Chapter 20 (1/2)

Chapter 20

Translator: SilverUnedited

「assault on Diento’s lord」 Part 1

The Diento territory is ruled by the feudal lord, in the fortress that was roughly at the territory’s center, one reat speed While the castle’s interior was very quiet, the sound of the alarlass s

The double-doors of the feudal lord’s bedroom was luxuriously old

Two sentries stood guard as the night witch and monitored for any suspicious individuals

The panickedon it, but no one could blame the sentries for this

Theof the feudal lord’s bedroom door was Cyrus Dorman, Consul of Diento

“Triton-sa matter that I have to inform you about!!”

His usually pale and stoic face was slightly red and had nervous sweat striking down it tonight

“Cyrus, why are you here at such an hour? Open it”

Since the voice was muffled by the door, Triton doubtfully called to the speaker before ordering one of the maids inside the room to open the door

Only the word “Rudeness” was heard as the man made his way inside the room

Triton rose froown so that he could meet Cyrus at the door

“Triton-sama, the people in the room……”

While s out his white lancing at Cyrus the two obliged and left the room

“What is this urgent business you spoke of?”

“Fires have broken out in the city──”

When Triton heard that he grih in disappointment

While e into his bedroom for such a trivial matter, consul Cyrus continued to speak

“A fire spread to theour “storehouse”!”

“What!!!!”

The startled Triton forcibly stood up and angrily approached the consul

“The delivery date for the Eastern Leburan E in! What happened to the products that were being kept in the “storehouse”!?”

“That’s, the guards say that so before the fire broke out……”

“What’d they say!? The guards were supposed to stop intruders!! What on earth were those fools doing!!!”

The er

“The front door was suddenly bolted shut, they could only hear screa were covered to prevent any blind spots, the only possibility is that there was a traitor within──”

“fuck!! Send some of the castle soldiers out to uished immediately! Even if the top burned, the basement was made of stone so it wouldn’t be easy to burn!!

“It wouldn’t look good to have the castle soldiers only appear there though…… If you do not dispatch them in the other three locations──”

“Don’t bring that up now; dispatch them in mass!!!”

In response to Cyrus’s protest, the veins on Triton’s head bulged as he yelled Panicked by the threatening atmosphere, Cyrus tripped over himself ashe quickly left the room to carry out the orders

In order to quench his throat after raving so rabbed a pitcher of water next to his bed and started to gulp it down

“……Fortunately the delivery date had been postponed Worst case ill simply have to deliver e have on hand to eastern Lebrun as a reimbursement for their order……”

Speaking those words in disgust, marquis Triton rubbed his forehead to suppress the headache he got fro up the later correspondence

Arc POV

Many s above Diento from the bank of the Rydell river, and I watched as they clouded the night sky

Strange──, the kidnappers’ base was in the red-light district close to the east gate I’d understand if the fire spread in that area, but ere there soup around the city?

“Ariane-dono, did your collaborators set the city on fire?

It’s possible thatthis as a cover for the rescue operationHowever, with an unpleasant expression she denied the accusation

“I don’t know Only Danka and I should have been in the city Those fires were caused by so else In any case, it’s an unexpected event that perfectly covers our infiltration We can also take advantage of this confusion to infiltrate the castle as well

It didn’t seeood opportunity like she said With fires sprouting up in so many places, a lot of people uish them

No, if the underground organization I was connected to was threatened, the first thing I would do is dispatch my troops With the castle’s lowered security, noould be the best time to search it

“Well, the nuuards will be insufficient if the soldiers fro we take this opportunity to slip inside the lord’s castle……”

That ave a fearless laugh, before she laid her sight on the earnest expression sporting Danka

“Danka, could you keep an eye on the kids If I’o upstreaht?”

“That’s about right At the the upper reach of the river, there is a fulcrum with the Riburuto river I ait for you there

“Please do Arc, start re collars”

“Yes”

While Ariane encouraged the elven girls to stand in front of her, I approached one of them and slowly placed hten her

“【Anti-curse】”

When the ic formation for sound as last ti off

Although the other girls were surprised, they came over to be with looks of expectation

Nodding, I use 【Anti-curse】on each of the girls and destroy the re collars After each of the collars were destroyed, the girls offered ratitude

“He really is capable of curse reic……”

Danka also quietly voiced his surprise

“Let’s quickly head to the feudal lord’s castle!”

I feel a gentle tap on the shoulder of my armor, as she vehemently yelled and stared in the direction of Diento’s lord’s castle That was the signal to transfer to the castle

When I give a small nod, Ponta as around o

I first【Dimensional step】 The sound of the alarm bells became louder after we moved closer to the city

Since the the south side of the wall faced the river there were no ho that there were no witnesses to as happening

Since it was so late at night, there weren’t uards on top of the outer wall either, only a few sentries were sparsely place along the wall

In a matter of seconds, I used 【Dimensional step】to transfer to the top of the outer wall and then to the inner wall that was visible from there

Unlike the the outer wall, that separates the wilderness from the city, there were no sentries placed on the inner wall Was the purpose of this wall to defend the city in case of siege warfare?

Still, to be safe I crouch down and observable the situation in town through one of gaps in the wall’s railing

S froin?The four fires one off simultaneously as it would be iiven the ti

After concealing her dark elf body with her gray cloak, Ariane glared atthat I transfer to the next location

Since her lilac skin was covered by her cloak that olden eyes could be seen froalactic express Though the body on the inside is a dynah……

I look at the raised castle of the feudal lord that stood at the center fro The castle, which was direat distance away froe shadow, and the outskirts of the building were sed by darkness

Ariane was still glaring atout at the city without a propose It seemed that I won’t be able to merely transfer near the castle

I first thought that the feudal lord’s castle was built with a ic, but really it was just a ic doesn’t seem to be usable in utter darkness

Since the castle’s roof was illuht I set the transfer location there and invoke 【Dimensional Step】without a hitch

The city was built atop a hill and the castle was placed at the highest point of the city; there was nothing obscuring the view of the area up here It was a great vieould like to experience this view during the day if possible

Ariane was surprised e suddenly transferred to the roof, and she late out a sain her balance

“Ya! Hey don’t suddenly transfer to the roof without warning?!If you’re going to move to an unstable foothold say so before hand”

“Ah, I did so foolish”

Ponta, suddenly rowl in protest of ize Since Ponta settled the rapes when this is over

As expected, ere able to watch all the activity of the castle fro aware of us