“Galdmund… You know the 【Yellow King】’s name?”
Yuma asked, furrowing his brow. Orlando chuckled, opened Cage’s door, and stroked the pigeon’s head.
“Of course, I know. America and Israel have deep ties. We get more information from the ‘International Dungeon Research Organization’ in Israel than other countries.”
“So, the 【Yellow King】 is coming around here!?”
Akito, excited, stepped forward. Orlando closed the cage and turned to Yuma and the others.
“Certainly, the 【Yellow King】 has been near here before. But he’s elusive. Honestly, I don’t know if he’ll come here again.”
“What! You got my hopes up!”
Akito shook his head in disappointment. Rui spoke up in place of Akito.
“So, if the 【Yellow King】 appears around here, what are you all planning to do?”
“Well, we’ll contact them and wait for the Extermination Squad to arrive, of course.”
Orlando said it as if it were obvious, and Rui asked back, “Extermination Squad?”
“It’s an Extermination Squad centered around America’s strongest Seeker Clan, ‘Prometheus’. It was created to defeat the 【Yellow King】. They’re incredibly strong—”
“Albert-san is there too, right!”
Rui interjected eagerly. Orlando gave a wry smile and replied, “Of course.”
“The leader of the Extermination Squad is ‘Flame Emperor Albert’.”
Hearing that, Rui breathed a sigh of relief. He was probably still worried about the rumor that Prometheus had been destroyed.
As the conversation lulled, Yuma voiced what he was most concerned about.
“About how many victims are there in America? And where are the survivors evacuating to now?”
“Hmm, let me see.”
Orlando’s expression clouded slightly.
“The number of people killed by Monsters isn’t clear. Some say fifty million, others say sixty million, but it’s been a while, so it might be even more…”
As expected, there seemed to be a considerable number of victims. As Yuma looked down with a grim face, Orlando perked up and said, “But you know.”
“The majority of people have evacuated and are living safely. The 【Yellow King】 mainly operates around the Dungeon where he appeared, ‘Wrath of God’, so areas away from there have relatively little damage.”
“‘Wrath of God’—where was that Dungeon again?”
Orlando replied with a smile to Akito’s question.
“It’s in Montana, in the northwestern United States. That’s why many people have evacuated to the south and Alaska, where the 【Yellow King】 doesn’t go. Of course, they might still be attacked by other Monsters, though.”
“But if he’s mainly operating in Montana, New York is quite far, right? So, why did the 【Yellow King】 come all the way here?”
Rui voiced his doubts. Yuma also wondered about it. If he was based in the Northwest, he shouldn’t have come this far.
There should be many refugees in New York.
“There’s another reason for that. It’s—”
Just as Orlando was about to answer, the door to the room was thrown open roughly.
“Orlando! A horde of Monsters is gathering below the building. It might get bad if we leave it alone!”
It was Rod, the Seeker who had guided Yuma and the others, who had come to report. Hearing that, tension ran across Jack and Orlando’s faces.
Orlando immediately gave instructions.
“Jack, gather everyone.”
“Yeah, got it.”
Jack turned on his heel and hurried out of the room.
“Sorry about this. You’ve been caught up in trouble as soon as you arrived. Monsters rarely gather around here…”
Akito grinned at Orlando, who gave a wry smile.
“No, no, it’s perfect. Let’s go beat up some ‘Lightning Monsters’ as exercise!”
Orlando shook his head slightly at Akito, who was getting excited.
“Unfortunately, I don’t think the ones gathering below are ‘Lightning Monsters’.”
“What!? Aren’t there a lot of Lightning Monsters around here?”
“I’ll tell you about that later. You guys don’t have to fight. We’ll go on the Extermination, so just watch.”
Yuma and the others watched Orlando’s back as he left the room. In the now-quiet room, only the cooing of the pigeon, “Coo-coo, coo-coo,” echoed.
“Shall we go too? If Orlando-san and the others are struggling, we’ll have to lend a hand.”
Yuma agreed with Rui’s words, saying, “Yeah,” and the three of them decided to go down to the first floor.
They passed through the gaudy corridor, took the elevator to the first floor, and walked through the luxurious entrance.
When they went outside from the front entrance, they couldn’t see any Seekers, but a crushing impact sound was echoing.
“It’s over there.”
“Yeah.”
The three of them moved towards where Rui was looking. Yuma took out the three-part Pickel from his backpack and assembled it as he walked.
Rui and Akito also readied their weapons, preparing to fight at any moment.
After walking for a while, they saw sparks flying in the shadow of a building.
Yuma and the others quickened their pace and approached the building. What they saw there were three large Monsters and about twenty Seekers fighting them.
At a glance, it seemed like the Seekers were being pushed back.
“That’s… a Peruda, a Fire Drake, and a Wyvern.”
Yuma looked at the Monsters Rui mentioned. The Peruda was a Monster resembling a Brachiosaurus, storing embers in its mouth.
The Fire Drake and Wyvern were attacking the Seekers from the sky.
“The American Seekers seem to have the latest 【Magic Enchanted Armament】, but they can’t defend against attacks from the sky.”
As Akito said, the Seekers were fleeing from the fiery breath being released from the sky.
Swords and spears couldn’t possibly reach the Dragons. However, there were also Seekers with weapons that were clearly different from the norm.
Jack, a black man, was pointing a sturdy machine gun with a “shield” attached at the sky.
Dozens of bullets were exploding on the Fire Drake.
Orlando, the leader of the Seeker Clan, was also aiming at the Wyvern, holding a sniper rifle like a bayonet with a Longsword equipped on the barrel.
The Dragons were flapping their wings, seemingly quite annoyed.
Yuma grinned.
“Awesome! The British army used similar weapons, but the power is on a different level.”
Rui also nodded and looked at the sky.
“Indeed… that’s a weapon made for Seekers. It’s on a different level from something customized for soldiers to use.”
Yuma’s eyes sparkled at Jack and Orlando’s fight.
“…………That weapon… is so cool.”