The Sharshar Kingdom.
Royal Capital.
For several days, I had been receiving reports from my subordinates.
“The Royal Capital’s combat power is secretly underground… moving somewhere from the Artificial Labyrinth.”
To cause a disturbance.
Could this be a revelation from Hapichu, the God of Harvest and Gourmet?
“I will… I will accomplish it!”
Rustling, skittering sounds.
My subordinates were also pleased that I was taking action.
Vegeta starts a revolt.
Directly beneath the Royal Capital.
Many plant-type monsters and monsters roam McGillis’s Artificial Labyrinth.
“My subordinates! Deliver a crushing blow to these foolish beings!”
“GRROOOAAARRRR!!!”
Breaking through the building’s floor.
Roots and vines extended.
They burst into the rooms of the sleeping residents and suppressed them.
The residents had their bodily nutrients sucked dry, turning into mummies.
“What the… it’s so noisy…”
McGillis was basking in the afterglow of after-play.
“So annoying…”
“It’s ruining the expensive sake…”
His subordinates were drinking and stargazing, discussing the merits of the female form in their secret base.
“What? The floor…”
Was it an earthquake? By the time he thought that, their bodies were restrained by roots and vines bursting through the floor.
“What the hell is this!? Ah, my cute one… turned her into a mummy… my cute one into a mummy… muttering.”
McGillis watched as the woman he had doted on in front of him turned into a mummy without being able to resist the roots and vines.
“My cute one…” he muttered, as his own body’s nutrients were sucked away by the roots and vines.
*Snap! Snap, snap!*
“Ughhhhhhh!!”
With his eyes crazed, McGillis tore apart the restraints with his strength and headed for the source growing from the floor.
Taking revenge for his cute one, he stomped down, widening the hole in the floor and descending.
“Gyaaaaah!? Help meeeee!!”
His subordinates could not escape like McGillis.
Their fate was to become mummies.
***
Eastern Border Line.
Armed forces are invading.
Sharie, piloting her exclusive machine, “Rabunine,” received an emergency alert from the Royal Capital.
“Gah!? Wh-what!?”
“Hold on, hold on.”
Sharie interrupted her fight with the armed forces and returned to the camp to replenish her possessed magic power.
“Magic Power Replenishment! Hurry!”
“Special Investigator Sharie! Yes, immediately.”
Even with Sharie gone, the battle against the armed forces did not change.
In fact, it was easier without her interference. The senior officer guarding the camp watched the replenishment of “Rabunine,”
“I wish she’d leave soon (muttering),”
his true feelings escaped his lips.
“Sharie, “Rabunine” is ready.”
“I’ll get caught in the launch. Evacuate! Evacuate!”
Sharie, not caring if the workers were slow to evacuate, demonstrated piloting techniques that didn’t involve crushing or kicking, and sped towards the Royal Capital.
Among the armed forces, ninjas from the Moonlit (Gekko) clan were inciting them.
“The enemy is wavering! That’s the target!”
“Look! That unit defeated the enemy!”
Ruckus!! Ruckus!
The Utsuki family’s main forces had already secured two cities that served as their bases.
The Sharshar Kingdom Army lifted the siege and retreated.
They let their guard down. The Moonlit clan members crushed the guards and opened and closed the city gates.
They gave the residents false information that reinforcements had arrived, further lulling them into a false sense of security. Then, the occupation force surged in and assaulted the final defensive forces, the Golem units.
The residents had no choice but to abandon their cities and flee.
As they moved to other cities and towns for help and protection, members of the Moonlit clan and retainers eager for merit infiltrated.
The cities that accepted their protection were similarly targeted, with guards crushed and gates opened and closed.
The head of the Utsuki family, Utsuki Saemon-no-kami Senkichi, was greatly satisfied.
From the head of the Katsuhide family, one of his retainers, he received a proposal:
“Let’s make use of the refugees who fled ♪”
This was the refugee plan to invade the Sharshar Kingdom.
“As expected of a martial family ♪ Do it ♪”
With the approval of the head of the Utsuki family, the head of the Katsuhide family outmaneuvered the other retainers.
“Go! Now is the time to attack!”
“BOOOOM!”
“BOOOOM!”
To the units hidden disguised as woods and rocks, the retainers blew conch shells.
To let the surroundings know that they were the ones who achieved merit.
“Knights? Why do they have those!?”
“They have weapons, so it’s not strange for them to have knights, is it!?”
“If you have time for useless chatter!! Kill as many enemies as you can!”
WAAAAAAAARGH!!!
Unaware that Vegeta was making a move in the Royal Capital, the unit defending the eastern road leading to the Royal Capital.
The retainers of the Utsuki family, using the refugees as a shield by kicking them, attacked the formations.
They struck when fatigue was evident. They invaded the eastern road, heading west.
In the Royal Capital, McGillis found himself being sandwiched between Vegeta’s forces and the Utsuki family’s forces.
What will become of this dream kingdom?
☆ ←←Sharie
Defense Force VS Invasion Army ←
Defense Force Side | Invasion Army Side
↖ | ←←□□
□ | □□
○□ | □□
| □■▽Enemy | ←←□□
Main Camp | □Enemy Enemy | □□
| □Enemy Enemy | ←←□□
□□ | □Shield Enemy Enemy | □□
□□ | □Shield■Enemy | ←←□□
| □↙ | □□
The situation in the Royal Capital.
Collapse Enemy☆Enemy
↘ Half-destroyed
Castle ←Enemy East Gate ←←Sharie
Enemy Enemy↗ Half-destroyed Enemy
Enemy Enemy Enemy Enemy
What Sharie saw from “Rabunine” were black smoke and people’s screams everywhere in the Royal Capital.
The roars of the monsters attacking.
“Please wait, King Nine! I! Sharie will rush to your aid right now!”
“Gwa?”
“Get out of the way!!”
“Gubeh.”
Gyawa Gyawa!! Shaa!!
The exclusive machine arrived to save the Royal Capital.
The plant-type skill, “Information Sharing,” was activated.
If one was defeated, the information was instantly transmitted to all others.
Soon, nearby monsters rushed towards “Rabunine.”
“Hoooooooooo!!”
Medium-sized monsters swarmed.
Could they be defeated in one hit? No.
The plant-types had toughness and could feign death.
Their legs were grabbed, and Sharie was pummeled near the East Gate.
“Kyaaaaaaaa!”
“Gwaaaaaaaa!!”
The cockpit was violently shaken.
“I… I won’t loseeeeeee!!”
Both legs were forcibly ejected (purged).
In the brief moment they were pushed over, she activated the support device with all her possessed magic power.
Zero-distance attack. She gambled on the armor protecting the cockpit.
*DOH!* *Nnnnnnn!!!*
“Gyiinnn!? Gyaaaa, gyaaa!?”
The monsters did not expect an attack at such close range. Half of the monsters, excited by their beating, died instantly. The rest flailed at the flames that burned their bodies, spreading the fire to their unharmed companions. This area turned into an inferno.
“Hoo… hohoho, how about that ♪ Ah… how do I get out?”
She hadn’t expected it to turn into such an inferno. Sharie couldn’t get out.
All she could do was wait for her possessed magic power to recover (to a mobilizable amount).
She repeatedly pushed the activation switch.
“Hurry. Hurry and move!”
*Click, click, click…*
