Do Your Own Revolution

#113

Weeeeee—!

“Wh-what is that……!”

Along with the siren, soldiers appeared at the barrier.

However, upon seeing the monsters rushing in from the coastline, the soldiers’ faces turned pale.

“Grrrr….”

“Kwak-! Kwaaaaak–!”

A horrifying sight of bodies crawling on four legs with human faces and limbs tangled chaotically.

An enormous number of monsters they had never seen before were charging forward, filling the coastline.

“How many… how many are there……!”

“Battle positions! Everyone to battle positions-!”

“Fire at anything you see! Get everything from the ammunition depot! Hurry-!”

As soon as the emergency was declared, the guard patrols and automatons stationed at the barrier began firing their machine guns.

Heavy machine guns specialized for monsters, not for human targets.

As the large-caliber rounds tore the monsters’ bodies to pieces, the magical power circuits on the dolls’ arms emitted light.

Boom boom boom—!

Dozens of automatons fired beams, creating explosions.

Though the power was formidable, it was far from enough firepower compared to the number of monsters charging in.

The guard captain’s face showed dismay as he watched the battlefield situation.

But at that moment.

Thud-!

An automaton with a different appearance from the others launched itself outside the barrier.

A slender face profile and spikes protruding from both arms.

And that swift speed as it charged toward the monsters.

The soldiers’ faces lit up with fighting spirit upon seeing the doll.

Among Korhonen’s soldiers, there was no one who didn’t know that doll’s owner.

“It’s Young Lady Reina! The Young Lady is taking the lead!”

“Maintain formation! Focus firepower forward! Clear a path for the Young Lady!”

The doll sliced through monsters with nimble movements.

When they saw the monsters hesitate after confirming this, hope dawned on the soldiers’ faces.

“Good, now we can see hope!”

“While the monsters’ attention is focused, if the artillery guys can finish deploying the fortress guns……!”

But that thought lasted only a moment.

Gruuuu—!

The churning sea surface bulged upward, and something emerged from within.

Boom-!

“Ah, aah……!”

“This is insane……!”

A giant monster appeared at the shore.

A horse of overwhelming size, like a high-rise building moving whole, trampled the doll that had been struggling with the monsters.

Grrrrrr…….

The giant monster advanced slowly while deflecting the automatons’ firepower.

To make matters worse, the monsters beneath the giant monster approached the barrier and began climbing the walls one by one.

“Changing machine gun barrels! We can’t hold them back!”

“The automatons are at their limit too! The gun barrels are burning up!”

“Everyone, prepare for close combat!”

At the guard captain’s shout, the knights standing by among the soldiers placed their hands on their waists.

The knights of House Korhonen.

If monsters breached the barrier, it would be their duty to face them from that point on.

“We must hold them back even if we die. Understood?!”

“Yes-!”

Their hands gripped their sword handles tightly.

The vibrations climbing up the barrier’s steel walls.

The monsters’ cries getting closer and closer.

And their own breathing getting heavier in proportion.

Tension, fear, anxiety.

Just as these emotions mixed chaotically reached their peak-

Whoosh-!

A storm of flames swept across the monsters climbing the barrier.

“Kieek?!”

“Kwaaaaaaak–!”

The monsters unanimously stopped moving upon feeling the heat.

They stood still against the wall, staring at one point.

What is it? What just happened?

As they wondered this, a voice came from atop the barrier.

“All automatons in the front line, regroup and rearm. Knights, deploy barriers to prepare for impact.”

“……What?”

At the voice from above, the guard captain hurriedly turned toward its source.

A man loading bullets into a pistol engraved with complex imprints.

Eugene Lorentz was standing at the edge of the barrier.

The magical power swirling around him.

The guard captain’s gaze fell on Eugene’s right arm.

The seven strokes imprint was emitting magical power with a red glow.

“Six magic bullets is all I have on hand. Wonder if one spell will use them all up.”

Eugene clicked his tongue as he watched the monsters climbing the barrier.

The situation itself couldn’t be better, if anything.

Thinking this, Eugene slowly activated his imprint and.

Swish swish swish-!

Dozens, hundreds of magic circles began instantly decorating the space behind him.

“Im-impossible. Don’t tell me all those are……!”

“Bombardment spells……?”

The domain was already expanded to maximum range.

With no allies present, there was no worry about soldiers getting caught in the bombardment.

No obstacles like civilian houses nearby, no farmland to protect, so no worry about destroying city districts.

And decisively, everything in front was nothing but monsters.

This meant he could concentrate all magical power on blast radius and firepower, without power restrictions, maximum range limits, or need for precision calculations.

“Phew…….”

As he exhaled like taking a deep breath, red smoke flowed from his mouth.

[Eye of Horus] deactivated.

Detection spells, targeting correction calculation magic deactivated.

Long-range spell protection barrier released.

After releasing all the magic he had been using to prepare for every situation, he concentrated that computing power and magical power solely on firepower.

No safety measures, no restrictions.

Indiscriminate magical bombardment with the sole purpose of burning the enemies before him.

Eugene’s pistol aimed at the rushing monsters, and hundreds of huge magic circles created to match began glowing increasingly red.

Wooong-!

At that moment when the red glow of magical power reached its peak.

“Fire all rounds.”

As he pulled the trigger, all magic circles began indiscriminate bombardment.

Boom boom boom—!

As hundreds of fireballs began pounding the coastline without pause, explosions and flames engulfed the entire shore.

A crude method of simultaneous casting of the basic Fireball spell at maximum power and rate of fire.

When he unleashed all that magical power from the seven stroke magic imprint with six magic bullets loaded, the entire front line began burning for almost 5 minutes.

Though the knights were all dumbstruck seeing the coastline melt red, that didn’t last long.

Kuoooooo—!

An enormous shockwave created by the explosion’s pressure hit the barrier, and the knights had to use defensive magic to withstand the blast pressure.

“Waaah?!”

“What is this……!”

“De-deploy barriers! Protect the guard patrols! Quickly!”

So this is what he meant by preparing for impact.

Watching the relentless flames and scattered monster parts, the knights had to desperately struggle to maintain their barriers.

10 minutes later.

By the time the main force from the territory arrived at the barrier, everything was already over.

“Kruk…. Kruk…….”

The completely tattered giant monster twitched, while all the other monsters had been reduced to ashes.

The knights who had been staring slack-jawed at this looked up at where Eugene had been standing on the barrier.

Hisssss…….

The armor plates glowing red from residual magical power heat.

Smoke was rising from Eugene’s body at the center.

Trudge- trudge-

Eugene slowly descended the stairs while emitting smoke.

The knights and garrison troops who had been silently watching began gathering around Eugene one by one.

“What are you doing? The corpses won’t clean themselves up.”

At his nonchalant words, they began shouting loud enough to shake the entire barrier.

“Wooooooah–!”

The honor of standing on the same frontline as the Empire’s hero.

The fact that they had directly witnessed the magic he used.

The wonder of him single-handedly incinerating thousands of monsters.

Perhaps it was natural for the soldiers to be excited.

“Eugene-! Eugene-! Eugene-!”

“No, please don’t, everyone. Really, it’s fine…….”

Though the barrier was in an uproar, Eugene waved his hands trying to dissuade the soldiers.

Such a powerful person being humble on top of it!

‘No. Really, stop.’

Hearing the people’s increasingly loud cheers, Eugene thought with a troubled expression.

‘These monster bastards attacked because of us!’

We’d be dead if I said that.

If nothing else, that much was absolutely certain.

“Thank you very much for helping defend the barrier.”

Amidst this, there was a girl who bowed her head saying thank you.

First Young Lady of Korhonen, Reina Korhonen.

The successor to Korhonen chosen by the Margrave.

‘The automaton that jumped out first to handle the monsters… was controlled by this woman?’

A girl with snow-white hair and blue eyes.

Though the knights gasped saying how could the Young Lady come out here, she was unmoved.

‘This much greeting is necessary for someone who protected the barrier.’

Though Young Lady Reina spoke with such spirit, Eugene could immediately notice upon seeing her.

‘Thin legs from not walking for a long time. Unfocused eyes. And….’

Even the strange magical power flowing through her heart.

She was slowly dying right now.

***

“So the automaton that went to battle was controlled by you, Young Lady.”

Just because all the monsters were eliminated doesn’t mean a soldier’s work was done.

Processing the burned monster remains, and investigation.

As I casually asked while confirming kills on the monsters, Reina’s automaton looked at my face.

“Its performance was quite impressive.”

At those words, laughter came from beyond the automaton.

“It’s not my strength. It’s thanks to the engineers’ hard work.”

“The automaton’s performance may be one thing, but you’re the one controlling it, Young Lady. I think you can take pride in that.”

“Even so, I’m still far from being worthy as Korhonen’s successor.”

Young Lady Reina’s automaton… no, the automaton smiled slightly and looked at me.

A pair of unfocused lenses.

But it was the Young Lady herself speaking to me from beyond them.

“Though I received the Korhonen imprint, I can’t do multiple control like Father. At best, I can only extremely enhance the operational capability of a single automaton like now.”

Reina said.

“I lost my sight and the use of my legs early on. I grew up receiving help from the people here since I was young.”

“…….”

“And Father passed down automaton magic to me… opening new horizons for me.”

If you share senses with an automaton, you can feel what the automaton sees and feels.

She could see scenery she originally couldn’t see, and walk on ground she couldn’t walk on.

“The northern lands and people of Korhonen gave me everything. So I….”

Will protect them.

By any means necessary.

Her voice as she said this was filled with pride and undisguised affection.

However….

“Ah, yes.”

Honestly, from my position, it wasn’t particularly moving.

‘Despite her frail body she came out to face me directly, was first to the battlefield, and is even now talking with me during recovery work? Protecting the north together?’

What nonsense.

At first glance it seemed like noble conduct, leading political affairs despite physical difficulties, but Young Lady Reina’s true nature was thoroughly political.

If she really had no interest in politics and cared for the domain’s people, she should be tending to the wounded from battle right now instead of talking with me.

Rather than engaging in such socializing with an Imperial brigadier general.

“I heard you had a private audience with Father, seems you had an important conversation?”

See? She deliberately approached me.

To those words with clear intentions, I briefly pondered how to respond.

He didn’t specifically say it was confidential.

Having finished thinking, I said.

“He requested the assassination of First Son Russell.”

“Kuhup!”

A startled coughing sound came from beyond the automaton.

“Y-you speak very calmly. Though it must be quite a serious matter…….”

“It may be serious to you, Young Lady, but not to me.”

Kill this, assassinate that, whatever. In the end it’s just another family’s internal strife.

The ones suffering emotional turmoil from siblings killing each other are the people of this house, not me.

I just need to do what I’m told and take what was offered in return.

“That’s fortunate.”

She even says it’s fortunate.

When it’s about killing her own brother.

Weren’t siblings programmed to kill each other? Is that really true?

But those thoughts lasted only briefly.

“Hmm?”

Reina’s automaton that had been examining the monsters stopped speaking and held up some monster tissue.

“I felt it while fighting, but this confirms it.”

“What’s confirmed?”

“These dead monsters… they’re different from the ones that usually attack.”

I was a bit surprised.

“How can you tell?”

“The existing monsters that burst out from the rifts are specimens fully adapted to the permafrost. But look at this.”

Reina answered while holding up one of the monster corpses.

“There are traces of water frozen to their body surface from rushing out of the sea hastily. This is why their movements were sluggish and advance speed was slow.”

“Ooh.”

“The ones that usually attack would never produce specimens like this. Moreover, decisively, these specimens’ body structure isn’t suited for swimming in the sea.”

“In other words?”

Though these are monsters, they’re different beings from the monsters Korhonen usually faces.

Reina’s expression hardened.

“If new species of monsters have appeared, this is no ordinary matter. I must quickly inform Father……!”

Just as Reina’s automaton turned its body after saying that.

Ping-!

The detection magic I had deployed caught something.

The pile of burned monster corpses.

Clear hostility felt from within it.

“Danger. Get back!”

“Eh? Get back, what……?”

In the moment Reina spoke, not understanding the situation.

Rip-!

The body of the automaton Reina was controlling was split vertically.

Cutting power that instantly bisected the alloy body that could withstand monster fangs and toxins.

Beyond the automaton’s body split to both sides, a black exoskeleton body appeared.

“Grrrrrr…….”

A sleek physique with an appearance like a knight’s armor.

A cleanly organized body rather than being twisted about.

And even red eye lights looking at me.

This is……!

‘A pure-breed monster.’

While I was thinking, it had already begun to act.

The monster that charged at me immediately raising its claws.

But I focused my mind and generated magic at its feet.

“Hellfire.”

Whoosh-!

Flames that burst from the ground pierced its abdomen.

Monster bio-armor is strong against impacts but weak to heat.

Unable to withstand the heat, the monster collapsed there.

“Kruk…. Kruruk……! Kuk……!”

“Persistent bastard. You’re still alive?”

As with any monster, it showed amazing tenacity.

Hiding among its comrades’ corpses to wait for a chance to ambush.

As I thought this and aimed my pistol for the finishing blow.

“Hu…. Man…….”

“?!”

Human language flowed from the fallen monster’s face.

“Dis…gusting. Queen’s… descendant……. Filthy hybrid, shouldn’t have……!”

That was all it managed.

The monster whose breath was completely cut off slowly ceased moving.

And where that monster had been staring until its death…….

“Eugene-!”

Running around here and there with feet in the seawater… was Irene.

“Ha.”

A bitter laugh escaped.

When suspicion became certainty.

These monsters truly were targeting Irene.

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