Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki

Chapter 4 FDF D

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Minasan oideyasu. This is Yukkuri demasu!

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Author:

Dozeumaru(どぜう丸)

Translator:

Yukkuri Oniisan

Editor:

So-Chintzy

Enlightenment Arc

Chapter 4 FDF D

「He-hey!There are people falling down!」(Castor)

Castor shouted in a fl.u.s.teredmanner…… For those who “didn’t know”, this would be a natural reaction.

「They’llbe fine. Please look at that.」(Souma)

As I said this, a round parachutebloomed open from the backs of the falling people in the air almostsimultaneusly. Perhaps, they had already experienced this many times. Hal’sgroup was opening their parachutes without panicking. When seen from the ground,they looked like a firework display. Although…… If the parachutes disappearedlike fireworks, Hal and the others will be heads over heels, in a literal sense.When he saw that the falling soldiers were visibly slowing down, Castor wasstunned.

「What……what is that thing?」(Castor)

「Doyou mean the equipment? Or the soldiers?」(Souma)

「…… Bothof them.」(Castor)

「Theequipment is called a parachute. When it is deployed, it will reduce thefalling speed so it is possible to land safely. It was something that wascreated after I had explained 『this kind of thing』 to the R&D Department. As for the soldiers….. Theyare Flying Dragon-dropped paratroopers, abbreviated as Dratroopers.」(Souma)

「Dratroopers?」(Castor)

「Itis a branch of the army where the soldiers are dropped from the sky to conductsurprise attacks on the enemies, to cause disturbances on the enemy’s rearlines, or to capture positions. Even though, originally it was a type of militarybranch that was first created by using aircrafts, this world had wyvernsinstead, so I judged that there was already a suitable framework to develop andorganize it.」(Souma)

When I thought about whether it waspossible to introduce military organization of my previous world to this world,the first thing that crossed my mind was using paratroopers. These soldiers, especiallythe Fallschirmjager in Germany, had been employed since World War 2. Their mainfunction was just like what I had mentioned: surprise attacks, disturbances, andsecuring positions. Its members were often muscular macho men, I could namenovel characters from j.a.pan’s 1st Airborne Brigade and there were manyanecdotes about them (example: they could cut 2mm wire barehanded).

Early airborne soldiers had theirequipment dropped in containers, so it seemed that if they dropped at aposition away from the containers, they ended up had to fight only with handguns.Because this world is a world of swords and magic, if they could bring the weaponsthat were they specialized in, then they could enter into battle immediately. Incase of Hal, as long as he had one spear, then he could do a Musou on the enemy lines when he landed.[1]The parachutes themselves could be strengthened with support magic. So from thispoint of view, this army branch was compatible with this world. However, Castortilted his head.

「Eventhough they were dropped from Wyverns, why are they called Dratroopers?」(Castor)

「I-itsounds better, right?! Dratrooper is way cooler than Wyvtrooper.」[2](Souma)

「……Ah, that’s true.」(Castor)

Well, sounding cool is important.Since they could also even be dropped by actual dragons, too.

「Leavingthat aside…… There is another purpose for organizing these Dratroopers.」(Souma)

「? Thereis still another thing?」(Castor)

「Youwill understand when you see it…… Kaede-chan.」(Souma)

「Yes nanodesu.」 (Kaede)

In the LN parallel world Kaede"s line is: ATTACK! nanodesu

When I gave the signal, Kaede raisedher right hand and the anti-air ballista located in the center of the chalk double-circleimmediately shot its arrows. The arrows, that were enhanced with magic toincrease their range and accuracy, flew toward Hal and the others. Just in case,the arrow tips were not sharp headed, but instead were b.a.l.l.s wrapped in cloth.However, with the momentum at that speed, if they hit, it will be painful nomatter what.

「D’dd.a.m.n it, oraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!」(Halberd)

Then, Hal yelled out an unintelligibleroar, as he began to strike down the arrow flying towards him with the spear inhis hand. The others also cut the rain of arrows with their swords, blocked itwith big shields, or parried them with bucklers. As soon as they approached theground, Hal clad the spear in his hand with flames…… or not, he launched the spearat the anti-air ballista instead.

Blam!

The spear pierced theanti-aircraft ballista. If Hal had clad the spear with flames, the pierced anti-airballista would be completely silenced. In other words…… This was the end oftraining.

「Good.」(Souma)

With my signal, the anti-air ballistastopped. Inside the double circle, Hal and the other Dratroopers landed oneafter another. I explained to Castor who was observing that scene.

「Thisis the other purpose, to serve as anti-air ballista killers.」(Souma)

The anti-air ballista was developedto oppose the powerful air force elements, such as Wyvern Knights, Griffons, andDragon Knights. The repeating crossbows that had their range and homing abilitygreatly increased with support magic was the natural enemy of air force units likethe Wyvern Knights. Due to this, the air force units couldn’t just performbombardments on a city. If the air force wants to bombard a city, it was firstnecessary to destroy the anti-air ballistas installed on top of the walls.

In order to perform this, it wasnecessary to conduct a siege with the army or other ground forces. Only afterthe army had controlled the walls or destroyed the anti-air ballista with siegeweapons, then the air force could finally perform the decisive bombardment of thecity…… However, if the city fell into a situation where it could be bombarded,the defender had already been "checkmated", so they would likely immediatelysurrender if the airstrike possibility became apparent. Hence in a siegebattle, the air force"s role was mostly to defeat the opponent"s own air units sothey wouldn’t attack the ground army.

Then, I thought to myself: Ifthere was a simpler means to attack the anti-air ballistas, wouldn’t it bepossible to deploy the air force units more quickly and then promptly finish thebattle?

「Sowhat I organized was this, the Flying Dragon-dropped paratroopers. I believe thatyou could understand this just by looking at Hal’s performance, as elitesoldiers will be able to strike off the arrows that flew towards them. Whilefending off the arrow rain, they descend down near the anti-air ballista and renderthem useless.」(Souma)

「Tsk…… Don’tsay it like it’s such a simple thing……」(Halberd)

The tired-faced Hal, joined uswhile panting for air. It seemed that the training was extremely difficult, andeven thought we were still in the Second Month of the year[3],he was drenched in sweat. He had detached his parachute, and perhaps because hefelt hot, he only wore wear a tank top.

「Geez,I’ve had enough of falling from the sky over and over again.」(Halberd)

「Moreor less, we are properly taking your safety into the consideration, you know.In case the parachute doesn’t open when reaching the critical alt.i.tude, the WyvernKnight will retrieve you.」(Souma)

「That’snot the problem! Falling from the sky is freaking scary! The wind even roars inmy ears! It"s too d.a.m.n fast!」(Halberd)

「Yup.I absolutely don’t want to experience it.」(Souma)

「Oi!?」(Halberd)

Hal and I cracked jokes like thisand then Castor gave me a question.

「But,in order to drop the Dratroopers, there is a need to break the opponent"s airforce beforehand, right? If the Wyvern Knights also hold the Dratroopers, thenwon’t they be unable to fight properly?」(Castor)

……. As expected from the AirForce Marshall. That was a good point he brought up.

「That"swhy we strengthened our wyvern’s flight capabilities with 『Susumu-kun· Mark V · Light』…… Well, since we still couldn’t ma.s.s-produce it yet, weare only at a stage where we prioritize their deployment first. At any rate, thisa monumental reform, as the members of the Dratroopers is from the Army and theWyvern Knight are from the Air Force. This was something that could only bedone because of their consolidation into the FDF.」(Souma)

「I-Isee…… I see……」(Castor)

Castor nodded in admiration. Thensuddenly, he looked at the flight formations of the Wyverns Knights andwhispered in a slightly lonely tone.

「Recently……I didn’t regret that I became a member of the Navy……」(Castor)

「Castor?」(Souma)

「Sigh…… Atthe same time, it made me bitter at my former self, who opposed you forinsignificant pride.」(Castor)

「…… Inever expected to hear such admirable words from you.」(Souma)

「Well.It"s just the grumbling of a loser, so just ignore it.」(Castor)

「…… Isthat so.」(Souma)

This was a strange exchange ifyou think about it. Since I was looking at the sky besides my former enemy,after all. Excel watched our conversation while smiling wryly.

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「Nowthen, let’s inspect the underground.」(Souma)

「Underground?」(Castor)

We parted ways with Hal and Kaedeand walked once more back to the plains. As a reply to Castor"s question, I pointedat a hill-sized rocky mountain, which we could see even from this place.

「Thatrocky mountain. Should be close from this place. Well, shall we start moving?」(Souma)

When we reached the foot of therocky mountain, the Wyvern Knights, who had just finished training, landed. Atthe foot of that rocky mountain, there was a huge cave opening that could even bepa.s.sed through by the gigantic rhinosaurus. The wyverns were entering that cave.When he saw this sight, Castor asked me.

「Isthat place the stable for those wyverns?」(Castor)

「Yes……Good observation.」(Souma)

「Wyvernsoriginally make their nests in such caves on rocky mountains. Even in the Red Dragon Castle, we created similarfacilities, because the flying dragons can relax more in those compared to ordinaryman-made stables.」

I see. He really knew his tradewell.

「Justlike you said. That cave is connected to the lower level, where about 100small-sized caverns are located, the resting place for the wyverns. Butcurrently we only have around twenty wyverns or so.」(Souma)

「A hundred!?That’s a tenth of the force at the time when I was still a Marshall! Do we reallyneed to deploy that many on this island! Is this a front line base!?」(Castor)

「Now,now, you are minding things too much.」(Souma)

While calming Castor down, weentered the cave. When we entered, there was a smell like a ranch (or rather likea zoo). I had put ventilation in at my consideration, more or less, but this wasthe only part that I couldn’t do anything about.

「So, thisis what My King wanted to show to us, the wyverns’ nests?」(Castor)

Perhaps because his frustration acc.u.mulatedsince there were various secrets hidden from him, Castor asked dejectedly.

「No, it’sfurther down. Come, enter here.」(Souma)

Just before our eyes was aman-made door that was out of place for a cave’s interior. There were thingslike handles on both sides of the door and there were guard soldiers stationed besideeach handle. The other side of the door was a small square room.

「Ano, YourMajesty…… isn’t this a rather small room?」(Juna)

Juna asked with a question mark overher head. Ah, this is Juna-san first experience of “this thing”. I enjoyed herreaction.

「Comenow, everyone. Get on board.」(Souma)

「Geton board? Is this a vehicle?」(Castor)

「Don’task too many questions. Then, the lowest level, please.」(Souma)

I called out to both guards andthen they saluted 「「Yes, Your Majesty!.」」 After they confirmed that everyone had entered thatsmall room, the guards yelled at the voice tube, 「Thisis the middle level, descending to the lowest level」,then there were a reply from the voice pipe 『Toplevel, acknowledged』 and 『Lowest level, acknowledged』, afterwardsthey turned both of the handles beside the door. Thereafter, the small room swiftlydescended to below ground.

「Kya‼」(Juna)

Due to the sudden feeling offalling (though it was ever so slightly), Juna-san lost her balance and so I huggedher in my arms. The soft sensation felt a bit nice.

「A-apologies,Your Majesty.」(Juna)

Juna-san apologized whileblushing.

「It’snot a problem, but are you alright?」(Souma)

「Y-yes,I’m fine…… But is this small room descending?」(Juna)

「Yes.There are handles beside the door, right? You could turn that handle to raiseor lower this small room.」(Souma)

You might have already realizedit, but this room was a very simple manually operated elevator. The designer wasthat Ginya Maxwell. I didn’t really understand the principles (because I amweak with physics), but with numerous pulleys and by attaching a counterweightat the opposite sides, they could raise and lower the elevator just by rotatingthe handles like a bicycle.

I am told that Ginya intended to installthis in her dungeon’s workshop. However, considering that the home-stayingGinya didn’t go outside (even if we disregarded the hurdle of climbing thestairs), she didn’t construct it and shelved that plan away. Then since shestored things in such a disorderly manner, I dispatched the Ginya’s Blueprint ArrangementCorps. Of course, the leader of these corps was Ludwin. Then they discovered thisplan, so I tried to install it in this place as an experiment.

Because it was human powered, thespeed wasn’t much and a personnel was always needed to turn the handles. However,since they changed shifts every hour, it shouldn’t be too taxing. For thepresent time, there were only three exit points for the elevator, 『Nearthe Cave Entrance』, 『Lowest Layer』, and 『Top Layer』, and so there were only six soldiers needed to turnthe handles and man the elevator. (At first, I thought that if the pa.s.sengersrelayed the order in the voice tubes, then two people will be enough. However, sincethey would be confused if there were many orders, it became the current six mansystem, where the pa.s.senger gave the order to the soldier who then pa.s.sed itaround……)

There were several elevators ofthis kind installed at this place (only those on the rocky mountain had three floors).I planned to install this in the Royal Castle and other places, too in the nearfuture. Since it was a pain to travel the vast Royal Castle just by stair-climbingalone, after all…… When she listened to my explanation, Juna-san sighed amorously.

「…… Ifeel that I now understand the reason why Liscia-sama occasionally makes such atired expression.」(Juna)

「Why Lisciado that!?」(Souma)

「Iunderstand that this is an amazing and wonderful thing, but if things that gobeyond my understanding keep appearing one after another, my comprehension wouldn’tbe able to keep up with the,.」(Juna)

「……Thereis no need to think that deeply, right? The people in this place also only think,“what a convenient thing”, you know?」(Souma)

「Wecan’t do that.」(Juna)

Juna-san said this and whileclinging onto my arms, she smiled softly.

「Evenif we become tired…… we want to understand you.」[4]

「I-Isee……」

Just as we were talking likethis, we arrived at the lowest level.

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