A Highest Rank in Another World!

Chapter 149 - 148 – That's What I'm After.

Running through the forest quickly, I started to attract several small monsters that circulated there, but I couldn't even have fun, with just a swing of my sword they were killed.

Before long, Ciaphia's clean sword was stained with a great deal of blood. The dried blood had already stuck to the blade of his sword, I should have brought some cloth to clean.

But that didn't matter, at least it was still pretty sharp.

"Take this." A goblin that suddenly jumped in front of me had its head cut off in one swift motion. As his body fell to the ground, I ignored him and moved on.

I continued running for another 20 minutes. I didn't feel tired, but what was making me agonized was the cold that hit my unprotected eyes.

I also didn't wear a glove so my hands were aching a little. This cold it was a  that doesn't happen often, it's only when we're in winter that snowfalls. This was weird.

But I controlled myself and ran for another 5 minutes before finding the same place I visited years ago with my mother. The big stones my mother thought were the scales of an earth dragon were still around.

The number of stones also seemed to have increased.

"Maybe I should investigate this later? There are so many rocks here that I don't doubt that dungeon showed up around here." I said jokingly as I walked away and ran towards the forest exit.

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Seven kilometers away, amidst Beastled's army, the commander was in his tent as he gritted his teeth and scratched his head. Seeing his impatience, the soldiers nearby didn't dare say anything.

"Damn, so they lost? How useless they be to manage to lose an army of 20,000 monsters? DAMN IT!" The commander gave the table a strong punch that made it break in half and fall to the floor.

Seeing this scene, the closest soldier walked away scared.

"I have to contact the king immediately. Hey you, go to the capital and tell the king what happened, also tell him that the two commanders we sent ran away during the battle."

Taking the order, the man left the tent as he bowed and said goodbye.

It was the middle of the night, but he couldn't disobey the captain's orders. Even cold, he mounted his horse and began riding directly to the capital of Beastled to inform the king of the failure of his attack.

"But sir, at least we managed to destroy one of Southlein's important cities, so..."

"It's not enough, the capital should have been destroyed. And don't you see? Those things they used to destroy our monster army, they will come here." The commander put his fingernail in his mouth and bit down with all his might.

As he gnawed at his nail, insane thoughts ran through his head.

With the monster army being destroyed so easily by a small number of monsters, he couldn't stay calm. According to reports, those monsters are marching towards the border.

"Are you sure this information is correct? Are they coming towards the border? More importantly, was it just a small group of monsters that won? They may have used some secret weapon, or I don't know."

A man in his 40s said with doubts. His name was Altis he was the deputy commander of the Beastled army. A man with little bear ears on top of his head.

His face was young, but his body was muscular and developed, it was an interesting contrast and quite common in his race.

Unlike his commander. He had an old face and had little lion ears on his head. His face was very human-like, but he had small lion whiskers that grew between his mouth and nose.

His name was Beroth Raca, a noble soldier of Beastled. A man who commanded the army even before the old king had his throne usurped. After the new king took over, Beroth knelt at his feet to continue his as a commander.

But now he knew he wasn't doing a good job.

"It's not that. The person who gave us this information was one of the king's guards, he would not give us any false information."

"Maybe, but I wouldn't believe them 100% if I were you."

"Altis, you better not say this or they might end up listening to you. You know it's best not to antagonize any of that king's subordinates. It's better to just follow orders and do everything to win this war."

"I'm aware of that, but what do you want to do? Now that you know that monster army is coming to the border, you have to make a move before it happens."

"I know that! But it's not easy, we'll have to ask for help from those eight guards of the king, that's the only way we can win."

"I don't think it's necessary, if you just use the monster army and our soldiers on the field I think you'll get an easy victory."

"Don't underestimate them so much, you know it won't be that easy. Even with our army of monsters, most of them are weak monsters."

"You are right..."

"And with this cold that suddenly began to harm our soldiers, our fighting power diminished even more. Look outside, everyone is being frozen alive, we can't protect everyone from the cold."

"..."

"But if we're harmed, maybe the enemy army is too, but I'll first wait for an order from the king for us to attack. The monsters that are coming to the border may still take a while to get here."

"You is sure? Maybe they have a faster means of transport."

"Are you trying to give us a streak of bad luck? It's better to be quiet."

"Sorry."

"But I think tomorrow we will receive orders and go on the attack. Until then, try to somehow keep the soldiers alive during this cold." Beroth sat in his chair and looked out of his tent.

As he sighed, most of the soldiers left the tent, and only he remained there.

Outside, he could hear a commotion from some soldiers who were complaining and crying because of the extreme cold they were going through. But with the help of Vice Commander Altis, bonfires began to be prepared.

Blankets were also distributed to people who were more sensitive to the cold.

'Damn, why did this cold have to come right now? And how did we lose an army of 20,000 monsters so easily? It's all going wrong.'

Beroth clenched his fists as he rose and walked out of his tent. It was dawn, but even so, most of the soldiers were still awake.

Looking into the distance, he could see lights scattered across the border on the Southlein side. They were a long way off, but he could see they weren't suffering as much from the cold as his army.

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Coming out of the forest, I found a large green field. A few trees were scattered around here, but most of it was a completely cleared field that was now covered in fog.

Wherever I looked I could see almost nothing, showing that the armies were still some way off.

'Maybe I'm just far from the border.' It took me a long time to get here as I didn't use any skills, I was saving them to use when the time came.

"Okay, let's first find Southlein's army." I left the forest and walked carefully across the open field to approach the border and meet Southlein's army, and this took longer than I expected.

Even though I started running halfway through, it might have taken 20 minutes to find something.

Come to think of it, the war is far from the village.

'Right, but it looks like I found it. Walking through the grassy, I crouched down. About 500 meters away, I could already see a lot of lights.

They were like bonfires or lamplights, but the fog that clouded my vision and the distance made the lights very dim. Carefully, I walked closer. As soon as I got closer, I noticed a big tent and I also started to hear some people's voices.

Of course, even at dawn, there will always be guards and people awake.

'Now that I've found Southlein's army, I just need to move on to find Beastled's army, don't I?' Now that I know where they were, I walked away and moved on to head towards the border.

I had only seen part of Southlein's camp before. I had walked for a long time and they were still there, it was an immeasurable camp, I couldn't even know the exact size.

The number of soldiers here was huge.

"Dude, does Beastled really have the power to beat our country?" But from what my mom said, Beastled somehow manages to control monsters.

And that's what I'm after right now. If Beastled can control monsters and has sent monsters directly to the capital, there must be a lot of them here too.

But now stopping to think about it, how is the capital? I know most of my friends are here, but there are people I met at school.

Are they okay?

'No, now is not the time to think about it.. I'm sure they managed to escape since they are noble.'