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.

needed to fight in order to not become like

chief speaking next to

highness, we cannot let the

knights in order to depart. There were already tens of ships that had left the

started

debris and the enemy soldiers even

was correct. The dead mana was an obstacle, however, debris from the destroyed ships and the enemy soldiers were

No, call the bishop

priest as he gave an order to the communication

to the northern and

“Yes, your highness!”

that moment, the crown prince could hear many people walking up

Tap, tap.

confirmed who they were before his expression turned

Leona were coming up with the

to even see the bishop who had made him angry during the strategy

“Bishop!”

“Your highness.”

had no time for such formalities as he grabbed

a path through the dead mana. I heard it was possible for priests

need to get rid of it. It is the dirty dead mana

prince felt that the bishop who was responding smoothly was reliable

of the

have created over the land that was covered in dead mana when they went to rid the world of necromancers. The

of the video communication

Your highness.

“Ah, Duke Huten!”

Huten. The person who was responsible for

am glad

that one sentence before quickly starting to

mana. We cannot let the Indomitable Alliance go so I will need

I under-

“But your highness.”

Duke was about to respond. The

“What is it, bishop?”

at

“…What?”

finally see the awkwardness in the

need more reinforcements from back home to purify all of this dead mana. There are also a lot of preparations that need to

way to make a path to chase after the enemies right

that is indeed the

to frown as

the path

need a Saint in order to

A Saint.

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

least a small path with divine power of light-affinity? Can't you burn dead mana with divine

Valentino sounded desperate.

a small path. Just the tiniest of paths. Just enough for our knights to go through in a single-file line. We

“Ahem, you see.”

That made Valentino wonder what was

Duke Huten's voice through the video

light-affinity are said to feel as if their entire body is on fire in order to use divine powers to purify

Purify.

use their powers

“Ah.”

prince Valentino finally understood why the priests were acting this

Huten continued to

to destroy the necromancers. They did it for justice. Although none of them were injured or died because of it, however, the sequelae from it

frown every time Duke Huten spoke. Valentino and the others looked toward the priests. That was why none of them

hurt because Cale Henituse's

are able to prevent

the Roan Kingdom’s necromancer can’t

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

fixed his expression before once again looking as if he was seriously worried

crown prince Valentino and started

immediately as there is a

merchants up north if we let them go. And if

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

could hear the enemy’s trumpets in

may be covered in

be

priests would sacrifice themselves just a bit. Duke Huten had said that they would not die. His selfish desire

there are so many of you,

the bishop pretended

of pain. Why would he sacrifice himself when he wouldn’t

slowly purify the land if the northern shores become infected as well. Shouldn’t we first prepare for the battle up

bishop continued to

decide to give up on Castle Leona and head out, we will need some soldiers

bishop was speaking as if Castle Leona was no longer

expression visibly

want to say right

the only ones who can complete the

gentle smile became etched

The bishop was wrong.

too many errors in

the crown prince

There was no way to get

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

could also continue to hear the enemy’s trumpet. The laughter of the Bear from earlier rang inside his head again

destroy somewhere

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

at

“Huh?!”

of the soldiers by the central

Tap.

on the ledge to land on the castle wall. Crown prince Valentino’s expression changed. Some harsh words reached his ears at that

full of bullshit

one who had just landed on the

“…Commander.”

out to Cale with a shocked expression. Cale approached Valentino and started to speak. He had his usual calm and confident expression on

I felt as if I should say it in

he