132 – A touch lurks on the island (1)
“… … .”
Entering the forest, Urgo quietly sniffed.
‘It’s the smell of a beast. They are not herbivores. Is it a dog and a beast?’
He had heard enough of the demons on the island, but Urgo did not believe in them.
The only mystical beings that he believes in are the great mother, Chowon, and the wind spirit, the child of Chowon.
However, that didn’t mean that Urgo was not afraid of the ‘butler’ who now lurked on that island.
No matter how gifted he is with the qualities of a hero, no matter how successful he is at all great things, Urgo is still human. ordinary human.
It is difficult to step into a space where you know you could die.
So Urgo made up his mind and stepped into the forest. Standing in front of Rotin, he carefully leads the party.
“Be among the people.”
I told this to Rotin, and Rottin meekly entered the crew.
It is an outright human shield. It means that no matter what attack comes, it should be hit before Rotin and die instead.
However, all the sailors did not say anything dissatisfied and quietly followed Urgo.
Entering the forest, Urgo drew his sword.
It is the sword that the chief of the tribe carried, left at the site where the tribe was annihilated.
At the beginning of the handle, it looks like a normal sword, but at the end, it is a two-pronged sword that splits left and right like a snake’s tongue.
It was a thick sword made by ignorantly using an alloy of two different metals in one, a weight that no ordinary person would ever think of lifting and wielding.
Among the swords weighing 1-2 kg, the two-pronged sword boasts a weight of 5 kg alone.
Even huge swords designed to be wielded with both hands never weighed that much.
Urgo swung the ignorant, sword-shaped lump of metal and cut down the surrounding bushes and vines to make a path.
However, before long, I noticed something strange.
“… … There is a way.”
“what?”
“The grass is trampled down and the road is made.”
Plants on the floating island grow quickly. But from the house to the villa, Chester and Monia came and went every day.
The roads the beasts used to come and go were also left as traces, and there was no way that Chester and Monia, who were heavier than them, would not leave traces on the roads they often traveled.
“Can’t you see me?”
“The path is covered in new grass.”
Urgo pointing his two-pronged sword all the way down a path covered in new grass.
He took a step to walk down the road.
Then, a distant sound was heard. A faint sound heard only by Urgo in this place that no one else could hear.
It was the sound of the bowstring pulled taut to shoot the arrow released from the string pulled taut to let the arrow go.
“It is an arrow.”
At the same time as Urgo said that, two arrows flew from afar and hit a sailor.
“Ugh!”
shoulder. eight. It wasn’t a fatal wound, but it was enough to cause confusion among the crew.
Soon after, another arrow flies and hits another sailor in the head.
Everyone was horrified when one of the sailors fell.
“Aww! It’s a demonic attack!”
“Ji, calm down! It’s just a bow!”
“It will fly again! Escape over there!”
Everyone was confused and tried to go in the opposite direction from the arrow, but only two were different.
Rotin and Urgo. The two ran in the direction the arrow had come from.
“Follow me, kids! If you run away, you will continue to fall prey to arrows! run! I have to run and catch it!”
Urgo held out his two-pronged sword like a shield, while Rotin ran with both arms covering his head and chest.
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Lean forward to reduce the surface area as much as possible for arrows to reach, and hide in tall bushes.
“OMG.”
“Everyone, run! If you don’t run, you’ll be killed by my brother anyway!”
“run! run!”
“crazy!”
At first, they hesitated, but as soon as one or two people cried and started running after Urgo and Rotin to eat mustard, everyone started running in the direction the arrow flew.
In the meantime, two arrows flew again and hit the sailors.
And when the sailors were running for a while, something big unlike the arrow flew toward Urgo.
“Urgo!”
Rotin shouted, but Urgo calmly supported the two-pronged sword with his hand to catch the flying projectile.
Caang!
A strong impact that the object hit by the two-pronged sword pushes to the wrist. Urgo gritted his teeth a little and looked at the object bounced off the sword.
‘A stone. It is not a power that can be produced by throwing. That means catapult! less than three people? Is it four?’
Another arrow flies.
‘Two long arrows. one short one. It looks like a crossbow arrow from one of our ship’s crew.’
A crossbow is characterized by ease of loading. All you have to do is to pull the string in advance and secure it, then put the arrow on it right before shooting later.
‘Is one using a bow and crossbow, and the other using a bow and slingshot?’
How far did you run?
At some point, the arrow stopped, and the sailors slowly began to slow down their running speed.
“… … Are you not flying anymore?”
“Why, why?”
Guessing from the angle at which the arrows flew, Urgo judged that there would be archers around here, and looked up at the tree while stopping Rottin from going further.
“There is no sign of being crushed by the grass. It was shot here, but not from the ground.”
“then? on top of a tree?”
“yes.”
In order to secure a comfortable position for shooting the bow, some of the branches were broken and cut.
“Since there are a lot of numbers here, it looks like they just shot without aiming properly.”
“Right. No matter where you hit it, as long as there are injuries, it’s to that side’s advantage.”
Rotin saw Urgo.
“Can you tell me where it went?”
“It’s faint, but I can hear the voices. … … there!”
Urgo started sprinting in the direction of the sound, and Rottin followed suit.
“uh? Run again?”
“Oh, damn it! What are you doing!”
There was no sailor who would get tired just by running for a short time. However, I was just dissatisfied with running after the two without knowing anything.
The sailors ran through the woods again, and the sound reached Chester’s ears as he ran ahead.
“They are chasing you.”
“Yes?”
Monia, who was jumping up and down the tree with Chester holding her hand, looked back.
“Looks like someone has good ears.”
Chester recalled one of the sailors he could glimpse through the branches, who had a unique physique and a strange sword.
‘It’s that guy. I think he resembles one of my friends who came to see my father. He was a man who lived on the meadow side… … . It is characterized by wide open eyes.’
Surely, it was said that the space between the eyebrows was widened to secure a wide field of vision. Then it was clear that the eyes would be good too.
Chester jumped up and down the branch, then pulled Monia out of her way and held her like a princess.
“Huh?!”
“I have to shake it off, so I run in earnest.”
With those words, Chester started running up the branches at a speed that was incomparable to that of Monia.
The elasticity that is created the moment you spur the tree branch. It moves its own body as it is, and ‘shoots’ its body forward like an arrow fired by the elasticity of a bow.
The moment it lands on the next tree branch, it uses elasticity and recoil to shoot again without delay.
Shoot, shoot, shoot again.
By doing so, it runs faster than it originally could with less stamina and strength, as if it were flying, as if it were passing over tree branches.
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Like the wind that is not bound by anything.
“Che, Chester! Can you carry it on your back?!”
Monia, who experienced Chester’s speed firsthand, raised her voice with surprise and excitement.
“yes?”
“I’ll shoot while looking back!”
“… … okay. nice.”
As Chester carried Monia on her back like a burden, Monia drew her bow as she watched the sailors chasing them.
‘Awesome.’
Sailors are moving away at terrifying speed. As more and more tree branches block the view, the sailors gradually become invisible.
However, there were only two of those sailors, two men who ran particularly fast.
A huge man holding a unique sword and a man wearing colorful clothes different from other sailors.
‘It’s me two.’
The body is shaking all the time. As we are moving forward rapidly, the aim point is constantly changing.
In this state, there was no way that any archery could ever send an arrow to where it wanted.
However, Monia didn’t care about that.
‘It’s to slow down the steps of the two people ahead of me even just a little bit.’
As long as the arrows went even near the two men running in front, the objective could be achieved.
If they slow down their speed, Chester and Monia will be able to escape to a faraway place that is out of their sight and ears, and they will be able to secretly approach them again and attack by shooting arrows one-sidedly.
“what! Urgo! What is running?!”
“It is very fast. Can a person run like that?”
Urgo was still somehow catching up to Chester’s pace, but even that was slowly accelerating.
Rotin is not as fast on his feet as Urgo, nor is he full of stamina.
The roads were rough and the brush was long, so I couldn’t keep my top speed for long in the woods, where every step was hampered by the trapping of my feet.
“Hoo-wook… … !”
However, I couldn’t slow down because I knew that if I missed that archer, I would lose track completely.
I clenched my teeth and ran.
I ran and ran, but Urgo suddenly turned sideways and ran toward Rotin.
“Suck!”
He swung his two-pronged sword roughly.
The swung sword cut off the arrow that was flying toward Rotin before he knew it, and when the arrow and the sword suddenly passed in front of his eyes, the surprised Lotin stopped his feet.
“Kuk!”
Rotin rolls back and forth with his stopped foot twisted. Urgo grabbed Rottin and raised him up, looking in the direction Chester had disappeared.
“how?! I can still chase you!”
“The sound is gone!”
“… … !”
Rotin, who had bitten his teeth in resentment, let out a breath as he watched the sailors struggling to follow him from behind.
“Whoa.”
he is the captain There are many sailors to lead. Do not appear disheveled or excited.
In the midst of such hardships in a place like this, the moment you show a broken figure, your charisma disappears, and it is easy to become an opportunity for a rebellion on board.
“great. wait for the next one.”
Returning calm and calm, Rottin told the crew to stop and prepared for the next attack.
“They will definitely attack.”
There was no way that the slayer who dared to go out and kill people would quietly back down in a situation where he had only killed one person after shooting arrows like this.
As they were thinking of ways to counter the arrows, Chester and Monia, who were far away, complimented each other.
“Wow, Chester. It’s really fast.”
“The decision to shoot the arrow backwards was good. He was really fast.”
“But wouldn’t Chester have easily shaken it off by himself?”
“No, I do, but I would have had to run longer to get it right.”
Saying that, Chester pulled out a water bottle from his waistband.
Despite running so furiously, only a few drops of water flowed out of Monia’s bucket.
“This is good too.”
As Chester said that and drank the water, Monia grinned and chewed on the smoked meat.
“When is the next raid?”
“Right Now. If you’re not an idiot, you’ll come up with arrow countermeasures. I’ll attack you before that.”
Chester grinned.
“I’m sorry, but I have no intention of giving you a break.”
Chester’s greatest weapon was not his knowledge of survival.
It’s not even throwing or marksmanship.
It wasn’t even the grip strength he inherited from his father or mother.
health. That crazy stamina that doesn’t seem to drop even if you run around the forest all day unless you push it to the extreme extreme.
The other side would have run out of breath and consumed a lot of stamina because of the sudden rush, but on the other hand, Chester, who used a low strength and stamina by running like a fly, was in a moderately pleasant state of body.
Monia, who moved on the back of Chester, is still in good spirits.
The two of them lightly quenched their thirst and headed straight back to the crew.