## Chapter 1057 – A Man of Many Questions

“This is an extreme crisis!!! Something is changing, Father!!! Things we couldn’t have imagined before!!! A crazy archdemon bastard has descended, and those damn heretic bastards are manipulating things from behind!!!”

Utter madness.

The young lady, with her unique high-strung energy, pointed out the threats scattered throughout Isvant with biting accuracy. From now on, the young lady of Isvant will be fact-bombing Isvant.

“Do you really think we can suppress them with the current military system!!! Isvant’s forces are mostly for defending the territory from monsters, Father!!!”
“…”

To her fierce scolding, the Duke of Isvant could only run a hand over his face and shake his head, unable to stop her. Looking at his tired face, I could see the kind of life he had been living.

Clearly, every day must have been like walking on thin ice.

Well, my eardrums are walking on thin ice.

The fact that he hasn’t lost his hearing yet, despite having a daughter like that at home, speaks to the Duke’s dignity and ability. Surely, when she was born, the whole world heard the young lady’s cry.

“Father!!! Say something!!!!!!! At this rate, I see nothing but ruin in the future!!!!!”
“…”

I can shout pretty loud myself, but I don’t think I can match the young lady. She’s a natural shouter. No, a professional shouter. If they gave out certifications for shouting, I’d be a shouting technician, and the young lady would be a shouting master.

In academic terms, I’d be a shouting master, and the young lady would be a shouting PhD. That’s how big the difference is between us. The young lady’s volume is almost comparable to a siege weapon.

“Death knights infiltrating using gates!!! I ask you, knights of the kingdom!!! What if those who have secured such absurd means of mobility commit acts of terror!!! Do you think you can stop that!!!”

When the young lady pointed at the commanders of the Royal Knights, they started whispering among themselves, exchanging glances.

“Answer me!!!!!!”

Forced answer!!!

“W-well… certainly…”
“Extremely… tricky, I suppose… If they infiltrate using gates, reconnaissance itself is impossible… and dealing with it would be difficult…”
“Since there’s no sign of an attack… the damage is bound to be significant.”

The pointed-out commanders avoided the young lady’s gaze, nodding and answering quietly. They seemed quite flustered right now. Anyone in this situation would react like that in front of an excited young lady.

ㅡ…

The commanders, answering like that, subtly glanced at the Duke. They seemed to be asking him to stop the young lady, and seeing that, the Duke sighed again.

“Haa… Leila.”

And looking at the young lady, he said.

“Calm down a bit… I won’t tell you to leave, but if you’re going to speak, please obtain the right to speak… It’s too noisy, and the meeting can’t proceed…”
“Right to speak!!! We shouldn’t be thinking about rights like that, which are only used in discussions! We need to think about how to deal with those demons and heretics!!! If Isvant, the largest city and territory in this area, falls, it’s obvious that the path to the kingdom’s center will be opened!!!!”

This is some bullshit that even if you put a ban on her with admin privileges, she’d break through it.

Is she some kind of illegal program user?

The high-performance megaphone, which would originally have been a consumable item, is passively embedded in the young lady’s vocal cords. When I see this, it’s clear that the contents of this meeting have already been leaked throughout Isvant.

Probably all the birds flying nearby have fallen to the ground.

With a voice this loud, security is meaningless.

The kids are probably already thinking about making MP3 files of the leaked meeting minutes to use as their morning alarm.

“This young lady has spent the last few weeks at the forward base, cutting down countless demons…! Frankly, ordinary soldiers and civilians don’t have many ways to deal with demons!!! I’ve seen so many soldiers get helplessly screwed over!!!”

ㅡKwaang!

The young lady shouted as if spitting fire, slamming her hand on the desk.

“Monsters have disappeared due to the large-scale appearance of demons, but this is only temporary, and if this chaos accelerates, the monsters will surely run wild as well!!! There aren’t many people with knight-level power! But demons can’t be easily defeated unless they’re knights!”

That’s true.

Most monsters transcend humans. Of course, humans can transcend humans too, but they’re very high-end personnel. There’s a limit to what an army made up of ordinary people can do with numbers alone.

Because the unit cost doesn’t match.

“In that situation, if heretics of unknown origin invade systematically…! Ruin is inevitable! The lives of innocent farmers will be shattered and completely screwed over, and as a result, the kingdom will fall into a pit of chaos!!”

The young lady, with her face twisted in anger, gritted her teeth and glared… I don’t know for sure, but the young lady seems to be taking this situation as seriously as her shouting.

Danger level: maximum.

In fact, even if I were the lord, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if there was a Death Knight legion using gates.

“The time has come for some kind of solution…!!!”

ㅡWheeik!

Anyway, after spouting nonsense mixed with profanity for a long time, the young lady suddenly turned her head towards me.

ㅡCheoeok!

Clenching her left fist.
She pointed at me with her right hand and shouted.

“Isn’t that right, Paladin!!! You would agree with this young lady!!!”

Why me all of a sudden…!

ㅡ…
ㅡ…
ㅡ…

In an instant, all the eyes in the room turned towards me. The Duke also glanced at me, and the meaning in his eyes was a silent request to please shut the young lady up.

“…!”

That’s ridiculous…!
Don’t ask me for something so difficult!

“Answer me, Paladin!!! You and this young lady have fought through the battlefield together as comrades!!! You must know how dangerous this situation is!!!”

ㅡIgeul Igeul.

The young lady’s eyes were already burning fiercely like those of a pyromaniac. Comrades. Yes… comrades. My comrade, the young lady, is working so hard to explain the danger, I can’t just stand by.

ㅡBeolteok!

I stood up from my seat.

And.

“That’s right!!!!!”

ㅡChwahak!

I unfolded the report I had brought, slammed it on the table, and shouted loudly.

“I can say this because I killed the archdemon who descended myself!!! Such guys will continue to appear again and again!!! And if such an archdemon descends, frankly, it’s impossible to defend with ordinary soldiers alone!!!”
“Exactly!!!!!!! That’s it!!!!!!!!”

The young lady’s face brightened in an instant.

“Barbarian Paladin!!!!!!! You know it very!!!!!!!! well!!!!!”
“It seems the young lady knows it even better!!!!!!! Anyway, look at this!!!!!”

ㅡPareureu!

I immediately threw the report and passed it to the young lady. At the same time as the young lady read it, I shouted the story I had written in the report in a very loud voice, emphasizing the danger once again.

Multiple heretics are active near Isvant. Of course, the headquarters of the guys using the gates probably isn’t near here, but they generally seem to be more comfortable in this remote area, so there are many of them somewhere here.

Those guys summoned the archdemon here, and to steal its soul, they opened the gate and sent Death Knights.

And Death Knights of a fairly strong level.

I don’t know how much resources a lich needs to make that, but if they can mass-produce it, it’s almost impossible for ordinary lords to stop it now.

Because even lords don’t have things like knight orders.

“If this place is captured, the path to the center of the kingdom will be opened! Local lords alone won’t be able to stop it! The things those undead-making bastards will do are obvious! Everyone will die!”

I was shouting too, but the Duke was covering his face with one hand, and the commanders were nodding hesitantly.

“Perhaps!!! The heretics might turn all the people of the Karga Kingdom into corpses to make undead!!! And the beginning will definitely be the residents of Isvant!!!”

At that time, the young lady chimed in.

“Oh!!!”

It was that moment.

“Hmm?”
“Ooh…!! Oooooh!!! Oooooooooooooooo!!!!!”

Barkerel, who had been sitting quietly next to me with his arms crossed, screamed.

“Oooooooooooooooo!!! Loooooooreeeeeeeeeeeee!!!”
“Commander Barkerel?”
“Gweoooooooooooooooooo!!!”

His eyes wide open, he opened his mouth wide and let out a sound that didn’t seem human.

ㅡDeolkeok!

He kicked the chair back and stood up, shouting.

“Gieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!”

This crazy!!!

“That’s right!!!!!”

Barkerel, screaming like that, spread his arms and shouted.

“The Paladin’s words are all correct!!! And the young lady’s words are also completely correct!!!!”

What Barkerel did was agree.

“We have a limit to our numbers! But we don’t know how many demons there are, and we don’t know what the heretics are preparing!!! I, Holy Knight Barkerel, want to annihilate all heretics and demons, but that’s not realistic!!! Because we don’t know their scale or their purpose!!!!”

He also started shouting fiercely, glaring with his eyes.

His eyes are bloodshot, and saliva is flying from his mouth.

“If we continue like this, it can only be dangerous as the young lady said!!!!”
“Exactly!!! That’s it, Holy Knight Barkerel!!! The serfs and yeoman farmers have suffered great damage from this incident!!!!”
“It was a very painful thing!!!!”

Barkerel and the young lady, who had become a shouting duo, were screaming, and several glasses placed on the table were already broken. Some people were even covering their ears with their heads buried in the table.

“Paladin!!! Tell us about the danger of Andromalius!!!!”
“That bastard!!! The archdemon Andromalius!!!! Was a master of magic!!! No mage in any magic tower could use such magic!!! Knights!!!”

The knights must have seen it.

That scene.

“H-huh?”
“Uh..”

They witnessed that overwhelming thing.

“Did you see that scene!!!! That land that has become a wasteland, with pits everywhere!!! That place was originally a forest, but it became like that by Andromalius’s magic!!!”

Even if there are many weak knights, they won’t be able to kill Andromalius!! It’s impossible unless you have absolute power!!!

It was something that could even destroy the existing lord system. It’s not for nothing that Kadia is worried. It’s not for nothing that she’s talking about military reform.

The small local lords cannot overcome the lich’s forces combined with the demons.

The Death Knight that appeared this time is proof of that.

Until now, this has never happened, so they have only lived with the current system. If they don’t change, they will be screwed as the young lady said.

“I know this because I killed him, but it’s very dangerous!!!!”

Honestly, if it wasn’t for us, the damage would have been huge! If we weren’t there? Then Andromalius would have thought for a moment and then advanced towards the city. If that had happened, it would have been obvious.

Isvant would have been screwed. Of course, with the forces gathered here, they could have somehow killed Andromalius. But even if they killed him, the city wouldn’t be restored, and stopping the Death Knight army that appeared afterwards would have been nearly impossible.

The city ruled by the Duke is destroyed like this.

If they barricade themselves in the lord’s castle and defend, they can survive, but the territory and the city are already bankrupt.

“The magic of the damn archdemon!!! What will happen to Isvant now!!!”
“I can’t stand it because it’s so hateful!!! Verdesia!!!! Kkuaaaaaaaa!!!!”

The conference room was filled with our shouts. This was already the realm of the shouting trio. The young lady, who had already gone out of control and gone crazy, shouted out her thoughts on countermeasures in a loud voice, and Barkerel agreed with her, expressing his views on the subjugation plan. I also agreed with them, amplifying the danger.

When I see this, we shouldn’t have a discussion… we should go to a loud voice competition.

“Stop ittttttttt!!!”

At that moment, the Duke squeezed out his voice as much as possible and shouted, but it was such a small shout that it was immediately buried in the young lady’s voice. It seems that a loud voice was a maternal inheritance.

“I know the danger very well! It’s not that we don’t know! Leila!! Shut your mouth right now!! If you make any more noise, I’ll take away your sword!!!”
“No way!!!! Father!!!! That is not allowed!!!! I will not allow it!!!!”