The Son-In-Law Of A Prestigious Household Wants A Divorce-Chapter 15: Great Colony

“Huff! Huff!”

Breathing heavily, Isaac stared at the Transcendent, impaled by the spear.

Its posture, though still standing upright, gave the impression that it finally was dead.

Thank goodness.

Though he couldn’t say it aloud due to his heavy breathing, Isaac was genuinely relieved.

He made a bet that if he could just reach Uldiran Cardias, he would surely be able to kill the Transcendent.

No matter how impressive the creature was, someone of Uldiran’s caliber should be more than capable of subduing it.

Among the Transcendent Race, he isn’t that strong.

He made that cold judgment. Indeed, among the Transcendents that he knew, this one wasn’t particularly strong.

“Are you alright?!”

“We’ll rescue you right away!”

The tightly closed wall’s gate opened and soldiers rushed out. Isaac pointed in the direction he had flown from and shouted.

“Save the injured first! Hurry!”

Starting with Jonathan.

Silverna, her adjutant Anna, the nobles and their guards.

Many people had been hurt by just a single Transcendent Race.

He himself was only slightly injured, but that injury came from his fall.

Right now, others were more important than himself.

Following Isaac’s words, the soldiers urgently ran towards the foot of the mountain.

“Are you alright?”

Uldiran approached Isaac, who was sitting down trying to compose himself.

Isaac tried to stand up quickly, but Uldiran’s hand gently pressed on his shoulder, urging him to stay down and make himself comfortable.

“Yes, I’m fine.”

“Hmm, what about that Demonic Beast?”

From his reaction, it was clear that this was the first time Uldiran had seen a Transcendent Race.

Isaac looked bitterly at the corpse before answering.

“It’s called a Transcendent Race... To put it simply, they’re similar to humans, but at the same time, they’re just like the Demonic Beasts.”

At Isaac’s words, Uldiran crossed his arms and started examining the creature’s corpse.

“Hmm, you seem to know quite a bit about it?”

“I’ll explain later.”

Isaac slowly stood up.

It was because he saw a man lying on a stretcher, carried by the soldiers. He wanted nothing more but to rush over immediately.

Seeing this reaction, Uldiran nodded with a slight smile.

“Don’t worry about me, go ahead. It’s natural to worry about a comrade.”

“Thank you.”

Leaving Uldiran behind, Isaac hurriedly ran to Jonathan.

“Jonathan! Are you alright?!”

Being carried on a stretcher, Jonathan gave a thumbs up and let out a faint smile.

“Of course. Am I not a knight of Helmont?”

“Ha...haha... Yeah... Yeah, you are...”

From Isaac’s perspective, a Helmont’s knight wasn’t a particularly pleasant profession.

Nevertheless, he was thankful that Jonathan was alive.

“What happened?”

The Transcendent Race Isaac knew would never leave humans alive.

They’d show no mercy to humans, as their hatred for humans seemed almost like an instinctive desire.

Jonathan awkwardly scratched his cheek while lying down.

“To be honest, I’m not sure myself. After I sent you off, he swung his greatsword towards my neck, and it did touch it, but...”

Jonathan slightly lifted his head to show his neck. Isaac could clearly see a blood-clotted wound on his Adam’s apple.

“But then he just stared at me and left.”

“He left?”

“Yes, he called me a dirty bastard and then just left.”

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“A dirty bastard?”

Isaac tilted his head in confusion.

A Transcendent Race? Gave up the chance to kill a human and left?

What’s going on?

That behavior wasn’t in line with what he knew about those guys.

“Sir Isaac! This Jonathan is fine! You don’t need to worry!”

“Haaa, stay still, don’t move around too much.”

“He’s right, you need to get checked by a physician first at least.”

Following the soldier’s words, Jonathan was dragged away.

Left alone, Isaac had no time to feel relieved after seeing Jonathan safe and sound. Questions kept piling up in his mind and he was sinking into thought.

Suddenly, someone hugged him tightly from behind.

“Isaac!”

“Silverna?”

Surprised, Isaac turned his head.

It was Silverna who hugged him tightly, feeling relieved from seeing him.

“Thank goodness! I’m so glad to see you safe, Isaac! I thought you were done for!”

“W-Well...”

Embarrassed, he quickly checked behind him.

He could feel Uldiran Cardias staring intently at them.

This might be bad, I might end up skewered like that Transcendent—

Not wanting to end up in the same state as the Transcendent that was skewered by Uldiarn’s spear, he tried to gently push Silverna away.

“Ngh.”

But, weak as he was, he couldn’t pry her off at all.

As he was pondering how to get her to let go...

“Ahem. Silverna.”

Uldiran Cardias approached them, clearing his throat before calling out to his daughter.

“A-Ah, I-I’m sorry!”

That was when Silverna finally realized what she had been doing. She quickly pulled away in embarrassment.

“...”

Uldiran’s gaze turned to Isaac. He seemed to have something to say.

“Ahem.”

Isaac pretended to scratch his neck while showing him the ring on his left ring finger.

That seemed to soften Uldiran’s gaze.

“What about the treasures from holstein?”

Uldiran started talking business. At his question, Silverna made her report.

“We’ve recovered them. Currently, Anna is guarding them but she’s injured, like the rest of us. Hopefully, you can send help her way...”

“Alright, I’ll go there personally.”

Uldiran’s words surprised Silverna.

“We can’t afford to let our guard down.”

The bitterness in his voice ran deep. He frowned as he expressed his view on the current situation.

“While the bizarre creature called the Transcendent is concerning, the number of Demonic Beasts is even more so.”

Indeed.

Even to Silverna, the number of Demonic Beasts’ corpses near the wall was too much.

“You mean-“

“Silverna, prepare a letter immediately.”

For the first time in 23 years.

“We’re dealing with a Great Colony.”

*   *   *Helmont Mansion.

“Urrrgh!”

A man’s wail echoed.

Considering it was early morning, that wail could easily be mistaken for a rooster’s cry.

The owner of this scream was Helmont’s third son, Alois Helmont.

Recently...

He had been doing morning duels every single day.

Facing him was none other than Helmont’s eldest daughter, Rianna Helmont.

Whoosh!

Rianna sheathed her greatsword, ‘Ragnavel’, and sighed.

“Take your stance, Alois.”

‘This isn’t over yet,’ that was what she was trying to say.

Rianna’s eyes, which Alois usually thought as jewel-like, recently seemed like it was tinged with blood, at least to him.

“S-Sister! We’ve been dueling every day! At this rate, I’m really going to die!”

While he loved spending time with Rianna, this wasn’t it.

After all, he had to endure a pain that felt like having his entire body broken every single day.

But Rianna showed no signs of backing down.

“We duel every day, yet you don’t improve at all.”

“No, that’s-“

That’s only from your perspective, Sister!

Alois wanted to answer like that but swallowed his words.

Strictly speaking, Alois had indeed grown stronger.

It was just Rianna was so strong that it seemed like he hadn’t.

“Pick up your sword.”

Rianna showed no compromise.

Her emotionless expression made it clear that she was serious.

Bringing up remarriage...was a mistake...!

Alois was paying dearly for his comments the other day. Him carelessly mentioning remarriage and dismissing Isaac in front of her lilac the other day caused him to suffer for days.

But...

Rianna and him weren’t the only people in the Helmont mansion whose hearts were unsettled due to Isaac suddenly leaving.

The second daughter, Sharen Helmont.

A 17-year-old girl; the youngest in Helmont after the youngest son, 15-year-old Edel Helmont.

Right now, she was lying on her bed in her room, kicking her blanket violently.

“Aaaagh! Where is iiiit?!”

If one were to evaluate her.

She was a tomboy and a little scatterbrained.

If she wasn’t a Helmont, she would have been no different than an ordinary rambunctious girl one could see in the countryside.

But since she was born as a Helmont, she grew up with a violent temper.

Especially when snacks were involved.

“Where on earth?! Is it??!!”

There was a snack that she really liked.

But, she hadn’t been able to even taste it recently.

“Where on earth did Isaac buy that from??!!”

Because.

Isaac, whom Sharen had been treating like an errand boy, had been dispatched to the Malidean frontline.

As a result, Sharen couldn’t eat the snacks he used to buy her.

She knew that bakeries usually also made snacks on the side, so she had asked all the nearby bakeries for that particular snack, but she still couldn’t find it.

As Sharen was going crazy over this...

Her personal maid, Kelsey, who entered her room after opening its door, urgently called for her.

“Young lady! The family head has called for an assembly!”

“Father called?”

The Sword Dance Festival was about a month and a half away.

It wasn’t close enough yet for the family head to call for an assembly, which meant something else must have happened.

With that, the direct Helmont lineage members gathered in the family head’s office.

The eldest son Lohengrin.

The eldest daughter Rianna.

The second son Armin.

The third son Alois.

The second daughter Sharen.

The youngest son Edel.

As it had been a while since they all gathered in a place other than for meals, a somewhat awkward atmosphere lingered in the room.

Arandel began to speak. His expression suggested that the matter was quite a headache, even for him.

“A messenger has come from the Malidean Wall.”

For a moment, everyone rolled their eyes to check Rianna’s reaction.

The Malidean Wall was the place where Isaac had been dispatched in their stead.

Everyone suspected that he probably had died there.

After all, that was the most likely possibility.

As Rianna clenched her fist, trying to suppress her pounding heart...

“The Demonic Beast’s Hive at the Malidean Wall has been confirmed as a Great Colony.”

Arandel’s words dropped, completely shifting the atmosphere in the room.

This was the first time that a Great Colony appeared in 23 years.

So, there was only one reason for them to send a message all the way here.

“They said they need more support.”

Cardias’ request—conveyed to the nobles through the kingdom—was clear.

When it was just a regular hive, it would still be okay for the nobles to send their promising greenhorns so that they could gain real combat experience.

But, it had been confirmed that the hive was a Great Colony.

This meant they were asking for real manpower.

“Haa.”

Arandel felt regretful that this happened right before the Sword Dance Festival, a major family event of Helmont’s.

But, since a Great Colony’s appearance had already been confirmed, he couldn’t just make decisions solely for Helmont’s sake.

“Someone needs to be dispatched to Malidean. Is there anyone willing to go?”

And so, he asked.

“I’ll go.”

“Father! Please send me!”

The two women in this room.

Rianna and Sharen answered him simultaneously.