While Crank had a nice something with the female mage, Carrot was engaged in a melee.
“Fireframe!!!!”
Fuhuarrr!!!
Inside the narrow cave, the cornered mages fired range attack magic. Carrot shouted as a great fire filled the cave.
“Back off! That burns the air! You can’t breathe without air! Get back quickly! hurry!”
“hahahaha! Let’s all die together!”
“You are the one who dies!”
Picking up the bow and arrow that had just fallen on the floor, Carrot hooked the arrow and pulled it. It was the moment when Crank’s passion for education shined.
Tung-!
puck!?
“Keuuk?!”
As the black mage, who had been shot in the leg by an arrow, groaned, the flames caused by the magic were also extinguished. Fearing that another shot from this distance would kill him instantly, Carrot throws down his bow and attacks.
“no way! Ewww!”
“This guy!”
The mage, who put his hands together and made several hand signs quickly, pointed at Carrot, who was closing the distance with his finger.
“I was faster! Fire Frame!”
Fufuaaa!!!!!
“Carrot!!!”
Flames engulfed Carrot.
“Ahh!!”
Quick!
The black mage, whose chin was turned by the automaton’s fist, passed out, and the flames quickly died down. Surprised adventurers tried to approach, but Carrot, who was burnt black, turned away.
“no! Do not come! stand back! The air is scorched here, so if you come, you will suffocate! We must give up this road! Get out!”
“Carrot! Everything, you…!”
On the other side of the cave, everyone looked at Carrot with dismayed eyes.
There was not much of a problem with the scorched combat uniform. However, half of Carrot’s face was melted, revealing the frame inside, giving everyone a shock of various meanings.
“uh?”
rattle!
Carrot, who was touching his face, stopped. Adventurers called from afar, but they did not move. So, G.O held his breath and hurriedly ran and hugged Carrot and came out.
Retreating to a safe area, they put Carrot in front of them and were at a loss.
“Hey, heels…!”
“It’s an automaton. It’s no use.”
“Ahhh···! because of us.”
Carrot, who had been frozen with her hands on her face for a while, began to move with a squeal. Carrot looked up and looked at the people.
“Everyone, are there any injured people?”
“no! sorry! thank you!”
Everyone was crying, but Carrot only smiled.
“Gee, mirror, anyone with a mirror? Vita, do you have a mirror?”
“Here you go.”
Carrot received a small hand mirror from the priestess Vita, looked at her face reflected in it, and stopped again.
“The shock must have been great.”
“They say that automatons will go away if they encounter a situation that exceeds their processing capacity, but that’s true.”
“What?”
A young man with a longsword drawn turned his head. It was Boris with his long hair tied in a ponytail.
“Let’s withdraw.”
“okay. Honestly, we’re relying too much on Carrot. This is not a place for newbies like us to come in.”
Everyone started withdrawing, hoping not to meet the mages inside the cave. It was like an anthill, so they didn’t even have time to draw a map, remembering as much as possible the way they came and going back.
Perhaps they were being chased by adventurers, but some of them were injured.
“uh···!?”
“this···!”
When they were flustered and couldn’t respond right away, Boris held out his palm.
“The situation is not good for each other, but let’s just go on our way. We have to get out of here, and you have to run.”
“What are you talking about…”
A mage tried to use magic, but there were many who knew how to shoot a bow, even though they were a group of beginner adventurers. When the longbow was aimed at, the old mage stepped out.
“i get it. Let’s go on our way.”
The two groups were so far apart.
“I really am. It worked.”
“They said that if they’re of similar strength, they’ll try to talk, that little automaton.”
Where Boris looked back, the teacher who had taught them all about adventure knowledge was cradled in the chest of a young man, staring at the ceiling with an expression of losing everything in the world.
The adventurers, who were eager to acquire loot until evening without eating, withdrew from the Dark Mage Guild Cave only after darkness fell.
The leader of the subjugation kicked his tongue when he saw the adventurers coming out with their backpacks on, but he turned a blind eye because there was an agreement.
“There were 6 deaths from the guild subjugation party and quite a few other injuries, but no serious ones.”
“Not bad. What about those who were held captive?”
“There are 27 humans, 5 elves, and 3 dwarves. They are presumed to be people who raided and kidnapped travelers or pioneer villages.”
“What about the black mages?”
“There are 89 confirmed dead, and remnants remain inside the cave, but they are not surrendering. We are currently in a standoff.”
After thinking for a moment, the leader of the subjugation said.
“After a short break, we will begin collecting loot from the Black Mage Guild.”
“yes!”
In the evening, after lighting up the lights in various places to secure a daylight level, the guards went inside and searched every nook and cranny to collect most of the supplies, including the mage guild’s research materials.
There was a battle with the black mages who hid intermittently, but they were quickly subdued, and some were taken prisoner.
“What do you want to do with Romani and captured prisoners alive? Didn’t you kill them all?”
“Don’t say you don’t know. The guards torture them to find out the location of other mage guilds.”
“aha.”
In the meantime, Carrot occupied a spot in a field hospital camp that housed the wounded, and was lying there pretending to be a broken automaton.
After hearing the news, Crank came to Carrot.
“Were you here?”
Carrot didn’t answer. Crank, who was sitting on the floor, looked down at Carrot and said.
“Looks like your leg is out of joint. You’re not fit for that.”
“…tolerances are suddenly out of spec. It doesn’t matter if you move right away, but errors keep appearing, so accurate and radical battles are no longer possible.”
“Your face is also half burned.”
Carrot raised her arms and cried as she touched her face.
“If I could shed tears, I want to cry now.”
Crank laughs. And Carrot also grinned.
“Let’s overhaul when we get back. Also put on a new soft skin and wig.”
“Carrot Resurrection!”
Seeing Carrot lift her upper body from her seat, the faces of the worried people wandering around the area brightened.
“Carrot! are you okay?!”
“huh! Master fixed it!”
“thank you! crank! And I’m sorry. Because of us…”
When the novice adventurers didn’t know what to do, Crank shook his hand saying it was okay.
“no. Adventurers and combat automatons that follow them are like this every day. You don’t have to be sorry. Carrot was in a situation where it was time to overhaul anyway.”
The young people who were together sighed. Carrot tried to walk around, but female adventurers, including the priestesses, lit a torch, so Carrot wore a handkerchief on her face and covered the burnt area with brushed hair.
“It’s all better.”
“and! Like it! crank! How do I look?”
“Oh, it’s pretty.”
Carrot, who was looking into the mirror, laughed at Crank’s praise. Other adventurers passing by were also delighted when Carrot’s condition returned.
“Actually, that’s like our guild mascot, right? It’s noisy, but it’s empty without it.”
“yes. That chatterbox helps boost morale.”
Upon hearing the news that Carrot had been revived, familiar adventurers came to visit him.
“You said Carrot died, so are you alive?”
“toast! Say bad words!”
“thank god. It’s a bit burnt, but that sesame leaf hair suits you very well.”
“Rimo knows how to look.”
“Gwa, are you okay…?”
“Oh! Lena! Adam!”
Carrot, startled after laughing at the people, looked around and shouted.
“right! Where’s the bald ghetto! I told Olive that I was going to save my dad and take him!”
“Ah, I went to talk to the leader of the subjugation.”
“Whew, I’m glad. So, did everyone take a bite?”
Everyone laughs sharply.
“It’s only one backpack, but well, it was salty.”
“Our chicks?!”
The adventurers who still had a boyish look smiled and gave thumbs up.
“good! Great! The scales are leaning towards us! The other side is smashed!”
Carrot jumped up from her seat and shouted with a trumpet in her mouth.
“Justice! always win! so! We won today! It’s just justice!”
It was a cry for victory.
The adventurers and guards who were listening giggled. Rimo, who had his mouth open, wrote down the words in his notebook, and those who understood the meaning, including the priests, smiled forcedly.
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and the next morning,
The subjugation party, which had collected all the materials and loot overnight, withdrew all troops that were confronting the remaining mages deep in the depths.
And Carrot and the fast-footed automatons, who received a special order, escaped from the guild cave for the last time. The leader of the subjugation approached Carrot, who lightly ran up the slope of the hill.
“Did you release them?”
“yep! Captain! As you said, all the trapped monsters have been released!”
The subjugation leader turned his head and saw the automatons that had arrived together.
“Are the items installed in the designated location?”
“It’s done.”
The leader of the subjugation nodded and saw Ulpa, who was now standing at the edge of the hill and looking down.
“Ulpa, start.”
A guard on standby placed a Magic Crystal Bomb on Ulpa’s sling. Ulpa is now able to shoot slings to a fairly good level.
Hung Hung Hung~!
Damn!
The place where the magic crystal bomb flew was the slope of a stone mountain with dozens of entrances open.
Zeng!! Kukkang-!
A bright light flashed, followed by a massive explosion that collapsed the entrance.
The leader of the subjugation turned his head and shouted.
“Ready to withdraw!”
Adventurers and guards hurriedly prepared to withdraw. All sorts of junk were already piled up in the empty wagon, and many people were injured or captured, so those with good legs decided to walk.
“The preparations are complete!”
The leader of the subjugation nodded and called an automaton belonging to the guards standing nearby.
“You wait here, and when we raise the flare, tear up this detonation scroll and return as soon as possible. Do you understand?”
The automaton that received the detonation scroll nodded.
“withdrawal!”
Multi-various-!
“Will he be okay alone?”
“doesn’t care. Because automatons are like that.”
“hey! Automaton! be careful! come fast!”
“I’ll be waiting for you!”
As each of them said a word and turned around, the guard automaton also raised and waved their hands to see them off.