Evade The Hero and Flee! - Chapter 330

Chapter 330

35. Flee from the Heroes (3)

What is this? A resonance trap?

Why did the promised signal go off but the army of the evil god is here?

A dud? Could there have been a dud among the reliable Black Anvil weapons I was using?

– Master, get a hold of yourself! Look at the number of weapons that were about to be fired!

As the metal bat said.

Hundreds of weapons.

The probability of them all being duds is close to zero.

That means…

– As expected, is this the work of the world? Is the world trying to mess with me?!

Other than the world or the will of the gods intervening and stopping all the dwarf weapons, there’s no way this could have happened.

– Master! For now, the gods are on our side! The gods also think it would be the worst case scenario for you to suffer a loss against the Demon King!

– Is, is that so?

– That’s right! After the Demon King falls, I don’t know what they’ll do with you, but you’re safe until then. So don’t worry.

– After the Demon King comes the gods?

What do you mean don’t worry?

Even if I take down the Demon King, feels like the gods could still block my path.

– It’ll be fine! The gods don’t know your location!

That’s true. Unlike the Demon King, the gods can’t track my location so I should be okay.

-…Bullshit! It’s obvious the heroes will come charging in, and you tell me not to worry?

In a way, the heroes and the religion were more troublesome than the empire.

The heroes were individuals who transcended human limits, and the religion existed somewhere in this world without fail.

Even in the small countryside village where I lived with my daughter, there were 3 small churches operated by civilians and 1 official church with priests.

To think there were 4 churches, even civilian-operated ones, in a village so remote it could be called the end of the earth!

What’s more, there were intense power struggles between each church.

– That’s true. The owner of the herbal shop, the owner of the meat shop, and the lady who owned the general store had intense rivalries.

Every week for the church events, they would give discounts on herbs, meat, and general store items to attract more participants.

The winner was the owner of the meat shop who operated the Religion of the Winds.

Meat was the strongest after all.

“Sir Hectare!”

Hearing the shout of a middle-aged man in the distance brings my drifting mind back to reality.

Damn! Don’t make me come back to my senses!

Uoooooo!

With the typical orc scream, a rugged log comes crashing down.

Extremely fast speed.

But not fast enough that I couldn’t dodge it.

Thwack!

“Damn…! These guys are barely affected by swords.”

The moment I retrieved the fallen log, the sensation was as if I scraped steel rather than leather on the wrist holding the log.

“So damn hard.”

For a normal orc, while it wouldn’t sever my wrist, it would be an attack damaging enough to make me unable to use one hand.

Gueueueueue!

As if completely unfazed, he tries to swing the log at me again.

With the reduced distance, I hurriedly try to dodge.

I barely managed to avoid the log, with only about half a step difference.

– Don’t I have something like that?

If I had that level of physical enhancement, my troubles would’ve been reduced by half.

– That’s the culmination of all the evil in the world stuffed into it. It’s not enhancement, it has absorbed part of the evil concept like you and the Demon King have.

Absorbing the concept of evil. It was the same as absorbing part of the divinity held by gods.

Among the beings on earth, only a very small number could do that.

And that’s what the world called them.

– So each one of them is an evil god’s hero, saint, holy maidens?

Heroes, saints and holy maidens.

Those who received the gods’ blessings and held part of the gods’ power.

They cannot use omnipotent abilities like gods, but they transcend human limits.

According to the metal bat, the reason they could exceed human limits without even realizing it themselves was because they had inherited part of the gods’ power.

– That’s a bit different.

– How is it different?

– In the case of heroes, when they die the power returns to the god, but it’s different for those guys.

– How is it different?

– The evil concept itself inside their bodies just disappears.

A sacrifice to protect the world.

That was how the metal bat described the army of the evil god.

– The Demon King and the evil god’s army were half created by the gods in the first place. It’s to let the evil accumulated in the world gather in one place and explode on a small scale before the world itself explodes.

In other words, to detonate the Demon King and evil god’s army before the world blows up.

– Efficient.

I don’t say things like ‘I feel sorry for them!’ or ‘No existence deserves to die like that!’.

Those are lines male and female protagonists would say.

To a villain like me, it looked like an extremely efficient system.

Sacrificing the small for the big. It’s a very efficient system as long as I’m not associated with the sacrifice.

– Of course, I can’t understand the suffering I’m going through because of that system.

Just look at the army of the evil god charging and screaming ‘Guooo!’ and ‘Kraaang!’ at me right now.

Other than Swordmaster, Count Maberuff, and his knights, I’m barely taking any damage from them.

– Should I flee?

– Might not be too bad.

Just as I was seriously considering retreating, Count Maberuff approached me.

Guooooo!

“Vile being tainted by evil!”

Along with a vile scream, the neck of the orc corrupted by evil was severed.

No matter how enhanced by evil an orc was, it could not block the attack of a swordsmaster.

“Are you unharmed, Hectare?”

“I’m fine.”

My only goal was the Demon King.

I had no intention of overexerting myself before fighting the Demon King.

I was only checking how much attack I’m capable of while evading enemy attacks as much as possible.

Having confirmed I clearly couldn’t damage them, my only action was to flee, flee, and flee again.

“We received word from the mages at the castle. It seems they heard a loud explosion from the rear of the army of the evil god before they could attack.”

“The rear?”

“That’s right.”

It means that the enemy shot first, not us.

“So you’re saying you opened the gate and came out after hearing that sound.”

“That’s right. Baron Pesett, who was preparing to attack, did not attack because our allies could have been caught up in it.”

Speaking of Baron Pesett, it was the name of the nobleman overseeing the dwarf weapons on the city walls.

Although his rank was only a Baron, he made great achievements by operating cannons amazingly.

“It was a good judgment.”

He was a person who deserved the title of Count after the war ended.

If he was just a person who did as he was told, he would have just fired the cannons, in which case most of the personnel here would have died.

“Will you retreat?”

At Count Maberuff’s question, I fell into thought for a moment.

-Shouldn’t the master flee first?

-That’s right, originally.

Originally, I was going to retreat, regroup, fire the cannons again, and then move forward.

-But the fact that such a loud blast was heard from the rear means… It means they moved, right?

If neither the world nor the gods moved, the loud blast heard from the rear means the army of humanity including the heroes started the attack.

And that is,

-It’s both sides.

Behind our rear existed a sturdy ally… No, the worst enemy.

-The Imperial Army also moved.

It was likely that the Imperial Army infiltrated the village of the Black Anvil clan without hesitation.

Although these walls are the best in the continent, no, in this world, managing them was still done by humans in the end.

The soldiers of the Imperial Army and the soldiers of the Princess had an incomparable difference, and that difference could not be blocked even with walls of this degree.

-It’s not an impossible thing to do using summons.

And even without summons, they may have entered inside the walls through other methods.

“The fact that an explosion was heard from behind means it’s highly likely the heroes or another country moved.”

So going inside the castle is suicidal.

Now was the time to take advantage of having come out and defeat the Demon King quickly.

“Finally, reinforcements!”

Count Maberuff’s complexion brightened at my words.

“Then how about retreating and regrouping?”

Hmm, he makes a good point.

If we retreat now and close the gates and start the bombardment, even the evil god army won’t be able to do anything.

That would allow the heroes to intercept the Demon King and it’s a happy ending for everyone except me!

“No.”

But it wasn’t a happy ending for everyone except me, it was a happy ending for me.

You over me, me over you.

That was my class motto in elementary school.

-Really?

-It was if you read it backwards.

-Then it’s you over me, us over you! Apologize to the teacher who came up with the motto!

That’s not how I read it.

It was a classmate who read it that way after falling asleep and waking up.

“Wouldn’t it be better to retreat here?”

Although Count Maberuff was speaking normally, you can only lose out by going the normal route when everyone around you is crazy.

What I needed now was bullshit.

I have to use words that can fool Count Maberuff.

“Our plans may have been leaked.”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

I spoke with a calm expression to the flustered Count Maberuff.

“Why else would they move when they haven’t moved until now?”

“That’s….”

“They are the Hero Alliance. They are the Kingdom Alliance. They are the Religion Alliance. Do you understand?”

“I’m sorry, Lord Hectare!”

A sage who can teach even dwarves.

That was the existence known as Hectare to the Beresseryl Kingdom.

If an ordinary being spouted these words, it would be treated as bullshit, but the story changes when the existence called Hectare says it.

Bullshit can become teachings as well.

“They did not move because there was a spy inside. They knew the state of our army well and hoped it would collapse on its own.”

“That remark is…!”

Count Maberuff was a Swordmaster whose head worked pretty well.

Unlike genius swordsmen like Renia, he steadily built up his skills and experience to become a Swordmaster.

And like people whose heads work well, it was easy to pour some misunderstandings.

“Yes, that’s right. They moved first to defeat the Demon King after hearing that we would defeat the Demon King.”

“Damn it!”

Count Maberuff flushed red as he swore.

“To repeat, they are all alliances. Not a single force but various forces joined together.”

An alliance was not a single force. It was various forces temporarily combining their power for the same purpose.

That was precisely what an alliance was.

It was the same for them as well. Just like the anti-Dong Zhuo alliance that rose up in my past life’s Records of Three Kingdoms to overthrow Dong Zhuo, they were an alliance that rose up to overthrow the Demon King.

Even if the times and worlds are different, if humans are the protagonists of the story, the big flow moves similarly.

That is my judgment as someone who has lived both past and present lives.

“The moment they allied, they had to directly defeat the Demon King.”

The anti-Dong Zhuo alliance only incurred losses and collapsed when it failed to capture Dong Zhuo.

It would be the same for them.

If they fail to defeat the Demon King, they will only incur losses and have to dismantle the alliance.

“The battered and beaten have already allied. They may be able to endure the fruits of victory being taken by another alliance, but they definitely cannot tolerate it being taken by the Beresseryl Kingdom.”

“I sup…pose so.”

Seeing Count Maberuff gritting his teeth, it looks like the misunderstanding has properly started.

“It will be inevitable to lose the ball to other alliances. Because they are heroes, Religions, and kingdoms with greater numbers.”

“But if a small nation like the Beresseryl Kingdom catches the Demon King as a single force, it would be a slap in the face for them.”

“That’s right. That’s why those who had been watching so far have moved.”

It’s probably a coincidence.

It’s an event that occurred by coincidences crossing each other, as often appears in delusional novels.

But the charm of a delusional world is in intricately twisting that coincidence.

Those who were going to watch until the Beresseryl Kingdom was destroyed moved the moment the Beresseryl Kingdom tried to defeat the Demon King.

By twisting that information just enough, Count Maberuff will move as I want.

“I thought they moved for us, even if briefly.”

“Count  Maberuff is a good person. However… The good people are the first to die in war.”

“I’m sorry.”

“No. The Count has nothing to apologize for.”

Bowing his head slightly, he raised his sword.

“All troops, listen to me!”

The dazzling blue light.

Shouting it towards the front, he raised his voice.

“The Beresseryl Kingdom will be the one to drive this sword into the Demon King’s heart!”

Seeing him cutting down dozens of evil god troops in one strike, the soldiers started cheering.

Morale rises. But that alone could not defeat the evil god troops.

“Count Maberuff.”

“Yes, Hectare.”

“I have a plan. Can you lend me your mages?”

“Of course.”

It became easier with Count Maberuff so readily lending his mages.

-Ahhh….

Our great pirate DX opened the curtain on the second pirate era, succeeding his captain who was the Pirate King.

-Wicked apostle of the evil god, are you watching?

He captured even the hearts of telegram bugs that everyone called worthless, and spread the white bearded uncle’s words that there is one piece in the world.

-Demon King, I am, we are here.

Following the actions of the great DX,

-Come. The Beresseryl Kingdom is… And I am here!

I also started the world’s first personal broadcast.

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