(If that is his plan, he is insane)
The captain muttered, breaking into a cold sweat.
Trying to breach the main gate of an allegedly impregnable fortress all by himself was madness.
It was an outrageously reckless tactic.
――――Still.
The facts were clear: arrows, magic, and the poisoned spears had all been brushed aside.
Henry remained completely unscathed, without a single wound.
At this rate he would reach the main gate.
「Hahaha! Not bad!」
A laugh came from the soldiers guarding right in front of the gate.
Three massive figures stood there.
「So that must be King Henry of Bernada.」
「Whoever he is, he will not break through the three Zororald brothers’ defense. Don’t underestimate us, brat!」
Naturally, the gate that must never fall was manned by hulking warriors.
They were Rilincross’s elite, the Zororald three brothers.
All three were giants at 210 centimeters tall and 130 kilograms each.
They wielded a gigantic battle axe, a massive hammer, and a colossal greatsword respectively.
They were super heavyweights.
「I’ll take the general’s head!」
Boomed the Zororald with the greatsword as he swung in.
But.
「Out of my way」
「Guaaaaaaaah!!?」
With a casual motion, Henry brushed the greatsword aside and sent Zororald flying.
The giant tumbled nearly thirty meters, critically wounded and unconscious.
「Brother!? You bastard!!」
The axe-wielding Zororald leapt and brought down an overhead strike.
It was an enormous, intimidating blow.
Still, it did not affect Henry.
「Step aside」
Henry dodged the axe, slammed into him with a counter, and sent him flying.
「Gaaaaah!!?」
The impact was brutal.
Although it hit the shoulder, Zororald’s ribs and spine shattered at once and he died.
Two brothers were down.
Only one remained.
「Y-you…!!」
The last Zororald, enraged and terrified at his brothers’ deaths, raised his massive hammer.
「Die… King of Bernada!!」
He wound up and swung with full force.
The hammer struck Henry’s upper body with a thunderous crash, but….
Henry was untouched.
The hammer shattered to pieces.
「W-what!?」
The Zororald gasped in shock for a moment.
Fragments of the broken hammer then impaled him and blew his body apart.
「A monster…!!」
The captain, watching from the outer wall, could not help but mutter.
In an instant, Henry had defeated the three Zororald brothers.
He ran straight for the main gate and slammed his shoulder into the closed doors.
「――――――――――――!!!」
In the next instant, with an ear-splitting roar, the gate exploded and shattered.
Gale and dust swept through.
The formidable outer gate had been built from hard ore and enhanced with magic to increase its hardness.
Yet Henry had broken it with ease and breached it.
The soldiers near the gate stood frozen, stunned by the shock.
Henry paused for a moment.
「The gate is open. Now then, shall we trample Rilincross?」
He smiled and proclaimed the start of the hunt called war.
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