Chapter 530 – 530. Prelude to Change (2)
She followed Eleanor back to her house and it was only after she finished dinner that Erin was able to hear her details.
“At the Mograf change… A request for assistance has arrived.”
“Uh… ? A request for support? No way… ?”
Erin hardened her face as she recalled the demonic beast flooding her previous frontier.
The Borderlands of Mograf, which defends the forefront of the border, was once a territory full of regrets where many people died due to a great threat.
-The undead… Spawned.
With the recent news of the fall of the kingdom of Rendir, Erin knows the story of those who are the culprits.
She has never met the existence of the necromancer, so she only heard the news, but the man named Ray Nann, who she became an accomplice with, is different.
It is a very heavy story for Erin that the heroes who stood shoulder to shoulder with them, such as Eunhyeon, Riod, and Gerard, have now turned into the worst enemy that threatens the continent.
“The incident happened about a month ago. Considering the distance between the Mograf region and our Armitas region, maybe… As soon as the incident occurred, he must have sent a messenger to our territory and the royal family.”
The outline of the case is as follows.
The guard post workers, who went out from the outskirts of the castle to check whether there were any dangers, hurriedly abandoned the post and retreated, displaying a warning signal.
During the search operation, the soldiers who encountered something in the forest immediately grabbed their weapons and took a vigilant posture.
A large number of people emerged from the forest.
However, the behavior was very subtle.
There was no strength as if the muscles of the whole body were relaxed, and the body, which was rotten and filled with a rotten smell, swaying from side to side, was a lump of incongruity that could only be described as grotesque.
Even if they had experience of encountering witches, the soldiers who had only heard of the word ‘undead’ but had never experienced it were extremely rare to encounter a group of walking corpses and fell into a panic.
The soldiers on guard duty in the search team totaled about 10 people.
On the other hand, there was an unreasonable difference in the number of rotting corpse zombies, exceeding hundreds.
Although intelligence was non-existent, whereas the soldiers were armed.
As they engaged in combat by stabbing and slashing zombies with their swords, the wounds increased one by one, and eventually the soldiers retreated.
The soldiers who ran to support and carry the injured comrades immediately returned to the Mograf frontier and explained the situation.
But that’s when the real confusion began.
Soldiers who were injured by the zombie attacks all infected them and turned into undead and started attacking soldiers inside the frontier at random, and the attacked soldiers turned into undead and attacked other soldiers in a vicious cycle. It started.
In the end, the priests of the Temple of Vesta for the frontier purify the soldiers who had turned into undead, but it was inevitable that they would lead to great losses.
A fatal yet very rudimentary mistake made by the experience of never encountering the undead and the result of panic and loss of cool judgment.
“That… Really…”
Erin couldn’t find the right words to say, so she had to hold back her words.
She had only heard about the existence of the undead and how to deal with it, but she had never met her in person.
Is it such a bizarre and terrible existence that you fall into a panic?
What kind of things are these beings that give you goosebumps just by facing them?
Just imagining it made me feel sick to my stomach and the things I ate for dinner seemed to come up.
She herself had seen a lot of cruel sights while going through many lines of death, and she also had the experience of doing those cruel things, but just imagining the undead made her feel very bad.
“The current situation in the Mograf region is… Does Erin know too?”
Although the frontier of Mograf suffered a rapid decline at the cost of many sacrifices, it was not much different from maintaining and carrying out the important mission of ‘guarding the border’ through the financial support of the royal family and the Duchy of Armitas.
Aside from food shortages and housing problems, what has become most serious after the Demonic Beast Flood is the manpower shortage.
Erin, aware of that fact, nodded his head.
“Yes. I heard from Eira that some of the Knights of Artia are currently being dispatched to Mograf.”
And, of course, some of the Knights of Artia also included Eira.
Before Erin Eira went on her mission, she privately recalled her words she had had a conversation with herself.
-Currently, the frontier is maintaining the border protection mission through the support of the royal family and our family, but… It’s honestly not a good situation.
In the past situation where the monsters overflowed and caused the stampede, the dungeon that was forcibly run rampant by demons was the culprit, and the culprit was eliminated.
No one knows when something like that will happen again.
There were not as many residents as expected to migrate to the frontier territory with such uneasy elements.
Even if you recommend emigration by emphasizing the advantages of receiving many benefits, it is because your life is more important than those benefits.
It was a natural principle that everyone in the country knew that the farther forward, the more dangerous, and the closer to the center, the safer.
Rather, it was a very troublesome problem on the part of the royal family as it could buy a lot of opposition if it tried to forcefully relocate the people.
Unstable defense of the border will eventually lead to anxiety that the kingdom’s defense itself may be shaken, which soon becomes a seed of distrust.
It was only natural that it was a very sensitive issue, especially since it was at this time when the distant kingdom of Rendir was about to collapse and the situation on the continent was about to become extremely unstable.
So the way the kingdom came up with was to dispatch trained soldiers and knights to the frontier territories for a certain period of time to support the lack of manpower, solidify the mission of defending the border, and correct this precarious perception.
“That’s right. Some of the Knights of Artia and some of the kingdom’s army are currently out to support the perilous borders of Mograf. But… The reason why this dispatch was decided is a little different from the public facts.”
“That is… Does it have anything to do with the appearance of the undead?”
“Huh. Externally, the purpose is to recruit personnel and restore confidence in border protection, but… The real reason for requesting support is that the undead have started appearing on the border.”
The fact that this was confidential and not known to the outside world was Count Mograf’s decision not to make the people living in the frontier tremble with more anxiety.
In fact, it was the second time that Count Mograf requested support from the royal family, following the flooding of demon beasts.
In the flooding of monsters, the mission was completed by defending the border until the adventurers who came to support with the kingdom army came, but the borders that were sacrificed in the process were rapidly deteriorating, and it was judged that they could not solve this situation on their own.
“I don’t know what the other nobles think of Count Mograf, but… At least my older brother and I respect the Count.”
There is no shame in admitting one’s own inadequacies and asking others for favors.
Besides, how can we criticize him for doing his best to protect the border while paying the sacrifices of many troops under his command during the flooding of demon beasts?
Although it was a very disgraceful thing for his family to not fulfill the duty of protecting the border this time with the power of his own family alone, Count Mo Graf.
His judgment, not wanting to sacrifice any more soldiers, was very reasonable.
“The Mograf Margin must never collapse.”
The importance of that place was well known to both Eleanor and Erin.
In the first place, Eun-hyeon’s plan included a plan to renovate the barriers of the Mograf border area through the recruitment of dwarves to increase the defensive power.
Both personally and politically, Eleanor expressed her desire to help the Mograf Margin, and of course, after consulting with Eun-hyeon, his permission was easily dropped.
It was because Eunhyun also sympathized with Eleanor’s thoughts under a reasonable judgment.
However, Erin, who had heard and understood the whole story, had a strange expression on her face as there was something she did not understand.
“So… Are you going to let me go?”
“Huh.”
“But… What difference does it make if I go alone?”
Erin was well aware of the level of her powers as she was an adventurer now, but of course she didn’t think it would solve all her problems.
Even though she was the youngest gold adventurer and had numerous careers, it was only because Erin had more special experiences than others and had special powers, so she was strong, but she knew well that she was not good at it. .
No matter how strong she is, her world is still wide, and there are heroes and strongmen stronger than herself around her, but it’s funny that she can’t grasp her subject.
Eleanor smiled bitterly and shook her head.
“Of course, there is no way that I or that person would send Erin alone.”
“Uh. Then, by any chance, do the knights of Armitas accompany you?”
“No. This time, the knights of our family are not going.”
“… And what?”
“There is someone right now who is perfect for dealing with the undead. He decided he would come forward.”
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“A million twenty-one, a million twenty-two, a million twenty-three…”
“…”
Erin follows Eleanor down into her house’s basement training grounds, she looks puzzled and is at a loss for words.
It was the same with Eleanor.
It was because someone with the appearance of a young girl of about 14 with blonde hair was doing push-ups with only one hand.
No matter how small the body and weight are, the fact that she does such deformed training with the appearance of a young girl is beyond surprising and absurd.
“Oh my god… I can do that… ?”
How on earth could such a slender arm come out with the amazing strength to lift the whole body with ease?
It was an unimaginable training method outside of common sense in Erin’s head.
“Don’t ask me…”
As for this part, Eleanor also averted her gaze, perhaps giving up understanding.
She spared her words as if she harbored a complex and subtle feeling about that person being her senior.
She let out a small sigh and then moved closer and told her to do her bizarre drill.
“Anes. We are here.”
“Twenty million… Ok? Ah.”
Anies, who was lifting the slender body of the girl with only one hand, found Eleanor and Erin sweating, and soon put her feet on the floor and finished training.
“… Are you training like that on a regular basis?”
“Well, yes. This is what your husband ordered me to do 20 years ago?”
“…”
Agnes’s calm response to Eleanor’s question was enough to make both women’s faces harden at the same time.
Feeling really curious, Erin asked Agnes, who had never properly spoken.
“That… Really those push-ups… Did you do it a million times?”
“What? Are you crazy? How do you do that I just added ‘million’. It would be really hard to fill this with my bare body 30 times without strengthening it with divine power.”
Agnes made a sad face.
Anies had officiated at Illyana and Eleanor’s official wedding ceremony with Eunhyeon, but this was the first time Erin had ever had a conversation like this while living nearby.
But she feels oddly familiar with Erin, maybe it’s because she’s a victim of training by someone she and Agies have in common.
Erin asked the question again, with a look on her face that really didn’t make sense.
“Then… Why do you add the number ‘million’?”
“I don’t know. Ask her husband They say it’s just a difference in ’emotion’.”
“…”
“She thought she was crazy when she first ordered this. She said that it was an ‘Enerizer training method’ and she said some bullshit, but at that time she was stronger than the real guy, so I trained with the mindset that I would give him a shot. But recently we met and fought again, so it’s not right because it’s faster. This swindler is for real.”
Agnes grumbled, ‘Until the day I put a punch in his face someday.’ He was gnashing his teeth as if he was going to die in annoyance.
“Ah, but sometimes I go and if I don’t do this, I feel empty again, so I often do it when I’m warming up.”
The strongest priest, no different from a specialist in the field of fighting the undead, was something very rough and closer to the body type than himself.
“By the way. Does that mean it’s time to leave now?”
“… Yes. I wish you well.”
Eleanor gave a small wry smile and bowed her head.
Agies, who listens to Eun-hyeon’s request without any hesitation even though he is gossiping about Eun-hyeon, is still Eun-hyeon’s friend and colleague.
“Under. Good. It’s a request from our successor and friend, so of course you have to do it. Let’s go To save the poor dead.”
