Hey guys, I guess I lied about releasing this chapter yesterday since we are already the 3rd... Or at least for me it is :)
Hope you'll enjoy this chapter and don't hesitate to leave a comment behind, and if you saw a mistake please tell me.
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After traveling two days, Shina’s group finally arrived at the mountain of Yula. The mountain was situated only a few hours away from Aorlan’s capital.
On their way they passed through many villages, but most of them were empty. Although Theristid’s army didn’t harm the village as they would soon belong to them, it wasn’t the case for the slavers.
Following the army from behind, they could safely avoid any danger as they attacked the villages and enslave most of the villagers.
Thanks to this, a high number of villages were burned down and the inhabitants were enslaved.
Each time they passed through a village, Fiona’s eyes became watery, yet sharper and more resolved.
As they arrived at the top of the mountain, what they saw was the immense demihuman capital, Elorgia.
The building they could see inside the city were around the same as the ones in Holy Kiel; the city was founded by the hero who defeated the demon king at that time as a symbol.
But what attracted their attention wasn’t the city, but what was outside. It was an army, a vast and immense army who camped outside the city; Theristid’s army.
The city was totally encircled by the army, by looking at it alone it would be almost impossible to guess their number.
Estiel : “ Why did they bring all those soldier if the other side surrendered ?” She asked as she looked at the number of tents which exceeded ten thousand.
Inkvir : “ It’s to show off.” He said as he frowned.
Nuya : “ Show off? Aren’t they arrogant…” She said as she looked down on the many soldiers, narrowing her eyes.
Inkvir : “ Not necessary, this way they threaten the demihumans of what will happen if they disobey. It’s a psychologic strategy.”
Shina : “ Now that we are here, what do we do? Even if we are strong, we can’t possibly take on all of them by ourselves.” Shina asked as she carefully examined the soldiers.
Fiona : “ It would be foolish to attack head on against an army of this size. We must find a way to somehow enter the city. After this, we may be able to lead the soldier to resist them.”
Shina : “ I disagree, we use the fact that we are outside the city to make a sneak attack on them.” She said as she scanned the differents area of the army’s camp.
Estiel : “ Just as Fiona said, we can’t win by attacking them in front, it’s better to enter the city.” Estiel said as she agreed with Fiona’s proposition.
Inkvir : “ No… Shina’s right, being outside the city and having the advantage of them not being aware of us will make us able to greatly harm them. Moreover, even if we enter the city we won’t find an army strong to win the war.”
Eniel : “ Humu… Use their strategy by showing off our strength and when they begin to fight back, retreat, then repeat again and again.” She coldly said.
Shina : “ Not only that, our opponent need to eat and they can’t fight without eating. If we burn their ration they will have to retreat.” She said as she glanced at the army.
Shina : “ Kukuku, I wonder for how long the soldiers will continue to follow the orders without food and with the fear of dying under our attacks.” Shina said as she covered her mouth with her head and slightly laughed.
Both Estiel and Fiona couldn’t help but think ‘That girl truly is scary’ while Inkvir felt the need to meet the ones who educated Shina and lecture them.
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Inside Elorgia’s castle:
??? : “ My king, why did you allow the enemy to come this close of the capital ?! If we didn’t abandon Milde's Fort we could have held them back for a few months and ask the demon for help !”
Inside the castle’s throne room, a large demihuman in his forties is dressed in a full heavy armor which only left his tiger ears out is kneeling in front of a black haired man whose face seemed to tell that he was in his fifty.
The black haired man is the current king of Aorlan and Fiona’s father while the man kneeling is the main commander who is leading the country’s army.
Around them are many 4 children and 2 adult, 3 of the children are the king’s daughter while the last one was his second son. And the two adults are the crowned prince and the elder daughter who both were seventeen.
All of them were looking at the general kneeling in front of their father whose eyes seemed to be carrying hatred and suspicious.
King : “That’s enough Refalos, are you saying my decision was wrong ?” The king coldly threatened him.
Refalos : “ Of course not, but-...” He tried to answer, but he was cut in the middle of his phrase.
King : “ Then you may leave, just observe their army and report any of their movements.”
Refalos : “ Yes my king.” He said as he got up and left the room, clenching his fist and walking with fast steps.
‘DAMMNIT! He doesn't intend to do anything about this, does he not realize that if the capital fall we will be doomed? He didn’t allow me to prepare any defense and even ordered that if they start attacking we open the gates!’ Refalos though as he pounded his fist against the wall.
‘Also, the second prince wasn’t here, did he run away?... No, if he did then the king wouldn’t act as if nothing was wrong. There’s something suspicious here…he must have surrendered to the enemy. Even if you surrender I, Refalos Strovenski won’t ! I’ll defend this country with everything I have and until my death.’
With those though, the man walked out of the castle, toward the barracks, secretly ordering to the soldiers all who shared his thoughts to prepare for the tonight.
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Outside Elorgia, inside a certain tent, two men accompanied by a woman were discussing.
One of the men was Kerser, the crowned prince of Theristid who was leading an army of 400 000 soldier to conquer Aorlan.
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In front of him, a young teenager younger than him was comfortably sitting while showing an annoyed expression with by his side a beautiful young woman, the Holy Lady of the Church of Light.
Keniro : “What are we waiting for? Let’s just enter the city already, we don’t really have to wait for their princess to arrive, and did you really need her? I am sure there are many other beauties.” He said in a bored tone.
Kerser : “Please bear with it, normally I wouldn’t care about a dog like her, but after what her and her friend dared to do that day… I’ll make them pay for this!” The prince said as he pounded his fist against the table in front of him.
Keniro : “ Revenge heh? What did she do to make you this angry ?” He asked with a delighted smile as he leaned closer to Kerser, interested in the story.
Kerser : “It’s not truly her that I want, but her friend. I am sure she’ll follow her here, and when I’ll find her… That bitch dared hurt me, I won’t forgive her! I’ll take my time to educate her like the animal she is…” He snapped as he recalled what happened a few months ago during the school competition.
Keniro : “It was a girl?... Was she pretty? I can help you if it’s the case.” Keniro said as a lewd smile formed on his face.
Kerser : “ She is really young, but she’ll surely grow into a beautiful woman.”
‘Disgusting, if the hero and the future prince of our country are like this…’ The woman at their side though as listened to their conversation.
The Holy Lady, Siena Rieltiz was ordered to follow the hero and support him as she could. At first she thought of this mission as an honor and pitied the boy who was kidnaped from his world and forced to come here.
But after passing a few days with him she began to hate him, whenever he looked at her a lewd smile appeared on his face.
Moreover, the things worsened after the hero encountered the prince. As he discovered the existence of the slaves, he began to collect them and treated them as toys.
For Siena who was forced to follow him and listen to their unceasing debate about women, she couldn’t help but wonder why this boy was chosen as the hero and given all this power.
As the sun had already set some hours ago, the group went back to their tent to sleep, unaware of the disaster which would happen to them only a few moment after.
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As the night had fallen, Shina who was meditating with Pan on her head, a dozen of meter away from the group in order to increase her power opened her eyes and stood up, waking up the baby dragon at the same time.
Shina : “ It’s time huh…” She said as she looked at the starry sky and glanced at the two bright star of different color in the sky which looked like her parents eyes.
She then looked at the necklace made by mother the day she left for this world as she recalled the moment they passed.
She walked back to the campfire where everyone was previously resting for the upcoming battle. All of them were awake and the look in their eyes was sharp, not belonging to children of their age.
Only one was still asleep, it was the young demon boy, Rainte.
Shina : “Pan, Nuya, stay behind with him; we can’t let him by himself.” She said as she took Pan in her arm and put him down on the ground.
Nuya : “ We aren’t fighting ?!” She loudly yelled in surprise.
Pan : “ Guuuh…” Pan lowered his head and made a weak sound, showing his disagreement.
Estiel : “ You’ll eventually have your turn, but we can’t fight knowing that he is all by himself. What if he is attacked while we are fighting ?” Estiel argued, making both of them reluctantly agree.
Fiona : “Let’s go…” Fiona said as she threw a meaningful glance at the castle before moving toward the army.
For the assault, the group had planned to attack the army on three side. Fiona and Estiel on one side, Shina and Eniel on another, and Inkvir on the last one.
Although the girls wanted to stay grouped, it was Shina who asked to be divided.
Since she came to this world, she had never truly used the magic she learned from her parents. As she had mostly learned wide scale magic, she couldn’t use it in school or in the dungeon as it would kill innocent bystander or risk to make the dungeon collapse.
But here, on a wide battlefield, she had the possibility for the first time to use this magic. Even if Eniel was near, knowing her ability she was sure that she would be able to avoid her magic.
With this thought in mind, Shina concentrated her dark mana above her hand, forming a black ball who slowly absorbed the air around her.
As she concentrated her mana in the ball, the vacuum it produced became stronger and stronger, making the tree around her shake as the air was absorbed.
The black sphere continued to grow until it reached a diameter of 50cm, at this time the sphere stopped growing and absorbing the air around, an orb even darker started to form inside as she concentrated her mana inside.
Once done, the dark aura emanating from the black ball was tremendous. The whole preparation had taken her almost ten minutes and the whole area around her was corrupted by the dark mana.
With a movement of her hand, she threw the black orb toward the army, aiming to an area where she could see many spacious tents.
The orb collided with a soldier, making him fall on the ground as if he was hit by a stone.
Seeing the black orb in front of him, the soldier felt cold shivers down his spines as he stared at the strange black orb. Yet, curiosity won over his fear and after touching it a few time with his sword to make sure there weren’t any danger, he slowly picked the orb.
Shina who was staring at the camp felt sorry for what she was about to do, although she was trying to save Aorlan, she knew that the soldiers weren’t all bad peoples, that they were just following orders.
“I am sorry…” She muttered as she looked at the army, at this moment, the black orb in the soldier’s hand shone of a black light...