Fyuh, Frondier menghela napas dalam. Teriakan monster yang menggetarkan udara, hentakan kaki mereka yang membuat bumi bergetar. Niat membunuh dari monster luar berkumpul dan menumpuk, berpusar menuju gentongan. Semua yang menjaga gentongan pasti merasakan ketegangan sebesar ini. Ia teringat masa-masa di Tyburn dan Yeranhes. Waktu itu, banyak prajurit gemetar ketakutan. Para ksatria terus menyemangati mereka, sementara komandan mengawasi sekeliling dan memberi arahan kepada para ksatria. [────Mereka datang.] Langkah pertama lebih berat dari apapun, dan seolah menjadi sinyal, semua monster mulai bergerak menuju gentongan. Getaran tanah berubah menjadi gempa sungguhan—bukan kiasan—membuat kaki semua orang yang berdiri di atasnya bergetar. Awan debu menenun, mengejar monster, menyelubunginya, dan menyatu seiring mereka melaju ke arah manusia. Niat membunuh dari segala arah, dari segalanya. Gelombang serangan tanpa henti yang membentang di seluruh depan Kekaisaran. Wajah para prajurit di gentongan memucat. Mereka prajurit berpengalaman yang telah memukul mundur monster luar berkali-kali, tetapi mereka merasakan serangan monster kali ini berbeda dari biasanya. Monster luar yakin akan kemenangan di serangan ini. Serangan dari segala arah yang membuat manusia tidak bisa berkonsentrasi di satu titik saja. Gentongan pasti akan ditembus. Monster luar memiliki keyakinan itu, dan keyakinan itu menjadi semangat, dan semangat itu menjadi aura. Aura itu akhirnya menampakkan taringnya sebagai niat membunuh yang jelas terarah ke manusia. Ini adalah gentongan yang paling dekat ke Manggot. Tentu saja, menembus di sini akan paling menguntungkan bagi Manggot, jadi serangan mereka pun agak terpusat di sini. Meskipun kekuatan monster sama, kekuatan Manggot tidak. Frondier memilih tempat ini. Monster yang diselimuti awan debu, berlarian gila menuju gentongan. Kekuatan Manggot, menonton monster yang berusaha menembus gentongan, menunggu untuk bergabung dalam serangan begitu celah muncul. Sebuah tombak mengisi kekosongan itu, Jatuh seperti meteor, mengguncang area itu dengan ganas. Sesaat, pandangan monster dan Manggot terfokus pada tombak yang jatuh itu. Beberapa monster yang berlarian menoleh ke belakang, dan mata anggota Manggot yang menunggu melebar. Saatnya begitu singkat sehingga nyaris tidak bisa disebut keheningan, tetapi Pasti ada sesaat ketika tidak ada yang bisa bersuara. Dengan tombak dan perisai seorang dewa. Musuh terburuk umat manusia berdiri di sana, aura merahnya berpusar mengelilinginya. "Cuacanya indaaah!!!" Teriakannya, penuh aura dan beresonansi menggigil, menusuk udara. Beberapa monster yang masih berlari menuju gentongan menghentikan serangannya. Salah satu anggota Manggot, melihat ini, berteriak. Ia salah satu Gembala Meja Bundar yang bertanggung jawab atas serangan ini. "Bunuh dia!! Itu Renzo!!!" Perintah itu akurat, bijak, dan perintah tercepat yang bisa ia berikan dalam situasi saat ini, tetapi. Faktanya, "situasi saat ini" itu sudah terlalu lambat. Renzo membenturkan perisainya ke depan. Saat perisai itu terungkap, ia menuliskan hukum yang tak terikat ukurannya, dengan Renzo sebagai pusatnya. Panah dan sihir Manggot menuju Renzo serentak, tetapi Semua serangan yang ditujukan ke Renzo tidak bisa menembus Lynotoros. Semua serangan dari "depan" diblokir oleh Lynotoros. Ukuran perisai tidak menjadi masalah di momen ini. Renzo sepenuhnya mengabaikan gempuran bising yang ditujukan kepadanya dan memalingkan punggungnya, menatap monster yang masih menyerbu menuju gentongan. Spear of Infinite Attempts Otot-otot di lengannya yang menggenggam tombak menegang, dan kekuatan ilahi Ares serta auranya meresap ke ujung tombak, membuatnya membengkak. "Kau bilang jangan pecahkan gentongan." Satu permintaan Frondier. Kesulitan dari satu permintaan itu begitu besar hingga Renzo menghabiskan berhari-hari dan bermalam-malam merisaukannya setelah mendengarnya. Bagaimana mungkin ia melempar tombak ke monster tanpa memecahkan gentongan? Jelas bahwa bahkan Osprey, si Penyihir, tidak akan mampu menemukan jawabannya. Namun, ada kilasan inspirasi di benak Renzo. Itu ide agung yang tidak akan berani dipikirkan siapa pun. Tentu saja, aku jenius. "Aku tinggal tusuk ke tanah!!!" Tombak Renzo melesat ke depan, membantai semua monster yang bahkan tersenggol lintasan di sekitar ujung tombaknya—apalagi yang terkena langsung—dan menciptakan krater besar di tanah di depannya. Tentu saja, tidak ada monster yang selamat dalam radius itu. Ia menargetkan monster tetapi melemparkannya ke tanah, sengaja "meleset". Karena ia tidak mengenai mereka. Spear of Infinite Attempts kembali kepadanya. "Ahahaha!! Gimana, Frondier! Kau nggak bisa panggil aku bodoh lagi!!" Renzo berteriak menyebut nama Frondier meskipun ia tidak akan mampu mendengar jawabannya. Dan dari kejauhan, Frondier yang jelas-jelas mendengar suara itu, "...Bagus, bodoh." Ia menonton dengan ekspresi terkaget. Karena semua mata kini tertuju pada Renzo. Frondier berbicara ke telepon. [...Ini akan menjadi beban berat.] "Semua orang merasakan beban itu." Merespons jawaban Frondier, Malia menghela napas. [Kau tidak bisa berlarut-larut.] Sesaat setelah kata-kata itu. Visi Frondier berubah. Menjadi puluhan visi yang dibagikan Malia. Sama seperti saat ia melihat Constel dari sudut pandang Malia di Menara Elysia. Ide ini secara teori mungkin, tetapi membalik visi Malia yang membagikan puluhan sudut pandang sangat berisiko. Karena kemampuan ini bukan milik Frondier, ini seperti memaksa menyatukan kepingan puzzle yang tidak cocok. "...Mataku sedikit perih." Khryselakatos, Lokhiera. Frondier melihat keseluruhan visi yang dibagikan dan memastikan bahwa masing-masing menyaksikan monster yang menyerbu dari gentongan dengan mata mereka sendiri. Lalu. ──Pasti mengenai target yang diarahkan, ──Ini akan menjadi hujan. Ia menembakkan awan gelap ke langit yang cerah. Prakiraan yang disampaikan ke seluruh Kekaisaran. "Meski kita tidak bisa menyerang duluan, kita bisa membela duluan." Ini adalah pertahanan pertama umat manusia.
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Phew, Frondier exhaled deeply. The monsters' shouts that shook the air, the stomping of their feet that made the ground tremble. The murderous intent of the outer monsters gathered and piled up, swirling towards the barrier. Everyone defending the barrier must be feeling this enormous tension. He remembered the times in Tyburn and Yeranhes. Back then, many soldiers were trembling in fear. The knights constantly encouraged them, and the commander looked around and gave instructions to the knights. [────They're coming.] The first footsteps were heavier than anything else, and as if it were a signal, all the monsters started moving towards the barrier. The vibrations of the ground became an earthquake without any metaphor, making the feet of everyone standing on it tremble. Dust clouds weaving, chasing after the monsters, enveloping them, and blending together as they advanced towards the humans. Murderous intent from all directions, from everything. A relentless wave of attacks covering the entire front of the Empire. The faces of the soldiers on the barrier turned pale. They were veterans who had repelled the outer monsters many times, but they sensed that this monster attack was different from usual. The outer monsters were confident of victory in this attack. An attack from all directions where humans couldn't concentrate on any one place. The barrier would definitely be breached. The outer monsters had that conviction, and that conviction became morale, and morale became an aura. The aura finally bared its teeth as a clear murderous intent directed towards humans. This was the barrier closest to Manggot. Naturally, breaking through here would be the most beneficial for Manggot, so their attack was also somewhat concentrated here. Even if the monster forces were the same, Manggot's forces were not. Frondier chose this place. Monsters covered in dust clouds, running madly towards the barrier. Manggot's forces, watching the monsters trying to break the barrier, waiting to join the attack as soon as a gap appeared. A single spear filled that void, Falling like a meteor, it shook the area violently. For a moment, the gazes of the monsters and Manggot gathered towards the fallen spear. Some of the running monsters looked back, and the eyes of the waiting Manggot widened. It was a moment so short that it could hardly be called silence, but There was definitely a moment when no one could make a sound. With the spear and shield of a god. Humanity's worst villain stood there, his red aura swirling around him. "The weather is niceee!!!" His shout, filled with aura and tinglingly resonant, pierced the air. A few more of the monsters that were still running towards the barrier stopped their charge. One of the Manggot members, seeing this, shouted. He was one of the Shepherds of the Round Table in charge of this attack. "Kill him!! It's Renzo!!!" That order was accurate, wise, and the quickest order he could give in the current situation, but. The fact that it was the 'current situation' was already too late. Renzo slammed his shield down in front of him. The moment the shield revealed itself, it inscribed laws unrelated to its size, with Renzo at the center. Manggot's arrows and magic poured towards Renzo at once, but All attacks aimed at Renzo couldn't get past Lynotoros. All attacks coming from the 'front' were blocked by Lynotoros. The size of the shield didn't matter at this moment. Renzo completely ignored the noisy barrage aimed at him and turned his back, looking at the monsters still charging towards the barrier. Spear of Infinite Attempts The muscles in his arm holding the spear bulged, and the divine power of Ares and his aura were infused into the spearhead, swelling it up. "You said not to break the barrier." Frondier's one request. The difficulty of that one request was so great that Renzo had spent days and nights agonizing over it after hearing it. How could he possibly throw a spear at the monsters without breaking the barrier? It was obvious that even Osprey, called the Sage, wouldn't be able to find the answer. However, there was a flash of inspiration in Renzo's mind. It was a supreme idea that no one would dare to think of. As expected, I'm a genius. "I just have to stick it in the ground!!!" Renzo's spear shot forward, slaughtering all the monsters that were even slightly grazed by the trajectory around the spearhead, let alone those directly hit, and created a huge crater in the ground ahead. Of course, no monster survived within that radius. He aimed at the monsters but threw it at the ground, deliberately 'missing'. Because he didn't hit them. The Spear of Infinite Attempts returned to him. "Ahahahaha!! How's that, Frondier! You can't call me a blockhead anymore!!" Renzo shouted Frondier's name even though he wouldn't be able to hear the answer. And from afar, Frondier, who clearly heard that voice, "...Well done, blockhead." He watched with a dumbfounded expression. Now that all eyes were on Renzo. Frondier spoke into the phone. [...It'll be a heavy burden.] "Everyone is feeling the burden." At Frondier’s answer, Malia sighed. [You can't drag it out too long.] Right after those words. Frondier's vision changed. To all of the dozens of visions that Malia shared. Just like when he saw Constel from Malia's point of view at Elysia's Tower. This idea was theoretically possible, but reversing the vision of Malia, who was sharing dozens of viewpoints, was very risky. Since this ability wasn't Frondier's, it was like forcing a puzzle piece that didn't fit. "...My eyes sting a bit." Khryselakatos, Lokhiera Frondier saw the entirety of the shared vision and confirmed that each one was witnessing the monsters rushing from the barrier with their own eyes. Then. ──It will surely hit the aimed enemy, ──It will become rain. He shot dark clouds towards the clear sky. A forecast delivered to the entire Empire. "Even if we can't attack first, we can defend first." This was humanity's first defense.
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