Hakai no Miko

Rudolphus and Kafner, who managed to escape safely, were burning (burning) raw trees and raising wolf smoke (curse) when they saw Zoan not coming after them. After a while, the soldiers who had fled and scattered came one after the other after another when they saw the wolf smoke. But if you count the soldiers who came together that way, it's only a thousand and five hundred. More than five hundred soldiers were taken or fled as they were.

"What do we do, Rudolphus? Do we strike again?

Kafner asked as he walked shoulder-to-shoulder with Rudolphus among the soldiers entering powerless on the ground.

Though the soldiers have been reduced to a thousand and five hundred, most of the dwarves are women, children, and old men with their feet full. Then you should still be able to fight. to Kafner proposing another attack, but Rudolphus shook his neck to the side.

"No. Look at the soldiers' faces. You can't fight with this."

The soldiers all had a faded look on their faces.

That is not just because of the fatigue caused by the forcible forces of the last few days. The ambush by the ambush and the consequent defeat deprived him of all his health and energy. This is not a very good fight.

But that's why I couldn't keep my hands around you like this.

"You're closer to Fort Garraf than the city of L'Oma if you're here. - All right, I'm going to head to Fort Garraf, and I'm going to ask for backup. You need to rest as you gather your soldiers."

Rudolphus said so, flogging his tired body and running his horse to Fort Garraf.

Fort Garraf is a small fort between the city of L'Oma and the crossing.

He said that once there were ferocious barbarians living around the crossing of the Conte River, and that every once in a while he broke into the Holmeer country, he did everything possible to plunder it. It was this Fort Garraf that was built in preparation for those barbarian raids.

Built purposefully from stone cut out of the northern mountains, Fort Garraf was known for its robustness. So much so that anecdotes remain that the barbarians finally had no choice but to give up, even if they attacked over seven days and seven nights.

Currently, its Fort Garraf was packed with approximately a thousand soldiers of the National Army in preparation for the Son of Destruction who appeared at the crossing of the Conte River. Rudolphus was thinking of borrowing soldiers from it.

Reaching the fort, Rudolphus, when in a hurry to meet the captain of the defensive soldiers, told him what had happened so far and requested backup. But when the captain put his arms together, he told Rudolphus with a difficult face.

"You can't dilute the fort's protection. I'm sorry, but I can't break soldiers."

I never thought he'd say no. Rudolphus changes his blood phase and begs.

"Please, reconsider. If they take away the copper like this, it's a matter for the country. I'm not saying five hundred. Two hundred, no, even a hundred. Give me a soldier!

We still have a thousand and five hundred soldiers. Now I don't even stand up at the end of my sperm and roots. But if allies came to support us in such a predicament, they would be able to rise and fight again. For that, I had to take backup, even slightly.

He bowed his head and desperately asked Rudolphus, but the captain of the fort refuses with awesomeness.

"It was your lords who were ordered to take back the copper. Our task is to protect this fort and prevent the invasion of the rebel slaves as they cross the river. - You can't disobey His Majesty's life in my presence."

Rudolphus was stunned.

Nothing. This captain is afraid of King Walius' seizures.

King Walius can deny and retreat without a headache if he does what he wants, even if he thinks it's for the Holmeer nation. All that, or even if I detonate the eclampsia, I'm going to see the same worries of change and exile as that General Darius.

If you don't like that, you will not disobey King Walius' order, nor deviate from the boundaries of the order, but you will just have to keep showing that you are even submissive.

I know how that feels, but it is important to the state.

Rudolphus desperately preached the seriousness of the matter, but could not change the captain's decision. Rudolphus, driven out of the fort without an island to hang on to, is on his way.

It is no longer possible to reclaim copper. Even if we go as far as the city of Luoma now, the Dwarves will cross the river in the meantime.

Rudolphus had no choice but to return to Kafner in disillusionment.

Kafner looks like he's going to cry when he rides his own horse and sneers back.

"What can I do, Rudolphus? Now we will touch His Majesty's wrath...!

"What do you want me to do? That's what I'd rather hear!

Rudolphus threw up like that and looked up at the sky.

Unbelievable and unrequited lords of His Majesty.

A soldier from a country who runs to self-preservation rather than defending the country's prestige.

And ourselves more worried about our country than about our reputation being hurt.

"What happens to our country...?

Words that could never be spoken gushed into Rudolphus's chest.

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Zoan's warriors cheered first at the sound of the drums coming from the mountains of the north. Then the Ethereal Horse, who had Shemr unclap the drum, also makes a much more clenched fist.

Rescue the Dwarves of Marben Copper Mountain and return safely. Moreover, with little sacrificial sacrifice, he even brought back copper, which he was likely to renounce in order to scatter his enemies along the way. It is a great achievement without further ado.

"Good. - Give thanks and praise to Mr. Gallum."

Yes, the Ethereal Horse who asked Shemr to do so, he remembered fu as he looked up at the sky where the sound of the drums rang.

That was when the Ethereal Horse pleaded with Nahl was worried about how to attack Marben Copper Mountain. Before the map of the Holmeer Country, which I spread on my desk, yeah, where I was roaring, I just threw a question at Solon when he appeared.

"King Walius made a great mistake in punishing General Darius. Well, what is that?

Besides, the Ethereal Horse often thought about it and then answered:

"Did you take the position of general from a general who devoted so much time to his country and let him be cautious just once in his defeat?

"Not to Sasa!

Solon immediately denied it.

"It is by no means a mistake to punish a general severely if he makes a mistake, no matter how much he has done. If discipline were corrected, it would have been the foundation of a stronger army."

Then Solon answered when the Ethereal Horse asked what King Walius' fault was.

"The mistake King Walius made, that is, that he uttered the words of General Darius whispered, until he beheaded him as an emotion. Furthermore, even it was withdrawn by the word of the princess.

This would have led the people of Holmea to think that King Walius was arbitrary in his emotions, and that sometimes even his own words could easily be turned over. He also made a strong impression on the people and the martial officers after that, such as by changing who were close to General Darius!

Solon affirmed that.

"In the book that Inkdias, the famous general of the Empire, has left behind, he says," General of the Hanging Army, you may not care about your life. "

A suspended army is a unit that acts farther away, such as a country or a main unit. It means that generals who lead such forces have to decide to act at their own discretion, depending on the evolving circumstances, and sometimes against the monarchy they were given.

"But that is also only if there is a strong relationship of trust between the king and the general. Without trust, the king would be suspicious of the general's actions, and the general would be unable to move in fear of the king"

Solon pointed out the Holmeer country on the map with a cane.

"And now it is precisely the State of Holmea that lacks its' letter '. How can it be a big country - no, if you lose the pillar of' faith 'because you are a big country, that country will be disturbed. Then it is best to attack this missing' letter 'in order to confront this Holmeer."

Solon smiled nikkally prankster mesmerized at the Ethereal Horse, who murmured "I see" into his words and put his arms around him and thought about it.

"Kids don't lose everyone's 'faith' either." Shin "is like building a tall tower by piling up pebbles. It takes a lot of effort and time to build, but not long before it breaks down. Always be aware that you are exposed to the crowd. Try to discipline yourself and be a part of others."

Besides, the Ethereal Horse bowed his head to a special victory, "I'm sore at your advice."

But shortly after that, Solon said, "Now, you set an example and get hit with a stick!" and he was driven around by Shemr, who brought a stick from somewhere, to sneak around the Lords' residence in Bornis, and it is only for the record that the emotion of the Ethereal Horse has also blown somewhere because of it.

"Now, what are we going to do, my" you under the umbilical "?"

Asked by Shemr, who finished beating the message to Gallam with a drum.

"Yeah. - Let's go as planned. First, have Mr. Marcronis come to me."

I will grab Zoan's warrior, where Shemr was nearby, and use it at Marcronis, who is encouraging recruit training.

And he was a pale horse waiting for Marcronis to come, but he felt a strong gaze on his cheek. When I look at you, it is Jaharngil who was there. He stared at himself with the eyes of an emotionless reptile, holding in his hands the crystal binoculars he had lent to keep an eye on the river crossing.

He was still a pale horse who could not read his emotions from Dinosaurian's face, but I can easily imagine what Jahangil was thinking all this time.

"I'll tell you what, it's on schedule."

A pale horse pushes caution because it is difficult to be expected poorly. Then Jaharn Gill turns to the side a lot, like a rotten one. I couldn't help it, Ethereal Horse, sighing, Marcronis just came there.

"Apparently, the plan was successful."

It was Marcronis who couldn't unclap Zoan's drums, but if you look at Zoan's warriors, you can see that's good news.

"All thanks to Mr. Gallum and the others."

So humble to the Ethereal Horse, Marcronis leaks one bitter smile, "Let's make that happen," and then becomes slightly more serious.

"So, are the measures to be taken against the Horsemen just as planned?

We had already received reports that the Army of the Holmea Marquis, with the Marquis de Apius as General, was in a situation where it was not strange to march from the city of L'Oma whenever it came. According to that report, the Horse Army has totaled more than 12,000. If such a large army pushes me, not a single gesture of the Ethereal Horse now alone.

But at the same time, the Ethereal Horse was grasping some information.

"Yes. - I have information at my place that the Horse Army is moving badly. I think you're in exactly the way I expected you to."

To a pale horse laughing nicely, Shemr dropped his shoulder with a loud sigh to show.

It was still a hard shemle to understand the human expression, but that's just how much I'm with the Ethereal Horse. The grin now floated by the Ethereal Horse is so obvious that people are so bad.

"Oh, it's my 'you under the umbilical'! It's hard for me to accept that sexuality, which only comes alive when people fall for it."

To Shemr, who mourns and shows exaggeration, the Ethereal Horse laughed.

"Well, I guess I'll make the last push as planned."

Then when I raised my arms loudly, I told them out loud so that they could be heard by those around me who were watching the meeting between me and Marcronis.

"It's a withdrawal! Let's go back to the city!