Vol 4 Chapter 1 (2/2)
The Hero: “Then we should just eat it”
The De too”
The Hero: “That’s the only thing I can ot no choice either”
The De: “…We lose”
The Hero: “…Sorry?”
The De to lose For sure The Demon World will be exterminated”
The Hero: “What are you saying?”
The De: “I have a premonition”
The Hero: “…Whoa, that’s a really dark expression”
The Deht”
The Hero: “What?”
The Deht? Let’s put some on the potatoes so it’ll be sweeter”
The Hero: “Say so earlier!”
Bonk Spreads jam
The De: “…We will lose The Deer And like this, 3,000 years will pass”
The Hero: “That escalated quickly”
The Deo to town”
The Hero: “What?”
The De to town! I can’t take it anyafter all!”
The Hero: “Where to?”
The Deht and proper”
The Hero: “But you don’t knohere”
The Deo somewhere, Hero!”
The Hero: “That was completely unhelpful… Ahh, there’s no choice”
———- The South of the Kingdom of Metal, the Forests
Lieutenant of Metal: “Just up ahead”
Scout: “Yes”
The Iron Fist King: “…Hmph”
Disciple Soldier: “Your Majesty, you appear to be bearing a difficult face”
Lieutenant of Metal: “Indeed”
The Iron Fist King: “…I was born with this face”
Grass rustling
Lieutenant of Metal: “Who goes!”
Herald of the Gate: “I adom of Metal?”
Disciple Soldier: “Yes, we are”
Herald of the Gate: “We are now in contact, please come this way”
Lieutenant of Metal: “…What a lively soldier”
The Iron Fist King: “Hmph”
Lieutenant of Metal: “No, don’t make that face — If you srandfather”
The Iron Fist King: “What?”
Lieutenant of Metal: “Nothing at all”
Herald of the Gate: “We are currently leasing this valley Thank you for the friendshi+p and assistance of the Kingdom of Metal on the battlefield”
The Iron Fist King: “Hmph”
Leaves rustling
Herald of the Gate: “May I introduce the King of the Kingdom of Metal”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Good work”
Disciple Soldier: “Hmm”
Lieutenant of Metal: (A ravitas…)
The East Fortress Base Coht to extend to you, but perhaps we should adjourn to the pavilion”
———- The South of the Kingdo
Flap
Lieutenant of Metal: (Hmm…)
The East Fortress Base Coottento drink”
Warrior of the Fang: “Yes”
Disciple Soldier: “Now, please be at ease We are all military personnel, there are lad to dispense with”
The East Fortress Base Coreat relief I am a brusque and impolite person, and I hope you will be able to pardon inally, I was one of the mercenaries involved in the Second Holy Crusade, but after that, I served for a long tiarrison fortress coe vicissitudes of fate, I have somehow ended up in the Council of the City of the Gate, and I am presently the Khan of one of the Nine Great Tribes of the Demon World: the Tribe of the Gate In this present ith the Demons of the Pale, I serve as the General of the Left”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “I aer Lord The Khan of one of the Nine Great Tribes, the Tribe of the Fang I serve as the General of the Right”
Lieutenant of Metal: (…This guy is really inti)
Disciple Soldier: “I adom of Metal, the Disciple Soldier I served as Deputy Commander in the Battle of the Plains of Scilla With dom of Metal, he is the present leader of the Southern Alliance Today, we represent the Southern Alliance inyou here”
The Iron Fist King nods curtly
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Firstly, ould like to express our gratitude for allowing us to use this venue The Tribe of the Pale are a renegade faction of the De We are grateful for the offer of passage to deal with them”
The East Fortress Base Coed the Hules, in other words, an internal affair”
The Iron Fist King: “…”
Disciple Soldier: “Your Majesty, shouldn’t you say soe this?”
Lieutenant of Metal: “Yes, I believe so”
The Iron Fist King: “…”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “…”
The Iron Fist King: “…I hear the Tribe of the Fang also suffered immense casualties in this war?”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Indeed Many ofwith the sudden reinforcements of hu They fell with honour and valour”
The Iron Fist King: “It ht in the Human World”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “There can be no excuse for defeat or shaht with shame is to dishonour our values”
The Iron Fist King: “…”
Disciple Soldier: (Don’t pick a fight!)
The Silver Tiger Lord: “As we said earlier, the Deraced the Kurultai To hunt thees, we have nothing to be ashamed of”
The Iron Fist King: “…To chase a renegade faction all the way here, how futile”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “We are a Tribe of warriors Noto chase them there”
The Iron Fist King: “We shall see”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “…”
The East Fortress Base Commander: (Uhh…)
Disciple Soldier: (That seems to have ended somehow)
The Iron Fist King: “This forest is thick These are virgin, unspoilt forests Is it not inconvenient?”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “My people live in the ood We thank you for its provision”
Disciple Soldier: “What of food?”
The East Fortress Base Coht much of it with us We have also suppleh you may be assured we did not hunt ”
The Iron Fist King: “I shall arrange for food and wine to be sent”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Thank you”
The Iron Fist King: “Then let us go”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Oh, but you’ve only just come”
Disciple Soldier: “That’s right We can’t waste such an opportunity! Surely we should talk more?”
The Iron Fist King: “We have both lost many comrades There is dodom The military has its military ceremonies”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “…”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “…”
Disciple Soldier: “I…see…”
The East Fortress Base Commander: “Thank you for your concern”
The Iron Fist King: “With regards to our inter-world diplomacy, that will be handled by the Queen of Ice and Snow and her diplomatic corps I have no intention to become best friends with you Demons just yet, and that is a view shared by lass of ith you one day That would be a fine time”
The Silver Tiger Lord nods
The East Fortress Base Commander: “…”
The Iron Fist King: “Let us go”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Warrior, raise your spear to send him off”
Warrior of the Fang: “Yes, my Lord”
The Silver Tiger Lord: “Let us go comfort the spirits of our warriors”
——– The Demon World, the Banks of Phoenix Lake, Temporary Conference Venue
The Cyclops: “Today…firstly…”
The Baron of Steel: “Mmm”
The Cyclops: “We have…ed to…make three…tunnels…”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “The design allows for the securing of five fist-lengths of leeway on the two sides”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Oh! That is a good thing”
The Cyclops: “We the…Tribe of the Giants…paid a very…expensive…”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “As did the engineering crew of the Tribe of Banshees”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “H of roads between the territory of my Tribe and the City of the Gate, and between the City of the Gate and the old territory of the Tribe of the Demons of the Pale”
Aide-de-Camp: “I believe we can raise the capital required for this fro Council of the City of the Gate”
The Cyclops: “…Great”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Mmm”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “We will rely on you then”
The Baron of Steel: “We are also very grateful to you It would be a great help to the administration of the old territory of the Demons of the Pale”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “That’s right How are the re Demons of the Pale?”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Hmm”
The Baron of Steel: “There are istical”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Hmm”
The Baron of Steel: “We are especially concerned about the lack of clothing and food The Army of the Pale seems to have taken these supplies in particular on their expedition”
Aide-de-Camp: “If it’s about food, we can definitely send some of the necessities fro to be enough”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “We have a productive advantage, so we can probably coe amount of food We’ll send so payment in metals We’ll require it for next year”
The Baron of Steel: “I thank you”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “And the other things?”
The Baron of Steel: “Logistically, we are not lacking in e anything on their way out, so the homes and facilities have not been destroyed The ore mines are also completely intact, and we can quickly start to mine from them However…”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “However?”
The Baron of Steel: “On a psychological level, we’ve got soin with, the Deid, and stratified class system The top of the hierarchy is do civilians and labourers for so used to such a society, it is incredibly challenging to direct…”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Don’t tell me there’s violence?!”
The Baron of Steel: “No, there’s no violence, but it’s a very tense situation It seems many of them are completely unable to accept that they have been ‘abandoned’ by their own people There are also elderly labourers and civilians who have adopted an attitude of depression and resignation to the end”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “What…”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “To think it got to that extent”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Mmm…”
The Cyclops: “How troublesome…”
The Baron of Steel: “The populace are used to being threatened eapons in order to be coerced to follow orders and work hard and diligently, but we bear a sacredherself, and we the Tribe of the Automatons could not possibly adopt a similar course of action”
Aide-de-Camp: “Mmm…”
The Baron of Steel: “With such a situation, we’ve got way too much on our hands to deal with”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “But these are not issues that we can resolve overnight”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Hmm”
The Baron of Steel: “Do you have any good ideas?”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “…”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “I fear we must use a mixture of techniques”
The Cyclops: “A…mixture…?”
The Baron of Steel: “What do you mean?”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “This rigid class systeies In other words, because they only consider their own fields and boundaries, their thoughts and ideologies are moulded by their society Itthe thethe far, this will expand their understanding of the other eles and intolerances”
Aide-de-Caood idea What do you think of this? At a specified date, ill buy over everything that they produce”
The Cyclops: “That’s right…we also welcome…their involvement…in the road construction…”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “On a separate note, the De a university when she took up the post Since we’re doing soh as well”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “That sounds like so would want”
Aide-de-Ca anyway? I hope that terrible Khan of ours hasn’t been troubling her too much”
The Cyclops: “I wonder…”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Ahem! About that, I have a report to make to this Committee It’s a report on the movements in the Surface World”
The Baron of Steel: “Let’s hear it It would be great to kno things are going with the Tribe of the Demons of the Pale while we deal with them down here”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Mmm”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Firstly, our pri the expedition of the Tribe of the Pale has succeeded”
Aide-de-Caood!”
The Cyclops: “Good…”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “And during this war, as a result of fighting together with thereement with one of the factions in the Surface World, the Southern Alliance”
Aide-de-Camp: “Southern Alliance…”
The Cyclops: “Who are…the Southern Alliance…?”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Based on our reports, the continent we know of in the Surface World is forroup of 30 or so different countries”
Aide-de-Camp: “A country is similar to a Tribe in the Demon World But your country is limited by where you were born and who you were born to All of this land is controlled by one leader, a King… so like a Khan, but with more powers”
The Cyclops: “So it’s like the Western Giants and the Northern Giants…Separate… but together…”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “The Southern Alliance is an alliance of seven of these countries forroup on the continent”
Aide-de-Caressed to that extent)
The Baron of Steel: “And we have formed a ceasefire with them?”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Hmm”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “However, the Central Continent and the Holy Church of Light see their third conquest of the Demon World, we must be very careful of that…”
Aide-de-Caht, we still have much to fear of from the Human World)
The Cyclops: “The Central Continent…The Holy Church of Light?”
Aide-de-Caanisations in the Surface World”
The Baron of Steel: “How strong are they?”
Aide-de-Caths of 20 countries Until this Southern Alliance was set up, they ithout parallel in strength In some ways, they’re similar to the Kurultai It was they that launched the Second…in other words, the attack of the City of the Gate by the Humans led by a force known as the Holy Crusaders It’s a bit hard to explain without writing it down”
Scribble scribble
Aide-de-Camp: “Hmm… Mmm…”
Scribble
Aide-de-Camp: “…”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “What are you writing?”
Aide-de-Camp: “Umm, this is a more detailed analysis of the battle with the numbers in Firstly, the Holy Crusaders I talked about earlier These are soldiers mustered from the Central Continent under the banner of the Holy Church, and have already been ht…”
The Baron of Steel: “The country that the Demons of the Pale invaded?”
Aide-de-Cado to make it their own territory”
The Baron of Steel: “Is that so that happens often in the Human World?”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “Seizing other Tribes’ territories”
Aide-de-Ca, but it’s definitely not unheard of But the real issue is what effect this will have on their grand designs The Kingdoreat Polar Sea Our Khan feels that the Crusaders ht in order to seize that port Their strength is roughly 20,000 strong, and is set to increase… It seems their objective is to throw their entire army behind an attack on the Demon World Twenty thousand is many times more than the previous invasion force”
The Cyclops: “…The Hu”
The Baron of Steel: “So all this talk of ceasefire that the De came up orthless”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “The Hu to attack us after all, at least we have solved the issue with the Demons of the Pale”
Aide-de-Ca kingdododododom of Red Horses They may be just seven countries, but they hold vital resources and are powerful countries in their own rights Had we not entered a ceasefire with the”
The Cyclops: “…Is that so”
The Baron of Steel: “Hmm”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “No, there’s even more Had these seven Tribes not stood with us, not only would the attacking force increase, their army would be able to mobilise entirely without fear of attack from behind Because of the ceasefire between the Southern Alliance and the Demons, these Holy Crusaders now have to be wary of any movements from the Southern Alliance while they attack us With the Silver Tiger Lord and the Khan of the Gate, we have already ed to nullify and tie down 10,000 enemy soldiers”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Very true”
Aide-de-Caood work)
The Cyclops: “But…even so…20,000…”
The Baron of Steel: “What would be the outcome of a war?”
Aide-de-Camp: “I do not know I fear if it was easily settled, the De would not still be out in the field”
The Cyclops: “What should…we do…”
The Baron of Steel: “Hmm”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “What do you think?”
Aide-de-Camp: “I am but a mere Aide-de-Ca a new type of arm known as a musket I will have to find time to explain it more clearly, but it is an extree on these weapons We will need to strengthen our equip, and command systee possible battlegrounds and strengthen our signals and coer decisions would probably have to wait for the De’s return”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “Survey and judge possible battlegrounds?”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “It should be somewhere near the Portal Most of it is wasteland… but it’s on the borders of the Tribe of Dragons, the City of the Gate, the Tribe of the Fiends, and the old territory of the Tribe of the Demons of the Pale”
The Cyclops: “…Surveillance”
The Baron of Steel: “Indeed, we must work to improve our surveillance networks”
The Chieftain of the Tattooed: “While the Queen of Fairies is still on the Surface World, the Fairies will continue to keep up their surveillance The Tribe of the Fiends will assist in communications”
The Witch-Queen of Banshees: “In that case, let us divide up the workload”
The Fire Dragon Lord: “Hmm, ill soon know if our efforts are to bear fruit”
————— The Cliffs near the Plains of Scilla
Resourceful Young Man: “Hey, hey, coh!”
Disciple nobleman: “Hoho, splendid”
Mercenary Survivor: “Delicious”
Resourceful Young Man: “Hehe!”
Disciple nobleht, open the chains You’ve redeemed yourself”
Mercenary Survivor: “Hahaha”
Resourceful Young Man: “Heh! I’ve shown you, haven’t I?”
Disciple nobleh”
Mercenary Survivor: “It’s great, isn’t it He’s bought you warood food to eat”
Resourceful Young Man: “It’s an appropriate reward!”
Disciple nobleive it back”
Resourceful Young Man: “I’ll hold you to that”
Disciple nobleood for your hohteous, I think you should be grateful for that”
Resourceful Young Man: “I… am”
Disciple nobleood, but it’s about to become troublesome”
Resourceful Young Man: “What?!”
Disciple nobleman: “No, no, that is my problem”
Mercenary Survivor: “Hoe do noithout our Leader?”
Disciple nobleman: “I placed my utmost trust and confidence in your Leader to carry out his duties no matter the cost I will be sure to uphold our contract”
Mercenary Survivor: “Thank you very much”
Resourceful Young Man: “Will we really be fine in such a place?”
Disciple nobleman: “Yeah, in contrast, if we tried to carry this all the way back to the Kingdoht noould definitely be discovered The enemy has surveillance in this area But they’re not fools, and besides… it’s a very heavy load”
Mercenary Survivor: “That’s right, it’s clunky”
Resourceful Young Man: “That being said, what is it?”
Disciple nobleman: “Saltpetre”
Mercenary Survivor: “…It’s a treasure, even though it may look dirty”
Resourceful Young Man: “Isn’t it just a useless rock?”
Disciple nobleman: “If only it really was just a useless rock”
———- The Winter Palace, the Grand Hall, the Strategy Room
The Lone Winter King: “Hmm… In that case…”
The Queen of Fairies: “Yes, preparations are complete”
Fairy Maiden flits around
Butler: “Very good”
The Lone Winter King: “H my seal on this treaty of ceasefire and peace”
Disciple Merchant: “We will have to work a bit more on the content The first is that a distance of twenty nated as a dee of all prisoners captured during the first two Holy Crusades and the battles for the Isle of Light Further of the war on both sides A Consulate shall be established in the City of Winter and the City of the Gate, so that coe can be better facilitated… That’s it, I think”
The Lone Winter King: “We can continue to amend the clauses, but once I place hout the Southern Alliance I can obtain the guarantees and support fro about the Central Continent I hope you understand…”
The Queen of Fairies: “Yes, I understand I will take the document and discuss it with the other Khans of the Kurultai to reach their signed agreement”
The Lone Winter King: “On natures and seals of all the Kingdo out the details of the content, all that is left is just a formal ceremony”
The Queen of Fairies: “This is a very great step for our worlds”
Fairy Maiden nods
Disciple Merchant: “I hope it leads to greater things”
Butler: “That being said, how about the dom of Metal?”
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Explanation
Consulate: A consul is a type of diplomat Compared to an ambassador, a consul is of a lower rank Ereen policies, but consuls are diploood of people in the countries However, in soed, consuls also have to enact foreign policy For countries with chilled foreign policy, exchanging aoodhich is too hasty at the present moment; hence it may be more prudent to establish a consulate and build upon that for the embassy at a later time
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