Back to the Battlefield: The Veteran Heroes Return to the Fray! Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 4] by Kiraku Kishima

Author:Kiraku Kishima
Language: eng
Format: epub

The new member of the meeting was an elderly man in his seventies. He was by far the eldest in the room; there was practically no one else above their forties, the ministers included. His receding hairline and ostentatious beard were both gray, and his round belly spoke of an indulgent lifestyle. Alan remembered the old man: Simon Rolek, chief of a noted organization.

“Good grief, how could you exclude me from a meeting like this one? Does no one in the seven great kingdoms have common sense anymore?” Simon orated as he took his time walking through the room. In Alan’s opinion—subjective that it may be—Simon’s actions, his manner of speech, not to mention everything else about him, gave off the impression of a deeply obstinate man.

“If the demon army has made an appearance, it is only natural that our Humanity Defense Coalition lead and take command, no?” Simon said.

The Humanity Defense Coalition was an organization founded eighty years ago with participants from every kingdom, and as its name implied, its sole goal was the protection of humanity from external enemies. At the time, each kingdom was in charge of its own defense, but that method proved ineffective against the arduous, nigh-endless war with the demon army. It was in such desperate times that all kingdoms joined forces against the demon army. The Humanity Defense Coalition was founded by the greatest minds of the time and central figures of each kingdom. It held tremendous power, claiming even the right to draft personnel or collect resources from any kingdom regardless of its ruler’s wishes in times of emergency. It was truly an institution meant to gather humanity’s strength in one place.

The coalition’s structure was enormously efficient during the war. With its guiding hand, it pieced together the previously disconnected military strength and enemy intel of the kingdoms both great and small like a puzzle. The finished result was an effective force against the demon army. It could be said without a shadow of a doubt that it was thanks to the coalition that the disadvantaged humanity held out for seventy-five long years against the powerful demons, up until Alan and the others’ great accomplishments shifted the favor clearly to their side.

However, in the time since the war ended twenty-five years ago, the Humanity Defense Coalition had warped into an abhorrent special interest group.

The coalition should have lost its reason for existing with humanity’s hard-fought victory. Unfortunately, working at the coalition was the most distinguished career available at the time, even more so than being a minister, so more than half of its members were made up of elites and nobles with high influence. If the organization dissolved just because the war was over, they would be out of a job. Thus, they said, “It is of utmost importance that we prepare for the eventuality of another threat to humanity like the demon army,” and kept the coalition running.

The rest went without saying. The organization whose goal was prepping for a war that might never happen went rotten faster than fresh fish left under the scorching sun.

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