Knights & Magic - Chapter 118: Part 2

“Deploy the second company on the ground. Let’s move to fill in the holes of the clans as a back-up.”

“We could kick the crap out of a giant if we had to, but are you sure you want to go backwards?”

“If nothing happens, we can go a little crazy. But there’s something else we should be wary of.”

“The Beast of Filth. If they’re not here, they’ve done well, haven’t they?”

Dietrich looked at Zachariah, who was standing by the wall.

He seemed to have been in occasional contact with the bugs since then. The fact that there are no filthy beasts here suggests that the movements of the little king’s side are working.

“They have fulfilled their promise. Now it’s our turn to show the power of the humans and the small demons, so let’s take advantage of it.”

“Understood, Knight Commander.”

The two of them nodded at each other and immediately took action.

The air fleet is located above and slightly behind the Allied Forces of the Clan. While keeping an eye on the overall battle situation, they fly the flying knights around the perimeter and stay alert.

The second squadron descends to the ground alone and joins the clans in battle. At the same time, they raised the flag of the Silver Phoenix Knights and asserted their presence here and there.

The clans continued to move forward, maintaining the tension and excitement of battle. Eventually, they reached a break in the trees.

The allied forces moved out from behind the trees and into the sunlight. An open area with boulders lying on top of each other. The other side of the river was stained with colors that were not trees. It was red, a color not used by the other clans.

The Rubel clan. A single clan can rival the size of a coalition of clans. That is the proof of the largest clan.

After they saw each other, they stopped and faced each other across the wasteland.

Dietrich looked at the Rubel clan on the holo-monitor and whistled happily.

“Hmmm. The Rubel clan uses red, good taste. Perhaps we should have had a talk, it’s a shame to see them turn against us.”

“Captain, you can’t tell from the color alone, can you?”

“I’m just using it for the time being. I have to be more particular about the design!”

Aside from the second company, which was making a racket of its own, the giants began to move. A few of the giants from the Allied Clan and the Rubel Clan stepped forward.

“We are the Allied Forces of the Clan! The Rubel Clan, your actions in the True Eye Rebellion are unforgivable! We now rightly ask the Hundred Eyes!”

“No matter how many times you ask, the answer is the same. You cannot see the truth!”

“You are fools to use a filthy beast! Even a Hundred Eyes will turn away from you! That doesn’t mean we got the answer!!”

“No matter how you argue, you will never get the truth. There are no more words to say!!”

It was the usual exchange of words between them. It was a declaration of war for them, and they hadn’t been able to settle it through discussion once the Question had been revealed.

When they returned to their respective camps, the atmosphere changed drastically.

It was as if even the rustling of the leaves in the wind had stopped, and instead, the air became tense. Both sides were gathering strength for the battle to come.

“Ask, ask, ask! The Question of the wise! Hundred eyes, behold!”

Shouts rose from both camps. The cries of the vast number of giants shook the world itself. From this moment on, this place has become a different world filled with the blessings of the Hundred Eyes. The giants would devote their lives to finding the answer to the Question.

The screams of the second company that was caught in the middle were easily drowned out.

With their eyes black and white, the giants rushed forward. It was a head-on assault. There is no such thing as tactics in a battle between giants who are duel-grade beings.

Although they were a little late, the second company also moved forward.

“I’m still having trouble with my ears. I’ve had a hell of a time. I let my guard down a bit.”

“That’s true. But these giants, they’re just going in?”

“That’s why they don’t even have a sword, they’re just clubs. I think there’s no culture other than hitting each other.”

“But isn’t there something wrong with that corner?”

They checked out the battlefield and found something other than fisticuffs1.

They found a battlefield that wasn’t a fistfight, but a clan wearing bright blue ornaments – the Caeruleus clan. They didn’t charge in a straight line, but kept their distance in a single mass.

Their fighting style was familiar to me. That is because it’s a tactic familiar to Phantom Knights.

“Magic Magia!”

In response to the hero’s order, the giants held their magical armored silhouette arms in their hands. It’s a hastily made product, but in a battle of giants, it shines with a different kind of brilliance.

It left behind a faint luminescence as it unleashed one legal strike after another.

The same flaming technique as the “Flame Spear Calvary” attacked the Rubel clan. The giants who were facing them head-on were confused by the unexpected attack. In a battlefield filled with the sound of blows and footsteps, the sound of explosions was very distinctive.

They were not very powerful because they were made in time, but if they were concentrated, they could defeat a giant.

But before that, the Rubel clan was having trouble dealing with it, and was moving in an awful manner.

“What the hell? Isn’t that the Caeruleus clan? Why do those bastards have such a great magician, Marga!”

“We need a mage here too! We can’t go near them at this rate!”

The Rubel clan is blocked by a barrage of legal bullets that are hurled at them one after another.

However, there are only a minority of places where long-distance battles have begun. In most places, direct fisticuffs have started.

In the meantime, the battle situation became clearer.

“Gunu~tsu2, the Rubel clan, how hard!”

The clans were slowly losing ground. The reason was obvious: the Rubel clan was better equipped.

While the other clans use weapons and armor made from the materials of magical beasts, the Rubel clan adds metal to their weapons and armor. The weapons and armor made with the advanced technology inherited by the small demons from the Phantom Knights are powerful and raise the power of the entire clan to a new level.

In a simple fistfight, the difference was immense. One by one, the clans fell and were forced to retreat.

Finally, one clan allowed to break through, and the giants of the Rubel clan rushed into the hole.

“If this continues, the clans’ armies will be defeated individually. It’s time for us to come in!”

The giants of the Rubel clan, who had kicked away the allied forces of the various clans, let out a roar. Immediately after, a crimson wind rushed in front of him…

“No! Don’t use red other than us… ?!”

The Question was never fully put into words. The vacuum blade that was released struck the giant, causing it to lose its posture. The gleam of the white blade that followed took the weapon from his hand, and the remaining swing took his life.

Leaving the bleeding giant behind, the Phantom Knights leap forward.

The Rubel clan had been confronted by unfamiliar giants and had been kicked to pieces.