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"B-barbarians! Barbarians have attacked and set the village on fire. They are looting everything!"
A shabby man prostrated before the lord, reporting urgently.
"Where did these barbarians come from?"
The seated lord frowned, still groggy from having woken up at noon. He was sensitive to even minor disturbances.
At the lord’s reaction, his butler came up beside him and whispered,
"My lord, do you remember when the imperial army requested supplies, not too long ago? That was for a bridge going westward..."
"Barbarians from the west? What nonsense!"
The man who had come with the report listened to the lord and his butler’s exchange and came further forward on his knees as if he had been done wrong.
"They are ferociously brutal, my lord! They are k-killing everything in sight, those d-dreadful beings!"
The man wept. He had narrowly escaped the ravaged village and barely made it to the lord for the report.
"How many were there?" The lord asked the man.
"Thousands, at least..."
The man's answer startled the lord into standing up. His domain was a small city. Even if he tried to muster all the conscripts he could, the number would hardly reach five hundred. The permanent guard barely numbered a hundred.
"T-thousands,...
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