Red Forest Village Battle
‘As the representative of the Red Forest Village, the village chief will directly apologize publicly to the adventurers who fought the Three-Eyed Gnolls for the Red Forest Village.’
It is an item that has nothing to do with the benefits that adventurers get. But humans are emotional creatures, and receiving an apology is a big deal. There, the expression of this item is a little strange. For the Red Forest Village? adventurers? At once, the adventurers who came to earn money were changed into those who shed blood to protect the village. It’s a small thing, but if you accept the request, it becomes an acknowledgment.
Hyeon-jun held the parchment in front of Haim and he read it through. Then, when I saw the newly added item at the end, I hesitated.
“Cho, the village chief will not accept it.”
“Haim, I’m sorry about you. But you don’t seem to know the situation, and if you refuse, everyone will die.”
At those words, the adventurers also looked at Hyeon-joon in amazement. They thought they could, but hearing it right in front of them made it clear to them that it was real.
“Of course I won’t send you alone. Then, even if the Red Forest Village accepts the request, they may all die before we go.”
Haim’s face was so pale that it looked blue. Sweat-soaked bangs clung to his forehead, and beads of sweat dripped down his beard.
“I will go with you to the village. You tell us our request at the village entrance, and if they accept we will kill the gnolls, but if they refuse we will leave the Red Forest Village right away.”
“no!”
Haim screamed. The adventurers were now looking at him with pity. It was because I heard Hyun-jun’s words and knew that he was a different person from the dog-like Red Forest villagers. However, Hyeon-joon did not react at all and just calmly talked about himself. He too felt sorry for Haim’s family, but negotiations are negotiations. And coming to this point, can they really ignore the adventurers’ demands?
“let’s go. Now it’s up to them.”
When Hyeon-jun got up and went out of the tavern, the adventurers also got up and followed him. Carl and Glenn lifted Haim, who was bewildered, and took the parchment and followed him.
The entrance to the village was now wide open, so they could go out unrestrained.
“How is it?”
“Once the negotiations broke down!”
“what!”
As the adventurers began to murmur, Hyeon-jun began to read the red forest village’s negotiation plan in a loud voice. Silence reigned in the camp while everyone read and rewrote the parchment.
“They say the entrance to Red Forest Village was breached last night! We’ll all die tonight! Therefore, the secondary negotiations will be held in front of the Red Forest Village!”
Then he began to read the parchment on which their demands were written. what they deserve Even if they already knew, everyone listened. As I rolled up the parchment after reading one last new addition, the air started to heat up. The red forest village’s absurd negotiation plan and added demands made the excited adventurers blush and sigh.
“What are you doing! Pack your things right now!”
The campsite was cleared in no time. Heim, who barely came to his senses and saw the adventurers, walked in the lead with hope, followed by Hyeonjun and the adventurers. I was too tired to talk, so I entrusted it to the guards, but Ganga Village also accepted it without saying anything, perhaps because they wanted the situation to be resolved quickly. Haim was in a hurry, so he kept looking back and fidgeting, but he couldn’t ask to go quickly. The adventurers who heard Haim’s story felt sorry for him, but the group’s speed was adjusted to Hyeon-jun’s. No one openly talks about it, but Hyeon-jun is the leader of this group in name and reality.
After walking like that, the group of adventurers who arrived at a place where they could see the Red Forest Village groaned as they saw the entrance to the village, which was completely destroyed and barely blocked by piles of furniture. It is full of ashes and soot from a fire the night before.
Hyeon-joon stopped right in front of the village entrance. The guards and men on the fence who saw the adventurers cheered and embraced each other. However, the moment Hyeon-joon stepped forward and opened his mouth, everything went awry.
“Negotiations broke down!”
“what!”
“What are you talking about! Didn’t you come because you accepted the deal?”
When Hyeon-Jun beckoned, Haim staggered forward, trembling from the fear that the entire village might be annihilated and the tension at the center of it. He first started reading the negotiation proposal sent by the Red Forest Village. Their voices were trembling and inverted, but no one laughed. Haim’s hands trembled and the parchment crumpled so badly that he had to hold it again and again. Upon hearing the contents, an uproar broke out within the Red Forest Village.
“Should we do that even in this situation!”
“Everyone dies at this rate!”
Young men and old men shouted and the atmosphere suddenly became sharper. Haim tried to take out the parchment with the adventurers’ requests written on it, but dropped it on the floor and hurriedly picked it up again. My legs were shaking so much that I couldn’t bend even slightly, so I had to squat down and get up. The commotion subsided and only Haim’s trembling voice could be heard. After hearing the adventurers’ demands, a commotion broke out again inside the Red Forest Village.
“This is too much concession! We also earn and live day by day, but where is the money for that!”
“How much do you want to take for an adventurer!”
Merchants and innkeepers in the village worked together to stand up. The adventurers who were listening were astounded, but that anger was shown instead by the village men of the Red Forest.
“I wish I could take that much and eat it. How can I eat it! I saw you buying silver necklaces the last time you came to the merchant!”
“What, what are you talking about! You must be jealous that we have a decent store, so why not work hard? Since I don’t work and just hang out, I can’t even open a shop and dig dirt in the forest!”
“You son of a b*tch!”
The young men rushed at the merchants and a fight broke out at once. They are the ones who stood up to fight against the three-eyed noll in the village’s crisis. Even though they don’t have proper fighting skills, they are sturdy people who cut trees and gather herbs in the forest. The merchants were helplessly beaten and subdued at once. The merchants called the guards anxiously, but the guards were also offended by the merchants’ words and just watched in silence. This is because they cannot afford to open a shop, so they work as security guards to make ends meet.
Also, the guards and strongmen desperately felt the fear of the three-eyed nolls at the village entrance the day before. Because the skin was stretched, the arrows did not stick well, and even if they did, they would only pierce the leather and hang loosely, causing no damage. In addition, even if I stabbed the guys climbing up the wooden fence with a spear, the skin would only go in, and I couldn’t push them out properly because they were so strong. I don’t know if the merchants are inside, but those who fought them themselves knew very well that they would all die if the adventurers didn’t help them.
In the end, the merchants were suppressed and pushed out, and while the remaining people were talking, a shaggy giant came up on top of the wooden fence and shouted loudly.
“I will accept your request!”
“Good! But the chief’s apology comes first!”
At those words, a commotion broke out in the village again. Then, some people hurriedly ran into the village, and shortly thereafter dragged the village chief.
“These guys! know who i am! I! Appointed by Lord Taxis! I mean the chief of the Red Forest Village!”
They dragged what the village chief was holding on to while screaming and put it on top of a wooden fence. The village chief tried to run away when they let go, but there was nowhere to run on top of the wooden fence.
“dare! dare me! I won’t leave you guys alone!”
“hey.”
The man who had just shouted that he would accept the request strode forward, grabbed the village chief’s hair with his hairy hand, and growled.
“The lord left it and inherited it from my father, so don’t be a jerk and do it quickly.”
My thick fingers squeezed it tightly, and my hair was pulled tight, and many gray hairs were pulled out from the weak hair follicles. Despite the threat, the village chief screamed evil and kept mentioning the lord of Taxis. In the end, the man holding his head punched the chief’s belly and kicked the collapsed chief’s stomach once more.
“Do you really want to die? do it faster.”
He beat the gray-haired old man, but no one stopped him. The merchants, who usually flatter the village chief and share the profits, pretend not to see it and avoid their eyes, and the men only look at it as if they are suing. In the end, when the village chief trembled and said he knew, the man grabbed the village chief by his clothes and raised him up. As the village chief, who could not stand up properly, continued to swallow his saliva to waste time, the man slapped the village chief on the back again, and only then did the village chief begin to speak.
“My, I’m sorry. I was wrong. I apologize. apologize! I was all wrong!”
It was such a mess that it was hard to even call it an apology, but adventurers also nodded their heads at the image of him crying and shouting as his white top was picked out and his pride, which he had defended with power as a village chief, was shattered.
“Good! I will enter the village!”
The men and the guards cheered and waved. They really thought they were all going to die when they clung to the wooden fence of the three-eyed game and broke the entrance with a crude knife and pushed in. One passionate guard, who had been spearing them to the end to push them away, was grabbed by the spear and rolled down, unable to scream and dying. In the morning, only bloodstains remained. Everyone screamed excitedly at the thought of saving their lives, unlike the merchants who ignored it after hearing that they had been blocked in the village.
Things piled up at the entrance of the village were cleared and the adventurers entered the village confidently. The merchants noticed, but when one guy started to run away, they dispersed at once.
“Bastards! Look good!”
The adventurers mocked him by feeding him potatoes, and Hyeon-jun patted Haim on the shoulder and said,
“Listen, Haim. If it weren’t for you, I would have sent the lion back, and the village would have been slain tonight. You saved the village.”
Haim, relieved that his family could live, sat down and began to sob. Hyeon-jun raised the giant Heim upright with one hand and led him into the village. Haim barely came to his senses as he walked and found Emma nervously stamping her feet and ran to hug her. Emma hugged him and whispered to him. Hyeon-jun approached the person who appeared to be the captain of the guard.
“Tell me the situation.”
“Kuhmm…”
The captain of the guard looked awkward because he had done something before, but he soon spoke up.
“After the adventurers left, it was quiet for a day, but the next day, one person who went to the forest to gather herbs did not return. There were people who were worried, but the village chief gave a bluff, so everyone had no choice but to let go. And they came in last night.”
The captain of the guard trembled as he recalled that terrible moment.
“At first, one of the guards said he had seen something near the entrance, but they didn’t think much of it. But it wasn’t long before the battle started as they rushed in like a tidal wave.”
“How many were there?”
“I don’t know. It was too dark, and I was not in the mood to figure out the numbers. But I don’t think it was that many. When they tried to climb over the fence, I ordered a guard to gather the villagers. At first, they tried to climb over the barrier, but when they found the entrance weak, they started breaking down the door with their knives. The door didn’t last long, but luckily we were able to block the entrance before that.”
“Then how many did you kill?”
“…”
At Hyeon-jun’s question, the guard commander lowered his head. He hesitated, then finally opened his mouth.
“I wasn’t prepared at all… I set fire to the furniture piled up at the entrance, but one of them ran into it and didn’t kill anything except for what was burned to death.”
“It’s a big deal.”
Suddenly, an adventurer next to me said. He is the adventurer who told me the cost of subjugating Nol before.
“What’s the big deal?”
“There will be more coming tonight than before. Maybe it will come right now.”
“what?”
The captain of the guard exclaimed in great surprise. The reaction drew the attention of the adventurers and guards around.
“If you break down the entrance and no one is dead, they will come pouring in, thinking you can have some fun. Knolls aren’t that stupid. They’re crude, but they’re people who handle railroads.”
At those words, everyone’s complexion hardened. In particular, some of the guards who tasted the fear of the three-eyed knoll last night even trembled.
“When the numbers are even, there is no odds.”
“If we shut it down and hold a sit-in, we will be able to withstand it.”
“okay. Guard Captain, bring the people back together.”
“Ah, okay.”
While the guard captain went to gather the people, Hyeonjun gathered the adventurers and brought up a story.
“As you may have heard, there is a sit-in in the village. Let me know if you have any helpful information.”
The adventurers began to speak with a murmur. There was a lot of useless information, but with so many people from all over the world gathering together, some good information came out.
“Poop is the best way to get rid of gnolls.”
“what?”
“Pour the sh*t on me. Not the cheap ones, but the ones that were thoroughly fermented in the bathroom.”
Everyone had their faces contorted and turned their heads.
“They have good noses, so once you hit them, they die very well.”
“Ai-san, dirty…”
“Ah, that’s for sure!”
“Once I knew. Any more?”
“If it’s a game, there will definitely be a boss.”