𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟖𝟒: 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
“Hmm, hmm. There are no powerful monsters around. Let’s go.”
ㅤ
🔹𝕬𝖜𝖊b𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘.𝖈𝖔𝖒 ― 𝕴𝖓𝖉𝖚𝖑𝖌𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖆 𝖈o𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖓𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖑𝖘 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 “𝖉𝖆𝖎𝖑𝖞 𝖚𝖕𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖘” 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖊𝖝𝖈𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖙𝖔 𝖆𝖉𝖛a𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖉 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘🔹
As she said that, the cat-eared woman twitched her cat ears and moved forward, and the other adventurers, including the Automata, followed her.
Being a cat beastman, she apparently has excellent hearing.
In addition to that, she has a danger sensing ability cultivated from years of adventurer life.
There is none better than her as a scout.
In this field, she claimed she wouldn’t lose even to an S-rank.
But that’s self-proclaimed.
Nevertheless, the other adventurers seem to trust her abilities enough to silently follow her.
ㅤ
In that way, the scouting party, centered around the cat-eared woman, conducted a search, basically avoiding all combat and advancing.
And after spending several days expanding their search range, they finally succeeded in finding a horde of monsters.
The location was a town that was less than a day’s distance from the border fort if a carriage was driven normally.
It’s a border town on the Wolfeus Kingdom side.
ㅤ
Well, to be precise, it might be better to say it was a town.
After all, that town was destroyed and occupied by the horde of monsters, and turned into a miserable sight.
ㅤ
“This is…”
“No matter how you look at it…”
“It’s terrible, nya…”
“Darn it, those damn monsters…!”
ㅤ
Seeing that sight, the members of the scouting party each let out their impressions.
Naturally, in as low a voice as possible.
It seems there are no fools who would rush in with rage here.
ㅤ
But still, this is really terrible.
I have a thing or two to say about the destruction of cities and mass slaughter, but this town wasn’t destroyed on a calculated basis.
It feels like wild monsters simply trampled it down on instinct.
As proof, all sorts of monsters are strolling around freely in the town, dirtied by numerous blood stains and corpses.
Goblins and orcs are violating women in the ruins, and creatures like killer wolves are chomping down on human remains, and there’s even cannibalism among the monsters.
This sight is simply hellish.
I don’t sympathize, but I did think it was an unsophisticated way of killing.
ㅤ
And so, the scouting party proceeds carefully through such a hellish town.
They erase their presence, hide their sounds with special shoes, and smear monster scent on their bodies to deceive their smell.
In this way, they proceed with extreme caution and advance their investigation.
ㅤ
As a result, they found out several things.
ㅤ
First of all, there are so many monsters that they’ve spread all over the town.
To put it in numbers, it’s probably in the thousands.
It’s an extremely large number.
In terms of numbers alone, it’s more than the total strength of our dungeon.
Having this many in one town probably means that a part of the Demon Lord’s main force has joined up.
ㅤ
Next is the quality of the monsters.
Most of them are nothing special, just riff-raff like goblins and orcs, but occasionally there are big shots like Goblin Champions mixed in.
In terms of ratio, it’s about 9 to 1, riff-raff to big shots.
That may seem small, but in reality, it means there are hundreds that exceed 1000 in status in a horde of thousands.
Just in one town, the Demon Lord’s army is truly terrifying.
ㅤ
And finally.
They were able to confirm the existence of the boss leading this horde, a top executive of the Demon Lord’s army.
Needless to say, it’s that dragon we worked with before.
He was napping leisurely in the center of the town.
What a slacker.
ㅤ
But even though he’s a slacker, seeing the overwhelmingly powerful dragon, the scouting party was at a loss for words.
Even without being able to use appraisal, they seemed to understand the overwhelming difference in combat power between them and the dragon.
This is quite different from some hero.
ㅤ
The scouting party, who seemed to understand their own power, started to retreat immediately upon the cat-eared woman’s instruction.
… Well, then.
ㅤ
“Shall we start the operation soon?”
ㅤ
I murmured to myself in my living space, issuing instructions to two zombies in the dungeon.
One is the zombie-sensei.
Using teleportation, I transferred another zombie to the town.
This town is one that I passed through when I crossed the national border, so it is registered as the zombie-sensei’s teleportation destination.
The advantage of this is that, unlike the teleportation function in the pseudo-dungeon area, it can send to locations away from the Automata.
ㅤ
And the zombie I transferred by the zombie-sensei.
I ordered the hot-blooded zombie, clad in full armor that even hides his face, to attack the reconnaissance team as I had instructed in advance.
ㅤ
The hot-blooded zombie, having unlocked its true equipment and boosted its status to over 5000, drops down from above onto the reconnaissance team.
ㅤ
“Nya?! Everyone, above!”
“Eh? Guhya?!”
ㅤ
Despite the cat-eared woman’s warning, one member of the reconnaissance team was crushed by the hot-blooded zombie and died.
Naturally, this is inside the pseudo-dungeon area.
DP and experience points come in.
ㅤ
“Where did this guy come from… guhah?!”
“Michael! Uwah?!”
“Gah?! Damn…!”
“Everyone!”
The overwhelmingly strong hot-blooded zombie instantly annihilates the four people other than the Automata and the cat-eared woman.
With that momentum, he punches at the cat-eared woman.
ㅤ
“Nyanya?!”
ㅤ
However, the cat-eared woman blocked it.
Despite the more than double status difference, she parried the punch with a small dagger and stubbornly survived.
I suppose she is an A-class adventurer after all.
Unlike the others, she’s fairly good.
ㅤ
But that is nothing but a desperate struggle.
I control the Automata, have it draw the sword at its waist, and charge at the cat-eared woman.
From the cat-eared woman’s perspective, it must have looked like I was approaching to assist her.
ㅤ
That’s why the sword easily pierced through the cat-eared woman’s chest.
ㅤ
“…Eh?”
ㅤ
The cat-eared woman made a face as if she didn’t understand what had happened.
She must be very confused.
From the cat-eared woman’s point of view, she wouldn’t be able to think of any benefit for me to betray her in this situation.
Normally, she wouldn’t expect a mere adventurer to be affiliated with the Demon Lord’s army.
ㅤ
“Why…? Labi-cha…”
ㅤ
Before she could finish her last words, the hot-blooded zombie’s fist blew off the cat-eared woman’s head.
The cat-eared woman’s body, which had lost its head, falls down.
But there is no blood, as the wound was burnt by the fist wrapped in high heat.
It’s a relatively clean corpse.
“Phew, finally taken care of.”
I murmured to myself in my living space.
After this, all that’s left is to return the hot-blooded zombie and recycle the bodies of the adventurers scattered around, then the job is done.
I should retrieve the Automata into the dungeon before it’s attacked by the surrounding monsters.
Afterwards, I can just send it back near the fortress using the zombie-sensei’s teleportation.
ㅤ
And so, having grasped the movements of the Demon Lord’s army and even managed to annihilate a team, my reconnaissance mission ended with the best outcome.
[insert page=’4633′ display=’content’]
[insert page=’4587′ display=’content’]
Translator’s Blog
Blog
- Will My Cat Eat Me When I Die? (The Truth Might Hurt… Your Feelings)
- The Post-Webnovel Blues: When Your Brain Craves More Than Just a Happy Ending – Beat the Meat
- Eren Yeager vs. Gundam: Who Would Win in a Titan-Sized Showdown?
- Quitting Your Waifus Cold Turkey: Can You ACTUALLY Choose Adulting Over 2D?
- If I Got Isekai’ed 101: Your Guide to Surviving Another World (And Maybe Even Becoming a Harem Protagonist)
Leave a Reply