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Chapter 45 – Day 44 of Living in the Demonic Land
After informing everyone that East Kenya might invade, the strategy for fighting the invaders began the next day.
“Basically, I intend to use the terrain to set traps. I don’t think it will even be a battle of 5 against 2,000, so we’ll just set them up in traps.”
“Roger that!”
I don’t know if Cher knows or not, but for some reason, she’s excited. Sylvia is breathing heavily because it’s like a revenge fight, and Hel and Jennifer look like they’re in trouble.
“It’s pointless to leave their own territory and come to the demonic land.”
“What’s the point of fighting when we’re both just starting out?”
Even if we complain, the enemy will still come to the demonic land, so we’d better dig the traps quickly.
“Really, it’s just like the primitive age.”
“Do you have any other ideas?”
I asked Hel, who was complaining.
“Why don’t we have Makyo change the terrain and turn it into a maze?”
“A maze! That’s a good idea!”
Cher is enthusiastic.
Even if it’s a maze, it seems pointless if they can just go around it, but it’s better than nothing, so I’ll think about it. To be honest, I had already made a lot of traps when I first came to the demonic land, so the work was done quickly.
All I had to do was release magic power into the ground and interfere with the force that caused the ground to rise and then pull it up, but I made it so that they had to cross several hills to reach the cave that was our base. I also made it so that if they went through the valley, they would be led to the flower garden of the sleeping flowers. [T/n: I changed swimming flowers to sleeping flowers because I just found the correct translation for it. Please forgive me for the inconvenience.]
“Is there anything else?”
I didn’t want to have a melee fight, if possible, so I asked everyone for ideas.
“H-h-how about using monsters?”
Sylvia suggested that we use blood and flesh to lure monsters to fight the enemy soldiers.
It looked like it would work right away, so we quickly defeated the Haze Turtle in the swamp and got some blood and meat.
“Any other ideas?”
“Magic circles would be good.”
Cher suggested that we put magic circles in the trap.
She couldn’t forget the time we blew up Arachne’s nest before. The exploding magic circle was too dangerous to use, so it was forbidden, but if the magic circle was taken away, I wouldn’t hesitate to use it.
I drew the exploding magic circle on the raised hill. It was dangerous, so as soon as I drew it, I left the place.
“If they’re going to camp over there, we should destroy their supply line, right?”
Jennifer said, putting her hand to her chin.
“Should we poison their supply line?”
“Isn’t it about time the sleeping flowers we buried in the ground matured?”
Hel said. That’s right, we did indeed soak sleeping flowers in water to make sleeping drugs.
“We don’t have any jars yet.”
“Let’s make a simple pot of palm sap. It will melt quickly in the fire, and if we pour it over the supply line, it will be disposable.”
“I see.”
A pot is made of palm sap, and sleeping drugs are placed in it. For the sleeping drugs, we put a smelling ointment in our nostrils and then put the sleeping drugs in a disposable jar. The effect was guaranteed because Hel fell asleep when I opened the hole where the sleeping drug was placed.
“Hel, are you awake?”
When I put the smelling salt stick in Hel’s nose, she woke up with a cough.
“Goh, if we spread the sleeping drugs all over the place and run away, that’ll work.”
“Right, running away is also a military tactic.”
We gathered emergency food and other necessities.
“What weapons do you have?”
Sylvia asked.
I have P.J.’s knife, and Cher has magic and a staff. Hel seems to be making a bow out of Treant’s branch.
“Do you have a weapon, Jennifer?”
“I used to fight with things like heavy clubs, scepters, and other rod-like things…”
“Hmm…”
Cher gave Jennifer a long staff with a large magic stone attached to it. It’s a lamia magic stone, and it has a petrifying effect. It’s quite powerful.
Sylvia has a slightly curved iron sword. In the end, it’s the one that feels most natural in her hand and is the easiest to carry around.
It was already noon while we were preparing, but there was no sign of the enemy yet.
After lunch, I was looking into the forest across the stream at the entrance in the early afternoon when I heard the sound of drums in the distance.
“T-t-they’re coming!”
“They haven’t even seen the enemy yet, so what’s the point of encouraging their allies? I don’t get it.”
“Are you sure that 2000 people are coming? Even if they get through the forest, I don’t think they’ll be able to form a line of 2000 people on this riverbed.”
“I’m excited.”
Everyone had a different reaction.
For the time being, we waited on the hilltop, trying not to step on the magic circle.
“They’re not coming.”
As Cher had said, we waited a long time, but even as the evening approached, we still couldn’t see the enemy.
“I-i-if there are a lot of people, it must be hard to move in a forest this deep.”
“I hope they don’t run out before they reach the demonic land.”
Sylvia and Hel watched the forest on the other side of the stream as they nibbled on some emergency rations of smoked meat. Jennifer started making a basket because she felt uncomfortable doing nothing. I took a little nap.
The sound of the drums also stopped.
“Yaaaaa!”
“Whoaaa!”
Instead, we heard shouts and screams. Apparently, they were fighting monsters in the forest.
“So this is the training before entering the demonic land?”
“Not bad.”
I also fought monsters in the forest before entering the demonic land, so maybe that’s why I’m still alive.
“But they’re not coming.”
“I-I-I can hear the sound.”
Hel and Sylvia grew impatient.
“Well, I’ll go bake some bread in the cave.”
Jennifer, who had been watching, slapped her butt and brushed the grass away.
“Well, I’ll be off then.”
It seems that Cher is returning as well.
I waited with Hel and Sylvia in case something happened, but since it was getting dark, we decided to return to the cave for now.
“Was it like this when East Kenya invaded?”
I asked Sylvia.
“N-n-no, there were several informants in the castle. A-a-also, I think there were many people who betrayed us for money.”
“Then there could be several traitors.”
Hel said but then quickly convinced herself, “No, there aren’t.”
The people in the demonic land are all those who have been exiled from their own country or group. There is no advantage for the enemy to turn to us.
“Why? It’s undercooked!”
“This is better!”
In the cave, Cher and Jennifer were in the middle of an argument about the degree of doneness of the bread.
“Let’s just eat it as it is!”
For dinner, we had bread, a Gibi deer steak, and Haze Turtle soup. I thought we were going to eat a lot in preparation for the battle, but Jennifer said they were just clearing out the stock.
“There’s no point in letting it go bad.”
Everything was delicious. The steak was served with a spicy, pasty condiment.
“Wow, my nose!”
Hel seemed to have a problem with her nose, but she put a lot of it on anyway because she was addicted. It seems Cher found this plant near the water, and Jennifer did a patch test and tasted it.
“I’ve never seen anything like it, but it’s delicious if you put a little on it.”
Sylvia seemed to like it, too.
“Let’s call it wasabi.”
I gave it a name for now.
“Oh, I forgot to mention, but after this battle is over, I might become a noble.”
“Ehh~! A noble~!”
“You’d better not. You’ll end up associating with all kinds of no-good people.”
Cher and Hel seemed to disagree. Or rather, was Hel ever a noble?
“Just checking, but has anyone here ever been a noble?”
I asked the four of them.
Sylvia, Hel, and Cher all raised their hands. Three out of five are former nobles?
“Seriously?”
“Keh!”
Jennifer, who was standing next to me, devoured her steak with a look I’d never seen before. Maybe she has a birth complex.
“What do nobles do, anyway?”
“Manage their territory.”
“Make lots of babies.
“Fight for their country and risk their lives.”
There seem to be all kinds of ideas.
“Teach me the practical side of things.”
“You have to maintain the infrastructure and coordinate with the neighboring territories.”
“You must do your best at night!”
“Daily training, studying strategy and tactics…”
There’s a lot to do.
“As I thought, it’s education! The most important thing is education! Huh?”
Jennifer, the only one who hasn’t experienced being a noble, stood up and lifted the alcohol bottle, but she swayed a lot.
“You idiot, that’s a sleeping drug!”
Hel took the bottle from Jennifer, but it was too late. Jennifer had fallen asleep.
“She might not be of any use tomorrow.”
Hel said, looking at the remaining amount of sleeping drugs in the bottle.
“It’s my land, so I’ll do what I want.”
The night grew late. There was still no sign of an invasion.
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