Episode 506
“Unfortunately, it’s impossible.”
“I beg your pardon?”
A few weeks after the Demon King’s declaration of war was delivered to the Empire.
“Are you saying that…?”
Serena, who was communicating with a completely devastated face, jumped up from her seat.
“There’s nothing we can do. Our noses are also stone-cut.”
“Are you going to completely ignore the oath now?”
The person on the phone with her was the representative of the monarchs of the Western Continent.
“We can’t send that many reinforcements relying on a 1,000-year-old cobwebbed covenant.”
“The survival of the world is at stake!!”
“It must be the survival of the empire.”
Serena grits her teeth and argues with him, who responds with a low voice.
“Do you think you will be safe if the empire falls?”
“To tell the truth, yes.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Rather than recruiting troops to meet the empire’s unreasonable demands and forming a large expeditionary force to traverse the continent, it would be more likely for everyone to come together and prepare step by step while you fight.”
“What is that…!”
However, despite this, the representative’s sentence flies by without mercy.
“That is the agreed opinion of the monarchs of the Western Continent.”
“…under.”
“Don’t be too upset. Just as the Empire has ignored us so far, we are just ignoring the Empire.”
The CEO, who seemed to have realized that he was momentarily emotional, paused for a moment before speaking again in a calm tone.
“Well then, thank you for your hard work.”
“for a moment…!”
And right after that, the connection suddenly disconnected.
“…Stupid guys!”
After standing there blankly for a while, Serena throws a crystal ball on the floor and shouts, and her subordinates look at her with anxious expressions.
“Do you really not know that it’s their turn after us!?”
“Serena…”
“…What on earth happened?”
Serena noticed the gaze of her subordinates and weakly sat down and lowered her head.
“This is what happened…”
Everyone’s expressions darken at the despairing voice that comes out of her mouth.
“Hero…”
In such a heavy atmosphere, Serena closes her eyes and mutters.
“Where on earth are you…..”
The requests for help she had written several times to the hero were scattered on the desk.
.
“ha…”
Clanna, who was looking down at Frey’s diary in her room, let out a deep sigh.
– The warrior has disappeared.
– why? why? Why is it right now?
– You promised to save us, warrior…
Before parting ways with Frey, new pages were continuously appearing in his diary, which I had received under special circumstances.
“…It’s worth noting that it doesn’t show up.”
Clanna looked blankly at Serena’s handwriting that had just appeared and muttered something with a blank expression.
“Now the hero is confined to the outskirts.”
It would have been a statement that would have been a flagship if the people of the empire, who were desperately waiting for the hero to reappear, had heard it.
– Sreuk, Sreuk…
Klana closed the page with a sigh and slowly turned the pages of the diary.
“……..”
Her face becomes more and more frowning with each passing page of the diary.
“…eww.”
She frowned until she reached the last page, then lowered her head and muttered.
“The reason you gave me the diary was because you thought the last entry in the diary would no longer change.”
The contents of the last page, clumsily taped together, were still wet with tears.
“…Stupid Frey.”
Clanna chews her lips, closes the diary, and looks out the window.
“I cannot accept this ending.”
When the sun’s brightly shining bright light illuminates her bloodshot eyes, she frowns, turns her head again, and immediately focuses on the literature scattered on the desk.
“I must, you…..”
“Princess!!”
Just like that, Klarna was busy researching ancient magic to save Frey today.
“…What is it?”
“Wow, we’re in big trouble!”
“What’s going on?”
The maid hurriedly opened her door and came in, reporting with a pale face.
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“It is said that the Demon Lord’s army has just crossed the border!”
“…Oh yeah.”
“This is not the time to stay calm!! Now… hehe.”
Nevertheless, as Clanna calmly looked at the documents, the maid started stamping her feet and pouring out words, but then took a moment to catch her breath.
“…I have just received intelligence, and it is said that all requests for assistance sent to other countries have been rejected. It is even said that the emperor and his family left the imperial palace yesterday and are attempting to seek asylum in another country.”
“Tsk.”
“Princess, you also need to leave the empire quickly.”
Upon hearing the news that the emperor had left the palace, Clanna stood up with a cold expression on her face, and the maid hurriedly packed her bags and continued the story.
“Right now, the only royal family left in the empire is the princess. She will definitely be a target both internally and externally…”
“Okay, let’s go.”
“Yes, yes! I’ve already packed my bags! Then, where should we go? The West Continent? No, I’d rather go to the East Continent…”
Then, she followed behind Clanna, who had moved on, and began to busily ask questions about her destination.
“I’m going to the imperial palace.”
“I see, then let’s get the carriage right now… Okay?”
I was immediately left speechless by Klarna’s reply.
“I’m going to the imperial palace.”
“Woe, princess?”
“It is time to fulfill my duty as the last remaining royal family in the empire.”
After saying that, she left the room, leaving behind the maid who had stopped in her tracks.
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“Thank you for coming together during these difficult times.”
A few hours later.
“Then, gentlemen, please report the current situation.”
Clanna, sitting at the head table in the command room, looks at the gathered subjects and gives orders.
“Report on the combat situation.”
Then, someone was the first to stand up.
“The current state of the battle is truly miserable.”
Irina, a flame witch who had a reputation as a disciple of the Magic Tower Lord, begins her report with a bandage on her arm.
“Before the border was breached, there were several clashes with the Demon King’s army… but we were unable to slow down their advance.”
“You mean you couldn’t even take the time?”
“The power of the Demon King at the forefront of the Demon King’s army was so overwhelming.”
In response to Klana’s question, Irina closes her eyes tightly and trembles with anger.
“With one wave of her hand, half of the army was torn apart, and with the next wave of her hand, the other half was torn apart.”
“……..”
“The only thing I could do in that situation was Dongguijin’s magic, prepared to commit suicide.”
When she slightly lifts the bandage, her arm is revealed in a terrible condition.
“…I lost my arm and part of my fighting ability, but fortunately I was able to inflict a meaningful blow to the Demon King.”
“I guess that’s why the Demon King’s army encamped in the border area.”
“Yes, of course, when I regain my full strength, it will come flooding in again.”
The subjects, who were distracted by her arm, bowed their heads and avoided each other’s gaze at Irina’s despairing prophecy.
“First of all, I think we’ve bought at least some time.”
“”……””
Irina struggles to come to a positive conclusion in such a serious atmosphere.
“…That’s just it.”
Although her voice was small and barely audible, there were quite a few people who heard her mumbling.
“The following is a report on the current food and welfare of the Empire.”
Thanks to this, when an awkward silence fell in the conference room, Perloche slowly got up from his seat.
“…Actually, there’s nothing to see or do.”
After muttering that, Perloce looked at Clanna and spoke.
“A few hours ago, the Pope left the Empire with his bishops.”
“her.”
“I’m so speechless.”
“There are some church members who stayed with me and chose to commit suicide, but compared to the past, it cannot even be compared.”
Perloce sighed, and his hands were trembling due to overuse.
“There are now limits to treating injured soldiers with our own strength.”
“…….”
“Unless help comes or someone who can end this war appears, the death toll will continue to increase.”
After finishing a short but very impactful report, Perloche sat down in his seat.
“I would like to report on the situation of the reinforcements…..”
The last person to wake up was none other than Serena, whose hair was scattered.
“Lords and warlords from all over the empire are refusing to provide military support.”
Without even being able to moisten her dry, cracked lips, Serena’s report begins.
“There are many reasons… resistance to reform, opposition to the legitimacy and legitimacy of the princess’s command, judgment that the battle is unwinnable, or even those who have already joined the Demon King’s army…”
Serena, who was reporting, pauses for a moment and stumbles in her seat.
“Lord Serena?”
“…sorry.”
The image of a confident reformer who was always confident had disappeared.
“…Everyone is turning their backs on us, like it’s a lie.”
Instead, there stood a depressed girl who had experienced a painful failure in her life for the first time.
“…If I dare to add a comment.”
Let her start talking in a trembling voice.
“I think it’s best to get out of here right now.”
“Serena…?”
“No strategy or tactic worked against the Demon King’s army. No matter what strategy we tried, it was all useless due to the overwhelming difference in power.”
One by one, the subjects began to lower their heads or let out sorrowful sighs.
“B-but… that means…”
“Don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying we should give up.”
“So what?”
“…I will remain in the imperial palace.”
For them, that was the moment when Serena came up with her final plan.
“As long as the princess is alive, there are plenty of opportunities. I will buy time here, so you can take the princess with you…”
– Boom…!!!
“…!?!?”
The door to the conference room suddenly opened wide.
“Well, it’s urgent!”
A messenger hurriedly rushes inside, kneels down, and delivers surprising news with a pale expression.
“Ha, one noble has responded to the imperial family’s request for assistance!”
“I beg your pardon?”
“It’s breaking news that at least thousands of private soldiers are following him!!”
Absolutely absurd news that a single noble is bringing in thousands of private soldiers from whom no one knows where they came from.
“Well, that nobleman… who is he?”
Nevertheless, Serena asked the identity of the nobleman, feeling like she was grasping at a straw.
“Well, that is…”
“Go ahead and tell me. What kind of person is this…?”
When I heard the name that came out of Pabal’s mouth, I couldn’t help but freeze.
“…P, Frey.”
“yes?”
“Frey Raon Starlight, acting duke.”
And then the long silence began.
“Only he responded to the imperial family’s rescue signal… and is now coming here, leading the family’s knights, servants, and all private soldiers.”
“…ah?”
Serena, who heard Paval’s voice echoing in the silence, let out a dumbfounded groan.
“Really, stupid man.”
Clanna, who had kept her head down until then, was muttering with her eyes tightly closed.
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