195 – Warrior of the Sun (1)
“Chester, what are you planning to do when you leave the desert?”
“Once you go back to the kingdom, look around and see how things have changed… … .”
“No, on the way to the kingdom. You must earn money to live?”
“right. That’s why I’m thinking of becoming a mercenary.”
“mercenary?”
Chester nodded.
“To a certain extent, you are free to move across borders, and although you are treated as a reckless rogue, your status is somehow guaranteed, and work doesn’t stop wherever you go. Because you can comfortably move long distances without worrying about sleeping.”
“uh? Are you going to become our mercenary?”
Monia, who was playing with Rex, overhears Chester’s words and joins Chester and Urgo’s conversation.
Chester gave Monia a light hug and kissed her on the cheek as she approached him.
“yes. I was thinking of talking about it while leaving the desert.”
“mercenary! A mercenary.”
“Why mercenaries?”
At Chester’s question, Monia muttered for a moment, arranging her words before speaking.
“The duke hated mercenaries. complained often While trying to get money as it was paid, he didn’t listen to orders, he had no hesitation in deceiving his clients, and when he called them to fight, the same mercenaries played war with each other while only wasting their supplies. Because it’s a job.”
“Mmm.”
He said it sharply, as if he had poisoned his tongue, but that was not wrong. A mercenary is not a knight or soldier belonging to a knighthood or a noble family, and since it is a job where skill and character are not guaranteed, it is a job that allows existence only with the advantage of being able to do all kinds of dirty work that others do not want to do at a low price. .
Becoming a mercenary is also simple. Instead of going to a guild building and taking an exam, a young man who stole his parents’ precious money bag and ran away buys a knife in a village somewhere and thinks, ‘I’m a mercenary today!’
A mercenary was nothing more than that.
Instead, there was an advantage of being able to fraudulently inflate achievements that did not exist and get jobs. In return, you may be able to handle difficult tasks beyond your skills.
“Are you okay?”
Because of the duke’s complaint, Monia had heard about all the disadvantages of being a mercenary, and she knew the physiology of a mercenary to some extent, so she expressed anxiety, saying that the plan to make a living and travel as a mercenary would work.
“It’s fine.”
Chester said lightly.
“Why?”
“Because Anubis exists.”
Chester tapped Anubis on his back. Perhaps because Anubis was currently absorbing the power of the sun, something like soft golden powder was shedding.
“If I see a mercenary with something like this, I’ll entrust him with the job even if it’s strange.”
“but. A mercenary who has the elements to stand out at least one thing is good at asking for work. That is why many mercenaries lie that they are the messengers of God or the descendants of some hero.”
Urgo also said that because he had seen various mercenaries while traveling.
“Lortin had many enemies because he lived doing rough work, and he had many encounters with mercenaries or hired mercenaries.”
“Oh, were there any good mercenaries?”
“A memorable mercenary. Because of my size, I am in trouble with people who want to show off their strength and masculinity wherever they go.”
Hearing Urgo’s words, Chester laughed.
“Well. Maybe I am too.”
“Chester? Why?”
“Because Monia is pretty.”
Chester’s words made Monia feel better, so she blushed and told her not to joke.
But Chester wasn’t joking.
Beautiful women always attract men and fuss.
“When I was drinking at a bar, someone always got into a fight. Every time that happened, he gave me a smash. I don’t think of any of the guys who quarreled with me, but I do think of the mercenary who came after the bounty on Rottin.”
Urgo briefly recalled the past.
“He held a medium-length spear in one hand and a stick in the other.”
“It is unique. How strong were you?”
“I’ll be at your level now, Chester.”
Urgo didn’t think much of it, but Chester, who was confident that he was pretty strong now, and Monia, who knew Chester was strong, were surprised.
Being at the level of Chester now meant that he was at least a strong man with skills that exceeded that of a decent knight. For such a strong person to be a mercenary, even looking at Chester’s case of trying to become a mercenary for the purpose of traveling around the world, it was an unusual case.
If you are a skilled person like that, you can settle down in a suitable place and live comfortably without having to work as a mercenary.
“He said he was a descendant of a great blah blah blah, the chosen one of the gods, who made such and such an achievement and killed something called a legendary monster.”
“… … what is that guy?”
“If you’re going to do mercenary work, Chester, shouldn’t you do something similar? How about a warrior of the sun, a warrior of the sun? Just as Anubis uses the power of the sun.”
“shut up.”
“Desert demons are good too.”
“Oh really.”
Urgo is Chester, the Great Warrior of the Pyramid, chosen by the Great Sun! Born and raised on a floating island, Chester, a warrior of nature! He chuckled as he continued to tease Chester in the same way.
“Oh, right. I’ll write down the mercenary life tips I heard from the mercenaries. Could you give me your notebook?”
“Ah, here.”
“Well? This notebook looks familiar somewhere… … .”
* * *
As the desert sun set and the moon rose, the desert slowly cooled its hot body and began to cool like an ice field.
The wise camel warriors who had been holding out near the village carefully took out the stones they had put in the fire made with precious wood, and put them in their arms to warm their frozen bodies.
“Shall we move slowly?”
“It is. Turn off the lights.”
After extinguishing the flames with sand, the warriors prepared to charge into the scorpion village beneath the sand.
“How is the movement of the town?”
“There is no change. Jahan sent a signal, and all the warriors seem to be asleep.”
“great. Everyone remembers the location of their warrior’s tent, right?”
“Yes.”
“of course.”
“I’ll explain again, but this raid operation is not about attacking all at once, but the priority is to infiltrate one by one and reduce the number of warriors one by one.”
A wise camel warrior infiltrates the village and kills the scorpion warrior under the sand and the family living in the same tent.
When that’s over, another one, and if that one succeeds, another one.
The goal was to move the warriors waiting in hiding around the village one by one to kill the enemy without shedding blood as much as possible.
“Let’s start.”
The revolutionary camel warriors moved near the tent of the Scorpion tribe under the sand, and first entered Jahan’s tent built on the outskirts of the village.
As Jahan was a warrior expected by the village, the tent was large enough for about five warriors to come in and lie down.
There, more than ten warriors gather and sit huddled together, and share information on the location of the tent they are aiming for again to prepare for mistakes that may happen. … … I thought so.
Unless Jahan was drinking with his friends.
“… … .”
“… … .”
The two tribal warriors met each other’s eyes.
The smart camel warriors, embarrassed by the unexpected situation, stiffened their heads, and the scorpion tribe warriors under the sand, who pretended to be asleep and then came to the tent to play with secretly stolen alcohol to eat, drink, and play, did not turn their heads.
Only Jahan, who had been forcibly held by them while drinking as little as possible, gnashed his teeth when the wise camel warriors suddenly arrived.
Shame sets in at the thought of having made a mistake for some truly absurd reason.
“… … die!”
Then, Jahan impulsively raised a weapon lying near him and stabbed one of his friends in the chest.
“Cuck!”
With that as a signal, the wise camel warriors killed all the scorpion warriors under the sand that had become dull due to drunkenness, and left their corpses in a corner of Jahan’s tent.
“… … What kind of situation is this?”
“These bastards said they didn’t like me, but they pushed in and interfered! It’s not my fault!”
Jahan gritted his teeth and said that, but the wise camel warriors didn’t respond to Jahan, just nodded in agreement and went out to do their own thing.
As they went out to the tent one by one, the wise camel warrior who was waiting at the back raised his weapon after seeing Jahan muttering that there was nothing wrong with him.
The moment he raised his weapon, the warriors on both sides rushed in and grabbed Jahan and shut his mouth.
“What is this… !”
The weapon stabbed by the warrior behind him pierced Jahan’s chest, and the warrior twisted the weapon that had pierced Jahan and roughly pulled it out, spilling a large amount of blood onto the floor.
“… … !!”
Jahan, unable to scream properly because his mouth was blocked, shook his body as if in a seizure, and quietly rolled his eyes to face his death.
“But will eliminating this tribe make us stronger?”
“At least you can grow in size without worrying about the great wind interfering.”
“right. If we capture women, we will be able to produce more warriors.”
“Ah, yes! Something like that. I got it now.”
Without thinking, the warrior who participated in the raid and stabbed himself because it was just an order understood that his actions would benefit the village and decided to move with more enthusiasm.
However, no matter how perfect a plan is, problems will arise.
A warrior who wakes up after falling asleep, a warrior who wakes up feeling strange just before being attacked and resists for a while and then dies, or a child who wakes up secretly from his parents and screams in surprise at a stranger who suddenly enters his tent.
Various people caused an uproar, and the Scorpion tribe under the sand, realizing that they had been ambushed, hurriedly moved against the assailant.