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Episode 605 Let’s go wild after a long time. (1)
The Allied soldier yawned long and hard atop the massive fortress.
“Hmm… … . It’s boring.”
It’s been two months since I came here.
At first, everyone was really nervous. Although I didn’t know the details, there was talk of fighting a large group of monsters and even a dragon.
But after two months, everyone started to relax a little.
When I thought about it, there was no reason to be afraid. No matter how strong the monsters and dragons were, could they defeat this great army sitting around the fortress?
The soldier looked back.
“Hiya… … . Just looking at it makes me feel secure.”
There are over a hundred large catapults lined up in a row.
That’s not all. There are hundreds of knights and dozens of wizards waiting.
It was a large army of nearly 50,000 soldiers.
Hunters were also stationed in each fortress, as they were veterans in hunting monsters.
The Fenris mercenaries, now the largest mercenary group on the continent, were all called up and stationed in each fortress.
A huge force was huddled in one fortress. There were more than ten of these fortresses blocking the Shadow Mountains.
It was obvious that any monsters that came rushing in would be destroyed.
The soldiers became more and more relaxed and chattered.
“Ah, I thought the war was over and I could go home.”
“That’s right. Why were you suddenly dragged here to fight some monster?”
“But it’s better than the war, right? The monsters are weaker than you think.”
In fact, monsters did appear sporadically. However, there were only a few hundred at most, and they were all flattened by catapults before they could even approach the fortress.
Since they couldn’t get close to the fortress, the soldiers had no reason to fight. As this situation repeated itself, naturally everyone became relaxed.
One hunter clicked his tongue at the sight of those soldiers.
“Hey guys. Don’t let your guard down so much. The Monster Wave isn’t that easy.”
The soldiers laughed at the hunter’s words.
“No, there are more monsters than us, so why are you scared?”
“If you keep acting like that, you won’t be able to approach the fortress.”
“If you’re a hunter, you must have a lot of experience with monsters, so why are you more scared than us?”
The hunter continued speaking without hiding his displeasure at the soldiers’ laughter.
“This is the front line fortress. When the monster wave starts, the most monsters will come and this is where you have to fight them first. What’s so funny about that?”
The fortress they were in was located in the part of the long fortress closest to the mountain range, at the crossroads where the most monsters appeared.
This is also a fort that is abandoned in the worst case scenario, as it serves as a way to buy time for other forts to prepare when too many monsters appear.
That is why there is another fortress in the rear area of this fortress. This means that troops deployed here must be prepared to die, unlike troops deployed elsewhere.
But despite the hunter’s words, the soldiers still did not lose their composure.
“So this is where the most troops are deployed?”
“Have you ever stopped a monster with this many troops before?”
“Is it because you’re a hunter? You don’t seem to know our strengths very well. I mean, our allied forces that won the war.”
The Turian Hunters did not participate in this war. They were responsible for guarding the surrounding area while the monsters fought the rift, and hunting down any monsters that escaped into the area.
After that, I was stationed back at the fortress and only occasionally went up to the Shadow Mountains.
In the first place, Marquis Yulien and Gideon only took regular troops and joined the Allied Forces.
The hunter, who heard the soldiers’ laughter, just licked his lips. He also understood why they acted like that.
‘If it’s really this army, they might be able to easily stop a monster wave… … .’
He also inwardly agreed with the soldiers’ words. He had never seen such a large force in a fortress.
A Fenris mercenary approached and tapped the hunter on the shoulder, smiling.
“Don’t worry about it. If your original job is different, you won’t understand.”
The mercenaries had not yet relaxed. To be exact, they were still tense because of the orders given by Giselle.
Because they believed that Giselle would not have prepared so thoroughly for nothing.
In this way, the soldiers, hunters, and mercenaries continued to wait in the fortress, subtly keeping each other in check.
Occasionally, monsters would appear, but their number was at most a few hundred. So even when new monsters appeared, the soldiers did not show much reaction.
Kaaaaang!
From afar, monsters began to creep closer. What started out as a few monsters soon grew to dozens and hundreds.
“Oh my, here it comes again.”
“It seems a bit much today.”
“Even so, it’ll be over with just a few catapult shots.”
“If that’s the case, why don’t they come out all at once?”
“Hahaha, well then. It would be better to end it all in one go.”
Everyone laughed leisurely and loaded their catapults.
The commanders also did not scold the disorganized soldiers, because life in this fortress was a constant tedium for them as well.
“Shoot!”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
At the commander’s shout, the rocks from the catapult flew without mercy. The monsters were killed by the rocks before they could even approach the fortress.
The soldiers looked triumphant at the sight.
“Tsk tsk, sometimes I feel sorry for you.”
“I don’t know why you keep coming at me when you’re no match for me.”
“What would a monster know? We’ll be more tired if we go back to picking up rocks.”
The hardest part for them was replenishing the rocks to be used in the catapults.
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Because of Giselle’s orders, we had already gathered enough rocks to fill one side of the fortress, but an order was given to fill up as much as we used up in the middle.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
There were a few more attacks than usual. The monsters that had been running ahead were already covered in blood.
As the dust began to settle, one soldier frowned.
“Hey, a few more came out later.”
The soldiers grumbled and threw the rocks again.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
“Huh? It came out again later?”
“There are really more today.”
“Even so, there are only a few dozen of them?”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Several more catapult attacks occurred. By then, the soldiers had begun to feel something was a little strange.
“Again… …you came out?”
“Why… … doesn’t it seem to be decreasing?”
“That… What is that?”
It wasn’t like anything had increased significantly. But no matter how many times I shot the catapult, monsters kept appearing.
The soldiers paused their slingshot attack for a moment to check the situation and looked in the direction the monsters were coming from.
Clearly, at first, there were only a few dozen monsters. While I was watching for a moment, the number of monsters increased to hundreds.
The writhing monsters seemed to spread out further and further. Before I knew it, they had grown to a size of several thousand.
Unlike the beginning, the rate of increase was getting faster and faster.
Only then did tension begin to appear on the soldiers’ faces.
“The monsters keep increasing?”
“It’s increasing too fast!”
“Above, above, tell me. Tell me quickly!”
Before we knew it, the monsters had swelled to tens of thousands. The endless, writhing, colorful waves began to fill the horizon.
With each blink of an eye, the monster army expanded like a living organism.
Kaaaaang!
Kuoooooo!
The roars of monsters echoed from all directions and shook the earth.
The ear-piercing howl froze the hearts of those who heard it.
Kwah! Kwah! Kwah!
The earth groaned as the large monsters moved: giant ogres, mountain-like trolls, and snarling bugbears.
Their footsteps uprooted trees and crushed rocks.
Kaaaaah!
Darkness descended, the sun being obscured as winged predators like wyverns and griffons covered the sky like black clouds.
Sharp teeth, beaks, and claws flashed across the sky, casting a shadow of death.
In addition, countless small and medium-sized monsters surged forward like an endless tidal wave. They advanced, covering the ground like a living carpet.
It seemed as if it would swallow up everything in front of it. A disaster that would swallow everything was unfolding before the fortress.
“Emergency! Emergency! Monster Wave! Monster Wave has begun!”
“Everyone get to your seats! Get moving!”
“This is an all-out attack! We have to stop them somehow! Don’t let them approach the walls!”
The shouts of commanders could be heard from all over the place. The faces of the soldiers were pale with fear.
I used to think of monsters as a joke because I could deal with them quickly even when hundreds of them appeared. This was because I had never personally experienced the monster waves of the Turian Kingdom.
Since they had previously been able to block waves of monsters with much less force, there was some degree of confidence that had grown.
The hunters who were blankly staring outside the fortress muttered.
“It’s incomparable to anything I’ve seen so far.”
“Someone said earlier that they wanted to take care of everything at once… … What an unlucky thing to say.”
“This time, Duke Fenris was right.”
It was different from the countless monster waves I had seen before. It really felt like all the monsters in the Shadow Mountains had jumped out at once.
If a monster wave like that had occurred in the past, the fortress would have been destroyed long ago.
The hunters who saw the monsters running towards them felt goosebumps all over their bodies.
“That’s… … not everything… … .”
The Shadow Mountains are very long. There are fortresses at all the major locations where monsters appear.
Wherever those fortresses are, monsters will be running right now.
Of course, it will take a little longer since it is located behind this fortress.
It was a sight that would leave even experienced hunters breathless. However, even in this situation, there were people who were burning with fighting spirit.
“It’s okay! The captain already told me that there would be a lot of them!”
“I told you I could stop it! Don’t be scared!”
“I wasn’t scared? It wasn’t you who was scared?”
Only the Fenris mercenaries were preparing for battle with their faces brightened.
These are mercenaries who have gathered from all over the place. The mercenaries who are active in different regions do not even know each other’s faces.
But they felt a strong bond simply because they were members of the same Fenris Mercenary Group.
Unlike before, Giselle is now the best captain for them. This is because Giselle has invested a lot of money and continued to support them.
Of course, there was also the pride of having the strong aura of the Duke of Fenris and the reputation of being the strongest and largest mercenary group on the continent.
“Come on! Let’s fight to the death today!”
“Wow!”
Mercenaries were wielding their weapons and shouting loudly in someone’s barracks. Even the Allied soldiers were encouraged by the sight of them.
The Fenris Mercenaries trusted Giselle. Most of them had never met her face to face, but everything went well when they did what Giselle told them to do.
Thanks to the mercenaries’ confident spirit and shouts, the fortress’ troops were able to gather their courage to some extent.
They too had gained a lot of experience through the war. Before long, all the soldiers began to show a sharp spirit.
“Shoot!”
Over a hundred catapults moved in unison. Huge rocks shot in parabolic arcs across the sky.
Boom! Kwah! Kwaaaang!
A spectacle unfolded as if meteors were raining down from the sky. The rocks fell into the middle of the monster army, crushing dozens of them.
The shock that shook the earth and the screams of monsters spread out in all directions.
Hundreds of monsters fell at once, but hundreds more immediately followed to take their place.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Kuoooooooo!
The thick hide and solid muscles of the large monsters were stronger than expected. It was clear that they were already half-mad and could not even feel pain.
Those who were still breathing, their bodies torn to pieces and their bones shattered, ran to the fortress, howling.
Before we knew it, the monsters had gotten so close that even catapults were difficult to handle.
“Magic! Fight them with magic! Target the large monsters first!”
At the commander’s shout, the wizards cast their spells with desperate expressions.
Kwaaaaang!
Pillars of fire, lightning, and spears of ice struck the large monsters.
Although quite a few monsters were defeated, the number of monsters was too great to handle.
The ogres continued to advance, dragging their burning bodies, while the trolls roared and charged even after being struck by lightning.
“It’s impossible to block everything with magic!”
“Archers, shoot! Don’t spare your arrows, shoot wildly!”
Paaaaak!
The archers’ baptism of arrows began. A cloud of arrows covered the sky and rained down on the monsters.
Small monsters fell to the ground after being hit by arrows, but the arrows did not penetrate the thick hides of large monsters.
But there was no way. Strategy and tactics were meaningless here. Victory or defeat would be determined by how strong the attack was and how many attacks were made.
“Don’t stop! Don’t stop!”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Paaaaak!
Rocks, arrows, and magic were scattered across the battlefield in countless numbers.
In an instant, thousands of monsters died, but many more came rushing in.
The soldiers had a weary look on their faces. Even the fight against the Crackers wasn’t like this.
Although the Crackman was fast and strong, his body was no different from that of a human soldier.
So, no matter how many there were, if there were many of them, they were worth fighting against. In particular, magic had an overwhelming power over them.
However, they are not monsters. There were monsters similar to or weaker than the Crackers, but most of them had stronger physical abilities than the Crackers.
The monsters were charging forward recklessly, relying on their strong bodies. Their numbers were as numerous as the cracks that had expanded their territory.
“This is… … a real monster wave… … .”
Someone muttered in thought. I had heard that there were a lot of them, but I didn’t know it would be this much.
The attack worked, but there were so many enemies that the attack was meaningless. I had no idea what to do.
All they could do was keep fighting.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
They all attacked without stopping to survive. The archers’ calluses on their hands burst and the magicians’ magic power was depleted.
Some of the catapults were being loaded too quickly, causing the cables to snap. The rocks that had been collected were also falling.
At that moment, the sky suddenly darkened. The flying monsters had arrived at the fortress before the monsters on the ground.
Kaaaah!
A variety of flying monsters began to dive towards the fortress.
“Watch out! It’s coming from above!”
As if the shout of one archer was a signal, screams of terror echoed from all directions.
The flying monsters quickly approached, snatching the soldiers with their sharp claws and beaks and throwing them into the sky.
The fortress began to fall into chaos as flying monsters attacked.
A crow that was hovering in the meantime was eaten by a wyvern descending on the fortress.
– This insolent bastard! Kekeke!
Unfortunately, the crow’s cry was drowned out by the roar of the monsters and the shouts of the soldiers.