Reiko, will you go?

Now, we need to create a disturbance to gain an advantage in the war.

And the best person to do it is Reiko.

But no direct intervention yet. Use the magic cannon (magi cannon) and shoot from a distance only.

Reiko nodded her head and said, "I have some things in mind. Reiko nodded her head.

"Yes, I'll leave it to you."

Jin then lowered the altitude of Pegasus 1. When they were about 10 meters from the surface.

"This is fine. Anne, take care of your father.

With these words, Reiko took Momoka and the Magi Cannon and jumped off Pegasus 1.

Dexterously holding down the hem of her skirt, Reiko landed on the ground. She was about 500 meters away from the battlefield.

"All right, Reiko, fire the Magi Cannon at 30 percent.

"Yes, sir."

Hitoshi's order came from Pegasus 1, which had regained altitude.

"Now, I've ordered the land troops to move. The allies are moving from the left side to the right side. Can you see them?"

Reiko, with her amazing eyesight, read the timing when the land troops on the left side would disappear.

She then readied her Magi Cannon.

"Magi cannon, 30 percent output! Fire!"

With a booming sound of a shockwave, the adamantite cannonball was fired at a speed of about Mach 20.

What the hell are you doing?

"What are you doing?　Oh, no!

Elena gritted her teeth as she looked at the magic screen.

At that moment, several of the new battle golems blow up.

"What?"

A few seconds later, a few more. And then a few more.

"What?　What's going on?"

Even Elena couldn't see the shells flying at Mach 20 or higher, so she couldn't grasp the situation.

And in the meantime, another friendly golem was blown away.

Elena was shown the sight of her allied Golem being blown up a total of 10 times, and she almost lost her judgment.

"Golem!　Spread out!　If you stay together, the damage will be much worse!　Spread out!

But that was exactly what Jin was aiming for.

* * * *

"Oh, the enemy golem has broken apart! They must have been scared off by Reiko's bombardment."

Jin muttered to himself as he watched from above.

"Goshujin-sama, with this, it is possible to attack with Raptor.

Anne offered her advice.

"Yes, that's right. Let's have the Raptors target the enemy golem with point-blank fire instead of a wide area of fire.

Jin then instructed the Raptors.

"Raptors, each of you fire a laser at an enemy golem on the surface. Do not hit your teammates by mistake.

* * * *

What the hell is this?

Elena's voice is becoming shrill.

Behind the magic screen, one by one, the new battle golems are falling.

I don't know what happened. Suddenly, heads, arms, and half of their bodies evaporated and collapsed.

"What on earth, what on earth, what on earth!

Elena screams, and Jules, the leader of the Unifiler party, taps her on the shoulder to calm her down.

Jules, the president of the Unifiler, tapped her on the shoulder to calm her down, but this only served to irritate Elena.

"Shut up!"

Elena's arm is swung away from her. She slams into Jules' chest. The sound of bones breaking echoes through the air, and Jules collapses, coughing up blood from his mouth.

"What, is that ......?"

was all that came out of his mouth. He had fainted.

Looking down at the fallen Jules, Elena regains some sense.

"d*mn, I broke a piece that still works. ...... Well, there are plenty of replacements.

He turns to Donald, who is standing beside him with a surprised look on his face,

"Donald, you're going to be the head of the Unifiler from now on," he says.

He tells him that he is now the president of the Unifiler. Donald, who had been looking at me with a drawn look on his face, smiled at the sound of her voice.

"Okay, Elena. I'm in charge now."

There is no will in his eyes.

"Yes. Donald, how many hot air balloons are left?

Ten.

Ten. Okay. All of them. And I want all the mages on board.

All right, we've got 28 people, so 8 for 3, 2 for 2, okay?

Yes, that's fine. Let's get them in the air!

Yes, that's good.

"Good, Raptors!"

Jin looked at the battle situation and felt that everything was going well.

The number of enemy golems remaining was less than a hundred, and only the Raptors were capable of eliminating them.

So far, no members of Lando's team have dropped out. Some of them are slightly wounded, but they do not affect the operation of the unit.

"All right, Raptors, stop the laser attacks!"

The enemy had become sparse and inefficient. Jin decided that the Raptors would be enough for the rest of the mission.

"This can't be the end, what will they do next?"

That's when Jin thought, "Goshujin-sama.

"Goshujin-sama, that one."

Jin looks up at the sound of Ann's voice. He had been paying attention only to the bottom, but this time the enemy was at the same altitude.

The distance was about one kilometer. They are still visible to the naked eye only as dots.

However, when he looked at the magic screen with telephoto function, Jin unusually muttered in an impressed voice.

"Wow, a hot air balloon. I've heard about it, but I didn't know they had really developed something like that."

But Anne said,

"No, Mr. Goshujin, as I reported to the old man, it's called a hot air balloon. It was developed during the Magic War as a countermeasure against flying demons.

It seems that this information was in Anne's unrecovered memory. It seems that it was only recently that the information was finally restored.

"The one who appeared in Asund and Tetrada?　Well, it doesn't matter what you call him. From the looks of it, it seems to float by using air heated by fire magic and to move by wind magic, doesn't it?"

As expected of Jin, he had guessed the principle almost precisely just by looking at it.

"That's right. That's why I was able to crash-land it with a magijammer in the last battle.

"Okay, let's scare them off first."

Jin then moved Pegasus 1 toward the enemy flying ball.

"Keep the magijammer ready to radiate at any time. And deploy a magic barrier in front of it."

Pegasus 1, which is also a VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft, moved forward at a slight speed and approached the enemy hot airball.

* * * * *

"But this is still a great flying ball, anytime I get on it."

"Yes, indeed. It's amazing that you can fly in such a way, the technology of the past must have been amazing.

"It's a definite advantage to be able to fly. We can easily see where and how many enemy troops are in the air and we can attack at will.

"Hey, we're almost over the enemy, get ready for the magic."

Such was the conversation on the hot air balloon. But their voices are frozen in astonishment.

"Hey, hey, what is that?"

What was in the corner of their gazes? It was a flying object shining in silver.

"Is it made of gold ......?"

"How can such a thing fly ......?"

* * *

No one was surprised to see the Pegasus 1 as it emerged from its stealth.