The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road Chapter 278
A house standing quietly.
Everyone had a stunned expression at this scene.
Ash blinks his eyes and mutters.
“Ars, are we possibly mistakenly docked at the Northern or Southern Continent?”
“That can’t be.”
“Then what is this? Wasn’t the Eastern Continent supposed to be an uninhabitable demonic realm?”
“Indeed…”
Even Vandalin had referred to the Eastern Continent as a demonic realm.
However, since he himself didn’t seem to have periodically inspected the Eastern Continent, there was a sufficient possibility that something was unknown.
“Let’s go first. Everyone be on guard just in case!”
We headed toward the nearest house.
A house with smoke billowing out.
When we knock,
“Knock knock!”, a presence is heard from inside.
And the face that appears is that of a young woman.
“…?”
The woman furrows her brow looking at us.
And then, Bang! She closes the door.
“Wait…”
Soon, a emergency bell sound of “Clang! Clang! Clang!” rings out inside the house.
As if performing a beacon’s role, bell sounds also rang from other houses, expanding across the entire mountain region.
Gaspar, with his fur standing on end, shouted.
“Ars! A group is approaching! They’re quite strong!”
“Tch! Let’s try to make contact first. We’re in a state of using Teleportation Scroll, so we can retreat with that if necessary.”
Soon, a group of warriors with an intimidating presence appeared.
The notable point was that they were all women.
We drew our weapons and confronted them.
However, they didn’t seem particularly hostile toward us.
They seemed to be trying to initiate a conversation to see if dialogue was possible.
At that moment, Mirabel reacted.
She opened her eyes wide and began conversing with the other party.
“Jude?”
Seeming to know the group’s leader, Mirabel expressed her doubt.
The other party also opened their mouth wide upon seeing Mirabel’s face.
Soon they clasped arms and exchanged intense greetings.
“What exactly is happening?”
I felt the same sentiment as Ash.
Fortunately, after Mirabel’s greeting, the hostility emanating from the other party subsided.
Mirabel gestures toward me as if introducing me.
The female warrior called Jude looks me over as if evaluating me, then nods and begins guiding us somewhere.
The place we were heading was a village located in the center of the hills.
Female warriors were busily working here.
I casually asked Mirabel,
“What exactly are these people?”
“A sad tribe.”
“…?”
“These kids helped humans in a war. So they received a curse from Olkin. Only women are born and they can only have children with humans.”
“It feels similar to the curse you received.”
I had heard that Mirabel’s curse was casted by the mother goddess.
Mirabel also nods.
“Maybe it’s not Olkin. This was probably done by the mother goddess.”
Anyway, to summarize, this tribe of only women is called Goldian, a different race.
Now they look completely human, but apparently they were closer to beast-people in the past.
After receiving the curse and only interacting with humans, they became identical to humans.
‘That being said…’
They were clearly not beings of the current world.
Monsters made of magic. They were the same type of existence as Mirabel.
I was concerned about them establishing houses and civilization when they should be living in dungeons.
‘I wish someone who knows more details was here.’
I even wanted to bring Vandalin.
At that moment, Elliot urged me.
“Hey Ars! It’s here!”
“Pardon?”
“Your vassal Rutger is here in this place!”
“…!”
As soon as those words ended, Rutger poked his head out of the largest house in the village.
He stared at our group.
“Ars!”
Rutger quickly ran over. He seemed to have completely adapted to life here, even wearing similar clothes.
He immediately looked for Estelle.
“Estelle is safe, so don’t worry. Let’s talk slowly.”
It seemed like there was a lot to discuss.
* * *
After moving to a different location, we shared information with each other.
Rutger seems relieved that Estelle is safe, but then becomes furiously angry upon hearing she is pregnant.
“Ugh…!”
Showing a disposition of knowing he must acknowledge it but not wanting to.
“B-but I still can’t approve the marriage!”
“You should say that to Estelle. More importantly, can you tell us what happened here?”
Rutger had been missing for approximately 6 months.
It seemed he had been living here the entire time.
“I was also surprised. I was suddenly kidnapped.”
“Kidnapped…?”
“At first, I thought they were going to kill me and everything went dark, but that wasn’t the case. They were trying to teach me their language. To survive, I desperately learned the language.”
“So? What are the goals of these Goldian people?”
“The dawn of life.”
“…?”
“Apparently, these people have been living for hundreds of years in bodies that cannot die.”
“That makes sense.”
Because no one comes to clear dungeons in this Eastern Continent.
To people, this is considered a dead land.
“After living for such a long time, it seems these people have developed various thoughts. At first, they fought battles with nearby monsters, but eventually grew tired of that. So they decided to create their own civilization.”
“Wow…!”
Monsters made of magic creating a civilization.
“It’s incredibly ephemeral.”
Anyway, they are beings that will eventually disappear by becoming magic.
However, Rutger shook his head.
“It seems there might be a way.”
“A way?”
“I didn’t hear the details, but it seems there’s a type of magic that can acquire a physical body.”
“…!?”
As he said that, something clicked for me.
“Are you talking about blood magic?”
“Hm? Did you also know about it? That’s exactly it. Using that, they will acquire physical bodies one by one and create a new civilization. Even my kidnapping was for that purpose. In crude terms, you could say they were securing a breeding stock. Haha!”
It is said that they exterminated the surrounding monsters to lay the groundwork for this civilization. That’s why there were no monsters in this area.
“Did that blood magic succeed?”
“It has already succeeded. Two have become pregnant after acquiring physical bodies.”
“….”
“Don’t look at me with those eyes. These aren’t my children. There was another man who coincidentally drifted and arrived here.”
Regardless, it was shocking. Monsters creating their own civilization.
At the core of this was blood magic. From my perspective, I could only think that the mother goddess was involved in this.
“Where did they perform this blood magic?”
“I don’t know the details either. It would be better to ask Jude.”
The leader of the Goldians who had previously conversed with Mirabel.
Clang! Clang! At that moment, the sound of weapons colliding could be heard from outside.
“Oh my, they’re all so belligerent.”
There was nothing to see.
My master had challenged Jude to a duel.
Master was always like this whenever she saw a female warrior.
Master using a brilliant sword technique, and Jude using a curved blade to showcase unconventional martial arts.
After an intense exchange, master was the first to withdraw her weapon.
“It seems I was already caught in the hand-to-hand combat. I am defeated.”
“Hmph.”
As if it was a good match, Jude compliments master.
She passes her turn to Mirabel and enters the house where we are.
And then, still drenched in sweat, she hugs Rutger tightly.
“Ju, Jude! This is suddenly a bit…!”
Looking at Jude’s eyes, it seemed she found Rutger incredibly adorable.
“Oh, Estelle will have a new mother.”
“Stop saying such things and help me!”
“It doesn’t make sense to me.”
Jude, who had barely calmed down, answered my question. Rutger, who was translating, also had a stiff expression as if hearing much of this for the first time.
“I see. A black magic group in the north… Are you saying there’s a skeleton who practices blood magic there?”
“That’s what they say. They call that skeleton a Lich… Apparently, he has been there for thousands of years to complete that blood magic.”
“Please ask if he has any insights about the existence called the mother goddess.”
At that word, Jude shook her head.
“She says there’s nothing. If you want to know more about the resurrection blood magic, she suggests going to that Lich.”
“Hmm.”
The context was becoming clearer.
It seemed the Lich in the northern part of this eastern continent developed the resurrection blood magic. There was a possibility that the mother goddess stole it and independently developed it further.
‘Although it’s unsettling to have Melodie and Lysithea in such a place…’
In any case, it seemed I would need to make contact with this Lich.
* * *
We spent several days in the Goldian village, focusing on creating maps of the surrounding area.
The Goldians seemed to welcome the human males, treating them warmly.
These human males were me, Ash, and Gunther. I was excluded since I had a partner, and Ash was suppressed by Lucretia’s sharp gaze.
In the situation where only Gunther was free, Gunther received sticky advances.
For the warrior race of Goldians, the burly Gunther seemed to be the perfect ideal type.
On the way back, he seriously talked about wanting to stay in the Goldian village.
“After peace arrives, I won’t stop you. Just endure it for now.”
“Ugh…! I can’t help it.”
After completing the map-making, we returned to the beastmen’s island by ship.
“Daddy!”
Ryuna rushes over noisily. The twins also crawl over busily.
Rutger rounds his mouth.
“Is this the child of Miss Yumir and yourself?”
“Yes, behind her are the children with Eonia.”
Ryuna grabs my trouser leg and climbs up like scaling a cliff, burying her face in my chest.
As expected of a child of mine and Yumir. Her physical abilities were no joke.
“Estelle is also having a child… Ahem!”
“If you’re that worried, you can go and see. We can prepare a ship soon.”
“Ah, no, it’s better to finish this work first. Since I know they’re safe, it’s not urgent.”
What remains now is the northern part of the eastern continent.
It concerns the ruler of the 10th dungeon lake and the Lich reportedly nearby.
After spending a day on the island, we headed to the area where a fortress was under construction.
There, about a thousand marines were transporting supplies and building the fortress.
However, since the amount that could be transported by ship was limited, most supplies were being gathered from outside.
This seemed to be the reason for the incident.
“Enemy raid! Monsters are attacking!”
Monsters rushing in en masse to destroy the fortress under construction.
Since they didn’t appear capable of dialogue, combat was unavoidable.
Waves of monsters endlessly surging forward.
Ash screams.
“What did we do wrong to cause this mess!”
“Stop talking and quickly use the Teleportation Scroll! Rear guard, prepare the ships in case we need to retreat!”
My vassals took their positions in an orderly manner.
Since each was worth ten men, the monsters that charged were ruthlessly cut down.
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