HPDBC Chapter 185: After The War
Chapter 185: After The War
chapter 185: after the war
“you don’t look familiar to me. what’s your name?”
as ellie finished handing out the cups, a demon named nephtila called out to her.
(come to think of it, they didn’t ask her name earlier.)
ellie replied to being asked her name.
“my name is ellie.”
“what do you think, ellie? why do you think a million of our troops were defeated?”
“well, i don’t know for certain but if i may take a wild guess.”
“hmm? of course. it’s important to have a variety of opinions.’
“what if the hero came to save rosenheim?”
“cough!... well, i didn’t see that coming. if the hero were here, he would definitely be the reason for this defeat.”
the hyena-faced yagov nodded his head.
“but it can’t be. we sent two million troops to the central continent just to stop that.”
nephtila looked to glaster for confirmation and glaster nodded.
(so, they are communicating with the central continent like i expected. let’s see what else i can find.)
allen infused the following content into ellie.
‘then maybe they used the elven elixir. i have heard that the elven elixir can even recover someone from their near-death injuries and are about to perish. maybe we don’t know their exact casualty and got caught off guard and suffered a great defeat.“
“i see. that’s what yagov was talking about, too.”
“cough! the number of elves does not match the report. there were too few injured.”
“if that’s the case, we should be able to win easily now that they don’t have any elixir left.”
(i can’t handle it if they try anything too unconventional. i’m hoping they’ll just attack with the rest.)
ellie grinned and declared their victory.
“no, they might still have those elixirs. we can’t use the same strategy again, right lord glaster?”
“of course. demon general razel told me to attack from the ocean.”
(are they going to change their strategy again? it’s also coming from the ocean next time....ellie, just stand at the door and listen to them.)
the conversation seemed to have changed from the cause of the defeat to their next strategy.
since they didn’t seem to be talking to her any more, ellie dropped back to the door with the tray and waited. she acted naturally, as if she were a maid standing in front of the door to refill the tea and clean up.
in response to ellie’s actions, the demons didn’t even look at her as they proceeded with their conversation.
“so the plan is to attack from the ocean? we are going to transport an army of water magical beasts to the city where the queen is?”
nephtila confirmed the details of the operation with glaster.
“no, there is a city at the southernmost tip where the elves have taken refuge. he wants us to attack there and fill the bellies of the magical beasts.”
glaster talked about the plan he supposedly heard from the demon general razel.
they needed to assess the war situation and send their reserve troops towards either the central continent or rosenheim soon.
it seemed that the allied forces of the five continents alliance were sticking around in the central continent, even though they were supposed to have lost their recovery forces.
helmios’ total status (status, talent skills, equipment)
[attack] 10400 (2400, 3000, 5000)
[endurance] 10400 (2400, 3000, 5000)
[agility] 8400 (2400, 3000, 3000)
kurena’s total status when she uses her extra skill (status, talent skills, extra skill, equipment)
[attack] 10200 (2400, 1800, 3000, 3000)
[endurance] 9500 (1700, 1800, 3000, 3000)
[agility] 8400 (1600, 1800, 3000, 2000)
kurena was wearing two rings that each increased her [agility] by 1000.
while using her extra skill [limit break], the master swordsman kurena’s status reached hero helmios’ status. if kurena and helmios were to fight, it would seem that kurena, with her naturally recovering strength, would have the upper hand.
however, that was not the case at all. if helmios and kurena were to fight, helmios would probably win completely. it would be a total one-sided fight.
“i can’t use my skills. my head gets all warped! huh!”
she desperately complained to me how she feels when she activates her extra skill.
then i squeezed kurena’s cheek with both hands.
“look, who decided that you can’t control your extra skill? elmea? or kurena?”
“huh, me?”
kurena goes into a berserk state during her extra skill and kills all enemies that came towards her.
however, the attacks were normal attacks that didn’t use any of her skills, but were just swings of her weapon.
that was nowhere as powerful as helmios’ attack, who had driven b-rank stone to the brink of death.
with her skills, kurena’s [attack] could be doubled or tripled.
“don’t set limits. don’t get caught up in common sense. you can definitely use your skills while in that state.”
when we first fought the dragon, i thought that’s what kurena’s extra skill was.
however, when cecile drained all of her mana when she activated her extra skill, i suddenly had a question.
why couldn’t kurena use her skills when she activated her extra skill?
i persuaded kurena as i nibbled on kurena’s cheek.
“if we decide on common sense now, we will not be able to grow in the future.”
“i understand! thanks!”
“well, not immediately but one day you will succeed. kurena, continue your hellish training!”
“yes sir!”
after i told her about my previous life, i taught kurena about how to respond to me in my previous life.
(i have no basis to believe that kurena will be able to use her skills, but i am sure she can do it.)
‘it’s the usual again’, sighed kiel and the others.
seeing the exchange between allen and kurena, dogora, who was the only one in the party other than allen who had yet to activate his extra skill, gripped his axe tightly.