When Charles saw Jerry and the four brothers again, it was dinner time that day, in a conference room in the barracks of the City Guard.

Elizabeth, who had negotiated terms with Barnett I at noon, decided to take on the task of defeating the cultists in the underground labyrinth, and then began a series of preparations.

The first is to select the manpower, and those in the caravan who are interested in making extra money sign up first. After all, there is a danger of losing one's life in this matter, and it depends on the willingness to go or not. Then Elizabeth selected the right people from the people who signed up to form a team, and the rest of the people who were not selected went to help with the procurement of supplies.

The next step was to find outside help, and since there was no one in the caravan who was familiar with the inside of the labyrinth, Elizabeth decided to outsource the task of the guide to the Meteor Squad, who had dinner with Charles at noon, after consulting with the local adventurers' union.

In addition, there is a lack of healers in the caravan, and although Elizabeth can heal people herself, she is the leader of the team and the main force of damage output, which makes it impossible for her to heal at all. So she set up a task in the adventurer's guild to temporarily recruit healers, and then the healing task was subcontracted by a team of adventurers.

At dinner time, all the members of the four teams, the "Big Tree and Wheel Squad", which undertook the task of defeating the cultists of the evil gods, the "Meteor Squad", the "Meteor Squad", the "Mountains Squad", and the "Squad", which specialized in logistics and transportation, were all familiar with each other while eating.

Jerry and the four of them sat at one end of the long table, reporting to Elizabeth about the situation in the underground labyrinth, and occasionally looking at Charles, who was being fed at the other end of the long table.

They didn't expect that this little guy who invited them to dinner at noon, listened to their bragging, and brought them wine would have such a big background.

Sitting with Charles were several nuns from the Seminary of Light, and in addition to one of the leading teachers who was feeding Charles, the other three combat nuns and five healing nuns were all graduates of the academy this year, and they were on a graduation trip here.

Since they were all good and much more reliable than the makeshift healing team made up of scattered personnel, Elizabeth hired them as the healers for the operation.

Formerly known as Artemisia Chrysanthemum, a regional bishop nun who has now been renamed Junia is helping Charles scoop a bowl of broth. She and Vannis had been classmates, and when they met, Vannis called out her original name, only to be met by her name, and she immediately rushed up to pull Vannis by the collar and asked him to call her current name.

The chubby nun, who was in her thirties, was a bit of a loving woman, and when she first learned that Charles was also part of the crusade, she confronted Elizabeth about it, believing that such a young child should not be allowed to participate in such a dangerous operation. Then Elizabeth sent her away after saying, "He is my apprentice."

"Eat more, and only when you are full will you have the strength to work. Junia placed a bowl of soup with two-thirds of the meat in front of Charles.

Charles was embarrassed to refuse the kindness of the enthusiastic nun, and since it required a lot of physical strength for him to practice swords with Artoria at night, he picked up a spoon and scooped the broth and pieces of meat into his mouth.

Junia then said to Charles, "When the time comes, when we go down the labyrinth, don't leave Auntie five steps away. ”

Charles nodded as he ate.

When fighting deep into the underground labyrinth, logistics are paramount. At least you have to prepare a lot of lighting supplies, whether it is torches or magic lamps, that is a must. In addition to this, there are things to carry, such as drinking water and food, spare weapons, medicines, and magic crystals for energy use.

At this point, Charles, who has three storage rings, is the best candidate for the porter. At that time, he will be in charge of most of the team's logistics under Artoria's protection.

The most important thing is that when he is in a desperate situation, Charles can also be a hole card to turn the tables - just let him call Reimu.

After dinner, everyone went to a conference room and began the pre-war briefing on the enemy situation.

The first to report the enemy was Mifflin, an officer of the city defense of Thanhausen, who gave everyone all the information they had known so far.

The underground labyrinth in the southern part of the city of Tamhausen was found in front of more than two hundred people, and it was a labyrinth excavated by a demonic beast. The labyrinth is roughly divided into five areas, with chaotic passages and extremely complex terrain.

Earlier adventurers had only explored three of these areas, but the cultists had hidden the entrances to the other two connected areas, making them their lair.

Usually cultists of evil gods disguise themselves as adventurers to enter and exit the labyrinth, but for so many years, outsiders have not been able to discover the mystery at all.

If it weren't for the fact that a young adventurer was frightened by the sudden appearance of a dense swarm of insects in the labyrinth some time ago, and then used a powerful magic to bombard the passage in violation of regulations, and as a result, a hidden passage was opened by mistake, then this secret might still be maintained.

Later, the Adventurers' Guild, which received the notification, sent people into the investigation together with the city of Thanhausen, but in the end, only two escaped, and it was they who brought back the news that it was the base of the cultists of the evil gods.

Mifflin drew a rough map of the labyrinth on the blackboard, with the first three discovered areas roughly forming the three vertices of a large triangle, and the two areas occupied by cultists were connected to one of the discovered areas.

Judging from the distance and direction marked on the map, the underground part of this labyrinth has penetrated deep into the territory of the kingdom of Bischberg. No wonder they would vehemently object to the Kingdom of Firingen sending troops into the labyrinth, who knows if you have found other passages and then bypassed the border defenses and drilled out of the ground to carry out a sneak attack.

This kind of thing that wants to be used as a negative teaching material for classic war examples, the Bischberg Kingdom must definitely prevent it.

Mifflin pointed to the map and said, "According to the scouts we came back alive, they haven't done much development in the outermost area, and there are already traces of permanent buildings on the periphery of the innermost core area, but they were ambushed before they could go deeper. ”

Then he flipped through the parchment in his hand, looked at it for a moment, and continued, "There are warriors and mages among the enemies, and they hide in the caves dug in the walls, and rush out of all directions while the scouts' attention is drawn to the buildings. ”

"The enemy mainly uses water and ice magic, and has carved defensive magic arrays on the surrounding walls. ”

"It is reported that the scouts were fighting when they felt a voice come straight into their heads, and that voice kept shouting 'Get back!'"

That was all there was to it for the city of Thanhausen, and Mifflin put the parchment back on the table.

At this time, Artoria raised her hand and asked, "Is there a connection between these people and the demons?"

Mifflin thought for a moment and replied, "For hundreds of years, the cultists of the evil gods operating in this area have claimed to be the subordinates of one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon Race. ”

Artoria thanked Mifflin and then stopped speaking.

Then someone asked about the number of enemies, but Mifflin didn't know anything about it, and could only speculate that there weren't many of them.

After Mifflin, it was Vanith who gave everyone a detailed account of the terrain features, types and distribution of magical beasts in the known area of the labyrinth. The four brothers had been adventurers for thirty years, and the three known areas of the labyrinth were as familiar to them as if they were their own balconies, and they knew every detail like a treasure.

It's just that Charles suddenly remembered one thing, when I had dinner with them at noon today, they all planted a lot of flags about how to see how to finish.

At this point, he began to break out in a cold sweat.