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Two days after I left Teito.

It took me a while to travel because I had all the strength I could scratch before I left the capital. Still, thanks to it, we succeeded in aligning the forces of thousands.

Now the Empire's power stands by at the entrance of a wide plain.

In the safest place there was Rio, the emperor, in the tent.

"I expect Mount Carthea will be here this afternoon."

"Is it possible that I'm wrong?

"I'm pretty sure we'll pass through here, even if there's some discrepancy in time."

Mount Carthea was aiming for the imperial capital straight from where the mountain was.

The magic tool used by Zido was a magic tool to revive Mount Carthea, which had been sealed with consciousness and biological activity, and by crushing it, it seems, it can be made to aim for a place that has been crushed unconsciously. From there onwards it keeps rumbling until it is unpredictable to anyone and satisfied with its own will.

It's like an alarm clock magic tool.

The problem is the access route.

Nevertheless, we need to concentrate on dealing with Mount Cartea because we can't even afford to be able to stand over there right now.

"So, General. What are you gonna do?

Rio sitting in the upper seat asks.

Rio doesn't need to do anything special. Rio, the emperor, shows only policy, and the details are determined by his men.

"First look for the demon stone in your body, as His Majesty said. This would be the only countermeasure. It's absolutely impossible to physically destroy it in the first place."

"I guess so. I feel someone even though they're quite a distance away."

It's not a sign or anything vague.

Every minute I hear a noise accompanied by a heavy sound of Zun-.

It's the sound of Mount Carthea moving around.

Signs of the enemy were coming through clearly as a sound.

……

And the sound of cataclysm is also ringing nearby.

I still see the huge figure of Mount Carthea for trying to intercept on a plain with distance but nothing. The soldiers are frightened because they have witnessed such a look.

Above all, the role given to them was the problem.

"Adventurers are better at discovering and destroying demonic stones. We're just going to use a magic cannon from the ground to help the adventurers get onto Mount Cartier."

Magic Guided Artillery - Powerful artillery fire can be unleashed by packing a number of demonic stones into a special artillery. It is usually used as a siege weapon because it disposes of demonic stones.

Most of all, this time it's a bigger opponent than the castle that you have to deal with.

Using a siege weapon does not necessarily work.

"I'll leave what happens after I get on board to the adventurers. Your Majesty would know more about this area as an adventurer."

"Right. You shouldn't give bad orders and bind your movements."

Soldiers and military personnel exert their power through the collaboration of dozens or hundreds of people.

Adventurers, on the other hand, operate at several parties.

I'm not on my own with the soldiers.

You shouldn't think only of the general's common sense.

There are more effective ways than that.

"If we do that, it would be more convenient for us to just give it a goal and move it freely."

"Specifically?

Rio had made a request for the adventurers.

There are two details of the request.

Crusade of Mount Carthea. Those who crush the demon stones in their bodies are to be paid enormous rewards.

That and evacuation guidance for villages and towns on the path of Mount Cartea. Even if you let people get away with it, you could get attacked by demons ahead of you. We will need someone to protect them because thousands of people have already fled.

I had an adventurer who had abandoned the crusade turn to guide me to evacuation.

The raid on Mount Carthea will be headed by an adventurer who has decided to crusade.

"Get out of my way."

Three adventurers came into the tent.

One is a dressed adventurer named Trousers and Jackets alone, a big man equipped with a sword on his back that is bigger than his height.

The second is a man with a cane in a white suit and a black silk hat.

The third is a sharp, eye-catching woman with three braids of blonde hair stretched all the way around her chest. He must be a bowman because he has a bow in his hand.

"You've come a long way."

"Well said. We've been forced to ask for it, so we know there's no such thing as veto."

"Still, you've come this way."

"Indeed. If you're afraid to fight someone who seems cute with the word such a monster...... etc., you just have to turn to the evacuation guide. But we are still S-ranked adventurers of the Empire. You can't act like that."

"Still, it must have helped."

They are the proud S-rank adventurers of the Empire.

They have several other S-rank adventurers, but they were the only ones caught in the last few days. They're basically told to wait in the capital, but if there's another request in there first, it's gonna be hard to catch.

It was only natural to rely on the strongest power than it was an imperial crisis.

Most justice is not the only reason I took on the request.

"The reward was better than anything else. 100,000 gold coins will be paid as a reward for the party that crusaded the demons of Mount Carthea. I think there are a lot of adventurers who come to talk about it because it's an unusual amount of money."

A family of five can afford to live in the countryside if they have one gold coin.

Some 100,000 pieces of gold can play and live.

Even a life-threatening request isn't hard to pull an adventurer.

"Nevertheless, this is how you're supposed to be meeting with the emperor, and that you're meeting with you has really made you emperor."

The general frowns at the woman's call to you.

But for adventurers with a lot of rough guys alike, this degree of wording is a daily tea meal. Rio, the one who said it, understands the matter.

"Exactly. There's a lot going on and I'm an emperor now. So you can't act with adventurers."

Rio wants us to join him in the destruction of the Demon Stone if we think militarily.

"Naturally. In case anything happens to the Emperor, it's an imperial crisis! Even the Crown Prince is too young to send His Majesty to danger."

"That's why."

"Oh, my God."

Rio flatters his shoulders at the reaction of the general.

I can't say anything about this because the General is totally right.

"So, why is he here?

Kicked and stared at by the man with the sword on his back.

He was in the corner of the tent, but he doesn't care that an adventurer who has never seen his face is in the Emperor's tent.

I don't know your face - I mean, a low-ranking adventurer who doesn't know his highest rank, or a participant from somewhere else.

"I am an adventurer in the kingdom. I was in Imperial City by chance this time, so I'm keeping you waiting just in case."

"You think we're gonna fail!?

"No matter how you take my word for it, you're free. But if you look like you're in some kind of shitty pride for an emergency like this, you're gonna lose your country."

"Knock..."

Now a man pulls back on the understanding that it's not if he's fighting.

Empires and kingdoms have a history of wars over territory. Adventurers driven out whenever there is a massive war. That's why I don't have very good feelings for adventurers based near the border.

I guess adventurers equipped with the Great Sword are also adventurers based near the border.

"You know what you do."

"Naturally. Riding into Mount Carthea and smashing the Demon Stone - the usual job."

"I'm going to let a bunch of other highly-ranked adventurers get into it. When it comes to positive moves, we'll take care of everything, so don't ever fail."

"Oh, sure."

The adventurers leave the tent.

More than a hundred adventurers will participate in the operation itself, but what is expected as a force of war are the three S-ranked adventurers.

When they go outside, they take the adventurers who listen to their instructions and rush out towards Mount Carthea.

"It's about time."

Out of the tent.

I see a huge mountain on the other side of the place where the soldiers with the Magic Guided Artillery were aligned.