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It’s time!
A loud sound similar to glass shattering echoes.
The scenery changes instantly.
We scan the neighbourhood calmly.
“This is……”
Yeah. Near the village with that man who was bringing medicine to his mother who was suffering from an illness.
No matter how much they rush the earliest anyone would make it here form the castle town would be a day and a half.
There are red cracks spreading through the sky.
“Hero of the Shield-sama!”
The volunteers who were also summoned run up to me.
As for the other three heroes—-.
“Firo! If you’re going to kick that spear bastard do it so that he flies towards the cracks. It’ll help him get there faster.”
“Okay~!”
Firo listens to my order and runs off.
Due to her speed she catches up to the correct party.
“Eh—-?”
As soon as the spear bastard looks back he is kicked by Firo.
“””Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”””
His whole party was kicked away. It feels good to see that fucking woman also getting blown away.
Though there wasn’t much damage since Firo held back.
“Wh-What did you do that for!”
It seems the spear is trying to say something to us.
I ignore the spear and glare at the bow and sword.
(Tl note: He’s not saying any of the hero’s names just calling them by their weapons)
“Stop being a fool and wasting time!”
“what is up with you right now!?”
“Yeah! We must defeat the enemies spawned from the wave!”
I am amazed at anger of the foolish heroes.
“Listen to me first, you can hunt the enemy afterwards.”
I direct the volunteers towards the neighbouring village.
They nodded and ran off towards the village according to my orders.
“Now…… Stop interfering with our work!”
“It’s different!”
Itsuki is surprised by my roar and looked at me with bulging eyes.
“Calm down and think about it. Because I cannot receive aid money, I will not fight against the main body of the wave. As far as I am concerned I will be trying to defend the towns and villages within the neighbourhood. Do you guys understand?”
“Yeah”
“You are disqualified as a hero”
“that’s right!”
All their followers are taunting me.
“Now you guys. Defeating the enemies who spawn from the waves is your job. I do not know whether or not the wave is stopped if you defeat the boss.”
“It is connected to the boss!”
Itsuki seems to have gotten excited and answers.
Such a thing doesn’t matter.
“However, besides that we have important work……do you guys understand?”
“What would that be?”
Ren even you don’t understand? I mean you should know since this world resembles a game.
Why don’t you understand? To ask that would sound very sarcastic so I’ll hold back.
“Do you guys know about the Knights?”
The the heroes close their eyes at my voice.
“They will come later”
I bring out a magic flare and show them.
“The distance from here to the castle town is one and a half days on horse or philo rial. That’s too far!.
“Then, what should we do!”
“How did you get this information!?”
I point at the volunteers running towards the village.
“Now that I think about it…… How did you transfer with those people?”
“Seriously? You guys don’t even know the Party function……?”
“For companions? I thought we couldn’t have that many.”
“This is different…… A party leader is nominated and everyone who is within the party is a subordinate, that also makes them all part of the transfer.”
Perhaps……these guys. I have more knowledge about the wave compared to them?
“First of all that was confirmation. Now it is confirmed that we can bring help during the waves.”
…… Nobody says anything.
“Do you guys know of the help and tutorial?”
“Yeah. We have mastered this world.”
” Anyway, our top priority is to suppress the wave……so, see ya!”
“then fighting against the wave for you guys…… is a game?
“What?”
“What about it?”
“Let’s hurry and go!”
My question was disregarded by Itsuki who ran off.
“Motoyasu, do you know the meaning of my question?”
“Well…… Instant dungeon?”
No……
“This is different. Is it a time attack wave?”
Ren……that is also wrong.
“Is it like a guild war? or a game with large scale battles?”
there was a game in my original world where there was a big even in which the players had only a week to participate.
As expected, It seems that the only ones who can use the party system are the heroes.
In fact, if the knights were late last wave and if I retreated the damage would be tremendous.
“……Do you understand it completely because you used to run a big guild?”
Since their co-operation is top priority I’ll just be subtle about it.
Of course the Heroes who are ace players have to lead the charge.
But, to minimize damage we must co-operate with the residents of this world.
The fact that they don’t understand is amusing.
“I managed a team before.”
Is Motoyasu’s answer.
He glances at Firo’s demon form. Well he probably doesn’t want to be kicked.
“Then you cannot understand.”
“I don’t need to.”
“Huh!?”
” It will all work out one way or another.”
Sigh….. Am I a secretary making sure you do your work?
“I’m not interested in this.”
Ren……I’m not good at talking to people about guild warfare since I didn’t participate.
He is armour is quite cool.
I want to know if this guy is capable of managing a large-scale guild.
“Anyway, this time we need to do our best, and make sure to bring knights next time.”
I need to lay a foundation to combat the waves.
Both Ren and Motoyasu run off without hiding their unpleasantness towards me.
Hey, Don’t spit on the road!
“Anyway. Let’s go the village in the neighbourhood too.”
“Okay~!”
We got in the cart, and Raphtalia hurried to the village with me.
“Ouch-!”
We arrived at the village just as the wave got there. Everything is covered in shadows, wolves, lizardmen, condors, and some goblins.
These guys remind me of Demi-humans, but all dark and covered with shadows.
Respectively they are called, Dark Condor, Black Wolf, Assault Shadow Goblin, and Shadow Lizardmen.
(tlnote: ゴブリンアサルトシャドウ That is the best name for a goblin ever)
And there was “Dimensional” added before each of their names.
They are just like ghosts that disappear into shadows when defeated.
it’s downright creepy.
These demons are totally different from the previous wave, is this going to be the case from now on?
At any rate, I’ll leave all the troublesome things to those guys.
That is.
“Acha-!”
I hear a strange battle cry from the old woman whom I fed medicine to. She is faring well with a hoe in one hand.
The volunteers are perplexed by this old woman as well.
“Ah, the saint! Thanks for the medicine! Acha-!”
The old woman bows to me after delivering blow after blow with the hoe to the demons that are rushing forwards
This old woman is quite strong, there are demon corpses left and right.
“Hey, you come over here and say thanks.”
“Uhm right, Thank you very much.”
The son of the old woman bows to me too.
“Anyway, for the time being please evacuate and take shelter, these enemies are spawning from the wave.”
The volunteers are instructing the villagers to take refuge.
The intervals between more enemies arriving and eliminate the current demons is quite small.
We also join the suppression of the enemy.