Chapter 126 – Reverberations of Autumn.
Donar confirmed that his comrades had surrounded the village and slowly closed the siege. It was easy to besiege the village because it was not large, but it was better to approach slowly until you couldn’t escape even if you were caught on the other side. The moment when the shape of the town is revealed more and more clearly.
– Pooh!
Hilldisbini on the village side announced an emergency. Then, seeing them move busily and prepare to withdraw as if they were accustomed to it, I was sure that they were not knights dispatched to manage the village. Since I had already been caught by the opponent’s Hildis beanie, I stopped slowly approaching and quickly drove the Hildis beanie. They tried to escape, but, realizing that they were already surrounded, stopped, so the Donards moved towards them, maintaining the siege.
As they got closer, they could clearly see their shapes. Still, there must have been quite a few people who didn’t give up until the end, but the Hilldisbinies with things hanging suddenly kicked off the ground and charged this way. Although they were few in number compared to those over there, they seemed to be trying to break through the encirclement by charging together. After that, those carrying the goods followed on the Sbadil ferry.
“Svadil Perry. After all, it’s not the Knights.”
Sbadilferi was a creature that was used as a mount like Hildisbini. Hildisbini are large and strong, so they are used as war horses, but because of their fierce and lofty nature, they are not easy to tame, so they are used as war horses by knights and some mercenaries. Sbadilferry is a different story. Its size is at most human-like or slightly larger, and it is more docile than ferocious. Thanks to this, it was easy to tame, so merchants and many mercenaries rode instead of Hildisbini.
“I thought it was strange since he was riding the hilldis beanie. He seems like a pretty good mercenary, right?”
“It seems like that. He must have paid a lot of money and hired him.”
However, Sbadilferi was not suitable as a war horse. It was literally used only as a means of transportation. If that’s the reason.
“Send one in front and drop all Hildis Beanies.”
As soon as he had run out of words, his comrades aimed and stabbed all but one of the riders on the Hill This Beanie with spears or bows. They try to beat them with their own weapons, but they can’t help but fall down because of the difference in strength and equipment.
– Kwiyiik!
“Ahh!”
Then, the Svadilferries following Hildisviny leave the ranks in a panic. At the same time, it is a bonus to drop the person riding on his back and throw away the things he was carrying. They were abandoned by the mount in an instant. This was the reason Sbadilferry was not used as a war horse. Because even though he was cowardly, it was too much. In fact, it can be solved with a little more training, but it is more efficient to tame the Hilldisbini at that time.
The Sbadilferries, who were busy running away, abandoning their owner and their belongings, realized that they had nowhere to run and went wild.
-Kurreuk!
-Kwieek!!
The Sbadilferries didn’t like it, so Donar’s rider, Hilddisviny, kicked one of them. With just that, the other guys get scared and stop running wild at the sight of Sbadilferry, which stops moving while rolling on the ground.
“…Are you a gangster?”
– Kuruk!
Whether he looked bewildered or not, the guy let out his snort. Thinking he didn’t quite like it, he called Odur.
‘What? What are you aiming for?’
On the other hand, the man who escaped from his encirclement was able to escape alone, leaving his subordinates and those who requested the request alone, but he could not be happy about that fact. Even so, he had been a mercenary for a long time. That’s why I knew. The fact that they deliberately let themselves go. It was a type of armor he had never seen before, but he already realized that he couldn’t escape from them.
The appearance of the knights stopping the other guys without paying attention as if there was no problem even if he passed by or if he ran away. It was as if he saw him as an ant that could be killed at any moment. Still, if they let it go, he was willing to run away. If it hadn’t been for a sudden shock to the back of his neck. It was as if the armor he was wearing was shattered. The fact that it was an armor he had bought and saved at a high price didn’t bother him now.
It wasn’t an arrow. Arrows do not have such an impact on armor. But what about this shock that even the armor couldn’t block? Before he had time to question what had happened, he collapsed and stared at the ground, blinded by the darkness.
“Hwiyu, it’s Odur. It’s neat.”
Seeing the mercenary fall down after being hit by a bullet fired by Odur with a sling, Donnar admired it, saying it was a great skill. However, unlike those who were accustomed to the scene, others could not. I could see him trembling with his mouth closed enough to hear the sound of swallowing. It was a kind of warning. Few things are as effective as an example in bringing down an opponent’s morale. Now they wouldn’t even dream of running away.
He asked his comrades to bring that mercenary as well, and gathered those who could not escape the siege one by one and knelt down. Even if the action is suspicious, it’s because it’s too suspicious.
“So what are you? You’re not even a knight. What were you doing at the silk moss breeding ground?”
“That, that’s it.”
One of them responded with a trembling voice. Judging from the fact that he was on the Svadil ferry, he was not a mercenary in terms of his appearance, but he seemed to have hired a mercenary from this group because he was wearing expensive clothes.
“Were you collecting silk moss threads?”
“Yes, yes! Silk moss threads can be made into expensive fabrics. Take a risk.”
Certainly, I have heard that clothes made of silk moss are expensive. Once made, it is quite sturdy and, above all, beautiful.
“Is it something that you get permission from the lord?”
“Yes! Of course! It’s all for them anyway, so would you do something like this illegally?”
“But why did you run away when you saw us?”
“That, it’s a different armor from what I’ve seen before, so I thought it was knights from another place…”
Looking at it this far, it was pretty reasonable. Even if there was a bit of doubt, I could have skipped it. But he remembered the image of a woman about this time last year who was relieved that they were knights.
“Git.”
“Why?”
“Choose the kids and search them all over.”
“Aigoo! Knight! What kind of behavior is this… Heeik!”
He seemed to think that they were an opponent he could talk to, so he grabbed him and tried to stop him, but he drew his sword and put it to his neck first.
“Hey, I don’t know if you’re seeming easy since you think we’ve only been here for a while. We know enough to know.”
Yes, they were originally knights from other countries. So it’s not strange that you don’t know anything about Lantua’s culture or ways. However, because of that, the same knights and Aeolus taught him that he needed to know more about Lantua’s common sense. In particular, if it was illegal, it was the first thing to be taught in more detail. Because they also had to take responsibility for the security of the territory.
“And where are you pretending? You’d already know about us by the time you reached the top.”
It may have been a little isolated village outside, but the fact that the guild members operating nearby were slow to hear the news of the territory made it even more suspicious. Above all else.
“When a proper merchant is in need of silk moss thread, he makes a request to the territory and collects it in cooperation with the knights officially dispatched to the outside world.”
“Oh, why are you doing this without affection? That the knight is an exception you don’t know about!”
Laughter flowed from him at his brazenly lying lie.
“There is no exception. It is unconditionally illegal to collect by-products or enter the breeding grounds of monsters without a knight accompanying them.”
Those were the words Aiolos had told Donar himself. No matter how skillful a mercenary is hired, if he enters the breeding ground without a knight and dies, it will only increase the monster’s food.
“Hey, I found Donnar.”
Git, who happened to be approaching him, pointed to a wagon and the blood drained from the face of the person who saw it. Donnar approached the wagon, even though he had a rough idea of what was in there. Inside, of course, there was a flesh-colored sea. Numerous naked women were rolling around on the wagon floor. The drivers of the carriages were in such haste that the women were entangled in each other, hand and foot tied with ropes, and some were spilling the same man’s semen from between their legs onto the floor, obviously not of the monster. I clicked my tongue at a sight that was more unpleasant than I expected.
“Huh.”
“Go, thank you.”
I watched as my colleagues who had arrived earlier released them, and when I came back out, I saw a man who had become dumb because he had eaten honey.
“You do know that knights have the right to summarily execute criminals, right?”
“…!”
As Donnar looked down coldly, he trembled and spewed out his words, as if he had thought he would kill him right now.
“Sah, save me! I’ll do whatever you ask! You can take all the items inside!”
In fact, he had no intention of killing him yet. Because he knew very well that the guys who appear in these scenes are not the actual main axis, but only the tail. But when Donar raised his sword as if he didn’t care, he said as if he had remembered.
“This time, a very precious guy came in! It means that Kathy came in! I’ll give you that guy, so only my life!”
“Catsy?”
If it was Kathy, she was definitely a prisoner living in Parz. Even Parz was where they stopped for a moment before crossing the cloud zone. Since Parz was a place that could never be called close, Donar had doubts. Why the hell is Catsy on Lantua? He thought he was interested, so he continued his speech with a smile on his face.
“We also got it by chance, but he’s definitely worth it! So, with that guy…”
“Stop talking and guide me.”
He seemed to be trying to make a deal with him, but he said nothing. I just want to check if it’s really true or not. And in the carriage that arrived after him, a boy could be seen guarding them, locked behind bars. He was a boy about the age of Usher or Rogi, but he had body parts that normal people don’t have that made it clear that the boy was Caitsy.
“Uh, how are you? Are you satisfied with the product?”
He clicked his tongue at the words that treated people as commodities casually.
“As expected, it would be a shame for you to die here.”
“Yeah, that’s what you mean.”
“At least for now.”
Convinced that Iza had something bigger behind him, Donar decided to arrest him and take him to the manor.
“Guys! Come out!”
Usher sat silently in the carriage until at last he heard Donnar’s voice outside and all of us ran out. Being with Rogi and Pavel was so uncomfortable that it was only for a while to feel a sense of freedom in the fresh outside air.
“…Isn’t something stretched too much?”
As soon as they opened the door and came out, all they could see was a large number of people.
“Originally, it’s like that when you save people. That’s why I brought a wagon.”
I wanted to ask if there weren’t any men among those who had survived the monsters until now, but I had to get out of the way when they said they were putting people on a wagon. Then Usher noticed something that stood out among them.
“Cat?”
At first, I just thought there was a cat among people. However, unconsciously chasing a tail that was too big for a normal cat’s, I realized that there was a person who wasn’t a cat at the end. It was clearly a boy of his age, but he had cat ears pricked on top of his head, and a cat’s tail was standing stiffly around his waist.
“Uncle, that kid…”
“Did you see it? I don’t know how it came to Lantua. It was said that it was Catsy.”
Usher was curious to see the beastman for the first time in his life, but since he had to return to the manor now, he decided to postpone talking to him until later.
