Arel looked at Reinhardt quietly.
It was true that I was nervous even when the beggar child approached.
All the human nobles she had seen would be furious if their honor or dignity were damaged.
But Reinhardt didn’t even frown.
On the contrary, they handed out bread and declared, ‘I need to overturn the plate.’
‘person who is abnormal······.’
To Arel, Reinhardt is the most unpredictable person in the world.
It was an existence with bottomless potential, not knowing where it would bounce.
So it was difficult.
Even more so because I didn’t know who he was.
Honestly, even if I didn’t kick or hit, I thought I would at least frown.
Because the crown prince, who grew up fine in the imperial family, hadn’t washed for a long time and had no experience getting close to a stinky child.
‘I didn’t even frown.’
Instead, they handed out bread.
Of course, even if he ate leftovers, the fact that the crown prince of the empire would act like that came as a shock to Arell.
Shock.
Yeah, it was a shock.
I saw a different side of the prince without blood or tears.
A person who doesn’t open up easily shows kindness to a child he sees for the first time.
Well, that wasn’t the end.
“… Why did you move the mercenaries by burning the supply depot?”
Arell couldn’t help but ask.
Even if you don’t burn the supply depot and raise mercenaries, you will be able to threaten Viscount Hainan enough.
Even if he didn’t reveal his identity, it was enough for Arel to be there.
Hearing the trumpet sounds outside, Reinhardt shrugged his shoulders in the inn.
“A man like Viscount Hainan never shares what he has with others. If the supply depot is burned, they will only try to protect their own.”
“Wasn’t Viscount Hainan sufficiently subdued without leading the mercenaries to attack the castle?”
“Mercenaries are living witnesses. If Viscount Hainan gets greedy again, the mercenaries won’t stand still. Even if we don’t care, they’ll take care of themselves.”
All the food in the supply warehouse was burned, but the food secretly hidden in the lord’s castle was more than that.
All food left in the castle that day was distributed to mercenaries and civilians.
It was an enormous amount that could be eaten for 15 days with just that.
And it was Reinhardt’s idea to release the remaining supplies to the citizens of the lord’s castle.
‘It’s not difficult to take pity on someone and give them something to eat.’
If it had simply ended with Reinhardt giving bread to the child, Arel would not have felt so distraught.
Although it was surprising that the imperial family showed such behavior toward a single citizen, it was only natural from Arel’s point of view.
But Reinhardt went beyond simply handing out bread.
‘But the system itself was overturned…’
If Viscount Hainan disappears, the next lord will only appear anyway.
So Reinhardt created the weakness of Viscount Hainan and led the change.
A suitable carrot was also thrown. If magic crystals really came out of the veins, he would be able to rise to the rank of count.
However, if the humiliation suffered by the mercenaries was revealed during the process, he could have been executed on the contrary.
Between the carrot and the stick, Viscount Hainan has no choice but to lower his head.
Reinhardt fixed the root cause so that Viscount Hainan could not monopolize supplies.
If he had threatened to change alone, it would have been just a one-off.
As soon as Reinhardt left the estate, it was certain that it would return to its original state.
However, he increased his eyes by making mercenaries accomplices and witnesses.
Countless people know the secret, so Viscount Hainan has no choice but to be careful even if he can’t see it in front of him.
It is an insight that sees far into the future.
‘Strange, but a person with a warm side…’
Arell thought.
Reinhardt also has a warm side.
That the blunt and cold look on the outside may not be everything.
*
‘The board has been reorganized.’
He listened to the distant sound of the trumpet and rubbed his chin.
I didn’t like the board, so I turned it over.
Viscount Hainan’s soldiers, knights, and mercenaries alone cannot threaten the wolves. Far from being a threat, it will be swallowed in one bite.
At this rate, the past would only repeat itself.
So, if I can’t move from the front, I have to steer from the back. Viscount Hainan was such a use.
After receiving a letter from Viscount Hainan that magic crystals were found in the mine, two thousand soldiers entered the manor. So far it’s as expected.
With such a number of soldiers and knights, it was a force that could fight against wolves.
Enough to pose a threat even to epics.
‘Princess Jasmine.’
What I didn’t expect was the woman who led the soldiers.
Prince Flick and Princess Jasmine.
Prince Flick had his tongue cut out before, but he didn’t have much ability from the beginning, so he doesn’t care much.
However, Princess Jasmine was a person embedded in my brain.
‘She was the next queen of Rigel Kingdom.’
During the war, the king died and all the princes were slaughtered, and she briefly ascended the throne.
The period of her reign was only about six months, but she was a heroine who extended her life by running a kingdom that was already destroyed.
My evaluation of her was simple.
‘The greatest talent born in Rigel Kingdom.’
She, too, was a genius undervalued by her gender.
She was also a saint who knew how to handle a holy sword.
She joined the Sacred Church, the state religion of the Rigel Kingdom, as a child, became a saint, and turned the battlefield upside down by performing miracles using the power of God.
‘I see a few Paladins too.’
The curious thing is why Jasmine, a princess and a saint, appeared while exploring the magic stone mine. Even with the Paladins.
Only a very small number of knights selected by the Twelve Lords are appointed as ‘Paladins’.
Although nothing is known about the exact force as it moves in extreme secrecy, according to eyewitness accounts seen when eradicating the Demonic Order, it is a level of tectonic change.
Sword Master. or stronger ones.
Even during the Continental Conquest in the past, there was no major conflict with the Sacred Church.
From the point of view of the Empire, the Sacred Church was quite a tough opponent. The empire would have been devastated if it had turned the entire continent into an enemy and even turned the Sacred Church into an enemy.
Anyways…
The fact that the Holy Knights and Princess Jasmine came together should be taken as a sign that the Holy Church is interested in this matter.
“Hey, isn’t the lord selling us out?”
“I don’t think you’re going to stay still now that you’ve done that?”
The mercenaries made a fuss.
If Viscount Hainan told Princess Jasmine about the mercenaries’ reality, they could not have saved their lives.
But that’s what he said because he didn’t know Princess Jasmine.
If Viscount Hainan arrives, only the Viscount’s head will be blown off.
“Still, wasn’t the lord the first to break the contract?”
“that’s right. We just exercised our legitimate rights.”
The reason the mercenaries paid for their work and remained in the estate was because of the contract anyway.
However, Viscount Hainan broke the contract first.
The basic premise of this subjugation request was to solve the food, clothing, and shelter of the mercenary contracted by the client, and since that was violated, a ridiculous rationalization of ‘entering legitimately’ becomes possible.
I was starving for a while, but I didn’t kill him anyway.
“Who is in command of the mercenaries?”
At that time, Princess Jasmine appeared in front of the mercenaries with dignity.
Yellow hair and eyes like the sun. The owner of thick eyebrows and eyes that seem to be sucked in.
When Princess Jasmine asked, the mercenaries’ eyes turned to Arel.
As Arel raised her hand, Princess Jasmine glanced over at Arel.
“He seems to be at least useful in this place where only garbage is gathered.”
garbage.
It is a word to evaluate the soldiers of the lord castle.
Even now, the direct tone of speech was still the same.
At the same time, Princess Jasmine’s eyes turned to me.
Or, did you know?
However, Princess Jasmine and the current me had never met.
Even Prince Flick would find it difficult to think of me as a prince now.
“You look better than you look. It’s well balanced. Are you a mercenary too?”
“He is an attendant, princess.”
“you’re right. He is the attendant of our mercenary commander.”
In the meantime, Arel had become a mercenary commander.
Hearing the mercenaries’ words, Princess Jasmine frowned.
“An attendant?”
After looking at Arel and me alternately, Princess Jasmine continued.
“Hmm, you’re wasting your talent. Come find me when the subjugation is over. I will make you a man.”
I don’t know what she’s going to do to make me a man, but Jasmine’s eyes are quite good.
Because of Zero, my body is now more balanced than anyone else.
But Jasmine was the first to notice it at once.
【Lv. 110]
What’s even more surprising is the level. I never thought it would have already been like this at this time.
Princess Jasmine looked away from me and spoke clearly.
“From now on, the mercenaries are also under my command.”
“Princess. We have a contract with the lord.”
“The lord’s contract is my contract. If you have any complaints, you can turn it off.”
“…”
The mercenaries tightly closed their mouths.
From a mercenary’s point of view, no matter who you follow, as long as you give them money, you’re good.
“I know you don’t. Finally, has anyone seen a ‘devil’ around here?”
“Are you the devil?”
“You mean the demon of the Demon Church?”
it’s the devil Why do the names of the Empire and the Holy Church join forces to drive them out?
When the mercenaries asked, Jasmine shook her head.
“I wish I hadn’t seen it. We start wolf hunting tomorrow, so you know that.”
When the words were finished, Princess Jasmine left without looking back.
‘Devil?’
The reason why Princess Jasmine and the paladins visited this place?
The speed at which it tries to process things is also beyond imagination.
I could understand if it was to wipe out the Demon Church, but the letter sent by the lord didn’t mention anything like that.
‘I just do what I have to do.’
I shaved my head.
If progress is fast, it’s good for me.
When the wolf hunt starts tomorrow, I planned to secretly kidnap the wolf of Ageus.
Neither Epic nor the Wolves could have expected the sudden increase in soldiers.
*
next day.
As I said beforehand, the wolf hunt began.
More than 2,000 soldiers roamed the forest looking for the wolves.
I distanced myself slightly from them and pursued the wolves of Ageus. The location was roughly determined through satellites.
‘The wolves are moving.’
The wolves are also confused by the surprise attack of the humans.
I saw wolves moving around and preparing.
and in the middle of it.
‘there is.’
I found the wolf of Ageus again.
“It’s a monstrous wolf!”
“It appeared from the east too!”
The wolves, who quickly adapted, were conducting a disruptive operation.
You are taking a terrain advantage against outnumbered soldiers. I fell here and there and lost my soul.
“Light it up!”
However, as if she knew this would happen, Princess Jasmine poured the prepared oil into the forest and set it on fire.
In an instant, the fire roared and burned the forest.
The smoke and flames also restricted the wolves’ movements.
As if they hadn’t thought of burning the forest, in the end, a monstrous wolf was killed by Princess Jasmine’s sword.
The holy sword, pouring out divine power, split the wolf and annihilated it as it was.
“Don’t back down!”
It’s great power.
But more than that, I was concentrating on the movements of Ageus’ wolf.
‘I’m heading to the valley alone.’
The curious thing is that he is heading to the valley alone, without the help of wolves.
In a situation where all the wolves in the valley came out.
I immediately left my seat and headed for the valley.
*
A huge cave beneath a waterfall in a valley.
When I went inside with the bow of winter aimed, I was able to face the wolf of Ageus soon after.
“… strangers?”
“Don’t move.”
I used to just let it go, but not anymore.
But the wolf of Ageus was not alone.
Beyond, a huge fuselage.
There was a wolf who fell wounded.
‘Silver Fang.’
Silverfang’s eyes were dying.
It gave off a rotten smell, and there was nothing strange about it even if it died immediately.
“Oh oh. After a thousand years, a comrade has appeared.”
“Pang! You can’t move.”
Silver Fang stepped forward and forced himself to stand up.
The wolf of Ageus tried to stop it, but to no avail.
Silverfang swept across the floor and sniffed my scent.
“Gluttony. Why did you appear only now?”
voracity?
Gluttony is the name of the power that Demon King Gaf has.
It was the power that absorbed all the radioactive materials in the Holy Land.
“Wrath is here, hereby two of the Seven Deadly Sins are gathered! Isn’t this a sign of the birth of a mortal sin!”
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
However, I knew roughly what ‘The Birth of a Deadly Sin’ was.
Because that’s what the Demon Church put forward.
To bring the world back to the beginning by giving birth to a mortal sin.
It was their purpose to drive out the present gods, and to slaughter the humans and make them completely obsolete.
But is that Silver Fang related to the Devil’s Church?
Does that mean even Garp, a figure from a thousand years ago, is involved?
The Demon Church appeared only a few decades ago.
‘No, the Devil’s Church existed before then.’
In fact, the Devil Church was deeply rooted.
It only existed secretly in a small number and was finally discovered and rooted out.
But the true root has not been pulled out.
That’s what I call the seven deadly sins.
Garp, Silverfang, and maybe the wolf of Ageus.
“Seed of mortal sin, eat me. Kill dragons and gods and take revenge on humans. The guide will guide you!”
“Pang. Please don’t say that!”
“Since the guide has arrived, my role has been fulfilled here! Oh, salvation!”
＜ Feat Robbed (6) ＞ End