NOVEL NEXT chapter 35
35 – Forest Protection Act Article 53 Paragraph 1
After signing the contract right on the spot.
We decided to head to the village chief’s house.
Took.
While moving like that, something strange caught under my feet.
“……”
It was a shape I knew well.
I put it carefully into my bosom.
“Now, this way.”
In the house the village chief entered, a man with dead eyes was lying there repeating someone’s name.
“It’s a family name.”
The village chief muttered, and the man turned his head this way and said.
“They’re coming this way.”
The village chief did not answer. Instead, Mark asked him.
“How far is this place from where you saw the monsters?”
The man spoke again.
“At least you wouldn’t have come all the way to the dry tree forest. Please, my family.”
The slash-and-burn people’s words, which sounded almost dying, were cut off there.
“Move Patton elsewhere. It’s too noisy in here.”
It was because he passed out.
The head of the house, whose limbs were saved but not his family, was taken away on a stretcher, and the door was closed.
Kung.
The village chief opened his mouth.
“For your reference. You should be almost at the dry tree grove by now.”
“Why?”
The leader of the prianian squad asked.
“Ever since he told Jackson what he had been through, Patton kept saying that over and over again.”
The woman who was nursing a slash-and-burn resident named Patton, who had just been carried away, said. Looking at her age group, she seemed to be the wife of the village chief.
“Maybe it was because I was nervous, or something like that, it’s been a while. Too bad, Emily-“
“Now, there are adventurers among them. Does anyone know why they are flocking here?”
The village chief interrupted her and asked.
“……”
“……”
But no one answered.
Of course, how can we, far away, know the intentions of the waves of living organisms?
That’s right.
After saying that, the village chief sighed softly.
And he told Patton’s testimony step by step.
After attaching the cart to the horse, I took my family to a forest a little far away, and on the way back, I saw that there were goblins and trolls from far away.
At that moment, I was driving my horse like crazy, and when I looked back in front of the wooden fence, the cart had fallen off.
“A goblin or a troll?”
“They say the number of trolls is a bit small. That’s right.”
As with all oral elements, ‘etc.’ Cannot be omitted in that word.
In other words, it could be that there are only a few trolls on the way the survivors escaped.
However, cross-verification was not possible. The only witness who returned had long since been carried away on a stretcher.
A troll, by the way.
While recalling the information I heard from the adventurers during the day yesterday, the village chief sighed and said,
“This is why I asked you to stop at least by giving me money.”
‘You tried to pamper us for free, but you got hit by the top lord.’
The village chief, who tried to eat raw but failed, proved the reason why he became bald like that.
And what I felt from that appearance was not pity, but anger.
‘What kind of f*cking trolls are you trying to stop for free?’
While he was barely resisting the urge to make his hair shiny, Mark murmured.
“It’s more terrifying than I thought.”
Come to think of it, Mark was a skilled adventurer.
I asked, looking at Mark.
“Mark, can a troll break through the barrier?”
“Don’t be silly, G-House.”
As Blender said, it sounds really unlucky, but reality was needed more than delusions wrapped in happiness circuits.
I asked, looking around everyone – even Jack.
“I’m just saying this because I really don’t know. If anyone knows of any of these, please answer me.”
“……”
Mark thought for a moment, then came up with an answer.
“I don’t know how thick the barriers in this town are, but at least if they’re firmly anchored, they can hold out a few trolls.”
In other words, you don’t know how much defense you can block.
In other words, as few monsters as possible should reach the fence.
I started thinking about something.
“Let me ask you one more question.”
“Tell me.”
I opened my mouth.
“What is the most effective way to catch trolls?”
“Fire. And mana.”
Mark answered almost like an answering machine.
“But the only ones who can use mana here are Perun and I. What about that one?”
I shook my head.
“It’s a pity. Then all we need is fire. But the fire might reach the wooden fence. It’s going to be a pretty tough choice.”
Fire.
Finally, I had a good idea.
“Squad leader, I have something to tell you.”
So I called the prianian squad leader first.
This prank was a rather large-scale prank that required permission from a superior.
She nodded her head and walked out with me for a while.
I went where no one else was, and I told you my plan.
Her answer was as expected.
“G-House, are you crazy?”
“I heard that it’s better to be hit quickly, but if you’re going crazy because you don’t know when they’ll come anyway, wouldn’t it be better to go crazy in a more beneficial direction?”
“Isn’t that what you are going to say right now?”
Prianian Squad Leader said as if he was dumbfounded.
“Do you think that idea makes sense?”
“Isn’t there anything that can’t be done?”
That’s what I asked.
I can assure you that there is nothing impossible in this world.
There is nothing wrong with trying to cross the world and time to resubmit my thesis.
Therefore, there is nothing impossible.
Never.
So I asked her.
“If you have a more subtle plan, let me know.”
Priyanian Squad leader thought for a moment before opening her mouth.
“…It’s too late to set the traps, and the trolls mentioned above are the problem with the siege.”
“So, all we have left is to mess around. Squad leader. And that’s one of the things I’m most confident about.”
“Are you sure?”
She asked, but I shook her head.
“I just show. As I said on the hill, there are not many things in the world that can be answered for certain.”
Priyanian Squad leader nodded his head.
***
“…What are you doing?”
“Set the forest on fire.”
Everyone in the village chief’s house became quiet.
Except for one person, everyone was looking at me like a madman.
Hearing the remark that would have made his eyes roll over if there had been an elf in the mix, Jackson wasn’t outraged.
He was willing to turn over another eyeball instead of his own.
“Hey, are you crazy?”
It was a person’s temperament.
I was dumbfounded at the momentary treatment of a person as a madman, but since it was a reaction I had already heard before, I gladly calmed down my anger.
“I’d like to reverse the question of why I’m crazy, but please listen to me now.”
Then he calmly continued his conversation.
“As the Lord Lepian said, time is money.”
“Lord of the top. Please listen to it once and decide.”
The prianian squad leader added a word.
“Mr. G-House is an expert enough to be recognized by me in this field.”
Twice as mercenary level in debauchery.
That’s kind of cool.
Hearing that, the lord of the upper house nodded his head.
“Good. Then try talking to me.”
To the extent that he looked at me like a madman just a moment ago, the guarantee of a double mercenary in this situation was huge.
“Now, all living things are afraid of fire. So do we, so do they.”
“Of course it is.”
“What we need is a deterrent that won’t let those damn bastards come to our fence, and that’s fire. We also know Sudan very well.”
People who lived on fire even before I was born knew the answer all too well.
“Dry tree.”
“Yes. And beyond that field, there is a forest made of dry trees.”
I looked at the village chief and said.
“Chief Jackson, who has been eating forests in the wild all his life, knows, but dry wood burns easily. That’s why the first thing people who work with fire burners do is dry the wood.”
“I am well aware of that. What if the wooden fence catches fire?”
At the village chief’s question, I shook my head.
“This area seems to be a place where there is usually a lot of wind, but at least the width of the fields I saw when I came here was wide enough that I didn’t have to worry about that.”
In the first place, if there was a storm that would last that long, it would have been better to just abandon the village and run away.
It’s not some kind of hurricane.
“There are also benefits to be gained by doing this.”
The village chief and the head of the ward looked at me at the same time.
“Something?”
“Prepare for trolls.”
After hearing my words, their faces darkened a bit.
“A troll.”
“At least, if the whole body is burned and burned, their regenerative power will be weakened, so even if they come through the flames, they will be able to handle it more easily.”
After hearing my argument, Mark and Sten agreed.
“That’s right. That, although it might be less effective than taking care of the wound. They are weak against fire. Hmm. If there is no other opinion right now, it would be fine to adopt that opinion.”
“If it has the firepower of a forest fire, they won’t be able to come easily, and Mr. G-House’s opinion doesn’t seem bad.”
Two of the most skilled adventurers here, Mark and Sten, vouched for it.
I confirmed that the adventurers’ perceptions had softened a bit, but the village chief was still negative.
“Hmm, the idea of setting fire to the forest is hard for me to understand. After all, if the wooden fence caught fire, we would suffer a loss.”
It was quite an interesting reaction for a person who had been criticized for setting fire to a forest to condemn someone else’s act of arson.
“Of course it is hard to understand, but you will burn it all anyway, and there will be little risk of fire.”
I looked him straight in the eyes.
“So, I will light the fire for you.”
“By what right?”
“Deep in the mountains, there are no rights to enjoy and no duties to perform. Jackson.”
He didn’t say anything, I just said my own thing.
“If you want to live, there are only things you have to do.”
If you want to die, you don’t have to.
“……”
There was silence, and he opened his mouth.
“Good.”
What I came up with was the correct answer.
The village chief asked.
“What are you going to do with the fire?”
“Oil and Torch.”
“Isn’t there a shortage of people?”
I nodded and pointed with my hand at my friends who were hanging around.
“Looks like we’ll have to borrow some vigilantes. In particular, I would like to include a friend named Jack who is standing over there.”
Hearing those words, there was a dainty brat, such as Jack screaming for a while, but he was soon dragged out and muted himself, so it couldn’t be otherwise.
After thinking for a while, the village chief agreed.
“I’ll put in a few people, including Jack. I’m familiar with geography, so if that side caught my ankle, I would have caught it, but we won’t make a mistake.”
After saying that, the vigilantes looked at me a little fiercely, but I lightly ignored them.
“Thank you.”
“They may have already passed the forest.”
“If I go out and things don’t work out, I’ll come right back.”
He nodded.
“But there are conditions.”
The village chief’s conditions were quite harsh.
“All of your guards will have to go to the forest and start a fire.”
Then Lepian shook his head.
“No, there should be two of them in this fence.”
The village chief opened his mouth again.
“It doesn’t matter, but the more you do, the more places you’ll need to start a fire. Are you okay?”
“Why?”
“We also need personnel to protect the wooden fence just in case, so we won’t be able to provide support beyond a certain number. Instead, I give everyone a horse and a cart. At least the risk of falling behind is small.”
After thinking for a while, Lepian finally nodded.
In the end, he blamed himself for not participating.