I Became a Retired Warrior Who Suffered NTR in the Novel

76 – Escape

“Princess Illuen is imprisoned for not only burning down the forest that was home to the elves, but also for slaughtering many half-elves. You want me to release such a murderer?”

The priests couldn’t help but bow their heads at the low voice of the queen.

I knew that the former kingdom of elves had become closer to the kingdom of Argen or the empire of Fior, where the hero belongs, but

It seemed that the issue of Princess Iluen was a very separate issue from that.

“Haona.. Now the demon army is messing up the world…”

“I refuse. If you wish, I can recommend her a better elf than Princess Illuen, but I decline her request to release her.”

The other elves were meaningless to the priests, so what they need now is not a party to fight with a new warrior,

It was because they needed extras to make their saints shine like in the old warrior party.

“If you don’t like my proposal, please get out of my palace. Enough…”

When the queen had finished her words, she got up and went out,

The remaining priests in the hall looked at each other’s faces, then slowly got up and went outside.

“Now what? Seeing the elven queen, I don’t think she’ll let her go smoothly…”

“Hmm…”

“Are you just going back like this?”

“To go back like this… Don’t you know our mission? Do I have to take Iluen with me anyway?”

“But… how…”

The priests, who confirmed that all the elven aristocrats, including the queen, had escaped, gathered together and started a conversation.

Before departing, there was something that High Priest Radbod had asked him to do, so none of them could resign.

“If you don’t want to give it up, you have no choice but to use another method…”

“Another way?”

They took out Plan B to free Illuen, and it was a bit risky, but they couldn’t leave the palace like this because they were hanging on their necks.

*

That night…

Iluen was very nervous when he heard that the priests of the Great Temple had visited him during the day, but

Soon after hearing that they had returned as if they had been kicked out by the queen, they crouched down in a corner of the prison again in desperation.

“Princess, don’t be too heartbroken. Surely they will ask again! If the princess doesn’t join, won’t the old warrior party be formed?”

“……”

Meanwhile, Ard took out all the silent words he could find to ease the sullen Iluen’s mood, and took out his words toward the barbed wire across from Iluen.

But despite Ard’s efforts, Iluen’s mood didn’t get any better…

Those who thought that the priests would have withdrawn without any profit heard a welcome voice…

“Illuen?”

A man disguised as an elven soldier was calling out to her in front of her cage where her illuen was imprisoned.

“Who…?”

“I am a paladin dispatched from the Great War. I’m here to take it out by order of the saintess.”

The man reassured her by showing her her necklace, proof that he was her paladin, and then unlocked the prison door with the key he had taken from her jailer.

“How is this…”

“I don’t have time to explain. Once you go out to this road and take the camouflage wagon heading to the palace and go to the Eritre Empire, everything will be ready.”

Disguised as an elf soldier, the paladin opened all the prison doors and released even the elf knights following Iluen.

The elven knights headed outside after changing into soldiers’ clothes he had prepared in advance.

In the dark elven palace,

Maybe it was built in a forest, so the moonlight didn’t come in, so it was even more pitch black…

On the contrary, it couldn’t have been a better day for Iluen and her men.

Not only did they escape the dungeon, but they were never caught while escaping the palace,

As the paladin said, when they came out of the palace, several camouflage wagons prepared in advance were lined up.

And the priests who were already in the wagon got off at the report announcing the arrival of Illuen.

“It’s been a while. Lord Iluen.”

The priests who rode in her wagon were familiar with Iluen as well, and all bowed their heads in front of her to greet her.

“You are…”

“I came here on the orders of the saintess. Get out of this elven kingdom for now.”

A priest opened the door of the wagon after quieting Iluen, who had many questions.

While Iluen was puzzled, she jumped into the carriage to her joy that she was out of prison.

“You… You…”

Climbing into her carriage, Illuen looked at a man sitting in her carriage and pointed with her trembling hand as she spoke.

The man smiled like a woman and winked at Iluen once.

“Are you the famous warrior party?”

Unlike his androgynous appearance and her voice and appearance, Il Luen felt an unpleasant energy and tried to get off her carriage belatedly, but

She couldn’t even get off the ground because her aura wrapped around her body.

*****

Quad Deuk..

Our party, who came out of the hidden dungeon, stayed in the Principality of Alsmeyer for a while and did some research…

Quad Deuk!!

It was because of Irene, who was freely handling the frost sword right now in the parade ground of the palace.

For some reason, I don’t know if she can handle her demon sword, but she isn’t a demon.

Seeing that she didn’t react, her frost sword had already become her and her body.

Kwakwak!!!

As Irene swung her frost sword to the floor, a huge iceberg appeared in an instant, surprising us as well as the soldiers watching it.

Irene didn’t stop with this and was practicing how to summon and handle various ices.

When summoning ice without a frost sword, if it took some kind of loading to concentrate and manifest mana,

Now, the loading has become very fast, and the giant ice appears and disappears repeatedly in an instant.

“How are you? Can you handle it?”

“Yes.”

Returning to where we sat after her practice, Irene put her sword back into her scabbard, wiping off the sweat with her towel.

Irene, who unexpectedly got a magic sword, didn’t like her frost sword from the beginning.

There was also opposition from her mother, Queen Andrea, and she also did not like this sword, which was the culprit behind all the incidents.

“By the way, hero, is it really okay for me to handle this sword?”

“I can’t help but do that, right? If I try to touch…”

I slowly put my hand on the frost sword Irene was holding, and suddenly ice formed on the blade, and it was about to freeze.

“Every time I try to touch it, it goes like this… Wouldn’t it be better to use Irene if I can’t use it? Will it help to increase power?”

“Yes…”

“You don’t have to use it if you don’t want to use it.”

“Ah… No. I will write.”

If ordinary people had a demonic sword like this, they would have been happy with the face of winning the country…

Irene’s expression was not very pleasant.

“What? Are you done practicing?”

While talking with Irene…

Kir, who had gone to meet an informant from the kingdom of Arjen, came back and naturally he sat down next to me and pulled his arm.

“Is there any news from the kingdom?”

“Yes. A lot of that too.”

Kir put his chin on my shoulder and answered from close, barely touching distance.

The answer was so natural that I almost turned her head away without asking any further questions.

“What’s up?”

If something had happened to Argen Kingdom, Edwin would have informed me right away…

“Nothing happened, but something very interesting happened…”

“Anything interesting?”

“Yes. Did you pick up a new hero in the Great War? Are you still alive here?”

“What?”

I asked again about the absurd story that came out of Kir’s mouth, and she laughed once and continued her story.

“What’s even funnier is that the old warriors party was appointed as that warriors party?”

“If it’s the old warrior’s party… Emilia?”

“Yes. Saints Emilia, Lydia, and Illuen.”

They were members who could figure out who was doing what, and what their purpose was, just by hearing the member’s name.

Starting with the hosting of Emilia, who wanted to continue joining the hero’s party, Lydia and Illuen must have added their strength…

“You know what’s funnier?”

“?”

“On the day a new hero was appointed, all the demon army withdrew. This… It’s not a play version… That’s why people seem to be agitated a lot right now. As a new hero was appointed, the demon army withdrew…”

“What do you mean by that again? A new hero was appointed, but he resigned…?”

Looking at the propensity of the Demon Lords, if a new hero appeared, they would rather run at it to create a sense of fear.

I never ran away…

As if this was the case, there were rumors that the new hero was more powerful and that his appearance alone would make the Demon King’s army retreat.

“I don’t know. The problem is that the Demon King’s army is now rushing to the northern part of the continent… It doesn’t seem like the new hero is coming in fear…”

Kirr paused his words as he fell into trouble every time he spoke, wondering if he kept feeling uncomfortable.

It wasn’t that I didn’t hear that ominous feeling.

“Let’s go back to Argen Kingdom for now.”

I shook Kir’s head and stood up to speak.

Kir, Irene, and Lucia seemed to have the same thoughts as me, so they got up from their seats as soon as they heard my words and started preparing to leave.