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

heard the chief

cannot let the enemy

knights in order to depart. There were already tens of

commander started to speak

will be difficult to get past the debris and the enemy soldiers even if the priests

however, debris from the destroyed ships and the enemy soldiers were also

call the bishop

looking for a priest as he gave an order to the communication

the northern and

“Yes, your highness!”

crown prince could hear many people walking up the stone

Tap, tap.

confirmed who they were

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

had made him

“Bishop!”

“Your highness.”

no time for such formalities as he grabbed

mana. I heard it was possible

of it. It is the dirty dead mana after

crown prince felt that the bishop who was responding

of

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

communication

Your highness.

“Ah, Duke Huten!”

The person who was responsible for the

glad everyone is

hearing that one

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

I under-

“But your highness.”

the moment the Duke was about to respond. The bishop

“What is it, bishop?”

take at least

“…What?”

awkwardness in the bishop's gentle

of this dead mana. There are also a lot of preparations that need to get done, which is why we need at least one

are saying there is no way to make a path to chase after

is indeed the

started to frown as he

the path of

Saint in order to do

A Saint.

gaze as well as the other priests who had their heads down before he finally managed

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

Valentino sounded desperate.

to go through in

“Ahem, you see.”

for a moment. That made Valentino wonder what was going

that moment. He heard Duke Huten's voice through the

is on fire in order to use divine powers to

Purify.

people use their powers

“Ah.”

understood why the priests were acting

continued

Although none of them were injured or died because of it, however, the

the others looked toward the priests. That was why none of them

because Cale Henituse's shield was

is successful since we are able to prevent them from

the Roan Kingdom’s necromancer can’t take care of this

many enemies for the Roan Kingdom's magic attack or

again looking as if he was seriously worried

crown prince Valentino and started

is difficult to take care of it immediately as there is a

north if we let

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

could hear the enemy’s trumpets in the

lands may be covered in dead mana as

be

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

difficult? Since there are

the bishop pretended not

he sacrifice himself when he wouldn’t be affected

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

bishop continued to

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

was no longer

expression visibly became

want

the only ones who can complete the purification. Shouldn’t you protect us since we

smile became etched in Valentino's

The bishop was wrong.

were too many errors in what

he said was correct, the

lash out or punish them right now. There was no way to get rid of the dead

Buuuuuuuuuuuu- buuuuuuuuuuu-

hear the enemy’s trumpet. The laughter of the Bear from earlier rang inside his head again like

destroy somewhere

Kingdom

was at

“Huh?!”

soldiers by the central tower

Tap.

the castle wall. Crown

full of bullshit

was the one who

“…Commander.”

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

away with flight magic. I

what?’ What did he come here to