Heavenly Inquisition Sword - Chapter 1245



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Episode 1245. Are you sure you want to fire a gun at a stagecoach?

The southern kingdom bordering the Imperial Principality of Topla is the Kingdom of Shade.

The Shade Kingdom is only on the road to the Great Forest, and is not adjacent to the Great Forest.

But the problem is that it borders the empire.

When the kingdoms of Adria, Masdar, and Bostania, which border the Great Forest, began to control the Abyss, the imperial army asked the Kingdom of Shade to open the way.

The Southern Kingdom is a permanent alliance, so such a request would not work.

As the imperial army gathered at the border of the Shade Kingdom with the intention of breaking through by force, the kingdoms of Adria, Masdar, and Bostania sent troops to the Shade Kingdom.

And finally, the armies of both sides clashed on the border between the Principality of Topla and the Kingdom of Shade.

The war went differently than people expected from the beginning.

For example, in the Empire, it was believed that the Empire, a military powerhouse, would crush the Allied Forces of the Southern Kingdom.

In contrast, the southern kingdoms were confident of their victory with a strategic weapon called the steel golem.

But when the war began, the results were anything but.

If the Imperial Army struggled against the steel golems of the Southern Kingdoms Allied Forces, the Southern Kingdoms Allied Forces fought poorly due to lack of unified command.

As a result, the Imperial Army and the Allied Forces of the Southern Kingdom were repeatedly advancing and retreating across the border.

Shade Kingdom Army Field Artillery.

Early moning.

Count Roman Barnet, commander of the field artillery, personally visited the front line where the magic artillery was fired.

After inspecting the nine magic guns, he separately called in three gunnery chiefs.

“You know the road that leads from Torrens (the southernmost city of the Principality of Topla) to the Shade Kingdom border checkpoint, right?”

“yes! “Ajesa Road.”

“We are not firing magic cannons toward Ajesa Road.”

“Even the Empire doesn’t touch the Azusa Road.”

The three gunnery commanders each said a word.

Count Roman Barnet, who had been listening silently, dried his face with both hands and then spoke.

“There is intelligence that the great nobles of the empire are planning to infiltrate today using a stagecoach. Do you understand what that means?”

One of the gunnery commanders asked cautiously.

“Are you shelling Ajesa Road?”

Then a satisfied smile appeared on Count Roman Barnet’s face.

“Yes. The Empire must not be informed of the steel golem. If you see a wagon on Ajesa Road, don’t hesitate and destroy it. Do you understand?”

The gunnery chiefs did not immediately answer the field artillery commander’s question.

This is because shelling a carriage was tantamount to an order to kill civilians.

Count Roman Barnet approached the hesitant gunners and kicked them in the shins.

“hey! this! You bastards! Why is there no answer! So you’re giving up all of our southern kingdoms’ top secrets to the Empire? uh? And then you are the aristocrats of the South!”

The gunnery commanders stumbled with a short scream.

They, all barons, did not dare to object to the count’s words and hurriedly answered.

“S-sorry!”

“I’ll do it!”

When the gunnery commanders said they would do it, the stiff face of the field artillery commander finally cleared up.

After a while, a light sigh came from the mouth of Count Roman Barnet, who sent the gunnery commanders away.

‘Whew!’

The kingdom’s great nobles and the empire’s Three Great Magic Towers are not enemies, but partners.

If the magic guns of the Empire’s Three Great Magic Towers, with their outstanding performance, were popular in the kingdom, the kingdom’s great nobles were also important customers for the Empire’s Three Great Magic Towers.

Even when war broke out, that basic position did not change.

Such a relationship was possible because wizards prioritized the Magic Tower over the Empire.

The Empire’s Three Great Magic Towers and the Southern Kingdoms maintained their trade through secret transactions, avoiding the eyes of the Empire’s Intelligence Department.

But yesterday, the person in charge of trading at Taboola Magic Tower made a strange request.

-There will be a stagecoach coming into the Shade Kingdom this morning. Please destroy the stagecoach with His Excellency’s field artillery. If you do that, I will double your annual horsepower gun sales.

‘Attack a stagecoach with a magic cannon…’ … . Anyway, they are people who cannot be understood.’

Count Roman Barnet, who needed a magic gun, accepted his offer.

For the magic gun, he could have done even more than that.

Anything can happen in wartime, so wouldn’t destroying a few stagecoaches be the best solution?

He leisurely moved to a spot with a clear view of Ajesa Road.

His staff quietly followed behind him.

***

Doo doo doo!

Five stagecoaches flying the Stagecoach Association flag lined up and drove down Azusa Road.

Crea muttered while looking out the window.

“When I was in the dorm, I kept hearing the sound of magic cannons… … . “Is it suddenly quiet?”

Then Baron Howard Solon pretended to know.

“It’s because I can’t keep shooting the magic cannon. Sometimes you need to cool down the gun barrel. “I heard that they even urinate when they don’t have time to cool down the gun barrel.”

“really? Is that okay?”

“Because the hot gun barrel must be cooled somehow in order to continue shooting the magic cannon. If you want to fire a magic cannon, you have to do that. “It might stink a bit.”

“Oh my, I kind of hate that. So you’re saying it’s break time now?”

“yes.”

“ha! I feel relieved. “I was startled every time I heard the sound of a magic cannon.”

“why? “Are you afraid that a cannonball might come flying this way?”

“Mr. Hyde said that earlier. “Blind cannonballs could come flying at you.”

“Have you forgotten what I said before? The Empire and Southern Kingdoms are not hostile to adventurers and mercenaries. “If people are needed for the development of the Abyss, they won’t be flying here.”

“Moreover, it is time for the magic cannon to cool down, so it will be completely safe. Yes?”

“If you say it twice, it’s nagging.”

“There is nothing Baron Solon doesn’t know. “I guess he served in the army?”

“I didn’t go to the military. “It’s just a story I heard from a professor who taught war history at the Imperial Academy.”

“Oh, did you go to the academy in the system? “They say that’s a place only really bright people go.”

“Is that so? “There was no one with a bad mind among his classmates.”

When Baron Howard Solon was flattered, Fabian spoke so loudly that even the last seats (third class) could hear.

“There is another reason why the magic cannon is suddenly quiet. I guess you didn’t hear that?”

Baron Howard Solon, who didn’t know what it was, didn’t respond but looked out the window.

When Baron Solon did not answer, Crea asked in a slightly loud voice so that even the first class could hear.

“Is there another reason not to fire the magic cannon?”

“Even when drastically modifying the bombardment point, the magic cannon is not fired. “The gun barrels must be aligned to the new firing point right now.”

“ah! okay.”

Crea looked at the back of Baron Cloud’s head with new eyes.

He said he had fought a war with demons in the north, and he seemed like an expert.

Baron Howard Solon cleared his throat with a disapproving look on his face.

“Hum, hum.”

The downside to Fabian is that once he starts, he rarely stops.

“I wonder what the Southern Kingdom army’s new target is. Surely it’s not a stagecoach? “I hope not.”

Elio said something to Fabian’s cubic tablet.

“Did I tell you to watch your mouth? They say words become seeds. “Especially because what you’re saying is strangely fitting, so don’t just throw random words at me.”

“Oh, yes, sorry. I said this for laughs. Are you really going to fire a gun at a stagecoach?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of a magic cannon was heard, followed by an explosion nearby.

Quang!

For a moment there was silence in the carriage.

Fabian asked Count Elio Lagoa with a puzzled look.

“Didn’t this fall over here?”

“that’s right. “It fell about fifty meters off the side of the road.”

“Didn’t you say that the Southern Kingdom is not hostile to adventurers and mercenaries?”

“It did.”

“But why are you shooting magic cannons in this direction? “It must have been a mistake, right?”

But despite his wishes, shells began to fall nearby.

bang! bang! bang! Kwaang-!

Fabian, who was looking out the window, shouted.

“Shells are falling on the road! “Those crazy guys are shooting magic cannons at the stagecoach!”

“Don’t make a fuss. The stagecoach is not standing still. If you run like this, it will be difficult to hit even with a magic gun. But do you think you would get hit by a magic cannon that fires without looking?”

“Yeah, but if you’re unlucky… … .”

“I think you just need to stop shaking.”

When Elio glared, Fabian covered his mouth with one hand.

The five stagecoaches raced like crazy through the artillery fire.

It is not difficult to hit a fast-moving carriage with artillery fire.

However, the route the carriage ran on was fixed, and the field artillery’s magic cannon fire was quite precise.

In the end, one of the wagons was hit by a cannonball and destroyed.

However, the passengers of the carriage did not know that the carriage had been hit by a shell and destroyed.

Boom! Boom! Kwaang-!

The road was dented by the shells, and shattered stones flew in all directions.

The shell also landed near Elio’s carriage.

‘Boom!’ Stone fragments hit the carriage with an explosion sound.

Ta-da-da-da-da-da-! Pow!

Unfortunately, the window where Elio was sitting was hit by a piece of stone and shattered.

As Elio defended himself, shards of glass flew out of the carriage.

At that moment, an exclamation flowed from Elio’s mouth.

“Yah! The artillery unit must have had a lot of artillery practice. “Is it very accurate?”

“Now is not the time to be admiring. hey! You crazy people! Why are you shelling ordinary people? Who is the artillery commander? “Are you sure you want to give it a try?”

Fabian was excited and shouted out the window.

As Fabian let out a loud noise and gasped for breath, Elio spoke.

“Have you made a fuss? Your sound was louder than the sound of a shell falling. “Are you going to kill us with your voice?”

“sorry. “I’m crying so stop.”

“Shut up and be quiet. “It looks like the shelling has stopped.”

“yes.”

Fabian pursed his lips.

Doo doo doo doo!

There was only the sound of the horses’ hooves being pulled by four horses, and there was no real explosion.

Crea, who was concentrating on the sound with a nervous face, shouted.

“The shelling has really stopped! It’s over now, right? “You’re not going to shoot again, are you?”

Baron Howard Solon shrugged his shoulders as if he didn’t know.

He did this because he didn’t know what kind of embarrassment he would suffer if he pretended to know in front of the experienced northern nobles.

The answer came from the mouth of the transport manager, who quickly rode his horse to the side of the carriage.

“It looks like the shelling is over! There is a border checkpoint one kilometer ahead! “There are also Shade Kingdom forces there, so we won’t be able to fire anymore!”

After speaking, the transportation manager quickly moved to the rear carriage where the mercenaries were riding.

Only then did Crea sigh.

“ha! It’s over. The magic cannon is really amazing. Oh my, look at this stone dust. “It’s scary, it’s scary.”

She made a fuss and shook off the dust that had accumulated on her knees.

Baron Howard Solon was about to say, ‘It’s just dust coming in through a broken window.’

In any case, that dust was also created by artillery shells.

After a while, four carriages arrived in front of the border checkpoint.

Even though it was wartime, the border checkpoints between the two countries were operated as before the war.

This is thanks to the fact that both the Londinium Empire and the Shade Kingdom banned hostile actions at checkpoints – for their own needs.