The Duke’s Eldest Son Escaped to the Military (49)
Translator: ChubbyCheeks
16 Turning the Winter Mountains into a Mess (2)
After dealing with the ice goblins, Iron moved hurriedly. He did not even give his soldiers time to rest. He knew that the battle must have been very exhausting but he still ordered his soldiers to move quickly. The soldiers also had complaints in their hearts but they did not voice it out. They just moved silently under Iron’s guidance. They knew full well that staying in this place would make them a prime target for ice goblins later. It wasn’t a place that they could stay in any longer so they had to move regardless of their tiredness.
“Where are we going?”
“We’ll first go to the snow goblins’ territory.”
“Are we doing it just like we did earlier?”
“That’s right. We’ll have to do this crazy method for at least a week. That’s the only way that we can find a gap to move.”
Corporal Charles looked at Iron in doubt. He had an inkling that agitating and inducing a fight between the monsters were not their main task.
“Do we have another mission?”
Iron glanced at him for a moment. He was surprised at how quick-witted Charles was. He pondered for a while. He was thinking if he should explain it or not. In the end, all Iron could do was sigh as he opened his mouth.
“That’s right. The conflict between the monsters is not our main purpose.”
“Are… Are we looking for something?”
“Something similar.”
Iron stopped walking as he turned around and stared at the soldiers.
“Curious?”
Everyone gulped when they heard Iron’s question. They admit that they were all curious but for some reason they felt like they shouldn’t ask for more and dig any more deeper.
Iron grinned when he saw them with conflicting expressions.
“We’re looking for traces of dimensional cracks.”
“Yes?”
“Literally what I said. We are confirming if there is a sign of a monster wave. That’s our real purpose for coming here.”
Corporal Charles looked dumbfounded, from all of the answers that he was hoping to hear, he did not expect that something like that would come out of Iron’s mouth. Even the other corproals were shocked dumb at the words that they heard.
Fear, trepidation and tension started to appear on the soldiers’ faces when they heard the words monster wave coming out of Iron’s mouth. It was just the other day when they were wondering if there was something wrong about this mission that they were supposed to pioneer. But it seemed like they had been moving at the forefront of a mission that was both extremely important and extremely dangerous. A level of difficulty that was far higher than what they had initially expected.
Just the other day, they felt like something was wrong when they heard that they would pioneer a new mission. But it seemed like they were at the forefront of a far more dangerous and extremely important mission than what they had initially expected.
“What we’re looking for are monsters that have just the tiniest bit of contamination from dimensional cracks.”
“Then, does this mean that our platoon is in danger?”
The other corporals also nodded their heads when they heard Corporal Charles’ question.
Generally, monsters that have been contaminated by polluted mana from dimensional cracks would be strengthened and would show a force that was several times higher than their usual power. And if the monsters had been exposed longer, their mutations would develop and progress further giving them far stronger powers.
The normal monsters in the Winter Mountains were already dangerous enough. And if they were going to deal with contaminated monsters, then they were sure that more than half of their platoon would be seriously injured if not dead.
“That’s why we have to search for the monsters that are generally in the outskirts of their territories. We can’t go to the center anyway. Doing that will provoke an all-out war between humans and monsters.”
Iron continued to speak as he stared at his soldiers.
“We might just be going through the outskirts but it’s necessary that we stir up trouble and agitate the monsters. Only when they are in conflict with each other will we be able to find the contaminated monsters. Compared to what you have experienced so far, everything will be extremely difficult. Be prepared.”
“Yes, sir!”
The soldiers answered Iron loudly with a determined look on their faces. Iron looked at his men with satisfaction when he saw their firm will.
And from that day, Iron, who was covered with the blood of the monsters, stimulated and agitated the monsters in the Winter Mountains’ dangerous areas by slaughtering the goblins and other monsters like a madman.
