Chapter 103 – Accumulation.
“Whoa, I hope this guy is the last one.”
Donar had his throat cut and sanded the cross section of the creature dripping clear, blackish blood. I don’t know what this means, but this wasn’t normal sand, it was the sand of the wasteland they roamed about. The sand of the wilderness contains a lot of iron, but more than that is salt. Then, the parasites and the monster’s body struggle as if in agony.
“Where?”
However, his legs had already been cut off, and his body was held together with spears or swords by his colleagues, so he struggled. As if they were claiming that even the severed head was still alive, they opened their jaws and tried to bite them somehow.
“This is why insect-type monsters are annoying.”
“Who said no. Does it persist even if its head is cut off?”
Insect-type monsters often move and attack opponents even after their heads are cut off. Because of this, there were cases where I was dealing with an insect type for the first time or did not know the characteristics in detail, so I unfortunately became a companion of a monster. This is often the case with conscripted soldiers. The best way is to cut off the head and cut off the legs to make it meaningless even if you struggle. In the case of a moving head nonetheless.
“Git, break that thing down.”
“It’s annoying.”
Even so, he smashed the head of the guy who was clenching his jaw to somehow chew them up. No matter how persistent you are, if you throw it to pieces, you will eventually die. After confirming the kill to the end, they decided to get information from the woman who almost became the host of the monster. Her small size made her look like a dwarf, but she trembled as they approached and covered her skin with old rags. But did you know that the action makes your skin stand out more?
Her skin was light green like a plant. If you look closely, she looks like she has just come of age, too early to be called a woman yet. Maybe it’s the same age as the kids? It’s just a pity that he looks noticeably thinner.
“I know there are no villages around here, but where are the farmers?”
She trembles as Donar asks. She looked and looked, but when she looked at the map, she couldn’t find anything like a village around here. The reason why they are searching for monsters like this, who should protect the castle walls, is because the monsters they raided were Desert Locust. In the case of silk moss, due to its nature, the breeding season is certain and the breeding site is quite noticeable, so it is enough to find a village that became a breeding site or stop it before it becomes a breeding site, but in the case of the Desert Locust, the story was a little different.
Compared to other large species, they are small and medium-sized, but they will eat anything they can, whether it be plants or animals, and due to their nature, they can suffer tremendous damage if left alone. The obscurely large size makes them more difficult to search for and annihilate as they cannot be seen when crouching in the grass. Since they originally lived in the desert, they were familiar monsters to those who came across the wilderness, but I don’t know why they are more difficult to deal with in farmland.
“…”
“Um, that’s troublesome.”
Donnar scratched her head at the sight of her shutting her mouth and avoiding her gaze.
“Is there a problem?”
At that time, a man wearing a different armor approached them. Originally, he was a knight of the 2nd Knights who moved with Gerardus, but now Gerardus was guarding the wall, so half of the 2nd Knights were with them. As he approached, he spotted a dwarf crouching down in front of him and clicked his tongue as if realizing what was going on.
“Ha, green dwarf.”
While they are embarrassed by his attitude. He kicked her down before she had time to stop.
“Kyaaak! Kkeuk!”
Everyone, including Donard, was shocked by his act of crushing her with her feet as she literally had been hit by her sabaton.
“What are you doing?!”
“There’s no such thing as a village around here. If there is, there must be a slash-and-burn village run by green dwarves. I have no choice but to find out by force.”
At his words, the Donnars could understand why she couldn’t open her mouth easily. It was because the village she lived in was built without the permission of her estate.
“Even so, isn’t there a need for this?”
“You may not know it well since you are from a foreign country, but the green dwarfs and the slashing village are the bane of Lantua.”
He spoke as if he understood them, but he did not remove the foot that was pressing down on her chest. Seeing her gasp and watery eyes as she stretched out her hand to them, Git was the first to take it.
“It’s okay. Get rid of that foot.”
“But the green dwarf.”
“Clean it up.”
At Git’s growling voice, the knight hesitated before moving his feet away. At the same time, Geet raised her from her land and embraced her.
“I don’t know if it’s a foreign country or anything, and at least I don’t see bullying kids.”
“…Then how are you going to find the village?”
To that, Donnar replied.
“It’s fine if you ask and tell me.
It’s a pity, but I couldn’t imagine that this green dwarf could have run away from the monster. Eventually, the knight had no choice but to withdraw. They checked her condition first. A bright purple bruise was visible on her chest, even on her green skin.
“Can you heal yourself?”
When Donnar handed her first aid ointment, she nodded and took it with her trembling hand, whether from pain or fear. They looked around her for no reason as she waited for her to finish applying her ointment.
“I’ve heard that green dwarfs are not treated well. I didn’t expect it to be like this.”
In the awkward atmosphere, Odur spoke first.
“That’s right. It’s different from what I know, but there was no reason to treat him like that.”
Donar had seen a green dwarf, but it was only a brief glimpse at Parz on her way to Lantua, and she was just an old green dwarf. So I thought that all green dwarfs looked similar, but except for the skin color, they looked no different from gray dwarfs. I could have guessed that there must be some reason for treating the green dwarf that way, but no matter what reason I gave, it wouldn’t be a reason to persecute me so much.
“What else can touch trauma?”
Aside from that, Donnar knew why Git was upset. He was close with Git for a different reason than Shalby, Odur, and Truss. He can’t even remember how they became friends.
“Excuse me…”
“Have you applied the ointment?”
“Yes, yes. Go, thank you.”
She returned her ointment to Donar, even as she stammered.
“Can you tell me which side of town you live in?”
She looked up at the sky as she trembled as if she felt everyone’s eyes focused on her. She wondered if there was something in the sky, but all she could see was a lot of clouds. Then she took something of her own from her pocket. It looked like a square, translucent stone with a single black dot on it. The texture is somewhat different from glass. She held the stone up to the sky and seemed to measure it, then pointed her hand at one side of her.
“Is this the way to town?”
“…I think so.”
After confirming the direction, they called in Hilddisbinies who were grazing.
-Wheeik!
A high, strong whistle resonated across the plain, and soon after, the ground shook little by little, and I saw Hildisbinies running. But was it a lack of consideration?
“Hee!”
She crouched down and covered her ears as the ground shook and she began to tremble. Git approaches him and checks the situation, but she can’t calm down. She wanted to solve the cause, but she couldn’t help it. Because they had to ride the Hildisbini. And when the Hildisbinies have fully arrived. They wanted to calm her down and take her away, but to her surprise, after her Hill Dis beanies arrived, wasn’t she rather curious to look at her Hill Dis beanies?
They searched nearby villages, thinking they knew or didn’t know. Git had burned her. How long did she look in the direction she pointed? They soon found a strangely empty clearing among the vast stretches of wheat. And in the center of the tall mound, there was a hole that one person could enter. The woman they had brought was pointing there. It dawned on the green dwarf that she crouched down in fright as Hill Disbiny approached.
“It wasn’t because of Hildisbini, but because the ground shook.”
It was a story that would be true if you lived in a burrow under the ground. It was then.
-Kiririk.
“…!”
– Kuruk!
Hearing the sound of the Desert Locust from somewhere, each of them drew their weapons, and the Hildisbinies also let out a sound of caution. They shook their heads, saying that they looked around for a while, and the scouting party, including Odur and Shalby, searched all over but couldn’t find them. Then what’s left
“”””…””””
No one could speak That meant that the monster they had to kill had already occupied the cave. It was really the worst. Looking at each other, they had no choice but to ask the knight of the 2nd Knights. It was different from before.
“What do you do when this happens?”
“I usually burn dry grass and push it into the burrow. That way, the monster will come out of the burrow…”
“Crazy.”
Odur washed his face dry over the helmet. They knew The fact that there are always survivors in a village occupied by monsters for at least one month, at most three months. The story was obvious. It was obviously a very efficient way to kill all the monsters that had entered the cave.
“…Is there another exit other than here?”
Donnar asked her after a long silence. She hesitated and hesitated, unable to overcome the repeated silence and stares. She lowered her head and pointed to one side of her. After confirming the other exit, Donar got off the hilldis beanie and stared at her lair. What should I do? Entering the cave was a very dangerous act. Much less an oyster dug by a human, but an oyster dug by a green dwarf. The size of the entrance seemed to be able to fit an adult male if done well, but the problem started after that.
Can you go inside and battle the monsters? Green dwarfs are the size of children who have just come of age. Does the size of the cave they made really interfere with the battle? Combat is very limited even in a small room. But fighting in an uncomfortable state in an unstable cave that might collapse at any moment? It was like committing suicide. He looked around. His colleagues saw. They were comrades who risked their lives in their homeland, which was worse than other countries, and shared the joys and sorrows to this place.
2 Knights of the Knights were seen. Although unfamiliar and unpleasant things still happened, they were also someone’s family and the head of the household. He wanted to go down to the burrow himself, but the image of Sif and the children came to mind. His heart told him to go down to the den, but he had so much on his shoulders. It was not forcibly built by someone else, but was carried by oneself, so the weight is too heavy. All eyes were on him.
“Whoa. I can’t help it.”
It had to be done.
“I can’t help it. This is what I have to do.”
Someone’s voice whispered in his ear. No, nobody whispered in his ear. These were memories of the past. In a situation where he had to do what his boss in the past had done for personal reasons, which he had denied himself, his anger rose.
“Your uncle is late today.”
Usher muttered as he came out alone to the gym, repeating the drill the way Donnar had taught him to do it when he couldn’t look after him. He seemed to have delayed training, thinking he would be back in the afternoon, but he skipped lunch and didn’t come back in the afternoon either. He walked around the gym, thinking maybe he was taking his time catching monsters.
