Chapter 166 – 1. Talos, and the Spear and Shield (20)
A state of antinomy and contradiction.
Hearing the Sorby Empire’s evaluation of the Galton Kingdom, he thought he should be as careful as possible, but nothing special happened.
Even if I wanted to realize this problem, I would have to meet people to know it, but it was not my intention, but I did not meet the village where people live or the people who come and go throughout the trip.
In a way, it may seem natural.
In order to save time as much as possible, the loa crossed places that people do not usually travel due to monsters and rugged terrain where it is difficult for wagons to travel, so there was no time to really feel what Galton Kingdom was like. .
It was in the midst of avoiding people unintentionally.
Now Nuri and Delis, who felt friendly with the thumping footsteps of Talos, suddenly felt that Talos had stopped.
There is a village where people live far away, no. The city came into sight.
And they could understand to some extent why the Empire called them a nation of antinomy and self-contradiction.
There were train-like weapons and even cannon-like weapons that I had seen in the empire when it was imitated, and even Talos-like weapons when and how I heard about it.
However, all of them seemed too petty.
It was created by a clumsy combination of magic and engineering. Even at first glance, each other’s skills did not properly harmonize, and the skills that were played separately stood out.
It’s to the point where I’m wondering if it’s really going to work that well.
“Aren’t they shameless?”
“…”
It was definitely not the right stuff. There was no way that proper performance would come out compared to the cost of making it that way.
But if you know the direction of development for sure.
Or, if the technology was stolen somehow, the cost could be drastically reduced.
Perhaps, it might show more restrained performance than it looks.
However, even if I follow the theory of imitation, which is not the basis for the foundation, my performance will not fly and the defect rate will be enormous. That could be mass-produced.
But on the other hand, it was the same as strangling one’s own neck.
It’s like missing an opportunity to learn the basics of how to build something like that with that structure.
Maybe they’ll try to steal even that.
With Talos disguised and Loa and Tia remaining inside, Nuri and Delis entered the village to gather information and get fresh ingredients that the group lacked.
There was no strict inspection or anything like that, but Delis slightly frowned at the strange current flowing through the village.
It was good that it was easy to get in, but it didn’t feel good in a different way.
In such a strange atmosphere, Delis sent her eyes to Nuri, and Nuri nodded her head with a slightly serious expression, probably feeling that way too.
It felt like the overall level of security was not good.
It’s not like a slum or a lawless zone at all, but in some sense the quality is worse…
As they roamed the streets, Dellis frowned.
“Were you here?”
Delis wondered where the counterfeits of the products he sold came from, and finally, today, the question was answered.
Similar **Kang or vegetable flakes that are scattered all over the street. And just by looking at it, similarly seasoned beef jerky or seasoned fish poo, etc…
Even though the origin of that knowledge was the knowledge he received from Lady Yuria, it was not easy for him to make it because it was Delis.
As Lady Yuria is the knowledge of another world, not the knowledge of this world, we had to find new crops or materials that could cope with it here, and they were products that were completed through a lot of trial and error.
Even after that, he did not neglect to develop new menus in his own way, not relying only on Agassi’s knowledge.
Of course, in the meantime, I got a lot of help from the advice given by the young lady or the young master, and I was following the menus that I had painstakingly developed.
It’s as if they’re insulting their own products.
Delis, whose anger was rising, looked around at the hand grabbing his shoulder at that moment, and Noori shook his head excitedly with a firm expression.
“…”
Delice, barely calmed down by Nuri’s dissuade, recalled his original purpose.
Yeah, I didn’t come here to be angry with them.
How to get to the small continent
What preparations should be made to work on the small continent?
What kind of place is a kingdom, and so on.
“Once I’ve seen the market, I’ll start by looking for the adventurer’s guild.”
After a while, after seeing the market, Delis sent him to where Talos was, and Nuri, who came to the adventurer’s guild alone, slightly frowned at the atmosphere different from other places.
In a strange atmosphere, whether this is an adventurer’s guild or a mercenary’s guild.
No, comparing this atmosphere to the mercenary guild itself would be an insult to the mercenary guild he knew, and he naturally frowned at the feeling of being like the den of some kind of mercenary guild.
Something cheesy.
From the equipment they used, they were more like mercenaries than adventurers.
Spears, blunt weapons, and miscellaneous equipment.
How did they end up eating them?
There is no law that says that an adventurer must have high-end equipment, but apart from being a high-end equipment, it wasn’t even a proper equipment, and it was equipment that hadn’t even been properly cared for or maintained, let alone its quality.
“I came to seek information about a kingdom and a small continent in relation to future schedules.”
“What is it, a suicide attempter?”
“Gigkick, isn’t this pretty girl?”
Noori frowned again at the giggled and filthy surroundings.
Giggling rather than saying the amount needed for the requested information made Noorie feel even worse about the atmosphere around her.
“What’s so funny about it?”
“Of course it’s not funny, I’m just going to go to the small continent.”
“…”
Shall I win the silver medal…
It was the first time I had heard such blasphemy while doing adventure activities.
I’m going to pursue silver.
Speaking of silver shields, they were those who belonged to the upper ranks among adventurers.
In fact, S-class adventurers who are treated as untouchables are beings that are difficult to see as adventurers and adventurers.
But once Noori calmed down.
Maybe it’s not blasphemy.
“There was information that the necessary items were there.
“It’s a thing. What is that?”
“Your life?”
Nuri’s expression crumpled even more at the receptionist’s giggling attitude, which seemed to be sarcastic at the same time.
“So, what level are you guys mocking me like this?”
“What does it matter what level we are?”
“Why do you want to stir up a fuss?”
Noorie gritted his teeth and endured the attitude of the adventurers who were constantly sarcastic and scratching his nerves.
There are guilds that don’t mediate, but these guys were actually only inducing accidents themselves.
She was in no position to make a mistake.
In this situation where Eun-gong’s life was at stake, she could not be held back if she moved on to being humiliated.
“I thought it would be a Mithril hand because he said I would win the silver plate.”
I don’t call gold and silver plaques ‘something like that’.
The only ones who could make a silver plate were the elite adventurers with mithril plates.
“This is a warning. It is against the rules to ask for information from others.”
“What!?”
As a noorie, it was amazing. So far, their one-sided insults and sarcasm have been silent, but suddenly to themselves?
Besides, asking for information from others…
“What is this? They were silent about blaspheming me, and now they treat this as asking for personal information?”
“Are you challenging the guild’s judgment?”
“Can you appeal an unfair decision according to the rules?”
If he warned himself in a nonsensical way with the rules, he himself countered with the rules.
“The quality of the crime is very bad. You can’t admit your fault and argue against it.”
“What?!”
According to the rules, but not according to the rules.
They were being forced to apply the rules at will.
Do we have to make a counterargument according to the rules and ask for a fair decision even now?
Or is it unfair, but when it is not yet a big sin, should I accept the unfair judgment and end with a fine?
“Kuh…”
No matter how you look at it, this place didn’t seem to work.
Antinomy, self-contradiction, naeronambul.
I never dreamed that I would find out what kind of place this place is like this.
It was also from the adventurer’s guild that I trusted so much.
At that moment, I was startled by a hand that suddenly grabbed my chest.
“What are you a man?”
“This food!?”
The moment she grabbed the collar of the guy who grabbed her chest and harassed her from behind, Nuri gasped and collapsed from the shock of hitting her head.
What is this?
“Right from the guild to the violence.
Noori was shocked at what kind of novel bullshit this was, but realized it again.
What kind of place this was.
They are infinitely generous with themselves and infinitely strict with others.
It was the height of double standards.
“Send them to the dungeon”
“Kuh, kuh…”
What is this…
Dungeon for grabbing by the collar once?
If I had applied the same standards to them as I had to myself, they would have been decapitated.
“Boo, that’s unfair!! They were the first to harass me!”
“Are you drowning in your own faults?”
“What is this…”
“I can’t stand that quality. Instead of repenting for your mistakes, you try to obscure your sins by inviting others in.”
No words came out anymore.
These were the kind of beings that common sense couldn’t work through.
* * * * *
Tia, who had been silently watching her somewhere in the arms of her loa, quietly descended to her seat in her cockpit. Seeing that, Loa wondered if Nuri had returned, but she soon sensed Talos’ power rising, and she noticed something was different.
“Taya, what’s going on?”
“Nuri was caught.”
“What?”
Through her thoughts, Tia began to tell the loa how she should act.
What situation did Nuri find herself in? Where are you? What would be better to do
“Taya, is it really okay to do this?”
“There are already situations that can be resolved in a moderate way. Because this country is such a place.”
Roa sighed and sighed.
“Hang tight to Delis! I’ll charge into the village to save Nuri now.”
“Roagong? What is that?”
“Speak later!”
As the black Talos ran away with a thump and a rough thump, Talos in the Galten Kingdom. No, rather than Talos, the sham aircraft that seemed to be halfway between Titan and Talos came face to face with embarrassment, but there was no way they could be opponents.
It was not plasma, but a thin aura like an extremely refined thread formed only on the tip of the sword, and the slash that was swung did not slow down the advance of Loa even for a second, cutting this clumsy machine into pieces with one sword.
The giant, whose name was made of bronze and iron, was not worth the weight and was cut like a rotten straw, and the canvas didn’t even fit.
To some extent, Tia pointed out the appropriate location, but even without Tia’s help, it was possible because their weapons themselves were defective weapons that could not be expected to hit.
As they slammed their body toward the gate and crossed their defense line, the soldiers of the Galton Kingdom did not know what to do, and they started running without any hindrance.
It was the first time I saw it, but Roa ran on the road so familiarly as if she had lived here, and ran toward the adventurer’s guild she had never been to before.
Nuri, who was being restrained by people inside a building that was smashed and smashed, was looking up at Talos, a loa, with a puzzled look at this sudden sight.
“Come here!”
At that, Noori hurriedly rammed the person on the left. The man on the right was kicked and kicked away from himself, and hurriedly ran toward the hand of Talos, which was extended by the loa.
Roa, who hurriedly accepted Nuri, started running without looking back.
“Now I’m going to run unconditionally without looking at the situation. In a straight line to one kingdom.”
“Loa… How are you here?”
The expression of the loa inside was hidden by Talos, but Nuri somehow felt that the loa was smiling awkwardly.
“Somehow. Thanks to our great daughter.”
“Oops!”
Along with Roa’s voice, a very cute baby sound echoed.
Noorie laughed out loud at that sound, which had no dignity whatsoever.
“Long live the great Thebeno!”
At those words, Tia puffed out her cheeks with a boo, but she didn’t look like she could be seen by Noori anyway.
“I will break through at once before the news of what happened here reaches me.”
“Is the aircraft going to be okay?”
“Tia said that if things were going to turn out like this, we wouldn’t be able to save Yuria anyway.”
At those words, Noorie groaned and swallowed.
To make such words come out of Roa’s mouth, who must be hoping for Yuria’s safe return more than anyone else…
She should have been more patient, but why couldn’t she…
Noori constantly blamed herself for her carelessness.
After a while They had time to maintain the machine for a while at the waterside, took out items from the warehouse in advance, and when the loa climbed on the finished Talos, he stretched out his hand and got on top of it.
“Now I’m really going to run for two days without a break”
“Are you okay?”
“It can’t be helped. We have to get out of this country before we know what happened here.”
Loa looked at Hosea and Joshua.
The two children, who were actually the main power behind the Talos maneuver, seemed quite exhausted.
“I’m sorry, kids, but can you cheer up a little more?”
“Okay…”
“It can’t be helped. I can’t show my weakness in front of Tia.”
Still, seeing the two children putting food into their mouths, Roa became bitter in many ways.
“Then let’s go”
As Talos cockpit closed and Talos stood up, Nuri and Delis put on a nervous look on Talos’ hand, and Talos continued to run through the forest at a slower pace than when he left the city, but even faster than usual.
Now, keep running until you reach your destination.
* * * * *
The count, who had been forced to march with considerable force, groaned as he saw the elderly, children, and free persons reaching their limits.
Will they be able to get away from Crimson Ant even if they maintain their current speed? What will happen if they slow down their march to suit their condition in a dangerous situation?
Circumstances were forcing harsh choices on themselves in many ways.
If Yuria’s deterrence operation had continued as planned, everyone would have been able to evacuate safely…
Standing next to the earl, Karna looked at him with worried eyes.
Although it was not a marriage based solely on her pure love, as she saw the count who sincerely loved her people, she gradually came to adore him, and her admiration gradually turned into her lover.
It didn’t take long for his admiration for him to turn to affection.
The Black Wolf Mercenary Corps, not just Karman, had long since been influenced by Count Baran, who sincerely cared for the people, and she was following him to the point that the horse had already become an employee and had become almost half of his privates, so she was sincerely worried about his pity.
Of course, that didn’t mean he would give up his life for the people of the territory.
That’s why Karna was even more worried.
She could have risked her life for the count if she were alone, but she couldn’t do anything on her own.
She is just a woman passing the end of her youth with excellent administrative skills.
More than anything, she couldn’t let herself die easily anymore.
I’m not sure yet, but the thing that was supposed to come every month hadn’t come yet.
It may have stopped because of the stress and excessive marching in the extreme situation of her evacuation route, but no matter how mainstream administrative work she is, she herself is a mercenary.
Even though she was belatedly transferred and planted in her greenhouse as the count’s wife, she herself was a woman like a wild grass that grew up in a harsh environment.
She didn’t think that just this much would cut her moon.
Even for the sake of the Count, she herself should not have died yet.
Now that the future of her county might be in her own belly, her own life was no longer her own.
If something miracle didn’t happen, the Count would have no choice but to make a painful decision.
Even so, even if he made a decision with heart-rending agony, it was a virtually impossible choice for the count to give up even the children, who were virtually the future of this territory, not even the elderly.
Even though Cashew Winn, who happened to be caught up in Yuria’s repayment of the light, in the current situation, she was just washing her hands and had no way to use her hands for something of her own.
Even to run away. Even to look away.
While everyone was worried, the weaker and weaker reached their limit, and the Chimera Ent also got closer and closer.
The time for the cruel choice approached mercilessly.
