Trinitas Mundus

On the morning of June 20th, each squad leader explains to the crew the next day's demonic crusade. In the squad where the conversation was over, those who stood up and cheered continued.

"Why are you cheering?

Ray doesn't know why and asks Ashley.

"In the case of a national request like this one, besides the rewards of the outing, every time you defeat a demon, you get a bonus. In the case of escorts, defeating them will only earn you the Demon Crystal Stone, but you will also be motivated if you get a reward that says how much for each defeat on its own. And if you defeat the Demons, you'll get a reward that's not comparable to the demons there."

"Heh, yeah. Is it like an adventurer's crusade request? Well, that's motivating."

That day is counted on preparing for the crusade the next day and training in collaboration with the defensive forces.

And because of the early departure time the next day, everyone, refrained from drinking and got to the floor early.

June 21.

With thick clouds drooling in the sky and the weather still likely to rain, Commander Hinschlwood and Commander Hamish were discussing the decision of today's operation.

"What's the matter? What is Lord Hamish's opinion?

"That's a line. If it rains, this movement will be restricted, but the enemy will have difficulty detecting signs. It also makes ambushes more effective. You should go."

Hinschlwood nods and hangs the decree of departure on all armies - one hundred archers, thirty magicians, twenty swordsmen and a total of one hundred seventy-five men of the Mercenary Regiment of Markat No. 5, Twenty-five.

9 a.m. five hours after departure.

In front of the destination, in the shade of a small hill about fifty m from the forest, the crusaders arrived.

Fortunately, the rain hasn't fallen yet, and a veteran soldier who's been in the land long enough to say it's going to be for a few more hours.

"As you can see, the penetrating troops - the swordsmiths of the defensive corps and the swordsmiths and magicians of the Mercenary Corps of Markat - head into the woods. Lord Hamish, please."

"I got it. All right! Let's go!

The markat mercenary regiment's penetration unit included Ashley, Stella, and Ray was bought his abilities as a magician and was in the ambush unit.

The soldiers in the defense, mercenary regiment had high morale because Hamish was in command of the penetration unit.

Ray looked up at the sky relaxed as he hung early and for an hour.

(I wonder if the rain is okay. Nevertheless, I wonder how many enemies have increased in the last two days. How long have you been here in the first place?

A cold breeze begins to blow that will hunch the rain, and he scratches his cape together.

(Is Ash and Stella okay? Mr. Renzi and Hal... am I the only one in the fifth squad? I've been fighting with magic lately, and I can't help but be seen as a ranged attack personnel... I haven't used spears much, so I haven't gotten to the level...)

He also experienced large-scale combat, but with many magical attacks, his level as a magician remained unchanged at thirty-nine.

(Mages, how do you gauge levels? Neither the Orb of the Adventurer's Guild nor the Orb of the Mercenary Guild comes out on a level as a Mage. In my case, the magician's level would be up quite a bit...... so to speak, what's the healer's level? When you get back to Fonce, you should be able to let me see the magician, so why don't you ask him there...)

I had time to spare and thought of something else, but as time went on, I chase away the clutter trying to concentrate on the battle.

And I waited quietly for the time of the battle as I roamed the dried meat of portable food.

Stella, who entered the penetration unit, had been tasked with scouting.

"Explore the signs of the enemy ahead. If anything, avoid a fight and call us right away. Don't push it."

"Yes, Master Ashley"

Stella moves about 100 meters ahead of the penetration unit, lowering herself. Her wolf ears are moving busily, checking the surrounding conditions.

(Weird. I don't feel the gaze I felt yesterday. Things are changing in the woods, too)

Yesterday there were no signs of animals, such as bird chirps, but today, as in the very normal forest, wild birds flew and we also saw the appearance of small animals like rabbits.

Approaching up to about 200 m in front of the square, which is the destination, makes the thought even stronger.

(If I had gotten so close before this, my vigilant eyes would have felt a tingle. I don't feel it at all now. Maybe he walked away...... once, you should report it to the captain)

Stella turned to Hamish, who is at the rear, for a report.

"There's no sign of the Demon Clan."

Stella nods confidently as she receives Hamish's strong gaze.

"Yes, I also felt signs of vigilant enemies around here yesterday. But I don't feel it at all today. Give me permission to enter the enemy base."

Hamish, after a few seconds of thinking, gives permission.

"Okay. Come on. But retreat as soon as you feel it's dangerous. We wait here. If you don't see the enemy, come back here once."

Stella headed back for reconnaissance.

Approaching fifty meters to the square, he begins to climb a single tree.

Up to a height of about twenty m, climb sully and move to a branch overlooking the square.

Instead of demons and demons in the square, the altar and the platform made of thought trees had been destroyed.

(No one. The altar has been destroyed. Did you decide to retreat in yesterday's reconnaissance? Again, you might want to try inside......)

As he jumps flutterly from the tree, again, he approaches cautiously towards the square.

When you get to the edge of the square, you find a trap-like thread and stop.

(Thread? There's a trap... Undo the trap or go straight in... check the trap first)

Stella will carefully check where the yarn is going.

The yarn is strewn around the square and goes into the ground.

Stella smells as she carefully follows the tip of the thread to make her nose snap.

(There's something buried inside. The smell is... nothing in particular. It doesn't look like oil... it could be a magic prop...)

Stella returns to Hamish and reports that she is deserted and that a trap has been set.

"It's a trap... you don't even know what kind of trap it is"

"Yes, but I've tied a string to the thread, so pull this string and the trap will activate. There are ways to check inside the square first…"

He began consultations with Valeria and three of the commanders of the defense.

"If we activate the trap, we may not be able to follow the trail. But not without a trap in the square."

"I suggest Stella scout through the square. She could do anything with a trap."

The commander of the defense team also agreed to Valeria's proposal, and Stella, once again, was to head for reconnaissance.

Carefully evade the trap and enter the square.

The altar, assembled in a tree I saw yesterday, had been broken by doom and tears, and there was nothing in the cabins that seemed to be traces, and I had no idea what had happened.

Footprints in the square were recognized as shoe-like footprints, with huge, august-like objects and small, demon-like objects, and, about the same size as humans.

When you report to Hamish, instruct him to lower the penetration unit and activate the trap.

"You're all down. All right, Stella, activate the trap."

Stella nodded, "I'll activate it!," he said, pulling the string hard.

Shortly after I pulled the string, I was wondered if it was underdeveloped because nothing would happen, neither the alarm of the songs nor the arrows being launched.

But after about ten seconds, a black mist gushes out of the ground, covering the square and its surroundings.

"What the hell is that..."

Hamish and the other soldiers in the penetration unit are talking about what's going on, staring at the springing black fog.

After a few minutes, the fog slowly clears up and the voice is even more startled.

"A tree, a tree withering... was it a fog of poison... or a curse..."

The leaves of a great tree, like a hawthorn, which stood around the square, were brown and withered, and the branches were broken and drooling.

"If I were in that trap... it could have been wiped out"

To Hamish's whining, the soldiers, all of them, are snorting.

"We're withdrawing. Stella, again, will you come out to scout? He could be ambushed the other way around."

The penetration troops went back into the woods, thinking of the horrors of their own enemies.

Without any success, the penetration troops returned to the hills where the ambushes were.

"Lord Hamish, what is this all about?

In questioning Commander Hinschlwood, Hamish will explain what he saw.

The commander, who heard the explanation, shook his head,

"I mean, the enemy noticed here and said he had already withdrawn. And he even set a trap in anticipation of us coming..."

When Hamish nods, the command instructs him to withdraw.

"This time the enemy is not like before. If you think of the Demon Clan as just a demon, it could be irrevocable. I intend to report this to Wang Du and advise him to organize a massive crusade. Lord Hamish sends his regards."

The ambushers, who somehow ate the shoulder watermark without battle, and the penetration troops, who saw their own incomprehensible traps, were both confused and confused, although it was the temperature difference. For this reason, he quietly prepared to leave, with little talk.

At eleven in the morning, I was ready to leave. After an early lunch, the soldiers begin their departure for the village of Turok.

The presence of the Demon Nation has been confirmed, so we will proceed with our steps, with heightened vigilance.

By the time it was past noon, the rain began to fall.

The rain gradually gets stronger and beats the bodies of the soldiers.

At 4 p.m., on the back of the wind that had grown stronger with the rain, the crusaders returned to the village of Turok without any fruit.

I just marched, but with the windstorm and the attack over empty, I was more tired on that face than usual.

Returning to the inn, Ray had heard from Ashley and Stella what had happened in the woods.

Ray also gets a schematic in the way Ashley scratches and explains and Stella supplements.

"... wasn't there already... maybe I was wary of killing the little devil. And judging fast. And that trap... is a terrible enemy, the Demon Clan."

"Right. When I saw that black fog, my mind bothered asexually. And when I saw the tree dead, I had goosebumps all over my body. I looked around wondering if something incompatible with us was lurking nearby..."

Stella is also nodding at Ashley's words.

"Same goes for me. Inside, I was told," If you see the Demons, kill them immediately, "but I felt like I knew what they meant."

Her tail, which usually doesn't show much movement, also looks drooling without heart or power.

(Maybe it's weird that I'm not seeing it, but is it that incompatible? If you try to do my magic too, it would look nasty, and I wonder if it's a assumption. And I guess it was quite a shock that you even look frightened to Stella)

Somehow, the mercenaries in the inn seem uninspired, and their weakness seems to dominate.

After Ray wipes his wet body, too, he doesn't do anything in the room, boggles, but is called from Hamish before dinner.

When I went to Hamish's room, it was just the two of Hamish and Alberic, and there was no sign of Valeria.

He was surprised that Valeria, the captain, was not there.

(No Mr. Valeria? Am I behind?

"I need to ask you something. You've asked Ash or Stella, but you know about the black fog."

When he snorts, he keeps talking.

"I'd like to ask you as a mage, what do you think that black fog is? Of course, I know I haven't seen it. Still, let me hear your opinion."

(What do you want to hear? I don't know just how it feels to hear it...... if you say that, dark attribute magic is not often used? You said there was pressure for phototheism or something......)

"I'm having trouble being called an opinion, is anything okay?

When Hamish nods, he starts talking slowly.

"I wonder if that black fog is the magic of dark attributes. It may be a magic device that creates poison fog, but I think it may have taken its life by its dark attributes."

"It takes vitality..."

"It's my imagination. If it's poison fog, I think there are things that are easy to work with and hard to work with. I wonder if uniformly withered means that the effect of the plant never changed..."

Hamish has a difficult face, but encourages him to continue in silence.

"Dark Attribute Magic uses the power of the Dark God, the Dark Spirit with the protection of Noctis. Because Noctis is the kingdom of the dead, the God who presides over the Yellow Springs, I wonder if he can suck life out of it."

From next to the roaring Hamish, Alberic has joined the conversation.

"You sure do. But it's so big, the square alone has a diameter of fifty meters. You might be able to do it, but a normal magician would have a tough time doing all that magic."

"Right. That's about as big as it sounds..."

Hamish blocked Ray's words,

"Ray, can you use that magic?"

Ray is surprised by its abruptness, but immediately shakes his neck to the side.

"I don't know. No, I don't think we can do the same magic. If it's a mist of sleep or paralysis, I think I can make it, but you can't imagine a" mist of death ”that's horrible. Hmm, if it feels gradually weakening, I might be able to..."

The two are surprised by the words, and Hamish manages to squeeze his voice out. On that face, there was fear.

"Can you... you'll gradually weaken, and the magic that leads to death"

Ray, who felt the color of fear on Hamish's face, regrets failing to explain.

(Shit! I should have chosen a few more words... you're just like saying you can use the devil's moves)

Even the audacious Hamish knows and hastily denies fear of the magic of death.

"Chi, no. It just makes you weak. It's horrible and impossible to convey the image of death to the Dark Spirit."

"Right... right. Tell me one more thing. Can you think of any means to counter it?"

I worry about how to answer that word.

(I haven't seen it, but I... The idea is to offset it with the magic of light, but it seems difficult. When I say I can do that, I'm going to be pushed out even if I can't...)

"I haven't seen it, so I honestly don't know. The magic of light attributes, all I can think of is a way to tell the Spirit of Light to offset it. But I don't think it's going to work somehow, so I think it's better to get away with it"

"Offset by the magic of light attributes... maybe light divinity can do it... it was helpful"

Ray stepped back into the room and Hamish was thinking about one, the battle with the demons ahead.

(There was no fighting today. But soon, we will fight the Demons. It's not a ghost tribe either, it's a true demon tribe and... the Knights move. But if you're not a commander with a very flexible mind, you might lose a lot.)