278. East, Wolguk (5)
It was a strange thing.
Since there were no wagons, it didn’t feel like the guild, and there were quite a number of escorts nearby.
In addition, each of the cadets was armed, so at first glance it would have looked like a Western armed group going on the road guided by escorts.
Even so, the enemy launched an attack.
Why?
That was a question that even the unknown man who was covering the neck wound in front of him could not answer.
“Kuk… Kuck…”
He sends a desperate look.
Soon after realizing that his earnest eyes do not reach me, he despairs.
However, even if you reach it, nothing will change that much.
Is there anyone who would not slaughter a cow at a slaughterhouse just because it cries?
From the time he set foot in the slaughterhouse, his fate had already been decided.
ㅡSuddenly!
Cleanly decapitated an unknown thief.
Yes. This is nothing but slaughter.
It is nothing more than a slaughter to obtain nourishment by killing life.
From a certain moment, he became indifferent to blood and killing to the point of being abnormal. Being dull and lazy, at best, was to maintain composure, but at worst, emotions were disappearing.
The fortunate thing is that when I observe others, I feel that I regain my emotions little by little.
“Are you okay?”
Lucia was trembling with blood dripping from her face.
I comforted her as she bowed her head without answering her.
“Don’t worry. Miss Lucia will never become a beautiful corpse.”
They were thieves with disgusting tastes who said they would commit crimes by making her corpse, regardless of gender.
“Are you still struggling with magic?”
“……”
Lucia nodded her head lightly.
The dust will fly away after a while, but it wasn’t idle enough to be caught by thieves in a place like this.
I stood her up and rolled her eyes around to get an idea of her surroundings.
When Manwoldae found out that his opponent was a thief, both embarrassment and composure came out at the same time.
They were perplexed as to why the thief attacked them, and they seemed to be moving more leisurely as if they thought that it was just a thief.
‘If this is enough, I can leave it behind.’
I cut down the thieves one by one in the mist that obscured my vision.
‘The problem is how to find the boss…’
He calmed down his breathing and spread his sense of spirit.
Fortunately, there was a direction that had a remarkably strong response.
At the end of this siege, I felt that there was a guy with the energy of a bandit leader.
I ran straight towards him.
After entering the forest, the thieves who were reluctant to enter, hiding themselves in trees or bushes, found me.
“……”
Not so many words came and went.
Like many who have fallen for me before, I was questioning my appearance.
Are you tilting your head?
Eyes wide open.
Even the reaction that came out at the end was the same.
The thieves’ daggers and hatchets flew at me, who made a decision on time in the blink of an eye.
There are a lot of inconveniences when you cover your eyes with a visibly white bandage, but there are surprisingly many good things.
The fight is much easier when the opponent’s level is low.
When an enemy suddenly pops out, ordinary people tend to judge the opponent’s level by their appearance.
This is instinctive.
There is no reason not to use it since it has eyes that can see clearly.
If you were wearing fancy armor or a vicious helmet, the thieves’ spirit would have been suppressed, but meeting a man who is openly covering his eyes with a white bandage is another story.
What kind of judgment would you make if you met a blind man in a battle situation where every second was tense?
Those with a lot of experience would sense that it was unusual for a blind man to survive this battle and break through the siege, but it’s hard for a mediocre thief to think that way.
Their brains make decisions quickly.
Since the eyes are covered, he must have been blind.
You won’t see it.
If it’s this attack, I’ll be knocked down easily.
If you hit it, the attack pours into the part that can cause fatal wounds.
Even at that moment, he didn’t care about concealment or cover.
It was natural.
If they were careful enough to engage in psychological warfare against strangers they saw for the first time, they wouldn’t have joined the gang of bandits in the first place.
ㅡ Chaechaeng! Visor!!
I move the sword lightly a few times, and the metal pieces flying at me quickly lose their power and fall to the floor.
The complacent yet blatant attacks were so easy to block that it made me yawn.
Immediately twisted the flow of mana.
“…Chapter 1 of Reversal.”
By going against the restrictions of space, he dropped the heads of the thieves who were defenselessly exposed.
It was the same with the neck of the guy who was hiding behind a tree and was trembling.
–Suddenly.
The tree trunk is left intact, and only one thief’s head is neatly cut off.
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Instantly, the terrified thief’s face rolls down.
‘Is the situation in Wolguk really bad…’
The fact that a person so timid that he couldn’t throw a stone became a thief also meant that the country was so hard to live in.
It seemed to mean that even a guy like this would have a hard time making ends meet if he didn’t steal. This becomes a milestone, the number of thieves increases, and the residents are threatened by thieves all the time, making it even more difficult to live.
It was a vicious cycle.
That doesn’t mean that the theft they practiced can’t be rationalized. Wherever you go, there are thieves who will steal your opponent’s fate.
However, there was no doubt that it was not a good situation.
‘That means there are many thieves in the country…’
It was only then that I began to remember what kind of person the king of Wolguk was.
It seems that he was the one who ate the country with his greedy uncle. But I don’t know if there’s any back story about this, so I’ll save it.
Wolguk in the game was not a very important country in the travel to the East. It was a weak country that could only be heard briefly along the route.
But now, shouldn’t it be seen that it has become more important because it is intertwined with my previous life?
I felt a bit confused when I thought that this country suffering from the gap between the rich and the poor was the country I ruled in my previous life.
‘Then am I a king killing people?’
There was no black comedy.
Well, since I know that the King of Conquest has no children, it is safe to say that he is a country completely unrelated to me.
At a difficult time, he suddenly came to me and said, ‘Why did my brilliant Wolguk become like this?’ I didn’t want to be a ‘kkondae’ who made remarks like that.
In that way, he broke through the siege and cut down the confused bandits without hesitation.
Judging by the attitudes of the guys who were all about to meet me and be surprised, my guess was becoming more certain.
‘Response from a distance using a large number in a situation where the field of view is blocked. Such a rapid regurgitation was unexpected by the guys. That would mean that their purpose was not to harm the cadets or the escorts.’
In the first place, there was nothing to shake off.
The cadets of the academy and the honor of defeating Manwoldae, the royal bodyguard, do not feed them.
At that moment when he was running over the trees and cutting down the bandits, he soon saw a man with a large body who looked like the leader of a group of bandits.
“What kind of bastard are you!!”
As I lightly stepped on the floor and came down from the tree, the guy who finally found me shouted loudly.
I aimed the sword at him, dripping with the blood of his men.
“Are you the boss?”
“The blind… The blood… Can’t possibly break through this siege…”
The boss must have been a proper guy, so he pulled out a greatsword and took a guard.
Buckteeth’s unnamed subordinate, who was next to him, took refuge behind a nearby tree and hid his trembling body.
‘Is there any information about me…’
For some reason, I couldn’t get rid of the feeling of being hit.
Still, you should ask what you want to ask.
“You have a lot of questions.”
“A black guy with no blood on his head… You’d better ask questions after defeating this bacambo.”
Bacambo.
It was the name of a boss who would soon be forgotten.
***
“Lucia, are you okay?”
I had some time to spare and wiped the blood off Lucia’s face.
‘I can’t use my hands because it’s dusty and forest.’
If it was a fire caused by magic, it could be easily extinguished by collecting mana, but the explosion caused by environmental objects was a different story.
“Zetto-san saved you…!”
“That’s good. How are things?”
“…It’s difficult to control finely because there are so many people… It’s possible to blow up all the humans here with dust…”
“Hmm… I don’t think that’s necessary…”
Certainly, the amount of dust was considerable, and it seemed like it would be difficult because there were tense battles going on here and there.
Still, it seemed that they were just ordinary thieves with disgusting tastes, and the sound of battle gradually stopped as if they were being sorted out to some extent.
‘Why…’
Is the mana increasing little by little?
It was a strange thing.
Rather than fighting properly, they were only tying up the thieves by casting ‘chains’ that contained no elements.
[ Now, even while eating, mana increases. Have you become a demon who absorbs nature’s mana? ]
Beno, who has lived for a long time, was spitting nonsense as if he knew nothing about this.
I don’t even know if it’s the elves’ mana practice or what.
I couldn’t find anything in common with this strange phenomenon that even the red dragon didn’t know about.
Won’t Beno create a circle because his mana increased rapidly while he was sleeping, and even though he wasn’t fighting an intense battle, the amount of mana was rising slightly.
‘I wonder if I’ve been blessed…’
It’s true that I desperately wanted to grow, but I didn’t want to accept this mysterious and unknown power.
***
Meanwhile, the three famous black-blooded men were still unable to compete with rock-paper-scissors.
Amon, who was watching them, asked them a question while playing rock-paper-scissors.
“I understand why you are betting, but why are Instructor Reina and Instructor Kaliman only betting rocks…?”
Reina sighs at Amon’s question.
“Haa… I don’t know what a mean guy this guy is, Caligus kid. He sees what I’m paying and changes before I pay?”
Yes.
As a martial artist, Kaliman, who has reached a certain level, had a certain way to win unconditionally by changing the shape of his hand after seeing what his opponent was doing.
Amon asked again.
“Then why did Instructor Kaliman use the rock…”
“This b*tch is putting gravity magic on my knuckles like that.”
Kaliman said that while showing his trembling fists.
“Ha, can’t gravity magic be easily defeated? Don’t pretend to be weak.”
“That’s because it doesn’t budge.”
“Ah…”
As Amon uttered a shriek as if he did not understand, Edward, who was the only winner in the end, began to explain.
“Someone is lying. For example, assuming Instructor Reyna makes a ‘Bo’, if Instructor Kaliman, who has overcome gravity magic, throws away ‘Scissors’, then we can win. It’s not that there isn’t a way. If the gravity magic breaks and reflexively changes into a ‘fist’ at the same time, Instructor Kaliman will be defeated at the point of straightening his fingers. A high level of psychological warfare is going on.”
Amon, having doubts while listening to the explanation, asks Edward again.
“Then how did Instructor Edward beat them?”
At this, Edward, who was drawing a crescent moon with his eyes, let out a sinister laugh.
“Whoa whoop… I can fool people’s eyes.”
“Illusion magic can’t even dispel. He’s crazy.”
“Ah…”
Amon, who nodded lightly, looked at the instructors who were serious about rock-paper-scissors with a smile.
‘How much do these people hate to work?’
That’s ‘rock paper scissors.’ And ‘… Again.’ At the end of a series of voices like that, Reina couldn’t stand it and threw the game.
“……”
She threw away the scissors.
But Carly Mann didn’t quite stretch her fingers.
Scissors cannot beat a rock unless the pressure of her two fingers shatters her knuckles.
Raina exclaimed urgently.
“…Cow, you switched fingers twice…!”
“What are you talking about?”
Kaliman scratched her beard and took off her pretense.
“I must have seen it!”
“Miss Reina, that doesn’t change the results.”
“Isn’t that a complete madman…? Did he just play rock-paper-scissors after eating…”
“……”
While listening to their conversation, Amon gave up on understanding as he was about to lose his mind.
“Now, Instructor Reina, who was defeated anyway, quell the situation quickly.”
“Haa…”
Reina, sighing in her nervousness, raises one of her fingers.
ㅡShuuuk…
With her light gesture, the dust that was blocking her vision was quickly sucked in, and a sphere of white dust formed on her finger.
Soon after, the corpses of the thieves and the smell of blood that had been hidden in the dust that filled the surroundings stung Amon’s nose.
The only casualties are bandits.
There didn’t seem to be any other injuries among the allies.
‘Wouldn’t it have been more comfortable if I had been like this before?’
Amon, who secretly had such a thought, recognizes the deep meaning of the instructors from the strangely calm faces of the instructors.
‘Couldn’t it be that the instructors wanted to see how the wizards whose magic was sealed by the environment deal with it…?’
However, there was no way to know if that was true.
Soon, the thieves’ cries resound in the forest.
“Retreat!!! The boss is dead!!!”
At the sound of the death of their boss, the thieves, who were looking at the corpses of their comrades hanging around them, get scared and run away.
Manwoldae also did not bother to pursue the thieves who were on the run.
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After a while, a man jumps out of the bushes.
“……”
The man, who had a white bandage around his eyes, threw the bloody neck of the unknown person he was holding in his hand to the floor and smiled.
The neck that was rolling on the floor seemed to be the neck of the leader of the thieves.
Reina, who was watching this, clenched her fists and shouted her delight.
“Okay, as planned!”