192 – Ambush is fun (3)
Hilde As soon as the hundred men retreated, I immediately raised my sword in the sky and shouted.
“Martin Mayer, the mercenary leader of the Whitebeard Mercenaries, is here. If there is someone who is confident in their skills, come out and try to slit my throat! “You will be able to close your arms tightly!”
In a typical battlefield, a commander openly shouting that I am here is an act of insanity, like begging for someone to ‘kill me.’
It can be said that it is an act that is even worse when you are at the forefront and the enemy is cornered.
‘If you just slit my throat, the situation will turn completely upside down.’
Until just now, the morale of the mercenaries was at the lowest level, but after hearing what I said, loud voices began to emerge from all over the place.
“All you have to do is kill that bastard!”
“f*ck, what can’t you do?”
“That bastard looks like he’s worth a lot of money for his life.”
When people are faced with the threat of almost death, or even if there is even the slightest possibility of survival, they have great hope.
Even if the success rate is less than 1%.
If we continue like this, we have no choice but to give up and die, but if we succeed, not only will we be able to live without dying, but especially if we hit the head of a mercenary leader like me, there is a possibility that they will force us to surrender.
A miserable end! Happy start again! You can get your hands on it.
One of the enemy mercenaries dressed in steel armor pointed at me and gave an order.
“Kill that bastard! And survive! Long live the Black Lion Mercenaries!”
It’s extremely simple, but is it because it mentions ‘survival’, which is the most urgent need for those who have been ambushed and are being pushed back by their allies’ momentum?
The guys in front of me came at me in droves to kill me.
“Die, you f*cking bastard!”
There are quite a few enemies running around and behind me, 5 at a time, trying to kill me…
‘Are you going to kill me like this?’
This is absolutely ridiculous and pathetic.
So, with my power, I should trample on those guys in an instant and teach these mercenaries, who are either black lions or black cats, what the torture of hope is, right?
I signaled with my left hand to the stormtroopers not to step forward for a moment.
I ended up dealing with dozens of people all at once…
There was no reaction of concern coming from behind me.
Well, it would be hard to imagine that I, Martin Mayer, an expert intermediate, would be killed by a dozen of these idiots.
“Screw that idiot!”
When a guy who looked like a mercenary leader wearing steel armor attacked.
“Don’t be a rip-off.”
In order to show the overwhelming difference in capabilities between them and me, I unleashed a huge amount of aura and wrapped fire around my sword.
The eyes of those running towards me widened and their mouths dropped open.
“What the f*ck?!”
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If only they had realized it 10 seconds sooner, they wouldn’t have died right now, but they are pitiful, pitiful people.
I slashed my sword in a straight line, scattering flames, and the upper bodies of the two guys closest to me fell to the ground.
“Ugh!”
I heard the enemy’s groans, but I took a step forward, stepping on the dying corpse in front of me.
A rotational slash in which the whole body is turned while moving forward and a single rotation is made at high speed.
The heads of three people around him fell to the ground, and the headless corpses waved their weapons in the air.
“I’ve lost all my strength.”
Well, if you don’t have a brain, how can you use your muscles properly to kill someone…
I killed those five guys in the blink of an eye, but I still have to kill them.
There were a lot of them left.
‘How should I deal with this to drastically reduce morale?’
While I was thinking about it, I swung my sword and killed them one by one with slightly slow and exaggerated movements.
It is more effective in spreading fear to kill black cats at a speed that is barely visible than to kill them at a speed that is invisible to the eye.
‘Wouldn’t it be more scary to die without being able to resist when everything is visible to you?’
“aaah!”
One guy starts screaming even though I’m holding a sword and I haven’t even cut him yet.
“Thank you.”
I’m actually scared of fighting on the battlefield, but I’m controlling it in the same way as my desire to get ahead and suppressing it through reason.
Everyone here is in a similar situation, but if one person steps forward and expresses fear like that, it spreads to the people around them and their hidden fears are revealed.
When the fear was revealed and the dozens of people with their hands and feet tied up were easily cut down, there were only two people left, including the guy in the armor.
I intentionally left the armored one alone, and cut the other one in half from head to hip.
The guy who looked like a knight in armor immediately took a step back.
“Ugh… Ten…”
However, perhaps he was a man with a keen mercenary mentality, or perhaps he knew that if he turned his back, he would be stabbed right away, but he did not back down.
“aaah!”
Instead of retreating, he raised his two-handed greatsword and made a large swing towards my head.
Because it is an attack containing an aura, it is a somewhat threatening cut.
I did not attack it with my sword, but deliberately moved my body to avoid it.
‘Here, it is more important than anything to show that there is a difference between my capabilities and those of these guys.’
I thought about it a few times and remembered the purpose of this battle I am currently fighting.
Then, instead of cutting his throat with the sword, I kicked him in the face with my heel.
The sword fell from the hand of the corpse whose head had been blown open.
Blood was only gushing out from the head that had been crushed along with the helmet.
When the black cats saw that, they looked at me with eyes as if their souls had gone out and took a few steps back.
“Monster… Monster… f*ck…”
Hearing things like that in everyday life might make you feel bad, but hearing them on the battlefield is the best compliment.
When I heard those words, my shoulders started to shrug.
And in this situation, pretending to be humble is counterproductive to the morale of the allies.
‘If you are good at putting it on when you put it on and taking it off when it comes off, you are in the top 1%.’
Whether it is war, human relationships, or even s*x.
I laughed while holding the sword outstretched towards them.
“Next time someone tries to attack you, come out, I’ll make everything look like this.”
Then he pointed down with his finger.
The guys who attacked me and quickly went to Deus’s side, the ground where the guys were still alive and screaming for help.
“Come.”
When I intentionally showed off my bravado, the mercenaries behind us cheered.
“The boss is f*cking cool!”
“That’s why he’s our leader!”
“Everyone follow Captain Martin!”
The louder the cheers of our troops got, the more the faces of the black lions in front began to harden.
I guess this is enough to lower their morale, right?
“Everyone follow me!”
As soon as he finished saying that, he cut down the demoralized guys one by one.
The guys, whose morale was low, continued their battle with us in a variety of ways.
The brave guy fought against his fears, shedding tears and screaming loudly.
“Die, damn it!”
The cowardly one turned his back and cut down what was trying to run away.
“Help me!”
Those who were brave and those who were out of their minds due to fear all faced death equally.
The stormtroopers following me gained momentum and ran wild, brandishing all kinds of weapons.
“You bastards!”
“Try dying today!”
“Why!”
With me at the forefront and even the assault corps attached, the black lions, or rather the mercenaries who were now weak black cat cubs, could not hold out.
And as I got closer and closer to the flag indicating that there was a mercenary leader, I became more excited.
Why? Even if you succeed in cutting off the head of the mercenary leader, you will receive a huge reward.
‘The entire mercenary unit shares, so my share is about a few dozen pieces.’
That alone is one month’s worth of salary as a mercenary leader.
Of course, among mercenaries in a mercenary unit, the salary becomes more and more meaningless as the rank increases.
Although it is not a very large income.
However, when that cowardly mercenary leader saw his children dying, he immediately ordered a retreat.
“Retreat, retreat!”
When that cowardly bastard gave an order, the Black Lions, who had already lost many of their troops, turned their backs and started running away.
“Retreat! “Retreat!”
As soon as they heard that, they turned their backs and started running away.
It’s all well and good that they were destroyed, but if those bastards jump out and can’t cut off the mercenary leader’s head, if they jump out, it’s my loss.
“Ten, chase after me!!”
How can a mercenary leader just keep his eyes open and watch the unmanly run away…
“Charge!”
Once the order was given, our mercenaries pursued the enemies as best as they could.
However, since the mercenary leader curled his tail and ran away like a squirrel, we could not avoid being like a dog chasing a chicken in an instant.
“Holy sh*t!”
I could hear the sound of clicking one’s tongue from behind me.
“The fully baked bread is undercooked, damn it!”
“Ha, but there’s nothing we can do about it. Reorganize your formation!”
“Is this war?”
Still, everyone would have been very disappointed if they had missed the high-ranking person whose ransom was at least several thousand gold coins.
Unless the mercenary leader is someone with a high name, the price is only about 300 gold coins for the entire mercenary group.
If all of that is divided among the mercenary units, each mercenary would only receive hundreds of thousands of won in Korean money.
‘The bonus for annihilating the mercenary army is much larger than that of the mercenary leader.’
As I was sighing and reorganizing my formation for a moment, a friendly messenger was running towards our mercenary unit.
“I don’t think he’s part of our mercenary corps, but who is he?”