The Soldier Shouted Save - Chapter 36



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The soldier shouted save (36)

Episode 5

The Red Dragon Ring that Walter’s employer gave him as a gift.

It was amazing.

I just put the ring in my pocket, but I could feel a clear change in my physical condition.

‘… … I can’t feel any heat at all.’

It was a great magical tool.

Because of the ‘Grimmgar’ achievement that made me vulnerable to flames, my skin would melt even if I didn’t touch the flames, but now, even if I touched a burning tree with my hand, all I felt was intense heat and a tingling sensation.

‘It would be better to burn the body.’

Fire was no longer a threat.

He breaks a burning branch with his bare hands and throws it over Walter’s body.

As if his free-spirited movement through the flames was a lie, Walter’s corpse burns very easily.

“Huk, huk… … Your Highness!”

The second daughter came running with the soldiers late and checked on my safety.

The second daughter quickly examined the burning corpse and blocked the soldiers’ approach.

“The expedition is over! Send the wounded to the territory first! Make sure the rest of you don’t leave any sparks in the forest!”

The soldiers move busily and follow the orders of the second daughter who naturally took command.

“Careful! Listen carefully!”

“Bring water here!”

Soldiers carrying the wounded to the carriage and bringing water created by the magician to put out the fire.

“Kurrrrrrrr!”

“I, I… … .”

“The beast-controlling demon Mentis is dead. Do not provoke him and drive him out.”

As I was controlling the soldiers who were fussing over the animals, leaving Walter’s corpse turned to ashes behind, something filled my eyes.

-The level has increased.

– You have accomplished a great feat. (Achievement pt+1,500)

-Your reputation has risen.

– Challenge, ‘Kill a High-Level Veteran Inspector’ achieved. (Achievement pt+5,000)

―Your outlook on life has been decided as ‘the best sword.’

*You will obtain sword-related achievements faster.

*Caution: This outlook on life does not fit with the player’s profession.

‘The best sword… … .’

A strength that grows day by day to the point where even I wonder about it.

-Whoosh!

As I swung my sword in the air and recalled my last swordsmanship, a white owl flapped its wings and landed on my shoulder.

“Is it all over, just as you wanted?”

Laucoatl, the chieftain of the druids.

“No, the World Tree will never again be threatened, just as we all hoped.”

As the second daughter approaches to correct his words, the white owl laughs.

“Then, let’s go take care of the last thing. Follow me.”

He calls Hye-rin, who was conducting the water magic, and follows the white owl.

-Slurp.

After passing through a cleverly hidden forest path, we arrived at the Druid’s residence.

The mastermind who planned all this was tied up there.

“… … Ma, Marie! Welcome! Come help me, brother!”

The eldest son trembles as he looks at the ferocious beast baring its fangs.

“Hey, how come you’re with these guys!”

The eldest son smiles brightly at the sight of his second daughter standing nonchalantly among the wild beasts.

“Oh, yeah! You succeeded in negotiating with these guys! Ha, hahaha! Now, I’m proud of you, Marie!”

The second daughter did not respond to the eldest son’s words.

I just put my hands on my waist.

“Ma, Marie… … . Uh, why?”

She draws her sword and aims it at her brother.

“Before we hold anyone accountable, let me ask you this first. Why did the man who would become Lord Walker do this if he stayed still?”

The reason the second daughter and the youngest were able to aim for the position of lord was because of the big event of the subjugation of the hemp demons.

If there had been no subjugation of the hemp, the position of the next lord would naturally have been taken by the eldest son.

The eldest son opens his mouth, his eyes trembling.

“I, I… I’ve endured my whole life, looking only at the Lord’s seat of Walker. … But, what? The Lord’s seat is right in front of me, but all of a sudden I can only harvest the World Tree leaves for one year?”

The eldest son raises his voice, gnashing his teeth.

“What good is the lord of a trash territory that can’t even harvest World Tree leaves! … Tell me! What value is there in a Walker territory that doesn’t have World Tree leaves! Tell me!”

The second daughter shakes her head as if denying reality at the eldest son’s words.

“Just… … , just because of that thought… … .”

The tip of the second daughter’s sword is shaking.

The eldest son’s face turns red as he looks back and forth between the second daughter and the chieftain walking towards him in his own body instead of a white owl.

“AAAAAHHHH! Stupid bitch, stupid bitch! You’re shaking hands with a druid? You screwed us, Marie Walker! You had to burn the World Tree so we could live!”

“… … What does it mean that we have to burn the World Tree to survive?”

In response to the second daughter’s questioning words, the eldest son looks up at the sky and cries in frustration.

“You stupid bitch! Please think about it! If you can’t harvest any more, shouldn’t you increase the value of the remaining World Tree leaves?”

He says this with a hollow laugh, as if recalling the future his eldest son had dreamed of.

“… … If everyone saw the burning World Tree, the price of the World Tree leaves would go up to the sky. That would have been it… … .”

The second daughter was speechless at the sight of her eldest son.

I corrected the eldest son’s twisted rationalizations on behalf of the second daughter.

“Was it really necessary to kill the punitive force because of that?”

“… … Then, should I have given them blood-like gold coins?”

“Why did you try to kill your brothers?”

“I, I… … I achieved it all myself… … So, it’s only natural that I take it without sharing it. Isn’t that right?”

The second daughter’s hands tremble at the eldest son’s words.

I lowered the second daughter’s hand and took out my sword instead, saying:

“You’re the one who’s stupid, Kyle Walker.”

“……what?”

“There was absolutely no need to burn the World Tree. If they wanted to increase the value of the World Tree leaves, they could have simply made it known that they were unharvestable… … .”

The eldest son answers my question firmly.

“Oh, no! That won’t do!”

“Why?”

“… … That, that’s it. That’s… … That, that was a promise… … .”

“promise?”

The eldest son shut his mouth as if he had no intention of saying anything more.

As the second daughter, who had been controlling her feelings, made a cold expression in front of the eldest son, the eldest son poured out urgent words.

“Ma, Maria… … It’s me. Your brother… … . I couldn’t even sleep properly because I was only thinking about Walker’s future… … .”

“No. You sold out Walker’s future, not for the sake of Walker’s estate, but for yourself.”

The proof is that it is not the Walker family’s warehouse, but a personal warehouse filled with World Tree leaves.

The second daughter looked at the man who was her older brother and declared calmly.

“Kyle Walker! He died fighting honorably against the great demon Mentis for the sake of the realm.”

He speaks to his old friend in the Walker family as the next lord.

“Friend, please kill this impostor who is tarnishing the honor of my dead brother, for the sake of both the walker and the druid.”

The chieftain looked at the second daughter’s words without saying a word.

“Krrrrrr!”

When Forest Wolf, under orders, tried to blow off his eldest son’s head with his huge forepaw, something bizarre happened.

-phut!

“Wh, what?”

A forest wolf’s head burst like a firecracker.

“I, I… … No… … This theory… … Absolutely not!”

The eldest son, freed from the tough vines, wraps his head around them, his skin turning blue and his joints twisting in strange directions.

-Drumroll, drumroll.

A form that transcends human form.

-Whoosh!

I swung my sword without delay and cut off the eldest son’s head.

“……uh?”

A head rolling on the floor, eyes blinking.

Even after his head was cut off, the eldest son’s face, which seemed to be conscious and was examining his own body, quickly became wrinkled and dried up without any moisture.

“… … It’s like I’m possessed by a demon.”

The eldest son, who met death with blue skin and long limbs.

“T, how is this… … .”

He came forward in front of the second daughter, who had collapsed as if her legs had given out, and put on the ring that was in his pocket.

“Ignis.”

Flames that extend like a dragon’s mouth, fired from the Red Dragon’s ring.

The second daughter, seeing her eldest son’s body slowly turning into black ash, takes a deep breath and speaks clearly.

“… … Remember. Kyle Walker, Walker’s eldest son, died honorably in battle against the great demon Mentis.”

A blue-skinned corpse sticking out of the fire.

The second daughter pushed the body into the fire with her sword.

* * *

Mentis, a great monster that parasitized the World Tree and threatened the lands of Druids and Walkers.

A large-scale expedition led by Kyle Walker was completely successful in its expedition, but Walker was left in sorrow.

“… … In that way, Kyle Walker fought bravely for the peace of the people of the Territory without retreating an inch, and died an honorable death. Also… … .”

People silently listen to the second daughter’s words as she stands on the stage.

However, those who were mourning the disappearance of the Walker family’s future turned their heads in surprise when they heard the second daughter’s next words.

“… … The expedition ended in success, but due to Mentis’ parasitism of the World Tree, we can no longer harvest the World Tree’s leaves. However, our Walkers… … .”

People who hurriedly turned their backs before the second daughter had even finished speaking.

“… … What? You can’t harvest the World Tree leaves anymore?”

“Rain, get out of the way! Don’t stop me and come out!”

The second daughter smiles bitterly as she sees everyone running to the market selling the leaves of the world tree.

“This is Walker’s reality, cherishing the leaves of the world tree more than the death of the next lord.”

A strange structure where outsiders take up more work than locals.

The second daughter, after confirming that there is no one left in front of her, comes down from the stage and smiles at us.

“Follow me. We still have some accounting to settle, don’t we?”

When there is no one around and there is no need to make a speech, the second daughter turns away.

A street in disarray due to people running around blinded by the leaves of the World Tree.

He follows the second daughter as she walks gracefully over him and asks her questions.

“Where is Goyle Walker, the youngest?”

“I’m lying down in pain. I was startled by the animals rushing at me from both sides and I hit my head on a rock.”

“… … Is that what you intended?”

“You seem to think of me as such a villain. Don’t worry. Goyle fell down alone and got hurt, so I couldn’t do what I had planned.”

How much is serious and how much is a joke?

The second daughter smiles at me.

I couldn’t take off her mask until I finally got there.

“Just wait a minute. I’ll go change some clothes and come back.”

Hye-rin and I were left alone on the table.

“Can I drink this?”

“Oh, yes. I will follow you.”

As the servant fills her teacup with orange tea, Hye-rin smiles pleasantly.

“Wow, it smells really good. What kind of tea is this?”

“This tea is made from raoul leaves, a specialty of Walker.”

Walker’s specialty hidden behind the leaves of the World Tree.

‘… … It’s so hot.’

When I see Hye-rin enjoying snacks and tea with a happy face, I think about Walker’s new future.

Hyelin suddenly made a blank expression.

“Wow… Seriously, it’s so pretty.”

At the end of Hye-rin’s gaze was the figure of the second daughter wearing a dark blue dress.

“Well, if you say something like that… … .”

Is it taboo to say “pretty”?

The second daughter, seeing the servants fidgeting at the sight of Hye-rin’s pure appearance, smiled broadly and turned her gaze to me.

“What do you think, my lord? Do I look beautiful to you?”

The second daughter’s face filled with playfulness.

I glanced at my second daughter and told her my honest thoughts.

“I think you look like you’re suited for a party, but you seem a bit unfamiliar with the way you speak. Please speak comfortably like before.”

The second daughter smiles and responds as if satisfied with my indifferent tone.

“Now that the expedition is over, you are no longer my subordinates.”

“That doesn’t mean a mere swordsman needs to be treated with respect by a nobleman.”

“I don’t know if it was in the past, but isn’t this a world where those with ability are treated like nobles?”

“Being treated like that doesn’t make you noble.”

A debate that started without a clue as to why.

Hye-rin, who was looking at me and the second daughter in front of the restless servants, scratched her head and let out a questioning voice.

“… But, why on earth are you two fighting?”

“We weren’t fighting. We just wanted to see someone’s troubled expression.”

What on earth is so funny?

I drank my tea in one gulp to avoid the second daughter’s blatant gaze.

“… … Ugh.”

Excessive sweetness that fills the mouth.

As he was eating the snack with a frown on his face, the second daughter covered her mouth and raised her hand, smiling as if she had seen something unexpected.

“I think you like the tea, so fill it up.”

-Trrrrrrr.

At the second daughter’s gesture, orange tea filled the cup.

As a sign of refusal, I pushed the car into the middle of the table,

“Ugh, step back.”

The second daughter, who had been laughing, pushes away the servants and starts talking seriously.

“Have you two thought about how you will receive the reward for the punitive force?”

After the servants left, a fruitful conversation began.

The amount Kyle Walker promised was a whopping 600 gold coins.

Hye-rin sounded worried, remembering that I said it was an amount that could buy a house with a yard.

“… … But, if we ask now, it would be a bit difficult, right?”

“Um, what does that mean?”

“… … That person, he set the amount too high. He didn’t intend to give it from the beginning… … .”

A huge fine that the eldest son promised without any intention of paying.

The second daughter smiles and responds to Hye-rin’s reluctant mention of Kyle Walker’s name.

“There won’t be a problem. The majority of the punitive force will want World Tree leaves as compensation for punitive damages and public service.”

As time goes by and the fact that they cannot be harvested spreads widely, the value of the World Tree leaves will increase, if not skyrocket.

Until we find something to replace the World Tree leaves.

“Without violating the contract, I will delay payment of compensation until the rumor about the World Tree Leaf has spread widely. However, for you two, I will pay you the current price.”

The Walker family sold the future and became the richest people in history.

But the second daughter knows better than anyone that Walker is in crisis, having lost all links to the economy derived from the World Tree leaves.

But he had a smiling face the whole time.

“Shall I prepare some more refreshments?”

The second daughter who doesn’t take off her mask even in a hasty and frustrating situation.

Watching her grow stronger than when she first prepared for the expedition, I asked the most important question.

“Has anyone from the palace ever come to visit you?”

“… … The palace?”

At my words, the second daughter put her hand on her chin, thought deeply, and nodded.

“There was. Kang-guk? Lil-bon? Jung-gok? What kind of strange story was he talking about?”

At the second daughter’s words, Hye-rin opened her eyes wide and looked at me.

Perhaps the question that the second daughter did not understand was about the other world, the home of the warriors.

“When I asked how I got the privilege, I told them it was a magical tool similar to the privilege of warriors, and they just turned around and left.”

I thought I knew why the palace had let its guard down regarding Walker.

The second daughter who knows nothing about the other world.

The palace, which had been wary of the second daughter who had special powers in the body of Gerard, concluded that the second daughter was bluffing with her magical tools.

“If the palace people come to see you again, can you tell them that a man named Lee Hyeonseong participated in the Mentis subjugation?”

“… Are you Lee Hyeonseong?”

“I wrote the name Lee Hyeon-seong on the secret oath, so you can just show it to the palace people.”

The confidentiality agreement is valid whether you use a pseudonym or your real name.

There are probably many people who have written pseudonyms other than me, so it would be impossible to specifically identify Hye-rin and me.

Thanks to her quick wit, the second daughter nods without asking too much about the situation.

“I know what you mean. You want me to spread your achievements in the name of Lee Hyun-seong, not Allen?”

A conversation where something seems off.

“It’s not me, but you can spread the news about the subjugation in the name of Lee Hyeon-seong.”

Let’s correct that, the second daughter shuts her mouth with a worried look on her face.

“Is it okay if I don’t tell you?”

The second daughter’s cautious speech.

“What do you mean?”

“… … Well, your name is Lee Hyeonseong, right?”

The second daughter’s hand was pointing at me.