25 25, Tanut Crisis

It's getting a lot colder.

I don't have a stove at home, but I have a fireplace.

Clothes are no cotton either, but surprisingly warm with demonic materials.

As I was reading a book in front of the fireplace after the morning magic release, I heard a loud noise coming from the outside.

It sounds like a bell.

It's not how it rings to let you know the time, it's a streak.

What's going on?

"Curse! Your mother's going out, so listen to Marie and don't leave the house!

Marie! Protect Curse!

Whatever happens to a broken house, protect it!

"Yes, I did. You're not going. Please be careful.

What? What?

Brother Odilon and sister are both in school, only me and Marie at home.

"Curse boy. This sound is a demonic raid. It doesn't happen every year, but when it comes to winter and food is scarce, it can strike.

The city's walls are robust, the Knights excel, and there are plenty of adventurers just on the border.

There are also quite a few wizards like your wife, so you have nothing to worry about.

Please keep me company inside.

I will keep an eye on the area around the gate of the house, so never leave the house.

Do you understand?

You've said all the hard things in one breath.

Are you willing to make your kids understand?

"I get it. I'm reading the rest of the book.

"That's the boy. I appreciate the clarity of things.

I'm going too ~ I wondered what you'd say?

You can't say that.

It's too dangerous, and I can't let my mother worry about it.

And it's a demonic raid.

According to the knowledge I received from Kaaya,

It seems to happen about once every five to twenty years.

It happens outside of Kutanutsu here, but this still seems to be the easiest place to happen.

But wasn't demons supposed to eat anything when they were hungry?

You think we'll even eat trees, grass, or together?

I wonder why you've bothered to attack me.

It's winter, so there's not much grass and leaves, but we should eat them together.

Or are humans that good?

"We will report!

The demons are approaching every ten kilometers from the walls.

Barista, the catapult is ready.

Later it leaves only the evacuation of the people outside the castle.

"Good luck, get me the Knight Chief.

"Ha, wait.

"Dear deputy, thank you for waiting.

"Um, I'm sorry about this timing.

No use, just checking. How about this raid?

Is that what you always say it is?

"Ha, I can say it's always the same at times, but the numbers seem a lot higher.

"Right. I'll leave everything to Sir. Do it right."

"Yes! I'm coming.

"Um, I hope you're okay.

It is a conversation between Baron Frederick de Barlow, deputy Kutanut, and Knight Chief Heinrich de Blanchard.

From Frederick, who has been deputizing at Kutanutsu for years, raids like this one are not uncommon.

Last time and last time it was still winter, more or less every ten years.

I've been here twice in the past five years, so it's not weird whenever I come.

This is a border, we have to be able to deal with demons and bandits at all times.

Frederick was confident in his strength, but not in his command of the army.

I have lived as a knight and noble, but it was as a civilian who showed talent.

As a result, he even emerged to the Baron despite the birth of a junior knight and climbed down to deputy Kutanatsu.

Noble power cannot be used on the border.

There is no way that demons can submit to nobility.

Let's say birth is Frederick's strength.

He can beat Heinrich if he's one-on-one, but he can't command the army.

That's why I always gave Heinrich instructions to 'leave everything to me'.

Heinrich, on the other hand, is not one-on-one and strong. His body was large but his movements were dull and not suitable for combat.

That's him, but letting him take command of the army worked wonders.

It may have been due to a good voice.

If you just want to speak up, you can use magic.

It is a strange voice that cannot be explained by it alone.

It is also good that the deputy has entrusted me with everything in the military, and the security and defence of Kutanutu was adequate.

That's why I was also two people who felt lonely that it was time to think about retiring.

"Hmm, that's a lot more than usual this time. Some individuals seem to be large everywhere.

Just in case. Instruct the magic unit to perform 'robust' magic on the walls. Just the north side.

The city had two entrances, north and south, and this raid was on the north side. Every raid comes from the north side in the first place.

That's why I won't fail to be on alert in all directions, east, west and north.

The demons spread five kilometers wide, with no depth in sight.

Terrible number.

By contrast, the walls here are five miles thick, twenty miles tall, and three kilometers across.

It is not as good as Wang capital or territorial capital, but boasts some of the best protection on the border.

Progress is not fast enough to say raid.

It's about an adult's early walk.

Although it can be said that it is progressing neatly, at that speed it is good for throwing weapons, such as baristas.

"Hold on tight! Magic Squad, have you recovered? It's going to go with the barista!

Heinrich's jaws fly.

The demons approach pale without anger.

The distance to the beginning cut fifty mails.

"Shoot!!

From the magic unit, massive flame magic targets nearby enemies, while the baristas target distant big men.

Aim more broadly with a stone thrower.

Large quantities of pebbles were fired from the thrower.

The number of demons is enormous.

I wouldn't be able to wipe them out.

That's why it was necessary to attract even the critical and annihilate the maximum number.

It's a monster at best, it seems to have been going neatly until earlier, but as soon as my buddies can do it, they must show their horse legs.

I just attacked with the first, second, and third shots.

"Stop! Get ready for the next shot!

Usually around this time the demons become confused and scattered, destroying each and every one there in the Knights.

The demons didn't come neatly if we were to talk about it most often.

"Hmm, don't come any further.

Don't untie me! Ready to fire!

It is then.

Something strange happened to the demons.

No, maybe it's normal behavior for them.

They started eating minced people, burnt people.

I do hear that co-eating is not uncommon for demons.

But go out of your way to attack a human being and eat your people on the spot.

Everyone couldn't open their mouths to the irrationality, the anomaly.

There,

"Shoot! Now's your chance!

Heinrich's voice sounds.

It follows the first and second shots as well as earlier.

The demons increase the eating speed of the remaining individuals to reduce that number.

Still, some demons keep walking.

From the initial number, it has been reduced to the remaining 20%.

Sometimes the attacks were harsh, but they were also probably the result of co-eating.

Still, they don't stop eating.

It's even creepy.

"Barista! Just aim for the big one!

It's a big demon I've seen everywhere.

Still surviving.

It's too big for a goblin or an oak.

The Barista troops seemed outstanding and despite their critical range, they pierced the demons one after the other.

By the time the earth was stained red and black with sunset and blood, the demons had been wiped out.

It was about walking neatly to the end or eating together.

"Something's wrong with this raid! Stay away from the detours!

Magic Squad, gather the carcasses from afar so you don't touch them and burn them until they're ashes!

Anyone else can have a stick or anything, light a fire!

Keep the fire lined up, especially in front of the castle gate! Don't touch me directly!

Heinrich looked familiar with their behavior.

I'm not sure, but it looked like the behavior of some kind of mushroom-ridden organism.

When parasitized by that mushroom, I can only walk.

No appetite, but the demons must have instinctively eaten together.

Walk to death, and when the host dies, spore release begins about twenty-four hours later, repeating parasitic.

It's a mushroom that is also feared in the Noir Forest forest.

With some strength and magic, they will not be taken over, but children, the elderly and those with weak bodies are in danger.

Heinrich was surprised that it was parasitic to so many demons, even to large individuals.

You have to go through the Herdeza Desert to come here from the Noir Forest forest.

But there can't be enough wisdom and strength to pass over there to a mushroom-parasitized demon.

But we're behind on that.

If we don't deal with this assuming the cause of this one is this' parasitium dake ', it's going to be a big deal.

The release of spores will begin as early as tomorrow morning.

If we don't burn it down by then, the ctanuts...