Hey, teleport us, boy.” (Burkhart)
“Burkhart-san, you’ve been made to accompany us once again.” (Wendelin)
“Don’t talk about it…” (Burkhart)
It is suspicious whether it is really in absolute secrecy, but all of us, 『Dragon Busters』, got such with a partly forced request from Margrave Breithilde.
The contents of the request: The previous Margrave Breithilde involved my home, Knight Baumeister household, and sacrificed a lot of people by foolishly leading an expedition to the Demon Forest, located at the south-eastern end of Lingaia.
The death toll for that thoughtless expedition was close to 2’000, but if left alone the 2’000 corpses, left behind in the Demon Forest, would end up turning undead after a few hundred years passed.
As for undeads, if a long time passes after they came forth, such things as regrets, sorrow and malice would amplify in proportion and they would become troublesome existences.
If they look at the great number flawed properties in the capital, anyone will be able to understand it.
As for the Lingaia continent, with beyond several hundreds kilometers of undeveloped land after the inhabited region of the Knight Baumeister household, that is in the furthest southeastern part, it should take at least several hundred years until people try to enter the Demon Forest once again.
If, during that time, the undead’s malice became worse completely like a festering venom, they would end up becoming very strong.
If the undead in the Demon Forest left, there would be countless victims amongst the adventurers. Naturally, if they were to investigate the historical reason for that, Margrave Breithilde household, being the cause of it all, should face unfavorable criticism.
『Will there even be a Margrave Breithilde household several hundred years later?』 There is no confidence if asked this, but since the Margrave Breithilde household apparently has a 200 year-long history, the possibility of them to continue to exist should be quite high.
For the sake of the descendants, who haven’t been born yet, we are to cleanse the undeads, who turned undead from the former expedition soldiers roaming about in the Demon forest, as they aren’t very strong yet.
For that reason it was decided that we would proceed towards the actual site.
From the point of receiving such private request of an upper noble, it is apparent that Margrave Breithilde is relying on us there.
Even the reward became a reasonably large amount of money since it was also including hush money.
“But, you know, is it fine with such a small number of people?” (Erwin)
“It will be alright.” (Burkhart)
Burkhart-san immediately addresses Erw’s doubts.
The reason for challenging such domain with its many monsters living there with a small adventurer group is as follows.
If too many people intrude there, it will trigger a large crowd of monsters to appear in response.
It was one verified point from the failure of the former expeditionary force.
Although there are other points as well, I have decided to not talk about the for now.
“If you invade with few people, the other side won’t encounter you with more than a suitable number either.” (Burkhart)
“That is, I know we have already experienced a subjugation just recently. But, I wonder if we will be able to cope with 2’000 undead.” (Wendelin)
“It will be fine. We have Elise-jou-chan and you, boy, for that reason with us.” (Burkhart)
I’d like him to stop calling me 『Boy』 already since I’m a proper adult, but Burkhart-san doesn’t seem to be of the same mind.
For him I’m the pupil of his pupil.
It might be inevitable for him to treat me intuitively as boy. Usually it will be a rude way of talking to me who has the official position of Baron.
As one should expect, he knows about that as well.
“Wend and Elise, it is?” (Erwin)
“Ah, that’s right. They will take care of exterminating the undead in one go.” (Burkhart)
The strategy, he thought up this time, isn’t to defeat each undead one by one, but it appears that he plans to gather the undead and annihilate them all at once.
“Boy, are you able to use magic spread over a wide area?” (Burkhart)
“Yes, I was taught by master.” (Wendelin)
As for magic spreading over a wide area, it’s simply put magic that broadens its magical effect over a vast range. (T/N: No shit, Sherlock! E: AOE Turn Undead)
Since the magical effect will be spread over a wide range, you naturally have to use a vast amount of mana. It doesn’t make sense without using magic appropriate for the target.
Besides, it is also related to attribute compatibility.