Episode 106-Survivors (6)
“As expected of a renowned warrior, he is extremely rough. But since he was hit by the warchief’s arrow… Garhan won’t last long. “We’re really there now, Warchief.”
A battlefield where a fierce battle took place. Amidst the obvious traces of corpses, wounded people, overturned ground, and damaged equipment, an excited warrior made a fuss and flattered him.
It was a good enough thing to say. They ultimately won the battle against their rivals, and now all that remains is to hunt down the remnants and harvest the loot.
“It’s not over yet. “Can’t you see this?”
But he didn’t laugh, but instead pointed to something else. The eyes of everyone around him followed his sword and saw the body lying on the floor.
“Armor, arrows and other weapons worn by Garhan’s soldiers. “It’s all high-quality steel that can’t be found in this plain.”
“Well, you saved him because he became the warchief of the east, right?”
“That said, it is uniform and unified. “It was definitely not something that was collected through looting or anything like that.”
He was concerned even before the battle began that Garhan’s soldiers were as well armed as he was.
In the end, he did not ignore this fact and had a prisoner brought in. The purpose was to find out where these hard-to-find items were obtained.
“Are there other tribes further east than this? “Can we produce ironware ourselves?”
“Well, I don’t know much either. Because the warchief and Letai took the lead in dealing with them… I only heard rumors.”
Thanks to this, they were able to obtain information about the Arin people. A new clan that settled further east than Garhan, who was the warchief of the east, and built a powerful force.
Moreover, they said they were building a castle and living in it. They were all excited to hear this news for the first time in their lives.
“Is this true?”
“Is there any reason to lie? “The evidence is so clear.”
It was hard to believe, but he chuckled as he looked at the weapons provided by the Arin tribe.
‘The expedition to the east may take a little longer than expected.’
If I didn’t know, I couldn’t help it if I found out like this. From his perspective, having come all the way from the head of a small tribe to unify the grasslands, he only has one more place to conquer.
“It will be later. “This is not very good news, Warchief.”
“Even so, it’s probably an appropriate size tribe. “It won’t take long.”
As he was about to revise his plan on the spot, someone approached him. He was a person whose attire was different from the warriors around him.
The unidentified man, wrapped in long robes and covering his face with a hood, was holding a staff with a jewel on the tip.
“I’m asking you to please understand. “I am also in a position to serve my lord, so it is difficult for me to respond if someone urges me from above.”
“The king seems to be in a hurry. Tell them not to worry. If you achieve the task of unification, warriors full of strength and blood will take care of your great achievement.”
Although I openly say that I am a wizard, I am a unique and rare being in this land where the concept of a wizard does not exist.
The very existence of this wizard talking with Warchief Luke is evidence of some kind of deal between them.
If it weren’t for this deal, Luke wouldn’t have been able to defeat Garhan, who had an army of the same level, from the front and win.
“If you’re in a hurry, why not step forward yourself? “The remaining battles would be easier if you helped beyond simple material support.”
“If the rumor spreads, it will be troublesome.”
“It doesn’t matter if it spreads. “Because we have already taken over all of this land.”
Luke chuckled, but the wizard shook his head.
There is a reason why they supported Luke from the beginning, but it is because they did not want their relationship to be revealed to the world.
Luke didn’t open his mouth any further. Anyway, the support I received from them was enough to wipe out this grassland.
A capable conqueror who had the ability to do so in the first place was given wings.
***
“This can’t be right…”
Right after Garhan finally lost in the final battle with Luke.
The Arin scouts were frightened when they saw the refugees continuing to arrive from the west.
Those who had been united under the authority of the warchief lost their focus and scattered, and some of them began to flock to the east after hearing rumors about the Arin people.
“Increase the number of troops. “You must accept and not miss a single person.”
As soon as Varun heard the news from Letai, he issued an emergency order and mobilized villagers to receive refugees.
In a hurry, they had them build a house for them under the castle walls, and mobilized miners and transporters to build houses to shelter them from the rain.
“Please save me. “They will kill us all if we do not surrender to them!”
When the refugees encountered Arin soldiers, they cried out for their lives.
This is because Luke, who tried to absorb all of Garhan’s tribes, did so according to the laws of the steppes. If you surrender, you will be mercifully accepted, but if you refuse, they will be brutally slaughtered.
‘These are the people who came to us despite all that. You can’t miss it.’
Varun, who went directly to the field and began commanding, took risks and accepted those who came to him as much as possible.
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Those who took refuge in this way were mainly those who were truly loyal to Garhan. These were people who could not bear to fall under the command of Luke, who destroyed them.
“Hey, it’s them!”
In the process, Luke’s soldiers and the Arryn soldiers finally clashed.
It was inevitable that each scout would fight to catch and protect the desperately fleeing refugees.
“Keuok.”
“This, this.”
However, there was no real confrontation. This is because just before the collision, a huge hammer fell from the sky and crushed Luke’s soldiers.
Both Arin soldiers and refugees cheered when they saw it.
‘There are too many of you.’
However, the person who dropped the hammer broke into a cold sweat as the scenes continued to turn chaotically.
The number of hammers was limited, but the number of refugees and enemies was too many.
“Can we talk about this in a good way?”
Varun chuckled at the reports coming from all directions. Eventually, a conflict broke out between soldiers, and the conflict grew bigger and spread into a fight between warriors.
The opponent was a small group of chasers, so most of the Arin people won, but they were not without damage.
More than anything, Varun was worried that this would ruin the negotiations with Warchief Luke.
“But we can never hand over the refugees.”
Riena, who joined fully armed, was worried that Varun might give up on the refugees for smooth negotiations.
Giving up on the refugees means going against the guardian spirit’s intention to take them into a game of foot-and-mouth where the refugees are converted into allies.
“I know. “I will never do that.”
Varun, shocked, shook his head, wondering what they were looking at him for. Negotiations are just one of the means, their only goal is to get people accepted.
“Of course, we have to consider the worst case scenario. Riena, what do you think, the strongest warrior? Since the elite soldiers are concentrated in the northern fortress, the number of soldiers we can mobilize right now is at most 2,000. “Even that figure is possible if some of the refugees are mobilized as soldiers.”
“I heard that the number of enemies is more than 10,000.”
“It’s amazing. It means that even that is a part of the troops that he can mobilize. Still, is it really possible that there are only 10,000 elite soldiers?”
Varun laughed bitterly at her calm words. 10,000 was a dream number in this area.
It was enough to confidently say that if 10,000 warriors on horseback gathered together, they could do anything.
Now we are in a position to deal with it.
“You can win.”
Nevertheless, Riena showed confidence.
Obviously, if you think about it with common sense, it is impossible, but they had this confidence because they could make things that were beyond common sense come true.
It was already a tedious experience that I was forced to go through because of the bugs that kept coming.
“I don’t think I will lose either. However, if it can be resolved without fighting, that would be best. “There are other real monsters we have to fight.”
The Arin tribe’s stance has been consistent from the beginning. They say they will receive all those who seek refuge on their own.
What mattered was Luke’s intention. If you want to talk, you can talk, but if you ask them to surrender as if they were conquering a nearby tribe, they will never give in.
‘It’s extremely annoying. I feel like I’m preparing for war too.’
He frowned and kept looking at the screens.
It wasn’t just the residents who were busy. It was like that when fighting fiercely against bugs.
Obviously, if there was nothing going on, it was possible for him to leave the monitor and have some free time or work.
However, when the situation was urgent, I had to be so nervous and forget to go to the bathroom. I am afraid that I may not be able to provide the help that I can.
Even though the residents continued to grow and develop, his feelings rarely changed.
“Oh, I need to put up another monitor.”
He suddenly felt tired and muttered while rubbing his head.
As the radius of residents’ activities increased, it was difficult to turn and view each of the dozens of screens, which now numbered more than a dozen.
Thinking that the effort would decrease as the number of monitors increased, he immediately opened an online shopping mall and ordered additional monitors.
‘Do bugs not appear in other areas?’
It wasn’t a bad thing that Garhan’s tribe had collapsed and started absorbing refugees in large quantities, but the thought that there might be another war bothered him, so he crossed his arms and looked blankly at the desktop where the residents were giggling.
If the opponent knows of the existence of the bug, they might understand if you explain that they need to stop those guys who have formed a large army in the north.
In fact, bugs often infiltrated by opening cracks without building a nest, so it is highly likely that they appeared in other areas.
‘No, that’s even more of a disaster.’
He shook his head. The Dwarf Kingdom, which has already collapsed due to bugs, is still quiet, but in the game, we see parasites occupying the collapsed fortress.
He decided that it would be better if the bugs only appeared in this area.
The worst thing was when other areas collapsed and the bugs that took advantage of them to proliferate explosively covered the world.
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‘So you’re saying he’s still fine?’
Thinking like that, he bit his lip and opened a file. A file that can open the desktop of another region that has not yet been touched.
Unlike when heading to the dwarves’ territory, there were no signs indicating contamination yet.
However, since it is the beginning, the fact that even the border area adjacent to it is polluted means that the area has already been completely destroyed, so to prevent that, he decided to open a file that would allow him to go to a new land once this problem was resolved.