Vol 3 Chapter 6 (2/2)
The Fire Dragon Lord: “That is a big weight off my shoulders”
The De: “To the wise and noble Khans who have been present at this Conference fro, Ruby Eyes, sincerely offer you ise for my irresponsible leave of absence from this job, and also my thanks and appreciation for the wise actions undertaken by the Khans in my stead I have heard very ht, has confirmed the incredible aptitude of the khans in the ards to the decisions made by the Khans, I do not find any errors nor lapses in your judgehly mature and experienced decisions
“The Silver Tiger Lord, the Baron of Steel, the Queen of Fairies, the Khan of the Gate, the Witch-Queen of Banshees, the Chieftain of the Tattooed, and the Cyclops I thank you deeply I would like to especially thank the Fire Dragon Lord for consolidating and presiding over the Conference You have all done a splendid job”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Please, do not be so humble”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “It was the bare minimum of our duties”
The Cyclops: “It is… better… for the De to rule”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Hahaha Once you say it like that, all the troubles, stressing, and discomforts I’ve had with the position have melted away”
The Queen of Fairies: “Yes”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “May I ask how are your wounds?”
The Chief Maid: “Allow es re is now capable of a normal diet Her Majesty will require further treatment, which we expect will continue for a month She will not be able to take to the battlefield, but I do not believe this will interfere with her daily duties”
The De: “It is as she says”
The Chief Maid bows
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Then there’s almost no problem at all”
The Baron of Steel: “Mmm”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Your Majesty, this Council has now served its purpose Shall I return the full authority back to you?”
The Deotten er in scale and we cannot afford the time lapse between decisions on each of the matters”
The Queen of Fairies: “Do you speak of the Demons of the Pale?”
The De: “In order to resolve this crisis, this Council will require its authority”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “…Mmm”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Your Majesty How should we react to the invasion of the Human World by the Demons of the Pale?”
The Deht Hmm… Khan of the Gate You are familiar with both the Huhly experienced on military matters in both Worlds Please tell me, what do you think about the present situation?”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Hmm”
Aide-de-Camp: “Come on”
The East Fortress Base Co to what I’ve heard, there remains approximately 160,000 Demons of the Pale in their home territory To put it bluntly, they have been discarded… or so it would appear”
The Baron of Steel: “How pitiful They do not even know that they have been discarded”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Indeed”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Hmm”
The Queen of Fairies: “Our intelligence units which have been active on an extremely covert basis have reported that it appears that most of the food has been appropriated by the old and military supplies were also taken from the population”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “The Deold in the Demon World”
The Queen of Fairies: “The intelligence units were not able to ascertain why this has taken place”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Next, we must consider the military movement of the Deet tied down, they intended to take the first strike
“At present, it would be difficult for theainst the combined armies of the entire Demon World… Well, the existence of the Hero also forces theoals appear to have been to kill the De, and then purge the Khans so that they can rule the Demon World as a tyrannical dictatorshi+p
“However, we should also consider that there could have been coalitions for to deal with the De and the Tribe of Automatons could join forces and propel the Demon World into a massive bipolar battle There are many other possible scenarios but in the end, it would likely grind down into a large stalemate and a war of attrition
“At this Conference, we have made many decisions, but we have not yet considered ould do if we had lost On the other hand, it appears that the De any of theirit”
The Baron of Steel: “So, they attack the Human World…”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “That is correct They attack the Human World If you think about the results, it is not such a bad plan Of course, that is what the Demons of the Pale think as well I’ve heard this as rumours from above but it seems that the rapid speed of the invasion by the Demons of the Pale has resulted in the capitulation of a country known as the Kingdoht”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “An entire Kingdom?”
The Queen of Fairies: “Did they bring that much poith them?”
The East Fortress Base Cododo failed battles with their surrounding countries and as a result were seriously lacking in ht This country had thethe Demons of the Pale first Their City could not even resist them for a day
“The results are that the Deh in the Surface World The Surface World is very different frodo with the Central Continent To put it differently, right now, they do not want to be fighting the Deap, they took down the weakest country and established a foothold
“In different circumstances, if the Humans all combined their powers to deal with them, it may be possible to rapidly defeat the Demons of the Pale However, it is e of the ith the Demons of the Pale to attack their own fellow Humans”
The Hero: “…”
The De: “…”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “That is what I feel about the present situation Having thought about it, it appears that the De their territory in the Surface World They’ve throay their lands in the Demon World and did not leave themselves a route for retreat When they do return to the Deed considerably and the gap in our nificantly reduced as well”
The Hero: “An accurate analysis”
The De we have to consider is collusion”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Collusion?”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “What do you mean?”
The East Fortress Base Co inforht had just launched a failed assault on its neighbours and had not at all recovered The decentralisation of the Kingdoroups of nobledoer able to control large parts of their country and had become a failed state
“And amidst all of this, they were attacked It was the perfect secret attack Where did a Tribe of Dee of the Human World? The fact that they had estimated that they would only require 20,000 soldiers and could further travel at such speedthe strength of the country as well as its terrain and weather”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “You are saying that there are Hu for the Demons of the Pale?”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Yes”
The De: “Well, there are informants no matter where you are I’ out what happens in the Huer scale, such as rendering reinforceht”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “The war on the Surface…”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Hmm”
The De to reliable sources, the probability seedoht itself”
The Queen of Fairies: “What do you mean?”
The Deht be a situation where the Kingdoinally intended to collaborate with the Dee but ended up being attacked by surprise”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Hdoht?”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Yeah They are”
The De to happen to anyone, but in a way, it hat they had co for them, and there’s also a problem with it Namely, now that the Deht, they have no friends in the Surface World”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Hmm”
The De: “What I’m really scared of is a different possibility To simplify the war in the Human World, it’s basically a war between the South and the Central Continent The latter may have contracted the Demons of the Pale”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “What is the reason they are at war?”
The Hero: “It wasn’t really a war at first However, the Southern United Kingdoainst the De safely behind the lines profiting from it In order to protect the Central Continent, the idoms shed a lot of blood This conflict of interests soon deepened”
The De: “However, the real reason why they are at ith each other, ree in on various matters
“The countries of the Central Continent want an all-out ith the Demon World However, in order to achieve this, they will need to manipulate or otherwise supress the countries of the South, which are near to the Portal To begin with, the Central Continent has always had a lot of pride, and even without this war, they would have sought to bring the South under their sway one way or another However, due to econorew in power until they were eventually able to break free from the reins of the Central Continent
“At present, there are two ical points of contention Firstly, the South believes in the emancipation of the serfs whereas the Central Continent recognises and promotes serfdom The South seeks a ceasefire with the Dee an all-out war against us, or at the very least, launch ainst us”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “How troublesome”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “It’s even more complicated once the lid has been lifted”
The De: “This is the same in any world Where there are many people, there are bound to be differences There’s no way they could all be thinking the same way”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “But thatpoint for the Human World”
The De: “That is correct”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “It was the Hu that not all Hu to plunder the wealth of the Demon World?”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “This is definitely not about wealth Well, this matter is a result of the immense power of the Church”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “The Church, as in the people who run the temples?”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Yes The Church in the Surface World is a far anisation than the Clan of Temples in the De Countries, in other words, people, cannot escape frorasp of the Church The issue is that the Human World believes in only one God”
The Cyclops: “One?!”
The Hero: “Yeah, one The Spirit of Light”
The De: “—The Maiden of Fire”
The East Fortress Base Cos like, ‘The Demons are evil! Kill them all!’ They have witnessed the power of the Dee anierous If these elements are exposed to the Huer violence”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Des!”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “I can understand this, but do you think the people in the Surface World will be able to tell the difference? They just think that you are all evil and savage barbarians
“With the gate fully open, there could be a flood ofthat the Church has been telling them… the vast majority of the people in the Surface World, none of who about the Demon World, are incredibly terrified That is the truth”
The Chieftain of the Tattoeed: “Hmm…”
The Deression of the Demons of the Pale, we can expect that there will be a permanent effect on the relations between the Human and Demon World”
The Baron of Steel: “So the Huain?”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “…”
The De the De we should be worried about, but it’s only one possible conclusion The real issue at hand is that the people living in the Human World will only have their fears confir”
The Silver Tiger Lord growls
The Baron of Steel: “…”
The Queen of Fairies: “That is troublesome”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Yeah”
The De: “I understand that not all the Khans present here support the co-existence proposal However, I would like you to consider it There are torlds, one on the surface and one underground There is a chance that the Human World does not have the military power that we do However, there is also a chance that we are equal or that they are stronger than we are Is that correct? There is no reason to decide that they are weaker than we are That is the only thing which I can say definitively as the De on for at least a hundred years”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “What you are trying to say is that you have a plan to avoid this all-out war?”
The De: “I do not have a concrete plan”
The Queen of Fairies: “So you don’t…”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “…”
The De: “The central issue is that we are too different Whether it be our complexions or our shapes, our lifestyles, the Gods we believe in, the foods we eat Our manners of dress, our societal rules, the respect we pay to the rituals we do It would be incredible if we did not go to war If we let things follow their natural course, ould definitely be at war right now”
The Baron of Steel: “…”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “…”
The De: “However, I feel that if we can avoid a war then we definitely should It’s not because I aht, weto put in the effort to ensure our victory — But is that ant? My Khans I feel that there is so else which we can do”
The Hero: “Silver Tiger Lord”
The Chief Maid: “?”
The Hero: “Don’t you have so to say? It’s better if you do This is a Conference after all”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “—Hmm Then let me say it My people are a people of war… We do not have any reservations against a ith the Hu a war even if it lasts a hundred years Whether it lasts a hundred years or even a thousand years, they are all the salorious war
“However, it see blown by the Demons of the Pale Is it possible that in the current situation… we are being deceived by the Pale into starting a ith the Humans?”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Hmm, you could say that”
The Baron of Steel: “…Mmm”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “The Tribe of the Fang believes that the order of battle should have us going to ith the Demons of the Pale first”
The Queen of Fairies: “But that would necessitate invading the Human World”
The Baron of Steel: “Wouldn’t that unnecessarily make the situation even worse?”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “No, this is a truly brave decision! We the Tribe of the Gate are fully in support of the Great Tiger General It is as he says, we ht the Pale first A wise decision! Great General!”
Aide-de-Camp: “Great General?!”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Ohh! You are calling me by that title as well!”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Do you intend to start a hundred-year ith the Humans?!”
The Cyclops: “Humans… are scary…”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “But this is a roup of traitors who are pillaging the Human World In that case, why should we hold back?”
The Deons, what is your take on this issue?”
The Fire Dragon Lord exhales
The Witch-Queen of Banshees nods
The Fire Dragon Lord: “We will support the decision of the De”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Standing up to injustice Using this reasoning, we may be able to cross into the Human World If we are unable to communicate this to them, then perhaps Hureement Then ill inevitably be drawn to war”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Witch-Queen! Dragon Lord!”
The De, the situation will get worse with every passing second Do we have any other options apart froer Lord?”
The Baron of Steel: “…We have no choice”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Your Majesty! Do you mean?!”
The De: “Khans, you are about to witness the first Imperial Demon Expedition”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “And it will also be your first personally-commanded war”
The De to very distant lands, we cannot coer Lord”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Yes!”
The Deht thousand elite soldiers and follow ht”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Haha!”
The De: “Baron of Steel”
The Baron of Steel: “Yes”
The Denment but I am confident of your ability to do it You are to enter the old lands of the Deold mines, ore mines, and workshops You are also to secure the population and adovernershi+p of all the natural resources of the old lands of the Demons of the Pale to the Tribe of Automatons It is a historical fact that the Tribe of Automatons have been discriminated and oppressed due to their different shape The pain that you have experienced is not understandable by the other Tribes You will hence be the only Tribe which is capable of understanding the pain of the civilians who have been abandoned by their Khan and their Army”
The Baron of Steel: “Understood I will do my best”
The De: “Cylcops, Witch-Queen, Chieftain”
The Cyclops nods
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Yes”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Yes”
The Dereatly respect the decisions which have beenvitality to the Deths of your three Tribes Whether the world will be thrown into war, or ushered into a new era of peace, ill require roads and new lands Please combine your powers to develop our World”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Yes, as you wish”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Understood”
The Cyclops: “…Leave it to us”
The Deon Lord”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “I understand”
The Deether While I ae”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “I will uphold this promise until my old bones are broken into dust”
The Dee I fully understand that the City of the Gate has a shortage of able soldiers Take as many soldiers as you like and you will command them as my General of the Left I will require your expertise and experience”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Understood You can entrust me with this”
The Queen of Fairies: “Umm… What about us?” Smiles
The De: “Queen of Fairies”
The Queen of Fairies: “Yes!”
The De: “You will be the cornerstone of this expedition”
The Queen of Fairies: “What do you mean?”
The De: “We will march to attack the Tribe of the Pale For this reason, we h the Hudoms of the Human World If ere to march into those lands fully equipped for ithout explanation, it would definitely lead to all-out ith the Humans”
The Queen of Fairies: “Yes…”
The Dedoms of the Human World to seek their permission”
———— The Holy Eht under the Cathedral
Footsteps echoing in the tunnels
Disciple Bard: “…How nice”
Elder Sister Maid: “Yes”
Footsteps echoing
Disciple Bard: “This smell is…”
Elder Sister Maid: “That’s the smell of very old vellum”
Disciple Bard: “It looks like people don’t come here very often”
Elder Sister Maid: “We should be thankful for that”
Footsteps
Disciple Bard: “…”
Elder Sister Maid: “…”
Disciple Bard: “Alright Should we open it?”
Elder Sister Maid nods
Door screeches…
Disciple Bard: “That door is in need of so It almost made my heart stop”
Elder Sister Maid: “Yeah”
Disciple Bard: “Which one is it?”
Elder Sister Maid: “It’s probably further down”
Footsteps echoing
Disciple Bard: “This is the repository”
Elder Sister Maid: “Yeah”
Disciple Bard: “What should we do?”
Elder Sister Maid: “Eh?”
Disciple Bard: “We’ve cos on the Holy Relic But is there anything else you would like to look for?”
Elder Sister Maid: “Then, the story from before?”
Disciple Bard: “About the Five Spirit Families?”
Elder Sister Maid: “I’ more detailed in here”
Disciple Bard: “Hmm Got it”
Elder Sister Maid: “I’ll put the light over here”
Clank
Disciple Bard: “We’ve got…”
Elder Sister Maid: “Six hours till sunrise”
Disciple Bard: “That’s not a lot of time”
Elder Sister Maid: “Yeah”
Flipping pages
Disciple Bard: (This girl… She’s probably really special She has a certain conviction in her step I’m probably the sa the path of irl chosen?)
The Legend of the Orb
A girl was born a brilliantly on her forehead The infinite charity of this intelligent girl shone towards every existence in this world
A boy was born on the ground The holy child of a woe the world of the black evil it had become corrupted with
Their young love was te, and the promise they made burned in their chests
They wished for wings So they could be borne on the winds as they soared through the air
As they grew, the two young ones who so loved the divine birds hid a treasure within their chest for the blood of hureat sin to the Spirits This sin was— The hope for wings within their soul To lock up time for their own purposes
A shattered Orb fell onto the black world The children who sought atone black sheep and beca been cursed and condeht to destroy the evil world
What fell was the body What died was life
However, with the tragic shattering of the Orb, the world was split and fractured The Spirits were noar, and the cooperation between the Five Houses disappeared, peace was lost forever As they warred with each other, the flaed across the lands and they sank deeper into the abyss of destruction
It was the girl ished to save the World The intelligent girl, born airl made a choice, and the choice was the world She parted froments of the Orb which remained; and so as to protect the lives of everybody in this world, her body turned into the purest of light
Under her hands, which protected all life, she became our benevolent Lord
———- The Holy Empire, in an Ancient Repository of Texts
Disciple Bard: “This is…?”
Elder Sister Maid: “Yeah”
Disciple Bard: “But what a sad story Even though they illing to go through so ether, the world would be destroyed”
Elder Sister Maid: “…”
Disciple Bard: “I suppose such a legend is normal in such chaotic ti man who destroyed the world would be victimised forever…”
Elder Sister Maid: “Really?”
Disciple Bard: “Eh?”
Elder Sister Maid: “Just to break up a youngwo to sever ties and destroy each other? Do you think that could be possible?”
Disciple Bard: “I’end after all”
Elder Sister Maid: “To begin with, there is only one Spirit At least the Spirit which the Church talks about is only one person”
Disciple Bard: “Well, that Flaht…”
Rues
Elder Sister Maid: “Ah”
Disciple Bard: “This was in the same scroll tube?”
Elder Sister Maid: “It’s an ancient document? A contract?”
Disciple Bard: “This is… a drawing of a temple”
Elder Sister Maid: “Probably the blueprints The portal between… The Fourth, ‘Amber Flame’, and the Primarch?”
Gushi+ng sound
Disciple Bard: “Hey”
Elder Sister Maid: “Blue… water?!”
Disciple Bard: “Ahhh, but I’ wet What is this?!”
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Explanation
Orb: In the Middle Ages, the orb was a symbol of authority for old or other precious stones and metals They would be used to decorate crowns and diadeends, it is often depicted as an itereat Demonic power as well
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Elder Sister Maid: “I don’t know either!”
Gushi+ng sound
Disciple Bard: (Ahh It’s all blue… Like I’)
Gushi+ng sound
Disciple Bard: “Golden sands… The waves cometh…”
Elder Sister Maid: (…What is with this light?)
Disciple Bard: “Elder Sister Maid, give me your hand”
Elder Sister Maid: “Eh? Yes”
Clink
—————- In a Dreaht
The Spirit of Light: “…”
The Mage: “…”
The Spirit of Light: “……”
The Mage: “…You finally called”
The Spirit of Light: “…”
The Mage: “…I have my hands And my feet… My whole body It is as the Hero said This is the Dream of the Spirit”
The Spirit of Light: “…ro”
The Mage: “…What?”
The Spirit of Light: “…Hero”
The Mage: “Wrong”
The Spirit of Light: “…Hero… Save”
The Mage: “…”
The Spirit of Light: “…Hero… The World…”
The Mage: “…”
The Spirit of Light: “…Hero…This”
The Mage: “I’ve had enough of this”
The Spirit of Light: “…Hero”
The Mage: “Shut the hell up!”
Magic blazes
The Spirit of Light: “…He… He… He…”
The Mage: “What’s with that depressed voice and that incessant crying! Are you just trying to take advantage of the Hero’s kindness, you vixen! Do you think he’s your tool? Do you kno much