Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken novel Chapter 152

Well well, I heard the detailed account from Gadra-jiisan and Shinji's group who came here before, and it was a certainty that the Empire had moved.

It's as expected.

First of all, a command post as the strategic union headquarters was set up inside the control room.

Benimaru and Souei will always be on stand by here.

Souei let out many of his clones to various places, our information gathering didn't rely only on image surveillance.

To be frank, to be able to use something like high altitude image surveillance in this world's war could be said as a out of the box technique.

No matter what I thought, I want to see it.

Previously, I was troubled which route would be attacked, but it's just a funny story now.

After all, to say nothing about dangerous route, even the situation inside the empire can be observed, so everything was completely exposed from their first action.

If this situation is compared to a Shogi match, then my side can see everything across the board, while the enemy only makes a move without knowing the move that my side had made. It's that kind of feeling.

Not only against an outstanding amateur, I will not get defeated by an expert enemy either.

I am not playing a game with a disadvantage handicap, but rather had an advantage (Absolute Superiority) at my side.

Oh well, it's not like war have rules or whatnot.

Righteousness is with the winner.

Anyway, there's no international laws in this world then there's no problem, as there were no rule to be abided either.

In the Council of Nations, more or less there is something resembling an international treaty, normally the course of the event would be the head of the warring countries decided the rule during the war and after the war before starting the war.

But, in the case of one-sided aggressor country, such rules didn't apply...

And so in this case, anything goes in this kind of war.

Frankly, the rule that I had decided was only one.

Involving the civilian is prohibited!

It's only this.

Of course, a follow up attack after I declared the war had ended, is absolutely prohibited.

Oh well, I believe there's no one that will go against my will and didn't abide this order.

Therefore, the Empire's forces which gathered one after another were projected on the several large screens.

The First Corps commanded by Gobuta and the Third Corps lead by Gabil were deployedas the Vanguard Force. Making use of their high speed movement, this allows the corps to deal with the situation in any location immediately.

Their numbers are few, but I judged it's not a problem if they devoted themselves on hit and run tactics.

But......

ŒWa! Hey... why's there a tank here!?

A mere soldier like Shinji and co wouldn't know a lot about military secrets, so the tank's existence was not known to them.

As far as I observe them from the sky, there were 4.000 tanks.

Moreover, it seem to use magic essence as energy and it didn't seem to be necessary to replenishing its fuel.

This tank had high versatility and it seemed to have performance that exceeded our former world's highest performance tank easily if I only compared by their performance.

I don't know whether it moved only with magic essence, and there seems some kind of refueling, but judging from its speed, it was abnormal.

I assumed bad roads would not be a problem for it even while running with 100 km/h or more.

I rise from the ground slightly just like floating in the air.

˜Honestly, Magic is incredible!' So I thought but more than that, I tasted the bitterness if only it also gets developed in here.

Obviously it incorporated the knowledge of the "Otherworlders".

Even I could hit upon that idea but such ideas like a tank wasn't suited in a world of sword and magic.

If only my head got more brains, then I could freely order for an idea ....

No, let's stop.

There's no use even if I regret it. It's an issue for later.

When this war is over, let's try developing things in various ways more freely.

We wasn't only surprised by the tank.

An airship flew.

˜Seriously!?'

It was hard to hold back the screaming.

If there is that, transportation will become remarkably easy. The supplies problem would be settled if it was used for war.

Besides, I am optimistic that I can steal the air supremacy one-sidedly, but this might be a tad self-conceited.

I was thinking of developing it, but it was practically impossible.

(I did various development but it was realistically impossible to be implemented.)??

I should really praise the fruits of the development team of that side, honestly.

Because there will be no invention of such level that can be completed overnight.

Well, nevertheless I want to capture one ship safely; after thinking for a bit, there is no other way.

Well, I was surprised because of the empire's military weapons, but even so my side wins in information warfare.

Raphael roughly counted the total of the empire's soldiers; there seem to be approximately 1 million soldiers.

An outrageous number has come out.

I didn't know how far Yuuki had spread his influence , but it will be difficult for him to keep this number under control, right?

I think this is probably because of the big effect from the bait I spread.

If that's so, the enemy army may aim for the labyrinth.

While I thought about the situation, a corps emerges and begins to detour towards a different direction from the direction that the tank corps is advancing to.

Apparently, that corps seems going to invade the border around the Dwarf Kingdom outskirts.

The tank pretends to be the main force, while the real main force was deployed on other place, huh.

Humph!, honestly only such impression comes out.

ŒWhat should we do? Should Gobuta and his corps that went to the frontline return?

ŒNo, their number is not enough anyway, let's entrust the main force that went to another direction to Gerudo.

I mean one portion of the enemy will enter the labyrinth, it will be easy to crush every one of them

ŒI see, how's the labyrinth?

Benimaru is unusually serious.

His usual frank speech has fallen silent, he now bared his true nature as the supreme general.

He's really reliable.

ŒRamiris, could you take in the entire adventurers' town around the labyrinth into the labyrinth?

ŒI could you know~! No problem at all!

I see, then let's do it like that.

Having said that, I explained the circumstances to Masayuki, the Commander of the Volunteer Army.

"Eh, really? Is that thing even possible?"

Then I left the rest to the surprised Masayuki.

Apparently, the story became like, after persuading the Demon Lord, he made me to definitely promise to protect the town.

˜As expected from the Hero-dono!'

˜Really reliable!'

Like that, he receives the praise from the town citizens, Masayuki observed the spectaclewith a complicated face.

But, even with this expression,

˜Hero-dono is still not yet satisfied'

˜That's right, that's right'

˜Hero-dono will protect this town. We can be at peace if we entrust everything to him!'

Such interpretations are made, there was no one that noticed Masayuki' suffering.

Thus, the surface town was moved entirely to the 101st floor of the labyrinth.

The 100th floor and the 95th floor changed places, it shifts every single floor and so the defense system was perfectly established.

Or rather, it might be impossible for those troops to go past the 90th floor.

Because even with supplies, several days are their limit. As they can't use the inn inside the labyrinth, such thing as breaking through is impossible.

The remodeled soldiers could go through two weeks without eating and drinking so Shinji and co said, but it's unthinkable for them to capture the labyrinth in two weeks.

Oh well, I can't be careless, I will think about it at the time that side had already come to attack.

There's also the possibility that they keep going inside the labyrinth, but it might be useless to think about that for now.

Well, with such feeling I prepared the preparations. ??

The town around the labyrinth is isolated, and Gerudo's second corps with 17.000 people was deployed as the frontage of Tempest.

Inside there were 10.000 volunteer soldiers and a corps of 50.000 monsters were waiting.