Kuro no Maou

Monsters confirmed by the scouts said they looked like rats.

Body length is around 50 cm. Huge as a rat, but falls into the small category as a monster. The danger per car would be one.

The number is approximately 300. No matter how dangerous 1 miscellaneous fish is, if a swarm of hungry 50 cm rats pushes over, a village like this will be eaten up in no time. If you suck, you could even be eaten to death by humans.

But here we are. It will only be unilaterally exterminated before soldiers armed with firearms of ancient weapons, such as a flock of rats that seem to have only the power of goblins or less.

When it comes to concerns, the extent to which you have to be careful not to miss them because they are small.

But I only had one more thing to worry about.

I also purchased monster information at the Dakia Village Alliance, but I didn't remember it being a monster of rats going out to Snow Mountain.

I thought he was a minor guy living only around here, and I asked the village chief, just in case.

"A rat-shaped monster, is it? Hmm... Sorry, but you've never seen it around here."

and.

It means an unknown monster who has lived here for a long time but has never seen or heard of it at all.

Although I have a slight, unpleasant feeling, fighting is inevitable. In the meantime, there's nothing better than a full attitude and an interception.

"All personnel, we are in position."

Ein, the deputy secretary, reports to me. There are only fifteen of them, so you can tell, if you equip them with guns, they take a much wider interval than archers line up. If you are standard with an assault rifle, the forward range of attack that you can cover by yourself is not the ratio of bows or bowguns.

A small number of people, but they can form a kill zone that is too much to annihilate a herd of giant rats.

With this personnel and equipment, it would have been easier at the Battle of Alsace, but with all due respect, we would have lined up over the village fence and waited for the arrival of our enemies.

The rats are coming straight this way without getting lost. Even in my Black Wind Exploration (Windsearcher), I sensed the reaction as reported.

Soon they will jump from the other side of the logging yard to the open flat that leads to this village.

When Marutai's lined logging yard, its dark night forest, remembered the feeling of being bothered even though there was no wind--you came, a rat running the lead showed up.

"Flares, fire."

"Lighting bullets, fire!

The order is repeated, Hugh, and several illumination bullets are fired into the night sky, and shortly afterwards, a dazzling glow is emitted.

Suddenly, exposed to the midday light, rats are keys! And he had a voice that surprised him. Monsters exposed under a pseudo-daylight still look a lot like rats.

A body like a white hatsukamouse decadent as it is. Her eyes are yellow and she is swinging her elongated tail with a hyung.

Doesn't look strong. Is it still just a big rat?

"Attack initiated."

While illuminated by the glow of the illumination bullets, the herd continues to advance without stopping. Already, we have reached a sufficient distance.

If I give the order, the sparks will be scattered from the muzzle and the bullets will be thrown out one after the other.

White-haired mice in the snowfields are harder to target than humans, but are not trained enough to remove them to that extent.

The bullet that arrives captures a crowd of rats accurately, punching red and black flesh over the snow one after the other.

"Keep shooting. Don't let one get away with it."

Instantly the leading rat fell and about a third of the herd fell. It was when I thought that the flock, which would just storm me in stupidity, would soon be wiped out --

KEY, KEY, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

A creepy roar rises from the herd at the same time, unlike a rat-like, tall squeal.

What, I saw the change right after I thought.

The rats rose, the next moment, the body swells up. From the bump and the inside of the flesh, the muscles thrive to overflow.

The face also changed from just a rat's to a fierce monster-like face with bloody glittering eyes, with sharp fangs peeking from the mouth, in addition to the front teeth.

That's how the rat that stood up on both legs quickly grew to about two metres in size, and his physique turned into a musculoskeletal rugged figure like an oak.

Should I also say that the large human form that wraps its white hair is Yeti?

If you look closely, the first rat to be shot and fall also began to change, and while bleeding from his body, he could see many of the guys coming up swollen. Not only does it just get big, but it also seems to have a lot of playback ability.

A rat that turns into a monster... the ability to appear in a monster panic movie.

"Bump in more than one bullet. Even if they get big, the bullets go through. Don't be frightened. Keep shooting!

"Jesus, My Lord"

Even in front of a Yeti rat who showed utterly unexpected force, Homunculus faithfully executes his orders without exposing slight agitation.

They don't fall in one shot. But with dozens of punches, the boulder snow rat man seems to be at its limit. Fur alone can't stop a 'storm rifle' bullet. If you get shot, the damage is sure to accumulate.

Dyed white fur bright red, Yeti's gigantic body falls.

Wogaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

But the roaring roar demonstrates their high will to fight.

They've been able to take them down with gunfire, but using 300 numbers, they're steadily packing their distance here.

"Tough guys. Don't let them push you off like this."

If you put all those monsters in the village, it's over. The village-only adventurer party is still behind us, but it feels suspicious if we can defeat Yeti.

If we don't get rid of them on our own, there's going to be a dead man.

"Prim."

"Yes."

"I'll leave you to it."

"Jesus, My Lord"

Back to back with a lovely voice, Hellhound's red eyes glowed.

That Yeti is just strong enough for Prim to deal with. Power and speed are much inferior to ancient armor (power armor) Hellhounds, and that endurance is not enough to struggle to kill.

Where I can be entrusted, I'll take care of it. I'm the final line of defense, just in case there's a guy who's about to enter the village, you can move.

Let's leave this place to Prim and everyone else.

By the time the sun rose in the morning, it was done until the end of the wiped out ones.

Prim brilliantly returned Yeti scratching the storm of bullets and fleshing to the village.

On his right, he grabbed a huge Battleax 'Butcher' for Power Armor, and on his left, he set up an 'EA Voltex Machine Gun', cutting down and shooting down all the tough snow rat men one after the other.

The 300 flocks are completely exterminated, and the village is visited with peace.

But I'll know that it's only temporary, before I wrestle with breakfast caroboo.

"--well, did they come out east and west as well?"

Early in the morning, a transmission was sent by both Fiona Platoon and Saliel Platoon.

He said the exact same thing happened here last night in the neighbouring village where the two are stationed.

Neither platoon has fallen behind its opponents to that extent, and the herd that has struck them safely seems to have been exterminated...

"Oh, man, there's too many boulders."

That rat squad was confirmed at the foot of the mountain range.

It was Sariel who saw it. Seeing as an anomaly in which more monster raids than envisaged occurred, Saliel drove himself through Ciro, Pegasus, carrying out a forcible reconnaissance from the air.

As a result, he said, he discovered a large crowd of rats enough to reach 10,000.

"Village chief, they say these rats are nesting in a pit-like place... did they have a village like that around here?

"Yeah, well, it's a new pioneering village... and we just started building it last year, and it's not even on the map yet."

I didn't know there was such a place.

I heard from the village chief in detail that he stumbled upon the fact that the place was likely to be able to mine several types of demonic stones.

A certain adventurer party discovers a large cave while exploring the neighborhood. Fortunately, there are just a few weak small monsters living there, not a great deal of danger. But on the walls of that cave, by the way, he found the original stone of the demon stone dew, which turned out to be worth it as a mine.

In response to that report, Lord Dakia immediately decided to create a pioneering village for demon stone mining, he said.

From Dakian territory were gathered the second and third sons of farmers who would not succeed the fields of the house, then several Dwarf miners were invited to direct the pits and mining and sent to the site.

It became the closest village in Dakian territory to the Galahad Mountains, but the pioneering was going well and was thought to be able to cross the winter without any problems.

"If I could dig through the pit, maybe I would have followed that rat's nest."

The cave discovered was a big, long one, but it was a dead end. But in fact, at the end of the day, there is still a similar cave... and that rat lives there, and it was connected by a pit, so it overflowed to this side, and so on?

"Oh, no... Then the pioneering villagers..."

"Unfortunately, survival is hopeless."

According to Sariel's reconnaissance, the pioneering village and the thought point are already overflowing with them.

The food and grain banks to get past the winter will be devoured and not a grain of wheat will remain. Naturally, no figures were found at all, and the Pioneering Village building said it had collapsed.

Given their speed of movement, it was about three days ago that they overflowed the Pit Trail in Pioneering Village.

If you were lucky enough to escape into the woods, I don't think it's a very survivable time to jump out dressed. Frozen to death without one night.

Nor can I tell you that I will go to the place where the hosts of Yeti will be in formation, looking for survivors, with too few possibilities.

"I'm sorry, village chief, but get ready to run now. Too many enemies. We have no choice but to retreat to the village of Dakia."

"Ko, are you going to abandon this village... somehow, won't you!

"From the neighbouring village, evacuation has already begun towards this way. All we can do is escort you to Dakia Village."

"... I'm sorry, you said you couldn't. We are blessed to have you escort us."

"The rest can only be left to the Spartan army. If the reinforcements rush me, they'll wipe out a bunch of rats right away. We'll be back here again."

"Thank you… I will tell everyone immediately that I am ready to flee"

The village chief has a sinister face and makes a decision.

With that kind of wax, the decision was made to evacuate to the village of Dakia.

Tomorrow, from the neighbouring villages east and west, the villagers protected by Fiona and Saliel are scheduled to rendezvous here and from there to the village of Dakia.

Two days as soon as possible until all evacuation is complete. You should probably watch for about three days.

"The rats must not come again. I don't think the whole squad is coming at me..."

This is the third time I think I've escorted the villagers to evacuation.

The first time was in Alsace, the second time in the exact same place, but it was the people of the crusader's pioneering village who protected it.

This time the enemy is not a crusader pushing over, or a flying super giant octopus. Yeti's masses are much better than those.

But while we thought it would never be an alarming situation, we caught a village alert that would become noisy in Russia in preparation for evacuation.

"Load, report."

Time such as before noon. Ain came to me.

"We have discovered a group of knights coming this way. The flag you're flying belongs to Tempest, Spartan Army Squad II."

"Are reinforcements here yet?"

Too soon. It should not even be conveyed yet that a large army of Yeti rats has emerged.

But this is rare and unexpected in a good direction. At the stage when this security mission was issued, the village of Dakia might have requested rescue from the Spartan army as well.

"Tempest" is a cavalry-centric manoeuvre that quickly rushes to the site where the monster disaster occurred. They are not here by chance, they are clearly coming to crusade monsters.

"This might not even have to be evacuated."

That's how I was just a little relieved... to find out shortly after when this reinforcement is going to get me in trouble.

"Behold, why are you here!!

In the lobby of the guild, a kink and a tall scream echo.

Rudely, pointing at me and raising my pneumonia is a little girl with golden, giraffed eyes on a bright red twin tail.

I do recognize that face for sure. Being yelled at like this actually made me remember.

Yes, she is the third princess of Sparda, Charlotte Tristan Sparda.

Aha, by the way, is this girl here?

"As mercenaries, we are under quest for Dakian security, Your Highness Princess Charlotte"

"Unaccustomed salutations and creeps. Speak to Hutu."

It's this trick when you say you deliberately gave the royal opponent the wording he deserves because he's not in school anymore.

When you look at my face, to Charlotte, who has a blatantly grumpy look, the village chief, who was in command of the evacuation in the guild, and his assistant receptionist and several villagers, are stiff with their heads bowed down.

Yeah, it's the right reaction. This hysterical princess doesn't know what she doesn't care about and comes with a flirt.

But I didn't have the patience to pierce the reverence that I couldn't have been told so far. With all due respect and arrogance, let's stand up in front of Princess Charlotte.

"We're just doing mercenary work, what's the complaint?"

"Mercenaries? That's suspicious."

"Under the name 'Dark Knights', I am officially registered"

"The Dark Knight feels increasingly suspicious when you say it."

Oh, my God, 'Dark Knight Freesia' is super major as a knight god, so it would be the right name for it.

He said he'd be suspicious of anything if I were involved. Because it was a long time ago.

"Anyway, I appreciate you coming to reinforcements in this situation"

What rushed here was a cavalry squadron of about 100 horsemen led by Charlotte.

The main unit is stationed in the village of Dakia and is apparently in the process of evacuating the surrounding area. Perhaps, as soon as the evacuation is complete, we'll go beat the rat squad.

"Well, the protection of the people is a natural duty as royalty. I was wondering if you could explain the situation in the village."

With the red twin tail twisted, Charlotte turned to the mayor of the village, whose wintry eyes fell down.

"Oh, I'm afraid that Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte will..."

"Uh, well, people who aren't used to it are troublesome at times like this. Enough, you have to explain."

"Many fears have been left with Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte------"

"So that's fine, just say it eh!!

Shit, I thought imitating the village chief would get me through.

Hi. I'm not sure I can do well with Princess Charlotte. My brother Will and I are so close.

However, it would be serious proof to her that she is showing an attitude of listening to explanations even from me who hates fur. When I was a student, I didn't even want to talk, it felt dirty, like.

"--a situation."

Surrounding the Alliance table with the map spread out, I briefly explained the situation.

Being evacuated from the neighboring villages east and west towards this way. That we are also in the middle of getting ready here.

And that the mouse emergence point is the pit of a new pioneering village.

"Hmm, I see..."

And Charlotte has a stubborn face, and she's nodding yeah.

This is the situation, so we usually have no choice but to join the evacuation escort. Even as "Tempest", the basic policy is to carry out an extermination operation after gathering the evacuees in one part of the village of Dakia to prepare their defenses.

"Well, I'll leave the escort to you."

"... Huh?

What are you talking about? Then what else are you going to do? Is that princessy and graceful tee time?

"I'm not answering without concern. It would be your job to escort the evacuation."

"Of course I'm going to."

"That would be nice. Do it right."

"No, I won't tell you that... then what are you hundreds of cavalry going to do"

"Hmm, you've decided that ----"

Off the confidently thin breastplate, Charlotte proclaims in high spirits.

"I'm going to Pioneering Village to find survivors!