episode_0155

“Were you very surprised? I did not do that on purpose to cause confusion. I was also participating in the festival security support, and I did not want you to be disturbed from feeling like you were entering Helios because of me.”

Victoria von Bayern guided the Red Fox delegation to the main building’s inner chamber of the arena.

Then, she carefully explained the reason for the somewhat difficult meeting.

Although Victoria is a senior executive and holds the position of commander of the special quest team,

she chose to directly participate in the festival security support.

The reason is that she is rapidly rising in prominence due to the absolute power of the Imperial Knights, Kaiser, and the favor of Commander Antoine Desselles Obleange.

Because of this, internal backlash could arise, so Victoria was trying to prevent conflict by constantly engaging with the field personnel.

“I was surprised, but I’m not unpleasant or anything like that! Rather, I easily passed through two checkpoints thanks to you!”

Thomas joked and showed off his unique sociability, changing the atmosphere.

Honestly, the aftermath of the meeting still lingered within the Red Fox mercenary group’s representatives.

It was that dramatic and surprising a meeting with Victoria.

‘I thought she would be very arrogant and aloof because she is the youngest Sword Expert, but that’s not the feeling I get?’

Especially Eugene’s lingering feelings were strong.

Jeanne had given him a special mission.

To understand Victoria and the key figures around her,

so Eugene had investigated various things related to Victoria von Bayern more than his other colleagues.

Of course, it didn’t make sense to associate Victoria von Bayern when he first saw the masked blonde woman.

But as a result, Eugene Schneider is matching the two situations of Victoria after learning her identity,

It is too different from the youngest Sword Expert Victoria that Eugene himself had drawn.

‘She has a meticulous feeling, but that’s to be expected as an executive of the Imperial Knights. However, she doesn’t really give off the feeling of a noble young lady. She looks very cool.’

Eugene Schneider knows how strong swordsmen’s egos are.

In the meantime, Victoria is the youngest Sword Expert, the noble lady of the Coat Hand family, and furthermore, the youngest Saber of the Imperial Knights.

Therefore, Eugene expected to feel an enormous ego at a glance.

However, even when he recognized her as just an Imperial Knight,

and even in this situation where he met her as the commander of the special quest team, the force felt from Victoria was just that of an FM knight.

‘Then, maybe she doesn’t know much about Jeanne?’

As Victoria’s image was read from that perspective, it seemed that the mission given to him by Jeanne would go smoothly.

‘Huh?’

Eugene, who had been focusing on Victoria, glanced at Marie next to him.

“Wow…waah…!”

Marie was constantly exclaiming with sparkling eyes and a soft voice next to him.

And the object of that admiration was Victoria, who was walking ahead.

“What are you so admiring, Marie.”

“That, that person is really cool, Assault Captain? She’s really beautiful and charismatic…”

So Eugene also asked in a low voice what she was doing.

Then the innocent mercenary girl Marie rattled on as if bursting into dialect.

“I had an idea in my head of what the Imperial Knights’ swordsmen would feel like, but they’re much more amazing than what I imagined, they’re really cool, really…”

When she was wearing a mask, Victoria covered more than half of her face.

She also wore a ponytail.

And decisively, the regular uniform was very semi and lacked the unique taste of the Imperial Knights.

But now, Victoria is wearing a formal uniform, so the force she shows is truly extraordinary.

Wasn’t Marie someone who wanted to be a cool and honorable mercenary, not someone who became a mercenary to make money?

Jeanne was definitely a figure who fit her role model, but

Victoria approaches as a perfect ideal figure beyond realistic dimensions.

‘Hmm…she’s definitely amazing.’

Eugene, who had been looking at Victoria while thinking about the mission, looked at Victoria from a different perspective after hearing Marie’s words,

He also admired it.

‘Her body is amazing.’

However, there was a significant difference in background.

The back view of Victoria walking ahead to guide them,

Eugene Schneider finally began to notice the amazing curves and fullness of that back view.

‘Slightly smaller than Mina, slightly taller than Sister Charlotte? Her body style seems similar to Jeanne’s as a swordsman.’

She was about 178cm tall.

Since there is no separate female uniform in the Imperial Knights,

Rather than a fit that emphasizes the beauty of women, it was a uniform that maximized the authority and poise that Marie was overwhelmed by.

However, because Victoria’s body has curves beyond common sense,

Eugene, who had already lost his virginity to two women and indulged in their bodies, scanned her body as if he could see her almost naked.

“Wow~ The guest room is really nice, really~!”

Victoria, who brought the Red Fox delegation into the inner chamber, first showed them the guest rooms where they would be staying for a few days.

Two guest rooms were assigned, one for Eugene and Thomas, and the other for Marie and Priscilla.

Marie was speechless with surprise when she saw the inside of the guest room.

“How is it on the Assault Captain’s side?”

“It’s the same. Spacious, and the furniture looks nice.”

“Hea~ This is the first time I’ve seen something like this in person!”

Eugene first looked at the guest room where he would be staying, and then arrived at the back to see the place where Marie and Priscilla would be staying together.

Marie could not contain her excitement at seeing the appearance of the ultra-luxurious room for the first time in her life.

“I’m sure you’re tired, but the situation here is not easy, so we have prepared a desk right away.”

After the Red Fox delegation unpacked their luggage in their assigned guest rooms,

A meeting was soon held in the special quest security conference room in the arena’s inner chamber between the Imperial Knights’ special quest team and the Red Fox Mercenary Corps delegation.

It was just a formality, and the atmosphere was such that a conference prologue related to the quest would proceed.

“This is what we wanted too. We need to understand the quest and come up with an estimate. We have a lot of other projects going on.”

Three people from the Imperial Knights side and all four representatives from the Red Fox Mercenary Corps attended the table.

Eugene Schneider, who was seated on the right side of the Red Fox delegation, changed from his old travel armor to leather armor for visuals and answered Victoria’s prior comments.

“Understood, Assault Captain Eugene Kaiser.”

Smile

Victoria briefly smiled at Eugene’s coolness.

The smile contained a feeling of ‘quite good.’

The opponent is not just an Imperial Knight, but a Saber, an executive of the Imperial Knights.

It is only natural that even a fairly experienced upper-tier mercenary group would freeze up.

However, Eugene is not showing any such appearance at all.

In Victoria’s eyes, Eugene seemed to be considered a person worth negotiating with.

Victoria’s goal is not to show off her power as an Imperial Knight,

It is to get the job done properly.

“Then I’ll introduce our people. This is Farnese, the vice commander of the special quest team, and the one on my left is Vincent, the supply officer.”

Afterwards, she first introduced the executives of the Imperial Knights’ special quest team who were seated around her.

“Ah! It was something related to monsters?”

After the introductory meeting of the attendees from both sides ended, a full-fledged story about the quest began.

To the explanation of Farnese, the vice commander of the Imperial Knights’ special quest team, who opened the door, Thomas reacted with an expression that he was now beginning to understand the situation a little.

‘I knew it was a monster?’

Eugene is managing his expression, but he was also in a state of mind that clues were being unraveled.

‘Honestly, I didn’t think they would have put so much security on it because of the situation in the conflict zone. But monsters are different at this point.’

If it was about subjugating Tyrannos or Sophies, or anti-imperial mercenaries, I think they would have at least clearly stated the title.

However, the Imperial Knights were silent even about the basic title of the quest.

What triggered Eugene’s hunch about this was that it might be related to the monster rampage situation that is gradually intensifying in the Pedon Continent at this point.

According to the information given by Charlotte, Marianne, and Elizabeth,

That was the issue that the Empire was maintaining the most secrecy and mysticism on.

‘Then, if it’s a monster that the Imperial Knights are dealing with, it’s probably not a goblin or a gnoll? There’s no need to need Priscilla’s knowledge against those guys.’

Of course, it is difficult to think that beings like the Imperial Knights are being so careful just to catch hundreds or thousands of goblins.

Eugene and Jeanne speculate that the situation is urgently seeking the opinion of the elf Priscilla,

Eugene thinks it must be related to a monster beyond common sense.

“I heard that you fought a crimson-haired shaman goblin while carrying out a goblin quest.”

Victoria brought up the matter of the crimson-haired shaman goblin.

“The crimson-haired shaman goblin, a guy that only existed in rumors hundreds of years ago. It’s also an existence that was treated as just a legend since magic weakened in the Empire. But as you have experienced firsthand, it was reality. As you know, the proportion of monster subjugation in mercenaries’ quests is also increasing.”

She is carefully reminding the Empire of the increasing monster situation.

“Has a monster that exceeds general standards been detected?”

Eugene Schneider, who fully recognized that intention, first mentioned the keyword of a monster outside the standard.

“….”

Victoria was silent for a moment after hearing those words.

“That’s right, Assault Captain Eugene Kaiser. A monster of a level that must be treated very secretly has been detected.”

Then she slowly nodded and acknowledged the situation.

“However, it’s not confirmed yet. It’s not that we’ve seen the real thing, but we’ve only secured various circumstances, testimonies, and things that are presumed to be objects. The reason for the current silence is also included.”

At the same time, he clearly specified the realistic facts.

“Hmm…jjub, jjub, listening to you talk, is the presumed monster above an upper-class monster?”

As the story officially transitioned to the monster story, Priscilla, who was sucking on fruit juice, also opened her mouth.

“That’s right, Ms. Priscilla. That’s why we need the opinion of the elf Priscilla.”

“Tell me, I’m a little curious too, what kind of guy was identified.”

Victoria, who had been agreeing with Priscilla’s words,

“It’s a drake. It’s a state where we have discovered traces of a drake, which is classified as top-tier, beyond the upper tier.”

What she mentioned was the top-tier monster Drake.