145. I don’t need revolutionaries in my legion
Everyone doesn’t know how important the commander’s role is in the military. Even more so if it was an army of monsters rather than people.
A unitary fighting force is at its best, but it is a deformed force that lacks the essential virtues of a soldier such as discipline, sternness, and cooperative spirit. It is almost impossible to give simple orders, let alone clever strategies.
There is only one order that can be given to monsters who cannot control their own ferocity and savagery. Charge. Named monsters corresponding to commanders function only as reins that suppress their nature.
[Are these all?]
As such, when I saw the named monsters summoned to Cream’s Call, I couldn’t help but be astonished.
Only three. Now, the number of monsters gathered in this gathering place exceeded a thousand units, but among the names, there were only three people who could lead more than one hundred monsters.
I really can’t understand the situation. Are there only this many names in this large gathering place? As I was shocked, Choco spoke kindly.
“We killed the strongest twin-headed ogre when he tried to get out.”
[Ah.]
Come to think of it, it’s true. However, I wonder what it would have been like if he had said those words as a mental wave. The names who heard what you said are trembling right now?
In case they find it strange, because I raised more darkness than usual, the sight of Cream sitting on Nagaraja’s hide was very intimidating. It’s not unreasonable to be afraid.
But, no matter how hard it is, monsters have lost their discipline. I looked disapprovingly at the dark stigma engraved on their bodies.
“Hey! Me, to kill us too!”
[Shut up because it’s not.]
“Yes.”
It seems that thanks to the fierceness of the race, he even got to the name of the chin-up, but his intelligence and will were weaker than that of the criminal. I sighed and took a closer look at them.
An ogre with a small hump on the side of its neck. Chieftain Scotyros with the upper half of a human and the lower half of a scorpion. Even Drake, who has no wings but boasts a stronger physical ability than a wyvern.
From an objective point of view, these guys could be catastrophic enough. It’s just that my eyes are too high.
“So what happened…”
The humped ogre, presumably the son of the twin-headed ogre we killed, spoke. Even if he rots, he is the strongest among the monsters gathered here.
Anyway, that was a head, not a hump. It was so small and covered in dark stigmas that I couldn’t even recognize it.
Cream also seemed to be interested in the ogre’s hump ······ No, his head. As she stared at him, the ogre, who was mumbling, finally shut his mouth.
[Why not talk?]
I didn’t mean to burden you, but I amplified the momentum and raised the darkness even more. The ogre’s expression turned pale as the jet black covered it.
“What did you call us for?”
When the ogre couldn’t say anything, Chief Scotty Ross beside him opened his mouth. Mental armament is better than this. Both of them are inferior compared to real names, but still.
[The wait is over.]
But if you openly talk to them, you won’t be able to use them properly. I suppressed my dissatisfaction and applied the mental wave again strictly and solemnly.
“If that’s what you say…!”
[Yes. The time has come. Time for revenge! We will invade the land of the God-loved. Until we drink their blood and sleep with the screams of their wives and children as lullabies, the legion’s footsteps will not stop!]
It was a method acting that people who did not know would mistake it for their true intentions. The monsters applauded with trembling faces at my passionate performance. Why not?
No matter how you think about it, my acting was perfect. If so, the cause must lie in fools. As I am not good at acting, I left the cream alone, but instead I rubbed the darkness.
As I have recently adapted to my rapidly growing power, the total amount of darkness I deal with is also the total amount, but the control and precision are also extremely elevated.
[Hey, don’t you guys want to invade?]
“Oh no!”
And the overwhelming power made even the concept meaningless. Even though I threw off the serious atmosphere and spoke in a snarky manner, the hardened ones did not dare to rebel.
Cream is still sitting back in a comfortable position, but behind her is the shape of a terrifying monster. What indescribable, overwhelming fear.
Well, it’s just a shadow with no substance and a plausible appearance, but the momentum it emits is real, so I easily hit the named set.
[Is Monster Wave a joke? Did you guys come here to play?]
“No evil!”
Surely, like monsters, they must have had an innate survival instinct, and they screamed loudly right away.
[Especially guys like you, huh? Would you like to see Neg’s father so innocent?]
“My father passed away…”
I was embarrassed by the humped ogre’s words. What am I going to do if I say such a shameful thing here? Well, I’m glad I killed him.
[Anyway! I’ll keep an eye on you, so be careful. For now, how many monsters can you command?]
“About three hundred…”
“I think I can command about two hundred.”
“Dreedre!”
[······What are you talking about? Tell me to understand.]
Drake wiggled his short foreleg, pointing at Scorpion Tyrus and then at me. Oh, so you’re on the same level as that guy?
A total of seven hundred. I counted them for a while. I don’t know exactly how many monsters are in the rendezvous right now, but it’s clear that there’s not enough.
At most, I can handle half of it properly. But at this point, this is also a sense. I clicked my tongue and gave orders to them.
[Drag as much as you can. It starts right away.]
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Our, no. My plan was simple.
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JJJ. Hit a monster with a monster! Of course, if you told them to attack the same monster openly, they wouldn’t listen, but it was easy to deceive those who were swayed by instinct and aggression.
Once the attack point is decided, drag the monsters to the vicinity of the rendezvous point, and after that, just trick them and charge them towards the rendezvous point.
A human army would stop fighting as soon as it realized that the opponent was an ally, but well. Even if it wasn’t so, I don’t think that monsters whose instincts were already suppressed by the names would have that level of self-restraint.
“Quoc, Quoc!”
“He must pay the price in blood!”
So this also happens. Cream slightly frowned at the sound of monsters chattering everywhere.
Actually, realistically, there is no way that the monster army will ever be supplied. Even so, this level of numbers could be maintained thanks to the strange symbiosis between low-level monsters and high-level monsters.
Low-level monsters dig through the forest in search of food, and high-level monsters survive by eating the food or low-level monsters given by such low-level monsters.
While the gathering place was moving, there were monsters coming to join the monster wave, and the instincts of the monsters were suppressed, so they ate less than half of their usual meals.
With its size and strength, the monster was able to survive with an incredibly small amount of food. Although there will be some loss of combat power. I didn’t design them to be that inefficient.
“Kooooong!”
However, most monsters whose instincts are not suppressed tend to overeat. And, our gathering place, which lacked the ability of the name, could not properly suppress the instinct of a high-level monster.
In the end, one of the manticores with an exploding malevolence attacked the orc colony. They said that it was no big deal that one group of low-level monsters died, but the problem was that the group was dominated by Orcs who had gained intelligence.
“If we keep going like this, low-level monsters like us will all strategize for one meal!”
Live and live, I saw the monsters protesting, and I unknowingly touched my forehead… Oh i don’t have a forehead
Actually, it wouldn’t be a big problem under normal circumstances. It was common for high-level monsters to eat low-level monsters even at the gathering place, so yes. If it was a normal monster.
The monsters that gained human intelligence were following the bad habits of humans as they were. At first, the demonstration started with a few orcs and grew little by little, but soon the majority of low-level and mid-level monsters joined and the scale grew significantly.
“What should I do?”
“Dreedre.”
Soltiros and Drake, who were standing next to each other, were also looking puzzled, as even Named’s leadership didn’t work well for monsters with intelligence.
And the humped ogre was at the forefront of the protest, shouting at the top of his voice. Whoa, that troll bastard.
“Even though our powers are different, we are also members of the Legion! Used as a toy, abused, exploited. I can’t stand this violence any longer!”
“Right!”
“Booooong!”
There is no intelligence without intelligence. Drake, who started all of this, let out a roar that could not be defeated by the shouts of the protesters, as if he felt the atmosphere turning hostile toward me.
The march was halted, and the corps split into two groups. A gang of mostly low-level monsters and many mid-level monsters under the leadership of an ogre and a demagogue orc.
And a team of names, high-level monsters, and a small number of intermediate level monsters under the mercenary military commander. Of course, the force is overwhelming on this side.
“Just kill them all?”
Yes, as Choco said with a fresh expression, it is actually not difficult to wipe them out. It’s because you can’t conduct a proper war after that.
Even in a different world where superhumans run rampant, soldiers are still important. In particular, if the difference in forces widened excessively, there was a high possibility that the monsters would not obey my orders at all.
No matter how you deceive your opponent that he is a monster, the monster’s intuition will easily guide the flow of the battlefield. No matter how much they burn with hatred for people, the most precious thing is still their own lives.
“We too must change now! I have gained intelligence, but how long will I savagely follow the logic of force! We demand the elimination of discrimination against low-level monsters and improvement in treatment!”
Of course, even if they gained intelligence, monsters are monsters, and the claims they made were extremely simple and one-dimensional. Even if you listen, it’s a problem.
In the first place, the supply of the monster wave itself is done by squeezing low-level monsters. What will we eat if we free the unpaid slaves?
[Whoa.]
Because the dark church guys threw sh*t called intelligence needlessly, problems that don’t occur in normal monster waves were bothering me.
I’m the only one thinking about wrapping my hair like this! Cream and chocolate were initially indifferent, and muffins were interested, but seemed unwilling to intervene.
[Normally, there is no invasion itself as the leader of the monster wave?]
[Noisy.]
And the holy sword was throwing candles at my actions. When I glared at the holy sword, she came out more confidently.
[No, that’s right. Weren’t we tracking the Dark Church in the first place?]
[Wow, then you’ll just leave the monster wave alone? Inohm, are you not afraid of the blood and tears that Mincho will shed?]
[Ha, since when did you worry about that? If left alone in the first place, it would self-destruct.]
That’s right. The Holy Sword and I were personally sharing mental waves, and Cream just contemplated the situation with a silent face.
When the captain was silent, the names around him didn’t act rashly either, and the more we were silent, the more vigorously the other side came out. This is going to be a real fight.
The moment the patience of the advanced monsters runs out, there will be a bloody blast. Cream finally moved a step before the irreversible situation came.
[Okay, let’s negotiate.]