＜ 16 : Warlock (2) ＞
“I was really hungry, but it was fine.”
“What do you want…!”
Peter, who shouted at the head, glanced away and looked at Euthenia.
It is Utenia, which has already destroyed a village by itself.
Peter was curious to see how Euthenia would deal with the thieves.
Seeing Peter glaring at him, Yutenia only smiled slightly.
Reluctantly, Peter had no choice but to face the head of the thief again.
“I want it all.”
“……what?”
“Give me everything you have! You sell them as slaves, and let the food in the wagon be put to good use.”
The head’s attitude was tougher than they thought.
There wasn’t even an offer to send them off if they put them down.
The food was, of course, theirs, and the story of the thieves was that they would capture and sell people as slaves.
Peter sighed in response to the question with no exit.
Then he turned his head completely and faced Yutenia with a smile.
Yutenia still looked carefree, holding the book.
“You don’t seem to want to send me, what should I do?”
Peter asked Yutenia in a troubled voice.
At first glance, the number of thieves in front of him seemed to exceed both fingers.
There’s no way Peter can drive them out on his own.
It was only natural for him to seek help from Euthenia.
Shrek.
Yutenia, stroking the cover of the book with her slender fingers, said to Peter.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to talk a little more?”
“They are thieves.”
“Did you ever think that edification would be possible?”
“…if they were like that, at least they wouldn’t be talking about slaves.”
It was a very commonsense answer.
As Peter’s puzzled appearance continued, Yutenia, who was watching him, nodded reluctantly.
Yutenia got up from the back of the carriage while holding the book.
The end of the tunic Yutenia was wearing fluttered slightly in the breeze.
“It looks like it’s in trouble, so I’ll need some help.”
Yutenia’s gaze stood up from her seat and turned to the thieves blocking the way.
The thieves were still looking at the carriage with scornful eyes.
Numerically, they have the upper hand.
The innocent-looking young man and the girl embracing the book must have felt that there was no threat.
Under normal circumstances, it wasn’t a big mistake.
However, the Yutenia in front of them was nothing more than an ordinary existence.
“Hello everyone.”
“Heh haha…! This time, a pretty-looking lady came out instead of a coward.”
“My name is Euthenia Hirost. I am an apostle serving the Great.”
“Apostle? What the hell is that?”
The head, who had heard of the position of the apostle, looked at her with a puzzled face and asked.
God’s messenger.
It was not a concept prevailing in the six temples of Crossbridge.
They officially had Saints and Saints, but did not recognize any other apostles under them.
The position that did not exist even in the six most popular temples, there was no way the thief on the border could understand it.
To the puzzled head, Yutenia kindly returned an answer.
“An apostle is the closest place to serve the Great One.”
“What! You said complicated things, and after all, you were a priest!”
“Everyone here, don’t you have any intention of paying tribute to the Great One?”
Faced with the thieves, Euthenia encouraged them to join the school.
However, the thieves who heard her story only snorted.
There was even a thief who cursed at her with his fingers.
One of the thieves standing behind the boss shouted at Euthenia with a furious voice.
“Hey, I hated selling gods since I was a kid. If there were gods, I wouldn’t be like this!”
“is that so?”
tuk. thump.
As soon as Yutenia finished speaking, a strange sound resounded from behind the head.
It sounded like something that was engaged was dislocating.
The head’s gaze slowly moved toward the direction of the sound.
When the boss turned his head completely, he faced something and screamed.
“Ugh, ahhh…!”
“Boss? What’s going on!”
“Jack is dead!”
What the boss found was the figure of his comrade twisted in a bizarre direction.
The head opened his mouth wide at the scene that suddenly unfolded and looked at Euthenia.
There was only one person suspected of being the culprit in this place.
Despite the terrible tragedy that was happening right before her eyes, Yutenia was still smiling while holding her book.
Seeing the peaceful appearance of Yutenia, the head shouted at her.
“You, what did you do?”
“It’s a pity. If I had only served great people, it wouldn’t have happened like that.”
“That sorceress! Kill him now!”
It was the leader of the thief who made the first move in an unusual situation.
With his sword raised, he aimed at Euthenia and gave the order.
The most dangerous thing in battle is the wizard.
Therefore, it was the head’s idea to exclude Euthenia in the first place.
However, despite the boss’s orders, the thieves who were waiting did not take any action.
Seeing the unresponsive look of his colleagues, he turned his head again and looked behind him.
“You guys, what are you doing now…”
“aah!”
“You two, boss… save me!”
“Ahhh…!”
Hands extending from the shadows cast on the floor were pouring down towards the thieves.
Someone caught in the shadow screamed, and someone who faced the shadow ran away.
The results of those caught in the shadows were largely one.
fight. thump.
With a creepy sound, the shadow’s hand twisted his whole body and he died.
Embarrassed by the flood of shadows pouring out explosively, the boss spat out swear words.
“Hey, crazy…!”
Just because he was the leader of the thieves, he was not an exception to the attacks of the shadows.
Hands reaching out from the floor poured out, aiming for the boss.
The chief hurriedly swung his sword at him.
Kaang! Kang!
With a heavy sound, the hands that were aiming for the boss bounced off.
But the shadows aiming at the boss were not all there.
The head bit his lip at the waves of shadows pouring out without knowing the end.
“Ugh…!”
“Repent of your sins, and return to Him.”
Yutenia’s soft voice resounded.
The boss continued to cast his shadow and tried to resist, but there was a limit to the number of touches he could handle.
Hands that began to stretch out innumerable from beyond the shadows.
The strength of the hand of the head who was shredding the shadow was also lost, and at some point he lost the sword he was holding.
tuk.
The boss’s sword, which had lost its strength, fell on the floor.
The hand of the shadow that stretched out in an instant bound the head’s arms and legs.
“Come on, wait!”
“…?”
“Wait a minute!”
A hand of shadows stretched out from all directions towards the head who had been restrained all over the body.
He called out to Utenia with an urgent voice at the hand moving aiming at his head.
It was the last effort to stop the attack for a moment.
Seeing the sudden appearance of the head making an absurd claim, Yutenia stared at him with cold eyes and asked.
“What’s going on?”
“One of our comrades who didn’t come here is a warlock!”
“The Warlock…?”
“If you kill me, he won’t leave you alone!”
The story that came out of the boss’s mouth was a threat to Euthenia.
It was a story that most people wouldn’t even budge.
However, Yutenia stopped the shadow’s hand moving towards the boss.
It wasn’t that he was afraid of the boss’s intimidation.
It was only the one word that came out of his mouth that caught Euthenia’s interest.
“You’re a wizard… that’s a little interesting.”
black magician.
Hearing those words, Yutenia withdrew all of the shadow’s touch.
The shadows that embroidered the air disappeared in an instant.
As the shadows that dominated the surroundings disappeared, the thieves who were bound by the shadows became free.
Out of the ten thieves, only three survived.
It was a rather miserable appearance for the fact that he had put an oath on Euthenia.
“Heh heh heh heh…”
After checking the number of thieves who survived, including himself, the boss breathed heavily.
Cold sweat ran down the head of the head with a sense of relief that he had survived.
The other thieves were also relieved.
While they were picking up their weapons that had been away, they looked at Euthenia counting the number of dead thieves.
Seeing Yutenia’s sudden release of the bandits, Peter looked at her with an incomprehensible gaze.
At best, it was nothing more than a threat from the thieves.
It was clear that the guy called the Warlock was also a not-so-great wizard.
Nevertheless, the fact that Euthenia saved them was something that Peter did not understand.
“Why did you do that?”
“I want to see the wizard.”
“Yes……?”
Hearing Yutenia’s answer, Peter gave a blank expression.
At least she didn’t reap the shadows for fear of the thieves’ threats.
The reason Yutenia stopped attacking was simply because she wanted to see the wizard.
Ever since she received the spell book from her master, Yutenia has always been interested in magic.
Spellbooks and magic theories that a warlock would have.
And the power of magic used by other wizards.
In her opinion, this was a golden opportunity to meet various magics.
again. again.
Eutenia’s footsteps turned to the head who was sitting in the middle of the mountain path.
Each time the distance with Yutenia got closer, the body of the head who was sitting on the seat trembled.
When the distance from the fearful thief reached a short distance, Yutenia looked down at the head and asked.
“Did you say there are wizards?”
“Yeah, yes! There is a fearsome warlock among our comrades! He’s a man who sacrifices people!”
The boss still tried to exaggerate the power of the warlock.
However, those elements were meaningless to Euthenia.
Yutenia, who embraced the book, was at eye level with the head of the world with a friendly smile.
Then, in a friendly tone, he handed a request to him.
“Then can you guide me?”