Volume 2 - CH 200

At any rate, I understand that adventurers and knights don’t get along.

So I can kind of understand that they will compete with each other.

But isn’t there absolutely something that requires …… cooperation ……?

If we’re talking about disliking each other, we could lose a battle that could be fought.

How are you going to deal with that?

“Well, basically, we’re going to separate the adventurers and the knights and have them attack the enemy separately. I don’t think those guys would cooperate hand in hand.”

” Isn’t that where you have to deal with it, ……?”

“You know. ……. I’ve got no choice but to do something about it because we have a long history together.”

‘Then I ask you, why are adventurers and knights so conflicted?”

“In short. The knights fight for their kingdom and the adventurers fight for themselves. The other side of the story is that adventurers also work for the country and the people, but the difference in consciousness is very different in this world. ……”

“Ah, is that what he means? …….”

The knights seem to be very uptight.

There’s probably a reason why they don’t get along well because of their personalities, but aren’t knights supposed to be high society boys or famous high ranking nobles?

I don’t know anything about the hierarchy of the nobility, but I guess it’s impossible to get along with adventurers who don’t even know how to be polite.

In such a situation, Maria went to the king to ask for a group of knights. ……

I hope she wasn’t bullied.

“But the really famous and strong knights and S-rank adventurers get along well with each other. The only ones who don’t get along are the rag-tag bunch.”

“So the strong ones are on the same page in their own way.”

“And I am one of them!”

“Yeah, well, enough of the bragging, keep talking.”

“Ahh, okay….:

What’s the point of being so proud in this place anyway?

For the time being, let’s think about the formation of the troops.

That said, I might end up relying on Houen, but if I’m concerned about it, I can just interrupt him.

Houen is explaining it to me right now, but it’s a long story, so I’ll just summarize it briefly …….

There are two main types of troops.

Simply put, they are the adventurers’ unit and the knights’ unit.

The adventurer troops have a variety of occupations and are easy to move around in their own way.

They are easy to decide on the defense of the country and the attack to take the lead.

We have already assigned ranks, so we should be able to make a deal in this area soon.

We will be deciding on the formation of the units in detail from now on.

The problem is the knight corps.

These are not units to which we can issue instructions.

If Maria is able to talk well with the captain of the knight corps, we can entrust the command to him. ……

It is difficult to make that arrangement as long as Maria has not returned.

“Let’s see, what kind of units does the …… Knights Order have?”

“There are quite a few. Heavy infantry, spearmen, cavalry, infantry, archers, magic knights, and wizard soldiers. ……”

“Hm? Hm? Wait a minute. What’s the difference between magic knights and wizard soldiers?”

“Magic knights are good at close combat while using magic. The wizard soldier is a long-range type that specializes completely in support. If you look at the wizard soldiers in detail, there are also wizard archers and healers.”

So there are magic-users in the knight corps as well?

Um, listening to Hoen’s story, the role is clearly decided.

Then the movement on the battlefield can be predicted as such 

“So, how do we move it ……?”

“Like this.”

Houen put the knights’ piece and the high-level adventurers’ piece outside the gate, and the adventurers’ piece inside the gate.

I know what he means, but isn’t it too straightforward,……?

“Are you sure this is how you want to do it?”

“This is where we start. If we don’t let them reach the gate, we win. What matters now is how to move the adventurers and the knights that I have sent before.”

Hoen then turned over a sack from wherever he had taken it and scattered on the map a bunch of pieces of soldiers with various weapons.

It seems that they are divided into pieces for adventurers and knights.

He stood them up one by one and divided them into different sections.

“First, we need to make a plan. Then the number of soldiers required will come out.”

“Isn’t it usually the opposite ……? It’s better to know the number and then make the move. ……”

“Ouren. The number of soldiers is not always the same. The power of one person is completely different from the one on earth. There are some that one person can be as powerful as a hundred people. So there is no problem in thinking about it from the strategy.”

“Ah, oh. All right. ……. I’ll leave that part to you. ……”

Normally, I’ll be pissed off.

Let’s be quiet here. ……

The knights’ block is deployed from the west gate to the left.

The high-level adventurers’ will be deployed to go straight ahead.

Since the enemy is advancing from the southwest direction, they probably intend to attack from the both sides.

“First, we asked the knights to go to the left, and the adventurers to go straight ahead. We have to stall them first, so the knights will put their heavy infantry in front followed by the adventurers with their outstanding defenses, and from the rear we will ask the magicians on both sides to destroy the enemy vanguard.”

“Will it work? I don’t know shit about strategy, all right?”

One of the most efficient ways to stall them is to pile up corpses. However, the wizard soldiers must be sent out once. Well, even if they run out of magic, we have mana potions!”

“…… I see.”

I don’t want to drink it again, though.

But I’m a little nervous about being stranded behind only a pile of corpses. ……

If it were a human or a monster with reason or something, they might lose their will to fight at the sight of a pile of corpses, but they’re monsters, right?

It would be difficult to sway their emotions.

Well, I’ll follow Houen’s instructions anyway. ……

Do they have guys with earth-based skills or something?

Well, I don’t think the guild has that much control over the adventurers. ……

If they had two nicknames or something, it would be easy to identify them.

Let’s see, to summarize, the knights and adventurers start attacking from the enemy’s left and right flanks.

The heavy infantrymen are put forward to hold out, while the wizard soldiers in the rear unleash a big magic to collapse the enemy vanguard.

Following that…….

“Lower the wizard soldiers and push back the enemy with cavalry and infantry!”

“Ugh, will it work ……?”

“That depends on the quality of the mages.’

“I’m starting to think I should be the one to go out there. ……’

Please, adventurers and knights. ……

“Well, I’ll think of something else!”

“Of course you will! There’s nothing but anxiety!

You know what!

How come I’m in such an important conference?