Chapter 56

Chapter 56

Counterattack

‘Dawn.’

Galahad muttered softly.

Originally he was thinking of persuading with mental interference.

Mental interference that even worked on the demon race. There was no way it would not work.

However, the situation changed.

Quite to a good side—.

“Mana stones you say? The harvest amount was filled.”

Helcartn’s eyes slightly sharpened.

‘Harvest amount, he is offering a certain share.’

Galahad lightly nodded.

“The existing harvest amount would have been filled. But didn’t you guys ruin the work several times recently? The harvest amount has no choice but to increase.”

Galahad clicked his tongue openly.

Helcartn’s eyes fully furrowed.

“We consumed our supplies though.”

Helcartn answered in a voice pressed tightly.

At the appropriate resistance Galahad raised the corners of his mouth.

“I know. However, is what is yours fully your share? The North that narrowed due to your failures? This is very shameless.”

“That.....”

“Are you going to say it does not matter? It would be good to be careful with words.”

Helcartn’s face reddened. He tightly bit his lips and a dimple formed beside that. The guy’s eyes became fierce.

The atmosphere became vicious but—.

“Hmm, your expression is strange. Do you have any dissatisfaction?”

For now, this side was Dawn.

The guy was the Black Magic Society.

The superiority between the two was clear.

Helcartn who twitched his mouth for a moment laughed awkwardly.

“None.”

“Right? Hey, I thought surely not, while making the North this messy yet still no conscience that kind of bastard I thought.”

“Bastard...... Ha. Hahaha.”

“Normally when laughing the face blooms, yet you rather become more terrible. As much as possible do not laugh.”

Galahad patted Helcartn’s shoulder.

“Tsk, would I just tell to increase the harvest amount?”

At Galahad’s words the guy’s eyes shone a little.

“Isn’t the holy land still open.”

“...But the 7th Battalion is stationed.”

“There is no need to worry about that.”

Helcartn’s expression became complicated. Galahad quietly stared at that.

Originally mages were somehow strange guys. Because of the charm of magic. Magic was stronger than anything.

The guys were guys who entered even the Black Magic Society beyond mages.

There was no way the desire would be small.

Galahad whispered softly into the guy’s ear.

“I am worried about the Society Head’s lack of qualification.”

Helcartn’s eyes became large as if tearing.

“Lack of qualification you say?”

“Isn’t it, if failing consecutively recently someone has to take responsibility. Isn’t that so?”

Aspiration glistened in the guy’s murky pupils. Galahad raised the corners of his mouth and shook the guy’s shoulder.

“You, what is your thought?”

At the continued question the guy was silent for a moment. Galahad waited quietly without urging.

The guy’s head deeply lowered and then rose.

“I see. Actually I was thinking of cleaning the Black Magic Society.”

“......Cleaning?”

The guy examined Galahad up and down with eyes containing question. It seemed asking ‘You came alone?’

Galahad laughed and flicked his finger.

The head of the potbelly who was desperately twisting his body while lying inflated like a balloon.

The guys around stepped back while screaming softly.

Bang! The head of the guy who was partially full burst. Red blood splattered on the faces of those around that.

It was thanks to the magic circle engraved in advance, but from the beginning they were stupid guys who could not understand the magic circle.

To the guys it would just look like flicking a finger and bursting the head.

“This—!”

The mages aimed at Galahad with staffs.

Galahad ignored that and quietly stared at Helcartn.

“I thought there would be no suitable one to replace the Society Head but—,”

It was the situation where the subordinate’s head burst.

Yet the emotion that rose in Helcartn’s pupils was not fear or anger.

That was joy and aspiration.

“There was a suitable figure.”

Faith glistened in Helcartn’s eyes.

The force of bursting a person’s head with a finger and the interpretation of the magic beast trainer magic circle were only small grounds.

The center of faith was the guy’s desire.

Mental interference was more effective at times like this. The same principle as the power of fire magic strengthening if there is oil.

“Isn’t it?”

Galahad patted the guy’s shoulder and poured mana in.

Helcartn’s eyes glistened even more.

The reason that did not remain much flew away, but it seemed he could not even notice.

The desire to become the Society Head covered the guy’s eyes.

A moment of silence continued. Helcartn’s eyes moved busily.

Soon when the guy’s mouth opened again, Galahad burst a soft laugh.

“The Society Head is very careful. He even guards me who is a confidant. Along with that there are too many defense facilities. Heading to the main meeting hall is quite dangerous. And if a slightly strange sign is seen he will clearly flee alone. Because he did so even in the center—.”

Helcartn said while grinding his teeth.

“Even in the center?”

“Yes, when the Black Magic Society was shaken by some group, he is a guy who fled alone. He would have clearly made a den to flee.”

The fleeing skill of the Black Magic Society, Galahad also knew well.

If according to Helcartn’s words going to catch was not that good a choice.

“Even now the Society is shaking, didn’t he send me without stepping forward himself.”

‘There is a bit of antipathy.’

At Helcartn speaking as if chewing and spitting Galahad clicked his tongue softly.

“Then one has to draw out.”

“He will absolutely not come out.”

Helcartn said in a firm voice.

At that Galahad raised the corners of his mouth.

“There is no such thing as absolute.”

Helcartn who did not understand squinted his eyes.

“Ah, is there a means to communicate with the Society Head?”

“Yes—.”

Helcartn took out a round object. It was an object as if a jewel box wrapped a small stone.

At a glance it was quite crude, but Galahad knew that value.

No, he had no choice but to know.

“It is a communication sphere.”

To see this here. Galahad sighed softly.

The communication sphere was a magic tool with considerable value. No, it had no choice but to be considerable because of the materials entering.

Possessing that—.

‘Has a lot of money.’

Well, even Cortn had given Galahad mana stones and gold coins.

So the Black Magic Society went without saying.

Above all it was important that the guys were doing the mana stone mine business.

It was the North lacking quite a lot, but among that the most lacking was still funds.

Because they were ignorant guys who disregarded magic, they did not know the value of mana stones, but the mana stone mine was the North’s greatest value.

If only one could roll and distribute the mana stone mine in earnest, the North’s finances would clearly improve by several stages.

The Black Magic Society were excellent laborers who would become the foundation of financial power in the North.

‘Even doing it for free—.’

Galahad licked his lips and touched the communication sphere.

“The usage method—.”

“Ah, I know.”

At Galahad’s answer Helcartn squinted his eyes.

The communication sphere was expensive in value, and because the usage method was also too picky there were almost no ones who used it. Along with that that usage method was also different for each communication sphere.

How can one use such a communication sphere.

Then, the communication sphere held in Galahad’s hand vibrated softly. Even that vibration had a certain rhythm.

Even Helcartn felt difficulty in use was the communication sphere.

Yet using such a communication sphere freely like that.

‘As expected Dawn.’

The reliability rose a bit more.

****

In the dim cavity, the so-called large meeting hall the Society Head was sitting quietly.

The Society Head’s head was complicated as much as the wrinkles cast around the nose.

Because of the failures that occurred consecutively recently.

‘Stupid guys—.’

To think of not properly doing that easy one work. Curses came naturally.

Anyway there were no guys to one’s liking.

There was not a single usable guy.

There was a bigger problem than that.

‘Stay still for a while.’

It was an order that came down from Dawn.

‘......Dare!’

The wrinkles full on the old man’s face deepened even more.

Originally the Black Magic Society was going well in the center.

To think of guys who one did not even know existed then issuing orders—.

‘Because of those some guys!!’

The old man coughed roughly. To the extent blood came to that mouth area.

Because of the guys who viciously tormented the Black Magic Society everything collapsed, and one had no choice but to flee to the wasteland North leaving the brilliant years behind.

Still whether the sky did not abandon the old man, while discovering mana stone mines in the North the momentum rose again.

Then, a man came out from the place called Dawn.

The old man was the figure who created the Black Magic Society.

Because worshiping rising, he was an old man who did not hesitate anything if to become stronger.

Because of that the old man had confidence in strength.

Until facing the guy who came out from Dawn—.

[Only this degree?]

The guy was a monster.

No.

It was a demon race.

It was an overwhelming power difference the old man had never experienced.

Dawn’s one-sided order hurt pride to the extent blood came from the mouth but—.

‘No choice.’

The already heavy old man’s neck became even heavier.

Then, the closest among the communication spheres placed in front sparkled.

It was Helcartn who was usable among the confidants.

The guy sent for the magic circle of the magic beast trainer.

In the North where magic beasts roam like beasts the magic circle of the magic beast trainer had great value.

He did not want to give that up but...

‘One has to say return.’

One could not violate Dawn’s order in an already not good situation.

Then, the communication sphere vibrated while tapping. The mage sitting beside translated the vibration.

“Hiccup!!”

The guy who was interpreting for a long time hiccuped roughly. The face of the guy who was writing down the communication became snow white. As if scared.

At the rarely rare reaction the old man’s brow furrowed.

“What?”

“That... that...... I clearly wrote properly though....”

The old man squinted his eyes and struck down the staff.

Blood tears flowed long from the eyes of the guy who was groping. The guy collapsed with a plop without even screaming once.

The guy who was in a bit distant place sat in that place while trembling. The guy who saw the paper that wrote the communication content stopped abruptly—.

“Bring it.”

When the old man clicked his tongue, the guy was startled and handed the paper politely.

‘What content is it.....’

The old man who was reading the paper while muttering stiffened as is.

Because that content far exceeded expectation.

[I am Helcartn. Now the old and sick Society Head is not needed. From today I who am young blood am the Society Head. To prove that, I will recapture the holy land.]

The old man read the paper again several times.

‘What is this.....’

Then, the communication sphere vibrated again.

Sending again even insufficient with sending once.

At that the old man waved his hand.

The communication sphere lightly flew to the old man.

The old man carefully analyzed the vibration of the communication sphere.

A moment later—.

The communication sphere was smashed.

Although an expensive object, the old man did not have the spirit to regret that.

Because it was content worse than earlier—.

“The guy, seems to want to die.”

It was not simply a problem of being angry.

If committing the matter here it became violating Dawn’s order, so it was a problem of survival.

The old man stood for the first time in a really long time.

At that everyone looked up at the old man with surprised eyes.

“Going to the holy land.”

The old man adjusted the staff.

In the old man’s staff not a mana stone but a huge dark red egg was embedded.

***

‘.....?’

The crow tilted his head.

The crow thought his understanding was superior to others.

Especially the situation grasp ability was excellent.

When the branch people died, it was the reason the crow survived from Galahad’s hand.

The crow read the situation well and judgment was fast.

Clearly it was so but—.

‘......Why?’

Now one could not follow the situation at all.

Galahad was examining the 7th Battalion together with the Black Magic Society. Even fully preparing as if attacking right away—.

‘?’

The crow tilted his head to the opposite side.

Galahad clearly protected the 7th Battalion. Actually didn’t he also form a force in the 7th Battalion.

Clearly it was so but—.

Now Galahad was preparing to attack the 7th Battalion standing on the Black Magic Society’s side.

Even that—.

“Anyway they are newly appointed company captains. Other guys do not need to look. The problem is only one the 7th Battalion Captain.”

Very sincerely.

Even stamping that force—.

‘......Why?’

The crow tilted his head again.

“Aish! Stay still a bit! Annoying!”

Then, Cortn shouted nervously.

At that blunt voice the crow’s brow furrowed.

The crow hated stupid guys.

He also hated greedy guys.

Cortn was a stupid yet greedy guy.

It was natural that the crow hated Cortn.

He wanted to stick an ice awl in the guy’s face right away, but the crow desperately endured.

The crow was not stupid to the extent of ruining the work with only emotion.

“But saying.”

Cortn slightly spoke. When ignoring that Cortn raised his voice.

“But! Saying!”

For a moment too angry the formula rose to the mouth.

Enduring hard and turning his head, Cortn with a fully tense face was seen.

The hand holding the staff was trembling with a badul badul.

“Why.”

Cortn slightly looked around.

And carefully asked.

“Is Galahad really Dawn?”

“Aak!”

The crow could not endure and punched Cortn’s head.

Not using magic was the crow’s last patience.

“Aaaak!”

****

Galahad who turned his head at Cortn’s scream clicked his tongue softly.

Palho and Cortn were tangled and punching.

‘Unexpectedly getting along well.’

Well the two had similar sides.

Because both were blinded by desire.

‘That is a mage characteristic.’

Galahad laughed and examined the situation.

The Black Magic Society guys were each preparing. Some guys chanted formulas, some guys adjusted the staff. Resoluteness was full on the faces.

Beyond that, far away the 7th Battalion was seen.

Unable to fully erase the traces of the previous raid it was shabby and holes were pierced here and there.

At a glance it looked precarious, but that guy was inside.

To draw the Society Head one needed to act sincerely.

Of course one could not lose precious miners for that.

Appropriate acting or guard was needed for each other.

For that a detailed plan needed to be discussed but.

Galahad did not particularly send a letter to explain.

Because far away on the wall First was brightly smiling while looking this way—.

‘Likes dying.’

Galahad clicked his tongue softly.

Then, a familiar white hawk flew. A guy where even though a hawk one could say handsome with glossy fur as if oiled and deep eyes.

‘Adrianne?’

The hawk naturally sat on Galahad’s shoulder.

Galahad stroked the guy rubbing the head and untied the letter tied to that leg.

[I am 1st Battalion Captain Adrianne. There was no particular problem in the 1st Battalion. I am curious about the progress situation of the Magic Realm training ground entrusted believing Special Mission Unit Captain Galahad. Of course, the Magic Realm training ground is a place His Grace the Grand Duke entrusted to Special Mission Unit Captain Galahad. There is no authority for me who is the 1st Battalion Captain to intervene. It is not that I do not believe, but a letter sent in case help is needed. 1st Battalion Captain Adrianne.]

Even though writing there was no superfluity. Yet feeling flashiness truly matched Adrianne.

“Ah, will you give paper and pen a bit?”

“Yes!”

Galahad borrowed a pen from a passing black mage.

The black mage shone his eyes and handed paper and pen.

“Isn’t this red.”

“That is because blood....”

“No ink?”

At Galahad’s interrogation the black mages moved busily.

Soon one could receive normal ink.

Galahad deeply dipped the pen in the ink and scribbled on the paper.

[The 7th Battalion I am protecting really excellently so do not worry at all. That I am capable you also, father-in-law also know. It is a day missing your warm hand. - Your trustworthy fiance. P.S. Your writing is quite cute.]

Galahad who wrote the letter without stopping the pen even once tied that to the hawk’s foot.

The hawk flew over the black mages and disappeared.

“Come, everyone prepare! Tonight the holy land becomes ours!”

At Galahad’s shout the black mages answered vigorously.

Galahad laughed satisfied.