Vol 7 Chapter 21 (1/2)

Chapter 21

Translator: Silver Editor: Namorax

「Great Elder Meeting」

The man looked to be in his forties and had a caled, blonde hair was rather long and braided into a complex style and he wore tasteful jewelry around his neck and other locations on his body

At first glance, he seenified person……

He was the third generation chieftain, Brian Boyd Evangeline Maple

The noise settled down after he spoke up

Dylan bowed to hi the other members of the council

“Thank you all for relenting tohere today Chief Brian, thank you for sparing your extremely valuable time to speak with me”

Looking at Dylan’s lowered head, Brian chuckled and said:

“Well, in this case I think it’s a good opportunity forand asked everyone to attend Proceed as you wish”

Brian’s words caused a few of the elders to stare at him in surprise

If I wasn’t mistaken, Brian seemed rather interested in the story Dylan had to tell

Before the un, the chieftain had already unbalanced things

Dylan took a look around the rooave him a small smile

“Before we begin the latest discussion, allow e Arc-kun”

Some people had a dubious expression when they heard Dylan’s statement

I took a step forward and placed my hands on my helmet

Ponta let out a groan and moved down to my shoulder before I removed my helmet

“My name is Arc Raratoia A pleasure to make your acquaintance”

I bowed after my simple self-introduction

Ponta moved from my shoulder to , but nobody paid any attention to that a scene

“I’ve never seen a fellow like this before”

“A brethren with red eyes, black hair and brown skin?”

“Though his ears are those of an elf, he’s built like a dark-elf”

“The differences are greater than I thought……”

The ten elders set forward in their seats and voiced their impression of me

Some had known of my existence before my arrival, while others were utterly surprised by my appearance and others still doubted that I was an elf

While various excla about, Dylan continued his explanation

“He, irl of the People of the Mountains and Plains, accompanied me on my trip to Rouen Forest Frodom Nozan and proceeded to help one of the country’s royals”

Several people seemed confused by the contents of Dylan’s story and stared down at him

“Tostory short, when the royal family requested their assistance they relented under certain conditions, and successfully helped the human nation”

As he talked Dylan reached into his breast pocket, took out a piece of paper, opened it and placed it on the table

“This is a sidom, which is located here And this is Rouen forest, were Doranto village is located”

Dylan began explaining the reat elders raised an eyebrow

“What’s the relation between the s a bit more”

However, when the elder felt Brain’s gaze on the back of his head, he folded his ar more

“Thank you Although everyone is aware that we dispatched a relief force to aid Doranto after the

y suffered large casualties, does anyone knohat caused said dae in the first place?”

Dylan paused for a moment and waited for a response, but no one spoke up so he went ahead with his story

“Initially it was believed that a powerful monster had attacked Doranto…… but in actuality, the culprit was a man-made unit of undead”。

The reat elders were surprised by what he said

“Artificial undead!? They were created by human hands!?”

“That’s ridiculous!! Does the technology to create undead even exist!?”

“Wait, wait! How can you be sure that humans created them?”

Once the surprised outburst and doubts had settled, Dylan continued with his story

“We can be certain that the undead were anization that created theion, revealed that inforathered here now”

The great elders looked at one another and questioned the legitimacy of what he said

“The cardinal had attacked the Nozan Kingdo those artificial undead, but was defeated by Arc-kun and the others I mentioned before I was infors appear to be worse than I anticipated……”

Dylan marked the countries to the north and south of Nozan, Delfuento Kingdodom, on the map and used a pen to place an X over the places their capitals were located

“The Hiruku Theocracy organized an undead ardom’s capital The ar party of that two hundred thousand strong army that attacked Doranto”

Chief Brian let out a large sigh as he listened to Dylan’s story

Judging by his reaction, he’d probably heard everything in advance

However, the eyes of ested the information

The few elders whose reaction was similar to Brian’s must have already heard about the report before and were now seeking confirmation of the facts

I guess they wouldn’t be able to sie that Dylan’s story was a lie when it came time to make the final decision

“assue undead army attacked Doranto? Does that e in the near future?”

Dylan silently nodded at one of the elder’s question

“Additionally, another ardo Doranto is without question, but Nozan Kingdoe from four hundred thousand enemies from the north and south”

Although Dylan pushed forith the story as he pointed out things on the map, one of the Great Elders voiced a question

“I’m a bit confused, I understand that this is a situation where wewe save this human country as well? Why is that?”

A few of the other elders nodded along hat the one elder had said

“Let’s talk about the conditions Arc-kun put in place when he helped the country soo The conditions that Nozan accepted were ‘the emancipation of all elven and beastmen slaves and a severe punishment for any unjust enslavement in the future to be imposed ”

The great elders’ gazes alternated between Dylan’s and my face when they heard that

“A human country would never accept such conditions! Rather, what exactly did he do that could make a country s such conditions!?”

It was unavoidable for them to think so

Dylan had yet to explain that I’d annihilated the army of one hundred thousand undead that had been sent to Nozan

If he brought up such an absurd claim first, any credibility that Dylan had had would have vanished, so he’d deliberately downplayed it till now

“The lord of a vast hureed to those conditions I don’t wish for a country willing to accept those conditions to disappear Two countries have already been destroyed by the Hiruku Theocracy’s undead army These two are the only human leaders that remain If they are crushed, then the future of the elves and beastmen in that area will be lost”

Chief Brain followed after Dylan with an argument of his own

“While that is certainly true, this is also the biggest chance we have to weaken the Hiruku Theocracy’s influence According to the two human rulers, the Hiruku church seemed to be controlled by the Cardinals and the Pope We can shake the Religion at its foundation”

Soreat elders nodded at Brain’s remark

Although one of the elders timidly asked Chief Brian a question

“Ho-However, are were sure that the huuys will io back on their word……”

The elder next to the one that made that comment smiled and tried to refute his opinion

“Shouldn’t a show of force squash any rebellious intent?”

Some of the elders nodded at her remark

Dylan picked up the conversation after that last comment

“Even if we don’t cooperate with the huht with the man-made undead is unavoidable”

Many of the elders asked Dylan to elaborate on what he meant by that comment

“Please think about it for athe undead I don’t know the details of their ic but I understand that it has one required element”

Silence overtook the room as all eyes were directed a Dylan

However, on the opposite side of the room, Brian was the one that finally spoke

“Corpses”

Brian’s one word caused an unpleasant tension to run through the room

Everyone seemed to realize it

The majority of the undead soldiers we’d seen were skeletons equipped with metal armor

Considering the necessary manufacture cost for each of them, it would be one set of armor…… and one skeleton