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43 – The Princess’ Despair (2)

The princess, Letia.

She definitely told the court mage Balt to go and stop the Demon King’s army.

A wizard of superior lineage from aristocrats who could be trusted more than anyone else, he had no doubt that he would be able to stop the demon lord’s army.

But what is the situation now? The result was the complete opposite.

‘Why is Lord Balt dying?’

The princess heard from the soldier that Balt had died.

To die so quickly after less than a week had passed since he went to the battlefield was something strange.

No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t understand it at all.

So I proceeded to ask the soldier about this step by step.

“By any chance, was there a demon king among the invading demon lords?”

“Ah… There was no such report.”

“So, did the Four Heavenly Kings invade?”

“No. There were no Four Heavenly Kings.”

“Then who is the demon in command of the demon army?”

“Once the contents of the report said that he was the commander of the 13th corps.”

What the princess heard from the soldier was quite shocking.

As the princess who holds all the military powers of the empire, she is always informed of the situation on the battlefield.

Even the princess knew roughly who was strong and who was weak in the Demon King’s army.

The strongest demon king in the demon king army, and four angel kings under him. And beneath it were the 15 corps commanders.

“No, why the hell are you losing to the 13th corps commander…”

And the corps commanders weren’t that strong.

Of course, since they have the position of corps commander, they are definitely not weak demons in terms of absolute value.

However, compared to the Demon King and the Four Heavenly Kings, they were so weak that they couldn’t even be compared.

That’s because the Demon King and the Four Heavenly Kings were monsters with different arcs.

By the way, Xerath defeated the Four Heavenly Kings.

Of course, shouldn’t Balt, who is superior to Xerath, have to catch the Four Heavenly Kings?

I thought of it with common sense, so that was of course the right procedure.

But common sense didn’t work at all.

Why?

“…”

The princess started thinking about it, and she soon concluded that there were only two possibilities.

Either Balt made a mistake in battle, or Xerath, the wizard of the former warrior party, is much stronger than he thought.

It must be one of these two, but which one is more likely?

The princess thought over her thoughts, and finally she came to a conclusion.

‘As expected… Balt made a mistake, right?’

The princess thought that no matter how much she thought about it, there was no way that Xerath would be strong.

‘Xerath is the worst mage in the warrior party. Princess.’

The princess often has a conversation with the warrior alone, and at that time she hears a lot about Xeras from Chloe.

And most of those stories were gossip about Xerath.

It was Chloe who always looked at Xerath when they were alone.

If Chloe, the hero of the warriors’ party, and no one else, would say such a thing, Xerath would not be an excellent wizard.

That was an improbable statement.

“As expected, I had no real experience… I just made a mistake.”

So, it would be correct to say that Balt fought worse than expected.

Everyone has no choice but to fail the first time and cannot reveal their original skills.

How much less would it be like being a commander in a war?

No matter how good a wizard he is, the battlefield is a collection of variable lumps, probably a situation similar to three consecutive 1’s on a die.

It must have been a bad situation in many ways.

But it was okay.

Because there are still quite a lot of talented people in the empire.

“Whoa. Tell Lord Moldevaha right now. Head to the battlefield right now.”

“Yes. I understand. Princess.”

If the commander died, it was only necessary to leave it to another commander.

The soldiers who heard the princess’ order immediately ran out. To bring Moldebach, as she said.

“Lord Moldebach would be fine.”

The princess looked at the soldier and made a bitter expression.

It feels like an unwanted development.

The reason she reacted like that was because, in fact, she didn’t want to sing Molde Bach from her point of view.

“Well, he’s not a full-blood noble, but he is.”

It was clear that Moldevaha was a considerable talent.

I didn’t get into the warrior’s party, but it’s an excellent article enough to be mentioned as a warrior’s party.

However, the princess couldn’t help but take him very kindly.

Because he was an illegitimate child raised in an aristocratic family.

Since it was not a noble family of perfect and pure blood, the princess was not happy with it.

It was because she was the princess that she only wanted to use pure-blood aristocrats.

“I’m sure it can be stopped.”

But now is not the time to cover hot rice with cold rice.

Now that the empire is under attack, it was an unavoidable choice to overcome the current situation.

“Then I will definitely stop it.”

The princess believed that this problem would be resolved only this time, and she had no doubts.

@ @ @

While Chloe was on her way to the Empire, she saw soldiers advancing.

“Did the demons invade?”

Perhaps the demons invaded the empire.

She was sure even though she didn’t know much information at the moment.

It is also the hero’s duty to fight the Demon King’s army on a fictitious day, and naturally, she had no choice but to feel good about it.

And, of course, if this situation comes, she, as a hero, will of course be for the sake of the empire.

She was to fight to protect the empire.

“I don’t really want to save it right now.”

But I’m not going to go get it right now.

Of course, Chloe had no intention of letting the empire perish.

No matter how noble the princess was, she had no intention of letting all the people in the empire die.

However, there were more important things left for her now.

“Wait, Princess.”

It was to meet her princess.

Now, the princess who brought her work to this point, Chloe, intends to hold her accountable.

It won’t be too late to save the empire after that.

@ @ @

The news of the obituary of the court mage Balt.

After that, the princess appointed Molde Baha as her commander and prepared for war with the demons again.

I waited, hoping that this time I would defeat the demon army that invaded the empire with words.

“Princess. News about the war.”

“I’m sure Lord Moldebach took care of everything, right?”

“Oh… No. That’s…”

“…?”

However, the news she heard about her was never good.

A soldier staring at the princess for a while, his expression was not good, and the princess instinctively sensed it.

I thought I would definitely hear bad things about it.

“Lord Moldebach passed away.”

“Why the hell!!!”

And that intuition wasn’t wrong at all.

Moldebaja was defeated within a day of appointing him as commander.

The absurd fact made her despair.

“Why the hell did this happen…?”

Why the hell did all of Moldebach die after Balt?

Is it that difficult to stop the Demon King’s army?

She couldn’t understand at all.

“I have to send another general. Call all generals now.”

However, what I had to do now was to stop the Demon King’s army from invading the empire.

Now that this is the case, I was thinking of gathering all the noble generals.

If I collect them all, I’ll be able to do something. For now, you will be able to defend the empire.

Though Letia had such thoughts.

“That’s… Princess. The other generals have already gone…”

“Yes…?”

“Lord Moldebach took them all away… But they all died.”

“Huh.”

The state of the empire was already quite bad.

Not only Moldevaha, but all the other generals couldn’t stop the Demon King’s army.

This was an absurd situation.

All the noble officials of the empire died without being able to use their strength properly.

“Everything?”

“Yes…”

She didn’t understand it so much that she asked the princess again, and her soldier couldn’t bear to lift her face and said yes.

The princess almost fainted at those words, but she managed to keep her balance.

She just wanted her to fall, but now she didn’t know what would happen to the empire if she even fell.

‘Were the officials of the empire so incompetent?’

Obviously Xerath, a former mage of the warriors party, took care of the Four Heavenly Kings by himself.

But now, the bureaucrats of the empire couldn’t help but the commander of the corps.

I never dreamed that the empire’s bureaucrats would be so incompetent.

In addition, there were no Four Heavenly Kings in the Demon King’s army that the officials went to stop.

He’s not a demon king, he’s not the Four Heavenly Kings, he’s just a military commander.

However, even though all the bureaucrats of the empire gathered, they couldn’t stop such a corps commander…

This doesn’t make sense from common sense.

‘No way…?’

For this to make sense, there must be only one possibility.

A second thought popped into her head.

I thought that maybe Xerath, the wizard of the warrior party he exiled, might have been very competent.

Isn’t it because it was Xerath that he stopped the Four Heavenly Kings by himself…?