Despite its long history, there are still many lands that have not yet been touched by humans.

Even within the borders of human beings divided by war and rights without authorization, most of the strangeness that exists in the vast mountains, rivers, lands, forests, and lakes is still unknown.

Huge monsters, beasts of all kinds, dragon creatures that have been separated by scholars, and various subhuman races. The more intelligent of these non-human beings usually avoid the human sphere of influence, some actively avoid it, while others gradually migrate in conflict with the humans.

With the expansion of human territory, luxury goods, and the need for all kinds of things began to increase, hunting all kinds of large creatures and monsters became a specialized industry. Under the large-scale hunting and killing of these integrated and large-scale hunting mercenaries, many creatures also migrated further to the remote and wild areas that were difficult for humans to touch.

The hunting mercenary groups in the Mercenary Guild are rated D, E, and F, which indicates that they are not as high priority as war mercenaries who specialize in dealing with humans in the Guild. After all, the mercenary guild relied on the latter to make its fortune, and the hunting mercenaries could only be regarded as hunters with a large scale of integration.

Although in many places it is not so clear-cut. But all in all, there is nothing wrong with war mercenaries against people, and hunting mercenaries against large creatures.

There is a specialization in the art industry, and it requires professional knowledge to deal with various strange creatures that are different from humans.

There's nothing that can be eaten all over the world in one move.

Being able to admit your own shortcomings is a testament to your character.

"It stinks. "The smell of fish in the air was too strong, and even though it was supposed to be far from the ocean in theory, the stench had been coming from the forest all the way through.

"Grandma, it stinks. The little girl with short black hair tied in two balls and gray-blue eyes turned back to the queen and said this, and His Majesty of the Suomir rubbed the sachet in his hand again, causing the deodorant aromatherapy leaves to evaporate, but it was still difficult to hide the fishy smell that was so strong that it was like substance.

"Hold back, dear Laura, you see, Lord Roman and the rest of you are in the same stench as you, but they haven't even wrinkled their pretty foreheads. The queen stretched out her hand and touched her granddaughter's little head, while Roman, as she called it, spoke in a steady and dignified tone: "Your Majesty has overdone it, and this body is only using this as a practice." ”

She then turned her head to look at Princess Laura: "Your Royal Highness, if you open your mouth, you will inhale more stench, and you don't want to become a stinky person, do you?"

"Ahh

"Your Excellency, Bishop. The queen complimented her, then reached out and shook the sachet to dispel the strong fishy smell.

The wind was blowing outside the window, and although it would have been better if the windows were closed, the strong stench came from the cracks, and they had only felt stronger and stronger after closing the windows.

"Where the hell did this come from—" The question was not only for the queen and her party, but also for the knights of the Guards who wore ornate copper-trimmed full-body armor.

The Knight of the Suomir Royal Guard had a close relationship with the Dragonwing Knights, sometimes exchanging personnel. However, there are many different definitions, and the Dragonwing Knight is the elite of the regular army and the combat power directly under the royal family. And the Knights of the Guards are more like bodyguards for members of the royal family to travel, rather than the main fighting power.

They were sparsely numbered, with only 12 men in one squadron, and the total number of infantry non-commissioned officers and guards was not much. The equipment is expensive, almost equivalent to the ornate armor of a small castle, and with the equipment of Lamanized heavy cavalry, the combat effectiveness is considered to be the most top-notch in Suomir today.

But always, they are clearly not very good at dealing with the enemies they are about to encounter.

The first thing you heard was the sound of a boulder falling to the ground.

The ground trembled slightly, and the pebbles were shaken and fell together.

Immediately afterwards, the canopy of the Suomir fir trees on both sides of the road, which was at least three or four meters above the ground, made a rustling sound like a breeze.

"Shh But it was something mixed in that that made the horses start to frighten.

"What's going on!" shouldn't happen to the well-trained Padrossi Half-Bred Warhorses, who are smart and brave and are good companions to knights, and may not panic easily even when facing dire wolves.

The sound of "dong ——!!" became louder and louder, like a boulder falling to the ground, like the beating of war drums.

The branch of the "click——! tree was broken, and the creature that came out exhaled a burst of white air because of the slightly lower temperature, but the height of the fog was not more than one meter as a human habit, but about four meters, almost level with the small tree.

"Giants, all in formation!" the leader of the Guardsmen, a veteran nobleman, shouted loudly, while the squires on foot next to him quickly handed the knights helmets, handarms, and rifles on their shoulders.

"Click-" The knights, who put on their helmets and bolts, began to confront the giant from a distance of more than ten meters. The queen, who saw the team stop in the rear, also poked their heads out, and immediately turned pale when they saw the creature holding a huge log in its hand.

"Don't look, Laura, Sir Nils, do you want to back off and run away!" the queen asked, stopping her little granddaughter's probe, and turning to the knight outside.

"Your Majesty, the minister is worried that it may catch up. The speed of the carriage is not enough, in case it is overtaken. Tsk—" Old Sir looked a little embarrassed, he didn't know what he thought the habits of creatures that existed only in folklore a minute ago. There are rumors of giants in Suomir's territory since ancient times, and there have been more or less sightings, but they are basically to the extent that the water from human wells does not interfere with river water.

At this moment, the creature that was more than 4 meters tall and had a human-like face, but with rough skin and a rocky gray color, stood there. It had a wide nose, eyes that were a little too small compared to the big face, a hairless head like a middle-aged balding man, and a long, dirty beard.

The few animal skins wrapped around its body and the dark red logs on its hands stained with old blood indicate that it has goblin-level intelligence, but that's about it. Whether giants have languages or can communicate is unknown, and there may have been wizards and druids who knew this in the past, but after the rise of the White Church, these pagans were banished or killed.

Unpopular and ancient knowledge, there are few strange creatures that are really encountered. The problem before the knights felt like they were trying to crack a stone to get the jade inside.

"It's, it's Yu's fault—" The queen's expression began to tense a little, "You shouldn't travel on Halloween, it's a retribution that goes against tradition, it's—"

She looked a little regretful, but at this time, it was Archbishop Roman, who was dressed in religious clothing, who spoke to comfort: "Your Majesty don't panic, the knights are very brave, and they will definitely find a solution." She stretched out her hand to comfort the queen, but Suomir's queen noticed that the bishop's hand was trembling and put her hand on the back of the other's hand.

"Why didn't it attack!" "Maybe we can try to back off—" The nervous knights looked at the giant a dozen meters away, and the giant looked at them with eyes that were small compared to their faces.

- If our Sage had been here, he would have been able to tell that this subhuman creature might have migrated here today and made it its territory.

Even as soon as he entered the area and smelled the unseemly fishy smell, Henry would give instructions for a detour.

But even in this situation, there is actually a way back.

Just as humans don't know about giants, giants know very little about these little things that they rarely come into contact with and that resemble themselves.

It came out because a keen sense of smell smelled something. Something very irritating, such as a sachet carried by three noble women such as Her Majesty the Queen. And after appearing, when it sees these creatures that do not belong to its own territory, its first reaction is to doubt and observe.

The giants' staple diet is the ocean's large fish and fatty creatures such as seals, which hunt and inhabit the forests of Suomir's long coastline. In other words, humans are not on its menu, and the only way they can clash with giants is if they violate their territory.

Large creatures have a very large territory, because they need a lot of food to feed themselves. It is not uncommon for defending one's territory to clash with one's own kind and other creatures.

This giant happened to migrate to this side.

And the most important thing for the knights to do in this situation is to slowly retreat the moment they first make contact, without any excessive stimulation of its movements, and then accelerate away after exiting enough distance.

But none of them understood that.

They all froze in place, nervously confronting the giant, until the gigantic subhuman reacted to them as intruders and began pounding their chests and roaring.

"Whoaa

"It's going to do it, Assi!"

"The guards escort Your Majesty away, everyone, the cavalry is in position!" the old knight quickly gave the order, and the nervous knights of the guard put on their armor and placed their four-meter-long cavalry on the cavalry carriage of the cuirass.

"Send Your Majesty away!" "God bless the brave and fearless knights of our country!" "Ah——!hhh

Before the slogan of "everyone rush-boom !!" was shouted, the old knight was smashed by the logs and horses that struck like lightning and flew out a few meters away.

The astonishing momentum stunned everyone, including the carriage that had just turned to leave. The heavy log directly smashed his armor into a pulp of dirt on the ground, and the head of the war horse was twisted into a twist, and he was already too dead to die.

"Oh my God, Sir Nils, he, he, he-"

"Avenge Sir Avenger!!" "Hiss ——!" "Roar,

"Ha——!a

"Whoa!!" the thigh began to bleed and the pain made the giant angry, and it roared and rushed at it with heavy steps, and several knights' spears hit one after another, but none of them hit the vital point.

"Aim for the belly, the belly, raise the rifle!" cried the lieutenant who took over the command, and the queen and the bishop looked out the window with wide-eyed eyes and dull faces.

"Bang!!" "Boom, ahh "Ahhhhh

"Roar-" "Ahhh

"Damn!" The squadron lost more than half of its members in just one face, and the guards on foot rushed up to the flames only as moths to the fire, and the disparity in size and strength caused the giants to kill them casually like swatting flies.

The "Knights Assemble !!" The lieutenant and the other knights who had not yet died were all covered in cold sweat, and although it had only been two minutes since the confrontation began, they were oozing sweat from the tension and pouring down from their helmets and armor to their necks.

"Your Majesty—" The lieutenant lifted his visor and turned his head, and the giant grinned like a human and began to reach for the riding spear that was stuck in his body.

"Please forgive the ministers for not being able to continue to accompany them. ”

"Sergeant Persinen, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, and Her Royal Highness the Princess, please leave it to you!" the knight shouted from a considerable distance, while the young sergeant in charge of the carriage was sweating profusely and nodded heavily with a pale face.

"Your Excellen——!!cy," the queen shouted, but the sergeant drew his whip and began to run in the carriage, and the "crackling" whip on the horse's body made the creatures who had been carefully cared for scream again and again, but they also took a quick step and quickly pulled the carriage and disappeared to the other end.

"For the glory of the White Church, for Her Majesty the Queen. ”

"Long live Suomir!"

"Hooray!"

The fierce sound of horses' hooves, war cries and roars continued for half a minute.

Then it's like the heart is gradually stopping.

After the last "bang-" sound, there was silence.

The carriage sped down the road, moving away from the scene behind it.

The silence lasted more than long before it was broken at the voice of the Queen.

"The loyal knights of the remnants are all willful and reckless, if you follow the advice of the prime minister......" The queen bit her lip and stopped her tears. "Grandma. The little princess leaned over and hugged her.

"Your Majesty, we should mobilize more men. Even if—" Bishop Roman forced his composure, "even if there are only bones left, take them home for burial." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency Sergeant Persinen, we—" The Queen lifted the curtain in front of her, but all she could see was a patch of blood.

The young sergeant, leaning on the carriage, was pale in his bare skin, clutching the reins in one hand and his belly with the other, apparently wounded by sharp stones or something like a splash of logs thrown by the giant, but he rode his horse away without saying a word.

He remained in the position of pulling a carriage until his death.

"God—" "Hiss-" The horse, which was no longer under the control of the coachman, came to a conscious halt after running for a while.

"The remnant should be buried. Oh my God, how many young people Yu sent away today. Standing in front of the corpse of the non-commissioned officer, the queen covered her face and crouched down. Bishop Roman's face was also pale, but she stepped forward to close her eyes for Sergeant Persinen.

"Grandma, the concubine is afraid. Lola trembled as she approached the Queen, who was only nine years old. The queen looked at her granddaughter's little face, widened with frightened eyes, and those grey-blue eyes reminded her of her own son, if he was here at this moment, and she began to doubt her every decision, but then shook her head.

"Your Excellency, will you ride a horse?" the queen forced her composure to her feet, but unfortunately Archbishop Roman, who was also at the top, did not know how to drive horses.

"The rest of the world should bury this venerable young man, and add him as a knight to compensate his family. ”

"But the vast forest—" The three women all turned their heads, and the carriage fleeing in panic was nowhere to be found, presumably far away, for they could no longer smell the strong fishy smell here.

"I didn't expect that one day, the rest of us would hate the scenery of my Suomir. The Queen said with a wry smile, and Bishop Roman turned in silence and began to look for supplies in the carriage.