I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Cas

Chapter 73 - Decisive blow

 

　Raymond was thrown to the ground from the top of the Valkyrie he was riding.

　The Ice Sword in his right hand was much longer than its original length, so the tip of the blade was in contact with the ground.

　Thanks to that, it deviated from its original direction that was being swung at me.

　I succeed in escaping the attack that should have been unavoidable.

　However, this does not mean that I am safe.

　Now that Raymond has fallen to the ground, I have to decide who wins.

　To be honest, I'm the loser in physical strength.

　I ran to his side while he was trying to get up with his hands on the ground.

　However, my attack was blocked.

　It wasn't Raymond himself who defended himself.

　The knights beside him had rushed over and blocked my attack.

"Get out of the way!"

　I swung my Hard-fang Sword against the four knights.

　However, my attack was blocked by the metal swords of the knights.

　It seems that the ice sword created by the Ice Sword was not that hard.

　It was probably sharpened and specialized for slashing.

　So it could be shattered if struck in the right way.

　However, it seems that swords made of iron are not so easy to break.

　Every time the Hard-fang Sword and the iron swords struck each other, the other sword would chip.

　I swung my sword a few times and controlled my mana.

　I reduced the amount of mana distributed to my eyes and increase the amount sent through my whole body.

　The opponents' movements seemed to speed up a bit because of that, but my own power increased.

　The faces of the four knights tightened.

　I guess it's to be expected.

　The knights who have been trained and have been through many battles are unable to damage a child even with four of them.

　And even more, after I redistributed my mana, they started to lose strength compared to me.

　But even so, the strength of the knights must be far beyond that of ordinary people, as they don't lose as easily as the peasant soldiers.

　However, that situation soon changed.

　My Hard-fang Sword hit one of the knights in the torso, shattering his armor and blowing him away.

　The situation where the four of them had been holding me back with their well-coordinated movements was shattered.

　After that, it was only a matter of time.

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(TLN: The '***' weren't added in the RAWs, but because there is a bit of a time difference here, I added them to avoid confusion. The 3 stars don't signify a long time skip, like a few hours or dozens of minutes. Just a few minutes. Probably 3 at max.)

 

"This is the end."

　The sword that I had swung sideways slammed into the last remaining knight.

　There are now four knights who have fallen down onto the ground with deep wounds.

　I'm out of breath.

　My body feels awfully limp.

　I was tired of dealing with four people at once.

　My brain must have been the most exhausted, probably because I had to instantly process information about my opponents' movements at break-neck speed.

　Both my brain and my body were exhausted.

　However, I couldn't relax here.

　After cutting down the fourth knight, I waited for a moment to catch my breath and then looked around.

　A crunch.

　At that moment, I heard the sound of ice shattering.

　Raymond attacked from diagonally behind me with his sword.

　I barely blocked the attack with my Hard-fanged Sword because I heard the sound.

"This is a useless resistance. It's great that you defeated the knights, but you don't have much energy left."

"No, you're the one who should give up, Raymond-san. I've won, we've won."

"...... What are you talking about? I will defeat you, then I will lead our army and put down the riots. There is no future in which you will win."

"That's just what you think. You've fallen for my tactics."

"What? What the ...... hell is that?!"

　Raymond exclaimed after my words.

　I think he finally realized it.

　He finally realized the existence of the decisive hit of this battle.

 

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　What was my plan?

     Baito-nii and I, along with Vargas, charged into the Fontana army.

　From behind us, the people from Barca Village come charging in as a group, pushing through the hole the three of us had made in the ranks.

　Raymond's goal was to lure me out.

　Under the circumstances, it must have looked like his plan was working.

　But he was still surprised to see how strong we were.

　But I naturally wouldn't stake my entire fate on this assault alone.

　For those of us who couldn't gain any real victory from a siege, we needed to intercept and destroy the Fontana army that was coming to defeat Barca village on the battlefield.

　It's not enough to simply win the battle.

　We needed a decisive victory that everyone could see.

　However, no matter how many villagers I have enabled to use magic, we were still outnumbered.

　In order to win the battle in the field, I needed at least one fool-proof plan. (TLN: I don't know how else to translate it. directly, it just says "at least one plan" but that doesn't sound right, so I made it "one fool-proof plan". To the people that might say the plan had a lot of holes and wasn't "fool-proof," I will tell you early that I added that in for it to make sense. Sorry for the interruption, but if I ever add in a detail which makes the translation more English-ey, I'll always tell you.)

　There was only one tactic I could think of.

　The only tactic I could think of was to make it look like the Barca forces were united in their assault, and then attack from the other direction.

　However, there were only about a hundred of us, and if we dispersed our numbers, there was a high possibility that we would be crushed during the assault.

　Besides, if our numbers were too small, there was a chance that the other side would notice us.

　That's why I launched a flanking attack using a force that Fontana's army was not aware of.

　It seemed to have been a success.

　It was worth the trouble of walling off the position north of the river, even though there was no need to do so.

　Raymond must have turned his attention to the hastily constructed fortress-like position.

　I'm sure he never dreamed that that was exactly what I was aiming for.

　I had surrounded the position with a wall so that the attention of the Fontanas' army would be concentrated there, and I had prepared a separate force.

　It was a force that I had prepared in addition to the manpower I had gathered from my village and the neighboring villages.

　Now, it appeared in front of Raymond's eyes.

　The Valkyrie forces were now right in front of Raymond, kicking apart his own Fontana army.

"Come on, Valkyries!"

　The force that raided the Fontana army from the side.

　It was not a human force.

　It was a flock of Valkyries that had come over the river in a large detour from the position I had made north of the river.

    They were not the type of Valkyries that Raymond was riding.

　They were horned ones, my best surprise-attack weapons.

　A being that can use the same magic as me.

　All of them in a flock, and they were shooting [Shotgun] against the soldiers who interfered with their progress, they rushed in with [Body Strengthening].

　A single stampeding attack.

　With just that, the Fontana army under Raymond's command fell into a state of destruction.

 

CadmarLegend To those wondering, Raymond's sword can also be translated as an Ice Spirit Sword, which I now realized I should have translated it as so as to not confuse it with the spells used by the Fontana family and their soldiers which is called Ice Sword. However, many of the Raymond-related stuff could only be translated as Ice Sword, Ice Sword, and Ice Spirit Sword.

 

So, you know the spell that the Fontanas are known for using? It's translated as Ice Sword/Spear.

 

Do you know the sword Raymond uses? It can be translated as Ice Sword/Ice Spirit Sword.

 

And, you know the ice that comes out of Raymond's sword? It can be called an ice sword...

 

I am a reader just like you, so I didn't know which form to call many of the 2 definition names, so I just went with the most understandable. Now, if the spells, the sword, and the ice on the sword ever come up again, I'll try to remember to translate it as "Ice Spear" for the spell name, "Ice Spirit Sword" for Raymond's sword, and "Ice Sword" for the sword-like ice that grows on the Ice Spirit Sword.

 

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