You Had to Take the Initiative, So We Killed the Nearby Beasts and Demonic Creatures for Practice

"We also have strength in numbers. Take you, for example. You're a local, so you know all their habitats. That means we can find them easily. It's still winter, after all, and they need somewhere to spend the winter."

Although a few people were injured or killed in the process, we'd dealt with a major threat and gained more supplies. The meat and furs were distributed according to Military Merit.

Thanks to this, I was promoted to squad leader of the reconnaissance squad. I was an officer now, too.

When everyone saw that I'd been promoted, they came to ask what taking the initiative meant, so I told them what had happened.

After hearing my story, they understood that they needed to contribute and think of more solutions.

A few days later, the vampires headed into the countryside. They came from several nearby villages and towns, and there were probably a few thousand of them.

According to their grand announcement in the city, they were supposedly carrying out a winter Bandit Suppression campaign against people who had gathered illegally. The nearby barons and their ladies didn't dare leave their castles.

We were all panicking, thinking we'd offended the nobles. Some people even wanted to sell out the Political Commissar, but luckily I caught them.

The Political Commissar wasn't having it, either. He said he was a noble, too, and cursed the viscount in the city, asking who he thought he was. A bunch of defeated losers, too scared to leave town.

When it came to taking the initiative, the Political Commissar spoke with great confidence about how brave he'd been in the Skeleton Division. He immediately wanted to send us out to fight the several hundred vampires who'd left the city.

Since I knew plenty of back roads, we sent