Knights, Let’s Smash Them

59 – Northern monsters tear the city apart (2)

Petaronto, the capital of Count Rupel, was in full swing with cooking contests and everything, but vicious rumors continued to circulate in the north, which borders the Ardaros Mountains.

The earth shudders three times in the last few days.

I can’t help but be anxious.

-The dragon sleeping under the mountain range might have awakened. I mean the Frost Dragon.

Frost Dragon.

In other words, a blue dragon.

In this era, dragons are close to beings that only appear in legends, but the elders who have lived in the northern regions for a long time know that they have entered a resting period in seclusion all over the continent.

There is a reason why things are passed down through oral tradition. Because there’s no smoke coming out of the chimney when it’s absolutely not.

Jethro, the oldest elder in Bordeaux, recalled a phrase that had been handed down from hundreds of years ago.

「In Ardaros, the dragon that ate the dragon knight is asleep.」

The story of Orgius, a dragon knight who stirred the entire continent when the Volibert Empire wasn’t even an empire yet.

As long as the Ardaros Mountains were the place where the journey of the dragon slayer, who rode a dragon and took the breath of evil dragons, ended.

Ancestors of old used to talk with fear and awe that a mighty dragon that ate even such a dragon knight was dormant in that icy mountain range.

This earthquake may also be a precursor to the approaching catastrophe of the times, the elder thought.

But as of today.

Even that can no longer be called an omen or a vicious rumor.

“Mayor!! It was a big deal!! The monsters are rampaging wildly!”

It was the hunter who first discovered the abnormality and reported it to the city.

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Coming down to the city with the soldiers on duty at the watchtower of the 2nd Corps installed in the middle of the mountain range, he ran rampant, saying that the citizens should be evacuated immediately.

The soldiers, too, white-faced, insisted that the city be abandoned.

I couldn’t bear to imagine how great the army of the swarming monsters would be.

So the mayor and the officials under him who oversee the city of Vordova were in a state of complete panic.

“Where are you going to evacuate!?”

“It may be too late to move now. Better to fortify the city and hold out until reinforcements arrive!”

“Fortification? When it comes to defending a city, isn’t a wooden fence everything!”

“Fortunately, the wooden fence has been strengthened during this winter.”

Since it was originally the northernmost city, demons often descended, so the basic defense facilities were well maintained.

A well-maintained wooden fence is sometimes more effective than an unrepaired fortress.

When the young man leading the vigilantes answered in a confident voice, the mayor nodded as if he thought it was better.

“As it is midsummer soon, there are many food reserves in the city. Even if you evacuate in a hurry, if you lose food for the winter, you will be in trouble.”

“Then, I will contact the 2nd Corps and the Count first!”

“Jack, you take the vigilantes and the stalwart men of the city to defend it.”

“Okay!!”

Despite the information that the monsters were coming down, the inhabitants of Bordova surprisingly quickly regained their composure.

The origin is the northern part where accidents happen every day. Attacks by monsters and beasts are like monthly events that happen once a month.

It just got bigger.

The things to do don’t change.

In addition, the troops, which were clearly outnumbered, were resolved to some extent when the 2nd Corps, which was stationed not far away, arrived in Bordeaux.

A combined force of cavalry and infantry led by the centurion was two hundred and thirty.

Including the vigilantes and the armed townsfolk, the number reached three hundred.

I thought that at this level, I would be able to withstand a certain amount of forces without difficulty.

But the moment the group of monsters finally reached the city.

It didn’t take long for the vigilante youth’s courageous youths’ faces to become stained with fear.

“…… Many!! There are too many of them!!!”

“Thunder Bear! There is even a thunder bear!!”

“Kuaaa!!”

Boom!!!

Wood deuk.

It didn’t matter how many troops there were.

“Prepare for hand-to-hand combat!!!!”

Anyway, it only took an hour for the wooden fence, which was built with the assumption of kobolds, goblins, wolves, and black bears, to collapse.

***

Has the barrier been breached?

Still, judging from the other monsters hanging out around the wooden fence, it doesn’t seem like it’s completely captured.

As I ran, I closely grasped the situation in Bordeaux. A tactical strategy is originally a law that must be flexibly established and changed anytime, anywhere.

If the city had been completely captured, I’d have to somehow secure at least one gate and protect the remaining survivors.

If only some areas are breached, the story is different.

That moment.

I was able to confirm that there was a clear concentration of monsters on the east side of the fence.

There it is.

That was their main offensive direction.

“Captain!! Don’t scatter and rush right in!! We have to go in at once and destroy their camp!!”

The main focus was not humanoid monsters such as goblins or kobolds.

Most of them were beast-type monsters, but they form groups like goblins and kobolds, but their aggression is doubled, the ‘Frost Jackal’.

An ant-like ‘black bitula’ covered in rugged armor-like skin.

As both of them are monsters with minimal social skills, they are threatening monsters with massive attacks.

However, such monsters can be easily disturbed by removing the leader who is the main body of the colony.

As soon as Chunshik, the leader of the goblin colony, joined us, the other goblins also joined us without resistance.

If you remove their bosses, you can remove most of their power.

“Bitula is an entity with a reddish shell! Frost Jackals just need to get rid of the large ones!!”

“Okay!”

At my word, the cavalry, including the knights, lined up like spears.

The vanguard is, of course, Lons.

“Huh!”

Quad Deuk!! Fuhak!!

“Kang-!!”

I took a deep breath and swung the greatsword from the top of my horse, literally sweeping away the jackals in the radius.

If that was not a great sword but a spear like a bangcheonguk, it would be majestic enough to be called the reincarnation of Yeo Po or Gwan Woo.

And those who followed were Xianne and vice-captain Emain. Jinyoung’s waist that assists the tip of the spear so that he can break through more firmly.

The steel sword made of Damas, wielded with aura and mana open, was helpless even if it was a bitula boasting a very hard upper.

A shimmering blue aura.

Anything that touches the path of the sword is neatly cut and slashed.

As much as Barbara and Heinz are both talented people who do more than the basics.

The appearance of stuttering at first went nowhere, and he continued to digest even horseback swordsmanship, which was much more difficult than normal swordsmanship.

Hee hee hee!!

Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!!

The sound of horses neighing, the sound of horses hooves striking the ground.

Chang!! Kagagak!!

Poojak!!

The sound of swords crashing against carapaces, slicing through hides, and gallantly charging horses trampling over jackals.

I also swung my sword without a break. Patter, the green blood of the twister, who doesn’t know where it came from, drips onto the skin.

And finally.

“There it is!!”

I was able to spot a huge jackal, probably the size of an adult man.

The boss object of the Frost Jackal.

He roars as he stares straight at the humans who find him.

A gigantic jackal that leaps off the ground.

As it enters the realm of monsters, not beasts of prey, it is a guy that can easily turn even seasoned warriors on horseback into corpses.

“Keah!!!”

A cavalryman who accurately collided with a guy digging into the side fell off his horse and was thrown to the ground.

“Sa, help me—!!”

A cavalryman who has fallen from his horse is helpless. It was the time when he was about to bite the scruff of a struggling soldier while trampling his prey with his huge front paws.

Flash!

There was a flash of white light.

Uh uh uh uh ─.

Like a wolf’s cry, the low resonance of the sword.

“Suck!!”

Pass Sut!!!

I take a deep breath, and my gray hair blows in the wind. Red eyes flashed, and the head jackal’s head was severed with a single sword.

Lilia Hebron.

The Princess of the North.

Is he really the captain of the 2nd Division of the Duchy Knights? The jackals, who were noticing the wind pressure rising with the waves, panicked and started to run away.

“Eraine’s 3rd Sword, Snowflake!!”

Sianne’s cry, terrifying to catch the jackal leader.

In the same way, the energy of mana surges as if it eats up space.

“I caught this too!!”

It seemed that the processing of Black Bitula’s boss was also completed quickly.

As expected.

The monsters who lost their pivot quickly retreated and began to retreat.

Of course, some individuals who did not understand the subject rushed, but the few jackals and bitulas without proper camps could not pose a threat to the armored cavalry.

“Wow!!”

“Kill this bastard. Kill this.”

“uuu!!”

“Kill this, Ganna bastard!!”

Soldiers slaughtering monsters while spitting out nutmeg letters as if they were drunk with blood.

The army of monsters, which had been swarming in front of the fence until they charged, now completely lost momentum and began to retreat.

But don’t let your guard down yet.

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Even now, the residents of the city must be fighting to the death.

Besides, even if it was made of wood, it was clear that ‘strong monsters’ that would have penetrated through the thick log walls would also be scattered throughout the city.

Is a troll strong enough to destroy a wooden fence?

Ogres occur in temperate climates, so they are not often found in the North.

Then you’ll need some fire.

“Chief, please take care of the remnants!! All knights follow me!”

“Everyone to the Lubern Administrator!!”

“If you have something to light, bring it! The guy who raided the city must be a troll!”

I cut off the body of the jackal that was running away before my eyes, and jumped over the shattered barrier.

First of all, the safety of citizens comes first. After that, it’s time to drive out the small pikes hanging around the fence and prepare for additional attacks.

“Found the torch!!”

Fortunately, torches effective against trolls were not difficult to obtain.

The problem was that the guys who raided the city and broke through the fence weren’t trolls.

“????”

“Chu pyu chump pie—!!!!!!”

The bluish bears that were destroying a poor house with their cute voices turn their eyes to me all at once.

Thunder Bear.

It was a notorious monster known for tearing people apart like lightning.