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.

to fight in order to not

the chief

we cannot let the

ships were quickly boarding the Bears, soldiers, and knights in order to depart.

commander started

past the debris and the enemy soldiers even if the priests managed to get rid of the

dead mana was an obstacle, however, debris from

No, call the bishop

as

me to the northern and southern

“Yes, your highness!”

that moment, the crown prince could hear many people walking

Tap, tap.

confirmed who they were

Castle Leona were coming up with the bishop of the Church

the bishop who had made him angry during the strategy meeting. He

“Bishop!”

“Your highness.”

no time for such formalities as

through the dead mana. I heard it

it. It is the dirty

bishop who was responding smoothly was

of

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

the video communication

Your highness.

“Ah, Duke Huten!”

person who was responsible

glad

one sentence before quickly

a path through the dead mana. We cannot let the Indomitable Alliance

I under-

“But your highness.”

was the moment the Duke was about to respond. The bishop started

“What is it, bishop?”

at least one

“…What?”

see the awkwardness in

more reinforcements from back home to purify all of this dead mana. There are also a lot of preparations that need to get done, which is why we need at least one

to make a path

is indeed

frown as he responded

about the path

Saint in order to

A Saint.

was avoiding his gaze as well as the other priests who had their heads down before

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

Valentino sounded desperate.

knights to go through in a single-file line. We can only move a

“Ahem, you see.”

bishop hesitated for a moment. That made Valentino wonder what was going

moment. He heard Duke Huten's voice through

entire body is on fire in order to use divine powers to purify

Purify.

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

“Ah.”

why the

Huten continued

Although none of them

others looked toward the priests. That was

Cale Henituse's

since we are able

Roan Kingdom’s necromancer can’t take care

too many enemies for the Roan Kingdom's magic attack or a few knights being

looking as if he was seriously worried about the Caro

bishop looked toward crown prince Valentino and

take care of it immediately as there is a way to

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

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

could hear the enemy’s trumpets in

lands may be covered in

would be extremely

Duke Huten had said that they would not die. His selfish desire was for them to sacrifice

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

bishop pretended not to hear

type of pain. Why would he

infected as well. Shouldn’t we first

bishop continued

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

Castle Leona was no longer able to be used

expression visibly

that what you want to say

light-affinity are the only ones who can complete the purification.

became etched

The bishop was wrong.

in what

said was correct, the crown

lash out or punish them right now. There was no way to get rid of the dead mana without

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

the enemy’s trumpet. The laughter of the

was moving to destroy somewhere else. Could he do nothing but watch them

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

was at that

“Huh?!”

of the soldiers by the central tower

Tap.

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

of

was the one who had

“…Commander.”

and started to speak. He

right away with flight magic. I felt as if

What did he come here to