Golden Experience

"Portley, is that you?

"Oh, it's Portley."

"I don't mind telling you anywhere, but can I ask why?

Ah, I recently saw a sudden increase in insect-type monster damage across Portley on SNS, but do you feel like taking a ride on it?

"Hmm. You know me well.

Yes, now the country is being attacked one after the other by a vast army of kokorogi, by a phenomenon similar to locust infestation in reality.

Unlike the locust plague of our world, this monster eats people and cattle normally. Although there aren't many cows in Portley. "

"Who asked you! I'll make it a stuffed animal!

I knew this would happen, so it would have been smart for Bamboo to explain.

But while I was asking the professor what it was about, it bothered me, so I decided to let him explain myself.

"Calm down, home cage. That's what he's proposing. You're quick to make him explain. Kiyoshi, keep going."

"Rest assured, cage lady. I'm not going to split it into separate pieces. Oh, it hurts! Stop, stop!

... Now, that's not the only reason I set Portley as a target.

As you know, at the heart of this war, the typhoon is the kingdom of Pare. With the Shape Kingdom marching south and north of the Pairé, the battlefield spread widely across the north and south of the Pairé, but in any case within the Pairé kingdom.

For this reason, it is basically not necessary to send troops for countries other than Pairé. After all, it is an anomaly that the state that declared war is waging war in its own territory. Leaving it alone will destroy it. For Wealth and Oral, we didn't dare to fight the pair, so if we don't get hurt, we'll just sit back and watch, and we'll be at peace.

This is because the shape brought in the spear just before the war, but it turned out to be a bit of an interesting sight to see from other countries that it would cause trouble on its own and destroy itself. "

"You're as bad as ever!

"You feel bad about the way you say it."

The beard is twitching and moving up and down. I wonder if this is the "flashy expression" in this state.

"... that's it.

However, only one of the countries declared war had shown a positive attitude towards war.

That is the Kingdom of Portley.

In the first place, it can be said that this series of incidents is an end in that country's unauthorized transfer of armed forces to the Pairé country.

Although the public opinion in large part says that pairs are the root of all evils, they are not, if traced back to the original. Due to the poor response that followed, there is also the view that it was even a pay-as-you-go royalty, but there is no reason to turn the Knights of a country that is not calmly thought of and adjacent to them to their own country, nor do I think it is possible to do that with aim.

I mean, if anyone wanted this war, it would be King Portley, not King Pairé. "

"Then what is it?

"Calm down! How about it...?

No, it doesn't matter. It's none of our business.

Importantly, it seems that the Portley-kingdom has something to do with it somewhere within the Pairé kingdom. Otherwise, I wouldn't go into someone else's garden for the risk of a fight.

Well, if fighting was the end in itself, I couldn't say that, but if you just wanted to fight, there must have been something else to do.

By the way, do you know? There is a town called Plantan near the border between the Pairé kingdom and the Oral kingdom in question, but very recently most of the inhabitants of this Plantan have been semi-enforced. "

Lyla said she was made to, but this information was picked up from the SNS properly.

I can say I waited for this information to come out publicly.

Well, if there's going to be a war, it's not strange to evacuate people near the border.

"Yes. In itself.

Normally, if it's a city along the border where the residents escaped, Theory is the base and the key to defense. However, the Knights have not been dispatched from Oral, especially from the nearest major city, the Hugel Cup.

Instead, the Knights of the Elves saw players working around the Hugel Cup. "

"Did they just say they broke into Pairé's garden?

"No, you're a different unit than that. It meant we passed the Hugel Cup from south to north.

Then they left their country, passed through Oral territory and headed for either Plantan or Zorlen.

The Knights of the Elves, who were in Zorlen, have retreated to the Plantan, and it is reasonable to assume that they will join them.

Given that Oral and Portlee are in a cooperative relationship, it may be that they use their power to entrust Plantan defense to Portlee. Normally speaking, if you don't have enough trust to turn one city over to the army of another country, it's not possible, but the story is that there has never been a war between humankind on this continent, and the Orals may be overly afraid of war. You don't want to fight the Beast, so you're gonna let Portley take responsibility for what started the war.

Well, it's possible they went directly to the ruins, but that doesn't matter. "

"... please wait a minute. How many Knights was Portleys?

"I see you've noticed. That's Mr Bamboo's one-armed and famous cage lady.

I don't know how many, but at least two or more of them are currently away from Portley. If they have a business within the Kingdom of Pairé, they are hiking to a very distant place that crosses one country.

Just before the last Angel raid, Les, uh, there was a knighthood that was wiped out by the Seventh Catastrophe, and perhaps the thinnest and least vigilant country right now should be Portley. "

The judgment will be exhaustive, but it seems that no one was particularly suspicious, so I decided not to ask.

"I see...."

"No, not really. Shape kingdoms are clearly weaker, aren't they? We're probably marching closer to the full force."

"─ ─ Humanity."

I didn't seem to fool around with the house cage. I had no choice but to bamboo out my mouth.

The Shape Kingdom is now virtually controlled by Blanc. Not in a systematic sense, but in a physical sense.

Everyone is hungry and scared of giants. And the Knights who should have confronted it have gone abroad.

The Shape Kingdom is, to put it mildly, a flame of wind. If you blow it, it will disappear.

It's also a shame that Shape suddenly falls off now that you're spreading the commotion in the kingdom of Pairee, albeit unplanned.

If you care about it, it is also a country that will be destroyed by Blanc's voice, and it is not good that MPC is only delicious.

"Shapes may certainly not have a human protector.

But there are monsters who have driven a country that far. Let's say we're competitors in the same industry. It's a competitor.

Even though we and them are targeting humankind together, we can't get along.

If you're bad, it could be more dangerous than dealing with humanity. "

"I see, I see. It was completely unmarked because it didn't bother me at all in this cave, but the shape was full of giant monsters."

"I'm glad you understand.

If our goal is the annihilation of the human nation, the Kingdom of Portree is truly worthy as a stepping stone. "

Say thank you for following me.

I don't think so, but this mission itself is what Bambu and two professors were able to say to Lila.

The first person to throw a full explanation was Bamboo, and the support might be Bamboo's job.

"But that's it. If you're alerted, that's why you won't be crushed by friendly countries' orals."

The professor turned his eyes to Skeleton's question.

"... I see, I didn't think about it, but it might be possible."

Not at all, Tanuki.

"Mm...."

Since Lyla asked me to attack Portley in the first place, it's impossible for Lyla to retaliate, but others don't know.

The professor is worried about how to convince him that it cannot happen, but it is impossible to convince him 100% of the future.

Better convince them that it doesn't matter how they fall.

"─ ─ No, it doesn't matter.

Our aim is not to capture Portley. Destruction. If the Orals are going to retaliate against it, we need to get out of here. There is no need to defend a city or country that has been attacked or destroyed.

Oral, so far, it's not much to hurt, but nominally, it's a declaration of war. I don't think it will be enough for Portley to leave the pair alone for a long time.

Besides, there are some nasty geeks in Portley. Even if the Oral guys come in, you don't want to stay long.

Let's wait for the Oral Knights to rise and attack another city. "

"Hmm. You're right about the master.

It is quick to take care of all the royalties to defeat the state, but this is a mission that even that disaster failed last time. If we are known to be targeting the royal family, the Oral Army may have garrisons in King's Land, and it will be less difficult to target the loss of another condition here, that is, the land or the people.

Cormorants are also attacking food orchards. If this state continues, Portry will eventually lose as much weight as the shape. I can't resist. "

It's not as difficult as it sounds, but none of the targeted royalties are in the country, so we have to do it.

It is also Rare and Lyla's intention to see what happens when only the country is destroyed while the royal family is alive.

"Well, no matter where we attack, the risk is the same, and I know that Portley is the most feasible.

I don't mind if the Master agrees. I will also contact other members. "

"Finally, the time has come for us to enter the main event!

In any case, Portley's locust infestation was a mess. I used to think I was an idiot. You knew that well. "

"Uh, I can deduce that from the point of view of eating people and animals. It's a complete herbivore, for example, in the Battaceae family, which commonly causes locust damage.

Even though locust plague is used in the first place, it is not technically locust plague that actually causes locust plaque, but some bats with phenotypic plasticity.

This bat is in the form of a solitary phase for those living in a normal environment, but if the number of individuals of the same species increases within a certain range, a phase mutation occurs, and the larvae in the form of a completely different crowd phase from the appearance ─ ─ "

The professor was bluffing about the korogi.

Just because I eat a little meat doesn't mean it's a korogi, but it doesn't seem like any of the members I've heard are caught in it.

To the best of Bamboo's knowledge, there is no complete herbivore monster in the game.

Even monsters originally inspired by herbivores usually eat insects and some corpses when they get hungry.

If the grass is growing because I like it or not, I naturally eat it from the grass, but I can't live without it. The same can be said of the demons of carnivore motifs.

This is a fact that only players who have starved with the same eyes as the monsters know, and I am not willing to point it out.

No matter how realistic the game may be, it couldn't be set as a parameter even to the finest nutrients.

There may be a lot of clutter like meat and vegetables, but it means that they don't reproduce the mechanism of digestive absorption in detail or divide a dozen different kinds with just vitamins.

On the other hand, it seems to be reproduced quite accurately in terms of taste, so much so that honestly we don't know the difference from reality.

This is well reflected in insects and, more or less, in the soil, and the squid that fell on the ground during the hungry Goblin period tasted like soil.

In terms of data, I remember very well whether he probably had "poison" or something, because he died shortly after he was satisfied with hunger.

"─ ─ The call is over. Is the decision up to you?

"No, the event has already begun. Let's set off one by one from someone who can go. Let's go, too."

"Yes. ─ What is that thing doing?

"It's like majoring. Leave me alone."

"─ ─ That's why the batter that took the swarm phase is not suitable for eating.

I don't know if the cormorants in Portley are in the same ecology this time, but if you see them there, you shouldn't knock them down and eat them. Stay calm. Likes "