Chapter 163 - Volume 8 (2/2)

They numbered in the hundreds of sheets. It seems that Noa’s terrible nature came out all at once.

Looking through them, going through this terrible punishment game, I was rapidly stamping them with a potato seal, wait, why was it a potato-carved seal!?

Furthermore, what’s this inky substance? It’s not the blood of Dark Elves, is it?

It’s true that a lot of my plans were being left to Noa to execute, but there were a lot more things to settle, and if I left it to someone else I would be having a hard time.

What’s this [Cow Beastman Fresh Milk Farm Plan]! Rejected! Rejected!

“…… Princess, is it alright for me to be working so hard?”

Onzada-kun was carrying a lot of documents in and out in his human form.

These few days, because I’ve been doing something like sending homing pigeon messages to Noa, I feel like Onzada-kun is getting gaunt.

“…… Afterwards, I’m going to add octopi and squid into the beastmen’s specialty milk-wine. And tell Noa and Nea to go on ahead and start the second phase of the plan.”

“Yes~ …… roger.”

As I gave him my maximum concession, Onzada-kun went back to work with a sigh.

But……

“…… Onzada-kun certainly fits the look of someone who’s destined to live poor.”

“That’s true.”

My work seems unlikely to end soon.

* * *

Just as the forces of light and darkness regrouped, the Demons attacked them both.

They numbered about 3,000.

Although it seemed to be too small a number for the two armies together that numbered over a hundred thousand, but for the Demons that handled magic freely, every single [Lesser Demon] was the equivalent of ten-odd soldiers.

However, even the Demons that were capable of nullifying physical attacks would have lost to the human side with this kind of numerical disadvantage.

The problem lay with the [Greater Demons].

The Demons’ abilities grew immensely with every rank.

In particular, the [Greater Demons] were special individuals who had been “manifested” by using special vassals and were all serious workaholics who worked all night despite their hunger.

If you thought of their combat strength as equaling their magic power, then [Lesser Demons] would rate at about 500.

The [Greater Demons] that were one stage higher was about 2000~3000.

On the other hand the general soldiery were around 10, and even with the benefits of their skills, they didn’t exceed about 50~100.

However, battles weren’t solely about status values. In reality, even if there had been a [Greater Demon], they would have been able to pin it down with about 30 soldiers with knights and commanders.

But this was war.

No matter how many much they overwhelmed the Demons, there were only tens of thousands who were actively able to fight them, and that 10-to-1 strength difference could not hurt them.

The humans had the [Hero class] who could take on the [Greater Demons] alone, but there were only a few in each country, and they didn’t have the numbers to beat the 1000 [Greater Demons].

Still, the human forces did not give up.

The forces of darkness, led by the general of the beastmen and Minkichi, bravely attacked the Demon army from the center and took down hundreds of Demons.

But…… there was a reason for their success.

“Hey, Noaa? Are you sure about this information?”

The Hero of Earth, Kanzo, turned red while wriggling her large, two-meter tall body, even as she talked to the beautiful teenager dressed in butler clothing.

Although it wasn’t very pleasant to watch, Noa sat in that two-person love seat, touching the back of Kanzo’s hand with a gentle smile.

“Can’t you believe in me……?”

“No, no! That’s not it, I absolutely believe in you.”

Minkichi and the beastman general had obtained information from a certain source indicating that the Demons were losing control of the center and were going to attack certain places.

Those locations were the camps of the Hero of Water, Kyoji, and the Dark Elves’ Princess, Nefertia.

If the information could have been corroborated, they would have gathered up the Heroes and the hero-class folk to land a solid blow to the Demon army.

Even though Minkichi and the general of the beastmen knew this, in order to be rid of their political rivals, they had joined hands through the machinations of a “certain person”.

That information Kanzo had taken, along with her companion knights who had become collaborators since the Elder Lich’s dungeon – It was as if they had suddenly changed, and they took a back seat.

Kanzo was on cloud nine.

A long time ago, she had been rejected, but she had had that “premonition about love” since the previous generation of the Hero of Wind.

“I can’t forgive Minkichi.”

Kanzo wished for all of them to go away as well, so he made a show of “anger” in front of Noa after he’d brought him the information.

“It’s just like you said. It’s all…… ah, yes, there was something I wanted to give to you, Kanzo.”

“Oh, what would that be?”

As Kanzo spoke, Noa smiled bewitchingly, and retrieving out something that looked like a bottle of liquid from his bosom, he passed it over to Kanzo.

“…… This is…”

Kanzo’s face tightened as she saw it. It was what Kanzo had been requesting from that Golden Saint.

“It’s a magic medicine that will make your dreams come true.”

Author’s Notes:

It’s the first host.

Next time, the Demon’s trap closes on the Beautiful Hero.