Karma Comes Back Around

The 14th Defensive Corps, which had been leading the formation, was annihilated in an instant. Siegfried had to make his final choice.

Should he charge into the middle of that curtain of fire and die, or retreat?

If Siegfried had been an old man who had lived as long as Sword Saint Albrecht, he would have had a decent chance of victory.

Siegfried, too, possessed the talent to stand on equal footing with Albrecht someday.

But the Siegfried of today had not reached that level. He was still young, and he had not trained properly in recent years.

The past few years had been the worst period of Siegfried's life. Amid the North's chaotic situation, he had not properly honed his swordsmanship.

And this was the result.

"Urgh...!"

Siegfried could barely keep up with blocking the incoming shells and gunfire. Protecting the allies behind him while holding out was the limit of his abilities.

However, Siegfried's stamina was finite. He could not hold out against the rain of bullets for very long...