Chapter 74: “Remote Devastation”
Since they had come this far through the assault ants’ hard work, Rare kind of wanted to let them just burn everything down, but the soldier vespoids had only been observing all this time and didn’t have any other tasks. If the kingdom didn’t have any air forces, then the soldier vespoids would primarily be fighting ground forces from here on out, so she wanted to let them take care of these foes, which would also double as practice.
“That’s why I’m leaving this to them. They are free to decide how they want to handle it. Have the assault and infantry forces fall back to where the artillery are.”
<I understand.>
At the same time as Sugaru responded, the soldier vespoids, who had been monitoring the progress of the invasion from high up in the air, suddenly dropped into nosedives.
“Waaah!!!”
“There are more enemies aside from just ants! Fuck, how come we didn’t know about this?!”
“Those sellsword shits! Why didn’t they report about them to us?!”
The knights laid all the blame at the sellswords’ feet, but in this situation no one could have been expected to do any better. The soldier vespoids skimmed the ground as they pulled out of their dives, then picked up the knights one after the other and climbed back up into the air.
“Dammit! Stop! Let me go!!!”