Hakai no Miko

"What have you done, Furious Fangs?"

Garam, who had commanded control of the residential area of Marben Copper Mountain, flashed his face. It was Klaga Bunuka Shr, daughter of honey citrus (Minkan) colored hair, who also served as Zug's niece and deputy to Garam.

In this settlement, women and children were held hostage to force Dwarf men to labor in mines and elsewhere. It is Gallam's role to rescue it.

And it was going well with information from Dwarf's Nahl, who had escaped from this Copper Mountain, and a map based on it. There can't be dissatisfaction. Yet...

"... I'm just a little angry"

That's because the face of a red-haired giant who inadvertently laughs at the back of his brain came to mind. But you can't just tell that to his niece. Then Schull took the liberty of convincing himself.

"I see. - Surely, no matter how many enemies this Holmeer soldier is, it would be disheartening from the standpoint of the brave man, The Fierce Fang."

Garam smiles bitterly at Shru, who is outraged that I too am sorry to think that these people were chasing the plains.

"Don't insult too many humans. Soma's anticipation is at stake, and we just followed it."

It was the Ethereal Horse who regarded this Marben Copper Mountain as probably the most droppable city in Holmea.

Ever since Nahl begged him to liberate his countrymen, Aoima had gathered all sorts of information to drop Marben Copper Mountain for analysis.

There are no city walls due to their formation, and no raids from enemy countries are envisaged because they are within Holmea. For this reason the number of soldiers to be garrisoned is about five hundred, and their morale and proficiency are never high. What's more, there are thousands of dwarf slaves on our side.

This is easy to drop if you ambush.

This is the valves of the pale horse.

My only concern is how quickly we can rescue the women and children who are being held hostage.

Now the soldiers in Holmea still didn't know if Dwarf's hostage was valid against their own Zoan, and nothing had happened to shield the hostages. But in order to bring the Dwarves on our side after liberation, we must do everything possible to rescue the hostages safely. In case you lose sight of the hostages taken by the shield, you'll leave a lump with the Dwarves later. That's all I want to avoid.

"The results here relate to the success or failure of the later soma measures. Failure is never tolerated."

Slight relaxation can lead to gross negligence. To Garam, who uttered words strongly admonishing him not to do so, Shru turned hazy. Then I put an even more glorious glow of respect on my face than I had earlier, much closer to the gallam.

"Exactly, Raging Fangs! I get it! Do your duty without any alarm, this shrug!

"... um. Good luck with that."

Pressed by Schull's sparkling eyes, Gallam was full of just answering so.

Five years have passed since we began to keep the shrub close to us in the name of an assistant to the Great Patriarch. But it was still a gallam of trouble to deal with the straightforward respect that could be directed from her. All this time, I feel a strong empathy for the Ethereal Horse, who gets stuck in trouble with her sister.

There came a warrior to report.

"Hey, it's Raging Fangs. We found out where the Dwarf Queen is."

Among the rescuers, the most important was the Queen of Dwarves.

Dwarves are a female-dominated race, just like Marman. It was the woman who inherited the property and the family name, and naturally it was the queen, not the king, who led the clan. That is no exception to this Marben Copper Mountain dwarf. And a prior investigation had been made that the State of Holmea was isolating one of the queens in a building that would serve as a command post for the garrison forces behind the residential area.

In the future, the Queen must be rescued safely in order to obtain the cooperation of the Dwarves of Marben Copper Mountain. Failure is unacceptable.

"The building was quickly found, but the humans are standing together, stuck to control it"

I can also control the force push by leaving it to the number, but the sacrifice is huge, and he says he is hesitant.

Anyway, to see what was going on, Gallum was led to the spot by a warrior.

Then, it is certainly a situation that seems difficult to control. The building itself is not large in a single bungalow, but it is a solid built with stones, unlike the thin slab dwellings where the Dwarves were pushed in.

Also, it must be built assuming a Dwarf rebellion. Built in the middle of nowhere like empty land away from other buildings. For this reason, I have nothing to hide myself from even trying to sneak up on, and as soon as I get close, they will find me. Now from the larger window of the building, a Holmea soldier peeked at his face about half a dozen times to see what was going on here.

And the entrance, which is as big as a crease for each person, cannot be foreseen inside as the darkness is obsessed when viewed from outside when the sun shines. If they put more than one soldier over there, it's hard to break through.

"What do you want to do," Flashing Fangs "? The Dwarves, who were already hostages, are almost free. They also cleaned up where they were making mines and copper by Angry Claws and raised Dwarves. If we keep it tight, we'll surrender."

Gallum put his arms together and thought about it a lot.

"No. I'll do it. - Everybody come after I cut in."

A warrior's suggestion is a good idea, but it's a waste of time now. Besides, as it were, I said to someone, "Great chiefs are long. I'm almost done with you," he said. "I'm also stuck laughing at you.

First, Gallum picked up an affordable size stone that was rolling at his feet. I rolled the stone in my hand to make sure it weighed, and then held it tight in. Then he exhaled small and then stepped his left leg wide forward to open his crotch. Rotate your hips sharply with it to transfer that force from your torso to your upper body and further to your right arm. Then he shook his high right arm down at once and threw a stone at him.

The stone, which rips the air and flies, strikes directly at the forehead of the Holmea soldier, who was letting his face peek slightly through the window without aiming. Along with the sound of the stone crushing, the sound of crushing boiled eggs sounded exuberant. The soldier, who snapped his forehead wide, fell behind him as he glanced.

In an attempt to help that soldier who fell on his back, a shadow cast over the soldier of a colleague who knelt beside him. I looked up and there was a black Zoan jumping through the window to blur his shoulders.

It was four legs at the same time as finishing throwing stones and rushing all the way to the building, a gallam that jumped from head to head from the window where the soldiers were peering indoors.

He was a soldier who tried to raise his voice announcing Zoan's intrusion, but was killed when he was struck directly beside his forehead by a flashing mountain knife in the air.

Skillfully twisting his body in the air and landing from his feet, Gallum instantly runs his gaze inside the building.

Five soldiers were circled in the center of the room, who suddenly jumped in and looked surprised at themselves, and a small figure was glimpsed in the center of it. And there is one soldier with a blue room on the wall just a short distance from it.

That's all Gallum looked at, and when he broke into the circle of soldiers with a beastly motion sneaking into his prey in the dense forest, he turned his back on the person who was at the center.

"Gallum, son of Garguz! - Come on!

The next moment, a black tornado blew through the room. The soldier who touched it was cut off in the arm, slapped in the face, slit his throat and fell down one after the other. It wasn't long before I counted ten, until all five soldiers who were on the spot were slashed down.

"Surrender. That way I won't take it to my life."

Hearing the warriors and soldiers also entering through the entrance arguing, Garam called on the captain here and the thinking (obo) man to surrender, putting a blue room on the last remaining helmet.

But the man blushes in anger and humiliation.

"Bullshit, I'm kidding! Bad beast!

Continuing with a strange noise of unintelligible meaning, the man pulled out his sword and came slaughtered.

But it doesn't go through the gallum, such as such a rash attack. When you slash both wrists together holding the sword pattern with a flash of a sword next to the mountain knife, you slap each helmet into the brain with a knife to return.

Then he leans indoors with a mountain knife, making sure there are no other enemies, and then looks back. Then I slightly wrinkled my nose.

"... are you the Dwarf queen here?

It nodded in a small way.

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When Garam, who finished controlling the building, the city's command post, went outside, Zoog just rushed in there. If you see a gallam, Zoog frowns and points his finger.

"Hey. What's that shoulder thing?

What Zoog is pointing at is a girl who is sitting tight on Gallum's shoulder and clinging to her neck. I'm not sure what Dwarf looked like, but Zoog raised his voice beside it when he thought she was a girl with a slightly larger nose in the middle of her eye.

"Oh, my queen, well done. You're safe."

That is Marben Copper Mountain Warrior Chief Norzuri, who came after Zug. The girl called the Queen said, "Dear Father!," he shouted, jumping off Gallam's shoulder and rushing to Totetote and Norzuri.

Side by side, Zoog turns his questionable gaze to Gallum.

"Apparently, she's the queen."

It was Gallum who explained that to Zoog, but he also looked incredibly hard to believe. It is difficult for Garam, who is Zoan, to deduce his age from the appearance of humans and dwarves. But still, the girl who was called Queen looked less than ten years old.

Norzuri, who was holding the girl, raises her face and explains.

"My predecessor, the Queen, was killed by Holmea. It must have been easier for them for a queen to handle a child."

Besides, Garam and Zoog apologize that it was an inconsiderate question at the same time that they were convinced. Norzuri replied that it was an unwanted apology for that.

Anyway, in a hurry and on the spot, Garam and the others set up a place for discussion.

The queen is seated in place of the throne in the crate that was rolling around it, and sits opposite it as Galam or Zug sits in a hush.

The Dwarf woman is supposed to be ashamed to expose her face besides her family, so she asked me not to stare at her face too much if I could, and Zoog and others blurred, "We saved her, but it sucks". But he is silently elbowed to the side of the gallam, reluctantly bowing his head.

"Thank you for freeing us, my beast."

A slightly tongueless tone of thanksgiving, the girl's shoulder is covered with a cloth with colourful embroidery brought from somewhere by the Dwarf women who were rescued together. Even in this situation, it is a slight demonstration of the majesty of the Queen.

To the queen's words of gratitude, Garam shook his head sideways.

"We don't need any thanks. Until we obeyed the life of Soma, King of the tribe of Zoan and Lord of Bornis. And convey words from Soma." Let me pay my life back, "he said."

So Gallam turned his attention to Dvarin. Doverlyn then gives the queen the wooden cylinder she was wearing on her hips. "What's this?" Garam roughly told Norzuri, who asked with his eyes.

"Dwarf Nahl, who has begged us to liberate Marben. He risked his life to help Soma, who had fallen into the river and nearly lost his life."

To Garam's words, Norzuri and the Queen look out.

"And the wooden cylinder is more Bornis liquor that Nahl has planted for his family to drink. On behalf of the dead Nahl, I did give it to you"

"This is what Nahl...!

Norzuri unplugs the wooden cylinder with his trembling hands. Then an aroma I'd never smelled before tickled my nostrils. And as a poisonous look before I give it to the queen, I mouth first.

But it wasn't just liquor that was put in that wooden barrel. It is a distilled liquor that has only recently finally begun to circulate in Bornis. Naturally, Norzuri coughed hard on strong alcohol he had never drank before.

"Ko, this is a lot of strong booze. Shit, I can't wait." [sighs]

There were still tears in Norzuri's eyes coughing up. The queen who saw it also reached out that little hand and received a wooden cylinder with distilled liquor for a bite, and when she mouthed it, she could still peel it the same way.

"You're really, really creeping into my eyes."

The queen wipes her eyes with those little hands.

There was no one on the spot to ask whether the tears were truly because of the simmering of alcohol in his eyes.

There was often sinking air on the spot, but Gallam says to cut it off.

"Let me be polite, but we cannot afford to be immersed in sentiment right now"

It's a cold way of putting it, but it's true. The fact that they have dropped Marben Copper Mountain will soon be passed on to King Holmeer as well. Troops should be sent as early as three days, or five days at the latest, to take back Copper Mountain. There is like a mountain of things that must be done before that. Now even a moment is a waste of time.

"You have a decision to make right now."

Gallum told me that there was.

Besides, Norzuri and the queen clouded their faces, and the dwarves of Marben Copper Mountain, who had listened around, whispered.

"What if we say it's unacceptable?

Gallum resolutely returns to Norzuri, who asks in a challenging tone.

"Forsake. - We have to get through Holmea. I'm sorry, but I don't have a brother-in-law to hang out with you until you die."

"I told you I'd save you, but if I don't obey you, I'll abandon you."

Norzuri rattled his nose to reveal his dissatisfaction. The Dwarves around me didn't put it into words either, but it is clear that they have the same thoughts as Norzuri.

I know how that feels, but I still need you to bend over there and follow this one. The queen opened her mouth before Garam, looking for words about how to persuade them.

"Norzuri, let's follow a man named Soma here."

"But the Queen......!

The queen made it clear to Norzuri that she was trying to make a translation.

"Brother - no, believe in someone named Soma, whom Nahl risked his life to protect"

And Norzuri gets stuck in words. Still hesitated for a while, but the force fell out of Norzuri's shoulder.

"Okay. Follow the queen's words."

Garam, who was watching the exchange between the queen and Norzuri, gets up completely.

"Sounds awful, but I don't have time. You need to be ready as soon as possible."

Then turn your face back.

"Zoog, Dvarin. You two hurry up and build a blockade around the city. As it is, we will allow the enemy to enter immediately."

Besides, Zoog and Dvarin answer briefly, "I understand," and they take each of their men and start acting. Gallam then told Shru, who was holding back beside him.

"Fly Harpuran's orders to Soma. And beat the drum to let you know how successful the plan is."

"I got it, Raging Tooth!

Then, some time later, a harpuan flew from Marben Copper Mountain, and a drum rang to follow him.