Chapter 118 – Wall Noise
“To put it bluntly, we’re screwed. Fucking monsters suddenly went mad.”
Lord Fractal, the leader of the Knights of Ropes, was quite talkative.
As soon as he opened his mouth, Scarlet Priest hurriedly blocked the saintess’s ears. When the stern-looking priestess opened her eyes, the Parisian-looking knight cleared his throat awkwardly.
“Keuheum, excuse me. Stop living in the mountains, aww!”
“Isn’t it not enough to worry you so much? What the hell are you doing in front of a precious person…!”
“Mi-I’m sorry!”
Sir Helga, who didn’t know what to do at that, looked at her saintess, and pinched the thigh of her superior, who I was hugging her. It’s a pretty nonchalant look. I guess they are very close to each other.
“I-I’m fine!”
“I’m sorry, Captain, who is embarrassing wherever I put it. I’ll apologize instead.”
“Hey! It hurts, it hurts! Are you my wife? Why is this woman like this today?”
“Please, shut that mouth, please…”
As a skit unfolded, a gentle smile appeared on everyone who saw it. Thanks to that, the gloomy atmosphere became much lighter.
However, apart from that, Lord Fractal’s condition was quite poor. His momentum, which seemed to be of a high level by nature, was so disturbed that it could not be hidden, and the flow of mana was also unstable.
It was a body that needed treatment and rest right away. If he was at that level, his subordinates would probably barely survive. It was definitely like that at first glance a little while ago.
Cardinal Malleus, who was closely watching his pale complexion, said while raising divine power from both hands.
—Saaa
“First of all, tell them to gather the injured in one place. It’s fine if you explain the situation slowly.”
“Ah. Thank you, Your Excellency Cardinal. For some reason, this reinforcement group included a lot of celebrities. If it’s this much, I won’t worry about anything. Ugh… I think I’ll live…”
Strictly speaking, we didn’t come as reinforcements, but there’s no need to correct that.
Although we met for the first time today, Lord Fractal and the Knights of Ropes are also loyal comrades to the Empire. There was no reason at all not to help those in need.
I gave orders to my subordinates.
“Current commanders. Call in some of your troops to help recover the wounded.”
“Yes!”
Then Lord Fractal, whose complexion was starting to return little by little, expressed his gratitude with a wry smile.
“Thank you. Truly, he is a great person worthy of his reputation. Even in the mountains, I can still hear the name of the winner of the Knights Templar Competition. Nice to meet you, Sir Wolfgang.”
“Nice to meet you too. It looks like you fought a pretty tough battle. How serious is the situation?”
Exhausted, he held out his trembling hand and asked for a handshake. I grabbed his hand, shook it, and carefully inquired about the situation.
“Huuu, I thought the raid had fallen into a lull. The monsters are rampaging again. Two hundred people have been completely wiped out. There are dozens of people missing. I managed to get my men back as much as possible, but… The damage was done. Is too big.”
“…”
When I heard of the specific damage, I could only swallow my silence without saying anything.
It was because the damage was so great that there was nothing to say about it. The Ropes Knights were practically destroyed, unable to carry out any further solo operations.
In fact, the subordinates who returned with him were less than one hundred units, and most of them were seriously injured, making it difficult to move on their own.
However, the injured were able to regain their rest unexpectedly quickly, because the saintess’ majesty was truly amazing.
—Paaaaagh!
“God, please give your warm hand to the wounded.”
As Ophelia put her hands together toward her wounded and uttered her prayer, a tidal wave of pure divine power blew, so dense and pure that it far surpassed even that Cardinal Malleus.
As the waves of divine power swept over the injured, the crippled limbs regenerated and the eyes of the blind knight who had been killed by the claws of the monster opened.
“…God, that’s really amazing.”
“Is that a saint? She is indeed the daughter of a heavenly god…”
It was truly a miracle reminiscent of the descent of an angel.
The severed limbs could be restored over several days if a few priests rushed in, but they couldn’t be regenerated as rapidly as trolls.
Opening the eyes of the blind was a realm closer to impossible than possible.
However, the saintess who actually caused such miraculous things was not too much, as she only shed a drop of sweat from her forehead.
She seemed to know why people praised her existence as a saint.
“Heh, hehe… I’m a little tired…”
“Oh, my God… Thank you! Thank you, saintess!”
“Ahaha, what! It’s something I have to do, of course.”
Thanks to the saintess, the treatment of her injured was completed much faster than expected, and the meeting naturally resumed.
And, during the meeting, the thing that left the deepest impression on me was the information about the leader of the gnomes.
“Still, how much has the situation calmed down given that at least part of the troops succeeded in retreating?”
“Well… I should say I’ve calmed down. As a soldier, I feel very proud of myself, but I think the head of them seems to have let us go on purpose.”
“They let them go on purpose. So, does that mean that their leader is a high-risk monster with more than human intellect?”
“…I don’t know why since it’s the first monster I’ve seen, but it was an extremely cunning and powerful entity. Besides, it only ran away because it was constantly regenerating. Besides, its appearance was so hideous… It was terribly creepy, like a demon that climbed up from hell. “
Lord Fractal, leaning on his subordinate’s shoulder, lowered his head and barely finished his words. There was a hint of deep despair in his voice.
It would be an overly harsh treatment to remind him of the shock of his defeat.
I thought so and decided to end the meeting at this point.
“Hmm… Were there no signs of a chase?”
“That’s right. The guy who kept following me relentlessly stopped tracking me at some point. I’m not sure, but as I retreated, it seemed like I naturally left his territory.”
“You’ve worked hard. If so, the chances of you chasing us here are slim. You look very tired, so you’d better take a break. You and your men. We’ll take the guard.”
“Haha. Thank you, thank you so much…”
So, the meeting was concluded by checking the possibility of tracking.
Although it was already quite late, everyone had to hurry to do their own thing.
So the night in the mountains got deeper and deeper.
* * *
Time well past midnight.
The lodging given to me was a simple, single-person room standard for imperial commanders. It’s been a long time since I stayed in a place like this.
Rather than being uncomfortable, it feels like something that stimulates nostalgia.
Sitting at the head of the bed, I rubbed my chin and lost myself in thought.
Although it is not enough to emphasize it again and again, each knight is more like a humanoid combat weapon equipped with superhuman physical abilities. An army of such knights is the Order of the Knights.
The leader of the knights is the leader who leads such superhumans, and the strong ones who have forged the swords that the vast majority hold in their hearts and created images.
So, if you are a decent knight commander, you can slaughter an ogre on your own. From my point of view, Lord Fractal’s skills weren’t that lacking.
‘What the hell is that monster doing?’
The knights were annihilated as a group, and the leader of the knights, who was called the superman of superhumans, suffered such a sense of helplessness.
If that’s the case, the risk level should be seen as equivalent to that of a fairly common dragon species.
Circumstantial, it was highly likely that the monster was working with the Eclipses. What kind of scheme are these plotting?
“Whoa…”
I let out a deep sigh. A mysterious missing person occurs in a nearby village, and the unit that was supposed to join is severely damaged and defeated.
The weight of the mission was very different from the simple mission that was already expected in the first place. Somehow it feels like things are getting bigger.
I don’t feel very tired, but I want to lie down for a while to raise my physical condition to the peak in preparation for the threat that will come at any time.
-Smart
There was a knock on the door from outside. I opened the door to find someone, and it was Agnes.
“What’s going on at this hour?”
“That, that’s it. I was lying down to sleep, but I heard a very embarrassing sound from the next room…”
She had just washed her hair, her watery azure hair was tied tightly, and she strode into my room, twisting her body around her blushing face.
While I was quite embarrassed, one of her members led her into her room.
“Sounds strange, isn’t your room right next to mine. The room next to it is…”
“That, that’s it. Ahh…”
And, just then.
My keen hearing caught a passionate conversation between a man and a woman that could not be concealed by a few wooden planks.
—Kuh… Hello you dude! What are you doing now… !
—Chewup… Whoa, stupid captain. Are you still pretending not to know? It’s set up so stiff here…’
—Ji, now the guests are here too! You can hear everything Let’s do this later, later… Huh?
—It’s noisy. I almost died today If you don’t intend to make me die of old age as a virgin ghost forever, shut up. Uh huh… !
Oh wow
Apparently, history was being played in the next room. It seems that the Knight Commander and Vice-Captain over there were closer than expected.
Well, it’s not something very incomprehensible. In times of crisis, the desire to breed a species boils over.
“Umm. Captain, this. We can’t lose, can we?”
However, the way Agnes looks at me is not unusual.
…No way?
