Chapter 11 – Orcs and 400 Madmen Day 3
Day 3
Human Alliance Temporary Operations Headquarters built on a byway in the Blackrock Mountains.
“Tell me again, did this happen overnight?”
Those were the first words Sylveria uttered when she saw the scene of dozens of corpses that had been brought in so badly that they couldn’t even recognize what they looked like when they were alive.
At first, even Sylveria herself did not believe it.
It was because as soon as I woke up in the morning, I heard a report of the guard posts collapsed under unknown stones and the number of dead that occurred during the night I had been waiting for.
“Why didn’t the report come in right away?”
He looked over with cold eyes at the chiefs of the tenth and centenarians, who were in charge of the guard post, who were unable to respond to his words.
“Sorry, sorry!”
Silveria, who is not usually talkative, but looking at them with icy eyes like this, in the middle of winter, as if they had entered an ice cave full of icicles, they could not control their trembling bodies,
“Ask again. Why do I need to know this now?”
“That, that… “
Some of her knights, who couldn’t see the figure of her leader of the Ten, sweating like a mouse standing in front of her cat, tried to approach her to talk to her, but at that very moment, Sylveria opened her mouth.
“How long has it been since I took office as the commander of this unit and your superior? Oh, I’m not really asking. If it wasn’t for this operation in the first place, I would have been on the Northwestern Front without meeting you. Just… That’s right, I was dispatched in a hurry, so it’s only been a few weeks at the longest, so there might be people who don’t know what kind of person I am, except for the top leaders, who are mostly their own unit commanders. So…”
– I want everyone here to be clear about this.
Chew-!
A silver trail that even felt sacred flashed once, and at the same time, the captain of the Ten Commandments, who had been standing like a criminal in Maksan, collapsed as a headless ghost without a single sound.
It happened so quickly that the leaders in the barracks at the headquarters were speechless and unable to say anything.
– Pushaaaaagh!
Said Sylveria, turning her head towards her knights soaked in the fountain of blood gushing from her headless body.
“One night! In just one night, close to 10 guard posts were destroyed. And why didn’t I know that? Sir Mike!”
“Ancient!”
“Did you know about this?”
The general manager of the guard post and a knight called Mike responded to Sylveria’s call, but glanced at the headless corpse lying in front of him and let out a dry saliva.
“… I knew.”
Can’t you know
However, he did not listen to the report of the soldier waking him up from a sound sleep, he only told him to deal with it on his own, and even thought it would be no big deal, omitting the report he had to send to Silvera and not taking any follow-up action because it was Mike and himself. .
“I guess so. Of course”
Contrary to the sword that had just decapitated a person, not even a drop of blood was left on it, Sylveria calmly wiped away the blood that was spattered on her face and looked at him again and said,
“Then why didn’t you report to me?”
“That is… “
While answering, Mike averted his gaze from Sylveria.
It was because he didn’t have the confidence to handle Sylveria’s eyes like the northern wind and cold snow that would cut him down at any moment.
And that moment when Sylveria tried to reach out her hand to her waist again.
“He always makes reports related to the Demon King’s army, but isn’t there any reason to report even matters related to these natural disasters?”
A staff member blocking his way.
Seeing him like that, Sylveria snorted and said with a cynical smile.
“Well, Sir Mike was a staff member, a person with deep ties to your family, right?”
“I don’t know what you mean, but this case is definitely an accident caused by a natural disaster, and above all, haven’t you already seen blood? “
At the words of the staff who brazenly dismissed this suspicious incident as an accident, Sylveria stared at him silently for a moment before turning around.
“If something like this happens next time, it wouldn’t hurt to experience firsthand who my sword will be directed at.”
A beauty that does not fade at all, even with blood dripping down, but with a thorn hidden in that beauty, the knights and staff wonder why she is called a warrior on the Northwestern Front, where blood and flesh are splashed on a daily basis. At least the people present here seemed to know.
And then,
“It’s a big deal!”
“What’s going on?”
When the staff and knights, who had crumpled their faces at the urgent sound coming from outside the barracks, came out of the barracks, a soldier was lying on his stomach in front of the barracks, bleeding from his head.
Then, when the knight who hurriedly ran to the soldier and raised him up asked what was going on, the soldier, who was breathing hard, shouted.
“The monsters on the mountain… ! They’re throwing rocks at us!
“What?”
The sudden movement of the demon lord? The moment the knights were about to ask the soldier who had made the report,
Quaang-! Coo-!
Watching the terrified soldiers waiting for instructions and orders from the leadership, seeing the soldiers jumping up and down with the dust rising as if they were followed by a roaring sound that shook the ground, the first sight they had never seen before. The staff who teased the snake-like tongue also had no choice but to stiffen.
“It’s a flying stone that picks only our soldiers… You really don’t know what a natural disaster is, right? Isn’t that right, chief?”
“… “
No answer came back.
Sylvia, who looked at the staff as if accusing her, ordered the other knights to take the soldiers and retreat, then mounted the horse she had tucked up next to the barracks and began to run alone outside the camp.
The destination is that nameless peak with a rain of rocks!
‘They’ve been quiet for days. There must be a reason why those guys suddenly became so active.”
The silver knight started running among the soldiers who were busy running away in panic from the flying rocks.
‘How… For what reason!’
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Go back in time
Demon King’s Camp at the Top of the Nameless Peak
After coming here, for the past few days, they can’t fight even though they see humans there, and they can’t even fight each other (the one who loses will die) at the captain’s words to save strength, don’t do this or that? Don’t do it, since you came here, if you do anything, don’t do it.
Do you really just turn it upside down?
However, it is also true that it is scary to stand up to the leader who is the strongest in this group, and the leader is the most intelligent in the group, so the desire to trust him springs up.
‘What the heck’
There was one guy who caught his eye, elephants doing nothing but wagging their ears.
“You, why are you sleeping during the day today, Puppu?”
The bat, who was trembling at the call of the elephants, looked back at him with a flinch.
“No, while playing… “
“What are there to play with? Everyone is sleeping here, but don’t fall behind while installing it for no reason, pu-pu”
I almost burst into laughter at the sound of a cute puppoo that wasn’t worth the price, but there are a lot of people who laughed at that puppoo and crossed the river of no return. Sunbae also has a lot of muscles, but he himself is a bat and that guy is an elephant. Unless you’re a captain, no matter how well you fight, you’re just like a mosquito, and it’s only a matter of seconds before the applause of the elephant makes you shine.
How did the captain beat such a guy?
I was terrified at the gaze of the elephants staring at me with respect for the captain again.
But scary things are scary things, and Sunbat, who was bored with playing alone, cautiously approached the elephants and whispered in their ears.
“It’s a game the captain allowed. They say it’s good to throw stones down there.”
“Fart?”
Throw a stone under it?
That means…
“It doesn’t matter if you throw stones at humans, is this Bubpu?”
Seriously, when I looked at the sunbath, he didn’t answer, he just nodded and whispered in his ear again.
“I guess that’s right, the captain didn’t even say anything about it.”
“Fart!”
As I threw stones one by one in search of the sound of my hometown, all the small stones disappeared before I knew it, and I threw a big stone. There was.
Excited at the taste of his hand that he felt unwillingly, he started throwing stones at the place where humans were overnight like that.
“So you were sleeping.”
“Puu… ? But the humans killed them, so why aren’t they coming up?”
“I don’t know? I kept watching during the night, but since nothing happened, they seem to be just sitting still.”
After thinking about something for a long time, the elephants snorted strongly from their noses like steam locomotives, as if they had come up with a good idea.
“Where did you throw it?”
“Come on~”
The place where Sunbat pointed is a cliff, where they play by throwing stones at humans? Of course, there is nothing to follow the taste of killing humans, but what a good game it is to be able to kill humans while playing comfortably like this.
“As expected, he’s the captain!”
Excited, the elephants told Sun Bat to lead the way, and then picked up the sleeping Jelly King Wiggly.
-What?
“Shut up and follow me Pupu”
That’s how things were about to explode in a place the orc didn’t know.
