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“Protect～♪ Fufuun♪ I wonder whether my feelings are going to reach Emissary-sama♪” Catiza sung with a lively and cheerful voice.
And after summoning her , she extended ten black fingernails, and changed her hair into a huge arm with countless blades.
“Emissary-sama, march♪”
“Baaang and booom♪”
“Baaang and booom♪”
Even as she happily sang, she slaughtered and slaughtered orcs with a force just like the Hundred-Armed Giant Hecatoncheir who protected the gate of hell. Her singing voice and the lyrics were pletely opposite to the bloody massacre taking place.
Catiza was protecting the gate of Cydale. And as matter of fact, the gate hadn’t received a single scratch ever since she started to defend it.
Even at this very moment, the Chief Gatekeeper was shading her eyes with a hand, and moving around her head restlessly, changing her expressions hectically while keeping an eye out by looking the far distance.
And just then, an orc army appeared in great numbers from the other side of the cliff.
“Ah～ The pigs have e to attack again!” She yelled while freely transforming her silver hair.
She extended one arm and depicted an orc’s pig head with her hair. As if to make sure of the army’s location with her black nails at the ends of her slender fingers, she informed everyone, “Over there! Over there!”, while poking the air with her nails several times.
The size of the orc army was different from the orc pany Catiza had annihilated recently. Blue, light infantry units held swords and spears, black, heavy infantry units held spears with their large frames, and a yellow, lightly-equipped unit had bows at the ready. It was a large-scaled military force.
The orc army marched on as if to destroy the cliff. It was a large army, but in the end it was no more than a single sub-battalion of an orc tribe called Hexa. No subordinates or kin of Queen Ghul Dodon were to be found. Bubuu Ghul Kaibadge, the orc mander-In-Chief boasting of excellent military experience and achievements, wasn’t among them either.
The orcs had conflicts with all kinds of powers on the surface and in the underground. All for the sake of making their clans prosper and protecting their central pillar, the queen. The powers opposing them included the military forces of the Tree Apparition King who were skilled in winning their enemies over, the 12 founding vampire families, stray progenitors, the queen of the big ants who built their nest in the Bewitching Valaydaz Palace, the whimsical Death Butterfly people, a great variety of goblin tribes and monsters in the Sea of Trees, a part of the ancient gods including underground gods, demons related to the Spirit World, the warrior troops of the divine domain such as the Bu family, and other powers such as the human adventurers.
“――Got it, Catiza. Please give us your orders, mander-In-Chief Quiche.” Helme asked with a bloodcurdling tone.
She respectfully addressed the green-haired Quiche with mander-In-Chief. Just as her polite phrasing suggested, Helme had been moving in accordance with Shuuya’s order. Except for matters related to butts, of course.
Usually she showed her respect to Quiche like this, and always maintained an obedient attitude towards her.
“Spirit-sama…”
However, Quiche couldn’t help but mutter this word while breathing a heavy sigh.
Yes…spirits were sacred for her. No records about this were left from the era of the Ancient Great Empire Befaritz, but even in the history of the old nobles of Quiche’s elven clan, it was extremely rare to to see a spirit as a visible entity, not through the use of some special magic tool or rituals as intermediary. Moreover, one possessing a clear personality on top of actually serving a master. You could describe such a being, in a certain sense, as divine.
Quiche thought back on her conversations with Helme.
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――I’ve been called “Major Quiche, mander-In-Chief, and Minister of Defense” by Spirit-sama.
At first I refused such titles, but…
“What are you talking about? His Excellency’s words are absolute, you know? His Excellency started with 『I love the word major』 and then added, 『I’ve liked it for a very long time now』…then said, 『The net is vast』, just to continue with 『Life-forms born in the sea of information are possible in this world as well』 and 『Not to mention, space, yes, from macro to micro…』. I got confused since I didn’t understand the meaning behind the last ones, but he said all this enthusiastically as if in a trance. And, the precious, beautiful elven woman on His Excellency’s mind is you…do you truly understand what this means?”
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