The Necromancer Who Was Despised - The Necromancer Who Was Despised chapter 57

“No. Someone close to us will be appointed as the new lord with Sigren’s permission.”

‘… You’re even doing that?’

It seems that the Merchant Alliance has deeper roots than I thought.

‘Sigren has been bribed.’

If it’s an organization of this size, it’s likely that Sigren is also thinking of it as a nuisance.

I could have gotten rid of it all together on this occasion.

The price is the dwarves, but for them, it could have been a cheap meal.

‘I’ll do it well.’

“I’m sorry, but I refuse.”

“…Why?”

“I think you’re going to fail. And…”

I ran to him and answered.

“I don’t like being under anyone.”

Clang!

Our swords clashed, sending sparks flying.

“Tsk. Then I have no choice. Die.”

He definitely had excellent physical abilities as a mana user, and he pressed me on the basis of that.

Bam, thud!

However, I adapted to his speed without difficulty.

I’m not using magic, but my body has also been strengthened quite a bit, and my close combat level is something that even Kyla acknowledged.

In close combat alone, I’m at the intermediate mercenary level.

On top of that, my experience was not something to be trifled with, as I had spent several years at the bottom.

I can see Abinas’s face gradually hardening even though he is pushing me.

“…Why…”

As if he was about to collapse, I calmly maintained my posture while continuing to parry and deflect his attacks.

It’s not a one-sided defense. I cut off his pulse whenever I saw an opening, so he couldn’t bring me down even though he had the upper hand.

No, sometimes he looked like his guts were getting cold at my counterattacks.

‘… I guess this is my limit.’

I feel it anew.

I lack the talent of a warrior.

I’ve only been able to hold out this far with my experience from last time and my enhanced physical and cognitive abilities from awakening my magic. I couldn’t become a first-class warrior like Kyla or Atina.

And while I was buying time like that.

“Kuaaagh!”

Atina was the first to cut down Grimming.

“Damn… Damn it! What the hell happened! To a mere cripple!”

The figure of Madank, who had been overwhelming the others until just now, was gradually being driven into a corner.

Atina ran at such a Madank and blocked his escape route.

If it hadn’t been for the act of injuring his leg, he would have had his neck cut off a long time ago.

With my superior mobility, I had managed to hold out until now, but the moment Athena blocked the narrow path, the bastard’s neck shot out.

Kayla’s words about how he was nothing special were true.

Abinas’s face grew anxious as he saw his comrades die one by one.

“Die, die, die!”

However, I still managed to hold out, not quite getting caught, and buying us time.

“I’ll help!”

In the meantime, Athena came to my aid this time, and the moment Abinas’s gaze moved towards her, she pierced his chest with the same attack he had been so wary of.

However, in the meantime, the other mercenary bastards had managed to completely destroy the city gate.

In the distance, I could see about thirty cavalrymen trying to charge into the settlement.

“Lord Jimnis!”

In the distance, Mutre ran towards us, carrying something heavily on his cart.

‘That’s…’ ‘

“Athena!”

I immediately ran towards Mutre, took over his cart, and pushed it towards the city gate in one go.

Screech!

“…Halt! Stop! Detour!”

“Detour!”

The cavalrymen changed direction at once, realizing what I had spread out.

‘Iron marbles. Did you prepare this much of it?’

I couldn’t tell if it was Mutre’s independent decision or the lord’s instructions.

No, there was no way that Mutre, a heteromorphic slave, would have made this on his own, so it must have been the lord’s orders.

The lord had been the one who had taken this back in the first place.

Ironically, the material of the iron marbles was the shell of the Giant Ent I had caught.

This had been refined and made into a large number of iron marbles, and when these were spread out over the ground, the cavalry could no longer advance.

‘I thought it would be used as armor material… ‘

Iron marbles are a deadly weapon for horses.

‘I heard it worked on elephants, too.’

I had used it effectively on orcs.

It was just as effective on horses.

I could tell from the way the cavalrymen noticed this and immediately turned around.

It seemed that they had anticipated this in advance, having seen the cavalry in battle with the bastards.

Mutre had made this much of it at this speed, but…

“…Damn it!”

The other mercenary captain, who had been encouraging the mercenaries from behind, looked at us with an irritated expression.

The three of us, who could be called their main force, had fallen into our hands.

The mercenaries looked at the three of us blocking the entrance but couldn’t bring themselves to charge.

I had a staring contest with the mercenary captain for a long time, and in the end, he was the one who backed down.

“…Don’t think this is over!”

There was no way the bastards would give up with this.

After the monsters retreated, the residents of Homestead cheered madly.

‘What kind of preparation will they bring next time… .’

No matter what they do… it will be too late.

“… I am indebted to you, Master.

“Don’t call me that. “You are no longer my disciple.”

It was Baldur.

He seemed to be expressing his gratitude to Kyla for saving his life.

“Ahahaha! I believed it, I believed it! I knew you’d make those bastards retreat!”

And I could see the Lord running towards us, barefooted.

But I had no intention of welcoming him.

“There was a mana user.”

“Why didn’t you inform me?”

“Well… .”

The Lord couldn’t answer.

“Hoo… . “I want to rest.”

“Y-yes.”

It was the moment when the relationship between him and me was almost reversed.

While the monsters were retreating, the Lord ordered Mutru to repair the castle gate.

But they will never give up.

And as I expected, they prepared a new move. Only the speed was faster than I thought… and more cruel.

Two days later.

“Euaang!”

“Please spare me, please spare me!”

“Those crazy bastards!”

The mercenary bastards who had retreated came and plundered another village that belonged to Orwaran.

Monster Wave

“Please save me!”

“aang!”

“If you don’t want to see all of these people die, surrender, Baron!”

“… They even do something like that… !”

Athina said as if she was quite disgusted.

As Tia’s guardian, it seemed that she didn’t like the sight of taking hosts and threatening others.

“Nailin! Stop it!”

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“Porden… ? Why is Porden here… ! Baron, Baron! That child is my son! Please spare him!”

There were young men who had survived the last attack and returned to Homestead.

They were the ones who were conscripted from each village, and among them were… Those from the village the monsters had plundered.

‘They did a good job talking them down.’

It wasn’t just the people from that village who were agitated.

‘If they can plunder that place…’ it means they can do the same to other villages.’

That’s why the men from the pioneer villages couldn’t help but be agitated.

Among those inside the territory, there might have been people who had connections with the villagers, even family relations, since they were in the same domain.

Therefore, the disturbance had no choice but to spread even more…

The Lord just looked outside without saying anything.

“Open the gate and surrender! If you don’t…!”

“Kyaah!”

“No, no!”

The life of one of the hostages was cut short.

“I’ll kill all of them. Don’t think this is the end. There are still three more villages left!”

“L-Lord! Lord! Please, please!”

The people of the territory risked their lives to approach the Lord and beg him.

However, the Lord remained silent.

“If you open the gate… everyone will die.”

“Does that mean you’re going to give up on all of them! They belong to the Owaran territory!”

“Then are you going to die in their place?”

“I’ll do it, I’ll die. So please spare my family!”

“Do you think they’ll listen to that?”

“Please!”

“It won’t happen just because you beg.”

The Lord showed no sign of opening the gate.

“There is no compromise with bandits.”

“Then are you telling us to just stand here and watch our families die inside!”

“I’ve called for backup. It’ll be here soon. Endure until then.”

“What about them! What are they supposed to do! They’re going to die right now!”

“I’m not a god!”

The Lord finally exploded.

“How dare you! I am your Lord! How dare you act like this when the bandits are ignoring me!”

‘He’s hopeless.’

The reason why the Lord is a Lord and has power and is respected is because he guarantees the safety of the people of the territory from outside enemies.

And yet, he was expecting compensation even though he wasn’t fulfilling that duty.

On top of that, the safety of the village was largely being protected by the people themselves right now.

In fact, the Lord was in a difficult position.

Those guys probably didn’t want to go this far either.

After all, they seemed to be after this pioneer territory as well.

And they must have been confident in their own abilities.

That is, until the ones who came before them were defeated by us.

‘This must have been their last resort.’

However, it wasn’t a situation that could be helped.

It seemed like they were trying to focus on achieving their initial, basic goal instead of achieving multiple goals at once.

‘Internal division, huh…’

This is terrible.

This was not a situation I could do anything about.

The conflict between the lord and the Youngmin deepened, and soon some mercenaries who seemed to be protecting the lord and barely survived blocked the Youngmin as if to protect the lord.