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070 – Rust eats the land! # One

Soldiers from Agarpe territory went to war.

At the forefront was Psyche, dressed in silver armor, riding on a red horse and holding the eagle banner, the symbol of the Agarpe family.

Its appearance was very proud and handsome, and indeed, seeing it made my heart proud.

They are followed by ten bronze knights and a hundred well-trained soldiers.

Because their morale was so high and dependable, many people watched this expedition.

Milione, who was riding a horse wearing light armor, clicked his tongue as he watched the people crowding around.

“It is recorded in the records that even though 100 knights and 10,000 soldiers attacked and attempted to conquer it, they failed. Hyde, can you really do this with this many troops?”

“Don’t worry, Millie. I’m not asking you to help me.”

“Heung, who will help you? Rather, why are you riding a carriage?”

It was like that.

I was riding in a carriage.

The reason was simply because the carriage was comfortable.

If you ride a horse for a long time, your butt hurts.

“Lord Parmas, is it okay for you to go to battle in your old body?”

I asked Parmas, who was sitting in front of me.

Parmas snorted “Hmph-.” and received a letter from a soldier through the window of the carriage.

Chak-.

said Parmas, who opened the letter.

“It seems that 200 Walpurgis witches are already camped in front of the castle. They say that among them is Gaia, the Earthmother witch. She is a monster. Can you deal with it?”

Gaia, the Earthmother.

She was a famous witch.

Among the members of Witch Walpurgis, there are five witches who are the most vicious.

Gaia, the Earthmother, was one of them.

“She uses mysterious hexes. Do you know Sir Bartholin, who was once a knight of the royal family? He was as good as a knight with a golden plate, but he was brutally killed by Gaia in the war 20 years ago!”

A monster that will brutally kill a silver-plated knight who is at odds with a gold-plated knight.

It seemed like he was asking, “Are you confident that such a person is leading the witches?”

Does this old man know?

Milione, who is now riding a horse next to this carriage, is even crazier…

“Gaia is not my opponent. My opponent is the sky.”

“I shouted loudly, but when the time came, did I go crazy? I am a generous person. If you find it difficult to endure the whipping, you can hire a pinch hitter.”

what?

It was an attractive offer.

Does that mean that if I break my promise on purpose, Milione can be whipped as a replacement?

Milione, I think he needs a little beating to come to his senses!

“Lord Parmas, actually I am not confident.”

“Really? Now my true feelings are finally coming out─.”

“I have no confidence in failing.”

“… … .”

Parmas frowns and glares at me.

My flashy speech had caught his attention and he seemed to be completely out of it.

With that feeling, after two days our procession arrived at the mountain where Taeman’s fortress was located.

There were really witches camped out there, and just looking at them made me sick.

“I can’t believe those crazy women are walking around so proudly in broad daylight!”

I hated heretics.

It was because they were ignorant people.

Because they are ignorant and stupid, they become heretics or cults.

But—.

Now I see that there are more heretics than Parmas said.

Didn’t you say the number of witches was 200?

There are at least close to 400 people lurking in front of me right now.

“Those guys… .”

Parmas also opened his narrow eyes as if he was embarrassed.

I also opened my narrowed eyes and looked at this group of strangers. When I looked closely, I saw that their faces had red crosses painted on them, and their flags looked like that too.

I found out their identity.

And without me needing to explain, Psyche, who was confidently marching at the front, shouted.

“This is the Blood Crusade! Rust That guy must be around here! Looks like that man was also aiming for Tae-man’s fortress!”

What the fuck.

What on earth is going on?

Why is the Blood Crusade over there?

Soon, in the distance, a man with a red cross painted on his face and holding a high flag shouted.

“I am Hans, the chief servant and second baptist of the Blood Crusade! Our crusade will take over the citadel of negligence! In the name of Rust!”

“If we capture the fortress, Lord Rust will descend upon us again! Let’s use the castle as a sacrifice to summon Rust from hell!”

“Kkiss!!!”

“Long live Mr. Rust─!”

Puhihihi-.

As the mad cultists shouted in unison, the horses first became agitated. The knights riding on it also seemed suddenly nervous.

“Every place where Rust appears is engulfed in flames?”

“Wasn’t it just a matter of dealing with witches?”

“I don’t feel good. Is there a guy named Lars? That guy rips people apart with armor!”

this-.

The soldiers and knights began to get scared.

I first looked at Milione’s thoughts.

“What, work became fun?”

If Milione, who had turned his head, put on a mask and joined the ranks of that crusade, he could be in trouble in many ways.

Since Psyche and Parmas are there, Ras can’t slaughter them indiscriminately.

Sze-.

I got off the carriage.

And I looked at the fortress located on a high mountain.

The height of the mountain is approximately 200 meters.

The fortress built on a steep cliff seemed truly impregnable.

It looks like some soldiers are looking down at us from the top of the fort.

I shouted at them.

“Castle Lord Agileth, listen! I am Hyde, the priest of the Bronze Plate! If you surrender now, I will make sure that you and your subordinates survive! If you don’t surrender, you will all die within three days!”

My booming voice didn’t need a separate loudspeaker.

“Please let me, Hyde, meet with Castle Lord Agileth! You must abandon your temper and surrender now! If you surrender now, I will give you a copy of Nymph’s Village that I wrote myself and even autograph it for you!”

My will must have been well conveyed to the walls of the castle high above.

A chance to receive the next volume of the world’s masterpiece, ‘Village of the Nymphs’ and even get it signed.

What makes you want to get out of the castle right now?

A chance like this will never come again?

“Hyde! Have you written the next volume of Village of Nymphs? You were supposed to tell me first! It’s really too much!”

Psyche slightly puffed out her cheeks.

Psyche was an avid reader who appreciated my books.

Now other people will do the same.

Soon someone shouted from the high castle wall.

“Are you Hyde? Do you think someone who can’t even climb his wife’s bridge can climb this wall!”

“The book you wrote is trash! You idiot! Even if 20 years of guard duty is boring, I won’t read your book!”

“Whahahahahaha-!”

These ten bastards?

Are you insulting the pious and pure love between me and my wife, Psyche?

Are you even insulting my books?

What do you guys know about books!

Can you read letters?

These bastards!

“You sit there for a hundred days and a thousand days and wait! Will this fortress fall? We are invincible! There is a lot of food and water in this fortress! I can last another thousand years!”

“The platinum hero Agileth is with us!”

“Waaa—!”

The morale of the fortress soldiers seemed to skyrocket.

Savage guys.

If they shout loudly like that, they will only lose their strength.

It was then.

Quaaang-!

A loud sound was heard from somewhere.

When I turned my head, I saw witches with short hair in the Walpurgis witch camp bursting into laughter.

“Did you hear? The sorrow of the earth! The land you are occupying without permission originally belongs to the Earth Mother… ! I will make sure that Gaia takes your land with the power of the great goddess… !”

Wow!

A loud noise was heard again.

It really looks like the ground is screaming.

“… Is it magic?”

“Witches are practicing witchcraft!”

“When he heard that sound, Sir Batroland exploded and died so horribly!”

Fear spread among the soldiers.

They were afraid of the witches’ magic.

Is it really a hex?

Is it magic?

No, I didn’t think so.

I could smell a mysterious smell passing by my nose.

Bitter smell.

It was the smell of saltpeter and sulfur.

“Is it gunpowder?”

Saltpeter and sulfur generally came from the ground.

But is that the power of the Earth Mother?

No.

Is there anything like the Earth Mother in the world?

God and all that is being talked about just for the sake of the earth.

Sze-.

The witches now gathered around the earth-colored haired Gaia and bowed to the floor.

Gaia, with her earth-colored hair cut short and her face tattooed with black ink, showed particularly exaggerated behavior.

She made quite a fuss, kissing the ground and digging in the dirt with her hands like a dog.

“Ahh! I can feel the energy of the land! I can feel my mother’s energy! And Mother said, she foretold the annihilation of the Blood Crusade, the Citadel soldiers, and the Agarpe soldiers! And I want that idiot Hyde dead! I prophesy that Hyde, who impersonates a writer and wastes paper, will surely die today! And his body will burn with his books!”

what?

What is this dirty dirt bitch saying now?

I can’t believe I’m impersonating the author!

I can’t believe I’m wasting paper!

You fucking cunts.

Don’t you know that according to the Bible, a woman is to serve a man like her head?

I will teach these wicked ignorant bitches the ‘Bible’.

# # #

Gaia of the Earth Mother.

She was a woman who knew the land well.

When I created ‘Wrath of the Goddess’ by mixing various things from the ground, I really felt like I had the whole world.

She now decided to capture the fortress within 15 days.

Full moon-.

It may seem like an impossible time, but it really isn’t.

This was because the witches took a long time to recruit the men in the castle.

‘All men are the same. When it comes to women, you can’t say anything. They are truly inferior creatures, ruled by their dicks and not their brains. What really rules the world is not men nor their swords, but women.’

15 days from now.

There would be a revolt inside the fortress and the gate would be opened.

Although it was said to be impregnable, the situation in the fortress was actually not that good, so the morale of the soldiers was very low.

Rather, it was a miracle that the fortress was maintained for 20 years.

‘Agiles of Lightning. Now it’s called Sloth, the Great Sin Seat, right? If we can lead that stupid fat bastard to become one of our witches’ minions, the world is ours… !’

I heard that there are a lot of cornerstones inside that fortress.

‘There’s going to be a huge amount of saltpeter. So, Pendragon must have dispatched the platinum knight Agiles to guard the capital until it falls.’

A huge amount of saltpeter.

The enormous ‘wrath of the goddess’ that will be created from it.

If only that were the case, Gaia might be able to dare to be called queen.

‘But the Blood Crusade suddenly appeared. Those guys are very crazy. Aren’t you afraid of death? ‘We must never let those guys take over the fortress!’

The troops from Agarpe were probably good.

Gaia felt like her head was cramping just thinking about dealing with the Blood Crusade.

Soon she got a good idea.

‘good! All we have to do is make the Blood Crusade and the Agarpe forces fight each other! It’s easy to tear each other apart! And their weakness is─.’

Gaia, the Earthmother, looked at the weak-looking man.

Although he was tall, his white skin made him look miserable.

Bronze Plate Priest Hyde.

He was a famous man in many ways even in the fortress kingdom.

“Blood Crusade, listen! I just heard my prayers answered! The Earth Mother wants Hyde’s blood! If you kill that man, Hyde, and sprinkle his blood on the ground, our Witch Council will form an alliance with Rust! The man who writes such terrible books should die immediately! This is an insult to paper! And desecration of paper is desecration of trees, and desecration of trees is desecration of the earth!”

Village of nymphs.

Gaia, who had read that book before, really wanted to wash her eyes.

How can there be such childish and stupid books?

Who on earth would print something like this so they could read it?

‘It was a truly blasphemous book against trees and land!’

Soon the Blood Crusade also shouted in agreement with Gaia.

“Good! Hyde, he is the greatest opponent of the Blood Crusade! We want his life too! Crusade! This Hans, the chief baptist, commands! Capture Hyde! But don’t kill anyone! All humans are subject to Rust’s life-long punishment! Until Mr. Rust is sentenced to death, you must not kill anyone carelessly! We must captivate!”

Eeee!

The Blood Crusade was greatly stirred up.

Gaia was taken aback because she didn’t think that the crazy red army would listen to her so easily.

‘It means that the goddess is with me!’

Finally, the red wave of the Blood Crusade suddenly struck Agarpe’s soldiers.

When I felt this thrill in many ways while watching this situation, I heard Psyche’s scream.

“Hyde! Where are you! Hyde!”

visor-! Chaae-ae-!

A melee broke out in many ways.

It was when swords and spears clashed.

At that moment, something strange happened.

It was truly an unexpected surprise that no one could have imagined.

Srrr-.

The world started to get dark.

Only then did everyone look at the sky.

The sun was being eaten by the moon.

‘What is this-.’

Gaia, the earth witch, was scared and surprised, and her heart trembled.

The sun in the sky has lost its light…

Isn’t this a sign that the world is stained with sin?

Gaia quickly shouted.

“The Earth Goddess is with us! The age of heaven will end and the age of earth will arrive!”

Now everyone stopped their actions and looked at this scene.

It felt like the end of the world was coming, and it seemed like it was.

A time when the world was immersed in darkness.

The fact that the sky is losing its light is evidence among other evidence that the masculine power symbolized by ‘the sky’ is destroyed and the era of ‘earth and women’ comes.

The Earth Witch Gaia was filled with emotion and fell into ecstasy as she prayed to the goddess.

“Goddess, be with us─.”

“Goddess!”

“Earthmother!”

It was at that time when women were sobbing and praying in unison.

A chill ran down the back of Gaia’s neck.

“There is no such thing as a goddess in the world.”

It was a small voice.

But that voice was heard so clearly in the sobbing prayer.

As if it had been whispered directly into his ear.

“Who is it! Who would say such profanity!”

Gaia shouted, shaking off the eerie goosebumps.

sss-.

At the same time, when light was revealed to the world again -.

A man like soot stuck to the world was standing in the middle of the battlefield wearing red robes.

He just stood there.

“Ahhhh! Our earnest prayers brought Mr. Rust to this land!”

“The darkness just now was the darkness created by Lord Rust’s descent! It wasn’t something like a goddess who did it!”

“Geusss-!”

The cult members are enthusiastic just because a man appears here and stands on the ground.

Sze-.

When the man finally turned his head slightly, people started foaming at the mouth and fainting one after another.