The Peerless Kobold - Chapter 161
“Your Excellency, won’t you reconsider our request?”
The half-elf with near-white skin and pale jade eyes tried to reason with the city mayor.
“It’s fine, Lord Leiard. We are prepared to assist the affected soldiers since I’ve heard that quite a number of your troops have suffered from the hemorrhagic fever. After all, they won’t be able to get back in that condition, won’t they?”
“… Very well, what are your conditions?”
“If it’s about our conditions, then I will be taking over from here.”
Eliza made eye contact with the city mayor and continued,
“Our conditions are simple— please disarm.”
“To put it simply, are you asking us to surrender? We have no idea what happened yesterday, but it’s clear you have already won. How shameless.”
Leiard responded by ordering the wheat-skinned half-elf escort to stand down and the latter promptly went quiet.
“Lady Eliza, just as Merida said, that is tantamount to ordering us to surrender. Is your confidence in issuing this condition coming from the fact that yesterday was your doing?”
“No, I have no clue about what you are talking about. But either way, considering the provisions you have in place, wouldn’t it be hard for your party to move out immediately?
Eliza responded calmly, but Leiard and the other soldiers felt a slight chill when she inquired about the situation of their camp.
Unbeknownst to Leiard’s group, even though the Blood Malady skill had a synergistic effect with the energy coming from the World Tree and Eliza’s wind magic, it still posed a threat, so Eliza had made sure multiple times that that kobold’s ability would not affect the elves.
(If it is our provisions… We have enough for a month, but since the whole Transport Unit is incapacitated, then it would be hard to bring the supplies from the neighboring cities.)
If they didn’t have a means of transporting the goods, then it was useless no matter how many supplies were given to them by the neighboring cities of the Republic.
“We still have enough strength to engage in battle. We can’t just go home empty-handed.”
The Prime Minister’s daughter chuckled at the obvious mix of bluff and threat that Leiard was throwing at them and says,
“After you disarm, we will provide assistance in treating the World Tree Memoria just as you requested. It’s painful for us to see a World Tree wither and die after all…”
(Can we… trust them? Perhaps the reason why the wards around the cities of the Grove of the Village Shrine broke down is that they have also consumed too much of the life force of the World Trees just like us and it is not something that can be immediately repaired.)
If that were the case, then the Republic can make contact with the elves for a while provided they do not do anything rash.
(Besides, there’s not much we can do at this point, so I guess this is where we’ll have to settle…)
“Merida, I’m sending a message to the homeland. Tell them we are stationed in the target city, but due to the extensive damage caused by a local epidemic, we are seeking to withdraw. Please also add that the elves are going to lend us assistance in healing the World Tree.”
“Understood. I’ll tell them that and have them restore the Tree’s connection to Affectio too.”
When the course of the negotiations was roughly decided, the expressions of everyone present at the negotiations relaxed. After the talks were over, the members of the Republic’s army retreated, leaving only a handful of soldiers in the camp for self-defense.
A few days later, Aristia attempted to heal Memoria from Elfast through the World Tree’s restored link to Affectio in the city of Elwind, and certain results were confirmed from the Republic’s side.
At the same time, except for some with severe symptoms, more than a thousand soldiers from the Philland Republic’s Army who had been lying ill gradually recovered and returned home, and as a result, the series of incidents came to an end without unnecessary bloodshed on both sides.
Additionally, Aristia also rewarded Ax who played an active role behind the scenes with a large amount of honey and an honorary title…
【Title Added：Yggdrasil Knight】
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As for Archer, the story goes back a few days before the three kobolds became involved in the Elves’ affairs…
