Chapter 6 – Orcs and 400 Madmen
-Demon King! Demon King! Demon King!
I sold the name of the king, and the only thing I had in my head was what would be served for dinner today. While the stupid bastards were arguing with each other, the adjutant came up to me and asked.
“Captain! So, are we going to repel our enemies from here!”
Can it be
I didn’t come here to win, I came to lose miserably! This is a really great strategic point, and we’re here to make a terrible defeat here. We!
“We build a base on the top of that mountain.”
A mountain so high that you have to look up at the level of a steep cliff and a pass at the waist. The topography here is also so poor that when you look down from the top of that mountain, you can see everything below the mountain as if you were looking down at the ground from Tower Palace. Movement could be clearly observed.
Yes, just look down at the enemies from a place with high magic speed! Hee hee it was
But if I just say let’s do it, the adjutant who doesn’t notice this carefully asked me.
“Then, how are you going to get water? If you sit up there, you won’t be able to get water.”
“At that time, won’t our children fight to the death?”
If he were a human, he would have persuaded me to stay down here instead of bullshit, but he is also a monster after all. If the level of thinking is what other people will have for dinner tonight, he can only think of what will be served tomorrow morning.
What about the guy who tilted his head for a while alone like that? He tilted his head again, and this time he raised his hand cautiously and asked me.
“Ha, but we have a small number of troops, so wouldn’t it be better to just fight in a narrow alley?”
Kill this? I sincerely tried to have a murderous urge to this guy who interfered with my defeat, but I have an answer in case this happens.
“That’s why it’s better to fight from above.”
“Why?”
“Just as this is a strategic point for us, for humans, this is the most important strategic point connecting the supply route. He will definitely come with a large army. No matter how narrow the road is, it’s easy for us to fight, but what do you think will happen if those guys figure out the number of our troops and then decide to fight them?”
“Uh… Are we going to run out of exhaustion?”
“Okay! That’s why.”
In fact, since the road is narrow, even if the number of troops is small like ours, if you believe in this road and hold on, it is easy to receive reinforcements and it can be said to be a truly blessed fortress that can crush the opponent’s advantage of numerical superiority.
But how does this idiot know that?
The adjutant nodded to my words and wanted to step back.
“Uh… So what if enemies surround us? Then we’re stuck.”
“I have thoughts, so you know”
After that, the adjutant stopped bombarding me with questions. Just following my order, I spread the sad news of ‘Going to the top of the mountain!’ To all troops, and I almost got eaten by the pissed off kids, but that’s not my part-time job. Because they’re not attacking me!
Anyway
This group of lunatics, made up of at most one battalion-sized force of only lunatics, took all their belongings and started climbing the mountain.
A step towards my discharge has now begun!
So the very next day when we settled down on the black rock mountain
Floating-! Floating-!
The sound of drums resounded from under the mountain.
No, why did you come so soon? If possible, it will be delayed a bit until our children, who are short on patience, are pissed off.
A giraffe with a long neck like a giraffe and a neck collar sharp like a knife to cut down enemies like a sword, Killin Ji pulled her neck out and looked around to see if she had found anything.
“Leader! Leader!”
Called me urgently Now, wondering if the human union has come, I wandered around and approached him, and Killin strangely made more fuss and shouted at me.
“Look there!”
“You are human”
“Not that! Look at that flag!”
“I keep saying, but the scenery you and we can see is different, ah, now we can see it, but what is that?”
I can see a silver lily and a blue flag embroidered with a winged sword across the lily.
“Yo, a warrior! A warrior has arrived!”
Ok?
And this was the prelude to announcing the monumental battle that would be the first meeting between me and the hero.
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He has been called various titles such as the general name of sub-species alliances such as humans, elves, and beastmen, and the leader of the Silver Lily Knights, who were to lead this operation in the human union, and indomitable and unbreakable lilies.
A title given to the most courageous among all of the human unions now, a person called ‘Hero’
Sylveria Isis.
Intelligence has been obtained that the monsters have sent troops to the newly discovered byway in the Black Mountains this time! Hurry up and occupy it before the monsters take over! If they’ve already captured it, take it back at all costs!
It was an order given to himself as a hero by the alliance.
This Black Rock Mountain Range serves as a border crossing between the Human Alliance in the south and the Demon King’s Territory where the monsters live in the north. Unlike the northern part of the continent, which is relatively rugged compared to where humans like himself live, the southern part is a place with many flat lands and fertile, lush grain fields.
However, there is a disadvantage that there is no worry about food because there are many flat lands, but because the mountainous terrain is concentrated in the north, the supply and demand of underground resources such as iron ore is not smooth.
The purpose of this war was to use this opportunity to obtain the rich resources of the north and to exterminate the monsters in the north, or at least the demon king, who could be called the center of it.
Then why did Silveria, who was active on the battlefield more than anyone else and stood at the forefront of the great journey of subjugating the demon king, come here?
The place where she was active was the northwestern front, and the terrain was rugged, so it was close to impossible for humans who first came to the north to face the monsters that had been living here since time immemorial. The balance of the northwestern front, which had been tense for hundreds of years, was completely destroyed by Sylveria, who had bravely cut down the enemies from the front.
The demon army fighting with them on the northwestern front hurriedly retreated, and the coalition was finally able to secure a bridgehead for the northern expedition.
However, that was the story of the Northwestern Front. The Northwest was located at the tail end of the Black Rock Mountains, so it was possible to lead a large army and conduct the Northern Expedition.
The long supply route is a perfect prey for the enemies, no matter how well prepared you are, the moment you lose your guard, you are in trouble with the monsters appearing like ghosts and stealing supplies. Intelligence was obtained.
And that too, in the middle of the Black Rock Mountains!
If that area is secured, the Northeastern Front will no longer have to worry about supply routes. If the northwestern front immediately pushes the Demon King’s army further, a smooth supply route to the northwest will be activated through this byway located in the middle, and there will be no need to invest power in the northeastern front.
However, if the Demon King’s side secures this route, the alliance is advantageous now, but if the tide of battle turns over and the Demon King’s side launches a counterattack, this road will serve as an easy supply route for the Demon King’s army.
This byway has infinite strategic value for both sides, but the situation began to flow urgently as additional intelligence was obtained that the Demon King’s Army had already sent troops there. According to the information I hear, it is a heavenly fortress where even one soldier can stop a hundred soldiers.
But he’s already moved his troops there! In order to prepare for the future or the unforeseen future, the alliance dispatched Sylveria Isis, who had won numerous battles along the Northwest Front, to this place, Black Rock Mountains, in order to win a certain victory over the occupation of the byway of the Black Rock Mountains. Silveria, who is known as a knight by nature, arrived near the side road with agile soldiers who followed her according to the order of the superior.
But
“Is it too late?”
The scouts sent earlier heard the sad news that monsters had already settled down near the side road. It is a place that raises doubts about whether it can be penetrated even if it is fought as a human vs. Human, but moreover, each one is a monster that produces several times the power of a human.
There’s no way I’ll be able to withstand it if I’m confronted head-on here.
Should we fight needlessly and then retreat without losing troops?
However, the superior ordered himself to occupy and recapture the side road.
While Sylveria was clutching her head at the dilemma that beset her, a young soldier sent to her scout cautiously spoke to Sylveria.
“However… There is something a little strange”
“Wonderment?”
“Yes. I definitely saw those monsters, but they weren’t on the side road.”
“Didn’t you take a seat on the side road? Tell me in detail what does that mean?”
When I gestured for more, the soldier approached the map of the area spread out on the table and pointed to the top of the highest mountain in the area.
“When the members of my platoon were looking around, they happened to find what appeared to be scouts for those monsters.”
“They scouted?”
As for tactics, those who only believed in numbers and bodies and ignorant charges sent scouting? Silveria tilted her head at the presence of a skirmisher she had never seen on the Northwestern Front, but the soldier continued her words again as if she hadn’t seen such a Silveria.
“Maybe we were lucky, maybe we found them first and hid quickly, so we didn’t get caught, but after looking around a few times in the direction of our army, they went back up the mountain.”
Went up the mountain not on the road? Sylveria glared at the skirmisher and said.
“You went up the mountain? Are there no lies in that?”
“Yes?! Yes How safe would I lie… “
Sighing and clearing his throat at the shrunken look of the scout, Sylveria ordered the scout to give him a small reward and sent the scout out. Then, as if they had waited, the staff of the operation began to open their mouths to Sylveria.
“They must be monsters, so they don’t have heads!”
“They will win even if they are just down there, so why not go up the mountain?”
“Looks like I won. They’re already rats in a jar! I’ll just run into the mountains and get rid of them!”
There was already an atmosphere of self-congratulations for the victory at the information like the golden side of the skirmisher. But, until Sylveria urged them on.
“Quiet! It’s still too early to jump to conclusions!”
No matter how stupid they are, they are not those who lack the ability to learn. They may have their own tricks.
Sylveria ordered more scouts this time to search the surroundings more closely and thoroughly, then came out of the barracks and gazed at the peaks of the Black Rock Mountains that were guarding their positions in silence.
‘No matter what they decorate, I just cut them down.’
Silveria, who expressed her hostility toward the mysterious commander who concealed her intentions, returned to the barracks.
So many days passed.
