It had been a few hours since Hugh and everyone else had been in the woods. It was night, and it was dark all around.
In the hands of the soldiers, there were torches (wood sticks with burning material on top) held to the light.
"Hugh, we've killed three monsters, were there only that many monsters? Or are there still more such monsters."
Some soldiers were burning the monster's dead body lying on the ground with the help of torches. Daniel and everyone followed Hugh's instructions and killed the three Kreman Monsters.
And burnt the corpse of all the monsters so that there was no scope for spreading the disease.
Hugh started looking at him as soon as Daniel said; he started remembering the conversation with Roy.
{"After killing two or three monsters, come back to the mansion silently. Don't think of becoming too much of a hero, and start going to kill more monsters."
"That means there are only three monsters, not more?"
When asked by Hugh, Roy took his eyes off Hugh.
"You don't need to know, do as you are told. You don't need to talk nonsense."}
"Hugh?"
Roy did not tell me whether there was a monster or not; he just said to me that we should come back after killing some monsters. This means that there will be more monsters ahead.
Hugh started remembering yesterday's incident when Roy, keeping his foot on the boy's head, burnt the dead body of his family member without any mercy.
'Didn't he tell me because he had some plan for it or did he not intend to kill all the monsters?'
If we keep an eye on tomorrow's behaviour of Roy towards commoners, then it can also be correct. I also saw cruelty in his eyes.
And even if this is not true, it would mean he wanted to go alone to finish them. He doesn't like taking anyone's help.
{"I will say again, even after killing three monsters by mistake, don't go looking for more monsters, keep this thing in your empty brain."}
"Hugh, are you okay?"
If he goes to kill those monsters alone, his life will be in danger, and if he does not go, the lives of the people of the territory will be in trouble.
And if this disease spreads further, it can also come into our territory. And if this happens, we are facing a crisis with a great difficulty right now. We will not be able to bear the second crisis.
Seeing Hugh in thought, Amelia, standing behind him, placed her hand on Hugh's shoulder.
Hugh came out of his thoughts after Amelia placed his hand on his shoulder.
"Uhm, I'm sorry what you were saying. I was back in thought."
Hugh looked at Daniel with a smile while keeping his hand on his face.
"No, it doesn't matter, I just wanted to ask, Do there are any more such monsters now? Because the soldiers of our territory who went to the forest to find the cause of the disease have not been found yet."
{The soldiers who went to that forest are dead, so tell them this in advance. These monsters have killed them.}
"Daniel, those soldiers are dead, so you shouldn't think about them anymore. And I am not sure but I think there is more monster now. But if everyone is tired then we should leave after taking a rest."
Hearing about the death of soldiers from Hugh, Daniel clenched his fist; he was a little angry with himself that he could not have known about this disease earlier.
Perhaps those soldiers could have survived if Daniel had known earlier.
"Hugh, I also feel that those soldiers are no more but we are not so tired now that we need rest. We should go at this time to kill those monsters."
"If you think so, then it is okay, then go now, anyway we may have to bear the loss due to delay."
"Yes, you are right to say -"
Before Daniel could say it, a soldier, who was monitoring his surroundings by climbing the tree, sat on the tree above and started speaking.
"Young Lord, I see a cave in front of me where there are many monsters' bodies, I think there may be more monsters there."
Daniel became serious as soon as that soldier said and looked at that soldier, nodded, and turned his attention towards Hugh.
Hugh also became attentive as soon as the soldier spoke.
"Daniel, now we must go. It seems to me also from their talk that there may be more monsters in that cave. So now we must go without delay."
Daniel also agreed with Hugh's point.
"As you think is right."
After looking at Hugh, Daniel turned his gaze towards the soldiers.
"Get ready everyone. We have to kill all these monsters today, however we want, we will kill all these monsters. So are you all ready?"
Daniel's words filled the excitement of all the soldiers.
"Yes Young Lord, we will kill these monsters. We will free our territory from these monsters."
"Yes, we will not allow anyone else to fall prey to this disease. We are ready, you dictate."
As soon as all the soldiers agreed, Daniel took out his sword and, looking forward, started saying, raising the sword.
"Then let's start going."
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Climbing on a tree in the forest, a boy looked away as if he was looking for something.
'The Kreman monster's nest must be in a cave somewhere over there.'
I didn't find any monsters till here. Maybe Hugh and Daniel must have done their job well.
Fewer lives have been lost in the territory so far, so it was reasonable to guess that the Kreman monsters would only have come out around three or four to defend their nests.
If they were more than this, there would have been a stock of deaths, so I told Hugh to return to the mansion after killing two or three monsters. He might have even gone to the estate.
Now I also have to do my job: destroy the nest of these monsters where their eggs are lying. Due to this, the story of this monster ends.
'It is the right decision to completely blast that cave. Without taking too much risk on myself.'
Hugh and everyone else were with him; Amelia and many soldiers from his territory were with him. And he was fighting only with some monster, so his life was not in danger.
But I alone cannot take anyone with me, and there will be more monsters in the cave, even if they are a little smaller, but their number will be much more, so with the gunpowder that I have brought in, my bag, Destroying it is the right decision.
I had a hard time stealing this gunpowder. Ben is mostly around me, and there were many soldiers there too, due to which I had to take significant risk to get it.
It's not that I wouldn't be able to beat them if I went to fight in front of them. Maybe I will defeat them with the help of Roy's power, but what is the use of taking risks when the work can be done easily.
Roy was looking here and there from the tree in search of the cave.
'It was told in the anime that-'
/ Three thick trees that have dried up, many trees will be seen in the middle of them, which will give the shape of a triangle if seen from a distance,
A cave will be visible in the middle of that triangle, where the nest of the Kreman monster will be. /
There are three very thick dry trees, which take the shape of a triangle. It should be so, but where?
Roy went further up the tree he had climbed and started looking for those trees again.
After looking around for a while, his eyes went to three trees. Many green trees were near them, in the middle of which a cave was visible.
'Found three thick dry trees.'
On seeing this, Roy jumped down from the tree and started running fast towards that cave.
'Now I do my work as well.'
Roy started going like the wind, coming out from the middle of the trees.
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Daniel and everyone were inside the cave.
"It smells really bad here, it's hard to even breathe. Everyone put a cloth over your mouth."
The first thing to notice as soon as he entered the cave was that the smell was so foul that it was difficult to breathe inside without wrapping the clothes in his mouth, so Daniel asked everyone to take clothes on their faces.
"This smell is as if that monster kills other monsters here and eats it."
"Hugh, you are right, I feel like there is blood lying all around here. Maybe it could be the haunt of those monsters."
There was blood in the cave with half the corpses of the monster here and there, so Hugh felt that the monster was not here, so Hugh asked Daniel to be careful.
"We should tread very carefully, we do not know how big the trouble can be. So vigilance is right."
Daniel nods at Hugh's talk.
"Yeah, you're right, I think so too. We tread carefully."
Amelia was walking behind Hugh when she had come for the first time in such an environment; she was having trouble with such an environment. Her face had turned pale.
"Amelia, if you're having trouble coming in, you should stay outside. We'll handle it here, you can wait for us outside without worrying."
Seeing Amelia's condition, Hugh asks Amelia to stay outside the cave.
"Yes, Miss Amelia Hugh is right, we will handle it here. You can rest easy."
Daniel was also telling Amelia to stay outside. But Amelia was refusing to go out by shaking her face here and there.
(I'm right. You all don't have to worry about me. I won't stay outside; I'll walk with you.)
After Amelia's gesture, Daniel looked at Hugh. And Hugh also gave up and started walking again.
"Hugh, what did Miss Amelia say now?"
Daniel approached Hugh and started asking.
"She's saying she's right. She will not stop outside but will walk with us."
Hugh had a faint smile on his face as he said this.
"Its okay. Hugh, By the way, do you know the language of gestures? I might not understand even after learning this."
"Yes, our whole family learned this so that we could talk to Amelia. Well, it is not that difficult, it just seems difficult at first."
"Yeah, Hugh maybe you are right. I never tried to understand it, that's why."
When Hugh and Daniel were talking to each other, only then did they start hearing voices from around.
At a distance, he started seeing the same monster as the Kreman monster in front, but his stature was smaller than those Kreman monsters which he had killed.
On seeing this, everyone became alert.
"They look like the same monsters, but they are much smaller in stature than them."
"For this, I can defeat them alone, you just go on watching."
Daniel threw his spear toward it on seeing that monster, and as soon as it fell on that monster's head, he fell down screaming.
"Look, I had said that I will handle this alone. What are you all waiting for set his body on fire."
Daniel was giving orders to his soldiers by pointing to his soldiers toward the falling down monster.
All the soldiers bowed their heads as soon as they listened to Daniel and started obeying him.
"Daniel, you shouldn't make a decision on your own. It could have been dangerous too."
When Daniel hit him immediately, Hugh was telling Daniel not to do this in the future.
"But Hugh it was just too small and we couldn't have been that much threatened by it. And if I hadn't hit him at once, he might have run away."
Listening to Daniel, Hugh started giving a little nod.
"That's right but-"
As soon as those soldiers started moving closer to that monster's body, many similar monsters started coming around them.
"What is all this."
"Where did they come from?"
Gradually, the number of those monsters was increasing, and due to this, all the soldiers started getting scared.
Seeing this, Hugh and Daniel were also beginning to sense the danger.
"We must run away from here as soon as possible or else the danger here may increase."
Hugh was seeing this and suggesting everyone get out, but that too was getting very difficult because those monsters also surrounded the way out.
Those monsters were increasing in number and getting closer and closer. All the soldiers, Daniel, Amelia and Hugh, were behind the wall, and they had no way to escape.
Daniel did not even have a spear in his hand because it was stuck in that monster's body. And now everyone was getting scared, and Daniel also felt he might be unable to get out now.
"Dammit, will we die like this now?"
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