Life in Another World With Narration

42 – Once again, the battle to subdue monsters

As soon as Shari returned, she floated around me a few times.

She had an expression that meant she wanted to say something.

“Where have you been?”

As I asked, Shari stretched her arms out to the sides and flapped her wings as she came closer to me and she snuggled against my stomach.

She also has real, small wings on her back, and since she’s a ghost, she doesn’t need to flap her wings, so I don’t know why she flaps her arms.

“Huh? This… ….”

After a while, Shari briefly showed several scenes in my head.

It seemed to recreate the situation around the Horn Canyon where her punitive force was encamped.

“You… ….”

Shari continued to convey to me what she had seen, stitched together like her panoramic photos.

A group of monsters consisting of slimes, goblins, dire wolves, and ogres were seen.

The group of monsters, which had nothing special, were a ‘bait unit’ that could be seen with the naked eye even here.

Next, under the cliff at the end of the Horn Canyon, not far from where we are.

I saw a place that seemed difficult to even approach because it was covered with strangely shaped rocks.

There was a wide cave behind a large rock with many sharp thorns sticking out like a sea urchin.

Shari showed the same scene several times as if to emphasize the location of the cave.

And then, inside the cave, there were bent humanoid monsters with dog heads.

It was a kobold.

There are a total of 20 kobolds in the cave.

The guys were holding large wooden staffs reminiscent of shamans, and stood in pairs of five on a magic circle drawn on the floor.

And the purple-black magic power flowing from the tip of the staff he was holding was supplying magic power to the four magic circles drawn on the floor.

They were not ordinary kobolds, but kobold shamans.

The scene shown by Shari ended there.

“You said you wanted to help, but then you disappeared just for this?”

I asked, looking at Shari in surprise as she lowered her head and clung to my stomach as if hugging me.

Shari floated up to my eye level and then nodded her head.

The information Shari brought was important enough to change the situation of her punitive force.

Even though we sent out several scouts, there was no harvest, so it was really helpful.

When I thought about it, Shari was the best scout that this world would ever have.

Because he is a ghost, he can move around ignoring all terrain and even fly through the air.

It is not even visible to the eye.

When I returned after completing the reconnaissance, I was able to convey what I discovered during the reconnaissance much more vividly than verbally, using a unique communication method that unfolded the scenes I saw directly into my consciousness.

Shari, you are an amazing kid.

I was amazed and slowly stretched out my hand and stroked Shari’s head.

I touched Shari’s small head with my hand, but I couldn’t feel anything.

But, as if Shari was really being stroked by my hand, she laughed bashfully, rubbing her head against my hand.

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The next day, I immediately selected several people from the punitive force and formed a separate search party.

The purpose was to personally find the cave at the end of the canyon discovered by Shari and subdue the kobolds acting suspiciously inside.

We gave the exploration team a rough search range and sent them a wizard who could destroy rocks.

After sending out the search party so early in the morning, it was afternoon.

News has arrived that the cave containing the kobold that Shari told me about has been discovered.

It is said that the exploration team broke the rock blocking the cave and eliminated all the kobolds who were performing the ritual inside.

And then the person watching from the high peak hurriedly came down and reported to Mileia and me.

“Great… This is a big deal! Suddenly, a huge number of monster troops appeared!”

I, along with Mileia, confirmed the appearance of a new monster unit that had appeared beyond the canyon.

A large number of new monsters appeared on both sides of the two previously visible monster units.

“Were the kobolds in that cave hiding those monsters with magic?”

Not long after dealing with the kobolds in the cave, a large number of monsters suddenly appeared as if they had fallen from the sky.

You can also see monsters flying in the sky, monsters as big as a house, monsters riding on horses made of bones, and many other strong-looking monsters.

“Yunoa…… “Were you expecting this situation?”

Mileia said as she watched the newly appeared monsters.

Other members of the subjugation team could not help but be astonished upon witnessing the large unit of monsters that seemed incomparably more powerful than before.

“What is that…?” … If we had divided our forces and attacked as initially planned, we would have been…….”

“The man that Miss Milleia brought was right…….”

Daimon, the knight leader who had first suggested dividing the troops, also turned blue and looked at me and the monster in turn, at a loss for words.

“Monsters are coming this way!”

“Ready for battle! “Ready for battle!”

A large army of monsters visible in the distance began to advance towards the canyon.

Once the deception tactic using kobolds was broken, it seemed like they decided there was no need to wait any longer.

“Yunoa, please give me instructions.”

Mileia also pulled out the long sword from her waist and asked me.

Instructions? First of all, we have made defense preparations, but how should we give battle instructions?

Suddenly my mind goes blank.

I, of course, had no experience in commanding battles in actual combat, so it was very difficult for me to judge what instructions I should give to effectively block the attack of that monster.

『Yoonoa used his lack of knowledge to build as many defenses as possible, but with no combat command experience, he stood there helpless as he did not know what orders to give as the actual battle approached.

Does the punitive force know that their lives depend on this incompetent man?

It was truly pathetic.』

The narration poured out criticism in the tense situation ahead of the battle.

Yes, it is okay to curse at me.

But what I am saying is that if you want to help someone, help them and then curse them.

Just as I was thinking that, the narration spoke again.

『Wyverns flying quickly at the vanguard of the monster unit were able to snatch people as they passed by like birds of prey.

Even if he was not caught by the wyvern, the wyvern’s claws and teeth were poisonous, so just grazing him was fatal.

Ordinary arrows did not even penetrate the wyvern’s thick hide.

For these guys, powerful siege weapons like ballistas and ice spears thrown by wizards were effective.』

“All wizards, get to the high ground! We must shoot down the approaching wyverns with our ice spears!”

As soon as I heard the narration, I immediately shouted.

『Skeleton knights riding on skeleton horses and scattering curses around them will rise again no matter how many times they are defeated unless their weapons are blessed with sacred magic. The swords they wielded contained a curse that had accumulated over hundreds of years of resentment.

If you engage in a normal close-quarters combat with a Skeleton Knight, the blood and flesh of the person who crossed swords rotted due to a curse.

However, by using a blessed weapon, it was possible to prevent receiving this curse.』

“Is there anyone who can bless the weapon? “Please bless the weapons, starting with the melee combat personnel!”

Afterwards, I listened to the characteristics of the monster unit described in the narration and hastily gave instructions accordingly.

The wizard adventurers climbed to the highlands and prepared ice spear magic.

Adventurers who could use sacred magic went around the entire punitive force and blessed the weapons.

Ordinary soldiers were stationed on the cliffs on either side of the narrow path where the monsters would enter to knock down falling rocks.

The knights and each adventurer also blocked each path of the canyon, balancing their roles.

Mileia, the strongest member of the punitive force, was with me.

She was, in fact, like the final weapon of this subjugation force.

“…… “The scale of the monster’s attack is large.”

Mileia said while looking at the crowd of monsters.

“There are more monsters than I thought. “I don’t know if it’ll be okay.”

“It reminds me of the old days.”

“… ….”

It was an old thought.

What is she thinking now?

“Shoot it down!”

“Shoot!”

The wizards who climbed to the high ground threw magical ice spears at the wyverns that came close.

Wiverns, looking as if they were trying to turn into dragons, began to attack the canyon.

“Ugh!”

Several wizards were hit by the wyvern’s claws and tumbled off the cliff, screaming.

The wyvern hit by the ice spear folded its wings, spun around, and fell down the canyon.

This was not a ‘subjugation’ to unilaterally exorcise monsters.

It was a ‘war’ in which the punitive force had no choice but to take damage.

After a while, following the wyverns, monsters on the ground began to surge into the canyon.

It was a huge number that seemed to be several times larger than that of the punitive force.

In addition, since there were many powerful high-level monsters mixed in, the difference in power seemed larger than expected.

The battle against the monster began in earnest, and the surrounding area quickly became chaos.

As Millia quietly observed the situation, she quietly asked me.

“Can I go?”

You don’t need to take my permission.

In this situation… ….

The real subjugation leader is you.

Of course I nodded.

Then, Mileia held a long sword and immediately jumped down the cliff full of monsters.

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