Egret

Chapter 16. Force majeure

“Goddamn empire. Come out!"

The Hoes, who were looking into the situation with their prisoners in the cart for a while, confirmed that there was no Empire army coming after them, and then opened the iron spear.

I didn't give you freedom. It merely moved the prisoners to a wider and more definite surveillance area.

Judas and Edan went out together in the midst of the captivity.

In addition to those who were dragged into the cart, those who were taken by other routes joined together.

I saw a pine tree that was big enough to hold five young men.

I tied a rope that tied the hands of more than twenty people and wrapped them both around a tree.

After taking steps to make them look lax, the Ho Ho family man who brought them under the tree left his place.

That was possible because there was a corner to believe.

“Zelululuok.”

The prisoner watcher was not a man, but a Griffon.

The head looks like an eagle, but there is a huge lion's trunk below the neck.

The four legs, thick enough to support the body, grew white hairs and had sharp claws.

Griffon, who was lying comfortably on his belly in the grass, approached as he smelled strangers.

Then there was a much more tranquil silence than when the man who was wielding a huge double-bladed axe kept it in one hand.

Griffon approached as if he was trying to learn people's faces.

Those in front of the monsters could not even get their hands tied to the tree, and they trembled at the bars. They were all rabbits in front of lions.

But at some point, this side happened.

Griffon, who was pressuring the people of the desert, stopped in front of one person.

“ ……? ”

Uh-huh. He's a good kid.

The spirit of green breeze crossed his arms and looked at Griffon with a plasticized look, like a milled sparrow.

Griffon was stiffened with embarrassing colors in front of Judas.

I didn't materialize it, but the animal instinct senses the energy of nature that protects him.

If you recognize it, you should bow down. Don't you?

Griffon feels an unknown horror and curls his tail, even if he doesn't hear anything.

Then I fell to my knees.

The uni who saw it was gratified and touched Griffon.

"Look, Carney. Cute is what I use when I say this.

"Yeah, I heard that, too.

Griffon looked at the spirits and rolled his eyes away.

The hand tied to the rope slowly reaches out to his nose.

“It's okay. I didn't mean to bother you. ”

“Koruk.”

Griffon, completely succumbing to the difference in power, rubs his head in the palm of his hand in a gentle attitude.

The hair of a fluffy bird wrapped around the palm of his hand.

Judas calmly addressed Griffon like a baby on the subject of a big lion.

“Yeah, you're a good kid. ”

“Er...? who were present during the day!”

At that moment, someone voiced a loud voice in the midst of the prisoners who were staring at Judas and Griffon.

“Wuwatcha, you were tied up. ”

The young man, who was about to run in a happy mood, almost curled up and straightened up because of a rope tied to a wooden pillar.

The rope was fixed to a length that was difficult to remove more than a few steps from place, even though it could bend or move slightly.

Judas and Edan also recognized him and turned around.

“Ah. Good to see you again, Marvin. ”

Judas, who greeted Taeyoung, and Marvin, who alternated silently with Edan, looked awkwardly at his hands tied to a rope.

“I can't say I'm happy that things look like this. Anyway, I was surprised to see you in a place like this. ”

“I was surprised, too. ”

Marvin drops his head nicely, instead of grabbing his cock.

“Hoo, as a soldier of Verdi, I have no face. The bombing fell on my side. ”

I wasn't hit by a direct fire, but my outfit was very scratchy, whether I was swept away or rolled up in the aftermath.

It was not uncommon for a soldier to be taken captive, but Judas looked at his condition with his own eyes, ignoring it.

“Glad you didn't get hurt so badly. ”

“Well, yes. But there are only two of you here now? Are you away from your other friends? ”

“Yes, I did, so I won't worry too much. ”

“...... It's not that kind of thing. ”

Marvin sends a sympathetic gaze toward Edan by his side.

It was because I remembered my grievance as a guardian, as I raised my four siblings.

It was an atmosphere in which even Edan, who was an extender, could not win over the boy who looked like a tranquilizer.

‘You must be asking me to come too soon. I think he's a fairly my-face kid. ’

Judas stood up, taking his hands off Griffon's head, ignoring that he was buying a misunderstanding, not a misunderstanding.

“This must be the Ho family camp. ”

“Oh, yeah. We need to get deeper into their homeworld. Whether you're threatening a prisoner or negotiating, you'd better stay close. ”

I just told you the truth, but the horror that I had forgotten among the captives swept away like a wave.

In the end, one of the children who was well aware began to sniff.

Marvin, who was embarrassed, quickly turned the topic around.

“Are you a trainer? ”

As Judas looked up without answering, Marvin pointed to Griffon, who was squatting on the floor with his eyes closed.

“I've never seen a non-Ho deal so well with Griffons. Can I be a legendary trainer? How did you get that vicious guy to follow you for one second? ”

“I'm not a trainer. He's just following nature more than he's following me. ”

“What?”

"Igrett, if you're being arrogant, tell me.

The Fire Spirit King, who was holding his clothes tightly, smiled brightly and added:

"I'll tighten it for you.

“ ……! ”

A warm room was waiting behind the delicate smile.

Griffon fell to the ground in a hurry.

Marvin, who didn't know the English language because he didn't see the Spirit, suddenly stared at Griffon, who was as unsettled as a puppy.

“I don't know what it is, but there must be a great secret. If I did, I would have noticed. ”

“Wouldn't it be nice to stand out here? ”

“As far as I know. Without a watchdog, the inside of this garrison will belong to the entire Ho Clan's surveillance network. All the way to the ground! I don't think there's a way to escape without getting caught unless you dig a cave in the ground. ”

The rope tied roughly with a lousy skill, and the optimum condition of a lost griffon, was the reason for not getting wet in the dream of escape.

“Anyway, the fact that you know how to tame Griffon makes it very difficult for them to see you. I heard the Ho Clan won't release prisoners with special talents. Rather, they may take him to their home country and serve him until he dies. ”

“Hmm.”

It was a good thing as Judas, who was going to visit his home in the first place.

He just sits there with his butt on his back. Then I opened my mouth by touching Griffon's beak, trembling like a bush.

“Then it wouldn't be bad to be a trainer for a while. ”

“Judas. ”

Edan, sitting comfortably in the grass, followed him, kneeling on one side of his chin.

Judas, who faces a black pupil with a meaning, gently shakes his head.

“Fast and easy is not the only way. ”

“The lord can no longer be silenced to face the mistress. ”

“There's not much I can do to move, thinking about the order I'm going to receive. I'm trying to do what I can here. ”

“It's not worth it to them. Invaders who persisted in the war without succumbing to the consequences and took the lives of countless people from the Empire. ”

“Listen."

Judas' voice calmly followed, despite his insistence.

“For God loves man exceedingly, and will not forsake him for ever. How do we determine their value as human beings? ”

First, it was a religious idea that could not be refuted by anyone in the Lubarzan Empire who upheld Edan's position and made it the only religion.

“You have to clap your hands to make a sound. The Empire is like a landmine from a land taken away. It is important to find out exactly what their objectives are and to what extent there are alternatives to resolve them. ”

In other words, it was the ideal mercy, and in other words, the tolerance of the powerful.

He who has no power and a small vessel wants to be merciful cannot do so.

Mercy is only possible when you are thoroughly superior to your opponent.

“From the beginning, if you were frightened by power, would it be a conversation? ”

But if there was no consensus, there was no more mercy.

Ethan no longer gave his opinion, but accepted his master's will. On his knees, he bends his head.

A gentleman who was willing to take risks and put safety first with the main troops who wanted to meet the enemy.

Marvin, who was watching the end of the short confrontation in that strange military relationship, snuck his eyes and broke his luck.

“Come on. Aren't you my brother's friends? ”

“Friends are right, but not between brothers and sisters. Oh, and I'm not even the youngest. My brother is in Verdi with me. ”

“You had a brother? ”

Even though Marvin is an unnoticed end soldier, he just watched the conversation and realized Judas is not an ordinary boy.

However, I felt surprised to hear that the first impression was quite strong. I had a youngest brother under it who I thought was the youngest of my group.

“Brother?”

“Yes.”

He was a brother with a different hair color, but it was clear that he had the same father's blood.

“How many brothers do you have up and down? ”

“Just put it down...... ”

Speaking of which, I remembered Kaiser's face.

Second, the emperor was rarely a genius who was born with magic and physical abilities at the same time.

I didn't mean to be ambitious, but I know how to read numbers. I looked straight down at Judas, who completely knocked down the Three Kings.

Kaiser was a genius everyone admitted, but he was no match for Judas.

If he had been a little more ambitious, he might have been frustrated with the misfortune given to him.

Suddenly, Judas, sitting in the throne of the Crown Prince, appeared to be a genius, but he was not just a genius.

Contractor of the Natural World 4-Attribute Spirit!

It was the birth of an incompetent spiritist after Daejeon Igret.

Even at that level, it was known to be superior in superior ranks, so it was a power that could not be fought against even if it was not a spirit royal rank.

The Emperor has long heard rumors of favouring the First Crown Prince, and has put Judas on the throne without any real disagreement.

Moreover, all the forces that support him are the nobles who are in charge of the great axis of the ruling class.

Judas became the next perfect monarch who had no room to sneak in immediately after killing Empress Saya.

It was like the Iron Castle.

As soon as he realized he was an undefeatable opponent, Kaiser gently abandoned his ambitions and entered Chipger's life.

I was told that I stayed calm, picking my favorite discipline and talented martial arts.

But I was in such a hurry not to come and see my brother.

He never came to see his brother after the Three Kings Sage had been abandoned in the Silent Palace.

They just knew they were alive.

‘The imperial bloodline. Maybe even lucky. ’

It was much cleaner now than the history of putting a sword in a brother's chest to wear a bloody crown.

In the first place, he was ignorant of the concept of family.

Both his former life and his present life grew up in an environment where he could not feel family relations, and not only that, but because of the imperial nature, it was difficult to be as intimate as a normal family with his parents.

When I think about it, my relationship with Sage was enormously special.

In fact, they would have been enemies if they had been.

Judas, who knew it better than anyone, swallowed up a silent bitter laugh.

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Strangely, Monday is sleepy for the congregation.... It's really weird... I mean, Monday is weird, not lazy. (?)

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