Magicless Extra: The Villain’s Survival Method – Chapter 89.1

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟖𝟗: 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐖𝐚𝐫 (4)

“It’s been a while, Aurei Aurei.”

“Quetzalcoatl, how have you been?”

“Not bad? But what brings you here?”

“There is someone who asked me to introduce them to the dwarves.”

At those words, Quetzalcoatl turned his gaze to the human standing behind Aurei.

“Oh? A human with the heart of a giant? You even have the heart of Drake and the Troll King. How unusual?”

“That peculiar fellow asked me to introduce him to you, so I brought him here.”

“You wouldn’t have brought him here for no reason. Tell me, human. What is your name?”

“Oswald Winchester.”

“May I call you Oswald for short?”

“Yes, please do.”

“Very well, Oswald. What brings you here?”

“I would like to borrow the power of the Knowledge Dragon Quetzalcoatl and the dwarves to create a weapon.”

“Create a weapon? But we do not create weapons for the wars of humans.”

“It is not for a war between humans.”

“Then for what purpose do you wish to create a weapon?”

“I wish to prepare for the war against Chaos.”

“Hmm. . . . . . .”

“I was once a demon hunter, and now I am preparing to fight Chaos under the will of God.”

“Hmm. . . . . . . I can certainly confirm that Oswald has divine power. But you didn’t come all this way to create a useless weapon. . . What kind of weapon do you intend to create?”

“I will show you right now.”

Oswald transformed the Blood Daemon into an exoskeleton.

“Oh? An exoskeleton.”

As soon as he moved while wearing the exoskeleton, the Knowledge Dragon Quetzalcoatl instantly understood how the exoskeleton worked.

“Indeed, it is. This exoskeleton is designed to enhance strength. . . . . . .”

“Wouldn’t it be enough for an ordinary person who has not trained to a certain level to be able to do the work of one person if they have this, even if they have not trained in ordinary magic or aura?”

“Indeed. . . It is attractive. But that’s not all, is it?”

“Of course. Like this. . . . . . .”

In an instant, the exoskeleton was equipped with weapons. Guns and grenade launchers were created on both arms, and a mini-gun and rocket launcher were attached to the shoulder skeleton.

“Very well, show me a test run.”

“Here?”

At those words, Quetzalcoatl clapped his hands and they were soon transported somewhere else.

“This will do.”

“This is. . . . . .?”

“A testing ground built in the basement of Karaz City.”

Snap!

This time, he snapped his fingers and a huge iron golem appeared.

“Very well. Then without further ado. . . . . . .”

Wiiing. Toohooouu!

The mini-gun mounted on Oswald’s left shoulder skeleton fired bullets, and then four missiles were fired in succession from the right shoulder skeleton, hitting the Iron Golem.

Kwa-kwang!

Additional attacks followed, using the automatic rifle in his right hand and the grenade launcher in his left hand, and the Iron Golem was destroyed.

“It’s certainly a formidable weapon. Can it be disassembled?”

“Yes, it can be disassembled.”

“Very well, then disassemble it immediately and start drafting the blueprints.”

And so the development of the exoskeleton began.

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸

Kwa-kwang! Kwa-kwang!

It had been a month since the war with the Republic began.

The Imperial forces, which had completely occupied Burgundy and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, continued their offensive into the Occitanie, Provence, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions.

And here, Marseille, in the Provence region, was under heavy bombardment from the 3rd Field Army.

“Damn it, stop it!!”

Kwa-kwang!

The Republican soldiers, suffering heavy casualties from the relentless shelling, were dying. Even those who were lucky enough to survive were so badly injured that they would have to live with someone’s help for the rest of their lives.

Even though they had completely destroyed the trench line, they had not entered the city of Marseille because of the Marseille Musketeer Brigade.

Traditionally, the troops of the Musketeer Brigade had been recruited from Marseille, and as a result, Marseille was the city with the largest number of retired Musketeer Brigade veterans. The active brigade alone numbered 10,000. . . and with the reservists mobilized, it had been reinforced to a strength of two brigades.

Since it was a unit composed of one hundred percent expert users, the 3rd Field Army could suffer more casualties if they entered the city. After all, in order to fight against the Empire, they had to raise high-quality personnel, and thanks to the Republic’s equality policy, many aura user-level personnel had been born.

“Very well, it seems that the trench line has been completely destroyed.”

The Vatius Artillery Brigade, which had crushed the trench line surrounding Marseille City.

“We will start shelling Marseille City directly from tomorrow morning.”

The next day, the artillery brigade soldiers, who had rested for about a day, quickly prepared their shells and got ready to fire. Then, after the order to fire freely was given, they set the coordinates for various locations in Marseille City and began to fire indiscriminately.

Pubububump! Pubububububump!

The indiscriminate shelling, which made no distinction between civilians and soldiers, caused many Marseille citizens to be seriously injured or killed. They had already deployed a cordon around the entire trench line and were using the trenches dug by the enemy to deploy a cordon line.

In the end, the desperate Marseille Musketeer Brigade reserves rushed out of the city and attacked the cordon. A torrent of bullets rained down on them.

Tatatatatat! Tatatatatat! Tatatatatat!

Tudutudutudutu! Tudutudutudutu!

The Marseille Musketeer Brigade, running stably with light machine guns using bipods, attacked them.

The rifles and machine guns with their incredible rate of fire were not easy to dodge, even for aura-wielding expert users, and the same was true for those who had reached Expert.

In the past, because single-shot firing had a gap between the first and subsequent shots, expert-level personnel with maximized physical abilities by observing the direction of the muzzle and body strengthening could dodge the bullets. . . but now that the gap between the bullets was almost zero, even expert-level personnel could not avoid them.

“Those bastards are asking to be hit! Have you set the coordinates correctly?”

“Yes, Brigade Commander!”

“Very well, show them hell!”

Pubump! Pubububump! Pububububump!

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