"What? Capital is being attacked?!"
*BOOOM*
Another explosion answered Leopold's question. Realizing the gravity of the situation, captains of Crimson Lion and Blue Rose came forward which caused the person who brought the information to shudder in his steps.
"Tell us everything." Fuegoleon said in a tone that left nothing to question.
"Umm…I-ah…"
"Let me." Siren said seeing that the person who was sent to deliver the news was not able to speak clearly and was wasting everyone's time.
"Stone Creation Magic: Stone Model of the World"
He muttered as a live 3D model of the Clover Capital started to protrude out from the ground. The model was made of solid stone that had every building in the Kingdom with full precision. On the same model, there were various spots that had fire burning on them.
'Oh, so he is Mimosa 2.0, healing sold separately.' Wilhelm joked internally as Siren said, "The spot where the fire is burning is where the attack is happening."
As he ended brought his hands together and clapped which was followed by the sound of glass breaking, and immediately, Nozel and Nebra stirred, groggily standing up. Following this, he shot fire at Solid.
And before Fuegoleon could chastise him, he said, "I healed Solid with fire and the other two are waking up."
"Fine. This problem will be dealt with later, for now, focus on the security of the Kingdom." Fuegoleon added looking at Wilhelm who did not refute the statement then turned to the rest of the people here and said, "I am not your squad Captain and not the superior of some here, but still I wish to take the lead here, if anyone has a problem with it, then please voice your concern." He ended up looking at Nozel who had woken up and was glaring at Wilhelm, but restrained himself realizing that something good was going on, and the talk only reinforced that thought.
"…"
"Then I will take it as the sign of agreement. From what we can see, 5 areas are currently under attack. We will go in a group of three and branch away to deal with problems on the field itself.
Three Captains will lead these three groups.
Group 1, will be Silver Eagles, Alecdora, Yuno, and Mimosa, headed by Nozel will go to the east district.
Group 2 will be Blue Rose, Siren, Klaus, Hamon, and Wilhelm, headed by Charlotte will go to the northern district.
The last group will be Leopold, Noelle, and…? Where is the Black Bull boy?" Fuegoleon asked as his rhythm broke.
"He ran before you began explaining the plan." Wilhelm replied at which Fuegoleon sighed in frustration and continued, "The last group will be me, Leopold, Noelle, and that Black Bull boy, and will head to Middle District.
Now, go!!"
"HAH!" Everyone roared in unison with varying intensity. Immediately, Fuegoleon created a fire lion or panther, pulled Noelle and Leopold on it, and left.
Yuno created a wind platform to fly on, where a Nozel, Nebra, and Solid who were glaring at Wilhelm with pure hatred stood on.
On Group 2's side, Wilhelm and Klaus nodded at each other and started to create a contraption under the confused eyes of those who were left that looked to be a rectangular single box tapering on two sides. Then Wilhelm got into the box and started to create multiple-gear wheel-like things.
"What are you wasting time fo-"
"Done!" Wilhelm shouted over Sol, who shut up and saw that nothing looked at had changed.
"What is it? We don't have time to waste." Charlotte said putting her foot down to which Wilhelm came out of the box dusting his hands said, "A single box tram powered by a perpetual motion machine that needs to use momentum from the fall here but can be piloted by a user too" He said as if it was the most obvious thing and then added looking at Klaus, "Just move it like you moved train and create its track. Have that fatty put his fat legs to use."
"Wa-wait! Did you just-"
"Let's go!" Wilhelm shouted as she shot some mineral bolts at the glass near them and broke it. Then he hopped onto the top of the tram.
"We will talk later. We have wasted enough time here." Charlotte repeated looking at Hamon who seemed that no one had called him fat ever before. The first one to enter the tram was Siren, followed by Klaus, Hamon, Sol, and then Charlotte.
When they entered it, small tracks started to appear in front of the wheel and it started to move.
"You created something that moves this slOWWWW!!!!" Sol shrieked in the end when the tram started to move down from the tower to the ground on a track that Klaus was creating at an alarming rate.
Feeling wind over his face, Wilhelm shouted, "Everyone! Use your projectile attack to hit the enemy if you see one on the way."
Then Wilhelm hopped a bit back on the tram's roof, created a magic circle on his both hands and…started to fire away at undead-like things that they met on the way.
'Am I playing a zombie shooter in a magic world in real life sitting on a speeding tram? This is awesome!'
Wilhelm thought as he started to shoot the undead.
"WHAT ARE THEY?" Klaus shouted from the inside.
"Undead!! Either someone summoned them with summoning magic, or someone used curse magic of some sort to create them and their numbers will increase as they put so much as a graze on a person!!!"
Wilhelm shouted from the outside which caused alarms to ring in the head of everyone and Charlotte shouted from the inside.
"How did you know about the latter part?!"
"Just a feeling!"
This shut her right up and she asked Klaus instead, "Is he right in the head?"
"Yes."
"Hahahaha! Die you rotten r*tard! DIE!!!!"
"Maybe."
Klaus went back on his statement fast. This way, the ride kept on going and Wilhelm kept on shooting down every undead as they finally reached a place that was one of the epicenters of the attack, where the tram came to a screeching halt.
"Captain Charlotte, we are at one of the 5 sites of attack. What should we do?" Wilhelm asked Charlotte who was not feeling up to the mark because this was her first ride on a thing like this.
"Char, you okay?" Sol asked shaking her a bit, who unlike Charlotte felt she was on the best ride of her life and had fun if her smile was anything to go by.
"Wh-? Yes, I am fine of course."
"Then…?"
"Then what?"
"Ohohoho, we have reached one of the 5 spots Captain Charlotte. What should we do?" Hamon asked with his eloquent laugh.
Nodding her head in realization, masking her emotions of embarrassment inside and giving a once over at the situation outside where Wilhelm was shooting down the undead that were numerous, she said, "All of you from the Golden Dawn except Klaus will defend this post. There are less…undeads here. After dealing with the hostiles here, join us in the front."
"As you wish, ohohoho!"
"Hrm."
Both Hamon and Siren said as they jumped from the tram and joined in the fray.
"Move!" Charlotte thundered at which Klaus started to move the train once again like a peasant while Wilhelm on the top was living his fantasy in a fantasy world.
At a similar pace, they moved again when a conversation broke between the people on the inside.
"What do you look so tensed about?" Sol asked seeing Charlotte's contemplative face at which Klaus entered the conversation.
"You should not disturb her. Captain Charlotte must be thinking of a plan."
"I do not need a man to tell me what I should do." Sol bit back at him.
"So-"
"HEY KLAUS! Tell her that, 'But she needs a man to button her knickers up.'"
"-l?" Charlotte ended in confusion as she heard Wilhelm's comment.
'What did he say?'
As for the one who was targeted, Sol looked like she had been hit in the face with a mud ball.
"Pfft!" But Klaus' muffled laughter broke the stupor of the Roses.
"What did you say?" Sol said as she blinked her eyes like a dumb person, and soon turned to one of anger looking at Klaus.
"I said nothing." Klaus said trying to pour water on the situation.
"He said that your mother is a hamster and your father stank of elderberries." But Wilhelm poured oil on it.
"How shameless of you. And it is not the first instance you did what you did. What you did in the Decoration Ceremony's reception was pure reckless and unbecoming of a magic knight." Charlotte chided Wilhelm firmly and both Klaus and Sol decided to shut up seeing the strictness in her tone.
But Wilhelm didn't.
"That is just rich coming from you."
"What do you imply?"
'Don't answer Wilhelm, please.' Klaus begged internally.
"What I imply is simple."
But who was Wilhelm if not a force of nature.
"All of us were invited by Julius Novachrono, the Wizard King himself to attend the event, which we did without being any hindrance to all of you. I accept that Asta's behavior was not nice at all during the meeting but other than him, all of us stayed out of your way.
Then, lo and behold my surprise, the magic knights, who had been appointed to protect the citizens of Clover Kingdom, the same Kingdom told me straight-face how superior the nobles are compared to common citizens of this kingdom.
The same magic knights clearly stated through their actions that they placed the lives of nobles above the other.
The magic knight captain of these same magic knights did nothing to refute or punish this behavior.
If spitting directly on the values of magic knights that have been coined by the first Wizard King himself was not enough, the captain of the squad who is known to be a noble supremacist harassed her sister and said it out aloud that she was the cause of death of the mother she has never seen. Same sister who I am sure has never been treated like a family, neither in her home nor outside. The same girl who has been treated as a failure all her life but magically started performing just fine when I and the rest of Black Bull started to treat her kindly."
Hearing this, Charlotte was unable to refute anything, and Klaus looked at Wilhelm with respect in his eyes for knocking out a Magic Knights Captain with a look, and chiding the other.
But Wilhelm was not done.
"And I am not even sure that the title of Magic Knights Captain is given to people who deserve it. Nozel is just pathetic.
So tell me, Captain of Blue Rose, did I say anything wrong? Did I do anything wrong for protecting a 'girl' who had been harassed since her birth by her own family?
Your squad prefers girls, doesn't it? I wonder what your thoughts are on this, please do tell."
At this, Sol looked at Charlotte with a look that said that she wanted Charlotte to bring Wilhelm under line.
'Go Charlotte. Get him.'
Something that did not escape Wilhelm's eyes.
"I remember that Sol, the member of your own team is also from humble origins…"
'Oh no Wilhelm, you did not go there.' Klaus thought realizing what he was going to say.
So did Sol and Charlotte, the former of whom felt scared for what was to come, and the latter of whom had to let go of any verbal attack she could muster and prepared to go on defensive.
"Then tell me, Captain of Blue Rose, do you also feel that Sol is useless. Her life is not worth as much as Solid Silva's.
Is it true that no matter how much effort does she do, she can never be as good as a noble?
Should she quit your squad altogether?"
"I-" Charlotte began damage control but Wilhelm who was now having fun with it and doing it just to troll Charlotte spoke.
"Of course, you don't think so."
"Yeah, Char is not like that."
"Of course, she is not like Nozel Silva."
"I am-"
"Hell yeah, Char is the best. Not like that ponytail man."
"Of course, she supports an innocent girl like Noelle."
"I mea-"
"That is not even a question."
"Of course, she never goes back on her word."
"Sol wa-"
"She is a woman of her word."
"Then she also promises to support me for saving Noelle."
"No w-"
"It is laughing that you even think so."
"Good. That means Captain Charlotte is going to take my side when I am questioned."
"Sh-"
"Of course."
"Thank you, Captain Charlotte."
"You are welcome-hey!"
"Char is so amazing, isn't she?" Sol said with a satisfied grin, while Klaus who was observing what happened in front of him had only one thought.
'…what happened?'
As for Captain Charlotte herself, she had an impassive face while on the inside, she was thrashing her head around like a madman.
'I, the Captain of Blue Rose, did not just lose and got scammed by a rookie from Black Bull, and that too due to a member of my own team. If others heard, then I would be a laughing stock.
And Most importantly.
Yami will never let me live this down. He will make fun of me. He will think I am an idiot. He won't like me. Noooo!!!!'
And just as Charlotte was about to prove she was not an idiot.
*SCREECH*
"We have arrived at our last station. Captain Charlotte, we need your help."
Wilhelm said in a tone that made both Klaus and Charlotte realize something.
'He did that on purpose.'
But Charlotte could not confront him at that moment because of one simple reason. Duty got in the way.
"I will deal with you later." Charlotte mouthed as she jumped from the train along with Klaus and Sol. As they landed, they saw Wilhelm jump with them whose face was completely serious, making them think that the conversation they just had between them was just an illusion.
'At least he knows when to be serious.' Charlotte thought, adding the only positive thing she could find about Wilhelm to his profile.
Then she gave commands to all the people, "Klaus, secure the people and create barricades. Wilhelm, heal the injured civilians and shoot undead down.
Sol, move as many of those undead as you can. Understood?"
"Yes."
"Yes, Char."
"Call me Captain Sol."
"You got it Char."
At that, all of them started to spread around the place. Conjuring up his broom that he had hidden in the behind him, Wilhelm stepped onto it and went airborne, spreading his fire on the civilians that were in worse condition he saved them first, while with the other hand he started to mow down the undead.
"Steel Creation Magic: Steel Castle's Armored Wall"
Klaus shouted as he started to conjure walls after from the ground up against the civilians who were huddling close together separating them from the undead, avoiding them from the attacks of the knights.
"Earth Magic: Earth Wall Partition"
Sol too created walls of Earth that while less rigid than those of steel were more in number and making terrain hard for undead to chart, and moving in a certain path, making it easy for Charlotte to mow them down with her whip that culled them, taking 10s of them in a single swing, while Wilhelm shot down any straggler.
The process became way too efficient for them, that despite the large numbers of undead, they were able to deal with them in a good enough time.
"Don't move from your place. Stay still, you will be safe here." Klaus said to a group of civilians that he had hidden behind his wall when Wilhelm shot down the last one.
"Ye-yes. Thank you, Mr. Magic Knight." A child who was among them said to Klaus who adjusted his glasses and moved away.
Soon, Sol, Wilhelm, Charlotte, and Klaus gathered in one spot when Klaus began.
"We have dealt with all of them. We should go and assist the others."
"Yes, we should." Charlotte affirmed when Wilhelm added.
"Captain, I have something to tell you."
"What is it?"
"It's about these undead."
"…Go on." Charlotte said with a sigh, at which Wilhelm added with an internal smile, while Klaus kept on admiring Wilhelm's courage more.
"These undead are not based on the curse and are summons. Those civilians who are harmed by these undead do not mutate.
Either this, or the user has a magic that can turn dead into his puppets like this, because he has not used any non-animate puppets which would be way more useful and this theory also supports why he has not overwhelmed us with an endless horde of them.
So, it is safe to assume that a scratch from them won't turn you into them."
"Hmm…a good deduction. I will keep it in mind, but still, I want none of you to be actively hit by them. We can deal with them from a range so we will do so. No need to waste time." Charlotte said, at which Wilhelm coughed his throat to attract attention once more.
With an annoyed tone, Charlotte said, "Anything else to add…?"
"This particular and unique type of magic seemed to belong, excuse me, used to belong to a man named Rades Spirito, a former member of Purple Orca, whose magic was called Soul Corpse Magic and could make corpses his puppet. He was kicked out of the squad due to the nature of it.
I read about him due to strong and unique magic."
"That…gives him the motive to launch out an attack against Clover Kingdom. Good work Wilhelm. You make a good magic knight despite your…peculiarities." Charlotte tried to put it in the best way possible.
"And despite being a man." Sol added and before Wilhelm could give her a clever retort, a black portal engulfed all of them, and they disappeared.
…
*SHATTER*
Well, Wilhelm's illusionary clone disappeared.
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I really wanted him to disappear with the rest to make a carriage and then come using Regulus Aurum but I thought him being left due to his habit of using illusion would be more in line with his character.
A/N: Please leave power stones!