The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 242: Last Plan of Attack

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A day and a half went by. It took us that long to break through the fortress on the left side. More than once I almost lost my life because they were powerful barriers.

I had to get close and see their structure, analyze them for a while to find the weaknesses.

Also, I had to see how to break them all in a short time, not to mention that perhaps, because of the traitor, my information was known to the enemy, causing powerful mages and archers to target me on more than one occasion.

It was Friday afternoon , and recently, again my main self, needed me, with the appearance of factors such as Akihara and Vey, I also noticed that my little platinum ticket had a great importance, for the lord, so things had become complicated and again they needed my help.

so I needed to hurry to align myself with their plans, which although slower than I thought are going at a good pace, if we do not run into some blockage or someone very powerful and unexpected like Akihara.

But at least in the middle world, I didn’t have to worry, as I remember my alternate self saying, the middle world has a restriction on those who can enter.

That restriction is for all those below the tenth metamorphosis. That is why someone like the Great General, who is in the first rank of soul conversion, is not leading the army.

This is a normal thing of the average world. If I am not mistaken, when it was not the age of the gods, the restriction was maintained in the fourth metamorphosis and the portals appeared randomly for short periods of time every few century, which makes it very difficult, to take advantage of outside the age of the gods.

Now that the portals were stable and semi-permanent, the limit of strength allowed by the world was increasing, Since it started, and by the time I finished the academy, and when I was supposed to enter, for the first time this middle world,

those of the first rank of soul conversion were allowed to enter.

If nothing changes. When I finish the academy, definitely people in the first rank of soul conversion could enter.

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In the end, being the same type of barriers and formations, the fortress on the left was taken down that same day.

I wondered if I would even make it in time, especially since I had to cross a chasm to get to the third and last fortress before the portal, I had always thought that would be the biggest obstacle and wondered what to do.

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”Don’t worry about that, we have a plan of attack. I assure you that before noon tomorrow that fortress will fall, that is, of course, if we can destroy their barriers as fast as we did today.”

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That was what Philips told me, apparently I needn’t have worried. I thought, possibly, as they would eventually do it, they would have the means, but as it was before time, there was a chance they wouldn’t.

I was glad though, because if it was, we could get there before the end of the week, if we got through the portal and the fortress in one day, we wouldn’t get through what I had originally planned.

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Screee!!! Screee!!!

So it was early Saturday morning, I was surprised to see, suddenly, that from behind us, hundreds of blue griffin-like creatures were coming. Apparently, that was the kingdom’s trump card.

Kreeeaaah!!!!

Suddenly, a particularly large, dark silver griffin descended. Philip climbed up onto it.

I was curious to see what they had planned, for while those griffins could attack, the ground troops were only left to watch.

Now that the bridge that was originally there had been destroyed by the demons themselves, there were no land routes, and there were approximately 3000 griffins, which is a considerable number.

Considering that they are all, at least, 5-star, they are powerful and active war beasts at the trump card level.

Still, it wouldn’t be enough to take down the fortress, not to mention that number two had seen air units traveling towards the fortress and possibly also towards the fortress on this side.

I thought all this, but for some reason, Philips was looking at me, instead of just going off to do what he had to do.

”What?”

”That’s for me to say. What are you waiting to get on?”

”Huh? What? Why would I do that?!”

”Because you’re important to this. You should have participated in yesterday’s meeting.”

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’No, the point is why do I have to ride a faucet with you.’

The truth is that I did not participate in yesterday’s meeting, because I was mentally tired, and I just wanted to rest, besides I thought I would have nothing to do there since Philips told me that they had a solution, I did not think he would act, not at least from the beginning.

The point is, Philips quickly explained to me what I had to do and why I should go with him. Basically, the 500 elite among air mounts would go on a frontal assault in which I and Philips were to participate.

Each of this elite had powerful mages with powerful attack artifacts to destroy the barriers on my signal, as usual.

I had to ride in their griffin because, unlike on land, it would be difficult to defend myself if attacked, and being a general and someone powerful, I would stay safe while we broke through the barrier.

When we did that, the rest of the air units would carry one end of a rope that was a specially made contraption, which would create a bridge.

It had the function that, when they were at a certain distance from each other and activated, they connected and joined together, forming an ice platform that would be the floor of this bridge.

It was usually not a plan that was easily done, for many factors, and mainly because the bridge would not last long enough to bring down the barrier.

But if I am there and we destroy the barrier in a matter of minutes, the ground units will not be vulnerable or need to use the bridge beyond simply passing it.

Without me destroying the barrier, they might have to create some kind of siege on this besiege this bridge for a long time, perhaps with many casualties, or they would simply use a different method that doesn’t exist yet.

But for now, this was feasible. The ice was not fragile and was made with a lot of magic, so the bridge, made with hundreds of ropes, could withstand a lot. And so it did.

Everything went according to plan. Although the demons knew of my ability to break barriers, the unorthodox nature of this plan was enough to throw them off their calculations.

It took us no more than five minutes to destroy the barriers, while we defended ourselves with everything we had, from the siege weapons, archer mages and even the aerial squadrons of the demons that were attacking and outnumbering us.

They were a subspecies of flying lizards, but we were equipped to the teeth and withstood the intense attack long enough that I found the weakness which, luckily, was the same as the other two fortresses and I wouldn’t have to analyze them for days as before.

Some elites died protecting us from the attack of the whole fortress centered on us, but they had many defensive items and specialized mages as well.

When I found the exact moment, with my guidance, the attacks rained down, and after repeating this process three times due to the large amount of barriers, they finally ran out of defenses.

At that moment, on Philips’ signal, the rest of the flying units moved in and stretched hundreds of ropes from one side to the other. At the end of those ropes were harpoons, which the riders riding them threw and stuck along the entire length of the wall.

Our mages holding the other end, upon seeing this, imbued with mana and then began to connect with each other through the hieolus that formed, tightly intertwining with each other.

I had to accept that it was a great work of magical engineering on a grand scale and I took note of this as it could be useful to me.

A large ice bridge slowly formed until it reached the other end.

The flying units on our side that did their duty joined the air battle, finally giving us breathing room as Philip and I retreated, now that we had done our duty.

As I flew, I watched the thousands of soldiers and ground units rushing across the ice bridge, which was not at all fragile.

Even with the stomps of the Cold Steel Rhino unit, which were especially heavy, they don’t even cause fracture in the bridge.

I didn’t even want to know how much it had cost to make so many ropes, but certainly passing this chasm was something crucial to get to the rift and this realm that perhaps even before the war began, I had planned to do.

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As Philip said, before noon on Saturday we had completely overpowered the last stronghold of the demons in this middle world and taken full control.

Now, my main self is waiting for me to align our times. But the time of one week, which I said was the time when my fictitious family would come, is running out.

I would be fine for a few days, but if it was too long, they might get suspicious. Besides, I honestly didn’t want to extend this more than a week.

It could bring trouble to Astrid and the girls, as well as my dual identity. Even the divine entity that has control over me.

would think it’s too weird that I’m staying inside my room with the girls on a self-inspection for more than a week, and might throw a Quests at me to get me to leave.

So I had to act at top speed.

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”You know we have a good pace, but we need to act faster.”

I spoke during the war council, for this point, even though I had no official position. Having broken the stalemate of over a year now gave me a decent voice here, no need to insult them like last time.

Plus the fact that finding a traitor and taking down the enemy’s most imposing stronghold in less than a week, saving an awful lot of time and resources, was something the accomplishments of many here could not have done.

Again, I remember how skills are important. I could not have done this without them, especially the eyes of lust, which besides having the flaw of only seeing the state of people with lust, is an anti-magic weapon or anything, that has some weak point to exploit, I can see it and attack it, doing impossible things for my power range.

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”I propose a high-speed attack. As you said, the great general and two dukes of the kingdom will join in when we reach the other side, right?”

Yes, while people above the tenth metamorphosis cannot enter the middle world, with the right means they can transport directly to the other side.

Of course it requires resources and knowledge, but apparently this realm had it, and three existences, who were the most powerful in the realm, would come, with the great general being as strong as Vey and the other two in the first rank being the generals who could not join until this moment.

”I propose a quick attack. We cannot let them react. It is possible that now, at this point, some of you are expecting them to negotiate, but if they had wanted to, they would have already done so, wouldn’t they?”

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”Now, the point is that they possibly think that we won’t get past the fortress and that they can still take it back without negotiating. That’s why I propose a quick attack. tomorrow morning, which for them would be a night attack on the fortress and the city simultaneously.”

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Well, these Generals had learned the hard way not to interrupt me, which I guess is a good thing.

”Well, for starters, we’re not in a war of conquest and we just need to distract them, either the fortress or the city, so we can risk splitting the army. Any barriers in between, I will destroy.”

Now they listened to my plan, which although I am no expert in matters of war, I thought was reasonable to a point.

Philips made some corrections and things that I did not take into account and in the end it was something reasonable. If I didn’t miscalculate, tomorrow afternoon, or rather the dawn of the demonic world, would be the culmination of the whole thing.