The Count’s Youngest Son Is A Player - Chapter 59

Episode 59

Dalton swallowed his saliva.

The weight of the crossbow on my shoulder felt heavier than before.

‘Yes, this is it!’

An imminent situation. The trembling energy of battlefield. The tension felt within it.

It was exactly what he had hoped for.

I never imagined that there would be such a fierce battle inside the gate.

Also, imperial cavalry?

Wasn’t it a monster that only appears in history books?

I couldn’t hide my excitement as I felt like I was standing at the scene of history.

And at that very moment, a strange creature appeared beyond the crosshairs.

“Shoot!!”

ping! Drurrrrr!!

“Kiyaak!!”

The bolt Dalton fired accurately pierced the guy’s forehead.

And then dozens of bolts flew from the castle walls and attacked the horsemen.

“Kwaaa!!”

Some horsemen with bolts stuck in their heads fell down, but the rest, despite having bolts stuck in their bodies, screamed and rushed towards the fortress.

“Reload!”

While the mercenaries and Dalton were reloading, Raoul and about a dozen knights continued to fire arrows.

The destructive power of a single shot was clearly powerful in the crossbow, but the rate of fire seemed to be no match for the bow.

‘If I had known this would happen, I would have practiced shooting a bow more on a regular basis…’

To be honest, I had only learned how to use weapons other than swordsmanship, so I was not at a level to use them in actual combat.

But what can you do? The battle has already happened.

Dalton reloaded the crossbow so quickly that his hand was not visible and pulled the trigger again toward the horseman.

Grumble! Plop!

‘Great!’

While Dalton, who had blown off another head, was internally shouting joy, the horsemen had already narrowed the distance to the fortress.

“Geochang!”

At Philip’s shout, the mercenaries put down their crossbows and raised polearms made of steel that were over 2 meters long.

Perhaps in consideration of its weight, a stand was prepared between the steel shields, so the mercenaries seemed to be able to handle it with ease.

Slurp.

Of course, Dalton took out his two longswords, not spears.

‘I’ll cut them all down!’

As the horseman approached, its disgusting appearance caught my eye.

Although he was wearing leather armor, the blue veins visible through the gaps in the armor and the scaly skin like a reptile could not be considered human.

Not only that, looking at the distorted facial features and saw-like teeth, the swamp toad I had faced earlier looked cute.

Cooung. Coogugung.

“Krrilla!”

The horsemen who arrived under the castle wall hurled themselves into the wall just as they had been running.

A body that seemed to be twice the size of a human headbutted the monster so hard that even the fortress made of stone blocks could feel the vibrations.

‘If it had been a wooden fence, it would have been instantly shattered, right?’

Fortunately, the fortress seemed impervious to body blows.

The horsemen must have realized this fact and all looked up at the top of the castle wall.

The height of the castle wall is 3m. It was surrounded by a 1m high iron shield, so it was actually closer to 4m.

“preparation!!”

At Philip’s words, the mercenaries tightened their grips, aiming their spears downward.

And the next moment.

Pababat!

The horsemen kicked the floor and jumped up like frogs.

“…!!”

The mercenaries’ eyes widened as the massive figures jumped over 3 meters and tried to grab the shield wall.

“Stab it!!”

But the surprise was short-lived. At Philip’s command, the mercenaries stabbed the long spears they were aiming at with all their might.

“Ki~ek!!”

Cooung.

A horseman who had been stabbed by a spear screamed and fell off the castle wall.

However, the fallen horseman shook his head for a moment as if he was dizzy, and then ran towards the castle wall unharmed.

As expected, normal attacks seemed unable to pierce the horse soldier’s thick hide.

Moreover, not all the horsemen fell from the castle walls. In any case, this was because the number of people was insufficient.

Empty! Chajaeng!!

When the horseman clinging to the shield pulled out his long claws and swung them, the mercenaries hastily blocked them with their spears.

“Hwaap!”

And Dalton, who was waiting among the mercenaries, roared his spirit and rushed towards the horseman.

Whisper!

Push!!

The sword in his left hand struck off the horseman’s long arm, and the sword in his right hand drew a clean path and pierced the horseman’s neck.

The horseman seemed to have lost his strength and lost his shield and fell down the castle wall.

‘hmm!?’

But Dalton’s frown frowned. Something tasted different.

‘You mean you reacted in that short period of time?’

And it seemed that the leather was thicker than I thought.

The horseman who had fallen to the ground wriggled for a moment and then stood up again.

‘this…!’

I heard the explanation, but I didn’t expect it to be that tough.

‘Should I use the Mana Blade?’

It seemed difficult to suffocate with a single blow using a mana sword simply infused with mana.

Raoul’s knights, who knew about this, had already pulled out their swords and cut off the horseman’s head.

“Tsk.”

Once again, a horseman stuck to the iron shield, and this time Dalton made no mistake.

About 10cm of red sword energy shot out from his two longswords, and it cleanly blew off the head of a black horseman crossed in the shape of an X.

“Whoa! Everyone, come at us!!”

After catching his breath, Dalton regained his confidence and shouted.

Even the mercenaries who thought they were simply Raoul’s friends faced the horseman with a more confident expression after learning that Dalton was an expert-level swordsman.

* * *

“Tsk.”

Emil quenched his appetite while watching the battle in the fortress.

He checked the crossbow bolt in his hand again and frowned slightly.

Although he was not a craftsman, he knew enough to know that this bolt was not an ordinary item.

First of all, it was made entirely of metal, not wood, and the material was not ordinary iron.

‘Eun…’

He also had black magic energy in his body. It was not difficult to notice that the anti-magic power of silver was felt in the bolt.

Well, if it weren’t for that, no matter how powerful the crossbow was, it wouldn’t have been able to pierce the horse soldier’s skull with a single blow.

“I guess not?”

Silver’s anti-magic power was the opposite of not only demonic energy but also undead. It was probably prepared assuming undead.

And the fortress that appeared out of nowhere and the polearms that continued to push back the horsemen were not particularly unusual.

However, it felt strange that the elements were gathered together in this battlefield to block the horse soldiers.

‘Besides, the enemy’s strength is unusual.’

It occurred to me that each enemy was more skilled than I thought.

I thought that they had mobilized their troops by taking into full consideration the existing strength of the Ashton family and the known information of the new First Knights, but it seems that there were more hidden things than they had predicted.

‘Well, that’s okay…’

It would have been nice if we could clean it up with only horsemen, but I expected that to be difficult the moment the fortress appeared in the first place.

No matter how vicious the demonic beast was, it was not at the level of a head-to-head confrontation with an expert-level swordsman.

‘This is the limit of Type 1 horsemen. Still, I wish they had used a little more strength… but it looks like they only brought in B-class or higher mercenaries.’

Class B are people who can handle mana even if they are not at the knight level. These were people who were fully capable of dealing with horsemen.

Emil shouted after roughly checking the enemy’s strength.

“Ready for battle!”

At his command, the real power of the Imperial Hound began to move.

‘Try to struggle until the end.’

* * *

Grumble.

‘huh…?’

Suddenly, something shiny appeared at the bottom of the hill.

Dalton pushed back the horse soldier he was fighting against and confirmed its identity.

“be careful! “It’s magic!!”

A large fireball the size of a human torso was flying angrily from the bottom of the hill towards the castle wall.

It appeared to be a fireball activated by a wizard of at least the 5th circle.

‘Oh my god, come to think of it, we don’t have any wizards, do we?’

In fact, it was difficult to find wizards in the Kingdom of Ruben.

Since it was originally a country of knights, the infrastructure for knights was excellent, but the facilities for wizards were poor.

Perhaps that is why most high-ranking wizards resided in magic towers concentrated in the Kingdom of Leslie.

There were many wizards belonging to each noble family at the 3rd circle level at most, and most of them specialized in magical communication or power armor maintenance rather than combat.

In any case, the bottom line was that there was no wizard here who could block the enemy’s magic.

Moreover, magic was flying not only from where Dalton was, but also from all four sides of the castle wall at the same time.

It was said that there were at least four wizards.

Dalton, who had thought a lot in that brief moment as the fireball flew, bit his lip and placed his hand on his waist.

‘What can I do? Now that it’s like this…’

The moment when Dalton was about to put his decision into action.

“Everyone stay where you are!!”

Raoul’s voice echoed throughout the battlefield. and.

pop! Pubbung! pop! pop!!

The fireballs that flew in with great force exploded a few meters away from the castle wall.

Grumble!

“Kkieek!”

Thanks to this, the fallen fragments of fire hit the horsemen, and chaos ensued as the horsemen engulfed in flames rolled around on the floor.

“Wow!!”

They didn’t know what happened, but everyone cheered at the fact that they had blocked the magic.

And perhaps because of the fire, the horsemen’s attack seemed to loosen up a bit.

“Everyone, come to your senses! Wave 2 is coming!”

But Raoul did not let down his guard and shouted.

Just as he said, another fireball appeared, and this time, a group of people rushed towards the fortress from behind the fireball at high speed.

Philip, who immediately realized the situation, shouted.

“These are enemy knights! “Mercenaries, switch to a defensive posture!!”

At Philip’s order, about a dozen mercenaries put down their spears and went down the castle wall.

They ran to the center of the fortress with crossbows in hand. And there was a makeshift watchtower erected there, no matter when it was installed.

The mercenaries stationed at Ethan’s wooden watchtower, which was installed slightly higher than the castle wall, mounted their crossbows on the watchtower and began firing support in earnest.

The mercenaries remaining on the castle wall also gave up their spears and stepped back slightly.

They prepared to face their enemies, armed with personal shields and blunt weapons (hammers, axes, etc.).

As they were selected from among a thousand mercenaries, changes in formation were made quickly and the gaps were filled by the knights of the First Knights.

A total of 15 people, including 6 regular knights including Philip, 7 probationary knights, and Raoul and Dalton, faced the enemies at the front line.

bang! Chat! Plop!!

“die!”

“You die!”

The second wave on the Imperial Hound side was fierce.

Seven knights who were clearly experts jumped up onto the castle wall at once, emitting sword energy.

In addition, about 10 agents with tattoos dyed red were also waiting for an opportunity under the castle wall, holding swords stained with an ominous black energy.

However, Raul’s defense was not easily broken down.

This side also had enough knight power, and Raoul was constantly blocking the magic that kept coming with his telekinetic dagger.

At that time, a loud shout was heard from far away.

“Ten minutes left~~!!”

And Emil, the adjutant who was in close combat with Philip on the castle wall, frowned when he heard the sound.

“Shit! “Unseal them all!”

The battlefield on the castle walls began to change rapidly.

(Continued in the next part)