Chapter 555 – [My Admissions Expedition]
The Earl of Bistra is said to be a county, but in reality it is a large territory approaching the dukedom.
However, more than two-thirds of the territory was made up of forests and mountains at the level of the Great Forest of Urca, and it was not developed.
If development started in earnest, it would be possible to establish a principality, but right now it is too much to stop.
“Um…”
“A little devastated, right?”
“No, I don’t really care about that. But it’s pretty cool.”
The view of the Vistra estate from the top of the lord’s castle felt like an outpost.
In the distance, I see a long wall made of stone… No, not stone, but of imagination. It was like looking at the Great Wall of China, but in reality it was self-fantasy.
You can see soldiers standing guard above it, and there are knights. And behind the wall, a large number of people were busy moving in a wooden building.
There were not many tall buildings to be seen. Although the construction technology here may not be so lagging, I didn’t see any large buildings besides the castle walls.
“It’s a waste to build high when there are no resources to use elsewhere. It often breaks.”
“Are things that bad?”
“Sometimes it happens. The castle wall over there is the [Rear Wall] Left by one of our ancestors a long time ago. It’s a grateful self-fantasy that changed the battles so far into water castle battles, but it’s not indestructible, and there are monsters that come over.”
“Is it broken?”
“Ah, restoration is quick. If you put fantasy power batteries in, even a collapsed castle tower will be built in an hour.”
Imagination can accumulate. I’ve heard from Dr. Adam that if someone else with fancy powers recharges and sells the battery through a separately developed battery, it will make a pretty good profit.
Talented people who are innately awakened to imagination without learning are often born in villages, and then those people can live by recharging imagination batteries for the rest of their lives without doing anything.
But in that case, you won’t be able to create self-fantasies or anything like that.
Anyway, such fantasies are used to use other self fantasies or something. In fact, it goes without saying that no matter how much the result of will-based power comes out, if the user dies, there is no way it can continue to be used unless something is supplied from the outside.
“You can see the young people are busy.”
“Because the long winter nights are coming soon. Monsters’ attacks usually come at night. Especially in winter.”
“……And aren’t the nights longer in winter?”
“Yes, we have to overcome that much every year. Besides, the monsters’ offensive is more intense this year…”
It seems that Luminus is wearing ladder armor rather than a dress, and that her frank and uncharacteristic personality of a noble lady came from this territory.
If it’s pretense, it’s nabal, and a fierce battle is happening every time in front of your nose, you have no choice but to be honest without it. It’s rare to find someone who doesn’t reveal their true nature until the end.
It seems that the use of a spear is not simply for self-defense, but for actual combat. Ugh, what’s scary?
“First of all, let’s go see my father! I have to say hello!”
“No, I have a strange feeling about the greeting part, but it’s not an illusion, is it?”
“What?”
“Innocence is rather scary!!!!”
Just for reference, being pure doesn’t mean being nice.
Is it good for a child to pluck the wings of a dragonfly alive while laughinghaha? There is no good or evil in innocence.
Rather, it is innocence to be able to do evil things without guilt. It’s not that good.
“Oh, are you here?”
Marquis Vistra, who went to the office, looked a little nervous, unlike before. Do I have to say that I am prepared for any situation at any time? He even held a spear in his office.
It’s not that he doesn’t do paperwork, but his main job seems to be on the side of the armed forces. But what kind of a demon cave is this place to be a battlefield where the continental ten rivers come out directly.
“I haven’t seen you in a while, Count. I purposely came at this time because I thought it would be better to help out at a place I had been intending to visit at least once.”
“Rather, you’ll see less than you imagined. If you’re here for sightseeing or entertainment, you’d better go somewhere else.”
“Did I come to see that?”
I came here for the first purpose of figuring out what delusion is.
In this place, I was thinking of checking what the delusional place was doing and what it was causing, the title of a delusion that only those who recognized it as a public figure on the continent, and the black witch who received that title died here.
Also, if you can remove the cause of it, then remove it.
“Well, now that you’ve been fully recognized as the Continental Ten. No, more than that, you have your skills. But here, trusting your skills and being careless, this is a dangerous place where you might die.”
“You don’t have to worry about dying. I have the confidence to take care of myself.”
“Then…… I understand. My daughter will guide you through the estate, so I hope she enjoys it until dinner.”
Needless to say, it’s until evening that I mention it. As I heard before, it seems to start in earnest at night.
As he said, I decided to look around the manor until evening. Luminous follows and asks me where to look.
“Then where would you like to look, Your Highness?”
“Let’s go up to the castle tower. I wanted to see the delusion site.”
“Then it’s faster to go this way.”
I followed her towards her castle wall. As one of her ancestors approached the [Rear wall], People with nervous faces caught my eye.
Their gender did not discriminate between men and women. The woman is also armed and raising arrows and other consumables on top of the wall.
It’s windy. Entering winter, the weather is no joke, but the cold wind, which is definitely not the autumn wind, brushes your cheeks. However, the heat they radiated was stronger than the chill of the wind.
“Raise some more arrows! How can I survive today with these!!!”
“I need to fix the catapult over here! If anyone has spare hands, come see me!!!”
“I brought the weapon that I sharpened at the forge! Take it!!!”
The crowd reminds me of market pain, but their behavior seemed familiar. It doesn’t seem like this happened once or twice.
Suddenly, it dawned on me that Luminous had an older brother. He said he was the heir to the estate, but where is he now?
“Ah, onii-chan, he would be going around the other castle towers and doing final inspections.”
“Are there many ramparts?”
“There are one at regular intervals around the Black Forest… There are probably dozens of them?”
“Can you defend all of that?”
“The monsters aren’t attacking all of those castle towers. So, when Father gets a call from you, run there right away.”
I opened my senses and looked around the delusional area called the Black Forest.
…….I can feel the reaction of life. It is made up of imagination, but most of it felt like something made of cloth. Roughly speaking, the number was not 10,000 or 20,000 units.
Roughly hundreds of thousands, at most millions. It’s almost like seeing a bunch of ants.
The population of the Earl of Bistra was about the same, but not all of them were combatants, and at least one of them was monsters stronger than adult men.
Even with the walls, it’s a breathtaking difference. This is pretty tight.
“They’re bastards!”
“What?! Already? The sun hasn’t set yet!!!!”
“There are only a few of them!!! The number is very small! There are only 10 of them, so hurry up, archers!”
Before long, someone shouted from the top of the castle wall. Probably a soldier standing guard.
I went up to the castle wall to take a sneak peek. From beyond the walls like the Great Wall of China, something was running, raising a cloud of dust and letting out steaming breath.
……..After seeing that, I understood why people here call it a monster.
The appearance was not significantly different from that of humans. It had limbs and a face. Because they had what could be called features, they could be called humanoids even if they were not human.
However, molars sprouted from their bodies.
It’s all over the place.
“Uh…That hurts my stomach”
I have often heard of wisdom teeth breaking through the jaw and protruding down. They look like they added everything dozens of times.
No matter the size or number, molars the size of a man’s fist protruded through the flesh. The face occupied a larger area with protruding molar teeth than flesh, and even those molar teeth faded to yellow, causing disgust.
Even I, who have seen a lot of terrible and cruel things, is so hideous that I don’t want to be a little bit. It seemed to embody the word hate itself.
“Muuuuu!!!!!”
There are only a dozen or so monsters at most, but they scream and run.
There are castle walls and archers on this side, but the monster that lowers morale to the point of chewing up such an advantage evokes fear.
“Shoot!!!!”
Woowoo!!!
Arrows are fired with someone’s command. The molars were sprouting, so some bounced off, but it wasn’t that they were so dense that there was no gap, and arrows went through the cracks. Then, the brakes are applied by that power, and it loses its balance and falls, rolling magnificently on the floor.
If an athlete rolls over while sprinting with all his might, that alone causes a great disaster. Scratching wounds are basic, and sometimes bones are broken. But as if they didn’t have a sense of pain, they got up and ran again even after the arrow was stuck.
They quickly climbed the walls. It is several meters high, but before I knew it, it climbed onto the wall and pressed its face towards me.
“Oh, young lady!!!!!!”
“I’ll borrow a window!!!!”
At that time, Luminus pulled out a spear that was provided on top of the castle wall and swung it. As it was, it struck the monster’s head as it tried to climb up the wall, splitting its head.
Something that looked like a molar had sprouted out, so it seemed to have a lot of durability, but it was split as it was.
It seemed that he was not a descendant of a beastman for nothing. Splitting a monster’s skull with the muscular strength of a child of no more than fifteen is not an ordinary physical ability.
No, it wasn’t normal at the point when calluses were stuck in the palms of noble ladies in the first place.
“Ah, sorry. Luminous. I was looking around for a while. I’ll help you for now.”
I used telekinesis as it was. He created a blade of invisible power and cut off the heads of the molar monsters at once.
The rest of the latecomers trying to climb the wall fall down. Seeing that, the eyes of several soldiers turned this way.
“Who, who are you? A newly dispatched knight…?”
“It’s a face I’ve never seen before…”
The news of my arrival was not yet known to them. Being next to the young lady made me look like someone from some aristocrat, but the story that I was the 3rd prince hadn’t spread yet.
Now is the time to slip away. I’ve taken care of the rough stuff, so I let them take care of the rest.
“Let’s go down first. Let’s talk after that.”
The tusk monsters I just saw were, at best, the weakest. Excluding their presence, there were still more than 100,000 stronger monsters swarming in the forest.
Even if it’s not that, there are hundreds of thousands of monster-level monsters. It wouldn’t be much of a chore to steam a country with that much. I think I know why the Empire is blocking it while supporting the defense budget.
It would be better to judge the Black Forest not simply as a place of delusion, but as a distinctly hostile nation. The loathing of them still lingers in my head.
“Are these things going around all the time?”
“Originally, it’s rare to come out during the day, whether it’s winter or summer. But now, seeing as they come out even when the sun is up… It’s probably because the offensive has gotten stronger lately.”
“Isn’t it dangerous?”
“It didn’t come out like this before. But now… Well, I can’t be sure.”
Even if you can’t do it, it’s a youngjira that things like that come.
Even if they usually only come out at night, they would not have been able to neglect their vigilance. In the end, this means that the situation here is no different from the usual exhibition.
Feels like a joint security area? Ah, of course, it’s different that the other side is clearly hostile. I see very little intellect.
“Soon, it will be night”
In winter, the days are short and the nights are long.
It’s the perfect season for those who come out at night to be active. It would have been more lethal if it had been in other seasons of farming, but at least not to that extent.
“Hmm”
As the sun goes down, the signs of those moving in the forest get busier. Waiting for the sun to set and getting ready to jump out.
They are enemies that should be feared by nature. Even if it only came out at night, there would be tens of thousands of people who would inevitably arouse disgust.
But people here were prepared for it. Even if you are nervous and afraid, no one wants to run away.
It was pretty amazing. If it’s a place like this, I’d rather go somewhere else. Slavery was abolished in the past, and freedom of migration was guaranteed to commoners, so if they ran away, they wouldn’t have to fight like this, which is quite a surprising choice.
“Aren’t you afraid, young lady?”
“Why not? My mother died fighting the monsters that came over the city walls, so no wonder she’s scary.”
“Ah…….”
“But this is our territory. So we must protect it.”
That is the noble’s duty.
People here consider it their hometown. To live in the land where he was born and raised . . . Humans are quite contradictory creatures.
That’s why there was such a saying when Panda Mapo Tofu came out in Biryong, the King of Cooking. People’s hearts eventually return to their hometown.
They chose to prepare and fight rather than flee.
The result remains to be seen.
Wooooo!!!!!
Goosebumps are heard in the distance.
And the sunset started to set.
