Episode 103

"Weid-kun, are you here?"

It was Fern, as expected, who gently entered the library. Along with Fern's sister's buddy, a Werewolf girl named Pier.

However, Monza and her buddy are missing.

"Oh, so are the daughters of Aylea and Zarya's palace. What happened to the Monza?"

Then Fern answers while looking at the floor full of corpses.

"I saw a suspicious group retreating from the city, so I'll keep track of it. I was worried because I marked the wall with a white stone, like a circle.

It's definitely an enemy hand.

"It's probably a landmark to re-invade Zaria. If you can afford it, record everything and then erase it."

Fern clapped her hands with a convincing expression.

"Oh, yes. Humans can't remember directions by smell."

To tell the truth, I'm not very good at remembering the smell, but other wolves are easier than I can see and remember.

Apparently about ten of them have withdrawn, but I give the peers orders.

"Put the wolf squadron in Zalia. We don't move from this large archive, so we ask the squad leaders to secure the surroundings."

"Okay, captain!"

Since the security of the city has not been secured yet, we will not move from here until the main unit comes.

I'm worried about letting Peer behave alone, but let Fern's sister remain with the escort. The load is too heavy for me alone.

After the pier leaves, Fern will guard the entrance.

Now I can calm down and talk to Shatina.

"Let me introduce myself again. I am Vice, Deputy Secretary of the Demon King Gomoviroa. If I could, I would like to talk to Mr. Mergio.

When I express my condolences, Shatina returns with a reply.

"I'm Shatina Stahl, the daughter of Mergio Uum Stahl. My father ..."

Shatina was in a state of calm, but when she told her, she began to cry.

She covered her face with her hands and crouched in place.

“Father …… father …… why …… like this ……”

Shatina is crying.

Shatina should have no other family members. With only one immediate family losing, Zaria's future, which has a complicated background, cannot be kept calm.

Suddenly looking to the side, Ilia wipes her own eyes. You probably remember your father. She also has a past in which she lost her father and succeeded Tadashi.

Ilia squats down beside Shatina, embracing her shoulder and saying gently.

"Shatina, we are on your side. Please say anything I can do."

Shatina cried and nodded again and again.

Shatina is still in her mid-teens. It's a new adult in this world, but it's still too early to carry everything.

Shatina started muttering, crying for a while and calming down a little.

"My dad always ... like a habit of saying," I'm forced to make difficult decisions. "

Ilia nods and gently softens Shatina's shoulders.

"Zarya is, for the northern part, the same as a knife in the throat. I think Mergio often protected Zaria so far."

Berneheinen, Tuban, Zalia and Vera, near the north, were all struggling with the north.

Berne Heinen dared to be harmless by becoming a relic of the past, and Tuban approached the north to sell his technical skills.

Vieira has survived by distributing excellent crafts and increasing the number of pro-Veira pros to northern cultural figures.

Zalia was delayed due to the devastation of the Unification War, and none of them worked.

Traders do not approach the city without walls, and the surrounding area is barren wilderness.

In addition, he continued to fight fiercely in the Unification War, and was regarded as dangerous from the north.

You can see how hard Zaria was.

When I was wondering how to call Shatina, the Monzas sprang up.

"Captain, are you here?"

"Oh, everyone is safe."

Monza says in an unusually tense voice.

"Captain, it's a bit bad. After chasing those who fled, I found an army approaching Zaria."

"what"

"Oh, okay, because all those who fled were killed before joining the army."

Monza smiles.

However, if they fled, they would probably join forces directly operated by the Senate.

"About 2,000 infantry. I guess the spear and the bow are about half. I was disguised as a wagon, but I saw about seven or eight large catapults."

`` It's a trebuchet?

That was Shatina.

`` What are you going to do with that !? ''

Then Monza shrugs.

"It's just a tall building with sun-dried bricks, so it looks easy to break."

The upper floors of the building here are only laid with sun-dried bricks, so it is unexpectedly weak when force is applied to the side.

Labyrinth cities swallowing intruders will die if eaten by stones.

I shut Monza's head around.

"Don't be rude, but surely your goal is Zaria, because it doesn't make sense to bring a catapult to a werewolf."

Shatina is balked that the Senate had assassinated Zariah. It is only a matter of time before Zalia leaves the Alliance.

By the time the thugs do not return, the Senate will be aware of it.

So, before Zalia strips her tusks into the Senate, she should try to crush them with a first strike.

It's a bit of a mess at the end of the plot, but it's probably because he didn't let Zalia build the wall, and he's been preparing for the attack long ago.

And yes, it is possible to destroy Zaria now.

Ilia has a serious expression.

"Not enough troops to pick up 2,000 soldiers. Zalia's guards may have been heavily damaged in previous battles, and there is a possibility that enemy intermediaries may have slipped in."

"There's only a werewolf corps here too. Two thousand are impossible"

The enemy is just around the corner.

There are 500 horsemen in nearby Tuban, but not enough or time.

The skeletal soldier's defense has a weak point that rescue is not in time.

Shatina bites her lips with remorse.

"If at least he could manage with a catapult alone, Zalia would not fall like a thousand soldiers ..."

No matter how much the labyrinth city is strong against urban warfare, if you attack 2,000, you will not win.

But, as Shatina says, the trebuchet alone is not good enough.

Even if a wolf squadron is sent to a castle to pick up an enemy, a wolf is dangerous if a rock is hit by a building.

I think a little.

"Okay, I'm asking Lynheight and Tubahn, and Chardiel for help.

Ilia looked back.

"Are there any good solutions?"

"Oh. I'm going to sortie."

"eh?"

Eyria, Shatina, Fern, and Monza both curled their eyes.