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Capture Battle of the Industrial City Tuban (Part I)
Chapter 29

And finally, Tuban capture battle commenced.

The reinforcement is the Queen of Vampires, Mereen. She is participating with her three hundred Grave Wax soldiers which were summoned in advanced.

I too followed bringing my treasured two thousand skeleton troops.
Total count is close to five thousand troops.

The population of Tuban we are facing is five thousand.

Although there would be quite a number of citizen soldiers, but the total number is unknown.

From what I have heard, Tuban citizens know how to use crossbows, and so it is a gathering of archers.

And so, the first problem is the impregnable fortress, which Tuban is proud of.

I want to say as expected of an industrial city, but is it even possible to capture it without a surprise attack.

“It seems the encirclement has been completed.”

To blow up the castle gates at the critical moment, I had him come.

The one to capture the north gate are the sacrificial thousand pieces of skeleton soldiers and three hundred Grave Wax soldiers. And following which, the one thousand five hundred Jinba soldiers would rush inside the city.
Mereen-senpai should be looking after the two thousand skelton troops encircling the north gate.

The moment encircling was completed, Fernel sent the messenger recommending them to surrender.

I see, they don’t seem to have any intention to discuss at all.
As the unarmed messenger was killed before their eyes, the Jinba race soldiers are in a rage. It seems like they won’t stop until they see blood.

Fernel is waving her spear from a little distance away.

… Behave a bit more like a commander. Well it’s fine.

“Returned from the gates of Gevena, you who, declined from the gates of Hauran.

It’s the usual chant to use the dead.

I don’t know which one is better, but let me have them do one thing.

When the skeleton soldiers responded to my voice, I order them to advance.

All the sounds become uniform, the skeleton soldiers put up their shield.

The five hundred skeleton soldiers holding spear and shield, simultaneously started attacking.

Immediately, arrows were fired from the castle walls of Tuban. As feared, the firing range is long. It would hit. It would hit.

But even if the ribs are broken to the extent of shattering they should still be able to move without any inconvenience, so they have a good compatibility with the arrows.

If the same had been done by the Jinba soldiers, then it would have been worse.

“It’s a war of attrition.”

“For now, we have to endure, but little by little we will follow next.”

The second group advances towards the place where the first group has gathered near the castle gate.

Although right now, I am on the attacking side.

The first group of skeleton soldiers is half destroyed with the violent counterattack from enemy, but the second division did not receive such resistance.

And then in the second group, Mereen-senpai’s specialty Grave Wax soldiers… in other words white waxed zombies are slipped in.
More and more it is like Tower Defense, but these guys are the leading actors this time.

The Grave Wax soldiers, being dehydrated, are a variant of the zombies with possibility of long term preservation. But there is a disadvantage that they are easy to burn.
However the defect can become the strong point.

The Grave Wax soldiers that reached the castle gates escorted by the skeleton soldiers, started self-destructing according to the prior setup.

Perhaps the great door of the castle gate is sticky with oil.
Since it is a large dried plank of a tree, it should absorb a lot of oil.

But I can’t still be careless.

That’s why, deliberately using this kind of roundabout way, we are showing that we are attacking pointlessly.

They don’t have feelings or soul, they are just corpse puppets.

Since the groups I command are already gone, along with Krutz, I regrouped with Fernel’s Jinba troops.

“So far, it is going according to the plan. Also, stop calling me that way.”

It just remains to set fire to the oily castle gate, but because of the shooting range of arrows, we can’t get close to shoot fire arrow.

Firing a lightning attack, she would ignite it with electricity.
At least if there are copper wires, it would be much easier, but it can’t be helped since there are none….

The Great Sage Gomoviroa, in not more than a few minutes, with a difficult expression on her innocent face, is chanting the spell.

Unable to control his curiosity as a technician, Krutz asks me in a low voice.

The spell Teacher currently chanting is not the lightning spell.

Mostly because the magic is ‘Centered at oneself’ and ‘Follow the general laws of physics at the time of activation’, if someone uses without thinking, then the user himself would receive most damage.
To prevent that, various spells are required to control it, but compared to doing such a sluggish move, it’s faster to strike with a sword.

I didn’t understand the contents of Teacher’s spell, but can roughly make a guess.

“Path of lightning, is it?”

I have heard that just before the lightning strikes, in between the thundercloud and earth’s surface, path of lightning is made by the ionised atmosphere.

At any rate, if lighting magic is casted without any thought, it may strike someone’s armor in the demon army. That’s why it should be guided.

“She is at the point where she is defining the aim such that it would exactly hit the castle gate. If it isn’t done, then it is unknown where it would strike”

Technical Officer Kurtz enthusiastically started taking memos.

“It was impossible…”
Please don’t make me remember that.

“Hmm, yes. It’s time.”

This took just an instant. It’s sufficient to just tamper with the magic in the surrounding, and convert it to electric energy.

Along with a bluish-white light, a thunderous roar, which can make the atmosphere vibrate, mowed down the surrounding.


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