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24 - Arrived at Dwarf Village

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　A few days' walk westward from the castle of Ashtaroth, the village of the dwarves comes into view.

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　From a distance, it looks more like a village than a town.

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　A few crude masonry houses can be seen.

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　They all have thatched or tin roofs.

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　It was such a poor townscape that it left me wondering if it was a village rather than a town.

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"I thought Dwarves had a lot of good builders."

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　It reminds me of the saying, "A doctor's incurable disease is a white hakama in a dark blue house.

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The dwarven community is not very wealthy. And the dwarves are not interested in decorating themselves.

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"I see."

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"And the mining industry in this village. They don't seem to go home very often. They have a separate house in the mine.

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"I see. But it's too much trouble to go to the mine. I'd like to ask at the residence outside ......."

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Can I help you?　Master?"

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No, I just thought it was odd.

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Strange, sir?

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"Yeah, no matter how many miners there are, women and children still live in that house, don't they?"

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Perhaps.

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"There is no smoke coming out of the house even though it is noon. Don't dwarven women use hearths?"

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"No way. They're not goblins.

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"Then that town must be empty,......?"

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　My eyes were the first to notice, but it was Jeanne d'Arc who made the first move.

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　She said as she pulled the sword from her back.

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"It seems that the settlement has already been destroyed".

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"It is too early to tell, but it seems that the enemy is out there."

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　Two lower-level lesser demons, called "demons," fly toward us.

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　Under their feet was a corpse walking weakly.

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　They are what we call zombies.

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　And not just any zombies, but dwarven zombies.

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"...... what a lowlife."

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　I felt like spitting, but I held back and tried to guess what was going on.

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"It seems that the dwarven settlement was attacked by something. The inhabitants were killed and turned into zombies, I guess.

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"It's a terrible thing to do."

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　Jeanne was heartbroken.

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"I agree with you, but can't we pray later? What we need to do now is to exterminate those demons.

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"Agreed."

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　Jeanne puts her fist on her sword.

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　Eve moves back a little and takes out her dagger as usual.

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　If anything should happen to me, I will kill myself immediately!

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　I will not trouble my master!

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　This is an admirable attitude, but we cannot afford to have them commit suicide over every little thing.

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　However, he is the type of person who will not listen to me even if I tell him so, so I will do something about it by force.

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　In other words, we must defeat the daemons and zombies before they harm Eve.

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　Two daemons are powerful demons, but Jeanne and I will be able to handle them.

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　There were about ten zombies, but if I fall behind with such a large number of zombies, I won't be able to maintain the castle for half a year, let alone become a great demon king.

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　I can't afford to struggle in a place like this.

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　With a shortened chant, he created two "fireball" spells at the same time and threw them alternately.

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　To a group of daemons and zombies.

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　One of the daemons was shot down by it, but it seems that it did not take a life.

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　He looks furious and vows revenge.

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　Meanwhile, the fireball that landed on the group of zombies was well alight.

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　As one would expect from zombies, they burn well.

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　The fat of the dwarves must be a good fuel.

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　Or perhaps the spirits they drank just before their deaths are fueling them.

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　Jeanne was running briskly as she let out such an imprudent comment.

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　She seems to be aiming at the demons that have fallen to the ground while cutting down a group of zombies.

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　She can't use magic, so she clips her wings before she can escape into the sky. She looks like a dumb kid, but she's pretty smart.

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　Then I should deal with the flying daemons.

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　I cast a levitation spell and confront the demon in the sky.

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　I speak to them in a common language.

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"Who are you? What have you done to the dwarves?

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　The more the scoundrel talks, the more he talks.

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　The devil answered in a common language.

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"We are under the command of the demon lord Eligos. We rule the Dwarven settlements."

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"Rule?　Isn't that the wrong word for destruction?　You turned the people into zombies."

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"We kill anyone who resists, and we only turn them into zombies for Master Shalltal, the necromancer."

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That's called being a scoundrel.

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　I was so angry that I decided to kill him instantly.

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　I cast a spell.

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　This magic is powerful, but it takes time to cast the spell.

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　During that time, I would be defenseless, but I could handle that.

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　He is not that bad at the physical arts either.

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The breath of the spirit born in darkness,

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　Become a blade of icy wind to seal your opponent!"

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　I'm going to cast the spell of the blizzard.

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　I was able to cast this spell partly because I was able to dodge their attacks with my physical skills, but also because of my men.

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　Jeanne, who had cleaned up the zombies on the ground and knocked off the demon's head, was covering for me from the ground.

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　She throws the heads of the dead daemons mercilessly into the air.

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　The daemon's head itself is not powerful, but it has the effect of scaring the surviving daemons.

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　The daemon, though demonic in appearance, seems to be horrified at the thought of having its own kind killed.

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　It's face twisted into a hideous expression, and it gasped.

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　I do not miss that moment, complete the chanting of the spell, and feed him with a "snowstorm" spell.

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　The blizzard storm, created by the purity of the magic and the precision of the chanting, enveloped the daemon in an instant, turning his dark skin white.

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　The daemon tries to escape from it, but the tracking performance of my magic is extraordinary.

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　The wings immediately freeze and the daemon falls to the ground.

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　The daemon is frozen in place.

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　The ice wall has contained it.

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　Jeanne watches in amazement.

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"The Demon King is amazing ......, the most powerful sorcerer!"

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　The ice is not a permanent ice wall and will melt one day, but even then the daemons' cells will be completely necrotic and dead by then.

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　This is a good end for the demon that attacked the dwarves and played with their lives.

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　If there were any surviving dwarves, I would have asked them to spit on me, but that did not happen.

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　We had defeated a demon and a moving corpse, but we had fought too hard and too spectacularly.

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　I fired a lot of magic and Jeanne swung her sword so hard it made the ground groan.

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　The enemy would not have missed the commotion.

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　I looked and saw zombies coming from the back.

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　A dozen or so sorcerers and demons could be seen commanding them.

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We're outnumbered.

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　With my magical power and Jeanne's swordsmanship, we would be able to defeat them all at once, but we still wouldn't be able to beat their numbers.

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　Thinking so, I decided to pull back.

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　Jeanne saw this and said in disapproval.

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"Are you running away, Demon King?"

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"We're not running away. It's a strategic retreat."

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"I don't understand."

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Then trust me. In the Orient, there's a saying in the other world... "The thirty-six best-planned moves are the ones that get you away."

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Okay. But how do we escape?

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"Well, you just turn around the way you came, and just keep going..."

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　I stop what I'm about to say.

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　When I turned around, there was already a huge army of zombies.

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　I guess I was so caught up in the fight that I didn't notice.

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　Eve is about to be attacked, so I try to burn her down with a fireball, but it's not enough.

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　There were so many of them.

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　This is not good.

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　If it were just me, I could run through them and escape, but with Jeanne and Eve, it's a different story.

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　I might be stuck.

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　Soldiers (pawns) are springing up endlessly on the chessboard, and I have only a king, a queen, and a bishop. Such is the situation.

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　Now, what should we do?

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　I guess I should open a blood channel and let them go.

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　I thought that was the only way, but a helping hand appears from an unexpected place.

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　The rock, which I had thought was a small rock, suddenly opened up, and an old man with white hair came out of it.

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　He says, "I'm here to help you.

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"We know that you are against Eligos. And that you are powerful. It would be a shame to lose your lives here. I implore you to go underground with me and help me to defeat him."

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"You're going to save my life?"

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"Not for free, though."

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　The old man lies.

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　I like it. It's a hell of a lot better than being saved by the good guys at this point.

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　Besides, it's a given that we'll be enemies with Eligos.

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　We'll have no trouble getting this old man's help.

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　I put first Eve and then Jeanne in the hole and went underground.

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