41. Here we go, hero
[Can’t hear anything? If it was attacked, there’s no way we wouldn’t know.]
“No, not here, but in Hair!”
The knight staggered for a moment, but soon began to pick himself up and explain.
The contents were shocking. Heir was attacked by the Dark Church, and after a fierce battle, they occupied Jaja Castle. The inside has already become a dungeon, so you can’t just enter it.
[Where is Hair?]
[That’s the name of the city we’ve been active in so far!]
“Big. Anyway, I will continue the explanation.”
Seeing that it pops up every once in a while, the holy sword is definitely listening to our conversation. The serious atmosphere was cut off in an instant, and the knight focused on the attention that was stolen by clearing his throat.
Anyway, to summarize his explanation that followed, Viscount Heir and his family were kidnapped, and members of the Dark Church are holding a sit-in inside the castle.
I am a regular knight of the Silver Sword Knights who serve Viscount Heir, and the strong people staying in the city couldn’t solve this situation, so I came to ask for help from the hero.
[Did you come alone?]
“Originally, I also rode a horse, and there were other messengers, but… I was attacked in the middle, keukheuk. I have arrived here alone.”
[Yes, how is it? Will you help me?]
[Wouldn’t that be okay? It is also an act worthy of a hero…]
Seonggeom also timidly expressed his opinion. Cream, who pretended to be worried for a moment, soon nodded his head lightly.
“Help me.”
From the beginning, you and I decided to dig into the secret organization. The Dark Church is too famous to be a secret organization, but it’s probably as bad as other places.
Above all, Cream has a relationship with the Dark Church. By the way, Cream still carries the black cup that was taken back then.
“Then what should I do, should we start right away?”
“Please. One o’clock is urgent!”
At Choco’s light words, the knight eagerly clung to him as if he had caught the case. However, I don’t know if I’m alone, but I think it’s going to be a lot of time if I take a load with me.
It’s difficult to find a horse at night, but even if you do, it will be a long way from keeping up with Cream’s speed. Even so, leaving the article behind is a strange picture.
[By the way, are you going too?]
“Of course not! I still wanted to hang out with the guys from the dark church!”
“Are you okay?”
Didn’t that guy say he couldn’t keep up with the trip because he had people waiting for him? However, Choco, who hesitated for a moment, nodded her head confidently.
“It should be fine for a few days!”
“Yes, if so, what.”
Looks like it ended up helping them. In fact, rather than burning with a sense of mission, I feel a strong sense of just being interested, but isn’t good good?
“It’s been a while, Choco, let’s go.”
“Yes!”
Meanwhile, Cream ordered Choco something of her own. She nodded her head for a moment, and the figure of Choco exploded, and then a beast appeared through her torn clothes.
A different look from the combat type transformation I saw last time. Her dark brown fur is still there, but her build is not that big, and her well-muscled body gives the impression of being nimble rather than massive.
As expected of a pure-blooded beastman, it seems that he can adjust his transformation to some extent. The form Choco transformed into this time is more for movement than combat.
[I’ll tell you in advance, I won’t burn anyone but the owner!]
[What can I do? I already got on.]
[Profit!]
No matter how many times this has happened, Cream leaped lightly and landed on Choco’s waist. Of course, her holy sword and I were also caught in Cream’s waist, so she naturally became a form of being ridden by Choco.
The closer a beast is to pure blood, the stronger it will become, but seeing them trained like this made me admire them. No, it was possible because it was rather wild. Beasts obey the strong.
“My God…. Me, what do I do?”
No matter how you look at it, the knight was dumbfounded for a moment as he looked much more agile than a normal horse. Choco, who was examining her knight with her eyes rolling, opened her mouth at her knight.
[Now.]
“Yes?”
[Come here. You’re not trying to get on top of a lady, are you?]
“Oh, no.”
The words were taciturn, but the knight approached the beast’s jaws with a shriveled expression. At first glance, it looks like Choco is about to eat the knight.
Soon, the beast’s jaws closed. Fortunately, there was no misfortune in which the knight caught in the middle was chewed up, but the knight was bitten by the nape of the neck and hung on dangly.
“Heo Eok! The armor with built-in protection spells…!”
[It’s noisy. Come on, master. Shall we depart?]
“Let’s go.”
Since the mental wave spreads one’s own will, there was no problem in speaking even with something in one’s mouth. The moment Cream gave permission, the beast started running.
Perhaps even faster than cream. There was a significant difference between the running of bipedal humans and the galloping of quadrupeds.
[Yah!]
I enjoyed the sense of speed and shouted to my heart’s content. The knight who was bitten by the running beast was dead, but why should I care about that?
The night is over and the sun, which went to drink on the other side of the planet, raises its head again in the dusk. The destination is pretty close. The walls of Haire, bathed in the sunlight of the sunrise, were reddish.
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[They said they were invaded, they’re fine.]
Thanks to the two girls with near-infinite stamina, it was good that they stayed up all night and arrived at Haire, but despite all the hard work, the interior was not much different from usual.
The atmosphere was definitely a little different from usual, such as the overcast sky and the soldiers who were seen more than usual, but that’s all.
Even after washing my eyes, it didn’t seem like a serious situation like this, with the Dark Church occupying the castle and the Viscount being kidnapped. Although there was a bit of unrest, the people’s faces were full of energy.
“I will. What happened… First of all, it would be better to visit the countermeasure headquarters.”
[Is there anything like that?]
“Because it is such a major event.”
The countermeasure headquarters that the article guided me to was also quite familiar. In the past, it was the building where the management positions were active when Cream held the ceremony to announce the warriors.
At that time, I was preoccupied with shifting responsibility to the saint of the moon, so Cream received the name of the most important warrior later. Peace. That is the name of this great hero.
“Robin! Are you back!”
“Yes. We have brought the warrior of peace and his companions here.”
As soon as we entered, we were warmly welcomed by the people. There were also some familiar faces between them. Captain of the Silver Knights, Torture Wizard, Bishop of the Moon.
Three asymmetric forces supporting the city. However, because they were unable to fend off the attack of the Dark Church, they had a rather gloomy appearance.
“How did it happen?”
As soon as I sat down, Cream asked a question. Perhaps because of what happened at that time, the other two seem to be uncomfortable with cream, so a fierce fight continued, and the Bishop of the Moon, who was defeated in the end, opened his mouth.
“Nope. Thanks for the help. It was all because of our lack of strength.”
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[I knew you guys were idiots, so don’t worry.]
“·······Huu. Even if the tip of the tongue is sharp, we are in no position to deny it. The Viscount was kidnapped right in front of my eyes.”
A self-deprecating tone. Because the atmosphere emanating from him was so depressing, Cream, who was trying to squeeze me, lowered his hand shyly.
“A few days ago, that person suddenly appeared. At that time, I was praying with the Viscount.”
As if recalling a terrible past, the bishop’s eyes trembled. After hesitating for a moment, he immediately vomited everything in him.
“The moment we opened our eyes after praying, a man wearing a clown mask appeared in front of us. It’s funny. Still, I’ve built up training up until now, but I can’t believe that the stranger didn’t notice until he touched the viscount…”
“We, the Knights of the Silver Feather, were also guarding the Viscount’s surroundings, but we couldn’t catch any signs. What kind of disloyalty is this!”
“I don’t know how you feel either. This poor old man also tasted despair in his later years… I immediately rushed to protect the Viscount, but he just disappeared with an eerie laugh.”
Well, I mean, he dressed up nicely, but in the end he was robbed even with the enemy right in front of him. But even their incompetence contest didn’t end there.
“After that, I tried to find the viscount, but in the end I couldn’t find it. Besides, monsters started crawling out from all over the castle…”
[Monster?]
“Yes. From my lowly insight, it looked like demons from the other world had acquired flesh…”
Oh, isn’t that the style of the Dark Church? Demons have a close relationship with witchcraft, not with faith. The main power of the Dark Church is the corrupted divine power.
[Then isn’t it on the side of the demon contractors?]
“I thought so too, but the person who kidnapped the Viscount called himself the Dark Church. I also used the corrupted divine power.”
If this is the case, I don’t know again.
“Moreover, the Dark Priests also stood out. Because the damage was so great, in the end we couldn’t find a trace of the viscount and had to express our anger.”
[Citizens don’t seem to know anything?]
“I don’t know why, but they didn’t want to come out of the castle. Rumors are spreading little by little, but the soldiers have been instructed to keep quiet as much as possible.”
Now is the time to evacuate, but as expected, the rotten power figures in the city chose to delay the catastrophe even a little rather than cause chaos with futile announcements.
You won’t be able to shut everyone’s mouth, and there’s no guarantee that they’ll stay curled up in the castle forever. What if it pops out? Only innocent citizens are being massacred.
“Are you worried about that?”
[Of course. You’re hungry.]
It is mainly in that my prey is taken away. Well, looking closely, it seems that most of the upper class in this city have fled, except for the very few who remained in the Countermeasure Headquarters.
“Will you help us, warrior?”
Well, I think I know a little bit why they do that in the first place.
A messenger was sent from Hairer, the city where the hero was active, to bring back the hero who went to another city? Even if you don’t know what a hero is, he has a history of stealing valuables from the Dark Church.
As if showing off in numerous other places, even camped out on self-reliance. A musty smell wafts out. Just look at the trap.
[So let’s go!]
“Okay.”
“Thank you!”
Cream answered me, but the Bishop of the Moon understood that the hero had accepted his request and bowed down in joy.
In the first place, the ability itself is also fraudulent, but is there a crisis that can threaten the warrior who will receive God’s protection? Unless something as ignorant as a dragon lord suddenly pops out.
“Oh, the Viscount’s abductor was wearing a clown mask. If you see one like that, beware. And······.”
The Bishop of the Moon came up to us and snapped his fingers. A cold flash came from his cheek, and an extremely thin barrier of ice rose to envelop us.
My scabbard is also frosted. Is it an attack? But Cream stayed still. One step later, I realized the use of the ice barrier. Blocking outside noise.
“Beware the traitor.”
The Bishop of the Moon whispered in a low voice, winking at the personnel at the countermeasure headquarters.
“A traitor?”
“We couldn’t find out who it was either. Still, it would not have been possible without the cooperation of insiders for a member of the Dark Church to penetrate the city and the mansion so easily.”
Soon after that, the ice barrier was lifted. The Bishop of the Moon still had a heavy and serious expression, but Cream nodded lightly in contrast to him.
“Yeah, mind me, I’ll use it.”
“Since the space of the mansion is also warped, it must have been very different from the existing structure. I am injured and cannot be with you, but the Knights of the Hidden have decided to help you instead.”
As soon as Cream’s eyes met, the Knights of the Silver Feather saluted with firm faces. He bought a new spear instead of the one that Cream had broken in the past, and was wearing it around his waist.
It looks reliable on the outside, but in reality it must be weaker than Choco. Well, it’s an unavoidable fate that a burden accompanies a hero’s journey.
Still, it’s been a long time since I’ve done anything worthy of a warrior.
No, is this your first time?