Mission No.3 Little Devils (01)
“What should I do if I meet a dwarf?”
Dwarf?
My capable adjutant was looking up at me with twinkling eyes.
With her eyes full of anticipation, she put her hands together and fearlessly wrote the word dwarf, making my arm goosebumps.
I’m not sure what kind of answer I want to hear about the dwarves, but after sweeping away my arm full of bulging chicken meat, I raised my teacup.
However, the water in the teacup began to shake because of her trembling hands.
As the dark memories of her came to mind, I felt disgusted with her, and I had no choice but to quietly give her her answer.
“Run away.”
From 『Omandaejabron (五萬大雜論), which becomes bones and flesh that can be enough to serve as a side dish for drinking parties, although there is no hindrance in living.
Excerpt from ‘Dwarves, those damn bastards’. A lofty archaeologist, a historical historian, and the first knight of the empire. By Radvan Centavius.
“Including the upper Merhin River, troops are advancing from a total of nine places. It is understood that there are no reinforcements from the Kur tribe yet, but it has been confirmed that troops have left some garrisons.”
“What size?”
Marcus looked down at the map with a serious expression and pulled out a troop flag from the stand.
“It’s at the level of three knights.”
“Thirty thousand people…”
Many. Marcus, who had been calculating the movements of the Kurs scattered across the front for a while, fiddled with the flag in his hand.
Where this force can move…
“Stop! No one can get in…”
“Get out of the way. Before you screw it up.”
“… Whoa!”
At the sound he heard outside the tent, Marcus covered his face with his hand holding his flag. As far as he knows, there is only one human being who can make such a statement.
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It’s Ewald.
Sure enough, the tent door opened and an angry Ewald entered.
Marcus looked at Ewald with an expression wondering if there were all these people, but he shut his mouth when he saw the people behind Ewald.
The number of people who left with five increased to six. Besides, the people who appeared like some kind of defeated soldier were wrapped in bandages.
Something is strange.
“Hey, what happened?”
“There was. It was a very f*cking thing.”
“Is that why you invaded the battlefield meeting?”
“Noisy, pack your luggage. I’m going to Kasper.”
A few people showed their teeth at Ewald’s careless attitude, but most people looked closely at Ewald’s face and became shocked.
“Eh, Ewald?”
“Ewald?”
In an instant, the people in the tent started to stir. Since it was a strategy meeting led by Commander-in-Chief Marcus Schilling, only knight commander-level figures were shown, but among them there was no one who did not know the name Ebalt.
However, Ewald, whose eyes were bloodshot, threw a tantrum at the buzzing people.
“Shut up, you kids. It’s urgent, so shut up.”
“… Hey, Ewald.”
“You too man, be noisy, get ready quickly. Casper died today.”
“… No matter how you are, please be polite to His Majesty the Emperor…”
“Manners?”
Ewald threw the bomb with a face full of ridicule.
“Some bastard flew on a Schheim.”
“What?!”
Marcus screamed until his uvula popped out.
“You said Schheim was taken away?”
“Then wake up quickly!”
“What kind of guys are they?”
“I don’t know about that, but get ready quickly.”
“I heard no one can steal it! Hey, are you insane?”
“So you have to go to Kasper.”
“If I go to see His Majesty, what problem will be solved!”
“We’re going to solve it, so let’s go quickly.”
“Tell me before…”
“Hey Marcus. Listen straight.”
Ewald turned an annoyed face at Marcus.
“That Schheim flew towards the principality.”
“What!”
* * *
Ewald barged into the emperor’s office. The guard guarding the door stepped aside as soon as he saw Ewald’s murderous face, and Ewald, who opened the door without any obstruction, started screaming.
“You Casper!”
“That human, that…”
Kasper, who was bowing his head on his desk, raised his head with an expression of boredom. From the moment I heard the sound of footsteps, my energy was low.
“Where is Haengpae, Haengpae!”
“The bastards of the principality stole Schheim!”
Kasper’s face changed just as Marcus did.
Schheim, and the principality stole it too?
“G, G, G, now nothing, what… !”
“It was stolen!”
“You madman!”
Casper jumped up from his seat.
Does the human named Ebalt know what it means to have Schheim stolen?
Kasper’s forehead was covered with blood, and his face turned red as his knuckles shook.
“When? What happened?”
“Yesterday! Someone picked it up and carried it!”
“Hey!”
“More than that!”
It’s understandable that Kasper is upset. However, Ewald showed it with a face that was dozens of times more angry than Kasper.
“Answer me straight, Kasper.”
“What?”
Jeokban Hajangdo is oily resin. Kasper screamed with the momentum to wield his sword at any moment, but Balt screamed louder than that.
“Some bastard stole my biometric information!”
* * *
“Trenrich!”
Felix took his hand to his throbbing head.
The aftereffects of the conversation with Rahaf last night were weighing down his entire body, so he couldn’t wake up, but someone was desperately looking for him.
“… Come in.”
The bedroom door opened and a man entered. Felix forced his throbbing body to stand up, and the man opened his mouth, bowing to Felix.
“Schheim has arrived!”
“… You are late.”
“But there is a problem.”
“Problem?”
Felix narrowed his eyes.
“Clona is dying.”
“I’m dying…”
“We are transporting you here.”
Although he already knew from the report of his man who visited him the night before, Felix groaned and got up.
He said his vital response was at its lowest, so it’s no surprise that he’s in a moribund state. Rather, it is only for the sake of enduring so far.
He recalled Laharp, who had hurt him so badly but had healed his wounds, and Felix rose from his seat with a hard face.
And just in time, a man on a stretcher entered Felix’s room.
The man, who swung his whole body in black clothes, entered Felix’s room with his face covered in a mask. The man, with only his eyes barely exposed, lay motionless on a stretcher.
Felix’s face frowned.
A living corpse was lying there, barely breathing.
“Let me back off.”
The people carrying the man hurriedly put down the stretcher and left the room. Felix clutched at his throbbing stomach and ducked next to the stretcher.
Felix let out a long sigh after removing the cloth covering his entire body.
Wrong. This clone was ready to die at any moment. It seemed difficult to breathe any longer.
“Report.”
The man’s eyes opened slightly. The green eyes hidden under the eyelids lost their focus and were barely moving left and right.
At the same time, the man’s mouth opened.
“Main body… Discovery.”
“What?”
Felix’s eyes twitched.
“Main body… Discovery…”
“Main body? Body?”
Felix grabbed the man by the collar who was about to die. The word body that came out of his mouth completely stopped Felix’s thoughts.
“Main body… There…”
“Where was the body? Answer me!”
“The mission is…”
The man’s green eyes widened in an instant. However, it completely lost focus and slowly turned into a muddy color.
“Answer me! Where was the body?”
“… Done… All.”
The man took a deep breath. But, unable to breathe any more, he let out a gasp and slowly sagged.
The next moment, the man’s corpse wriggled as if convulsing. Felix quickly backed away at the unusual sight, but did nothing more than raise his arm to cover his face at the sound of a loud crash.
Unpleasant liquid splattered in all directions. After the explosion, the man’s body began to ooze and then melt. The orange liquid turned into slime equivalent to slime and melted away. That which had been human until just a moment ago collapsed without leaving a single bone fragment.
“… Body.”
After brushing off the liquid from his arm, Felix looked at the stretcher with a completely distorted face, and when he saw that there was nothing left but the liquid, he spat out a short curse.
* * *
“… What are you talking about?”
As he dragged the chair that was rolling in front of his feet and walked in front of Kasper, Balt put the chair right in front of Kasper with a smile on his face.
“Are you asking because you don’t know?”
Ewald sat down and crossed his long legs.
“Remember me?”
“… I’m not sure what you’re talking about.”
“Okay? I don’t seem to remember, how can I remember?”
With his fingers tapping on his knees, Balt slowly but surely began to list the facts.
“It was just after sunset yesterday that we arrived at Zendwig Thumm. At that time, Zendwig Tuum’s barrier had already been shattered. However, the barrier was only half destroyed.”
“Half?”
“Only the magic part disappeared. Did the divine power remain?”
Casper’s expression darkened.
“So?”
“So I broke through. The first floor is open. But when I looked, I wondered who had invaded and that it had probably been about 4 hours since he died. The body was still warm. So I went down further. Even where Schheim is buried.”
“… Continue.”
“However, someone broke into the joint without going through the secret passage. He knew exactly where Schheim was buried. When we arrive at the joint, what kind of lady is guarding it?”
“…”
“It took roughly four hours for us to reach the joint. So, even if you say that you teleported to the cavity as soon as you broke in, you would have started Schheim in 8 hours.”
Ewald stopped his fingers from tapping his knee.
“Can you hear me? Eight hours.”
“… What does that mean?”
“It means that you interpreted and unleashed my magic in the meantime.”
Ewald gave an evil smile.
“Do you think that’s possible, son of a b*tch?”
“All right, why are you cursing at me?”
“No matter how you think about it, you are the only culprit.”
“Are you the culprit? Hey, are you insane?”
“Do you look insane?”
“Of course!”
“Hey!”
Ewald kicked off his seat and stood up.
“It took me a month to make that magic formula! I made it so that I could never touch it without my wavelength! If you want to force it to move, you need to have 15 times my magic power at the time to force it! Do you know how much it is? Even if I can’t do it, I’m on the level of Canarpea!”
A name I didn’t want to hear popped up. It is the name of the ‘weak’ dragon that Ewald and Kasper defeated while struggling to die 29 years ago.
As soon as Canarpea’s name was mentioned, Kasper’s expression crumbled, and he let out a tsk sound and sank into his chair.
“So what do you mean?”
“Even if I, who knows all the formulas for normal magic dismantling, rushes in, I have to work all night for a week. But does it make sense that some madman solved it in 8 hours? Even Belzedeus can’t do that!”
Kasper turned his head away as if he didn’t want to talk any more, but Ewald growled and continued.
“Then there is only one answer.”
Ewald raised his finger and pointed at Kasper.
“I have no answers other than that someone copied my biometrics. Is not it?”
“…”
“And few people know that I am trapped in a dungeon.”
Kasper knocked on the desk with his head turned away from Ewald.
“You, Lucas, Sauber, Ricky, Patrick, and that crazy elf. Only four of them are alive, excluding Patrick and Sauber.”
Ewald brought his fiercely contorted face closer to Kasper.
“Lucas is a guy who can’t use black magic at all, Ricky and the elf aren’t interested in black magic, so who’s the culprit?”
“…”
“Answer me.”
“Do you really want to know?”
“I’ll listen first. I don’t know if you’ll see it or not.”
Casper let out a deep sigh.
Then he confidently spread his shoulders and declared.
“I didn’t!”
“Hey, this XXX XX XXX XXXX!”
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