After the eting ended Tsugumi and the San-Baka changed into their new clothes. Which made them look really sharp Hach who saw the faces they made inwardly lanted the huge difference in them.
"Less than a week ago I could beat the forr slaves, now I can't even fight them head-on. If this 'Fun camp' goes the way the butcher intends they would only get stronger."
Just then so of Hach's n ca and verified what they heard. One of the rcenaries asked in bewildernt. "Hach, they are saying we are doing a non-stop run again? I could hardly get any sleep the last ti we did it. Have a heart."
Annoyed the bald leader of the escorts shouldered his ax while replying. "We get to save two days by traveling with the Butcher. Suck it up beside, instead of fighting monsters you got sore sleeping inside a carriage. Aren't you a real pussy?"
"Alan looks distraught, last ti he even chatted with the butcher what is different this ti?" Unimpressed with Hach's answers another asked sothing about their boss instead.
Finding the behaviors of the rchant hilarious Hach started laughing out loud before he answered. "He is probably regretting his actions, Alan is the one that egged the butcher into doing a non-stop run. The butcher has so business in partisan, he is using this last leg of the trip to power level his n."
"Holy shit, again? Aren't they in the mid 30's now?" "Fuck, can I get on the butcher bus?"
"You want to die? Did you see how he made his slave eat monster hearts raw?" "But if you can get stronger why not?"
"Well, at least we can finish this expedition faster." "Yeah, having not to be tense because high-level people are managing defense is light work." "I don't even need to scout. The butcher's sense already passes five kiloters, his AGI must be in the thousands."
Hach who noticed how chatty his an are wanted to rebuke them but couldn't while he tried to keep running a tight ship. The worlds the butcher and his n moved were far from their level. The escorts grew lax whenever Hiro traveled with them.
While there were occasional surprises the security of having that man with you ensured you would survive unscathed. No one voiced it but they grew impressed and respected the power and ferocity of the butcher. So much so that they no longer even felt afraid of him.
The rcenary leader however felt he needed to share the latest info. "Well, don't relax just yet. From what I understood the butcher will be summoning a monster horde for his n to train in."
"He is going to do what?" asked one of his n.
"The butcher will be using a skill to summon an entire horde of monsters to the caravan. He will be on defense while the slaves and the nanny would be on offense."
Another concerned tried to see if Hach was just pulling their leg."You are kidding, right? Why would he summon a horde for no reason."
Yet the rcenary leader replied in all seriousness. "No, he will do it, as I said he has a reason. The butcher is summoning the horde to have his n and sister kill it. I don't know how it will go about so keep on your toes."
"…" The other escorts felt like puking from fear. Monster hordes in Valorious are considered on the level of natural calamities. Once in a while, the monsters in one area would have a battle to decide who stays in their habitat.
The losers of said battle are driven out. These groups of powerful beasts would then look towards a new ho. For so reason, the phenonon occurs at the sa ti with multiple species even those that have no commonalities.
Due to the sheer number of displaced monsters, hardly anyone can do anything about them. These groups band together to form a horde and normally aim to assault large human settlents to use as new habitats.
Nurous towns, military installations, and even kingdoms fell towards these armies. Funnily enough, the ones that choose to fight the hordes prospered because of the large number of monster materials if they survived.
Because of this fact, one of the highest responsibilities of adventurers had is answering the guild's call if a monster invasion arrived. Naturally, the survival rates for such events could be considered abysmal with large numbers perishing under the onslaught.
For such types of battles, small adventurer teams or rcenary outfits lacked enough power. Thus most cities intentionally took care of strong battle harems. Unlike adventurers, these groups had the power to withstand entire invasions.
Although the adventurer guilds tried to entice battle harems to join them. They could hardly compete with the offering of mayors that bent over backward to enlist the services of a strong battle harem.
Exception from taxes, and pri locations for their base, so mayors even pay a salary to these groups just to have them station their headquarters in their cities. Such were the benefits given to battle harems for the sole intention of stopping monster invasions.
That was the kind of power needed to deal with a monster horde. In terms of reality, Hach and his small rcenary outfit couldn't even imagine fighting or intentionally seeking one.
The escorts then saw the butcher climb on top of one of the carriages and gave his final instructions. "Aurum is the vanguard, Lars and Geo will take the caravan's flanks. Tsugu you will have the rear which will be where the fighting will be fiercest. Are you really sure you want to be placed there?"
A dainty woman in an elegant white battle suit that looked like a dress answered in a confident voice. "Positive Nii-sama. I will not let you down."
Nodding Hiro then made a dramatic pose with his greatsword and invoked his skill. Suddenly a loud repeating sound echoed from Hiro's body. It sounded like a heartbeat but felt sharper and agonizing to the ears.
The next thing they noticed was the skies changed color. Originally white and clear of clouds the horizon turned orange as if the sun already set. Adding to that a large amount of pink smoke coming out of Hiro's body.
Hiro continued emitting the smoke from his body for a good minute, the amount of smoke that ca out of the butcher covered the caravan so much they could not even see a ter in front of them.
After a few seconds however the smoke traveled outward in all directions allowing the caravan to see once more. The moving columns of gasses created a moving curtain of pink-colored clouds.
Not yet finished Hiro's weapon glowed like a small sun as he raised it to the sky. It was so bright it looked like the butcher held a star in his hand. The butcher's voice then thundered for the entire plains to hear.
"[CO TO ]!"
Hach and his n suddenly heard loud earthquakes all around them. So of them fell to the ground because of the strong vibrations. "What the hell was that!" scread one of them in anger.
The sounds of thousands of objects hitting the ground echoed from all directions. They had no rhy or beat, just impacts on the earth. Hach who knew more than most could only sweat inwardly as he assud the size of the bastard making such heavy footsteps.
Hiro then roared to the entire caravan. "Prepare to depart. Our next stop is Partisan, we will not be stopping, my n and I will handle everything that cos. Let's move!"
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