Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki

Episode XVI: War Begins

"This is what you did to us for saving the world!

I scream with my daughter's wreckage in the basement of the royal castle, shaking her white hair.

My daughter was married to the royal family in an attempt to be a bridge between vampire and human friendship. He was a bright, well-laughed kid, but he'd never move again.

At one point on the border, my daughter stopped sending me letters that had been sent regularly. I got worried and sent a letter to check on my daughter and she immediately got a reply from me. But that unnecessarily fueled my anxiety.... the handwriting of the letter was a fake that made her look like her daughter.

You can't stay, you can get into the king's capital and you can see it.

My daughter had been killed.

Vampire blood can help reduce aging if drank by humans.

My daughter was just used as a tool to make immortal blood, and she was dead of such a single human mistake that she "accidentally, drained too much blood”.

The prince, whom my daughter loved and whom I trusted to entrust to my daughter, was trapped by a brother blinded by greed and lost his legs. He's been killed before his daughter.

Many soldiers tried to kill me by the time I came here following the smell of my daughter.

Maybe he was scared. Maybe he wanted a new blood bag.

Until a few months ago, they didn't hesitate to point a blade at me for praising me as the hero who led the vampires to save the world.

At the very least, in some human outbursts, with a formal apology, we could still, unforgivably, have tried to swallow our anger.

But I'm not a fraternist enough to be hit so far and laugh.

"I had a sweet dream about coexistence, too. Interpretation, people and we are incompatible. Blood Magic [Red Moon White Night]"

I activate my own intrinsic magic in the basement of the Imperial Castle.

Create a different world dominated by a bloody moon.

The magic of bulimia that sucks out the magic and soul of everything that lives and lives in it, aimed at a radius of hundreds of meters.

The magic and soul I absorb reinforces me, and the stronger I become, the wider and wider the other kingdoms become.

If you use such a thing in a castle, the center of the king's capital, you don't know how many thousands will die.

But I don't mind. Humans... no, it's not how much livestock found out about dying.

I will eat up all the people in this city and feed them.

"Come on, man, now I'm gonna take everything from you"

And you will be the demon king who buried himself to save the human being, destroying him.

"Ha, ha, ha"

I wake up.

My heart sounds so high that it hurts. This is me and Lucier's house in Elsier.

Next door, Lucier and Yukino were resting easy.

"Again, my dreams of the past"

Recently, I dream of the past like every night. That, too, is all between tragedy and death.

Knight Deet's despair of losing his beloved because he was born into a game-like world and pierced his chivalry.

The carelessness of Queiro, a blacksmith who went for the supreme sword and was murdered halfway down that path, without being afraid and flattered by any power, because he continued to make too powerful a weapon.

The cry of the vampire Glamdir, who saved people, betrayed them by men, and was fought by brave men to become demon kings himself and destroy the world.

Their pain comes through like it's about them.

Is this what it really means to be one with me?

I wonder how long I can stay...

"Lucier, if Lucier were here, he'd be fine."

I'm still asleep. I kissed Lucier's cheek. The pain that seems to rip off disappears.

As long as she's around, I won't have to lose sight of myself.

"It was nothing else that got me together today. The Last War Begins"

I was gathering Elsier's leading figures, Klao, acting village chief, Loreu, representing the elite unit Irraxa, and Ku, representing the Firefox, for a meeting.

The discipline has also received a letter from Ashno declaring war.

They're leaving the empire in two days.

Probably will arrive at Bel Elsier in about ten days. It's hard to think of breaking through that robust fort directly from the front. Given the detour, it will take another fifteen days or so from there. In other words, it is expected to arrive in twenty-five days if there is no stopping.

"Enough Empire power has been sharpened, but they still operate nearly 10,000 soldiers across the street. We need to challenge Cage Castle. If we fight outside the wall, they'll crush us in an instant."

The number of operational soldiers here is at best one hundred, and how many bows a hundred men have unleashed is water on the burning stone.

To that end, they created walls that could not be broken through.

We have to defend ourselves thoroughly in the walls and endure.

"Cyril, I have a question. It's good to cage, but if you're standing caged, can you win? In the previous battle, we slapped on enemy supplies, but I think they're being taken care of this time. If the enemy's supply line is secure, this one will dry up before the enemy."

Kuw, who had come as the representative of the Firefox, speaks up.

Her pointers are good. A cage castle is a root comparison to its opponent.

It doesn't make sense if this one dries up first, just how much we've prevented it from breaking in.

Measures to disrupt replenishment would also undoubtedly have been taken. Installation of a simple relay point, placing food in the villages via beforehand. I also take those things into account.

The latter one, I'm also grasping the motion and obstructing it, but the former can't help it.

In advance, he negotiated with the heads of the villages to pass through and arranged for them to be displaced to Bel Elsier with food deployed by the Empire as the Empire departed. Negotiations have been easy thanks to the recent unscrupulous take-up here and even rumors of Bel Elsier's rich life.

"You're trying to crush the supply line, but it's not perfectly possible. You may be worried about Ku. But, yes, the imperial side can't continue the front either for a long time. Shall we talk about the status quo of both the Elsier side and the Empire side?"

I breathe, I make for it, I open my mouth.

"Elsier is better, but I'm originally saving more than a year's worth of wheat from Erin in preparation for this fight, and I'm making tons of dry meat. It's small, but I grew vegetables in the walls, and the potato harvest is safe. I also have a ton of hemp fruit, and if you feel like it, I'll have it for about two years. I can pull the water source out of the groundwater too, so I won't have any trouble."

Elsier's strength and weakness is the small number of people. It is resistant to caged castles because it is about 300 people.

On the contrary, the Imperial side has 10,000 soldiers on the expedition alone. Simple calculations will require more than thirty times more food.

"The Imperial side can't expect much support from the country. It's a stranger state of the economy that we're still going to fight, rather than"

I am purchasing information from the villages surrounding the Empire.

There's more damage to fake bills and the drug Sauge than I imagined. The pig pig "Oak" tribe is the focus and it efficiently spreads drugs around me.

At first, it's just the same, scraping the drug "sauge," raising prices since it became dependent, to the goldless one, abetting the theft of military stockpiles, etc.

I thought it was a brain muscle, but it's cunning like a mafia.

"So, two months. You'll run out of strength around there. Now there is no money or food in the empire itself. Even the Imperial Town has starved to death."

What the hell happened to the Empire?

"I don't know that far. Rumor has it that the Empire failed by launching a policy."

Keep your mouth shut about fake bills and the drug Sauji. This is information I don't need to tell you.

"Dear Cyril. So you're not going to go on any offense from here?

Klao, acting chief, calls out.

"No, I don't mean that. I can attack you from here too. In this previous battle, we are going to take the guerrilla tactics of war that Iraqsa did, delay our arrival and cut our strength and strength as much as possible. It's part of getting everyone in Iraq to plant anti-personnel mines."

On the road from Bel Elsier to Elsier, there are countless anti-personnel mines built by me in all of Iraq. Until the end of this war, exchanges between Bel Elsier and Elsier were forbidden.

An anti-personnel mine would be somewhat of a stepping stone.

Most importantly, Ashno, who can use earthly magic, will be taken care of immediately, but if the detection range is due to earthly magic, leakage is difficult.

Additionally, "the fear that a mine may be buried” slows down the enemy's legs.

And anti-personnel mines were needed to take advantage of another weapon.

"Long, you have to come. Everyone in Iraq is stronger than before."

Loreu, captain of Irraxa, raised his voice when his turn came.

I can now leave it up to Loreu to educate Irraxa. Loreau, who was solitary, also grew up quite well.

"No, there are only three of us out of Iraqsa this time"

"Why, chief! You'd better have one."

"There's a monster in the enemy this time. If we do the same thing as last time, they'll catch us and kill us all. They will master the mana of all attributes with a radius of 300 meters. And he's stronger than me using wind magic."

The air around me is stiff with what I'm saying.

The basic tactic of elves is wind magic is the basis of everything. Use it against enemies to increase the chance of hitting an arrow.

Without both of them, it would be very different from humans.

"Oh no, monster, what are you going to do!? Long!"

"Use this guy"

I took my binoculars out of my bag.

"This guy can look up to 2 km away. This supplements the target, while attacking a population more than 1 km away from the compound. The number of enemies is 10,000. Even in two rows, it will be as long as 5 km. If you're out of sight, you'll be safe to attack. Eat a blow and you'll be gone soon."

Where Ashno has narrowed down his exploration in one direction, 500 m at most, and there is always an area out of sight, so striking it ensures safety.

"Then, long. You wouldn't mind if we all set out, would you?

"No. The opponent is out of standard. In case there is. At that point, I can stop for a while. Conversely, the assumption is that I have enough people to cover and just enough strength to escape in a matter of time. So, this operation will be conducted by me and three members of Irraxa. Me, Loreu, Lucier, Yukino."

The three Loreux, Lucier and Yukino have fallen short of their physical abilities in magic enhancements.

Originally, I didn't want to take the young Yukino, but it was more imperative to capture the magic of fire than it would be a long-term operation.

"But. Chief, what can only four of us do? If I give him a blow, he'll leave, one or three arrows at most, right? What's the point of killing about ten people in a single ambush?"

I'm not wrong about Loreau.

The number of enemies is more than 10,000, only about ten errors. Moreover, the number of raids decreases dramatically, beyond being raids since Ashno was captured in view.

A raid in a crossbow hardly strikes me.

"I'm thinking about that. I made a new weapon for this one. It's ready outside, so let's go check it out."

Outside, an Iraqsa man elf was just about to bring in an iron sphere with a radius of about three meters for four.

"This sphere is hidden in twenty places in the Imperial Army's predicted path. I just can't carry it, so I collect it and use it on the spot."

"Chief, is this a weapon?

"That's right. The name of this weapon is called a cluster bomb."

"Cluster bomb?

"Yes."

On Earth, I made weapons that were forbidden to use because they were too inhumane.

"First of all, this huge sphere is packed with hundreds of simple grenades"

I opened the contents of the cluster explosion and it was packed tightly with little iron spheres.

"Loreau and Lucier throw this guy over the enemy's head with the help of the wind, and I'll fine tune it. Then this guy, who is meticulously crafted, explodes as he spins at high speeds, scattering hundreds of grenades that are jammed inside extensively. And when hundreds of sprinkled grenades hit the ground or the enemy, one by one explodes and scatters countless pieces of iron. Furthermore, this time the contents of the grenade are made of soft iron in order to increase the killing power. This guy crumbles in humans, spreads his wounds, makes it difficult to treat him."

Iron pieces, in principle, are equivalent to what is called a dam dam bullet. This is also a weapon whose use is prohibited on the grounds that it is inhumane.

"Hey, chief, as far as I'm concerned, that sounds like a hell of a weapon."

"Yes, a hell of a weapon. It's a weapon that can kill and injure hundreds of people, targeting hundreds of meters in a single shot."

"Are you serious about using that stuff, Chief!

"Naturally. If you don't, you can't win. Anti-personnel mines are nothing but bait to catch Ashno in the lead, which can use earthly magic, this one is the destiny. If this weapon doesn't work, we won't win."

If you realize that an anti-personnel mine is being laid, make sure that Ashno, who can detect it in the soil, walks the battle of the line, making one detection at a time.

In that case, the back row is empty. This plan is to reliably emit cluster lightning there.

I've weighed quite a bit myself so far. However, in this battle, we have abandoned all our own weight from the beginning. Anti-personnel mines, cluster bombs, dam dam ammunition, fake bills, drugs, weapons that cannot be used if they are all pieces of conscience.

"But isn't that a little too much?

"Loreau, even I have a conscience to blame. But if we don't get this far, we can't win. That's the difference between an Elsier with only about three hundred men and an empire where soldiers alone can have 10,000 men. If you fight to death squarely, even if you sell your soul to the devil, you survive. I like Elsier and everyone who lives in Elsier. Never, never want to lose it. So help us all."

Expose your heart and bow your head.

Weird deception here, no one will follow me.

For a little while the silence ruled the area.

"Chief, give me your head. Sorry."

"That's right. Dear Cyril, please give me your face. I will follow Cyril no matter what happens to this Klao."

Klao and Loreau convinced me.

Ku also nods silently.

"Tomorrow, the four of us, including me, are going to war. Loreau is ready, and Klao is away. Then, Ku. Watch your body."

"Yes, I did. I'll show you Cyril's absence."

Cyril, you're safe.

Put your hands on Kuw's head, then align your lips.

We stare at each other, without words. Some things are conveyed just by staring at each other.

I'm leaving tomorrow.

Come on, it's the beginning of the war.