[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-in-fairy-tail-sorry-i-really-am-the-mastermind-b":3,"chapter-in-fairy-tail-sorry-i-really-am-the-mastermind-b-in-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-chapter-614":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","In Fairy Tail: So Sorry, I Really Am the Mastermind",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2127169,3474,"Chapter 614","in-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-chapter-614",614,"\u003Cp>The soldiers in the rear kept pushing the soldiers in front to move forward, while explosives were continuously thrown from above. They were crying and wailing, but their bodies were forced to move forward. With a boom of an explosion, they died on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In just over ten minutes, the Holy Kingdom's overly dense phalanx lost over ten thousand personnel, including a large number of precious mages, archers, and countless shield-bearers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>These front-line shield walls were given extra attention by the Nightless soldiers' explosive packages, and the shield walls behind them were pressing against the backs of the soldiers in front. One explosive package would take out two rows and two columns of shield-bearers at once, along with several shield-spearmen around them who were blasted into a daze.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After a brief moment of distraction, they were stabbed to death by the long spears of the Nightless soldiers behind the shield wall!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>By the time the Holy Kingdom commander and the Holy Son realized that the situation seemed a bit wrong, the number of casualties had already approached fifteen thousand. The two thousand explosive packages on the city wall were also running low. When the Holy Kingdom commander and the Holy Son received word that the enemy was suspected of using black gunpowder weapons, the commander immediately had the horn-blowers announce a retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The soldiers in the rear of the Holy Kingdom heard the retreat horn and finally stopped putting pressure on the soldiers in the front. The more they were pushed forward, the more these soldiers understood what was happening on the front line. They watched in horror as a package dropped from the city wall, suddenly landed in the crowd, and then exploded, and people were gone in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was simply beyond their imagination. It felt similar to their own magic cannonballs, just a bit less powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The retreat horn and the gradually disappearing pressure from the rear made the surviving Holy Kingdom soldiers feel fortunate that they were protected by the Holy King, and the city wall seemed to sense this as well, no longer throwing down those explosive packages, which made the Holy Kingdom soldiers below feel even more fortunate.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In reality, it wasn't that the Nightless soldiers responsible for throwing the bombs didn't want to continue; it was just that the quantity was limited. They had just started throwing with gusto when the black gunpowder in their hands ran out.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Holy Kingdom army retreated like a tide again, and Yan Liu on the city wall couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. If they had chosen to continue the fierce attack, they would have discovered that they had no more packages left to throw.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Heaven's favor.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But they wouldn't be so lucky next time, and a bitter smile appeared on Yan Liu's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The next wave would inevitably be a bombardment by magic crystal cannons!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This time the enemy would definitely choose to bombard the city wall, and they would only choose to retreat!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whether they could withstand the next wave of the enemy's attack was the crucial key!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The reason was also very simple: the commander is the head of an army, the foundation of morale. If the enemy still had black gunpowder and the idea of dying together, then he would be in trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Moreover, the opposing commander hadn't made a move yet. When the commanders of both sides fight, it is inevitably the final trump card battle where one side has already suppressed the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this time, if the weaker side defeats the stronger side's commander, they might be able to lead the weaker side to turn defeat into victory, but most of the time, the stronger commander defeats the weaker one, ending the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But now, when the two sides are evenly matched, if one commander rashly steps forward to fight, once the Holy Kingdom's commander is seriously injured by the enemy commander, or killed by a trick, morale will plummet, and the Holy Kingdom's army will inevitably be slaughtered by the enemy like chickens and dogs.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It is better to be conservative for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Although the mages suffered 2,000 casualties, there is still a chance to summon the Holy Fire, but the arrangements need time, and the agreement with the Kingdom also requires at least until evening to launch the final attack.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Holy Son and the commander were both sensible people.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There was no such thing as Holy Fire; it was actually using space magic to open an ultra-long-distance mirror enchantment, thereby allowing the Kingdom's magic-guided giant cannons to launch attacks, with magic cannonballs striking the enemy through space magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It couldn't be considered a very clever method, but under the religious rule of faith, the bottom-level people became ignorant, like puppets on strings, deeply controlled by the high-level personnel. Whatever the Holy King said, that was what it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The luxurious life of constantly oppressing the bottom level in comfort made the ruling class of the Kingdom extremely corrupt, while the bottom-level people, because of their ignorance, all felt that this was the best life, all tests from the Holy King, not knowing that there were far better lives in other places.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This time there shouldn't be any mistakes, right? Will the second descent of the Holy Fire cause morale to drop? In the past, the descent of the Holy Fire often represented the start of a Holy War. A second descent, hmm.\" The Holy Kingdom commander fell into thinking about old rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Would it make the people below feel that the Holy War was over?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His worry could be seen by the Holy Son on the commander's face at a glance. On the surface, the commander was the general of the army, but in reality, the control was in the hands of the Holy Son.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A military general was, after all, just a tool in the hands of the Kingdom's high-level officials. How could these blockheads be allowed to acquire any advanced knowledge? They only knew church regulations, and how to lead troops in battle and fight with force.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As for political means, they knew nothing at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So-called rules were actually just a means for the rulers to bind the bottom level, and so-called upholding justice... was only something the rulers would do.\u003C\u002Fp>",1060,"2026-06-16T12:13:35.259Z","2026-06-17T08:53:56.698Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","40a2254132ed917b0997099a82563b1a933ce8b679b9091501109073e1f32952","in-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-chapter-615","in-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-chapter-613",660,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fin-fairy-tail-apologies-i-am-the-mastermind-cover.jpg"]