These storm clouds spread overhead at an utterly unnatural speed and scale.
A deep rumble of thunder crashed through the air.
"This is obviously the place with the weakest defenses..." Reines had a headache.
"You know this is the weakest point. Do you think the enemy wouldn't know?" Irena shook her head.
"The barrier has already been shut down. If we keep going outward, we'll be discovered." The Silver Princess laid out their current situation as well. "I'm sorry for dragging you all into this... Let's head back first."
If they stayed here, they would drag Irena, Reines, and the others into this.
And the road ahead was no longer passable.
So they could only turn back.
Author's Note:
In a sense, the oil tycoon from the Fifth War was also screwed over by Aozaki Touko, haha.
In the pitch-black forest, the pumpkin carriage raced through torrential rain and lightning.
"Damn it, did they choose to attack when the moisture in the air was at its highest?!" Reines saw through it.
This magecraft made use of weather manipulation.
Precisely because the air was so humid right now, the other side could pull something like this off.
"Ah..." Irena lightly covered her mouth.
"What is it?"
"Um... so that we could escape more easily, I slightly increased the moisture and fog concentration by just a tiny little bit..."
Reines: "..."
"I-It was going to rain here anyway! I just moved the rain up a little earlier, that's all!" Irena hurriedly explained.
Lightning continually struck down from the sky.
This was not even "single-target damage," but "area-of-effect damage."
Several places on the outside of the pumpkin carriage had already been scorched black, while others gave off the fragrant smell of roasted pumpkin.
"The enemy's objective should be to strip Izelma's land