Chapter 11, the village chief’s disaster day
The village chief of Kahn Village, a forty-five-year-old man, is picking up firewood alone in the forest on the edge of the village, holding a wooden stick.
Although the age of forty-five can only be regarded as a middle-aged uncle on the modern earth in the 21st century, in this world with relatively backward productivity, he is already an out-and-out old man. With his age and family background, he would have been able to sit at home and enjoy the service of his children and grandchildren for a long time. But due to an inexplicable little misfortune, today the old village chief had to collect firewood himself.
Alas, I don’t know if it was because I drank a few extra glasses of moonshine at dinner yesterday, but the whole family slept very late today. When they woke up, the sun was already high! Where can I get this? There is still a lot of farm work to be done in my own land!
——Until this moment, the old village chief had not discovered that the map at home was stolen. After all, no one would rummage around as soon as they got up.
After complaining to each other for a while, the old village chief, as the head of the family, had no choice but to rush all the young people in the family to the fields, hoping that after adding more manpower, he could complete the scheduled workload. Then he left the job of fetching water to his wife, and he took over the job of going into the forest to collect firewood.
What's even more unfortunate is that because we arrived too late today and the children and young people in the village got there first, there seemed to be no dead branches left to pick up at the edge of the forest near the village. Although there are as many towering trees with lush foliage as there are in this place at the edge of the forest, it requires a strong man's arms and a logging ax to cut them down, and he only needs a strong man's arms and a logging ax to cut them down. The machete can't be dealt with.
Therefore, in order to collect enough firewood for the whole family to cook dinner, the old village chief had to continue walking deeper into the forest.
Before walking very far, I felt that the temperature had dropped a lot, and the sunlight had become much darker. The old village chief knew that this was because the leaves above his head were too dense and the sunlight didn't let in much. At the same time, the surroundings seemed to be dominated by silence. Apart from the slight sound of swaying treetops and the echoing calls of birds and animals from time to time, there was only the sound of his own footsteps, which made the village chief feel a little flustered.
"...There shouldn't be any ferocious beasts in this place yet...Forget it, just hurry up! I hope you don't encounter any bad luck again!"
However, the poor old village chief didn't know that his misfortune was far from over on this day.
"...[Dizziness Technique]! [Dizziness Technique]! [Dizziness Technique]! [Sleep Technique]!"
Along with a series of imperceptible "cat whispers", several small beams of light quietly shot out from the tree branches on the side. The old village chief, who was attacked by concentrated fire, fell to the ground without even a groan. After a while, the sneak attacker also jumped down from the tree branch, revealing his true appearance.
——Those are two kittens that look cute but walk upright on their feet.
"...Finally I defeated one, meow." Tabby cat mage Wang Qiu murmured to himself as he looked at the "prey" lying in front of him.
"...Hey, you are a level 100 mage, meow! Do you still need to waste four magic to deal with an 'unprofessional' villager?"
Black cat knight Rachel rolled her eyes with disdain, "...You still claim to be a battle-experienced time-space warrior, meow!"
"...I am not bragging about my past combat experience!" Wang Qiu snorted angrily, "...The problem is, before this, I have never used a cat's body to release magic, meow! Like this As a newbie, you will naturally feel a little guilty when you make a sneak attack for the first time..."
The two kittens squatted next to the unconscious village chief, bickering and waiting, until there was a breath from behind that made their hair stand on end - that was between cats and dogs, spanning endless years and countless planes. , but the racial antagonism remains the same!
"...Oh! Kittens! I'm here to move things!" The next moment, the red-haired werewolf maid Lupusregina jumped out of the lush bushes with a hearty smile. , full of energy, two cats with their tails raised waved...
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In the afternoon of that day, the surface temple of the Great Tomb of Nazarick
"...Okay, I've asked almost all the things that need to be interrogated. I've also used magic to erase all the unnecessary memories in his mind... Lupusregina, give this person away." Go back! Remember to be gentle and don’t hurt him!”
Lich King Momonga snapped his fingers tiredly and ordered the red-haired werewolf maid - just now, he first used the magic of "Confuse Humans" to obtain information, and then used the highest level magic to modify the memory. Although Momonga is a A level 100 Lich player, but the MP (mana) consumed by this is really too much. It even made Momonga's body feel strangely tired, as if he had lost something.
Well, by the way, for the sake of safety and to be honest in front of the allies, Momonga did not bring the captives into the Great Tomb of Nazarick, but directly into the temple on the surface, along with many catmen, iron golems and A public interrogation was held with the goblins watching.
The first is the issue of language. At the beginning of the interrogation, Momonga was worried that he would encounter difficulties in this area, but it turned out to be unfounded - the old village chief actually spoke fluent standard Japanese as soon as he opened his mouth! The above-mentioned discovery made Momonga deeply surprised: How could Japanese be used in this place, which is obviously a different world, where even the people are white? Could it be that he actually traveled to another Japanese game?
So, he carefully observed the village chief's mouth shape, and finally discovered that this guy was not speaking Japanese because the mouth shape did not match at all. But when he heard it, it automatically turned into Japanese... After interrogation, the village chief's explanation was that there is a strange food in this world called [Translation Konjac] (original author setting, Doraemon props ), almost everyone eats it. The effect after eating it is to allow the language to be automatically translated and then communicated to the other party, so that even non-human beings can understand it. However, it can only be used for conversation, but cannot be used for reading foreign texts.
Although it seems unbelievable to travelers from other worlds, in the old village chief's mind, this kind of thing seems to be a matter of course.
Calm down and think about it, this is a magical world, and maybe it's not surprising that this world operates according to completely different laws.
In short, there is no language barrier in this world. Even humans and monsters can communicate very smoothly - of course, this does not prevent them from saying hello to each other, and the next moment they slash with knives until corpses are everywhere and rivers of blood flow...
(There is a common misconception in Japanese animation, as if if everyone could exchange opinions candidly, many tragedies would not happen.)
Then, there is basic information about this world, especially the country and geographical conditions near the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
According to the village chief, the village of Karn where they live and the Great Tomb of Nazarick, which is only ten kilometers away from Karn Village, are located at the junction of three major countries, namely the Bahas Empire in the northeast, In the northwest. The Kingdom of Yestije, and the Theocracy of Silian in the south.
Among them, Kahn Village belongs to Li. A border village of the Kingdom of Yestije.
——In the YGGDRASIL game worldview based on Nordic mythology, the names of these countries have never appeared at all. At this point, President Momonga finally confirmed that he had come to a strange fantasy world, not the embodiment of the YGGDRASIL game world.
Next, the huge snow-capped mountain looming in the north of the Great Tomb of Nazarick is called the Angelia Mountains. The natural dividing line between the Kingdom of Yestij and the Empire of Bahas. The kingdom is to the west of the mountain range and the empire is to the east.
The northernmost point of the Angelia Mountains range extends to the end of the continent, while the southernmost point of the mountain range is here. A vast forest grows at the foot of the mountain. Karn Village and the Great Tomb of Nazarick are both located on the southern edge of this forest, but one is in the west and the other is in the east.
Further south from the forest at the foot of the mountain is a vast grassland called the Kaz Plain. The grassland around the Great Tomb of Nazarick is actually the northwest edge of the Kaz Plain. This is the transportation hub between the three countries, and it is also the center. The southeastern gateway of the Yestije Kingdom. The kingdom has a strong fortress city here. Lantier, and heavily garrisoned, is one of the few cities in the country directly under the jurisdiction of the royal family.
——At this point, Momonga has basically determined that the alien human city discovered in the south should be the one the village chief mentioned. Lantier.
According to the village chief, there is a fortress city about fifty kilometers away to the south. Rantil is the largest city nearby and on the entire Kaz Plain. Villagers often go there to trade and shop. The cities of the Bajas Empire are much farther away from here
In recent years, the Bajas Empire has changed. The Kingdom of Yestije has been at war for many years, and the main battlefield is in the fortress city. In the fields near Lantier. The kingdom seems to be in a disadvantageous situation, having been defeated in battles, and once the imperial army bypassed the fortress city and invaded the hinterland of the kingdom.
The map of the continent kept in the village chief's home was pulled out from the rotting corpse of a noble officer when he happened to pass by the battlefield. Also found were a number of daggers and flints and other gadgets, because They seemed useful, so they were all taken back to the village.
(The origin of the map is a personal guess, otherwise it would be difficult to explain that the head of a medieval mountain village would have something as high-end and elegant as a continental map in his home. During the Long March, the Red Army wanted to get a map from the small southwestern county it occupied. I can't find any map of China. )
The territory of the Silian Theocracy is in the fortress city. Further south of Lantier, it is quite far away from the Great Tomb of Nazarick and is not directly adjacent to it. (If we take the position of modern Europe as an analogy, then the Kingdom is equivalent to France, the Empire is equivalent to Germany, and the Theocracy is Italy. The location of the Great Tomb of Nazarick is probably in northern Switzerland. Of course, this is only a relative similarity. The geographical environment is completely different)
As for issues such as the national strength of the three, in an era without news and television, it was obviously impossible for the village chief of this remote village to know clearly. There are other distant countries outside the neighboring Three Kingdoms. The village chief is even less clear about them. He only knows that some of them seem to be alien countries established by non-human races.
According to the village chief's confession and translation, the Lich King Momonga found the location of the Great Tomb of Nazarick on the continent map, and found that the place was right on the dividing line between the two countries. As for whether this is the territory of the kingdom or the territory of the empire, only God knows.
In fact, this division doesn't make much sense, because the area is full of no-man's land, and is infested with monsters and undead. It has never really been under the rule of any political power. What kingdoms and empires can really rule are the human settlements on the plains.
The next information is about monsters. Like YGGDRASIL, there seem to be many monsters of all kinds here. In the forest near Kahn Village, there are many magical beasts living, the most powerful of which is a certain being named "Forest Wise King". But Lich King Flying Squirrel interrogated for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out what race this "Forest Wise King" was. He only knew that it couldn't fly and didn't seem to look like a dragon. Further afield, there are dwarves, forest elves, goblins, orcs, and ogres, posing a great threat to human settlers.
As a result, the profession of "adventurers" came into being who specialized in collecting rewards to defeat these monsters, including many magic casters. These adventurers set up guilds in big cities and accepted tasks, but it was said that their fees were very high. Every time country people hired adventurers, they had to raise funds from the whole village. As for the strength of these adventurers and what level of magic they can use, the village chief couldn't tell clearly.
——So, Lich King Momonga, Guild Leader, still hasn’t been able to figure out where his strength lies in this world. Although he asked his subordinates to evaluate the strength of the village chief and found that his combat effectiveness was probably considered to be level two, in the end, he was just an "unprofessional" civilian. He was not a guy who could fight in the first place and could not be used as a reference for aliens. The basis for the world’s level of military force.
Then, although the forest to the north of the Great Tomb of Nazarick is rampant with monsters, the grasslands to the south are equally unsafe. Although the Kaz Plain is a transportation hub between the three countries, it is also a cursed place where undead spirits are often born naturally. For most of the year, the Kaz Plains are covered in mist, and skeleton soldiers, zombies and bone dragons appear in the mist... Because of this, humans have only developed areas on the edges of grasslands and forests so far. A small piece of land, but most of this fertile grassland continues to sleep in the wilderness. ——Okay, although this environment sounds scary, it fits the situation very well with the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the undead bunker.