Because the inconspicuous King had already been released from the spire, he is currently handling the cleanup in the Royal Capital. This made it possible for us to fight the Strong Grandson without any worries.
Anyway, we began our march from the Royal Capital early in the morning, and by noon we had safely arrived at ≪Sengrey≫, the city that the Strong Grandson is holed up in.
Although the Tomboy Princess’s forces had already surrounded and repeatedly attacked the city, they were unable to obtain any effective results because the enemy's 【Magic】 and arrows had kept them from getting close.
However, this couldn't be helped.
Assuming that the castle walls of this world are reinforced against 【Magic】 from enemies, weak magic attacks won’t be able to break through them. In addition, they can pour rocks and boiling water down on approaching enemies, and there are a great number of defense mechanisms built into the walls which will drop spiked iron plates as well.
Under normal circumstances, one would need many more soldiers than the defending side in order to lay siege to their castle. However, since the Tomboy Princess didn’t have a large number of troops to begin with, breaking through the front was impossible.
Still, since she had arrived on the battlefield on schedule, we gave the Duke a simple greeting. After doing so, I decided to make use of some very useful new equipment to quickly put an end to the siege.
When I said that I would use new equipment, I was referring to 82mm mortars.
Mithril, steel, and black bones were used as materials to make the mortars, and the main mechanism has one of my clones built into the bottom of the gun barrel, where it makes use of compressed air to shoot its shells. Because of this mechanism, a small peculiar sound can be heard when it's fired.
Each mortar shell is made of 10 restructured 【Burst Seeds】. Naturally, this increases its explosive power and it’s possible to destroy a large area with a single shell.
At present, only twenty mortars have been completed.
We only brought ten of them with us, but they were all fired at the same time.
As a result, the enemy soldiers that were using arrows and magic from the castle walls were instantly blown off by the attacks from the sky, which they were experiencing for the first time. Unlike magic, the shells are small and quiet, making it nearly impossible to detect and intercept them.
The bombardment continued until the castle walls had been destroyed, tearing the soldiers on the walls to pieces in the process.
The castle gates were almost completely unmanned at this point, so I sent Minokichi-kun to attack them with an assault force.
With a single swing of his axe, he crushed the castle gates and turned them into wooden splinters, allowing us to enter the city.
Of course, the enemy didn’t remain silent either, but we forcibly cut down their desperate resistance as we headed for the Strong Grandson and his allies. The Tomboy Princess was sitting on my shoulder, making use of her 【Mind Reading】 ability to obtain an enormous amount of information. As this information was gathered and processed, our forces were able to respond to it in real time thanks to my clones, which were being used as 【Communication Demons】.
We cornered them by making use of pincer attacks, surprise attacks, traps, as well as by separating their forces into smaller groups. Since they were unable to escape, the only options that they had were either to surrender or to try and forcefully break through with a frontal attack. In the end, they became desperate and continued to fight until we killed them.
We cleared the way as we advanced, before finally arriving at the robust mansion where the leaders of the 【Nobles Faction】 and the Strong Grandson were gathered. At that point, we encountered the Water Hero, who was overflowing with fighting spirit.
With his five companions at his side, he was staring at me, or rather, at the Tomboy Princess who was sitting on my shoulder. With each of them holding a weapon in their hand, their intent to fight had filled the area.
I lowered the Tomboy Princess from my shoulder and entrusted her to the Boy Knight, before taking a step forward with Kanami-chan.
The Water Hero took this chance to unsheath his beloved sword, which was clad in water.
His sword didn't have amazing speed, but its peculiar movements that were similar to flowing water made it difficult to read its trajectory.