The Strategist Knows Everything

Alfred also pulled out the sword on his back and responded to me.

My mouth said it was a good one, but they understand the situation well.

Even though Gwaigan is still under the control of the magic appliance, it is sealed in motion by the Sofia wind because it has not been able to deliver its original power.

Sophia is also unable to move, but Irene lost her mind, so Sophia can concentrate on Gwaigan.

The only ones who can move are me and Alfred, who are less combative.

And if Alfred's advantage is to make his advantage absolute, he has to get through this situation.

"Shit!"

From Alfred's right diagonal front, I made a simple poke.

Alfred managed to play it.

Not as good as Eileen, Alfred also has a sword-trained past.

A peek into the past revealed that Alfred was not good at poking.

Unlike slaughter, poking is difficult to take. Because it's not a surface or a line, it's an attack of points.

For a narrow range of attacks, any punch that is difficult to take can only be played or deviated from the side, or avoided.

If you become a master, you will be able to accept poking, not with different dimensions, but only a very small number of people can do that.

Whether you play from side to side, avoid it, you have quite a reflex nerve. Alfred lacks that reflex nerve.

I guess that's why I don't like reacting aggressively.

The only action Alfred can take against a small attack of motion or something as poking as he does now is to play it with a sword in agony.

And after such actions, there can be a huge gap.

Pulled back the sword that was bounced, and again, I let go of my thrust.

The aim is the torso. If you don't play as much as you want, it's a course that always hits your body.

"Kuh!"

Alfred managed to deviate with his sword, but in time, a blade swept to his right flank.

Pulling the sword back, I deliberately distanced myself.

Alfred's chances of predicting his behavior have just come up, but in the middle of an attack, I can't move even if I look at that prediction.

Somewhat more physically capable, but not always good at fighting.

As a protective technique, it is quite possible to avoid being attacked by an opponent, but the attack is to the extent that the amateur has grown hair.

In me like that, I can't suddenly move when I look at the data that pops up by statistically looking at the information I get from past sight.

Then it is better to turn to the recipient.

"All of us!"

Alfred let go of a big wave of force from the upper level to see if he was wounded and had blood on his head.

Without having to look at the screen, I shifted that big blow of preliminary motion to the right, and I shook up my sword without letting my hair in.

The sword grasped Alfred's left shoulder shallow.

I guess my stepping in was sweeter than Alfred avoided.

I thought it was another blow, but Alfred's attack came before that.

[Poke. About 97 percent]

Never mind the slash on my left shoulder, I missed the thrust with one hand to my left with my sword.

Seeing Alfred's posture collapse, he stepped forward to cross with Alfred and mutilated Alfred's left thigh.

I stepped deeper earlier.

But now that Alfred has fallen and avoided it, it's not enough wounds to make him immobile.

Alfred is wounded, but that doesn't change me.

Bruises when battle wounds in the castle or when the body is struck by a dragon blow.

The pain can move without feeling so much, either because of the magical effect or because of the body adapted to magic, but it doesn't change that the body is damaged.

Besides, the magic continues to activate at all costs.

It shouldn't be anything that can be activated forever more than limited health and magic.

If I prolong it, I'll be at a disadvantage than I know how long this magic will last.

Besides, no matter how much Sophia, I don't think I can keep that dragon under control forever.

Honestly, I want it to end quickly.

"Ha-ha-ha... what are those eyes...?

"I wonder what? I'm counting on your imagination."

Alfred still stares at me as I support my body with my sword and exhale roughly.

I haven't given up yet.

"I hear wizards can be golden eyes...... The way Eileen attacked me, the way I attacked her. It's as if…………………………………………………………"

"What do you think? Why don't you try attacking me once in a while? And then you'll see?

"I'm not willing to ride that provocation...... I'm kidding... Of the five great clans with enough magic ancestors to draw the blood of two houses, I said I would not be blessed with any talent... just a civilian appearing from somewhere told me I was a wizard and such!

I won't admit it! I finally got to know Stratos after all I've done! Don't make any effort, some people get magic, etc... I won't admit it!!

At the same time I heard Alfred scream, I could only see a little of Alfred's past.

The public royal family of Albion is supposed to be chosen from five famous houses.

The Warden family, the current duke royal family.

Three Grand Dukes: the Maysfield family, the Leesberg family and the Laelia family.

And the famous family of shadows that barely appear on the surface stage. Millward family.

The Millward family rarely appears on the table and have never had a duke before. However, it is counted among the five major houses of fame because it has the role of partitioning the replacement of the Duke.

When this Millward family determines that the prince's son is not worthy of the next king, the prince takes his place.

And from the main candidate of the four houses other than the public royal family, the one who showed the most qualities shall come to the throne of the public king, and the house shall be the public royal family.

In other words, the Duke of Albion is not necessarily a subversive assault.

Nevertheless, the most prestigious producer of the Duke is the Warden family, and the sons of Warden have always been the Duke in the last few generations.

Alfred was born and raised in the midst of a half-traughter.

He has received a rigorous education and has tried to be recognized from all around him.

But Alfred didn't have enough talent to live up to the expectations around him.

A talent for witchcraft and swordsmanship that can't be helped by effort.

Charisma that makes others follow.

Procedure Political power to survive well.

They were all missing.

And the biggest problem was the excellence of the Duke family trail.

The traces of Alfred and his contemporaneous Dukes were Eileen and Sophia.

Though Sophia, in the symbolic position of the supreme maiden, does not take part in the contest for the king, each of the main candidates, young and talented, inspired Alfred's inferiority.

And it created an impending impatience.

The Millward family didn't actually make it clear, but around the Duke, it was rumored that the Duke Royal Family would take turns next time.

More importantly, it was Alfred himself who felt it the most.

Alfred, who somehow took the lead and had to be elected the next duke, gradually stopped choosing the means, complained of his invasion of Velis and was banished from the castle.

So the vision of the past was interrupted.

I don't know what happened after that, but I guess I got manipulative magic around there.

Then he plotted and tried to be king himself.

If you are weak, have a vicious thought that you should put together excellent pawns and use others.

"I will be king... I will be king!

Whether you manipulated Master Kaguya in Velis, tried to get Sophia, or Eileen, it's an indication of your desire to make things out of your reach your own.

Until I got the magic of Stratos, an admiring being that was never within my reach.

Until I met Stratos' magic, I couldn't even fathom myself.

I guess I was trying to get them and satisfy my vanity.

However.

"I know how you feel. But... you did it the wrong way!

I let go of the poke, in line with Alfred, who came straight at me.

The screen that floated in front of me indicated that I would avoid it either left or right, but I knew that they would come off.

Alfred's eyes are different.

This guy is not like Alfred Warden in the past. I'm ready for something.

And I got that feeling.

"Gu............!!

Alfred received the sword on his left shoulder.

The sword profoundly pierced his shoulder, penetrating his shoulder and coming out to his back side.

Definitely deep.

As I praised my face for the feeling of piercing the meat firmly, I found a big smoke standing outside the walls of the castle, and I went right back to me, trying to pull out my sword, and I couldn't.

"... now... I won't let you get away with it..."

"Is that your wife's hand……………"

"Stratos' … manipulative magic…… manipulates others with words…… but there is a personal difference in effectiveness…….

It's the back hand of forcing such a person to manipulate...... Touch the body directly, pour magic into it and manipulate it………… "

Alfred grabbed the blade with his left hand when he tried to pull the sword out.

"Waste...... inevitable at this distance...... I don't expect anything more from Klarus than the magic I pour into my body...

If poured into the body, it is not the same as normal hypnosis...... Even Klarus... can't be prevented... "

Stratos went to the royal castle of Velis, saying that if he meant the king of Velis, he could manipulate him?

Even Sophia, who had Klarus, didn't afford it because she still had the art of manipulating it.

It's definitely my wife's hand.

And the moment I started moving. That would be activated.

He is stopped with his hands, even to move his sword.

Running back or left or right will catch you before you run away.

Get some rest.

But I wasn't in a hurry.

This is because we were able to see the situation around us and the most probable future derived from statistics on past information.

It's not like words appear on the screen.

As video, what is expected of the future flows through my mind.

And in that footage, Alfred's right hand will never reach me.

Earlier, Alfred's behavior predictions fell off, but I'm confident he won't this time.

Anyway, it's because a third party is involved.

"Alfred. Your readiness was brilliant, but... that hand won't reach me"

"You're lost... you manipulated me to get Sophia... and it all works out..."

"The future must not come to pass. Lily was coming. If you're serious, you can manipulate even the lord of Velis. So I could imagine Stratos having more powerful sorcery.

What do you think my countermeasures to that are?

"... there's no blind spot in this wife's hand... it's no use buying time that way!

"Micana Hazard, my brilliant deputy since the civil unrest. But the talent better than hers was honest. But even after the civil unrest ended, I kept her at hand. Why do you think?

The reason for this is to combat Stratos. That's why I put her aside.

I looked at it several times and noticed. Stratos' magic has a limit of distance. Then the measures are easy. "

The characteristic wind cut came to my ear.

At the same time, I laugh.

Because it was exactly the same as the future that flowed in my head.

Then.

"Wow!?

An arrow pierced Alfred's right hand.

Seeing that, I immediately took a few steps back from the spot and continued my words.

"All you have to do is control it from an unspoken distance. The problem is that the hand of the wife is irrelevant to the distance, but if the force is stronger, the range is mostly narrower. Your wife couldn't have used it if she wasn't close to the target."

"Stupid......"

"Sure, Stratos' manipulative magic is a pain in the ass, but you showed me too much. As long as the seeds are broken, it's not that hard to take action."

Then a second shot pierced Alfred's left arm.

With an arrow stabbed in his left and right arm, he wouldn't be able to move satisfactorily anymore.

But still, the arrows didn't stop.

A third and fourth arrow flew in and pierced Alfred's legs.

Alfred, pierced by limbs, fell on the spot groaning.

I don't know if it's over.

With that in mind, I looked outside the walls.

The interval between the first and second shots and between the third and fourth shots was quite different.

The latter was faster. That is.

"Master Yukito!

Outside the walls.

There was a familiar but nostalgic black coat riding group.

And at the beginning of it is a brown-haired girl with a bow.

"Boulder is an excellent deputy. You made it this far."

"I can't come to the border for long, so I picked you up."

"I'm sorry about that. So, how long have you been here?

About thirty people, no matter how you look at Mikana taking them with you right now.

Probably followed the popped Sophia ahead of him by a handful.

"Troops two, four and five each have five hundred men. A thousand and five hundred people are coming. I thought we'd be arriving soon."

"That's a perfect combination. The number of people is impeccable. Instead, I would like to praise you for keeping that number well and crossing the border."

"I'm afraid. But Captain Ars and Mr. Nicolas led the rest of the crew at the border to draw the attention of the enemy. And Sophia is here to help you."

"I see……. Thank you, though.

I'm sorry I'm tired from the long journey, Micah. It's up to the three teams to rendezvous... it's a dragon hunt. "

As I told Mikana, I looked at Black Dragon Gwaigan.