Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki

Book 2: Chapter 10-2: (Physical) Negotiations

Book 2: Chapter 10-2: (Physical) Negotiations

Without pausing I ducked down. An arrow shot through the area where the back of my head had been only moments before. It was an arrow shot by an archer who had carefully hidden his presence and moved around to my rear.

If I hadnt been able to see behind myself using Perception Expansion, then it would have been unavoidable.

Then as I crouched I gripped my blade and extended my arm out before spinning around once.

At that moment my blade cut through the ankles of the other two knights who were trying to cut me down. Their legs let out a fountain of blood as they collapsed to the ground.

Upon seeing that the other four knights who were charging towards me couldnt help but pause and hesitate.

In that momentary space I took the opportunity to switch my knife to my other hand, point my small bow towards the bowmen, and ready two more arrows to fire at them.

Unlike the hesitant knights the bowmen fired arrow after arrow at me like mad men.

For them the best method to avoid death was to fire without stopping and kill me.

However, their arrows were doomed to miss. I took one step, then a second. I used the least movements to avoid the arrows.

Itd be fine if youd just ran away.

That was really the only way for them to survive.

If they planned to continue attacking me I would have to deal with them. I confirmed my targets as I fired and within a few seconds the bowmen collapsed with an arrow between the eyes.

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By then, the knights had finally resolved themselves and charged forward to cut me down.

The bowmen were elites, but so were the Knights.

Firstly they were very perceptive. They made sure to block all my lines of sight as they attacked.

As expected once I had killed 10 people in a few moments the Imperial Soldiers couldnt help but falter in their steps.

My chance was here.

I quickly folded up my short bow, placed my knife in its sheath, and spread out my arms in an appeal.

Now then gentlemen now that the bowmen that you depended on are gone and there are only three knights left that can draw their bladesfurthermore there are only around twenty over there in the back. Im sure that you intended them as trump cards, but I also see those two archers hidden in the distance as well. Let me ask youdo you wish to continue?

This was a clear threat. I was telling them that if we continued further I would massacre them.

We understandwell back off. I apologize. Almost like a demonI never thought that the elite knights couldnt even touch you. Im glad we found this out before the true battle.well, its not like youre invulnerable like our Hero-sama. At the very least you dodged our swords and arrows. If we had hit you then you surely would have died correct? Well, that doesnt change that youre a monster. You could kill all of uswhy are you letting us go?

Baron Lurvish said with a sharp glare.

Though he said he surrendered he was paying attention to his route of retreat and his remaining soldiers.

This is to let the Empire know that we are a country that can be negotiated with. This time we have received the ransom and returned the hostages. This was a successfully concluded trade that set a precedent. This is also a warning not to look down on us elves too much.

The best outcome would be to make them mull over this event. Even after all this I wanted to leave the door open for a possible negotiation of peace. If things break out into war then I still want to leave enough common ground to leave room for negotiating.

Whether it was elves or humans, neither wanted to wage a war of complete destruction.

I see. Even soI never expected things to go this far. I thought if we attacked from all distances we would cut you down and be done with it. Leaving aside the bow I didnt hear anything about those kinds of knives.

Of course not. Its a tool I finished making just a few days ago.

A tool!?

Yup, a tool for making decorations.

The knife I had brought today was a high-oscillation carbon alloy knife. The carbon alloy was made to be very hard while still maintaining the minimum required flexibility.