Death's Daughter and the Ebony Blade: Volume 7 Finale [Parts 1 to 11] by Maito Ayamine

Author:Maito Ayamine
Language: eng
Format: epub

IV

The job of the raiding unit was to draw the attention of the undead. They actively intervened with the units where the undead focused their attacks to break up their targets. The plan was based on Amelia and Historia’s theory about the undead, and so far, nothing had happened to contradict them.

It was the middle of the night. The raiding unit had temporarily fallen back to take a momentary respite from their grueling work on the front line. As lightning flashed in the distance and ominous dark clouds began to roll across the battlefield, a new report arrived.

“Senior Hundred-Wing Edinburgh’s camp is being overwhelmed by a large contingent of undead.”

“Another place we don’t want them...” Lara looked down at the deployment map and cursed under her breath. Edinburgh’s location served as a relay point between the various camps. They could not afford to lose it.

“Your orders, ser?”

“What else? We go and break them up.” Lara gave her orders, and the raiding unit sprang into action. But they had scarcely set off when something prickled at Lara’s senses. She pulled her horse around.

“What’s up?” Historia called after her. Instead of answering, Lara said, “Can you handle things here?” Historia frowned. She looked over at what Lara was staring at, then choked.

“Um, are you sure about this?”

“This is hardly the first time. It’ll be fine.”

“You could show bit more concern...”

Historia looked grave, but Lara only said brightly, “I’m counting on you!”

Historia let out a sigh so heavy it seemed to drop like a stone, then turned to the soldiers who had been watching their exchange with bemusement and said sharply, “Blessed Wing Lara will be leaving us temporarily! I am in command in her absence! Are we clear? Then follow me!”

Without waiting for the hesitating guardians to reply, Historia galloped off as fast as her horse would carry her. Lara, left alone, turned away from the thunder of retreating hoofbeats, then dismounted and drew her sword. A bolt of lightning shredded the air between the earth and the dark clouds, illuminating a hulking shape in front of her. It was an insectoid dangerous beast. The appearance of any dangerous beast on a battlefield was unprecedented—for it to be an insectoid beggared belief. If any creature had ever shown itself in the human world before, no records of it existed. This was extremely abnormal.

Lara readied her wind blade so that she could release it at any moment and observed the creature. It was reminiscent of an ant in shape, though not at all in size. Its abdomen alone was the size of a small house and covered in spines like a porcupine. Three long legs protruded from each side of its thorax, which was black with red and yellow spots. Each ended in a claw that brought to mind a death god’s scythe. But there was something wrong with it. One of the pair of antenna that grew from its head was missing, and a white liquid that seemed to be its blood dripped from one of its great, many-faceted eyes.

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