The next day.
By the ti it was afternoon, the five of us each were riding on the back of an ignis dragon with 8 ril birds leading in front.
We would be reaching the fortress where the lich was supposed to be in less than five minutes. I thought it would take us longer to be honest. We’re not going as fast as we could, as we’re being wary of any possible surprise attacks, but the ignis dragon and the ril birds are still so fast.
We specifically picked out a ti unfavorable to the undead. This morning after readying our equipnt, we had a eting, then we left right after an early breakfast, but I didn’t think we would actually arrive in less than an hour.
I’m grateful for my allies. Their fire and wind magic whenever we encountered a battle was invaluable.
Moreover, I hear Rheinbach-sama has a magical beast under him that excels at detecting enemies. It’s called assassin snake. With it’s help we’ll be able to find where the victims are. An excellent tool both for ambushing and defending against ambushes.
We tested the magic tool I created with Kanan before leaving, and we found out that It’ll break after extended use, but it’s newly built, so it probably won’t fail us during so crucial mont. At least unless it gets destroyed.
“Oh?” [Shiva]
The fortress is nowhere to be seen, but the ignis dragons have already started to descend. Rheinbach-sama seems to have ordered them to. Did sothing happen?
Upon landing I asked Shiva-san if sothing happened.
“The ignis dragons saw the fortress on alert. It looks like so adventurers have attacked ahead of us. There were also two living wyverns and the corpse of a large bird-type magical beast you don’t normally see around here. A saddle was attached on both of the wyverns, so an adventurer must’ve been controlling them. The area surrounding the fortress is crawling with undead, so the lich is definitely in the fortress.” [Shiva]
“It’s common for a lich to use the undead, but to think it could also use wyverns.” [Rheinbach]
“If it can control slave demons too, then the beasts on our side might end up under its control.” [Remiri]
“High-ranked magical beasts and magical beasts with a lot of magic power have a natural resistance against contracts and curses, but yes, they might still end up controlled anyway.” [Rheinbach]
It seems the reason Rheinbach-sama had us land was to discuss whether to continue with our plan or not.
We discussed a bit after that, and in the end, we decided to revise the plan we made this morning.
The original plan was to split into two groups. One land and one air. With , my slis, Shiva-san, and Sebasu-san in the land group, while Rheinbach-sama and his ignis dragons would fight from the air with Remiri-neesan and the ril birds.
It was a plan we originally ca up with in case the lich tried to run away by flying again, so this ti we revised it to prioritize dealing with the wyverns.
The slave demons would be fine as long as we found the lich first, and not give him the leeway to cast the Curse of Obedience. As for the undead, the grave slis should be able to handle them. I’m sure not even the lich would have the magic power to try and usurp control over a horde of more than 10,000 slis.
After making those changes to our plan, we rode on the ignis dragons, and once again made way for the fortress.
After flying for a while, a cliff that had been roughly leveled to create a crossroad ca to view. At the center was an open space shaped like a deford circle, outside of which was a wall that only reached up to one’s hips. Beyond that wall were the castle walls, and then past that was a clumsily built one-story structure.
The walls were made from the stones of the cliff. The stones used were not uniform, and each and every single one of them were littered with earth and sand all over. In contrast, the gate on the castle walls was cleanly built, and the undead could enter in and out as its two doors opened outwards.
It’s ti...
In that tense atmosphere, Rheinbach-sama gave the signal to land, and those of us in the land group landed in one of the paths of the crossroad.
The unfortunate undead in the landing zone were either roasted by the dragons or squashed upon landing, while the undead that didn’t get killed, sluggishly ran away from the place.
Good! They’re not attacking us!
I quickly unfastened the tal fixtures needed to ride the dragons, and got off. Everyone else aside from , the dragons and the ril birds included, were tensed and extrely wary.
I took out the slis from my Dinsion Ho, instantly filling the road extending to the fortress.
“Go!” [Ryouma]
As soon as I gave the command, the iron and tal slis jumped out to lead the charge, with the grave slis following from behind. Among the slis were also 120 magic-using slis that were covered in tal slis. The mimic sli was behind , transford in my figure, and equipped with an iron sli katana.
As the horde of slis pushed on, they turned into a wave of force that gradually took down the slow undead that couldn’t run in ti as they made way for the frotress.
When we neared the fortress—
“I found so survivors! There’s three of them in front!” [Rheinbach]
Rheinbach-sama found so of the survivors, and he pointed them out from above. In front of stood three n with expressionless faces just like Oslo-san and his group. They cut a road through the undead as they made their way toward us. When they got past the undead, they started cutting the iron slis at the lead. When Sebasu-san saw that, he said.
“They’re attacking everything.” [Sebasu]
I don’t know what order they got, but they’re attacking the zombies, who should be their allies, all the while, also attacking the slis... But this isn’t really the ti to be wondering.
“Sebasu-san.” [Ryouma]
“It’s ready.” [Sebasu]
We decided beforehand to throw the survivors into Sebasu-san’s Dinsion Ho after catching them, so I checked with Sebasu-san if he was ready.
After hearing his response, I ordered the sli to open a path. Then I ran for the adventurers.
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