Police Officer Chapter 246

I had defeated Barzas in a duel.

While it was true that Barzas had been very strong, it also made realize that my way of fighting was not very refined yet.

Back when I was still an Ogre, I had been able to fight in a way that allowed to save more of my strength.

As I was weak, I had to use my head when fighting my superiors.

That’s how things had been.

(I have to stop getting carried away and relying on brute force.)

To be honest, I was exhausted now. And my mana was depleted. Yes. Later, I would have to reevaluate the way that I fought.

“How’s that!”

However, I could not allow them to see any weaknesses.

And so I raised my fists high into the air and shouted.

After a slight delay, the crowd roared.

I didn’t quite know…if that ant the soldiers had accepted , but I had proved my strength.

“I want to et whoever is in charge here. Let in.”

All I had to do was glare at them, and they would cower.

I would not be able to fight anymore, and yet I had to make them think that I could.

Make them think they would have to send another who was Barzas’s equal or even stronger in order to defeat .

At the very least, they knew that they were not the one to do it.

Soone must have gone to deliver the news.

As I stood there and stared the others down, I was eventually allowed to enter the camp.

(Now, this is where it really begins…)

My mana was dried up. And my body exhausted.

And while I was now in the camp, apparently, that didn’t an I could et Kyuka imdiately.

I was let into the first defensive wall, but was told to wait there.

“Can I take a walk around?”

I asked with a chuckle, and the guard who was leading nodded with a shudder.

This camp had three walls around it.

But so did General Farneze’s camp, so it wasn’t unexpected.

Had they just been made of wood, I’d be able to break them. But they were hardened soil and rocks.

And they were over twice as tall as I was.

Even if our army were able to ambush them, it would be difficult to get past the second wall.

(I can see Giants here too, so they must have helped.)

While we were all residents of the Demon World, the Giants were larger and had ridiculous arm strength.

And so carrying huge boulders was an easy task for them.

When it ca to construction work, a single Giant was worth a dozen Goblins or more.

And so if you had thirty Giants, then a wall like this could be built in just one day.

I walked along the wall and inspected its durability.

The guards watched cautiously from afar.

Word that I had defeated Barzas had spread, and so no one dared complain to .

Still, they would not let inside of the second defense layer.

And so with nothing to do, I continued to wander around the area. And then a rather strong-looking fellow ca over to . He was covered in armor, head to toe.

“I am Mouga. An attendant of His Majesty.”

Ah, so one of General Farneze’s targets then.

Not only was Mouga big, but he was wearing armor.

He wasn’t so much a warrior…but like so kind of stone guardian.

His breastplate was thick, and he had horns on his helt. I could not get a clear look at his face.

Judging from the glimpses of fur, he was likely a type of evolved Dark Ape.

He wasn’t as tall as the Giants, but was still one of the larger residents of the Demon World.

After all, I had to look up in order to see him. And I felt that he must have trendous power hidden inside.

“I’m Golan. Do you think that we can talk?”

“Indeed, that is why I ca here.”

He was an attendant of Kyuka. In other words, an Adjutant.

That suggested he would be quite intelligent as well.

“I’m Lesser Demon King lvis’s subordinate, and was working under General Farneze.”

“Farneze… Ah, the one who set up camp on the other side of the mountain.”

“Yes. …It’s a long story, but I need you to listen.”

After that, I watched Mouga’s reaction while I explained how I had co to be here.

That being said, it wasn’t the truth.

I had made it up in order to et Kyuka.

The first thing that I emphasized was that General Farneze and I had a disagreent.

And since she had ceaselessly despised , my resentnt had finally exploded.

There was no turning back now, and I had no choice but to challenge her to Gekokujyo.

And so I decided to fight this decisive battle.

However, it seed that she ant to drive out of the camp before I could challenge her, and so I went berserk.

But she only sent more n after , and I ended up having to run away while fighting them off.

“I cannot return to the camp now, and so will you let join this one?”

I finished. Mouga looked up at the sky.

He was probably annoyed that soone so dangerous and troubleso had co to them.

“I heard about the fight at the mountain the other day.”

“You an those Ogres I defeated after they chased after .”

Mouga was talking about the mock battle I had with Saifo and Beka.

I had orchestrated the fight to give that impression, but had beco a little too heated in the mont, and we caused mass devastation to the environnt.

“Why did the General refuse your challenge?”

He was very curious about that.

“I doubt that…she was afraid of being defeated. She probably decided that it wasn’t worth the damage she would receive during the fight.”

I said with a triumphant look. This was also a question that I had expected.

My purpose here was to buy ti by stopping Kyuka, not to fight one of his subordinates.

Fight and you won’t make it out unscathed.

And if that happened, you’ll be pretty useless on the battlefield. I did my best to give him this impression.

“I see… And there must be other reasons that you don’t get along.”

Mouka seed to be buying my story.

“Reasons that we don’t get along… Well, don’t you think I’m strong enough to be leading the army instead?”

This too was a bluff.

Think of as inferior to the General, and I’ll kill you. It was a threat.

If I were to be at the sa level as a General or Adjutant, then I would have to et with Kyuka directly.

I would settle for nothing less than a direct link to Kyuka’s Orb of Control.

“Strength doesn’t necessarily an you have the ability to lead an army. However, that can be redied with good Adjutants. So I suppose you are not wrong.”

If the leader of an army lost, that army would be crushed.

And so soone who would never lose was the most appropriate to be leader. In the end, strength really was everything on the battlefield.

However, that did not include idiots like the forr Corps Commander Guden, who could say nothing aside from ‘Gahahahaa! Charge! Charge!’

People like Guden did too much damage to their own side.

Unless an Adjutant could do sothing about it, the damage could extend farther than the corps and affect the whole army.

My talk with Mouga was practically finished.

If Mouga now asked to make the contract with him directly, I would fight him.

Well, that’s what I made him think… He did take the hint, right?