Oukoku e Tsuzuku Michi

Ares forces head in a straight line for the shortest distance to Meldra Central.

Not even considering the terrain or enemy defensive positions, it's really in a straight line.

"Is that... an enemy fort? Celia!"

"Excuse me! It's a Meldra flag. It's small, but it's a fence, a moat, a stone wall defense tower... built in."

Celia jumps on my shoulder and stares at me and reports.

"When you have a stone tower, you need to do something to drop it just by the infantry. Let's call a military conference."

Agor looks at the fort with a tough face.

"Uh, don't you need it? I won't ask you anyway."

I know you didn't react to Tristan's words, but anger continues from all around you.

"You see the fort. It's a fort I've never seen!

"Did they build a fort here? What are we gonna do with this?

"Let's storm first and see how it goes!

Soldier Ares ran off before Agor complained to Guildless about the military.

"... assault to see how it goes?

"Don't ask me. Tell the guildless later."

I'm not familiar with Ares.

Ares soldiers storm this again in a straight line against the fort.

The enemy naturally releases arrows as rain to intercept them, but Ares soldiers have little effect as they consolidate their defenses with their neighbors and disappointing shields while forming a proper formation.

"Distance...... clogs. It's on the walls... a trap!!

At the same time that Agor is surprised, the earthen smoke rises and he can't see the vanguard.

Apparently, a pit had been set up near the walls.

"Ha! That was brilliant!

"A trap is the best thing for an imbecile beast!

You can hear the enemy cheering so far.

"Havoc is inevitable when the vanguard falls into a round trap. Let's get out of the way and get things sorted out!

"I don't need it."

Tristan's mesmerizing voice is followed by an enemy cheer replacing a scream.

"Oh, hey, they're not dead! They're coming up the hole!

"Stupid! I dug five meters and even put a spear down there! Yes, throw the stone! Quick!!"

"When this happens, with my spear...... HI!? No! No! Help! Don't take your clothes off!

Even if the vanguard falls into the hole, the ensuing will not be upset at all, and its vanguard will soon crawl up on its own and participate in the attack.

"Yeah, give me a stone. I can't help it."

"Do it, brother!

Some Ares soldiers place their swords and shields on the ground and assemble them in stone walls with their bare hands.

And how dare you pull through the stone walls and start destroying them.

Eventually the defensive towers, which were broken at their feet, collapse one after the other.

Neither can the arrows that strike stop Ares soldiers, the walls are torn down, and the iron castle gates fall inward losing pressure on the men.

That was about an hour.

"Get a stone wall with your bare hands... do you say it's different from the siege battle I know..."

"Don't think too much about it. I'm tired of them thinking that's what they are."

Ares' advance did not stop after that.

The next position is a fort on a chopped cliff with only one climb, and a burning oil runs from the top of the front climb.

"It's a position on a cliff. That sounds troublesome."

"The fire is too strong. We have to do something about that first."

Now what will Ares do? I know more or less.

"Uh, I was expecting you, but you're climbing."

Tristan seems to be just like me.

Ares soldiers start climbing the cliffs on the back in groups.

Didn't the enemy think he was coming up a vertical cliff, or there was no defense there.

"The sight of countless machos climbing walls is spectacular."

Oh, that's disgusting.

I'm throwing stones and stuff through the fort window, but to that extent, Ares soldiers can't be stopped.

Occasionally, we allow the fort to break in, and a riot battle begins, but at the earliest this happens, the enemy has no hope.

It took a little while this time. That's about two hours.

"Oh, my friend! Compared to your enemies, Meldra is not warm. I thought you'd fall asleep in the middle of a war!

Guildless comes here with a woman in a beautiful red and white dress on both shoulders.

"Ugh... don't kill me"

"I told you the fort was difficult to defeat... very hard"

Apparently, she was the fortress lord's woman.

I expose my cold gaze to the guildless.

"A little more to the center of Meldra. It will be time to get awkward. Take care of yourself."

Guildless offers a woman in a red dress.

"I'm sorry you're paying attention. I'm glad you're not hurt either."

I took care of the woman according to the smile.

Whether guildless words have become reality, the battle begins to change little by little the next day.

"" "Wow!

"Three people got hit! Lower back. It's from that boat!!

Countless fireballs flew from a small boat hidden in the creek's aquatic plants in what also seemed like an easy victory.

It's a familiar small fireball weapon.

Ares soldiers can't be safe from being blown away by fire, either.

"Whoever can swim can turn on the river! Dive and turn the ship upside down!

Guildless gives orders other than assault.

A man with a weapon and armor leaps into the river.

He's a hot, bitter fool who can't help it, but he's not incompetent.

I know how to fight even in an unknown situation.

"You just need armor! Why are you even taking off your pants!!

Celia is angry though.

"Shh, wow..."

Agor's squire swallowed the spit. You all right, buddy?

"Mm, there's a new guy coming!!

A voice rises from another side.

When you shift your gaze, something like a silver carriage comes from the enemy formation.

"That's a... carriage... no, but"

Agor gives a bewildered voice.

"You don't have a horse at heart."

Tristan says intriguingly.

Yes, the "silver carriage-like object" was moving around spinning the wheel without being towed by the horse.

"Just one demon after another"

"Hey, what am I supposed to do!

"If it's a carriage, you can kill the horse... he said there's a horse!? Then I don't know! Hit it with a stone!

If it's a normal carriage, you can just tailor your horse, but what's wrong with this?

Ares soldiers throw stones from the sides, but the strength of the body itself is not even high.

Plus the horseless carriage throws fireballs one after the other as we approach here.

"Ugh! I sprayed the fire!!

"Yep, annoying! What do we do? Jump on!?

Don't get eaten deep into the formation as it is.

He looked around and found the chains that the enemy would have used to set up the large tent.

Swing it around and throw it at a bunch of Ares soldiers.

"Bend over and hold it for three."

"Respond!!

"It will be!

Throw one red painted knife at the carriage if Celia says so.

That seems to have been a special specification with gunpowder wrapped around it, and if it hits, it explodes and makes a noise.

After the blast had subsided, the carriage was still beautifully silver and there was no scratch.

Still, the carriages change direction and stick in toward Celia.

Celia lures the carriage in our direction, pretending to escape appropriately.

"Now!

On the signal, Soldier Ares and I pulled up the chain at the same time.

Carriage moves into momentum.

A shock strikes me that's going to blow every body away.

I'm about to get pulled out, but Mac holds his hips down disappointingly.

Three Ares soldiers also blew up, dragging them but not releasing their chains.

The carriage remained chained to the wheel, and he tried to run, but wondered if a single wheel floated in the universe. He rolled over as it was, twice-three-time rotation, and flipped over heaven and earth to stop.

"Whatever the vehicle is, if there's a wheel, let it fall, and we'll do it."

I kick the empty wheel gently.

Even so, although I flipped it, neither the body nor the wheels were broken at all.

I'm pretty sure this guy does something about Jillville, too.

Those on the canoe with weapons are also being overthrown one after another by Ares soldiers looming from underwater.

I struggled a little differently than before, but could I still win this time?

"Han! Behind you!!

Almost at the same time as the guildless warning, I look back and wave the dual crater.

What was approaching me was a giant fireball, but it scratches out with a pakin and a light noise out of proportion to its power.

"Damn I can't believe I slaughtered the fire!?

There was an enemy soldier with a face out of the grass at the end of his gaze, with a wand like a rounded spear tip.

"Wizard."

But my guess is off.

"Ha, let go!!

About ten people with the same spear jumped out of the grass and fireballed one after the other.

Wizards are extremely rare, and the magic they can use is different from one another.

But it's the exact same color fireballs that fly in front of us. This can't happen.

I don't know what it is.

"We'll have to do it"

I run with two fireballs broken.

Then he slams a thrust into the forehead of an enemy soldier who was taken aback, and pulls every neck out, and the man next to him also snaps away.

At the same time, the guildress advances and slashes and dumps two enemy soldiers, causing the third head to fall on his heels.

"Co, you bastard!

The wand directed at me glowed.

But there were no fireballs. Because the wand and the right hand are spinning through the universe.

"We can't have a round ahead of us. There's nothing you can do if they come near you."

He also skips his neck following his right hand, and also slashes and throws away the back of the man who tried to escape, swinging towards the fifth.

Gildress also slaps the fourth enemy with each cane, grabs the last one's neck and tries to snap it.

"" Mm!

And we realized it was a woman at the same time.

"No more... Mother. Come on!

"I don't want to die!

I lay down my weapon and make him throw away his cane while I stroke the head of the enemy soldiers.

"" It's okay. I don't kill women. ""

Voices overlap. Has my ear gone crazy?

"Surrender in peace."

I take off my simple armor and disarm it while I stroke it so I can forgive you.

"" I'll let you go soon. Instead...?

I hold the woman and rub her ass and chest off.

The fight is already coming to an end. Then the next thought is the pleasure of the night.

"Ugh...... I knew Master Agil wouldn't be so far away as he was. We have to stop it..."

Pick up the cane Celia made the woman throw away as she said something.

"Is this the wizard's wand? Much lighter than it looks - wow!?

Suddenly the wand glowed and the fireball flew vigorously and landed amongst Ares soldiers.

"Duh! Do what!

"An invitation to a far-flung night! Then take it!

Celia used magic?

"Wow, I don't know. I just grabbed this wand so hard, I suddenly..."

"A weapon that allows anyone to shoot something magical. Looks like a substitute for that."

Tristan smiles when he sees the battle is over.

"Don't come out with all this stuff."

It would be tough if all this came out as a weapon in southern Euglia.

We need to find a way to deal with this.

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- A few days later.

"I can't."

"I don't think so."

Me and Agor keep our voices together.

In front of you is the city Meldra - the city that is the center of everything for the urban state.

Ares soldiers have dropped enemy fortifications with such strength that they cannot speak in the words of strength and bravery that they have marched this far through the line of defense.

Drop this place and Meldra will be finished.

At a distance of only a few kilometres, only one splendid stone city wall separates them.

There's nothing I can do about it.

Tristan spreads his hands open for the good of him.

I grab that hand and pull it down to the ground.

Almost simultaneously, the fireball flies away the overhead rinse, instantly turning the rear big tree into an extinguishing charcoal.

"It makes me laugh when I get here"

Countless fireballs and light were constantly emitted from the city of Meldra, and soldiers who occasionally appeared above the city walls also had round magic wands.

A further Ares soldier slammed Marutai with ten seats and tried to break through the gate, but he didn't even sway.

Unknown enhancement techniques used in Trisnia are probably used.

"Nooo."

Guildless groans with regret, but it's not even a battle to be blown away before any Ares soldier approaches strong. Even if you dive through that attack, there's nothing you can do about a wall that even plays with cannons.

I can't break a defense like this.

It is obvious that even if you attack, you will only be struck unilaterally.

"Well that's good. Our main purpose is not to crush Meldra."

"Right. At the heart of Jillville's mechanical civilization… maybe the ruins or something. It's about finding it."

"Nooooo."

says Tristan as he pays for the patties and dust.

I helped you, so be grateful.

Don't worry about guildless.

"But where is the root of such a powerful weapon... come on. Aren't they strictly protected? If it's even in the middle of the city, for example, I can't help it..."

Tristan answers the worrying agor in mild condition.

"No, maybe not. It was a thousand years ago, wasn't it? I'm not showing my face around the city in grandeur. If it's underground or somewhere out of sight... it's hard to believe it's in the heart of Meldra."

Tristan keeps his gaze off the city.

"What's suspicious is a mine, a deep forest where people don't get in, or..."

I hear patties and cute footsteps.

When he sees it, Agor's squire rushes to let him out of breath and salutes him in a picky manner.

She's a fake mistress, but she also acts as a squire for once.

"We found the castle being renovated outside the city! It feels weird to have guards even though they're like ruins!

Tristan hands down quietly.

"Or an old castle, abandoned fort... I guess"

"Guildless. Arrange here to make the enemy think that Meldra's attack is the only purpose. You just have to keep your enemies' eyes open until you reach your goal."

"Noooo!!

Are you unhappy that the battle is not an end? Guildless roared an extra-large roar.

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- Night

"Well, it's about time"

When we see that the sun has fallen off, we face off.

It's Agor and Mac next to me, Celia snuggling, and Tristan yawning behind me.

What a snob the fort found by Agor's squire.

Because half of them were worn out old castles that were still going to collapse, and the other half were unfinished like they were thrown out in the middle of construction.

"Debris and soil are left on the side. I haven't had time to interrupt work."

When I looked back surprised at the unheard voice, it was Mac.

I'm surprised this guy talks sometimes because he doesn't usually speak up.

I guess so if this guy who is used to civil engineering as an engineer all in all.

But I'm not convinced of one thing right now.

"What a small castle. Is that the ruin of ancient civilization?

Put in a few hundred soldiers and you'll be full.

Doesn't look like a very important base.

"No, I wouldn't have put it in grandeur. Here, take a look."

Tristan points his finger.

Security lights the bonfire and the ancient castle floats blurry up in the dark night.

On top of it is even an alarm, which, if sounded, will be able to inform the crisis to the center of Meldra.

"There is no military value in such a borough castle, or a castle with a full view of its contents under renovation. In wartime, even one soldier is on guard in a rare situation, and it's weirder not to have anything. Anyway, let's hit all the clues. Come on, come in."

"You're coming too."

I grab Tristan's collar and approach the castle.

"Then we activate the operation."

"Ah......"

I'll get back to Agor.

Because this operation didn't really bother me.

"It's okay, I'll do it and show you! Trust my acting skills."

Celia grabs her squire's collar and moves to the grass by the castle.

Celia then tempers Mun and pushes her squire down to the grass.

"Oh no!

"What do you hate about coming so far? Be prepared. You're going to be my woman!

I don't see it clearly, but Celia and her squire are rolling through the grass.

"Oh, there... don't look... don't look..."

"Open more crotches. I'll make you better."

The squire's legs pop out on the grass, but Celia's thin arms soon hold in.

Gradually, the murmur grows louder, and the grass can be seen shaking in a gutter.

"Oh, no... I'm already here!

It was when my squire raised his voice loudly.

"Who's there! Come out!

Several soldiers guarding the ancient castle pine the lights.

A nearby soldier stops by with a spear.

I almost jumped out of nowhere and Mac strangled me with wings.

You were right on schedule. My body just moved on its own.

"No way, Ares' Between! What the hell..."

Celia stands up with her hands up very heavily.

The chest is wide open and the thighs are rolled up to a remarkable point.

Subsequently, the squire also rises with a bright red face, concealing his chest.

Celia really seems to have made me take all my clothes off.

The enemy's guard seems to have blown away at once.

I don't scream for vigilance, I don't run to sound the alarm.

"You guys didn't see the noon fight? Keep it down for a little while... dude"

"You both women? You dairy each other..."

The soldiers who were gathering face to face, niggling and grinning badly.

"This is an important place. Even though it was an exchange, it's not easy to return it."

"Right. You have to look hard and gentle."

"Beautiful virgins like you don't get along with each other. We'll teach you how good a man is."

The loose-cut soldiers try to take him with their shoulders as they watch Celia and the others lick around.

Of course I'm not on rear alert or anything at all.

"Let's go."

Me and Agol, Mac run like rolls.

I take a breath in a dual crater so I can't scream.

Agor turns his sword from behind and scratches his throat out at once.

"-Guy!!

A little late Mac crushes the entire head of the enemy with a battle hammer.

If you lose your head, you can't even speak up.

Now there are two enemy soldiers left.

"Shh!!

At the exact same time as our raid, Celia moves, piercing one's throat with a dagger planted in the back of her sole thigh, throwing it straight into the mouth of the other open to surprise.

"Agoo! Agoo!"

"Ke... Ke... Gu..."

I'm not dying instantly, but I can't speak anymore.

Me and Agor approached slowly and gave the two of them guidance.

Only Matsumitsu swiftly turns it off and leaves the body alone.

I can't find it in this darkness first. There will be no problem if we settle by morning.

Now the area where the five men were guarding was completely blank.

It's easy to infiltrate...

"Ugh, we're back. Where is everybody? Don't be gone while people are fucking around."

The last one emerges from an unexpected place.

We were just caught off guard that things were going well.

……

The soldier flashed for a moment before turning his heel back and starting to run.

"Damn!?

Celia tries to throw a dagger, but it doesn't get to her well, and she takes her aim off.

"Come on, they're going to ring the alarm!

Then reinforcements will come from the enemy's main battalion and finish.

All the guards around you come together just to be shouted out.

"Sooo... who...?

Enemy soldiers breathe in trying to scream thoughtfully... and stop perfectly as they are.

And when he looked at us again, he leaned his neck strangely and began to flaunt his nose as he brought it to the wall scratching his cheeks poly.

"Hey, what happened?

Agor stops his leg, who was after him by pulling out his sword, knowing he wouldn't make it.

I'll look Mac in the face, too, and tell Celia that I've re-gripped my dagger.

"Ahhh. I'm hungry, and I don't know if it's over."

Soldiers just complain that they're not interested in us.

If you look closely, you have a shallow, arrow stabbed in your ass.

"Medicine for powerlessness. Lose your thinking and become apathetic. That was critical."

Shadows that pop out of the darkness freshly take off their hood.

Pale green hair spilling with parsley, a neat face on long eyebrows and, above all, long ears that are characteristic.

He became an elf pharmacist and called himself an adventurer Nautia.

"I saw the letter and flew in. Jillville, you think it's a relic of civilization? I'm coming, too!

Speaking of which, I remember writing in my letter to Nonna.

I think I saw Nurtia too with some bounce.

"Thanks for the help. Nurtia."

I smile and spread my hands as I look into her eyes.

"Ugh, yeah. I don't know what's going on, but I don't think we're gonna be able to investigate it if we make a scene."

I hold Nautia gently.

She didn't resist thinking she'd say hello either.

"Oh, it's hot. Nice."

Says swallowing in a prolonged voice by a drugged enemy.

"Is it okay for him to leave until morning?

"Yeah. Depending on my physique, I'll stay that way for three days to three years."

Let them think you're lucky you just picked up your life.

"You can say hello now, can't you? Time to let me go."

In my arms Nautia does so at first.

The lighted, reddish face is also adorable, but above all...

"Ha"

Eat long ears with your lips that were patterned and shaky in front of you.

"Ham!"

For some reason Celia eats the other ear the same way.

"Huh!?

Whoa! I got a bigger voice than I thought.

"... hey, didn't you hear the woman's colorful gasp right now?

"Idiot, will a woman come to a place like this? It's hoarded."

Looks like I managed to get something.

Hold your mouth and forgive the angry Nautia while we begin our quest for the ancient castle.

The destination location is easy to find.

Nautia just called herself an adventurer and had an incomparable account with us amateurs.

We make our way through the castle as we pass or defeat enemy soldiers who patrol us from time to time.

"Was this a stockpile..."

"You're pushing through."

The moss was everywhere and the old basement floor had completely collapsed.

"That doesn't sound wrong. The rubble is out of the way, and there are stairs. There are countless traces of you carefully dragging up something big and heavy."

Tristan nods satisfactorily and returns to the far rear again.

"This wind...... deep. unusual and profound."

Instead, it was Nautia who couldn't hide her nostrils and excitement.

I was tempted to take the lead on the woman, but I couldn't help but think of myself as a rider.

Nautia flies down the stairs lightly in a bunk flight.

Dark feet don't seem to be a problem at all either.

Of course we don't either.

There's no chaser.

He cares about his back, then lights a pine light, slowly following him.

The staircase stretches.

50, 100, 300, 500......

"Isn't it going on to the bottom of the earth?

"Dear Eigil,"

I can see on my arm if Celia has become a little nervous.

Agor also saw a girl on his arm.

A little over a thousand, the stairs end at last.

"This is..."

I gently turned off the pine light.

Because I didn't need it anymore.

"I can't believe it. The walls and floors are glowing."

Celia says with her mouth wide open.

The walls and floors shed light pale enough to see enough without a pine light.

"Is this wall and floor iron? No, not because it doesn't rust one."

Agor looks pokant, too.

"The ceiling, it's expensive. It looks like it could be 30 meters"

The squire girl also has her eyes on the dot.

The passage is about 20 m wide, 30 m high, and the depth is sumptuous and unknown.

"More than I expected."

I'm not surprised at all.

Then it is decided that if a civilization that can build this stuff underground makes a weapon, a hell of a lot will be born.

Light footsteps return.

It was Nautia who was ahead of us.

"Shh, wow. I had heard rumors about the ruins of the Jillville civilization, but it could be a completely decaying ruin or just a demma...... but this is absolutely real. I've never seen it in my 75 years of my life! Let's go more, more ahead!

Nautia, who doesn't hide her excitement, says as she pats her ears so much that she could fly away.

"Let's keep moving forward. Uh, center... no, center. I can handle it. Continue in a straight line, or straight ahead... that's a big number. Looks like we're still a lot ahead of us."

Tristan glimmers his own book with the inscribed letters on the wall with one hand, then comes back to roll as Nautia was about to rush to say.

"Can you read it!? This symbol!

"I guess it's a good idea to say I can read it. I connected various books and material fragments to create a limited translation ticket. I can only take a rough meaning by analogy."

"Still amazing!

Nautia turns to Tristan.

"There was a similar symbol over there. Now decrypt me!

"Don't pull it... I don't like the beginning. You'll die first."

Hey, Tristan. Are you after Nautia?

I look abominably at the wall.

"Hmm? 1,400 dals straight to the central control room? You can read it normally. Nautia, I can read it too!

"Don't lie to me! This is it, this is it, Tristan!

"Sir Hardlett, let Tristan and I take care of this."

"People are unsuitable"

"Wow, I believe in Master Agil!

Celia is the only one who believes me out of sight.

"Uh, admit it... no, authentication. Humans...... Is this the front? Limits...... no, I guess that means so far. Machine of defense, warning of activation... I see a word that's not good."

That's it for people without authentication. If you approach the front door any closer, you will be warned that the defenses will activate -.

Believe me. I can read.

"I know, Master Agil. I am on Master Agil's side!!

When I try to sue you further, I hear cuttlefish and feet.

"Hey, is anybody here? It's too early to take turns."

I was nervous for a moment about something unknown, but apparently a Meldra soldier.

The claim is behind us.