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Never touch Eldmia Egga - Episode 512

[512Tue] Miser, miser

After the crowds flocked, things went smoothly in many ways..

As soon as the procession started, not everyone came to our defense, but the sight of people who had been neighbors until just yesterday banding together and shouting at the top of their voices with the intention of hanging the lord upside down made such a strong impression that the soldiers may not know, but ordinary citizens quickly came to support us. start taking sides.

Even the soldiers who showed signs of resistance tended to lose motivation and put down their weapons when they saw the collapsed resistance, the silent resistance troops, and the soldiers who had joined us, led by Emmet..

It was a completely understandable reaction. Because they were soldiers, not knights. Aren't they protecting their hometown and family, not the mosquitoes and their families who rush to the capital and suck up the blood of the territory?.

There may have been people loyal to the lord somewhere in the inner city, but most of them had already gone to Epaga's side a long time ago. Thanks to this, we were able to head to the outer castle gate without any problems, except for a few knife cuts along the way..

By that time, most of the nearby citizens had already joined our ranks despite the night. The movement speed slowed down slightly due to the number of people in the group, but for the enemies, this crowd was much more effective than violence, so they were willing to slow down..

"Hero! Where are you?...?"

As I walked leisurely in line with the increasingly slower ranks, the knights of the surprise attack team appeared across from me. Even now, when I see blood dripping from the sword, it looks like they fought a battle even while moving to help me, so I am once again amazed at the courage of the soldiers of Birair Territory..

No matter how you look at it, there are as many as thirty of them who are knights. If you swing your sword just once, you'll realize the gap and run away, but I never thought you'd fight back..

"Thank you for your hard work. I roughly solved it."

Still, the first priority was to praise the hard work of our allies, so when I spoke with sincerity, the knights stopped walking with very mysterious expressions, and their eyes wandered between me and Emmett..

"...what happened?"

"Well, well...?"

Since he could not say that he had solved the problem with the power of capitalism while the crowds who were obsessed with justice and faith were behind him, his words seemed to only amplify the questions of the knights rather than provide an answer..

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Deoni, who was at the forefront of the army and running directly using his body strengthened by holy laws, tilted his head as he saw the door to the outer castle of Birre burst open..

There were no wizards in the raid team, but that was definitely magic..

I remembered that Eldmia had said that she was learning magic, but that she was currently only learning it by focusing on theory. I wouldn't be able to use magic on such a large scale yet, but I couldn't easily understand how it happened..

If the enemy wizard was free, it meant that the devil's army had been contacted, so there was a setback in the plan. But if that were the case, another signal would have already been crossing the sky..

"Anyway, if you go around with the warrior, you won't lose your mind at all.."

Even though it seems like something is going well, there are a series of variables. Deoni clicked his tongue as he watched the four knights breaking through the ruins of the shattered, shattered gate that could no longer be called a gate..

It was clear that the one carrying them like a burden on their shoulders was the Count Birrear family, but Eldmia was nowhere to be seen. Fortunately, before new questions arose, the old driver in the lead explained the situation briefly and quickly..

"The warrior is engaged in combat with the wizard.!"

I could understand it without a subject, but at the same time it was difficult to understand. Nevertheless, the operation was successful?

"where are the others!"

"We have moved to support the warrior! The resistant troops are destroyed! The enemy has no means of preventing the military from entering.!"

The explanation was sufficient and understood not only by her but also by others..

When another knight leading the pack made a gesture, those who were running with all their might through magic or holy magic moved like cavalrymen and cleared the way for those who were running with their prisoners on their backs..

While the Count's family members, who had been kidnapped by the raiding team and were screaming loudly, split off to the left and right and kept silent as they looked at the people passing by them like war horses, the knight next to Deoni gave orders to the troops in perfect order, and the troops responded accordingly. split apart.

The sight of these people moving at speeds unattainable to ordinary people, moving like a colony without much disruption, was extremely threatening. The army, divided into three, spread out in an instant as soon as it passed through the broken gates of Birre and entered the interior..

And I was embarrassed in many ways by the lower-than-expected resistance..

"...There's something strange about the atmosphere."

Deoni unconsciously nodded at the commander's shaky muttering..

Although they knew that public sentiment had run out, they still felt like invaders who had suddenly invaded the city to those who were leading ordinary lives. It was a complete surprise attack that wasn't even mentioned in advance....

"The devil is with the warrior!"

"The tyranny of the pig-like Birer will come to an end.!"

...For some reason, cries were coming out from all directions defending themselves and trampling on the authority of Count Birrere..

Although there was a time when he wondered whether such an attempt would be possible, he was unable to realize it due to time constraints. Deoni, looking around as he saw the internal chaos unfolding uncontrollably, decided to search for Eldmia first..

Fortunately, it was an easy task after he began to properly use his divine power. He was there wherever he felt the mighty divine power..

When Deoni found Eldmia leisurely walking at the head of the large crowd, with knights and an old gentleman she had never seen by her side, she decided to just give up on the idea..

"It ended reasonably well."

Eldmia's voice, speaking with her helmet out, somehow felt like she was watching me strangely..

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The takeover of Birere was carried out with almost absurd ease. To the point where it would take more effort to remove the corpses of the troops who were nearly killed in the inner city..

Since Birair was not a small territory, there was a brief backlash in areas other than the entrance to the outer castle that we targeted, but since many citizens were already on our side, no major armed conflict occurred. There was a great contribution of Count Birrere, who felt that not only Emmet's salary but also the salary to be paid to the knights was a waste, so he filled the number with cheap troops and drastically reduced the actual high-quality soldiers..

He can truly be said to be a demonic spirit's faith fighter, comparable to Renya Mutaguchi..

Nevertheless, it is said that the reason the territory was able to be maintained to some extent was because of the support of the Demon King's army, which sent troops at every time at his request, and the lords of the surrounding cities with whom he maintained good relationships to satisfy his vanity... In the end, the wizard It was said that our judgment that the key was to strike and cut off communication quickly was correct..

The good news didn't end there. Due to Emmet's actions, the possibility of the enemy noticing abnormalities in the city due to the omission of regular reports mentioned by Count Timsiev during the strategy meeting was eliminated..

"I did that originally, so just do it.."

There was a small uproar as the saintess and other commanders looked at me strangely and asked for an explanation because I calmly joined the meeting and blurted out something outrageous, but it was a big enough benefit to be able to take that into account..

"Emmet! How dare you!"

The people of the Birere family, who were the owners of the city, were furious, treating Emmet like a traitor, but the people involved did not care at all..

However, this did not mean that a good day would be followed by a comfortable rest. Suddenly, as many as 20,000 people flooded into the city, so no matter how much they opened up the inner city to house the people, they had to forcibly commandeer large buildings, and those buildings usually belonged to merchants who made a lot of money..

Their claim for payment of a fair price could be said to be reasonable, but the problem was that the church did not have much money..

Because they were so ruthless that they told those who believed in and followed the sect to get their own supplies, the sect's army lost astronomical amounts of money on a daily basis. In fact, the family's assets were used to cover the expenses, but the Earl, who was in power, was pulling a considerable amount of money and spending it in the capital, so they were not in a very wealthy situation..

In the end, even maintaining legitimacy and taking a break cost money..

"It's not for nothing that the military plunders.."

I strongly sympathized with Emmett's words as he chuckled while looking at the bar owner who shook his head and said that he would not give away the store building unless the price was what he wanted..

You could just say thank you for saving your life, but for a church that was not just fighting for territory and was working to carry out God's will, that wasn't even an option..

Every day we stayed in Biraire, the faces of the civilians who were exhausted from the forced march got better, but the faces of the commanders, including the saint, became haggard. At least they were collecting money in the form of confiscations of all the people in the city who harbored blasphemous thoughts, but how much could there be to rob when even the coffers of the richest lords were emptied??

Finally, after about four days of rest, we unanimously decided to move out of the city..