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 enemy

soldiers, and knights in order to depart. There were already tens of ships that had left

Caro Kingdom's commander started to

hurry. It will be difficult to get past the debris and the enemy soldiers even if the priests managed to get

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

No, call the

crown prince was looking for a priest as

to the northern

“Yes, your highness!”

prince could hear many people walking up the

Tap, tap.

were before his expression

priests of light-affinity that were assigned to Castle Leona were coming up with the bishop of the Church of the Sun

bishop who had made him angry

“Bishop!”

“Your highness.”

Valentino had no time for such formalities as

I heard it was possible for

course we need to get rid of it. It is the dirty

felt that the bishop who was responding

of the

God was said to have created over the land that was covered in dead mana when they went to rid

of the video communication devices connected

Your highness.

“Ah, Duke Huten!”

person who was responsible for the northern

glad everyone is

felt thankful after hearing that one sentence before quickly starting to

soon create a path through the dead mana. We cannot let

I under-

“But your highness.”

the Duke was about to

“What is it, bishop?”

at least

“…What?”

finally see the awkwardness in

all of this dead mana. There are also a lot of preparations that need to get done, which

is no way to make a path to chase

that is indeed

started to frown as he

about the path

need a Saint in

A Saint.

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

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

Valentino sounded desperate.

our knights to go through in a single-file line. We

“Ahem, you see.”

moment. That made Valentino wonder what

Duke Huten's voice through the video

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

Purify.

their powers for

“Ah.”

why the priests were acting

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

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

Henituse's shield was

we are able

Kingdom’s necromancer can’t take care of this

magic attack or

before once again looking as if he was seriously worried about the Caro

toward crown prince Valentino

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

the enemy will kill the citizens and merchants up north if we let

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

the enemy’s

covered in dead mana as

would be

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

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

bishop pretended not to

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

become infected as well. Shouldn’t we first

bishop continued

some soldiers to complete

bishop was speaking as if Castle Leona was no longer able to be

expression visibly

want to

who can complete the purification. Shouldn’t you

gentle smile became etched in Valentino's

The bishop was wrong.

were too many errors in what the

everything he said was correct, the

or punish them right now. There

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

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

the enemy was moving to destroy somewhere else. Could he do nothing but

leaders of the Caro Kingdom

at that

“Huh?!”

by the central tower

Tap.

someone stepping on the ledge to land on the castle wall. Crown prince

full of

was the one

“…Commander.”

Valentino and started to speak. He had

away with flight magic. I

he