Hakai No Miko Chapter 156 (1/2)

“Ultimately, I believe that we should leave the city and assault the punitive force”

Everyone exchanged glances due to Souma's re The ambush that was devised fro that they should leave the city once again for another assault They don't understand his true intentions behind this

All of the their faces, Souma said,

“Of course I don't think that my opinion is absolute If you have doubts or have coood idea, speak up and don't hold back”

After being urged on by this, there's no way for them to stay silent

First, Garam, who actually saw the punitive force and experienced the difference in combat power firsthand, makes an objection

“To e aru says “Is there any need to push for leaving the city in order to attack them? I think it would be better to lay waste to various places inside the country as we had planned at first”

As the two great zoan warriors voiced an opinion contradictory to Soureement

“Can't we throw this country into chaos by attacking fortresses and cities all over the place?”

“I think that's a great idea; it capitalizes on our mobility as zoan”

However, Souma denied that

“I think that we can't use that move anymore — The punitive force has already approached very close to this city Even if we devastate the distant rear at this point in time, the punitive force will co back It'd be impossible to hold the city with the main force, the zoan, absent”

Souma made a pause in his speech at this point, and then, after looking at the faces of all everyone present, declared next,

“And, if this city is taken back, it spells our defeat!”

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“What's wrong? Is it unexpected that the rebels would try to leave the city and attack us?”

Marius, who had surprise and doubt show on his face due to Darius' words, becomes flustered and covers up the lower half of his face with his palm in order to hide his ereat blunder, Your Excellency”

No ht be, they possess the positions of supreer within thehis head

In reaction that, Darius lightly raises one hand as if telling hiht way to kill some time — Marius, if it's you, how do you think the rebels will move?”

So commissioned officers Marius released the tension in his body, thought it over for a bit and returned an answer in order to get away fro around

“Let's see — If I was the leader of the rebels, I would cause disturbances in our rear using the zoan”

The concrete details of what Marius said next was about circues and fortresses in the rear This is mostly the same as the plan Souma came up with before

“Certainly, that would be a threat — I judge that the leader of the rebels won't do that”

“Why ht that be so?”

“By noe only have a little ways left until Bolnis Even if the zoan try to head to our rear, I will take Bolnis first Once I do that, it will be the end for the rebels The enemy isn't someone who doesn't know that”

Just as Darius says, there's only a short distance left until Bolnis While it may be true that they didn't run into the zoan so far, it'd be inconceivable for the any kind of result either After they recover the city of Bolnis first, they would head out to subjugate the zoan ent around the army to attack the rear

Even Marius understood that, but he didn't comprehend why that's related to the zoan's defeat

“But, to begin with the zoan are a race that wandered the plains There would be no probleet back the city they assaulted, would there?”

Rather, Marius thought that the city of Bolnis had turned into a pair of shackles for the zoan For the zoan who pride themselves on short-distancea specific base of operations and instead rauerilla attacks is far

“That'd be true, if this time's rebellion was for the sake of the zoan's retribution when it co?”

Due to Marius' question, Darius chuckles as if he just re funny

“The rebel leader, who is leading the zoan, apparently rand speech”

Even Marius had heard of the speech the rebel leader made in the city of Bolnis

“If it's that, I have heard about it as well They say he was talking about creating a country of different races or such…”

“In that case, it applies all the ly asserted

“If it was only the zoan, it would probably be feasible for the a base of operations However, there are also dwarves and dinosaurians a aside if it's for a short period of ti a base where they can rest would let guys like them run out of stamina If the dwarves and dinosaurians drop out due to this, the country of different races advertised by the rebel leader would lose all of its hs scornfully with a “Huroup loses its objective, they are no roup of bandits, they es, but they aren't forroup that resolutely acts towards a coht be only a few of the Bolnis, are precisely such a dreadful group

What made Darius, as at first unsure whether the rebels are mere bandits, consider them as a power that could potentially oppose Holmea with a real objective, is the attack at the river

For Darius having the two cous lay an ambush was, so to say, a test case

If the rebels were solely consu been forced into slavery and their hatred for the invasion of the plains, they would have charged at the punitive force recklessly Even if they had the intellect to somewhat think it over, they would have either returned to their plains or invaded Hol Bolnis to the limit

However, if the rebels really intended to create their own country, they would stage a surprise attack ai the river, which was the sole good opportunity to ainst the punitive force, in order to protect the city of Bolnis that has becoed

And, that is what turned into reality

“If the rebel leader plans to create a country like he says, he won't be able to discard the dwarves and dinosaurians And, above all else, he can't abandon the city that will become a cornerstone in the creation of that country”

“Not only are the enemies no simple bandits, but they are a fearso that, Darius' tone treet a new base as a substitute for Bolnis?”

In Marius' eyes, Bolnis is already in a precarious state as well It would be e or city as a new base without insisting on Bolnis, he thought

“That's impossible”

However, even that is denied by Darius

“I heard that the number of zoan that attacked Bolnis numbered fewer than a thousand If you bear in mind the zoan's circumstances that they had to absolutely take the city, it's very likely that this is even the biggest force that they can muster at this point in tih he knows that he's the ht to have had several tens of thousands warriors in the past

“The zoan, ere called the supree battles On top of that, it's impossible for them to take a city that possesses a sturdy ith less than a thousand warriors With that, they had to open the city's gates fro the slaves — No, they wouldn't have been able to capture the city without doing that

However, the slave revolt taking part in the the fall of Bolnis is already well-know in cities all over Holmea They won't be able to use the same move in another city”

As aof the sub-race's slaves had become more severe in Luoma, the city closest to Bolnis

“However, what's even more important than that is that the rebel leader definitely can't abandon Bolnis if he really plans to raise a country”

Marius tilts his head slightly to the side in confusion due to that