his emotions stopped him.
He was too ashamed ......
"... That’s it."
"Wow, So strong......"
"You are the strongest, Momonga-sama!"
The two children's sparkling eyes, almost made Momonga laugh. The efforts to resist it almost
blew away his expression - original y, there were no expressions for this skull ─── he
continues:
"So I would like to make an experiment with this staff and I hope you can help me with it."
"Yes! We will prepare it immediately. Then ...... we can see the power of this staff?"
"Well, of course. I will let you experience the most powerful weapon I can hold."
"Awesome!” - Aura shouts excited and does a cute jump.
Mare tries to conceal his excitement, but his long-eared doesn’t stop shivering as evidence.
This is bad, I need a serious expression, therefore can not relaxed. Reminded Momonga
himself and strive to maintain his dignity.
"... There is one more thing Aura. I have ordered all floors guardian to come over here. They will be all be gathered here in less than one hour."
"Huh? Then we have to get ready -"
"No, it is not necessary, we wait here until they come."
"Ah, all floors Keepers -?? Then Sharutia will come as well?"
"Yes, all the floors guardians."
"...... Oh."
Aura’s long ears suddenly start to hang down.
But unlike Aura, Mare seems so exaggerated. According to their body language, Aura and
Sharutia don’t like each other, unlike Mare. What will happen from now on? Momonga sighed
softly.
Volume 1
Chapter 2 Part 2 (LN)
A total number of 50 soldiers rode through the grasslands. Everyone of them inside their ranks
are muscular, vigorous and particularly eye-catching. "Robust" would be the perfect word to describe these men. Even while wearing breastplates, you could see their body muscles
underneath.
A man around thirty years old, sunbathed dark face with noticeable wrinkles, short black
trimmed hair and black eyes, sharp like a sword looks to the man beside.
"Captain, we are approaching the first village on our patrol."
"Yes, that's right, Lieutenant."
Re-Estize Kingdom’s proud warrior Gasef Stolonoff, have yet to see any villages.
Suppressing his eagerness, Gasef urges his horse to maintain at a constant speed. Although
the current speed should not tire the horse too much, it has been on a forced march since the
Royal capital. Little by little, fatigue is gradually penetrating inside its body. Even a horse would be tired after this long trip and therefore he could not continue to increase his horse’s burden.
"I hope nothing happened."
A little uneasiness is hidden with this sentence. Gasef also has the same feelings. The king who
issued the command, asked Gasef to investigate the sightings of Imperial Knights near the
border. If found, they should immediately suppress them.
Originally, since it was at the outskirts of the city Lantiere, sending troops from there would be
faster. However, taking into account that the enemy were well armed and trained Imperial
Knights, this would have been a bad idea.
In the kingdom, the only one who can compete with the Imperial Knights, were soldier under
Gasef’s direct command. Now suppressing Imperial raids became all Gasef’s responsible and
this gave him a headache.
Before Gasef arrives at the destination, one can mobilize other soldiers to protect the villages. It would be enough to resist and gain valuable time. There are many other possibilities to resist.
But nothing was done - no, nobody was allowed to do anything.
Knowing the reasons why, Gasef’s anxiety became endless. He is trying to calm down while his
hands clasped the reins tightly. It is difficult to suppress the burn inside his hearts.
"Captain, it is foolish that nobody starts the search until we arrive. Not only that, why can they not bring in others to search separately? Like recruiting adventurers with commissions. They
could also search for Imperial Knights. Why wasn’t any such action taken? "
"...Stop it Lieutenant, if Imperial Knights appeared in the territory of the Kingdom at broad
daylight, the situation would be much worse."
"Captain, there is no other person around. I hope you can tell me the truth."
The Lieutenant’s face showed a contempt smile, which does not shows the slightest kindness
and spoke with disdain:
"It’s because of those nobles, right?”
Gasef did not answer back, because he knew it was the truth.
"Those damn nobles actually use people's lives as tools in their power struggle! Not only that, because this territory is directly under the king’s control, they wil use this to ridicule the king.”
"...... Not all nobles think that way."
"Perhaps the Captain is right, there are also nobles who live for the sake of the people, for
example golden princess. However there are only few ...... If we could only centralize the power
as the emperor, then we can oppose those damn noble for the sake of the people right? "
"But If you rush things, perhaps it would lead to civil war and our country’s territory wil be split.
Presently, our Kingdom is facing the neighbouring empire’s ambitions to expand its territories. If
a crisis such as a civil war would become a national disaster."
"I know, but ......"
"Let’s stop for the time being ......"
Gasef’s suddenly shuts up and his eyes gaze straight ahead. Smoke is curling out behind a
small hill in front of them. The people present all know what such a sign means.
Gasef could not help but to click his tongue. In gallops, he rode to the small hill and in front of
him and a scene he expected appeared. The whole village was scorched to ruins. A few burned
roof wreckage look like erected tombstones inside this ruin.
Gasef orders with a firm voice:
"Everyone be ready. We need to take action fast."
The village was completely burned and the wreckage of houses barely showed their original
appearance. Walking through the ruins, Gasef smelled the smell of burn mixed with blood.
Gasef's face is very calm, he felt no emotional ups and downs. But looking closely to his
expression one can clearly see his mood. Walking beside him, his Lieutenant had the same
expression.
More than one hundred people in the village and only six survived. In addition, everyone were
mercilessly killed. No matter woman, child, or even baby, all the same.
"Lieutenant, send a few people to escort the survivors back to Lantiere."
"Wait a minute, under these ......"
"You're right, under these circumstances, we have to protect them."
Yes, Lantiere is one of the king's demesne. And is the king's obligations to protect the
surrounding villages . If the survivors were abandoned here, it would case a huge problem to
the king. You can imagine, the aristocratic factions would deliberately use this opportunity to stir trouble and weaken the king’s influence. More importantly ───
"Please think about it. These survivors have all witnessed the knights of the empire. This was
the king’s first assigned priority. I think we should take our man and temporary retreat to