083 – Security (8)
The two blacks used by Trisha were given the rather funny names of hooting and quilling, but their performance was not funny.
The ‘bleeder’ used by Trisha, as its name suggests, had the ability to ‘bleed’ to never stop bleeding once it was wounded, and the ability to ‘boomerang’, which flies as the caster envisioned it and returns.
Trisha was very fond of this bleeder, because it was able to overcome the shortcomings of a fighter, distance, and was especially well used in this kind of melee situation.
“This year… shhh!”
A mercenary who had been aiming for Trisha’s back returned, and Trisha’s bleeder was stuck in the back of his head and collapsed.
Trisha pulled the bleeder out of the mercenary’s back.
Then the bleeder shook violently.
It looked very dangerous from the outside to spit out red energy.
“Looks like he ate too much. then······.”
Trisha squeezed the bleeder’s red ruby.
Then, the red blood spurted out of the blood vessels clumps together and creates a red sword that looks ugly.
This was the last and third ability of the bleeder, ‘the beginning of the hunt’.
Its weight was as light as a butterfly’s wings, and it was so sharp and hard that no teeth would come out even if the entire sword was cut without the sword.
The mercenaries swallowed their saliva at the magical powers of the holy things.
“It’s a witch…! It’s a weapon used by witches!”
Trisha chuckled.
“what the. This is the sword that slashed the witch you are talking about.”
It has now disappeared, but it was a symbol of a group called ‘Bleder’ that the beasts created to hunt witches.
For generations, the Beast people formed a ‘red ruby constellation’ by connecting the stars in the sky to honor the witch hunters, and on September 9th every year, they held a ritual to appease the souls of the witch hunters.
“Well, I wonder if you guys would know that.”
Trisha ran towards the mercenaries.
When the red sword was swung, the necks of the mercenaries flew away, just like in the early harvest season.
Trisha also seemed weak because of Tigris’s feat, but it was nothing to kill these low-level mercenaries.
Besides, Trisha was very accustomed to this kind of melee situation.
All legendary wars, as always, began at a disadvantage on the part of the allies.
As a result, he was often surrounded by enemy soldiers or monsters and waged war, and in order to overcome it, he overcame all dangerous situations with improvisation and skill.
For example, it hides among the large mercenaries to prevent shooters such as crossbowmen from aiming at Trisha, or when they try to pull out a net to catch Trisha’s quick feet, they throw a bleeder to kill them. The battle proceeded the way it was needed.
At that time, a magician hiding among the mercenaries used magic.
“Slow!”
To bind Trisha’s swift feet, she used debuff magic on Trisha.
Slow magic, which is quite effective among 3rd circle magic, made the opponent’s feet heavy, and it was the most deadly debuff magic for knights.
In order to block such debuff magic, she had to be trained to resist magic, but Trisha did not know because she did not receive any formal education.
But for Trisha, this debuff magic was useless.
A golden aura spread out from the ‘Sword of Sanctification’ in Trisha’s right hand and wrapped around Trisha’s body.
It was thanks to the ability of ‘Debuff Magic Immunity’, which is the ability of the sword of the sacred fire.
“Nonsense!”
The wizard widened his eyes as if surprised.
Trisha quickly flew to where the wizard was.
“By the way, there was a magician?”
“Hey!”
Zeng! Sigh-!
The barrier magic applied by the wizard lightly hit the sword of the sacred flame, but the ‘magic penetrating’ ability on the sword of the flame broke it like a grain of sand.
Then there was fear in the eyes of the mercenaries.
Trisha was by no means an opponent that could be pushed forward.
Trisha decided to take advantage of their fear.
He deliberately sprinkled the blood of mercenaries excessively and did not touch his airways or lungs to make his voice wet with pain.
It was because he knew that the momentum of the enemy was as important as the momentum of the friendly forces on the battlefield.
“Run away!”
The mercenaries began to line up at the cry of a mercenary drenched in fear.
Trisha had her taste buds in disappointment.
I should have killed as many of them as I could when they believed in the numbers and attacked them, so I didn’t have to bother chasing them and killing them.
‘Ulchu… 34 people?’
Scratch!
‘Now there are 33.’
Trisha, wearing seven packs of blood all over her body, sprinkled purple spirits and chased after her, and the mercenaries ran away in urine.
The mercenaries’ goal is not to kill this mysterious fox mask.
Heading to Theron.
However, the mercenaries fled to Halkis, not Theron.
Because Halkis was closer here.
Trisha looked at the mercenaries escaping to Halkis and was terrified.
“uh?! Can’t you guys go there?!”
Trisha was the first to pursue the group of mercenaries fleeing to Halkis.
* * *
Tigris brushed off the blood on his sword and approached a man.
The man was a man named Isaac Devaros, familiar to Tigris.
Isaac’s right arm was missing, as Tigris blew it away when he tried to use the teleport scroll.
Isaac stared at the black mask with fearful eyes, bleeding the right arm with his remaining left arm.
“A monstrous bastard…….”
Isaac didn’t know exactly who the black masked man was.
But he killed a hundred assassins in just 20 minutes.
It wasn’t a battle.
For him, it was hunting, and for Isaac and the assassins, it was a slender struggle for survival.
The assassins were all killed in front of Isaac, so the mercenaries would not be safe.
Tigris took off his black mask.
Then the little boy widened his eyes.
“Tigris…! Dad was right. How are you…!”
“I ask questions.”
“go away! Do you think I will give you an honest answer?”
Either way, Tigris asked Isaac a question.
“Do you know Levis?”
“Go to Hell!”
“Answer yes or no.”
“Shut up! Aren’t you afraid of the great House of Marquis Baros?! You can choose the heir of the Marquis Baros at your will…!”
Tigris brought the sword to Isaac’s neck.
Little boy gulped at the cool touch.
“I don’t need to convince you in the first place. Just take it to the Inquisitor.”
Isaac swallowed dry, because he already knew the cruelty of the Inquisitor.
If captured by them, Isaac’s life will be spared, and Isaac will experience pain he has never experienced before, and then he will die.
“And if there is one thing that is being misunderstood, you are already dead on record from the time you were caught by me. But I am saving you because the information you know is quite useful to the Empire.”
“Do you mean to tell me to betray the Marquis of Baros?”
“I don’t understand the idea of betraying the soon-to-be-extinct Marquis family. After tonight, the House of the Marquis of Baros will disappear from history.”
Isaac said in a voice full of evil.
“You mean that the Emperor has abandoned us, the Marquis of Baros? We who have been loyal like dogs for the past 300 years?”
“It was already your Baros family that betrayed the Empire. You know that, right?”
“ね・・・・・・・.”
The little boy had nothing to say.
In fact, it was because the Marquis of Baros betrayed the emperor and maintained a close relationship with the Kingdom of Gillion in order to become king.
When the cause did not work for Isaac, this time he sought the truth.
“We are acting as a buffer zone to protect the beast people and the kingdom of Gillion. If we disappear, the beasts and the Kingdom of Gillion will know what to do?”
“You learn these words when you take a political science class at the Imperial University. It’s the saying ‘Power doesn’t allow blank space’. Even if the Nenom family disappears, 28 families remain who will bow their knees to His Majesty the Emperor to obtain the position of commander of the South.”
“Do you think they won’t go to war for that power? This southern region will be embroiled in war.”
“Do you think the kingdom of the past and the kingdom of today are the same? Do you think the civil war in the southern provinces cannot be resolved? And seeing that the Marquis of Baros and his successors died overnight, there would be no civil war and they would come up to the Imperial Palace to swear allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor.”
“What······? Do you think you dare to kill Your Excellency!”
“Isaac, you doubt your words while you speak.”
The little boy bit his lips.
The strength of Tigris could not even be measured with Isaac’s eyes.
Of course, the magic skills of his father, Marquis Baros, could not be understood through Isaac’s eyes either.
Did the emperor send anyone who came to pierce the back of Marquis Baros?
‘········Where the hell did that guy come from?’
Until now, the emperor had left the tyranny of the local lords alone because there was no justification for involvement and no power.
But when Tigris set out to become the emperor’s sword, everything went awry.
Tigris’s force was so great that he cut Lucas’ neck with just two blades, and he carried the public’s heart as he hunted the variant of the zodiac.
When the righteous blade is directed at the Marquis, what else can the Marquis family do?
Isaac said with a half-given expression on his face.
“······· Then there is no information to be obtained from me. After all, the Baros family will perish and I will die. But if I don’t give you the information, there’s a small chance that my father will survive.”
Isaac had nothing more to lose, so he let everything go.
It is to add a little hope so that his father can survive and take revenge on Tigris and the Empire.
It wasn’t a bad choice, but Isaac had too many regrets left behind in this world.
“Can’t you see the case of Lucas? Currently, a wind of blood is blowing in the black soil area. His Majesty’s regular army, golden knights, and iron-blooded wizards are killing all members of noble families who have not surrendered. Whether they sinned or not.”
In fact, the bloody wind was blowing in the black soil area.
Although it was written with the gentle content of stabilizing the black soil, its cruelty is beyond washable.
The nobles who did not surrender were crushed to death by the emperor’s fear, even their babies.
Because otherwise the empire will not be united into one.
“But His Majesty the Emperor had one last mercy. Among those who surrendered, those who were innocent did not dare to see blood. Some of the family members may not have known what atrocities the heads of state were committing.”
“·················ogue.”
“So think of your wife and children. Isaac.”
When Tigris mentioned the child and his wife, Isaac reflexively had a seizure.
“My child…!”
“Your children are precious while you handed them over a handful of gold coins. Isn’t it disgusting to see your child every morning? Isaac?”
“·················ogue.”
The little boy bit his lip, not knowing what to say.
“If you hand over the information to me, I will protect your wife and children who don’t know anything about it. And even your ignorant brother Usher. Of course, he will be sent to a foreign country with no connection, so that he cannot even dream of treason. It would be the Black Land, Godiva Kingdom, or northern Gaul.”
Isaac’s eyes trembled.
Isaac seemed to judge the authenticity of Tigris’ words.
“Really?”
“Yes. And aren’t you embarrassed? To die caught up in your father’s dream of being a king.”
“Did you even know that? No. I should have known.”
All these misfortunes would not have occurred if the Marquis Baros had not dreamed of being king.
If he had just solidified his position as a commander in the south and was satisfied with the level of receiving economic and military support from the imperial kingdom, he would have maintained his legacy as a hegemon in the southern provinces.
But the Marquis Baros was not satisfied there.
The existence of the emperor above his head was very annoying, and it looked like there was nothing to see.
It was very ironic to despise himself and demand obedience to the subject of becoming emperor simply because he was born with golden blood.
“And didn’t you already foresee this situation? He knew he was going to face me like this, so he headed to Theron.”
“·················ogue.”
Tigris was right.
The reason the assassins and mercenaries leaked the information that they were heading to Theron was that Isaac and he ran even though he knew he was going to die because he wanted to face the face of the person who had come to attack the Marquis Baros family.
I want to do business with him.
The wise Isaac knew that the fall of the Marquis Baros family was only a matter of time.
When the stabilization of the Black Earth is over, the sword of the Emperor’s wrath will be directed at them.
“Don’t stop the arrogant dream of Marquis Baros. But your sins will not go away. Because you are guilty of selling a prisoner to the Kingdom of Gillion and handing over all kinds of confidential data.”
“Do you even know that?”
Isaac looked up at the sky with a disappointed expression.
“good night. I’ll tell you everything. Instead, in your name, save my wife, my son, and the lives of innocent people. That is the condition.”
Tchrist had no desire to see the blood of an innocent person.
Tigris nodded.
“I will risk my honor so that I will not see the blood of an innocent person.”
“Thank you.”
“Then ask the first question. Do you know Levis?”
“I cannot answer. You must know why.”
This meant that the magic of ‘proverb’ was at stake.
Knowing this means that he was close to Levis, or that he saw a dead man who spoke of Levis carelessly.
After checking this, there is nothing Tigris can do.
You can now hand it over to the Inquisitor for questioning.
Tigris has no talent for interrogation.
However, I did have one question.
“Where is the black market this year?”
“Are you talking about the prisoners? Or are you talking about relics and artifacts?”
“Are the two separate?”
The Black Market was known to trade beasts, relics, and artifacts at once.
“You don’t seem to have the latest information. Due to this chimera laboratory incident, water-man trades are not possible within the Empire.”
Originally, the Black Market was to be held at the villa of the Marquis Baros family.
If the kingdom of Gillion buys beasts at the villa, they will be sent to the kingdom of Gillion by loading the prisoners on a transport train.
There were officials of the Railroad Administration and the National Tax Service who supervised transport goods in Halkis, but if you bribe them appropriately, some transport trains did not inspect at all.
“Then how do the beasts in the Empire deal? Most of them must be inside the Empire?”
“I had no choice but to go through the jungle secretly to the kingdom of Gillion. Recently, the imperial investigators were meticulously examining the train transport materials, so it was impossible to move the prisoners recklessly. However, there is not enough supply to use that expensive teleport magic circle, and the price has doubled, so it cannot be used.”
“Then what about the beasts in the Kingdom of Gillion?”
“As far as I know, it is said that the seeds of the beasts in the Kingdom of Gillion have dried up. We are trying to bring in prisoners nationally, but the ability of the prisoners to respond has increased recently.”
As Tigris’ eyes filled with life, Isaac swallowed his saliva.
“… So, it is safe to say that there are very few beasts in the Kingdom of Gillion. Obviously, they wouldn’t be enslaved like us.”
“It must be a chimera and a witchcraft.”
“It will.”
This was enough.
The Relics and Artifacts Black Market will unconditionally be canceled or relocated as long as Isaac is captured.
The Gillion Kingdom is impossible because Tigris is currently unable to touch it.
Based on this information, you will have to rescue the prisoners captured in the Empire.
“Then take him.”
Two Inquisitor agents hiding behind Tigris’ horse appeared and stood in front of Isaac.
Isaac opened his mouth while being captured and dragged by the agents.
“Oh, I see, there’s something I didn’t say. The guy I didn’t tell you. Here it is.”
Levis is in the realm of the Marquis of Baros?
Tigris clenched his fists.
“Where are you?”
“Follow the priests. It will be easy to find.”
“Thanks for the info.”
“I kept my promise, so you keep your promise. Tigris.”
Isaac left and Tigris moved.
Now there was only one left.
Marquis Baros.
This Satan is the culprit behind everything that happened.
If they die, all pests that suck the blood of the Empire will be eradicated.
However, Tigris decided to take a more cautious approach.
If Levis is here, it means that Levis may have made contact with the Marquis Baros.
‘I must be a little more nervous.’
Tigris decided to head to the meeting point he had promised with Trisha.