The Second Son of The Marquis Runs Away from Home ~ Lacking Talent, He Abandons Everything and Becomes an Adventurer ~ - 22

Chapter 22: Annihilation (Ozma Army Side)

(From the Ozma Army’s perspective)

Why did this happen!?

Our job in this battle was supposed to be the advance team to attack Gomon… essentially, we were just supposed to clear the way.

Occupying the fortress on the border and the surrounding villages, once we made contact, our job would be done. Until the main force arrives, it’s supposed to be a time of enjoyment.

Those Yomigami soldiers are creepy, but they are far tougher and more relentless than us. They don’t hesitate to commit massacres for show, don’t even bother eating, so we let them handle the troublesome and dangerous roles while we just focus on plundering afterwards.

Once we occupy the village, the first thing to consider is how to have fun. That’s what I was discussing with the understanding commander when suddenly, up ahead, a Gomon army of about a thousand soldiers appeared in formation.

According to the information we obtained beforehand, even if Gomon gathers their forces, they’re only slightly more numerous than our advance team. Nothing particularly noteworthy.

The Yomigami soldiers might become somewhat less useful, but we should just continue our advance and crush them. That’s what the commander had decided right before…

I felt something pass right beside me. When I looked, the commander suddenly went silent, blood trickling from his mouth, and his body slanted, splitting into two as he fell off his horse.

“Ugh… uwaahhh!!?”

I didn’t understand what had happened. As I staggered back, I looked around and saw others around the commander experiencing the same fate.

Right after that, earth walls appeared around us, and an incredibly powerful flame rained down. The flame dropped at the center of our unit spread wildly, burning down the Yomigami soldiers.

“R-run! Retreat!”

Thanks to the earth walls, the flames spread like chasing us. But because we were at the rear, we ran back the way we came.

Everyone who could move ran ahead, but those at the front stumbled and fell, kicking up dirt. Following them, others also lost their footing and looked down at their feet in shock.

“Why is it so muddy!?”

There was no swamp when we passed through here. Because of this mud, our escaping feet stopped.

(Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable!? Using spells of this scale consecutively, this isn’t human skill!!?)

I heard that the head of Gomon was an excellent mage, but even so, doing all this alone is truly monstrous.

“Damn it, surround them! We’ll go around the swamp and escape!”

“I-I get it… hic!”

The person next to me let out a short scream. When I looked in that direction, Gomon soldiers emerged from the forest with a war cry.

“A-ambush…!?”

I muttered dumbfoundedly as Gomon soldiers closed in from left and right. In this desperate situation, surrounded from all sides, I desperately racked my brain to find any way out.

Hoofbeats approached from behind. While scattering burning Yomigami soldiers, that creature approached us at an unimaginable speed.

The horse, the armor, everything was dyed jet-black. It mowed down the surrounding lives while heading towards us. The moment I saw it, it was like understanding that I would die, whether I wanted to or not.

“I didn’t hear… that Gomon had monsters like this.”

The moment it came before my eyes, my neck was slashed, and my vision rapidly spun and darkened…