Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki
Episode XIV: The Glow of Khu
At dawn, he was watching the Imperial guys in a village close to the supply base with a telescope. Many of them are down with poison and seem busy grasping the damage.
Our base is closest to the Empire's supply base.
Finally, we are in the final stages of the operation.
Operation Abandoned One Village is also a success, with as many as a thousand and five hundred troops left in the Empire.
Originally, even if we scraped up to two thousand people to reach Elsier, we thought we could win with sacrifice, so the minimum goal would have been achieved.
The poison I used against them was completed and bottled in the village, based on what I once knew. It has properties closer to bacterial weapons than poison. It was planted in a corpse and cultured and sunk into a well.
Besides only spreading with oral infection without air infection, without adequate nutrition, it kills, but once infected, without vaccine, it does not help first. You'll be dead in two days.
This is just a leaked fragment of the knowledge of one of the five people sealed by [me].
The fragments alone are useful in a variety of fields, including the medicines we make in Elsier, poison arrows, and today's bacterial weapons.
Probably sealed. I'm a poison specialist. If you care about that, you can make something vicious that will only destroy one country. I guess that's why [I] seal it.
"Cyril!
The detachment, including Ku, came back where I was thinking.
We were in the final phase, so we were giving instructions to rendezvous at this base.
"Is everyone all right? Good."
I see not a single member of the detachment missing and breathe relief. On top of the constant need to take turns monitoring, detachments shooting crossbows to kill are, in a way, tougher jobs than the main unit.
Still, I can tell from not being able to replenish them, that they have done the job perfectly.
"Of course it is. I carried out my mission at risk. Eh."
Ku puts his chest up and looks doya.
"No, it would have been dangerous."
"Right. At first, only a few people came at a time, but when I came on a horse about a hundred people at a time, I thought I'd really shoot them off."
But everyone in the detachment that was behind Kuw ruins it.
"One hundred people at a time... well prevented"
If they get raided, the survivors will run the horses at all costs. Horses usually only get about 15 km/h of speed, but if it's just a few km, I can get 40 km/h out.
It's nearly impossible to shoot all hundreds with a bow while chasing it.
"It's time for Mr. Loreau and the others to work like gods to throw a chisel, a chisel to throw."
"You're not. Ku."
Loreu denied Ku's words describing the activity of Loreu and the others by gesture and hand gesture.
"Long, that's awesome, Ku. When I thought we'd been pulled out, I jumped out into the street, caught up with a horse running at all costs from behind, and this bubble flamed out of his whole body, burning the legs of a horse running in the lead and letting him fall. Then the people in the back were scared of the flames, and they fell, and they were like dominoes."
Much more impotent. But I'm the one who made you do it.... I counted on Khu's ability to start and end the mission in small numbers.
"Thanks Qu. If it weren't for Ku, we'd be in a bad situation."
Touch Ku's head with my words. Soft hair and fox "Fox" ears feel comfortable.
Khu makes a crisp face only for a moment, after loosening his expression to.
"Because this is what I do.... where is that yukino?"
I think I'm worried about my sister.
"I'm having a rest with you in the cabin now"
I can do surveillance on my own.
I wanted everyone to rest whenever possible. Not the chance to sleep in a roofed room.
During the operation, wrap your body with a single blanket in your backpack and bring it to sleep in the woods. Thanks to Yukino, the cold is soothing, but still the tiredness does not slip out inside.
This battle looks like we're winning unilaterally, but this one with a small number of people is doing a tournament that ends with a single loss.
It even seems unreasonable compared to how many times they don't mind being harmed.
unfamiliar environment, battlefield tension, a diet with adequate but unsavory nutritional aspects, and repeated wildlife. The spiritual burden of attacking humans.
Thanks to their own motivation and the brain drugs secreted into their brain by listening to me, the limits are close.
Unhidden fatigue floats in the faces of everyone in the detachment, but the main unit is still the same.
"Really, can we take a break too? We're all tired."
"Yeah, fine. The departure is in three hours. It's just me and the Firefox."
We don't need to attack the Empire people any more. You don't have to rush into the supply base to burn their pantry. Let's get you some rest and get you ready for your last operation.
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Guide everyone in the detachment inside the cabin.
The inside of the cabin is warm thanks to Yukino. No, I feel a little lower than usual.
If you look closely, the Yukino blanket is moving from time to time, and you hear a strange push to death. Ku looked harsh.
Ku peels off Yukino's blanket. Yukino was desperate to cough by pressing his mouth with his eyes open.
"Sister Ku. It's good to see you again."
Yukino opens his mouth with a slightly plundered voice. The expression remains the same as usual.
Ku silently put his hand on Yukino's forehead.
"Yukino, since when?
Yukino trembles on his shoulder.
"I don't know what you're talking about"
Ku stares straight into Yukino's eyes. Yukino tries to distract him, but Ku won't allow it.
After a while Yukino opened his mouth with notion.
"Since three days ago"
"... so much. Did you tell anyone that?
"I kept quiet. Because Yukino doesn't want to bother you. Besides, I have to prove that the Firefox is useful. I can't be clumped up with my feet."
Ku sighs, then strokes Yukino's head, then decopins.
"I stroked it because you're a hard worker, so I decoped it because I was hiding something important. In this case, you have to talk properly to Cyril alone. Because if you keep your mouth shut and you suddenly fall, that's what bothers you the most."
"I'm sorry, Sister Ku"
Turn to me with a bitter smile at the words of my stubborn sister.
"Cyril, you're done attacking the supply base, aren't you? Then leave Yukino here. I'll work for two."
"I don't mind that."
Originally, the Firefox was designated as two in order to ensure that there was no problem with one falling during the last raid and to reduce the burden during the operation.
Now that you've joined the detachment, there's no need for Yukino to force you anymore.
"Is Yukino sick?
"Yes, touch your forehead"
Touch Yukino's forehead. It's a terrible fever. It's between 38°C and 39°C.
If Yukino's story is true, he's been sick for three days. And yet you've always supported us.
"I'm sorry. I couldn't have noticed you all the time"
"Yeah, because Yukino tried to hide it. Brother Cyril is not bad."
In this situation, you were moving around in the woods about us, always warming us up, behaving like warm drinks and helping us prepare our meals?
"Was Yukino working hard?
"Oh, thanks to Yukino, it's always been warm"
"All the time?
"Yeah, all the time."
"I can't do it too much. Even if I'm not on holiday, it's hard."
"Because everyone will be happy. Besides, only Yukino can do it."
The words make my liver cold. The use of witchcraft to keep the air around you warm outdoors, however low the consumption, should have been a considerable burden. I'm trying not to let the air escape, but I'll disarm you just in the middle of a fight.
Besides, this kid is only twelve years old. Even if you are trained on a fire fox that is blessed with physical abilities, it is weirder not to run around in the woods like an adult, go wild and fall if there is always a burden of witchcraft on it.
Besides, up to the last three days, he's hiding it with a high fever and behaving as usual.
Yukino looked sweet because he was special. It could have been a terrible thing if I had delayed my rendezvous with Ku.
Reminds me of what Chemin and Krone were saying.
"Yukino is scared because she works too hard. So I want you to protect me. '
I had been advised, but I made it too much to do. You can't get a reward from both of us for this.
"Dear Brother Cyril, I'm going to Yukino. Work to the end."
"No. I can't take you."
"Until today, I didn't pull my leg even if it was hard. It did a good job. I want to do it."
Yukino begs with tears in his eyes. I know how that feels, and I guess the sense of responsibility that you're here on behalf of the Firefox makes you do that. But I can't let it happen.
"It's okay. Yukino didn't throw out his job. We did it right. He did his best until Qu arrived. So you can rest now. Everyone worked hard because Yukino was there. Really good luck."
Yukino remained a moist eye, but the fine looking faceless expression he was forced to make collapsed.
"Yukino, I was able to live up to the expectations of Brother Cyril properly"
"Yeah, you worked harder than I imagined."
"Yukino, I'm not bothering you"
"Yeah, rather we were just sweet to Yukino"
"Good. Well done."
Tears spill out of Yukino's eyes with a word of relief. Looks like he's finally released from his heavy duty as a representative of the Firefox.
"But. I want you to tell me it's hard when it's hard next time. If it was a few days late to rendezvous with Ku, Yukino would have fallen and that could have been the trouble. So promise."
"Yeah, I promise"
"Good boy."
I brutally stroke Yukino's hair in a squeaky manner. And keep the cough medicine and the hot pills in your mouth.
"Let's reward Yukino for something like that. What do you want?
"Brother Cyril's Child"
"... else"
"I can't decide right away. I'm getting sleepy."
Side effects of the medicine and Yukino rubbing his face like he was sleeping because of a broken thread of tension.
"I'm leaving a message here, 'cause I'll pick you up when I wake up"
"Yeah, okay. So, Brother Cyril, come and definitely pick me up."
"Of course I'm not leaving my pretty sister behind."
"Good night."
Yukino finally put me to sleep.
Angel-like sleeping faces seem loving.
"Ku, I'm sorry. While I'm on."
"No, because I couldn't educate Yukino properly. I couldn't teach you to lose your strength just to make you work hard. If it's a fire fox style education, you'll grow up first in guts, so we need to figure out what to do."
I grinned.
I do have tremendous guts. Keep running around in the mountains with high fever and using magic. Normally, it raises roots.... but that won't do.
"Little Yukino worked hard for me. We need to get the final finish straight."
"Yes, let's do our best"
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Me and Ku were just two people running.
Track down the Imperial soldier who was out first on the way.
The smaller the number than sneaking into the supply base, the better, so everyone else is leaving it in the cabin. Everyone who remains will be based there to disrupt the supply that the detachment was carrying out. Lucier is in charge of Yukino.
If we can safely burn down their pantry, a total of three hundred people stationed at the supply base and eight hundred surviving Imperial soldiers will starve us.
We even disrupt regular food supplies and starve them to death. It would force them to attack nearby villages trying to collect food, but even if they do that, it's water on the burning stone.
On the contrary, the opposition to the Empire just swells.
"Ku, winning this fight isn't the goal. The purpose lies ahead. Make enemies of the Empire. Rebellion in the village of Elf. It's not that little of a problem."
I spoke to Qu running next door.
"So you're in so much trouble"
The soldiers who fled their ranks cannot return to the Empire. Running away in front of an enemy is a capital offence.
Then we'll have to become bandits attacking nearby villages. A soldier's collapse strikes villages close to the Empire. That would do a great deal of scratching on the Imperial sign.
And even the main unit is destroying one village for a wrongful crime. I'm disguised as one of their soldiers, throwing a body into a well, and I'm letting the most likely villagers get away with it.
The bad reviews will spread everywhere.
To stop it, burn the supply base's pantry and supply it. Then we'll try to tighten up the guys on the other side of the supply base this time.
In that way, both the imperial side of the supply base and the Elsier side will be asked to make a great deal of enemies, and those who reach the supply base on it will starve to death. Until then, the weeks are caged in the cabin to disrupt supplies.
I can't have a decent army ready for a while more than this. You won't be the first to come with a supply unit with an escort the size of which we can't raid.
"We will then have an empty supply base to base"
"Cyril, I can't think of anything."
Of course, there will be countless more refugees out there than this many empires and their deserting soldiers have ravaged us.
I'll put those refugees together and put them in the supply base they took over, and I'll lay the groundwork for them to live on while providing assistance with the food they bought with gold. There are probably about three hundred refugees who can be safely inducted.
It would be easy to induce refugees if they were fed.
The Empire's supply base is protected by strong walls on all sides, while there is room for thousands of people to live on, not to mention the land where some crops can be made, wells and other infrastructures. It is the best environment for hosting refugees.
If you don't choose quality for a few months before you become self-sufficient, you'll be able to feed it with your own money, and if it's not enough, I'll take care of it. That way, the supply base that's been a stepping stone to attacking Elsier will quickly turn into a base to stop them.
It takes time to drop that one with a positive attack method, and most importantly, it causes the empire's soldiers to wear out, and it can also be an alarm.
"Can't you welcome me to Elsier?
"That's hard. Unlike the Firefoxes, I suspect the conversation will pass, and I have security issues. That's all you can do to make people you don't trust."
Make it a wall instead of fixing food and living conditions.
That was my conclusion.
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The structure of the supply base is well known.
Unlike when you raid with a deet, instead of smashing through the front gate, you use wind magic to jump over a wall about 5m high with a cu in your hand.
Then, without making any noise, he went inside, unintentionally beating each of them to make sure they were safe.
"Ku, you're ready."
"Anytime."
Ku takes out the necklace he hides in his clothes and grips it all the time. Its tip has a gem as red and beautiful as blood.
It's Ku's brother's demon stone.
I killed the soldier behind the pantry [Extended Perception] to make sure there were no enemies in the vicinity.
"Get started."
"Yes."
Overlap your hands to wrap your jewels in front of your chest as Khu prays.
There was red light leaking out of the gap in my hand. An indelible light that takes away the soul of what you're looking at.
There's a crack in the demon stone, and the light seems to be leaking from it.
"Brother. Let's get the hammer down together. It's everyone's vendetta."
After Ku stroked the demon stone of fire with love, he gently released it.
It glowed and headed for the pantry, completely crushed.
"[Purgatory Fire Pillar]"
Red columns of fire strike heaven that do not seem to belong in this world.
The pillar is so overwhelming that it wraps the pantry.
Above all, it is its brilliance that is crushing. The red flame is not that hot. But this is a crimson flame wrapped in gold phosphorescence that does not exist in nature. The amount of magic being poured into it deserves to be amazed even with this me.
Even so, the flame was beautiful. I'm sure this is Qu's brilliance.
Plus, I'm so close I don't feel any heat at all. Perhaps inside that fire column is like a junction, trapping heat and burning everything down.
"Ku, it's over."
The pantry disappeared from the world without leaving any ashes.
"Yes, it's over. Thank you, Cyril. Now we have all taken our vengeance."
Ku smiles like his possession has fallen, and he's about to get into it. The long time Qu's revenge is over.
"Let's get out of here, people are coming together. And let me tell you something important."
"What is it?
"Ku looks like he's satisfied with his vendetta, but you can't be satisfied here. This is not a fun place to start. It's the beginning of life for us to be happy."
"Can you give me a break for a moment?"
"No, you can't. I'm gonna be happier. There is no time to look back on the past. So let's run together, Ku."
Take Ku's hand and run out.
Then Ku...
"Yes."
He smiled and shook my hand tightly and ran out.