The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road Chapter 255
In a situation on the brink of explosion, Beato stepped forward and delivered something to the enemy in a language we couldn’t understand.
‘But even if communication is possible…’
If we are to resolve this through dialogue, we must ultimately guide them to voluntarily disappear, just as the Life or Death Orcs did.
However, just as it was during the Life or Death Match, to make them voluntarily vanish from the dungeon, we must do something they want.
It was uncertain whether we could meet those conditions even through dialogue.
In response to Beato’s chatter, a man who appeared to be the representative of the ancient elves stepped forward and conveyed something. However, his gesture and voice were by no means friendly.
Beato was greatly flustered and didn’t know what to do.
“What did they say over there?”
At my question, Beato wrinkled her expression.
“I don’t know. It’s a language I can’t understand.”
“What?”
“I’ve only vaguely learned the characters… It seems they understood my meaning, but since I can’t understand their language, further dialogue seems impossible.”
I took out a book with greetings from different races.
Although there were some notes about the ancient elves’ language, it only contained very simple greetings.
Having a frank conversation with this was simply impossible.
“Then we have no choice but to fight.”
“Wait!”
Beato continued, almost pleading.
“Even if I can’t do it, the elders might be able to! Yes, that’s it! Lord Altron would definitely be able to!”
“That…”
It wasn’t a wrong statement. Even if I set aside the elders, I felt Altron might be capable.
If we could bring Altron here and have a conversation, we might understand what they want.
But it would cause enormous damage.
We had already invested tremendous material and human resources into conquering this dungeon.
Even if we discovered what they want, we might not be able to do it.
At that moment, Sophia shouted.
“What are you hesitating about!”
She seemed to think I might decide to retreat and rushed over to urge me.
“What are you doing! Give the attack order right now! Wade, if we withdraw here, dozens of teleportation scrolls will become meaningless. Moreover, what about the sacrifices of the lower-ranked adventurers who became decoys and risked their lives!? You’re not thinking of turning all of that into nothing, are you?”
In response, Beato counters.
“I heard from Leitin Olcus that you were able to read the dungeon’s past. The ancient elves must have a reason for doing this. Seeing that legendary sacred beasts like the Golden Wolf are all gathered here, they must be harboring a significant secret. If we know that secret, it will help us with future events!”
Sophia dismissively suggested that they might be able to read the past even by subjugating them.
“Wade, make a decision quickly. Even as we speak, the people serving as decoys are accumulating damage!”
Whether to choose an idealistic method with low probability, or to make a cool, realistic judgment.
If asked that, my answer was already decided.
“All units… Commence attack!”
As soon as my command fell, Erina raised her hand towards the sky.
“Lightning Shock!”
Rumble! The sky shook and lightning struck in the center of the enemy camp.
However, that lightning was absorbed by the pure white stag’s antlers, which then radiated the current back towards us.
Leitin blocked this with a magic shield, and full-scale attack and defense began.
* * *
In the chaotic battlefield.
We focused on protecting the mages and gradually reducing the enemy’s numbers.
More than anything, the most troublesome were not the ancient elves, but the bizarre beasts.
There was the pure white stag that absorbed and reflected magic, a toad that spewed various toxic liquids.
The golden wolf I was facing was also threatening, and eventually, a massive group of giant snails even appeared.
“What is this!?”
Ash stabbed his spear into the snail’s head, but the spear passed through its body and rapidly melted inside the snail.
Another snail then descended towards Ash’s head.
“Damn it…”
Ash seemed to have judged that he couldn’t avoid it and was blankly watching.
But with a freezing sound! The snail about to attack Ash suddenly froze and stopped moving.
Luc, who cast the freezing magic, shouted.
“Ash! Get out quickly!”
“Oh, got it!”
After Ash quickly escaped, Luc shattered the frozen snail and shot its fragments towards the enemy elves.
“Lady Elena! Now!”
At Luc’s signal, Elena radiated heat, melting the frozen snail fragments.
As a result, the acidic snail fragments rained down on the enemy’s heads.
The enemy elves dodged in time, but some beasts couldn’t and writhed in pain before turning into magic and disappearing.
Luc, who had achieved significant results, gave a bitter smile towards Ash.
“Hmph, who’s the weakest now?”
“Ugh…!”
It was true that Lucretia’s power was superior to Ash’s when magic could be fully utilized.
Ash, seemingly hurt in his pride, drew the sword from his back and began hunting the wolves.
‘They’re all quite skilled at coordination.’
Not just those with close relationships like Luc and Elena, but even those without prior connections showed above-average coordination.
Rinoa was using her wind to weaken Leitin’s flames or make the enemy’s arrows go off course, and Gunther was leaping around like a berserker, receiving healing assistance from Meissen.
Despite this, the battlefield situation wasn’t improving.
This was because beast-like monsters kept appearing from somewhere.
“Young master! Another new group is coming!”
Yumir issued a warning. This time, it was a massive swarm of insects.
Erina and Rinoa, who both hate insects, turned pale.
Gaspar cut the neck of one of the insects and shouted.
“This will never end! Ars! We need to strike the enemy’s core!”
The core Gaspar pointed to was the wooden house located in the center.
“Whatever that Cradle or whatever is, it’s probably in that house.”
“But it’s difficult to approach.”
“Then we don’t need to approach! Let’s smash it completely from a distance!”
I nodded and gestured to Sophia.
“Sophia, give me the magic stone you have.”
“Eh!? W-why?”
“It’s fine, just quickly.”
Sophia reluctantly hands over the magic stone. The Life and Death magic stone Sophia possessed was condensed with dense magic, allowing unlimited magic use.
I extracted a large chunk of that magic and created an arcane energy mass.
Then I gave this energy mass a turbulent wave and launched it towards the wooden house.
I fired an extra-large arcane wave, the flower and most powerful attack of arcane magic.
The enemy was at a loss. Whether elves or beasts, they desperately tried to protect the house with the Cradle, but it was overwhelmingly insufficient.
-Kuoooot!
The golden wolf stepped forward and tried to block it with a breath attack, but this time, it swallowed even that breath and sent the wolf’s body flying, torn apart.
The pure white stag tried to absorb this wave, but after a short time, it seemed to exceed its limit, and its antlers exploded, causing its death.
“Oh, incredible!”
“Wow…”
Ash exclaimed, and Leitin, the court mage, was watching the scene in a daze.
An overwhelming arcane wave that no one could block.
Though the beasts had thrown themselves to reduce its momentum, it still retained enough power to completely crush the wooden house.
The enemy elven mages created a protective shield around the wooden house as a last line of defense, but it was as fragile as a candle in the wind.
But at that moment.
Squeak! The door of the wooden house suddenly began to open.
“Huh…?”
I couldn’t help but be stunned by the person who appeared there.
It was a woman wearing silver-white armor. Her noble and sublime presence captivated everyone’s gaze.
In her hand was a long spear reaching 2 meters, with violent energy swirling at its tip.
She directly faced the approaching wave and thrust her spear with all her might.
“Haaah!”
Bang! A sharp energy launched from the window tip pierced through the wave, rushing back towards me.
“Tch!”
I attempted to squeeze out the magic of the magic stone to the very end, further strengthening the arcane wave’s power, but ultimately, our energies cancelled each other out and disappeared.
“Did this attack… Get blocked?”
Suddenly appearing before me, the white-clothed elf smiled slyly.
As if muttering ‘How interesting’, she distinctly stared at me and quickly approached.
“Ars! Be careful! She’s not an ordinary person!”
Master Ilya was the first to react.
Master entered the confrontation by attacking the side of the approaching guy, attempting to strike.
Kachang! The two engaged in a fierce battle.
However, before long, Master Ilya began to be pushed back. Just at that moment, the opposing elves began actively providing support, causing her to fall into a serious disadvantage.
“Gunther! Ash! Help Master Ilya! And you, Gaspar!”
I urgently sent support, but Master, who had allowed a critical wound, disappeared with teleportation scroll.
Instead, the three I sent for support were taken down like sausages, one after another, triggering their teleportation scrolls.
“….”
She was looking into the distance as if understanding the principle of teleportation scrolls.
The direction of her gaze was towards our teleportation scrolls base point.
‘This person is dangerous!’
An instinctive warning rang out. This woman was planning to attack the base beyond this point. In that case, we could truly die.
Because the teleportation scrolls efficiency drastically drops when the used base point is stabbed.
It initially activates, but even after activation, it moves to the nearby area, immediately exposing one to attack.
‘I must eliminate this, her somehow!’
However, due to the four, including Master Ilya, being taken down, the overall balance had completely collapsed.
Facing the fierce attack led by the white-clothed elf, one by one they began disappearing via teleportation scroll.
Even Yumir was defeated, and Erina and Estelle, whom she was protecting, vanished with a slick sound.
Only Eonia and Elena, who were guarding me, remained.
I spoke to them, “This situation is already irreversible. So let’s try to take down at least that white-armored woman.”
At my signal, they both rushed towards the opponent.
I decided to keep watch around them so they could have a brief duel.
Since all three, including the opponent, were wielding spears, the duel became a high-level confrontation showing the essence of spear techniques.
“Haaaaaah!”
“Eo! Hit the feet!”
Elena and Eo showed a master-disciple combination, driving the white-clothed elf into a corner.
Whether this worked or not, the opponent stepped back awkwardly. Her expression, for some reason, seemed surprised.
Her fighting spirit and intent were noticeably lower compared to earlier.
Then suddenly, she smiled.
‘What’s this…?’
The opponent began dealing with them as if giving a martial arts lesson. Elena and Eo seemed to sense something strange about her actions.
“Could it be…?”
Elena, who had vaguely noticed the dungeon’s historical nature, seemed to lose her fighting spirit as if she realized something.
Only Eo, not understanding, desperately swung her spear, while the opponent watched with a warm smile, like looking at a child’s antics, receiving the attacks.
Elena bit her lip and said to me, “Elaine! Is there still no room for dialogue?”
“Well….”
It was better to consider the dungeon’s subjugation already failed.
Now, if dialogue were possible, I’d want to try, but I found it hard to believe the opponent would accept it.
“For now, let’s return to the base. We’ll think about it afterwards.”
“Ugh! Understood, Eo!”
Following my instruction, Elena attacked Eo to trigger the teleportation scroll, then used the activation device to disappear herself.
With the two gone, I was left alone.
“Total annihilation…?”
The thing I feared had happened.
Even after deploying all my vassals, we failed to clear the dungeon.
The white-clothed elf, who caused this result, approached me with a stern expression, seemingly angry that Eo and Elena had disappeared.
I raised my weapon to resist, but I couldn’t overcome the strong one who had defeated Master Ilya.
Seeing the opponent’s spear flying towards my forehead, I closed my eyes tightly.
When I opened my eyes again, the scene of the initial base where I first used the teleportation scroll appeared.
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