War Never Again
After the golem’s warning, the regressor jumped out reflexively and stood on top of the cataphract, opening seven-colored eyes. The regressor who was looking at the ridge with the sixth pupil, the far-sighted Ram’s Eye, murmured.
“… I can’t see you.”
As the saying goes, no shadow of the enemy could be found anywhere along the Cataphract’s path. To that, Diji, the communication golem, answered.
[I think it hasn’t arrived yet!]
“I know. Because I can’t see I can’t even see it with my own eyes, what kind of raid are you preparing for? No, more than that, how did you know there was an attack?”
[There was a corresponding warning from another signalman! It is expected that there will be an attack soon!]
I have no doubt that the report is false. Because that’s the carrier’s network. Transparency without even the concept of doubt was a characteristic and strength of the signal soldier.
However, the golem grumbled a little while holding onto the steering wheel.
[However, it was too early to warn in accordance with the rules of engagement. According to the warning, it should have appeared by now…. Like the bridge earlier, I can’t calculate the expected arrival time properly at all. Abbie, it seems that you are young at driving.]
In the meantime, he even grumbles at Abby. Is it AB’s influence to express personal emotions in communication? .
No, I had the ability to do that. It just hasn’t been revealed until now. Positive anyway He responded carelessly.
“Well, mistakes can happen.”
[Why is it so easy to make mistakes… It’s hard, but I’ll try to understand…. Wait, alert received! Coming!]
This time, they also found a regressor. The brown dust rising over the hill gradually thickened.
The wait was not long. The first thing you hear is the sound of horses hooves pounding on the ground. And then someone’s cry was heard.
“Yaha-! Found!”
Their behavior was very unique.
All of them are wearing patchwork clothes. There is no concept of formative beauty at all, and there is no pattern to be seen. It was clear that it was probably made by adding or patching it at the time. There was no unity from head to toe.
If there is only one thing in common. It’s that they were all riding something.
“What did I say! I said a follow-up supply unit would come! If you wait for it and take it away, you’ll be sure to get your share!”
A man riding a large two-wheeled vehicle shouted. It looked very unstable because it had only two wheels, one front and one back, but it managed to balance itself with an iron bar stretched out to the side, and it was running.
The man on horseback spurred on and followed him.
“The money is well packed and away! All you have to do is pick it up!”
“You don’t even need wheels! Because there is already a big one!”
“hahahahaha! How much is all that? There’s no point in picking up pennies either. Gotta aim for a big one!”
“If it were just a little faster, I would be riding it!”
The Cataphract I am riding is a military strategic weapon. It is a steel fort that weighs several tens of tons. Aside from how to attack, it was a weight that was doubtful whether it could be carried back, but they didn’t care at all.
Because the weight of the Cataphract is what they want.
The concept of ‘money’ is slightly different in different countries.
Having a blessed king led by the descendants of five monarchs, the kingdom of gold, a country of technology and metallurgy, was destroyed by just one human being.
Golden Sutra demo. A genius who was called a monster of understanding.
And the absolute one who destroyed the gold country with gold and plunged the continent into chaos.
Golden scenery reigns, and gold has lost its value in many countries. The adage to treat gold like stone has become common sense in many countries. Not in a didactic sense, but in an economic sense.
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Maybe that’s why? Instead… A unique economic system has arisen in the nations.
“It is a fairly high-level alchemy steel. Even if you can’t do it, it looks like it’s over tens of tons! I could play and eat for the rest of my life with that amount!”
None other than weight.
In many countries, unless it is an extremely special material, weight and value are generally proportional. So, a means of transportation that can carry a lot of weight is essential. These systems combined the characteristics of the nations, and the nations themselves turned into huge nomadic states.
It is said that it is a country of alchemy, but even alchemy, which has built-in alchemy value, fades in many countries.
Golden Kyeong is the world’s strongest alchemist. Even the cost of alchemy can be printed out.
“Tsk. As expected, it runs greedily. Those hounds….”
The mounts are different, but all of them fiercely run towards us. There is not a single hesitation in the eyes that glisten with greed.
The Cataphract isn’t slow, but it’s not enough to outrun a hungry jackal. I said.
“What are you going to do? Are you going to let me come this far?”
The regressor didn’t think much of it.
“Well, let’s just let them come. I need to dig up information.”
“What information? The other side is the one sent deep into the military to disrupt the rear. There’s no way you know anything like useful information. Just clean it up?”
“Then what about the information?”
“Mr. Shay. Have you forgotten what drives this cataphract? It’s a communication golem. How long will you get information in a primitive way? Let’s try something more luxurious.”
The regressor who agreed took out a cherry blossom and aimed it at the enemies running obliquely. Above the catapult moving at full speed. The wind that passed behind me was sucked towards the cherry blossoms for an instant. The hum gradually grew louder.
“Thousand Blades, Four Days.”
And the regressor let out a heavenly cherry.
Doo-woong. Something blurry spreads out just like the trajectory the regressor stabbed. It looked more like a distortion of space than an arrow or bullet. When the distortion, which seemed to reach the ends of the earth, touched the wildcat in the front, he jumped up and crashed into the ground as if he had been hooked.
The two-wheeled vehicle, which had been rolling narrowly, lost its balance when the rider disappeared. He became one body with the two-wheeled vehicle and rolled on the ground.
The leader became an obstacle and attacked the people who followed. The jockey, who hastily turned, exclaimed in amazement.
“Who just saw that?”
“I didn’t see it!”
Those who do not know their subject do not believe and do not admit what they have not seen. If they were ordinary idiots, they might have mistakenly slipped and continued running.
However, the wild beasts of the nations are a little different. Surprise raids were their daily routine and running away was their livelihood, and they instinctively recognized the opponent’s rank.
“From this distance, no one sees the attack? Then you are a monster!”
“I wasn’t shaking!”
“Run away!”
The wildcats immediately turned their noses around. The wheels scrape the ground furiously, and the horse with its forepaw raised turns its body. As soon as the wild beasts of the nations were convinced that their opponent was strong, they ran away.
“Oops! I have to pick up this one too!”
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Meanwhile, the last person chasing him took his fallen comrade and left. I don’t know if it’s ‘taken’ by being chained and dragged along, but anyway. Leaving behind the dull Cataphract, they darted away.
Tyr muttered as he gazed intently at it.
“She doesn’t abandon her comrades. Despite her outward appearance, it is clear that she has comradeship.”
“Comrades? Not at all. Perhaps they would rather be dead.”
“Why?”
“If they are not dead, they cannot be sold. I will run away on my own.”
The reason they take care of the remains of their comrades is no different. Like the reason why Cataphracts are aimed at, it is because heavy steel is quite expensive. Even if it’s a mount, it’s even more valuable.
Her co-workers are no exception. The remains of comrades do not tip the scale any less.
“Everyone is riding like a horseman. Now i get it Why the flowing land can be a moat to block them.”
I nodded at Tyr’s words.
“Yes. They’re looters who come in and run away with loads of stuff. The meta conveyor belt is a very difficult obstacle for them. Even if you try to get on it, you have to do some pretty dangerous stunts, but the military uses meta-conveyor belts to move troops quickly.”
“The bandits who are obsessed with stealing. You have a troublesome neighbor.”
“Yes. At the national level, raiding parties of that size are just annoying, but disrupting the rear would be annoying enough.”
Anyway, the first raid of the nations ended in vain. This side’s power was too strong to bother a few Seungnyang.
In addition, the regressor’s cherry blossom is a free weapon that can cover all medium and long distances. Even Seungnyang, who are not afraid of bullets or arrows, can be wiped out in one shot.
However, when Hilde saw them, she let out a deep sigh.
“It’s difficult. How long has it been since the war broke out and come all the way here? If you meet them without passing through the meta conveyor belt, some cities must have already been robbed.”
The words were close to talking to oneself, but some of them stimulated regressors. The regressor asked.
“The war has already happened?”
Hilde answered normally, as if talking about the snack she ate last night.
“Yes, what. It’s more of a battle than a war, but it’s already happened, right?”
“When? No, how? Surely not long ago, military personnel were riding on the meta conveyor belt?”
“Aren’t you ignoring the military too much? No matter how large the scale is, if it is a military system, it will take less than two days to prepare and send it to the Plain of the Abyss.”
“Yes! It’s only two days. But how did the war happen?”
When I met Yuel, I heard that sporadic battles were already taking place. A full day has passed since then, so it wouldn’t be strange if a war broke out.
However, it was a first for a regressor.
‘War is not a play house, it’s a major event with the fate of the country at stake! How long has it been since the bottomless pit disappeared?’
Common sense makes sense.
But a regressor, you know. Whether it’s military or nations, it’s a strange country that goes beyond common sense.
“It’s not just the military government that sent its troops to the bottomless pit~.”
“What?”
“There is a way to listen to the talker, but since I don’t want to have someone talk to me while driving, I’ll explain. Big. Please listen carefully.”
Before the long story, Hilde loosened her throat slightly. Like an actress preparing for a one-person play, she calmed down and started talking about the heaviest story in her world with a light tone.
“When the advance party arrived at the Abyss Wasteland, the nations were already attempting to occupy Tantalus!”