262. The wolf has appeared!
“Whoa.”
I was arrested while eating a late dinner, but it was only the next morning that I was released.
Moreover, unlike when I entered, most of the security guards came out to the front of the building and bowed deeply towards me.
“Sorry!”
“Go in carefully!”
When Unyeop, an eyewitness and inspector, confessed his misjudgment and said that I was not guilty, I became the person who was unfairly dragged in.
I had no idea that the moment I held his hand, he would so neatly apologize to the maintenance team, saying it was his mistake.
It would be natural for internal doubts to build up about Unyeop’s evaluation and his abilities.
‘I don’t think there is that level of loyalty.’
For Unyeop, the name of an inspector belonging to the imperial family did not seem to be very important.
Anyway, the place I was heading to was Ranran Banjeom.
Unyeop said he would be leaving in a few hours, so I planned to meet Soho before moving with him.
Kkiik.
“Off, what should I do?”
When I opened the door and entered the Ranran branch, Soho was sitting there holding his head and whining.
The girl seemed to have many concerns.
In the meantime, when I came in, he flinched his shoulders, opened his mouth wide, and reacted in a fussy manner.
“Oh, how did you come back?! “You were arrested!”
“I was lucky.”
“Woah, is this something that can be solved by luck?!”
Soho kept trying to ask something with an expression that said he couldn’t understand, but I interrupted him.
“From now on, I have someone who will accompany me separately. And that person is the man who killed the ancient dragon.”
“…… Yes?”
He asks me back, saying I really don’t understand what he’s talking about, but I just ignore him and continue talking.
“If you are going to avenge the monsters and ancient dragons, follow me. “I’ll give you a chance.”
But.
“I wish you would just stay here.”
I suggest various directions in my own way. I lost the monsters that were like family, and my secure home disappeared.
The girl was placed in a harsh environment where she had to fight alone.
Even though she said this, it was actually very obvious what choice she would make.
“Woah, there’s nothing left if I stay here. “I’ll follow you!”
A girl who thinks she has lost everything will choose to get her revenge, even if it means burning her own body.
She nods her head with somewhat bitter emotion.
“Then get ready.”
Funny enough.
Woonyeop and the hunters trying to kill Deius Verdi.
Soho tries to kill Kim Shin-woo.
My uncomfortable walk with those who want to kill me has just begun.
* * *
Woonyeop came to visit me about three hours after I was released. When he saw Soho packing luggage bigger than his height, he gave an ambiguous look, but did not refuse.
So we were leaving this city, which was shorter than expected but left a strong impression.
“Hey.”
A sigh of disgust came out of Soho’s mouth, as if he was quite sad about leaving the city he had lived in for a long time.
Nevertheless, there was no hesitation in his legs. It meant that she did not regret her choice.
Woonyeop, who was at the forefront, was wearing a hat and secretly smiling at the corner of his mouth.
His overall mood seemed to have calmed down, as if he was quite satisfied with the country’s power.
‘Is that the long baton you’re carrying on your back?’
It is a rare weapon to see in the Griffin Kingdom, but it was often seen in the Han Empire due to the high level of martial arts.
Han So, who we saw in the battle of the demons, also fought using Maengcheonbong.
His movements were truly exquisite and clean, and they still remain vivid in my memory.
“Well, where are we going?”
Soho expresses his doubts somewhat late.
Woonyeop answers her question with a smile.
“We are going to Ohwa, the capital of the empire. “I plan to stop by there for a bit, then join his colleagues and head straight to Griffin.”
“That, Griffin…… !”
I heard the sound of spit being swallowed.
The girl seemed quite nervous about leaving for a distant land that she had only heard about through rumors.
On the contrary, it was quite familiar to me.
‘Good.’
As we were talking about in the interrogation room, it was obvious that if he was going to kill Deius, he would eventually go to the Griffin Kingdom.
I didn’t have any money, so I stayed silent and was heading to Griffin on foot, but I’ll be able to move much faster if I’m with them.
Funny enough, I ended up taking the risky but quickest route to Griffin.
“… ….”
Did it go well?
That thought occurred to me in an instant.
Deius Verdi’s body has not yet stabilized. Even if a place of rest has been created within his body, his body needs time to get used to it.
I hoped Deius’ body would stabilize before arriving at Griffin.
Because I felt a strange reluctance to show my current appearance to people I know.
‘Why?’
Why am I feeling rejected? There was no clear answer to that question.
On the way back, I had a homework to solve.
“Uh, how long will it take? “It will last at least a few months, right?”
Unyeop answers Soho’s continued questions with a smile.
Her little girl finds her quite cute, and she acts so friendly that it’s hard to tell that she’s just met her.
It was somewhat different from my first impression of a man named Unyeop.
“Originally, it would be like that, but if I just take care of simple tasks at Ohwa and immediately join my colleagues, it will be easy. “We have some pretty good horses.”
No matter how good the horse breed was, the griffin was a distance that could not be crossed in the Han Empire.
Seeing the confidence in his voice gave me a strange sense of trust.
Now that the questions were over, Soho said, “I see.” He nods his head and I take over the baton.
“What about other colleagues? “You probably weren’t alone when you killed the ancient dragon.”
The presence of mana that I felt at the time did not belong to just one person. It was a question she was sure of, but she asked with a deliberate prodding.
“I had something else to do, so I stayed there. “I have to follow up on killing the ancient dragon.”
Soho’s expression suddenly darkens. In order not to make it visible, I quietly walk between Soho and Unyeop at a faster pace.
“Follow-up?”
“We need to organize what we have prepared to kill the ancient dragon. “I’ll tell you more about that later.”
Woonyeop shrugs his shoulders and puts on his hat.
The flowing silence.
When the story about the ancient dragon comes out, the atmosphere in Soho becomes somewhat heavy. But I knew that now was the time to keep my mouth shut and my teeth hidden.
With her pursed mouth and puffy cheeks, it was difficult to see her as a girl targeted for assassination.
“Even if it looks like this, we are a fairly large organization. “They’re just hiding themselves by calling themselves hunters.”
“… ….”
“Not only is he in the Principality of Balestan, right next to the Han Empire, but now our unit commander is already heading to the Griffin Kingdom.”
Instantly, my eyes fell on him.
The fact that the hunter’s unit leader was heading to Griffin was information that was difficult to ignore.
“Are you targeting the mountains of the North Swedish Mountains?”
I sneak in just in case. The only guardian deity in the Griffin Kingdom that I know of is Sangun.
I don’t know what they are aiming for, but I thought their primary target would be a guardian deity.
“Hmm? “You know about Sangun?”
Woonyeop looks back at me with a truly surprised expression. An expression that I never imagined would know about the guardian deity of the Griffin Kingdom.
Soho also expressed his amazement by exclaiming, “Wow.”
The guardian gods themselves were so secret and secretive that only few people knew about them.
Woonyeop wanted an explanation as to how he knew, but I asked him for an answer without bothering to answer.
He sighs at the absurdity of this, but nods in satisfaction.
“I think I did a good job recruiting big names.”
…… You can see it that way too.
“That’s right, I went to target the mountains of the North Weden Mountains. “Northwedden is the hometown of Deius Verdi and the territory of the Verdi family.”
There must be a clue to find me, who is missing.
I was bitter and gave advice to Unyeop who added that.
“It won’t be easy.”
“The existence of the mountains must be threatening. Margrave Darius, the giant of North Weden…… “I heard he was a very good warrior.”
Woonyeop smiled meaningfully, as if he wasn’t too worried.
“We are hunters. “Our fight is not a battle, it’s just a one-sided hunt.”
In the end, it means that there is a way to hunt the mountains of North Sweden. I could roughly sense that it was a very intuitive but destructive operation.
Since it is a mountain group that cannot use its power without a mountain, the strategy will probably be to set fire to the mountain itself.
Wouldn’t this be a method of slowly burning the mountain and narrowing down the military’s position, rather than taking place in a day or two?
‘I think that’s why the ancient dragon was in the sewer.’
I think they probably followed a similar strategy with the ancient dragons and drove them all the way to the sewers.
It can definitely be threatening.
In fact, the fact that the location has no choice but to be fixed inevitably acts as a significant weakness for the guardian gods.
I wasn’t too worried.
Because.
“As far as I know, that mountain is.”
Because I believe it.
“The wolf is so fierce.”
* * *
The North Swedish Mountains were a kind of border.
A natural border dividing the northern part of the Griffin Kingdom and the Clark Republic.
Because the ownership lies with the Kingdom of Griffin, the Margrave of Northweden’s private soldiers have built a guard post there and are guarding it.
There were ample ways to contact the North Weden Mountains on the other side of the Clark Republic.
Roaring!
The hunter’s commander, Whalebelter, smiled crookedly as he looked at the flames on the tips of the arrows being pulled by his subordinates.
There is no need to enter the North Swedish Mountains to attack and hunt mountain rangers.
The attack itself was easy if you hit the mountain from the outside.
Furthermore, the Clark Republic is literally in a time of war.
As different countries were making money, their citizens were experiencing confusion that was close to a necessary evil.
Even if they did something like this not in the Griffin Kingdom but in the Clark Republic, there was no one who could stop them.
If Marquis Darius comes over with his army, that will be the same story.
“It’s easy.”
Fire arrows, Molotov cocktails, fireballs, etc.
You can easily cause damage to mountain forces with simple methods.
Is it morally problematic and causes harm to people around you?
The morals of these people were not strong enough to care about such things.
The mountain is burning.
Black smoke is billowing high, polluting the white sky that looked as if it might snow.
“I wonder if it can be this simple.”
After making this mess for about 30 minutes, we withdraw. And if this was repeated again tomorrow, the strength of the mountain army was bound to weaken.
Then go hunting.
Shaunhunters are not fighting beings.
Only those who risk their lives in battle with animals are incompetent and do not live up to the name of hunter.
Yes, I thought so.
The entrance to the mountain.
Another gray smoke was rising from there.
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Tobacco in the mouth of a woman trotting along with her back to the burning mountain.
White hair flutters in the wind, and the hem of a yellow coat flutters, showing off its presence.
The silver halberd he was holding while wearing black gloves was giving off a chill that was different from the winter.
“Whoa.”
The blood-red eyes of Findeneye, the wolf of the mountains that emit tobacco smoke, capture prey.
“There is such a story about Griffin.”
Her veteran hunters recognize that she is an enemy and immediately aim their arrows at her rather than at her mountain.
Whale Belter also felt with her own skin that she was not an ordinary being, so she placed her huge ax on her shoulder.
“The story of a shepherd boy. “It’s a very interesting story about a shepherd who was bored and ended up getting screwed.”
Why a fairy tale?
I suddenly wondered what that noise was.
“Still, they said the villagers fooled them twice.”
Sigh.
Finden Eye’s mouth draws an arc. Her sharp teeth were ready to bite into the nape of her enemy’s neck.
“You all have to shout loudly, because this is the first time, you never know who might come to help.”
The chill rises.
What protects the North Swedish Mountains is not tigers.
“f*ck! “A wolf has appeared!”
It was a wolf.