The Soldier Shouted Save - Chapter 35



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The soldier shouted save (35)

The day of the subjugation of the great demon Mentis.

“Everyone gather together!”

“Hurry up! Move quickly!”

“Each commander, report as soon as supplies and personnel are ready!”

The punitive force was busy moving forward with both soldiers and commanders, but the second daughter’s camp was an exception.

We weren’t even assigned soldiers, so it was just me and my second daughter.

‘About five steps?’

A distance where you can’t hear a whisper.

I put my lips close to the blue ring and made a sound.

“Can you hear me?”

My second perk, ‘Mic on/off’, which transmits voice through party members’ rings.

At my whispering voice, the second daughter puts her hand near her chest.

“… … .”

The second daughter nodded, putting the ring she had hung like a necklace to her ear.

A glance at me, as if he had heard what I said.

As the second daughter stretches her hand into the air, something appears before her eyes.

[Party member, ‘Marie Walker’ has become ‘Away’.]

[Party member, ‘Lee Hye-rin’ has become ‘Away from seat’.]

In one corner of the field of vision, a yellow circle appeared next to the second daughter and Hye-rin’s names.

It was Hye-rin’s idea to use the ‘away from seat’ sign as a signal that I had checked what she said.

Palace warrior Jang Jin-woo must have also used this method to make up for the shortcoming of being able to speak unilaterally on his own.

‘It’s fortunate that the quest to kill Lee Hye-rin was cancelled.’

When inviting Hye-rin Lee with the authority of the ‘Party Leader’, the following message appeared: ‘You cannot form a party with a hostile target. Would you like to cancel the quest?’

A quest that was cancelled at the same time as inviting Lee Hye-rin to the party.

As I was nodding and calming myself down in a situation where things were going smoothly, someone came up next to me.

“By the way, Your Majesty, may I ask you something?”

After finishing the test on the microphone, the second girl standing next to me asks a question without waiting for my answer.

“Why do you want to treat it as if I had transferred the ‘Mike’ privilege? Aren’t you and Anna close friends?”

A question asking why Hye-rin didn’t reveal that she had the ‘mic on/off’ privilege.

It speaks the truth and the thoughts as they are.

“Because Anna, who was originally a palace magician, is actually a warrior from another world, Lee Hye-rin.”

“… … I see. Well, the name written next to her was Hye-rin, not Anna. … That’s why she’s close to you…”

The second daughter muttered quietly to me and seemed to understand something.

‘We’re close… … .’

My relationship with Hye-rin, which I’ve thought about countless times.

“I think it’s better for someone who is suspicious to be someone who is difficult for Hye-rin, like Young-ae, than for someone close to her to be suspicious.”

Intimacy aside, when I say that, the second daughter bursts into laughter.

“Hahahaha! So you’re saying you used me? You’re really unnecessarily honest.”

“You can’t gain trust without revealing yourself.”

In reality, when I approached Hye-rin by revealing myself, rather than pretending to be a warrior from another world, I ended up becoming more friendly with her.

“You’re a noble, and you’re good at dealing with people.”

The second daughter, instead of being offended by the words “deceive people effectively,” smiled cheerfully and patted me on the shoulder.

The second daughter’s smiling face completely disappeared as soon as someone closed the distance between them.

“Hmm, Marie. You said you sent back all the squads I gave you. Why is that?”

The eldest son’s squad sent to watch over us.

The second daughter bows her head to the eldest son, pretending to be nervous and wearing a mask with a stiff face.

“… I did that because I was so nervous before the expedition.”

“I understand. But I don’t want to miss out on this great opportunity to gain experience….”

“I know what you mean, Brother. However, I think it would be too much to command, so I would like to experience the subjugation from a safe distance with the escort knights here.”

The eldest son frowns at those words.

“What is a safe distance?”

“The soldiers at the forefront, I plan to experience the suppression from one step behind.”

The front, not the back where the wizard is stationed.

The eldest son smiles at the second daughter.

“Yeah, I thought about it well. Just know that I’m always rooting for you.”

“… Yes. I will not forget your kindness and will only wait for the day to repay you.”

The eldest son nodded vaguely and turned away, seemingly listening to the second daughter.

The second daughter, who had taken off her mask at the sight of the eldest son, muttered quietly with a cold face.

“The plan to keep my brother alive is withdrawn.”

The lord’s charisma can be felt in his soft words.

“For the future of the Walker family, I will not leave any regrets behind, as you said.”

Could it be that the second girl who was crouching and crying is the same person?

I smile and respond to the sight that is changing so quickly that it is confusing.

“I will follow Marie Walker’s choice.”

There was no way I could dislike this appearance of my second daughter.

Because this was the image of the second daughter that I had perfected through many lives.

* * *

-Ding ding ding ding ding!

The expedition began 30 minutes later, with the sound of a loud bell.

“Aboard! Get on board!”

“Follow the command! Everyone, get on the carriage!”

At the sight of a carriage following another carriage after another, the people of the territory all came out to watch the expedition force’s departure.

‘Around this time, a giant eagle attacked.’

How far did you run?

I look outside the window and see the familiar scenery.

The first life in Walker, a giant eagle attacked the carriage with 20 minutes left until arrival.

At the time, I couldn’t understand the giant eagle moving like an army, but now I completely understand the circumstances behind it.

‘It was possible because the Druids possessed animals.’

If the unknown is man’s fear, knowledge is man’s leisure.

Feeling relaxed even before a fight.

I watched the soldiers in the Spirit Forest, which was getting closer and closer.

“I can see the Forest of Spirits! Everyone, drop off your supplies and be on guard!”

It was different from the first expedition, where the transport wagon was lost before even arriving.

The soldiers carried hook chains that could subdue the giant eagles, and coated their armor with a drug that numbed the animals’ sense of smell.

“Set up a command post here!”

Mercenary soldiers use their skillful hands to quickly build a tent that can accommodate more than 30 people.

“The person over there, please bring me the completed ‘Citus’ parchment… … Yes, yes, you can put the blue potion over there.”

Hye-rin, who leads the eldest son Jin-young’s magicians with the smallest body.

Soon, as battle preparations, including the construction of a command post, were complete, Goyle Walker, who had taken over as commander-in-chief in place of his eldest son, shouted:

“Punitive force! Everyone, forward!”

At Goyil’s shout, the punitive force begins to advance to the center where the World Tree is.

“Mary, let us follow you.”

The second daughter, who had been following the punitive force while keeping her distance from them, suddenly stopped walking as soon as she entered the depths of the forest.

“… Your Majesty, wait a minute. I think you’re here.”

After passing the punitive force by and waiting for a moment, something covered in white feathers landed on my shoulder.

“Our dear friend, Marie Walker. Shall we begin now?”

Laucoatl, the chieftain of the druids, possessed by a white owl.

When the second daughter naturally looked at me in response to the chief’s question, she nodded.

“You can start now, Chief.”

“Understood, my friend. Now, send out the warriors.”

The white owl, having finished speaking, flies high into the sky.

A white owl perched on the treetop with its wings spread.

“Kururururuk! Kurururuk!”

As the chief gave the promised signal with the beak of his white owl, the entire forest began to shake.

“Stop! This is an attack by the great demon Mentis!”

From a distance, the voices of a panicked raiding party can be heard.

With a clawed monkey overhead, a red boar in front, and a forest wolf suddenly appearing behind them, even if they were fully prepared, they would have been quite taken aback.

“Oh, no! Giant eagles! They’re heading for the command center!”

It was a completely unpredictable tactic for the punitive force, which thought of its opponents as monsters.

How do you predict a giant eagle gliding across the sky towards the command center with its main force tied up?

“Hey, the command center will come later! Focus on what’s in front of you!”

When the expedition force was thrown into confusion by the perfect tactics of the Druid who shared all of the expedition force’s operations, I put my mouth close to the ring and whispered.

“Hye-rin, I’m on my way now.”

The message changes as soon as I finish speaking.

[‘Lee Hye-rin’ has become ‘away from her seat’.]

At the same time that Hye-rin sends the confirmation message, she tears the parchment in her arms in half.

“Citus.”

As I shout out the city name indicating my coordinates, blue particles fill the space next to me.

Hyelin, with a gaunt face and flowing brown hair.

“Everything went well. We pretended to clash with the magicians, but we got through it and successfully attacked the giant eagle.”

Even if you just create a storm with magic, the giant eagle cannot approach, but it was Hye-rin who was commanding the magician.

Hye-rin’s plan was to pretend that she, the best magician, would fail at magic, thereby confusing the magicians and giving the magicians who needed to calculate the wrong coordinates, causing the magic to go astray.

Hyelin smiled as she said that the command post was in shambles.

“I scared him so much that I thought the eldest son would try to join the main force.”

Disabled wizards.

The only way for the eldest son to survive the threat of the giant eagle was to join the main force.

Probably, he ran to the forest where the main body was located.

“If we delay, only the innocent animals will die, so let’s hurry. This way.”

The Druid and Marie Walker reached an agreement not to kill innocent soldiers.

Because the only one who deserves to be punished is Kyle Walker, who initiated everything.

“Huk, huk, huk… Can’t I… go… by teleportation?”

Hye-rin, who had not run very far, continued to run with difficulty and a limp.

“Kyung Hye-rin… Jo, just… bear with it for a little longer.”

As Marie Walker and Hye-rin followed behind me, panting and struggling, a white owl flapped its wings and lowered its altitude.

“You look tired. Let the forest wolves go. Take a ride.”

“Thank you, my friend.”

As soon as the chieftain finished speaking, two forest wolves ran towards us.

After confirming that the second daughter and Hye-rin were climbing up together, I climbed up on Wolf’s back alone and asked the chief about the situation.

“What happened to Kyle Walker?”

“We’ve sent warriors after seeing Kyle Walker running through the forest. He’s probably tied up in vines right now, waiting to be dealt with.”

Then, all that remains is to finish the mission of the punitive force that is threatening the Forest of Spirits without reason.

-Wheww!

I see a fireball passing over our heads in a parabolic arc, and I pat Forest Wolf on the head and shout.

“Let’s hurry up a bit!”

It’s been five minutes since I entrusted my legs to the forest wolf who was quickly moving through the forest.

-Whew!

-Wheww!

As we followed the fireball passing overhead, a large space appeared, empty of trees and bushes.

-Whooooow! Whooooow!

A blazing green core, wrapped in blazing vines.

The second daughter smiles as she looks at the burning core.

“Now, all I have to do is spread the news that Mentis has been defeated.”

The flames that fell toward the green core in a parabolic arc in the sky were the flames that flew from the command center that was in chaos.

Hye-rin’s work of manipulating the coordinates of the ‘Citus’ magic distributed to major commanders to this place.

“Just in case, I’ll shoot something flashy.”

The key was to make the punitive force believe that they had succeeded in defeating Mentis by looking at this situation.

“Ignis!”

When the magnificent firestorm launched from Hye-rin’s palm covered the space.

-Whoosh!

A sharp sound came towards us.

“Bow down!”

-Ting!

A sharp arrow that was barely struck.

I asked Hye-rin, who was lying face down on the floor with her head covered.

“What about the mana stack?”

“… I thought it was all over, but that was the last one… .”

It was natural that Hye-rin looked tired.

Because I had already drunk the blue potion due to the manipulation of the magic parchment, teleportation, coordinate distortion, and the use of dummy magic on the giant eagle.

I said, looking in the direction the arrow had come from.

“Stay here and finish up with Yeong-ae.”

“… Yes, yes? Why don’t you just stay here instead of going? The punitive force will be here soon anyway… It won’t be hard to just stop them, right?”

He says this with the corners of his lips raised in a smirk.

“Don’t worry. I know who did it.”

-Ting!

He says, deflecting the arrow aimed at my temple as if provoking me.

“I have to pay you back, so wait here.”

With those words, he kicks the ground in the direction the arrow came from.

-Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

As if it was a joke just now, three arrows flew towards the face in succession.

As I dodged the arrow by rolling it to the side, someone who had been climbing the tree suddenly appeared.

“Hahaha, I can’t keep up with the mindset of young people these days. Who would have thought they would make up a non-existent hemp plant called Mentis?”

How to finish the subjugation without revealing Kyle Walker’s plan that would have brought the Walker family’s prestige to rock bottom.

-widely!

The old inspector Walter, impressed by the method, picks up his bow and throws it, landing in front of me.

“If your employer went bankrupt, you would just keep your mouth shut and join the punitive force. Are you that incapable of discernment?”

“Employer? Oh―. Are you talking about Kyle Walker?”

Walter frowned briefly at those words, then burst into laughter again.

“My employer is not that kind of a brat. He is more, um… noble.”

“Whatever it is, isn’t your plan over?”

Walter looks bitter at those words.

“… Yes, it’s over. It’s gotten to the point where I have to take responsibility and sacrifice this old man’s life.”

Walter, who had been smiling with his head down, slowly lowers his posture and raises his sword.

“… … .”

A strange tension as they point their swords at each other.

Walter, who cheered at the tension, said with the corners of his lips splitting all the way to his ears.

“I am grateful to you. For not avoiding provocation for the sake of this old man’s last spark, who will die anyway.”

“You have something to take.”

Walter looks down at his hands, following my explicit gaze.

“Hmm, is that so? Were you after this Red Dragon’s ring?”

“You wouldn’t be able to get it if it weren’t for this situation.”

Official spoils should be shared with the punitive force, but if no one knows of their existence, there is no need to share.

Walter nods at my words and gradually closes the distance between us.

“…Okay, then let’s fight to our hearts’ content without hesitation!”

Walter suddenly lifts his sword high, having kicked the floor.

An unpredictable, irregular attack that uses one’s own beloved sword as bait and draws a dagger with one’s left hand to attack.

-Ting!

Walter’s eyes widen as he easily blocks the attack that he has become accustomed to from life-or-death fights.

“Don’t make the mistake of thinking that young people lack experience.”

Walter’s arms are raised into a cheering stance by my powerful attack.

When trying to scream with all my might towards Walter’s defenseless neck.

Walter shouted, hastily twisting his wrist.

“Hey, Ignis!”

Walter’s red burning ring.

As we roll away from the flames that are coming at us like a dragon’s beak, Walter wipes away the cold sweat and smiles.

“… Hahaha, I’m sorry. I didn’t want to use this foul play, but it’s a shame to end the match in one stroke.”

I quietly suppressed my anger at Walter’s appearance and let out a long sigh.

“… … So you were the one who took care of it.”

“They say he didn’t show his secret weapon in one blow.”

“Don’t worry about it. This isn’t what we’re talking about now.”

Me and Walter.

The battlefield between just the two of them, where they could clearly hear each other’s breathing, burned red.

-Whooooow!

The forest began to burn with the fire that Walter had shot out.

Walter laughs and points to his ring.

“You can use the Red Dragon’s magic once. Something like that won’t happen again.”

“Don’t you know that talking too much shortens your lifespan?”

“Hahaha, this little ring story is like a grain of sand compared to this old man’s long life.”

Walter says, reaching behind his waist.

“You better not ignore an old man who has survived to this age!”

-widely!

Walter rushes forward, his sword raised high as if he were trying to catch the enemy.

-Whoosh!

As he braced his sword’s tip to block his sword, Walter pulled out what he had been hiding in his belt behind his back.

Walter’s dagger that had been blocked several times.

But Walter seemed to have expected me to block his dagger, so instead of blocking my sword, he slid his blade and aimed for my vital spot.

“Wow, that’s amazing. This is a technique I learned from a desert mercenary. Can it block this too?”

The way I fought Walter was completely different from the first time.

It was as if they were burning the last spark, and they didn’t seem tired even after a long exchange of attacks.

In contrast, my skin began to melt little by little in the hot flames.

“This way! This way!”

“Turn off the lights and look this way!”

The voices of the punitive force can be heard nearby.

Walter looks up at the sky and smiles bitterly.

“What a pity. I wanted to see the bottom of you, where you might reach the extreme of the sword and become a star… .”

Walter holds the sword’s handle differently on his horse.

“If you want, I’ll show you.”

A ready stance for using the swordsmanship of the Black Sword.

Walter, seeing that sight, raises the corners of his mouth as if his energy has returned.

“Thank you, but that doesn’t mean I’ll let you off the hook.”

“I want to tell you that it’s an old man’s useless worries.”

Focus on running, kicking the ground towards Walter.

-Whoosh!

Walter, who was running towards me as before, aimed for my flank.

He avoided Walter’s expected attack by twisting his body, and then performed a swordsmanship attack from Walter’s side.

-Whew!

A blue trail following the white sword.

The trajectory that dotted the sky and came down formed a shower.

A drop of water that touches the ground creates gentle ripples.

My own swordsmanship, created by applying the swordsmanship of the Black Sword Master.

“… Excellent. Have you been looking after this old man all this time…?”

“No, I fought every moment with all my might.”

Walter, who had been cut diagonally from his shoulder to his side, smiled as he fell, unable to stop himself.

“… … I did my best, it’s an honor.”

-Bam!

Walter collapses, looking up at the sky with a satisfied expression on his face.

“Hey, this way! I heard voices coming from this direction!”

In the dying flames, I took the Red Dragon Ring into my pocket.