shoot-! There was a man sitting on a secluded shore, gazing at the sea with eyes wet with melancholy, and casting a fishing rod.
“Uncle Gustav!”
A dwarf with a well-groomed, thick beard flipped his half-length back and turned his head in dismay. She was a village girl who started pretending to know her in the village she was staying in a few days ago.
It was a rather funny name.
“What is it? But what is your name Is that a baguette of baguettes?”
A girl wearing a thick winter coat and a cold-weather cap comes with a basket next to her, and she laughs.
“that’s right. Easy to remember, right?”
Gustaf turned his head and murmured.
“I want to meet your parents. What are you doing with your children’s names?”
“It was named so as not to go hungry.”
“Well, everyone has a good plan. I didn’t know.”
Retracting the fishing rod, Gustaf twitched his nose at the empty hook, then tinkered with the bait. Baguette came over and looked into the basket.
“How long did you catch? oh! Are there quite a few? I guess dwarves are also good at fishing, right?”
“I was bored, so I just soaked it. But are the people in this town so curious about dwarves? I also went to the village chief earlier.”
Baguette laughed hahahaha and said.
“that’s right. Honestly, are you curious? Not a Dwarf confined to a workshop or wielding an axe, but a Dwarf sitting leisurely on the breakwater holding a fishing rod! It’s kind of romantic.”
I’ll be sad if I hear romance.
“Not all of us live like that. Of course, I have my own workshop too.”
“and-! What do you mainly make? jewel? iron?”
Gustaf glanced up at the village girl and threw his fishing pole into the sea.
Fondant-!
“Jewelry is good, but if you have to ask what you’re good at, it’s iron. Kang Chul, doesn’t your heart tremble just by hearing it?”
“Oh oh!”
Baguette, a village girl who had been chatting for a while, left a blessing to catch a lot and went back to the gun gun village. Looking at the sea with a deep gaze, Gustav muttered.
“This bastard ship. Come quickly, wait a little longer and all the villagers will come.”
Nivea is one of the gateway cities that marks the beginning of the south, and further south, there are several large port cities as well as small fishing villages where people live on the coast.
The place where the dwarf Gustav is staying is an insignificant little fishing village.
He was waiting for a boat, avoiding people’s eyes and marking this secluded place.
It’s fine if it’s late, so I hope I don’t end up stranded.
After the sun had set, Gustav settled down and went up to the village. There was no inn, so I was living in a bed and breakfast.
“Mr. Dwarf!”
When I entered the house with a large storage shed, a bright boy ran out. Gustaf held out the basket he was carrying.
“Did you catch a lot? wow! It’s a bass! I have sea bass!”
“Was that a perch? Power is good.”
A boy with one missing front tooth smiles brightly as he looks at the large sea bass that is still twitching. Where I turned my head indifferently, a full-term mother approached with a smile.
“He came. Mr. Gustaf.”
Gustav, who had been looking at the woman’s stomach, which was more full than his own, let out a short sigh.
“That friend who went to work leaving his wife who was almost a month old was also true…”
“There is not much work to do in the winter.”
Clearly, even when he was tied up, there was a decent man in this house. I left my house and family to a dwarf I didn’t know where I came from and went to work in Nivea, where the monster winter hunt was in full swing.
It’s okay to get hurt, so I hope you don’t die.
“Today is sea bass grilled?!”
“I don’t want to feed my mother much grilled food, it’s steamed. Soup is good too. bring it here Today, I’ll make a dwarven-style fish stew. Salty, sweet and delicious.”
The owner’s wife was delighted to see Gustav roll up his arms and enter the kitchen.
“No, I…!”
“Madam, please sit down. Don’t ignore the dwarf’s pride in cooking.”
Senna, a full-term mother, smiled brightly.
While making dinner with humans he had never seen before, Gustav suddenly missed his family in the distant Dwarven village.
And at the same time, I feel both anger and unknown bitterness towards the reprehensible owner of the house who is not here.
How is that friend who left his wife and children and went to work?
It’s a tough world to live in.
In the afternoon around the time I was getting used to life in the neighborhood, the boat I had been waiting for finally appeared.
“Kyaaagh!”
“Pirates! Run away!”
“Go through town as quickly as possible and get food, women and children! Bounce out to sea before those madmen catch up!”
bang! bang! bang-!
“aaagh!”
While hammering a board against a leaking shed, Gustaf heard a scream and hurriedly jumped into the main house.
“Ah!”
“Uh heh! Here’s a kid and a girl! I’m a bit full though!”
The man who has lost his eyes, as if he took medicine, is pulling Sena’s hair and pulling her out of the house while holding the struggling kid under his armpit.
“Uncle Gustav!”
When the child cried and called out to him, the dwarf with sparks in his eyes threw the hammer in his hand.
puck! f*ck!
The man’s head was blown off by a flying hammer.
Blood and brains splatter in all directions. said Gustav growling.
“Sena, Shabu, go into the house. Don’t come out.”
Hugging her trembling son, Shab, Senna quickly entered the house, and Gustav, who had blocked the entrance by dragging a log with incredible strength, grabbed an ax and ran out.
The small fishing village in the south, where there are not many monsters, was always peaceful, so there were no wooden fences or automatons for guards. At least most of the men had gone to the city to find work in winter hunting.
The dwarf ran through the alleyway and encountered a man he had never seen before carrying a leather sack and mercilessly swung his axe.
puck!
My neck falls off and I roll down the slope.
“You know what? People in the countryside seem curious about the fishing dwarves.”
In less than a week, he remembered the faces of most of the villagers.
Screams erupt from all sides.
You can’t save everyone.
then,
Gustaf, ignoring the screams and running down the alley, stood guard on the road leading to the pier and began to deal with the pirates coming down.
“Captain! Some crazy dwarf is rampaging down there!”
The pirate captain who was holding a post inside the village clicked his tongue and called someone.
“Mera.”
The automaton, wearing a yellow heat-resistant wig, turned its head.
“Go with the kids and help out. ever.”
Where the pirates took the automaton Mera and ran down the alley, a dwarf covered in blood and turned red sat down on the corpses with ax marks all over and stood up.
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“How old are you? There are many.”
“You rotten dwarf! Don’t increase our share any more!”
“Is the share increasing? This madman…!”
When a colleague dies, the share increases. I feel my head getting dizzy as I straighten my grip on the ax when something quickly attacks me.
Kkang-!
Hearing the clear metal sound, Gustav, who had figured out the iron composition of the sword, stepped back, but the opponent did not miss the opportunity.
“Automaton?!”
“hahahahaha! Piracy these days is high tech!”
visor!
I blocked the flying sword, but I couldn’t stop the bridge. When the relatively short dwarf was kicked in the stomach, Gustav collapsed. The pirates came running, cheering, and started beating him.
“hey! Look at this child ax blade. Can I shave?”
“Give me this! Get hit by your ax and die!”
As he crouched down to catch his breath, he tried to put his hand on his waist when he heard a sudden scream.
“Aagh! Let go of this!”
“The pursuer is here! Come on ride! Mera! withdraw! Pack your things!”
The pirates, startled by the word chaser, leave the dwarves alone and run to the boat they came on. The village girls who were being held by them screamed and cried, and some called the names of the fallen dwarves.
“Uncle Gustav! Save me!”
“shut up! That dwarf is dead!”
match!
I hit him on the cheek, but the sound of the explosion drowned out my screams.
bang-!
Suddenly, a person rises and falls along with a dust storm from the village side. Something terrible is coming. Surprised pirates shouted to Mera who held the oars.
“Mera! row! Back to the ship!”
As Automaton Mera grabbed the oars and began to exert force, their heads pushed back and they began to feel the wind.
“hahahaha! It’s worth the money! Goodbye! Adios!”
bang-! Patter-!
The one who smashed the earthen wall and appeared was the automaton Lotte covered in dust. Rote looked at the boat pulling away from the dock and the black pirate ship moored some distance from the shore, and turned to the dwarf lying on the ground.
“I missed it. And he is injured.”
Lotte bent down and looked down at him.
“Are you okay?”
“Hoo-wook…! hook···! Turn it off!”
Gustav, who was out of breath, straightened his back and stood up. Lotte tried to help but he let go of his hand.
“Never mind me, save the villagers. A rotten automaton.”
“I don’t rot. But I see.”
Turning around, Lotte immediately ran up the alleyway. The clashing of knives and roaring sounds could be heard from all directions. Gustav limped up the alley and entered the house where he was staying.
If a person could be killed with a glance, Gustav was able to do that.
“Hey pirates! Where are you running away like that! Get caught!”
“You disgusting little boy!”
I wielded a longsword, but it was small and didn’t fit well. Carrot, who avoided the flying longsword by lowering his head a little, thrust a small but powerful fist into his stomach.
puck-!
“Hunu-wook?!”
When the pirate fell down gasping for breath while making the sound of wind escaping, Carrot, who stunned him with a kick, stretched his back and looked around.
“crank! There is no more around here!”
Crank, covered in blood all over his body, swings his arm in the alleyway with an axe, then looks back.
“There might be some guys hiding. turn around And inform the townsfolk that the priest and adventurer have arrived.”
“Okay!”
Carrot sprinted and screamed.
“Neighborhood people! Adventurers are here! adventurer! There is even a new building! I have a fuse! injured person! Come out soon! There are pretty automatons too!”
Then, indeed, a few people stuck out their heads and gestured while crying. Those who were not deeply wounded were sent to Eris, and those who were in a hurry used healing potions.
Chiyiyiik…!
“Sah, the wound is healing…!”
“It is the most expensive among the healing potions. Hear and be amazed. Three million liz a bottle.”
“It’s so expensive…”
Carrot winked.
“If the uncle dies, this lady will become a widow, right?”
A young woman sitting next to him cried and hugged him tightly. The man who was stabbed in the stomach trying to protect his wife and went back and forth between life and death cried while stroking his weeping wife’s back.
“Thank you. Did you say automaton? What is your name?”
“I’m an automaton cat…”
bang-!
An explosion that resonates throughout the world rises from a small fishing village.
The party members who were clearing the village of pirates and treating the injured raise their heads in surprise.
“what’s this? What are you talking about?”
Aww-!
The same sound rang once more. Feeling uneasy, Crank stood up from his seat.
“Priestess Eris treats the injured, and Ariete and Lotte move the people. I will try to figure out the identity of that sound.”
Crank ran down the road.
And I witnessed something amazing at the marina.
A dwarf covered in blood was shooting with a cannon on his shoulder.
Whoa!!
Red light orbs fly with a heavy explosion. The head of the crank also bends along the trajectory.
bang···!
A shell that hit a pirate ship moored off the coast caused an explosion. It is to the point where you can see fragments flying in all directions along with the flames, and the people on board wandering around.
“Who are you?”
Amidst the rising smoke, the red light emitted from both eyes and the dwarf was shining silver.
Gunpowder weapon!