Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga

Chapter 649

EP·649

The dwarves and imperial knights who had stopped the train and retreated, prepared to fight to the death against the vampires, discovered Eldmia after the surroundings had completely darkened, despite their utmost haste, thinking that they had seen a terrible sight.

It wasn’t that they were being lazy. Rather, they were very quick in their search for Eldmia, who was nowhere to be found, on a fast-moving train. However, despite their efforts, they couldn’t help but feel empty as soon as they found Eldmia.

I thought that even the most courageous of warriors would be unable to avoid a hard fight, but he had already killed the vampires alone and was camping out with a campfire lit.

“This is the corpse of a dead vampire… After testing it here and there, it’s still hard to say for sure that it’s dead. I think we should seal it somewhere and take it with us for now. This guy is the agent who moved the vampire and carried out the operation…”

Not only did they deal with vampires, they also captured demons.

However, while everyone was shocked, Eldmia, the person in question, calmly handed over the Demon King’s army as if it was nothing and shared the facts she had learned from the battle with the vampires. Then, complaining of fatigue, she headed to her room to sleep.

“I will give you the details when I wake up in the morning.”

The dwarves were quite shocked by the calm appearance without any reproach or show, and the imperial knights were moved to see that she was indeed a hero who saved the imperial star and a model knight. While watching Eldmia disappear into the guest room, Ambassador Hulgen and the captain of the guard burst into laughter. After exchanging glances for a moment, they began to convey the policy to their excited subordinates.

“Let’s stay here for today. Yulken, check the exact distance and shoot the signal flare when it reaches there. Bahor, you three go out on your own and check how much of the rail is damaged…”

“We will search the area in groups of three. Since the hero has already identified the Demon King’s army, it is highly likely that there are no threats other than monsters. However, if you make another mistake on top of the shameful behavior you showed me earlier, I will not only be ashamed to face the princess, but I will be hung and have nothing to say. The leader is Quils Rayza Benk···”

The vampire’s fascination was not only powerful, but also incredibly mentally exhausting. Even the captain of the guard felt his eyes getting tired from the fatigue of two nights of sleep, and it was no different for the dwarves.

Nevertheless, an unknown energy overflows from those who move to fulfill their respective duties. Ambassador Hullgen, who took out a pipe to take a breath after delivering all the instructions, looked at the energy that was overflowing like a light that illuminated the darkness and burst into laughter once again.

“Could it be that they created an atmosphere that would make you feel like you won?”

Eldmia stopped Ambassador Hugen and the captain of the escort from apologizing for their inadequate response as soon as they arrived.

Even if he didn’t just stop him and call him incompetent, he would have nothing to say, but he drew the line by saying that it was just a special vampire who cast a charm so strong that even dwarves had a hard time withstanding, and he somehow destroyed it and mentioned the captain of the guard who came to his senses at the end, saving his face.

It was a bonus that he naturally complimented the dwarves on the train, mentioning their orderly behavior. Listening to him, it felt like we had all been in a proper battle, even though it was clearly a very brief skirmish.

Ambassador Huelgen thought it was just an illusion.

The vampires were a threat. If Eldmia had not been there right away, they would have been annihilated. Ambassador Hulgen thought so even more because he remembered exactly what kind of current had flowed the moment all the dwarves were free from the mind control.

Strong anxiety and emptiness. It is impossible not to know that Hulgen himself shared those feelings.

Dwarves are immune to even the most enchanting spells, even when they are half asleep. All sorts of tricks that confuse the senses with magic, cause hallucinations, and invade the mind are threatening to other races, but they are nothing special to dwarves.

And that strong spirit is one of the prides of the dwarves. No wonder they praise themselves as a race, saying that it is a spirit forged on an anvil.

It was a battle that was destroyed with just one attack. Some of the humans even moved like the vampires’ limbs, but since I heard Eldmia’s hypothesis that the vampires’ abilities seemed to vary depending on the distance, it wasn’t much of a consolation.

It was a fight where it was unclear whether he had landed a proper blow, but it was definitely a blow to his pride. At least, that was how Ambassador Hugen felt about his first encounter with the vampires, and it seemed like others were secretly thinking the same thing.

As a result, even at that time, negative emotions were very strong… but now, I can’t even see the tip of my nose.

“What do you think?”

“I think what the ambassador said is correct.”

Just like Ambassador Hulggen, the captain of the guard, who came to take a breather after finishing his command, also felt the same way and nodded slightly in agreement.

The atmosphere of the battlefield where a few exceptional heroes are active is one of two things. You either admire them and fight alongside them, or you look back at yourself as being so pitiful compared to them, feel inferior and lose your motivation.

Naturally, as the number of situations where they are overwhelmed by overwhelming power increases and the number of cases where they are resolved only by the appearance of a hero continues to increase, the negative atmosphere including the sense of entitlement becomes stronger. As if to prove this, the emotions that the knights showed on the slow-moving train to help Eldmia were all self-reproach and a sense of entitlement that arose from not fulfilling their duty.

“I don’t know if you were saying this on purpose or if it’s just your nature, but after hearing the warrior’s words, everyone seems to feel like ‘we fought together and won.’”

Because their feet were tied, the dwarf’s weapon was effective, because Ambassador Hulggen helped them move the train, because the captain of the guards was there to help them escape the charm and create an opening at the last minute. Ambassador Hulggen took a deep breath of cigarette smoke as he recalled Eldmia expressing her gratitude as soon as she saw them arriving late.

“I’m sorry to you, but I didn’t feel that way about the Ete warrior. It’s not that he’s lacking…”

“Yes, I know. Siegfried… is the type to keep his distance, knowingly or unknowingly.”

Anyone who fights with Siegfried will feel this at least once.

It seems like they are saying, ‘I am a warrior, so I do warrior things, but it is just work, so you guys just do your own work.’

It’s not that I look down on others. The captain of the guard has already seen it many times, showing the atmosphere of “you are you, I am me” while naturally protecting his allies and stepping forward in an emergency situation.

Should I say that it feels like we are dealing with a problem inefficiently by acting separately when it could have been solved more easily if we had acted together earlier, and then when one side gets entangled, we come and help?

With that attitude, along with his extraordinary strength, his movements that are not at all common, his swordsmanship and fighting style that only he can do, etc., all combined together… Regardless of whether he is kind or not, he ends up seeing Siegfried not as a member of the same race, but as a completely different race.

“When I think about it, he is a very frivolous and lively person, but strangely he feels distant.”

As he spoke, recalling Siegfried from the time when he was subduing monsters in the frontier under the orders of the imperial family, Ambassador Hürgen, who had been listening for a moment, burst into laughter.

“Hahaha. How frivolous. You’re saying something that deserves divine punishment.”

“If you deserve to be punished just for telling the truth, then Ete has chosen the wrong warrior.”

On the other hand, Eldmia is almost the exact opposite of Siegfried.

He is very courteous and has a clear sense of distance, to the point where you might think he was originally a noble. It may seem similar to him going it alone with the ability of a warrior, but unlike Siegfried, he clearly recognizes ‘what his allies can and are doing’. Despite having such fighting ability, the fact that he assisted his allies with his holy spell when he first encountered the vampires was proof of this.

Perhaps that is why Eldmia’s praise for the actions of others during the first encounter with the vampires did not sound like empty words, even though she had single-handedly killed the vampires.

“Hahaha! Why are you getting more and more sarcastic? Do you by any chance believe in a religion other than the Imperial Holy Assembly?”

“How can you say such a thing? My family has been a member of the Imperial Sacred Society for generations. I am also a believer of the Sacred Society, and my children and grandchildren will be as well.”

Even though they were joking around, they were both tired, but they couldn’t fall asleep yet because they had to report on the work their subordinates had done. So, the two of them decided to talk a little more and think more about the ‘favor’ that Eldmia had shown them.

There was nothing bad

It was a favor that I had to repay in some way before this journey ended anyway.

A Word from the Author (Author’s Note)

Thank you, Altair, for your silent support of 100 coins!

I will continue to work hard to become a writer who can write articles that are fun to read until the end!