55 . A hero appears?
Leaving Brach and heading for a tough mountain road outside of her path, Elia, who had hidden herself in a thick bush, asked Stella, who was breathing next to her, insinuating. .
“But how are you going to handle it?”
Stella replied without blinking an eye or changing her expression.
“As usual.”
Olivia nodded her head and gave a satisfied smile when I told her to take care of it as usual.
“Yes, that’s good.”
After a short conversation, the four moved on again.
Rain began to fall. Although they couldn’t see an inch ahead, they started to climb the mountain without tripping on the common tree roots as if they were walking along the main road in broad daylight.
How long did it take? Stella, still hiding in the bushes, opened her mouth.
“Does this look right?”
There was no need to confirm.
We didn’t even feel the need to talk to each other. From the moment you start climbing the mountain, a familiar smell spreads in your nose.
Red bloody smell.
Stella asked her sisters with her sunken eyes.
“Should I scare you? Or should I kill them all?”
“Isn’t it better to pull out all the roots? I think Dad will like it more.”
As Stella and Elia were talking, Olivia looked at them and put her index finger to her lips.
“Shh.”
After a brief warning, Olivia pointed with her finger.
All of them cast their gazes in the direction Olivia was pointing at.
Two stout men with heavy clubs and sharp knives around their waists were talking.
The first to speak was a man with a shaggy beard who was quite short and gave the illusion that he was looking at a dwarf.
“Haa… No harvest today. Is one wagon all there is? Aren’t you supposed to move around? What the heck are you thinking….”
The one who answered his words was a man with an octopus tattoo on his bald head.
“No, two.”
I didn’t need to hear more.
The moment they confirmed that they were bandits, Stella moved faster than anyone else.
Stella rushed out, pressing down on her bald scalp with her hand and slamming it down to the floor.
Kwajik!
How would you feel if the head of the person you were just having a good conversation with bursts like a ripe watermelon right in front of you?
The man wiped the blood off his face with his hand, and his body shuddered in disbelief.
Human beings tend to harden as they are when faced with something beyond the scope of their perception.
He barely came to his senses and was about to scream when Stella grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up. Because of her small stature, she looked dainty as she struggled in the air.
Stella opened his mouth in a chilling voice, losing his head and trampling with his foot the pitiful bloody corpse.
“Be quiet. You don’t want to be like him, do you? I don’t want to have the blood of a short-lived species more filthy than this on my hands.”
Death witnessed right in front of you.
Always holding death in his hands and harassing the weak, he could feel overwhelming fear for the first time.
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Feeling like an underdog who couldn’t even lift his hand, the bandit quickly nodded his face, which was already covered with tears and runny nose.
If you were scared to this extent, the story was easy.
Olivia, who had come to the side before I knew it, poked the bandit in the cheek for no reason with an arrow and opened her mouth playfully.
“Now, let me guide you to your base.”
“Ah, if you lie, you die, and if you don’t know, you die.”
Although he is a bandit who prides himself on having gone through all kinds of battles, he has never seen such a wicked person. Was the race of elves so warlike? The bandit began to walk tremblingly without even thinking about it.
“This way.”
The boss is scary, but the four elves in front of you are beyond the human category.
That much could have been known to even the most foolish of himself.
The bandit chose to sell his comrades for his meager life, rather than tell a lie and meet a terrible end.
In the first place, a relationship made for money and mutual benefit. There was no way the secret could be kept in the face of a little fear.
Thanks to the selfishness of the bandit who sold his comrades for a penny, the four elves were able to easily get to their home base without the hassle of finding their way.
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“Oh, f*ck.”
We arrived halfway up the mountain with the guidance of a dwarf. The dimly visible entrance to the cave is probably their stronghold. As if to represent him, the cheerful singing of bandits could be heard around the entrance.
The reason for their mood improvement was quickly found. Oak barrels were strewn around the bandits, and purple wine trickled through the openings.
Even a normal person would soon reveal his instincts when alcohol was involved. I could understand up to that point, but I couldn’t understand how they got the alcohol.
I don’t think they paid a fair price and brought the drink.
As if to prove him, behind the bandits the wheels of the wagon collapsed, and the horse leading the wagon was slaughtered and roasted over a bonfire before entering the bandits’ stomach.
It wasn’t just that.
One of the bandits smiled sinisterly, rose from his seat, and opened his mouth as he undid the belt around his waist.
“Hey, take one more step.”
At those words, the bandits who were sitting around the campfire and eating meat burst into laughter.
“Crazy.”
Then, a woman’s tearing scream is heard.
I couldn’t stand watching any longer. Even if Ain was in this position, she would have made the same decision as them.
Of course, it was their opinion.
The children surrendered themselves to the darkness of the forest, hiding among unwary bandits.
It was only after 10 minutes had passed that the bandits, who were drunk around the bonfire, realized what was going on. No matter how drunk I was, I couldn’t completely erase the sensation.
The bandit complained in a voice that was half worried and dissatisfied.
“Did this bastard get injured while hitting rice cakes? I will come and see you.”
Behind the tent, a place lined with kidnapped women to quench their s*xual desire.
Bandits with nothing to do usually spend their time here.
But it was quiet today. It must always be a place full of men and women’s moaning and painful sounds, right?
The bandit gulped down his saliva and headed for the place where the woman the guy who had left earlier was often tied up.
Relying on a single torch, when he finally reached the woman, what greeted the bandit was a cold corpse.
It wasn’t a fortune teller, but it was after another form of death struck the bandit. The woman who had intermingled with the bandit was staring at one spot with a terrified expression.
Before I could follow her gaze, I heard a woman’s voice in my ear.
“It’s already too late.”
In an instant, the man with a red line drawn around his neck felt momentary pain, grabbed his neck, and collapsed into his seat.
Death was already certain. There was no way that Noah, holding a sword, would make a mistake in killing humans.
I tried to stop the blood pouring like a fountain, but it was not enough.
I wanted to scream in pain, but the blood filling my throat and the lined neck made only a sound resembling a deflated balloon.
The children freed the tied up woman and headed to the front of the tent full of drunken bandits.
It was definitely easier to handle the work than usual, probably because I was drunk.
There was no need for the other sisters to come forward. The bandits’ bodies floated in the air with just one spell Elia had memorized, and they plummeted to the floor, pouring out the entrails from her entire body, fulfilling her life.
There is only one thing left.
Stella muttered as she stood at the entrance of the cave.
“Is this inside? It doesn’t sound that deep, does it?”
Olivia said in her worried voice.
“I have to finish it before Dad wakes up. Let’s deal with it as soon as possible.”
It wasn’t a conversation worth having in front of a human corpse, but they didn’t feel strange.
When I stepped into the cave, bandits appeared who were quite calm, unlike before.
The beautiful appearance of an elf, plus four women. It’s a situation where you can’t be careless enough, but there’s no way they can come this far unscathed. After thinking that far, the bandits immediately raised their swords and aimed at them.
“It looks like your head is spinning around here, doesn’t it?”
Pure admiration, the bandits must have accepted it as a mockery, so they gnawed their teeth and started to attack.
However, the world was not solved with momentum alone. What they were doing now was like moths running into a campfire.
Although organized bandits were dangerous, it was a term that could only be used within the human category.
These words did not apply to the four elves who far exceeded the human category, no, the category of living beings.
Every time Noah swung his sword at the approaching bandits, his neck fell like autumn leaves and his limbs were severed. The bandits collapsed to the ground like puppets whose strings had been cut, only raising their voices in pain and fear of being deprived of freedom.
Among the dogs, those with intact arms or legs scratched the floor in agony, and Stella gently stepped on their heads to cut off the pain. Only the sound of the dying bandits echoed.
Some might say it was cruel, but it was the punishment they deserved. Garbage that killed other people like ants, raped them, and threatened the safety of citizens. Rather, for them, such a comfortable death was a luxury. What could be a greater blessing than this, that those who must suffer more and suffer for eternity at the lowest level of the abyss can die so easily?
“I guess this is the last one?”
Stella puck! He kicked the corpse and looked around.
I could no longer feel the energy of life. If this is enough, Ain will surely praise them. This time, it was just their delusion, but the children’s faces were full of smiles before they knew it, as if they truly believed it.
“Now go….”
Before Stella could finish her words, a huge, deafening roar resounded like an echo in the cave.
Bang!
Up until now, Stella had thought that humans were insignificant and that their attacks were not worth avoiding. Stella, who maintained a calm and rational appearance, raised her defense for the first time and received the attack.
Stella’s eyes widened as she was pushed behind her with a jigsaw-sound, and she opened her mouth slightly in disbelief.
Her sleeves were torn, and her bare white arms were bruised in the blink of an eye.
Before Stella could calm herself down, a man with unusually red hair appeared.