89. Warrior Ryujin
“If you don’t want to get hurt, hand over the room!”
The savage warrior threatened, grabbing Juyeon by the collar.
A savage warrior is the basic job class for savages.
It was a job class that all savages had from birth.
‘Karasen is a case that went from savage warrior to gladiator, then to great warrior, and finally to great chieftain.’
The important thing is, as a savage warrior, this guy must be one of Karasen’s lackeys.
And the lowest of the low at that.
In fact, the expression on the face of Karaon, the great warrior who was the highest warrior rank, was worth seeing.
But that wasn’t important right now.
“If you need a room, you should talk to the innkeeper. Why are you doing this to me?”
“There are no rooms!”
At that voice, the innkeeper came running over anxiously.
“Seriously, if you keep doing this, it’ll be difficult. Guest……somewhere else…….”
“There are no rooms anywhere else either? Are you saying you can’t even give up one room for a warrior?”
Juyeon’s eyes grew cold at that.
“So you’re telling me to give up my room?”
“Yes. You should show at least that much goodwill to a warrior who’s working day and night for this continent!”
“Working hard…….”
The warrior that Juyeon knew wouldn’t have started traveling that long ago.
On the other hand, Juyeon had done a lot during that time.
‘I got the heart in the north, and I also took care of the savages’ business. I even took care of the grand sorcerer and the savage king.’
Meanwhile, what had the warrior done?
A guy who had only just arrived in the north by now. Had he caught a single demon?
“I don’t think so?”
“Hmph, this punk dares to insult the warrior?”
The savage warrior picked up Juyeon’s beer that was on Juyeon’s table.
And after taking a swig, he splashed the rest on Juyeon.
“Get a clue! Do you think the warrior is your friend?”
Juyeon’s clothes were soaked in the leftover beer.
The savage warrior looked at Daedo and Karaon, who were sitting still at the table, and laughed.
“And to think he only gathers cowards like himself as his companions.”
hahahaha.
The savage warrior burst into laughter.
Daedo quietly raised his black water onto the table.
Karaon, who had been covering his entire body with his robe, clenched his fists.
But he didn’t move.
-Don’t move until I give the order.
Before they could make a move, the protagonist’s voice was heard first.
The savage warrior raised the corners of his mouth.
“What’s wrong, are you scared? Why aren’t you talking?”
“Th… This isn’t right, customer.”
The innkeeper tried to approach to stop him, but the savage warrior kicked him away.
“Can’t you see I’m having a conversation? Get lost!”
“Ack!”
The innkeeper fell to the floor.
At that moment, the protagonist’s sighing mouth opened.
“You’ve just made three mistakes.”
“Oh? Three mistakes? Who are you!”
He grabbed the protagonist by the collar as if he didn’t care. He intended to grab the protagonist by the collar and throw him away.
But something was strange.
“What the heck. This kid… Why is he so calm?”
The protagonist’s face was calm, even though he was grabbed by the collar.
He didn’t even need to use .
It was because he didn’t take any damage from this level of attack.
‘Is it thanks to the training of the King of Knights? It’s definitely true that my tenacity has gotten stronger.’
This was the important thing.
“First. You attacked a citizen in the name of a warrior.”
A warrior is a being who protects the continent.
Ryu Jin, the previous warrior, protected the continent with his life.
How dare those who use the name of a warrior tarnish the honor of a warrior.
“Wh… What! I just kicked him.”
“Second. It doesn’t matter if you insult my party members, but you insulted me.”
“……?”
The savage warrior’s pupils shook.
He realized what the protagonist was saying a beat too late.
“What the heck are you talking about! Isn’t it usually the other way around? Your comrades come first!”
“No. I don’t let those who insult me go.”
Bam!
The protagonist’s leg lifted the savage warrior’s chin.
Cough!
In an instant, his head snapped back and blood gushed out of his nose.
The protagonist, whose collarbone was released, punched the guy hard in the stomach.
Bam!
“Guek!”
With a pig-squealing sound, the savage warrior fell to the ground, clutching his stomach.
Thud!
“Third. You drank my alcohol.”
Finally, the barbarian’s head was planted firmly into the ground.
However, Joo-Yeon was not finished yet.
“Fourth. He was just unlucky.”
“What?! I said three… Ugh!”
As the barbarian finally lost consciousness, Dae-Do approached Joo-Yeon.
“Didn’t you go a bit too far?”
“This is not enough. My neck is expensive, you see.”
……If he grabs me twice, even my internal organs will be damaged.
“Anyway, what do you mean by saying it’s okay to insult the group?”
“You don’t need to know.”
“……This bastard. Are you saying that because I’m a thief? Do you think it’s okay to insult me as a thief?”
Dae-Do flared up and started fuming.
However, Joo-Yeon ignored him.
Karahan clicked his tongue and lifted the barbarian with one hand.
“If you had just left him to me, I would have dealt with him according to our clan’s rules.”
“Then you would have had to leave your post. It’s not necessary…”
But then, someone opened the door of the inn and came in.
“Krak! Did you secure the inn?”
“What’s taking you so long to secure one room? Why are you still lazing around… Huh?”
The group of men and women who entered the inn stopped talking.
They spotted Krak, the fallen barbarian.
Their eyes blazed with fury in an instant.
“Did you lay a hand on our comrade?!”
“We won’t let this go!”
The man who stepped forward first was wearing a circlet.
What was surprising was the warrior’s emblem drawn on his neck.
The customers in the tavern who saw the emblem exclaimed in surprise.
“He… He’s a warrior! A real warrior has appeared!”
“That punk was a warrior’s comrade? This is going to get messy…”
A warrior is one who has been chosen by a god.
If he were to be disrespected, the temple might investigate.
So, everyone was scared and tried to avoid him.
However, Joo-Yeon was different.
‘Fake.’
The mark on his neck was similar in shape.
But crucially, his lacked divine power.
“What do you think, old man?”
Groan.
Dae-Do gnashed his teeth instead of answering. Joo-Yeon nodded in understanding.
“I didn’t need to ask.”
He hated fake heroes as much as the Knight King. He even hated Jooyeon, thinking he was a fake.
“Huh, that stigma was just made to shine with magic. I was taken aback because I heard he was a hero, but I missed my chance to cut him down.”
“…….”
From the looks of it, Daedo still seemed to suspect Jooyeon and the Demon tribe were in cahoots.
Of course. Jooyeon didn’t have the stigma, the mark of a hero, right now. It was hard to trust him.
But Daedo skillfully raised his sword.
“Can I take care of this?”
“Don’t push yourself. You need that arm to open the subspace.”
“Even after seeing that?”
“That?”
Daedo pointed at one of the fake hero’s party members.
It was a woman with the profession of a thief.
“She’s helping them even though she knows they’re fake. She’s getting paid for it.”
“Aha.”
Jooyeon looked at them closely and curled his lips up as if he realized something.
‘Berserker. Thief. Magician. Hero.’
It was a natural combination.
But something was strange.
‘Why isn’t there a priest?’
They were the most essential member.
But that wasn’t important.
Since he knew that his opponent was fake, it was better to take care of them.
It wasn’t just because they tarnished Ryuhan’s honor.
‘The more fake heroes there are, the smaller my position becomes.’
The best thing to do would be to contact the Edmer dukedom and have them send troops to take care of them.
But that would take too much time.
Jooyeon snapped his fingers.
“The last one to finish them off pays for all the drinks tonight.”
“……!?”
Jooyeon started to move towards the people charging at him.
* * *
KWAANG!
The inn’s door was smashed to pieces and people came flying out.
They were the fake hero party who had been shouting about avenging their comrade just a moment ago.
“Ugh……!”
Following them, a man walked out of the broken inn door.
It was Jooyeon.
He was the man who had been toying with them until now.
They charged at him with their weapons, but he just blew them away.
The fake hero shouted at the magician.
“Reina! Don’t just stand there, do something!”
“I’m… I’m trying!”
At the fake hero’s words, the mage hurriedly cast a spell.
[Novice spell – Fireball]
A sphere of fire as large as a human head appeared in her hand.
At that sight, the fake hero exclaimed excitedly,
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“Kill him!”
KWAANG!
The fireball struck the main character directly.
In an instant, acrid smoke filled the air.
The fireball may have been a novice spell, but it was a powerful fire spell.
Until now, it had been the greatest contributor to defeating monsters.
“Did we get him!”
“No one who has ever been hit by that has survived.”
He must have been defeated.
However.
“Kyaaak!”
“Reina!”
The body of Reina, who had cast the spell, was charred black.
She looked like she had been hit by a fire spell.
The fake hero urgently raised his sword and shouted,
“Who is it! Who is targeting us!”
He looked around, but there was no one there.
“What… what is this. Then who did Reina get hit by…”
“It was me.”
“……!?”
The fake hero turned around.
Before his eyes stood the main character.
He had been hit directly by the fireball, yet he was not even covered in dust.
“What… what! How are you alive…!”
“Do you think I would die from a novice spell.”
The reason he had used ＜Reflect＞ was simply because he did not want his clothes to get burned.
Without hesitation, the main character swung his sword at the fake hero.
SEUK!
The fake hero collapsed, bleeding.
The main character looked up at the inn.
“Is the thief the only one left?”
There was someone fighting on top of the inn.
It was the big sword user and the thief. In fact, it was a stretch to call it a fight.
One side was being completely overwhelmed.
“aaah! Please spare me!”
Daedo looked at the thief with pity.
“You’ve committed three wrongs. The first is that you’ve tarnished the honor of the Thieves Guild by associating with a fake hero.”
The thief collapsed, dozens of throwing knives embedded in his body.
“So… I was wrong…”
“The second is that you’ve tarnished the honor of Hero Ryu Jin.”
“Th… the third?”
“You followed such an idiot. If a thief can’t be quick on his feet, he should at least be quick-witted!”
Daedo severed the thief’s wrists with throwing knives.
It was the worst possible punishment for a thief.
It was as good as ending his career as a thief.
Hero Ryu Jin’s name was on Daedo’s lips, his eyes murderous, but it was only for a moment.
Daedo laughed as he landed on the ground.
“I guess that handsome barbarian chieftain’s son is paying for all the guards tonight! Then I’ll have another drink!”
“……”
Daedo sneered at Karahan, who hadn’t caught a single one.
Of course, Karahan wasn’t able to use his powers because of Daedo’s interference, but Daedo just chuckled, saying, “That barbarian chieftain’s son is nothing special.”
Karahan’s face turned ugly.
Jooin looked at them, bewildered, as if wondering who the main character was.
“Why are you copying what I say? Did it look cool? Cool enough to do it even if it meant getting in Karahan’s way?”
“Ahem, ahem! I just did it.”
Daedo coughed awkwardly, as if he were embarrassed.
“I’ve contacted the Edmer Estate. The knights will be here soon to take these guys away.”
It was to set an example.
To execute the fake hero in front of everyone so that he would never appear again.
It wasn’t a bad choice.
“So don’t worry…”
“No. The most important thing is still left.”
“What?”
The most important thing?
Instead of answering, Jooin showed him something. It was the fake hero’s circlet that he had just retrieved.
“This item creates the hero’s紋樣 and makes it shine. There must be someone behind this.”
“I wonder…”
“Well, I already asked the fake hero, but he said it was on the magician’s side.”
“Oh?”
Jooin poked the magician who was still unconscious because of .
“Hey. I know you’re not dead yet. Wake up.”
But then it happened.
While Jooin was looking at the magician, the fake hero, who had been pretending to be dead, jumped to his feet.
“Ugh! Do you think I’ll be caught like this!”
“That bastard!”
He began to run away in rags, with neither the crest of a warrior nor a circlet.
Dado clicked his fingers as if he couldn’t believe it.
“He really is a worthless fellow. Shall I go catch him?”
“No. I was planning to test something out, so this is perfect.”
Jooyoung was about to use ＜Reflection＞.
But at that moment.
Swish!
“……!”
The head of the fake warrior who was running away was split in two.
It was a horrifyingly clean sword strike.
Even Dado was put on high alert by its dangerousness.
“Who is it!”
Clack, clack.
Someone was walking towards them from the other side.
They were too far away to see their face properly.
Dado exclaimed in shock.
“You launched a sword attack from that distance?”
He was skilled enough to easily handle even a decent knight.
He needed to be careful.
But Dado’s body froze in place.
He couldn’t help it.
“Warrior……?”
The man who appeared from the darkness had the crest of a warrior around his neck.
It wasn’t a fake one created with magic like earlier, but the genuine crest of a warrior imbued with divine power.
Chunkoongyong on Jooyoung’s shoulder flinched.
Dado was confused.
“Ryujin…… Is it really Ryujin!”
The newly appeared warrior looked exactly like Ryujin, the warrior of the previous generation who had died.
In this ridiculous situation, Jooyoung laughed as if he had been waiting for this while also being wary.
‘This time…… It’s the real one.’
He had been wondering when they would meet.
He had finally met the warrior.