“…… That's all there is to it. ”

Annan slapped the graffiti newspaper on the table and said proudly: "I found out that the nezumi have made a comeback and also got the map of the rat's nest, so this is not a failed banquet!" ”

"Good ......," Olmedo picked up the graffiti perfunctorily, flipped through a map, and determined the location of the two remaining rat nests: "Both of these places are farmsteads. I'll send three teams to attack three nests at the same time early tomorrow morning, release a few rats, and play a show with your nezumi friends. ”

"No, give me one of the nests."

Pointing to the rat's nest to the west, Annan said:

"I'm going to put my musket team into battle."

……

The shrill whistle wakes up the sleeping soldiers. They hurriedly put on their clothes, and the fast ones had already put on their plate armor and ran out with muskets, and the slow ones were still putting clothes on their heads at the whistle that was getting closer and closer.

A few minutes later, a queue formed in the open space outside the camp.

Lorcy, the captain of the musket team, swept his soldiers with an ugly face: there were only three soldiers with muskets in full plate armor, and the rest were either skewed on plate armor and took nothing. Either they only held a musket and wore nothing.

"Where's your guns!" Lossy roared, "Go back and bring your guns!" ”

"The magic gun is your life! I've asked you to treat it as your own woman countless times, and you just leave your own woman behind! ”

More than 30 soldiers ran back to the barracks. Rosie glared at the rest of the group, walking through the queue, standing in front of a young man.

Lotie smiled, and the young man laughed too, and Lotie suddenly retracted his smile and shouted, "What about your clothes!" ”

"I'm wearing!"

"Take it off!"

"Oh......" The young man jumped up and grabbed his companion and took off the only sock he was wearing.

Lotie inhaled and exhaled deeply, convincing herself that they had only been training for a week. But when he returned to the Captain Knight, he saw a playfulness on his face.

As a knight captain who had been practicing swordsmanship since he was five years old and became a servant at the age of eight, he certainly looked down on these soldiers who had put down their forks and picked up weapons for less than two months.

Feeling embarrassed, Rosie learned from the usual appearance of the knight captain: "You are carefully selected elites!" As a result, I couldn't even wear clothes when I assembled! ”

"We didn't get up so early before......" muttered from the group.

"Will the enemy wait for you to get up and get dressed, and then finish eating before attacking!" Rosie looked at them in disappointment, "It's okay for you to let me down...... But don't let your lord down. ”

The atmosphere of the soldiers changed somewhat, and they were much more serious until the soldiers with guns came back in a hurry.

"Give it back, that's my woman!"

"Would she promise you?"

"Give me back!"

"Quiet!"

Letting the soldiers return to the team, Losey swept through the crowd: "Soldiers! The time has come to fight for our homeland! The words fell, and the camp fell into chaos again.

"The nezumi called?!"

"Is there a medal?"

"Who is the enemy?"

"The nezumi didn't call, there was no medal, the enemy was the nezumi. Be quiet! Forcing the soldiers to shut up, Lossy shouted, "Lord Lord is waiting for you in Breeze, don't let him down!" ”

"Ten minutes for you, and let's go!"

The soldiers rushed back to the barracks, and Rosie returned to the knight captain guiltily: "Teacher, let you see the joke......"

The "elite" who can match the real soldiers is fighting the frost giants at the foot of the snowy mountain, and the inexperienced Losi plus the inexperienced soldiers feel that he has betrayed the trust of his lord and teacher.

"It's nothing, you just need one thing to get the soldiers serious."

"What's that?"

"A victory."

……

A hundred soldiers lined up neatly in the Breeze City Square. Plate armor made of hammers was applied to the soldiers. A magic spear like a spear stood on his chest.

"That's the surprise you had for the nezumi?"

Ormedo observed the shape of the special weapon, about its power Annan told her. "It's similar to the magic weapon in the south that uses magic crystals to launch spells."

"The magic musket is much less powerful than the Arcane Missile, but it's cheaper."

Annan compared Riddle Gro's "fire gun" to the arcane missile's armor-piercing characteristic, but it is no different in front of unarmored enemies, it is all a hole.

"This team is called the Musket Team."

In Annan's usual style, magic should be added to the prefix, but the Magic Musketeers sound like the name of the team in some kind of competition.

"Do you want to come with me?"

"Then take a look at your secret weapon."

The sky was bright, and the three teams in the square set off. One of them pounced on the cleansed southern farmstead to cover Maria, and the musketeers and knights headed to the west and east, respectively.

A farm in a barren wheat field appears in the distance. At this distance, Annan thought that the rat people in the farm should have already spotted them.

"After this clearance, you will become the first soldier to fight as the main force in Starmoon Bay."

Annan told the musketeers. The team that followed the Order to the north was at best cleaning up the mess.

"So...... You're concerned about whether there will be more musketeers in the future. Go to battle. ”

The soldiers, who were not encouraged by these words, got excited, and they lined up and began to approach the farm.

The rats poured out of the farm, knowing that they were exposed, clutching wooden spears or forks, and charging towards the soldiers.

The musketeers stopped, nervously waiting for the nezumi to come into range.

500 meters, 300 meters, 100 meters...... Seeing the scarlet eyes of the rats, Rossi roared, "Squat down in the first row!" Put! ”

Bang bang bang –

The deafening roar was almost continuous, black smoke rose, and the rat-men fifty meters away fell in pieces.

"The first row is loaded, the second row is loaded! Put! ”

Bang bang bang –

Some soldiers were so nervous that they forgot to reload or pulled the wrong trigger, but they behaved much better than they did when they were in the camp......

Rosie let out a scolding at the bastards, but he was also relieved - he was afraid that the musketeers would forget the way Annan had taught him and that he had taught them how to fight.

The nezumi poured out and fell. In between, the elite nezumi in armor also exploded into a bloody flower under the volley of a hundred musketeers.

"How?"

"It was like a magic image that surprised me, but I stuck to my story." Olmedo's admiration was undisguised, "When Breeze City is so dangerous that civilians need to fight, no one can protect it. ”

Bang –

The last nezumi in sight collapsed in a pool of blood.

……

Northland.

The young girl who fell on the bank of the river trembled gently, and with each tremble, a trace of blood flowed into the stream.

A nezumi lay in front of her corpse, tearing and chewing flesh.

The flowing stream grew pink, turned into vivid blood, and then into a deep pitch black, more and more filthy, glowing with a disgusting stench of rancid and filth.

In the distance, a tide of rats is coming from all over the mountains, like dark clouds on the sea.

(End of chapter)