Chapter 173 (1/2)

Chapter 173: Monster Wave 4

‘As a man had succeeded, people have come to see…’

Luke, who reached the Northern command, was able to feel his status.

When he first entered the enlistment last year, no one was nervous around him, but then, the knights and the soldiers gave him a chair to sit and welcomed him.

All the soldiers were looking at Luke with respect and a little envy.

Luke didn’t expect it, but Luke couldn’t stop himself from liking it.

With great hospitality that he had been treated, he stepped into the commander’s office.

“Welcome, Lord Marquis.”

As soon as Luke entered the commander’s office, a middle-aged man with a gentle impression stood from his seat and greeted him.

‘Is this the new commander of the Northern Army, Count Omar?’

On the way there, Alex told him that he was a man with considerable ability in administration.

And to prove himself worthy of the name, he was quickly trying to get the city of Krom back on its feet, and the Northern troops which were taken down by the Volga.

Count Omar was the direct head of Luke, however, he was being polite because of the difference in their titles. Luke too was surprised to see the commander act submissively.

“It is my pleasure meeting you. But, the reason you have asked to meet me?”

At the question from Luke, he signed Luke to sit down. Count Omar pulled out an appointment from his desk drawer which had the Emperor’s seal stamped on it.

Luke’s eyebrows wriggled as he opened it.

“As a commander of a support unit to the Navarre duchy, which is in crisis due to the monsters invasion, lead the reinforcements to there and help them?” Luke read it out.

“Hahaha, I guess it needs an additional explanation. I will tell you in detail.”

Count Omar, who was laughing, began to narrate to Luke what had happened.

The summary of what he said was, tens of thousands of monsters have invaded the west Navarre at once and turned the duchy into a mess.

The fortress that had to look after the border had collapsed, and the western territories were devastated.

“I don’t get it, that surely is a lot of monsters, but they have enough Gigants to mobilize forces and manage themselves, right?”

No matter how poor Navarre duchy was, the duchy had 200 to 300 Gigants.

In addition to that, even the cheapest gun powder can be used to combat the monsters.

Luke wasn’t so incredible to fight with a monster with just a knife like he did 500 years back, nor could he be able to stop the monsters with his power.

“Of course, it could be possible if it was a normal scenario. But this monster invasion is quite strange. The big monsters walk along with the small monsters even though they are supposed to only think about having a meal, and when they attack a fortress they move well like trained soldiers.” Said the commander.

“Ho, something like that…!”

Luke thought of it to be absurd.

If it came down to just the power of fighting and the individual determination, then no human would be able to win over a monster.

But humans tend to have intelligence, which monsters lacked.

There were a few monsters which have intelligence, but it was the level of a kid.

In any case, with the intelligence and the technology they inherited from the ancient fairies, humans managed to create superior weapons, united their nations and territories, and developed civilizations.

That allowed humans to be the dominant races of the Middle-ages, following the fairies. And that forced the monsters to move deep into the forests, deep valleys and deserted lands.

And such monsters with intelligence levels at all, such low-level monsters performing military tactics?

“Then maybe they…” Luke was about to say.

“Yes, the imperial assessment stated that there was a possible brain-like existence behind them.”

There was a story that Luke could think of.

Occasionally there were heroes who were called as hero chief born among the monsters who take control of the herd with strong power and leadership.

In the past, every time such a being was born, there was a war called Monster Wave, the humans and the kingdoms suffered great damage because of it.

“In the beginning, the Imperial thought of providing them support with weapons, including the Gigants. But after looking at the information we obtained, we realized that it wasn’t something that we could do with just weapons.”

According to Count Omar, the monsters were getting tougher and tougher as the battles increased.

On top of that, along with the monsters using the duchy soldier’s weapons, they were armed with Gigants and giant sword, shields, and large monsters.

“They, they are advancing at lightning speed. When the duchy asked Gigants for assistance, they were already on the verge of turning into ash.” The commander said.

“Are you serious about their mobility?” Luke asked.

“Not just that, they carry out traps and manned tactics, and even use captive humans to operate their artillery and repair their weapons.”