Chapter 11: The Day of the Disaster of the Village Chief

The head of Kahn, a 45-year-old man, was carrying a wooden stick and collecting firewood alone in the woods on the edge of the village. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although at the age of 45, on the modern earth of the 21st century, he can only be regarded as a middle-aged uncle, but in this world where the productive forces are relatively backward, he is already an out-and-out old man. Originally, with his age and family background, he could have sat at home and enjoyed the service of his children and grandchildren. But because of an inexplicable little misfortune, today's old village chief had to collect firewood by himself.

Alas, I don't know if it was because I drank a few more glasses of private fruit wine at dinner yesterday, but the whole family slept late today, and when I woke up, even the sun was already high! Where else is this? There's still a lot of farm work to do in my own field!

- Until this moment, the old village chief had not found out about the theft of the map in his home, after all, no one would go around rummaging through boxes and cabinets as soon as he got up.

After complaining to each other, the old village chief, as the head of the family, had to drive all the young people in the family to the fields, hoping to complete the scheduled workload after increasing the number of people. Then he handed over the work of fetching water to his wife, and he took over the work of going into the forest to collect firewood.

Unfortunately, because it was too late to arrive today, and because the children and young people of the village had taken the lead, there seemed to be no dead branches to pick up at the edge of the forest near the village. Although there were as many towering trees as there were at the edge of the forest, it would have required a strong man's arm and a logging axe to cut them, and he alone and a machete could not deal with it.

So, in order to gather enough firewood for the whole family to cook dinner, the old village chief had to continue his march into the depths of the great forest.

After not going far, he felt that the temperature had dropped a lot, and the sun had become much darker, and the old village chief knew that this was because the leaves above his head were too dense and the sunlight did not shine very well. At the same time, it was as if silence reigned all around. Except for the slight sound of the treetops shaking and the sounds of birds and beasts echoing from time to time, only his own footsteps sounded, which made the village chief feel a little flustered.

“…… There shouldn't be any beasts in this place yet...... Forget it, let's hurry! I hope nothing bad happens again! ”

However, the poor old village chief did not know that his doom for this day was far from over.

"...... [Stun Technique]! [Dizziness]! [Sleepiness]! [Sleepiness]! ”

Accompanied by a series of imperceptible "cat words", several small beams of light quietly shot out from the branches of the trees on the side. The old village chief, who was attacked by the fire, fell to the ground without even snorting. Moments later, the attacker jumped off the branch, revealing his true face.

- They were two cute looking kittens who walked upright on their feet.

“…… Finally knocked down a meow. Looking at the "prey" lying in front of him, the tabby cat mage Wang Qiu muttered to himself.

“…… Hey, you're a level 100 mage! Do you need to waste four mana to deal with a 'jobless' villager? ”

Black Cat Knight Ricky rolled her eyes slightly disdainfully, "...... You still claim to be a battle-hardened time-span warrior! ”

“…… I'm not bragging about past combat experience! Wang Qiu snorted angrily, "...... The thing is, before this, I had never used a cat's body to cast magic Ahhhh If you're a beginner like this, you'll naturally be a little weak when you attack for the first time......"

The two kittens squatted next to the unconscious village chief, bickering and waiting, until there was a breath behind them that made their cold hairs stand on end—it was the racial antagonism between the cats and the Wangs, spanning endless years and countless planes, but still the same!

“…… Yo ho! Kittens! I'm here to move something! The next moment, the red-haired werewolf maid Lupus Regina, with a hearty smile, jumped out of the lush bushes, and beckoned to two cats with their tails up......

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In the afternoon of the same day, the surface temple of the Great Tomb of Nasalik

“…… Well, I've almost finished asking about everything that should be interrogated, and I've used magic to erase all the unnecessary memories in his head...... Lupsregina, send this man back! Remember to be lighter and don't hurt him! ”

The Lich King Flying Squirrel snapped his fingers a little tiredly, and commanded the red-haired werewolf maid - just now, he first used the magic of [Confusing Humans] to listen to information, and then used the highest level of magic to modify his memory, although the flying squirrel is a level 100 lich player, but the MP (magic power) consumed by this is too much. It even made the flying squirrel's body appear strangely tired, as if it had lost something.

Well, by the way, for the sake of safety, and for the sake of openness in front of the allies, the flying squirrel did not bring the captives into the interior of the Great Tomb of Nasalik, but conducted a public interrogation directly in the temple on the surface, and under the watchful eyes of numerous cat people, iron golems, and goblins.

First of all, there is the question of language, at the beginning of the interrogation, the flying squirrel had feared that he would directly encounter difficulties in this area, but it turned out to be unfounded—the old village chief was actually fluent in standard Japanese as soon as he spoke! The above discovery surprised the flying squirrels: how could it be possible to use Japanese in a place that was clearly from another world, where even the race was white? Could it be that you have actually traveled to another Japanese game?

So, he carefully observed the shape of the village chief's mouth, and finally found that this guy did not speak Japanese, because the shape of his mouth did not match at all. But when I heard it in his ears, it automatically changed to Japanese...... After interrogation, the village chief's explanation was that there was a strange food called [Translated Konjac] in this world (set by the original author, Doraemon props were messed in!). Almost everyone eats it. The effect of eating it is to make the language automatically translated, and then conveyed to the other party, so that even non-humans can understand it. However, it can only be used for conversation, not for reading foreign languages.

Although it may seem strange to the Otherworldly Travelers, to the old village chief's mind, such a thing seems to be a matter of course.

Calm down and think about it, this is a magical world, and maybe it's not surprising that this world works according to completely different laws.

In short, there is no language barrier in this world. Even between humans and monsters, they can communicate very smoothly - of course, this does not prevent them from greeting each other, and the next moment they raise their knives and slash corpses all over the field, and rivers of blood flow......

(There's a common misconception in Japanese anime that if people had a frank exchange of opinions, many tragedies wouldn't have happened.) ）

Then, there is the basic information about the world, especially the state of the country and geography near the Great Tomb of Nasalik.

According to the village chief, the village of Karn, where they lived, and the Great Tomb of Nasalik, which was only ten kilometers away from the village of Karn, were located at the junction of three great powers: the Bahasian Empire in the northeast and the Lili in the northwest. The kingdom of Jestijah, and the kingdom of Slenism in the south.

Among them, the village of Kahn is subordinate to Li. A border village in the kingdom of Jestijah.

- In the Yggdrasil game worldview, which is based on Norse mythology, the names of these countries do not appear at all. At this point, President Flying Squirrel finally determines that he has arrived in a strange fantasy world, not the embodiment of the game world of Yggdrasil.

Next, a huge snow-capped mountain looming north of the Great Tomb of Nasalik, called the Angelia Mountains, is a mile. The natural dividing line between the kingdom of Jestijah and the Bahas Empire, with the kingdom to the west of the mountains and the empire to the east.

The northernmost part of the Angelia Range stretches to the end of the continent, and the southernmost point of the mountain range is here. At the foot of the hill grows a vast expanse of forest, and the village of Karn and the Great Tomb of Nasalik are located on the southern edge of this forest, except one to the west and one to the east.

Further south from the forests at the foot of the mountain lies a vast savannah called the Qaz Plains, and the grasslands around the Great Tomb of Nasalik are actually the northwestern edge of the Qaz Plains. It is a transportation hub between the three countries and is also a mile. The southeastern gateway to the kingdom of Jestijah. The kingdom has a strong fortress here. Lantier, with its heavily garrisoned army, is one of the few cities in the country directly under the direct administration of the royal family.

- At this point, the flying squirrel has basically been determined, and the otherworldly human city found in the south should be the village chief's mouth. Lantier.

According to the village chief, about fifty kilometers to the south is the fortress of the city of Ye. Lantil is the largest city in the vicinity and in the entire Kaz Plain, where villagers often go for trading and shopping. The cities of the Bajas Empire, on the other hand, are much farther away from here.

In recent years, the Bahas Empire has followed the . The kingdom of Yestij has been at war for many years, and the main battlefield is in the fortress city of Ye. On the field near Lantil. The kingdom seems to be in a disadvantageous position, losing a series of battles, and on one occasion the imperial army bypassed the fortress city and invaded the hinterland of the kingdom.

The map of the continent in the village chief's house was picked up from the decomposing corpse of a noble officer when he happened to pass by the battlefield, and at the same time found a number of daggers and flints and other knick-knacks, which seemed to be useful and brought back to the village.

(The origin of the map is a personal brain supplement, otherwise it is difficult to explain that the village chief's house in a medieval small mountain village actually has such a high-end and high-grade thing as a continental map.) On the way of the Red Army's Long March, they tried to get a map of China from the small southwestern county they occupied, but they couldn't find it. ）

And the territory of the Slen Sect is in the fortress city of Je. Further south, Lantil is separated from the Great Tomb of Nasalik, not directly adjacent to it. (To use an analogy for modern Europe, the kingdom is France, the empire is Germany, and Italy is the church.) The location of the Great Tomb of Nasalik is probably in northern Switzerland. Of course, this is only a relative location, but the geography is very different. ）

As for the question of the strength of the three countries, in the era when there was no news television, it was obviously impossible for the village chief of this remote village to be very clear. There are other distant countries outside the neighboring three countries, and the village chief is even more unclear, only knowing that there seem to be some alien countries established by non-human races.

According to the village chief's confession and translation, the Lich King Flying Squirrel found the location of Nasalik's tomb on the map of the continent, and found that it was pressed right on the border between the two countries. Whether this is the territory of the kingdom or the empire, only God knows.

In fact, such a division doesn't make much sense, because the neighborhood is full of no-man's land, monsters and undead, and has never really been under the rule of any one regime. The only things that kingdoms and empires can really rule are the human settlements on the plains.

The next piece of information is about monsters, and it seems that there are a lot of monsters of all kinds here, just like Yggdrasil. In the forests near the village of Karn, there are many magical beasts, the most powerful of which is a certain existence called the "Forest Virtuous King". But the Lich King Flying Squirrel interrogated for a long time, and he didn't figure out what race this "Forest Sage King" was, only that it couldn't fly, and it didn't seem to be a dragon. Further afield, dwarves, forest elves, goblins, orcs, and ogres are infested, posing a great threat to human settlers.

As a result, the profession of "adventurer" who specializes in collecting rewards to defeat these monsters came into being, including many magic chanters. These adventurers set up guilds in the big cities and accepted quests, but they were said to charge a lot of money, and every time the villagers hired adventurers, they had to raise money from the whole village. As for what kind of strength these adventurers have, and what level of magic they can use, the village chief can't say clearly.

- So, the Lich King Flying Squirrel President still hasn't figured out what his position is in this world. Although his subordinates assessed the strength of the village chief and found that his combat effectiveness was probably level two, in the final analysis, this was just a "non-professional" civilian, and he was not a guy who could fight in the first place, and it basically could not be used as a basis for referring to the level of force in another world.

Then, while the forests north of Nasalik's tomb are infested with monsters, the savannahs in the south are just as unsafe. Although the Kaz Plain is a transportation hub between the Three Kingdoms, it is also a cursed land where undead spirits are often born naturally. For most of the year, the plains of Kaz are covered in mist, and skeletons, zombies, and bone dragons are infested in the mist...... Because of this, only a small patch of land on the edge of the grasslands and forests has been exploited so far, and most of this fertile grassland continues to sleep in the wilderness.

- Well, as scary as it sounds, it's a fitting bunker of the Nexalik's Great Tomb.