Chapter 382 – 382. The First Great Requisition of the Sage (6)

– One –

“Sigh…!”

“What about the sound?”

“Oh, I didn’t hear you.”

“Has anyone seen the projectile?”

“I didn’t see it.”

“Me too.”

“Damn…”

Embarrassment spreads among the soldiers.

They planned to check the direction the projectiles were flying in, spread them out in unison, and charge at the caster.

Of course, whoever reached it first, be it a mage or a shaman, intended to slaughter in as many pieces as possible those who forced them to bleed.

However, they couldn’t even detect the presence of the projectile, so their plan became a piece of paperwork.

The training they received was completely useless, as it became clear that they were out of the normal context of the manual.

However, the quality of training received by Regal’s enlisted men was outstanding.

“I think we should fire a signal flare.”

When one option is blocked, an alternative is immediately sought.

“In case you don’t know, ask for cover.”

“Okay.”

When the soldier in charge of the squad leader gave the order,

Tat tat!
Clack, clap!

Other soldiers form a square around him.

Six people gather around him with him behind his back, encircling him so that there is no room for any projectiles to enter.

If the projectile could not be seen, he intended to block it even by surrounding it with his body.

Squeak, squeak.
Tup.
Gulp.

Soldiers are tense

Thinking of the ominous future, I shudder silently.

Neither the identity of the enemy nor the means of attack are known.

One thing is certain,

Shashak.

“For a moment,”

“Just now…!”

“…!”

The enemy’s means of attack was that it had tremendous human-killing power.

“Geruk…”

Squeak.
Took.
Push shush shoot!
Dump.

Another life is lost.

The neck of the soldier they were trying to protect, who was trying to fire the flare, fell and his blood fountain gushed out.

“Damn it!”

“You’ve dug into this gap? How the hell is this possible?! It’s impossible even for a great mage or a great sorcerer!”

Confirming the death of the squad leader soldier, the soldiers fall into a panic.

At that time,

“Ah…! The flares are gone!”

A soldier discovers that in the puddle of blood created by the squad leader, what should have been has disappeared.

“What?!”

“No, nonsense!”

The soldiers looked down at the floor in astonishment.

However, the truth once observed does not change.

There was only the severed head of the squad leader soldier, blood gushing out, and a collapsed body.

Even if you wash your eyes and look, the shape of the flare is nowhere to be seen.

“Assassin!”

“Damn it, Express, maybe even more!”

“All Mountain,”

The moment the soldiers were about to scatter in all directions,

Shasha shak!
Widely.

“…!”

“Mi-crazy…!”

In front of their eyes, an unidentified assassin appears.

Since he deliberately pretended to be invisible, there was no way their eyes would not be directed towards him.

“I’m not an assassin, what…”

“What, what…?”

“Not the Benison Assassin.”

The identity of the assassin was Benison.

Sureureung, Whee-ae-ae-aek!
Chew!

Benison swung the longswords he was holding in each hand, scattering blood and oil on the floor.

Through that act, he indirectly admits to killing four soldiers.

“Yeah, did you take the signal flare…?”

“It’s not.”

Afterthought, afterthought.

Benison sells his ears.

He was openly distracted, but the soldiers neither charged him nor ran away.

It was because the soldiers read so clearly the confidence that the assassin radiated from the fact that he appeared before their eyes.

That, of course, would be the confidence that comes from the conviction that he can slaughter all the soldiers here single-handedly.

“Don’t lie! Who, if not you, carried the flares!”

“It’s true.”

That’s why soldiers take their time.

Averting Benison’s gaze, some plot to escape.

Some are willing to sacrifice themselves as bait.

They exchange glances with each other and continue silent discussions to find the best time to celebrate it.

“So you’re saying that you ran away at least by running to the signal flare?”

“No.”

“This, profit…! Just playing with words with me,”

“I didn’t take it, I got rid of it.”

“What…?”

Swoop.

Benison lowers his head, looking at the ground.

I stare at the small pebble.

Took.

After kicking it up with your toe,

Aaaaagh!
Kaka Kaka Cak!

He swung the longsword in both hands like a beam of light, and pulverized it in the air before it even hit the ground.

“Uh, uh…?”

“Oh my god…”

Seeing Benison’s physical ability far beyond common sense, all the soldiers were astonished.

Benison turned his head and made eye contact with his soldiers one by one.

“Did you change it like this?”

“…”

The soldiers are silent.

“You are all idiots.”

“What, now, what…?”

“Even though they were openly cut, torn, and ground right in front of their noses, no one noticed. They are pure idiots.”

“…”

Benison laughed and sarcastically sneered, but the soldiers did not refute.

True to his word, none of them caught sight of Benison during his rampage.

“These idiots who can’t do anything even if they steal the firecrackers to bring their friends, these idiots should be punished. Benison will do you guys!”

No soldier points out Benison’s infantile regressive rhetoric.

Among the overwhelmingly strong, there were many people who practiced eccentricities because they could easily be found just by looking at the operatives under their masters.

And above all, because they weren’t overwhelmingly strong, they weren’t given the right to point that out in the first place.

Instead, they had enough authority to show off their master’s prestige,

“Ooh, do you know who we are?!”

“Yes! Even if you touch us, do you think you will be able to walk confidently on this continent?!”

Immediately exercise their authority.

OK,

Food.

“Yeah. Stupid assholes from Trash Regal.”

Benison sneers and replies.

His twisted smile resembled Monohorn’s.

“Go, how dare you…!”

“For you, the insignificant assassin must have insulted him…!”

The soldiers’ faces are stained with anger.

Crick, Crick!
Whoops!
Clap!

Grinding his teeth, he aimed his weapon at Benison.

Simply mentioning Regal and lightly insulting it, the soldiers are perfectly ready to respond.

The idea of ​​escaping after being spread out seemed to have been erased from the soldiers’ minds in an instant.

But as if he thought it wasn’t enough, Benison opened his mouth with an even more blatant sneer.

“Ah! No. I’ll take off the word that Regal is garbage.”

“What…?”

The soldiers are distraught and blink their eyes.

It was only because they could all be sure that Bennison did not correct his remarks because he was frightened by them.

They couldn’t fathom Benison’s words and actions.

“Regal is not garbage.”

“He-don’t refer to him rudely!”

Benison ignored the soldier’s shouts and just continued to say what he had to say.

“Regal isn’t trash, he’s a eunuch.”

“What, what…?!”

Hearing insults from the janitor that they had never imagined against their lord, the soldiers gape.

“That’s right. It’s been more than a year since I married my granddaughter’s girl at the age of seeing my grandson, but I still haven’t even broke. If you don’t have it, the fuck-sucker must be the eunuch, right?”

“Turn it off…!”

Soldiers have shortness of breath.

It seemed that their rage had reached its limit.

“Or, because the fucking baby is a dog’s garbage, the dog is a dog, so it’s only wrapping up the water in the assist. Knocked it up,”

Finally,

“Yo, I can’t forgive you!”

“Die aaaaagh!”

Tatatatatatat!

The soldiers, unable to bear the insults towards Regal any longer, begin to charge at Bennison in unison.

No one runs away

The corners of Benison’s mouth go up.

Sureureung.
Chakang!

Two longswords dance.

Red petals are in full bloom.

– 2 –

Shureuk, shrrrr.

The roots of the plant spring up from the ground.

Whirik, Whirik!
Tup, Tup.

After wrapping dozens of corpses,

Cuckoo, cuckoo.
Zuzu.

Drag them all back to where they came from.

“Uh… That’s disgusting…”

“If it’s hard to see, turn your head… You can see everything, hyung.”

“Yeah… I can see the corpse being crumpled in the ground… I feel like vomiting…”

“Ah, ahaha… I’m sorry, Mr. Benison.”

“Are you okay…”

Benison shakes his head.

Instead of focusing your attention on the ground below, switch the topic.

“Monohon is great. How did you know that with a few curse words, they’d give up running away?”

“Oh, that’s it? It’s because I experienced it while being chased by Mamang and the operatives. And they’re famous for being regal fanatics.”

“Hehe. But I can only think of swear words like stupid, stupid, but Monohorn is good at cursing too! I did as Monohorn taught me, and they completely went blind!”

Monohorn smiled silently.

The fact that even being good at swearing could be a compliment, Mono Horn couldn’t help but complain in his heart.

“Brother Benison.”

“Huh!”

“Are you feeling okay?”

“Yeah! You’re so good! Why? A few more hits?”

Mono Horn nods his head as he looks back to the north.

“Yes. Even though it’s not a day’s distance, we carry supplies every day, so there must be a few more supply groups on the road. The fact that there was a problem and communication was cut off will be known to the other side as late as possible.”

“I see… But Mono Horn.”

“Yes, bro.”

“If you listen to what Margarita Nunna said, Stras-Isle line, I heard that there is also a telecommunication relay magic tool attached to it.”

Perhaps it was surprising that Benison knew that, Mono Horn looked back at him with his eyes wide open.

“Yes, it certainly did.”

“Then, if it comes close to us, wouldn’t it be meaningless to destroy the communication relay magic tool?”

“No. I don’t.”

Monohorn grinned.

Perhaps he thought Benison was quite eccentric.

“I have something in mind, can you share a specific plan?”

Seed profit.

Benison laughs at him.

“No, it’s okay! I was asking in case I forgot, but I just need to know!”

Shrrrr.
Shaaaaa.

While they were talking, the traces of the massacre that Benison had created disappeared all at once.

“Tell Estrus that it’s an all-nighter today. And tell them to take good care of the others.”

“Hehe. Estrus was already listening! Estrus told us to have a good trip!”

“Yes, please say thank you. Shall we go then?”

“Huh!”

Shrrrr!

Baskets emerge from the floor in an instant.

The time required for Monohorn to make it was noticeably shorter than before.

After staying with the goddess and returning, it was clear that his proficiency in using his abilities had improved beyond recognition.

– 3 –

Piririk.

“Um, is it the butler?”

– Yes, Your Highness.

“What are you doing this late at night?”

Since he had accepted the butler’s request for communication right before going to bed, Regal’s tone was slightly annoyed.

– It seems that an urgent situation has occurred near the northern unexplored land, so I had no choice but to commit disrespect late at night.

“Hmm?”

Regal’s expression hardened.

As if the energy of sleep had disappeared in an instant, his eyes were full of energy.

“Tell me in detail.”

– Yes, Your Highness. Even though the regular reporting time came, there was no request for a communication connection from either side of the forward base or supply base. It seems that something serious has happened, so I tried to communicate first several times, but both sides could not connect. Optimistically, it could be dismissed as a temporary communication failure, but in the worst case, it was judged that the troops on both sides could have been completely destroyed, so there was no choice but to contact them even at late hours.

“Umm…”

Regal groans.

The butler made the right decision.

He could never be optimistic about the situation, as he had already been ridiculed numerous times by test subjects that he would not have liked to chew on.

– So, Your Highness, even if the power source is somewhat damaged due to overload, it would be better to speed up and head north.

“I will. Unfortunately, there may be a temporary communication failure, so please continue to request a communication connection from your side. I will also continue to request a connection from my side.”

– All right.

“And consider sending additional troops.”

– Yes, okay… Yes… ?!

At Regal’s sudden request, the butler is shocked.

Although Regal calmly requested it, it was because it was not a request that could be accepted lightly.

– Majesty. Please reconsider. Just maintaining the forces currently in operation is already straining the family’s finances. In addition, if more troops are recruited here, it is self-evident that not only the vassals, but even the family territories will suffer from a security vacuum. Even the strongmen who had already devoted themselves to production and harvesting were hired out, and even the productivity in the territory was greatly reduced. If this continues, soaring prices of various goods including food,

“Stop.”

Regal cuts off the butler’s words.

But it didn’t seem too bad.

It was because the head butler expressed his legitimate concerns and was only faithful to his role.

“I know.”

– But please tell me why you gave such an order.

The butler comes out a little tough.

As if he would not back down even an inch, he looked at Regal with his eyes tightened.

No, I’m staring.

“First. Even if we recruit more enlisted soldiers, we won’t have to worry about our salaries.”

– Uh, why is that… ?

Hoping that the ominous hunch won’t come true, the butler cautiously asks Regal a question.

“Because there will be no need to run a standing army in the long run. Surely, while dealing with those damned test subjects, the soldiers wouldn’t think that no one would die, right?”

– That, that… !

The butler opens his mouth wide.

It wasn’t unexpected, but the fact that Regal had already assumed the mass death of the soldiers from the beginning, the butler couldn’t contain his astonishment.

– If so many Haona soldiers die, shouldn’t they pay consolation money to the bereaved families? If the soldiers die in 100,000 units at once, that is also manageable,

“Second.”

– Kuu… !

Regal cuts off the butler’s words again.

The butler seems to be anxious, biting his lip and glaring at Regal.

However, he only sends an understanding glance, and Regal does not blame his rude stare.

“If we just postpone the payment schedule a little, there will be no reason to pay it either.”

– … Are you saying that you will deliberately aggravate the economic situation and wait for the bereaved families to die of starvation without being able to survive the spring period? Are you saying that you will evade your obligation to pay until all those who have the right to receive compensation for the death of soldiers disappear?

“That’s correct. As expected, it’s easy to work together through a good conversation with the butler.”

– Majesty…

The butler’s expression collapsed.

It was because the butler realized that Regal’s admiration, without the slightest hint of sarcasm, was no different from his apparent expression and his actual intention.

After being silent for a while, the butler managed to speak up.

– In that case, Your Highness. Just one more question.

“I know.”

– There will be a crisis that is different from a simple shortage of funds or shrinking consumption. What kind of trick will you overcome the economic situation that has collapsed due to this, and what means will you restore the lost labor force? With my short hair, no breakthrough comes to mind!

See profit.

Regal has a refreshing smile.

Looking at his overly heterogeneous face that doesn’t match the situation, the head butler breaks into a cold sweat.

Not only his face, but even the inside of his clothes feel all wet with cold sweat.

“If you can only succeed in capturing one of them, especially one of the plant-handling kites, you can solve all the problems you’ve ever foreseen.”

– … !

The butler opens his mouth wide.

Such a solution seemed unthinkable.

“Production of food? One of them should be able to handle enough to feed the entire population of the territory. No wonder. The two of them create a huge forest, but growing grains and fruits is not particularly important to them. It won’t be anything.”

– …

“Besides, there will be more food left over since there will be fewer mouths to consume, so why not sell the surplus to the outside of the territory? It should be more than enough to make up for the damage suffered in this expedition.”

– Majesty…

The butler seemed to be able to understand his feelings to some extent, as to why Regal was so obsessed with the unknown botanical magician couple.

By collecting another talented person, it must be hoped to satisfy the desire for talented people who are running out of control due to the loss of absinthe and to quench their unbearable thirst.

Their usefulness must have been a secondary matter.

– If, by any chance, you fail to capture even one of them, even with all these resources, what are you going to do with it?

“Well…”

Regal smiles softly.

“At that time, the only choice is to activate the final plan.”

– …

The butler couldn’t help but swallow the words that he hoped so.

Instead of simply mouthing those wishes,

– Then, Your Highness, may I suggest a method that will help us capture them reliably?

“However much.”

– First of all, using the family warlocks and shamans,

In order to make Regal’s will come true, I did my best to squeeze my hair.

Because that was his role, and it was the only way he would not be abandoned.

He didn’t want to be a throwaway hand like the privates.

Never.