(EP.284)King #3
284 – King of Thieves #3
“It’s a typical cave-type lair. It wouldn’t be that hard to infiltrate.”
According to Stella, the den of thieves follows a fairly typical crypt and cave format.
Torches swaying in the narrow passage like an anthill. Even the voices from beyond that hallway and the numerous traps on the ceiling floor.
While I swallowed dry saliva with tension, Narmi said, “It’s cool because it’s like an adventure. I feel like I am Sinbad, the adventurer of Turki.” He trembled with anticipation.
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Stella stopped at the sound of something working.
“Narmi, don’t step on stones there. It’s a trap. The string connected there is a type of loud ringing of the bell hanging here. Then the thieves will come.”
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Narmi was perplexed by the description of the trap.
“oh! I’ve already stepped on it… !? what if… !?”
Fortunately, Stella’s attitude was quite calm.
“Then, don’t take your foot off it. It’s probably a trap that works when the hydraulic pressure is released. I was lucky. There is a release device near here… .”
Tickle, tickle.
“done.”
“Thank you, sister… ! Thanks to you I lived… !”
“Uh, sister? Well, be careful in the future. I’m going first, so if I don’t step on the places I’m told not to step on, it’ll be easier.”
Sassaak.
Elves are generally light and fast. That’s why Stella entered the place where the traps of thieves were installed with a light footstep, dismantled the traps and neutralized them.
-Didn’t you just hear something?
– It must be a mouse. Or the Imps I caught a while ago, uh, you guys… Ouch! Follow me! What did you just hit in the neck? .
Also, he quietly neutralizes thieves that appear occasionally with his unique throwing technique and wind gun.
I couldn’t help but admire him because such a talent was something that neither me nor Miss Draco nor Elgar had. It’s not something I’ve done once or twice.
“There are a lot of expenses.”
As Stella was crumpling the anesthetized bandits into a nearby wooden box, Narmi, who was watching this, could not bear it and shouted a little.
“… Awesome! It’s like Alibaba Belhawk, king of thieves! The royal thief who escaped the dungeons of Angmar Palace!”
Alibaba von Belhawk.
I know the name too.
They say that I am a miraculous person who escaped the prison where I was imprisoned not long ago. He was praised as the king of thieves because of his mysterious dexterity and craftsmanship.
To thieves and trap breakers, being like Alibaba is like a big compliment. For example, it is similar to telling a wizard that he is as good as Solomon.
Both are criminals after all.
Stella rubbed her nose at that compliment.
“It’s just that I’ve been wandering around in the dungeon so often that I’ve just learned things to live. Huh. Well, isn’t that a little bit awesome?”
I thought I was pretending to be good, so I had no luck. Even though I am not the king of thieves, I think I have the skills to recognize it as a princess of thieves.
To be honest, if Stella hadn’t come with me, it would have taken me a year to even find the entrance.
Even if they had found the entrance, they would have wasted their magic by activating the traps everywhere and engaging in an all-out war with the thieves.
“Stella-sama, I think I’ve been looking at Stella the wrong way up until now.”
“What does that mean?”
“I thought that Stella-sama was just an imaginary person. He likes to bully his teaching assistants, and he only steals other people’s papers… .”
Stella laughed in disappointment as if there was no absurdity to my candid confession.
“… It’s true that I’m sloppy as a professor. As an adventurer, it’s still first-class, isn’t it? Even so, seeing this much surprise, I must have looked down on me a lot.”
After that, Stella took the lead in overcoming many traps and difficulties using her tools and experience.
I only knew about the aspect of being a professor or a hunter. It was strange because it was the first time I knew that he had such talents as an adventurer or a thief.
After all, everyone has at least one talent. Especially if you are an elf who has lived a long life, you must have enough time to realize your talent and bloom.
“… So, where are Miss Tefer and the imprisoned imps? I don’t know where it is because it’s all winding down.”
While progressing for a while, Narmi wrinkled her eyebrows as she looked around at the maps she had learned from the thieves.
As Narmi said, it had been a while since they had entered the den of thieves, but they could not know where the captured Imps or Archmage Tefer were.
Then Stella made an opinion.
“Shall we grab those guys who look a little taller and ask them? The interrogation is not confident. Well, once you get hold of it, won’t it be okay?”
“If it’s an interrogation, leave it to me.”
“okay?”
Stella nodded at my words. As we proceeded down the hallway again, we found a space with bright lights flashing.
-If this goes well, it doesn’t look like you’ll be promoted to a senior executive level, bro. Congratulations.
ㅡ Come on. In that sense, I will play the Obelisk Colossus and end my turn.
You can see guys sitting around the table and talking with their cards open.
After listening to the story, the man with a thick beard with a hood on his head seemed to be quite classy.
“I’ll figure it out.”
Stella pulled four darts from her waist, held them in one hand, and threw them into the air.
shh-. Pew.
Then four darts pierced the necks of each thief who was playing a card game, and they slammed their heads on the table like those who had been killed suddenly.
– What is it? Why are they all of a sudden?
The only thief in the hood was not able to grasp the situation. He too soon lowered his figure and was suppressed by Stella, who jumped out like a cougar, and was unable to move.
“Ge-.”
Stella softly pressed her foot on the man’s neck, who had been pushed against the wall. A clean and elegant movement like a master of Taekwondo or Taekkyeon.
While Narmi was clapping and applauding, I slowly approached the thief and turned my fingertips around.
─Fascination charm beam!
done.
I had a feeling the liquor was working.
“Now you can let go of your neck.”
At my words, Stella lowered her feet and released the thief. Then the bearded thief, who fell to the floor, grabs his neck and asks me.
“You, you guys, who the hell are you… ?”
“It doesn’t matter. All you have to do is tell us what to ask.”
* * *
The thief’s name is Crocs. He said that he wasn’t a high-ranking executive, but a guy who was about the action leader below him.
“Tae, isn’t it that you’re saying that you really like it? After all, there are terrifying executives down here… ! It’s in vain if you guys go!”
Using a fascination beam for a man is so f*cking f*cking stupid.
It seems that this magic still has room for improvement.
Still, it had an excellent effect on controlling people’s minds, so it was possible to find out what traps were in front of them and where the imprisoned imps were located.
“You don’t know what the imp names are?”
“Mom, I don’t know. I don’t even know why I brought in the noisy imps. Rather, I think I saw you somewhere. you don’t know me I’m pretty old-fashioned… ?”
The thief is interested in me. Is it because of the fascination beam? It just makes my impressions frown.
“I see you for the first time. And I will never see you again.”
“No, I’m not working, I’m really shy… 🍑.”
After extracting all possible information, Stella lightly slapped his neck. Soon, a thief named Crocs lost consciousness, turning his eyes white.
After casting the magic spell on him, I moved to a deeper place called the lower floor, as I had been told.
As he explained, when I went down to the bottom of the cave, I saw a space full of iron bars. It is also full of thieves guarding it.
It’s more like a trained guard than a rogue to be well equipped with armor, shields, and swords. It’ll actually cost you.
“Can you subdue it?”
Stella, who was hiding behind the wall at my question, opened her slender eyes and said, “It’s not difficult. Try covering your nose instead.”
Stella immediately pulled out a strange paper bag from the pouch on her waist. It was when she put it on the palm of her hand and blew hoo-hoo.
thump, thump.
One by one, the guards guarding the iron fence fell down and were completely subdued. Thanks to this, we were able to get to the iron cage without much fuss.
“You… .”
-Hey… ! Someone came… !
-It’s scary… !
Tied inside were goblin imps with scruffy faces and various tails.
The guys who made eye contact with me trembled and started hiding in a corner.
-Hey! Cucumber cold soup is something I want to stop eating… !
Wen cucumber cold soup.
I asked, slowly examining their faces.
“Marmar, do you have Marmar? Gargarna, Tartar, Purpur?”
At my question, the Imps looked at each other’s faces. And then they shake their heads one by one. It was the same when looking at other iron bars. There were no Imps named Marmarna, Gargar, or Tartar.
It looks like it was my raincoat.
It looks like they haven’t been caught.
If there had been a mobile communication device such as a cell phone in this world, this misunderstanding would not have occurred. If I get a chance later, I’ll try making some magic tools.
“Listen. I’ll let you go, so be quiet.”
Still, I thought it would be good to release the imps, so it was time to touch the lock. Aren’t the imps that had just been trapped inside growl with their hair and tails upright?
-Wow, where else are you going to take us? !
-Now I want to stop working without wages… . Turning the water wheel is not an ordinary task… !
Right.
It seems that they were being led by these thieves into forced labor. Since Imps are monsters and not monsters, they are humans, so it must have been because they were easily abused.
Then someone said
ㅡAh! The thing wrapped around that wrist is the tail of an imp… ! You can feel the energy of the Chief Imp from the tail… ! I think it would be good to hear the words of the Chief Imp… !
“yes? this?”
They seemed to feel the energy of Marmar’s tail wrapped around my hand. Thanks to this, I was able to deal with them more easily.
“Come on, I’ll also release the shackles on your wrists and ankles.”
While Stella was releasing the imps one by one, I asked an imp with short red hair, who seemed to be quite sane among them.
“Why were you arrested?”
“These thieves and Imps are exploiting their magical powers… ! And, they are making us loyal to the false demon lord… .”
“A False Demon King?”
“There is a terrifying one in the depths of this place… !”
All the Imps trembled as if they were terrified. Some of the dogs had their faces buried in the ground and their heads clenched like birds that heard gunshots.
I don’t know what the problem is, but there seems to be a problem.
Thanks to that, it took quite a while to calm them down. But luckily, thanks to Chief Imp Marmar’s tail wand, they followed me well.
“Then you guys go upstairs and escape.”
“It’s about getting us to take revenge together… ! Years of exploitation… ! Now that we have no chains to lose, we will unite with our sisters and fight against the capitalist thieves who oppressed us… !”
Imps are the answer.
Stella, who saw it, stuck out her tongue.
“I’ve never seen Imps follow so well. Is it because the imp and the nymph are of the same race? Or because of the tail? I do not know.”
“First, let’s go deeper inside. Miss Tefer seems to be there.”
Once we went deeper into the cave with our Imp friends.
Soon in front of us, a cavity that could be described as a wide corridor appeared. Sitting in the center was a girl with brown hair with a strange thing on her head.
Is that a throne?
Around the time I was wondering about the shape similar to the throne I saw at Angmar Palace.
“Teperda!”
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Narmi pretended to know.
“We took a class together at Ark a few times! That’s Tefer!”
According to Narmi, the girl sitting over there seems to be the white mage Tefer we were looking for. However, Stella rubbed her arm and expressed a pessimistic position.
“It sounds like a trap.”
It was when I was looking at the atmosphere a little with that feeling.
– You know everything there. Rogues, wizards, and necromancers? It seems that he has quite a skill set without causing a fuss once.
Tefer, who was sitting on the throne, was talking to himself. Of course, he wasn’t really talking to himself, and he probably said it while noticing that we were there.
-No one can hide, and no one can hide from my clairvoyance. Yes, thieves, you usurpers of the throne. Come on, appear in front of this body and bow your head. A true king.
—A true wizard. Before Solomon.
Solomon.
The moment I heard that name, my legs felt like I was possessed by something.
When he came to his senses, he went to the front of the throne and opened his mouth to Tefer.
“Aren’t you Solomon, not the wizard, Miss Tepher?”
At my question, the white mage Tefer’s face was very strangely distorted. It didn’t take long to realize that it was a laugh.
-Depending on your point of view, it might look like that. But I am the true King Solomon. Show the usurpers the evidence. Imps, how to use them correctly.
“… How to properly use the imps?”
―Servants, give your master your magic.
Shh.
Miss Tefer stood up and stretched out her hand in the air. Not knowing what she was going to do, I first spread a thick mana shield through a high-speed chant.
But something happened between the imps behind me.
“Ah… ! From the tail, a large amount of magical power is escaping… !”
“It’s not strong enough… .”
The Imps started to fall to the floor of the empty room with their tails upright like antennae!
– Witness it!