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Episode Four: The Current Situation in the Principality of Ishgaria

"Problem, what?

I can't even state whether or not to make a request if I don't know the specifics.

"Well, check this out"

When Mr. Mishrina hands up, a 3D footage is shown on the table that was in the center of the room.

I tried to touch it with my hand and it rubbed through, so it would be like a phantom.

"This footage is a reflection of what my demon is seeing right now."

The demon of use was footage overlooking from above whether it was a bird or something.

"Ugh..."

I saw the footage. Melissa was holding her mouth with her hands and moaning.

What was shown there was where moving corpses and transformed people were devouring the flesh of those who were in small villages.

People who were eaten and gone by dead people alive were exposed to pain but could not die easily, and desperately reached out to the sky for help out of disgust that they could be eaten by the same people.

But if you take a good look at the people being eaten, they were all old men, and the hands they were reaching out to were somewhere weak.

"Apparently, we made it."

"Did you make it? This is it!?

Dozens of people can eat undead.

I could say I made it through this situation. I couldn't believe Mr. Claudia's nerves.

"The army of the dead has already become a giant thing. There are many undead spreading besides the range shown by Master Mishrina's magic. It's already a level of damage that can't be helped by the military."

The army also exists in the Principality of Ishgalia.

But in the less skilled military personnel who were left with little experience of war because they were surrounded by the sea, all they could do was buy some time while making sacrifices.

Now that the city near the center was restructuring itself against the army of the undead, there was no room for defensive lines in the villages that were on the path of the undead.

Fortunately, he decided to let some of the inhabitants of the village escape because of the slow speed of travel, which seemed to be undead. Their lives are in vain, too.

There were still people who stayed in the village.

Old people who have difficulty escaping on their own. The elderly refused to leave their birthplace and decided to die in the land about to be attacked by the undead.

Besides, the sacrifices of the elderly are not in vain.

I'm stopping the undead from eating a living human being.

The people who fled during this time were in a state where they were desperately running their feet to the center at all.

"As far as the village is concerned, all the people who have been sacrificed are old people. It was one of the plans that Lady Gilbert had devised before heading this way."

Mishrina introduced me to Gilbert as Mishrina's brother and the next Grand Duke's name.

Sacrificed an old man who had difficulty escaping to keep a little more people alive.

Some people may condemn it, but in an anomaly, the exchangers sometimes had to make ruthless decisions as well.

Rio was also convinced of the next Grand Duke's decision.

"Is this a problem that has arisen as a result of this situation being stolen?

"That's right. The first time it was confirmed was ten days ago. There was a mysterious phenomenon of people dying of debilitation one after another in a village close to the coastline. We did an investigation, but the cause is still unknown. And then the people who were supposed to bury them..."

People who were supposed to be dead suddenly started moving.

Collecting people from nearby villages because too many people had died had not kept them from being buried. Besides, because it was work in a place where many people were injured, recruiting did not gather easily, so the work was started three days after the first dead came out.

Because of this, most of the dead walked out without being buried.

"Describe the current situation"

The footage that was showing the village disappears and shows the circular island looking down from the top.

The southern side of the island glows red.

"The anomalies that occurred on the southern side of the Principality of Ishgalia have already reached half way to Ishawood territory. If we stay like this, we'll be there within a week."

"Hasn't the army done anything?

Ms. Mishrina shakes her neck sideways to Melissa's question.

"The army of the Principality of Ishgaria set out five days ago to solve the situation..."

"Didn't you come home?

"Yes, I've lost nearly 10% of all my troops"

If as much as 10% of the damage has been done to the army, we need to withdraw it once and figure out some kind of countermeasure.

But the situation was not that easy.

"He went to do something about the massive number of dead people he pushed, and the next day he joined the army of dead people until he died."

Even if we were to withdraw, it's not okay to leave it alone.

At the very least, the trend needed to be monitored, and what those who had been watching for a few days found was the sight of those in the same uniform as themselves being dead and in the midst of the army.

A colleague is joining the dead.

Moreover, it is more than 10,000 troops that are approaching from right in front of us.

The surveillance, which was very insane, escaped with all its might from the spot.

"I've taken soldiers who are powerless against the army of the dead, and they're just going to be trapped."

If they kill you, not only will the number of people here decrease, but the number of people there will increase.

It's more troublesome than footwork.

"The Principality of Ishgaria has convened a brilliant adventurer based in the country against this anomaly. I also decided to activate the compulsory request and invite you to participate in the request. I came here for a similar reason."

There is a man in this room (...) who was a brilliant adventurer based in the Glenvarga Empire.

If you listen to Mr. Mishrina this far, I'll know what to do.

"I mean, I was wondering if Rio could join me in dealing with the anomaly, too?

"I came here with that intention..."

"I can't do what I can't do"

There is no easy way for anyone who is about to become Emperor of the Empire to go to a dangerous place.

She may be able to get as close to the battlefield as she can as an emperor of a neighboring country, but that won't be what she expects from Rio's ability to fight.

Now that I have become emperor, it has also become difficult to act as an adventurer.

"Even as an empire, it's a metamorphosis in an island nation across the ocean. If this is going to affect the Empire beyond the sea, it's going to turn people around, but if they're undead, you don't have to worry about them that much."

The undead was somehow bad at running water.

Maybe we can cross the shallow waters, but not enough to cross the ocean.

"That's why you can't land on a ship in the future."

In the unlikely event that the undead were involved in the ship they returned from, it would not be possible to bring anomalies into the Empire.

Mr. Mishrina stares at Rio's decision.

But it lacked force as if he was incapable of fighting, as he declared.

"Don't stare. Instead, I introduced him to the strongest adventurer I ever knew."

That was me.

It seemed to be appreciated for a long time, but I just wanted you to give me a break for being held up with a story that only showed troublesome signs.

"... what's the reward?

Still, depending on the reward, I thought I could take it on.

I'm more annoyed in my head than that.

'I will definitely take this request. It's an undead army. You'll get tons of demon stones when you can take them away from the massive undead. Let's take it to enhance the power of the labyrinth. "

I was annoyed by the labyrinth nucleus (dungeon core) that I was already willing to receive.

Indeed, it was fascinating to get massive amounts of demonic stones, as the labyrinth nucleus put it. Moreover, undead demon stones are more pure of demon stones than other demons because the flesh is not suitable for activity.

It's a good story for us looking for magic.

"We offer this as a reward for success"

Mr. Mishrina took the crystal out of his bag.

A rainbow light roared among the crystals placed on the table.

"You may find it hard because [appraisal] is unavailable, but I promise you that when you give this to the Labyrinth, you will have more than a billion magic powers."

... what?

A billion dollars by magic means a good substitute for thinking it's worth the fruit of the Divine Tree.

"This is a replica created by the legacy of my inherited God, the Holy Pearl"