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.

fight in order to

chief speaking next

we cannot let the

Bears, soldiers, and knights in order to depart.

Caro Kingdom's commander started to speak as

and the enemy soldiers

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

No, call

prince was looking for a priest as he gave an

me to the northern and southern

“Yes, your highness!”

crown prince could hear

Tap, tap.

they were

the priests. The priests of light-affinity that were assigned to Castle Leona were coming up with

had made him angry during the

“Bishop!”

“Your highness.”

calmly bowed toward Valentino. However, Valentino had no time for such formalities as he

the dead mana. I heard it

it. It is

crown prince felt that the bishop who was

of the

the path the Church of the Sun God was said 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

the video communication devices connected at

Your highness.

“Ah, Duke Huten!”

person who was responsible for

am glad everyone

thankful after hearing that one sentence before quickly starting to

mana. We

I under-

“But your highness.”

the Duke was about to respond. The bishop started

“What is it, bishop?”

will take at least one

“…What?”

finally see the awkwardness in the

There are also a lot of preparations that

way to make

that is indeed

frown as he responded

about the path

in order to do

A Saint.

gaze as well as

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

Valentino sounded desperate.

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

“Ahem, you see.”

moment. That made Valentino wonder what

was at that moment. He heard Duke Huten's

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

Purify.

gods did not let people use their powers for free. There was

“Ah.”

prince Valentino finally understood why the priests were

continued to

it for justice. Although none of them were

back started to frown every time Duke Huten spoke. Valentino and the others looked toward the priests. That was why none of them noticed the sneer on

Cale Henituse's shield was

it is successful since we are able to prevent

Roan Kingdom’s necromancer can’t take

Roan Kingdom's magic attack or

again looking as

crown prince Valentino and started to

a way to slowly and safely purify

let them go. And

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

hear the

northern lands may be covered in dead mana as

would be

was hoping that the priests would sacrifice themselves just a bit. Duke Huten had said that they would not die. His selfish desire was for them to sacrifice

a tiny path difficult? Since there are so many of you, can't you share

pretended

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

become infected as well.

bishop continued

head out, we will need some soldiers to complete the purification project. We also need some

Castle Leona was no longer able to be used for

expression visibly

want to say

with light-affinity are the only ones who can complete the purification. Shouldn’t

gentle smile became etched in

The bishop was wrong.

many errors in what the bishop

said was correct, the crown prince felt

There was no way

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

trumpet. The laughter of the

the enemy was moving to destroy somewhere

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

at that

“Huh?!”

by the central

Tap.

could see someone stepping on the ledge to land on the castle wall.

full of

was the one who had just landed on

“…Commander.”

with a shocked expression. Cale approached Valentino and started to speak. He had his

away with flight magic. I felt as if I should say it in

what?’ What did he come here