"Nalant, are they trying to destroy the bridge?" Stella's face instantly filled with anxiety.
"Yes! Your Majesty, my lords, quickly—they're ramming the bridge, trying to destroy the stone bridge!" Nalant immediately shouted a warning to the king and the others, who were still entangled with the Magic Beasts.
Naturally, Bishop Ick had no intention of easily letting the king and the extraordinary knight corps leave.
He likewise gave the Magic Beast knights a death order, making them desperately keep the extraordinary knights tied down.
Though Nalant was anxious at the sight, there was nothing he could do. In the end, he could only ride White Dragon swiftly back toward the stone bridge.
Before long, Nalant arrived atop the stone bridge.
Yet even there, facing the Magic Beast cavalry that kept ramming it, he found himself in a difficult position.
Not to mention that the stone bridge stood two or three meters above the water, while those Magic Beasts were submerged beneath the surface. He simply had no way to attack them.
"Vivian, cross the river first."
Still, no matter what, he had to give it a try.
Before that, he set Vivian down and had his Daughter of Luck cross the river and return.
Only after Vivian had left did he swiftly pull several large grenades from his spatial ring and begin lighting them.
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Once the fuses were lit, Nalant paused for a moment before throwing them into the river.
Yet after the grenades landed in the river, he waited for a while without hearing any explosion.
"What rotten luck!" Nalant knew he had thrown them too early. The grenade fuses were not waterproof, so they had gone out when they entered the water.
Helpless, Nalant could only light another grenade.
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
This time, Nalant