Chapter 61 – Signs of War (3)
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The capricious weather of the unexplored region persistently harassed intruders who crossed the border.
Intense sunlight from the morning, causing intense heat, as well as raining in any season other than winter was so heinous that it was hard to hear. Humans who set foot in unexplored lands without any information had to go through the double whammy of having to fight fierce heat as well as vicious monsters.
“Whoops!”
Screams were heard.
A boy’s thin voice. It was Gareth’s voice.
The people who heard the tearing screams gathered in an instant. Even if it wasn’t so, I had to be attacked frequently by monsters, so my nerves were on edge.
“Are you a Dark Elf?”
“I know that when I see it.”
“So why do you have a dark elf kid?”
The culprit who attacked Gareth from behind was a dark-skinned elf.
Dark Elf.
It was only natural that his men’s vigilance was focused.
But it was strange. It was because the Dark Elf who attacked Gareth from behind was a child around the age of 10 at best. He raised his crudely made dagger and began to tremble at the sight of humans flocking from all sides.
“Why are you shaking?”
“Your face is a bomb.”
“He was properly beaten by the dark elves, but he didn’t take his anger out on his kid….”
“Who is taking his anger out?”
Yushin’s subordinates gathered and whispered.
The purpose of the sudden appearance of the little Dark Elf was food. When Isana handed him a piece of beef jerky, she hurriedly ate it like a wild animal.
The other subordinates also took out food and gave it to the Dark Elves. Although they were of the same race as the Dark Elves who attacked them, they continued to hand over food such as biscuits, beef jerky, and dried fruits, as if they felt sympathy for the elf boy who had a sly face. Then the Dark Elves let go of their guard.
“Where are you from?”
“This is not a place for people to live at all….”
“I’ve never heard of elves living in unexplored areas.”
“Do you have any sisters?”
At their continued questioning, the dark elf boy nodded and diligently mumbled food.
After eating full,
The Dark Elf boy opened his mouth.
“Who are you guys? Can you give me a bunch of precious things?”
At the Dark Elf boy’s words, the human males made shocked faces and whispered to each other.
“Uncle, who are you talking about?”
“Obviously a tacker. Your face is swollen.”
“Why me! I am forever the younger of the elves!”
“I must have felt energized to be treated as a younger man by hundreds of years old elven beauties.”
While the subordinates were having fruitless discussions about the dark elf boy, Yushin, who had scouted the area and returned, witnessed the dark elf boy.
It was the first time Yushin saw a dark elf. He was taken aback when he saw the dark-skinned elf boy.
Yushin thought that maybe it was the Dark Elf who had been tracking the unexplored lands, but he didn’t feel any power from the Dark Elf boy. He wielded a crude dagger, but he didn’t appear to have learned swordsmanship professionally.
“Little boy, where are you from?”
Yushin bent his knees and exchanged glances at the same height as the dark elf boy.
And he asked the boy.
He knew very little about the unexplored territory. So he decided to get information from the dark elf boy.
Perhaps thanks to securing trust through food, the Dark Elf raised his hand at Yushin’s question. He pointed somewhere with his hand. To the southwest, there seems to be a place where a dark elf boy lives. Yoo-shin must have been embarrassed by the behavior of the dark elf boy who was so kind to those he saw for the first time.
“Now go back when you’re full, kid. If someone asks you something later, don’t ever answer.”
Nod, nod
The dark elf boy nodded at Yushin’s words.
He handed over a bag of food.
The Dark Elf boy, who had been given the bundle without hesitation, bowed his head as if he wanted to express his gratitude.
Then he waved his hand and headed southwest with frequent steps. It was southwest, in the direction assumed to be where the dark elf boy lives. Yushin, who saw the boy’s back, woke up Allen, who was dozing while leaning against a tree.
“Because you’re on guard.”
“I didn’t sleep. I know when the enemy gets close.”
“But why didn’t I know the Dark Elf was coming?”
“Because I couldn’t live. He didn’t seem to mean any harm.”
“Don’t answer me.”
“Huh.”
Yushin tried to pursue the Dark Elf boy through the traces he left behind. He was in order to contact the Dark Elves.
When hunting, they use military dogs with excellent senses of smell. But he didn’t have a military dog, so he decided to use a mad dog.
“Why me? I’m not even in the state of a rongin tribe right now.”
“You have an excellent sense of smell. I have better eyesight than others. I’m really blind, so I can’t see very well.”
“… You’re lying.”
At Yushin’s command, Allen grumbled and followed the Dark Elf.
Sniffed at her.
She tracked down the dark elf, checking the footprints she left on the ground.
Yushin followed Allen, followed by her party, followed by a long procession. As Allen was diligently searching for directions, Isana opened her mouth.
“But isn’t this to the southwest?”
Yushin replied.
“Of course the kid must have answered a lie. There’s no way a kid who lives in an area infested with vicious demons can’t believe us when he sees us for the first time. Since we threw food like hukou, he must have responded favorably. The Dark Elf kid is quite good. I must say that I grew up early….”
He looked like a little boy, only ten years old, but he was quite clever.
Perhaps, living in a barren land, he became a cunning character. What did I do when I was ten…. Thinking of that, Yushin moved his steps along the path Allen taught.
I figured out that the dark elf kid seemed to be a native living in the unexplored lands. It would help a lot if we could get information from the natives. I was thinking of buying information from the Dark Elves on condition of the food I had.
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Savnak had four followers.
Ghost rider.
Demon knight.
Black monster.
Corpse doctor.
The head of Savnak’s detached corps, which departed from southern Liberia and reached unexplored lands, was a lich called a corpse magician.
Red eyes and bony bones.
Ornate wizard robes and golden crowns.
A lich, dressed more colorfully than his master Savnak, had a meeting with a being who decided to make contact while walking in a dark cave with demons.
“Bad dragon of Salamanca, I have come to convey the master’s order to you.”
As soon as Richie finished his words, the huge monster hidden in the darkness in the cave opened its eyes.
It was golden eyes with a ghastly glow. I stared at the bony Richie in front of me with my eyes wide open.
– Cordoba…. My old friend It’s gotten worse since I haven’t seen you in a while. It seems that he has a lot of trouble taking care of his master.
At the dragon’s words, the demons who were listening to the conversation behind the lich burst into laughter.
Richie turned and held out his hand.
Black lightning then fell, erasing the two laughing demons from the world.
After reducing two of her men to ashes, the lich by the name of Cordoba spoke again. She was to check the progress of the work with the evil dragon. She said in an excited voice to the evil dragon of Salamanca that the day had finally come for her to trample on the elven kingdom of Liberia.
-It’s been a long time…. Since there was no news in the meantime, I thought I had completely forgotten about me.
“Of course I can’t forget. Savnak-nim had only been waiting for this day. Only when we destroy the evil elves who invaded our territory.”
Savnak has been waiting for the right time for a long time.
He pondered the humiliation of being brutally defeated by El Cid and trained his strength. Savnak, trained for hundreds of years, led a surprise attack on the southern part of the Liberia Peninsula with troops gathered from the southern continent. Afterwards, while regrouping his forces around Granada, he attempted to plan the capital of the elven kingdom of Liberia.
-The aisle this way is ready. All that remains is to wait for the passage on the other side to open. This is the first time such a long-distance and large-scale passage has been opened. Perhaps even if you look around the world, it’s an extraordinary event that has no precedent.
“I’m relieved to hear you’re ready. The country of the elves will soon perish…. After brutally slaughtering all the elves in the Liberia Peninsula, they cross the mountain range and slaughter all the humans on the continent.”
– You seem to be quite excited, my friend. Seeing you happy makes me happy too.
At Richie’s cruel words, the evil dragon of Salamanca laughed and deployed his polymorph.
She changed into a human beauty with gray hair.
However, her transformation into a beauty was short-lived, and wrinkles began to grow on her face, and she became an ugly figure.
It was one of the punishments given to those who violated the rules given to the dragon clan, and it was a curse that said that even if polymorph magic was used, beauty could not be obtained. In addition to that, the evil dragon of Salamanca was under the curse of uncleanness, which prevented him from using most of the mana accumulated in his dragon heart.
“Damn Dragon Lord, let’s see. Eventually I’ll prove myself right. Live as a bystander, trapped in that proud oath. I will make my own world.”
She was fed up with the naive and narrow-minded world of dragons and devoted herself to the Demon King’s army.
Savnak broke the rules of her dragons and embraced her, becoming her own evil dragon. Currently, the name is excluded from the 4th generation of Sabnak, but in the past, when Savnak ruled the Liberia Peninsula, it had a great reputation as the 4th generation.
El Cid was the reason she was holding her breath in her remote periphery during her second peak in her demon lord army. During the battle between Sabnak and El Cid, she joined to support Sabnak. She was mortally wounded by El Cid and held her breath for hundreds of years, concentrating only on her recovery.
“Evil dragon of Salamanca, I don’t doubt your skills, but first I want to check the magic you gave me.”
“Great.”
The evil dragon reached out.
Then, a gray mana surged and a systematically recorded map appeared.
It was a map of the surrounding geography.
Mountain peaks in the north, wetlands in the south. A valley to the east and a waterfall to the west. The central axes of the formula for deploying a large-scale formula were maneuvering in four directions.
The moment the spell is activated, the four central axes perform their assigned roles. The role of the central axes was to forcibly include all monsters within the radius of the spell, and the role of the spell was to forcibly move all monsters included to the registered coordinates.
“We are the first to ravage the capital of the heinous Elves.”
The registered coordinates are above Maherit, the capital of the Elf country.
When the wyverns roamed the sky above Maherit and threw the supply and demand of the elves, the demons riding the wyverns calculated the coordinates above Maherit and delivered them to Rich Cordova. And Cordoba completed the magic trick by delivering the coordinates of the sky above Maherit to the evil dragon of Salamanca.
Currently, the number of monsters inhabiting between the four central axes is estimated to be in the thousands. Lich and the evil dragon tried to drop thousands of monsters living in the unexplored land on Maherit.
“I will control gravity magic. A safe landing is essential for the demons that are about to fall from the sky to reach Maherit’s castle safely.”
The evil dragon and the lich teamed up to aim for the royal castle of Maherit.