Chapter 598
Ragnis was not surprised when Laika suddenly disappeared across the sky with Eldmia’s drake. It was because I was on the side of knowing pretty well what that clever sword was.
Strictly speaking, it meant that there was Eldmia nearby, so it would be correct to say that I was excited after a long time. Originally, Ragnis was concerned about her appearance to maintain her dignity as a commander, but due to the nature of the battlefield, she was content with washing only once every few days.
Thanks to such excited anticipation, I was able to endure the same stress from the same grueling marches, menial tasks, and advisors dressed as reinforcements from the rear who were on my nerves every day.
So, the moment Ragnis met the flying dragon and Laika, who had returned calmly without an axe and carrying only one unknown demon, Ragnis felt indescribably confused.
“Where is Eldmia going…?”
It was not much different from Asilie and Cheryl, who were waiting together. The two who received the situation through Ragnis also had no doubt that Eldmia would return with the flying dragon.
However, the person in question is nowhere to be found, and only one demon who is dying from a long-distance flight has arrived, so I can’t help but feel embarrassed. It wasn’t my intention to interrogate, but I couldn’t keep up with the sudden change in the situation, so I spat it out, but while Ragnis was embarrassed by Cheryl’s one word, Ashlie, who could be said to have experienced Eldmia’s eccentricity the longest, came to her senses first. looked at the Leica.
“Leica, didn’t Eldi ask us to give it to you?”
The two-handed ax is gone, and the demons are bound very tightly by mixing magical means. It is certain that he met Eldmia once, so he must have left at least some traces of not being able to come in person.
Her judgment was correct. Sure enough, Laika gave a short nod and jumped up and pointed at the pocket on the dragon’s saddle, and Asilie smiled on her lips and stroked Laika before checking the pocket.
And as soon as I opened the roughly folded note inside, my smile stiffened.
“Ashley…?”
Ragnis, who was the first to notice the change because they had been together in Ogwen since childhood, calls her cautiously.
Since the opponent is Eldmia, no one knows what else he committed. Despite Asilie’s determination to understand Eldmia every time, he couldn’t be vigilant this time as he renewed the eccentricity beyond imagination by slaying a dragon.
“Umm, Ragnis. Take this first. It says it’s a document from Thor.”
Asilie’s voice that followed was remarkably subdued compared to when the dragon was observed and called her for the first time. If something happened to Eldmia, he wouldn’t be able to do that, and even if he was coming safely, there would be no reason for him to react like that.
“That demon is the patrol captain of the Demon King’s army that I encountered in the middle, but it says that I will definitely dig up information.”
“…Lenisa, organize an army with skilled people and send the demons to Levien.”
“All right.”
Ragnis gave the order and unfolded the document he had received from Asili. From the point of view of the Demon King’s army, Thor, who made a choice that was tantamount to betrayal, sent him maps and documents that contained the campsite and route of the Demon Lord’s army between Levien and Thor, as well as the supply route and scale.
The royal family and the imperial family have called Lord Thor a person who is still difficult to fully trust, but if this information is accurate, there will be enough suspicion. Needless to say, Ragnis’ job would become easier right away.
“If all of this is true, the Demon King army will shed bloody tears. Is there anything else on the note?”
The answer that came back to Ragnis, who asked the question indirectly even though he knew it would be obvious, was Asilier’s hand stretched out with a note. The words written at the end of the note were familiar yet simple.
[There is a lich or demilich nearby. It is said that he signed a contract with the Demon King. Grab and go.]
However, the impact of the contents was by no means small. Ragnis read it again three times before raising his head in belated dizziness.
“That’s still better than a dragon.”
It was an awkward word to the point that anyone could tell that it was an empty word that he had cared about Ragnis and Asillie. Even the person who actually spoke the words had convulsions on his face, making it even more unreliable.
“Fighting with the dragon was also a huge battle, the beastmen were talking so much, but what the hell with a body that wouldn’t be able to do it…!”
Ragnis, who almost raised his voice without realizing it, was able to suppress his voice with superhuman patience thanks to the soldiers around him and Siegfried, the warrior of the Empire approaching from afar.
“Hello, Mr. Marquis, I came to hear that the flying dragon that had left the house came back… but where is my older brother?”
Siegfried’s face is full of smiles, as if to prove that he still maintains a friendly relationship, although he doesn’t know when the relationship he used to talk about with his younger brother when he was in the Empire was reversed. It was a passage that showed that he, too, did not doubt the return of Eldmia at all.
However, Siegfried, who catches the change of a woman’s mood like a ghost like a harem hero that even Eldmia acknowledges, intuition that the air current at the dragon station is unusual and erases the smile from his mouth in an instant. And when he did something wrong with his lover, he rolled his eyes as fast as he noticed and focused on responding to the reaction that came back.
“…on the way, he said that he would figure out the location of the lich who is cooperating with the Demon King’s Army and come after dealing with it.”
“Yes? Richie?”
“Yes, until the time I sent the note, it seems that I wasn’t sure whether it was a lich or a demilich, but…” Even if
I wanted to say that I would take care of myself, it seems that starting with the dragon, I am getting involved in major events without a break. Ragnis, who was not at ease, narrowed his forehead. Then, as she pondered over how to help, what came into her eyes was Siegfried, who was agonizingly pressing his temples with a serious expression on his face.
“Lee, a lich…? It could also be a demilich? I got a dragon, but even a lich?”
Even in a very concerned manner.
I knew you were pretending to be especially close, but did your friendship become so thick that you were worried about it? While being puzzled by seeing an unexpected side at a completely unexpected moment, Siegfried raised his head as if something flashed and clapped his hands and shouted.
“I’m going to help!”
“…yes?”
“No matter how much you said you were moving with the Demonic Cult, isn’t it obvious that you are overdoing it like the dragon last time? You must have fought a fierce battle, but if you confront the lich without a proper rest, even if you don’t lose, you will be exposed to danger in many ways after the battle. I think the chances of it happening will increase!”
“So, are you saying you’re going to help?”
“That’s right! Although they are of different religions, aren’t they the ‘same’ warriors!”
Aside from the embarrassing fact that the wolf actively expressed its willingness to cooperate, it was a very attractive proposal. The proof is that not only Ragnis’s, but also Cheryl’s eyes flashed and Asillie’s ears twitched.
The unit had been steadily advancing even after Laika flew away with the flying dragon, so the actual distance from Eldmia was probably not too far away. However, it is difficult to adjust the marching speed for him. That said, it is not an easy decision from the point of view of commanding a unit to select and recruit talented people who will be helpful when dealing with a rich.
However, the story is different if it is a warrior party that moves independently with a small elite like Levien’s flying dragon unit from the beginning.
Needless to say, Cheryl will be with her, so it’s easy for me personally to hear about the intermediate process, and I can move quickly at a speed that the military can’t. Above all, it is a very perfect condition that he does not ask for it himself, but volunteers.
Who can say that it was a request from a hero, not a personal use of troops? It was the moment when the evaluation of Siegfried, who became an unexpected helper within Ragnis, rose vertically.
Of course she didn’t know. That Siegfried wasn’t worried about Eldmia in the slightest.
In the yard where they couldn’t even catch a dragon with the name of a dragon slayer, if Eldmia unilaterally caught even a demilich, which was drawn as a monster that could be compared to a dragon in their previous life, it was so vividly drawn what kind of teasing he would face when he returned. The fact that it was an attempted struggle.
It was several days later that Siegfried, who belatedly witnessed the reality that he was already one step too late, sobbed silently under Eldmia’s teasing.