NOVEL NEXT Chapter 193
First, I welcomed Alicia’s Sixth Unit as Karga.
I had the cook prepare a bottle of alcohol to lighten Alicia’s mood and planned to head to the barracks where Alicia and my master were after work to drop my transformation and discuss the situation.
Before sharing the situation, I briefly calmed down Alicia, who was trying to stab me to death, with paralyzing magic, and then I began to explain the situation.
“You came from the future? Are you asking me to believe such nonsense now?”
“Here, I’ve opened my mana, so please take a look and judge for yourself.”
I opened my mana to share memories with Alicia.
Seeing this, my master rushed over and said.
“I want to see more from last time as well. Is that okay?”
“Of course.”
Thus, my master took my left hand, and Alicia took my right, and we began sharing memories.
Memories started to flash by again.
Childhood memories spent in Irene School,
Memories of meeting Alicia,
Memories of becoming a first-class wizard,
Memories of becoming wealthy after starting game development,
Memories of Alicia using time acceleration magic for me,
And even memories of loving my master fluttered by.
…Hmm? Didn’t something that should not have been revealed just pass by…?
< "Ah! I love you! My disciple..." >
< "I love you too, Master." >
“What! This is!?”
“Ahhh!!! What is this!? Yuren!?”
“It’s a broadcasting accident!!”
In the midst of sharing memories, I accidentally shared the memory of my first night with my master!
The sight of my master and me rolling around naked made her face turn completely red, and Alicia shouted at me with a terrifying gaze.
“You! Child predator!!”
Alicia then swatted her palm, but it was directed at Master Irene.
Oh, that side.
Slap! Pow! Pow! Slap!
“Ah! It hurts! Alicia!!”
“What did this girl do in the future!! Hey! What’s the age gap between you and that kid!!”
“Ugh! Stop hitting me!!”
After a while of chaotic fighting due to the broadcasting accident, we managed to calm down and continued discussing.
Really, if we hadn’t installed soundproof magic here, it would have been a disaster.
After assessing the situation, Alicia, who agreed to trust me, responded to my request for help in going to the future.
“You said your name was Yuren? To put it simply, it’s impossible.”
“What!?”
Alicia explained that my magical formula was sophisticated and efficient enough to make it believable that I had come from the future.
For instance, Alicia’s current “Croderis (Time Acceleration Magic)” only has the power to accelerate her physical time.
What I saw in my memories, like wide-area time manipulation, couldn’t be dreamed of even if I had the materials.
In other words, it was a situation where the two of them needed to learn magic from me rather than me receiving any help.
“This can’t be… So how do I return to the future?”
“I don’t know either; if you manage to find the magic to return, teach it to me.”
As I heard Alicia’s words, the sky turned yellow, and I felt like I was losing consciousness.
What do I do… How do I return to my home in the future?
While I was having such thoughts, Alicia spoke.
“And as a tribe of time magic, it is impossible to send a living being back to the past, even with the best magical tools of demons.”
“Then!? How was I able to come here!?”
“So I don’t know!!… But I remember hearing from my father long ago. The World Tree guides destinies to protect the world with its will, so if the World Tree sent you back to the past to protect the world, that could make sense.”
Alicia spoke legendary words.
The World Tree sent me to the past? Why?
I’m just an ordinary game developer! Why on earth!?
As I was suffering from this cruel truth, I heard a voice from outside the tent.
“Karga Commander!!! Orders have come from the central army!!!”
Hah… They really don’t let me catch a break; I had to return to being Karga since I couldn’t abandon the people in front of me.
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“Is that really the situation?”
“Yes, we too received orders from the Southern Army to respond individually.”
The news delivered by the messenger from the central army was devastating.
Since the demons made their move, monsters that could be described as fiends started appearing from each demon’s gate.
While terror attacks that led to the massacre of commanders like in the Southern Army were mostly suppressed, the command structure suffered a breakdown due to that, and orders had been given for all units to concentrate on suppressing the demon gates.
Moreover, from the northern demon gate, giant monsters emerged, and the ancestral guardian Sirael of the Zers Empire descended to fight.
The Southern Army was also commanded to individually respond to the demon gates and fiends.
Up to this point, it was according to the history books that I knew.
The total offensive of the demons temporarily paralyzed the army of the Zers Empire.
While the damage was significant, it in itself wasn’t enough to bring down the entire empire.
If my memory serves me right, it was only after this that the truly terrifying incidents began.
“K-Karga Commander!!! The scouts have returned!!!”
The news brought by the scouts was desperate when viewed from the Southern Army’s perspective.
It was news that the demons had begun to march in organized formations.
Their destination seemed to be the city of Tex, where the World Tree was located in the western region.
It was exactly as I had read in the books.
The demons that inflicted damage on the imperial army wasted no time and began marching toward the World Tree.
While the march could not be considered sophisticated, as scattered units charged toward the World Tree, it was still enough.
Their goal was not to conquer.
They aimed to contaminate the World Tree to open a demon gate.
If even one demon unit reached the World Tree, the game would be over, and the moment they succeeded in assassinating any leaders of the southwestern army, their plan would be complete.
If I hadn’t been here, that is.
“Is everyone ready?”
[ “Yes!!!!” ]
In preparation for this situation I had read in history books, I recalled the methods used by Karga and made preparations in advance.
Although I was worried since it was hastily made in just one day, considering the strategies I learned from historical texts and Galaxy Craft, this battle was sufficiently worth a try.
“Then let’s start hunting demons now!!!!”
[ “Yes!!!!!!!” ]
Thus, the counterattack of humans began.
At that moment, the demons were marching at full speed according to their plan.
“Hurry up! Our unit must be the first to arrive at the World Tree!!”
With a small force of 100 men, they had nothing to fear.
They received reports that all the leaders of the imperial army had been killed, causing them to flee to the far southern army.
Among them, some they had dealt with directly, so now there was no one left to stop them from reaching the World Tree.
Yes, there should have been no one.
“『Meteor (Meteor Magic)』!!!!”
“Oh-”
Kwahhhh!!!!
The last sight of the high-ranking demon was seeing the flaming meteor descending from the sky.
With a massive explosion, 20 members of the leading group were instantly vaporized, and afterward, imperial cavalry crashed down on the demon units.
“Charge!!!”
“Dirty demon scum!!!! I will avenge Commander Shark!!!”
The fate of soldiers exposed to cavalry while immobilized was sealed.
With the attack of over 200 cavalry, more than 80 demons were turned into minced meat.
As I observed the situation from the air, I immediately gave my next command.
“Then let’s move to the next unit!”
“Yes!!!”
There is a misconception people have about human wave tactics.
Human wave tactics aren’t just mindlessly charging forward relying on numbers; it’s about securing numerical superiority over the enemy in the operational area.
As Napoleon Bonaparte famously said, “In a large army, tactics are unnecessary,” numerical superiority is a crucial factor for victory in combat.
But wait?
The demons are marching in segments, making it a perfect opportunity to overwhelm them with numbers.
Of course, there are reasons they are doing this as well.
Firstly, the Southern Army had been neutralized, secondly, their objective was the World Tree, and lastly, even if the imperial army tried to defend now, their detection magic levels wouldn’t allow them to find the demons’ positions easily.
But as Karga, I revived the Southern Army, and with detection magic from 500 years later, it was possible to detect demon positions that exceeded the expected range by tenfold.
Of course, even with that tenfold increase, detecting all demons across the southern region would be tough, but that part would be covered by providing my surviving master and the elf wizards of the Sixth Unit with mana detection magic.
To be precise, it would look suspicious if I suddenly started teaching magic, so my master and Alicia would learn the detection magic from 500 years later and share it with the elf wizards.
While they wouldn’t suddenly have a wide detection range like me, sufficiently increased elf mages would be deployed to each unit, and using detection magic along with numerical superiority, we began to take down demons one by one.
By employing the advantage of numerical superiority in the combat area and back-calculating the target points of the small units using terrain, the one-sided massacre performed during this battle was recorded in history books as “The Massacre of Karga.”
Boom—
“Is that the signal from the demon scum?”
Within half a day, over ten demon units had been slaughtered by the Southern Army, and having grasped the situation, the demon army sent up a purple smoke signal that appeared to indicate assembly.
The final battle that would etch Karga into legend was drawing ever closer.