Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World: Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 12] by Schuld

Author:Schuld
Language: eng
Format: epub

[Tips] Arrow-deflecting magic is more popular than combat magic and is somewhat akin to a pre-battle ritual. It confers a tactical advantage on ground troops by neutralizing their vulnerability to a ranged assault.

Most forms of this magic rely on manipulating air currents to create a protective barrier, but the formulae crafted by the Imperial College’s magia are a cut or two above that.

It may have paled a little in comparison to scenes of thousands of arrows raining down that I’d seen on the silver screen, but even a volley numbering in the dozens was a sight to behold mid-flight. As was seeing them waver like candles in the breeze as they all sped off in a completely different direction at once.

“Whoa!”

“Awesome!”

“We can do this! Yeah, we can DO THIS!”

Our makeshift army consisted of brave adventurers and caravan workers who had taken up any available arms and equipment, our numbers reaching just over seventy.

As we made our way through the narrow passage, we spotted no infantry. We were a ragtag group, so our reactions at this turn of good fortune was to be expected.

“Wow, she’s quite something. A College student may have written up the recipe, yeah, but I doubt there are many who could use it to create something this effective.”

Atop Castor, I couldn’t help muttering to myself. Kaya was talented, that was for sure. She might have struggled with using combat or healing spells with a tool like her staff, especially in the heat of the moment, but if the circumstances were right she was a force that even a wall of demons would part for.

Sure, that arrow-warding potion took a pretty serious investment of time and resources, and the conceptual barrier wouldn’t defend against anything other than arrows, but I doubted that many could create something this potent. It was like receiving power in exchange for an oath—for a very specific target, she could punch way above her weight class. Siegfried’s a truly lucky guy to have someone like Kaya by his side. That gal’s alchemical talents are on par with my own partner’s unparalleled scouting—real gifts from the gods, those two.

Thanks to Kaya, we bought ourselves a precious five minutes.

Jonas’ forces had been lying in wait, confident they would win, when all of a sudden our group emerged unscathed from their arrow rain and ready to cause some havoc. Their morale, pumped up solely by their fear of their leader, deflated the moment they were faced with an equivalent threat.

Infantry in this situation were sitting ducks. Now that their precious ranged support had been countered, they could do nothing but prepare for the worst. All that was left was for both sides to clash in all-out war. That or...

“Jonas Baltlinden! Come out from your hole, worm!”

By announcing a one-on-one battle with their leader, we could instantly crush their morale in one fell swoop.

By Rhinian standards of martial law, challenging an enemy general to single combat was a laughably primitive approach. But we weren’t an army—we were adventurers. Among our ilk, Genpei War era ethics still abounded.

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