259 – Escape (3)
Transportation of natural resources trapped in the Tongdan Continent was actively taking place as the waterway burst.
It was also a gemstone, fine wood, or a rare mineral on other continents.
In some places, gold came out, in others silver, and in other places, artifacts were excavated from ancient sites that could be sold at a high price to collectors or nobles.
As if to resolve the question of why all countries and powers were so eager to take over the Tongdan Continent, Rowan and his men defeated the water people while at the same time bringing vast natural resources to a terrifyingly large number of lands. Get ready to start making money.
The nobles who shared and supported Lorwan bought a ship that settled in the port with the enormous wealth earned by collecting slaves and distributing rare slaves to other nobles at a high price. Started filling in resources.
No matter how many natural resources were filled, the captain or crew worked satisfactorily without any complaints even when the ship changed its owner suddenly. It was not hard to imagine how much money he would make once he set sail under this new employer.
“You know what, Captain?”
“What?”
“People around here have been seeing our ship lately and calling it a treasure ship.”
“Ha ha ha! It’s a treasure ship…. Hmm.”
“hehehe, don’t worry. We’ve already hired additional mercenaries. You wouldn’t dare touch our boat.”
“But just in case, tell some of the crew to guard the ship at night.”
“Okay.”
After issuing the order, the captain, who was checking to see if the crew was moving and loading the cargo, looked at the building where their employer was staying.
Inside the building came the joyful laughter of the employer, his friends, and the female slaves he brought.
* * *
‘You’re more persistent than I thought.’
Chester saw the tracking party that had left come back and search the area around them.
‘Why are you so persistent? That’s mercenaries too.’
Unbeknownst to Chester, the aristocrat promised the mercenaries some of the huge profits they would make by starting to monopolize the natural resources of the continent.
With the power of that promise, he attracted most of the mercenaries who came to the continent as his subordinates.
At the same time, as much as that, the mercenaries were desperate to eliminate competitors in order to increase the profits they would gain later, and were equally desperate to hunt water people who could increase their competitors.
Unlike a mercenary, sincerity and tenacity came from the power of money like a mercenary.
Thanks to this, the Chester family, who were thinking of moving directly along the river after the tracking team moved, were also stranded on a tree.
Chester cut a small piece of jerky in his hand, put it in his mouth and chewed quietly, watching the movements of the people below.
‘A water person would make a shelter under the river, so it wouldn’t be strange for the pursuit to be that persistent.’
But that means that one day they will look up to the top of the tree.
‘I just need a little break.’
With a vibrating ax and a machete, you can cut down a tree in an instant.
What I’m trying to make is just a raft big enough for luggage and people to climb, so I don’t have to cut down a lot of trees.
However, they were so thorough that they did not even give that moment.
‘How many are there? If you searched and searched like that, did you already kill all the water people except for this area?’
Chester and the others ate their meals in silence, holding their breath, listening to the sounds coming from below.
“How about this one?”
“Nothing!”
“Really? If you can’t find it like this, it’s definitely not there. Move places.”
The mercenaries start to move elsewhere. However, it seemed to be moving, and after a while, it quietly moved around here again and started searching again.
“Has anything changed?”
“No!”
“There seems to be no trace.”
“Then it doesn’t seem like they’re hiding from us…….”
The mercenaries who searched while digging traps several times eventually left, and the Chester family, who had a leisurely meal and rest until the mercenary left, moved quickly.
Everyone holds axes and machetes in their hands and swings them to cut down trees.
“Wow! What is so sharp?”
To be honest, it wasn’t easy to pick up and wield something that vibrates so violently, but it was embarrassing to see it cut through wood like butter.
“This is kind of like that.”
As Monia spoke, she swung her machete at the fallen tree.
Trim all the twigs and cut the tree to an appropriate size.
“Let’s move quickly! They will hear and come.”
After Monia trimmed and cut the tree, Rex moved it and left it where Chester had made it.
He moved the tree he had cut down and left it there. When Rex placed an additional tree, Chester tied the trees together with vines and went to cut down a new tree.
Rex also put his own tree on top of it and tied it up with a raft knot he had learned from Chester.
Excluding Senna, who did not know how to tie a raft, Chester, Monia, and Rex quickly tied the knot while moving the tree.
When they finished building the raft, Ant, who was wary of the mercenaries’ approach, started crying.
“There was a sound over there!”
“Come on!”
At the same time, the fierce shouts of the mercenaries were heard.
“Okay, let’s go!”
Hearing the sound, Rex put the luggage on the raft and tied it tightly, and Rex lifted the raft and carried it to the river.
The Chester family floated in the river, ran with the current of the river toward the raft, jumped off the edge of the river, and landed on the raft.
Every time one person landed, the raft rocked wildly, but everyone had a good sense of balance, so the raft quickly regained stability, and Chester, Senna, and Rex started rowing hard, using their shields as oars.
Monia also rowed with the paddle-shaped tree she had cut in advance.
“Hey there! There! It’s on the river side!”
“Damn it, bow! Guys with bows! Shoot!”
Arrows are flying.
“Rex!”
The moment Chester shouted, Rex hit the river forcefully with the shield he was holding.
The water soars like an explosion, and the rising water becomes a strong wall, colliding and knocking down the flying arrows.
“What?!”
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“It’s a bomb! It’s a bomb!”
“The cavemen have bombs!”
The mercenaries, who misunderstood Rex’s actions as detonating a bomb in the water, scream.
Even though common sense would know that there is no reason to do the irrational thing of building a wall by blasting a bomb into the water instead of throwing a bomb at them, common sense is blown away when they see the ridiculous sight of water exploding and forming a barrier. Abandoned
Of course, the raft rocked greatly at Rex’s action, and Monia jumped up on top of the rocking raft and flew a star at the mercenaries.
Monia’s arrows of wind, which have the property of spreading, fly and spread explosively near the mercenaries.
Covers the mercenaries’ vision, beats the body, and blocks flying arrows.
In the meantime, several arrows with penetrating properties pierced the mercenaries and knocked them down.
“Three!”
When Monia mentioned the number of knockdowns, Chester said yes and rowed her raft toward the rapids.
Rex threw a few more stones he had prepared ahead of time towards the mercenaries.
“It’s a cannon! Cannons are flying!”
“Everyone avoid it!”
“Crazy, cannons!”
While the mercenaries fell on their knees in fright as they saw their comrades shattered right in front of their eyes, the Chester family floated leisurely along the river.
“Good job. Monia, Lex.”
“Ehehehe.”
“It’s too bad I couldn’t use the mace!”
“Because I didn’t see an opportunity to write. Now, let’s go to the port.”
Rex turned his knuckle mace around, regretting that he couldn’t use it.
* * *
How long did they travel on the river?
The Chester family, who comfortably moved a long distance unimaginable when traveling on land with the power of the river, quickly arrived at the port city they had entered the Tongdan continent.
After abandoning the raft near the port city, they moved along the road and entered the city, feeling the strange atmosphere of the city.
However, there are things that need to be taken care of before the atmosphere of the city.
They quickly went to the port and found a cruise ship or a trading ship among the remaining ships that could carry people together, and heard words they could not have imagined.
“You don’t have a stomach?”
“Yes, it is.”
I heard from the port manager that there is no ship.
“What does that mean?”
“That’s it, someone bought all the ships in the harbor right now.”
“…… One?”
“Yes. He said he wouldn’t accept any guests, so he’s sorry, but I don’t think he can get a boat for you.”
It wouldn’t be a problem for the mercenaries to pursue them if they found a raft that had been abandoned after chasing the flow of the river.
‘I have to fly fast, but I mean.’
Chester, who was thinking of hiding on the ship until he left if he could find it, said he would find out first and left the prison camp.
“There is no ship.”
“What? Then what do you do?”
Monia is taken aback by Chester’s words. Chester said it was okay and patted Monia on the shoulder and looked around at the boats lined up in the harbor.
“Good.”
“?”
“Let’s stow away.”
Everyone’s eyes widened at Chester’s words. And Chester began to skim through which ship would be best to stow away.