Chapter 162 – [1st Anniversary Side Story] Maid/Elf
Noblesse Oblige.
Nobility means having a duty, and wealth and power accompany duties and responsibilities.
She was not noble, but her thoughts were similar to this noblesse oblige.
The strong must protect the weak. Those with power should not plunder those without power, but should protect them from harm. She thought so
That was the path she had walked, and it was the lamp that would light her way.
-We didn’t do anything! It was all done by that woman alone!
-You’re right. We did nothing wrong!
– I’ll hand over that woman. So please have mercy on us…
And that day, her lamp went out.
The day when the strong tried to protect the weak more than anyone else, but were betrayed by those who wanted to protect them.
In order to protect the powerless villagers from the evil villain who wages an endless war and takes the lives of countless people, she deliberately went out to protect them even though there was no reward to receive from them. During her long life as a mercenary, she overworked her hardened body to fend off the evil warlock’s army, and she was able to delay the villain’s invasion by a day. Although she had no chance of defeating him, if she continued to hold out like this, the opponent who was in a hurry to fight would have no choice but to retreat first. So, as long as you keep going like this, you can protect the people of this village. She thought so
But the villagers didn’t seem to think so.
She threw herself desperately and confronted the evil warlock’s army, and concluded that if she continued to endure like this, she could protect the villagers, but the villagers who were safely protected by her were able to defeat the warlock with her power. They can never win, and their village is destroyed in an instant, and rather than trusting her who barely manages to stop the warlock’s forces, the safety of the village is guaranteed by handing over her identity to him, who fought him head-on. Concluded that it was safe and reasonable.
They used the favor of the hero who came out to help them without any compensation, just to protect their safety.
That day she learned that just because she’s underdog doesn’t mean she’s necessarily good.
And her teachers who taught her the bitter lessons of her life.
-Uh, why…! Didn’t we surrender? Why are you doing this!
– No, no! I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!
– Mr. Mars! Help me! Help us!
-Help me! Ask for help! You said you would protect us!
– He said he would help! I’d like to help! Help me! Help me!
I have learned that even if I go through the same environment and process, others do not necessarily come to the same conclusion as myself.
The man who was her enemy brutally killed one by one some of the foolish ones who had sold their guardians into their own hands. She taught them directly that things in the world don’t go as planned, as she expected them without permission. Of course, tuition was their neck.
Those who had abandoned her shield with her own hands, begging her for her life, not her warlock, just before her death.
Their brazen screams calling for help again from the subject who had betrayed her, their final cacophony pierced her ears.
-Sa, save me! I don’t want to die!!
Betrayed by those I should protect, I felt a sense of exhilaration rather than pity for their deaths.
The belief that I thought I would protect at any moment collapsed, and in the meantime, a sense of betrayal and hatred slowly rose.
[Wake up.]
So she took the friendly hand that her man, who was her enemy, extended out to her.
On the day when powerless, foolish, and selfish cowards abandoned their shields to protect themselves and gave up their lives, Mars, a righteous mercenary and protector of the weak, died.
And Mars, the red spirit of the battlefield, who will remain as the nightmare of many adventurers, mercenaries, and knights, who leads the army of Baron Ragna Armageddon, was born.
“..Les. Wake up, Mars!”
“Huh?!”
“Mars, are you awake? If you’re tired, go to your room and tell me to sleep. How many times do I have to understand?”
“Ah, Mia… Master…”
At the unfiltered, reflexive words that came out of her head in her sleep, Mia shook her head calmly without even frowning.
“… It looks like the owner appeared in a dream again. Come to your senses, go in and sleep.”
“Oh, it must have been a dream.”
It has been quite some time since Ragnar Armageddon, the head of Baron Armageddon, passed away. Some have found new people to fill the void, but most have not forgotten the void. Desperately working on something else, trying to forget that empty feeling, or remembering that person who no longer exists and comforting yourself with what he left behind. In the case of the latter, I couldn’t stand it and shed a bowlful of tears at the greater emptiness that came after the momentary satisfaction.
A representative example of this was the lost child in front of Mars.
The chief maid of Baron Armageddon, the lord’s agent, and Baron Armageddon’s favorite woman. After the death of Baron Armageddon, a woman who takes charge of managing this estate alone in his place.
She is, and she is, of all those gathered here, she feels his loss most acutely.
“Could it be that you were patrolling around the fog again last night?”
“I’m sorry. I don’t doubt the power of the magic fog. But… Not everyone thinks so. To calm the anxiety of others, I had to prove that the fog still does its job. “
“Whoa. Then why don’t you talk to me separately?”
“Even if that’s not the case, you don’t have much time to close your eyes while dealing with the things the baron left before he left. I can handle even trivial things like this.”
“Yes, yes. I understand, so hurry in and rest. If the state of the most powerful female warrior in this territory is not normal, it may rather cause anxiety among the people of the territory.”
“If you say that far…”
Watching Maris open her mouth and yawn, Mia asked her as if she had just remembered her.
“Oh, come to think of it, do you know where Hockna is fort?”
“Hawk? Why are you looking for a dog?”
“There are a few elves among the people who have recently entered our territory. It’s easier for them to deal with people of the same kind than humans, and I don’t think we’ll have to suffer.”
At that, Mars rubbed his sleepy eyes and replied.
“Hmm, Hawkna is an elf, but since she lived in a human society for a long time, in fact, her behavior as an elf only for her species would be close to that of a human with pointy ears… I understand that she has been staying at the northern end of the country lately. Go and call me now. Shall I come?”
“No. It’s not that urgent, so take a deep breath and call me later when the opportunity arises.”
“Yes, I understand.”
When Mars left for her room to rest properly, Mia sighed and headed back to her office. There, her documents piled up like a mountain were waiting for her to come. Regular reports, payment confirmation documents, requests from Ji-min, etc… Originally, this was a job she had been taking on behalf of the owner of the estate, who was a young soldier, but recently the volume has increased.
“What’s so much today? Where… Outsiders were found wandering in the fog near the west side of the Magic Mist. Although they were disguised as merchants, they tried to enter the mist by hiding armor and weapons in a wagon and pretending to be merchants. The enlisted men in the estate were identified and immediately expelled. Huh… I’m sorry Mars, but when I wake up, I’ll have to go to the neighboring estate and ask them to give them some warning not to be presumptuous.”
Even after the death of Baron Armageddon, thanks to the magic fog barrier maintained through the body he left behind, the Armageddon territory was perfectly prepared for an outside invasion, but his vacuum was clearly felt. Previously, he would not have dared to make such a cheeky attempt, and the neighboring estate, which had been quietly holding its breath in case it would catch fire on itself, made an attempt to break through the fog and break into the interior. It meant that as time went by, the horrors that Ragnar Baron Armageddon had carved into the world were fading little by little.
It’s been a long time since Rag or Armageddon appeared, and those who were afraid of him felt the void of Armageddon after the death of the hero, so they wondered if there was some reason why he couldn’t move. I heard to Of course, such an intrusion attempt would not have succeeded during the presence of Mystrina, the Witch of the Mists, but it was almost certain among outsiders that something had happened to him at the point when Baron Armageddon had not made an appearance in person despite the ignorant wandering around. Situation.
At first, those who feared that Baron Armageddon was still alive and well thanks to the magic mist predicted by Cigarette Tabacona, the Smoke Witch, would not last long, soon forgot their fear and revealed their ugly greed just because he did not appear. To start
Those who are not on the side of Baron Armageddon are never allowed inside. If even one of his former enemies sets foot on this estate, he will realize that the situation here is dire, and that Baron Armageddon will not be able to move…
The magic fog is a powerful barrier, but it is the witch Mystrina, who created the magic, that controls it. If her numerous troops try to invade from time to time, even she will not be able to withstand it physically, and if that happens, there is no possibility that some of her troops will succeed in invading. For now, there was no other way but to pray and hope that he would return before the last duke, who had been left the only one left in the realm by Baron Armageddon, made a move.
“…”
To have a headache. Mia, whose head started pounding due to the enormous work left behind by her loved one before he left, the heavy responsibility that was difficult for her to handle, left the office full of papers and documents dizzyingly to get some air, and left the office to see her. I went to the basement of the mansion. At one time, the prison where Baron Armageddon controlled the test subjects that tested his powers, and those who lost their sanity and became members of his immortal army, was eerily quiet. And in the innermost part of the prison, which is the center of this territory in terms of location, there was a huge crystal.
The huge dark-colored crystal with its translucent inner side continuously discharged the black magic that overflowed from the inside through the dark green vines that wrapped around it, and that magic permeated the huge magic circle drawn on the floor to protect this territory from outside invasion. It becomes the fuel that activates the huge magic fog barrier.
And inside the crystal located in the center of the magic circle, there was the person everyone in this territory had been waiting for so long to return.
Baron Ragna Armageddon.
The last heir of the Baron Armageddon family, who was once a duke who was a contributor to the founding, but collapsed due to a series of disgraceful title declines and invasions of neighboring territories due to the traps of the other two duke families and the ignorance of the royal family.
An obvious evil man who only acted for himself, recovering what he lost with the power he received from the great evil called the immortal dragon and taking more.
A man who could not have been more cruel and ruthless towards his own enemies and those who preyed on him, but who was infinitely more merciful and considerate towards his allies.
And…
“Chi… When the hell are you going to come back? They wanted to have me, so they destroyed my family, and if that wasn’t enough, they took away all the other families I depended on and took away my place to return to… They made fun of my body to suit their own tastes. Tame it as you please, and again, and again… In the end, even take away my heart… How long are you going to make me wait like this?”
A pitiful woman who is the biggest victim of what a wicked man impulsively did according to her desires, and at the same time, hated the wicked man who took everything from her, and ended up falling in love with her.
She hugged her crystal and wept silently, her eyes reddened.
“Come back soon, you bastard…”
A woman’s bitter cry resounded silently in the vast and quiet basement.
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“…”
After the death of Ragnar Armageddon, many changes took place in this world.
Just as there is a saying among people that when the body is far away, the mind is also far away. Among the women who were embraced by Baron Armageddon, those who did not have a very deep relationship left the Armageddon domain and returned to their original lives. And those who had a deep relationship with Baron Armageddon, who decided to keep waiting for him, who did not know when he would return, decided to stay and guard the estate until he returned.
“What else are you doing here?”
“Oh, Blackie. It’s nothing special. I just… Want to get some fresh air.”
Blacky also had a physical relationship with Baron Armageddon for the purpose of coming to Armageddon, so there was no reason to be bound to this territory now that he was no longer in this world.
“Uhh, getting melancholy again… Are all elves that emotional? Is this the fairy’s sensitivity, or something?”
“Pu-up, fairy sensitivity. Where did that come from again?”
But even so, there was no reason for her to leave Armageddon. Initially, she met Mars as a mercenary and ended her mercenary work. So, when she started as the leader of a band of bandits, her subordinates were massacred by Mars’ owner, Baron Armageddon. Voluntarily decided to remain in Armageddon and live out his life there.
“So, what’s the reason this time? Did you suddenly miss the taste of your master’s cock?”
“I… Hey, I’m going to cover my words. What are you talking about in front of someone with a child?”
“He looks at your face from a while ago and says it. It wasn’t the face of a mother waiting for her dead husband, it was the face of a lewd married woman starving for sex.”
In fact, there weren’t many people in the Armageddon Territory that the rough and easy-going character of Blacky would suit. Mars, the commander of the guard, who seems to fit well with his personality, but avoids it due to the trauma of a long time ago encounter on the battlefield. There is a connection that they have experienced similar things in the past, but it is not a topic to laugh at, and it is difficult to talk comfortably due to the atmosphere. Among the many women, including Mia, the regent of this territory, the partner Blacky chose was Hochna, a former mercenary.
Although she is an elf, she does not have the atmosphere that is difficult to approach casually, and since she herself has worked as a mercenary before, the topics of conversation and consensus were subtly matched, and Blacky quickly became friendly with her because Hawkna had such a good personality. It may be a matter of course.
“Wow, but now it’s starting to show that she’s a real pregnant woman. In that state, it’s impossible to patrol in the future.”
At Blacky’s words, Hockna let out a chuckle.
“Certainly, it’s impossible to move forward violently. You don’t know what effect it will have on the child in your belly. It’s okay though.”
And Hawk I continued her words, flicking the string of her bow with her fingers as if she were handling a string instrument, whichever moment she drew it.
“It’s a lot to run around, but there’s nothing wrong with pulling the string of the bow.”
Haha…”
“From what I’ve heard lately, it seems that the duke’s family is also thinking of dipping their feet into it, but at this point, I’ll have to show them what they’ve seen properly so they won’t even try dipping their feet in it again.”
There were only three people who held the title of duke in the kingdom. Due to the timing of the two dukes, one duke family fell to the baronial rank, and since the last heir of the fallen baron family revealed his hidden poison teeth and killed another duke family in an instant, there was only one duke. After Baron Armageddon refused to be duke again, no one dared to pass the dukedom.
Even the only remaining duke still hesitates, noticing that someday Baron Armageddon will suddenly decide to kill him, and if someone fearlessly aims for the dukedom, Ragnar Armageddon will cause his family to become one line in history. The possibility of disappearing without even leaving a record was high.
Even though it has been a long time since Baron Armageddon did not appear, the royal family and the duke still feared his existence, and they, who had already been burned very badly by the precedent of Rag or Armageddon, could not even think that he did not appear despite the frequent provocations of their subordinates. He shuddered in fear that it might be what he was aiming for.
Therefore, the fact that the duke, who had been terrified to see a duke stronger than himself disappear overnight, gradually became suspicious of Baron Armageddon’s vacancy and was interested in breaking through the magic fog, indicating that he had decided to remain in the Armageddon domain. It was never good news for Jimin.
“Haa, when is my baby’s dad going to come back? At least he has to come back before the baby comes out so he can see his face…”
“…He’s really coming back, right?”
“Well, of course.”
Hockna trembled so much that even she couldn’t trust herself, and anxiously stroked her protruding belly.
“He will come back. He must come back. Many people, including me, bet everything on that person’s return. Ray, Shin Saha, Marmot, Mia, Mars… Everyone is waiting for him in their respective positions. More than me. People who have been with him for a long time also endure, but I, who have received grace beyond my heart, cannot give up.”
“A grace that overflows in grace…?”
Hockna showed a sad smile somewhere.
“Actually, I was quasi-sterile.”
“…What?”
Infertility is infertility, what is quasi-infertility?
When Blacky looked at the bizarre word choice beyond her own fairy sensibility, with eyes that wanted to hear everything strange, Hockna explained with a light smile.
“Originally, you know that the elf race had a very long life expectancy, but they had a low fertility because they had a constitution that made it difficult to conceive? Even though I was raped continuously for four days in turns, and I’ve been raped a lot by orcs who impregnate quite a few elves, I’ve never gotten pregnant. Of course, it was fortunate that I was able to avoid unwanted pregnancies thanks to that, but… I got scared later on.”
“You’re scared, what?”
Hockna spoke in a tone as if talking to someone else, her gaze resting on the magic mist and looking at something else that wasn’t here.
“If you have a constitution so difficult to conceive that even if you are raped by an orc, you mean that you won’t be able to give birth to a child that looks like me in the future, right?”
Although the first meeting was enemies, and the first relationship was rape halfway through, it couldn’t be worse from the beginning…
It was because he felt regret first, that he had to ask for physical intercourse again, and that he was deprived of his heart.
She was worn out and no longer had any charm as a woman, because she was the one who treated herself as an attractive woman.
Because she thought that if it were this person, she would have no regrets even if she gave her all.
Her face isn’t good enough for that, her personality is kind of bad, but she’s still nice to her own person, and she’s really good at that… Her sex.
If she was this man’s child, she thought, she could bear it. No, he thought he wanted to give birth. I wanted to see a child who came out between me and this man, who looked like us.
And before he left, he granted his wish.
My stomach, which I thought would never happen in my life, swelled up, and I felt as if I had everything in the world at the faint beat of new life.
“If this is not grace beyond measure, what is it?”
“…But maybe you’re not number one for him? Aren’t you jealous of other girls?”
“It’s okay if you’re not number one. Being with him is enough. Other women who are desperately waiting for him must feel the same way.”
It’s a very shameful person to think about how many times he made it so that only himself could see it and left it so pathetic. At Hawkna’s playful remark that when he returned later, he had to get his share of what he had left forlornly, Blacky smiled reluctantly and shook his head.
