Chapter 158 – 1. Talos, and the Spear and the Shield (12)
Click click…
The sound of all kinds of animals and the sound of wheels resonated throughout the village.
Many people were joining the evacuation procession in confusion with anxious expressions, and the soldiers were guiding and controlling them, but the anxiety in the faces of the people did not subside easily.
Seeing these people, the count made a bitter expression.
I couldn’t delay any longer, so I started to evacuate, but I still hadn’t received a call from the capital, so I couldn’t lead my troops.
If he did something wrong, he could be accused of treason and the entire territory could be annihilated.
However, the fortunate thing was that he was able to sign an exclusive contract with the entire Black Wolf Mercenary Corps through his lover Karna, which Yuria had made for her.
Although they were already treated as semi-regular troops within the territory, they were clearly employed and were sufficient for citizens to escort them on their way to the capital.
Of course, as the number of citizens leaving for refuge is a large number, it was a little overwhelming for them alone, but it would be better than not having it at all.
“…Whoa”
What will be the future of this estate?
Will I ever be able to come back here again?
As if the anxiety of the people of the territory was contagious to himself, the Count was shaken in his heart… And sighed.
He had to come to his senses.
When he was shaken, everyone here was shaken, so he always had to stand firm.
So, his body was here, but his heart was in a different place, so he was more shaken by the worries of his adopted daughter, who left with his partner and children to stop the ants for this place.
It really felt like the light was piling up every time, even if I was paying back the light.
I still shudder when I think of how she looked after and believed that the enemy was her son, unaware of what had happened to her precious daughter and how she had died so pitifully.
In order to repay the favor of the child who cleared her daughter’s name and relieved her grudge, she made her her adopted daughter and gave her various gifts, but the light seldom faded.
Even at this moment, the child went to the front to buy time against the Crimson Ants for the people of the territory, and the light in the Count’s heart kept piling up.
Even though in fact, if this job is over, even if he is a child who will escape from his current status and leave for the empire, he could let him go if he wants, unfortunately, but the child was walking into danger by himself, saying that he would repay the favor.
“Please, the child should be safe…”
Around the time the count was distracted by YuRia’s worries, Delis also hurriedly looked around her, puzzled by the invisible YuRia in the procession that she had avoided.
Delis, who was looking where the other lady had gone, appeared holding her child in her arms before she was about to run out to find Yuria, blocking her path.
“Who?”
“You don’t have to worry about Eun-gong”
“What the hell are you talking about, Nuri?”
Nuri smiled strangely as she held the child in Delis’ arms.
“You know. How strong Eun-gong is.”
“That…”
“I think everyone, like you, thinks of Eun-gong as the standard when he is at his worst.”
Noori had seen Yuria in her prime in the past, so she believed in Yuria’s abilities.
Although he may not be as crazy now as he was then, Nuri had a firm belief that even so, he would not be beaten by the insignificant Crimson Ent.
That’s why she didn’t stop Nuri even when Yuria said that she would go to the battlefield with her loa and her children.
Seeing Nuri’s expression like that, Delis could see Nuri’s firm trust in Yuria, so he calmed down and looked at her.
“Above all, if it’s only Roa, you don’t know very well what Eun-gong thinks of their child.”
“Wait… Could it be?”
“Yes. Eun-gong took Hosea, Joshua, and even Tia to the battlefield. Just looking at it, can’t you tell that this battlefield is no threat to Eun-gong?”
At that, Dellis thought he was crazy, but he thought for a moment whether it was really not dangerous at all.
“Ha, but…”
“Above all, Duke Eun said that if the Talos of the Gash Kingdom is at the level of a conscripted serf, then his own Talos is a regular knight-level spec.”
“What?”
According to Nuri, Eun-gong had touched her own Talos.
But when?
I’ve been watching Eun-Gong so far, but I haven’t seen him remodeling the Talos that was built in the workshop.
Maybe from the beginning?
Noori laughed at the ever-changing expression of Delis. When Delis, who was irritated by Nuri, made an angry expression, Noori hurriedly waved both hands and began to explain to Delis.
“That’s right, the one in the workshop was a copy.”
“What?!”
“Eungong said that while grumbling. There is no problem in making the same as what already exists. There is no problem in modifying and modifying what has already been made.
At those words, Delis stared blankly at Nuri.
Wait, then please…
“Yes, as soon as Eun-gong received the gift, he immediately made a copy and started remodeling the original. In addition, he invested the pages of the magic books he had collected while looking for Loa.”
At that, Delis could only stare blankly at her husband.
How did this guy know that he wasn’t even aware of it?
“Well, should I say the difference in the deadline?”
Delis put on an expression of amazement at Nuri, who shrugged her shoulders as if she thought she had won. No, there is no other place to be proud of.
Hey, he squeezed and slapped Nuri’s back with the palm of his hand, and he enjoyed it!? And a scream broke out.
“Oh, really, this image”
Aww, seeing Nuri rubbing her tingling back with effort as she tried to turn her arm behind her back, Delis let out a sigh.
If the lady took the loa ball.
No, even if you die when you die, if you want to die together, you can take Roa-gong with you even if you die.
But even so, it was clear that there was an absolute certainty that the place would not be dangerous if the children had been with them.
I knew very well how the young lady felt about her own children.
As much as she was in pain herself. As much as she suffered, as much as she was a do-it-yourself girl that never happened to her own children, her feelings for her children were almost morbid.
“But your confidence is often betrayed…”
“…”
Nuri hesitated for a moment, but shrugged her shoulders.
“If something happens to Eun-gong, I can be sure that it will not be because of the Crimson Ant. And if such a being appears, we will rather be in the way.”
“…You seem to have guessed to some extent the ability of Talos, which Ngong and Ngong worked on.”
Noori picks up a stone from the floor, lightly raises an aura and plants it, and it’s easy! And broke it down.
“To a Titan riding a loa, Crimson Ant is like the stone I just held in my hand.”
He knew that Nuri was strong to some extent, but because he hadn’t had a chance to see that strength properly, Delis stared blankly at Nuri at his appearance from a moment ago.
I think there are so many surprises for Nuri today, and now that I think about it, Nuri is a B-class adventurer. It wasn’t even to the extent of putting an A-class in sight, but it reminded me again that the A-class was the highest-ranking adventurer in the near future.
“Does Delis think I’ll be in danger no matter how many small dogs that aren’t fierce dogs, the size of puppies, run at me in droves?”
Delis thought for a moment about Norie’s words, but it didn’t look like it.
I don’t know how hard the stone is, but no matter how many small puppies there are, no matter how many small puppies there are, no matter how hard I think they will be a threat to Noori, they will not be a threat to Noori. Did.
Living together in the house every day, I often forget about it, but enjoy a semi-gold plate level silver plate adventurer.
It reminded me again that the reason Eun-gong was able to empty the house with peace of mind was because he trusted Nuri.
“Is that so, for Eun-Gong or for Talos that he created, Crimson Ant is no better than the puppy in front of Nuri?”
“It’s literally just an ant. If you step on it, you’ll die in droves.”
* * *
The metal subspace carriage stood out even from a distance.
Numerous wagons gathered around such a subspace wagon, putting in items that were not needed right now, and getting the items needed immediately on the evacuation route.
So nobody knew.
Taking advantage of the confusion, a black shadow crept in between them.
Buzz buzz…
Citizens full of anxiety here and there tried to relieve their anxiety by talking about this and that among themselves, but instead, such stories only grew more and more anxious.
Nevertheless, the reason why order can be controlled to this extent is that the count, at least for a time, made a mistake as his son, but it showed how wonderfully the count had been ruling the estate.
As if this amount of anxiety was not enough to destroy the trust and loyalty to the Count, the more anxious they were, the more they moved in an orderly manner under the control of the soldiers, and the work of quickly organizing goods and organizing the evacuation procession was steadily prepared even in the midst of chaos. Started to become
If you already want to leave right now, you’re a little unprepared, but enough to leave right away.
Black wolf mercenaries from here and there helped maintain the public order, admiring the orderly appearance of the people of the territory, but could not hide their bitter heart.
Will the count of Baran be able to maintain his power even after leaving this territory?
How are they now?
If the palace stays silent until the end, what should those soldiers do now?
And on the other hand, I thought that Karna, one of the key executives, was truly lucky to have come here.
As a result, being exclusively hired by a proper aristocrat, Huia, such as Count Baran, rather than an aristocrat who uses them as a throwaway, is literally saving his life at a time like this.
If it hadn’t been for that, I would have been almost half forcibly thrown into the frontlines against that Crimson Ant.
It’s just a matter of luck, when will the blue-haired kid, who is the benefactor who matched the count for Karna, our old maid executive? Vodka? Anyway, he was very worried about the current situation even though he thought he should present a bottle of high-quality distilled liquor made properly.
It might be a bit daunting, but if it were them, it wouldn’t be a big problem to protect even this large number of citizens.
Of course, even at this moment when the whole of humanity is threatened, it would be impossible if they were determined to ruin the count somehow and attacked from all sides, but if that situation came, it would be impossible even if the count’s soldiers left together.
But if the soldiers can’t go together here, what should those soldiers do?
Then, as he saw the soldiers gathering near the subspace wagon, he wondered. I realized what the Count had decided.
A soldier is, after all, an armed person.
The Count seemed to have finally made up his mind.
If soldiers could not be taken as ‘soldiers’, they could be taken as ‘citizens’ rather than soldiers.
He was relieved to see it.
Even though it hasn’t been that long since I came here, I had a lot of affection for the count and the soldiers doing security work together, but they said that they were able to leave together.
It was then.
Just when the soldiers were disarming one by one with a sad expression, a messenger on horseback hurriedly entered the castle gate.
The Count, who read the letter brought by the messenger on the spot, was very colorful and began to command the soldiers in a hurry, and the soldiers also began to rearm again with a smile on their faces.
Just by looking at it, he could tell what had happened.
Permission was finally granted from the capital.
“I’m glad those guys. They’re not unemployed.”
Looking over there, the sub-space warehouse made by the Count’s family is already not enough with rocks and stones large and small, so the work of making it like a small garden by stacking sacks containing soil or sand thickly around it and pouring the gravel, soil and sand on it with great enthusiasm is now It was almost coming to an end.
And finally, the evacuation procession started to depart.
At first glance, it might seem like he was abandoning the people who were still doing some cleanup work in the manor, but this was the right choice.
It was impossible in a short time to evacuate all these large numbers.
Even if they started to evacuate from now on, the evacuation procession would not stop even after the people who were still working on the evacuation in the territory finished all their work.
It meant that the Count did not leave first to abandon them.
Most of all, the Count did not tremble with anxiety that the evacuation procession departed before them, as they had decided to join the latter.
For as long as the Count was with them, he could be sure that he was not abandoned.
Watching the refugees depart, the black wolves exchanged glances and nodded.
We were already talking to each other.
The evacuation procession will be escorted by the black wolf.
This was in case the messenger from the kingdom arrived late or didn’t come. Fortunately, the messenger wasn’t late, but everyone was ready to move and the arrangements were made just in case, so the black wolf left the evacuation procession first. He began to move with the first escort of the civilians who had started.
And the uninvited guest who quietly hid in the manor taking advantage of the confusion also began to move quietly among the refugees.
* * *
“Where have the little teachers gone?”
In the early days, I wondered if I had come for nothing because I saw a child sitting as a teacher.
I was stunned at the sight of the little ones who had barely taken off their babyhood and were teachers, but that thought soon disappeared.
Are you saying that these children are geniuses?
We don’t know about other magic, but after a new magic system different from the existing magic was created, we learned magic from the twin brothers and sisters who were the first to learn magic.
It is none other than the enormous amount of study.
The little ones who couldn’t figure out how much and how much to teach us started to find the education method that suits us quickly as a day or two passed, and the class that was a headache before I knew it was even fun.
Is that why? Naturally, we recognized those kids as teachers, and felt more like friends than teachers.
Of course, what’s so stupid about those kids when they see us? It was the same eyes.
Seeing as they gather among themselves, it seems that they haven’t met other peers except for each other.
But that attitude didn’t last long.
I’ve seen it a few times
A little girl who is busy with the reformation of Yeongji, the mother of the twin brother and the principal of this academy… No, just getting scolded by the short principal for that matter and listening to the explanation.
After being pointed out that we weren’t lacking, but that their standards were too high, the little teachers didn’t send such a negative gaze.
That was curious.
I thought that something that was out of the standard could be so-so, but people usually do not change their impressions once they have been established.
No matter how wrong it is and how wrong it is.
In fact, it is true that we are terribly lacking compared to the little teacher, so we thought it would end with less expression on the outside, but when we saw it, the little teacher really seemed to have changed his perception.
Perhaps, it was from then.
We also opened our hearts to those little teachers.
So, the Count hurriedly increased the size of the academy, half-forcibly recruited students, and finally the half began to split.
At first, if the number of teachers and students were the same in one classroom, now the education was divided into one teacher per classroom, and due to the insufficient number of teachers, the most basic part was taught by us, who are the most senior, regardless of age. The hectic days continued to the point where there were things, and in the meantime, classes were divided into basic, basic, elementary, middle, and classes, with the difference in level gradually changing according to talent and qualifications.
“Come to think of it, it’s bittersweet. We’re just now in elementary school, but considering that there are already middle school students among our juniors.”
“The dog is a genius. Just like our teachers. Of course, compared to the teachers, he seems a bit inferior.”
At that, we laughed.
“Elementary, middle, and then high school. Did you say college courses after that? Teachers say college elementary courses?”
“Among them, the twins are in high school courses”
Considering that among those gathered here, the so-called geniuses barely reached secondary school after learning for about two years, I thought it was truly amazing that young children who were still playing for a long time were at such a level.
“You don’t have to worry. They’re little, but are the teachers good enough to be beaten by the Crimson Ant?”
Teachers Elza and Liza are members of the Join tribe that fly freely in the sky, and teachers Hosea and Joshua are…
“Well, I can’t wipe out ants, but I don’t have the ability to kill ants.”
But the kids didn’t know.
Even though it wasn’t with individual power, the children gathered their strength and their father was helping to blow the ants away.
That he was moving forward far in advance and slowing the advance of the ants as much as possible.
“But what about the newly built new towns?”
“I heard that ants just ignore people or other creatures to eat.”
“In other words, if this work is done safely, you will come back and use it as it is?”
Come to think of it, it was. There was no reason for the ants to waste their energy and break something they couldn’t eat.
We were walking and talking to each other like that.
“Hi?”
A suspicious-looking person spoke to the children.
