Kuro no Maou

The recoil of the seventh protection was tremendous, but the quest of the Manticore crusade itself was successfully concluded.

The male manticore that Lily evoked was completely crusaded in my "Darkness". Lily went in to clean up the females that remained in the fort, and there she discovered the females that were in two straight in the fort, under the aftermath of "Darkness". Apparently, there was an unluckily female in the trajectory of slaughter that tore every fort apart.

He killed me like that, and I didn't think it was a little pathetic, but as far as my arms were becoming unusable, it saved me a lot of trouble and helped. Or if you mean pathetic, you should say the sight of Lily shooting the fresh-born hina in the fort with 'Meteor Striker' without any hesitation, picking up more and more eggs that have not yet hatched "because they can be sold there for a good price".

Well, as an adventurer, it's a natural job, but seeing a scene like this makes me feel pathetic or something, because it's a sweet sensibility of modern Japanese people. I look like an adventurer too, should I be a little more cynical? While we felt that way about Lily's truly business-like attitude, we finished our quest perfectly and left the fort behind within the day.

"- Yeah, I've already defeated Manticore, so it's awesome!?

A little late for dinner, about time, returning from the locality to the nearest village and reporting on the quest accomplishment, my client, Caiontus, welcomed me with a terribly surprised face.

He seems to plan to head straight to his hometown of Hyram if the Manticore crusade is completed, coming with him from the capital, Babylonica, to this village.

By the way, by the time I returned to the village, my arms had recovered to the point of first movement.

"Oh, tomorrow morning we'll be out of the village and back in Hyram"

"Thank you, thank you! This will save my Hyram!!

Hey, even if you can get through the streets, it's another matter of whether or not you can sell specialties, and I don't think so, but I don't want to imitate watering people who are impressed.

"Master Chrono, if you don't mind, would you come with me to Hyram? I'd really like to thank you."

"No, don't worry so much. If you get paid, that's fine."

"Really... I'm sorry, to your busy Rank 5 adventurer, I can't ask you"

I'm not a busy wacko, but I feel bad for saying no to the swelling when you look so obviously sad.

"Fine, Chrono, why don't you come with me to Hyram?

You distracted me, and Lily follows me with a quick pull on my sleeve. Yeah, well, then here, shall we ride honestly?

"Well, if Lily says so, let's go"

"Yeah, the lord is so important that he should be thanked."

I didn't expect Lily, the young girl, to tell me that much.

I somehow seem dumb to say no with Japanese reluctance.

"Well, Kay, we're going to Hyram, too."

"Thank you, you will be greatly welcomed!

With the favor of our client and the care of Lily, we went all the way to the town of Hyram without going straight home. If you pass the fortress of Negijo in Manticore, it's not as far away as a stop, because it's a quick arrival distance. This much would be acceptable.

Besides, it's not like there's any interest in the other cities of Partier.

The next morning, on the 15th of the month of Red Flame, we left the village.

"... that fort, it's kind of like it's broken in two"

"Really? Isn't that what happened from the beginning?"

"No, so much so that the ceiling was crumbling that the walls should have remained almost in their original form"

"'Cause the manticore was a brawl, it could have collapsed a little bit"

"I see it was a fierce fight. A boulder can be a battle of high-ranking adventurers on a different scale."

Oh, my God, he went past Manticore's nest, deluding me about the fort I broke.

No, 'cause you bragged, "I busted you! When I say," Actually, it's that fort, it's a cultural heritage, so I don't have to destroy it, demand the cost of repairs, I'm in trouble when things go wrong. It's a fort that's been abandoned for a long time, and it's not a tourist destination, so I'm sure it's okay to collapse, just in case. It's a good place to be a snake when you're feeling better.

In this way, he runs through the streets that lead to piercing a wide meadow. Spacious to this point, I feel like a nice drive to let cancer fly.

"Hey, it's even more so now... if you're surrounded by meadows, don't you have to bother going down the street, you can make as many detours as you want?

Because of the deep forests and mountains, it makes sense to have cut open paths. If you wander through a prairie with no shield whatsoever, you naturally wonder if it makes sense to look through the streets, like going over a laid rail.

"Yeah, it's a serene Partier prairie that spreads magnificently everywhere, but this is what it looks like, off the streets that come and go, it can be a dangerous monster habitat."

Again, this is a natural story, but the meadows are populated by various monsters as meadows. It seems that there are many kinds of monsters that travel all over the meadows, too, as the Parthian people traditionally do in nomadic life.

Therefore, running properly through the meadows is very risky to inadvertently step into the habitat of dangerous monsters.

"The streets of this prairie have historically been narrowed down to safe routes that do not overlap as much as possible with monster travel. Of course, the local Centaur, a people of the meadows, is also familiar with routes that can be passed outside the streets and seasonally… If you are a foreigner or a merchant passing through here, it is safest to take the streets in adulthood"

Well, even if it looks peaceful and easy to get through, there's a lot of danger. Around the inescapable of the dangers of monsters in any place, I feel like another world.

If it were Earth, such a dangerous creature would be extinct in a fast-track fashion, but this monster from another world is tough and strong anyway. Chasing them out of the public at best is very unlikely to eradicate them.

"Most of all, thieves are more dangerous than monsters when trying to bypass the streets poorly."

"I knew you had those guys"

"Yeah, it's made up of nomads, so it's hard to capture even the Knights because they move around the grasslands a little bit, and they've been burning their hands for a long time."

"Well, if you see a bounty neck, let's catch it"

Talking about it, I ran smoothly down the meadow path everywhere, and after noon I could see the city of Hyram as my destination -

"... what, there's smoke up there"

Far beyond the meadows. Oasis-like areas with large lakes and abundant forest areas are the places with high rams.

A relaxing town by the water. But a few muscles of black smoke rise, not very, but not a serene atmosphere.

"Kay, does the town always have a factory where smoke goes up, or even baked field farming?

"No, such a thing... no way, even a big fire happened!

If you look at the black smoke standing up, you would normally suspect that.

But I've already noticed.

"No, it's not a fire... this stinks of war"

My nose does feel it, mixed with the burning smell of the flames. Blood and the smell of death that burns people down.

"Damn, what a sight... I've never seen such a terrible sight of Hyram before in my life!

"But fortunately, the whole town seems safe. Apparently, the battle only took place outside of town"

Arriving Hyram had obvious battle claw marks, as expected.

The town centre, on the banks of a large lake, was surrounded by stone walls and although it was about to collapse in some places, it did not look like it had been broken through by the enemy. Instead, the fields stretching around the walls were trampled and vandalized, and the private houses burned down, definitely at the heart of the battle stage.

Though it was not the body that had already been left behind, there were arrows and spears that remained poking here and there, combined with the smell of indelible blood, the air on the battlefield still felt colorful.

"Hurry up, to the lord's residence, to see your father. Master Chrono, if you don't mind, join us."

"Sounds like a lot of trouble... but if you're gonna make a quest, I'm gonna take it"

"Thank you!

You can't be worried about the situation if you're shown such a sight. I've already got Keri in battle, and there's no adventurer's turn just at the end of the day, so I've never been over it... but I just have a bad feeling about it.

"- Father! What the hell happened to this!

Thus, Kay, son of the lord, came almost by facepath to the lord's official residence, built in the centre of the town in a straight line.

"Oh, Kay..."

To the unexpected return of his son, it would have been a delightful occasion, but the father Hyram lord Kernunnos has a sad face.

Kernunnos Hyram is very similar to his son Kay. Rin faces are engraved with age-appropriate wrinkles, and long ponythe dark hair is mixed with gray hair, but the dark haired horse body in the lower body is successful and still doesn't make you feel like it's decaying.

However, he seems to be enjoying quite a bit about the tragedy that happened to the town, and the tone that speaks of the revelations of things was painful.

"It's a thief... the town was attacked by that infamous runaway thief, the Thunder Shocks (Lysanders)"

"Such an idiot! No matter how much 'Thunder Shock Regiment (Lysanders)', the only force to strike this Hyram is -"

"They're hiring terribly powerful mercenaries."

"Mercenaries?"

"Oh, it was a bunch of knights wrapped in ancient armor of silver"

To the Lord's explanation, breathtaking.

Says its silver knight is heavily armored like a heavy knight (armor knight) yet maneuverable enough to catch up with a fully-fledged Centaur.

Flying with arrowy momentum as he blasts the light of blue and white magic from his back - and with an unusual power commensurate with the appearance of his giant armored helmet, he double-crosses the knight of Centaur, who protects Hyram, with a great Halbad.

What is scary is not only its power and speed, but also its defensive ability not to be frightened at all if the martial arts of the bow strike directly. And to unleash powerful offensive magic, too, so overwhelming even in a meeting directly from the front with Partier's proud bow cavalry.

That's twelve in all.

Mixed with an armed group in Centaur known as the 'Thunder Shock Regiment (Lysanders)', this platoon of silver armor stormed around endlessly, saying Hyram's defense almost collapsed.

"Hey, what is it, that group of armor?"

"I'm sure it's ancient armor. It's been decades, but when I went to Avalon, I saw it. Let shining knight armor run the ground fast enough to beat the cavalry."

"Was there such a thing?"

"At the time, it was just a spectacle for the successful restoration of the function of ancient armor... I didn't know that I was ever used in action"

I can't help but be surprised. To the best of my knowledge, no ancient armor, whether Sparda or Avalon, has been deployed in action.

However, organizations that have only the technical ability to revive ancient armor, the product of ancient overtechnology, into the modern age, are more than willing to do so.

"Next on the power loader is ancient armor..."

"The Secret of White". Perhaps this is the new weapon they developed.

Why are you acting with bandits in Partier? Where do they come from and how do they intend to move?

For a mere real-time test of a recruit weapon, it's a lot more than that. I don't know why we do it in such a distant place.

However, a group of ancient armor of silver, just to say, is too much to be determined. Apparently, the "Aria Monastery" has finally appeared.

"But when you barely saw where the town was safe, you would have been able to get rid of them!

"No, it's our defeat. The Hyram Defense Corps is almost devastated. The next time they come, they'll have no chance to make it to this lord's mansion."

"So, back up with the King's Capital now!

"I can't. The fact that you're back must have discussed the street manticore... but it's tomorrow that they're coming back. Even if I call you now, I won't be able to make it."

Given this situation, the Manticore case should also be considered an artificial, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

They shut down the streets in order to block the escape of the inhabitants of Hyram at the same time as they turned down their support for the capital, Babylonica. Manticore was used so that it could be sealed off in a natural way to avoid being suspicious of it.

In fact, so Manticore sat in that fort, and the Knights chose to leave it, considering their habits, so it would have been a huge success as a prospect.

Most importantly, I wouldn't have expected anyone to tell me to take down Manticore right now, and well, I wouldn't have expected him to take that quest and crusade fast.

Thanks to our speed crusade, you mean you made it to the real crisis that approached Hyram.

Nevertheless, it's good to hear what Lily has to say. If I had just broken up and left... I would have felt sorry for myself.

"So what happens to this Hyram!

"They demand critical money and supplies this one can pay for."

"No way... Father, do you give in to thieves like this!!

"Already, the difference in power is decisive. If we keep resisting, they'll happily switch to a policy of uprooting and plundering the city."

"But... that's why..."

"Unfortunately, we don't have the power to stop them alone anymore. Now it outweighs temporary humiliation, and later there is nothing more than relying on the crusade of the Knights of the King's Capital"

Apparently, the situation is chopped.

The enemy has no escape at present, and reinforcements will not make it. Now, the other side has stuck with critical demands that can be drawn out.

If you want to weigh the fate of the town, you won't have to give in to the thieves.

But here we are, me and Lily.

"Kay, why don't you let me handle this?"

"Master Chrono! No, but this is about my Highland problem."

"Those ancient armored people are the ones I'm looking for. Not irrelevant."

"I have a desire to indulge in Master Chrono's power, but still, this time the opponent is more dangerous than Manticore! A mysterious group of ancient armor, the enemy's power is unknown to a large number of runaway thieves."

"Dangerous minutes, you just have to color the reward. Don't worry, I'll keep it much cheaper than the thief's demands."

Plus, keep saying it, I'm calling from the shadows.

"You don't have to be afraid. Whatever ancient armor they're wearing..."

The lord's parents and children are all breathtaking in front of the rising, disastrous pitch-black armor.

Naturally, he is super first-class as an instrument of curse. Still, I'm blackening, so even in front of me, to the extent that I'm overwhelmed by the signs of magic, I don't go nuts touching the will of the curse.

But it would be more convincing for my words to be in front of the real thing like this than at the tip of my mouth. They're not the only ones with ancient armor.

"- My 'Tyrant Armor (Maximilian)' is stronger. So leave it to me."

Defeat Quest and Runaway Bandits: Thunder Shock Regiment (Lysanders)

Compensation - 100 million clans.

Deadline/Red Flame Month 16

Client/Partier Hyram Lords/Kernunnos

Request Details - Master Chrono, hero of Sparda. Please, I want you to save my town of Hyram from the hands of evil runaway thieves.

"... by the way Kay, what's a runaway thief? Are you separate from the Bandits?

"In this Partier, a bandit refers to just a thief, like entering an empty house to steal or do a sleigh. Vicious criminal groups that attack villages and caravans (caravans) and do not quit felonies such as looting and kidnapping are traditionally referred to as runaway bandits. It would be a name no other country would hear, but if you see them dressed in flashy costumes, ambitious and diseased, you will have to convince them."

Uh, I see, that's the culture.

Sure, if Centaur, with his horse's leg power, commits a heinous crime in a group, that would be enough momentum to name him a runoff, but as a Japanese person, it's a naming that really only comes to mind with a completely different image.

"Are 'Thunder Shocks (Lysanders)' or runaway thieves all team names that are far from literal and pronounced?

"Yeah, other famous runaway bandits include Red Lotus Wuzhi (Gremlin) and Brain Slash Extreme Light (Northern Light). He has been active for decades while replacing him, and the leader of a thief known as the Director General has been bestowed a high bounty. Regardless, to third generation general director Garrison Ryback of Thundershock Regiment (Lysanders) -"

"Oh, I almost get it, that's enough"

In the meantime, I know you're a runaway, but I know you're a Jean Runner, but I think we should deal with you.