Evade The Hero and Flee!

Chapter 312

Chapter 312

Chapter 312

This too shall pass (5)

*3 Their Circumstances: The Circumstances of a Certain Dwarf

This place was hell.

“Hurry up and move!”

“You haven’t filled your quota yet!”

“Slow down! There’s still a lot to do!”

Harsh voices were bursting out from here and there.

This alone was an ordinary day.

It was a blacksmith’s job that you could lose your life with one mistake.

You had to be careful whenever you worked, and getting all kinds of verbal abuse for a single mistake was normal.

But what we were doing now was not the work of a blacksmith.

“Quickly move the bricks!”

It was the work of a laborer.

“Please, just a short break....”

“We’ve already been working for 5 hours, Captain.”

“Bah! how can you say that in front of the dwarven lord?!”

“Ack!”

“I’ll work! I’ll get back to work right now!”

The screams of dwarves carrying stones.

It was an unfamiliar sight, but it wasn’t something that had never happened before.

The dwarven race had outstanding talents not only for weapons but also for construction and so on.

Very occasionally, we would get requests from the Empire and Kingdom we interacted with and make various facilities for them. So construction itself wasn’t an everyday thing but it wasn’t our first time experiencing it either.

Even so, the reason we called this place hell was just one.

“Break time! It’s time to eat!”

“Fi, finally....”

“You have to eat as slowly as possible.”

“As slowly as possible, drag out the time as much as you can.”

At the words lunch break, some dwarves were shedding tears of joy.

“I want a nice cold beer.”

“Me too....”

“When will this work end?”

“I don’t know.... At this pace it doesn’t seem like it’ll take much longer but....”

“After the city walls are finished, we might get assigned different work.”

“I heard the sound of hammers hasn’t stopped in the smithy.”

“It’s the same for the city wall construction side. I heard they’re engraving magic on every single brick?”

“On every single one? Are they crazy?”

“Our opponent is Hectare. It’s totally plausible.”

“Damn...!”

It was a crazy thing to say but if it was Hectare then it was completely possible.

The reason we were doing this insane thing in the first place was because the elders had accepted Hectare’s request.

Of course, we couldn’t blame the elders.

It was us who had put the elders in a difficult position, which led to Hectare’s threats against them.

When threatened with the dwarven elder as leverage, they wouldn’t have had a choice.

So this whole mess was because of that evil-hand Hectare.

If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t have had to suffer like this!

“Is everyone working hard?”

“You’ve come, honorary elder!”

Hearing the voice from behind us, chills ran down our spines.

We reflexively put down our food and stood up. Hectare looked at us with a very satisfied expression.

“Eating after working hard tastes the best. Isn’t that right?”

“Yes!”

“It’s the best!”

“I’ve never eaten food this delicious!”

Seeing us answer with bright smiles, Hectare nodded as if satisfied.

“Good attitude. Keep that mindset and quickly finish the city walls. This is work for the sake of the world.”

“Understood!”

“Now, for the world!”

“F, for the world!”

“For the world!”

Hectare patted our backs two times and then moved on to the other dwarves.

“Phew....”

“I thought I was gonna die....”

It still felt like goosebumps were running down my body.

“Le, let’s eat.”

“Yeah.”

“Uh... That’s...”

“When supplies run out while trapped inside walls, the method is to starve and die from dehydration. Humans are experts in that area more so than us.”

“Indeed.”

“Would Hectare really not know something so obvious? Our opponent is the evil-handed one.”

The symbol of evil.

Perhaps even more evil than the devil himself, it seemed unlikely that Hectare would make such a mistake.

“On the contrary, he could be plotting something that aims for exactly that.”

If it’s the evil-handed Hectare, he may well be plotting something that aims for starvation.

“Or it could be completely unrelated to the empire.”

“Is that so...?”

Febrius nodded with a slightly sullen expression. His earnest opinion had been denied after all.

“But it was a good point.”

The more information we have on Hectare the better.

Because for us, the dwarf liberation league, even a little, even a tiny bit more information is precious.

“Meal time is now over!”

Soon after, the voice announcing the end of meal time could be heard.

“Meal time?”

“Was there such a thing?”

As we tilted our heads looking at our meals which were still more than half unfinished, the dwarves who had already submitted to the metal bat and become Hectare’s followers shouted in loud voices.

“Since progress on the work is slow, from now on meals must be finished within 20 minutes.”

“Th, that can’t be....”

The meal time which used to allow a minimum of 40 minutes to a maximum of 1 hour had ended.

The time we could rest was reduced by half to a third.

“Th, this can’t be....”

“Those who fail to keep the meal time will have a personal meeting with the honorary elder Hectare and the metal bat!”

Hectare and the metal bat.

A meeting with that combination could not possibly go normally.

It would surely be an extremely horrible and painful meeting that would be engraved into our souls.

“Today, thanks to honorary elder Hectare’s mercy, you will have 1 minute to finish your meal!”

1 minute. Even though half of the meal still remained.

But if we didn’t eat this, the hard labor would become even more difficult.

And so we hurriedly consumed the distributed bread and other foods, drinking water to end the meal.

But that had been Hectare’s aim all along.

“Finishing half a meal within 1 minute.”

“Honorary elder!”

His footsteps were ghostly.

Like an assassin, Hectare had silently approached right behind our backs. With a very satisfied look on his face, he nodded.

“It seems 20 minutes isn’t even needed for a meal.”

“Th, that’s...”

We could only look at Hectare with trembling eyes. Because a long, silver rod was held in his hand.

“Th, that’s... Uh... That’s....”

We were dripping cold sweat, staring intently only at the silver whip in Hectare’s hand.

If that thing moved...

“10 minutes for a meal. That should be fine, right?”

“Yes, yup...”

Fortunately, there was no movement from the metal bat in Hectare’s hand.

But we had lost 10 precious minutes of rest time.

Yet we had no choice but to endure.

Endure and endure and endure.

We endured until the wall was complete, endured until all manner of weapons were plastered over it, endured even when told dragons could come and the fortress would be able to shoot them down. Still dissatisfied, Hectare kept making more demands that we met to the maximum.

And watching for that chance, we,

“We can endure Hectare’s tyranny no more!”

“Woohoo!”

“But we cannot yield to the metal bat!”

“Woohoo!”

“So... We flee!”

Abandoned our homeland and chose to escape.

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