"Dome of earth?"

　Having annihilated the Dragon Knights, Ray had arrived at the headquarters of the Vestian army, a battlefield ahead of Elena on horseback.
　When I looked from the back of Seto above to the ground, the first thing I saw was a huge dome of earth 5 meters in diameter. Surprise troops are attacking the dome, but most of them have been shot or only scratched. Then, the next moment, the damaged area is easily repaired.
　The concentration of attacks on the dome has led to some being attacked by knights of the Vestian Imperial Army.
　In the first place, as long as this is a surprise attack, it is necessary to attack or capture General Castom, who is also the commander-in-chief of the enemy. It is a surprise attack because most of the remaining forces in the Westian army are on the front lines.

"... well, if you don't hurry up, you'll have no time."

　As he glances around the ground with his tongue clapping, Seto chants at a scene from the battlefield.

"Grull".

　Feeling the nuance of looking over there, Ray turned his gaze towards Sett, where Siminar, the commander of the surprise unit, wielded his sword and slashed his supposed wizard. Moreover, I can see them busily giving instructions to the nearby raiders.

"Set".
"Grunt!"

　I guess that just one word made Ray understand. Seto whistles his approval, flaps his wings and descends to the ground.

"Huh!"

　As soon as possible, Ray's sharp, death-sized blade slashed the head of a knight in the Westian army nearby.
　With his head cut and the body of a knight bleeding like a fountain behind him, Ray reaches where Siminar is giving instructions to those around him.

"What's the situation, Siminal?"
"That's not good. If we don't do something about that, I'll run out of breath."

　Saying so, Ciminar turns his eyes to the domes of the earth in abomination.

"...is there, by any chance, a general in the Imperial Army of Bestia among them?"
"Oh, it seems so," The general general of the Imperial Army was General Castom, and there was no information that he would use magic."
"The question is afterwards. Rather, it's understood to the front that we're being attacked here. If we don't get rid of General Castom before the troops come back here from the front, we'll be poor."

　Rey's words make Siminal's cheek firm and he opens his mouth to Rey with his eyes.

"Ray, will you do anything with that soil?"
"Well, I don't know if I can, but I'll try my best."
"For God's sake, in the meantime, we'll be in this battlefield... wow!"

　During the conversation, a soldier suddenly attacks Siminar with a spear in his hand.
　Seeing him talking leisurely in this battlefield, and even wearing high-quality armor, he must have judged him to be the commander of a surprise attack force. The judgment was correct, and it was not wrong to take a moment to speak. But...

"It's too late,"

　A flash of death size with the murmur. A soldier's spear is cut off in the middle of his handle.

"d*mn it, then!"

　a soldier who throws the wreckage of his spear and draws his sword from his waist and slashes it onto Ray But before the blade reaches Ray, the whip-like point cuts off the soldier's neck.
　Conjunctive swords, sometimes swords, sometimes whip with blades, and as far as Ray knew, there was only one person who could use the weapon.
　and as he turned to the direction of the connected sword, he saw the man he had expected.

"Elena, you were quick,"
"Is that so?" I said, "I came here defeating the enemy. What's going on more than that? It's been pushed back quite a bit."

　Elena, muttering, wielding her connected sword again. The blade, stretched like a whip, cuts off the neck of a soldier holding a bow and blows up a fountain of blood.
　Also, near such laymen, Seto also moved quickly, crushed the knight's head with his forefeet, wound his tail around one of the soldiers' legs, and used it like a weapon.
　With the success of Seto and the success of several adventurers left to guard Siminar, the surroundings of the Rays have become a sort of safe zone, which is why we could afford to speak calmly in this battlefield.
　It is not, however, an absolutely safe zone, as the spearman had just come through.
　Looking around for a moment, Siminal calls out to Elena.
　Siminar is attracted to Elena, but she cannot afford to think about it in this situation. open one's mouth with a grave look

"In that clay dome, Elena, is General Castom, the general general of the Imperial Army. However, that dome is quite robust, and some scratches seem to have the effect of taking in the surrounding soil and repairing it. So I'll leave the destruction of that dome to Ray. I hope Elena will exert her power as a princess general and concentrate on reducing the number of enemies."
"All right, it's inevitable that we're small in number, given that we're in a surprise attack. I'll do my best, too. -- Ray, I've left it to you."
"Oh, I'll try to do anything about a lump of soil. Set!"
"Gurgling!"

　Responding to Ray's call, Seto blows off several soldiers with a blow of the forefoot.
　Gently stroking his head over his back, he leaves Elena and Ciminard there for the domed earth.
　On the way, he wields his death size as if he were passing by where some surprise troops and soldiers in the headquarters were fighting, and then slashes them like a demon to support his friends.
　Originally, those who were very skilled enough to be chosen as surprise troops did not miss the opportunity to launch attacks, and the surprise troops had more places to gain military advantage in the short term.
　Ellena, who is watching such a person and one of them from behind, also drives through the battlefield on a military horse, fearing that she will lose to Ray.
　In terms of pure range of attack, a connecting sword with a whip-like blade goes above death size. He wields the sword, gives appropriate instructions to the allies of the surprise attack forces, and shows the greatness of General Hime to his enemies and allies in this battlefield, which is overwhelmingly defeated in number.





"...that's it,"

　muttered Ray, looking at the dome of the earth.
　He had already descended from Seto, and while he managed to manage the dome of the soil in question, he left it to Seto to guard the surrounding area.
　In fact, it is still flying down from above to a soldier who was pulling a bow at Ray, swinging his forefeet down to his head and blasting him.
　In spite of the hustle and bustle of the battlefield, Ray tries to touch the domes of the earth in a moment's rush.

"Phew!"

　As soon as the palm of the hand tries to touch the dome, the wall of the earth turns into a sharp thorn about 50 cm long and stretches through the ray.
　Ray leaping back instantly to distance himself from the huge thorns.
　Fortunately, the spines are not flown away, but are absorbed back into the dome.

(When I saw it earlier, I didn't have the means of attack... why don't you fly it? If you don't touch this soil, you can't control it? No, how did you know I was the enemy in the first place? If you were in this dome, of course you wouldn't be able to see what was going on the outside. No, I don't know if it's magic or magic, but should I take it for granted that, as long as there's such a means, we're identifying enemies and allies by some means?)

　Keep one end at a distance and shake the death size quickly.

"Fly off!"

　The flying attack with the voice leaves a deep wound on the dome of the earth, but it is still gradually restored, not deep enough to destroy it with a single blow.

(I see, isn't the playback speed that fast?

　Ray observed that he had collected the soil forming the dome little by little to restore the wound caused by the flying cut.

(However, the more it is restored, the thinner the mud wall forming the dome will become.) without it...)The next thing Ray saw was not the earth dome... but the place where the dome was formed. In other words, it's the ground. It's naturally made of soil.

(In other words, is the soil consumed in the restoration being replenished from the surrounding area? It is true that we will be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive in this situation. though)

　That's all I think about, and my doubts come to mind.
　Is he hiding without commanding a defensive battle?
　Soldiers won't be able to raise their morale in a situation where only the general is hiding in absolutely safe places. In fact, the surprise troops are skilled, but the number is overwhelmingly small compared to the soldiers in the headquarters. We're almost even with such a surprise attack force. To be honest, it was impossible given the sheer difference in military strength here.
　It may be natural, however, that the morale of the raids should not rise, given that they had Elena, the Gryphon Sett, and Ray, who were feared to have been called the Princess General, and who made a name for themselves in the war.

(Anyway, I will restore it, but the speed of the restoration itself is not very fast. If you approach it, you'll be attacked with spines, but that's not fast enough, and you can't do it without the soil to make the spines. Then there's only one thing to do. That is to say...)

　Grabbing death size, glaring magically at the domes of the earth.

"""I'm going to drive more destructive power than I'm going to recover!"""

　At the same time as the words, the death size is once again greatly shaken.

"Hit!"

　Just as before, the attack is blown away, and the dome of the earth is severely damaged again. At the same time, they kick the ground and shorten the distance from the domes of the soil.
　He must have sensed that Ray was approaching in some way. Spines grow as if to intercept, but the dome itself has been damaged by a flying sword, and the restoration of the spines may be a priority. The speed of the thorns approaching Ray was clearly slower than before.
　The moment you avoid the spines that are stretched by half a turn and use the force to strike a death-size blade against the earth wall, you activate the desired skill.

"Powerslash!"

　With the use of his skill, a blow to the scar inflicted by a flying sword does not tear the mud wall, but blows it away and destroys it.
　As for the sharpness of the death size, the skill of increasing the impact, the power slash. The domes of earth cannot withstand the damage caused by flying cuts without restoring them, and the mud walls collapse as if they exploded with a roar around the scars of flying cuts.
　Still facing the mud wall to be restored, he repeatedly slashed it with a magical death-size sword, eventually creating a hole leading to the inside space. Still, he rushed into the walls of the earth he was trying to restore, ready to grow...and what Ray saw was more than 20 bodies lying on the ground in layers of bones and skins.

"...what?"

　Ray was dumbfounded for a moment, perhaps because it was an unexpected sight.
　But one of the dead bodies lying on the ground. The bracelet, which consists only of bones and skin, pulsates and at the same time feels the magic being drawn out of one's body rapidly.
　Having done so, I could imagine the situation spreading before me.

"""The magical power of those who were inside the dome was absorbed too much, but they still absorbed life force by trying to absorb it even more." As a result, I wonder if they were absorbed into mummies."

　muttered Ray, turning his eyes to the bracelet that was absorbing his magical powers.
　Ray himself did not know that the bracelet was a magic item created by the Alchemists of the Imperial Army to crystallize the essence of technology and was called the Behimos bracelet. It has the effect of manipulating the soil freely, but contrary to the use of earth spears and attacking enemies, it has been used by alchemists other than planned to create huge domes, and it has been runaway because of its prototype, absorbing the magic and vitality of its users, General Castom, and others around it.
　But even if it were a bracelet that greedily absorbed all of Ray's enormous powers of magic...
　Piking! Piking!
　While making such a noise, the bracelet quickly cracks, and the next moment it breaks with a crash.
　At the same time, Behimos' effect as a bracelet disappears, and the earth dome, which had been strengthened by magic, begins to collapse.

"Phew!"

　The moment I kicked the ground and went out through the perforated mud wall... the earth's dome was crushed.