Chapter 11 – This, This Is Mercenary 129…(1)
The current hero is stronger than the goddess had thought, but it still falls short against Violence.
The power that Violence gained from the fragments of Chaos is Dominion. It’s a simple yet powerful ability that unconditionally obeys the opponent.
Of course, that doesn’t mean there aren’t laws. If you are using the power of Chaos Fragment like me or if you are under the protection of Luminus, the goddess of light, you can be free from the influence of that power.
However, among the warriors, only one hero, Luke, was blessed by the Goddess Luminus.
If you give a fragment of chaos to an ally, you can escape from the control ability, but you will be eaten by the power of the fragment and become an enemy.
Originally, the hero had to overcome the situation by giving each of the three companions one fragment in a state in which he had obtained all three enlightenments in three battles, but in the current situation where he had only obtained one enlightenment, if he attacked with ignorance, his comrades All but one of them are dominated by Violence and become hostile, and the worst situation unfolds.
That’s why I hurriedly left the mansion to avoid the worst situation where the hero gets beaten by the villainous boss before he can even deal with the immortal dragon.
With ten guards, Ray, and Saha.
Mia has to take charge of the mansion as my agent in my absence, and Mars is back on the front line, and her skills aren’t suited to this kind of job. And the other one… Still needs some tweaking.
Still, thanks to Ray, the road to the Kingdom of Elheim was quite comfortable. It wasn’t horses that pulled my carriage, but fearsome and strong horsemen.
A demon is a beast that does not follow human touch. However, for me, it was just a tool that I could pass by and pamper if necessary. Thanks to Ray, her beast trainer, who is now in my arms with her happy expression.
Ray has a skill called [Animal Friend]. The effect of this skill is very simple. No matter how ferocious and hostile a monster is to humans, it has at least a 15 out of 100 affinity towards Ray.
This affinity is one of the factors that affect the success rate of taming skills possessed by beast trainers, but the process of taming is never easy because the majority of beasts have a affinity for humans below 0.
However, thanks to this skill called [Animal Friend], Which allows her animals to have a minimum affinity for her, she can tame even seemingly impossible beasts.
There are also many types of this magic beast. From the shape of a cow or horse suitable for pulling such a wagon, to the shape of a bird or bat to check the approaching of the surroundings in advance, the number and type are very different.
“Master. I found a group of warriors.”
In this way, through the flying type demon she tamed, she was able to confirm that the hero group was nearby and report it to me.
Warrior Luke. The lead role in this play created by the Goddess Luminous, who must kill me and grow up.
“Where is he now?”
“It’s in the back. I’m riding in the carriage in the back. But the speed is very slow, so if I just run like this, I’ll be able to get past it.”
“Yes? Then, if we stop the carriage here, roughly how long will we face them?”
At my question, Ray tilted her head and was puzzled.
“Maybe we’ll be able to meet if we wait 10 minutes, but is it really necessary? It wouldn’t be nice to meet them…”
“No, it’s okay. If we meet anyway, they won’t attack me.”
This wasn’t arrogance, it was the truth.
Hero Luke is the one who was cautious, suspecting that there might be a trap even after I withdrew most of my troops and exposed my weaknesses.
But just because I appeared in front of you with only ten soldiers and two of my men, you wouldn’t consider that an opportunity. On the contrary, they will be wary of any ulterior motives this time around.
…Well, to be honest, I don’t care if they attack. The warrior party’s skills were already sufficiently confirmed the other day. There is almost no chance of me losing, and even if I lose, I can lose by telling the hero what he didn’t realize.
Not simply defeating me, but gaining a ‘enlightenment’ in the process of defeating me to prepare a stepping stone to win the final battle against the darkness. Because that’s my purpose
Of course, that cowardly warrior would never attack me.
“Ray, stop the wagon for now. And bring some suitable monsters here.”
“All right.”
After answering that, Ray boldly put his hand into the huge chest between the open clothes. Among my five women, the owner of the biggest thing after Mars, she pulled out from between her huge breasts an ocarina made of jade.
A woman with big breasts is that real…? That is a scene that stimulates the lower half of the body.
Ray put the ocarina in her mouth, plugged her hole with her finger, and blew into her. Then, a clear sound echoed through the remaining holes in her.
The clear and clean timbre with a sense of depth flows through the trees on the wind, and the sound is further amplified.
It was not the tone of a single instrument. A beautiful duet in which her ocarina and the gigantic instrument called the forest meet.
If you have ears, you will be forced to listen to these dreamy tones.
“Grrrr…”
“Kreuk, kreureu…”
Soon, enticed by her tone, the witches nearby gathered in the carriage. My escorts, who knew Ray’s job and ability, were surprised by the appearance of the demon beasts and did not frown or make a fuss.
It’s a sight you often see while living in my mansion, so now it seems like you’re just passing it off. Well, it’s me, I like that I don’t have to add cumbersome explanations.
Since the carriage has stopped, it won’t be long before we meet the warriors. Of course, there is little chance that they will attack me, and even if they do, there is a higher chance that I will win.
With Ray, the beast trainer who can control all the beasts living in this forest, and Saha, the assassin who is so good that he can’t even recognize that the target died on his own, there’s no way that hero’s party will attack me, but maybe It would be very difficult if they attacked and then were really annihilated and died.
So, if the warriors find me, I have to do something crazy to distract them, so that they don’t rush at me.
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“…Ah, what the hell.”
“Hokna, what’s wrong? What’s wrong?”
Viola looked curiously at Elia, who was praying peacefully in the rattling carriage, when Hochna, who was the only one in the party who was sitting on the roof of the carriage instead of inside, suddenly spat out her harsh words, asking what was the matter.
“Damn it, they’re monsters. They’re blocking the road. There’s not just one or two of them. Besides, they all look dangerous.”
Being an elf and a ranger, Hockna, the brightest among the party, spotted a group of witch beasts in the distance before anyone else, and clicked her tongue to inform the party in the carriage of the news.
“Do you have anything else besides the Witchbeast?”
“Come to think of it, there’s a carriage behind the witch, and if you look closely at the pattern engraved on the carriage, it looks the same as the one in that noble man’s mansion. And the person sitting there is that woman. Year.”
Hockna said that and took out the bow from her back and attached an arrow to it. Elia stopped her prayers and showered her arrows with a blessing of light, and Viola also raised her staff, ready to unleash her magical barrage.
And the other two…
“Luke. What can we do without a ranged attack method?”
“We have nothing to do, Gordon. Let’s pack a potion just in case.”
Instead of popcorn, he took out a potion from his bag and prepared it for use at any time.
Eventually, when the distance between the carriage of the warriors and the ominous magic beasts was close enough for arrows to reach, Hochna let go of the string that had been pulled to the limit.
“Suck!”
“Take it! This Viola-sama’s special bombing magic, Flare Burst mk-2!!”
Pishun, Tuhuaaaaagh!
The arrow of the Goddess Crown’s blessing of light flew through the wind first, followed by a wave of flame that Viola poured out while consuming 30 percent of her magical power. And those ruthless attacks that even some monsters can’t stand…
Caang! Fuhuaaaaagh!
“…What?”
“Uh?!”
It seemed to be blocked by a transparent curtain that appeared in the air, but it changed direction and returned to the same trajectory it had flown from.
“Damn it, I’m back! Stop it now!”
“The power of demons, become a shield now, protect us!”
“Light, protect us!”
Kang, the Kagaga River!
Fortunately, the attack that returned to them was blocked and scattered by the two shields that Viola and Elia deployed at the same time. Elia let out a sigh to calm her startled heart, and Viola gritted her teeth and exclaimed:
“Whew, that was dangerous. I almost went straight to the other world… More than that, it’s an attack reflection magic! And aside from arrows, it’s high-level magic enough to reflect all of this body’s special magic!”
“…Hey, is that the story of him?”
Luke muttered in a lower voice, and tightened his grip on his holy sword.
Witch Beasts and their Witch Beast Trainer woman.
If it’s just the two of them, if she’s not accompanied by a four-headed monster that’s out of the standard, it’s worth fighting her.
However, with that man, the story is different.
Even though he bumped into the beast trainer woman once and fought with a little weak, if there was a man who defeated them without allowing a single attack, fighting head-on was tantamount to suicide.
“Hochna, the current situation is…”
“…What is that?”
In a situation where he had to make a quick decision, whether it was okay to fight or whether to take a little longer to avoid him and go around the road, Luke asked Hochna for details in order to be a little more cautious.
However, what came back from Hochna was a stupid answer unlike her, who was always cool and calm.
“Wait a minute, is that… A bit strange?”
“Issing? What the hell are you talking about?”
“No, that’s… Weird. What is that? That’s just, I can only say it’s really weird…? No, that’s really what that is…”
The more they listened to Hochna’s words, the more their doubts grew. What on earth is so strange, that she, an elf who has gone through all her hardships, would say such a thing?
In the end, it was too late to return, and before long, not only Hawkna, but also the rest of the party began to see an ornate black carriage with the Armageddon family’s pattern engraved on it. The scene that Hokna could only explain was strange.
And that…
“Yes?”
“Uh…?”
“No, what is that…”
“That, it’s definitely what it says. That’s kind of, um… Weird.”
Even in the eyes of the other party, it was definitely a strange sight.
A monster is a beast with magical power, and it is a terrifying monster that is several times more difficult to tame than a normal beast. And beast trainers who treat such beasts like limbs are extremely rare and dangerous.
However, there are things that even a beast trainer can and cannot do. Since monsters are so ferocious in nature, it’s not difficult to use that fact to make them attack humans or to make them fight each other, but it’s difficult to do with normal beasts.
Even if ordinary animals can do things like making them pull a wagon like a horse or cow, or making them tremble like a pet, expecting a beast to do it is to hope that a child who fell into a cage of hungry lions for three days will come out safely without a single wound. It is as difficult as one would hope.
In the past, there was a mad beast trainer who tried to mate with humans and beasts. Of course, it didn’t end well. She must have been able to sense that the words mating with a demon and the word suicide could be used as the same word, as the blood flowed from her torn lower body.
In any case, it can be said that the only thing beast trainers can do after taming a beast is to engage in a fight with a human or other beast.
♬~~~
A carriage stopped in the middle of the street and an older woman sitting in it, exuding a dark and sensual atmosphere, full of decadent beauty.
The high-pitched tone from the green light instrument she plays resonates as a dreamy melody through the trees in the forest.
And the sight of the huge, vicious beasts stained in darkness, capable of tearing and killing one or two people lightly by warming up, spinning round and round as if they were dancing around the woman sitting on the carriage.
The scene, far beyond the universal common sense of this world, contained enough bizarreness to blow the spirits of the warriors all the way to Andromeda.
