Chapter 109 – 109. Subjugation of New Monsters (2)
Once Cecilia’s problem was resolved, the campaign continued smoothly.
Eun-hyeon, who was entrusted with Cecilia’s escort for various reasons, was talking to Cecilia in a carriage with many people on board.
“Erin has really brightened up recently.”
“Okay.”
“Because in the past I was very depressed and always seemed intimidated… Now, my grades are at the top of the list, and it can be said that I no longer care about the opinions of other students.”
“It’s grades… Does he study well?”
“Oh, no… The only ones showing high grades are the practical tests in swordsmanship and magic. The field of writing, such as history or culture, is a little…”
“Little?”
“Sorry. Honestly, I don’t like it very much.”
When Eun-hyeon asked with a stare back, Cecilia tried to defend Erin somehow, but ended up telling her story.
It’s actually the same as defending yourself that you’re not good enough.
In the field of history and cultured etiquette of the nobility, they are at a disastrous level because they can’t wait for the bottom.
It was an unapproachable field for Erin, who was originally a commoner and was not born with the knowledge of an aristocrat, so even from Cecilia’s point of view, her grades were not something that could be changed.
As the conversation that seemed like a meeting with her parents suddenly continued, Cecilia continued her conversation while breaking into a cold sweat at a man much younger than her.
“Hmm, that’s right.”
“That… Is it only?”
“Is there anything else I should say?”
“No, nothing like that… So what should I do to get my grades up? Why can’t my kid do this? It can’t be anything but this. I knew you would say something like that.”
Eunhyun smiled at Cecilia’s attitude, as if she was really paying attention to her parents.
“I am nothing of that child. There is no reason for me to tell him to do this or that.”
Eun-hyeon was Erin’s guardian, but she is not Erin’s parent.
There was nothing related to her by blood, and she had no reason or intention to let Erin shoulder the duty or responsibility of supporting her grace in order to repay the grace she had raised over time.
“But she is teaching the boy sword and magic… Isn’t that you?”
“That’s because he wanted it. She just made this choice, to do what she could for herself and her own brother.”
“…”
Cecilia looked at Eun-hyeon with her face that she couldn’t understand.
The existence of Eun-hyeon, who saved, fed, put her to sleep, and supported her growth without expecting anything in return, was a mysterious existence to Cecilia.
If something happened to Erin’s condition, she must report it immediately, considering the very concerned school principal’s instructions, Eun-hyeon, the man in front of her, must have done something.
She knew that she had some kind of relationship with the school principal of Aether, where she had been assigned as a professor, and that she was quite friendly with Rio de Olivion, the head of Bonartia.
Even when she first met him about Elvin’s business, she remembered him showing an unusual figure with sharp eyes, and stared at Eun-hyeon.
What the hell are you doing?
While staring at Eun-hyeon like that, the carriage that was running along the road came to a stop.
“I’ll take a break and go.”
Perhaps because the road to go was not short, there was a need to give the horses pulling a wagon loaded with a large number of people and supplies a regular break.
When the carriage in the front stopped, the carriages in the back row followed one after another.
Hearing the cry of the driver who was driving the wagon, several adventurers including Eunhyeon and Cecilia who were riding in the same wagon got off the wagon to get some fresh air.
“Also… You also took part in this expedition.”
At the familiar voice, Eun-hyeon turns her head and confirms the owner of the voice.
“See you again. Lady Gong.”
When Eun-hyeon gave a casual greeting with a sad expression, Eleanor’s eyebrows furrowed at his unsatisfactory reaction.
“What is that unpleasant reaction?”
“Ah, you bastard!”
One of the two armored knights standing behind her points a finger at Eun-hyeon and starts grinding his teeth.
“Uh… The driver must have been…”
“I’ve never forgotten the humiliation I suffered from you! Take my duel right now…”
“Leno, stop it.”
“Go, princess! But this one!”
“You know everything about the situation. Misunderstandings have now been resolved, and there is no hostile relationship. Insert the sword.”
After the case of Baron Hersha was resolved, the misunderstanding about Eun-hyeon was already able to build a cooperative relationship after talking with the people of the duke’s family, but apart from that, he endured his feelings that made him go through a bitter experience. It was hard work.
“Nice… Ugh! All right…”
Previously, during the Baron Hersha case, it was a bitter memory of defeat and an indelible shame for Leno, who had once competed with Eun-hyeon in an abandoned warehouse.
Despite holding a sword, unable to hold back his anger, and fighting an unfair fight as a knight, the experience of being subdued by Eun-hyeon with his bare hands was a disgrace as a knight.
“Ah, I… I was sorry back then.”
“Don’t apologize!”
Leno, who had been broken by Eun-hyeon from the first meeting with her, could not hide her resentment despite the orders of her own master, Eleanor.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t understand his feelings, but Eun-hyeon looked embarrassed and couldn’t say anything.
“Someday, someday, I will definitely repay the disgrace I received from you.”
“Haha, I see.”
Without even trying to hide his resentment, Leno’s expression as he glared at Eun-hyeon and gnashed his teeth was already like that of a ferocious beast.
Seeing his expression like that, Eun-hyeon smiled bitterly, but nodded his head without showing any reaction.
Perhaps, if this was not Artia’s expedition, and it was a private place rather than a public one, he would have suddenly started fighting Eunhyeon, just like he did at the abandoned warehouse.
“Whoa, sorry. Someone on our side was rude.”
“No. If you think back on those memories… It can’t be helped.”
“Sheesh.”
Even with his master by his side, the knight named Leno didn’t hide his discomfort, averted his gaze and clicked his tongue.
“Leno.”
“… Sorry. I have committed disrespect.”
When Eleanor frowned and scolded her own escort knight, she forced herself to bow her head to Eun-hyeon while Leno put on a look that didn’t please her.
“Yes. It’s okay.”
Eunhyeon also smiled bitterly and accepted his apology, then moved her gaze back to Eleanor.
“I never thought that the duchy would send her princess as support. Even if you are a priest, this expedition will be quite dangerous.”
“I didn’t even think about choosing a risky and non-risky expedition and applying for it. Besides, this request was definitely a request made to me by the Temple of Vesta.”
Prior to this expedition, Eunhyeon was aware that Riod had supplemented the manpower of priests appropriate to the size of the expedition by requesting that a number of priests be dispatched to the Temple of Vesta in Pernin, the capital city.
But he hadn’t even heard that Eleanor was included in it.
“… Were the priests of the Temple of Vesta so understaffed? To the point where he directly asked the princess to participate in the expedition?”
“… Perhaps what you said to me earlier applies to that side.”
Seeing Eleanor muttering with an expression of disapproval, Eunhyeon nodded her head as if she understood.
It is said that this expedition will be a very dangerous expedition.
And he realized that choosing a dangerous and non-dangerous expedition was true for the priests of the Temple of Vesta.
“What level are the priests dispatched from the temple?”
“There is one new recruit who took off his position as an apprentice priest this year, two low-level priests, and at least one intermediate priest like me.”
Excluding Eleanor, there were a total of four priests dispatched.
“The temple side has already heard the rumors and withdrew their feet.”
The current size of the expedition corps, including knights, soldiers, and adventurers, is about 150 people.
At least, the minimum number of priests is about 10 to 12 to the point where you have to think of it as the Maginot line, but it is not enough to dispatch four people, so the level of priests is also very low.
Like Eleanor, the two adventurer priests who did not belong to the temple also only knew how to use simple recovery magic, but their abilities as priests were not that great.
Since the job itself was so rare, it was one of the dilemmas that even the priest, an inexperienced and inexperienced adventurer, had to accept from Riod’s point of view.
Eunhyeon realized that this situation was a situation in which middle and high-ranking priests of temples with a reputation or a certain level of skill had obtained prior information that this expedition was a very serious matter, and everyone had stepped out.
Only the inexperienced priests of the idiots were put in, and at least they met the assortment of Riod’s requests for support.
Even Eleanor’s teeth are split against the behavior of the temple, where she sent an official letter to Eleanor, a daughter of an aristocratic family in this country and also famous as a priest, saying, “It’s your country’s business, so you must participate.”
‘Is Agnes unaware of this?’
Like Riod, one of the great heroes who ended her great war, and now recognized as the Archbishop of the Temple of Vesta in recognition of her achievements, there was no way she would neglect Riod’s request for support in this way.
“I don’t think so.”
“Yes?”
“I say no. After responding in this way and completing this expedition safely, it is obvious that the temple side will demand a considerable amount of compensation in return for dispatching the priests of the temple in response to the request for support.”
“That… That’s right…”
As the issue was an issue, Riod, who had no place to supplement the manpower of the priests, would have had no choice but to send this expedition out while feeling frustrated.
‘Even in a situation like this, there are trash everywhere that try to take advantage of themselves while terribly taking care of themselves.’
It seems that Riod couldn’t help it, but Eunhyeon didn’t want to let this situation pass.
‘Goddess. Are you reading my thoughts?’
[Of course. Let the child do whatever he wants.]
After receiving Belldandi’s permission, Eunhyun nodded slightly and looked at Eleanor.
Sensing his gaze, Eleanor looked at Eun-hyeon and frowned.
It was because he realized through numerous experiences that he was clearly having bad thoughts.
“Princess, it’s annoying to be treated like this, but why don’t we feed the temple that screwed up on this expedition?”
“… ?”
Although his tone was very vulgar, it was an undeniable fact that Eun-hyeon’s proposal aroused interest.
Even with a very suspicious expression, Eleanor listened to Eunhyun’s words.
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While moving in a wagon, the signal of battle broke out too suddenly.
“Eh, it’s a demon! The Witchbeast has appeared!”
At the same time as the cry of the knight driving the wagon was heard, the lion’s roar of Leo resounded throughout the entire wagon in the middle of the wagon.
“Everyone! Prepare for battle!”
As soon as Riod’s lion’s roar exploded, the expedition members acted swiftly.
Each of them took their own weapons and jumped out of the wagon, but soon recognized the enemies who appeared in the forest, and made a blank expression for a moment.
“What, what! That!”
Although the legs and face are obviously human bodies, the arms attached to both arms are not human.
The huge arms with green skin and thick muscular forearms attached to a human body are definitely a ‘deformed’ creature that has never been seen before.
Even the arms attached to both sides were not one pair, so a total of three pairs of six huge orc arms were attached to it, a bizarre shape.
A being with a deformed body structure that can’t even understand how it can handle that enormous amount of weight.
In addition, the lower body is that of a giant spider with five pairs of legs attached to each other, but the upper body of a woman with nothing on and her breasts exposed. Was in a state
In addition to this, synthetic monsters and chimeras, which have deformed structures that combine monsters and humans in various forms, begin to appear one by one.
“Ooh, ooh… !”
Cecilia, who saw her hideous face, hurriedly covered her mouth.
“Uweak!”
She eventually began pouring gastric juices up her throat onto her floor.
Not only her, but many other people frowned and averted their eyes, forcibly held back their stomachaches, and saw the beasts of beings they had never seen before, and the aversion and fear of ‘unknown beings’ clearly lowered the morale of the expedition. Are dropping
In the meantime, in order to overcome this situation, the best knight in the kingdom kicked the ground as hard as he could with magic in his legs.
Cooong!
When Leod’s feet hit the ground with tremendous leg strength and magical power, the ground shook, the trees in the forest vibrated, and countless leaves began to fall.
“Do not be afraid of the unknown!”
The body of the expedition members is thrilled by the lion’s cry of tremendous power and their bodies begin to shake.
“I am the best knight in Pernias! The leader of Artia, Riod Olivion!”
He drew his sword and pointed it at the demons, continuing to speak.
“I swear on my name that I will bring back all the members of this expedition without a single death!”
The reaction of the chimeras, who did not attack and stared at the expedition members, was also very strange.
It seems that he is unable to move, as if he was overwhelmed by Leo’s intimidation.
“So fight! Fear not! Never die! I will be the first to go ahead of you!”
As if responding to the gigantic lion’s roar, the enormous amount of mana condensed in Riod’s sword began to glow.
Liod gripped the sword with both hands and raised it upwards.
The storm of magical power that runs around him begins to be absorbed into the sword, and as time passes, Riod’s sword, which has accumulated tremendous magical power, makes the atmosphere around him tingle.
The Witchbeast and the members of the Expedition Corps, all beings, were not allowed to move in the heavy air weighed down by magic, and stared blankly at Riod.
Soon after, Riod struck the sword, and the moment when the sword energy contained in the sword was released.
[Olivion swordsmanship]
[Cleave Taesan]
A huge light emanates from Riod as the center and begins to devour the monsters in front.
