Never touch Eldmia Egga - Episode 37
The information the soldier knew was quite useful..
It has only been about half a year since Baron Favaera, whose name is unknown, purchased the wine farm. It's been less than a month since this strange bullshit started. He is not an orthodox nobleman, but a bastard who bought his title with money. Lastly, there are 40 private soldiers. They are even in the process of hiring an additional 40 people for this work..
"What kind of baron hires 40 private soldiers and even mercenaries??"
"In fact, there are about 30 people who were with me before I got the title. Although they are nominally used to maintain public order, they are no different from private soldiers. My home is considered to be on the outskirts of the capital, so although there are restrictions on personal soldiers, there is no problem hiring mercenaries.."
"40 additional people?"
"Well, I don't know for sure, but the story I picked up is that they secretly recruited low-quality mercenaries...."
The guy was showing an attitude that was almost immediate in his eagerness to prove that he had no time to think about lies, and just listening to the story made me think that this guy named Favaera was a guy with a bad mind. Considering that he had already taken about 30 people with him before, it was clear that he was doing something else, but even this guy didn't seem to know about it..
Unfortunately, the one I saved was not one of the 30 people who were with Favaera, but a private soldier hired later..
"Are the odds real?."
There are 10 close associates, including Favaera, in the camp, and the remaining 20 people have formed a camp in the ruins in the forest and are leading the way. The full story of this situation was that 40 additional hired mercenaries took up positions in the forest and deliberately massacred the adventurers..
"Did that kid lose his parents to adventurers? Why are you doing this??"
"I'm at the bottom so I can't get there..."
"Hmm. It's ambiguous."
Although they say they are moving secretly, tricking adventurers and killing them like this is a very, very dangerous act. Of course, that's probably why these guys are planning their strategies very carefully in the forest, but if they're caught, they can't avoid confiscation of their assets and the death penalty. Even taking that into account, the guy has a lot of merit to do this, but I couldn't figure out what it was..
"Me, me! I don't know about that, but there is one strange thing.!"
The private, who had been rolling his eyes miserably, seemed to have taken my vague mutterings to mean that the information was insufficient compared to the price of his life, and said, This guy was actively cooperating by lowering his voice tone earlier, so I was already trying to save him, but seeing his desperate reaction makes me feel a little sorry..
"Under Baron Favaera's instructions, the corpses of the adventurers we have killed so far are being collected somewhere in the ruins.!"
"what?! What kind of fucking necromancer is this? Why do you do such disgusting things??"
"Me, I don’t know! However, I was told to just save it and not worry about its condition since I was going to burn it later anyway.!"
"Burn it anyway...?
I don't understand.
They gathered up the corpses of the adventurers who came to subdue them, and deliberately let the second round go by to gather more adventurers... They even didn't check and kill the incapacitated ones outside the forest, and they had no qualms about accidentally dying..
Why? If you listen to this guy's words, the adventurers who received the first subjugation request used the tactic of clearly luring them in the forest and killing them with a pincer attack. Why did these guys, who were so careful about selecting only the most capable people to carry out the operation, take such a messy method??
"Well, that's really all I know. please save me...!"
"Oh, don't worry. Eldmia Egar has no hobby of killing cooperative friends. I don't know if you're such a vicious bastard."
At those words, the guy's face starts to brighten up and he continues to say thank you. But I don't know what this guy will do if I leave him like this, so I'll have to knock him out..
"hey. But even if I don't kill you, our relationship isn't that close for me to trust you completely and just leave you behind, right? Let's just pass out.."
"Oh, of course! That’s a wise decision, Eldmia.!"
"I really like your cooperative attitude. And when you wake up, everyone around you will be all over you, right? If my intuition is correct, today will be the memorial day for that bastard who made this division.."
"Hee hee hee hee..."
"It won't be a small incident, but if rumors spread around... wouldn't they ask you, who is almost the only survivor, what happened? At that time, think of it as the price of your life and just tell this story.."
"Uh, what is it??"
"If you're doing something stupid and there's a guy named Eldmia Egar, throw everything away and run away. It won't be difficult?"
"Oh, of course! If anyone asks, I will tell you properly.!"
"okay. Seeing you act smart makes me trust you. Now relax. Because I will never kill you. That's right...oh?"
The moment I knocked him unconscious by strangling his carotid artery and carefully placed him on the floor, as he repeatedly thanked me until the end, a sudden realization passed through my mind..
"leave a survivor?"
Those who enter the forest die. However, those who could not even enter the forest survive. Seeing as there is no confirmed kill, this is unconditional..
But most of the rest will die. So what kind of rumor will there be? How will people react to the rumor that the second attempt to suppress the bandits by gathering about 60 adventurers failed? Cheryl clearly said that if this subjugation fails, the noble's private army will be mobilized..
But that nobleman is the culprit who created this incident..
They would say that the surviving adventurers were crazy thieves who even used bows and engaged in systematic combat. The rumor will spread quickly. I almost killed 60 adventurers, so how could there not be rumors? Since it is near the capital, even the royal castle will be paying attention. At that time, if Baron Favaera leads a private army in a subjugation and succeeds,?
"This guy said he wanted fame after making money.?"
Even a burned body would be sufficient evidence of subjugation. If you collect the adventurer tags of the adventurers who died this time and submit them to the guild, there is no need to search for the bodies..
If they could burn the bodies of the adventurers they killed and completely destroy the evidence, they would become famous in an instant..
"and. Even Satan would give a standing ovation? Is this real??"
After guessing that far, I became unable to endure without confirming the truth..
My whole body was itching to find out if my crazy imagination was just my imagination or if it was real, so I found an intact shortsword in the arms of a fallen soldier, picked it up, and ran through the forest as fast as I could to find the ruins and Cheryl..
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As I went a little deeper, dispatching the occasional patrol team with a short sword throw, I began to see the clear gray color of a part of the building through the dense trees..
"Eldmia. this way."
At the same time, when I heard Cheryl's voice, I stopped and looked around, and Cheryl, who was up on the tree, quietly fell down like a cat and came towards me..
"It's late."
"I met a cooperative friend and got some information. Maybe these guys are really bastards.."
"It was cooperative?"
When I shared the information I heard from an unknown friend with Cheryl, who was puzzled, she looked visibly surprised..
"What did you do??"
"It just happened to be?"
"I don't think they're so soft-hearted as they happen to be like that...."
It was a conversation that felt like déjà vu, but that wasn't what was important right now, so I shared my guess with Cheryl..
"hey. I think a guy named Baron Favaera is the culprit, and I think his goal is fame.."
"Fame? I didn't say it wrong?"
"I heard they are collecting the bodies of the adventurers they killed. But he said later that he was going to burn it anyway. You said that if this subjugation fails, the nobleman who owns the farm will personally carry out the subjugation with a private army.?"
When I told her the guess I had worked so hard to come up with and looked at her complexion for a moment, Cheryl's pickled radish eyebrows, who had summed up the story and made a decision in an instant, turned over with anger..
"No matter how much I tear it to death, it's a shameless devilish idea....?"
"This is just my guess, but the stories don't seem to fit together.?"
"Not only is it not enough to deceive and kill adventurers, but they also take advantage of the reputation of being a thief by placing the reputation of a thief on the dead? Is this an idea that would come from a human head??"
It is a world without scientific investigation or anything like that. This is a world where countless people are dying not only from natural disasters but also from all kinds of monsters and man-made disasters. It cannot be denied that confirming someone's death one by one is something that only happens in really special situations..
Guilds will do the same. It may be bittersweet to see that 60 green and blue level adventurers were killed en masse, but they will really begin to take action in earnest after even the noble privates have suffered serious damage and have been unable to subdue the bandits. Of course, that doesn't happen. Baron Favaera will dress up the corpses of the adventurers he has collected or do some other modification to them. He will roughly imitate them like thieves and then burn them all. If he is aiming for a more dramatic performance, he will take off the adventurer tags of the adventurers and return them to the guild..
If so, it would have been a monumental event to announce the heroic new nobleman Baron Favaera..
If it weren't for us, the plan would probably have worked..
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