Chapter 488: The Movements of the Kingdom’s Heroes Become Known to the Empire’s Heroes

Receiving that Tsukahara asks the attendants,

"Do you know Tamer?"

But no one affirms. There is no way the disciples know the Tamer that even Hütter did not know.

"I see, then surely there isn’t one in this world."

The Heroes do not think there are those stronger than themselves, and think that things the surrounding people do not know are things no one knows. They knew the word frog in a well, but did not think they themselves were that.

"Um, that bird, it’s an eyesore so shouldn’t we shoot it down?"

If Tsukahara says Noshima also,

"That’s right. Everything is experience, can we shoot it down with a bow? That."

Says.

"No matter what that is too high! Let’s see, if we have Yunosuke fly us with magic and get close to that bird maybe we can manage somehow?"

While saying he looks at Abe.

"Ehhh, that means throwing Kotaro with all strength toward the bird, right? That, it’s quite hard you know?"

Makes an unwilling face.

"But, we’ve never done it in a place like this until now, and we’ve never gone up that high so let’s try it!"

If Tsukahara says Noshima also,

"That’s right. We also need practice catching the falling Kotaro, is it fine? Shall we try?"

Gets into it.

"Is that so? We’re doing it? It can’t be helped."

Abe lowers the woman from his back and rotates his shoulders round and round.

"Kotaro, come."

Called by Abe, Tsukahara rides on Abe’s shoulder. Then Abe places Tsukahara’s feet on the palm of his hand. Tsukahara stands as is.

"Here we go!!"

If Abe shouts.

"Anytime!"

Tsukahara answers.

"Go!!"

Abe throws Tsukahara into the air. Seeing that Noshima,

"Fly——————!!"

Shouts, and with wind magic boosts Tsukahara and launches him into the sky.

Tsukahara flies in a straight line toward the bird.

In the blink of an eye the bird approaches. Tsukahara cannot tell if the bird is an eagle or a hawk. He readies the bow and arrow taken out from the mana bag. In Tsukahara’s eyes the bird looks like it is flying slowly. He draws the bow tightly with a creak, aims, and releases the arrow.

The arrow hits the bird’s chest and pierces through as is. The bird falls, but Tsukahara also starts falling together. The speed of the fall gradually becomes faster. There a lump of air is launched from the ground and hits Tsukahara. The fall speed slows. He starts falling again, the air lump hits, falls, hits, and with the repetition Tsukahara safely returned to the ground.

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"Ah!?"

Suddenly Xu Meiyi raised her voice, so those around were startled and looked at Xu Meiyi.

"What happened?"

When Li Jing asks,

"Yes. I think the Kingdom’s Heroes were surely there."

""""Eh!?""""

Zhu Biao, Li Jing, Hütter, including the knights, everyone who heard stood up and looked at Xu Meiyi.

"How did you know it was the Kingdom’s Heroes? And where were they?"

Zhu Biao asks Xu Meiyi. Xu Meiyi, with everyone around staring at her and the pressure being extraordinary, flinched.

"Um, actually the hawk I am controlling found a party advancing in the mountains far to the south."

"With only that it cannot be said to be the Heroes, right?"

Li Jing asks back to Xu Meiyi’s reply.

"That is advancing by an extraordinary method. Using the power of magic they are clearing the forest, making a path, and bridging and advancing."

"Hoh, by what method is that? Could you teach more specifically?"

Hearing magic, Hütter asks.

"Yes. They were burning the forest with fire magic, and making a path there with earth magic. When it comes to a river they cut trees with wind magic and make that into a bridge. It is extraordinary magic power."

At Xu Meiyi’s explanation Hütter while nodding,

"I see, then there is no doubt it is the Heroes. Among the disciples I left in the Mainz Kingdom there was no one who possessed that much magic power. Surely there was a Sage among the Heroes, so that person is thought to be wielding the magic. No, it is an amazing thing. The ability is also something great, but the waste of mana is also something great, ahahaha."

Clearly Hütter is laughing in amazement.

"Actually the hawk I am controlling was killed by a boy thought to be a Hero."

"""""What!?"""""

"I was observing the Heroes from far above the Heroes, but suddenly the Hero boy was lifted by a man and thrown. And the boy flew to right beside the hawk, and the boy shot the hawk with an arrow. There I think the hawk was killed."

"I see, the hawk was lost. Then we have to procure a replacement hawk. Let us search immediately. Then Lord Hütter. Hearing Xu Meiyi’s talk just now, the Hero seems to have flown in the sky, but is that possible? Have the Kingdom’s Heroes become able to fly in the sky?"

To Zhu Biao’s question Hütter while stroking his chin,

"Uuum, I do not think magic technology advanced that much after I was gone. When I was there, that was not achieved. However the Heroes themselves might have devised a method to fly in the sky. That possibility cannot be said to be none. First, there is that example here."

To the Hütter who said that Li Jing asks.

"The example is?"

"Look, Xu Meiyi. That woman has brought a title called Tamer to this world. Controlling beasts as one pleases is something that did not exist in this world. On top of that, what is seen through the hawk’s eyes being transmitted to oneself is an unthinkable thing."

Hütter talks happily. For Hütter, knowledge he does not know spreading is a joyful thing.

"Lord Hütter, Hero-sama and the others, the fact that the Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes are coming ahead means there is a possibility of encountering us?"

One of the knights asked.

"That’s right. Even if there is still distance there is a possibility. The Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes probably do not know that we are here. If so, it is also possible for us to assault the other side."

Hütter says with a face like this is interesting!

"However were the Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes not summoned earlier than Lord Zhu Biao and the others?"

Another knight asks Hütter.

"No, the Empire’s Heroes’ ability is probably higher. When summoning them I was looking at the ability, but it was a state completely like a commoner child. Like a weak chick. It seems they were attending a thing called school, but until being summoned they seem not to have experienced any martial arts at all."

If Hütter says the knight,

"If said that, in the Mainz Kingdom, they offered death row prisoners in order to give the Heroes the experience of killing people, but they could not even injure them or something? In the shadows, it is said they are whispering can we protect the kingdom with cowards like that?"

Says as if mocking. Hearing that Zhu Biao is surprised,

"Unable to even kill a death row prisoner, what kind of Hero is that? They can kill a hawk, but cannot kill a person?"

Asks.

"Yes, according to the information, in the world the Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes come from, it seems they have not experienced war since long before the Heroes were born. It seems there has been no war for over 50 years, and peace inside the country has been protected. Even in neighboring countries there was no war, and there was not even combat. It seems they had never seen a person being killed in front of their eyes."

At the knight’s answer, the four Heroes are surprised. There also seem to have been those among the knights who did not know,

"""""Unbelievable!"""""

Everyone raised surprised voices.

"Is there a country like that!"

"Without war how do they protect the country?"

"What do we do with men who do not fight?"

The knights shout spitting foam from their mouths.

Even for Zhu Biao and the others, about 200 years have passed from the Great Ming being born until Zhu Biao and the others were summoned. During that time there was no time when years without battle continued for 10 years. Always at the borders, in internal rebellions, and in the end the invasion of Korea by Japanese pirates, the uprising of the Later Jin, conflicts were always occurring. A world without battle for over 50 years could not be imagined. A world where conflicts never cease was normal. Therefore for Zhu Biao and the others they could empathize with the knights’ claims.

Scatter and kill Heroes who came from such a soft world. Zhu Biao thought that.

"Lord Hütter, let us subjugate those people!"

At Zhu Biao’s shout Li Jing, Xie Honghua, and Xu Meiyi also nod.

"Understood. Then let us strike the Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes here. What, if I am here we will not lose."

With Hütter agreeing, the clash between the Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes and the Hagen Empire’s Heroes was decided.