Volume 9 Chapter 7 (2/2)

And so, I stood beside Tiro and became nothing more than Rorono's audience.

By the way, the aforementioned Tiro was simply rubbing her head against my leg. Geez, what a cheeky child.

A few moments later, the goblin force charged at us like an avalanche.

In response, Rorono raised her hand. With just that gesture, the golems began to move.

The ten Avalon-Ritters then stepped forward. The mass-produced Avalon-Ritter models had guns and swords as their standard weapons. Right now, the ten were equipped with their guns.

If the Mithril Golems had the heavy machinegun Browning M2 caliber .50, the Avalon-Ritters had the improved version of that: the EDHB 02 Ascalon. If the Browning M2 wasn't supposed to be carried and then fired by human infantry but rather to be used while mounted on something like a combat helicopter, the Ascalon was even more so. In fact, if a human tried to fire the Ascalon, they would be blown away by the recoil.

And so, the ten Avalon-Ritters fired their guns in even intervals.

In no time at all, a lot of the High Goblins were turned to minced meat. Which was no surprise, considering the Avalon-Ritters' stats and their weapons' firepower.

”Gumooooooooooooooooooooooo”

While using the High Goblins as shields, the Goblin Lords shouted like that.

The goblins were desperate to find a way to escape the onslaught of bullets coming their way. And surprisingly, they did. By digging holes in the ground.

Against heavy machineguns, digging trenches was a correct tactic.

However, it wasn't just heavy machineguns that the goblins were up against.

One of their other opponents was the fighter-airplane-looking white knight that just took off.

”Rorono, there's something intriguing attached to the white knight”

”Mhm. This time, it's in bombardment mode”

Attached to the white knight's wings were two large containers.

When it opened, certain words popped in my mind: missile launchers.

While flying at high velocities, the white knight showered the goblins with missiles. It fired more than a hundred missiles, each one with tremendous power and accuracy.

And because the goblins were grouped together after digging the holes that they thought would save their lives, they became easier targets.

”On top of the missiles being guidable, it seems they're even stronger than the bombs the Darkness Dragons use.”

”Mhm. Those missiles aren't ordinary bombs, after all. It has a magic spell that is powered by the white knight's excess magic power, which is a lot due to its twin drive system. Such destructive power is out of reach for the Darkness Dragons.”

”I see.”

”There are also other reasons that make it hard for the Darkness Dragons to use those things. For one, it takes me a whole day to finish a container's worth of missiles… a whole day, and yet it was gone in an instant…”

”Well, it's no wonder you feel that way after using those things against enemies of only this caliber.”

”It's to showcase the power of the white knight though, so it couldn't really be helped.”

After it spent all of its missiles, the white knight hovered in the air and then removed the containers. The reason it could hover like that was most likely due to some anti-gravity mechanism it had.

Obviously, a fighter airplane that could hover was absolutely overpowered.

Next, the white knight readied its guns and then unleashed a barrage of bullets from up high… though it might be more accurate to say that it repeatedly sniped at the goblins.

”The guns that the white knight uses has a caliber of .905 or approximately 22.9mm. That is almost twice than what Aura's anti-materiel rifle has. In order to reduce the recoil and obtain stability, I made use of an anti-gravity unit.”

”How crazy”

”And in order to increase its accuracy and precision, there was a need to also increase the weight and power behind each shot. If need be, it could also do rapid-fire. If this much wasn't done, the white knight would fall far behind Aura, the truly absurd one, who could freely control the wind.”

Increasing the weight of the bullet and the kinetic energy it had would certainly make it travel in a straighter trajectory, thus also increasing the accuracy.

At any rate, in less than a minute of a bullet storm from the front by the Avalon-Ritters and from the sky by the white knight, the 300 goblins were almost annihilated.

At that point, the storm stopped.

”Gumooooooooooo”

A Goblin Lord turned around and ran.

As it fled, I then felt an upsurge of magic power. In the next moment, the red knight was in motion. It was afloat thanks to another anti-gravity unit and was using all of the magic power produced by its twin-drive system to charge forward and attack with its right-arm-turned-piledriver.

The moment after that, the red knight vanished.

Even with my eyes, I failed to follow it.

At the same time that it vanished, a gigantic metal stake appeared and pierced through the running Goblin Lord. A couple of Avalon-Ritters along the path to the goblin were also blown away.

And then, after what felt like forever but actually was less than a heartbeat, the Goblin Lord exploded with tremendous force.

Rorono did mention that the red knight possessed the greatest charging speed, but this felt more like teleportation to me.

My eyes were involuntarily wide open. Considering the red knight's charging speed and power, it could take out even an S rank monster. There would only be a few individuals who would be able to react to its charge, especially if it was the first time they saw it.

”The new thrusters seem to be working as designed. With that, nothing can escape the red knight. Within a distance of 200 meters, not even the white knight could.”

”That's not to mention its power.”

”Mhm. It probably could compete even against Duke's attacks when he's in his dragon form.”

The red knight's piledriver was originally supposed to be Tiro's weapon. And now that it was customized for the red knight, it was stronger than before.

”Ah!”

”What's wrong, Rorono?”

”The enemy's too weak. I haven't even gotten a chance to show off the black knight yet… what a shame”

I unconsciously smiled wryly.

”There should be others chances for that soon enough. This is only the first clash, after all.”

Through our overwhelming fighting force, we decimated our foes.

But before we pushed through, there was something I had to do.

And so, I had made the Avalon-Ritters gather some of the High Goblins that miraculously survived and bring them before me.

Goblins mostly had the intelligence of mere beasts, but High Goblins were at least capable of speech.

”I want you to relay a message to your master. Ahem…”

Alright, sound authoritative. I have to let them know just how serious we are.

”'We accept your declaration of war. The price for the sin of attempting to harm my daughter is death.' Deliver that and this message as well: 'if you do not want to engage in a formal [War] or if we simply do not hear from you within five minutes, we will resume our invasion. Do you want to die while cowering or do you want to die while fighting? The choice is yours.'”

For me, whatever he chooses was fairly inconsequential.

I didn't want the humans to be caught in the middle as much as possible, but it wasn't to the point I would consider it a priority. I would not hesitate just because humans were in the dungeon.

Now, I wonder how he'll answer.

While waiting for a reply, I talked with Rorono about my impressions on her three knights.

But then, after a while, I began to hear a voice in my mind.

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Through the Creator's voice, I knew the [Pig] Demon Lord's answer.

After the announcement, I felt the sensation of being transferred to the white space.

All of the monsters I brought to invade the [Pig] Demon Lord's dungeon were safely brought there while all of the humans and animals in both dungeons were relocated elsewhere.

I wonder what kind of medal he has.

If we break the [Pig] Demon Lord's crystal, I would gain access to making the [Pig] medal. If it turns out his medal was an A rank medal, then I would have another A rank medal without destroying the [Crimson Cavern] and thus losing a convenient place to earn experience points.

I haven't had a formal [War] since my fight against [Evil], [Viscosity], and [Steel]. My blood's boiling. Alright, time to begin the massacre.