Chapter 250 – An Offer You Can’t Refuse

Chapter 250: An Offer You Can’t Refuse

Shashak!

Retrieve the dagger quickly.

“Hey~
Nene personally engraved it and gave it as a gift~
Isn’t the color of the blade really pretty?
Maybe it’s because it’s made with her hair and magic, it’s the same purple~
Isn’t it pretty?”

“Hey, why do you keep doing that…
Thank you, it’s rude. (Stop it, it’s scary.)”

Like a shrimp hiding its back in a whale fight, Adolf holds me back.

Stay still and see!!
You dare to flirt with the lover of the Sang Sanggun who came with the king’s name, that bastard!!
Definitely just!!
You have to prick it once to come to your senses.
Otherwise, these guys would keep flirting with other people’s women.

“Kuhm!!!
Okay
Something was too much.”

If you bow first, let me bow too.

“I’m sorry.
It’s because I overheated it.”

“Kuh hmm hmm!!
What’s wrong with you
Let’s talk about something public now.”

Woo woo woo woo woo…

Adolf sighs in relief beside him.
Get some rest, ma’am.

Is not it?
I think this kid is pressuring us not to fight again?

“The operation plan the princess made is like this.”

Spreading out the order stamped with the princess’s seal on the table, she explained again what she had explained to Adolf earlier.
Quite a bit of time passes,

“Okay. I understand.”

Caltz stroking his chin.

“Then when will you pincer the enemy?”

“If you calculate the time to besiege and garrison Hebraim on that side, how about a week later?”

“Even considering the speed of the march, three days is enough until the fall.”

“!!! How confident are you?
Although the castle is not big, it is quite strong because it is a gateway built for the defense of the capital.”

“Considering that, it’s three days.
If not, I would have expected it to last no more than two days.”

Our side has fraudulent membership and artifacts.

“Then, should we hurry to assemble our forces?”

Caltz looked down at the tactical map and troop horse and flag on the table.
Hmm…

“You were trying to break through the center?”

“… How did you know
I haven’t changed the arrangement yet.”

“Here, these horses are beastmen light infantry, and these horses here are light cavalry.
You’ve both split the topography into spreadable forces.
It seems like they are trying to break through the front lines quickly and widely, and then break through the beast tribe wolf cavalry gathered in the center.
It’s hilly terrain for siege, so it’s hard to detour, and it’s difficult to surprise by hiding in the bush.
So it seemed like they were trying to break through by concentrating forces after disturbance.”

Caltz came in person, and it’s even more surprising that he’s still fighting against only 30,000 people.
If you add the 14,000 soldiers of the two corps and the auxiliary soldiers, there are 18,000 people.
Considering the physicality of the beastmen soldiers, shouldn’t it be normal if they were pierced right away?
Are you sabotaging this nobleman by any chance?
Or the variable of the magic tool ‘Dynamite’?

“Hmm, too.
Before he was reinstated, he should have given him the position of chief of staff to bring him in.
Saw it exactly
Great.”

“It’s an overstatement.”

“If you want to follow the princess’ strategy, you’ll have to give instructions in advance.
Please wait here for a moment.
Adolph, follow me.”

“Yes, inspiration.”

It’s boring to stay with the guards.

“Haam, are there any snacks here?”

“Yes?
Ah… Now, please wait a moment.”

“Hey, try bringing me some refreshments outside.”

“Yes!”

Jump.

A guard who opens the door and delivers the content.
Two guards.

“…”

I’m bored, but let’s eat nogarina.

“Hey. Are you a werewolf?”

“It’s four.”

“Conscription or resource?”

“I am a conscript.”

“Okay? You’re not even a volunteer, but you’re standing next to the general?
Are you good at exercising?
How old are you?”

“I am 15 years old this year.
It was the best thing in town.
After passing through the search party, I am currently serving as a guard at the headquarters.”

“Have you enlisted?”

“I came here when I was 10, so this is my 6th year.”

I languidly sit in a chair and talk.
The guards who are stiff at the sight of a tall man from another unit are a bit cute.

“It’s a lot of trouble~
How about fighting Amity Chabong down there?”

“Yes? Didn’t you hear me?”

“There are 30,000 humans up in the south.
How about fighting?”

“Recently, we operated in conjunction with Nene-sama’s 7th Corps…
We’ve been on standby since then, right?”

“What?”

No, wait.
What do you mean?
Wasn’t it that Nene’s 7th Corps and Caltz’s 1st and 5th Corps joined together and defeated about 20,000 vanguards of outcasts and mercenaries?
You defeated them and Nene joined us, right?
The Kaltz army is dealing with the 30,000 human soldiers who set out for the second time… I heard
To be precise, that’s how the report went to the Devil’s Castle, and Nene knew that too.

“Huh? What are you talking about?
So who did you open the campsite to stop?”

“Well, we’re also soldiers, so we don’t know that well.”

Ask the guy next to you too.

“Hey. Is it true?”

“Yes? That, yes.”

“Then what are you guys doing here?”

“Mo, I don’t know.
I heard that they are blocking the enemy from advancing north, so I’m still waiting after building a camp here.”

Unstable.
What is this?
The enemy Chabong had already advanced north a long time ago.

Adolf said he was tired of finding and dealing with some of the men who had broken through the defenses.
However, the guards under the command of the general did not even know that the enemy had come.
… Does this make sense?

“Hey, I can’t.
I’m leaving for a while.”

The moment i’m about to leave

Chuck.

Two guards blocking the entrance with their bodies.
That’s the only entrance.

“… What are you guys doing?”

“That… The general ordered that those who entered should not be sent outside without an order.”

“Fuck, are you kidding me?
I’m a listed soldier, what kind of nonsense are you talking about?
Move.”

“I’m sorry.
We’re just following the general’s orders…
If you leave, we won’t be completely broken.
He’ll be back soon, so please wait a little.”

“… I know, so watch it.
Go to the bathroom.”

Whoa, let’s fix it so it doesn’t hurt.
I don’t want to hurt the fluffy babies that were dragged in.

“…”

“Hey.”

“Sorry.
It won’t work.”

“Tsk, I can’t help it.”

Mind control!!
Let’s subdue it without pain and go out!

It was then.

“?!”

Unbelievable.
The magic ‘mind suppression’ does not activate.
No way… Anti magic field?

I tried using it one more time just in case, but the magic didn’t activate at all.
This feeling I experienced while fighting Bellondel and rescuing the star princess.
The feeling that the natural force called ‘mana’ is not rearranged at all.
The forces of nature are fixed as if nailed to the air.

It’s cold.
A dagger flies into the chest and pierces it.

Only then do all the suspicious things come together as a puzzle.

The only wooden building in the campground.
A meeting room built underground under the pretext of bombing magic.
The basement has no way out in case of an emergency.
That’s why when Rumika first came to my herbal shop, she was reluctant to go into the basement meeting room.
But is it strange to anyone?
If there is only one wooden building in the camp, wouldn’t you want to attack it for something when bombing?
You stand out too much.

Besides, a magic nullification area within the camp?
Like… As if only this place was specially built as a wooden building to maintain the magic nullification area for a long time.
It takes much longer to carve a dispel magic spell into a tree than to carve it into bare ground.
As if the Constellation Tower that imprisoned Stella was a stone building, and a magic nullification spell was cast on the stone on the top floor…

The back is stiff
Shit.
I have to get out of here.

“Are you crazy?
Then I don’t even go to the bathroom, do I pack here?
Are these bastards blocking the front of Sang Sang-gun?”

“Yeah, but no way!”

Surprisingly, these guys open their eyes and stare at me.
Carlz you bastard.
If you train the kids who don’t know how to do it hard.
Write something like this, right?
Not a standing army, but conscripts?

No time
We have to get out while Carlz and Adolf are gone.

“This bastard is gone.”

Jjoong!

Blows the chin without remorse.

Surprisingly, a beastman soldier who staggered and did not collapse.
As expected, the chin is thick because it is an animal.

It’s my fist that not only fairies with thin jaws fall easily, but also humans and demons with strong bodies.
Not to mention fainting, not to collapse in one shot.
Do you have a sore throat?

“Profit!”

“What?”

The soldier next to me who tried to draw a knife on me.

Chin!

“!”

Reach out and stomp your feet.

Whoa! Jjoong!

“!!!”

My palm blasting the guard’s ear.
A skill that was useful when dealing with Bellondel was the Cochlear Destruction.
Since the chin is thick, it is difficult to guarantee the effect of temple buns and philtrum attacks.

Bash the sensitive animal ears to throw them off balance.
Not until destruction, don’t stand up for a second.

“Huh!”

You just got out
Seeing this attacking the Sang Sang Army, it seems that these guys also paralyzed their rationality with Caltz’s strict discipline.
That’s what conscripts are all about.
Because I did too.
Aren’t they consumables that move, fight, and die as instructed?

Poop!!

“Turn it off… !!”

After all, it doesn’t have as much direct effect as a quick point kick.
I have to go to the wedding, so I cut it off gently and give it to you.
Still hurts
Too bad.

The moment you open the door like that.

Sigh.

“Heh heh, this is why I don’t like quick-witted guys like you.”

A lion-beast general who squeezed through the door with his massive body.
It’s Calz.

“… Aren’t you ashamed?
A nobleman named Daejanggun recklessly plans a coup d’état by ordering ignorant kids.”

Caltz effortlessly tosses the two fallen guards out the door.
… If you’re a Beastman wearing armor, it’s really heavy.
Perhaps, in terms of physical strength alone, he is the second strongest in the Demon King’s Army after ‘Genocider’ Khan.

Chin.

Caltz leaned against the door with his arms crossed.
The wooden door creaked and made a sound at his heavy body.

“Reckless?
Well.
I prepared a lot.
I want you to come here.”

It was happening
That I’m coming here as an envoy.
Spying on our camp? Betrayer?
Is there anyone who can deliver the news faster than me, who flew through Stella’s portal?

… Let’s not jump to conclusions.

Could have predicted
Since I was handed over Lumica’s plan of operation, and I joined Stella’s army in Amity as a diplomatic envoy.
Besides, you and Stella have been walking around through the portals alone lately, haven’t you?
Even if you don’t know Stella, you can guess that I will definitely appear.

“It won’t do you any good to catch me.”

Because I am a rank-and-file soldier without power, family, or money.

“No way. We all have something good.”

“We?”

“Make an offer you can’t refuse.
Camus, you.
Don’t you want to become a demon king?”

“!!!”

“What are you looking so surprised about?
I already knew that you were a Dark Blood holder.
It’s just that the previous demon king issued a mutiny order and kept his mouth shut.
By this point, do you know yourself?
… You seem to know
Don’t you like the former demon king too?
Despite all the hardships, he was unfairly kicked out of the enemy country’s capital.”

“Are you going to rebel?”

“No way.
Let’s create a new world.”

“A new world? What world
Do you dream of a better world than the one where the Beasts even got a place in the honorable 1st Corps?”

“The Honorable 1st Corps? Under!”

Caltz screamed as if it was absurd.
Anger flashes in his eyes.

“The former Demon King.
Wasn’t that bastard suppressed by force and organized to make good use of us beast people!
Suppress, trample!
Geji was awarded as a seat in the 1st Corps to use us usefully in the civil war, now to make us arrowheads.
A very proud hound!!”

Outstanding physical abilities.
However, a group that is difficult to cause rebellion thanks to the characteristics of not being able to unite between tribes.
However, because of their animalistic physical characteristics and unique appearance, they are easy prey for slave traders.
Under the pretext of protection, the former demon lord absorbed them, and made Calz a general to subjugate them.

“Hmm… Don’t get me wrong, listen, Mr. Caltz.
Thanks to the former demon king, the beast tribes were protected, you were promoted, and the beast tribes finally united as one and their rights and interests were recognized?
Are you a hound?
Aren’t you a citizen of Demon King’s army in name and reality?
Taxes are almost exempted, military service is imposed, but tribal boundaries are recognized and land is distributed, right?
In some ways, they are treated better than the demons, but what is the problem?”

Come on, let’s scratch it gently.
I need to find out why Warlord Caltz is doing this.

“Better treated than demons?
Under! Sounds funny!!
Are you also a helpless demon?
Our beastmen are festering with military service!
They grow up quickly and give birth to a lot, so they are mobilized for war every time.”

The compulsory conscription of the idiots is from the age of 20, and the mandatory military service of the Beast Tribe is from the age of 10.
Demons conceive one by one, except for twins.
However, there are many animal tribes that give birth to 6 to 8 offspring at a time.

His words are desperate.
As if preaching to an imaginary audience.
I am the only audience, but I think I want to be the best orator.

But there are too many holes in the logic.
Fail.

“Do not be ridiculous.
Neither Khan nor Balak say such things.
Even they are at the forefront every time.
Do you know why?
I feed my family with spoils.
To put it bluntly, you made a living by hunting beastmen, you couldn’t even farm, right?
That’s why they couldn’t unite, and looting was rampant even among the beasts.
If it hadn’t been incorporated into the Demon King’s Army, several minority tribes would have remained and fed the slave traders.
It’s a social structure that’s perfect for catching beastmen who live scattered in small units.
Rather, it is the spoils of the beast tribe in war, and who doesn’t know that they feed their offspring by receiving supplies?
Military service?
I’ve done that military service for over 100 years.
Issuing a conscription order to the beastmen is when a separate conscription order is issued.
When the Fatherland Defense War and the general mobilization order are issued, all demons are mobilized.
What’s the difference
Are there any tribes that don’t play spin right now?”

“I heard something interesting when I stopped by Cheonghaejin before.
When the hunt is over, they boil the soup with the hunting dog and eat it.
Hey Camus.
We are hounds
If it barks, it barks; if it bites, it bites.
That’s all.
Then what if you get old? What if it becomes useless?
Are going to die
You are like that too.
Aren’t you embarrassed?
After 100 years of military service, it took only a moment to become a corps commander and be kicked out.
Even if you go up to the position of espionage officer, you are immediately dismissed.
Why?
Dark blood flows through you!
Because it threatens the kingship of the daughter of the demon king!
Isn’t it funny?
Being a beastman, I live as a hunting dog rather than a lion because of my lineage, and you were used and abandoned because of your noble lineage.
We can help each other
Hounds stick together with hounds.
If you don’t end the hunt forever, you can’t even abandon the hound.”

“…”

Hey, this is correct
I have nothing to say.

“I don’t like living as a hunting dog either.
Hey, how long will you live as a dog?
I am a lion, you are a demon king.
Let’s get each other back to their true selves.”

His eyes were burning quietly.

“Give me a reason.
I will be your strength.”

An offer you can’t refuse.
General Calz blocked the door in the basement.
This is a magic nullification area, so even blinking can’t escape.
If I go outside, there will probably be 14,000 people in two legions surrounding me.
If you open it, you die.

“Choose.”