Chapter 223 – 10-Nothing Goes as Planned. That’s Why It’s Fun! (16)
After admonishing her foolish saint, she reported to her grandfather.
My grandfather, as the commander-in-chief, was organizing paperwork in the rear tent, and I wrote a simple report on the subjugation and delivered it.
After checking the report meticulously, Grandpa praised me.
“Well done. Thanks to your active efforts, I was able to join His Majesty’s army.”
“No. As the heir to the Shine family, this much is natural.”
When I said this with a sense of humility, Grandpa nodded in satisfaction.
“All that’s left now is to advance to the capital, I thought it would take five weeks even with the shortest route to get here… Tsk!”
“It’s all because of the immature saint.”
We brought in a large army and expected that 20% of the large army would be sacrificed.
The reason why they brought the large army was not to purify the territory of the Kingdom of Zent and save survivors, but to enter the capital of the Kingdom of Zent in the shortest time and kill the culprit.
If only the Necromancers were killed, the undead would collapse on their own, so they could not consume a large amount of articles and supplies against tens of thousands of undead and the Bone Dragon.
In other words, it was considered that this side had less damage.
In a way, it can be said to be cruel, but it is a necessary sacrifice.
It would take a lot of supplies and soldiers to push through the territory step by step with the straight attack method, and if that happens, even the Shine family will suffer a lot of damage.
In particular, in a war like now where you can’t get anything other than honor even if you win, you should reduce the consumption of materials as much as possible.
No matter what you do, it’s just a loss.
However, this basic premise was disrupted by the damn saint.
The saintess who joined us cleansed the territory centering on the paladins and priests and rescued the survivors.
From as little as 10 to as many as 1,000 survivors, their existence itself was a burden, and they had to support her saintess by crying and eating mustard because of her reputation and honor as a great noble.
At first, I tried to refuse support, but eventually approved the support due to the soldiers’ turbulent public sentiment and the subtle pressure from the paladins and priests.
I’ll take this price later, but it was truly humiliating.
If there were no people, he would have killed all the paladins and priests.
“Whoa, thanks to the priest brought by the saintess, the consumption of knights has decreased, but conversely, consumption of soldiers has also decreased, which is a problem. They tried to forcefully revive a soldier who was supposed to die a little while ago.”
“…Doesn’t that bastard know how many sacrifices and medicines are consumed during the war?”
“You wouldn’t know. So, when I was building an additional supply route to the topic stuck here, I must have received their supplies and medicine to treat patients, without knowing the value.”
Thanks to her priests, the death toll of soldiers and knights decreased, but because the saintess and her crazy bitch tried to save all the soldiers, the movement of her front lines slowed down and the consumption of supplies increased.
Due to the shortage of materials, the articles had to be put in to create an additional supply route.
The saintess also gets supplies from the Helios Church on her own, as if she doesn’t like receiving our supplies, but only receives a small amount of medicines and medicinal materials.
Most of the medicines the saintess consumed were brought by us.
“Grandpa, we can’t go on like this. We need to do something special!”
“Umm…!”
At my words, Grandpa drooled.
His grandfather must have been burdened by the money spent on the saint.
Capital, capital, capital! Our Shine family has tremendous capital, but the money the saintess consumes has already exceeded the limit.
More than this is a burden on us too.
But her grandfather was undecided.
Thanks to the priests, the knights raised by spending a lot of money were able to survive.
You could banish the saintess, but you couldn’t keep holding her! I’ve come up with a compromise here.
“Grandpa. It’s the paladins and priests who are overworked because of the saintess. I take it for granted to protect everyone, but priests don’t have anthers in their heads.”
“…Yes, that’s right. The priests brought by the saintess are all high-ranking priests. They are the best priests that only nobles and wealthy people can visit.”
“Will those priests take good care of the saintess who is trying to heal even ordinary soldiers?”
“No, it can’t be. No one likes unpaid labor, and no priest would dare to take off his feet against the commoners like soldiers.”
I grinned.
My grandfather seemed interested, as if he had noticed my intentions.
“Do you think we should exorcise her saint?”
“No, the saintess’ skills are excellent. So we have to take all her real powers and isolate them. Priests and paladins are hired by us with appropriate remuneration.”
“Hmm, to hire them all…”
“A large amount of money will go out again. But this is less of a loss than spending money continuously for the saintess. If we take away the real power of her saintess, her ordinary soldiers can be abandoned.”
“…Okay, let me take care of this. Instead, focus on other things.”
“Huh? I’m relieved if Grandpa takes over, but… Why does Grandpa step forward?”
“Yes, you have another important mission.”
I questioned my grandfather’s words.
It’s more important than the saintess’s job… I can’t figure out what’s going on
As I looked at my grandfather with questioning eyes, he held out a letter to me.
“Read it.”
Charleuk- The letter was opened and the writing was revealed.
The letter stamped with His Majesty’s seal said to send an elite force to attack the capital in advance.
“As expected, elite troops.”
“If it’s our army’s elite troops, just you and Russell would be enough. But that’s what makes our honor cry. Now, nobles from all over the world are rising up and entering the Gent kingdom en masse. We, as a ducal family, must show our best side.”
“I understand. Starting with Russell and myself, I’ll take Rubel, Ruri, and Reisen. Belly is good at making, so keep rolling here.”
Belli said, deciding to leave it there as weapons are constantly being made there.
‘Curse me, I will curse you! It was as if he could hear a bitter cry of “Artaeell!!!”.
Haha, don’t do that. Rather, His Majesty the Emperor said to send the elite.”
“? Yes, you did.”
“Then, wouldn’t the saintess be the elite, no! She’s one of the elite.”
I was taken aback by my grandfather’s words.
Grandpa’s words now meant to take the saintess with him.
“Are you serious? The saintess will definitely not follow you.”
“This is her Imperial Majesty’s order. Unless she wants to die, I will obey.”
“…May resist.”
“You just have to overcome that. I wouldn’t say you can’t.”
“…A reason to take him.”
“If she takes her, she can easily take control of her paladins and her priests. If her saintess leaves as you just said, her real power will be meaningless.”
…
There is not enough justification to reject the saintess here.
“Ha, okay. Let me take you.”
Eventually, when I gave up, my grandfather grinned.
I sighed and came out of my grandfather’s tent.
And I went back to my tent.
“… Huh? What is it?”
It was now detected that someone was outside the tent.
I don’t know how long it’s been there, but if you talk about what happened inside, you can just kill it, so I quickly stopped paying attention.
“Ugh… To take that damn bitch with you!”
He gnashed his teeth as he entered the magic tent spread out by magic.
To think I had to take the saintess… I was already arguing with the saintess, no. Her head throbbed at the prospect of a physical fight.
“Uuuuu!!”
Dive into the bed with my throbbing head, feeling the soft touch, placing Darkness and Claus Solas next to me.
“Hey, man. What do you think we should do with this situation?”
[Impossible. Don’t ask me anything about that bitch! I hate thinkers who embrace incompetent subjects with ideals they cannot handle!]
[Her ideal itself is not bad. However, the problem is that you don’t even know the subject. Not knowing the reality… Tsk!]
Darkness sighed and withdrew his foot, and Clausolas first started with a compliment and finally clicked his tongue as if seeing something pitiful.
“But Darkness, why are you overdoing it?”
When asked about Darkness reacting more sensitively than that, Darkness vibrated his specimen as if getting tired of it.
[In the past, our Demon Realm, to be precise, it happened when I was the Demon King. Right after I reigned as the Demon King, some strange guys appeared]
“Weird guys?”
[Yes, the Pandemonium is a society of thorough ability and power. Thanks to basic laws and protections, even the incompetent and the untalented have a minimum standard of living. But among them, those who were only protected without making any effort began to protest against me]]
“Huh…”
This is getting funnier
I opened my ears and focused on Darkness’s words.
[The trash, who were only protected first, cried out for equality, shouting that a society based on ability and power was discrimination. And they approached me, who had become the demon king at a young age, to force me to agree with their ideas]
“I would have killed them all.”
[That’s right, I killed them all. In particular, the guy who was the leader was a guy who didn’t have any skills, but only talked slickly. Moreover, he was an idiot who thought he could seduce me, the succubus queen, with his looks and speech skills.]
“Foot, to do such a thing against a succubus.”
[It was really funny, and I took it as an insult to myself and tore it all to death. That expression at that time was really thrilling… Well, apart from that, the madman seemed to be obsessed with the idea of equality.]
At Darkness’s words, I giggled.
Demons or humans… The intelligent body was also there.
