256 – Assault (5)
Rowan and his men continued to raid the Water Man’s lair, but to their great regret, they were forced to stop.
The chaotic jungle weather has revealed its teeth.
Suddenly, heavy rain began to pour, and the calm jungle river swelled up and began to stir wildly.
Under torture, the water man who sided with Rorowan shouted that he could never go to the shelter under such circumstances and that he had to step back.
“There is not one road to the hideout. The passages to the lair are intricately tangled like a spider’s web, and that’s where we find the right one. We read the water and follow the right path to the lair. In this situation, you can’t read the water, so you can’t find the right answer! If you go, everyone will die!”
He didn’t want to die.
He betrayed his own people and survived miserably, but he didn’t want to lose his life.
That’s why he desperately tried to stop him, and Rowan felt that the momentum that had been burning up had died out along with the pouring rain, as if a hole had been pierced in the sky, and decided to quietly retreat.
Strong plants wrapped around my legs from the pouring rain, and it was very difficult to even walk one step at a time.
The floor has turned to mud, visibility is poor, and even water people who are still resisting have to be moved.
All sorts of factors caught up and quickly ate away the stamina of Rowan and his men.
Because of swimming in an enclosed cave to attack the hideout and fighting the water people, both the body and mind were shaved, and the wind and rain raged on the shaved body and mind, and they were being shaved off more and more quickly.
“It would be nice to get out of the rain for a while.”
In the end, Rowan, who gave up on moving in a hurry, decided to find a place nearby and sheltered from the rain there.
A place where plants are gathered around a hole under the root of a large tree, and it is moderately protected from rain.
They found the place, gathered as much dry grass and twigs as possible, made a fire, took off their wet clothes, and dried their bodies and clothes.
“Whoa. I will live.”
“Captain, are you okay?”
“Yes. It’s okay.”
Of course, I was saying that it was okay, and my heart was different.
‘Damn it, I’m so thirsty when water is everywhere. I’m dying hard Should I still be patient? It should be. Be patient, be patient.’
Thinking of going back to a warm room with arms and legs stretched out and going to sleep, Rowan massaged and released his limbs, which had started screaming in pain from walking around the jungle for a long time.
No matter how tired I was, when the water people started to take a break, my body felt weak and I couldn’t resist.
That’s what the original body is. If you are using your strength steadily, no matter how hard you are, you can keep moving as long as you don’t really reach the limit of your limit. Humans are especially so because they are creatures with strong endurance among animals.
It was different from horses and cheetahs, which run full force once and then collapse. Humans, who lacked the power of civilization in the past, have survived by using numbers, throwing, and persistence as weapons.
However, even for a human whose strength and weapon is steadfastness, the moment he stops moving and takes a break even for a moment, the body enters a state of complete rest to recover tired and damaged muscles in order to gain the strength to move again next time.
In this way, no matter how strong the will is, the body will not move.
The ropes tied to the body, the shock of the assault and the horror of torture. Various factors suppressed the water people, but what suppressed them at this moment was the survival instinct.
“Let’s eat.”
Rowan said so to his men, and his men began to take out what could be food from the backpacks they were carrying.
Seeing that, Rowan thought to himself.
‘But how long do I have to act like a straight person while saying honorifics?’
Though he was saying honorifics to his subordinates, thinking that to become a hero, it would be better to have a good attitude, but this did not suit Young.
To be honest, I was so exhausted and exhausted, so I wanted to pour a bowl of cursing at me, lament toward the sky, and gulp down some terrible ale.
And after the rain stopped, they left for the civilized area.
Appearing in the jungle again, Lorwan and his men started running through the jungle river in a large boat led by a crocodile, unlike before, when they struggled through the jungle.
Beyond simply raiding shelters, they began to actively raid not only water people who wandered along the river, but also the natives living throughout the jungle.
* * *
Refugees enter the hideout of the Chester family.
No, should I call that a refugee? Or should I call it a loser?
“Those bastards, go over to the outsiders! Blown our positions! They’re raiding all of our hideouts!”
With wounds all over his body and covered in blood, the water man who miraculously escaped and arrived at this hiding place cried out in a dying voice.
The hideout has been raided. The expression of the water people who heard that became serious, and when the Chester family came out to see what was going on, the water people who had fled here screamed in fright.
“Bar, guys outside! Why are you here! …… !”
At first, he was frightened, but later, he thought that all the water people here betrayed him and attached themselves to the people outside, so he put on a look of betrayal.
Others who saw it calmed him down and explained the situation, and the refugee who heard everything said he was sorry for misunderstanding and explained the situation again.
“At first, it was just about raiding the hideout. It’s a bit out of the way, so the information might not have been conveyed, but information has already been conveyed to us. Of course, I went out to respond from this side. Gather strong warriors and use our strengths to attack the attackers instead.”
I was confident that I could play with anyone and defeat them as long as I moved along the river, threw spears and shot arrows, and attacked one-sidedly.
Among the water people in the hideout, he called together those with excellent javelin and bow skills, and started to search for the raiders by moving along the river in a boat.
Surprisingly, however, the assailants who disappeared for a while and reappeared, unlike before, running through the river in a boat led by a crocodile, like water people.
If you fight properly, the water people who live on the boat for the rest of their lives had an advantage, but the raiders took a little damage and got on the boat of the water people with a fight and got rid of their weakness.
“That, that guy is the devil. A monster who sold his soul to the devil!”
In particular, the captain of the raiders drove the people of the water with a majesty that was not human.
He has already acquired the ship, how to deal with crocodiles, and even the crocodiles that the water people have already tamed.
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So, Rowan and his men stopped capturing the water people and started killing them to prevent other forces from obtaining their knowledge and skills.
The river was stained red with blood, and the jungle was silent in fear.
A lot of forces were attached to Lorwan, who had obtained the power of the water people, and at first, more than 100 mercenaries gathered as his subordinates under Lorwan, who had only 20 or so subordinates who were attached by nobles.
I was uneasy about the fact that I was a mercenary who could betray and run away at any time if I was at a disadvantage, but in other words, if I didn’t put myself at a disadvantage and only gave money and profits, there would be 100 absolutely loyal and courageous subordinates.
“They appeared out of nowhere, and they got bigger all at once! There hasn’t been a big conflict for a while because the forces are targeting us, but not anymore! The forces that got us and the crocodile have appeared, and others will move to target them!”
The weather in the jungle can change really quickly. And now, while the Chester family is resting for recovery, a huge storm is raging in the jungle.
“Run away, run away! Because anywhere is fine! You’re running away!”
I wanted to save as many people as possible.
The refugee, who was desperately moving with a dying body for just that one thing, uttered that one word and the thread of life was severed.
After giving a burial to a fellow tribesman who had lost his breath, the water people decided to move quickly.
I can’t afford to be considerate of the water people of other shelters. The money they had, the money that water people in other hideouts would have hidden, and the money that water people had in common.
Gathering all of that together, we decided to move to get away from the continent somehow, at least among the water people in this hideout.
“That’s it. I’m sorry, Chester. If they had attacked us, they would have also attacked our fellow countrymen living outside. Probably, your words won’t be safe.”
“I see. It’s unfortunate, but it can’t be helped. What is lost is lost … More than that, are you all right?”
At Chester’s words of concern for them, the water person laughed hard.
“It should be fine. Even for that proud fellow countryman who risked his life for us. We will definitely get out of this continent safely.”
The water man tapped Chester on the shoulder and said.
“This is our situation. It’s our problem So you don’t have to get involved. I will guide you outside the hideout… Let’s just break up.”