Re: Monster Vol: 5 (Day181 - Day 220

Day 215

Remember the war that started around the 150th day? In a country other than Sternbild Kingdom and the Kirika Empire, another war was happening between countries that were far away from the Kingdom. I left it unattended because I was recently busy over here, but it looks like the victorious nation was the ≪Lumen Holy Kingdom≫ ―― which I'll call the Holy Kingdom from now on. It makes my dealings a bit more troublesome, both on and under the table.

The Holy Kingdom that advocates human supremacy will now even be more powerful because it absorbed the defeated country ≪Erinbe Iron Forest Country≫. This made an already vast country expand even more. It will even surpass the Empire, which in itself is more powerful than the Kingdom.

It's not only that, but on top, because of the war, they took in ≪Erinbe Iron Forest Country≫'s【Heroes】―― who include both【Heroes】and【Great Heroes】. Because the【Heroes】now also belong to the Holy Kingdom, their number has increased to a surprising amount of 24. When you look at the Kingdom, it only has 4. When I think about the Empire, they have about 12 of them. Isn't their remarkable war potential bizarre?

There's also the ≪Estgrand Beast Kingdom≫, ruled by【Beast King】Lionel, that has a long-time bad standing with the Holy Kingdom ―― I'll call them Beast Kingdom from now on. Perhaps, if you would consider the allied forces of them together with the Atarakua Demon Empire ruled by【Demon Emperor】Hyulton, it would be possible to balance the odds, which is something you'd want before any fight.

While I left out some details, you could say the Holy Kingdom is moving gears. I've caught more spies and assassins than before in other countries, and while I assumed these cases were sporadic, they might have been happening for a reason.

Even though I'm not sure, there might be a high possibility that they also attacked Minokichi. Beastmen of low standing were trained and sent as assassins. It's a classic trick used by the Holy Kingdom in high-risk missions.

Looks like Minokichi possibly came across one of their mission. They were probably assaulted because I am regarded as dangerous because of my actions in the Kingdom and they were only few in number. But unfortunately, because they were annihilated, I don't know if that's true. Even for me, it was impossible to gather any more information on it.

I would have known in an instant if there would have been but one survivor, but I guess it cannot be helped that they were annihilated. Should I provoke a fight in order to see if my assumptions are truly correct? If they have 24 people, would they notice if 12 of them disappear? I wonder...

If the Empire's【Imperial Order】took in the 4【Heroes】, then there wouldn't be a reason for these【Heroes】to be part of the Holy Kingdom anymore. Yes, it's highly likely they'd be hostile against the Holy Kingdom.

While I'm seeing signs that a Great War is not far off, my【Intuition】tells me there's "something" more behind this. Therefore, I ordered some clones to go to the Holy Kingdom for more detailed intelligence gathering. What is in that country? There might be something relating to my【Psalms】.