Grieve and despair, and then unease were filling Arquette territory to the brim.
Inside the city that was surrounded by defensive wall, all the members of the vigilance corps were running around to evacuate the people as well as preparing the city defense.
The chaos was deepening with accelerated speed.
But that was only reasonable.
After all this was a situation that was without precedent even through the long history──the army of
passed through the front line of the desert area and appeared in penetration into the rear territory, such situation was visiting this place.
The trust toward the capital, the safety of the rear territory, and then even in the case that the front line was actually breached, at the very least there would be notification that gave time for evacuation at minimum. The terror of seeing those mon senses overturned like this was immeasurable.
The distorted expression of terror from the mass that were running about in pandemonium told the emotion they felt more eloquently than anything.
And then, the feudal lord mansion was similarly amidst such chaos, no, because they were grasping the situation more accurately than the mass, their state of being was even more terrible.
「Shit-, just what the hell this happen-」
「Isn't this some kind of illusion!? No matter what this is just strange!」
「How is the state of the defensive readiness progressing!? We won't hold with just the protective wall! Is the reinforcement by the art users not done yet!?」
「Is it possible to retreat!? Even if it's just her majesty we have to get her to escape……」
「Rather than that what is the capital is doing!? Don't they notice that the enemy has circled to the rear!?」
「The enemy ain't ing here by walking don't you see！It's too optimistic thinking that the capital noticed!」
It was a wild uproar. The excellent civil officers and vigilance corps members were raising angry yell to divert their mind from the negative emotions of despair and fear.
But, at that time,
「Don't get flustered!」
An overwhelming angry yell that excelled theirs resounded.
They who returned to their senses while going 'hah' moved their gaze. Over there they found the figure of the feudal lord Rothko. Although his expression was grim, but his posture was calm.
As though that was the signal, the next moment, the door of the temporary countermeasure room was opened with a sound *BAM*. The ones who entered were Koone, Anneal, Kouki, and then several members of the guard squad.
「Rothko. Koone sent several people from Koone's guards, especially Spike and Lilin to help with the defense preparation. The reinforcement of the defensive wall is being done by the blessing art users, you don't mind aren't you?」
「OF course. How is the understanding of the situation?」
「An army appeared and is surrounding us, that's all.」
Rothko nodded.
「From the report just now, the total number of enemy is five thousand. Even now the number is still increasing. We are pletely surrounded from four directions. The method of their appearance is unknown. It seems they are a mix of cow head species, scaled dragon species, eccentric species. Flying species and giant species aren't sighted.」
「……Calling it a small mercy, is impossible huh.」
All the
that Rothko reported were
that didn't cross two meter. The height of Arquette's defensive wall was around ten meter, but it wouldn't be able to prevent the invasion of
that could fly of giant type .
Therefore, they were able to avoid a situation where they would receive swift attack that penetrated to inside, however, the number of the enemy was too absurd to call it a small mercy.
Until the end Arquette was a material accumulation area in the rear. It more or less had protective wall and so on to be a temporary place for safe escape in the worst case that the capital was fallen.
But, in the first place the people of Synvlea wouldn't have a future by the point of time the capital was fallen. Therefore, there was no way that the existence of soldier force would exist when there was not even a mechanism like the oasis that weakened the . Until the end this place only had "vigilance corps" that consisted from the mon people.
To the end their role was to deal with dispute inside the territory, dealt with wild animal, and so on. So to speak their role was like police, their number also didn't reach a hundred.
Soldiers and art users who were really excellent went to the capital or the surrounding monitoring base that doubled as town, so it could be said to be only natural.
In other words, by the point of time they were surrounded by an army, there was no way to save Arquette.
Rothko spoke with a pained face.
「My deepest apology-, your highness. To invite you to this kind of mortal peril-」
「No one is able to predict this kind of situation. Rothko. Your decision from the beginning until the end is decisive and accurate. There is no need for you to feel responsible toward Koone.」
「Your highness……」
Perhaps it should be said, as expected from a royalty. Even in this kind of despairing situation, Koone wasn't shaken. The fortitude of this young girl who wasn't even ten years old yet made the people inside the room who were reeling to get a hold of themselves. Their expression became resolved one after another.
「Koone wish that the people can escape somehow but……」
Koone's grim expression conveyed how she was denying her own wish with her own prediction.
In respond to that Rothko's reply was also really concise.
「It's too late for that.」
Koone quietly nodded saying 「Isn't that right」.
「Then, the biggest problem right now, is whether the capital is noticing this abnormal situation or not.」
「Right. The underground vault of Arquette is tough. Right now goods are carried out from there in hurry. As soon as that's finished, we will evacuate the people inside. If we count the defensive wall, perhaps we will be able to hold out for about two days.」
「If the capital already know about this situation and they are already moving……at the fastest it will be one day. If that's not the case and we send out messenger……it will be about two and a half day. It will be just barely.」
In any case, they had to send messenger. The information that the
might be able to ignore the front line and appeared anywhere couldn't be let to stay "unknown" even in the worst case.
Even more important than calling for reinforcement, Moana absolutely had to be told about this fact.
While Koone and Rothko were discussing and deciding what they had to acplish at the end, the inside of Kouki's heart who was watching that was raging.
If it was himself from a bit of time ago, they he would surely go and slaughter the enemy in high spirits. He wouldn't believe even the smallest possibility that he might die, that if it him then it was surely possible without doubt, any other circumstances was rubbish in front of the "rightness" that protected the people. Such blind belief.
(Am I, am I going to kill again? Even when with Ragar, I was like that……. This time it will be several hundred, several thousand lives? Even though they too are also just trying to live? That kind of thinking is "mistaken". No, they are seeing human as livestock. ……Then, are they evil?)
He didn't understand, the correct choice-.
Kouki looked at his own hand. His hand was trembling was because he got a hunch of his own death. Because death was terrifying.
There was no strong soldier force here. As expected, he didn't have any confidence of surviving after taking on alone an army that surpassed five thousand strong. He didn't have any convenient principle in him. He understood that he would die when it was his time to die.
At the same time, he recalled the sensation of that time.
That vivid sensation that was more than "cutting flesh
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