Chapter 143: Towards the Mahl Republic・Japanese Style Guild’s Strength
There’s a line this chapter that ntions “seven misfortunes and eight pains”. After so research I found out that it refers to Yamanaka Yukimori but since I’m too lazy to try to explain everything I’ll just copy-paste and excerpt so you know what the line ant.
“There is a famous anecdote of Yukimori praying under a crescent moon, vowing to endure “Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains” (a Buddhist term of hardship) in exchange for realizing his desire to revive the Amago clan.”
Enjoy the chapter.
The base of our strategy this ti around is to fight while riding on our horses and give priority to not getting surrounded.
In a certain way, you could say their plan to aim at Tobi’s horse from the start was good.
「Dorya!」 (Hind)
「!!」
By ramming my Grado Turk into the other person, his horse was blown away.
This is quite fun…! It felt like I was riding a heavy tank.
This shows just how much of a difference there is between a Grado Turk and a normal horse.
「Take this as an extra!」(Tobi)
Then, towards the horse that had fallen over, Tobi threw kunais at it.
These ones gave a status ailnt called 『Deadly Poison』. They were sared with highly concentrated poison.
The horse was on the verge of death and since the opponent didn’t have enough ti to heal it, it disappeared.
Like this, we kept getting rid of their mobility.
Anyway, we didn’t stop and just kept going forward.
If we get closer to them, they’ll try to avoid having friendly fire and will not use long range attacks.
「Hahaha! Look at this difference in mobility! Do your best to try to catch !」(Yumir)
Yumir slashed at the opponent’s horse when they passed by each other with her longsword.
The most important fact for this strategy is the system of 「If the HP of your mount is gone, it’ll get transferred to the nearest stable」.
If you heal the mount, it’s possible for them to remain, but since corpses don’t remain, it’s not possible to revive them.
Using this fact, we kept sending their horses towards the stables.
Common horses have really low HP so a single attack from Yumir is able to kill them.
And the reason we can say we’ll win even with our limited number is because of these Grado Turks.
This high HP that won’t make them stop even if they were to get hit by a few arrows-…whops!
「!?」(Hind)
「Whoa! Grado Turks are the best!」(Tobi)
「Yeah! Ending like this when it’s only two of us, I can’t stop smiling!」(Yumir)
This speed makes them able to dodge even the magical attacks of the enemies. As you’d expect from the reward for winning the tournant.
Yumir and I (though Tobi was also riding with us) were going around the enemy camp aiming at their horses.
The mbers with rental horses were focused on evading and defending themselves, their priority was to obstruct the people that started casting.
At the beginning, this strategy was going well but…the opponents gradually started to compose themselves…
「-Adah, dah!? Hind-dono, the Grado Turks are starting to get hit by long distance attacks–buh!」(Tobi)
「That hurts! Tsk, I guess the opponents have started to get used to our speed…we are falling back!」(Hind)
「Understood!」(Tobi)
Yumir should still be fine for now, but the Grado Turk we were riding was in critical condition.
I poured one of the crafted interdiate potions on the Grado Turk and began casting 『Healing Plus』.
Tobi threw a bo-hiya towards the horses that were chasing us, furthermore, he started throwing kunais since they had low CD.
I was sohow able to finish casting and the Grado Turk’s HP was back to full.
The opponent’s horses were reduced to about half their numbers so the fight had started to get easier but…
「!」(Hind)
「Nuoh!?」(Tobi)
As if aiming at the mont I was thinking of sothing else, a guy jumped from his horse towards us while wielding a dagger.
I tried to raise my staff in a panic, but I won’t make it in ti! Just when I was readying myself to take so damage, a voice could be heard.
「Hind-kun!」(Selene)
A powerful arrow ca flying and hit the enemy’s body dead center.
Wielding a crossbow that was smaller than what she used normally, Selene-san ca over to get us, who were withdrawing and started to run parallel to us.
I…I thought that was going to give a heart attack…
「Selene-dono! Our savior!」(Tobi)
「Thank you very much, Selene-san! That timing was just perfect! Love you!」(Hind)
「L-Love…!?」(Selene)
Selene-san turned bright red.
Even though we were in the middle of a battle, she started to fidget, then I realized what I just blurted out and started to panic.
「…It was a spur of the mont thing right? It just happened right? That’s the case right? It was not as if he was saying his true feelings right? Ah, I should think that it was so sort of suspension bridge effect because he was saved when he was in a pinch-」(Riizu)
「Hiiii!? Riizu-dono, where did you co from!?」(Tobi)
Suddenly, grumblings could be heard from just behind us.
Chills started to crawl up my spine and I started to shiver. Then I looked towards Riizu, who was looking at with a dark expression.
「Y-Yeah. I-It was just a spur of a mont thing and I got excited…I’m sorry, Selene-san.」(Hind)
「Y-Yes. I don’t…mind? Yes…」(Selene)
While saying that, Selene-san looked slightly disappointed.
I’m really sorry…on the other hand, light returned to Riizu’s eyes and she smiled sweetly.
「Be careful, OK? Hind-san.」(Riizu)
「M-My bad…those weren’t words that I should have said half-heartedly…」(Hind)
「That’s right. Leaving that aside, I’ll definitely be the one that cos to rescue Hind-san next ti.」(Riizu)
As soon as my life was saved, I was assaulted by fear that it would take years off my life you know?…Though it was my own fault.
I then bowed to never say another thoughtless remark even if my life was in danger.
While we were talking, we never stopped moving and we used the wide field to continue our retreat.
「Muh, Yumir is going too deep…」(Hind)
「Leave it to !」(Selene)
While saying that, she loaded another bolt and accurately hit the horse of the person that was chasing behind Yumir.
「Oh!? Secchan, that really helps!」(Yumir)
Selene-san might be the person that’s standing out the most in this group fight.
All the bolts she’s shooting are proving to be effective.
Maybe she realized that she was in a bad position from the attack just now, Yumir rushed through the enemies and started to co over here.
「Senpai, save . Help.」(Siesta)
「…!?」(Hind)
A frail voice could be heard from sowhere.
I started to look around and Tobi pointed towards a certain place.
「Ah! Hind-dono, the mbers of Baby Bird are in trouble!」(Tobi)
It might be because their horses were gone, Siesta-chan, who had raised her voice was casting magic while standing behind Lycoris-chan.
Cineraria-chan was shooting arrows towards the enemies’ horses to keep them in check.
While going around in circles around the mbers of Baby Birds, the PKs who were riding on horses were slowly closing in.
「You two, go support Yumir!」(Hind)
「Got it!」(Riizu)
「Understood!」(Selene)
「…Tobi!」(Hind)
「Yeah!」(Tobi)
Since most of his throwable items were on CD, Tobi placed his hands on my shoulders to support himself and did a sorsault.
He easily switched places with and went to the front and took the reins of the horse, then rushed towards the mbers of Baby Bird.
While obstructing the enemies with the 『Grado Turk』, I pierced the enemies’ horses with kunais as they ca back up from CD.
Thanks to the enemies being distracted, Siesta-chan was able to finish casting 『Heavens Ray』 and blew the enemies away.
「Ooh! Hind-dono, your throwing accuracy is so high! Not bad!」(Tobi)
「I’m always throwing spells around while you guys are moving all over the place. I can do at least this much.」(Hind)
「Ooh, senpai is so cool. I might fall in love with you all over again.」
Having converged with Siesta-chan, she made a gesture as if she was poking with her elbow.
Though she wasn’t reaching at all because we were riding on a horse.
Looking relieved, Lycoris-chan and Cineraria-chan took a breath and ca towards us and bowed.
「「Thank you very much!」」
「Don’t try too hard and support us from a bit further behind. If enemies co, be sure to call us over.」(Hind)
「「Yes!」」
Like this, we kept supporting each other. However, it was gradually becoming a situation where we couldn’t get past the difference in numbers.
Though, if we were to gain the upper hand 『Night’s Edge』 would begin to retreat. You could say that would be good but…
Yumir, who was moving around energetically, didn’t have any choice but to act as an escort for the mbers of Baby Bird who had lost their horses and we had to gradually move back as a group like the first ti.
「Hind-san, at this rate…!」(Riizu)
「Kuh, are they not here yet!? Mitsuyoshi-san and the others reinforcents!」(Hind)
Our party was at its limits, the mont I shouted that…
…Arrows, stones, fire, water, wind, earth, darkness, light rained from the sky.
There’s no penalties for preemptively attacking orange nad people.
They were better in terms of quality and quantity compared to 『Night’s Edge』, the planned long range attacks rained incessantly on top of the enemy ranks.
「Kept you waiting! …Don’t let anyone get away! Forward!」(Mitsuyoshi)
「「「Yeaaah!!」」」
With Mitsuyoshi-san’s order, the armored players simultaneously charged forward.
Due to the abrupt reinforcents, 『Night’s Edge』 shrank back and stopped their movents.
「…! Drive them away! Beat them up!」
From within their ranks, one person finally raised his voice.
As if the shackles that bound him ca undone with his voice, he started to run away in the direction opposite of 『Town of Canaris』 we ca from, towards 『Port Notos』.
However, he imdiately froze again.
Having split into two groups, the mbers of the 『Japanese Style Guild “Rin”』 cut the PK guilds escape route from the 『Port Notos』 side.
「Kukuku…I wonder where were you planning to go?」
Along with those words, the one that stepped forward was a young man wearing a helt with antlers in the form of a crescent moon.
I don’t know who he’s trying to imitate with that…ah, that military commander of the seven misfortunes and eight pains.
Carrying a spear on his shoulder, he calmly led the Japanese style forces towards us.
「Alright, people, let’s join the party! Divine punishnt to the outlaws!」
「「「Divine punishnt!」」」
「They sure are getting into it, Mitsuyoshi-san and co…looks like they are having fun.」(Hind)
「We are going too, Hind!」(Yumir)
「 too! Vengeance for my rental horse! Divine punishnt!」(Tobi)
「Tobi-kun is also getting into it.」(Selene)
Having reached this point, fortunately we had decreased the number of horses on their side.
The PKs practically couldn’t escape and were caught, resisting was their only option left.
Furthermore, their numbers should have been about the sa but…the strength of the 『Japanese Style Guild “Rin”』 was on another level…
There were so that tried to escape by jumping into the sea but having been surrounded, 『Night’s Edge』 was annihilated after a few minutes.
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