The energy I had felt on the battlefield for the past few years was enough to wake me up from a deep sleep.

The gloomy energy flowing through the body was a sensation that could not be denied even if it was instinctively denied.

As soon as I felt it, I quickly got up and stepped out of the tent.

Suddenly, the sky turned black as if to announce the woman’s approach.

“… Mr. Conrad is also awake.”

Perhaps thanks to divine power, Saint Claire, who is sensitive to dark magic, already felt something and came out of the tent.

“Are you awake, Senior Conrad?”

Hilla, who was on watch, greeted me with a serious expression.

“Something is bothering me. It’s just a completely different energy from when a lot of monsters came like before.”

“I don’t feel good either.”

Of course it doesn’t feel good.

This gloomy aura itself meant that an executive of the Dark Church was approaching this place.

Unless you were an ordinary person who couldn’t feel magical powers, you couldn’t feel comfortable with this gloomy aura.

“Hilla, wake up Stella and Willia, who are still in the tent.

Saint Claire, please explore where the dark magic is most strongly felt.”

“Yeah!”

“… I know.”

Checking out Hilla, who entered Willia’s tent, and Saint Clare, who joined hands to spread divine power.

I went straight into my tent and grabbed the leather pouch I had prepared.

A bag full of what I need to use the 7th circle magic even if I am forced to.

“Senior Conrad!”

After checking Stella and Willia as they rushed out of the tent, she waited for Saint Claire’s mouth to open as she was holding her hands together.

“… I found it.”

With a confident expression, she spit out the location where the leader of the Dark Church is presumed to be.

“It’s coming straight northeast, toward the outpost.”

“… Fortunately, it saved me a lot of trouble.”

It would have been quite cumbersome to defeat the warriors there if we had moved to the other camp for no reason, but it was good news for us to come straight to the post.

It was like having an advantage of being able to fight to your heart’s content without anyone noticing.

Before the full-scale battle begins, each person was simply told what to do.

“Hilla.”

“Yeah.”

“Where is Warburg’s elite army now?”

“Currently, we are encamped on the west side of the camp and waiting. They will probably disperse today to support places where there is a shortage of personnel.”

“You go to the elite corps camp to the west right now and tell them not to let any elite soldiers come around here.”

When dealing with an executive of the Dark Church, halfway reinforcements would only be a hindrance, so it was a sincere advice in its own way.

“… Yeah?”

“If you come east, you will die. Or you may face a lesser end.”

“However, we, Warburg’s elite troops, only have carefully selected soldiers, so we will never interfere with senior Conrad… .”

“Then, who among them can beat you Hilla one-on-one?”

“… … .”

No matter how elite the army is, there is no stronger soldier than Hilla, who inherited Warburg blood.

If I had to ask, at least one of them would be a possibility.

“If it’s Mr. Wolfheard, maybe… .”

“But he’s the commander, so he can’t escape on his own.”

“… … .”

“Listen to me. No, I don’t have time to argue with you right now in the first place.”

From now on, it was a tight time to say only the bare minimum and go out of the guard post to prepare.

If time was delayed in a place like this because of her and the elite troops she brought, it would surely lead to great sacrifices.

I deliberately tried to keep her from thinking harsh thoughts, even if I spoke firmly.

“… Okay. I will tell Mr. Wolfheard that way.”

Fortunately, Hilla understood my meaning and quickly ran to the west of the camp with her sword.

There were only four people left near the campfire to deal with Seely Willy, including myself.

They were people who had encountered the existence of the Dark Church at least once in some form, so there was no need to waste time on cumbersome explanations.

They were the people who would understand even if they just told each other what they had to say from now on.

“I won’t explain at length because I don’t have time. From now on, we have to go to battle against the executives of the Dark Church.”

“… If you are an executive of the Dark Church, are you a more dangerous opponent than the previous professor, Mr. Conrad?”

“There is a high possibility that he is an incomparably dangerous guy. Even compared to that monster you saw, Stella.”

“Is that so… .”

I continued talking as if informing the three women who flinched slightly at my words.

“A person who thinks he doesn’t want to get involved because he looks dangerous even now, a giant.”

It would be ideal if no one fell out at all, but this was a question I asked thinking that if there was someone who was scared, it would be better to fall out.

… Even if Stella or Saint Clare were to be left out, the strategy would have to be greatly revised.

“I will fight, Senior Conrad!”

“Even if we drop out, would Mr. Conrad intend to face that opponent?”

“Why are you asking the obvious?”

“Then, of course, I can’t leave either.”

Fortunately, the declarations of Stella and Claire’s participation in the war, which were essential forces, were secured, so what remained was Willia’s answer.

“me too… .”

“… … .”

“Even though it may not be much help compared to Saint Clare or Stella, I also want to be of some help to Conrad-sama!

Please let me fight against the executives of the Dark Church, Conrad-sama.”

That was a good answer.

⁎ ⁎ ⁎

All four members, including Saint Clare, Stella, and Willia, moved to the guard post defense line without delay.

Fortunately, thanks to my monster countermeasure strategy that I used the day before and yesterday, there were no other troops stationed on the defense line near the post.

In other words, it meant that we could fight on our own without the interference of other warriors.

In particular, since most of the officers under Beldrial were proficient in witchcraft, the corpses of the northern warriors who died after running into them would only become materials for necromancy.

It was in the same context that Hela was ordered to stop other soldiers from coming here.

The hard armor of the elite troops would not mean much against Silly Willy, and the corpse of the armed Warburg soldier would return as a difficult enemy to deal with.

A person who never dies against an executive of the Dark Church and can fully demonstrate his skills.

Among them, these three were the only ones who could listen to me and follow me without saying anything.

Future hero, Stella.

Saint of the Orthodox Church, Claire.

The former escort knight of the saintess, Willia.

It’s only three people, but when 300 northern warriors moved to the guard post defense line with them who were not envious of them.

The demonic energy, which was thicker than at the campsite, was the first to greet us.

“I’ll explain what each of us has to do from now on.”

“… … Yeah.”

“Perhaps a person of the level of an executive of the Dark Church will surely emerge from that fog. I’m still not sure if it’s a man or a woman, or if it’s in the form of a monster rather than a human.”

“Is that so.”

“It’s me who finishes him. In the meantime, all you have to do is buy time.”

The three nodded their heads quietly, making eye contact with each other, clearly conveying what they had to do.

“First of all, Stella.”

“Yeah.”

“Your role is to prevent direct attacks from the leaders of the Dark Church. Block any attack that looks like you can block it with your sword.

You don’t even have to think about cutting or killing them, don’t forget that what you need to do is buy as much time as possible.”

“All right.”

Facing her determined eyes, Stella nodded with a confident voice.

“And Saint Clare.”

“Yeah.”

“Saintess, you must purify the demons that are flocking to you with holy power.

In particular, the power of magic weakens when demonic energy builds up around me, so please purify it as thoroughly as possible.”

“… Okay, it’s simple.”

Although she herself will know best that it is not that simple when she faces it.

Even so, he knew that he was not the kind of person who would abandon his duty, so there was no need to be afraid from now on.

“Finally, Willia.”

“Yeah.”

“You are an assistant. Don’t try to step out and do something, just think about thoroughly assisting Stella.

Act with the idea that you will only block attacks that come too fast for Stella to block, or attacks from a blind spot.”

“Has confirmed.”

“Stella, keep in mind too. Do not overdo it thinking that you will block all attacks, and move efficiently while entrusting the attacks that you want to leave to Willia.”

“Yeah!”

Still, since they’ve been clashing swords with each other for over a month, if she’s on her level, Stella’s assistant won’t be enough.

When the three of them delivered exactly what they had to do.

A woman’s silhouette slowly emerged from the fog.

“What is it, isn’t it much smaller than I thought?”

Seely Willy, whose voice sounded like multiple women’s voices overlapped, murmured something as if she were disappointed.

“I deliberately walked out without hiding Maggie, but are you all the ones who came to meet me?”

“… … .”

“Or are you the only ones left because the other guys are so scared of my children? Cuckoo, that kind of thing is fun in its own way.”

As it was originally, the monster army until yesterday wouldn’t have been enough to inflict enough devastating damage.

Seeing the current situation where only us had appeared, I could fully understand why he was so confident.

“Anyway, these kids are really nice, but the biggest problem is that they can’t communicate… .

I have to come out like this and see with my own eyes to see how many of you have died.”

“… … .”

“right? children?”

“Keew… !!”

“Geuh, goo… .”

With Silly Willy’s words at the end, hundreds of monsters following her collapsed on the ground at the same time.

Necromancer, a spell that uses the life force of living things to control the dead.

It was one of the favorite spells of Beldrial’s subordinates.

I was sure he would have been preparing for it this time as well.

The reason why he did not dare to reveal himself from the beginning, but only pushed the endless army of monsters to the front for four days.

Maybe it was built for this moment.

There could be no material for necromancy as great as the corpses of warriors who fell asleep without finding a resting place on the earth.

It was a plan that made good use of the characteristics of northern warriors who left the bodies of fallen warriors on the battlefield.

Originally, at least three digits of northern warriors would have been sleeping on this vast northern territory.

Raising all of them into undead warriors would make sweeping the northern territory a breeze.

In fact, he must have used this method when he occupied part of the northern part in his previous life.

“… … what?”

However, the necromantic technique used by dedicating hundreds of monsters had no effect and stopped as it was.

Embarrassed, Seely Willy only let out a silly exclamation.

“I-it can’t be like this?”

It was the moment when the monster defense line, which had spent several days preventing sacrifices, took effect.

It can be seen as a feat achieved not only by us, but by the cooperation of all northern warriors.

“No, no way… . They sacrificed so many children, and not one of them died… ?

Crab, even after sacrificing hundreds of children for this moment?!”

“So it is. Thanks to that, the monsters you just killed are literally dead.”

“… What?”

Silly Willie, who was muttering while clutching her hair as if in a frenzy, shot me a bright red eye.

“Thanks to your stupid plan, I saved you the trouble of killing monsters.”

“… you will kill Laugh at the sacrifice of my children… ?”

“If you can, try it.”

Fortunately, the provocation with the monsters he liked so much worked well.

With this, Seely Willy, whose plans aren’t working out, won’t feel strange and run away.

If I missed him today, I didn’t know when I might have another chance to kill him next time. It was a very natural future for the guy who ran away to make another sacrifice in another area.

So, even if it was a bit dangerous to deal with with this current power, I had to tie the guy’s feet somehow.

“Damn human bastard… .”

Standing in front of the guy who lost his reason, I was memorizing the 7th circle magic spell I had already prepared in my head.

It was the last battle at the border of monsters in the north.