Chapter 237 - Battlefield's Great Ruler

Chapter 237: Battlefield’s Great Ruler

Translator: ChubbyCheeks

PR: MattForgenti

67 Battlefield’s Great Ruler

“......Wh, what?!!!”

“You don’t want to?!”

Eclei and Bach’s expressions crumpled when Minhyuk spoke those words with a smile.

“Oh my~ You were the one who said that in the beginning. Support us from the rear, was what you said. We did a good job with the rear support and we even killed off a lot of mobs in contribution. So what seems to be the problem?”

“Eeeek......!”

They both wanted to get mad but there was nothing to say. After all, they were the ones who told him to do that. In the end, Eclei burst out in anger.

“From now on, we won’t accompany you!”

“Let’s see if you can do well in this Immortals’ Land with just your 50 knights!!!”

They finally had a good look on their faces. They were sure that Minhyuk and his troops would surely die once their company of 100 men left them behind.

Most areas in the Immortals’ Land could only be cleared through large-scale combats and 50 people was a bit too short for them to face those kinds of battles. What was worse was that the monsters in this place were all strengthened by magi.

But Eclei was also a bit worried. The Immortals’ Land was literally a huge land of war and the fact that they would leave behind the 50 people who were providing them with excellent rear support would mean that their battles would become less efficient.

“That would be a good arrangement.”

Eclei turned to look at Bach who suddenly spoke.

“We haven’t used all of our powers yet, haven’t we?”

They were commanders. However, they still had a lot of wide-area buffs that they haven’t used yet since they were worried about the long cooldown period and the amount of MP that would be used.

Then, Bach continued to speak.

“In fact, I also have this.”

He brought something out.

“......?!”

Eclei’s eyes narrowed sharply.

“You......”

Eclei looked at him disapprovingly. Bach just laughed wryly. The item that he had brought out was none other than the map of the Immortals’ Land.

“You have such a thing?! Why didn’t you tell me earlier?!”

“......You’re asking the obvious.”

Bach’s eyes sank heavily.

“We might both be from the same empire but in the end, both of us are still rivals. I’m sure Eclei-nim also has something to hide.”

Eclei was left speechless. He could not counter his words since he was right. In the end, this was a competition. And the last person standing would be the one who won the bet.

“Now that we have lost 50 from our troops. I think we should use this map. This map can show us where and what is in front of us and we’re going to prepare in advance. We also have the advantage of being able to use our topography.

“......That’s pretty good.”

“Yes. We will use this map to get to Zone 3 where Prince Argon is being held captive. And with the help of this map, we will be able to get there much faster than them.”

“Hehe. Then, we will determine who will win between the two of us in Zone 3.”

After all, even though they had not explicitly stated this, they both knew that they were keeping each other in check. In their own way, they expected that the two of them would play fair and square.

Then, Bach spoke.

“Ah. There’s one more thing that this map does well.”

“What’s that?”

“Whenever we get to each zone, it can show us the number of users and troops present in that zone.”

Then, Bach unfurled the map with his hands.

Shwaaaaa—

Black strings of light came out of the map. The light showed them the numbers on Minhyuk’s side.

“That’s very nice. Then, that means that we can look at this map to see how far they’re left behind and when they’ll be wiped out!”

“That’s right. I think that man is an archer so I’m not sure how long he can hold on and how good his performance will be.”

Eclei and Bach were both confident in conquering the Immortals’ Land. They continued on for two days and two nights but ended up facing a huge problem.

Tremble, tremble, tremble—

In addition to that, they also had no choice but to tremble and shiver once night descended on them. All they could do was to dig a large hole and cover it with fallen leaves to keep them warm.

“Hunting is much easier than what I had expected but our main problem is the weather in the Immortals’ Land.”

Eclei regretted that he had only brought five knights who could cook or do carpentry.

‘Wh, what the hell is happening......!’

Two days ago......

“N, no......!”

“What are we going to do......?!”

The Rice Supplement troop felt frustrated when they saw Iron Blood and Reapers moving away from them. They were wondering how they would get past the Immortals’ Land with just 50 people.

“That was too reckless. You should have taken a step back and accompanied them!”

Minhyuk shook his head when he heard Knight Bendiaz’s words.

“If we continued to stay with them then we would be restricted from doing a lot of things. In our case, they would keep on watching and threatening us......”

“......”

“They would have probably attacked us too.”

“......!”

Bendiaz’s eyes widened in shock.

‘He thought much deeper than I did.’

That was right. They were threatened for the first time and there was no law that restricted them from doing it a second time. When he thought about it deeply, this was also a way to determine whether Eivelis Empire was superior to Cordis Empire.

“Then, are we going to move on and start the monster subjugation right now?”

“No. We’ll first get enough food ingredients here.”

“Food ingredients?”

“Yes.”

Minhyuk grinned widely. He knew one piece of information about the Immortals’ Land. Even though Immortals’ Land was wrapped up under a veil, there were still some pieces of information about it circulating around. And he knew that there were plenty of well-known medicines and special ingredients in this place. The only problem was that they were all hidden from plain sight.

“How can we get food ingredients?”

“You’ll know soon. Sir Bendiaz, please don’t argue with me from now on. And here, take the spoils.”

Minhyuk placed the artifacts that he had gotten from the encounter earlier in front of him.

His father was the president and the CEO of a company. One of the many things that he had learned from him was this......

If you want to command the people under you, then you should learn how to share with everyone. He who monopolizes everything cannot be everyone’s beloved leader.

“Are you just going to give it to us like this?”

“It’s not just. You’re all great men that follow my orders!!!”

Minhyuk grinned at them.

Foreigners were all greedy! This was the reason why the knights were very excited and happy when he gave them his spoils.

‘Aaaaaaaaaaah......! I didn’t expect that he would distribute this to us......!’

‘My goodness! This is too precious!’

Then, Minhyuk summoned his one and only method of finding those “very hard to find ingredients” that he mentioned to Bendiaz earlier.

“Oink!”

Kongie appeared in front of them.

However, Minhyuk was left speechless when he saw Kongie’s appearance. He knew that Kongie could also watch what he was doing from the summoning room. And this punk appeared in front of him while wearing a red cap and sunglasses with a baton in his hands.

“......Uhm.”

Once in a while, Minhyuk would give Kongie some pocket money so he could buy some delicious food for himself. Kongie would go out by himself and go shopping in the village alone.

I guess he bought it back then.

He looked like he was saying ‘Professor Von. I’m not a bad person!’ while being dressed like the guerilla instructor.

Kongie, whose hands were behind him, slapped the baton on his palms as he slowly looked at the knights. He was so engrossed in his act that he even stood upright with a serious expression on his face.

“Oink, oink, oink! Oink, oink!!! Oink, oink~ oink!”

“Wh, what is he saying?”

One of the knights turned to Minhyuk for answers.

“Von Kongie is not such a bad pig so I will feed you well! Was what he said.”

“......”

“......”

“......”

Not long after, one of the knights couldn’t help but say......

“Cu, cute......”

Notes

Professor Von... uhh, I think he’s the instructor in Real Man. The variety show. I’m not too sure since I haven’t watched that show. But he wears a red cap with sunglasses on. You can search 본 교관 to look at the pictures.

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