110 Mammoth Beast
The smell of food, the sounds of children fighting, and the small laughter of soldiers laughing at them.
The sound that had filled the space a moment ago disappeared in an instant.
Soldiers gathered around the torches in the camp rose to their feet, each holding a bow and a spear.
An escort surrounds Catherine’s carriage.
In the blink of an eye, the other soldiers rushed to the dark outskirts of the encampment and aimed their weapons at the unseen Beast.
But now that I think about it, the first to react to the sound from afar was the rhinoceros Beast.
Before I could hear it, Pooh was already twitching his slender ears like radar.
Then he came next to me, looked into the air, and cried out loud.
“Puuu!”
It must have been almost the same time I heard the sound of the approaching Witchbeast.
The image of her mouth twitching and her eyes much smaller than her body putting power into them seemed like she was about to threaten her opponent.
“It’s a beast. It sounds similar, but it’s a different kind from Pooh.”
I paused for a moment and looked at Pooh.
Pooh waddled to the side of Katrin’s carriage.
Pooh’s head, hips, legs, and everywhere else, his entire body was full of energy.
The ears flutter wildly and move in all directions.
It seems to be trying to gather information.
Sensing unprecedented vigilance from that appearance, I continued.
“Kill them when they come close. They harm people.”
Soldiers nearby convey my words to their comrades far away.
In the suffocating silence of the night, only the voices of soldiers roamed the dark air here and there.
“Enemy! Kill!”
“It’s the Duke’s order not to miss a single one.”
I didn’t say that.
But is it the same as what I wanted to say in the end?
When the Beast comes out of the forest, he learns that it is much easier and more convenient to catch and eat humans than to catch the Beast of the Forest.
As they roam the villages in search of easy food, they do not return to the forest.
I don’t know what kind of species it is, but maybe these guys are the ones who became like that.
They find a procession of humans in groups and come running thinking that they are easy prey.
‘They must be very strong, seeing as they don’t even try to hide their appearance.’
Up until now, you wouldn’t have felt threatened at all while hurting humans and wandering around.
They must be faster than humans, or at least good at tracking them by smell.
If not, I wouldn’t run confidently screaming from such a long distance.
Even when catching weak rabbits, predators tend to move in hiding.
From their point of view, we humans are weaker, slower, and insignificant than ants.
As their sound drew closer, the ground gradually began to shake.
It felt like a huge building was stomping and running.
Tension and fear spread among the commoners.
Among the merchants and commoners who had been holding their breath for a while, one or two moved as if they couldn’t overcome their tension.
He runs straight to our campsite.
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Jumping into an aristocratic procession without permission would be an act of suicide in normal times.
However, it seems that he thought that it was the same whether he was killed by a noble or a demon.
Neither the soldiers nor the person in charge of the escort cared about it, so the other commoners who had been watching with bated breath rushed inside.
Thinking we were being generous, one of the merchants tried to get inside with his wagon.
He was trying to protect his luggage and his horse.
The sound of wheels echoed through the air.
The convoy manager spotted it and ran to the merchant.
Without saying a word, the head of the convoy slashed the merchant’s throat with a blow of his sword.
In the dark, the torched sword flashed, and the round head fell to the floor and rolled around.
An even heavier silence fell over the quiet area.
“Don’t make a rash move. If you distract our soldiers, everyone will become like this.”
It is an example to prevent confusion that may occur.
When the voice of the head of the convoy settled on the heads of the commoners, the adults hurriedly covered the mouths of several children who burst into tears.
Merchants who were moving to pack their bags nodded frantically, and the person in charge of the convoy immediately returned to my direction.
Suddenly, our eyes met with the person in charge of the convoy.
I hate killing people carelessly, and the person in charge of the convoy knows that.
However, neither here nor in the future, I do not take issue with this matter or criticize him.
Even the person in charge of the convoy will think of my heart, and even though it hurts, he won’t think that I’ve done anything wrong.
Merchants and commoners here are not subjects of the dukedom, and the safety of me and Catherine is the most important to him.
The head of the convoy looked at me with calm eyes and lowered his head slightly.
“…”
My common sense and the world’s are different.
If you force and push your own things on the people of the duke family, they will eventually collapse somewhere.
When I was young, Benno seemed to be sensitive to the strangeness of my thoughts.
We have been constantly trying to fill that gap.
It was Benno who advised me to read the diary of successive dukes.
Thanks to him, I know how dangerous my thoughts are in this world.
I was able to find several cases where I tried to do something similar to my idea and failed.
Do not try to embody the equality and ideology of modern Earth here.
Perhaps that was what I realized most desperately after coming to this world.
No matter how powerful I am in this country, I am just a small stone that makes up the tower when viewed as a whole.
If one such stone bounces with a different movement than the whole, the whole tower collapses.
In a world where the word human rights does not exist, there is nothing wrong with the convoy officer’s actions.
A commoner who freely entered the procession of aristocrats, and a merchant who acted in a dangerous manner could be killed for dozens of reasons.
It was a world where it was possible.
I hid my rather complicated mind and turned my head toward the sound that was getting closer.
Aided by the soldiers, the counselor’s wives hurriedly enter Catherine’s carriage.
If you have time, getting the women together helps your defense.
Anne’s head poked out of the carriage window.
It’s like looking into the situation.
After dinner, she rode in the carriage with Katrin to soothe his boredom.
Seeing that she orders Anne instead of recognizing herself, it seems that Catherine also has the mindset of a duchess.
The moment I thought so, Katrin’s face came out the window this time as if I was changing shifts.
“…”
Wasn’t he aware of something and sent Anne away?
Perhaps it was simply that Anne moved faster.
Those two don’t know why, but it seems like they’re competing with each other in a strange place.
Pooh poohed his face, and Katrin petted the rhino’s face and said softly.
“Boo! Protect everyone. Show the results of your training. Okay?”
It was night and everyone was nervous, so Katrin’s voice spread farther than expected.
Smiles appeared on the faces of the escort soldiers nearby.
The air between the soldiers, who had been tense, became loose as if the wind was escaping.
Someone let out a strange laugh.
As the tension melted away for an instant, one of the magicians muttered humorously.
“That’s great. Let’s have a hearty meal with monster meat for dinner tomorrow!”
“If you eat that, your teeth will fall out.”
The soldier next to him tapped the magic bottle on the back of the head and said.
Wahahahaha, the soldiers laugh.
The soldiers, who were tense for a moment, seemed relaxed as usual.
If you are nervous, you will make mistakes.
The head of the convoy breathed relieved and moved among the soldiers.
In the meantime, the sound of the ground shaking got louder, and a black shadow appeared in the dark air in the distance.
“Me-what is that!”
One of the commoners muttered.
My eyes also got a little bigger.
What appeared in the distant darkness was a gigantic monster that looked several times larger than a human.
Even from afar, I am stunned by its enormity.
Suddenly, my eyes turned to a point in the darkness.
In the moonlight, something shimmered faintly on the front of the Witchbeast.
‘Is it a horn?’
I thought so at first, but as the beast got closer, I realized it wasn’t a horn.
Horns sprout from the top of the head.
do not grow underneath
The distance was still far, but the figure of the one in the lead was dimly visible in the moonlight.
The guys looked like elephants.
What at first glance looked like horns was ivory, which stretched out from the huge face and hung down as it curved forward.
However, it seems to be three or four times the size of an elephant, no more.
It seems that there are about five demons.
The guy in front was so big that I couldn’t see behind him.
Even in the dark, the swaying giant was covered in fur as rich as an egg.
‘This… looks like a mammoth, no, plus an orangutan.’
Big anyway.
It didn’t look like it would be easy to kill even with magic arrows.
A bomb invented by Sven would kill it in an instant, but of course it would kill anyone nearby, and most of all, he didn’t have it at the moment.
After a brief conversation between the convoy manager and the magic commander, the magic bottles jumped out in the direction the demons were coming.
The magic soldiers lined up next to each other pierced their bows with magical arrows.
The regular soldiers slightly reduced the range of protection and came in a little.
When the women had all entered the carriage, the escort locked the doors and connected the horses to the carriage.
Prepare to evacuate Catherine and the maids in case of danger.
The other escorts held their weapons and quietly gathered their breaths around the wagon and me.
The escorts do not move unless the monsters come very close.
Because their job is to protect Katrin and me, not witchcraft.
As the Demon Beast approached, the ground tremor gradually increased.
And the enormous size stopped breathing on its own.
One leg was the size of a house with a little more lying.
‘It’s going to be difficult for these guys with magic bottles alone.’
I lightly let the magic power of my whole body flow through my fingertips.
The cry of a child who was terrified of seeing the Witchbeast began to be heard from several places.
It seemed that the parents were desperately covering the child’s mouth with the palm of their hand, but they could not hide the child’s crying.
The reason the convoy manager killed the merchant was because he was too greedy.
Not content with receiving life’s help, the trader even tried to pack his own.
Seeing his actions, everyone else gets in the way of the movement of the soldiers when they get theirs and enter our column.
I just set it as an example to prevent that, and I don’t kill a child who doesn’t know anything just because it cries.
I moved on with a bitter heart.
As we went to the side of the wagon, Pooh was snorting and scratching the ground with his feet, as if he really meant to fight.
She must have been excited, so she let out a small cry without stopping.
I put my hand on Pooh’s nape.
“You keep Catherine here. I will stop them.”
“Puuu?”
Pooh tilted his large face to the side and tilted it.
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Just like Katrin does, I raised the palm of my hand to Pooh.
“Don’t go out, stay here.”
You won’t understand the words, but you seem to understand what I ordered you to be here for.
Boo-boo-boo, the rhino calf cried one after another as if he wanted to say something.
But it doesn’t move.
It seemed that he had the intention of obeying orders properly.
I waved my arms a little and let the mana flow as I moved towards the soldiers encamped.
“launch!”
As soon as the order was given, arrows were fired from the magician’s bow.
The Witch Beasts were still far away, but the magician’s arrows hit them precisely.
The arrow explodes with a boom, a boom, a sound.
The flames burned and faded, burning the darkness.
There are no missed arrows.
All of them were firmly attached to the beast’s body.
But the mammoth witch didn’t stop.
Rather, the speed of the guys has increased.
“Shoot arrows in succession. First of all, focus on one guy.”
The magic commander’s voice echoed, and the firing order was issued again.
Arrows fly in the darkness, and the bomb stuck in the demon’s body explodes again.
As several units exploded at once, it seemed that he was also sick.
“Pueee!”
The mammoth’s nose rose high into the air, and a grotesque cry rang out.
The sound of the enraged demon beast shook the air, and the ground vibrated louder.
When I blew the whistle, my horse came running.
I quickly climbed onto the horse’s back.
Watching the magician again pack his arrows, I rode my way through them.
“I’ll deal with them one by one, so please take care of me in the meantime.”
no one can stop me
About a dozen magic soldiers mounted their horses and came to my side, and several from the escort followed me.
The gigantic mammoth beast was approaching quickly.