My Magical System

270 Big Crisis

As the battle continued in Merc Town, the combined forces of Imperial Soldiers, Dona Soldiers, and Mercenaries were facing a dire crisis. After fighting non-stop for several days, they were running out of weapons and armor.

The soldiers sent by the Dona family were only armed with low-grade weapons and armor such as Iron Weapons and cheap leather armor. The endurance of this type of weapon would not last long in such an intense battle. The mercenaries, on the other hand, have different types of weapons made of different quality of metals, depending on their rank. Those with high ranks have the ability to buy high-grade weapons, while those of low ranks can only afford cheap weapons such as Iron Weapons.

However, since they were only in the silver and bronze ranks, they could not afford to buy high-level ones such as mithril or orichalcum.

Only the Imperial Soldiers were armed with better-quality weapons. Their weapons were made of mithril. However, over the course of their battle, even the weapons made of mithril had become dull.

This was the problem that they were facing.

Noticing their problem, Lieutenant Davis quickly sent a messenger to ask the Mayor for support. Fortunately, they have a secret passage to allow them to enter the mansion without being noticed by the monsters.

Traveling from the Temporary Camp to the Mayor’s mansion only took a couple of hours. Hearing the messenger’s message, the mayor looked somewhat ashen. “What? You are running out of equipment and supplies?”

“Yes, Mayor Gilbert. Lieutenant Davis asked if we could ask for support in weapons and armor. We hope you will send equipment and some personnel because everyone in the camp is really exhausted. If the monsters completely destroy the barricades, your hiding here in the mansion will be useless because the monsters will surely attack this place next.”

The kind Mayor immediately agreed because he knew that what the messenger said was right. Their defense here in the mansion would be useless if they could not stop those monsters that were attacking the barricades.

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Mayor Gilbert then called out his female attendant and asked her to prepare all the equipment in the storage and send them to the Temporary Camp.

However, after a couple of minutes, the woman attendant came back again. With her was bad news.

“My lord! Mayor Gilbert! There’s a problem!”

Mayor Gilbert, who was startled by her shout, managed to stop himself from getting angry due to the shock. However, his forehead was wrinkled and his monocle almost fell off.

Of course, they have problems and there are many of them right now. Until now, he didn’t know about Wilbert’s whereabouts. That moron owed him a big explanation. But, “What problem do you mean?” The mayor asked.

“The storage! The storage is empty! T-The supervisor for supplies said that before the monsters attacked, all the main supplies in the market rose in price, so the other supplies also became very expensive!”

“What!? Why wasn’t this made known to me immediately?” The mayor growled in anger.

“They said that it happened suddenly and before you could be informed about it, there was sudden chaos due to the attack of the monsters. Also, they said there were not many stocks in the market at that time.”

Hearing the attendant’s bad news, everyone in the room looked dejected. The mayor fell silent while frowning.

“Tsk! How did it happen?”

Mayor Gilbert suddenly thought deeply. He didn’t think something like that had happened. Why did the market run out of supply? He asked himself. It was the first time he heard about it.

He didn’t want to believe it. Perhaps the supervisor of supplies just invented it to justify their shortcomings.

There has never been anything like that happen before even when the empire suffered a drought some time. The empire wasn’t a weak nation after all. It has a unique 13-great family system. Rich supplies from those families were circulating through the empire, so the chances for that to happen is really very slim.

The mayor squinted his eyes as his face frowned further.

Suddenly, they heard hurried footsteps from outside the room. It must be coming from the hallway.

“My lord! My lord!” A guard from the gate area rushed inside.

“What’s up with you?” Mayor Gilbert asked.

Seeing the mayor’s twitching expression, the guard hesitated for a moment. But he needed to tell his reason for coming, otherwise, they would think that he was just fooling around and that would be a very bad idea. Therefore, he summoned his courage and said what he wanted to say.

“A-A smith from the capital arrived in the shelter, my lord!” The guard said without beating around the bush.

Hearing that, the mayor’s eyes grew wider. “What really?!”

Although he had no idea why there was a dramatic change in the mayor’s expression, the guard was still able to remain responsive. “Y-yes.”

There was a visible smile on the mayor’s face at that moment.

A few hours ago,

After traveling on foot across the snowy plains, the joint group of Zennie and Klaus Smith finally arrived at the Dona Family Manor to take shelter.

When they arrived there, there weren’t many monsters in the gate area, so they were able to enter without a hitch.

While the group was resting in the shelter, Mister Klaus suddenly received an invitation from the mayor.

Meanwhile,

Over Merc Town, the sky was dimming. But, before the day retired fully, about 100 mysterious men with their bodies wrapped in black cloth suddenly appeared in the woods near the mansion’s rampart.

No one knew what their purpose was or why they were in this place that was currently being attacked by monsters.

Looking at the direction of their gazes, it could be seen that they were all looking in the direction of the Dona Family Manor where the refugees were taking shelter.

“There, boss. They must be exhausted and weak by now. They numbered one thousand or less, but all of them were low-rank soldiers only. We can easily defeat them,” whispered one of them to the person in the lead while pointing at the top of the hill where a mansion surrounded by walls was located.

The one he called boss didn’t say a word, but his big grin could be seen under the black hood that covered his head and the upper part of his face.

“Let’s slaughter them,” said the one who stood as the leader of the group.

“How about the civilians, boss?”

“Let’s kill a few of them. But be sure to finish the mayor.”