Chapter 357 – 4. Offspring of Serpents (15)
Hill thought.
He said people are more devilish than devils.
Even though she was still young, Lee Hill, who was walking after the king without anyone to help her, looked up at the man who was her father.
Father and enemy.
Her mother, greatly weakened while giving birth to her, was barely breathing in the basement, and her father, Jaja, thought of himself only as her tool.
“Huhuhuhu, isn’t it wonderful? Humans are so foolish even when they are in danger of being destroyed once and come to this point where there is a shortage of workers. It’s not enough, it’s a cry”
“…”
It is the father who did not send them to their proper place! Iheel thought, but Iheel couldn’t say anything.
A small scar on her neck, invisible unless you looked closely, indicated her condition.
“Sometimes the internal enemy is more terrifying than the external enemy.
“…”
Hill couldn’t understand.
How can you hate humans so much when you are also human?
“Hey, this father really likes humans.”
Ihil couldn’t agree with his father’s words at all.
How could someone who loves humans do such a thing?
“That’s why this father wants humans to be truly happy.”
Are you saying that the man who speaks of happiness is plotting this behind his back?
“But look. Those people who have no answers.”
Seeing the exaggerated look of his father, Lee Hill shouted inwardly, “Father, you are the most unanswerable human being,” But it was an empty cry that could not come out.
“This father wants to lead humans into the most human beings and what her father likes best. But that wicked woman prevents that.”
“…”
In Lee Hill’s opinion, it was rather her. Her words seemed to lead humans to be the most human and happiest.
It is the only territory that hoped that there was no slum, and that the residents of the territory were the happiest. Even though Crimson Ant swept through, it was only the Baran Territory that had a bigger revival than before.
Of course, it is unstable in many ways due to the sudden growth in the insufficient infrastructure environment, but it was also solved without difficulty.
“Now, so I’m going to help you, daughter. Let’s keep their bond even stronger.”
“…”
Iheel just kept silent, not intentionally, and she focused her mind again.
This hill. She is a queen
She is the queen of a race called humans, born as a species.
In front of her, humanity is such an existence that has no choice but to unite like ants in front of the queen ant.
However, that was limited to humans who recognized her as her true master.
But.
Other than that, she was just a normal human with a normal human body.
They are fragile and fragile, standing on the border between a baby and a child who still desperately need someone’s protection and care.
* * * * * *
It is recorded in history that when the famine was severe and there was nothing to eat, they could not bear to kill and eat their own children. There is a record
Such incidents were happening even now.
Due to the crisis of Crimson Ant, most of the farmland was devastated, farming was destroyed, and the officials who were supposed to manage the administration were corrupt, incompetent, and greedy.
In the case of an empire, a centralized system based on a strong caste system and countless competent middle officials exist under it. And based on the power of the steam engine using magic stones, it was quickly stabilized and reorganized, but most countries were still struggling with the aftermath of the Crimson Ant crisis.
The Gash United Kingdom, which survived with almost no damage, and the Shelton Kingdom, which were recovering the phone relatively quickly with less damage than other kingdoms with the help of Yuria, were in a better situation, but the other kingdoms were not.
Then, when everyone was in a situation where they would starve to death, Grina, a nation of warriors, and Endin, a nation of savages, eventually made an extreme choice.
Just ‘war’.
“What!?”
“That, that’s…”
However, the simultaneous invasion of the Kingdom and the Ent-in Kingdom?
“It’s a big deal. But why did you tell me this fact! I’m not the king of this country, and the Baran Territory is the border guarding the border with the Gash Alliance. Why did you tell me, not the Marquis of that side!”
“There are only two places in the kingdom that have a decent army right now! The capital! And Baran!”
At those words, Count Baran felt his head go blank.
“The capital has already gone out to defend the Kingdom. Count Baran, please stop the Ent-In Kingdom!
Count Baran’s head was dizzy at the messenger’s words.
“What the hell!! What did the Marquis do without being able to organize a single army until now!!”
“Food!! There is not enough food! We are in no position to maintain an army! Right now, the only places in this country that can afford enough food to maintain an army are the capital and the Baran Territory!”
At that, Count Baran sighed as he wrapped his head around his head.
After all, it’s been a few years since the Crimson Ant Crisis, but the food supply is still not going well?
Of course, the desired territory has not yet recovered all of the farmland, but that was because there was a top euro, so the priority was given to other places rather than farmland.
Above all, one of the main reasons was that there was no time to focus on clearing farmland in order to accommodate and control the influx of refugees.
Still, I was slowly working on reclaiming the farmland…
“But here…”
“Everyone in the Shelton Kingdom knows that the relationship between the Gash Kingdom and the Lady is close! In fact, there is no need to protect the border!”
“What about monsters!”
“Recently, I heard that Talos’ research has made considerable progress and a prototype has been released. It seems that they have completed a small Talos that looks like an armor.”
Count Baran’s eyebrows twitched at the messenger’s words.
That, how did they know that?
No matter how much the fact was treated as top secret, it was not reported to the outside world. The two extremely small Talos, which Yuria’s daughter gave her as a gift, did not show their appearance except during test operation and maintenance in case of need. Only thing.
“It’s still literally a prototype! It’s just a research machine for technology demonstration, and there are only two of them!”
The two machines that Yuria made only set the direction for the development of the new Talos. The study was still in progress.
“Please! The Kingdom of Grina. The Kingdom of Ent-In is now in an all-out war with life and death. It is a difficult situation to block one Kingdom with the capital’s capacity.”
“Grunt…”
It was painful in many ways.
Yes, it is true that there is some military leeway in the desired territory, but it was literally ‘to some extent’, and it was not enough to handle any one country as a whole.
It would be difficult to take out almost the entire army of the desired territory, but it might be possible.
But after that?
How much can the main force of the desired territory be preserved in the huge conflict between one territory and one country?
Even in the midst of a campaign to another territory he was not familiar with.
But the messenger was also right.
In any case, it was clear that the Ent-in Kingdom would reach the desired territory one day while trampling on the Shelton Kingdom.
Above all, if the advance reached the capital, the capital blocking the kingdom would have no choice but to withdraw.
If that happens, the Shelton Kingdom is truly over.
“Okay. The Ent-in Kingdom will be blocked in the Baran Territory.”
“Thank you, Count. Your Majesty will never forget this ball.”
With a heavy heart, Count Baran called together his vassals and held an emergency meeting.
While I was trying to come up with an opinion on what to do in this situation, good news came out.
“Count. Just in time, a new mass production type Talos has been completed.”
“Oh?”
A new mass production type of Talosra.
“Are you saying mass production is possible when you say mass production type?”
“It will cost a lot, but it is. But… Uhm. I want the Count to see it for himself and make a decision.”
At that, the Count went with everyone to see the very ‘new’ mass-produced type Talos.
And in the back of the workshop, I could see those who appeared to be test pilots riding horses on a large oval track or doing light sparring with wooden sticks.
“So where is Talos?”
“Those are Talos”
What about the Count? I looked at it carefully again.
I can only see cavalry in heavy armor, but where the hell is Talos…
Meanwhile, the count felt something strange.
The moment I looked closely at the heavy armored cavalry, something came to mind.
No, not only the horse, but also the person riding on it was strange.
“Now, wait. Could it be?”
“We couldn’t achieve the miniaturization of the power source like the young lady, so we thought and thought over how to operate Talos, and as a result, we went in a slightly different direction.”
What I thought was a horse was not a horse.
A closer look revealed that it was something bigger than a war horse or a large pack horse.
A rider on a horse has no legs and his waist is tied to the waist of his horse.
In a sense, it is like a centaur, but unlike those with a human upper body instead of a horse’s neck, the horse’s neck is separate as a neck, and the human upper body rises from the horse’s waist, a new form.
It was Talos, a quadrupedal form.
