You can call it a "battle" for the sake of the honor of the Empire of Caenis and the pride of the elven warriors, but in reality it was almost a "massacre".

　The elves were conceited.
　"If you can use a bow, you can win.
　"If we can use magic, we can win.
　They thought that they could win if they fought with what they were good at.

　But they were wrong.
　Like slime preying on its prey, the Elves stretched out their forest and closed in on the Imperial Blue Army, but they were simply outgunned.
　The Imperial archers, protecting themselves with stationary shields (pavis) and defensive magic, shot their arrows with a precision as deadly as that of the Elven archers.
　The quality of the magic was equal, but the Blue Army had more of it, of course.
　The onslaught of the forest and the elves came to a halt.

　If they stop moving, the improvised forest is fragile.
　While they were stopped, the cannons were carried away by storage magic, and the cannons that had been redeployed further behind the blue army were firing one after another, reducing the forest.
　Unfortunately, the warrior chief who was leading the assault troops (he had just taken office two weeks ago after the death of his predecessor) was caught up in this bombardment and died, and the troops were suddenly in a state of flux.
　In fact, there are no rules among the elves on how to take over the chain of command and continue the fight when the warrior chief dies. The tribe's status as warriors was determined through religious rituals and there was no particular plan to be flexible on the chaotic battlefield.

"Retreat!　Scatter the forest, use it as a barrier, and retreat.

　In the midst of the sparse barrier of trees, there was a lone female elf raising her voice.
　She is a strong-willed woman with bright orange eyes like lustrous berries. Her tall, slender body is wrapped in animal skin armor that shows off her body line. Her short, fresh green hair peeked out from the gap in her leather cap-like helmet.
　Her name is Lia Ramirez.
　"She is a warrior of the Tribe of the Rock-Crawling Shiro Serpent, and the leader of a platoon of ten warriors.

　In general, men have better physical abilities, but there is no difference between men and women in the rate at which they manifest this talent, which is also known as the talent to train the body beyond the limits of the physical body .......
　There is no difference in the percentage of male and female adventurers and soldiers who develop this talent. It was the same with the elven warriors.

　The troops were in a state of confusion due to the loss of their commander, but some of the platoons were trying to move somehow.
　But even then, there was no unanimity of policy as they tried to fight or organize the whole.
　Riela Milles sensed the imminent danger to the chief priest from the leaked communication, and judging that further fighting was impossible, he was going to retreat.
　In order to do so, he needed a way to temporarily prevent the Blue Army from attacking, but the "seedling arrows" that Lia Ramirez and his men fired only pierced the ground.

　--...... can't take root!

　It was obvious what had happened .
　The magic that had been rapidly growing the trees and expanding the forest had ceased.

　--Oh no, Master Priestess (Saale) --......!

　As a member of the tribe, Riera Milles also respects the religious leader, the Chief Priestess Saale Saaya.
　Lieramires, as a member of the tribe, respects the religious leader Saaresaya.

　The cannons of the Blue Army, lined up in a row, shook the ground with a thud and opened fire.

"Captain, there's another bombardment ......!
"All defensive!　...... "Weavnest"!
"Weavnest!" "Weavnest!

　Riela Milles' magic is followed by her men.
　The vines grew out of the ground and knitted together, wrapping around Lieramires and his men like an upturned bird's nest.

　Immediately afterwards, there was a jolt that shook my head messily.
　An exploding shell or magic bullet. The tightly knit ivy completely blocked the blast, but through the ground, Rielamires heard the sound of trees tearing and breaking and falling.

"Break the spell!　Let's get out of here!

　It's only luck that we survived. It was only luck that he survived the bombardment.
　Now that we've lost our magical support, the trees and natural magic plants around here have no more than normal strength. It's impossible to stay here.

　When he released the vine's defenses, the surrounding area was twice as bad as Lieramires had expected.
　The improvised forest that had lost its strength was almost completely blown away, and what appeared to be corpses were lying around.

　And the Blue Army's cavalry rushed right at Rielamires and his men, who had lost their barrier of trees.
　Horses were the most numerous. But leading the way was a huge bull-like beast in full armor. It was a fearsome beast.
　It is a fearsome beast, and with its innate sturdiness and the power of its armor, it is almost immune to bows and magic. It is easy to defeat it if you build a wall or draw it into the forest, but it is a rampaging enemy on the plains.
　It's easy to defeat them if you build a barrier or pull them into the forest. ...... The place where Rieramirez was already located was not in the forest.

"Come on ......, shoot!　Shoot it down!

　Knowing it was useless, Rielramirez took up his bow.
　This is no longer a battle, but a mopping up of remaining enemies.
　All is well. Rielamires and his men will now die.

　In the blink of an eye, the raging bull was right in front of them, its armor and cavalry shields repelling arrows.

　At that moment, a huge shadow appeared from the rear as if to cut through the gap between the Rielamires.

"Whoa!

　A cavalryman wearing heavy armor was struck and flung by a heavy beast wearing heavy armor.
　The armor cracks and the cow demon rolls over.

"What the ......?

　Riela Milles couldn't believe her eyes.
　The weapon that struck the cow demon was a ridiculously large and rough hammer that looked like a human siege hammer with a long handle.
　And the one who wielded it was ......

"Demon ......!
"Reinforcements.
"Enugu .......

　It was a giant over three meters tall who said things that made no sense.
　A large man with greenish skin and bulging muscles, wearing crude and appropriate metal armor.


　It was a ...... demon called an ogre.

　The Blue Army's cavalry was shaken as the lead cavalryman was killed.
　But neither the cavalry nor the horses could stop suddenly. In the end, they came straight at us, and one by one we were beaten to death.
　Ogre after ogre came up behind them.
　Stone-clubbed, metal-bladed, log-wielding...

　The first ogre to emerge, a hammering ogre, turned and looked down at Rielamires with a slightly flabby face and unbalanced, dull, small black eyes.
　Without thinking, Rielamires backed away.

"You're too weak to go into battle.
"No!

　It wasn't a taunt or an abuse.
　The Ogre was simply calling Rielramirez 'weak' as a matter of fact, and seemed to regard him as an object to be protected by the warrior himself.

"Weak?　I'm .......

　He tried to say something, but Liiramires could not continue. In the end, Rielamires ...... could do nothing about the tribal warriors.
　The ogre seemed to have lost interest in Rielamires and ran out into the battlefield, swinging his hammer.

　The battle had taken a strange turn.
　The ogres were stopping the cavalry's charge head-on, and were beating each other.
　There were no cannons, bows, or magic flying, and the blue army's position was in an uproar.
　Out of nowhere, soldiers with gleaming equipment suddenly appeared and launched a surprise attack.
　In addition, a wyvern with nothing but bones, skin and silver scales was raining down evil breath from the heavens, and a large dog monster was laying waste to the Blue Army soldiers while spewing fire.

"...... What is going on?

　Lieramires could do nothing but stand there stunned.