As the soldiers Shino save from being trap get to safety and seeing the demon general smiling on him as if he is mocking him, Shino walk back angry but he is smiling
Aistel met up with Shino on the ground noticing that he is smiling and said, "Shino… Why are you smiling?"
"Smiling… me?" Shino asked and touch his face
"Oh… Well who knows we are fighting an intellectual cocky green playboy, that demon…" Shino added
Evil aura pour out on Shino and a cold wind started to blow, Shino then added, "That freaking demon is mocking me… I should have aim it directly at that bastard and forget about this country's pride… yes… I should have… ha-ha-whahahaha"
Aistel became worried and said, "uhm… Shino-san… you look more like a demon right right now"
Shino started chanting to fire the full power ˹Rail-gun˼ again and Aistel Immediately stop him and said, "Stop! Are you trying to get us killed?! let's talk it out first… talk it out!"
Shino stop chanting and clap saying, "Aight! Meeting time! I need all the information you gathered for this past 7 months"
A meeting immediately held at the other side of the wall on which the only attendee are Shino and Aistel
Shino sat down and said, "So… Why is it just you Aistel?"
"Ahahaha… well about that… The head captain of each battalion are way too scared right now…" Aistel replied nervously
"HUH?!" Shino said with his menacing aura spewing out
"Shino-san, why are you even that mad?! You're giving me shivers, just calm down!" Aistel said
Shino suck up all the spewing aura back and said, "Alright-alright let's just get this finished"
Aistel sighed and stated, "About what you want to know about the goblin king this is all the reports that the other soldiers and head captain have"
Aistel gave Shino a copy of the paper his holding and added, "First of all the most obvious one, the goblin, Brutsnork Vemilon, is a Goblin king variant that became part of the demon kings army, a general to be exact, ahh… unless you don't know Shino… Demon generals are the second closest people to the demon king, we say second because there are four people who are much closer and can order them around without the demon kings acknowledgement, we call them 'Membre', anyway to the second point, A daring mission was attempted 2 weeks after General Vemilon attack us and it was to send a group to use ˹Appraisal˼ on General, since ˹Appraisal˼ needs line of sight and a clear vision of the target the group needed to came close the General Vemilon, it is basically a suicide mission, out of 50 people only 20 came back alive and with that we know that General Vemilon has the unique skill, ˹Mutation˼, a skill that allows the user to alter one's biological properties. Third, at the 4th month of fighting a desperate bombardment of magical cannons and black-powdered cannons was approved by the queen, at this attack we managed to destroy part of their camp and hit the demon king himself, but sadly we didn't kill him, although we have blown his head right off he just grow it back up, we speculate that because of his skill ˹Mutation˼ he manage to get a grand magic called, ˹Axel Heal˼, it allows the user to regrow any lost limb and that includes head, we can rule out the skill ˹immortality˼ since it is a skill given by gods. Not something you can really acquire. On the last note, since the battle has gone way to long, we are actually spending the materials that are stored for the world-wide project called 'Genesis', I'll discuss that project to you on a much private place, for now we are trying to minimize the consumption as much as possible but as you can see we are still spending a lot. Also multiple head captain agreed on the speculation that General Brutsnork can't actually move around, the proof was because they never saw it move out of the throne even once for the past seven months and also the fact that the throne can be lifted. That's pretty much all but Shino I think you found something out on the battle today right?"
"humu~ Aistel you're a good assistant, ever consider doing that?" Shino asked in seriousness
"Thank you for your wor… not! Did you figure something out or not?" Aistel reacted
Shino just laugh and said, "Hai! I'll share what I saw, basically the goblin king has two giants assisting right now, so we are pretty much stuck on 'Who can last longer' game"
"Two giants huh… so that explains the boulder flying towards us, but we have been battling for so long and manage to get close but none of the soldier saw the giants" Aistel replied
"You are quite relax after hearing there are giants, aren't one of them supposed to be a threat?" Shino said
"well, Giants are indeed a threat but I doubt those two will advance, giants are very territorial beings much like lions and they rarely even leave their grounds, those giants territory are probably the place where General Vemilon are staying, they won't touch him since General Vemilon is part of the demon kings army but they will attack anyone else who came close, also the entire continent that the Demon king rule are full of giant's"
"Is that so… so the reason why no one else seen the giants is because…"
Aistel look at Shino and added, "They are sleeping and was awoken when you shot your magic, that also explain the aggression towards us"
Shino sighed and said, "So I basically made this thing much worse"
Aistel and Shino started to think at option they have on their hand
"Sending troops are just suicide, Archers cannot make their shot, our soldier are beyond exhausted despite the rotation of different platoon, at the state of the wall only a few cannons can fire and since firing a cannon for long distance is just a guess work we cannot really use it to kill the target, our numbers are decreasing but theirs aren't, Shino I think firing your skill once again is the only way" Aistel said
"I can fire it but on our state a number of soldiers will be sacrificed, ˹Rail-gun˼ destroys everything in its path, I shot it above their camp earlier to avoid the soldiers from getting caught too you know, also it needs time to charge and be fired, from the chanting to releasing, I'll need at least a minute to fire it, if we pull the soldiers back the goblins will take that opportunity to push forward, you see where I'm getting at?" Shino replied
Aistel sighed and said, "Sacrificing huh… I don't think no one will volunteer for that, the moral is down especially right now that we nearly got a breach. Sending prisoner as sacrifice… maybe that could work…"
Shino got terrified on what Aistel think and said, "Aistel… you can say something so terrifying with such a calm voice"
Aistel just laugh at Shino and said, "Ahaha, I'm just joking… it's not my call to do that after all"
They rack their brain together but they can't think of anything they can do
"Assassination maybe? But hiring a mercenary will cost too much and there is still a chance of the mercenary running away" Aistel replied
Shino slam the table and said, "Aistel you're a genius, we can assassinate the target"
"Eh?" Aistel replied
"That bastard is not immortal and a sitting duck, it is also a straight shot with no obstacle so we can assassinate him" Shino said
A thought on Aistel on which He saw Sino running towards the demon general alone and manage to kill it, so he replied, "Your right, your immortal so it doesn't matter if you manage to get close"
"Eh? I'm not going out there, because if I get close enough the giants will just fling me right back" Shino replied
"Eh?! Then how are we going to kill him without getting close?" Aistel asked
"Simple… we just need to shoot him" Shino replied confidently with his thumb pointing up and his index pointing at Aistel
Aistel got confused and said, "Shoot him? Did you not hear me earlier? Cannons are hard to aim, and arrows won't reach, we need a cannon like skill with high precision in order to kill it too, also we don't know any weak spot yet so where do we even shoot?"
Shino just smile at Aistel and said, "Every mortal being has one common weak spot… and it's the heart"
"Okay… good point, but how about the cannon like skill?" Aistel asked
Shino open his storage box and pull out a thick rod with magic circle imbedded on it
Shino poured his mana to the thick rod and it started to speak
"Activating ˹Alchemy˼, Transformation Commence, Weapon Gear: ˹Glock-9˼"
The thick rod bend and transform to a modern pistol at Shino's hand on which Shino added, "I have what you want"
Shino load the barrel and point it at an armour stand and pulled the trigger
A loud bang was heard follow by a ringing of metal, shock by the loud bang Aistel took a closer look at the iron plated armour and saw a dent made on the point of impact