Hakai no Miko

"What the hell is going on?! Where did the Dwarves go?!"

If yes Kafner screams, Rudolphus also raises a voice of confusion.

"I don't know. Did they fly or dive into the ground?"

I've been searching the streets for smudges. There is nowhere else for as many as three thousand Dwarves to hide and do themselves. Even so, it has not yet been found as one of the copper masses in the Dwarf.

"I hear they go through with Romanias. Then maybe he backed us and fled east."

That said, he was an officer who brought 200 light infantry with him to support him when he heard reports from Marben Copper Mountain that Dwarves had disappeared along with copper. When he jumped on the horse, he said he would search the east and left.

"His Majesty the King is on the verge of explosion. If you can't get the copper back, you better be prepared."

Kafner and Rudolphus shook up at the words left by the officer at the time of its departure.

I am in a hurry, but the fatigue of the soldiers who are able to obey is close to the limit. Let the soldiers rest for now, and in the meantime Kafner and Rudolphus joined their foreheads to discuss the whereabouts of Dwarf and Copper. But with all the speculation, with the repetition of striking it off, it's hard to conclude. In time, the idea finally came to the bottom, and both lost their words.

After an awkward silence flows, Rudolphus utters what he comes up with.

"What if they're using the interstate?

An intermediate road is a road other than a street, which is the main road that connects the city to the city. It's not on the map, but if you go through those roads, you'll be able to get out west without using the streets.

But most of the intermediate roads are only living roads connecting small villages. That fact is more right to describe it as a beast path that has been consolidated by man.

Even the streets become muddy during the rainy season, a world of road conditions in which massive amounts of rainwater become rivers and flow during terrible times. If it is such a way of life in the world, the extent of it will be known.

To Rudolphus' thoughts, Kafner shook his head sideways.

"As good as Zoan and the Dwarves are, the problem is copper!

It is copper prepared for handover to Cornelius, a precious metal dealer in Jeboa. The amount is enormous. If we were to carry it, we would need several large cargo cars towed by cattle or dragons.

However, there is no way such luggage cars can be used on narrow roads that are not maintained. That's why they abandoned the possibility of intermediate roads from the beginning and searched the streets.

"Kafner, even if you think about it, look. First, the Zoans were ambushed by Marben Copper Mountain. It's hard to imagine you've come down the street. Can't you just assume you took the interstate?"

Kafner agrees on that.

"I know that. - But how do you carry a huge amount of copper?

"There must be thousands of Dwarves who escaped. If you let them have copper one at a time, wouldn't they be able to carry a fair amount?

Kafner denies it immediately.

"Say stupid. Thousands, but mostly women, children and old people."

If you let a woman child carry a piece of copper or something, even a slow leg will be even blunter. Besides, many old people and wounded and sick people will have difficulty walking alone. It also takes manpower to carry them. In that condition, I didn't think those who knew they were being chased were going down the intersection in charge of copper that could only be luggage.

"So what do you say Zoan and the Dwarves are on the run alone? Copper will be hidden somewhere, or you can take it on a boat and use the river to carry even a few."

To Rudolphus' words, Kafner puts on an arm and thinks. That was unlikely, as we would only approach the King's Capital if we went down the river by boat, but it is not inconceivable that we are moving apart from copper.

"It's Kafner. Anyway, even if we stay here, it's not clear. Along with a few healthy cavalry, I'll try to hit the interstate. You rest your soldiers for a while."

With that said, Rudolphus, along with several horsemen, drove to the road nearby.

Then, less than a day later.

A decree from Rudolphus came to Kafner, who continued his search for copper while replacing some soldiers.

I have a message that Dwarves have found out where they are.

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Kafner, who ordered the soldiers to come later, on horseback, is led by a decree sent by Rudolphus, running down an intermediate road. And when we reached a small village to the point where all five houses, like the digging shed at the end of the intersection, had gathered together, a familiar Ludovus soldier was greeting us at the entrance to the village.

"Where's Rudolphus?! Where's Copper?!"

There were still signs of a large number of brand new people treading rough on the road until they got here. As Rudolphus's message suggests, there seems to be no doubt that Zoan and the Dwarves have missed the road.

The soldier answers, though pressed by the sword curtain of Kafner, who also openly asks about his impatience.

"Master Rudolphus is currently questioning the village chief."

According to the soldier, the villagers are trying to hide it even though there are still traces of Zoan and the Dwarves passing the intersection. That's where Rudolphus says he's questioning the village chief straight away.

"Crap! One or both of the villagers will crack their mouths soon!

Soldiers are desperate to slap Kafner.

This is not royal territory, it is one of the territories of the Hordes. So if soldiers of the National Army work intact, it can also be a certainty between the King and the Hordes.

I feel comfortable, I can understand the rough kafner and about that. When you abandon "it's a joke" to the soldiers who can fool themselves, you head to the village chief's house where Rudolphus is anyway.

Along the way, Kafner felt the gaze that could be directed at him. If you look, the villagers want to kill their breath inside the house and out of the shadows. All of them are women, children and the elderly, and what a stinking village it is, there is a sense of contempt in Kafner's chest.

When Kafner, irritated by that, entered the house, which was somewhat better than the others, there was Rudolphus, who was facing an old man dressed in a miserable manner.

"Oh! You made it, Kafner. I can finally talk to you right now."

Kafner also turns down the recommended chair and leans against the wall in a grumpy manner. Still, Rudolphus, who saw at first that he was likely to be willing to listen, urged him to speak to the village chief again.

"As I said earlier, we are not willing to blame you for anything you say. Don't lie, tell me what happened."

To Rudolphus's nagging voice, the village chief nevertheless hesitates to open his mouth.

"Heh. - That was weeks ago..."

A strange human pedestrian visited the village, the village chief said.

Even the pedestrian didn't bring the product just because he named it so, but he visited such a despicable (heppy) village with one of his own. To the villagers who are surprised (a long time) by what the hell they have come to do, rather than go to this despicable village, the merchant has offered a large amount of gratuity and said he wants to rent vacant land off the village for a while.

What the merchant said he wanted to rent was fallow land, a shared property of the village. The village admitted in a mundane reply to the story that the land is now just grazed with cattle for farming and that they can get a lot of gratuities for just a few moments renting there.

And then it's a while later. One morning, the villagers who woke up with the sunrise noticed massive crates placed like mountains in the open space. The villagers said they were spooked by the work carried out during the quiet night, so as to blink this eye.

But they didn't steal anything, they just put their stuff away. There was no more noise at this time.

But then a few days later. Now the Dwarves and the Zoans have arrived beyond the count. The villagers, fearful of this, confined themselves to their houses and could only hope that they would leave. Thanks to this, fortunately, there was no such thing as subhumans getting ravaged, and the next day they said they had left somewhere.

"The contents of the crate seemed to be food, and they ate it and went somewhere."

Looking out the window pointed out by the village chief, there was seen an open space with traces of vandalism trampled by a large number of people and a small pile of stones left there.

"I don't care about that!

Kafner roughs up his voice and blocks the village chief's words.

"More than that, didn't those guys have copper chunks?! Even something that looks heavy!

Now it is second only to none, such as the trends between Dwarf and Zoan and others. Marben, we have to find out where the copper disappeared from Copper Mountain.

Surprised by Kafner's sword curtain, the village chief had an idea.

"With that said, they did carry something that looked heavy. Yes."

Rudolphus and Kafner sparkled their eyes at the information they finally found on what looked like copper. The two, stuck to the village chief all the time.

"How long has it been? How was he carrying it?

"Did you even use the luggage truck? Or were you in charge?

The village chief answers even though he is frightened by the two people who change the color of his eyes and stuffs him.

"No, I was using something like this."

That's what I said. I saw the painting the village chief painted with charcoal on a wooden board, and Rudolphus and Kafner look at each other. Then they said this to a different tone.

"" What, this?

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"This one's handy."

What Norzuri had in his hands, saying in such an impressive manner, was a single hand-held car.

It is a round of hand-held cars that were used to explore the Sorbiant plains.

When we started pioneering five years ago, the Sorbiant Plains were not even equipped with streets instead of "Soma's Road" using Roman concrete. It was this round of hand-held cars that Aoshi introduced inspired by Zhuge Confucius Ming in the Three Kingdoms that was a major force in the transportation of supplies in such a plains' pioneering project. Now that the development of the plains has been completed, we have expropriated what was in surplus for this time.

With this wheeled hand-held car, even narrow and rough intersections of the same beast road that cannot be passed by a luggage truck can pass without difficulty. It's also easier to carry and more than people can carry.

Zoog boasts like I do, pushing a handheld car full of copper chunks himself.

"With this hand-held car, it is Lord Soma's strategy to carry food, and to carry those who cannot walk or copper chunks back home."

Dwarves and others were able to relocate with only the minimum necessary baggage by providing a rest area with food and the like in advance.

In addition, the Ethereal Horse not only prepared Marco's specialty food, but also prepared a large quantity of distilled liquor with at least some comfort for the Dwarves who had to abandon their homeland. The dwarves, who have no eyes for alcohol and food, were very pleased with these treats, prepared for each resting place. For this reason, even though it was a journey to abandon his homeland, from Zoog et al., Dwarf et al. 's face seemed bright and, on the contrary, his footsteps toward the next resting place were light.

But rather than the content of the measures Zug talks about, the Norzuli's interest was more focused on hand-held cars.

"Hmm. I see. Indeed, such a narrow path would be more convenient. Well thought out. And this structure is also interesting."

Norzuri and the others are impressed by the fact that they actually used it with their own hands.

"I didn't know there was such a thing as this, but the city of Bornis is growing more than I expected."

Technology is not born overnight. It's something that technicians spend generations and pile up little by little. For that reason, Norzuri, who had heard that Dwarves in the city of Bornis were all slaves brought from other lands, thought they would go up if only technology. But if I actually saw these hand-held cars, I can understand that that was a hell of a mistake.

"I'm surprised. I didn't know you were making and using this kind of thing..."

"This is not the beginning."

Doverlyn, who was also carrying copper in a hand held car there, snaps his mouth good.

"There are other towers that store water trucks and pastures that go around in the wind, machines that instantly degrade bunches of wheat ears, and glass blowing cylinders. - There are so many things at our place that you've never seen or heard of!

After all, it is a dwarf with unparalleled self-esteem for manufacturing technology. I raised that dough nose high and bragged about what we had come to make up.

"Oh! That's interesting. I'd love for us to make it too."

Norzuri's words cloud Doverlyn's face, which he had been good at until then.

"... I think they'll do it even if they don't ask. I don't like that."

At this time, it was a number of the unscrupulous of the Ethereal Horse that passed through the back of Dvarin's brain.

But Norzuri laughs off not knowing that.

"Ha ha ha! What's the pain in touching new technology! I'm looking forward to it!

To Norzuri, who shakes his beard and laughs luxuriously, Dwarves, coming from Bornis, including Dvarin, say the same words floated around his chest how distant he would be.

"I used to, too, think so," he said.

Gallum was smiling bitterly at the sidelines of such Dwarves exchanges, but one Harpuan descended from the sky beside him.

"Lord Gallam. May I have your ear?"

That being said, the Harpuran woman, when she eared at the gallum somehow, waved her wings wide again and ran up to the sky. I notice a rugged look on Gallum's face dropping it off. Shru speaks up.

"There you go," Fang Fierce "?

"Command the warriors, help the Dwarf women and children, and make haste"

Garam says in a harsh tone.

"It seems Holmeer has noticed that we are going down the road between us."