𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟓.𝟏: 𝐈𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐄𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲
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“Icicle Lance! Three-way!”
“Spirit cannon~.”
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The ice sphere unleashed by Miliaria collides with the pale blue fireball shot out by Salieri.
This takes place slightly closer to the Royal Army’s side from the midpoint between both forces.
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The Royal Army may question why their allies are clashing their magics, but the answer is quickly provided.
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A resounding explosion echoes across the battlefield.
An aftershock that arrives later and runs wild.
And a mushroom-shaped cloud forming high in the sky.
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Even the Lionel Squad, who knew what was about to happen and had properly prepared, was taken aback by the shock, with members getting knocked down one after another.
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It was the joint magic of Miliaria and Salieri, known as Flare Tick Explosion.
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It was decided that causing a blast in the core of the Royal Army was too risky, so the explosion took place where there would be no direct damage.
Still, the sound and shockwave brought the Royal Army’s vanguard near total annihilation.
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Those who fell with blood streaming from their ears, those who passed out foaming at the mouth, those who curled up shivering.
In a single strike, over ten thousand soldiers were incapacitated.
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Horses also collapsed or fled, no longer useful.
Fear and confusion spread throughout the army.
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“This, it’s probably going to be declared a forbidden spell.”
“Yes. It doesn’t seem like a spell that should be used against humans.”
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Despite being the ones responsible, Salieri and Miliaria discuss with pale faces.
They got away with it, but the Royal Army was in complete panic.
The officers who until just a moment ago were chasing deserters, crawl out from under the horses felled by the shock, discard their armor and helmets, and run away at full speed.
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There was no more room to fight.
Despite having thirty thousand soldiers who could still move, they had completely lost the will to fight.
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And King Morrison of Lintrite also jumps down from the palanquin he was riding on and starts running away from the battlefield.
This was the tipping point.
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The whole army collapses.
Over forty thousand of the Royal Army were defeated without crossing swords even once with just a thousand Gaillia soldiers.
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The only ones left on the battlefield half a quarter later were those who offered to surrender and those who were knocked unconscious by the initial shock.
Their numbers were about thirty thousand.
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King Morrison, who deployed with forty thousand, lost the majority of his soldiers without crossing swords and fled almost alone, was dishonored with such ignominious titles as the foolish king and the dim ruler.
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The details of the Battle of the Baul Plains, the stage of this event, were to be erased from the official records.
It was necessary to black out everything about the Flare Tick Explosion magic, what kind of magic it is, how to use it, what effects it has, because it was designated as a forbidden spell.
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Only a verse remains in the epic “The Foolish King and the Great Magician” sung by the minstrels, that the great Sage Miliaria brought down the foolish king with a judgment from heaven.
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When King Morrison, with a look of utter defeat, made his way back to the royal capital of Galangran, he was not greeted by his beloved citizens or his trusted ministers.
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The cityscape was deserted.
It seemed like a ghost town.
The king, standing in shock, was reminded of rats escaping from a sinking ship.
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Of course, the inhabitants of the capital were not rats, their absence was the result of a special operation by a separate detachment the Lionel Squad.
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They had infiltrated the capital a month ago, spreading various rumors.
This was part of their strategy, including spreading information about the Lionel Squad advancing from Gaillia.
As a result, Morrison had no choice but to go to war.
He couldn’t possibly decide to hold up in the castle against an army of about a thousand.
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Thus, as the reluctant Royal Army set out, a separate team centered around Nazar executed a massive evacuation operation.
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It was an evacuation plan for the hundreds of thousands of citizens living in the royal capital.
They were to hide in dozens of towns, villages, and inns, such as those in the city of Mikasa Lake, to avoid being killed by the retreating Royal Army.
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Currently, the morale of the Royal Army has declined to the level of a bandit group. So it was uncertain what they would do upon seeing the citizens in their battered state.
Also, if the citizens were gone, they could launch a pretty bold attack, even if the city was fortified.
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For instance, they could even launch the magic of the Flare Tic Explosion at the castle gates and walls.
There would be no worry about involving non-combatants.
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What’s interesting is that Nazar and the other members of the separate squad had no doubt in Gaillia’s victory.
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The premise of this operation was that a mere thousand Gaillia soldiers could completely defeat the Royal Army exceeding forty thousand.
While this was quite a reckless assumption, one of the captains leading the separate squad, Joshua, commented on this.
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“With Captain Nel in command, and even Asuka and Miliaria there, the flimsy Royal Army, even if they were a hundred thousand, couldn’t win.”
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In any case, the temporary evacuation to prevent the returning Royal Army from committing atrocities was the main point of the massive night escape operation, and it was perfectly successful.
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However, even a strategist like Lionel is not a prophet, so unexpected events occurred.
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One of them was that the Royal Army suffered a greater defeat than expected and the number of troops that returned to Galangran did not reach five thousand. The other was the unexpected event of King Morrison, who was hopeless at the sight of the deserted city and the ministers who had fled somewhere, setting fire to his castle and committing suicide with his family.
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And so, the Lintrite Kingdom crumbled in flames along with its royal castle.
Along with its massive treasure.
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One hundred and twenty years since usurping the previous dynasty.
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As a nation, its life was extraordinarily short, and King Morrison’s reign of two years was the shortest in the history of the Lintrite Kingdom.
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𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝟓
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