lol wants to be pacifistic, like someone whos coming to kill everyone is going to respect anything but force

They should have had more training in fighting, only one person knows how to use the bow, in 3 years they should at least tried. And didn't they had a day before they started the search ? And why would a king with a small army go hunt some villagers ?

welp, good luck king. I'm looking forward to see your last expression before die

welp, turns out the king's a douchebag?

Firstly, it is stupid to come personally into a death forest in which a disaster level Griffin lives, that possibly sides with whom I plan to attack. Maybe he thinks he has to judge the situation at hand, but still. It's a simple seek and destroy order. Bored or not, this is not clever. But they live in a world, in which you can be remotely hexed, so it doesn't matter, if you curl yourself up in the palace or not.

Secondly, that smug bastard. "How dare they to run? They don't want to do, what I tell them? Fair. In turn I kill them. But running away is so annoying! Just because they don't want me to end their lives." No matter what his character was like before, that one has to go. Either by leaving the forest or vanishing into it.

There goes their plan dooooown the drain.

@Talismaster If it were a precious metal maybe, but copper would be too easy to reproduce.

I thought they were going to just kill/injury a couple of soldiers in ambushes in the forest when he was talking about making them retreat or negotiate since they were elites he didnt want to lose

Tch. The King himself is there. Now what?

Seems they will pull that Chekhov's griffin from ch 17 sooner than I expected

@acolytus

If Ferme raised the taxes so high that a village got tired of paying and fled, and he let them get away with it, then other villages would follow. King Ferme probably fears It would eventually spiral out of control, and his kingdom would collapse.

@MystLinx

The problem is time. Depending on the internal state of the kingdom, it could take a long time to mobilize troops. Even if the friendly king had active troops available or sent his personal guards, it would take them a while to reach a remote village in the forest. King Ferme's troops are almost outside their walls. They could request help and try to fight it out, but the village would be wiped out long before reinforcements arrived.

@mahtan
Spoiler

King Ferme joins the harem lol

King ferme is going to be killed.
Isn't our MC very powerfull and gets more powerfull the more followers he has? Are all kings like that too?

@ironclad
In the WN, they use the villager’s clothes and skeletons as “proof”. Said remains coming from the would-be heroes coming to slay the griffon over the ages, or just animals. Can’t recall.

I kinda like the ring idea. The skeleton one seemed less believable.

@MistahMoose I believe the king of Rosice said they had papyrus, but he explicitly said he had never heard the term "paper", which is the same word that is used in this chapter.

I know it doesn't really mean much, but I just found it strange.

@jmikeg
At least try to solve your own problems before turning to something like a god for help.

@Serkket
Edgy.

Like always, nobles are scum. I'm waiting for more MCs that straight up murder nobles on sight (like that revenge MC I forgot the name).
Hopefully from the forest a resistance movement will start and bring down all these cowards. Hopefully he won't go easy on them and kill all of them.

@MistLynx
The Main Problem is they are not actually citizens of Rosice yet furthermore I checked back in chapter 9 it was stated they are exempted from taxes for 5 years before they actually pay any kind land or citizens tax because they are a village barely established in an unexplored land, on top of that they are up against Ferme a man who instigated the rebellion that lead to death of Tetra's whole family and who usurped them as ruler the kingdom the Rosice Kingdom gets involved it could snowball into a war but if the MC and the villagers deal with it they get clout that can be used to make them seem more desirable and speed up the whole they are citizens thing.

@Acolytus
He is a crazy SOB, of course, he doubts anyone would try and go after his life directly also this isn't a distraction to him this is if I had to guess this is entertainment.