After the first night, I had the Swallow People (Swallow People) mobilize all of them to go check the damage in the area and gather information.

　In the meantime, we will check the damage around the northern fort.

　Fortunately, there was no damage to the fort itself, thanks to the fact that we were able to stop all foreign enemy attacks before the fort, but the entire forest area that became the battlefield was

　Chimera-like poisoning
　Sparks of the Aura Flame
　The result of a war between two giant creatures and a large number of soldiers.

　The combination of various influences made the situation quite bad over a wide area.

''I'm sorry.......if I could have attacked you a little better......''
　Aura, who had returned to her human form, was apologetically sullen, but thanks to her hard work, we only had to do this much damage.
　I put my hand on Aura's shoulder as I told her this.
　With my words, Aura seemed to regain some of her energy.

　Sara, on the other hand, inhaled all of the chimera sham.
　He was still in his salamander form, still lying down near the fort.
　I'm sure you'll be able to find a lot more information on this.

Whatever it is, it tastes so bad and it's barely digestible.
　Foldente was chuckling in front of Sarah's eyes.
　He said that he can't return to his human form until he has digested it to some extent, and at this rate of digestion, it will probably take a few more days.

　I told him not to take it easy as he was the biggest contributor to this project.
　When I get back to human form (human form), I'm going to be treated to some good food.

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　In the early afternoon, the swallow people who had gone out to gather information began to gradually return.

　According to their information.
　The chimera pseudo-apparent appeared out of nowhere from the outskirts of Batcombe.
　Heading south, destroying the city of Batcombe.

　The city of Gehmose was also destroyed as it was, and then they approached the village of Liberty.

　The damage to the center of the frontier city of Batcombe wasn't small either.
　Fortunately, it had already been confirmed that the lord, Gelter, was safe.

　They must have been relieved to hear that Vibrina's group, which had left for Batcombe first thing in the morning, had been informed.


　Meanwhile, the damage to the small frontier city of Gehmose was quite extensive.

　Most of the city's main buildings, including the town hall and the lord's residence, had been destroyed or severely damaged by the chimera that had invaded from the north, and the middle-aged lord Geldos was reportedly still missing.

　In addition to the absence of the lord, the town hall has been destroyed and the command system is completely paralyzed, so it seems that the restoration work is not progressing as expected.

　For the time being, I asked the Swallow People to inform the town's union officials or the town hall officials that if they needed help from us, they could offer it at any time, and I asked them to head back to Gehemorse.

　Fortunately, the small frontier city of Picks and Eads, which lies to the east and west of Gehemorse, were not affected, I was told.

　While I was gathering information, a feather fairy arrived from Picks.
　The feather fairy has brought a letter of intent from the lord Krom, which says
　It was noted that I'd like to know what's going on in this case, to the best of my knowledge, and I'd like to know what's going on.

　I am.
　I asked the feather fairy to give a message to Chrome that this one is still investigating the situation as well, so I'll visit them soon and explain it to them.

　The feather fairy nodded and flew quite quickly towards Pix.

　Anyway.
　There is an overwhelming lack of information...
　
　I inspected my surroundings, waiting for information from the swallow people.

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　As the sun began to set, two fast horses, coming from different directions, arrived at the northern fort at about the same time.

　One of them was from Batcombe.
　The messenger of the fast horse carried a letter of intent from the Lord of Batcombe, Gelter.

　In it.
　He would like to apologize for the incident and explain the situation, and would like to visit me as soon as possible so he can meet with me.
　It also stated that the surveillance, and currently, Gelter himself was not lightly injured and that he had to prioritize the recovery of the city of Batcombe, so he needed to wait a bit.

　From the contents of this, I can only surmise that
　It is assumed that Walter knows something about that chimera spook.
　While I certainly want to know the truth of the situation as soon as possible.
　Right now, I am more worried about Gelter's injury than that.
　I asked the messenger to return the message to tell Gelter to take it easy.

　The other was from Gehmose.
　It was the union of the city of Gehemorse that had sent the fast horse to him.
　According to the union, the town hall in Gehemorse was completely paralyzed, and recovery work and treatment of the injured people in the town were not progressing fast enough, so they wanted us to come to their aid.

　After receiving the offer of a fast horse, I immediately began the task of organizing a support team.

　In order to prioritize the treatment of the injured, I organized a medical team led by Erdena and Yorme, gathered as much medicine and other supplies as possible, and had them leave as soon as the boar's stagecoach was ready.

　I also called for the people of strength working in the agricultural fields.
　I'm planning to send these people to help with the removal of debris and other tasks.



　I really hope Sarah's belly gets better soon.

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　The next morning.
　I led my troops, mostly agricultural workers, to Gehmose.
　The forest on the way to the city was in pretty bad shape, with the trees where the chimera wolf had advanced being razed to the ground.

　The state of the city was also worse than I had imagined.

　Since the chimera shroud had attacked in the middle of the night, quite a few people who had been sleeping were affected.
　Erdena and the other medical units that had arrived in Geghemorse earlier were carrying the injured into the large buildings that had not been destroyed, such as the auditorium, where they continued to treat them.
　
　When I arrived, the head of the union in Gehemorse, the ant-man, repeatedly bowed his head and clasped my hands as he thanked me for my help.
　When I responded that in times of trouble, it's up to each other, he bowed his head more fearfully.

　I asked him about the extent of the damage and discussed with him the areas to be cleaned up first.

　He said that restoring the functioning of the town hall would be his first priority.
　I instructed the reconstruction team to begin their work from the area where the town hall was located.

　When I finished giving the order and confirmed that the work of clearing the debris had begun, I returned to the area where Erdena and the others were continuing their treatment and helped them there.
　We're in a complete lack of manpower, anyway.
　We need to treat the injured people as soon as possible

　In the meantime, I heard some gossip from those who were being treated.

　First, the rumors about Lord Geldos.

　When the chimera pseudo-attacks
　That the lord, Geldos, had apparently been the first to flee in a carriage loaded with a large amount of gold and silver treasure.
　This unfortunately seemed to be true, as quite a few townspeople had made similar witness statements.
　Normally, a lord would have to take the initiative in times like this to guide the evacuation...


　Next, rumors about the frontier garrison.

　When the chimera pseudo-chimera attacked, the town hall was not functioning, so the union members sent an independent request for help to the nearby frontier garrison.
　It is said that the soldiers of the garrison received the request and came as far as Gehemorse.
　However, the soldiers who discovered the chimera-like creature were so frightened by the sight of it that they ran back to their homes without doing anything....
　
　

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　Why did the chimera pseudopod appeared?
　What was the mysterious troops that attacked with the chimera pseudopod?　

　As for the root of the case, we still had no information about the case.

　Nevertheless

　Right now, I've decided that it's more important to hurry up the work of restoring Gehmose, and I'm taking the lead in that work.

　If we are able to hold a meeting with Gelter in Batcombe, this fundamental part will be clarified somewhat... and then we will be able to prepare and submit a written report to the king's capital.

　While I was thinking about this and that, I kept on treating the injured people.