The Peerless Kobold (WN)

"Duke, the sound now..."

"For once, I'll have about two guards down just in case."

Some awkward, gray-haired duke responds to Muriel's question and throws his gaze at the sounded wall. There's only a bookshelf embedded in the wall at first glance, but that's probably the door itself to the hidden room.

(draw attention to the ambush found out and hide the rest...)

The Duke returns his gaze to the Redheaded Mage just because he showed it to me, but besides walls with rigged bookshelves, I perceive the presence of ambushes. The first moment I checked in was the vague part, but with a little time, I'd say I'd be sure.

Although the walls on the other side, where the still lying guards lurk, are cleverly disguised in design and decoration, it can be predicted that one of the wall plates is a trick that spins kurli.

(Ningro, the mercenary age was the lurking side of the nobleman's escort!)

Remembering what I miss, the Duke's interest turned to me after greeting Muriel.

"Miss Muriel's escort, what's her name?

Take the abbreviations you remember from your mercenary days to the point of no disrespect, and later keep them modest as escorts only.

"My name is Archer, Adventurer of Zergra, Duke"

"You're an adventurer... I'll take care of you in this case, thank you."

"Yeah, I'll take care of it (to the point of not getting hurt...)"

"Cuuuuu!"

Did you match the air on the field? Sitting in a chair placed opposite the concierge while a red-haired wizard with a proudly ringing fox was recommended, I also sat in the next chair to get to the point.

"So, with regard to the report Miss Muriel gave me, is it true that Valiant's threat is comparable to A's if you think about Queen Ants and their children together?

"I'm afraid you're right..."

Because of this, it is not easy to crusade the demons of Threat A, but requires elites led by adventurers, knights and sages alike, including more than "platinum”.

Well, it can't be convenient to exist like that, so we're going to crush it with a quantity operation ready for sacrifice, but the Duke's expression gets cloudy because of the damage.

There's no reason to know the two people who were called in...

The fearful Duke's hard work only increases as the inexperienced monster "Holy Beast of Selkram”, who broke the Witch of the Conquest Storm and broke the corner of the Seven Disasters, leads the First Squadron of the Demonic Knight in a match in front of the King's Capital.

"That's troublesome, there are a hundred and twenty standing guards in the core cities that can react instantly, plus a hundred and eighty or so adventurers the Alliance has collected for me there, will that be enough?

"Ugh, it could be tough, because the Valiants have a lot of numbers"

Assuming we mobilize the inhabitants, we will only have enough heads, but even if amateurs with weapons are massively put in, we can only predict a future in which more victims in battle. Besides, I can say that I'm not friendly to both the residents and the purse, given the compensation for the family that lost the big black pillar, etc.

That's why there will be some work under contract where I called out to mercenaries from all over the country to recruit them, and you should want to avoid travelling in the winter, etc. It's about spring ahead to come together to respond to the call, and by then the number and damage of the Valiants will have increased.

"... Duke, what do you mean, ask Wang Du for reinforcements?

The neighboring territorial aristocracy is the lord of one castle in one country, so it is difficult to easily ask for reinforcements, but if the king's capital can afford a standing army, and if the character of King Alexius is good for men, he should not be able to fail in his subordinate request, which also has blood ties.

"Lord Archer, is it known that the Free Cities Alliance money-keepers are reaching out to the Vilms? This involves the Cathedral Church of the Protestant Church, and things are confusing."

Indeed, when I heard a little bit from the Ernesta and steel sages in the King's Capital, it meant that the city alliance had been economically eroding against the neighboring rear Stise kingdom of Vilm...

"Hmm, that's a pretty dangerous condition,"

I flatter myself in a situation that I can only say seems to be the earliest.

It was initially an economic invasion, but they have even penetrated the teachings of the ”neo-denominational" diocesan church, which has deep power within the alliance in the matter.

Their claim is simple, and in commerce and elsewhere “it is not against the Lord's teachings to store wealth and reap the benefits of this world”. That's an assertion to deny the accumulation as a sin and to outright deny the traditional way of cathedral churches demanding large donations.

(Oh, is it convenient from a merchant or an aristocrat in a trading city)

Oddly enough, as the luxuries of the Alliance of Free Cities have a marital relationship with some of the nobles of the Vilm territory, there is apparently a move in which some of the households are likely to sweep into the teachings of the Protestant denomination for a saddle change.

"And the nobles who are entrusted with cities and towns along the border have joined forces to ask Uncle Vilm for autonomy, behind which are the neo-denominations and the Alliance of Free Cities"

"I mean, if you admit it, at the end of the day, you can essentially have a new member city of the alliance..."

So far, it's like an invasion under the water, but if there are more Protestants in the inhabitants of the cities, the ruling aristocracy won't be able to pull in, and where it's going is a conflict.

"It's also difficult to reinforce the demonic knights of the King's capital because they're secretly moving on the matter."

"Ugh, religion is troublesome"

While watching the red-haired demon mentor, who had listened to him so much, he understood that it was apparently necessary to crush Valiant's nest solely with his existing power.

"Muriel, in fact, are you out of hand in a mixed crusade between a standing guard and an adventurer?

"Well, maybe we can crusade... with the sacrifice we deserve."

"... but if you turn to the back, the damage will increase"

A temporarily meditating, gray-haired duke vomits words that make him feel a strong will, and confronts Muriel.

"More than ever, we must protect the people in a state of emergency, Miss Muriel, I would like to borrow your insight."

"Huh, if only to the best of my ability..."

After she nodded in response to the Duke of Felias' request and discussed measures against Variant for about a moment, it was decided that a mixed crusade of standing guards and adventurers would soon be sent to the plains of the northeast.