Volume 5, Chapter 50 – The Queen’s Advent (Part 2)

“No, they’re not planning to hold back. These are all the soldiers they have. This isn’t a war of attrition; it’s an all-out assault! Boris, get all the echelons up here!”

“I know! I’ll take care of that stone monster. Lady Edith, you go and inform—what!?”

The moment the words left his mouth, another identical stone monster appeared on the plain. Immediately after, one after another, they appeared before the defenders’ eyes. A total of five flaming stone monsters stood in a row. As if someone had flipped a switch, they suddenly began to charge toward the Royal Capital with great strides.

Their movements looked clumsy, but in reality, each step covered more than twenty yards, their speed was staggering. If such an existence were to collide with the city wall, even with the defensive barrier, a huge gap would be torn open.

“Damn it,” now was not the time to dwell on why the rebel army had such a monstrous trump card. Boris roared at both ends of the city wall, “Magic Cannons! All Magic Cannons, concentrate your fire on the two on the right! I will hold off the three on the left!”

“Is this the [Imperial Gift] Refina spoke of? Boris, I can hold off the one on the far left for a while. You deal with the remaining two as quickly as possible and then come and support me!”

“Right, I’m counting on you!”

Without waiting, Boris and Edith leaped from the city wall. Although a vampire’s wings did not allow them to fly, gliding was not a problem.

They had to blunt the monsters’ momentum before they hit the wall. This was the top priority.

Gathering strength in both hands on his greatsword, the Level 53 Boris flew, powered by magic, straight for the neck of one of the stone monsters. With enough accumulated power, he was confident he could sever its neck in a single blow.

But the stone monster, facing the charging Boris, acted as if it didn’t see him, continuing its fearless charge toward the city wall. Its heavy body caused spiderweb-like cracks to form on the ground with every step. The violent tremors and roars brought a powerful shock to both the eyes and ears. Even the well-trained City Guard couldn’t help but have their legs tremble in the face of such a threat.

To be run over head-on would surely mean a death with no corpse left to find.

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“Raise the defensive barrier!”

The soldier who shouted had terror in his voice, and with his words as a spark, the fear of the defending side was instantly ignited.

“If that thing gets over here, we’re all done for!”

“Fill the magic furnaces!”

“The magic furnaces are already at their limit!”

“Activate the Magic Cannons!”

“Wait until the power is greater before firing.”

But even with the magic furnaces that served as their power source nearing saturation, the soldiers still desperately poured magic and magic cores into them. For a tiny existence, only by doing so could they gain a sliver of a sense of security.

“They’re going to explode!”

“Concentrate fire on the two on the right! Magic Cannons, fire!”

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!

With the soldiers’ roars as the signal, the magic cannons on top of the wall all spewed forth terrifying beams of magic power. At all times, magic cannons were the most intimidating presence on the battlefield. Even a dragon would be severely wounded if hit head-on without any defense.

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If one were to look down on the battlefield from above, they would surely see the spectacular sight of two stone monsters being focused on by more than ten streams of light. The immense magic power was enough to create a magical turbulence, disrupting all the elements and hindering the operation of all magic.

On the other side.

Pouring all the strength of his body into his hands, Boris held his greatsword horizontally. After closing the distance to the stone monster to less than fifty yards, he swung violently at its neck. The blow, filled with magic, was powerful enough to split a mountain peak, and its swift speed even created a deafening sonic boom.

Although I don’t know why the rebel army didn’t stop me, they will surely regret it later.

“Hraaaaaaah—[Pentagram Strike]!”

With the tip of the greatsword as the center, a huge pentagram with a diameter of over ten meters appeared in the mid-air of the plain. This was Boris’s strongest magic after reaching the hero-class, and also his greatest asset in slaying dragons. Although a single blow would consume a third of his magic power, its power could easily smash a mountain into rubble.

However, all attacks were predicated on being able to hit the target.

Just as the magic cannons’ and Boris’s attacks were about to hit the stone monsters, a proud, childish voice suddenly appeared in the air.

“You fell for it~ Farewell, ‘[Lesser Spatial Jump].'”

Without any warning, the five charging stone monsters vanished into thin air. Both the magic cannons and Boris’s [Pentagram Strike] hit nothing but air.

Like missing a step on a staircase, Boris’s heart skipped a beat.

Then, in the next second, the stone monsters reappeared before everyone’s eyes.

The cost was devastating.

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Sandra had teleported the five [Imperial Gift] monsters to a position less than a hundred yards in front of the city wall. Unlike their previous side-by-side formation, she had deliberately arranged them in a single file, their attack focused on a single point on the wall.

At the same time, what made everyone scream in their hearts was that the stone monsters’ charge had not been interrupted by the teleportation magic. They were now like heavy cavalry that had been charging across the plain for a long time, about to crash into the ancient city wall that had stood for a thousand years.

The hairs on all the soldiers’ bodies stood on end. Most of them were so frightened by the behemoth before them that they couldn’t move. Only a very small number of soldiers reacted, scrambling, and in their panic, even jumping directly from the thirty-meter-high city wall, desperately trying to get away from the wall that was about to be destroyed.

“It’s coming!”

“Run!”

“Don’t panic! We have a defensive barrier!”

“There’s no way that thing can block it!”

BOOM!

The first sound. Like an earthquake, the entire city wall shook violently. The defensive barrier that reinforced the wall emitted a dazzling blue light. Everyone fell to the ground due to the shaking of the wall. The impacted section of the wall began to twist and deform.

Then came the second impact.

BOOM BOOM!

Two consecutive hits. This time, it was no longer a distortion. The wall’s defensive barrier had long since been destroyed by the first impact. The current wall was like a soldier without armor, its body completely exposed to the charge of the heavy cavalry. Like a bursting dam, the giant stones that made up the wall scattered in all directions. The fleeing soldiers were crushed into meat pulp without even letting out a scream. The upper half of the wall was smashed open, creating a gap thirty meters wide.

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Without giving any chance to react, the last two also ruthlessly crashed into the wall. Although the corpses of their three companions were in front of them, they still did not pause, crashing straight into it with brutal force.

BOOM—!

Under the immense force, the five [Imperial Gift] monsters exploded into rubble. But along with them, the city, which had been crouching on the plain like a giant beast, revealed a flaw for the first time.

An ugly scar, a gap fifty meters wide.

As long as the obstacles on it were cleared, the rebel army, which had been unable to find an opening, could pour in. Having long anticipated this, the black mass of the rebel army immediately changed direction and, like a flood that had found a release, surged rapidly toward the gap.

Witnessing everything, Boris’s heart instantly clenched. An indescribable panic appeared on his face.

“No… stop them… or it will be too late, no!!!”

“That is enough. In the name of Alvier, —[Barrier of Aurora].”

A piercing, irresistible voice. For the first time, the Alvier Tower lit up with a brilliant light that turned the night into day. A dazzling white barrier of light materialized in front of the gap.

“Accept your failure, Augustin.”

A young girl wearing a golden crown and a night-colored formal dress stood in the sky above the plain.

The seventh-generation Queen of the Blood Clan, Andrea Fred Alvier.