CROSS OVER (TENSURA x SEKAI SAIKO NO ANSATSUSHA, ISEKAI KIZOKU NI TENSEI SURU)

Chapter XII

Rimuru pov

I arrived at the gathering point to find everyone else already there. Epona was so strong that she didn’t need equipment, but the others were
dressed for battle. Naoise had a magic sword, Dia, Tarte and Lugh dont look any different. Me and Ciel wear our True dragon out fit and for Shinsha she just wear her normal outfit back at Tempest.

Before long, it was time for us to depart. We all climbed into the wagon and took off for our destination.

The horde of orcs didn’t seem like it was going to be too much of a
problem. I only hoped the army’s information was correct.

~xXx~

Lugh pov

We arrived at the ravine where we were going to ambush the orcs. Some
soldiers were gathered there, too.
Non-mages were unable to fight in battles against monsters. Still, they
could serve as lookouts, scouts, or guards. Other tasks like making camp,assisting with villager evacuation, procuring supplies, and delivering messages to and from command could also be entrusted to them.

Their presence enabled mages to focus on battle. A scout returned and reported to Rachel. The woman nodded, then looked like she was contemplating how best to convey this new information to us. After considering for a moment, she sauntered over.

“The orcs will arrive in four hours. We don’t know how, but their
numbers have increased. The estimate has increased from one hundred to one hundred and fifty,”

she told us with a calm voice. An increase of 50 percent
was not good news. Typically, the proper procedure would’ve been to cancel our operation and retreat.

I waited for Rachel to say something else, but she remained quiet. Tarte
then broke the silence by hesitantly raising her hand.

“Um, is there a plan for this?”
“The plan is simple. We use this ravine to kill all the orcs. To be more
specific, those who are skilled in close combat will fight hard up front, and
those who are skilled at using mana will fire spells from the rear,” Rachel
replied.

Doesn’t sound like much of a plan. That said, giving us a complicated
strategy when we held no real organized combat training was impossible.

“Miss Rachel, I have something to say. The canyon is a suitable place to
engage the orcs, but the road leading into it is too wide. Fighting an army of one hundred and fifty head-on would be suicide,” I observed.

The entrance into the ravine was wide enough that five to six orcs could
enter at a time. Handling that many was an impossible task for our vanguard.

It would lead to our rearguard getting surrounded, which would keep them
from casting spells. In the end, we were just too few.

“But we don’t have any better options,” Rachel protested.

“Perhaps if you consider the map to be stagnant, but what if we change
the terrain? Dia and I can use our earth magic to narrow the road. We can make a gently sloping dirt wall so no more than two orcs will be able to pass through at a time,” I suggested.

Rimuru came to us and said is it okay to use my full power I just want to finish this quick.

Yeah sure. I said

Then that is all. He said and left

Okay back to my plan, I said

I drew a simple picture on a piece of paper. Just as I’d explained, we’d
alter the landscape by creating a slope in the earth that connected the walls of
the canyon. This would make a choke point that reduced how many orcs
could get through. The barricade would also keep enemy projectiles out. The
mages in the rearguard would be safe to hurl spells over our wall.
In truth, I would’ve preferred to close off the ravine entirely, but that
would incentivize the orcs to look for another way around, so the opening
had to be kept wide enough that they still wanted to go through.
“That’s an interesting plan. But do you have enough mana to create a dirt
wall of this size?” Rachel inquired.
“That won’t be a problem for Dia and me. You said we have four hours
until the enemy arrives, right? We’ll build the wall and still have enough time
left over to recover any lost mana,” I declared.
“I agree completely,” added Dia.
Rachel looked at Professor Dune.
“I’ll allow it. Lugh, Claudia, give it a try.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Lugh, let’s do our best.”
Dia and I nodded at each other and immediately got to work.
The mages and the non-mages alike looked on in wonder.
“This is magnificent. I’m always amazed by the beauty of Lugh and Dia’s
magic,” said Naoise.
“Yes, Lord Lugh and Lady Dia are geniuses when it comes to magic,”
responded Tarte.
“Whoa, that’s incredible. I can’t believe those two are students. I wish I
could hire them into my service right now,” Rachel admitted.
While we weren’t using any spells of our own design, our near-perfect
execution despite the massive scale and our seemingly endless supplies of mana must’ve made us look inhuman.