Nigoru Hitomi de Nani wo Negau

pinion of the strategists, Winston hesitated in making a decision while groaning. The enemy was a group of 4000 people. As long as the battalion joined, it could still be endured. The Myard troops that flooded the left wing still retained their combat capabilities due to speed-priority enemies. There was no doubt that Ferrius would win if he could earn time.

Winston couldn’t make an immediate decision. If he were to abandon the hills here, the victory would become even further away from sight.

A loud sound of magic echoed on the front line. The screams that flew together with the wind must be those of the Ferrius soldiers. As a soldier, Winston was unable to conclude that he would retreat, abandoning his royal duties.

A bloody soldier rushed into the camp.

“What is it? You’re in front of Winston-sama you know!?”

The soldier shouted, ignoring the rebuking knight.

“The horse fence has been breached.
Enemy cavalry is rushing here.
It can no longer be maintained!!”

The news was enough to despair everyone in the main camp.

“Winston-sama, leave immediately, we’ll do something here!!”

The first to react was the soldiers directly under Winston.

“Take him!”

Before Winston made a decision, the soldiers and strategists pushed Winston and took him away from the headquarters.

“Get the decoy group, Now.
They’re just around the corner.”

The tent of the main camp burst with a blast, and the enemy was approaching Winston.

“Do something and stop them!!”

“They’re here.
Those Light infantries.”

At the edge of his sight, Winston saw the guards, who he had tremendous trust in, being defeated by enemy ordinary soldiers.

One was a muscular man, but another one fascinated Winston. This was because an ordinary and harmless man activated his skill and cut off the guards along with his armor.

“Hi-Highserk soldier is really terrifying.”

Winston realized that the decisive battle on the plains would have been impossible to win if even ordinary soldiers had that kind of skill. And that he should have joined the siege battle near the Aidenberg, the capital of Myard.

The guards were working to escape their lord, Winston. If there was a problem, there were individuals in this world who could overturn the tactics as they could deal with the difference in the number of dozens of people.

Winston felt heat on his back, and the moment he tried to turn around, he noticed that the soldiers on the left and right were covering him. Immediately afterward, a fierce flame was scattered around with an unbearable amount of heat.

“W-what…”

Winston, who saw a mix of flame and wind, was stunned. The soldiers who tried hard to protect Winston were caught in the fire, fluttered their limbs as if they were dancing, and stopped moving.

The soldiers behind Winston were half-burned and gasping constantly.

“Oi, get it together!!”

Winston remembered the old battlefield story. An old soldier who became an educator had told him, 

『”If you see a blue flame on the battlefield, it’s a fire that will send you to the hell gate, and if you’re invited, what waiting inside is death. The name of it is――”』

Winston thought it was just a superstition or a kind of myth, but it was real, and was about to approach himself.

“De…《Demon Fire》”

The enemy with that skill was a soldier with no peculiar characteristics. While walking calmly among the soldiers in flames, he approached.

“The rest is, only you… the commander.”

The man told Winston with no expression, as if he were looking at the weeds left uncut.