Trash of the Count's Family

Castle Leona was at least 2.5 times the size of the Henituse Castle.

People could see a black wave rushing toward them through the loud explosions.

Caro Kingdom’s crown prince Valentino felt fear as he looked at that black liquid.

A land covered by dead mana.

Nothing would be able to grow on such a land.

Any soldier who even touches dead mana would die.

However, the word that came out of his mouth was something else.

“…Shield.”

Boom, boooooom!

Tens of the small ships crashed into the shield.

Boooom-

The ground was rumbling.

It then caused the castle walls to shake as well.

However, there was an existence that was not shaking.

Valentino started to speak.

“…It looks like we can deactivate our shield.”

It felt as if another mountain had appeared in front of Castle Leona. However, that was a shield and not a mountain.

It was a silver shield with the crest of a heart. That large shield was defending the front of Castle Leona from everything. The silver light was so thick that it looked as if multiple layers of shields were overlapping each other.

Of course, Raon's voice was going off in Cale's mind at that moment.

Human, I think I really am a bit great and mighty! It is a four-layer silver shield! The dead mana will not be able to touch us at all! We will save everyone!

Cale listened to the six-years-old Dragon's excited voice as he made just a faint shield underneath Raon's sturdy silver shield.

His shield was not very strong as he had to create an extremely large shield this time. The shield had gotten stronger than before, however, it was not strong enough to defend the entire castle.

‘Dragons really are the best.’

Raon’s four-layer silver shield allowed Cale's shield to shine brighter than ever.

The Indomitable Alliance and the Empire’s bastards had created three times the strength of the shield they had seen in the Henituse territory's battle. Unlike the Dragon Slayer’s Sword of Disasters which struck Cale’s shield at a single point, this plan was to have multiple bombs explode in numerous locations at once.

They expected that this would be too strong for Cale to handle. They thought it would be able to create a gap or at least buy them some time.

‘Funny bastards.’

However, Cale had a young Dragon whose strength would not be matched by anything other than a Dragon Slayer. He had a satisfied smile on his face.

Crown prince Valentino who had no idea about this felt both relief and fear.

‘Heroes are people who change history.’

They would be people who change the course of the continent through their victories. Only those people received the title of ‘heroes.’

Commander Cale had told Valentino that he had brought heroes with him. In that case, who was the person that was leading these heroes?

“Your highness!”

He came back to his senses after hearing someone calling for him. He then gave the general an order.

“Immediately go find the priests! Make sure you get every single one of the light-affinity priests!”

The enemy was running away after flooding the land with dead mana.

They needed to create a small path through the dead mana to chase after them. In order to do that, they needed the strength of the light-affinity churches, especially the Church of the Sun God. They had shown this ‘path of the sun’ in the past when they got rid of the necromancers. They needed this path made of divine power.

The crown prince had noticed as well. He could tell that the enemy was not running away and that they were heading for the northern shores. It was not hard to decipher that.

That was why they could not let the enemy go. They needed to prevent them from reaching the northern shores.

If they couldn’t stop them, they needed to at least hold them back as long as possible.

Boom. Boom.

The explosions started to end as the rumbling died down. The silver shield started to become dimmer as well.

“Mm.”

He subconsciously groaned.

“Aaaaah!”

“Aaaaaah!”

The land was dyed black.

A sticky black liquid covered the area, making it appear as if a black swamp had been created. Above that swamp were pieces of the destroyed ships as well as the enemy soldiers that were dying from the explosion and dead mana.

“…A, a nightmare-”

Crown prince Valentino turned his gaze back toward the ledge of the castle wall. He could see the young soldier that was shaking while saying this was a nightmare. Since the Caro Kingdom had urgently drafted soldiers, some of them were only fifteen years of age.

Such a sight was showing them the true despair of war.

‘Cruel bastards.’

Valentino started to shake while thinking about how the Indomitable Alliance could leave their soldiers behind to go kill some other people.

He felt a sense of fear.

‘Do I need to send my soldiers to death like this to win as well?’

This was crown prince Valentino’s first war as well.

However, he needed to focus as he was the crown prince. This was the same for the rest of the Caro Kingdom's leaders by his side.

in order to not become like

chief

cannot let

knights in order to depart. There were

Kingdom's commander started

to get past the debris and the enemy

was correct. The dead mana was an obstacle, however, debris from the

No, call the bishop

prince was looking for a priest as he gave an order to

to the northern and southern

“Yes, your highness!”

crown prince could hear many people walking up the stone

Tap, tap.

they were before his expression turned

to Castle Leona were

crown prince was happy to even see the bishop who had made him

“Bishop!”

“Your highness.”

bishop calmly bowed toward Valentino. However, Valentino had no time for such formalities as he grabbed the bishop's shoulders and quickly started

it was possible for priests with light-affinity. Please heed

we need to get rid of it.

felt that the bishop who was responding

path of

to have created over the land that was covered in dead mana when they went to rid the world of necromancers. The Holy Knights had walked down that path to the final battle with

video communication devices connected at that

Your highness.

“Ah, Duke Huten!”

Empire’s Duke Huten. The person who was responsible for the northern tower

am glad everyone is

hearing that one sentence before quickly starting to

will soon create a path through the dead mana. We cannot let the Indomitable Alliance go so I will

I under-

“But your highness.”

moment the Duke was about to respond. The bishop started

“What is it, bishop?”

take at least

“…What?”

awkwardness in the bishop's

this dead mana. There are also a lot of preparations that need

way to make a path to chase

that is indeed the

to frown as

about the path

in

A Saint.

at the bishop who was avoiding his gaze as well as the other priests who had

path with

Valentino sounded desperate.

enough for our knights to go through in a single-file

“Ahem, you see.”

hesitated for a moment. That made

was at that moment. He heard Duke Huten's voice

as if their entire body is on

Purify.

powers for free.

“Ah.”

why the priests

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the past to destroy the necromancers. They did it for justice. Although none of

back started to frown every time Duke Huten spoke. Valentino and the others looked toward the priests. That was why

because Cale Henituse's shield was

successful since we are able to

the Roan Kingdom’s necromancer can’t take care

Roan Kingdom's magic attack or a few knights being moved with flight magic could

once again looking as if he was seriously worried about

bishop looked toward crown prince Valentino

difficult to take care of it immediately as there is a way to slowly and

kill the citizens and merchants up north if we let them go. And if those ships also

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

Valentino could hear the enemy’s trumpets in

be covered in dead mana

would be extremely

had said that they would not die. His

there are so many of you, can't you share

pretended not to hear

experience any type of pain. Why would he sacrifice himself when he wouldn’t be affected by the enemy going

as well. Shouldn’t we first prepare for the battle up north as quickly

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up on Castle Leona and head out, we will need some soldiers to complete the purification project. We also need some knights to protect the priests

speaking as if Castle Leona was no longer able

visibly became

what you want to say

have no choice. The priests with light-affinity are the only ones who can complete the purification. Shouldn’t you protect

smile became etched

The bishop was wrong.

were too many errors in what the bishop

the crown prince felt as if he

right now. There was no way to

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

to hear the enemy’s trumpet. The laughter of the

moving to destroy somewhere

Valentino and the leaders of the Caro Kingdom started to frown. They were also starting

at

“Huh?!”

by the central

Tap.

the ledge to land on the castle wall. Crown prince Valentino’s expression changed. Some

of

Cale Henituse. He was the one who had

“…Commander.”

Valentino and started to speak. He

flew over right away with flight magic. I felt as if I should say

he come here to