How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 142

156. The Archduke’s Assault (9)

He nodded, seemingly deciding to trust my words for now.

“However, you didn’t seem to know about the artifact’s backlash. Considering you used it so recklessly, it ended relatively unscathed.”

Then, he generously began to share his knowledge, teaching me how to manage it.

“Do you have any potions?”

“As for potions, I have some Nymph’s Healing Water and Baghest’s Blood in stock. There might be some over-the-counter potions as well. But would they be effective?”

Sylvester paused for a moment, seemingly surprised by the names of the potions, but quickly responded.

“Mix them in a ratio of 5, 1, and 4 respectively, and administer it slowly. That should alleviate it somewhat.”

“Indeed… so that’s how you use them.”

Truly valuable information.

As expected of the protagonist. He’s quite useful in these matters.

“And that merchant was called Eilon, right? I’d like you to explain the situation? I can’t understand everything just by looking. Even though it might not seem like it, I don’t know what’s going on.”

“Ahaha. Of course, I should explain.”

Everyone else is half out of it, so I’m the most lucid.

Naturally, the explanation falls to me.

I readily agreed and explained to Sylvester how things had reached this point.

* * *

“I understand now… They attacked right here as a feint. I should have considered that first.”

After hearing the whole story, Sylvester fell silent, fiddling with the hilt of his sword.

“And that woman is a mercenary from the Empire?”

He seems quite displeased?

‘Come to think of it, he was quite frustrated when he faced them in the original story, wasn’t he?’

Well, I don’t care about the protagonist’s worries.

“Sylvester, didn’t you return here on business?”

“Yes, I did. Sorry. I was distracted for a moment.”

He quickly nodded when I cautiously spoke to him.

Sylvester immediately approached the Princess and spoke to her.

He must have business with her.

“Princess, I have something to discuss with you. However, the Archduke has requested that it not be heard by others, so I ask for your understanding.”

“…Hmm, I understand. Eilon, Rucel. Please wait for a moment.”

“Yes, yes~ Discuss it diligently.”

“I’m going to rest, so take care of it yourselves.”

Rucel and I gladly stepped back.

I didn’t hear the details of the conversation, but I can roughly guess what’s going on.

The way they look like they’re having a serious conversation makes it clear.

Shall I guess?

Probably, Marquis Celond is cornered and performed a demon summoning ritual.

Because of that, a mid-level demon was summoned, and Sylvester came to borrow the artifact’s power to deal with it.

He intends to use it to strengthen himself and defeat the demon.

But he must have rushed here quite anxiously.

From now on, he had to take out the artifact, find someone willing to use it, contract them, and teach them.

He would have even less time than in the original story.

But the artifact was already taken out by some wise country boy, and the usage was roughly taught.

Now that the table is set, all that’s left is for our protagonist to return to the battlefield and defeat the demon splendidly.

Then the fourth volume’s development will end safely.

I don’t intend to watch until the end, but it’s certain.

‘Wait? If you think about it, didn’t I do the most work?’

Leaving aside who I should apply for overtime pay for my excessive labor.

With this, I will return to the flow I knew.

I won! Volume 4 is over!

It’s still early, but I wanted to say this.

‘…It’s not that I have no concerns at all. Well, I’ve done enough.’

Even an unknown passerby has done this much, surely the protagonist won’t mess up.

I stepped back, looking forward to and supporting Sylvester’s future actions.

Hoping for glory in the protagonist’s future endeavors.

And also hoping that some honey will fall on me, who is standing in line.

The labor of a country boy from an extra ends here.

The rest will be the protagonist’s time.

I have no intention of meddling without tact.

* * *

Avil, the third prince of the Forelos Empire, clicked his tongue while looking into a crystal that showed the scene far away.

“Tsk… Celond, that fool, has done something stupid.”

The crystal showed a scene of as many as ten demons wreaking havoc on the battlefield.

It’s not a manipulated record.

It’s the situation currently happening in real-time.

“Prince, this result. You really didn’t have anything to do with it?”

“Does even you suspect this, Avil? How absurd.”

“Just answer me. Really not?”

The one who asked solemnly behind the third prince was Clopord, the empire’s strongest mage.

A suspicious gaze that wouldn’t care even if it was called disrespectful to royalty.

The third prince just shrugged his shoulders as if he was dumbfounded by that gaze.

“I hope you don’t misunderstand, Clopord. I understand your suspicion, but that has nothing to do with me.”

“Hmm….”

“Above all, you should be able to know the truth without asking me, right? To deliberately ask is quite a nasty personality.”

“…I was just testing you. It seems you are indeed innocent about that.”

“Of course, I’m innocent.”

Of course, I admit that I, as a member of the imperial family, have done many suspicious things that are difficult to reveal to the world.

However, that’s the same for other members of the imperial family.

And this time, I was sincere.

“Really, I didn’t have anything to do with that. …If I had known, I wouldn’t have allowed such a foolish thing.”

Marquis Celond had been acting strangely lately, as if he was being chased by something.

And finally, he caused an incident.

He revealed a demon summoning circle in the middle of the battlefield.

“Really, Celond… where did he get such a trivial thing?”

Unfortunately, I can’t question the Marquis himself.

The Marquis was the first to be killed by the summoned demons.

“Does the summoner himself get killed by the demons?”

“The summoning circle itself must be flawed. Originally, summoning even one demon would be difficult. If you do something you can’t handle, that’s what happens.”

Clopord also clicked his tongue.

A total of ten demons were summoned by the summoning circle.

All of them are estimated to have the power of mid-level demons.

It was not a power that an individual could control.

“So, is the result an accident? What is your opinion, Clopord?”

“I don’t know. What kind of summoning circle did someone use… Even this old man is seeing it for the first time.”

Even Clopord himself said it was difficult to guess.

Faintly, there was interest in the old man’s eyes.

The prince frowned as if he was annoyed by that fact.

“This plan has gone awry.”

“This has nothing to do with the prince’s plan, does it?”

Clopord gestured with his eyes as if he was wondering.

Right now, the demons are only rampaging on the front lines.

From the beginning, the prince wouldn’t have been interested in Marquis Celond’s life or death.

“That’s too much. It’s gone too far.”

Simply starting a war is different from a situation where demons are rampaging.

If you summon demons to win a war, you can’t avoid criticism no matter how justified you are.

“It’s not worth enduring the blame for just that.”

“So, you ordered the mercenary to cancel the plan?”

“Why don’t you try to guess, Clopord? It’s the inner thoughts of a brat who hasn’t even lived up to half of your age. Isn’t it simple?”

“…Hmph, I have no interest in schemes.”

Clopord scoffed as if he had no interest in the trivial schemes of the imperial family.

He only accompanied the prince because there was a separate negotiation.

“I will only get involved as much as I receive.”

The budget for next year.

The third prince, Avil, promised to directly side with the mages regarding the budget decision in the future.

However, getting involved more than that is not cost-effective.

Already, the mercenary Elraut also received only the commission and went back on his own.

He seemed quite dissatisfied with the interruption of the request, but since the payment was made, there would be no problem.

“Hmph. I will return to the capital.”

“Really, is it okay not to interfere? Even though they are demons.”

Clopord asked quietly.

It’s a situation where demons have appeared.

It would be better to interfere in order to draw a line on Marquis Celond’s reality in the future, right?

That’s what he wanted to ask.

“It doesn’t matter. They will solve it themselves, so there’s no reason to lend a hand. It’s just Celond’s mistake. That’s all.”

Some nobles may be beheaded, but that’s none of my business.

The prince laughed cynically.

“Above all. I’ve already found out what I wanted to know. So, it doesn’t matter what happens to just an artifact now.”

“…Could that be the reason for canceling the request?”

What he was aiming for was not the artifact itself, but some information he wanted to confirm using it.

He needed the artifact’s predictive ability.

However, he no longer needs to know it and changed his mind.

No, to be exact, he read the information he was wondering about in another way.

“What did the prince want to know?”

“…I just wanted to know if there was someone who would shake the future of the world. Well… I’ve already confirmed it by chance, so I have no more questions.”

As he said that, the prince’s gaze, which glanced at the crystal ball, was engraved with the figure of a silver-haired boy who had started fighting fiercely with the demons a while ago.

A silver-haired boy who blocked the empire’s S-class mercenary and fought with a number of demons.

And the prince seemed to recognize the boy.

“So, is that the guy… is that guy the damn ‘culprit’?”

The prince muttered that and hid his appearance with Clopord’s magic.

“You’re next, returnee.”

With those last words, the prince completely left the place.

* * *

The demons that suddenly appeared on the battlefield and rampaged.

“Foolish! Truly foolish, humans!”

They laughed at the humans who summoned them, despised the humans who were terrified of them, and rampaged as if it were their world.

A terrible situation where ten mid-level demons were summoned at once.

By the time this is known to the world, it will surely be known as a disaster that will remain in the continent’s history.

Moreover, the foolish human who caused the disaster, Marquis Celond, was the first victim of the demons.

“Kyahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

“Kill! Kill them all!”

“It’s a rare opportunity on the ground! How can we not enjoy it!”

The demons burst into laughter and rampaged as much as they wanted.

Usually, the summoning of a demon includes an important contract to control the demon.

However, for some reason, the contract was missing from this summoning.

Even if the summoned demons rampaged as much as they wanted, there was no penalty.

There couldn’t be a better opportunity for them.

In return, the humans who summoned them had their heads pulled out alive and their skin peeled off and decorated at the very top of their dwelling.

Even the knights who belatedly realized the situation and rushed in couldn’t withstand the demons’ rampage and fell.

The effect was amazing.

Numerous humans screamed and fell.

It engraved a definite fear.

“The place and timing are ideal.”

The scent of blood and corpses everywhere.

The environment unique to the battlefield.

For the demons, there was no better environment than this.

So, the demons first targeted the humans closest to them.

They ravaged Marquis Celond’s soldiers, and then set their sights on the place with the largest number of humans nearby.

That was the fortress where the Falzente Principality army was fortifying its defenses.

The demons flew towards that place to massacre the next humans.

Of course, the humans in that fortress were somewhat more troublesome than other places.

There seemed to be quite strong humans.

The power called Aura wielded by the old human was quite sharp.

In addition, some other humans were also formidable.

But breaking it down is only a matter of time.

The moment those few powerful humans fall. The remaining powerless ones will be nothing more than playthings for the demons.

Waiting for that is also a very enjoyable thing.

The demons’ faces changed when.

“You trash.”

The moment the silver-haired boy who suddenly appeared cut the demon who was rampaging at the forefront in half.

“You guys made quite a fuss while I was away, bat wings? Did you enjoy your rare outing so much?”

The silver-haired boy, Sylvester, provoked them by stomping on and destroying the body of the first demon.

Bat wings.

It was truly a humiliating remark for the demons.

Sylvester deliberately pointed his sword and beckoned.

“It seems like it’s time to go home. If you line up there, I’ll send you back. …Who wants to go back first? I can listen to the order.”

“You humans!”

“I will tear you into nine pieces and decorate you!”

The demons were furious and flew towards Sylvester.

The silver-haired human has great power, but he’s just one human.

If we fight properly, we can’t lose.

However, the demons’ faces changed when the second demon was turned to ashes by Sylvester’s sword.

Something is wrong.