episode_0051

“When is the article coming!”

General Terraim’s voice echoes loudly throughout the outpost.

Inside the castle, a mixture of demon warriors with strangely connected bodies is walking around, and the magic flowing from inside is growing, but the attack has not yet begun because the key member of the strike force, the knight, has not arrived.

Terraim continued to send messengers in the direction of the knight’s arrival without stopping even for a moment, but all the messengers he sent several times said that they did not see the knight coming, making him even angrier.

Although preparations were completed in the morning, lunch was already over and dinner time was approaching.

“Even though it should have arrived a long time ago, it still hasn’t arrived. Did something happen?”

Enin climbs up on the wooden box and looks in the direction the knight is coming from, but there is only a pack of wild dogs roaming the plain, and no human figure is visible.

The wild dogs had red eyes like the dew rats I had seen before.

They keep wandering around the outpost as if they want to get something to eat, but they are strange guys who don’t come closer than a certain distance even if someone prepares a bowl for them.

Eventually, Enin got down from the box, probably tired of looking at the same scene over and over again.

“There’s no way we could know. It’s more frustrating than that. How do you deal with something like that?”

Instead of looking at the barren plains and skinny wild dogs, I’m looking at the enemies I’ll soon have to deal with.

At the old lord’s castle, mixtures can be seen inside the completely broken walls that were attacked once before.

‘You’ve got the balance right, even if it’s unnecessary.’

Dozens of corpses have become a lump, with the lower body crawling like an insect with a caterpillar-like body and multiple arms and legs, and the upper body has also been joined together to become gigantic and has multiple arms.

Even the joints were forcibly extended again, so the arm with only two joints is standard, and the tail has an arm twice that long.

The word bizarre is the first thing that comes to mind, and then I think of a way to express it.

“Should I say it looks like a centaur made like a giant scorpion? It looks really creepy.”

“Now that I have seen that, it looks like if I have a nightmare in the future, I will come out with perfect attendance…”

“Oh. I looked this way.”

Its entire body is wearing the same armor it wore when it was alive, and eye lights emanate from the heads embedded in various parts of its body. It seems that it does not have a central head and instead has its heads in all directions to secure its field of vision. I think it will be difficult to deal with him because he is so big and has no blind spots.

“I would say 100 per day.”

“It looks like there should be at least 50 people per animal, if not a hundred.”

Above all, each arm on their upper body is holding a halberd, and some people can be seen carrying at least 6 or as many as 10, including their tails.

“I’m really curious about what the guy who made that thing thinks about on a daily basis. Oppa.”

“Even if you ask me, I don’t think I will be able to answer.”

“I know. I just asked. In fact, I think I would have been more scared if I had received an answer.”

“Hmm. There you guys. They say they won’t come out, but I can still feel their gaze, so why not stay away?”

As Feria and I clung to the hole in the castle wall and looked at the mixture inside, Hygenics told us to come back.

We also removed the box we were standing on and approached him, who was fully armed with armor, unlike the one we saw in the office.

“ Manager, can you beat that?”

“It’s not in the security forces office, there’s General Terraim, so you can just call me boss. okay. Can you beat that? If it were me, I would probably use a sword, but I think it would be difficult to do alone. Dealing with that thing alone from the front would be considered suicide.”

“The knights specialize in catching monsters like that, and your boss also said that he was a knight before settling in this area.”

As the waiting time was long, we talked about various things and learned many things.

Thistle and Deshade are talking to a person who appears to be a high-level adventurer, Master is meditating, and Enin wants to work on the equipment once more. He goes into another tent and continues talking next to Hygenic, a face we naturally know. was doing

Hygenic shakes his head and answers.

“Someone like me can’t even be called a real knight. I am a retired driver. When I was confident that I could put some magical power into a sword, I applied to join the Knights Templar, but after seeing the downside of real people, I decided to pursue office work early on.”

“Is the gap between top knights and ordinary knights that big? I only looked at our military knights, but are the knights in the center really that strong?”

“I don’t know about the 2nd Corps, but the knights of the 1st Corps were definitely strong.”

“I can’t imagine.”

The knights I’ve seen on our side are completely like human weapons, digging into the middle of enemy lines and grinding them together like a blender, but I don’t know how they can be stronger than that.

There is a saying, “Right place at the right place. This area, which the 3rd Corps is in charge of, has the most frequent battles, but is the lowest-ranking area among the battlefields. The elves usually do not go into battle directly and just send out various demon beasts, and for the demons, I don’t know why, but noble-level demons don’t come out of the demon territory often. Other than that, they are Orcs or other races that came from far away, so their priority is bound to be low.”

Peria whispers and tells you about the demons.

“The reason why high-ranking demons do not come out of the demon territory is because the moment the demon leaves the house, the surrounding relatives split up all their property. They don’t have much sense of kinship, so when a key member, such as the head of the family, moves away from home, they immediately start a war with each other, and internal divisions begin.”

“The back of your head is sore, so you can’t go far with confidence.”

When Hygenics heard those words from Peria, he said, ‘That’s right.’ He continues speaking.

“So, our 3rd group of knights is a place where knights who were not selected from other knightly orders are automatically incorporated. The knights directly under the 1st Army or special knights who act separately are much stronger.”

“Then where are the late articles coming from?”

I asked Hygenic about the driver who was currently running late.

Our knights have already left, and the other knights are all carrying out their missions, so I don’t understand why the knights are not coming, but are coming alone.

“Well, even though they are alone, the Order of Knights is an Order of Knights. Because his fighting style is a bit different, he cannot act like other knights.”

“I guess it’s okay.”

“What is Assa?”

“Well, as you said, it means a person who is different from others and acts faster than anyone else, so no one can follow.”

“I guess you mean your hometown. That’s the right person for that.”

At that time, a soldier from the security forces came and reported to Hygenic.

“’Long Sword’ has arrived.”

‘What do you mean?’

In the soldier’s report, unexpected words were interspersed between sentences, making it difficult to understand the context.

I didn’t understand what he said, but Hygenic seemed to understand and suggested that we go to the front gate.

“You’re here just in time. Let’s go and see for ourselves. I am also curious because I saw him only once in the capital and have not seen him since.”

When I went to where the people were gathered, I saw two men on horseback coming through the front door.

One person in the front was wearing a tattered cloak, but the inside of the cloak was wearing clean clothes compared to that, and the person behind him was wearing a full set of white armor from head to toe.

And on the back of the person wearing the armor, a weapon wrapped in cloth that appeared to be more than 5 meters long was visible.

When the person in the tattered cloak was within earshot of the conversation, he made an excuse in a light-hearted manner.

“I’m sorry. I had a stomachache on the way, so I stopped by your village.”

‘Is the person in front a knight?’

At first, I thought the person in the tattered cloak was a squire, but that was not the case. Judging by the way he spoke, he looked like an old man with a slovenly outfit and a thick beard. This guy was a knight.

‘Rather, it seems like the person behind him is a counselor. Just looking at his appearance, on the contrary, this person looks like a knight and the person behind him looks like a knight.’

After all, people should not be judged solely by their appearance.

General Thereim, seeing the article, waited until he arrived and raised his arms exaggeratedly.

“Welcome. Longsword. A busy person is coming to help like this, but is it really a big deal that I’m a little late?”

Terraim responds politely, as if asking when he got angry.

Then, after hearing Terraim’s name, I quietly said the sound I had been holding back to Peria.

“The person’s name is Longsword.”

“I asked who it was and it turned out to be that person. I know it’s not a name but a title, right?”

I whispered to Peria and she told me right away.

“Isn’t that your name?”

“Yes. Just looking at the nickname I heard through the grapevine… Longsword the Madman. Habitual terrain destroyer. The person that map makers hate the most. Etc. is famous in its own way.”

“There is no positive nickname.”

“That’s right. Still, he is one of the kingdom’s famous people in his own way. So I memorized it too.”

It doesn’t seem like a good nickname, but it sure seems to be well known.

There was a guarantee from Peria, the trickster, and above all, it was clear from Terraim’s attitude.

“The soldiers alone were not enough, but if the Great Longsword enters in person, I will be able to put my mind at ease. It will end easily. Hehehe!”

But he didn’t seem to have any intention of going out in person.

“Ah, I will only destroy the genjutsu.”

“Yes?”

Terraim’s expression crumples at his answer. However, she soon becomes calm due to his light attitude.

“What is it bitter?”

“Oh, no. But what on earth are you talking about? I knew you were coming to directly participate in the strategy.”

Before the knight named Longsword answers, he points with his thumb at the knight behind him.

“Our King keeps telling me to retire after raising a disciple. So, I’m going to use this opportunity to build up this guy’s career and just watch from behind. I’ll be the one to destroy the genjutsu, and this guy will be the one to enter. Above.”

After finishing what he had to say, the longsword takes the weapon from the knight behind him and begins to unravel the cloth.

“No, that’s it.”

Terraim stutters as if he is not thinking properly due to the unexpected conversation.

It seems that this article was one of the prerequisites for the complete success of the operation, but he seemed embarrassed because it did not go as he expected.

“All army-! Ready for battle!”

However, since the operation could not be delayed any longer, Terraim gave orders to a mixed force of adventurers, security forces, and soldiers.