How To Subdue a Masochist Princess

—Wow! 

—Chae-Ang, Chaeng!

Melee breaks out everywhere.

"Everyone, defend your current position! You must not be breached! You must hold out until all our troops have come over and taken up positions!" 

"Understood!"

The noise of cold weapons clashing against each other and the shouts of the commanders on both sides constantly rang in my ears.

I turned my eyes to check the situation.

The battlefield was too narrow. I needed space for my troops to join up.

In that case, I had to first open the blocked path.

"Huh!"

—Thud, thud, thud!

I took a deep breath and ran without hesitation toward the place where the largest number of enemies were gathered.

If it were normal, I would have taken care of everything with one stomp...

Since the weak points of the friendly camp where the enemies had dug in were tangled up, the only regret is that I can't use my mind.

"Wow, wooaaaak!"

I slap the annoying little guys with my sword and send them flying far away.

"Pierce through! Cut their waists! We have to solidify the situation before the enemy all joins in... Huh?!"

—Hooooong!

As I tried to break down our formation, my own formation started to collapse instead, and one of the enemy's white captains rushed over and blocked me.

A sword that didn't feel like it had any life in it. Weak and dull aura.

It was an unbalanced attack.

—Turn up!

"What?! A sword loaded with aura with your bare hands? Are you really human?" 

"Rather than blaming the enemy, blame your own inexperience."

I put strength into my grip on the sword. Then, I heard a loud, shattered sound.

—Whew!

Then, I grabbed the enemy commander who had a stupid expression by the collar and threw him towards the enemy lines.

"Hey, hey, hey…!" 

"Take it!"

The poor enemy knights had to fall over with a thud while trying to catch the retreating white captain who was flying through the sky.

What kind of ridiculous thing is this? I'm not used to this kind of childish battle where we keep our situation in our hands.

I'm getting irritated from the frustration.

"Wow!" 

"As expected, Commander Wolfgang!"

At least, thanks to the movement just now, some of the allies who were on the other side of the ridge have joined in, greatly strengthening our weak points.

"Huh, the Black Lion Knight Commander is coming this way! It's a monster, a monster!" 

"You call a normal person a monster. How rude. Your manners are really annoying."

Just as I was about to move to the other side to repeat the same thing.

—Chae-Ang!

"You can't go." 

"Is it your hobby to block other people's paths?"

The Pilgrim Knight Commander, Sir Scott, immediately blocked me with a sword strike.

The author was clearly on the other side just a moment ago. Did he change his strategy now?

I glanced around.

Unlike me who had been moving alone, he had been focusing on commanding the main force since a while ago and had been attempting a frontal breakthrough using his numerical superiority.

—Jjeojjeok…!

"You can't go up here!"

However, it seemed that he didn't achieve what he wanted when Vice-Captain Agnes decided to continue creating ice walls and taking a defensive stance.

"Your defense must have been really strong. You've got some good subordinates." 

"Are you trying to buy time?" 

"Haha! I'm pretty confident in my own way. No, I should have stopped you from the beginning. I guess I made a very arrogant judgment."

Thanks to her, our main force didn't collapse right away, which was fortunate.

That was just buying time. The situation was still not very good.

"Haa... haa..."

Besides, how much longer would the vice-captain, who seemed exhausted from abusing his mental imagery, hold out?

"It's okay, there's no need to force it! If we just buy time, we'll have the advantage!" 

"Yes!"

As expected, the enemy seemed to have noticed this fact and didn't bother to break the ice wall.

It looked very sturdy, but the ice that was created by her mental imagery and not natural will quickly disappear over time.

"We absolutely cannot retreat our formation. We must maintain a stalemate no matter what!" 

"Damn, kuaaaak!"

The melee that broke out here and there also showed that our forces were gradually being pushed back. Was it because it was a disadvantageous fight from the start?

"Tsk…!"

As for me, I wanted the Pilgrim Knight Commander to put more effort into nonsense.

He's so quick to judge. Does that mean he didn't come to the main event for nothing?

"Well, let's leave the subordinates alone and the captain and the captain." 

"You're annoying."

—Kaang!

We clashed head-on. Of course, I had the upper hand in strength.

His aura, which bounced off weakly, was disrupted, and his right hand, which had hurriedly distanced itself from me, was shaking incessantly.

"Kuuu…!"

At that, an unbearable tingling sensation rose in my right hand.

As expected, it was a very tricky situation.

"…This is truly a powerful attack. I thought I had some confidence in my strength. I didn't think I could even match it."

Any physical damage he takes within the designated area is more than doubled and returned to the opponent.

I don't know what kind of life he has lived to have such a mental image.

It's really annoying from the perspective of the opponent.

"This mental image is truly a bad taste." 

"What are you talking about? Giving flesh and cutting bones. Isn't it a basic tactic that has been passed down from the past?"

Of course, you can just cut off the windpipe in one go so that he can't resist, or completely incapacitate him without causing any direct damage to his body.

Or you can attack him with mental magic or mental images.

But is that really as easy as it sounds when dealing with a mature knight commander?

Even if you try to ignore him as much as possible and go somewhere else to run wild, he keeps on doggedly clinging to you.

"How long are you going to waste time being so sloppy? Don't you have any honor?" 

"Haha! Thank you for the compliment!"

A dilemma where you can't do anything.

"Everyone gather! There's no answer to this melee, so just gather in a circle!" 

"Whew, yes! I understand!"

Even in this situation, the battle at the main force was going in a bad direction.

Outnumbered and exhausted. The two adverse conditions overlapped, and the friendly forces, who were on the verge of losing their fighting power, gave up fighting and went into a defensive stance.

It was the best decision to reduce damage, but as a result, they were completely surrounded by the enemy.

Damn it, even if it was the main force. How could the first opponent they met be this difficult?

"Enough! Now keep pressuring! Great pilgrims, drive out the fierce black lions!" 

"Waaaah!"

If this continues, we will retreat to the snowy region again. Then the result is obvious.

The Pilgrim Knights, who have regrouped in a better environment near the river, will slowly hunt down the Black Lion Knights wandering in the snowstorm.

Even if they were not pursuing us, the future was still bleak. If we continue to be exposed to the cold of the snowy region, we will self-destruct.

If it were a battlefield, the range of actions we could take in the current situation would have been much wider.

However, the fact that we must fight in a gentlemanly manner is a terrible hindrance.

In the midst of such an uncomfortable standoff.

"Kwaaaaak?!" 

"Hey, this! Hey, are you okay?"

In the midst of the messy fight that dragged on, an accident that we had never expected finally occurred.

Captain Raoul, visibly flustered, emitting unstable auras.

"My, my body…!" 

"Damn it! Why can't you stop that when you're a hundred-man army? Miss... I can't die!"

One of the enemy commanders who was trying to close the encirclement was croaking with his body split in two.

"T-this! Almond hundred-man army! Damn it, how on earth do you manage your subordinates? Isn't there a line in sparring, not in actual combat?" 

"...."

It was just as he said.

Right now, there were people on the battlefield who were bleeding or losing body parts, but there were no more serious injuries.

An unspoken agreement not to fight risking one's life. We were the first to break that.

Since I had nothing to say, I just kept my mouth shut.

—Whaaaaah...!

The body of Almond hundred-man army, who was seriously injured and could have died instantly, was enveloped in light and instantly restored to its original state.

His new form, which had been standing still and looking around at me, slowly faded away.

"What is this…"

With a mutter of disbelief, he completely disappeared from his spot.

I don't know what happened, but no matter how I looked at it, it seemed far from death.

Then, could it be?

In order to verify one hypothesis that came to mind, I pushed the Pilgrim Knight Commander and dug into the middle of the enemy camp nearby.

"Ugh, ughhhh! Captain Scott! Save me, save me!" 

"Hey, what are you doing all of a sudden! You!"

—Thump!

And then, right before he could stop me in his panic, I grabbed the neck of a random knight I saw and tore him apart.

Then, the same phenomenon as before occurred.

"Huh…?"

The knight's body, which should have been dead with his broken neck hanging, was enveloped in light as his wounds healed, and he disappeared from that spot.

At that unrealistic sight, I finally realized.

I finally understood what His Majesty the Emperor meant when he said he wanted a fight like a real battle.

When a person dies, they become a corpse.

They don't stand up again, speak, and disappear in a halo of light. Having seen countless deaths before my eyes, I could definitely tell.

This was, as expected, a fake death.

"…Haha!"

A smile naturally burst out in my face at the sense of liberation.

Then wouldn't the story be a little different?

"Black Lion Knight Commander! You killed someone in a duel and laughed?! Are you really crazy? As expected, there's a rumor that you get excited and go crazy when you see blood…" 

"Enough. I know you're a person of character, but you talk too much."

—Kaang, Kang!

I began to spread my mana widely in the air while dealing with the Pilgrim Knight Commander who was attacking me with a terrified face.

He couldn't really bother me.

Is it because he had a unique mentality that specialized in stalling and counterattacking? Because his offensive side was really bad.

"Sir Scott. Don't you get it yet?" 

"What nonsense are you talking about!" 

"This is a duel, but it's not a duel. We should have fought more fiercely. Instead of just pretending to fight while respecting each other."

—Gooooo…

The mana scattered around me responds to my thoughts and overwhelms the enemy.

In addition, I breathe in a firm will to sweep away the enemies blocking my path in an instant.

Then, the will will soon become an overwhelming force and manifest in this world as an unstoppable violence.

"Be crushed."

—Kuung!

Arien Ryu 3rd Form — Gunrimbo 

With one stomp, tens of thousands of troops will be able to kneel.

Since the camp was completely divided into allies and enemies, unlike before, there was no need to hesitate any longer.

"Keuuuugh…!" 

"What the heck is this?!"

After a long time, when we used proper techniques instead of abbreviated ones, about 70% of the enemy knights were completely annihilated.

The remaining 30% were lying on the ground or staggering around with their swords stuck in the ground like staffs.

I said a word to the Pilgrim Knight Commander, who was looking at the hundreds of his subordinates disappearing into light with empty eyes.

"Are you going to keep blocking us?"

...............…..

The spectators outside the stadium were completely captivated by the huge sphere that showed the vast battlefield of the knights' battle at a glance.

Knights who had fallen on similar terrain encountered each other one by one.

"There, a battle broke out in the valley! The Knights of Lionel and the Knights of Corvo finally fought each other!" 

"Even in the forest! At first, they joined forces to take out the monsters, but now they're fighting each other!" 

"The battle in the north, on the northern ridge, is the fiercest!"

As full-scale fighting began here and there, they were unable to find their bearings because they kept looking here and there.

Where on earth should they turn their eyes? Everyone was having a dizzying time.

In a wild battlefield with no arena to limit the knights' range of action, and no referees to control the heated atmosphere.

Finally, the first accident occurred.

"Ah! Look! The Knights of Corvo and the Knights of Lionel. There have been casualties in the fierce battle between black and white!" 

"Gyaaaaah! What should I do?"

Even if it was a match and not a real battle, there were countless casualties when knights fought fiercely against each other.

They thought that as long as they didn't die, it would be okay. That complacency brought trouble.

At that moment.

—Saaaaah…!

"Hey! Over there, someone suddenly appeared in the corner of the arena!" 

"That face… Isn't that the knight who just died? Over there, he's alive and well without a single wound?"

Between the stadium and the stands, which were covered in brilliant light, the space that would have been used as the players' waiting area if the match had been held in the same manner as before.

A knight with a blank expression appeared there, groping for the head that had just been cut off.

"This… this? What the heck is this place?"

Also, as the battles taking place in various places became more intense, the number of knights appearing in the players' waiting area along with the halo of light gradually increased.

At this point, those who were quick-witted began to gradually realize how the current situation was unfolding.

"So… the people who die there don't actually die, but are thrown out of the stadium. Is that what you mean?" 

"I guess that's what it seems!"

At that moment.

—Waaaaaaah!

With a thunderous roar, the crowd's eyes, which had been scattered here and there in the sphere, instantly focused on one place.

"Oh my gosh! What the hell is this! Black Lion Knight Commander! The Black Lion Knight Commander single-handedly displays unbelievable martial arts and sweeps away the Pilgrim Knights!" 

"Unbelievable! Crazy, inhumane force!" 

"With that level, isn't he a candidate for the championship? We, we should change the odds even now…"

While everyone was going wild at the overwhelmingly shocking sight.

—Wiiing!

"Wow…?!" 

"Are you okay, Princess?" 

"I, I'm okay, don't worry about it!"

The princess of the empire, Alicia, couldn't come to her senses because of her mana core that suddenly started vibrating.

'Why is this kid acting like this all of a sudden?'

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