The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 266

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Chapter 266

As soon as the sack caught fire, it burst into flames in an instant. Just as Mina coughed and pulled her body back, loud shouting could be heard from outside.

“Fire!”

“The supply warehouse is on fire…!”

‘They’re coming. I need to escape.’

She rushed out of the barracks with the activation seal floating on the back of her hand.

But then.

‘Huh?’

The soldiers’ attire was strange.

In the mock battle of the seven families, they wore different uniforms to distinguish between houses. Dubbled’s soldiers wore golden armor with black cloaks, but the attire of those running to the barracks was…

‘Brieve’s army?’

Just as she looked around with a bewildered expression, Prince Brieve, who had turned pale, came running to the barracks.

“What happened to our supplies that were plundered… Young Lady?”

“How is the Prince at Dubbled army’s base?”

“What are you talking about? This is Brieve’s base.”

What? That can’t be right.

She remembered the conversation Dubbled’s soldiers had while moving her to this place.

“Is it okay to move the base without any preparation? There isn’t even a proper barrier.”

“But we can’t stay at the existing base either. Since our location has already been discovered, staying there would be like waiting for a surprise attack.”

“Still, aren’t we being too hasty? When we need every person we can get, we’re building warehouses…”

She heard it clearly. They were saying that Dubbled’s army had hastily moved their base.

‘No way.’

Mina quickly looked at Prince Brieve.

“If this is Brieve’s base, then those supplies are…”

“Of course they’re ours!”

She had been deceived.

Mina’s face hardened.

* * *

Watching Brieve’s base through my telescope, I confirmed the flames rising and chuckled.

‘Yes, you’ve been fooled.’

So the sequence of events went like this.

I found out Brieve’s base location through the freelance mages I had won over.

I launched a surprise attack to divert the Amitie alliance’s attention.

While the alliance was distracted fighting, I moved Mina to Brieve’s base.

And Mina had burned Brieve’s supplies.

Iri’s Vice-Captain, seeing me grinning, asked.

“I wonder if this was really the right thing to do… Isn’t it the same as releasing a hostage?”

“Do you think Prince Brieve would release that child even knowing Mina burned the supplies?”

“Couldn’t he think it was us who burned the supplies? Then he’d consider moving The Second as our scheme to sow discord.”

“No, Mina will say she burned them herself.”

“There were no magic tools for video transmission in the warehouse, and no one saw her set the fire. Without evidence, why would she tell the truth to Brieve’s army who are misunderstanding on their own?”

“She will. Because it’s Mina.”

“…Excuse me?”

“She’s a child who absolutely cannot deceive others.”

Her noble and pure character. That righteous personality that cannot lie even if it makes her look foolish would bring down the alliance forces.

* * *

“I was the one who burned the supplies.”

At Mina’s words, Prince Brieve looked at her with an incredulous expression. Brieve’s base was covered in silence.

Facing the grimly distorted faces of Brieve’s soldiers, she bit her lips tightly.

“I’m sorry. But I only thought they were Dubbled’s supplies…”

“What foolish commander would keep a hostage together with supplies!”

A thunderous roar erupted. Mina, who had turned pale, lowered her head, but Prince Brieve’s shouting didn’t stop.

“What are you going to do now?”

“Don’t worry about that. The alliance forces will share their supplies. We can share supplies for now and─”

“Make a Sacred Oath.”

“Under no circumstances should you ever make a Sacred Oath.”

“Why, Jonathan?”

“If you can keep the oath, it’s fine, but if you break it, the alliance forces’ trust will be shattered. Dubbled’s army is powerful. Without a solid alliance, they’re not an opponent we can easily defeat. Above all, a Sacred Oath is made in God’s name. If breaking such an oath spreads through the Magic Mirror, it will deal a huge blow to the shrine and Lady Mina’s reputation.”

“I won’t make an oath I can’t keep.”

“War games are simulated warfare. In war, never be certain of anything.”

Jonathan had warned several times that she must never make a Sacred Oath.

“Jonathan said not to make a Sacred Oath…”

“Are you avoiding responsibility?”

“I’m not avoiding it, I promised first. Jonathan told me…”

“Jonathan, Jonathan! Can’t you think for yourself!”

“…”

Prince Brieve slumped into his chair while holding his forehead. Then he pointed at Mina and waved his hand dismissively, and the quick-witted soldiers escorted Mina out of the commander’s barracks. After she left, Brieve Army’s Vice-Commander asked.

“What will you do?”

“What can we do? In this situation, forget the alliance forces or whatever, we need to find our own way to survive first.”

“If we take The Second to the alliance forces’ base, they won’t be able to completely turn their backs on us. Wouldn’t it be better to share supplies for now and get new supplies from the border post (a location set up in the war game battlefield where supplies can be obtained)?”

“By the time we get to the border post, Dubbled will have already destroyed it. That cunning Princess of Dubbled would have already predicted all of this.”

“Yes?”

“Don’t you understand? This is Dubbled extending their hand.”

When the Vice Captain’s eyes widened in confusion, Prince Brieve lowered his voice.

“They sent us a precious hostage. They must be telling us to shake hands.”

“Then what will you do?”

“Look at how things are flowing. From the moment we failed to capture Johan Dubbled, the allied forces can no longer guarantee victory.”

“So then…”

“We can’t cling to a sinking ship.”

Prince Brieve’s eyes gleamed sharply.

And shortly after, Dubbled and the allied forces clashed once more. Leading the charge was Prince Brieve, who shouted toward Iri’s Vice-Captain from Dubbled.

“Return the Young Lady!”

“Asking to return the Second means Brieve wants to shake our hand. To say such things so brazenly when Mina is in his hands means he wants to become our spy.”

‘Just as the young lady said.’

The cunning gazes of Prince Brieve and Iri’s Vice-Captain met in mid-air.

The allied forces were wavering.

* * *

As time passed, the allied forces were pushed into a defensive position. In the morning, their base was discovered through the mages they had recruited, and several houses fell under Dubbled’s attack.

And in the afternoon, they hastily moved their base, but for some reason, Dubbled knew their exact movement route. The houses that were caught from behind had all their shoulder straps cut and disappeared from the mock battle.

The afternoon’s events were thanks to the spy Prince Brieve’s activities, but the allied forces still couldn’t be certain who the spy was. Just before morale hit rock bottom, the expressions of the heirs gathered in the barracks were dark.

Prince Marche spoke.

“At this rate, we have no choice but to launch a full-scale attack.”

Princess Dimonte, with her arms crossed, spoke with displeasure.

“Do you think we haven’t launched a full offensive because we couldn’t? We couldn’t because Princess Dubbled is over there. We were worried she might summon ghost soldiers like during the battles of Odis and Kuhelm.”

Originally, their plan was to drive them around until Leblaine exhausted her divine power, then crush Dubbled in one swift blow.

“Princess Dubbled hasn’t shown even a strand of hair, and we’re being toyed with even by Dubbled’s soldiers…”

“That’s exactly why we can’t delay any longer.”

It was Jonathan who spoke. He looked around at the commanders and said.

“Let’s use the final method.”

“Final?”

“There’s a final method?”

While the other commanders looked bewildered, Prince Marche and Princess Dimonte’s eyes widened simultaneously.

Princess Dimonte said.

“That magic’s formula isn’t perfect yet. If it fails, we’ll be defeated instantly.”

“We have nowhere left to retreat, don’t we?”

Princess Dimonte and Paladin Jonathan looked at Prince Marche, who had taken overall command of the allied forces in place of Mina. After groaning for a moment, Prince Marche nodded heavily.

It was the moment when the final page of the mock battle was about to turn.

Day turned to dusk and darkness arrived. The great allied army holding torches all marched out toward Dubbled’s base.

The moment they faced Dubbled’s soldiers, the soldiers of Marshu, Dimonte, and Amitie stepped forward as the vanguard.

A massive incantation circle appeared in the sky. Just as Dubbled’s soldiers gripped their swords, the skin of the three families’ soldiers in the vanguard began to distort grotesquely.

Some had their mouths protrude and grow beaks, others sprouted manes from their necks, and still others had scales emerge from their skin.

“Kieek─!”

The three families’ soldiers, transformed into massive monsters, charged toward Dubbled’s soldiers.

The final move created in anticipation of Leblaine Dubbled participating in the mock battle.

Sacred Beast Transformation.

Hell unfolded in an instant.

“Fall back! Don’t stand before the sacred beasts!”

When Jonathan shouted, the allied army soldiers hurriedly retreated. Princess Dimonte stepped back several paces with a pale face.

‘What, what is this.’

It was a horrific sight.

The sacred beast transformed soldiers bit and tore at human flesh whenever they found it, as if they had lost their reason.

Dubbled’s soldiers suffered gruesome wounds with their throats torn or stomachs pierced, scattered around the area.

“Jonathan, what have you done to my soldiers!”

“Did I not show you in the demonstration? You saw it and still chose this method for victory in the mock battle, Princess.”

“The paladin in the demonstration had his reason!”

Jonathan smiled chillingly.

“That’s why I told you. It was not complete.”

Jonathan pointed to Leblaine standing behind Dubbled’s soldiers. Then the monstrous soldiers’ gazes all turned toward her at once.

“Little One─!”

The moment they charged toward Leblaine.

Grrrung─!!

Something massive blocked their path to her.

A giant wolf with a silver mane.

It was Surir’s entrance.

‘Now, this is Surir’s debut battle.’

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