Knights & Magic

Part 3

[The loser should really accept their fate quietly like the loser one, so we can end this without a trouble.]

The black line existence is moving and shaking a cobbled stone that paved the wide Kshyeru road.

The true ident.i.ty on this intimidate being that contrast to the nature background is the Black Jaw knights which directly marching from the north Kshyperuk territory.

A group that composes of 40 units of Tyrantor---and 20 units of Leswant that gained by requisitioned order, the number almost exactly as a battalion scale.

[...it very rare for the battalion commander himself opens his mouth like that, look like your silhouette knight"s loudspeaker just picking up the unnecessary line.]

The man who was a.s.signed as his adjutant of this battalion adjusting his speed to match the battalion commander"s Tyrantor and chided him.

Just on the other day,  they just received the command that arrived from the HQ, it was made and signed up with join signature names of princess Cataline and prince Cristobal.

Which mean this order can be comparable to the royal decree that usually means for issue the highest priority instruction and important one.

The contents are about pursuing the escaped Kshyperuk royal family and eliminated the rebel forces.

The escaping news of the royal family is very one of greatest confidential even the battalion commander and his adjutant don"t know the detail too.

Most of their knights are thinking that this is just a simple eastern area subjugation mission only.

Rather than they escaped, they were taken away instead---the reason behind this concealment is because they fear that this fact will definitely cause a great discourage on Jaroudeku army and pump up the rebel morale instead, this probably leads to their unexpected damage.

[I knew that. So, don"t make a fuse, would you?. ....geez, just who is the p.u.s.s.y one here...for such a worrywart on the little thing like that in our glory Black Jaw knight order....]

While pushing away his troublesome adjutant, the battalion command disables his loudspeaker.

Black Jaw knights is an elite troop of Jaroudeku army, they were bestowed with many important positions than the other knight order.

Most of it is about dealing with the mismanagement area.

The battalion seems to have arrived at the fort that located along the highway.

This fort seems like to be used as a border checkpoint, it was abandoned in order to escape from the airship"s threat in the initial stage of the war.

The battalion is entering the unmanned fort while being vigilance.

[Look like it was a completely deserted. as expected, nothing good remains behind. well, it"s fine, I too want to get this inspection over ASAP , start maintenance on the black knight and put up the sentry, we will stay here for a while.]

the battalion commander issued his command and the soldiers began to move all at once. 

Since it wasn"t abandoned due to battle damage, there is no problem that will hinder them from using it at all.

As it stated that they just took a long journey from the north, their fatigue from the long distance travel is piled up, they need to rest and perform the maintenance with  the equipment in this place.

What following the battalion from behind is the logistic corps that carried the supply goods, it coming and entering the fort.

There seem to be facilities to stored their goods in this fort.

There is no anxiety on their facial expression and their tension also decreasing as it was a nature logic which proved that all of them are well temperament control group.

Then,

The incident happened---on the middle night of the second day that they used this fort.

The guards which had been circulated on top of the walls around the perimeter of the fort at that time are very involuntarily careless as they are pretending to do the guard role.

The lacking motivation Tyrantor"s search light that keeping stagger projected on the walls.

Inadvertently,  that light disappears.

One light .... two light then, the light that was supposed to be around the walls had been swallowed by the darkness one by one after another.

A shadow appeared on the walls instead of it.

It easily rolled up the guard corpse at its feet and lifted up the torch that fell the ground, the true ident.i.ty of the shadow is a full cloth armor with total height of 2.5 meters, the silhouette gear "Shadow Rat"

Shadow Rat glanced at the interior state from the walls.

This fort originally belonged to Kshyperuk army. So, they already did a pre-investigation before time in order to grasp the whole internal structure picture.

The Shadow Rat group are carefully looking around from the top of the wall to observed the current state of Jaroudeku army encampment. 

After the quick observation, they are all starting to take action at once.  

The ruckus sound that roaring in the late of midnight awaken the entire Jaroudeku army.

[...J...Just what is this commotion!?]

The battalion commander who had been falling asleep in a requisitioned room jumped out of the room with a sword in his hand and shouting.

The soldier who was his subordinate come hurries up at him.

[Plase forgive me, sir! i..it"s an enemy attack! they just set a fire inside the fort!]

[What did you say!?  just what the h.e.l.l are the guard doing!? ...Nah, leave that aside for now, just get some soldiers put off the fire first! the rest go deal with the enemy, do not let them leave this fort alive!!]

The battalion commander heard the reply of the soldiers with an uncomfortable tone causing him to have a bad feeling.


[Ar...It about the enemy, sir!.... the enemy are using a strange small size of silhouette knight, our flesh and blood soldiers are no match at all! furthermore, those guys already climb over the walls and run away to the outside, Sir.]

[Haa? just what ridiculous thing are you saying!?....forget it, forget about the fire, go get the knight runners, send out the silhouette knight to chasing them at once!]

After received the instruction, the knight runners are immediately moving.

Several machines of Tyrantor and Leswant are starting up and began to sortie in order to chase the escaped a.s.sailant.

The direction that a.s.sailant escaped to is a forest along the highway.

Silhouette knight is a giant weapon that hard to move in the lush forest which richly in trees.

But even it is an advantage for a silhouette gear, a dim forest on the midnight really hindered field of vision which is limited how fast they can run.

Tyrantor starts up its back-weapon, and shoot out into the woods.

The black scenery that silhouette gear blend in darkness is elegantly blown up with explosive flame.

The angered silhouette knight troops fiercely following it.

Although silhouette gear can run faster than a horse, it still can"t match the speed of running silhouette knight that larger in size, the distance between them is keep shrinking.

In the meantime, Tyrantor"s back weapon is shooting out a bullet but the surround trees become a shield of their target unexpectedly.

It lost the sight of the target during the flame explosion of the trees, the silhouette knight corps increasing their speed to run faster.

---underneath the armor of Shadow Rat, the wearer floating up a smile.

The Shadow Rat group did not just run blindly, it runs to the destination in their mind, through the "gimmick" that placed at the lower part and stretched around the bottom area of trees.

There, the enraged Tyrantor still following them vigorously.

The Tyrantor got distracted with the appearance of silhouette gear, end up not able to noticed the gimmick at its foot.

Immediately after that, the Tyrantor"s foot hit something on the front and fall vigorously

It was a powerful falling to the front, its armor got squashed, hit the ground and keep skate with the remaining momentum.

The rest of silhouette knights which followed it closely from behind try to do an emergency stop in a hurry but, it already too late.

Several silhouette knight fall into the trap of the gimmick and ungraceful went down, tumbled

[What happening? there was something down there, the thing that stretched around is... a steel wire!?]

[Kusso! such a thief trick! they set up a gimmick trap in the woods!]

The poor visibility in the dark night already enough to makes it difficult for silhouette knight to march in the forest. So, it almost impossible for them to notice such an inconspicuous trap.

During that chaos time, they already lost a track of silhouette gear from their view.

However, if they continue to chase it again, they probably meet the same trap again.

If they wary about the trap too much, they will not able to catch the silhouette gear.

An angered sound is venting loudly in the wood of night.

[...b, by the time we came out from that zone, the thief already all gone....]

The captain of silhouette knight squad who returns to the fort is now reporting his result to the battalion commander while soaking in cold sweat.

Once the battalion commander heard it, he raises up his voice while distorting his facial expression.

[Dame those annoying thief! they really come thoughtful prepared...just what the heck is that thing!? Kusso,  So, what becoming of the fire situation in the fort?]

[Ha! , We already try put it off with the silhouette knight but it obviously that the enemy was set up the fire with "Demon Beast Oil". even now, the flame is still strongly burning and struggling, Sir!] 

Demon Beast Oil is an oil which extracts from the monster that living from the east side of Aubigne, a special oil that rich with fat.

Once it lit up, it will burn vigorously and hard to extinguish, a perfect tool for sabotage operation.

[d.a.m.n them all...over and over again, d.a.m.n. So where and what did they burn!?]

[Ha! some of the army provision and the especially spare parts of silhouette knight, many of them were targeted.]

At that time, the irritation of the battalion commander already reached its peak.

Although he was almost involuntarily burst out his anger, the fact that his subordinates still stood before him make him swallowed it back somehow.

Among the goods that were burned, the army provision is already a big problem but the spare part for the silhouette is the most serious problem by many times.

While the black knight displays its mighty power in combat, at the same time, it also takes a heavy burden from the rotation of its part.

Most of the factor that reduces its durability is its own weight, in order to have it continuing display a high performance, a regular maintenance on its body is necessary.

So, the main question is about the crystal tissue that using here.

The main force of Jaroudeku army composes of Tyrantor which is utilized a strand-type crystal tissue.

Now, that rope-type crystal tissue spare part for the sake of maintenance was lost among the goods that were destroyed.

[What did you say? at this rate, isn"t it gonna be the main problem for marching operation? ....this is a direct royal command from his highness himself, you know? such a whining is not allowed!]

The battalion commander and his adjutant looked at each other, they are the expedition troops, so, no way that they gonna received an often replenishment supply.

They need to makeshift with what was left behind in order meet the expectation.

[It can"t help.  I just remembered it, there should be a normal type crystal tissue for the requisition Leswant left, right? let use it as a replacement. go tell the blacksmith guys since the strand type is no longer available now.]

The new question now is, could Tyrantor used the normal tradition crystal tissue as its spare part? since it was supposed to resupply with a rope type.

As a result of this specific order, the involving technician corps had to do the makeshift maintenance with an original type rather than the supposed strain type, this result will cause a heavy burden to the unit when it marching

The damaged from the sabotage under the moonlight was focus on the goods, human life but the damage in strategic view was small, in the end, Jaroudeku army had resumed its march that already late behind the schedule again.

But of course, no one says that the sabotage is ended with just this one.

The following incident happening when they are progressing on the highway.

A large arrow attack was suddenly flying and raining upon the marching Jaroudeku army, it was fired from the siege weapon that lay in the forest from the side of the highway.

Although their silhouette knight raised up their shield in a hurry, most of the arrow end up targeting at the wagon of the logistic corps which enraged the soldiers.

Once the a.s.sailant sidelong glance at the coming silhouette knight group, they skillfully retreat.

Moreover, a steel wire is laid out around the entire forest, the same trap that the pursuit force tasted on the night which forced the silhouette knight to stop chasing them half way at that time.

By travel on the horseback a long time, their legs became dull.

Furthermore, since they becoming more wary about the repeating attack, their marching speed are even more slowly.

Most every one of Jaroudeku army did not expect that the attack will happen during their march. So, what follow after that is, they are enraged and acted separately, the a.s.sailant easily switch the location and aimed at the other different target.

The main target is the logistic corps that transporting a goods for the invasion troops.

They are marching from the northern territory of Kshyperuk which already dominated by the Jaroudeku kingdom.

With that reason, they let their guard down and end up as most of the supplies are burned from the raid, a serious damage.

[Ei , again and again, this is so d.a.m.n annoying, They just aim for the supply that comes this way only, even we had the airship pressing them from the sky, Are those guys fearless or something?]

Up until now, Jaroudeku army was able to re-supply safely without a problem due to the existence of airship.

They can easily found a silhouette knight from the sky, So, the attempt of Old Kshyperuk army that tries to attack a supply line ended up with failure and was crushed in advance many times.

Before the great advantage being from the sky of Jaroudeku kingdom, such an attempt is not different than a suicidal act.

But the a.s.sailant in this time did not use a silhouette knight. Rather, they are using a small size silhouette knight instead.

To discover the a.s.sailant that skillfully hide in the forest from the sky is prove to be extremely difficult.

Thus, Jaroudeku army can only afford to do a standstill defensive while the supply units end up received an attacked many times.

In order counter this, the supply unit begin to increase the number of their escort. despite they got attacked fewer as a result, their movement becomes inevitable slowly in exchange.

This becoming more serious situation than  they thought.

Due to the raid, the Black Jaw knight order gradually begun to run low on supplies.

A silhouette knight is a weapon that cost a ton of capital and it even more expensive when coming to the large black knight.

Even the supplies that they holding also has a limit.

Furthermore, the maintenance corps haul a big load in order to come here.

By one-sidely destroyed the Kshyperuk army so far make Jarodeuku army become more arrogance.

They are unaware themselves that they now begin to get nerve and tingling, even their movement become more dull and duller.

As the marching in the favorable weather suddenly hung up with the storm on the horizon.


The black jaw knights marching on the highway begin to get far and farther in distance on the slightly elevated mountain.

The appearance of them from there can be seen as a crowded population.

[...look like the enemy"s vigilance has become quite strict. It should probably be the time soon, right? Our effort in laying foundation has come out quite well.]

The one who muttered is Nora of the Blue Falcon knights, what behind her from the distance is the array line of the decorated Shadow Rat.

The men from her group also return the girl question with their nod.

By partic.i.p.ated in the activities of Silver Phoenix knights so far, Nora also learns how to manipulate silhouette gear, she led the silhouette gear troops

The a.s.sault that acted on Jaroudeku army at this place so far was all work of this girl group.

A group consists of people with many talents combination with a silhouette gear.

[From now on, It will be the work of the main force of Silver Phoenix knights and the n.o.bles. Our group should hurry up get back and prepare for the next move.]

The cool pupil stared at the land of the east, she earnestly prepares the stage that will become a full-scale crashing.

The shadow group left the area and ran away through the forest with such a gale speed.  

Continue to Part 4.