Next Life Vol 1 Chapter 9

Raymond’s Summoned-beast(Servant) aka ‘Cho-kun’, from when it took flight from its master, took about five minute to arrive at the Kingdom Capital and continued to fly, aiming towards the Royal Palace.

In order to fulfill its Master’s instruction to” ‘Even for a second faster, go find Lucas-sama’, it jumped into the chest of an elderly magician.

“Aah, good good. What the…”

Although Cho-kun didn’t have the capability to speak, it had an ability to transmit thoughts to the other party, as Raymond told it to, thoughts were transmitted to Lucas.
Knowing the change in the situation, Lucas’s face changed color. He began to give an order to the guard near him.

“First priority order, ring the war alert!”

“Huh? Ye-yes, Immediately!”

The soldier only hesitated for a second, he must be seeing the seriousness of the situation from the appearance of Lucas.

When the solder hit it with a short and heavy stick, a thick tone like as if it was penetrating the belly, had reached all the people in the Kingdom Capital.

“War alert!?”

It hit everyone that had duties in the Royal Palace. Prime Minister and The Prince, Court Magician, and also the guards that were nearest while surprised, hurriedly went outside.

“What happened!?”

The Queens and the nobleman’s wives that were enjoying an elegant tea party, with their rushed maids, scurried to where Lucas was.

The Royal Family, Government Officials, and Senior Commanding officers of Military must assemble in the Royal Palace.

To make sure a large disorder didn’t happen, in case of emergencies, training was done on a regular basis.

Queen Margarita, Prince Ernest, Prime Minister Valk, Marshal Grandfelt, Firat Knight Corps Leader Yadaberus, Imperial Guard Knight General Leader Yuzef, Magic Solder Corps Leader Nelson, Intelligence Department President Frec, and..others Generals, Court Magicians, Ministers, Clerks, etc..
Overlooking them, serving as the Court Magician Leader, Firat’s strongest magician, Lucas opened his mouth.

” I have received an urgent message from Raymond, in Runbern Mountain, they have been attacked by a flock of Wyverns.”

A moment of silence, and then hustle and bustle resumed.

“Wyverns!?”

“Runbern Mountain!? What is the Intelligence Department doing!?”

“His Majesty, is His Majesty safe!?”

Bellows close to a scream jumped around.

The highest authority of the Intelligence Department, Frec, almost fainted.

And then, the situation of the dozens of peoples with decent military strength that had encountered a flock of Wyverns…The worse case scenario crossed everyone’s heads, giving birth to frenzy.

In middle of that, the Queen violently clapped her hands.

“Please calm down.”

Her face was bluish, her voice trembled, and there no power in it, that was why it echoed in the Courtiers’ minds.
Who’s was the one in the most in pain, everyone recalled that.

“Lucas. Continue.”

“Yes.”

To the Queen that firmly behaved, he lightly lowered his head, Lucas started to continue giving information.

“There was reinforcements and they succeeded in confronting the flock of Wyverns, but Vincent, Oscar, Hector and three others were killed in their line of duty.”

Just one magician had annihilated a flock of Wyvern, that kind of information he intentionally kept secret.

Again the silence blew over them and soon. cheers resounded. A question was then asked.
(NEETnote : Please help me with this 　王が不在の今、収拾がつかなくなる恐れが高いからだ。I’m not to sure with that.)

“Is His Majesty safe!?”

The big commotion and sense of relief that wrapped the surrounding was blown away at once by a stormy air.
Although little by little, there was a change that made them calm down.

“There is reinforcements, but whose military?”

“In the first place, why was there reinforcements?”

“Lucas-dono, what happened there?”

The King attacked and rescued, it was too much for a coincidence.

He couldn’t keep it hidden more than this, Lucas began to disclose it.
An utterly unbelievable information that he himself can’t believe.

“…Only one person, just one magician had defeated the flock.”

“Huh?”

“Eh?”

The faces were so surprised this time that their thinking processes stopped.
In their heads that became blank, only Lucas’s words echoes.

“Just one person? A Magician?”

Repeating it aloud was one of the Court Magicians, also serving as the Magic Solder Corps Leader, Nelson.

And he became the most confused.

“The number of magician that is needed to defeat a Wyvern, certainly it required about ten people, right?”

And, the one asking the question was a Marshal, serving as the highest authority of military, Grandfelt.

For that question Grandfelt asked, Lucas answered.

“It changes depending on personnel competency. If it was me and Nelson, it only requires three or four people. In any case, with a Wyvern as an opponent without a vanguard, the possibility cannot be considerable.”

“I agree.”

Nelson somehow also recovered, and spoke back to Lucas.

“In the first place, Wyverns have high resistance to magic. To magicians like us, its attack-power and mobility are a threat. We would need at least three vanguards.

Again the commotion resumes.

Listening to the conversation of magicians, Knight Corps Leader Yadaberus asked Lucas.

“Lucas-dono, you said it was a flock, but specifically, how many were there?”

In the case of Wyverns, three or more were treated as a flock.
Perhaps it was only a combination of three total parents and childs, as if there was meaning at all if that was the case, Yadaberus himself didn’t understand his own question and just spoke it out.

“It seems there were six Wyverns.”

Silence, like calm water, the surrounding became dead silent.

The others clearly understood the extent of the abnormality that happened.

“Well, if we got the Wyvern carcasses, our equipment would also improve.”

Yuzef put the point on the good materials, the fact that most human beings care about.

The carcasses not remaining became the thing he could not speak about the most.

(NEETnote : 　いずれ気づくだろうが、先送りにしたい心境だった。 Please some suggestion if there is a better words.)

“Above all matters, if this accident happened by a foreign country’s summoner, isn’t Ouhi-sama and Ouji-sama in danger?”
(NEETnote : Ouhi = Queen and Ouji = Prince)

In order to change the atmosphere, Prime Minister Valk asked and it divided in half between people who were not giving any comment and people who just nodded.

On the contrary, it can be said that it was a creature that was rarely ever seen.

There was plenty of opportunities for foreign countries to get that information, meaning with monster that have flying abilities, they can easily pass through the inside of the kingdom and begin attacking.

Then, the target was not only the King and Princess, wasn’t it natural to think that “the Queen and Prince are also targeted?”, that kind of thought almost similarly appeared.

If all of them died,  massive disorders will begin to come up all over the Kingdom.
Everyone that reached that conclusion swallowed their saliva.

“That is the reason for the war alert.”

With a solemn answer of Lucas, everyone consented.

Here, everyone’s line of sight focused on Grandfelt.

With his eyes he asking permission from the Queen, the Queen give him a small nod to show her approval.
(NEETnote : 猶予 this word please. For a while I write it as grace. Kind of strange.)

“First,  send troops to where His Majesty is. The faster, the better. Decree for dispatch to the Magic-Knight Unit of Knight Corps. Select and take the best five hundred mounts.”

“Yes. it will be dispatched as soon as possible.”

With the order of Grandfelt, Yadaberus’s adjutant, Dawson started running.

A group that was able to march while strengthening and recovering their horses, their speed was boasted of the best inside the Kingdom, even being a second more faster to reach the King’s side, they were the ideal unit.

There was such judgement.

“Imperial Guards will guard Your Majesty the Queen and Your Highness the Prince.”

“Yes.”

“Knight Corps will cooperate with the Guards, lay out defense in the Kingdom Capital.”

“Yes.”

“Magic Soldier Corps split into two. Each half will guard Your Majesty the Queen and Your Highness the Princess and the other half will defend the Kingdom Capital.”

“Yes.”

“Intelligence Department will contact all of the military and cities inside the Kingdom, warn them to be vigilant. At same time, once again, correct all the information inside the Kingdom.”

“Ye,yes.”

“I will take command in the Kingdom Capital. Lucas-dono will go under the command of Yuzef, I want you to protect this place.”

“Yes.”

Grandfelt in rapid succession gave orders.
Upon completing it, for the first time, Prince Ernest opened his mouth.

“We are one of the populace. Whatever happens we want to protect them thoroughly. That is all I want.”

It was not appeal nor deceit, all military personnel had a favorable impression toward the conscientious attitude.
Queen also nodded, supporting his intent.

“Our Firat is in a crucial moment. In the name of the three cane, resolve our national crisis.”

“OOo!”

The three cane was represented by the military, government, and citizens drawn as a cane figure that mutually supported each other, a national emblem of the Firat Kingdom.*

Responding to Grandfelt’s dramatic act, Military personnel rushed to their allocated post.

They bowed to the Queen and Prince and began going back to their workstations with a heavy gait.

三杖とは、軍・政・民を杖に見立てて互いに支えあう姿を描いたとされる、フィラート王国の国章である。

三杖に懸けるとは、国家の為に誇りを持って死力を尽くすという、フィラート国民にとって最も重い誓いだ。)

“This is why you need to have more escorts…”

Fearing to bring out their voice to the Queen and the Prince, many Ministers and Clerks held that thought.

It was King Bernhard III that stopped them by saying “that would be wasting tax.”

The Kingdom’s security had been highly maintained, disruptive movements could not be seen.

But now, such a thought had disappeared from their minds.

The King had done what he did to lighten the financial burden, but in the end what happened was the exact opposite.

No one is allowed to say “We tried but it was useless”.

If the Magic Knight Unit is moving at full speed, they would probably merge in about thirty minutes.

He was a loved and respected ruler, even being tempted to complain in their mind was a cruel thing.

Let us pretend that this matter was heard in our sleep.

They are not people that were only excellent in their duty, not a person should be disappointed in what they did.

First one, there is a traitor inside the Kingdom.

When thinking about the second possibility, Valk was attacked by a sensation like his heart had been frozen, immediately he removed himself from that kind of thinking.

Majin(Demon) in general were monsters that over many years stored their power, they were an existence that had evolved.

Even looking at the past, Majin(Demon) would not be one that attacked with only six Wyvern as their forces. More importantly, they would also not be the one who was willing to help the King who been attacked.

…that time, Valk overlooked another two possibility.

The other one is they are an existence that transcended the Majin(Demon).

Because both of them were treated as a distant past legend.
(End of Episode 9)

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