The Water Magician

"Equal?"

"No, the Holy Knights are being slightly pushed back."

Ryo corrected Abel’s statement, who had openly declared he was engaged in alchemy as a hobby.

"The Holy Knights are fighting in formation, but the vampire golems are scattered."

"That’s true."

"Because of that, the Holy Knights can’t effectively narrow down their targets, and their fighting style has become ambiguous."

"There are various aspects to golem battles, I see."

At Ryo's observation, Abel shook his head slightly.

As the king, and also an experienced adventurer, Abel had led his subordinates and fellow adventurers in combat command before.

So he understood that commanding a battle was difficult.

It seems this applies not only to people but also to golems...

Oscar was unleashing not only his sword but also close-range magic like "piercing fire," but he couldn't break through the barriers that Zoltan was deploying at opportune moments.

Zoltan was advancing through the battle with ease.

Naturally, he also understood the fight of his own golems.

"Graham, your command of the golems still needs work."

"What?"

"Or should I say your strategic thinking still needs improvement?"

Since he said it quite loudly, it seemed Graham heard him as well.

Of course, Ryo and Abel, who stood near Graham, heard him too.

"Strategic thinking?"

"Do you understand when you see this? I’m deploying the second golem legion!"

As Zoltan's words echoed, even more golems emerged from the back.

Moreover...

"About as many as the first time?"

"You mean there are double?"

"A total of a hundred...?"

Both Abel and Ryo were shocked.

"Not having enough strategic thinking means something like this..."

Graham squeezed out his voice while glaring at the newly appeared golems.

"Huh?"

Ryo didn't understand the meaning.

"In other words, we’ve occupied forty mining sites for two years. We must have acquired a vast amount of ores. There's no way the golems created from that would only be fifty."

"Oh... So acquiring a large amount of ores means they manufactured a large number of golems? Now we have a hundred, but is there even more...?"

Ryo understood Graham’s explanation.

At the same time, he grimaced.

Even the current situation was quite dire...

Not only the forty Holy Knights but also the last trump card, which could be considered ten White Knights, were deployed.

A battle between a hundred vampire golems and forty Holy Knights plus ten White Knights.

"Even so, it’s tough."

"Yes..."

Ryo nodded at Abel’s words.

He nodded, but at the same time, tilted his head.

"What’s wrong?"

"No... It’s the vampire golems; there's something off about them."

"Off?"

At Ryo's words, Abel tilted his head in confusion.

Honestly, Abel didn't understand the oddity Ryo was talking about.

"Certainly, they are smaller than the Holy Knights. They’re bigger than the White Knights, though."

"Yeah. They feel like they’re just a bit over two meters tall."

Ryo nodded at Abel's observation.

Even for humans, someone with a physique like Warren might be about the same height.

Whether they were the Holy Knights from France, civilians from the Republic, or artificial golems from the Handalu Federation, they were all around three meters tall.

The main golems deployed on the battlefield, whether in the Central Nations or the Western Nations, had a common understanding of being three meters tall.

However, the advanced golems introduced by France, the White Knights, were one and a half meters tall.

There might be a trend of downsizing from larger models to smaller ones in golems as well.

Thinking about it that way, it wasn't strange that the vampire golems were just over two meters tall...

The situation was advancing beyond the two of them.

"More enemies from the back!"

"Vampires are coming out!"

Such voices echoed.

"Zack, Scotty!"

"Haha!"

In response to Abel’s words, the two squad captains of the Royal Knight Order replied.

"The Royal Knights will take the lead!"

"France and the Empire, we ask for your support!"

Zack and Scotty shouted.

Graham silently raised his right hand to accept the two's request.