194話 常勝無敗の秘訣と代償
「忠誠を誓おう」
「忠誠を誓うであります!」
姉とユウジの二人が俺の『
』に任命できるのは全員で20人まで。残り5枠の忠誠権は、ジョージと合流した時のために取っておいた方が良いと夕輝に言われたので、この場で全員を俺の指揮下に入れるのは止めておいた。
「戦場でめぼしいのがいたら、傘下に入れてしまえばいいわ」
姉も夕輝の意見には賛成らしく納得している。
「それで姉、これからどうするの?」
先程見せた対人戦への熟知度的にも、歴戦の猛者達を引き連れている姉には、その場の全員が意見を聞きたそうにしているけど、聞けない。ちょっと怖がっている、といった雰囲気を感じ取った俺は姉に気さくに質問をする。
「簡単だ」
姉は敵対しなければ怖くない。そうみんなにわかってもらいたかったので、俺は意識的に軽くした口調で再度問い掛ける。
「ふぅん。どんな風に?」
「序盤は多勢に無勢で
単純に圧倒的な物量で押しつぶすという、作戦とも呼べない作戦だった。
「太郎がやられてしまっては全NPCのステータスが下がるから、太郎は後方で堂々と私たちの戦果を眺めていればいい」
「そうはいかないよ。俺にだって、出来る事はある」
ができるよ」
姉の質問に、敵の居場所を把握できそうなギミックを持っている人形二人を出す。
もちろん、『陽光のルチル』と『月影のルナリー』の双子だ。
「太郎、いい者をもっているな」
姉は双子に相好を崩し、愛おしそうにじっくりと見分し始める。
「姉もね」
俺からしたら、心強い団員を傍に引き連れている姉の方こそ凄いと思う。
自然と互いにフフフと、笑い合う俺達。
「いい姉妹っすねーほんと」
トムとシェリーさんの感想に、俺達は素早く反応してしまう。
仲良く姉と俺の声がハモってしまった。
それは獲物を
それは強者が弱者をしとめる行為と同義。
まさに今、その姿をまざまざと見せつけられていた。
総勢500人以上の戦力を持って、ただただ蹂躙していく様は圧巻だった。
森で、丘で、あらゆる戦場で敵の
こうも簡単に連勝を積み上げていくと、薄ら寒いものがあった。
常に最前線で猛威をふるう姉の姿は、清々しい程までに殺戮者の名を欲しいままにしている。
「これまでの戦い、楽勝すぎるな......」
「ご主人さま、北東、距離400メートルの林に隠れてる。20人ぐらい」
執事服の少年人形、陽光のルチルがとぼとぼと歩いて来て俺に報告してくれる。実はルチルが敵の居場所を報告してくれるのだ。
「ありがとう、ルチル」
「大した事ない。他も探す」
ルチルの持つ機導式ギミック『幼き警戒』は、ルチル自身を透明化できる能力だ。無害で無垢な幼き子供だからこそ、相手は警戒すべき対象だと認識できない。『幼き警戒』の発動中は他のギミックを使用できず、俺の片腕もルチルを動かすための『導き糸』でふさがってしまう。今は右手の五本の指に『導き糸』が張り付いており、そこからルチルを操っている。
多少の不便さはあれど、これは遠くにいる敵を発見したり、索敵能力に特化したギミックで重宝できる。
実はギミックを使用するための『導き糸』は、『雷炎を仰ぐ都イグニストラ』のNPCが経営する人形屋に販売していた。少し割高だったけど兵舎に寄る前にいくつか購入しておいたのだ。
どれも雷や炎にまつわる糸で、月や光と相性のいい双子人形には微妙なラインであったけど、光と炎が近いと判断し、今は『
もっと相性の良い糸であればギミックの能力を最大限に引き出す事ができ、ルチルと視界の共有などもできるのだそうだ。透明化によるルチルを遠方にいる場所に忍ばせ、一方的にこちらが敵の様子を窺う事だって可能になる。
「しかし、これ......難しいんだよなぁ」
姉達が他の傭兵部隊を粉々に打ち砕いて行く様を、ちょっと離れた所で眺めながらぼやく。
この『導き糸』によって人形を動かすという行為は、ピアノの鍵盤を指で叩く、と似たような感じなのだが......例えば人形を移動させるためのコマンドは、まず最初に中指を折り曲げる。その次に右に移動なら薬指を、左なら人指し指を、後ろなら小指を、前進なら親指を、しゃがむならの全部の指を折り曲げる。そしてジャンプは逆に、全ての指を目一杯広げるなど......走るは薬指と小指を同時に、ゆったり歩調は親指を二回などと、覚えるのにかなり苦労しそうだ。
「今はマニュアルメニューを可視化して開きながら見ているけど......戦闘中に使うとなったら、いちいち確認しながら戦えるわけがない」
だったら下手に『導き糸』を使用せずに、心を持っている人形だから自律式運動で任せてしまえばいいのだけど、『導き糸』を使っていなければ人形が持つ各ギミックを発動できないのだ。
100%人形たちの力を発揮させるためにも、この辺は極めていかないといけない。
「ご主人様、鳥たちが戻って来た」
「よくやったルチル。結果を報告して」
「南南東、1、5キロの川辺に80人規模。南1キロの森に30人規模が二つ、交戦中。南800メートルの洞窟に、40人規模」
するとそのパンくずの置いた地点、その周囲に起きている状況を魔鳥が収集してくるというシステムである。
これももっと相性の良い『導き糸』を活用すれば、鳥が目にしたイメージ図を写真のように視認できるようだ。
俺達はこうして敵の居場所を大まかにだけど事前に把握し、大人数で仕掛けていくという常勝無敗の戦略を駆使し、この地帯にはびこる敵勢力を順調に駆逐していっている。
「もうすぐ夜がくるな......」
敵戦力を討滅した俺の『
「どうした、タロ。何か不安な事でもあるのか?」
「んん、次の敵と戦う時はボクらが護衛役を交代しちゃうから不安なのかな?」
俺の護衛役として残ってくれた晃夜と夕輝、そして民兵部隊。
彼らの顔も一様に自信に満ちあふれており、ここまで何の苦労もなく敵を屠って来た様子が如実に表れている。
それが何となくだが、俺の心をざわつかせた。
「ご主人さま、南西800メートルに700人。こちらにまっすぐ来てる。あと馬に乗ってるのもいる」
ルチルの淡々とした警告が響く。
予想より遥かに全てが順調すぎた手前、ここにきて大戦力がこちらに向かってきたか。
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"Let's swear allegiance"
"I swear allegiance!
Two of my sisters and Yuji became my "flag bearers (royals)", and three others, three from the "Neck Hunting Madness", three from the Silver Army (Silverlay), and four each became the "flag bearers (royals)".
Up to 20 people can all be appointed flag bearers. Evening Fai told me that I should keep the remaining five frames of loyalty for when I joined George, so I stopped putting everyone under my command on this occasion.
"If there's any dizziness on the battlefield, you can put it under your umbrella."
My sister is also agreeably convinced with Evening Fai's opinion.
"So, sister, what are you going to do now?
Even with my familiarity with the interpersonal fights I showed earlier, I can't ask my sister, who is taking the fierce warriors, that everyone on the spot has asked for their opinions. I'm a little scared, I get the vibe, and I ask my sister a casual question.
"Easy."
My sister is not afraid unless she is hostile. Yeah, I wanted everyone to know, so I asked again in a consciously lighter tone.
"Huh. Like what?
"At the beginning, you can ravage a lot of people with passivity."
It was an operation that could not even be called an operation: simply crushing it with overwhelming quantities.
"If Taro gets hit, the status of all NPCs will drop, so Taro should have a grand view of our results in the rear"
"That's not going to happen. There's something I can do."
"You can make enemies."
To my sister's question, I give out two puppets with gimmicks that seem to know where the enemy is.
Of course, it's the twins of "Rutile of Sunshine" and "Lunary of the Moon Shadow".
"Taro, you have a good man."
My sister breaks up with the twins and begins to tell them apart carefully, looking loving.
"Neither did my sister."
From me, I think it would be amazing if my sister was taking a comforting member aside.
We laugh at nature and each other.
"Good sisters. Really."
We react quickly to Tom and Shelley's thoughts.
My sister and my voice got hammered amicably.
It slaughters and feeds its prey.
It is synonymous with the act of the strong to seize the weak.
Exactly now, I was being made to look different.
With a total strength of more than 500 men, it was just a roll to ravage.
In the woods, on the hills, on all battlefields, the enemy mercenaries (players) crush 30 to 60 militias all at once.
Easily building up winning streaks like this, there was something thin and cold.
Always sifting fiercely on the front lines, the figure of the sister leaves the name of the killer wanting by the sober.
"Previous battles, don't win too easy..."
"Your husband, northeast, hiding in the woods at a distance of 400 meters. About 20 people"
The boy doll in butler's clothes, Lucille in the sunshine, walks up to me and reports back to me. As a matter of fact, Lucille will report the whereabouts of the enemy.
"Thank you, Lucille"
"It's no big deal. Find others"
Lucille's machine-guided gimmick, Childhood Alert, is Lucille's ability to make herself transparent. Because they are harmless and innocent young children, they cannot recognize them as subjects to be wary of. I can't use any other gimmicks during the activation of "Childhood Alert" and my one arm gets blocked with a "guide thread" to move the rutile. There is now a 'guide thread' sticking to the five fingers on his right hand, from which he manipulates the rutile.
Whatever the slightest inconvenience, this can be treasured with gimmicks that specialize in discovering enemies in the distance or in their ability to defy them.
In fact, "guide yarn" for the use of gimmicks was sold to doll shops run by NPC of "Ignistra, the capital that recounts thunder flames". It was a little expensive, but I bought some before I stopped by the barracks.
They were all threads surrounding thunder and flames, subtle lines for twin dolls compatible with the moon and light, but decided that light and flame were close, and now they use 'flame knot' to activate a rutile motorized gimmick.
If it's a more compatible yarn, it can maximize the ability of the gimmick, and it can also share vision with Lucille. It is possible to sneak Lucille from transparency to a distant location and unilaterally observe what the enemy looks like.
"But this... it's hard"
Blur as the sisters smash the other mercenary troops to pieces, looking a little further away.
The act of moving a doll by this' guide yarn 'feels similar to tapping a piano keyboard with your finger... for example, the command to move the doll folds the middle finger first. Next, if you move to the right, fold your pharmacopoeia finger, your index finger to the left, your pinky finger behind you, your thumb if you move forward, and all your fingers if you crouch. And the jump, on the other hand, spreads all fingers with one cup of eyes, etc.... Running with a drug finger and a pinky finger at the same time, loose gait with two thumbs, etc., seems like a lot of difficulty to remember.
"Now I'm looking at the manual menu as it's visualized and opened... but if I'm going to use it during combat, there's no way I can fight it whichever way I check"
Then I wish I could leave it to you in autonomous exercise because it's a doll with a heart, without using "guide yarn" poorly, but I can't activate each gimmick the doll has unless I use "guide yarn".
We have to be extremely strong around here in order for the dolls to show their power 100%.
"Master, the birds are back"
"Well done, Lucille. Report the results."
"Southeast, on a riverside of 1 or 5 km, it has 80 people. Two 30-man sizes in a forest one kilometre south, engaged. In a cave 800 meters south, a size of 40"
It is then a system whereby demon birds collect the point at which their breadcrumbs are placed and the situation that is happening around them.
If this also makes use of a more compatible 'guide yarn', it would appear that the image diagram the bird has seen can be seen as shown in the picture.
This is how we approximate the location of our enemies, but we know in advance, using an ever-winning and undefeated strategy of setting them up in large numbers, and we are successfully driving out the enemy forces that are spreading in this area.
"Night is coming soon..."
My Flagbearers (Royals), who have destroyed enemy power, smile and praise each other for their results. Behind them the high morale militias are raising their wings.
"What's up, Taro? Are you worried about something?
"Mm-hmm. Are you anxious because the next time you fight an enemy, we'll take turns as escorts?
You stayed as my escort, Shaky Night and Evening Fai, and the militia unit.
Their faces are also uniformly filled with confidence, as shown by the way they have slaughtered their enemies so far without any difficulty.
I don't know what that is, but it got my mind out of the way.
"Master, 700 people 800 meters southwest. It's coming straight this way. And some of them are riding horses."
Lucille's pale warning sounds.
Far from what I expected, before everything went too well, did you come here and the great power came this way?
I Became a Beautiful Girl, but I’m still an MMO Junkie
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