Chapter 476
“— Pardon , your Excellency . The enemy’s offensive at the front gate is fierce . Shall we send a part of our squad for reinforcent?”
“His Majesty hasn’t given the order yet ... but the extent of this situation is within our discretion . ”
I could hear such a conversation upon listening carefully .
The one who proposed sending reinforcent was Mr . Eliwood, a strong elf, the vice-captain who was in charge of commanding “Gladiator” on our side .
“I think it’s necessary to keep the third squad in close contact with the enemies . ”
“Hmm, indeed ... understood, let’s mobilize so infantryn for central support . I’ll take direct command . May I leave this position in your hands, Lord Eliwood?”
“Please, leave this to , General . ”
“If the enemy moves, I’ll return imdiately . Also, if there is sothing wrong with the wall, I’ll deal with it promptly — . ”
General Gesenburg went to reinforce the main gate .
For a brief mont, I was considering leaving my post, since it was only a few hundred ters ahead . Even if the Crusaders started to move, the General would have made it back here before they could approach the wall . That being the case, I decided to check enemy movents as well as their destination to confirm it with my own eyes .
As Mr . Eliwood said, it would be better to not fuss over my post rather than letting the soldiers run amok . Both the center and the left side of the southern wing were undergoing fierce battles that could use so reinforcents .
“Oh, Kurono, Grandpa Goat is coming here — . ”
Soon after, I received a telepathic communication from Lily . She reported the movent of General Baphot that she witnessed .
“General Gesenburg is temporarily reinforcing the central . ”
“Should Lily go too?”
“No, stand by right where you are . Let’s focus on our defense here . ”
“Yeah, understood — . ”
Suddenly, Lily’s voice was cut off .
“Huh, Lily? What happened?”
I called out to her aloud, but the usual childish and cute reply never ca .
“Hey, Lily? Can you hear ? The telepathy is broken off . ”
My many attempts to call out to her ended up in vain monologue .
Weird . An obvious anomaly was happening – though my intuition strongly suggested that, there were no observable changes in particular . The enemy must have attacked Lily’s post, but I could not see any skirmish going on . Lily was unhard, and still maintaining her position .
Whether I looked to the right or the left, the appearance of Spada soldiers and adventurers waiting in vain for the Crusaders on top of the walls, remained unchanged .
Huh, could a magic that interfered with Telepathy have been utilized ...?
“Ugh, what’s the aning of this?! The communication device isn’t getting through! Hey, give the spare — . ”
It was vice-captain Eliwood complaining about the telepathy that failed to work .
Apparently, it wasn’t because Lily’s condition had worsened, but the Telepathy itself did not seem to work .
“As expected, it’s jamd ... no, wait . ”
Right then, I finally noticed the true identity of the anomaly .
“... It’s awfully quiet . ”
Mr . Eliwood started yelling about sothing to his subordinates . I could still hear the chatters and buzzes around of the adventurers and Spada soldiers .
But it was not as loud as a battlefield should be .
I could not hear anything except for the noises from my imdiate surroundings .
Until just before, I could still hear the noises of the battle that started in the far center and left side of the southern wing . But right now, I just realized that I could not hear anything at all .
Telepathy was not the only thing being blocked . Sound — .
“— Hey! What is this?! I can’t get through!!”
At that ti, soone yelled .
“Woah, for real! What is this ...?”
“Damn! Who cast a defense spell in such a place?!”
“Crap, this is solid!”
Just like that, the adventurers began to cause a ruckus .
Apparently, transparent defense magic had been activated to block the passage .
“D-don’t tell — . ”
I looked carefully at my left and right again .
The roaring adventurers were banging and kicking the invisible wall . Being absolutely transparent, I thought it seed like a Light elent defense magic but ... different . Perhaps that was so other kind of magic .
“Vice-captain! This is terrible . The passage on this side is blocked by a mysterious barrier!”
In the opposite direction from the adventurers, the passage on that side leading to the center was also blocked by a transparent wall that suddenly appeared, one Spada Knight reported .
The left and right of the passage had been blocked .
No, it was not just the passage .
It was subtly visible if I tried to sense it . The existence of a glass-like transparent wall that shone faintly could be detected . In front of , on my sides, all around .
“— Are we trapped?”
The transparent barrier seed to form a giant rectangle .
It covered this 50-ter castle wall on all sides, including the passages we stood on, and covered all four sides .
Since when? Without any one of us realizing, this transparent and invisible cage had been created .
“W-what is this?! What’s going on?!”
Vice-captain Eliwood exclaid with a raised voice in astonishnt . He seed to notice the sa thing I did and perfectly understood the predicant this fort Galahad had been put in .
Clearly, this phenonon was not a barrier utilized to defend the castle wall .
If this was not a move from our side, then the Crusaders must be the one responsible for this .
As if emphasizing their point, the Crusaders began to mobilize .
“Hey, this can’t be ... . ”
Though I had no clue what kind of magic they utilized, I found out what the Crusaders’ target was .
This transparent wall extended up like a staircase from the ground where the snow had fallen and piled up . It was a big staircase .
The transparent barrier started about 10 ters to my left and right . In other words, it was about 20 ters wide across, with a vertical length that covered the castle wall from the ground up, which was about 50 ters .
The stairs spanned the entire width of 20 ters .
And the final destination of the stairs was the repaired breach in the wall, between the ground where we were standing and the passageway on top of the 50 ters majestic wall .
“Are they planning to climb on this and siege the castle directly like that?!”
Doubting my sight, I kept rechecking my surroundings again and again . To my right, Fiona was clinging to the other side of the wall . Her expression was unusually impatient .
To my left, I could see Lily in a similar state . She was sticking to the wall that blocked the passage and seed to be shouting sothing while on the verge of tears .
And when I looked ahead — .
“— All army, advance! Attack!!”
“Kill the demons!”
“Destroy the demons!”
“Sacrifice Pandora to the gods!”
“May Gods be with us!!”
The Armor Knights pushed forward . The large Crusade Army began advancing violently as well . Their only opponents were us, standing on this 20-ter wide walkway . Our total number was roughly 100 or so .
A dium-size squadron . In a nutshell, it was about as many as the Adventurer Alliance who fought together in Alsace .
Indeed, while we were among the tens of thousands of allies in this battlefield, but currently isolated without access to reinforcents .
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