Episode 20.
Seeing me grinding my teeth, Ea sighed and said,
“Then why are you only hitting the top of the head?”
“Since Jeongsu-ri has one room, it’s neat and nice.”
Ea’s question still seemed unresolved.
“You can just subdue it perfectly and then ask for surrender. don’t bother hitting I would admit it if I put a sword to your neck.”
That’s right. Even if I warned you to watch your head, if you don’t hit me in the head,
To be precise, if I hadn’t hit the top of my head, I wouldn’t have been treated as a demon.
Didn’t Seton even defend him?
I thought that maybe.
‘Is it because I really want to relieve stress?’
Sixteen battles have already been completed. On days when there was a sparring or swordsman’s lecture, he could sleep better than usual despite the arduous training.
Maybe my subconscious unconscious was relieving stress behind my back.
“Iknow, right… ?”
“You must have been under a lot of stress, just like the Sword Master said.”
“Ah, no way.”
I smiled and scratched my head in embarrassment.
When Ea glanced at my hair, it changed to a shocked expression.
“Hey you… .”
Ea was just pointing at me with her mouth covered. It pointed exactly where I was scratching.
“yes? what is that?”
Did you bury anything? Are there any worms?
“Ah, what a bug.”
I grabbed the scratched part with my hand. And let’s spread our hands in front of our eyes… .
“uh… la?”
Dozens of strands of hair were pulled out. I just grabbed my hair a little bit.
Suddenly, I remembered what Dale had said to me.
– Master, don’t stress. It is said that if you are stressed out, you will lose hair. See Holstin in the Templars.
I must have been under a lot of stress. Otherwise, there’s no way my hair would fall out like this.
What the hell is the reason for me to be stressed… there was
‘Sword Saint, let’s see for real.’
I was thinking of just slapping her butt, but I changed my mind.
I should aim for the crown of the Sword Master.
Just in case, I imagined that I would hit the Sword Saint’s crown. It was thrilling.
It’s so thrilling that the stressed out hair seems to grow back.
‘Sword Saint-nim, I’ll have to sacrifice my body for my hair.’
He resumed his mercenary work after a break for a while. This is because a good personal request came in this time.
It’s an escort mission, so it’s not very dangerous, but it’s said that the mission success rate is high.
The client was an ordinary aristocratic woman.
The escort to the nearby area will be over in a day, and the advance payment is 100 gold. After completing it, he said he would give him 1,000 gold, so he packed his things and headed for the mountain.
I was suspicious of the large amount of money for a simple howi, but I had to earn money, so I packed up the items and went to meet the client.
It was a mountain with ruins.
“hey?”
I waited at the entrance of the mountain, but no one was there, and no one came.
While I was thinking about whether I should enter the mountain, I heard a scream from the mountain.
“Kyaaa”
A high, tearing female scream.
body moved first. I ran as far as I could to where the screams came from. It may be a person related to this quest.
When I arrived at the place where the screams came from, I saw a woman on her knees with a bewildered expression on her face.
He moved closer to the woman and looked around. But nothing.
‘What the hell is this woman like?’
There is no reason to scream. Could it be that she is a crazy woman?
At first, he shook the woman.
“Hey, what’s going on?”
The woman pointed to one place with a trembling hand. I looked there but there was nothing.
And at that moment, a sticky feeling of life was felt from the woman’s side.
Rolling forward, he distanced himself from the woman. A dagger was held in the woman’s hand, and blood dripped drop by drop from the dagger.
A hot pain felt in the side.
“Unfortunately, it is thin. I was aiming for the liver.”
It looked completely different than before.
She was a cold, expressionless woman with no emotions.
Squeezing his cheeks, he drew his sword and aimed it at the woman. Then he looked around. I feel it now.
‘Women are not alone.’
Why the hell are you targeting me?
“Who are you, are you targeting me?”
“I don’t need to know.”
A cold woman’s voice that matches the woman’s mood. He seemed like a person with no emotions.
I got a shallow wound, but somehow my head works better.
There is only one person I have a grudge against.
“Milia.”
For a moment, the woman’s eyebrows quivered. I guess Millia is right.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, and even if you noticed, you can’t get out of here.”
After the woman finished speaking, those who had been hiding around appeared.
Seven in total, including women.
“after… .”
Can you deal with seven people while being wounded?
To be honest, it would be close to a bunch.
“Did you send the mercenary request by any chance?”
The expressionless woman smiled. a positive smile
It was unforgivable to play with people’s hearts with money.
said the woman.
“Honestly, I was surprised.”
“What do you mean?”
“The way you obsess over your skills or money.”
If you have skills, there is no law saying you shouldn’t be obsessed with money.
Isn’t there such a thing as “more or less good”?
“I have a reason to save money.”
For future healing life.
However, the future is not visible now.
They will also know my skills. He must have thought of a way to beat the Sword Expert Intermediate level.
“Attack.”
As the woman nodded, her men charged at me.
I closed my eyes tightly. It was because he detonated the mana flash bomb he brought for insurance purposes.
I cut a few people among the panicking enemies and secured a retreat.
‘The only problem is that the retreat is a ruin.’
The woman’s side is the exit of the mountain.
But it didn’t seem like a woman could break through easily. That’s why I decided to hide in the ruins that can’t be easily found.
If you don’t go back soon, someone you know from the guild might come to check on you.
I ran out of breath. No one followed behind. entered the ruins.
jerk, jerk.
It feels like footsteps are ringing today.
jerk, jerk.
Clearly, footsteps could be heard overlapping.
I checked behind me, but no one was there.
“I know everything is there! Come on out!”
Please, I hope I’m just messing around with myself.
However, despite what I had been praying for, a woman and three men came out.
As much as they investigated me, I should have thought that the ruins were uncovered.
“You know this place? There was not enough research.”
Judging from the fact that he hadn’t investigated until now, he must have started investigating me relatively recently. The choice to run away to the ruins wasn’t bad.
“How did you know?”
“Wouldn’t there be cases where I want to assassinate but run away like you? You don’t seem to know what a cult is.”
I didn’t think the authors would have mastered the follow-up technique. All I could think about was running away.
It would have been better to run away as far as possible instead of going to the ruins.
“I want you to surrender your head gently.”
The woman who had been expressionless the whole time smiled brightly.
I stood guard and stepped back. The woman and his subordinates followed me and approached keeping their distance.
“I will never die quietly.”
The number of spleens still remains. A door leading into the ruins began to appear in the back.
Right now.
“Search!”
I threw the mana bomb I had prepared as a trump card toward the woman. Then I turned around and ran as far as I could.
‘It was so suspicious, so I did a good job keeping it in mind.’
Two types of insurance that I bought with a lot of money because it was an openly questionable request. It was good to pack mana bombs and mana flash grenades.
I ran with all my might. That’s because the range of Mana Bomb is wide.
Perhaps the moment it explodes, there is a possibility that the cave will collapse as well as the women and men.
I ran to the door leading to the stairs. Looking back, they also noticed that it was a mana bomb and were running away.
Wow!
A tremendous sound was heard from behind, followed by the screams of women and men who could not escape.
And, as I expected, the cave collapsed.
“Now what?”
The entrance was blocked by a pile of stones. Digging this out by hand was close to impossible.
“There may be a byway.”
When you reach the end of the ruins, there may be other entrances as well. Moreover, the location of these ruins is halfway up the mountain.
Since it was a ruin that went down, there was a possibility that the end would be close to the entrance of the mountain.
“It’s a small hope… .”
it’s somewhere though Once I went down the stairs.
And the moment I checked the monster there, I couldn’t help but despair.
A group of trolls, one of which is said to be comparable to an intermediate sword expert, were walking around.
If I had to evaluate the trolls in front of me in one word, it would be like this.
‘Really ugly.’
Orcs and goblins are also ugly. But the trolls far surpassed them.
Boils growing on the hooked nose. Shaggy hair with bluish skin.
He was holding a wooden bat in his hand, from which he had not known where he had picked it up.
“I don’t want to see them alone, but I don’t want to see them in groups.”
On average, there were two or three in groups.
“It must be a sword expert beginner level.”
Strangely, the monsters in these ruins were one level weaker than known.
If a group of expert beginner trolls were my opponent, I, an intermediate level, would be able to easily overcome two or three trolls.
But it was not the way it was said.
“Because I’ve never fought a lot before.”
He had very little combat experience with the majority.
If there was, it was just a battle with goblins and assassins in Cheki Village.
“I’ll have to escape before it’s too late.”
To escape from the ruins, you must first go through the group of trolls and find the boss.
If you stay here, it is dangerous because there is no food or water.
Quietly approached the troll group. The two were paired up.
“die!”
He cut off the arm of one and pierced the heart of the other.
But the result was different from what I thought.
The one whose heart was stabbed was still moving, and the one who cut his arm brought his severed arm to the joint and was joined within seconds.
“What is this… ?”
While thinking about it, I was able to remember one thing. The troll’s strengths were its resilience and tenacity.
“No matter how good your resilience is, can a severed arm be reattached? And even if your heart is pierced, you won’t die? I only learned from books, but it was real… .”
There was no doubt that trolls were abnormal beings.
The first priority was to avoid the enraged troll’s blow.
The enraged troll randomly swung a wooden bat at me. both at the same time.
Because the trajectory was simple, there was no problem in avoiding it.
but… .
‘How should I cut my throat?’
If I continued like this, it was clear that I would collapse from exhaustion first.
Then two of them attacked me at the same time. It was a chance.
I jumped in place and turned my sword once. With a single swing, he decapitated two trolls.
And, as always, the troll disappeared scattering light.
If there’s one thing that’s different from before…
“What, bread and water?”
Where the troll fell, bread and water sprang up. It was the first time I had seen food appear where a monster had disappeared.