Themis, The Flower of Justice
Chapter 30 — Magic Knights(7)
Upon seeing Allen's death, Selena let out a heavy sigh. He had not expected that his absence on the battlefield would have such a big impact. Although he arrived in time, he still could not stop Chronos' army from attacking Windsor Castle from behind.
‘I did not expect that the Chronos warriors would dare to attack from the back line. Although this looks careless, it seems effective... Who is the mastermind of the Chronos strategy?’
Selena wondered who was behind this backline attack. He thought that this person was a very intelligent person.
He was able to think that the ferocity on the frontline battlefield caused the casualties and began to pile up on the back line. Also, as a result of the surrounding fortresses being destroyed, he managed to outwit Medea's forces and had them assemble an army on the front lines.
This makes the back line of Medeia to be minimal guard and relatively easy to attack. So that they could bravely deploy a small number of elite troops to cut off aid from the back line towards the front line.
‘Smart... If the aid from the rear line is cut off, then automatically the Medeia soldiers are no different from a hunted man who goes into a trap.’.
Selena stroked her chin thinking about how deep the strategy her enemy was executing.
‘However, it's all for naught if the attack fails. They lost a strong military force.... In fact they have lost senior officers like Farmith... I wonder what his reaction will be like..’.
Selena grinned and chuckled at the thought.
When he was busy with his thoughts, from a distance he vaguely heard the voice of someone who was calling him.
When he sharpened his hearing, and vaguely he heard the voice of a man who called him ‘Yang Mulia’ while shouting.
Selena focused her vision in the direction the sound was coming from. From a distance, he saw a puff of dust smoke coming from one man.
The man seemed to be running at his full speed so that his face from a distance looked ugly and sinister. His face and hair were soaked in sweat, his entire body was filled with dust and dirt, as well as his bulging eyes made the man look creepy.
Selena shuddered when she saw the man moving towards her at full speed while putting on a creepy face.
After a while, the man finally arrived in front of Selena. He bowed and tried to calm his intermittent breathing.
“YANG NOBLE!!!!”
The man now shouted while putting on a creepy facial expression and glared at Selena.
“Oh? Rav, it turns out you can catch up with me?”
“Following? FOLLOWING WHAT?! WHY DID YOU SUDDENLY MOVE QUICKLY AND LEAVE THE SQUAD?!”
The man continued to nag and complain of his predicament when Selena suddenly left abruptly leaving the squad.
“Ah that? My hunch is that I should get to the location even faster because we're too late, and moving individually would be much faster to get to the front line, I think. As you can see, am I not right?”
“.... It is true that your decision made us successfully stop the attack and disrupt the enemy's plans, but..”.
The man called Rav by Selena was trembling, he looked very furious in explaining the matter to Selena.
“But?”
“ISN'T ADVANCING TO THE BATTLEFIELD ALONE DANGEROUS?! YOU ARE THE SUPREME COMMANDER, IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO YOU, THEN IN THIS WAR WE WILL LOSE!”
“ADUH!”
Rav hit Selena in the head because she was already upset. He was already upset with Selena who acted arbitrarily when he was a supreme commander, and he became even more upset when he saw the look on Selena's face looked very annoying when listening to an explanation from her.
“Why did you hit me Rav?!”
“Because you look shitty,”
“What?!”
Selena grumbling.
“Why? Do you feel annoyed?”
“Of course! I am the queen of the kingdom of Medeia, as well as the supreme commander of this war! In other words I'm your boss, A-T-A-S-A-N-M-U!”
Hearing Selena's words, Rav snorted.
“Huh, if you are indeed a queen and supreme commander, then behave accordingly!”
“Aduh!”
Rav hits Selena once again. Selena kept shouting at Rav, but the man called Rav ignored her. Rav glanced towards the east and saw a group of cavalrymen coming towards them.
A group of soldiers stopped their horses when they reached Selena, and watched the two of them. They wondered if the nagging woman was the legendary Silver Queen. However they stopped their thoughts and immediately knelt down.
“We greet this royal sun, Her Majesty Queen Selena!”
They all shouted in unison.
Selena stopped her scolding towards Rav and glanced towards them.
“Oh? Who are you?”
“I am the commander of the eighth army, representing the entire army to greet Her Majesty the Queen,”
A bald-headed man paid his respects to Selena while kneeling and looking down at the ground.
Seeing the man, Selena remembered something. He was reminded of the rumors of a famous noble on the battlefield. The nobleman was nicknamed the Void Knight of Medeia.
“Are you the man who earned the nickname Void Knight on the battlefield?”
Selena asked the man.
“Yes, Your Honor, my name is Ruden Vartz from County Vartz. I feel flattered and embarrassed by the nickname, because I still do not deserve the nickname,”
Seeing the man Selena realized that she was nicknamed the Void Knight for her baldness, not just her hair, but her entire face and body had no hair in the slightest. Selena thinks that people call her the Void Knight because of her baldness.
“Suitable, spirit yes,”
Unknowingly, Selena became sympathetic and her tears trickled down.
“???”
Vartz was confused by Selena's sudden crying attitude.
“Bot—, I mean Count Vartz, report the current state of the battlefield to me,”
Selena tried hard to hold the word bald from her mouth.
“Good, Your Majesty. As you know from the previous report, there is no significant difference between the current report and the previous one. But as I was about to leave the front lines, I heard that the enemy forces were pulling back their troops from Windsor Castle,”
Selena lowered her head for a moment, then she glanced towards those who were still kneeling once more.
“Arise, prepare a horse for me and guide us to the command center,”
“WELL, YOUR HIGHNESS!”
After answering Selena's orders, they immediately rushed to prepare the best horse for Selena and Rav.
Once everything was ready, Selena and Rav immediately moved with Vartz and his troops towards the command center.
[KASTEL WINDSOR, COMMAND CENTER OF THE ROYAL ARMY OF MEDEIA]
*BRAK!!
“How could they possibly attack the back line?!”
Inside the headquarters barrack tent, a muscular man with a large body hit the table hard until the table was broken in half.
He was Marquess Luxe, the first commander of the Medean army.
“Patience Marquess Luxe, our enemy is the second strongest of the 7 sword chronos, the famous Jack Crimson is not only strong, but also intelligent. Not only that, he also brought the Crimson Knight Order as well as two people from the other 7 Chronos swords,”
The one who calmed Marquess Luxe was a bespectacled man with a slender body, Count Zedd, one of the few nobles who guarded the western border of Medeia. He was one of the 7th level magicians appointed to be one of the strategists of the central headquarters of Medeia.
“Count Zedd is right, we have to be careful with every step we take from now on. Because Windsor is a vital city that became the gateway to Medeia for the invaders,”
That said it was a slender dark-skinned woman who had a rough appearance, she was Yelta, a knight from the palace who was appointed to be the fifth commander of the Medean army.
“Bah! This is war! Even though our opponent is an army of chronos, we must advance against them and show the power of Medeia to the whole world!”
“Stop your stupid babble, even though you've been a count for a long time you're still stupid huh?”
“What did you say?!”
“What? You want to fight?”
“GRRR”
The two people fighting were the commander of the fourth army, Count Genta, and also the commander of the sixth army, Viscount Rufuz.
“Count Genta, viscount Rufuz, we are at war, stop your quarrels,”
The one who interrupted their quarrel was Zedd. Although Zedd tried to mediate their quarrel, they fought.
The atmosphere of the central headquarters meeting became rowdy, some hot-blooded commanders insisted that at this time the Medeans should advance because Chronos must be desperate because they were withdrawing their troops from the front lines, but some commanders also think that this is a trap.
When everyone was busy with their quarrels, their bodies suddenly shuddered in horror at something. They all simultaneously looked at the door of the tent, the sound of several footsteps approaching.
“It looks like you guys are busy fighting huh? Ah, Zedd, I'm a little disappointed in you for not being able to cope with the current situation~”
The one who emerged from the tent door was Selena, who was the supreme commander of the war this time around. He was also with Vatz and Rav who stood slightly behind him.
“FORGET THE SUN MEDEIA, HER MAJESTY QUEEN SELENA!”
They all got up from the chairs and knelt down in unison.
“Wah, no need so ~. You guys just continue your fight~”
“WE APOLOGIZE, YOUR MAJESTY!”
They all lowered their heads that were already bowed. Their bodies were wet with sweat and slightly trembled. They all knew, even though Selena was currently smiling, but the aura she had released just now was not playful. They were all convinced that it was a warning from their supreme commander.
When everyone was feeling scared, Zedd as an army strategist stepped forward. Despite feeling pressured by the pressure that Selena exuded, he had to still explain the current situation of the battlefield to the supreme commander.
“Your Majesty Ratu—no, Commander Selena, I am sorry for showing you this embarrassing sight. Let me report the current situation to you,”
“Explain,”
“... Fine,”
Zedd explained that the current situation of Medeia's war had not improved, even with the decline of the chronos army. They were still unable to finish off the pillars of the Chronos army, while they had already lost the second, third, and seventh commander who was also an aura master. The loss of three aura masters at the start of the war was a significant loss for the entire army.
“... Also, we still do not know what the motive for the decline of the Chronos army is. Coupled with a bad situation in the back row, which makes us lose a lot of food supply. We should also consider giving a strong army to guard the rear line, however that will make our front line weaken,”
Hearing all the reports and opinions from Zedd, Selena pensively pensively.
“.... All right, looks like the report from the back line hasn't got here yet. Then, Ravin!”
When Selena called out her name, Ravin directly advanced forward.
“Good, commander Selena. Before that, introduce my name is Ravin Dynasty, the younger brother of Duke Dynasty who is also the deputy commander of the Silver Wolf Knight Order belonging to Queen Selena,”
When listening to the identity of Rav, they were all shocked. Who would have thought that their supreme commander would bring his personal Knight Order.
‘Ordo Knight Silver Wolf!’
‘Who thought the supreme commander would bring his personal Knight Order.
‘Silver Wolf Knight Order.... I think they're retired,'
As they were all still shocked, Rav's flat voice leaned them from his daydream.
“Currently thanks to the timely arrival of Queen Selena, the back line of defense is safe and stable. We've sent some people who can be trusted in keeping the back line. Regarding the reason why the chronos army retreated was because they lost one of their wings, Farmith who was the left hand of Jack had been finished off,”
Despite explaining in a flat voice, the contents of the report Farmith delivered shocked everyone. They did not expect that the situation they had debated from earlier had been resolved.
When Farmith finished with her report, they all looked at each other and nodded with a wide-open smile. Despite not saying anything, they were all convinced that they were all thinking the same thing.
The loss of Farmith was a great loss for the Chronos warriors. Although he was not an aura master, yet he was someone who valued far more than an aura master. He was one of the limbs that moved the Chronos warriors. By losing one of his limbs Chronos clearly suffered a crushing blow.
“It seems that you all already understand, the reason why the Crimson Knight Order is famous for its prowess is because of these two people, if Julius the strategist is the brain, then Farmith is a member of its governing body. By losing Farmith, they also lost the entire plan they designed,”
Hearing Selena's explanation, everyone who was in the headquarters tent smiled widely.
“However, since our enemy is a great strategist, then we must think that the enemy must have thought the same thing as us. Therefore, rather than advancing in a hurry with all our strength is not a wise choice,”
“Commander Selena is right, therefore we must devise a strategy that can destroy our enemies at once. I think that we should use the hammer and grounding strategy. We will deploy most of our soldiers to make the enemy gather at the fortress of Arland, then deploy troops with high mobility and attack it from behind,”
The commanders in the tent nodded satisfied with the strategy proposed by Zedd, but Selena suddenly snorted.
“Hmph! That's a pretty great strategy, but I'm sure they've predicted this as well. But we will still use this strategy, but with a little change,”
When Selena said that, all the commanders were a little confused by Selena's explanation. He said that the enemy must have read his strategy, but we still carry out this strategy even though it has been read? They all could not guess what their supreme commander was planning.
“If we make a slight change from this plan, we will definitely be beyond the prediction of the enemy and make them confused. Our soldiers will not only lock them up, but also finish them off,”
Selena continues to explain.
“Commander, then can you explain about the changes you said?”
“Then, listen carefully~”