The adventurers who had received the corps escort received simple precautions and climbed into the assigned wagon. Cranks were registered as a party of four, so they could all ride in one wagon without additional people.
Carrot, who climbed onto the pile of luggage, shouted.
“I love this party! You don’t have to fight nerves with bad potatoes!”
Ariete, not knowing what Carrot was talking about, sat down and looked around curiously. Lotte opened the book he had brought from the workshop, and Crank talked with the upper class staff.
“excuse me! The conductor of Car 16!”
“what’s the matter?”
At the question of the deputy manager who poked his head out of the window, the upper rank staff brought in a despondent priest and said,
“He came alone, but the corps headquarters assigned him to Car 16. Please join us.”
“uh? We’re a party of four, so it’s perfect, right?”
Carrot murmured, and the staff at the top spoke comfortably.
“Because I can’t put the priestess anywhere. Carrot’s is trustworthy.”
“Wow! This is credit! trust!”
Carrot jumped off the pile of luggage in the tall car and landed on the floor. When she looked up, a familiar face stood there.
“What! Eris! Are you Eris?”
Eris, a priestess who met someone she knew, nodded her head with a look as if she was going to cry.
“Why are you here alone? Ride once! leave soon.”
I took Eris’s hand and climbed into the passenger compartment of the large automated vehicle, just in time for the warehouse door to open and the start signal to drop. Since we started moving from the 1st car, we had plenty of time to listen to Eris’s story.
“Is the party coming?”
Eris, who sat down, smiled despite her tears.
“Before departure, the party got into a fight at the bar…”
“wow. No luck, no luck.”
“Black…!”
Crying, Eris covered her mouth with her hand and turned her head away. Crank cleared his throat a bit, forcing Carrot to shut up before speaking.
“Nice to meet you again. Priest Eris. I am Crank, Carrot, Ariete, Lotte, and this is Mr. Gis, the conductor of Car No. 16, and Deputy Chief Khaki.”
“Bar, nice to meet you. This is Priest Eris.”
Carrot, who was rummaging through her pockets, handed her a handkerchief.
“Is it yours? I used it well during the black mage subjugation. Wipe away your tears.”
“thank you.”
“Thank you, so what could you write?”
Eris said, wiping her tears with a handkerchief.
“Heal, Tinder, cancel status abnormalities.”
“Enough. Even if you only know how to use heels, it’s great.”
“that’s right. If you go to the South, it will be very popular, right? They say they are looking for priests everywhere.”
Khaki, a slender young man with freckles on his face, said while rubbing his nose.
Eris also tried to quit her business trip to the south by herself, but there were plenty of people around her who would take care of her once she went there, so she told her to go.
“Still, I’m glad I met people I know like this.”
“Yes, God bless you.”
The people who were listening laughed softly.
The huge automated water vehicle left Argon, the Ark City, at a slow but stable speed and started running through the meadows and forests.
Carrot and Lotte climbed onto the pile of luggage in the cargo hold, and Ariete looked at the pile and murmured.
“What are the contents?”
“These are various industrial products sent to the South. From daily necessities like clothes and shoes to weapons and automatons.”
“Ohh, does Argon make something like that?”
When Mi-in answered, Khaki started talking excitedly.
“In Argon, the processing industry is generally developed, besides minerals from mines, so I tend to make a lot of things. From daily necessities to weapons.”
“It’s because we can’t rely on the mine forever. It’s just a pity that there are no specialties to brag about.”
The conductor holding the steering wheel and driving shouted.
“Why are there no specialties! Butter that elves and dwarves are crazy about! cheese! You have compost!”
Khaki giggled, and said with a strained look on Crank’s shoulder.
“Yeah, well, if you look closely.”
Khaki added.
“I bring this to the South, and the South brings a lot of other stuff. This is how everyone eats and lives.”
Ariete looked at Khaki with twinkling eyes.
“I didn’t know! That’s great. Is this the economy?”
“Where have you been?”
At Crank’s insignificant question, Ariete turned her head and spoke about herself for the first time.
“I was active on the west side. Mostly, there were many things to do with dungeon exploration or contracts with wizard guilds and obtaining materials for their experiments.”
“Come to think of it, I heard that there are many wizard guilds in the west.”
“Well, there are some crazy wizards, but they were communicative. It was a pretty fulfilling day.”
Crank stared at Ariete, but said nothing more. But someone asked about it.
“When did you come to the North? What city were you in?”
It was a question that would come up often. Khaki did nothing wrong. Ariete smiled and tried to answer, but something flinched and she closed her mouth in a cold sweat. His eyes also start to shake.
Sensing something wrong, Crank grabbed her by the shoulder.
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“Ariete. Take a deep breath. Okay. You can now stand on your own two feet and hold a sword. There are us too. no problem. Priest Eris.”
“Uh, yes!”
When Eris turned her head in surprise, Crank asked for the status abnormality to be lifted.
“yes?”
“hurry.”
“yep!”
As she raised her staff and chanted a short spell, Ariete’s body glowed with a faint green light, and the tremors subsided.
“Puha!”
“Are you okay?”
“Uh, um. Okay. thank you priest.”
Crank said.
“This friend has post-traumatic stress disorder. Please don’t ask me about my hometown or anything like that.”
“Oh, I didn’t know. I’m sorry.”
“I didn’t even know until recently. It’s not your fault. khaki.”
Khaki didn’t know what to do. Ariete smiled.
“I’m fine. I have caused you concern.”
“What are you worried about?”
Just then, Carrot appeared. Seeing that, Ariete’s face brightened.
“Carrot. You were there.”
“Yeah, I was just here. than that! There’s something strange! Left window!”
People’s faces spread tension. The people who had flocked to Carrot’s direction began to look out the window. In the other carriages in the front and rear, people poked their heads out of the windows.
“Is it a habit?”
“It is very likely.”
On the other side of the meadow, at the beginning of the forest, I can see things like people standing in a row.
“There are many.”
“Looks like 30-40. An armed band of robbers?”
Carrot frowns.
“In a world where it’s hard to live, people who can’t help but rob people!”
“I am not the same person. That’s a monster in the shape of a man.”
Everyone stiffened their faces at Crank’s low muttering. At that time, stop flags and red raid flags were raised in succession from the vehicle in front.
Khaki leans out the window and raises the same flag to inform the rear vehicle of the situation. The conductor let out an annoyed cry and stopped the automated water vehicle.
“It would be nice if the communication restrictions were lifted! stuffy!”
“I want to crave the damn elves.”
Crank drew his axe.
“Prepare for battle.”
Tup-!
Lotte, who had been looking at the book until then, closed it and stood up. Crank said.
“Priest Eris, wait in the car. Your battlefield begins when the battle is over.”
“Just call me Eris.”
Crank nodded and made everyone lower.
When the enemy raid was confirmed, the escort troops got off the vehicle and built a defensive line as pre-determined.
“Carrot, Lotte, go. You guys are the first line of defense.”
“Yeah!”
Carrot, who came from somewhere with a club, slaps his palms with a grin. Lotte secured the longsword’s sword case with a leather strap so that it would not fall out.
“come! Hurry up to establish the first line of defense!”
Following someone’s cry, Carrot and Lotte jumped out. Crank looks to the side.
“Ariete.”
Ariete turned her head, and when her eyes met, Crank spoke softly.
“The foot sword.”
Sureureung!
When the blonde female knight pulled out her long sword, all the adventurers drew their swords, starting with that.
Some even drank an awakening potion for combat support.
“Kya! It’s delicious! Hee hee hee! Exterminate the gang of robbers! Don’t look!”
“hahahaha! come! I’ll show you who’s crazier!”
For a moment, someone with good eyesight widened his eyes despite the sharp shouts of the adventurers.
“Fast! not a person! That’s an automaton!”
As soon as the combat automatons at the top, which have built the first line of defense, identify the robbers, they throw down human clubs and draw swords.
“Wah ha ha! You’re a bonehead! Come on! Scrap metal!”
Carrot ran away laughing and brandished a club. When the automaton that came running with the hatchet was hit in the head and fell out, Carrot bared his teeth and found the next target.
visor-!
Faced with an automaton holding a long sword, Lotte slashed the opponent with his two-black hair and swung his sword.
As the terrifying melee between the automatons unfolded, people had no choice but to leave their hands and watch.
There was no room for humans to intervene in the battle of the extrahuman automatons, except for the method of occasionally breaking through the defense line and shooting large arrows at the automatons that came running.
“It’s in the back!”
A sudden cry, as the startled adventurers pass through the automated water vehicle and go out to the other side, humans on horseback shoot arrows at them.
“Is it a bucket!”
“You children! You used your brain!”
The human robbers shouted.
“Give me the money and the woman! hahahaha!”
“Even robbing just one wagon is a win! Gaza!”
“Stop! Call the automatons!”
“no! We have to stop it!”
Before long, the adventurers and the gang of robbers clashed. The band of robbers on horseback tried to trample the adventurers like cavalry, but the distance was too narrow, so when they slowed down, they couldn’t exert the same power as cavalry.
And more than I thought, adventurers were in a state that transcended common sense.
“No barding! knock the horse down! Dinner is grilled horse meat!”
“Hee hee hee!!!”
The adventurers cut down the attacking horses or fired their automatic crossbows to knock down the oncoming horses.
Chaengchaeng-!
“Hee hee! It’s been a long time since I’ve been a female adventurer…?! What, what power!? Eww?!”
“Aww!!”
f*ck!
Arriete, who was facing a large man with swords, pushed him away with force and kicked him in the chest. Seeing the robber rolling backwards and collapsing, she held her sword and gasped for breath before turning away with a smirk.
And start laughing out loud.
“Uhhhhh! Ahahahaha! ruler! who’s next! I won’t beat you all up!”
Catch up! puck!
There was no robber who had properly learned swordsmanship with her. Ariete started running around quickly, swinging her sword and kicking.
“What is that crazy b*tch?! Somebody stop it!”
“Are you the only ones doing it!!! die! Die and help the world!”
kang!
“It’s something we try to eat and live on too! Just give me one truck and I’ll let you go!”
“The dog noise is novel! I want to chew your liver! Just take out that swollen liver and I’ll let you go!”
The gang of robbers are starting to get tired of the adventurers who have lost their eyes.
Tung!
Kang!
“Suck!”
Blocking the flying bow with a shield and throwing an axe, the robber who was hit in the face fell off his horse with blood pouring out. Turning his head, Crank found the robber climbing up to the automated water vehicle and hurriedly followed him.
Wow Jangchang! Windows break and people fall.
“Aww!”
Crank pushed his helmet through the broken window, looked at the adventurers below, and gave a thumbs up.
“hahahaha! crank!”
Wheein!
At that time, one automated water vehicle was hijacked and began to break away from the ranks. Crank, who saw that, went inside the vehicle and sat in the driver’s seat, but got up again.
“I do.”
It was because the conductor approached while wiping his nosebleeds.
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Automated water vehicles driven by mana motors using magic stones are not very fast. However, because the conductors are detailed about the structure, they also knew how to rapidly increase the output.
“Stand there! You bastard!”
“What, what?!”
The vehicle, which ran at an unbelievable speed for an automated water vehicle, crashed into the stolen vehicle.
Kwakwang-!
“Ahh?!”
As the car swung sideways with a tremendous impact, an automaton jumped in quickly from somewhere, got into the driver’s seat, and threw the robber out.
Crank, who poked his head out of the window in the midst of a melee fight, shouted loudly.
“We are the Argon Chamber of Commerce! I will kill all of you bandits! I will kill you and eat your flesh! I won’t spare any of them! No negotiations with injustice! Kill! Kill them all!”
It was a nonsense to break the opponent’s fighting spirit, but madness is contagious. The adventurers’ eyes turned upside down.
“aaa! This evening will be made of your flesh and blood!”
“Ahahahahaha! who’s next! weak! too weak! who’s next!
Puck puck puck!
In the midst of crazy adventurers and crazy knights, even crazy automatons appeared.
“hahahaha! Done! It’s a humanoid monster!”