Oukoku e Tsuzuku Michi

Episode 68: The War of Barbarian Repression ③ The Thunder of the Mountain

We broke a large group of barbarians by setting them in a muddy trap. We go after the defeated survivors and advance the army into their realm.

The light cavalry I was tracking was shaken off by the speed of their ride, but I know the general direction.

Given the scale of past raids, it was definitely a fatal blow in the first battle ahead.

It was thought to be a battle in unfamiliar land, but overwhelming in numbers.

"But I thought my territory was the best for nothing, but you're no match here."

The wilderness as far as I can see, but it's not flat, it's bumpy, but it's kind of sloping.

If you go further east, you'll be in the Great Mountains.

The great mountain ranges separating the continent from the north and south, its mountains, which can be cut in the central plains, reappear from this point forward.

Its summit is not exactly a place where people can go, and the theory is that the summit is the realm of God that is said to be more than 10,000 m high.

"No one can live in the Great Mountains. The people of the mountains live in this wilderness that leads to the mountains."

Leopold is lecturing for me.

I appreciate it, but I also get angry that you seem to be being treated like an idiot.

This area is barren but vast.

Though it is impossible to find them if they flee freely.

"If you can see the direction, you can handle it."

Horses are essential to their lives.

It's not just used to fight, it's used to hunt and move, and if you're an adult, they have one horse at a time.

And we need tons of water and leaves to maintain the horse.

The technical level of the mountain people is low, and they cannot make it satisfactorily except to take away even carriages and pottery pieces with looting.

Their mobility must cross water fields and meadows, especially if they cannot carry large quantities of water that weigh heavily.

As long as you know the direction, you just have to figure out the creek and pond.

"Well, did you know that much?"

Leoporto rounds his eyes.

I bet, especially since their level of skill and possession of one horse at a time is something you don't even know about, right?

"You heard a bedtime story from a barbarian woman, didn't you?

Don't say anything unnecessary.

Decopin to Celia.

It feels good and my forehead turns bright red and I'm bored.

I can't even walk with the prisoners I captured in the battle ahead, so I tied my hands up and left about a hundred soldiers in the village to watch.

Soldiers will be reduced, but it is thought that they have already settled, and would not have spared a hundred more soldiers now.

I brought my preferred daughter into bed in it, but I don't know if the mountain folks have made so much progress on the skills of men and women, or if the daughter was just naughty.

My daughter came up in tears and double-digit ascension while I released my sperm once.

At dawn the woman was completely captivated by me and told me everything.

"Whatever the method, it's valuable information. That's great."

I've never heard of "That's great" so disgusting.

"That woman, tell me." Are you the captain's sister? ♪ How dare you ask! Besides, if I told Mr. Agir that he had three wives, he'd say, "Can you recommend him to the fourth? They say!!

Speaking of which, in the mountain people, a strong man said it was normal to have more than one wife.

Was that an appeal?

But I just don't want to be the woman I met yesterday as my wife.

"No, it's me next... if I'm eating a woman unrestrained, I'll see it hurts sooner or later"

Celia is always desperate and fun to watch.

But lately, my voice has grown louder as to whether Irijina has affected me.

Don't turn bright red when you know what's being seen all around you.

I can't wait to be bored in this realm where I have nothing to see but mountains without even having a useless conversation.

I just want to find them and crusade them.

There's nothing now. It'll also look irritating around Rafen.

"We have discovered the river plains ahead, a group of tents that seem to belong to the barbarians"

The situation moves at once with avant-garde reports.

"Spear cavalry, go around backwards without fighting the enemy, and think they'll ride all the women and children, too. Siege or you'll get away with it."

"Take the archers first. They are bow cavalry. Long spears keep it clean."

Each unit knows how troublesome they are from the experience of battle.

Line up without alarm, albeit a few.

"Is it going to be a fight?"

I spoke frankly.

"Because their ways are unknown."

Leoporto would also be in doubt in his mind.

The enemy has noticed this way and is in a hurry, but only a few are armed and riding horses in preparation for the attack.

Seems like a hundred at best from what I've seen, and then there's just old people and little kids.

Although this one has decreased somewhat, it's still close to 2,000 if we include our army, which is just not a battle.

I thought if I showed the numbers, I would surrender.

"This spear cavalry has circled backwards. Complete siege."

Celia tells.

Now their fate is completely exhausted.

"Are they going to resist?

"Apparently it's meant to be. Cavalry is forming a line."

Of course Leopold won't allow that.

The archers start shooting at full strength before they finish forming the line, and most of them fall before they move properly.

Well, after that, one guy showed up at the place where he asked if he could light it up and burn it down too.

d The man in the flashy costume is shouting something out loud at this one.

Apparently, you're hoping for a ride.

"One hit..."

"No!? I've already settled. It's pointless to do something more dangerous now!

Celia sees that I might get into it or she stabs me in the nail.

But not pointless.

According to the information of the daughter contacted, their leader has a habit of being the most powerful person, and a one-on-one duel determines that.

The man you're screaming at right now is probably a chief or chief from the decorations.

If I take him down, all remaining enemies may resign and surrender to us.

"Excellent cavalry because of you, it's a shame to kill them all."

Besides, if we kill them all here, we don't know how we're gonna get out to the ones who surrendered them.

Sometimes Carla gets hurt, but let's just say I forgive my daughter for holding me yesterday.

With Celia's sigh on my back, I move forward.

I never just wanted to fight.

"O fool who defiles my sanctuary! If the wrath of the earth and your mountains is terrible, respond to my request and settle in a sacred duel!

"Nothing mountains are scary, but I'll take it"

Is the man in his forties or so? He doesn't leak into the example of the mountain people. He is small in stature, but he has the appearance of a warrior of war.

"Oh! Was there a brave man? You'll see our battle, too. I have to ask!

The man raised his voice of joy, ran his horse, and unleashed an arrow.

I thought it was a bow in a duel, but in the first place they are a people fighting with bows and swords, I guess this is what happens.

Besides, arrows themselves are not so much of a threat.

It is easy to see through arrows that are fired directly from the front.

Let's pay him off with a spear and pack the distance at once.

The man looks at my big spear and seems to be trying to stop it with a bow without a melee.

Try to manipulate the horse brilliantly to keep the obstacle at a distance to the shield.

But when I called, the distance was blocked all at once.

It's simple, you can't escape Schwartz on his horse.

Unlike regular military horses, Schwartz has thick legs and is stubborn.

Play some obstacles and walk away and judge the shortest course yourself by making up for my riding skills.

It is care and brushing by beauties that we ask for at the price.

If I don't do this, I immediately obstinate.

In an instant my distance jammed to 10m, and you saw you couldn't escape. The man pulls out his sword.

A sword less than 1m like you, I'm a 3m big spear.

You used a bow, so don't be cowardly.

Whimpering in my heart, I wave my spear and aim at the man's neck.

Desperately prevented by the sword, but to the overwhelming difference in arm power, the sword flies and the arm bends the other way.

"Huh!!!

I didn't have time to scream, and the spear that put me back bounced my neck off the bus.

Exactly. There was no way I'd lose to about forty little guys for slashing each other.

The body that lost its head collapses and the horse stops quietly.

"The chief is dead! Still fighting!

I yell at the people of the mountains around me.

They stop moving and drop their swords and bows to the ground.

The women who were running away gathered at me and lay down on the ground.

Apparently my daughter was right.

Now the chief of the people must be me.

Leoporto directed it, and the attack from the Oriental Army stopped perfectly.

The battle is over.

Barbarians... not in the destruction of the mountain people, but in a way that they can be obeyed.

One of the people of the mountain has lost his neck. Strip off the ornament of the chief and bring it to me.

Looks like I've become a true Barbarian and I have resistance, but I'd better wear it to rule it round.

I reach out thinking so, but at that time, the thunder blasts.

The man of the mountain people who knelt to me and offered me decorations was struck by lightning and burned unharmed, desperate.

This war was not yet over.

I feel terrible.

Because they showed me the whole human grill the moment I thought I'd won.

"Dear Eigil!

Celia rushes this way, but controls it with her hands.

Clear weather with no clouds now, normally I can't fall lightning or anything like that.

I don't know what this is, but it's obviously malicious. Then you can't hurt Celia.

"I won't admit, I won't admit it!

A voice that crawls through the ground.

Now it wasn't big, but it was an unpleasant voice in my ear.

"There shall be no foolish people who do not worship the mountains to be chiefs. Bending the code doesn't make me admit it!

Spookily decorated tents, horses and sheep skulls... I don't know, but they hung up to a human skeleton. From there, a sleigh and a human emerge.

I wrap a large quantity of decaying cloth that can no longer be called clothes, and I see nothing but my face and my mouth.

I don't even know if it's a man or a woman. That guy drags the borough cloth like a dress and slowly comes at me.

"I don't mind not admitting it, but why don't you just name it after me first?

Sole paused a little and raised his uncomfortable voice again.

"You fools. Refrain, admire. I am the incarnation of your mountain. [Dolberga] Show your face only to those who desire punishment!

There was a scream, and the people of the mountains lay down on the ground in unison and begged forgiveness.

They had also bowed their heads against me for defeating the chief until earlier, but not at all like that, shuddering and begging for forgiveness.

The soldiers of the Oriental Army, on the other hand, will not bow their heads, of course.

Did that bother you, Dolberga raised her anger?

"Death to all the fools who do not worship your mountain!!

As soon as the light ran on his wand, the light muscles ran in the middle of the soldiers.

A few times the roar earlier, a few instantly blacken, and a dozen around it are blown away and rolled.

A big twist ran.

"You're a wizard!

I've heard stories.

It's about those who manipulate spirits and exercise the incredible power of fire and wind.

It is extremely rare to see it in general because it takes innate wisdom and is mostly surrounded and generous by nations and great nobles.

And for a small number, the information is vague, and there are many uncertain parts.

Some say it's just a fancy surprise box, such as magic, and some say it even dictates the victory or loss of battles between the great armies, depending on how they are used.

The point is, even if you say wizard in one bite, there's a huge difference in personal power, from clutterfish to the outrageously destructive.

I've heard from Lucy in the past that most magicians can defeat one or two.

Collectively, it seemed like a brilliant guy to be able to defeat many.

This guy in front of you, who brings together a remote enemy and blows up more than ten people, is definitely a first-class wizard.

"She didn't tell me she had one of these."

Didn't you dare tell me, she didn't know it to her extent?

Either way, the upset is spreading throughout the Oriental Army.

In order to contain it, it will soon be raining arrows at the discretion of the commander.

This guy who killed ten people instantly is a big deal, but he can't beat 2,000 opponents.

But then there will be the dead in the midst of the conflagration, and the people of the mountain who surrendered because of it may rise again.

"I'll have to do it."

I put the spear back up and signaled the people around me to get away.

I'm not going to protect you, but even if you stay by my side, you're in the way.

"Do you want to go to your mountain too?"

"I know you're amazing, but it's settled. Grow up and your life will be saved."

I had no intention of recommending surrender.

I just wanted to signal my opponent to invite him to attack.

"Pull it out, you fool!

The light concentrates on the wand.

I move forward all at once and he slashes me.

But the sooner the light flies from his wand, the sooner I try to play a bunch of light with my spear.

I was blown away by the grandeur.

"Gu..................!

Nature and air leaked from the back of his chest, shaking his vision.

I can't stay asleep forever in the middle of a fight, so I get up, but my whole body seemed paralyzed.

I've never felt like this before.

I did think I played it with a spear, but I don't know what magic is at all.

"What! With my magic, why won't you destroy me? You're a monster."

"I fly weirder from my body. You're more suspicious!

All I fly for is love for a woman.

Love that makes you a child if you put it in your body.

"Stop it? Then it's my turn."

I will try to be strong, but my hand holding the spear is paralyzed and I can't help it as I think.

The palm of my hand was vividly burned when I saw it.

Maybe it's because of the cape that it didn't burn black.

Pull through the dual crater, much lighter than the spear, and make another run at it.

Seeing the lectures drooling during the spell doesn't seem like the magic of light can be shot in a row.

The distance is a small distance for me, like 20 meters, and he's not going to be able to move very quickly.

If the sword delivers, it will be settled.

"Unplug it! Destroy it, it belongs to the devil!

I approached him and the light didn't fly.

Then I can do it.

When I wave up my sword thinking so, his wand shines differently than ever before.

Instead of sounding like an earlier lightning strike, there was a bouncing sound of bees and burnt oil, and a wall of light appeared around him.

"Hey, how much art do you have?"

The wall of light is scorching the grass on the ground, and when you touch it, you know what's wrong.

Seeing our movement stopped, the soldier releases a bowgun at him, but the arrow burns up and gets bounced the moment it hits the wall of light.

"If you touch this guy, don't look as bad as you just did again"

The burned palm hurts.

It also smells burnt from the cape.

If I lose even this cloak, I might cry.

"But in the end, that's the only way"

If I can even get it out on a fire column, you can hit it and try to fight it, but unfortunately this body and sword are the only weapons available.

Swing the dual crater over the large upper section and exhale loudly.

I waved my sword down with a rough roar.

I've decided to believe in a nonna-signed sword.

When the sword hits the wall of light, the same bee and fierce noise sound as the hand that forced the soft object to be slashed and the body that was burned earlier.

I don't know what's going to happen, but all I can do now is push it off the force.

And I won the bet, and the beautiful and shining sword cut off the wall instead of being played by the light.

A cheer boils down from the people of the mountains and from the soldiers of the Orient.

After the wall was torn apart, the fog disappeared to clear.

"What? No! How dare you cut off my divine power to protect your mountain!

"Come on. I wonder what!

I'm not willing to talk to you.

Pull out the wall and approach him.

Once again, he releases a bunch of light to me from close range.

But in vain, this sword proved that it would rip the light apart already and show it.

I won't eat your magic anymore.

He breaks the spear of flying light and kicks his body.

He stepped on his back, unnecessarily pulled back, and waved his sword.

There are two explosions in the back.

Apparently, the magic I slashed flew behind me.

Let the unlucky soldier resent this guy, not me.

"Stop it! If you kill me, bee! You're gonna hit a bee! There's an avalanche!

My interest in this guy fades at once.

This guy is nothing but a mountain of use.

I was just a little bit afraid of the mountain people with a powerful wizard.

He was just a man who was broken and panicked by confident magic and begged for his life in the abyss of death.

"Your art was amazing. Bye."

His neck left his torso like a vegetable hedge.

A cracking cheer echoes in the mountains.

The Oriental soldiers were all honoring me with their hands up.

"He's the strongest knight in Goldonia!" "Magic is not enough to fear!" "Honor the invincible captain!" "Wow, I like women!

The last guy will stick it down later, and the cheer doesn't feel bad.

This time it was dangerous.

I have to deal with my hands and my whole body, and most importantly, don't worry about my cape... I hope it's not burning and full of holes.

Meanwhile, the mountain people have bowed their heads around me again to see if I'm the only object of obedience because of the death of a guy who was also the object of fear.

It was only in the future that it really ended.

I decided to declare everyone victorious and the end of the battle and ask Celia, who ran in tears, to take care of me.

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"Already! Aren't you so much?"

Leoporto will take care of the post-war process and receive Celia's allowance.

My hands are terrible, but other than that, the place where I was supposed to be wearing armor is burning.

"Looks like you're really struck by lightning."

I had seen a guy unfortunately struck by lightning during the Mercenary Corps, and that burn was like this.

Most of all, he died soon after his whole body rotted.

"You saw the soldiers go black burnt! Why are you being impotent!?

Because I thought I could play with a spear, but that's not the answer Celia should be looking for.

"I'm sorry. You made me worry."

I cuddle my teary-eyed Celia and say it gently.

You're right about this, Celia, who's grown up.

By the way, Irijina had gotten her medication gobbled up, so she made it off-limits.

And it's the cape at heart............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

"You're pretty burnt and holed up. I think we should make a new one now."

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"Master Agil? It's a material I've never even seen re-sewn, so why don't you throw it away?

"Celia, don't say any more"

My voice got colder than I thought.

My hand stopped to apply medicine to me.

"also, sorry...... no"

Celia turns blue.

I've done bad things to you even though you're on the lookout for me, but this is all I can't give in.

It's a hell of a thing to throw this cape away.

I smell my cloak as I stroke Celia, who has tears in my eyes again.

I think I smelled that cabin I miss in the scorch smell.

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"How's the mountain folk doing?

"I'm calm. No one tries to escape."

Talk to Leopold about what happened after the war.

The people of the mountain decide chieftains by duel every time, so it's not particularly unusual to say that I killed the previous chief, and there is no evil.

But it is their system of governance that is so difficult.

They take the chief of the clan as an absolute being. The chief of each clan moves according to that order.

In other words, a complete centralised system.

The only one who can give an opinion to the chief is the spellman, but this is not the case because I killed him.

More than I've become their leader, you can't decide anything without my instructions, and you can't do anything.

That's the girl sitting next to me who told me that.

His name is [Pipi], he's the daughter of a former chief, but he's not particularly thoughtful because he's one of his wife's sons, who had twenty.

"So, Pipi's gonna help me?

"It is natural to cooperate with the chief. I'll do anything. Follow the chief everywhere."

There is no hesitation in a clear mouthfeel.

Everything needs to be understood about ourselves because this is the first time that the people of the meadows (it seems to be about human beings other than the people of the mountains) have become chiefs.

Among the mountain people whose strength is appreciated at the same time, I am regarded as a great man who cut off the former chief into one sword, and I want to take that mood as well.

Then they came to the conclusion that they would give any man a delightful tribute, or beauty.

Pipi is young when it comes to beauty, but here's what he says.

"I hear it is the joy of a man to dye a woman about the age of Pipi into her own color"

"Pipi has a small body so a man can rule. Men rejoice in dominating women"

The culture seems very different.

I don't hate it though.

Either way, we don't have much information about the mountain people, so if Pipi comes to me, it's easy to rule, and I decided not to hesitate to take it.

"So what are they gonna do when we pull them up?

Pipi's expression is dark.

"I don't know. Few who went to the meadows returned. It's also hard to hunt as it is. Make a lot of kids, increase the numbers, and the weak who can't hunt have no choice but to deduce."

Surely it would be critical if they lost more than a thousand healthy people without a large number.

But the survival of the mountain people is taken prisoner.

"Will you be the chiefs of the clan about that? Tell them, I caught about half the people who don't go home, but I didn't kill them. If you swear allegiance to me, let's go home."

Pipi's eyes open wide.

"Half of you go home and you'll be fine! That's the great chief, I'm going to let the chiefs know!

He's still a child and adorable to rush out of.

You feel like a pretty little girl.

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Celia looks at this one with an indescribable face.

Maybe he's on guard when his standing is taken away.

"Don't be so vigilant. You're my sweet Celia."

Celia's face creases loose.

"Dear Sheikh! The elders said they would gladly swear allegiance. Few women can take that and a great chief. He said you could pick as many as twenty people as you like and take them."

Celia's face tightened.

The war with the mountain people ended in the form of me absorbing them.

They don't have a culture of saying contracts and conventions, and they don't have paper in the first place.

It's just that the chiefs of the clan kneel before me in the sight of the mountain and swear allegiance.

This seems to be the ritual of loyalty.

I promised to free the prisoners, and I took Pipi, a negotiator and contributor with them, on my way back to Rafen.

"I can't. You can't hold it even though it's still small."

"Why not. Pipi is already a woman. I want the son of a great sheik."

"You haven't seen Master Agil's, so I can tell you! You can't have a little body like that."

"What haven't you seen?

"Hmm? That must be about me, right? Lord Hardlett's big one, here it is!

Hit Irigina on the head and shut her up.

The shape is a negotiator, but there are more women again.

"Ugh, more women again. What can I say to Nonna and the others..."

"Look, Pipi is like a messenger."

Celia is still not convinced.

"No! I'm determined to eat it right away. Plus two women I didn't know yesterday, they went into the floor, right?!? Two saffrons were blooming on the sheets in the morning, right?!?

I can't help that one.

The chief of the clan, two people told me they wanted their daughter to have a great seed.

Besides, she was beautiful, so you can't even say no.

Reveal the pursuit of Irigina while holding back the noisy Celia.

As the burnt cloak, broken spear, and Lucy's gift were hurting, I felt that this moment was becoming a little more important.

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Protagonist Agil-Hardlet, 20, summer.

(Years)

Status Viscount of the Kingdom of Goldonia Commander of the Eastern Independence Army Number of troops 1900

Southeastern Arkland Lords Private Army 120

5050 Property Gold Coins (5000 Sheets Debt)

Weapon Dual Crater (Great Sword) Big Spear

Equipment Black Cloak Golden Armor (laughs)

Family Nonna (Wife) Kara (Side Room) Mel (Side Room) SW (Daughter) KURU

Rita Sebastian (Deacon)

King's capital Melissa Maria Mighty Almachlor Katrine

Subordinate Celia (Deputy) Iridina (Commander of Our Army) Pipi (People of the Mountains)

Leopold (Deputy Commander of the Independent Army) Adolf (Home Affairs Officer) Schwartz (Horse)

44 Experience, 6 children given birth.