The Knight Of Prophecy

Chapter 18: Strategic Warfare

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

-Sun Tzu

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|MAMORU|

"Heh, so our job is to wait for them here while Purple guy and Blondie lures the demons this way so we can ambush them, right?" I asked the Redhead person beside me who's been silent for quite some time now.

I can easily get bored whenever I'm not fighting, like damn! I want to cut some demon heads right now!

"That's correct, Mamoru. And for the last time, it's Lancelot and Gawaine, not Purple guy and Blondie." Redhead hissed at me returned his gaze back to the to the only narrow path between these two mountains we're currently waiting.

"Fine, fine. So Readhead-"

"For God's sake! It's Tristan, you female Blondie! Don't call me Redhead!" What?! Why is he so mad?! Did I say something wrong? What's wrong about calling them based on the color of their hair?!

"Geez, man, calm down." He doesn't have to be so mad right?

"Seriously, Mamoru. I can only have a serious conversation with you during battles, you're more respectable during those times." He said and looked at me from head to toe as if he's examining my whole existence.

"Yeah, for real. Having a normal conversation with you is just impossible. It's a surprise how Gawaine can keep up with your attitude."

"Hey! That's not a nice thing to say!" This bastard is just bullying me, I wanna slice him up real bad! But it's true though, for some reasons, only Blondie and I can communicate normally.

"Truth hurts, doesn't it? Anyway, you're about to say something earlier, right? What is it?" This bastard is really harsh, isn't he? And yeah, I almost forgot about the things that I'm supposed to ask because he cut me off!

"That's right, do you think we can finish those demons off using the tactics, General Mustache wants us to do?"

He starts rubbing his chin with his pointer finger as if he's thinking about something. General said that what we're about to do is a way of fighting in his world called, guerilla tactics. Well I'm not sure if it will be effective though, afterall, his world is completely different from ours.

"I'll pretend that I didn't hear you call him General Mustache. But if you ask me, I don't see any problem regarding the strategy he propose." He said while wiping his bow using a piece of cloth.

He said he prefers to use his bow on this mission, his aim is more accurate when he is using his sacred bow, Curtana instead of a gun,well that's according to him.

"I know it will work on lesser demons like Goblins, Orcs, Kobolds, and other monsters, but I'm not sure if it's the same to those high demons." He added and returned his bow to his back.

I can understand what he's saying, I actually think of that too. Demons that has similar feats to humans are actually smart and good at magic, I don't know if the strategy that we're going to use will be effective against them.

"I can actually agree, but if the manholes worked, it will help us win today's battle." He nodded as a form of agreement to what I said.

"Well, we have to maximize our army's new weapon, right? This has to work." He added to my statement and prepare his arrows.

That's right, this new weapon called gun that was introduced by the General is quite strong and interesting. Even those demons that can fly have no means to escape it's range.