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The day after they celebrated my birthday.

Me and Sylvia, Melissa were cleaning the mansion. Silvia and Melissa were told by Ira to clean the mansion yesterday as punishment for not participating in the cleanup after a drunken noise. They told me I didn't need it because I'm the lead, but I'm helping because I felt sorry for myself.

Now, I'm pruning weeds that have grown in the spring.

There are two headstones in the corner of the garden.

It belongs to me and Sylvia's father.

Join hands against the tombstone and report that it's been almost a year since I became a labyrinth lord.

"Is Mars here!

My brother's voice echoed as I meditated my eyes and headed toward the headstone.

Yesterday he was my brother who drank a ton of alcohol to compare with Ira, but this morning he was back as usual and headed to the Knights.

"What's up?

When I moved from the garden to the gate of the mansion where my brother was, I had a brother in knightly armor, letting him breathe out.

Normally, I don't imitate coming back to the mansion in knight armor. The only time I've ever come to the mansion with knight armor on is when the lord's escort and when he came to get me called by the lord.

"The lord calls for you."

"Count Alistair?

Was it the latter after all?

But I don't remember doing anything that my lord would call me.

"Am I the only one going?

It was at the time of the delivery request to the King's Capital, which inspired Sylvia to meet him, that I received a previous call from the Lords.

At that time, it was before the formation of the party, so there was only one of me, so I didn't have to worry about the party members.

"Not specifically designated by the Lords"

"Then let's take him"

It would be more comforting to have Melissa for me if it was a hassle.

"What will Mr. Sylvia do?

Melissa was already waiting nearby at the time of her brother's arrival to listen.

"Did the lord seem in a hurry?

"Oh......"

"Then we'll take them both so we can leave as soon as we hear the story."

Cleaning is on the way, but we can't ignore calls from lords either.

Sylvia was in a visible spot, so she invites him to come nearby and beats Isla up, who was devouring her inebriation on the couch in the living room. If you're free, help me clean!

"We've brought Mars the Adventurer"

"Come on in."

Guided to one of the reception rooms in the Lords' Hall, a voice echoed from behind the door.

Count Keith Allister, the lord, sat on the couch that was in the room when his brother opened the door.

And next door is the Alliance Master.

How come you even have an Alliance Master?

"Excuse me."

Sit on the couch opposite the Earls of Alistair.

My brother and the other knight waiting in the reception room stand behind the Earls of Alistair as escorts.

"I'm sorry, but will you please leave the room?

"Why!?

"I have to talk to him inside a little bit. Even a knight can't make you listen."

"So why does Chris stay!?

"He's family. You have the right to know what's going to happen."

Count Alistair has no way of pulling it off at all.

A knight who has served as a knight for many years and knows the character of the Lord leaves the reception room.

"I'm sorry. I couldn't have been asked what I was going to do."

"I don't mind that, but aren't you going to be asked to do something?

"Ultimately, I'm going to make a request. But I decided it was a bad idea for someone to ask me the story before I left the room."

"Ha..."

They have some intentions, but I don't know yet.

"Let me explain it to you first"

For some reason, I get an explanation from the Alliance Master present on this occasion.

"The Adventurer Alliance has magic tools (magic items) that allow you to communicate with distant places. I used that magic tool to get a rescue request from Krashel's Adventurer Guild around yesterday evening. It says," We're under ambush from the Glenvarga Empire. "

"It's..."

The content was not very acceptable.

Sylvia doesn't seem to know very well, but Melissa seems to know how serious it is.

"Do you know anything about Krashel?

"Yes."

This city is home to a girl named Iristia who once met at the request of a site exploration.

Krashel was the first battlefield when there was a war ten years ago in the city closest to the border with its neighbor, the Glenvarga Empire.

For that reason, Krashel, also an important defensive base in the country, needed a lot of fighting power in case of an unforeseen situation.

"We also have intelligence units in Krashel, naturally. They had long been aware that the Empire intended to wage war and were trying to prepare their troops. But they were observing what was going on inside the empire, and food and weapons were being prepared before they realized it."

War cannot be done by individuals.

Get the men together and prepare them with the weapons and food they need to be able to war for the first time.

He just seemed to realize he was staffed, but he seemed to have delayed his first response because he didn't realize how well he was preparing weapons and food.

"So, what's the status quo?

"There are two villages between Krashel and the Empire, but they were unable to cope with the surprise raid and within yesterday the two villages were occupied. Fortunately, in the village closest to the border, we were able to escape to Krashel without causing damage to soldiers and men, but also to many of the inhabitants."

There are also a few soldiers in the village, but they specialize in policing the village and exorcising demons around the village, not in order to wage war.

You can't possibly fight the opponent who's been waging a war.

"Is this war?

"I recognize it that way. The size of the enemy seems to be comparable to that of the war ten years ago."

The deliberate use of the word war could mean that the number of enemies could be at least thousands to tens of thousands.

As the Alliance Master said, I know from the story that there was a war with the Empire even ten years ago.

At that time, he was able to concentrate his power on Krashel and deal with it because the Metis kingdom side was also able to detect the movements on the imperial side beforehand. Krashel is surrounded by strong high walls so that tens of thousands of wars can be fought in case of war, so it's possible to fight as long as you have the power.

This time, however, we have not been able to respond to the ambush at all and will not be able to fight enough to cage.

I heard everything you said about the last war.

Ten years ago, we were children of five or six years of age, and we never cared about war at the time because we were from a village or far from the border.

"I see Krashel is in trouble after an ambush. Is it something like Krashel playing cage castle battles with less power right now?

"That is likely given the last situation in which there was communication. The occupation of the village is carried out by an advance party, and Krashel is headed to 6,000, a real task force amongst them, and the support unit, 4,000, seems to remain in the village"

The actual work force occupies Krashel. After that, it looks like our support unit is going to rendezvous at Krashel with weapons and food.

"So what are you going to do with us, the adventurers, talking like that?

I understand why you talk to adventurers.

Alistair and Krashel are not so far apart. If you extend your leg with a horse south of Krashel, you can reach it if it takes a day. It would mean sending power from Alistair as well, thinking about the possibility of getting involved.

But I don't know why we're the only ones talking.

If you're going to talk to an entire adventurer, it's better to gather adventurers in your guild before you're more efficient.

It was not the Guildmaster who answered that question, but the Earl of Alistair.

"The request is for rescue to Krashel. However, for this request, it is only natural that I am asking you, the adventurer, to do so, but more than that, I have asked you, the Lord of the Labyrinth (Dungeon Master), because I thought that I could not deal with it."

... Labyrinth Lord?