For a while, Leo talked more about the direction of the guild with Gawain.
At the same time, he had time to compare his knowledge with the current world.
While listening to the report satisfactorily, I suddenly had a question.
“By the way, where is D.O?”
Vampire Dio, the shadow escort who should always be by Gawain’s side.
I hadn’t seen him since I returned from Hydra’s den last time, so I wanted to see his face, but I couldn’t see his nose.
“I left a few days ago saying I had to do something urgent.”
“A thing to do?”
“Yes. Now, our guild is slowly advancing into the empire, but there are many things that require force to establish a position. I went to take care of it.”
“Sorry. I was hoping to see your face after a long time.”
Although they are contract slaves, I have been able to listen to them secretly after going out together a few times.
So I wanted to see a little bit of magic when I saw it this time, but it seems the timing was off.
Then Gawain spoke.
“I feel sorry too. I asked if it would be a good idea to leave in a few days since the palace will be back soon, but I said no and moved in a hurry.”
“… so? Aren’t you very busy?”
“I am busy. However, it is not a situation so problematic that things depend on the difference of a few days. So I thought it would be okay to go after seeing the degradation… It seems that Dio’s judgment was different.”
“… … .”
Leo narrowed his eyes.
‘This bastard.’
… Could it be that you didn’t want to see me?
I’ll have to ask properly later.
After talking about D.O, Leo got ready to wake up.
One last question before leaving.
“yes. This is enough for the recent report. Is there anything particularly difficult or difficult?”
I didn’t mean anything in particular, I just asked as a formality before going.
However, Gawain couldn’t answer coolly and hesitated.
“Well… .”
“? what. Do you see any problems?”
“It’s a little embarrassing to tell you this, but… .”
“Where is that between us? Please speak comfortably.”
“Then I understand. In fact, our guild is a new guild, so there are people who look at it with disapproval.”
The Gawain Information Guild had only been launched for about two years.
At that time, as the capital branch of the Casein Guild collapsed, the shadowy area of the capital became Muju Gongsan, and the Gawain Information Guild made good use of that time and grabbed the back world at once.
However, some organizations with more tradition did not look favorably on Gawain Guild.
“Actually, there was no problem when D.O was there. I just had to send it to you at night and convince you.”
Of course, words are persuasion, but they are threats accompanied by force.
The appearance of Dio, who appeared in the shadows and threatened in the dark night, was feared by other guilds.
“But these days, D.O. has been going on business trips a lot. therefore… .”
“So again some of them are complaining, is that it?”
“You are correct.”
With Leo’s support, the Gawain Information Guild quickly expanded its power.
Although it was only a second-year guild, it was not enough to cover the entire Roman Kingdom, and it was advancing into the neighboring countries Hamtroy Kingdom and the Julis Empire.
However, this aggressive expansion inevitably had several side effects.
A typical example was that the organization’s talent pool was lacking.
It is said that funds are procured in one way or another and supplied without interruption somehow, but talent cannot be obtained so quickly.
In addition, due to the nature of the information organization, it was difficult to recruit talented people who could be used in this way, so they had to nurture them themselves, but it took a lot of time.
Dio, who should be in charge of Gawain’s close escort, travels here and there because of the chronic lack of talent.
‘This is my responsibility too.’
It would have been solid if it had been solidly built from the beginning, but Leo wanted to get information from all over the continent as quickly as possible.
That was the problem that arose.
Leo nodded.
“great. Call me the lists somewhere.”
“Will you help me?”
“yes. I can hear it once on the way back to the castle.”
“All right.”
Gawain nodded.
Since he knew Leo’s skills to some extent, he was not worried at all when he said that Leo would take care of it.
“First of all, the Erson Guild, the Ronud Guild… .”
Killing parts flowed from Gawain’s mouth.
* * *
It is said that the Gawain Information Guild recently took control of the capital city, but its reputation was not so good.
“Is there an organization with no genealogy like that above our heads?”
“Gawain? That guild leader over there, he’s a dishonest guy who was nothing before.”
In particular, the guild leader, Gawain, had a history of being held captive by the Casein Guild in the past.
A prisoner-born guild leader with a poor physical strength.
In such a dark place, it was inevitable to be ignored.
The Erson Guild, too, was only looking for an opportunity to press the Gawain Information Guild.
Until a few years ago, they were among the top five guilds in the capital, even in the shadows of the capital, as a cooperating guild of the Catsane Guild.
In particular, the three Erson brothers, who were co-leaders of the guild, had a record of winning chivalry together as the three of them.
As muscular machos, they couldn’t help but dislike Gawain, who had a tight grip on the dark side with capital and intelligence.
“Just try it once. I’ll fold that bastard, Gawain, in half.”
“But brother. They say that Gawain is no big deal, but isn’t that an escort?”
The first growled, and the second answered him.
The identity of Vampire Dio is not exactly known, but he has recently been synonymous with fear in the shadows of the capital.
With his powerful close combat skills and even using magic, he took care of all the back alley guild leaders who said he was using his strength.
The Ersson three brothers noticed this in advance and fell flat on their stomachs, but they couldn’t help but be dissatisfied.
“As far as I know, the monster hasn’t been seen for a few days.”
“Isn’t it that you purposely hid your appearance? Aren’t there people who knew it was like that in the past and rebelled against it, but ended up ignoring it?”
Several times in the past, D.O. had intentionally hidden himself.
That’s how I found out the Buntang seeds and cast a true education, but I wondered if it was like that this time too.
Then the third spoke.
“No, brother. Just yesterday, the Gawain guys had a pretty rough clash with the Lawnude Guild, and they said they withdrew from the Gawain Information Guild with a little loss. What could be the reason?”
“… Are you really saying the monster is away?”
“That’s right!”
“Come to think of it, they do a lot of work. I heard that you are going to other countries… So he could really be somewhere else dealing with that.”
The three brothers’ eyes flashed.
“If you do this well… .”
“… This might be your only chance to slay Gawain. brother.”
The brothers met each other’s eyes and nodded.
The strength of the three brothers is their ability to act!
Once you’ve made your decision, act!
They were about to get up right away.
However, at that moment.
– Knocked up.
The front door of the guild where they were resting opened.
“??”
“What?”
Opening the door and entering was a boy with brown hair and sparkling silver eyes.
He glanced around the room and looked at the three brothers.
“Are you the three Ershon brothers?”
“… … ?”
The three brothers were dumbfounded and couldn’t answer.
The first floor was in the form of a bar, and there were many guild members.
Even the three Ersson brothers are muscular, with a height of nearly 190 cm.
In this atmosphere, no one talked to them in that way.
The first frowned and said.
“What are you, kid? What is the guy outside doing not doing his job properly? Send that kid in.”
“The two people outside did a good job. It prevented me from entering. So I froze it for a while.”
“… what did you do?”
“It’s frozen.”
Boy, Leo shrugged.
The three brothers lifted their heads slightly and looked out through the door that was still open.
I could see two of his subordinates standing stiff as if they had become ice statues.
“… This Sipal! enemy! Everyone raise your arms!”
They were quick-witted like the guild leaders of the shadows.
The guild members who were playing on the first floor hurriedly raised their weapons and tried to get up, but it was too late.
[Ice Light]
Leo spread his ten fingers wide.
Light ice magic created by adding the attribute of light to the attribute of ice.
The first floor of the Erson Guild was embroidered with beams of ice flying like beams of light.
– Giing!
– Giiing!
In the midst of flashing light, those hit by the ice light collapsed.
“Ahhhhh… .”
“Bridge… legs… .”
Those with frozen ankles or frozen knees grabbed their legs in agony.
As a feature of the light ice attribute, it was a magic that raised its speed to the limit even though its ability as a freezing type was reduced.
If you have knight-level exorcism, you might be able to withstand being hit to some extent, but you can’t expect that kind of thing in a place like this!
“Oh, it’s a wizard! It is also of a high standard!”
“brother!”
“Know!”
The two younger brothers shouted urgently, and the eldest of the three brothers nodded.
Then, the three of them started charging at Leo in different directions at the same time.
One for the front, the other two for the left and right.
When facing a wizard, the only way to win is to cling to it and let go of the sword.
This is especially true for wizards who casually use such terrifying magic.
If they are far apart, no matter how many they are, they will all become prey.
‘Fortunately, I’m young. There won’t be much practical experience.’
These were the thoughts in the brothers’ heads.
He seems to be a talented and young wizard, but this greatly increases the success rate of close combat.
Looking at the Erson brothers running towards him, Leo smiled.
“Still, they know how to fight. I heard that you even caught an article, and your judgment is pretty good.”
Leo extended both index fingers to the sides.
– Giiing!
The ice light extended like a beam of light and hit the second and third.
“Cuck!”
“Heuk!”
No matter how big and strong he was, his knees were frozen and he couldn’t move.
However, thanks to that, I bought a little bit of time.
Contrary to his appearance, he was the first to move quickly, so he was able to approach Leo in this short gap.
“Got it! You little rattlesnake!”
The first, who arrived right in front of Leo, swung his fist tightly.
It was so big that it was almost a fist the size of Leo’s face.
– Huung!
However, Leo only nodded slightly and avoided it.
The first of the puzzled expressions.
“… uh? Harm?”
Leo touched the heart and stomach of the first one with a motion like flowing water.
[Ice Touch]
When Leo’s hand, which was stained pure white, touched it, the area was covered with frost.
– Damn it!
The frost, gradually expanding its territory, completely covered him.
After a while, the first one freezes and thumps! and fell to the floor.
It was a neat treatment.
‘Certainly, the body traits disappear, so it’s good after all.’
Leo looked down at him and thought.
Originally, these guys would have wiped them out before they even got close.
However, I deliberately left it to experience close combat.
And the results were much more satisfactory than expected.
In the first place, Leo was good at ‘eyes’, so he became able to move as he saw, so he became much more relaxed even in close combat.
“Selise.”
“Yes, lower.”
When Leo called, Celise, who had been watching from the outside at Leo’s order until then, approached.
“Take care of all these guys.”
“All right.”
Selize lowered her head slightly, then began knocking out the still intact Erson guild members one by one.
“Heuk!”
“Now, wait a minute! I surrender… Kuck!”
“Say, slowly! Please hit me gently… !”
Hearing the screams in his ears, Leo thought about where he should go next.
‘About four places left now.’
There are a total of 5 places where Gawain is dissatisfied with his guild.
I’ve taken care of one, so now there are four left.
‘I need to deal with it quickly before I hear rumors and prepare.’
I have to move quickly to finish my work and return to the castle.