206 – Kill Off (4)
As the escort suddenly fired a hand sling, Off pulled out the staff tied behind him and took out a knife hidden inside.
“What did you shoot?”
“Just in case, I saw some strangely identical tree branches a little while ago.”
Hunter, Eugene said that and fired the sling again.
The hand sling that Eugene uses is a weapon that has been developed recently and is gaining popularity among people he knows.
Some enjoy it for a hobby, while others study it seriously for weapons or hunting.
Among them, Eugene belongs to the latter category. Usually, people who belong to the latter group want to increase their power and range, but Eugene thought the opposite. Instead of sacrificing more range and power, he focused on loading speed, or ‘rate of fire’.
Thanks to this, the range is close to 50m, and I have to use a newly developed arrowhead-shaped bullet to supplement the power. It takes less than a second to do.
Immediately after shooting, you can instantly reload and shoot with light manipulation.
When Chester approached at his own running speed, he calculated from a distance of 50m that he could fire two or three shots. An ordinary person could shoot the whole body evenly while narrowing 50m.
Five bullets flew in an instant and pierced the tree, and the nervous Off and the escorts glared in the direction Eugene had fired them.
“…… I dodged it.”
“Did you avoid it?”
“Yes. I don’t know who it is, but it moves pretty fast. Who are you really?”
Eugene writes down the type and number of bullets used while talking casually in his notebook. Show this and Off will give you more than enough ammo to refill later.
“Still, it was right. The first step. It doesn’t seem right, but…….”
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Off nodded and looked at Eugene when the escort, who hurriedly went to where Eugene had shot him, showed him a bullet with some blood on it.
“Have you seen more?”
At Off’s words, Eugene recalled what he had seen with his own eyes. Immediately after shooting the hand sling, the suspicious tree branches move. And the tree branches that were bent as if to hide something were unraveled and revealed.
“Adult. 2 Male and female. I had a strange load. It’s golden and looks like a long stick… And the big black fur coat? Or maybe leather? I couldn’t see the armor, I could see a sword on my waist, and…….”
Eugene remembers the moment he saw and continues to speak to her. One of the new escorts gave him a suspicious look.
“Hey, seniors. Isn’t that what you mean?”
“You, Eugene-nim or Op-nim, don’t let that word go into your ears.”
“Yes? Why?”
“That’s when you get cut, dude. Do you know how proud Eugene is of his abilities? How much does Off-nim trust that? After touching that, it’s just the end for you.”
“…… I will be careful.”
“Yes. We just have to protect Off-sama and the wagon as instructed. So don’t worry too much about anything other than that. Because it bothers me for nothing.”
* * *
“Oh my God, you doubted the shape of a tree branch.”
Chester looked at the branch that Eugene had shot, which was hanging from Monia’s upper arm.
She was hit by a tree branch and it was fortunate that the bullet grazed her a little. Although she was hit by the bullet, Monia’s wound was not deep and only grazed her skin.
“Twig shape?”
Monia glanced at her Chester, pressing her wounded arm to the grace of her top.
“Yes. As she ran away, she caught a glimpse. She thought it was strange because she kept seeing the same tree branches.”
“…… No way.”
“They were suspicious of the twigs we put in their bodies for camouflage.”
“Does that make sense?”
“What can I do? That’s what reality is.”
“Bulgang you bastard! There was no escort talk like that!”
“Sure. I will have to extort more money later.”
Monia looked at her wound where her blood had stopped a little and saw Anubis and said.
“Let’s shoot a beam. That’s it!”
“You can’t find any evidence that he dealt with the off instead. We have to cut his throat.”
“Let’s shoot without burning the head! Or just shoot that escort!”
“It’s difficult because the escort is so attached to Off, hmm… …. But I think I’ll have to use Anubis to do it.”
Urgo was needed to break through that escort. If Urgo could fight like a gust of wind, he would have been able to savagely tear off the guards, blow them up, and kill Off.
“Since there is no Urgo, I will substitute Anubis.”
Chester and Monia began to discuss how to use Anubis to break through that guard.
“Wouldn’t it have been better if I had sniped Off? I think I could have killed it first and then stolen the corpse.”
Of course, ‘sniper’ is the first operation that was talked about in the assassination operation.
It’s not that Off is moving at high speed, so if it was Monia’s skills, she would have been able to hit her head enough.
However, as expected, it is best to kill close and cut off the head in order to bring ‘evidence of killing’, so even though the sniper assassination was the first operation, it was delayed among the various operations.
“Yes. Would that have been good?”
He briefly regretted that he had postponed the operation for no reason, but Chester changed his mind.
“They knew we were there and stopped moving.”
“Yes.”
“Then let’s do some work on the way forward. Let’s tie them up first.”
And after a while, the peddlers, who were moving slowly while being alert, saw dozens of trees that had collapsed on the road and were blocking the road.
“What is this?!”
“Did a typhoon come?”
With so many numbers, the peddler never thought for a moment that a person would have done this, but I was able to recognize that it was done by a person because of the neatly cut surface of the tree.
“No, what the hell did you cut the tree with?”
“This tree is thicker than my waist… You cut this with a blade?”
“Then what can cut so neatly if it’s not a sharp blade?”
“At least not black, right? If you swing it against a tree incorrectly, the sword will break.”
While her escorts watched their surroundings, trying to figure out how to clear the tree, Eugene stood tall on her horse and looked around with his keen eyes.
In the meantime, Off called mercenaries and made a request for an additional fee. Repulsion of raiders, not just escort. Gives 2 more gold coins to those who repulse it.
“Two gold coins… !”
“With that, I think we can play and eat until next year if we use it well.”
The huge reward motivated the mercenaries to roam the forest to find the attacker.
“Go around the perimeter with a wagon and make a wall with only one doorway. And in case you need to be prepared for sniping, cover the top to cover it.”
Next, we changed the layout of the wagons.
Soon, except for a gap where one person could barely get through, a barrier was formed around the wagon, and a simple roof was made of thick sticks and miscellaneous objects woven together and put on top of it.
After building a barrier with wagons and covering the roof, Op explained the situation to the other peddlers and customers in his peddler.
“A raid, are you okay?”
“It’s okay. We will do our best for the safety of our guests. You know my name, right?”
Off, who was introduced to a skilled and reliable mercenary through personal connections during his mercenary days, has more general escorts than other hawkers, so his hawkers are considered the best among the three hawkers in terms of safety.
The guests who knew that well nodded their heads at Op’s words and felt relieved, then started living in a small secret base built inside the wagon.
And after a while, the guards who had been searching the area returned and told them what they had found.
“Eugene, it is long black hair that was caught in the bush.”
“It’s from one of the raiders.”
“I found footprints at the base of the tree.”
“Then, with that merchant who is good at calculating, calculate the footprint size and find out the approximate physique. So that you can properly aim the body or head when aiming quickly.”
“Okay.”
“Eugene, as you said, trap installation is complete.”
“Then I will look around the trap. Teach Off and his guests some trap layouts. You won’t get hurt.”
Off looked at the traps set by the guards. The traps he set up using the knowledge of traps he had taught him were not intended to kill prey.
When the thin strings laid close to the floor are stepped on, they vibrate, and when they vibrate, a sound is produced to notify the enemy of the approach.
The string used in this trap is made from a spider’s web through a special process, so it is difficult to see even at a glance. Therefore, there was a high probability that an attacker who did not know that the trap was set because the string was not visible would be caught approaching defenselessly.
‘Yes. Well done.’
Satisfied with the trap, Eugene decided to wait for the attacker to come and entered the carriage barrier.
Then, Chester and Monia watched it all from a distance using telescopes.
“It looks like something is being installed on the floor. Is it a trap?”
“I can’t see anything just by looking at it…… Still, I can’t approach you carelessly.”
“Then what are you going to do?”
“Monia. Let’s go sniping.”
Chester said that while holding up Anubis.
“Didn’t they just gather like that? Let’s use it.”
“How?”
At Monia’s question, Chester grinned and activated Anubis’ function.
Then, Anubis’s blade started to burn.
“Fire knows the answer.”
Lol, in a world where warriors use swords or bows, they use beam lasers.