249 – Waterway War (4)
It happened when I was young.
While Chester was learning the skills and mindset of a hunter from his father, Chester, who was walking through the forest as usual, was suddenly caught by something.
As the body was dragged away in an instant with tremendous force, Chester, who was startled and terrified, could only scream.
“aaagh! Dad! Help me!”
Chester’s father saw how his son reacted precisely to the trap he had set up without his knowledge.
“Son, when you are caught in a trap, the first thing you should do is to stay calm. Traps you set and forgot, traps set by other hunters, traps set by villagers to catch and eat meat, traps set by children for fun… When you walk around the mountains, you can get caught in unexpected traps like that.”
It’s so rare that a normal person might take it once in their lifetime, but since hunters often wandered around forests, fields, and mountains, they were more likely to get caught in traps than other people.
“That would be frightening, surprising and confusing. But that shouldn’t be the case. Keep calm, think of what you have now, and figure out how to get out.”
On the day he taught his son the importance of calm, Chester’s father returned home and found his son’s ankle torn and bleeding, and even the wife’s father, who knew that it was the work of nothing else. Beaten with anger
Turning the threat of wrath from a mother who tried to punish her child who had been carelessly wounded, by acting calmly and calmly as she had been taught that day, from herself to her father, Chester realized the importance of coolness and composure.
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When the net covered his entire body. And when he was hit in the forehead by a pebble in the net. When he felt the flash of pain in his eyes and the blood trickling down from his forehead, into his blurry eyes.
In all those moments, Chester didn’t panic.
They didn’t panic even though they heard screams of frightened people around them, and they didn’t panic even though they felt that someone was quickly running towards them.
Chester just closed his eyes and used his vision, which he had grown accustomed to to the darkness to sleep, taking advantage of the fact that his own pupils were blinded by the darkness, and quickly scanned his surroundings.
‘Heavy footsteps. Are you wearing boots with hard soles?’
At this point, it was clear that the attacker was not a native.
What is vaguely reflected in the moonlight is a weapon. However, he did not stab the people bound in the net at once, but was seen only threatening them.
‘You’re trying to capture the water person. You managed to find us… No, since the river continued all the way up to here, if you followed the river, you would have been able to track it down. Traveling by boat brings such problems.’
Chester, blaming himself for his short thought, but at the same time acknowledging that it was an unavoidable pursuit, took out his knife carefully and cut the net in front of his arm.
This is a knife that Chester half-instinctively picked up when he was caught by the net without panicking, and at the same time, Chester’s hand holding the knife was protected under the other arm when he was hit by the net, so he did not get entangled in the net. Could move freely.
“Here is the water man!”
“Here too.”
“Hey, come here!”
Right after that, when everyone’s eyes turned to the water people caught in the net.
Chester secretly opened the torn net and quietly escaped, then raised Monia, who was quietly holding her breath beside him.
Monia, who was taught by Chester, knew very well that she had to remain unfazed when trouble arose. However, because of her habit of reflexively following Chester when she was in crisis, she couldn’t pack her belongings and just stuck to her Chester by her side.
“Monia.”
“Yes.”
The two talked in low voices.
“You are doing it. Understand?”
“I know.”
Without saying a word to her, Monia, who had put her star wish on her arm, quietly moved into the tree.
Chester also packs her crossbow and stealthily disappears into the darkness of the jungle, and hiding from a treetop, Monia, her poised, unfurls her bow, ready to snipe her assailants.
‘Reading people’s eyes.’
Look at the person’s head, look at the eyes, and aim for the outside.
Monia read their mood in the dark, using their gestures and facial expressions dimly lit by the moonlight.
After concentrating and concentrating, I could roughly guess what each person was feeling right now.
Feeling the same way she did when she killed Off before, Monia let go of the tautly pulled string of stargazing.
There is no sound.
There is no shape.
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The invisible arrow flew silently and pierced its target.
At the back of the party, a mercenary who was looking through the luggage of the Chester family and tried to get something worthwhile fell down.
However, the wild water people entangled in the net and the other mercenaries dealing with them did not notice that one of their comrades had fallen behind them.
“Sueueup.”
Monia took a quiet breath and returned to focus.
Once you let go of the bowstring, you lost your concentration. She pulled the string of tension in her again, focused, and Monia drew the bowstring.
One more person.
The mercenary who fell this time was looking at the boat at the water’s edge, but right after he was pierced, his body leaned over and went into the river.
When an object the size of a person goes into the river, of course, a loud sound occurs. A few mercenaries who heard the sound of water turned their heads, but all they could see was water that caused a slight ripple.
“Whoa.”
Concentration still hasn’t stopped.
Monia drew the bowstring again, but she let go.
In the meantime, Rex, who calmed down the surprise of the sudden attack and grasped the situation with a keen sense, deliberately went wild and attracted the attention of the mercenaries.
‘You’re doing well, my cub.’
Monia praised Rex and killed one of her mercenaries.
It was a perfect assassination that took place proudly in front of everyone, but no one could see it.
But everything has an end. The mercenaries could not remain unaware of the ambush forever.
However, it was not the mercenaries that attacked the water people now that noticed the strangeness, but another tracking party that followed them belatedly.
Those who were scattered because of the fake information and traces left by the Golden Rice Mercenary Corps have returned. Those who were not fooled by the fake trail from the beginning and followed.
When they saw the golden rice mercenaries making a fuss with the water people in the dark, they immediately started running at them.
“Captain! Other guys are here!”
“Everybody! Take away the water man! Even if you take just one, it’s worth it! The one who stole it, get right back!”
“Wow!”
Seeing the chaotic situation in an instant, Chester clicked his tongue and caught the mercenary passing by him.
“Wow! … Uh?!”
Catch the mercenary and drag him into the bush. And he cut his breath with a knife.
“… ….”
“What….”
The mercenaries who were running alongside stopped in panic at the sudden situation, and Chester’s blades were swung for their lives.
“Rex! Run amok!”
Chester shouted as he slit one of the mercenaries’ throats with a knife. Rex, who heard the sound, cut off the net that had caught him and stood up.
“Wow! What?!”
After grabbing a nearby mercenary, throw him at once like throwing a rock.
Kwaaang!!
The mercenary thrown at Rex swept away along with several other mercenaries, and five or six mercenaries died in an instant.
After throwing a mercenary to clean up the surroundings, Rex removed his hand and cut the net that was entangled in Senna’s body. Senna, who was free, pulled out Hope and cut off the head of the mercenary who was approaching from behind Rex.
“Ugh.”
Monia, whose concentration was instantly cut off by the turmoil, didn’t have to worry about being caught by others, so she started shooting arrows of wind at the nearby mercenaries.
“Ouch!”
“Yup!”
“…… Who is this! Someone is shooting!”
A mercenary who saw that there were only holes in the body of a fallen colleague without any arrows pierced it, and a mercenary shouted as if to scream.
On the Tongdan continent, guns were the most frequently used and state-of-the-art weapons on any other continent, so everyone was well aware of the horror.
Of course, there really is no such thing as a gun.
“Dad!”
Rex, who was eagerly killing the enemies around him while everyone stopped, threw the Anubis he took from a mercenary in the direction of Chester, and Chester received the Anubis thrown by Rex.
“Everybody close your eyes!”
Chester shouted and slammed Anubis from top to bottom. Monia, Rex, and Senna reflexively closed their eyes after hearing those words, and soon after, an intense light burst from Anubis that brightened the surroundings.