Volume 4 Chapter 19 (2/2)

What were loaded into that container were ten Avalon-Ritters.

There were only a few of them since the rest were enhanced via special remodeling and were thus hidden to be one of my trump cards.

Anyway, as mentioned earlier, the enemy's strategy was for their vanguard to hold off the golems while their magic users at the back casted large-scale magic. So for that reason, the enemies near where the Avalon-Ritters were dropped off were mostly magic users. Of course, there were some knights around to serve as guards but they were relatively few in number.

The question then was what would happen now that the Avalon-Ritters were there. There was but one answer: a massacre.

To start things off, the Avalon-Ritters activated their twin-drive golem cores to be at full-throttle. Strong magic power condensed into particles of light began to rise up. Just with those vast amounts of magic power, the enemies were plunged into a state of panic.

Each Avalon-Ritter was equipped with a gigantic greatsword that no human could wield. Each sword was made by Rorono to be the Avalon-Ritters' basic equipment.

It was made with orichalcum alloy so despite the swords' size, each was relatively light-weight and durable. Needless to say, the swords were superbly sharp. Each also had two enchantments applied to it. One of it was the improvement to slashing attacks. This improvement alone by Rorono was enough to classify it as a first-class magic sword. To add to that, by injecting magic power into the sword, it could propel the user to whichever direction he so desired.

All of the excess magic power produced by the twin-drives were transformed into kinetic energy thus giving birth—from the enemies' perspective—to catastrophe.

And so, the greatswords made of orichalcum were wielded at a speed faster than sound.

Due to the Avalon-Ritters' excellent non-human brain, it could perform complex movements while maintaining great balance even at that speed. And then, due to it being a golem, it could not get tired at all. What those meant was that the Avalon-Ritters would not stop until there were no more enemies before them.

It was as though they were whirlwinds.

The Avalon-Ritters cut and chopped up the enemies as though they were only pieces of paper, completely unable to offer any decent resistance to their killers.

To use magic, it must first be channeled but the Avalon-Ritters didn't have any intention of giving the enemy magic users that time.

The most the magic users could do was hide behind a wall made out of their fallen allies' corpses and cast close-range magic despite the high likelihood of friendly fire. However, Avalon-Ritters were made of orichalcum and were thus highly resistant to magic. The only harm the enemy magic users were doing was to their allies.

The few knights as well were chopped up whenever they came near the Avalon-Ritters.

It was impossible for them to stop the Avalon-Ritters with so few. To do so, they would have needed dozens, no, hundreds.

”They're amazing, Rorono.”

”Developing the artificial brain so that it could masterfully wield that sword was more troublesome than making the sword itself. But, I'm satisfied with these results. They would serve as good data for improving the Avalon-Ritters further.”

Rorono the developer was in great joy.

And she should be for her work was truly amazing.

”As for the improved variants, it seems like we can keep them on reserve just as planned.”

”Mhm. We can win even if those ones aren't used. After all, those are genuinely worthy of being called trump cards.”

It had been only a little over ten minutes since the war had begun and yet the victors and losers of this fight had already been determined.

The enemy army had already lost 80% of their total and any structure of command was gone.

As for our side's damage, it was limited to only those that were in our vanguard. The loss of a few Silver Golems was nothing major.

”Aura, have you been properly holding back?”

”Totally, master.”

I did not see her form but her voice was carried over by the wind.

The enemy army's last ray of hope, their elite forces, were systematically being killed by Aura and R'lyeh Diva.

After we had secured a fair amount of advantage, I had instructed Aura to do as little damage as was possible to the would-be corpses. In response, instead of direct hits, she only grazed her targets enough to kill them. This was needed because Wight's [Enhanced Resurrection] might not work if the corpses were too damaged.

”Anytime now.”

My guess was that even if the enemy wanted to surrender, they were either already dying or just couldn't declare so given the present situation. After all, their frontlines were being burned by the sea of ominous black flames—due to the dragons' [Miasma]—while their rear was being slaughtered by the hurricanes that were the Avalon-Ritters.

I then decided to just wait and watch until the napalm-born flames ran out of things to burn and thus vanished.

But then again, if I wait that long, the Avalon-Ritters might have killed everyone already.

As I decided to wait regardless, the water in the cup I held trembled and I heard R'lyeh Diva's voice.

It was a warning.

I signaled so to Kuina and she nodded.

A minute later, a man very silently appeared behind me.

The one that erased his presence and came to take my head was a hero-class adventurer that slipped past Aura's search-and-destroy unit.

The only hope their side had to win was if they could somehow kill me, our side's top commander. But even if this individual managed to do so, he must have known there was no way he could escape. It was an attack made knowing full well he would never return. I could see the valor in it but, such a shame…

”So, you believe you've completely erased your presence?”

Kuina turned towards him and pulled the trigger of the shotgun Rorono had customized.

It might have been due to the anger she felt toward him who aimed for me but regardless, she used her shotgun's full-auto mode when even one shot would have been enough to deal a fatal blow.

The man, after receiving four shots in less than a second, couldn't be recognized anymore from his previous form.

”Kuina will protect Oto-san.”

The man died without being able to do anything.

In the first place, with Kuina, Aura, and R'lyeh Diva, there was no way to launch a surprise attack against me.

After a while, the flames caused by the napalm bombs had subsided enough.

The Darkness Dragons then landed. Just by being close to the dragons, the few remaining survivors were driven into madness by the dragons' special ability [Fear] and then died.

By this point, I could finally see beyond the wall of flames. As soon as their vision cleared and saw us as well, some from the enemy army desperately waved white flags. There isn't even ten percent of them left.

At that, I hurriedly told Rorono to make the Avalon-Ritters stop.

”R'lyeh Diva”

”There are less than two hundred that have survived. Woah. There were more than 3000 of them before though- how pitiful-”

”It's a war so it can't be helped. Then, Wight, go ride with Kohaku and ascertain whether they truly wish to surrender.”

”Yes, my lord. Kohaku-dono, let's go.”

”Hmm, finally, something for me to do.”

And so, the two headed to the survivors that continued to wave their flags.

The enemy should know by now just how horrible an experience it was to go against Avalon. I suspected they would be obedient for a while.

Regardless, the war was over.

I drank the water in the cup since I no longer needed to receive intelligence from R'lyeh Diva for the time being.

After Wight had ascertained the will to surrender, he began the post-war negotiations. After that's over, it was time for the celebration party. Let's all go all-out today, I thought in regards to the celebration.

It was a good thing the war had concluded without the need to show the trump cards I had decided to hide like Kuina's new weapon, Rorono's improved [Mechanical Warmaiden], the enhanced Avalon-Ritters, the Darkness Dragons' new equipment, R'lyeh Diva and the intelligence corps' combat capabilities, and more. That being said, regardless of how many remained hidden, the fact that I had exposed quite a lot of my war potential remained true.

I was certain that the one pulling the enemy's strings must have made an action. I have to talk in detail with R'lyeh Diva and the High Elves that stood guard later.

Anyway, before I left the place, I ordered that the corpses that were still in good condition and could be reused as undead monsters to be gathered and to be preserved by freezing. By my reckoning, we had obtained at least ten hero-class adventurers' corpses and at least several hundreds of the other soldiers'. They would definitely be great additions to our undead forces.

At any rate…

”Everyone, thanks for all your hard work. You all did great.”

I decided to reward my monsters since it was due to them and their persistence that we won this time.

Volume 3 of the light novel has been announced to come out on the 15th of September!

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