Chapter 85: Watchdog of Humanity (11)
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It has been 4 days since we took over the red fortress without shedding a single drop of blood.
Knights approached from a distance. It was the knights of the Scarlet Wild Boar. Out of the 2 margraves in charge of the northern region of the Habsburg Empire, these knights were under the control of Fritz von Rosenberg. Margrave Rosenberg is a rather big nuisance. He would constantly oppose the main character in the game.
‘The act of wiping out the Demon Lords is the duty of our nation, no, it is the duty of humankind. It is not a task for a single individual to handle on their own.’
This was Rosenberg’s declaration. He believed that if they relied on a single hero to take care of the Demon Lords, then humans would begin to treat war as someone else’s business. As people all around the continent cheered the hero and his party on, only a small minority of humans warned about the dangers of this behavior. Margrave Rosenberg was one of these people.
‘The empire is currently too absorbed in the concept of heroes.’
Those who speak harshly of things are destined to be hit by rocks.
While the hero and his party were dutifully taking out the Demon Lords one by one on their own, the armies led by the margraves failed to kill even a single Demon Lord. What are the knights doing? Aren’t you complaining about heroes simply because you’re jealous of their dazzling accomplishments? These complaints were made openly……. As an earl whose household had been protecting the northern end of the continent for almost 500 years, this was most likely a great insult.
In the end, the margraves forcefully rallied their troops. They abandoned their defensive positions and ventured on an expedition beyond the Black Mountains. Although, in the beginning, it seemed like they would regain their lost fame and dignity as they won victory after victory, they were all wiped out by the alliance led by Rank 2 Agares and Rank 4 Gamigin. Due to this incident, the human world was thrown into even more turmoil.