It really depends on the conditions.
Even my master, who suffered an unnatural death, wouldn’t fall behind a dragon if he felt like it.
Even without defeating it, he should have plenty of room to at least escape before being killed.
But, while protecting his lord and the allied military forces, he wasn’t able to oppose the violence of numbers by the crowd of monsters.
Although I think he could have run away if it was only himself, I don’t think that he wanted to leave behind his employer and his troops.
Given that I’m far more inexperienced, I would probably end up dying a lot faster than master in the same situation.
“That’s right, isn’t it? It depends on the conditions, right? But, there happens to be a single thing I want to ask you to do…” (Breithilde)
That wish of Margrave Breithilde is without a doubt a request that wouldn’t be allowed in the guild considering that he even expressly summoned us here.
Even though we will incur the animosity of the guild, if it’s true, it was very likely that he already finished discussing it with the guild given that Margrave Breithilde is the ruler of Breitburg.
“So, what kind of request is it?” (Wendelin)
In this case the choice of turning it down was non-existent.
If it can’t be done, we will withdraw from it. It should be better to report the failure.
At any rate, because this request hasn’t gone through the guild, it won’t leave a stain in our personal careers even if we fail.
“It’s a kind of subjugation request.” (Breithilde)
“Kind of?” (Wendelin)
“It’s cleaning up after my father.” (Breithilde)
With only those few words, I conjectured all of it.
Margrave Breithilde’s request is a remedial measure for the reckless act of heading to the Demon Forest with an expedition involving my family’s home and my master which was started by the willfulness of the previous Margrave Breithilde.
“Close to 2’000 people died having been left behind in the monster domain. It is necessary to settle this.” (Breithilde)
To say it clearly, they have transformed into undead with almost no doubt. Purifying them should become the main part of the request.
There are extremely few cases of becoming a Talking Corpse as they had to possess a strong ego like master.
The majority is evolving from zombies to ghouls, then to skeletons and wraiths one by one in that order.
If they even gathered into an assembly of several hundreds souls changed into evil spirits, it would already be difficult to purify them without holy magic of Elise’s or my class.
Even in case they didn’t assemble, it should be extremely troublesome to purify them due to their high number.
To begin with, the place, the Demon Forest, is a problem.
From the Knight Baumeister’s territory, that was south from here by crossing the mountain range, there was moreover the vast Savage Land spreading several hundreds kilometers to the south.
The Demon Forest is at the southeast end of that.
“You can go to the Demon Forest with teleportation, right?” (Breithilde)
“Yea, well…” (Wendelin)
If it was a normal adventurer, it would be difficult to just go to the Demon Forest.
However, with my explorations in my childhood, I can freely go to the entrance of the Demon Forest with my teleportation magic.
But I guess Margrave Breithilde already knows about this.
“Eeto… But arbitrarily exploring the Demon Forest located in the territory of Knight Baumeister is…” (Wendelin)
“It’s alright. On top of being your father, he won’t refuse the request of his patron.” (Breithilde)