Next Life

Five Stories "Around That Time"

"Marius doesn't seem to be leaving Filato."

In response to the secretary reading out reports from the two sides, King Johnson of Vester replied by sounding his nose gently.

"Fair enough. You can't fight demons like that."

It was a decision to discern Marius.

"Helping slave soldiers is a beauty story, but it would be fatal not to be ruthless together"

General of the Kingdom of Vester, Randall shares his thoughts.

It is a dark comfort to give those who are stronger than themselves.

It is difficult for anyone who becomes a general of a single country to escape.

"Are you armed, Randall?

"Yes, we can feed 100,000 soldiers for a few years. You can't imitate barbaric and foolish looting in enemy land."

Now the Holdian army's way of doing things.

Apparently, he was the kind of man who discredited someone.

Even as Johnson, I hate people of this kind.

If you don't have the ability, you want to hit him in the neck.

"Holdia says the Mad King is now conducting dictatorial politics and the domestic system is changing dramatically. Not that the Regular Army will be affected at all."

"I'd appreciate it if you got weaker."

When the regrouping is over, it will be troublesome, so I'd like to start the attack before it's over if I can.

"Even though Mithra and Balshark are also there, the enemy is the Holdian army. You have to be careful."

"You're right. Ask another country to cross the dangerous bridge."

It sounds insidious when Randall says something about a very common category as an operation.

Holdia is not a winnable opponent in Vester alone.

Mithra, is it about 60% coalitioned with Balshark?

It was Vester's view that the current state of Holdia would be about 70%.

If it was to be complete, Philato would also have liked to be invited, but was refused reconstruction from the damage suffered in the earlier Holdia invasion was first.

Tens of thousands of regular troops have died and have been vandalized around the border.

It was great that Marius would march out, but he said he is being pursued by measures against demons and demon kings.

"Surely the devil is blind."

Even in that sense, I just want to make friends with Marius.

Since it would be counterproductive to continue, such as solicitation just to be turned down, I think I should try a gift offense next time.

To the extent that it does not, of course, stimulate fillato.

and so on, while also transferring consciousness to Holdia attackers.

"Uhm. But the Wing Dragon Soldiers are going out."

"Ha. Did you take them?"

Johnson tries to keep Randall calm as he pulls his blood vessels against his opponent.

Wing Dragon Soldiers is the strongest army in the Kingdom of Vester and is also known as Wyburn as Wing Dragon.

It is structured around summoners and those with rare skills "Monster Tame".

If we send out the Wing Dragon Soldiers, we can show that we are serious about the Holdia invasion.

There was no difference in Randall.

You'll have to go through a lot of trouble to fool your opponent, and the Wing Dragon Soldiers will welcome you as a showdown force.

"Besides, Holdia is home to dragons."

"Well? That's my first ear."

Johnson taught him as he tongued Randall twisting his neck.

"You don't know the twin dragons of Mount Amademi? A female who has black scales, a male who spits flames and white scales, and spits ice. According to one theory, we should also call it a couple dragons because they are connected, not brothers and sisters."

It is said that Filato builds Fort Valdera and distributes baristas in the first place in order to be alert to these twin dragons.

It is also used by the opposing forces because the Holdians occasionally make a little noise.

"It won't help 50,000 soldiers or anything if you accidentally put them in the territory. Watch where you're going."

"Yes, I don't even want to see dragons."

Randall's reaction wasn't reassuring, but he'd be careful if he didn't want to die.

"But who did Wyburn say that King Philato was attacked?"

Johnson was curious.

To a close crush on that soliloquy, Randall replied to discipline, wishing he'd let it go.

"Neither Summoners nor Monster Tamers are so rare. Well, it's rare if you can serve Wyburn... aren't you a demon?

"I'm not a demon. There was no second shot."

The powerful man who manipulates the flock of Wyburn, then the demon is the first to float.

They can dominate monsters and pawn them, no matter the degree of difference.

But if the demon aimed for a purpose, it is impossible to end with a single blow.

There would have been a second or third attack in a row, or a demon's own raid.

It shouldn't be a huge loss by demon standards, such as the sacrifice of six heads.

It was similar to Philato's view.

"On a national basis, Philato, Boltner, Lanreo and Holdia are excluded."

I don't know if it's personal.

Johnson showed caution against Randall's conclusion.

The state has no idea what skills each person has.

I know by self-declaration who serves in the court or belongs to the army, but there is no way to see if that is true.

In Johnson's opinion, it is best to escape within Philato until we target King Philato, and around Boltner after the raid.

If it is the most human opponent, the question arises as to why he targeted King Philato at that time.

"Fair enough. Once a month has passed since the Demon Festival, war will be banned. At least Mithra and Balshark will attack."

Mithra's Frederick and Balshark's Jessica were more than willing to fight.

I don't think the strategy of inviting others because one country has few wins is wrong.

But there's no need for Vester to stick with it.

Are you sure the Holdians want Mithra and Balshark to fight for the occupation?

"Mm-hmm. It's like I'm not doing it too openly"

I don't mind as long as you get your tongue pounded, but if you resent me, it's a hassle later.

As much as anything is best.

"War at this time...... are you insane?

Derek, king of Seraeno, was stunned by the movements of Mithra, Balshark and Vester.

"Didn't you stop talking about Zagan the Demon King"

Derek said it was easy to destroy.

It would be out of line to tell Marius, "Please struggle harder," etc., and what should we do to fulfill it?

Speak the way one of the intermediaries said he was afraid.

"Speaking of which I am concerned, I am concerned about the fact that King Holdia is unwilling to avert war"

"She doesn't know what she's thinking. Nothing against the Union of Three Nations?

"Yes. I won't even show you the ruse to plot."

That was just odd.

Even though Holdia is strong, Derek stands out for having a high or 30% chance of winning when it comes to fighting three countries simultaneously.

Of course, deployment would be different if we used mundane means such as Operation Scorched Earth.

Or a depletion operation using slaves as shields?

If Asteria is called the Mad King, she could do both.

(No, does that mean that both are at the same time...?

Keep one side as scorched earth per and shield hundreds of thousands of slaves who don't mind making it even more disposable.

It is not as much a method of warfare as an attack during the period of the ban on engagements, but it is not strange to be called out on the outside road.

But now we are still in the middle of reforming the country, and Holdia, who is difficult for the military to fully demonstrate its original strength, can be described as the most winning operation.

I don't know how I'm going to fall because I think that's more or less acceptable with the troika.

"Your Majesty...?

The heavy ministers await Derek's decision.

Derek thought it was not obvious that Rathi was alone, so he decided to ask the question.

"Don't you think the way King Holdia does things is somewhere odd?

I couldn't answer the king's question.

Because it was too much of a question now, it was necessary to understand the king's sincerity.

Hemrut, who is also the Chancellor of Magic, who will hit the court magic master in Philato, responded.

"I would like to respond to you sincerely. I can only think of King Holdia's words and deeds, roughly all odd to the minister."

Hemrut has had the opportunity to see Asteria, albeit somewhat at at the Demonic Festival.

I can honestly say that she was a very knowledgeable woman who had an excellent appearance but no desire.

"That's right. But don't you think it's impossible to control a country to a true fool just because you're a queen? Holdia is the biggest country on the continent."

"Isn't there a puppeteer? He that speaketh of the queen, and mocks her in the shadows.

One minister said that only what is visible is not always true.

This has been said many times in more than one country.

"Then you'll have to take instructions. But the Queen never sees such a bare gesture. I don't use magic items or magic because there are no signs of using magic. How do you interact with puppeteers?

Of course, it doesn't mean the intelligence skills of the interstate are absolute, so he may just be diving blindfolded.

But it's just weird that no country can detect anything at all.

"Unless the Queen herself is a demon."

This was also an opinion that had appeared before, but it soon became ignored.

Because Asteria began to rebuild Holdia in earnest.

There can be no such thing as a demon who seriously rebuilds the nation of humanity.

If you are looking for the resurrection of the Demon King, it is even more unforgiving.

"You're getting off the record. After all, where is the Queen's sincerity?"

It is hard to believe that a human being who can plan and implement Holdia's reconstruction cannot read the time it takes to rebuild it.

"Could it be a miscalculation? You know, every country was immersed in negotiations with Marius and you read that there was no Holdia attack."

Or maybe he couldn't manipulate the feelings of other countries the way he thought.

"Then you could have thought that if you pushed the nobility to take responsibility, you wouldn't be attacked."

Various opinions began to fly, all assuming that Asteria's outlook was sweet.

"Yeah, you can definitely explain that."

It is never uncommon for this hand to misread, and even in the past history, I went into war because I caressed my emotions without offense.

It could be said that the easier it is to cause things the more the kind of person who decides everything by himself, like Asteria.

"Then it would simply mean that the rest had been overbought by King Asteria..."

Preferably so, of course.

If the monarch who controls the great power called Holdia is too competent, it can be a nasty development for Serraeno.

I wanted you to be as good as you are because you have trouble with incompetence.

It is a repeated interaction several times in Serraeno.

That's all, there's a lot of attention to the movement around Holdia, but for a reason.

If we assume that mankind will fight demons, Holdia's mobilization is a great attraction.

There is a non-standard wizard named Marius, but it will just be difficult to defend the entire continent alone.

We must place an army of mankind where Marius cannot come.

It changes dramatically depending on how much Holdians can calculate.

But neither Mithra nor Balshark will listen to that.

I didn't believe in the Demon King's threat.

(I can't even tell you to knock me down so the threat is easy to understand)

That would cause too much damage to humanity, and above all, it is a human being from another country.

I couldn't have told you.

Nevertheless, the idea of ordering from the Demon King's defeat is the anomaly.

If the Ordinary Demon King were to be resurrected, the nation of mankind would have to stand united.

It seems that Melinda once said that if mankind were to perish, it would be because of its stupidity.

As Derek, I couldn't deny it if I wanted to.

His brother, also a fool, appealed for arms expansion and territorial expansion in an attempt to revive the strongest Seraeno.

Territorial expansion does not simply mean that a general can do it if he is competent and a strong soldier.

Serraeno's inability to expand its territory is not a matter of force, but of the fact that the barracks are too poor to carry out a full-scale invasion.

So seriously, to invade, we have to strengthen the barracks capability first, but Derek's brother didn't get it.

If I had appealed for reinforcement of the barracks, I would have gained support, but no one would have obeyed those who took it lightly.

The Serraeno army is strong, not just because the soldiers are strong.

As a result, he was stripped of his status as Prince Wang and was turned over an assassin to his father King, who was wary of becoming a sprout of disaster, and he said he had fallen off a cliff.

It couldn't be helped because it was an area where monsters who preferred human flesh would travel.

It would be a lie if I said my chest didn't hurt, but on the other hand I even broke it off.

Fools only annoy folk grass where they become kings.

I want Frederick and Jessica to disappear if I can.

Of course, given the whole of humanity thing, confusion should be smaller, and it would be better not to be.

Asteria. If you're a fool too, you'll disappear)

Now, if Asteria dies, there will be no heir to the throne, and Holdia will be divided and absorbed by the great confusion and neighbouring nations.

That's a bad idea if you think about the devil, and I don't think Asteria is that stupid.

It was decided to see the fight against the Union of Three Nations before deciding whether Asteria should be eliminated or kept alive.