141 - - 06-28 Launch of counterattack
Jin looked around.
At first, he was confused and could not use his attack magic, such as or , because of the risk that they might engulf the people around him due to their directness and high power.
But now that the confusion has subsided a little and there are only a handful of people standing, they can use them without hesitation as long as they know which direction to fire.
Beena, stay close to me.
What are you doing, Jin? What are you doing, Jin?
Sparing no time to respond to Bina's panic, Jin released a laser beam.
The target is the golems that are swarming around Erza.
Since he was not sure if the barrier of his protection ring would protect him from the laser beam, he started with the golems on the side of the barrier instead of in front of it.
Again, in order to preserve the evidence, we avoid the area where the magi device is located. In other words, they focused on the lower half of the body.
"That's amazing. ......"
Bina, who was standing beside him, was beyond amazed and was dumbfounded. Every time Jin's bracelet glowed, the lower half of the golem evaporated and disappeared.
After repeating this several times, the golem around Erza was finally wiped out.
"Erza!"
With tear-stained eyes, Erza watched the golems being defeated. And that it was Jin's magic.
"Jin, kun......"
Erza ran to Jin, moving her wriggling legs,
The ...... barriers collided with each other and bounced off each other.
"Ahh!"
Erza fell on her butt inside the barrier. Jin smiled,
"Erza, we have to release the barrier, don't we?"
He looked around and deactivated his own barrier. Erza deactivated hers as well, so Jin took her hand and helped her to her feet. Erza's hand was shaking a little in Jin's hand.
Jin wanted to comfort her,
I'm sorry. But the place is still crawling with golems. If you can, take care of Bina for me.
"What, Jin?"
Patting Erza once on the head, Jin pushed Beena toward Erza. Elsa held Beena in her arms. And then..,
"Barrier!"
The two put up the barrier again.
"I'm going to join Reinhardt and the others. That way at least we won't be attacked from behind."
"...... got it. Be careful."
Despite all her complaints, Elsa understood the situation. With her legs still a little shaky, she and Bina went down to the wall.
* * * * * *
Back in time, the guest house. Reiko is at home. She appears.
"...... what's shaking now?"
Reiko feels a mighty wave of magic flow through her.
"It's the same kind of magic that the golem Albus or something used last time. Are you going in the direction of the castle, toward the hall?
Reiko started walking slowly.
"Where are you going?"
Laila, the remaining Royal Secret Maid, asked her, but Reiko only said
"Your father is ...... in danger."
She muttered and ran out of the room.
"Excuse me!"
Lila ran out after Reiko,
"Ow!"
She gasped when she saw the devastation in the hallway.
A scavenger golem was running amok. I saw Reiko lightly hit and destroy it.
"Aaaaah!"
Laila rushes back to her room and locks the door.
"What the hell happened?"
No one answers.
Meanwhile, Reiko increases her power even more and sprints down the hallway. The 20 percent that Jin is normally allowed.
Two security golems stand in her way.
"You're in my way!"
Reiko swung her arm once. As a result, the two security golems were blown apart and flew out through the wall of the guest house.
"I knew it was the magic from before..."
Reiko muttered as she advanced.
The first time was weak, the second time was strong. Reiko sensed the second time, which Jin could not have sensed. It was near the waiting area of the Golem.
It means that all of the reserve and miscellaneous Golems on standby were affected.
What Reiko saw when she left the guesthouse grounds could be summed up in one word: chaos. Here and there, golems and knights or soldiers were fighting.
The courtyard of the castle looks like a battlefield, with fallen soldiers and broken golems piled on top of each other. The human side is clearly in the wrong, but Reiko's first priority is Jin's safety.
However, there are so many golems attacking that she cannot ignore them. Inevitably, Reiko had to destroy many of the Golems present.
"Ta, thank God. ......"
"What the hell is she?"
"Is it a golem ...... or an automata?"
To the wounded, Reiko may have seemed like a goddess of salvation.
Now we have a security golem, a knight golem, a scullery golem. Golem, the golem, had risen up against the humans.
Reiko slaughters many such Golems as she goes along.
?"
She noticed an out-of-place white bird-shaped Golem among them, but Reiko didn't check the details of the Golem, prioritizing to rush to Jin.
Finally, Reiko crossed the courtyard and reached the door to the inner palace in the center of the castle. However, it was separated by a thick iron door.
Reiko tries to push the door, but it does not work, as if it is sealed from the inside. So Reiko takes the quickest solution.
That is, she destroys it.
A loud bang sounded, and the iron door was distorted.
"It's surprisingly strong.
The gap of about 30 centimeters was created. The fact that Reiko's 20 percent blow was enough to create such a large gap shows how sturdy the door is.
It is no wonder, for the door was about 10 centimeters thick. But it was enough for Reiko to get through.
Once through the gap in the doorway, she found herself in a land of further chaos.
In the plaza in front of the inner palace, the knights of the Kingsguard and the knights of the Mage Guard were fighting back against the golem. The Kingsguard knights were using their superior swordsmanship, and the mage knights were using fire magic, the golem's weak point.
The common material used for the golem in this castle is bronze. The melting point of bronze is about 1050 degrees Celsius with 5% tin. The melting point falls even lower when lead and other metals are mixed in.
Golems made of low-purity bronze were deformed and immobilized when exposed to fire magic.
However, fireballs and firebullets are not effective, and at least a flame ball is needed to be effective.
And there were only a few mage knights who could shoot flame balls.
Reiko moves toward the hall in such chaos, avoiding obstacles.
Fortunately, the golems there were already fighting with the knights, so only a few golems attacked Reiko. This allows Reiko to go much faster than before.
Moreover, all the people who were there had no time to spare and did not notice the little girl running toward the palace at a very high speed.
The palace is in chaos. Swords, fists, and other weapons, as well as daily necessities such as mops, brooms, and trays, were being unleashed on Reiko.
"It's very noisy, isn't it?"
Even if they don't hurt us, they are annoying and very much in the way of our progress. So Reiko finds a broken chore golem lying around, grabs it by the legs, and swings it around.
Reiko weighs 33 kilograms (she gained 3 kilograms last time), and it is surreal to see her wielding a bronze golem weighing over 100 kilograms. It was surreal to see her wielding a bronze golem weighing over 100 kilograms, but it was very effective.
The golem swung around in the passageway, which was only five meters wide and three meters high, although it was wide, scraped the walls and scattered its fragments, but it was still bouncing off the approaching golems.
"Weight is a weapon in its own right. ......"
Reiko's steps do not stop even as she thinks of this. From the other side of the open door, she sees a flux of light (laser), probably by Jin's magic, obliterating the golems.
"Father! I'm coming!"
Reiko increased her speed even more.
* * * * * *
Reinhardt, the Black Knight (Schwarzritter), and the Kingsguard were trying to gather the survivors in one place.
Erza and Bina have also joined them, and are giving first aid to the badly injured by applying healing magic.
"There are so many of them!"
The black knights (Schwarzritter) were protecting the Kingsguard while preventing many golems from attacking them.
"Black Knight (Schwarzritter)! Behind you!"
The black knight (Schwarzliter), who had beaten away the guard golem, rescued a woman who was about to be attacked.
"Oh, thank you ......."
It was Dominic, the envoy of the Kingdom of Celluloid. She seems to be safe.
"You'll be relatively safe here."
With these words, Reinhardt sent the Black Knight (Schwarzlitter) out again.
The Kingsguard members are putting combat second and doing their best to rescue the wounded. And then one more.
"Erza-sama, please heal her!"
"Yes, I will."
Erza's face twitched as she looked at the wounded man. The wounded man was Count Galana.
His face was swollen and his nose was broken. Her right arm and left leg were twisted in a funny way. In addition, he was coughing blood from his mouth, as if his ribs had been broken.
He hesitated for a moment, but then said
"<><>"
Erza casts a healing spell and performs first aid.
Then..,
"Oh, that's His Majesty and His ...... Highness!
A member of the Kingsguard spotted the king and the prince in the distance.
The two were protected by a copper-colored maid golem behind a wall made of immobile golems.
* * * * * *
Even though there is a wall made from the defeated golem, there is no way that it can completely protect them.
Now, <> has neutralized her dozenth golem.
Her arms are covered in scars, and some of her fingers are shredded. The clothes she had been wearing were gone, her beautiful body was dented and scarred in places, and her joints made a creaking sound every time she moved.
"Lotte, are you all right?"
Prince Ernest asked worriedly.
"Yes, Your Highness. I can still move.
With these words, Lotte catches the sword of the attacking knight golem in her arm and prevents the prince from being hurt.
But the cost was too great: her right arm was finally broken from the elbow.
"Ah! Lotte!"
But Lotte was unconcerned,
"It's all right. I feel no pain. This is dangerous for ...... your highness!"
"Whoa!"
Another golem attacks.
I won't let it!
Lotte intercepts it. However, since she can no longer use her right hand, she is unable to block the guard golem's left fist, and is hit in the chest.
Lotte's chest was greatly dented, but she didn't care about that, and she clamped the thrusted fist in her still usable right side, and grabbed the golem's head with her left hand.
He then grabbed the golem's head with his left hand. He pushed his left hand out at once, and the golem was blown away, spinning around like a spinning top.
"So ...... amazing, Lotte!"
The prince exclaims in amazement.
"Yes, my father made me this way..."
"He made you like this. ......"
The king hears this and is about to say something,
"Look out!"
This time it is the sword that grazes the king. It is the knight golem. Lotte, who has lost one of her arms, is a somewhat heavy burden to bear. Even so, Lotte doesn't back down and defends the king and prince, challenging the golem head-on.
Lotte's advantage is her speed and flexibility. It is a little tough to challenge the knight golem head-on. But she dares to do it if necessary, that is Lotte, that is Marm, the mother of Lotte's character, and Lyanna, the basis of her movements.
The knight golem swings his sword down from the top. Lotte catches it with her right arm, which is now useless. The rest of it falls from her shoulder on impact. But the knight's slash was slow enough.
With his left hand he grabs the sword and twists it up using the principle of leverage. The knight golem is easily dislodged at the right wrist, and the sword remains in Lotte's hand.
Lotte spared no time to replace the sword and struck a blow to the knight golem's neck with the blade still in her hand.
The sword bites halfway into the knight golem, slowing it down. Finally, Lotte has enough time to change her sword, and she brings it back to her left hand and strikes another blow.
This time the head of the knight golem falls off, but the opponent does not stop yet. Lotte plunges her sword into the hole in the golem's neck.
The magi device inside the body is destroyed, and this time the knight golem stops moving.
"Lotte! Are you okay?
Yes, Your Highness.
But Lotte's left hand has also lost three fingers in the battle. It is clear from that that she is close to her limit.
At that moment, Lotte felt a surge of magical power.
"Your Majesty, Your Highness, it's all right now..."
Why?
Why?
Lotte smiles with a scarred face at the king and prince who look at her with a questioning expression,
"Because my sister is here."