Hakai no Miko

I could hear the drums from far away.

Shemr, who was closing his eyes to it and listening, turned to the pale horse as he finished listening to the clap of a single drum.

"We did it, Soma. They took down Copper Mountain like Marben and got the help of the Dwarves."

The Ethereal Horse, who had Shemr unravel a message using the sound of Zoan's drums, stroked down his chest in a ho.

"Good. - Did you repay Mr. Nahl any favors with this?

Think of the shadow of the Dwarf who died to save himself, and often mourn his death.

Then I turned to the elf woman who was holding back beside me.

"Mr. Gallum crossed the river unnoticed, thanks to Erica and the others for showing us the way. Thank you."

This is Erika, who is now wearing a bow around her shoulder in the clothes of an elf archer, but has followed her as a female officer who takes care of the pale horse during military operations.

"No. I'm glad to be of service to Master Soma"

To the words of the Ethereal Horse, Erica said slightly blushing her cheeks. Wherever I first met him, his appearance was much more gloomy.

It seems that in such a short period of time she was able to become a woman was the gift (occasionally) of Eladia's immediate guidance, the chief woman. Initially, he said, "That's instruction, not instruction, instruction!" He was screaming in tears, but now he does enough for me as a woman official.

I was just wondering what kind of instruction it was, but when I asked her about it, she would talk like a robot with a dead fishy eye, "lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah niha deep ku thank you itashitheorimus," so I decided not to listen in depth.

Shemr puts tea in a pale horse smiling at Aerika.

"So it didn't go to waste that I was so worried that Soma was dying."

Besides, the pale horse pulls his cheeks.

Shemr keeps asking me how I was worried. Come on, it's time for you to give me a break.

Most importantly, Shemr doesn't mean it either. I immediately changed the subject.

"But Soma. What is happening to a country called Holmea? Even wolves bark at warriors who enter their hunting grounds."

It seems that Shemr has not been able to enter so easily into the depths of the enemy land.

The most pale horse was also a little surprised.

"It's the way I expected it to be, but I didn't think there'd be any impediments so far either."

I moved over five hundred people because I picked a place that was invisible to people and let them cross the river. As a matter of fact, the Ethereal Horse thought it was more likely that his predictions would be missed and that the intruding Gallums would be captured and surrounded by the Holmea National Army before falling Marben Copper Mountain.

In that case, we had enough measures in place to give up the fall of Copper Mountain to have guerrilla warfare unfolding around the eastern part of the Holmeer country and create a situation where the Romanian state could not help but attack without waiting for the promise that it would drop one of the cities, but it is just as applaudable that it could fall Marben Copper Mountain so easily.

The Ethereal Horse looks difficult and scratches his own head.

"Looks like King Walius's hopes have fallen more than I expected."

"Hmm. - But I don't think you want Soma to tell you what caused it."

To Shemr's sharp penetration, neither did the Ethereal Horse return a bitter laugh.

Then far east - says Ethereal Horse, looking at those who think there is Marben Copper Mountain.

"The hurrier who tells us he was raided on Marben Copper Mountain will probably arrive in Wang Capital in about three to four days if Mr. Garam and Mr. Zug do well. Then a day to prepare soldiers. It takes a little more than a day for them to arrive in Copper Mountain, however hastily. - Well, does it work?

Saying so in his mouth, the Ethereal Horse was not so worried. In any case, there are three people who are implementing this measure: Garam, Zug, and Dvarin, who also have a great deal of trust in the Ethereal Horse. I was sure they would accomplish the measure.

And as expected, Zoan and the others, commanded by Garam and Zug, had succeeded in subverting the haste unleashed against the king's capital during the Marben Copper Mountain offensive, obstructing its path and crushing the horse on which it was riding.

But after Zoan and the others pulled up convinced of their success, they had not been able to read just as many blue horses until the hurry, which should have crushed their legs, met Baron Cantobias.

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The haste from Marben Copper Mountain arrived in the king's capital earlier than expected by Baron Cantobias, but King Walius could not have known it, nor was he very pleased. On the contrary, King Walius rose from the throne and shouted in an unnoticed manner, even though he had dropped his sceptre.

"What the hell is going on?! Why are the enemies breaking in deep inside our country?! Have we not heard from anywhere that the enemies have broken in?!"

King Walius scoffed (bruised) at reports that rebel slaves never even tried to cross the river.

This is the reward of the fall of Marben Copper Mountain, where we thought we could crush Himomori with the armies of the Horsemen, such pitiful ones.

It was exactly like being flanked by a hand that jumped out of the unexpected.

So angry at the thinness of the protection of the country that allowed it.

"Who, explain this!

To King Walius, who spits and raises his voice of anger, the court ministers pushed each other in a loss role with their eyes saying, "Say you." But King Walius would explode further inquiries if no one remained unanswered. Sooner or later, an elderly minister speaks terribly.

"I'm afraid, Your Majesty. We haven't received any such reports yet."

And King Walius exploded, as Ting Shen and the others expected.

"So when does Marben say it was a lie or a falsehood that was dropped?! Or did the subhumans spring from the earth or descend from heaven?!"

Everyone in the court wanted us to tell them that too, but there was no way we could put that in our mouths, and we just had to keep quiet.

In it, one heavy minister becomes the face that realizes something hah. Then he hastily advanced to King Walius: "I am afraid I address you to Your Majesty," he said.

"Surely the minister remembers, as the merchant of Jeboa had come to this king's capital the other day to buy copper..."

He was King Walius, who was mad, but opened his mouth "Ah" to it.

Copper mined from Marben Copper Mountain moisturizes the treasury with much of it cast into currency. At the same time, large quantities of copper, comparable to those used for monetary casting, have been paid down to the merchants of Jeboa and replaced with precious metals other than copper - gold and silver and rare treasures taken from foreign countries.

And Cornelius, the biggest precious metal dealer in Jeboa, is visiting King's Capital as usual this year to buy copper from Marben Copper Mountain, which can be paid off again, and King Walius himself has just received that greeting the other day.

I hear that the gold and silver and treasures already brought in by Cornelius from Jeboa have been brought into the treasure trove of the Royal Palace. Yet now there is no copper, etc.

King Walius, just as angry and blown away, asks about the soldier who came from Marben Copper Mountain as an expedition.

"How about copper?! I should have ordered you to carry the rest of the copper to the king's capital. How's the copper?!"

"Copper was ready for transport..."

The soldier has said, but that is enough.

"Copper is... the rest of the copper is still in Marben Copper Mountain!

To too much, King Walius gets stunned.

"Your Majesty, this is important!

Needless to say, the heavy minister who said so, this is an important part of the state.

It was against Cornelius, one of the ten members of the Alliance of Merchants of Jeboa, that the Holmeer State exchanged promises to prepare copper. That must always be fulfilled. It is a fulfilled and natural promise.

That's why Cornelius is beginning to deliver gold and silver and other items to the Royal Palace before the real copper is available. Yet it is not acceptable that copper could not be prepared after this step. If that happens, it is precisely the loss of the prestige of the Holmeer State.

"Duh, get the copper...! Take back the rest of the copper!

King Walius, who returned to me, immediately raised his voice.

"Hurry up and take the soldiers to Marben Copper Mountain! Hurry, hurry!

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A soldier was immediately broken from the guards of the Wang capital, Holmenia, and a force of five hundred men, mainly cavalry and light infantry, headed to Mount Marben Copper.

King Walius' ordeal to necessarily regain the copper was laid down, and that unit continued its forcible army with little rest, and the next day reached Marben Copper Mountain.

Then, like surrounding the city of Marben, where there should have been only a simple fence, there was already a blockade built there. All that or on the other side, where you could see through a blockade full of gaps made from just piling up the matching material, you could see a dwarf-like figure in armor and spears.

Though I tried calling for surrender at first, there is no sign that I would respond to it. Apparently, they set up a thorough anti-war.

"Stupid worms."

It was Kafner who commanded the troops who uttered his disdain for Dwarf.

"It hurts one belly to try to defy us about what you thought of something good to say quietly!

Kafner is still young as an officer, a young man just over twenty years old. I'm just young and I'm an officer, I'm proud of my abilities, and I'm twice as patriotic. So he remembered from the honorable King's Capital Guard that he had to go on such a dirty subhuman crusade and his fierce anger at the subhuman race that caused it.

I want to destroy the subhumans now and just triumph over to the King's Capital. But I still have enough thoughts to think it's reckless to attack just five hundred soldiers. When he cautioned against Dwarf ambushes and night raids and distanced himself enough to see what was happening in Copper Mountain in the distance, he laid the formation so as to block the streets and await the arrival of the succeeding troops.

Then another two days later. Finally, two thousand follow-on troops led by fellow colleague Rudolphus arrived. Immediately Kafner heads to Rudolphus for a direct trial.

"It's Rudolphus. Join me and your troops and we'll have two thousand and five hundred soldiers. There's one here. Why don't we attack it?

Kafner suggested that to Rudolphus because of his youth. And the older Rudolphus answers carefully.

"But less than a thousand Zoans attacked, but there were thousands of dwarves in Copper Mountain."

I also hear that the Dwarves, once numbered five thousand, have greatly reduced their numbers because they continued to use them badly in Copper Mountain for years. But still, there must have been more than three thousand people.

Even though they say the defensive side with the obstruction is advantageous, this one is inferior in number. Now, if you attack badly, you may suffer a lot of pain. More than that, shouldn't this place inform the King's Capital of the situation and wait for the succeeding troops? Kafner dictates so reluctantly Rudolphus in a hot tone.

"What, aren't many of them just old women and children who can't fight? If we do, let's take it down easily."

Plus Rudolphus thinks about it. It certainly makes sense what Kafner says. Besides, there's no art in just turning your fingers around and watching the city farther. Before informing Wang Capital, this place will be a place to fight and weigh the power of the opponent.

"It'll be good, Kafner. I'll take your suggestion."

Rudolphus and Kafner boiled down the story further. As a result, it shall be the following morning to attack, first of all an infantry unit led by Rudolphus will attack and remove the obstruction. Then a horseback riding squad led by Kafner rides into the city and kicks the Dwarves across the blade. Then the infantry took control of the city while destroying the Dwarves.

On that day, Kafner and Rudolphus, along with the soldiers of their own troops, behaved fully with all the food or even booze. Moreover, he left only a minimal guard at night to rest the soldiers, and to sufficiently nourish their brilliance.

And the morning after dawn.

Rudolphus, who straddles his horses before soldiers aligning themselves with spears and shields from one unit to another, inspires the soldiers by raising his voice when he raises his sword to heaven.

"Good! The opponents are subhuman slaves! You have nothing to fear! I'll let the first to get over that blockade get a reward! If you want fame and money, show it through that blockade!

Rudolphus said, "Whoa! Oops!". I look at that with satisfaction and then at Kafner, who is equally prepared to storm behind us. Then Kafner raised his right hand high enough to show that it was always good.

"All right! Blow the horn! Strike the drum!

Together with Rudolphus's decree, Horn and the drum raised the signal of the assault.

Along with the sounds of the atmosphere-trembling horns and drums, the soldiers, who wanted to burn their greed and struggle enough by Rudolphus, roar like a liberated beast and run out at last.

It was Rudolphus running his horse toward the city in crossing with those soldiers, but after a while he realized something odd.

Some of the spears that look beyond the blockade are to the right and left, and I'm pretty sure you're aware of this offense. Yet if you shoot an arrow and throw a stone at it, it is so close to reaching it, there is no counterattack from the other side.

While Rudolphus wonders what this means, the soldiers who were running ahead of him get through the blockade without difficulty. That is followed by successive soldiers overcoming the blockade one by one.

But I can't hear the sound of a sword trident or the flying rage or curse fighting the subhumans that should follow. All that or even the roar that the soldiers were raising over the blockade disappears one after the other.

This is happening for good!

I thought so. When Rudolphus abandons the horse himself, he pulls out his sword and puts his foot against the obstruction. And when he stood above the obstruction, Rudolphus first flashed, then raised his voice out loud.

"What the hell is this all about?!"

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"What the hell is Rudolphus doing...?

Kafner, who was waiting now or now for a signal from Rudolphus to storm him, leaked a frustrating voice.

As far as Kafner can tell, so many soldiers are overcoming the blockade. Even so, there was still no signal from Rudolphus. Even the roar of Rudolphus' troops, which had been all the way to heaven until earlier, is now deafening.

Exactly, Kafner, didn't something unusual happen to this? When I started thinking, I could see a horseback riding coming this way more than in the front.

When that figure came to a discernable distance, it turned out to be Rudolphus himself, who was supposed to be commanding the previous unit.

"They did it, Kafner!

Kafner asks Rudolphus, who rides on horseback in front of him and raises his voice.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"The city is a mushroom!

Kafner can't keep up with his understanding in words that are too unexpected to make a decent face. Besides, Rudolphus, irritated that he was a poorly perceived guy, shouted his voice absurdly again.

"Instead of a dwarf in the city, there is no cat child! They abandoned the city and ran away!

"Hey, what?!"

Kafner's stunned voice sounded loud when he finally understood the situation.