System: Unknown
Chapter 14 - I've put it all in! I hope this goes according to plan
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The eyes of the young man were completely flat, no emotion was emanating from there. You could say he is not like a human—robot who has no feelings.
The pile of corpses he was sitting on was proof of that, casually wiping his two dirty swords from bloodstains.
"T-t-lord R-ranan .. thanks for freeing our village from the bandits!?" A middle-aged man, seen some parts on his hair starting to whiten, he tried to be a representative to express his gratitude to the man in front of them who had become a savior.
Ranan turned his head towards the old man, he nodded slowly then repositioned his head, seemingly unconcerned. He then continued his activities that had been hampered.
Old man's expression—the village head became strange. He didn't know what else to say after the expression of gratitude. A bag of money still hasn't changed hands, when it was a gift for Ranan. But, Ranan seemed to have no interest in such a thing. And the village chief did not dare to give it to him.
Everyone behind him began to urge for the reward to be given immediately.
"Village chief, what are you doing? Give me that money!" Whisper a man to the village chief.
"Shtttt .. shut up, you don't understand my position! You gonna replace me to give it to him?"
The man immediately shook his head.
"mrs ... T-t-lord Ra—" The village chief ventured.
However, Ranan's hand signaled to stop. The village chief was scared to death, he thought Ranan was angry with him.
Then the dove flew closer to Ranan and then perched on his shoulder. Ranan then took out a paper roll tucked in one of his legs and flew the dove back. He read it and no expression changed from his face, it was still the same.
"Huh ... so?!"
The paper in his hand was thrown away and suddenly it was instantly charred to ashes. Then Ranan sheathed his two swords back and stood up wearing his black robe.
"See you."
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Enjoying the view of the sunset from a height is the thing that is most liked by Kiya. He always does that, everyone knows what he's going to do in the afternoon.
"Yes?" Call someone to climb onto the roof of the building.
"Hmm ...?" Kiya's response seemed unconcerned that there was someone else nearby.
"Can I sit next to you?"
"Please ...!"
She—Celia had her eyebrows twitching, she was annoyed by Kiya's indifferent response. However, Celia still took a sitting position beside him and enjoyed the afternoon scenery together. Well ... that's what Celia thought.
"Hmm~ hmm~ hmm~"
Among the silence that only made an awkward atmosphere, Celia hummed. Her sweet voice sounded to sweep everyone away in a sad—s ambience?
"Kiya is the one who works the hardest! You're a stranger, but you've come this far for us!"
Lately Kiya has been working hard more than anyone. Kiya felt that if she relaxed, the victory would be further away.
"Don't think of me as a good person! Everything I do doesn't reflect that!" Kiya said flatly.
Celia couldn't answer it either. "But, to me you are the kindest person, Kiya! Celia only said that in her heart.
It's true that what Kiya does doesn't reflect a good person. However, that was his own assessment. For others like Celia, Kiya was the kindest person because she was the only one willing to lend a hand when all the good people closed their eyes.
Silence happened again ...
The breeze of the wind suddenly blew making black hair sparkling golden due to the sunlight swaying, Celia who had been watching him since just now instantly had her cheeks turned red blushing. He is fascinated with Kiya.
"What kind of feeling is this?" Inner Celia.
Kiya was actually aware of the person beside her who was looking at her strangely. However, he did not have time to just ask "Why?"
"System ... We have to get ready, right?"
[That's how it is, sir]
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In a room with a large long table that almost filled it entirely from corner to corner, several people were seen sitting on each side of the table, the number of 6 people slightly split, not sitting next to each other.
Man with brown hair—Vlad starts to lead meetings.
"Tonight is our final preparation. The royal party is expected to arrive tomorrow, the scout squad has already confirmed it!" Vlad said he read a piece of paper in his hand.
"Then ... how are our plans?" A guy with round glasses he wears.
"The plan is quite simple, we will do a full defense strategy. After all we are outnumbered and out of quality!" Vlad answered seriously.
All eyes were on a young man at the end of the table.
Although he knew if he lost everything, but there were no faces of trepidation on all of them. It was because thanks to the presence of a young man whose eyes were closed with his head facing down. She asleep?
The presence of the young man's figure—Kiya was like a light illuminating the darkness that enveloped them.
"Next, which path will the kingdom use?" this time it was the bald man with the burly body who asked.
"The town of Xely is surrounded by forests and meadows. The large forest to the east is the safest route. We can assume they'll use that path. But, the small forest to the north of the city also cannot be ignored!"
"The "small forest to the north of the city has uneven terrain and tends to be a lot of valleys. Choosing that path would only drain them of their energy!" Celia did not want to lose as well to express her opinion.
"Specifically for the forest in the north, what if we put an army there? Prevention needs to be done too!" The man with the glasses. He confirmed the position of his glasses trying to look cool. But to everyone in the room it was absurd.
"That can't be done! We will fully survive. The entire grassland area that became the barrier between the city of Xely and the forest had been set many traps. Too risky, the possibility of weapons eating master could happen!?" Riela refuted the opinion of the glasses guy.
Some people started to nod towards what Riela said.
"The inhabitants of the city of Xely are approximately 60 thousand people, it includes soldiers, adventurers, and immigrants. The soldiers we have are 20 thousand soldiers, the population that can fight is 18 thousand, and the number of adventurers is 7 thousand. The total army is 45 thousand troops." Vlad took out some papers that contained information about the combat power of Xely city.
"They're really too innocent! Do you think all the townspeople agree? Only 25 thousand people really want to defend this city, besides it will definitely move to the kingdom!"
[Why are you silent?]
"Involuntarily, the government will certainly not be that easy to believe! So, no need to worry. And also .. that's why I propose to defend fully so that people like them don't do anything strange if they're doing open warfare."
"If the capital does deploy the entire army .. we can be sure our side will lose! However, the chances of winning remain. We are very grateful to you, Mr. Kiya!" The bald man bowed his head to Kiya.
His closed eyes began to slowly open, several times he blinked to adjust the lighting in the room.
"W-wo—ah, umm ... ah? That is, be aware if you will lose if you play clean .. why not play dirty?"
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A young man was above the entrance gate of the city with various weaponry that were in the vicinity, such as cannons and the like. Several people were also seen patrolling around the gate.
The young man—Kiya focused his gaze on the east direction right at that huge forest.
"I-I didn't expect this! 750 Thousand more points I spent on buying some items and leveling up."
Kiya budgeted her points more to trap-making. He had already purchased some items from the earth to launch his plan. The one who sacrificed the most was Kiya, the time, energy, and money she had given up.
[Huge profits must be accompanied by great capital, sir]
"Well .. I hope it works. I'm getting tired of doing this. Worst of all, I could have just left in the middle of a battle because I had lost interest!"
[That means Mr. irresponsible person]
"Whatchu mean? From the start this was none of my business, I just happened to be interested and realized the profit I got!"
[Sorry, Sir]
"Ah, stop! Umm ... system, is that girl still in town?"
[Viola is still in town]
"I also have to think about the possibility that the girl will side with the kingdom! A grey party like him was extremely difficult to guess!"
There is such a possibility .. Only a quarter of the loyal troops were informed of the thousands of traps set up in the meadow and forest area.
It would be ridiculous if one of Kiya's aces was exposed. His efforts along with 700 others in making a trap for a whole week would be in vain.