045 – Viscount Kayle (2)
The weekend came quickly.
Rakan wore a stinky, worn-out garment that he had recently purchased from a beggar for 10 fairy tales.
And I learned from the beggar how to look like a beggar.
I had already decided to undertake an undercover investigation, so I thought I’d do it right.
Rakan’s hair had not been washed for three days, and his hair was brittle and his face was covered in soot.
And I actually didn’t eat for three days in order to act like I hadn’t eaten for several days.
Rakan was so hungry that he could even pick up bread that had fallen to the ground and eat it.
Rakan went to the garbage dump to the southwest of Gray Town, looking like a beggar.
It was full of beggars digging through the trash.
Rakan also rummaged through the trash to look like beggars.
In it he found a slice of moldy rye bread.
No matter how hungry I was, I couldn’t eat rotten bread.
But Rakan was now a beggar.
If you were really hungry, you had to eat this.
‘How do I do this?’
After much deliberation, Rakan decided to take a bite.
Rakan is now a beggar.
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Just as I was about to put it all in one bite, I heard a sharp voice behind me.“hey.”
Four skinny men surrounded Rakan.
“yes···?”
“Don’t you know that this is our district? Isn’t it off?”
Was there a zone here too?
I didn’t know at all.
Rakan’s size was larger than that of the men.
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Just because I haven’t eaten for three days doesn’t mean I’m losing muscle in an instant.Besides, he also has an auror ring, so if he makes a fist fight, Rakan will be able to knock you down.
But seeing their ferocious eyes, Rakan rolled his eyes.
Should it be expressed as the eyes of evil, or the eyes of hyenas who rush to sick lions to fight for survival?
I don’t know how to express Rakan, but it was certain that he was pushed and frozen in the battle for momentum with them.
At that moment, one of the men snapped the bread Rakan was holding! snatched away
Then the three men next to him ran towards him.
“Hey, you bastard! Give it to me!”
The man snatched the rotten rye bread and crumpled it in his mouth.
But the men didn’t care, opened the man’s mouth, put his fingers in, and tore the bread and put it in his mouth.
“···it’s crazy. it’s crazy.”
Rakan was unable to speak because the scene was so shocking.
How could you run so desperately to eat a piece of rotten bread?
Rakan wasn’t confident enough to join their fight for survival.
Rakan unknowingly stepped back.
Even if he stumbled in the garbage while stepping backwards, he got up quickly and ran away from them.
But there was nowhere to go.
The nook and windless hall was already filled with beggars.
And the beggars were not alone.
They were gathered together like a flock of penguins to escape the cold.
Rakan turned to the beggars as if possessed.
Mixed among them, it seemed like a beggar.
The beggars didn’t care whether Rakan was with them or not.
To be precise, there was no energy to worry about.
Rakan scooped up a newspaper circling nearby and skimmed through the little hells of the zodiac.
Young beggars who open their hands to the landfill manager, men who put food in their mouths when they find something to eat, and even beggars who pee near their seats for fear of losing their place of fame…
Although he had come to Gray Town several times to search, there was a stark difference between looking at them as an Imperial University student and looking at them from an equal position as a beggar.
It was much colder and scary now.
Spring has come, but a very cold wind blew and made my body tremble.
By the time he got used to the stench, another stench tormented Rakan’s nose.
Rakan came to his senses and fixed his gaze on the landfill.
The reason Rakan came here is not to experience beggars.
To find Viscount Kayle.
Rakan struggled to avert his eyes from the inhabitants of the little hell, and continued to stare at the entrance to the landfill.
How much time has passed like that?
A commotion broke out at the entrance in the evening when the twilight was falling.
Little fuss has happened many times in this landfill, but this time it’s a little different.
“mister! mister! Please!”
“Give it to me, give me that envelope!”
Beggars flocked to a man.
Beggars flocked to the man like a flock of pigeons flocking to his grandfather sitting on a park bench tossing pieces of bread.
“Hey you bastards.”
A large man threw garbage at the entrance to a landfill.
Then the beggars fell from the man and ran towards the envelope.
The bag contained food waste mixed with wheat bread, meat sticks and chilled stew.
Rakan’s eyes changed.
it’s that guy
The man took a pipe cigarette from his pocket and lit it.
The man smoked a cigarette and laughed as he watched the beggars fight he had caused.
“You bastards.”
Rakan felt feverish for a moment, but he endured it.
He calmly waited for the man to finish his cigarette and leave.
The man watched the beggars fight for a while, then brushed off the ashes and put the pipe in his pocket.
Rakan immediately followed the man.
I secretly chased after the stray cat I learned by giving 1,000 points a while ago.
Rakan’s footsteps were barely audible.
Rakan followed the man, hiding in the shadows.
The man strolled along the winding shanty streets of Gray Town.
He didn’t seem to notice that Rakan was chasing him as he had never looked behind him.
A man stopped in front of a shabby house.
It was no different from other shacks.
It didn’t matter, except for a few strong men smoking pipe around them.
Rakan’s advanced search was automatically triggered.
＜There is no stench around here. It seems that the magic that removes the stench is being activated.＞
＜Their physical condition is very good. They are not ordinary beggars.＞
＜Unexpectedly, except for those guys nearby, I don’t see any other people.＞
＜It is highly probable that those men were expelled.＞
＜The posture of the men is very straight. They are most likely knights.＞
＜But there are a lot of gangs inside Gray Town, so how could they find a hiding place in the middle of Gray Town?＞
＜Maybe Viscount Kayle and a gang in the area have something to do with it?＞
＜There is no sound of people living around.＞
A lot of information started to pile up one after another.
The advanced search ability gathers reliable information without Rakan’s thought and automatically informs it.
This ability allowed Rakan to associate the discarded wheat bread with Viscount Kale.
The results of the advanced search were condensed into three categories and informed to Rakan.
search results
1. Viscount Kayle is very likely to be in that building.
2. There is a feeling that Rakan has been tracking the man too easily.
3. It is dangerous. Let’s run away now.
Rakan felt goosebumps for a moment.
Once I turned around to get out of here, two men with bats were looking at Rakan.
“Is this good for you?”
There was nowhere for Rakan to escape.
This road was out of the way. I had no choice but to get through those two somehow.
Rakan grabbed the dagger that was hidden in his arms.
If you don’t want to die, you have to die.
I thought that one day I would get human blood on these hands.
This was not Korea, but a world where death and murder were too natural.
However, the dagger did not come out of his arms easily.
I wasn’t used to dying or killing anyone yet.
At that moment, the red ruby necklace hanging from Rakan’s neck shone.
And a man with a red light came out in front of Rakan.
It was Tigris.
“Where is Viscount Kayle?”
Rakan pointed to the house behind him with a trembling hand.
“…that house.”
“i get it. He did a good job.”
When the men saw Tigris’ face, they became contemplative.
“T… Tigris…?”
He was the second most famous figure after the emperor in this empire and the hero who defended the emperor.
And they were their enemies.
“Zen…”
Before they could even hit the bat, Tigris’ sword moved first.
The necks of the two men flew through the air, and blood gushed out.
Rakan doubted his eyes.
‘Is anyone dead now?’
so stupid?
For a moment, Rakan almost went nauseous.
Tigris did not have time to take care of Rakan’s mental health.
“Stay here. I’ll get it sorted out soon.”
Rakan said, barely holding onto his mind.
“···yes.”
The new Tigris has disappeared.
And the four necks of the men who reported the emergency near the shack were blown off at the same time.
* * *
Tigris entered the shack.
There were four men inside.
Tigris grasped their level at once.
The innermost one had 4 rings and the other 3 had 3 rings.
Since there was no such thing as a talented person in Gray Town, there was a high possibility that he was a knight or a war mercenary hired by the Kayle family.
“you···!”
Tigris’ sword flashed.
Three necks flew at the same time in one lateral slash, and the following diagonal slash flew to a 4-star knight.
The man drew his sword and barely blocked Tigris’ sword.
No, I thought it was blocked.
Its sword and sword were cut off at once by Tigris’ horizontal slash, and at the same time it flew to the neck.
2 minutes.
It was the time it took to cut down 5 2-star knights, 4 3-star knights, and 1 4-star knight.
Tigris looked around.
Viscount Kayle was nowhere to be seen.
Tigris walked around.
creak-
There was only a strange noise near the table where they had been sitting a while ago.
straight-! straight-!
And as the blood from the severed neck seeped into the floor, there was a sound of dripping water.
There is another space in the basement.
Tigris fired a sword towards the floor.
Tigris’ thick sword bursts on the wooden floor.
And a hidden space appeared.
“You… you!”
Below him, a middle-aged man with shaggy red hair, two young men with the same red hair, and a blonde woman were seen.
It was Viscount Cale, his sons and his wife.
There were people who looked like users around, and there were also knights with swords.
“Ahhh!”
The users fled like cockroaches, and the knight next to him drew his sword.
Viscount Cale recognized Tigris’ face at once.
“Shoot it now! At best, a four-star knight!”
The 5-star knight, hired by Viscount Cale, looked at Tigris calmly.
As Viscount Cale said, Tigris was a four-star knight.
Killing Tigris quickly and quickly fleeing to another hiding place would be the end of it.
Medor thrust his sword into the air.
At the same time, the new type of Meador disappeared.
There was no omen, not a single toe moved.
But Medor disappeared.
Shh!
A new version of Medor appeared behind Tigris.
The reason Medor was able to appear behind Tigris even without moving a single toe was thanks to the magic of Medor’s sword.
It was an artifact with Medor’s black Blink magic.
Medor used Blink magic to occupy the opponent’s back and then stabbed his sword to kill them.
More than 30 knights died in this surprise attack alone.
Besides, stabbing was the attack that Medor was most confident of.
He was confident that this single stab attack was comparable to that of a 6-star knight.
Tigris would never be able to avoid this attack.
However, Medor’s sword pierced the air.
Tigris had avoided Medor’s attack just by turning slightly to the side.
And without looking back or looking back, Tigris grabbed the sword and stabbed Medor in the heart.
Whoops!
“Uh…how….”
“You trusted the artifact too much.”
If it had been a regular confrontation rather than a surprise attack, the T-Christ might have struggled quite a bit.
The floor wasn’t strong enough, and the shantytown alley was very complicated.
If Blink was used as an escape, and the terrain was used to surprise him, he might have saved the time for a few minutes.
However, Medor attacked and killed Tigris, and ran away with him, and died without getting anything.
Tigris drew his sword from its body.
Whoops!
Medor missed the sword and fell to the floor, stumbling forward.
It was stuck on the black wooden floor of Medor.
Tigris drew the sword of Medor.
‘If Rakan uses it, it will be fine.’
Artifacts with Blink magic are rare.
In addition, it seemed to be in the form of automatically charging magic, considering that Medor used Blink without hesitation.
It was a little disappointing that I only gave Rakan a necklace, but since I got a good weapon, it seemed better to give it as a gift.
Tigris wiped the blood off the sword and put the sword in its sheath.
Tigris looked down at Viscount Cale and his family.
Viscount Kayle and his family looked at Tigris with fear.
And he took out his pocket watch.
“communication.”
Then the pocket watch turned into a gift, and the gift’s neck was spread out like a scarf lizard.
“I found Viscount Kayle. The first discoverer was Rakan Wood. Come to the receiving location.”
Viscount Cale’s escape play ended in vain by Rakan.
* * *
Rakan washed his face with the pouring rainwater.
Soot, dirt and blood on his face were washed away.
It was the first time I had seen a person die from the front.
Of course they were really bad people… but I still haven’t calmed down.
‘As a point, ＜calm mind＞… no. You should save your points.’
I can calm this trembling heart with a point, but I decided not to.
This was enough for Rakan to endure.
No, I had to endure it.
As he was making up his mind like that, a shadow fell over Rakan’s head.
It was an umbrella.
“Are you Rakan?”
Rakan looked back at the man’s voice he had never heard before.
He was a man with blood-red eyes and white skin.
It was like seeing a vampire in a legend.
Rakan’s advanced search was triggered by itself.
＜Skin white and thin enough to see blue veins＞
＜As a human being, I have no body odor.＞
＜There is a subtle difference between the movement of the left pupil and the movement of the right pupil.＞
＜The white gloves and the white suit did not get any dirt.＞
＜The dirt splattered on the raindrops slid down the outside of the suit and fell cleanly.＞
·······
search results
1. This man has severe tuberculosis.
2. This guy is an excellent wizard.
3. The left eye is most likely a prosthetic eye.
4. This guy is most likely an Inquisitor.
Rakan cleared his guard and nodded.
“yes. That’s right.”
“What do you see from me?”
“yes?”
“Didn’t you reflexively scan my body? I don’t think it’s magic, it’s your own technique, right?”
Rakan knew immediately that this was a test.
It’s not just a test, it’s an Inquisitor’s test.
If it was a test, it was correct to show everything about Rakan.
When Rakan talked to Tigris about himself before returning, he heard that he was active in the Inquisitor.
Perhaps this is because the ability of this ＜Advanced Search＞ matches well with the Inquisitor.
And Rakan knew that his talent was in the investigation.
In order to properly utilize his talents, it was right to join the Inquisitor, the best investigative agency in the Empire.
Rakan opened his mouth.
“It seems that you have severe tuberculosis, one eye with a prosthetic eye, and an inquisitor with a high-level wizard. And he hates rain.”
The man heard Rakan’s words and his mouth twisted grotesquely.
“Did you ever see a person die?”
“yes.”
“Are you sure you want to kill someone?”
Rakan pulled out a sharp-edged dagger from his bosom.
“I am prepared to kill in order not to die.”
The man’s eyes drew arcs.
“It’s not a bad resolve.”
More than anything else, the man wanted to give Rakan a passing score on the fact that he had read all the meanings of his question.
At least it sounds like your ears aren’t deaf.
“My name is Nadal de Asensio. The head of the Inquisitor.”
Rakan’s eyes widened.
He never dreamed that the person in front of him would be the leader of the Inquisitor, codenamed Hydra.
“Rakan, do you intend to become the serpent that protects the empire?”
Rakan said without hesitation.
“If that’s the way to protect people.”
Rakan was being reborn as a hero.