Vol 4 Chapter 5 (1/2)
Volume 4 Chapter 5, “It’s Somehow Very Important”——– The Wastelands of the Subterranean World, the Journey of the Mercenary Knights
Resourceful Young Man: “Whoa, a”
Mercenary Survivor: “It’s an endless expanse of red soil in every direction What’s that over there…… a forest?”
Sht”
Young Mercenary nods
Mercenary Archer: “Did passing through that portal do anything to us?”
Disciple nobleman: “We’ll be in the Northeast soon”
Resourceful Young Man: “Whoa, dude You’re familiar with this place too?”
Disciple nobleman: “Don’t call me dude It would be childish to infiltrate an unknown land like thieves, wouldn’t it?”
Resourceful Young Man: “What are you saying?”
Mercenary Survivor: “Don’t get violent, you’ll scare the horses”
Small Survivor: “This area is cold too”
Young Mercenary: “Yeah”
Disciple nobleot a map”
Mercenary Survivor: “Eh?”
Elder Sister Maid: “It was given to us by the h this area”
Resourceful Young Man: “?”
Disciple nobleent dispatched by the Kingdoence on maps and other situations”
Resourceful Young Man: “Say that earlier!”
Disciple nobleman: “I wonder ould have happened if I had told you earlier?”
Resourceful Young Man: “That’s……”
Disciple noble principles of our mission are—“
Resourceful Young Man: “You better be open about it!”
Mercenary Survivor: “About that, I think it’s about ti here”
Sht We’ve come all the way to the De”
Young Mercenary nods
Resourceful Young Man: “That’s right! Don’t disregard us!”
Disciple nobleman: “Fine, fine Since even the kleptomaniac wants to knoell”
Elder Sister Maid: “As I said earlier, our primary mission is to create the opportunity for a ceasefire on both the sides of the Demons and the Crusaders…… We’ll deal with the Demon Army first, then the Human Crusaders later”
Mercenary Survivor: “What’s our chances of success?”
Small Survivor: “That’s the main question”
Elder Sister Maid: “It’s present It’s small, but it’s not zero”
Mercenary Survivor: “How?”
Elder Sister Maid: “We will reht…… That’s our foundation”
Small Survivor: “And how exactly e do that!?”
Elder Sister Maid: “We’ll have to use diplootiations for that”
Mercenary Survivor: “Hmm……”
Disciple nobleman: “Then, I will have to leave temporarily”
Resourceful Young Man: “Eh? What’s that? Where are you going?”
Disciple nobleest commercial city, the City of the Gate We will need infor I need to confirm as well”
Mercenary Survivor: “Well, it’s true ill require backup”
Resourceful Young Man: “What’s your real motive?”
Disciple nobleman: “I want to take a bath And it’s about tiirl at a bar”
Elder Sister Maid: “……”
Mercenary Survivor: “……”
Small Survivor: “……”
Disciple nobleman: “Well, I’ll do mywith someone as well”
Mercenary Archer: “And how about us? Where are we going?”
Elder Sister Maid: “To the Dragon City The capital city of the Dragons, a proud and ancient Tribe of the De the Inferno Mountains”
Mercenary Survivor: “Inferno Mountains……?”
Elder Sister Maid: “Yes A treasure the Dragons have borrowed for the last ten thousand years”
———- The Holy Crusaders, Reinforceade, in Camp
Singing, stru……
Disciple Bard: “Right, that’s the end”
Spearht: “Wow”
Auxiliary of Light: “So what happened to the Hero and the Marshal after that?”
Disciple Bard: “Well, of course they downed a giant ether”
Spearht: “Oh I see”
Auxiliary of Light: “All heroes sees”
Disciple Bard: “Well it is said that it takes a hero to recognise another hero, so the Marshal is a Hero as well”
Spearhness even lives with us, he has to be the number one hero”
Auxiliary of Light: “In order to save his frail elder brother, he obtained the blessings of the Church and led an army to victory”
Spear through his brains, he doesn’t just fight for his country, he fights for everybody He’s a true inspiration to all of us”
Disciple Bard: “I…… see He sure did s”
Spearht: “What’s up, Miss Bard?”
Disciple Bard: “No, nothing —– I don’t know much about heroes”
Auxiliary of Light: “Well, they’re those head the fight”
Disciple Bard: “……?”
Spearht: “They’re the people who shout ‘Attack!’ from the front, the real leaders; not like our coht?”
Auxiliary of Light: “Exactly They sit in their tents and complain all day”
Disciple Bard: “Hehehehehe”
Spearh too much, the commander’s troops will come and pick you up”
Auxiliary of Light: “Touch wood! Touch wood!”
Disciple Bard: “Then, alright Next, I’ll sing about the heroes I know This one is known as the Black Tiger Prince A general who commanded armies in four wars to protect the people”
Spearuy”
Auxiliary of Light: “The best kind of guy”
Stru……
Disciple Bard: “A long ti across the seven islands—“
——– The New Territory of White Night, the Palace, the Study
Crown Prince Marshal: “That’s the li factor”
Strategist: “……”
Holy Iht”
Green Ash King: “It seems our views are in concord”
Holy Imperial General: “The supplies of rations, the stores of ahput of supplies It may take time, but we can’t continue to increase our forces at this rate without iistics trains, or ill continue to operate at sub-optimal combat ability”
Green Ash King: “To put it another way, this nu factor for the influence of the countries in the Central Continent”
Accoht this instant without hesitation”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Report on the th”
Strategist: “Total numbers are two hundred and forty-three thousand The newly equipped infantry units formed fro A this, the musket divisions comprise a hundred thousand soldiers Of that, two hundred and fifty are equipped with the new hteen thousand are either spearmen or shi+eld squads noble warriors count for three to five thousand, alongside ten thousand cavalry soldiers Apart frohty thousand non- elements”
Holy I soelements”
Crown Prince Marshal: “I suppose so They are mostly craftsmen, cuisiniers, prostitutes, and also ht and heavy equipment involved, ill not be able to maintain their morale”
Strategist: “At the end of the day, the proportion of hly the same as a combined arms army”
Green Ash King: “And how are they deployed?”
Crown Prince Marshal: “The core infantry division is formed from twenty thousand soldiers”
Strategist: “If we continue to re, ill only attrite our supplies And if we stay put any longer, ill also need toseason of ice and snow”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Understood…… We move out”
Strategist: “Yes!”
Holy Imperial General: “Yes!”
Green Ash King: “I’ood use”
Acco Chaplain: “Your actions are surely a pleasure to the Spirit”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Leave five thousand in place as a garrison force This port and the city itself are crucial supply support areas Let the Kingdoarrison force, with a force of four thousand spearmen”
Strategist: “Understood”
Crown Prince Marshal: “And what are the view of His Holiness?”
Accoreement His Holiness places his cohness Our loyal faithful are with us in the fight today, please try to minimise their casualties and look out for their safety”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Of course”
Strategist: “I will convey your intentions to our units at once”
Green Ash King: “We will hasten the equipping and communications link-up”
Crown Prince Marshal: “In that case, let us eshi+p, the Majesty!”
—————- The Kingdom of Winter, the Audience Chamber
Running
Seneschal: “Your Majesty! Your Majesty!”
Lone Winter King: “What is it?”
Seneschal: “The Holy Crusaders garrisoned at the Kingdo up their shi+ps and appear to be bound for the Polar Continent”
Butler: “And so it begins”
Lone Winter King: “It appears they intend to invade the Demon World”
Butler: “I’m sure they have considered that it would be a needless attrition of their forces to direct their invasion at us To begin with, if they decided to elidoe their vulnerable centre”
Lone Winter King: “Her!”
Messenger: “Your Majesty!”
Lone Winter King: “Inform the Consulate of the Kurultai immediately!”
Seneschal: “It seee”
Butler: “I suppose this is not unrelated to us”
Lone Winter King: “We will also hold a conference for the Southern Alliance and discuss our reaction plan there”
———— The Holy Crusaders, the Cabin of the Ishi+p Majesty
Crown Prince Marshal: “Hahaha! What an interesting experience you have had”
The Hero: “Ah Well, it’s delicious! Des Especially their rear end, it’s exceptionally succulent”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Is that so?”
The Hero: “Yeah But it’s just a little troublesoate at near the pastures surrounding the Gate But at this point, there isn’t a Gate anye Portal”
Crown Prince Marshal: “I have heard of this, but what do you know about it?”
The Hero: “What about?”
Crown Prince Marshal: “The circu the destruction of the Gate”
The Hero: “Well, I heard that the De to do with it”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Ahh, during that incident with the Kingdoht?”
The Hero: “No, way before that At that time, for some unknown need, they activated a Mass Destruction Spell to blast a hole in the Gate The result is that the barrier between the Human and the Demon World was removed”
Crown Prince Marshal: “I see I hear it’s a splendid sight”
The Hero: “Well, it is nificent…… Do you mind if I eat that?”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Please, help yourself”
The Hero: “Thank you”
Strategist: “…… What is going on?”
Holy Imperial General: “…… I don’t know”
The Hero: “Hmm The Automatons are a Tribe all decked out in plate arht, but sohed down With all their armour on, they can reach up to five tiht And they easily have at least twice the protective power”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Hoho, I see, as to be expected from the Hero You’re completely familiar with even the most obscure parts of the Demon World”
The Hero: “I have just spent much time on the road”
Strategist: “Uhness?”
Holy Imperial General: “This is……?”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Oh, let endary, mythical person known as the Hero”
The Hero: “A pleasure to meet you, I am the Hero”
Strategist: “I appear to have met you somewhere before”
Holy Imperial General: “So you’re still alive!”
Crown Prince Marshal: “M”
The Hero: “That’s right It was a painful fight I’m not sure what you’ve heard, but nowas still the De The moment I met him, I felt a tremendous (booby) aura”
Strategist: “Really…… the De?”
Holy Imperial General: “Then it is as the rumours say”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Thankfully you still live”
The Hero: “Actually, I also sustained heavy injuries under his hands, and was on the cusp of death I almost did not ever open my eyes”
Crown Prince Marshal: “And hearing tell of us Holy Crusaders, he has come to lend his aid”
The Hero: “Yes, I hope you do not ”
Strategist: “That’s……”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Of course, this is the Hero, after all Do you all not reainst the Des of the Churchon that balcony with all the otherhim march past As his armour shi+ned brilliantly, we could see that despite his young age, he bore an astounding chivalry and a heart steeled against the nureat hero”
The Hero: “Surely you are exaggerating, hehehe”
Strategist: (It is said that the Hero’s abilities are equivalent to a thousand heavily arreater asset than ourspent eography and the culture, and understanding of the De us comes with myriad merits, but……”
Holy I”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Then it’s decided Please arrange suitable lodgings for him”
The Hero: “Oh, don’t trouble yourself As long as it’s not flooded, I’ if there is no space As long as you h food”
Strategist: “I will see to the arrangements immediately”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Make sure there’s lots of food! The Hero is still recovering, it would be beneficial to his recovery to provide hiood wine”
The Hero: “Thank you very much!”
———— The Holy Crusaders, the Office of the Ishi+p Majesty
Door closes
Strategist: “I have seen to the Hero’s lodgings”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Hmm……”
Strategist: “Just what is the Hero plotting?”
Holy Imperial General: “Do you think he has a scheme?”
Crown Prince Marshal: “What do you mean?”
Holy Ihly four to five years ago, I heard that the Hero was a highly broadh that you could be assured of any operation he undertook, a peerless risk-taker with an alhteousness”
Crown Prince Marshal: “That is what I heard as well But, now he seems different It’s true that he’s just extricated hiave the impression of a person who has coains and losses”
Strategist: “What should we issue in our announcement for now?”
Crown Prince Marshal: “The De them who are more vicious than the beasts of the Human World, or have special abilities and poisons If ere to just go in like this, ould face numerous sacrifices But with the Hero, a truly special individual, we should be able to avoid these sacrifices If we didn’t have hiuide, who could say ould happen”
Strategist: “Hmm”
Holy Imperial General: “If ere to believe what he says, there is no reason not to use him”
Crown Prince Marshal: “That’s right The Hero’s abilities are a threat as well”
Strategist: “Moreover, if ere to believe hi has also recuperated It would be wishful thinking for the Hero to recover, and the De not to have recovered”
Holy Imperial General: “That’s true”
Crown Prince Marshal: “In order to defeat the De, we have to accommodate the Hero”
Strategist nods
Holy Imperial General: “That er to us”
Crown Prince Marshal: “An unknown threat so close to hoerous than a known one We don’t have any methods to deal with him yet either Until we do, it would be best to keep hiiven up his freedoe”
Strategist: “If you put it that way, I have no words in rebuttal”
Holy Ihness says”
Crown Prince Marshal: “In a few days, ill arrive at the Polar Continent After that, ill become winter troops Have the watch on the shi+ps sound an alarm e are about to reach”
Strategist: “Yes, I understand”
Crown Prince Marshal: (Hero…… It’s true that we have no guard if the stories of his strength are true But how are we to use his strength without swaying the utter conviction the people have in our abilities Primarch, did you know of this?)
———– The City of the Gate, the Nine Hills, the Construction Site of the Fortifications
Disciple Engineer: “Alright, so it’s as I explained Today we’ll be working on the northern defences Please try to add your best to the team”
Middle Aged Workman of the Pale: “Understood We will move into place”
Workman of the Pale: “””Understood!”””
Running
Middle Aged Merchant: “And how are things going?”
Disciple Engineer: “Oh, Merchant We’ve otten faster”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Then what do you think of the budget?”
Disciple Engineer: “Thank you for providing the budget Now I can pay our worket paid, they’re a lot more motivated”
Fire Dragon Lady: “This reason is as we have discussed before, but above all, Aide-de-Camp, the defences are our utmost priority”
Aide-de-Ca”
Disciple Engineer: “My princess”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Oh, you’ve come as well, princess?”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Please don’t call me princess”
Aide-de-Camp: “Hahahahaha”
Disciple Engineer: “That being said, is it really alright for you to provide et?”
Aide-de-Cathen the fortifications after all Considering the food that they buy, along with all the other goods necessary for their living, we have actually et allocated to the construction”
Disciple Engineer: “Is that so?”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Well, the situations of the Self-Governing Council and ourselves are very different”
Aide-de-Ca Council are notso much money, in fact, if we save too much, it would be bad for the economy We have to consider the public need”
Fire Dragon Lady: “I thought I should show my face around the project”
Disciple Engineer: “That’s right, the crafts about the last ti”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Wait, are those Demons of the Pale?”
Disciple Engineer: “Yeah They’re joining us starting this week, three hundred of them We received a letter of recommendation from the Kurultai”
Aide-de-Camp: “How are they?”
Disciple Engineer: “They are hard workers Disciplined as well They’re extreroup, and while proactive, do not take matters into their own hands needlessly”
Middle Aged Merchant: “Hmm”
Aide-de-Camp: “Yeah, indeed”
Disciple Engineer: “But, on the other hand, they are extre: ‘The pride of the Pale extends beyond the Snow Leopard Mountains’ They hate to lose tonext week, the Tribe will mix with elements from other Tribes, and we’ll have to see what happens next”
Middle Aged Merchant: “It would be difficult to monitor them personally”
Disciple Engineer: “Definitely We engineers have a lot of things on our plates”
Fire Dragon Lady: “Then, to ensure it all goes smoothly, I hope you will do your best”
Aide-de-Ca back soon It seems that there are many issues to deal with in the Surface World”
————- The Border of the Subterranean World, the Crimson Plains
The Hero: “Ha!”
shi+ng!
Soldier of Light: “A!”
Musketeer of Light: “He cleaved that metal-skinned Demon into half!”
Porter: “Thank you!”
The Hero: “Come now This place is just filled with De as you walk, you won’t be able to avoid being attacked by them”
Soldier of Light: “Is that so?”
Musketeer of Light: “Thank you so much, Hero”
The Hero: “Hahaha Then let’s ”
Prostitute: “How adorable!”
The Hero: “Uhh, well, I don’t s”
Prostitute: “Hehehe For saving us, I can promise you some service!”
Acco Chaplain: “…………”
Soldier of Light: “What a hero!”
The Hero: “Hahaha I definitely didn’t fight for that reason I fight for world peace”
Porter: “Hahahaha! What a handsos!”
Crown Prince Marshal: “He’s really become familiar with all of them”
Holy Imperial General: “Yeah”
Musketeer of Light: “Have you ever fired a musket?”
The Hero: “It’s alright, I can shoot lightning”
Musketeer of Light: “Really? Muskets are strong, though”
Strategist: “Is it true that the Hero personally delivered his application to the Holy Ihts’ Retinue?”
Crown Prince Marshal: “Yes it is”
Holy Imperial General: “Eh?”
Crown Prince Marshal: “The Hero is a follower of the Spirit of Light There are even those who say that the entire existence of the Hero is a blessing from the Spirit Himself And we are entrusted him by the Church”
Holy I of?”
Strategist: “Do you mean the Hero’s power as a symbol?”
Crown Prince Marshal: “I believe we can see that the Church has already seen to that”
Porter: “This is really heavy”
The Hero: “What’s wrong with the horses?”
Porter: “The snow is too thick to travel through by horse, many of our adorable ponies have already collapsed”
Farrier: “The healthy horses are all been ridden by the noblemen”