The Second Son of The Marquis Runs Away from Home ~ Lacking Talent, He Abandons Everything and Becomes an Adventurer ~ - 24

Chapter 24: Sword of Flame Storm

“So, which castle are we dropping from?” Aria asked as she rode her horse. Originally, there were two castles they planned to attack.

One was East Valley Castle, guarded by strong walls and gates. The other was West Water Castle, built on a mountain dotted with small rivers and ponds.

“We’ll abandon West Water Castle for now and take down East Valley Castle,” Serk replied.

“…Is it a manpower issue?” Aria questioned.

“Yeah, maintaining two castles would stretch us too thin,” Serk acknowledged.

Initially, they planned to take West Water Castle first, then attack and seize East Valley Castle with Raigou before their presence was detected. However, now that the enemy knew about them, there was no time to reorganize the troops for another attack.

If the enemy wasn’t complete idiots, they would send reinforcements immediately or we’d have to deal with their main force as well.

That’s why they decided to focus on one castle. It’s better to utilize the functions of the castle afterwards and prepare for interception rather than capture two castles awkwardly.

Reorganizing the troops was necessary to reuse the captured castle, but for now, visible achievements were needed before the enemy moved.

“How do you plan to attack the castle? It would be less damaging to use the expansion, but if they have reconnaissance familiars, we’ll have to reveal our hand,” Aria remarked.

“I have a plan. Racle needs to do a bit of work,” Serk replied, smiling at Racle’s question, and voiced his thoughts.

“We’ll break through the castle walls without using the expansion.”

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Upon reaching a place where they could see East Valley Castle, they rested and observed the castle while organizing their formation.

Other than the main gate in front and small gates on the left and right, there seemed to be no other entry points. The castle walls were imbued with defensive spells, making them nearly impervious to most spells and ordinary siege weapons.

“The area around the gate is indeed heavily guarded,” Aria noted.

“Yeah, but there are fewer soldiers than expected,” Serk observed.

“Some of those vanguards were also soldiers in this castle,” Aria said.

“That’s convenient. Let’s go,” Serk said.

Standing in front of the cavalry on Gharma, Serk looked at the Gomon soldiers looking at him and said:

“We’re going to attack East Valley Castle from here! You guys follow me and defeat the soldiers of Osuma in the castle! If possible, capture them!”

With a sword in hand, he indicated the castle wall of East Valley Castle, which was opposite the main gate… the only direction without a gate.

“We will break down the walls that stand in our way! The path we should take is the one we open! It’s time to show them that Gomon is not just a presence that can be taken away from them! Let’s go!”

As Serk rode Gharma, the Gomon soldiers cheered and followed him. When the Osuma soldiers of East Valley Castle noticed the rumbling of the earth and dust raised by the cavalry of a thousand horses, archers gathered on the castle walls and fired arrows simultaneously.

“Serena, Shurin!” Serk called out.

Understanding his intention, the two immediately acted. Shurin caused a strong wind with Eilseed to kill the momentum of the arrows, and Serena prevented the arrows falling with a widely deployed water film.

Without missing a moment to head towards the castle wall, Aria nodded to Serk and picked up the giant sword Great Sword.

“Ruskdite, I’ll do it.”

With swirling darkness, Aria fired crimson flames on the giant sword. The flames were wrapped in swirling darkness and turned into a pillar of flames mixed with crimson and jet black.

… Chaos Crusader does not cause a backlash with other rare drops if the intention is consistent.

So I thought, if I could use the power of high-end, I could use the power of other rare drops…

This is one of the thoughts I arrived at based on that idea, combining the flame of Ruskdite with my “Black Blade Storm Dance Stormbringer”.

“Flame Storm Break Sword Leivatain!”

Before the second shot was fired, I swung down the swirling storm of black flames, which struck the castle wall, shattered the wall with the applied spell, and burned it.

The soldiers on the castle wall either flew away with the shock or turned to ash in an instant.

When the storm disappeared, there was a collapsed castle wall as if a giant had passed through it.