All My Summons Become Divine Girls

Chapter 296: Loccy Breaks the Line

Hajin followed Juna through the opened quarry gap until Hans’s red signal rose above the siege road below.

Juna turned back toward Corven’s northern route while Hajin descended beside Hans and the militia reserve guarding the pass approach.

One hundred twenty Flint soldiers occupied the road ahead, arranged across three shield layers above a reinforced support trench.

Iron bridge shoes connected separated stone lanes only when each rank advanced, preventing an ordinary ground strike from reaching the whole formation.

Rear winches controlled those shoes from the siege road, letting the wall connect for impact before dividing against a counterattack.

Loccy waited beside Hans’s forward marker with her hammer grounded, flexing fingers that still carried numbness from her previous Burdenfall release.

"They rebuilt the separation," Hajin said, following the bridge shoes through Divine Eye, "but every advance connects the wall to those rear winches."

"For three breaths," Hans said, marking their synchronized step, "then the first layer stops while the next two separate again."

The Flint commander raised his sword from behind the middle shields, ordering every bridge shoe lowered across the road gaps.

"Drop the wall, leave the trench," Hajin said, carrying his voice across the formation, "surrender now and the wounded receive treatment."

The commander’s answer came through twelve firing slots, releasing iron bolts toward Hans’s visible militia reserve.

Kerr raised his shield above the nearest carrying frame, one of the recruits Hans had once marked dead with training chalk.

The first bolt crossed his shield and chest, killing him before the frame behind him reached the drainage cover.

Eight more defenders fell with serious wounds when the synchronized shield step drove a stone shock through their forward markers.

Hans ordered the reserve backward without trying to hold the same ground against the formation’s second prepared impact.

Hajin opened one Ring around his right forearm, spreading Aegis over the casualty frames while Mara’s crews cleared all eight living defenders.

The next bolt release struck gold instead of another body, buying Loccy time without putting Hajin inside her chosen boundary.

"All patients behind white stone," Loccy said, rolling both shoulders beneath her closed Wings, "I need their next full step."

Hans moved his red marker to the white drainage stone after the final frame crossed, clearing ninety-four occupied paces ahead.

The formation advanced again, lowering every iron shoe while rear winches pulled the third layer into the same load path.

Their combined shield wall struck Loccy’s hammer before any rank could lift its connecting braces.

She received the impact across both hands, sinking ankle-deep into packed soil while nothing passed beyond Hans’s white marker.

Dark-gold fault lines spread along the hammer rings, drawing the wall’s synchronized recoil away from her recovering forearms.

[ Burdenfall: Impact Stored ]

[ Valid Release Structure: layered shield wall / support trench / siege road ]

[ Connected boundary: 94 paces ]

The front rank expected her arms to fail after stopping their combined weight, and the commander ordered another step before disconnecting.

Loccy lifted her head while one pale-gold Wing opened across the road, its dark fault lines matching those around her hammer.

Her second Wing unfolded through the shield slots, forcing soldiers to brace against pressure without burning anyone behind them.

The third opened above the siege road, broad enough to cover every winch connecting the formation’s rear layer.

Three insignia rings locked around the hammer head while Loccy pulled its face free from the front shields.

"You keep building roads that remember my hammer," Loccy said, raising the weapon despite both shaking arms, "this one remembers all of you."

She struck the first iron bridge shoe before the commander could order his layers apart.

Burdenfall entered the connected structure at ground level, carrying the stored shield impact beneath every occupied rank.

The front wall tilted backward as one piece, its linked shields folding over soldiers who continued driving from behind.

The support trench rose beneath the middle layer, turning packed stone and iron braces into a closing ridge.

Behind them, the siege road buckled forward from both edges, dragging winches, firing slots, and the final rank toward the same fold.

Three prepared layers became one vertical collapse, stacked across the pass approach without crossing Hans’s white drainage stone.

Thirty active soldiers died where shield wall, trench, and road closed together around their advancing positions.

Fifty-four survived inside open pockets between folded plates, trapped with broken equipment or limbs that ended further combat.

The rear thirty-six remained standing upon the far road edge, one pace beyond Loccy’s chosen boundary.

Dust rolled down the new ridge while her three Wings held every unstable slab away from the militia casualty corridor.

[ Hostile combatants eliminated: 30 ]

[ Hajin gained: 180,000 EXP ]

[ Hajin Ring Progress: 23,965,000 / 25,000,000 EXP ]

[ Summon Loccy gained: 180,000 EXP ]

[ Loccy Wing Progress: 5,620,000 / 7,500,000 EXP ]

No fourth Wing opened, leaving her three existing spans braced across the folded siege road.

Her arms dropped after the release, but her Wings kept the hammer upright where its head marked the safe custody boundary.

"Thirty-six standing," Hans said, raising a white surrender board toward the far edge, "weapons down before anyone enters the trapped section."

The surviving officer looked from Loccy toward the road section hanging above fifty-four living soldiers beneath her Wings.

He removed his sword belt first, placing it upon the stone before ordering the remaining ranks to follow.

All thirty-six surrendered through the far lane while militia witnesses recorded each weapon without crossing beneath unstable plates.

Hajin kept Aegis above Kerr plus the eight casualty frames, using no attack while the militia reserve entered Loccy’s marked breach.

Custody teams reached the fifty-four trapped soldiers through gaps her Wings held open, disarming each before treatment crews marked injuries.

Loccy adjusted one fault-bright span whenever stone shifted, preserving living pockets without reopening the collapsed route around them.

"You stopped where they were standing," Hajin said, checking the far edge through Divine Eye, "another pace would have taken the surrender line."

"Hans gave me ninety-four," Loccy said, trapping the hammer shaft against her side, "I did not need ninety-five."

The final prisoner emerged before her fault lines dimmed, leaving all one hundred twenty formation members accounted for.

{Layered shield formation: 30 dead / 54 combat-disabled and captured / 36 surrendered / 0 unreconciled.}

{Sixth losses: Kerr deceased / 8 new serious wounds.}

[ Active Flint siege force: 937 ]

[ Sixth campaign ledger: 25 deceased / 79 serious injuries ]

Militia engineers staked both sides of the folded terrain, turning Loccy’s destruction into a guarded pass instead of an unmarked hazard.

Hans sent the first custody count toward Lana while Hajin dismissed his single Ring and kept the damaged Chains stored.

Beyond the broken line, Dreth’s central standards continued withdrawing toward the southern command ridge with fewer shields between them.