The next day, I left the store to Sakura and Noir, as well as Erica and Alexia, to come with Garnett to the Hollow Bottom Fortress.

The purpose, of course, is to attend an emergency meeting where I was given a subpoena last night.

The meeting itself was held in conjunction with the Golden Tooth Knights and the Silver Wings Knights, but the subpoena was issued in the name of the Silver Wings, which also specified the proviso that one of the companions could be brought.

Naturally this would have told him to 'bring Garnett' without saying it.

"Even so, is it common for the Knights to call ordinary people like this?

Looking back down the carefully maintained slopes of The Sun Clock Forest to the group behind us.

The face, arguably the representative of various professions in Greenhollow Town, walks with anxiety as he is escorted by a knight.

"I'm not saying it's not at all, but it's pretty rare. At a time like this, the market is set."

"... Specifically?

"Request for cooperation to the whole town. You don't have the right to refuse."

"I see..."

Among the groups are Malcolm, the caretaker of the tavern and guild house, and Sylvia's mother, a young Leaf Pavilion general in spring.

No, on the contrary, next to the general, there was even Sylvia herself.

Faster than I was surprised to raise my voice, I looked at Garnett in the ear with a troubled face when I wondered if Sylvia had rushed over flat.

"Mr. Garnett. You know, it seems like your mother's never been called in by the Knights before, but I don't know what... it's okay, what is it?"

Sylvia knows Garnett is a knight of silver wings, so I guess she wants to hear her views from the knight's point of view.

"This time it seemed like a really sudden story, and I didn't know much about it."

"I knew it..."

"But, well, that fucking serious, bona fide piece of Felix is gonna bite one. Cool. That's cool."

"I agree with that. Anyway, if it's just golden fangs, if you're going to do it in conjunction with silver wings, you won't be told anything unscrupulous."

The golden fangs for which war is a role and the silver wing for which policing is a role.

If it works at the same time, it should make you just the right suppressor.

While we are having such a conversation, we arrive at the Hollow Bottom Fortress on the fifth tier of The Day Clock Forest.

"I'm sorry to call you so suddenly. Wait in this room until your last preparations are complete. And the mayor and the caretaker of the guild house, Lord Luke of the White Wolf Forest, would like you to follow me."

Only three nominees and a few escorts, including Garnett, are led behind the fortress at the head of the Golden Fang Knight.

Further through the cave leading to the "Demon King's Castle area", even the building on the basement of the fortress was passed and brought to the surveillance tower on the property.

I'm used to it because it's a place I've been many times, but if I tried it on the others, I must have never imagined myself stepping in here.

This is the underground space where Demon King Castle exists.

Moreover, it is also the habitat of the dragon, a powerful warcraft.

Though safety is assured around the fortress, if you try to be ordinary people, you should only think of it as a place where you've stepped into the abyss of hell.

In fact, the caretaker Malcolm is still wandering around like he's going to pass out, and the old man in town just seems desperate to stay calm.

If I don't move aggressively in this situation, I will.

"What the hell is wrong with you? Anyway, it's not normal for me to bring ordinary people into Demon King's Castle space."

"I was wondering if you would be more certain to look at the actual sight than an oral explanation. I'd like you to check the castle towns of Demon King Castle with the spectacle of the surveillance tower."

Even if it's a surveillance tower, it's like a "yagura," and you have to climb the ladder (ladder) to the top, and one of us can climb it at the same time.

And both the mayor and Malcolm looked at me silently, releasing the pressure to go first.

"Well, I'll go first"

Climb the ladder to reach the top of the surveillance tower and peek into the large, equipped binoculars.

Adjust the angle between the magical skill and the binoculars with the advice of the watchman and fit the place in the lens as instructed.

At that moment, I lost my word.

"Become...!

The so-called castle town of Demon King Castle - the town inhabited by the Dwarves ruled by Dark Elves - had been turned into a pile of rubble from corner to corner.

"You're kidding... what happened...?

"Next, focus on the riverside over there."

Point the lens at the place as the watchman told you.

By the river near the foot of Rock Mountain with the Hollow Bottom Fortress, far from Demon King Castle and Castle Town.

There was a large number of tents spread out there, as well as a crowd of people who obviously couldn't fit into them.

But a crowd is not a human being, almost everyone is a dwarf.

I could understand the situation without having to be briefed.

The Dwarves who destroyed the town are evacuating by the river.

The small size of the body makes it difficult to gauge the number of people, but it does not fit in the hundreds or there and is large enough that it seems to reach thousands of units.

I hurried down the ladder, briefly describing the sights I had seen in other faces, and then asked the guide's knight to explain why that had happened.

"What the hell happened? You don't say the Knights attacked or anything."

"No way. That was the result of sabotage by the Demon King Army itself."

Such an idiot, I thought only for a moment, and I immediately convince myself in an unpleasant way.

"... Is this part of the operation?"

"I guess. It's an abomination."

Garnett also seemed to understand the intentions of the Demon King's Army, but ordinary people, starting with Malcolm, seemed to have no idea what it meant.

"Ri, what the hell does it mean to destroy the inhabitants' homes?"

"For the Demon King, Dwarf must have had the same tools. Now that the mining zone is controlled by golden fangs, I think Dwarf has become a useless tool."

I'll pass on my hypothesis to Malcolm, who's terribly confused.

"And you must have dared to push the Dwarves who destroyed and evicted their dwellings to the Golden Tooth Knights"

"Yeah, you're right."

The guiding knight affirms my hypothesis.

"The Dwarves want us to protect them. If you accept it, you'll be wasting a huge amount of supplies, but you can't deny the danger that thousands of dwarves will turn into mobs if you refuse. Worst case scenario… might try to break through the fortress and escape to the ground"

Malcolm blued his face and trembled, and the old man, the mayor, hardened his expression and swallowed his saliva.

"Today's emergency meeting is to work out measures to deal with this situation. If Dwarf's support is decided, we will also be requesting help from the Green Hollow people. Please understand."