furrow in the center of their faces between their eyebrows, showing the area where the water flowed.
It was hard to distinguish the color because of the storm, but the lizard scales, separate from the scalers, were not pitch black. Even if they looked that way now.
There were at least three hundred of them.
The scalers were sitting on their beasts without reins, but it didn’t seem like they would fall or break their heads if the lizards galloped by.
The scalers’ heads weren’t that soft, and if they weren’t confident in fighting while riding, why would they do something like that?
Hescal betrayed Zawoon, not his head. That means he didn’t become a fool.

‘There are many.’

The number of monsters has already reached two thousand.
There are still a few more masses moving slowly on the gently curving downhill slope. The monsters will continue to rise. This is something that can be known even without the insight of a knight.
In Encred’s view, there are more than three hundred scalers and owlbears that seem to be crouching to the right. The number is not small.

‘You hid it well.’

Perhaps it was Hescal’s work that hid them? That would be right.
He was skilled at manipulating information.
Those coming up from below also lined up. They moved in formation.
Encred decided to ask the instructor who trained those monsters if they were human or an intelligent species before killing them.
Isn’t it amazing just to look at?
While observing the black masses visible through the wind and rain with mystifying thoughts, I noticed that the chicks gathered on the right had wings with membranes similar to those of bats.

‘Shall I fly? I will fly.’

They probably didn’t have the wings on their backs for show. Let’s assume that, and the bodies of the ones on the right looked noticeably lighter.
In order to fly in the sky, they had to be light, so wouldn’t they have been made with holes in their bones?
Encred kept his eyes on the group of monsters and checked where his allies were standing, and with that, he estimated the distance from the enemy and compared their strength.
In other words, he mixed everything he needed to fight in his head.

“The flow of the battlefield is organic. Even if you train and become an elite force, you cannot predict the variables that occur in battle. Of course, there are guys who calculate all of these things and fight. Guys like Wangnuni. But even Chrys will not be able to predict everything that happens on the battlefield in detail.”

This is what Luagarne said while teaching tactical thinking.
And then he said.

“But I can do something similar to that, as long as it’s a battle I’m involved in.”

He said.

“That way I can kill someone stronger than me.”

He showed such confidence.
Should I fight purely based on my skills? Is that important in a fight to win?

“It doesn’t matter at all.”

Encred muttered to herself. Her head was constantly calculating.
Luagarne had a rare talent even on the entire continent. Encred acknowledged it. The more she learned from her, the more she became convinced of it.

“I am a prog, a challenger determined to break the limits.”

Her, Frock Luagarne’s words are burning in my mind.
Her fight starts with tactics. And the basics of tactics are to deceive the opponent.
What Hescal showed was the same. He hid his power. The existence of Dmul was within the range of the head of the household’s expectations, but the rest was not.
In particular, the group of monsters that had turned into an army was truly unexpected.
In other words, a fight between many and many would occur.
So what Zaun needs most at this moment is a single stream that can control the group that moves uncontrollably.

“Feel the flow. Enki, you can do it. Haven’t you already had experience commanding a battlefield with your senses?”

Yes. The invisible wall blocked Azpen’s army. At that time, it was intuition that moved Encred. It was no different now.

Kkwarung.

The angry god bursts out his wrath through thunder.

pop!

He gestured toward the ground, cracking the ground with lightning. The storm grew stronger again.
Encred saw each raindrop split apart.
One of his two thoughts recognized the situation, and the other calculated it. It was a transformation of the wavebreaker sword.
Here, his intuition, which had now surpassed his five senses and was now accustomed to it, was triggered by learning from Sachsen. His intuition kept searching his mind and telling him the answer.
Things to do, things to create.

‘What should I do to win?’

The enemy has harmed the experienced soldiers of the friendly forces. This is to prevent them from forming a formation. Therefore, the most important thing here is a formation that will not collapse.

Whoosh!

Encred gathered his breath and gathered it in his abdomen. Then he exhaled the air he had gathered. The air he exhaled by applying pressure to his abdomen passed through his vocal cords and transformed into a sound, which was filled with meaning. Naturally, it was a sound that Will also shouted.

“Gajuu-! From that place! Seong-byeok!”

Short and thick words. Will you understand? You will.
If you don’t know, you will ask.
Gaju didn’t even look back. Encred only saw the back of his head, but he responded with actions.

Thud!

He sheathed his sword and drew a line on the floor.

“As the rain falls, the moat will automatically fill with water.”

He even joked around without answering. He said
that he was the wall and the path he drew with his sword was a moat.
He said that
he would not let the monsters gathered here dare cross his line.

“We!”
“Ja-un!”
“Walking the path of the sword!”
“We are seekers!”

Another person takes up the slack at Riley’s helm, and as Kata calls out, a nineteen-year-old girl from Zawn, brimming with talent, finishes her speech.

No matter what you do, you won’t be shaken anymore.

That was the wall that Gaju had built. It was more than Encred had asked for.
But it was still not enough. Gaju alone could not stop the waves of demons. He had built a central axis.
Encred brought his right hand up to his mouth and gathered his voice.

“Alexandra, ten steps to the right of the house! Rhinox, how well can you fight?”
“Are you asking me how well I can fight? Stop being so cocky. I’ve been wielding a sword since before you were born.”
“Just because you’ve been doing it for a long time doesn’t mean you’re good at it.”

In the meantime, he mixes in a joke. Why does he joke while his neck is still bloodshot? It’s like the intention of the head of the household who made the joke out of place. The stiff shoulders of those who saw the lined up monsters loosened.

‘Boosting the morale of our allies.’

Of course, that was what I was aiming for.

‘Then read the enemy’s flow.’

I guide that flow and confine the battlefield situation to my intention.
My intuition tingles my head. It feels like lightning is splitting into small pieces and piercing my brain.

“Anahera, you can go wild!”

At Encred’s scream, the shackles of the demon that had imprisoned the red blood were released.

“Hahahahahaha!”

Anahe usually suppresses her giant instincts. Otherwise, she would have killed many people around her.
However, in a battlefield where enemies are plentiful, there is no need to suppress her instincts.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The giant ran, kicking the wet dirt. Where she ran, mud spurted up to the left and right. As the fan-shaped mud spurted back down to the ground, Anajera encountered the group of monsters at the front. They
were in front of a group of lizards that could easily be considered
cavalry. If one were to look from above, it would have looked like a mad giant alone charging through the enemy.

“Intercept!”

Someone on the other side shouts. It was one of those who sympathized with Hescal.
A dozen or so arrows flew at him as he spoke. They weren’t even stray arrows, but arrows that were hidden among the monsters and shot straight at close range.

Peek, pook, thud.

A few missed and bounced off the skin, another hit the head but hit the iron helmet and fell.
And only one hit the forearm, but it was quickly pulled out by the violent movement and fell to the ground.
That was because it barely made it through the skin.
The giants’ skin was thick and hard. It meant that most arrows wouldn’t penetrate it.
Those who were trapped in Zaun must have forgotten that.
Encred knew that the hunters’ village was the enemy. Wasn’t there at least one sharpshooter among them?
No way.
But what guarantee was there that the arrow would work on the giant?
Just then, a few of the archers stopped drawing their bows in panic. A ripple shook the enemy group.
Then Anajera faced the scaler riding on the lizard.
The lizard opened its mouth wide and thrust its teeth like serrations, and the scaler on top of it stabbed with a short spear that was stained black.
Encrid couldn’t see it, but Anajera swung her sword with a smile, the corners of her lips twisting up.
She was a giant, and while she was intoxicated by instinct, she didn’t forget that it was a Zaun sword.
Therefore, what came out of her hands was Zaun’s swordsmanship.

Phew.

The left foot dug into the ground up to the ankle, and the power transmitted with the step was transferred to the sword that was swung vertically.
It was a half-moon slash in the middle sword style, swung with a lot of will.

Phew!

The combination of the giant’s strength and will split the lizard and the scaler riding on it vertically.

Phew!

Black blood poured out and soaked her helmet. The rain that kept pouring down quickly washed the blood away.

“All of them, huhuhuhu!”

The giant raised his head toward the sky and shouted.
Did he expect all this?
No. Encrid was just following his intuition.

“Cato, follow and guard Anajera’s back!”

As he spoke, Encred’s head kept turning left and right.
As soon as he gave the order, a group of enemy monsters were rushing towards the leader.

‘Even if I were Hascal, I would drain the power of the monster.’

It’s a tactic that wouldn’t be easy for a human army to implement.

‘There’s no reason why a monster army wouldn’t use this tactic.’

The monsters have no fear. Therefore, if you use them to weaken your power, it will be a good deal.
Did you know this in advance?
Not at all. You built the wall intuitively. The reason you built the wall was to significantly reduce the number of people who died here.
Lizard-riding scalers, ones with red scales mixed in with black scales, owlbears with steel feathers, and even ones that flew above them.
Such monsters formed a large formation and charged.
Gaju, Alex, and Rhinox blocked them.
Only three? No, there were three.
The knight was a disaster, and he cut the sky alone.
They could do the same.
Anajera attacked and Kato guarded from behind. Let those two alone. Both of them were clearly skilled at fighting together.
They were not suited for group battles.
Anajera would run wild without distinguishing between friend and foe, and if they used their instincts, they would be more than capable.

‘Kato fights with weapons hidden all over his body.’

In other words, it is efficient to fight surrounded by enemies. He went to various villages and honed his skills by sparring with many of them.
Then he developed into his current form.
Sometimes, you see people who are more specialized in actual combat than sparring, and Kato was exactly like that.
Encred sent the two out first to take advantage of that.
If you attack before the enemies charge, the formation will be disrupted.
It was not a monster, but it was like a monster grandfather.
The ones in front would inevitably get caught up in the melee.
Encred’s intention worked, and Hescal took out the group that was not caught up in the melee, reorganized the formation, and made a bypass.

‘You’re really smart.’

Hescal is smart. I feel this again.
However, he fought with his head, while Encred relied on his intuition.
So there is no need to panic. Did he figure out his intentions? Isn’t that possible? So all we had to do was respond to Hescal’s next move.
The other side’s plan was clear.

‘Let this side fight alone, and let that side fight in formation.’

Zawoon lost a man with a wealth of military experience.
Instead, he was replaced by a commander who had fought in countless battles in the Border Guard, a soldier who had climbed up from the bottom,
and who had learned the art of sword tactics from Luagarne.