Hakai No Miko Chapter 132 (1/2)

In the past, there was a great war between the zoan and the Holun the reclamation of the Solbiant Plains about thirty years prior

However, the king of Hol as planned It had lagged behind by several years due to the resistance being put forth by the zoan being much fiercer than expected Because of this, he passed a decree to clean out the zoan by using the ar this decree, Holmea's national army carefully prepared andan a around 15,000

The first to suffer tragedy was the Tail Clan, who had their residence in the southern area of the plains

Due to Hol upon them, their lands were raided as their homes burned down, and even the elderly and children were killed Leading its survivors, the Tail Clan fled to the north

They then appealed to all of the clans that lived in the plains together to help the, Claw and Mane Clans immediately responded to that appeal The first allied ar of all the zoan clans was for 24,000 warriors It consisted of 1,000 fro Clan, 8,000 from the Mane Clan and 2,000 from the Tail Clan

The united zoan army clashed with the national army of Holinning of summer

First the warriors that won fame in each of the zoan clans stepped forward, and, in accordance with zoan battle etiquette, naed Holmea's national army to duels

However, Hol arrows at these warriors simultaneously

The warriors who had stepped forward to challenge Hol the zoan to rage

The enraged zoan began to charge forwards, but the pace of the ar held by the clan chief of each clan Besides that, the warriors were starving for exploits on the battlefield and wanted to achieve the highest recognition The lack of control was obvious

Hence, even more zoan fell victim to the human archers Even with this, due to their nuh bodies andin on Holmea's army The zoan weren't called the rulers of the plains for nothing

However, what set out en masse to the front line and traded places with the archers was the heavy spear infantry known by the surrounding countries as「Hol their bodies clad in armour that consisted solely of the color black

This company of heavy spear infantry set forward into a forether and their pikes were pointed out The fore chestnut With the zoan only wearing a torso armour knitted out of ivies that protected merely their chests, the assault was a suicidal act that went far beyond recklessness

Being stabbed to death in succession by this formation, the zoan paid dearly with a heavy toll of death

When the e was completely halted by the heavy spear infantry, the tank corps' that had been deployed at both wings begun their attack by going around and cutting into the flanks and rear of the zoan ar blow, the zoan were routed

Furtheranized a pursuit unit centered around the tank corps' and, counting in the pursuit of the zoan who had started to flee, they completely beat them down

The losses of the united zoan army added up to 15,000 The miserable truth is that they lost more than half their numbers in this short time In contrast to that, it's said that the casualties of Holmea's national army were no edy of the highest order for the zoan

After this, Holes left in the plains to cinders and ashes within severalbut one battalion at the fortress built next to the northern hills and withdrew its main army This battalion was later on reduced to the size of a company

However, all of the zoan clans had already lost their strength to counterattack after they were driven into the hills and ruthlessly split up

The zoan's defeat in this grand as from the fact that they used battle methods that relied upon the ht syste only an aruidelines for their actions hadn't been consolidated, especially with the clans being basically an assembly of separate fa defeat, the zoan never made use of this lesson

Even after this battle, the zoan adhered to their traditional ways of fighting and continued to pointlessly sacrifice many of their warriors Not only that, they had tried to consolidate their forces by setting up a leader, but that in turn invited a confrontation between the clans over who should be in co their priorities backwards

This ht be so because of the zoan's character that could be called earnest and highly prideful Those traits, which can be considered as virtues in the right situation, expressed their obstinacy in front of a new era's arrival

Later on, Soues

The zoan were loyal to the point of even being ridiculed as the 「Cattle of the Divine Son of Destruction」by those who opposed the to Souma, they also weren't able to easily accept the reforht about by him at first

There are even soainst the conservatives that weren't able to accept the refores caused by hiest battle in the Solbiant Plains ainst the conservative thinking of the zoan

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“So properly?” (Shyeht by himself, came to his senses after he was poked by Shyemul

They are inside a tent that was hurriedly set up outside the fortress

Going by the schedule, there should be a conference taking place in the fortress right now But as all the buildings inside the fortress were littered with injured soldiers, there was no room to hold a conference Besides, inside the fortress that was built with this era's architectural technology, the rooh to allow ten odd people to fit inside them, even if it's just the clan chiefs

Hence it was inevitably decided to put up a tent outside the fortress and hold the conference there instead

The first thing they discussed there was the treatment of Souuest of the Fang Clan

However, if Souive some sort of opinion to the zoan, or if these zoan wanted to hear Souh Gara care of Soues such as the Fang Clan's influence beco Sou to equally exist for all clans, he endorsed Souathered there

The other clans unconditionally approved of that

This ith the intention of the to improve the clans' i of the clans' do up after this It was also for the sake of preventing the influence of a single clan fro Sou ent only up to this point

Once it came to the discussion about the reconquered plains, the talks stagnated coht that the zoan have to band together and work as one for a common cause now, decided to shelve the de a cause for discord between the clans after talking with Garam and Shyemul prior to the conference

However, that in and of itself was interpreted as the Fang Clan trying to hog the plains to themselves by the other clans

Of course, Gara, but the clan which obstructed that was the Mane Clan