121. Noezed (1)
laughed
Lit, who disappeared in an instant, clearly smiled and disappeared.
You must know that the road you are heading to is your limbs.
Why can I laugh?
“professor?”
Breaking through my thoughts, I heard Deyan’s voice.
“ah. Haven’t you gone yet?”
“I’ll see you leaving and I’ll follow you.”
Deyan said as he opened the rear door of the carriage.
Looking back, everyone is busy with my preparations.
Ritt’s absence is certain, but it doesn’t seem to be in their heads.
It is because she erased the awkwardness of that blank space with her delusion.
For them, the appearance of Ritt a while ago will not remain in their memory.
Feeling a sense of emptiness somewhere, he climbed into the carriage.
I had to load quite a lot of luggage, so I chose the large wagon attached to this mansion rather than the car I had previously received from Dust Industries.
It certainly wasn’t a high-end carriage, but it was perfect for the purpose of carrying a lot of luggage.
Victor, who will now be my assistant professor, sat in the driver’s seat, and Torres sat in the passenger seat.
In the back seat were the lecture materials for me and I to go through on the way to Grasco.
Lectures using new drugs that have been tested with Deyan and Torres, as well as the movement and singularities of demons who are currently active across the border, and finally, the detailed abilities of the students in my lecture are piled up.
These are all things that Ritt has done.
Once again, her vacancy comes through.
“See you in Grasco.”
He nodded towards Deyan who was seeing him off. And called the butler.
“Did you find it, my lord?”
“Sooner or later, a grumpy-looking man named Noel will come to visit. Give him the amount he says, and tell him to come to Grasco.”
“Yes.”
The butler nodded without asking Katabuta.
I buried myself in my seat and raised the window.
Viktor, who saw it as a signal, started the engine and set off for Grasco.
Boo-woong-
The wagon moved with the sound of exhaust.
* * *
Currently, the continent is absolutely in a state of war.
In other countries, the situation is rather good, but the chaos of Aerokk on the Eastern and Igner fronts is indescribable.
With the appearance of Lucas, who is called the ‘hero of the Eastern Front’, it can be said that the crisis of extinction was barely overcome.
So Romero initially tried to send Lucas to Igner.
Lucas refused to go to Igner and appointed Grascoe as a professor, and the Igner front was blocked by the cooperation of the Holy Empire, Bert, and the enormous wealth of Aerokh.
The collapse of the Igner front due to the Ermel incident lessened the direct burden on Aeroque, but created a burden to defend a wider area.
Support from the center was limited, and as combat personnel were deployed on the border, the central intervention in each province had to be loosened.
This looseness was an opportunity for someone.
In particular, it was a great opportunity for those who were not able to come directly from the center.
For example, the gang of thieves represented by Greenwood.
Noezed, a region known for its many mountainous regions in Aerokh, where regular troops, mainly deployed on the border, cannot be recruited.
Naturally, it had to become the main activity area of Greenwood.
Although not long ago, due to a phenomenon of unknown cause, all the members of the organization at the time fell ill with a strange disease and became mad, but this yolk land cannot be given up.
At that time, the people who escaped from the phenomenon due to injuries joined the newly formed members of other local organizations to build a bigger power.
‘That monstrous Grasco student will never come back here. Even if it comes, if there are this number… … .’
The strange phenomenon that destroyed the members of the gang was unpleasant, but such a strange phenomenon is unlikely to happen, and thanks to the profits earned in the last few weeks, those memories of the past have been put away for a long time.
Greenwood of Noezed was plundering hard today.
Without knowing that the ’emergency phenomenon’ was approaching.
* * *
In order to get to Grasco from where the mansion is, it is necessary to drill through Noezed’s mountain pass.
There is a way to go back, but it is not preferred because it takes more than twice the time.
This schedule was also passing through Noezed without going back to Lucas’ will.
‘Ah… … This place must be full of Greenwood bastards… … .’
Victor turned the steering wheel and looked around.
Here, when passing Noezed, you will encounter a bandit to the extent that you say ‘for sure’.
Not only that, it is because this place located in the heart of Aeroque is a key passage not only for Aeroque, but also for the logistics of each country.
The more traffic there is, the more profit the bandits will rip off using toll fees, so this Noezed can be said to be Greenwood’s bonanza.
Victor, too, encountered the Greenwood gnomes when he was moving from Grasco to Lucas’s mansion.
I was very ripped off.
Each inaction is lousy, but when the number of heads increases, it becomes threatening enough.
Based on that weapon, they demand a toll as if it were natural.
A horse is a toll, in fact, it is no different from plunder.
The bastards of Noezed are especially terrifying.
Greenwoods in other places still leave a bit behind, but here they dust off the dust.
‘I think it will come out soon.’
When they find prey, they flock to them, acting as if they were regular soldiers.
[Come on, there’s a luxury carriage! Please cooperate for a moment!]
Yes, in this way.
How come these guys know what they’re talking about and show up like this right away.
It seems that they too are not nobles.
“Professor, what should I do?”
Victor slowed the car down and checked the movement of the back seat.
Knowing this, he suggested that we go back, but Lucas just carried out his will with momentum without replying.
I came here because I didn’t have the courage to do it, but didn’t I run into the Greenwoods like this?
Of course, I know that Lucas’ inaction is great.
But in front of that number that counts in the hundreds, is there any other way to be called Lucas?
Even among them there must be people of Aerokh nationality.
No matter how bandit you are, it is said that you cannot kill them recklessly. First of all, it is the property of the kingdom.
However, Lucas’ financial resources are too great to simply pay the toll.
He is impatient because he is well aware that his financial resources also include his own research expenses.
However, whether Lucas is aware of his feelings or not, he is just fixing his eyes on the documents.
Eventually, they reached the stop line, and the carriage stopped naturally.
-smart!
The man at the forefront of the group knocked on the wagon’s spear.
Finally, Lucas’s head is raised.
“Excuse me for a second. You have to pay a toll set by Greenwood to go through this place. You will have to cooperate.”
It may seem quite polite to say the least, but in reality it is not.
Sloppy posture, looking down eyes.
They don’t see Lucas and the others as prey, no more, no less.
They surrounded the wagon menacingly, as if to show off their number in case of any unforeseen circumstances.
On the other side, another group of people was being robbed by them, just like Lucas and his group.
The same goes for the back.
Human beings on all sides are divided into two.
greenwood,
or someone being extorted by them.
Fortunately, Lucas and his party in the carriage are being treated with respect.
There were those who were poorly behaved, and there were those who were beaten with their bodies because they didn’t even have tolls, or they were beaten even after their money was stolen.
Viktor and Torres’ expressions hardened when they saw this.
Victor was annoyed by the situation, and Torres… … .
“Look carefully. How many people suffer because of your immature treatment.”
Lucas’s mouth, which had been shut tightly and did not know that it would fall, opened.
it was hell
The target was towards Torres, who was capturing the surrounding landscape with his trembling body.
“Can you open this? From now on, while Greenwood sets the appropriate tolls… … .”
They were talking outside, but there was no one in the wagon to listen to them.
To be precise, Victor was looking outside, but Torres and Lucas didn’t even care.
“Give me a chance to make up for it.”
Torres opened the carriage door as if he had made up his mind to do something.
Lucas turned to the paperwork again.
“Ah, it will come out very quickly… … .”
spatula-
“Aww!”
As Torres got off the carriage, the arm of the man in front of him flew away.
Torres was hesitant about the act of attacking humans, but there was no hesitation in his current blow.
“what?”
Only then did the bandits who sensed the unusual atmosphere begin to gather one by one.
“School, Professor. Aren’t you supposed to go out? No matter how much Torres is a student of Grasco and a student of the professor… … .”
“It’s kind of worrying.”
Lucas dismissed it briefly and moved his gaze to the papers again.
Victor must be worried.
When Torres falls, it’s Lucas and himself in this wagon next to each other.
Judging by Lucas’ attitude, it doesn’t look like he’ll ever give in to those bandits.
If that’s the case, it’s a story about having to face it, but to be honest, Victor himself isn’t a fighter, and he has to show his true skills to fight it, but Victor is clearly a wanted person.
If you leave any traces, you might get caught.
Victor looked at Torres with concern.
And after a while, he realized that his worries were a big blunder.
“Uh, how… … .”
Contrary to his worries, Torres outside the window was showing off his overwhelming power.
In front of him, the number didn’t seem to matter.
“A swarm of rabbits is just rabbits no matter how much they gather.”
“Ah, even if they have never mastered combat skills, the level of Greenwood in Noezed is higher than in other areas. Not rabbits, but herds of bison.”
“The herd had already been cleared.”
“yes? How does the professor know that?”
“Because I did the sweep.”
“ah… … .”
I knew that Lucas had a great sanctuary, but I only saw it in person for a brief moment right after signing with Lucas on the way to Ermel. I heard that he wiped out demons like bees on the border of Ermel by himself, but I thought the manager had entered.
By the way, have you ever cleared out Greenwood gnomes in this Noezed, the core area of Greenwood?
I can’t believe it, but the level of the disciple is that level, but the teacher, Lucas, is terrified.
“Noezed is a key area for them. It can’t be left blank for long, and Greenwood itself isn’t a very powerful armed group. All they can do is threaten. So, each of them is just a tool to fill in the numbers. Practical experience will be low.”
From what I’ve heard, the attitudes of the Greenwood members are sloppy.
“To those who barely fill their heads with rabbits, Torres is like a beast. It’s not that we don’t resist, it’s that we can’t.”
how much time has passed
The passenger side door of the carriage opened.
The rest of the scenery was truly a mess.
Greenwood’s gang members each grabbed hold of the broken spot and moaned.
Torres sat in the passenger seat without saying a word.
“professor… … Shall I contact the knights here?”
Victor asked cautiously.
Shouldn’t we get rid of those scattered things first?
“No, it is.”
Lucas closed the papers and told Victor.
While Torres was cleaning out the outside, Lucas came to a conclusion.
Obviously, a few weeks ago, we cleared the Greenwood here.
In addition, he invested points so that he could see it from afar, and he also flew the aurors to inform them.
But again, Greenwood is upset. It is also exposed like that in broad daylight.
It is said that there is a backbone that looks after you.
“Go directly to Noezed’s lord’s castle.”
The lord of this place is involved.
That was Lucas’ conclusion.