74 – The Wizard of Gale and Fury (3)
After a while, Ornette stood up, pushing my back.
“Go now.”
“Are you going to be okay?”
“Keep saying those kind words, telling me not to worry!”
Suddenly Ornette screamed.
No, no matter what you worry about, it’s a mess…
Soon a door appeared in front of me.
This time too, there were stairs leading to the ground.
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“Take cover.”
When Ornette nodded, he counted to three and kicked the door open.
“Welcome.”
When I turned around, there was a woman standing looking at me.
She was a slender woman with short black hair and sharp eyes.
Is he the head of the Drapener guild?
The guild leader held out her hand as if to shake her hand, but he ignored it and looked the woman up and down.
The outfit is light leather armor commonly worn by assassins.
Various weapons are hidden in that type of clothing.
Two daggers on the wrists, a great sword on the ankles, and a studded belt can be used as a whip in case of emergency.
It seems that the knife protrudes from the front heel of the boot.
There must be a small bottle of poison inside the pendant around your neck.
And when the ring on your finger is impacted, needles come out from inside and sting.
An assassin is an assassin.
Then where is this place?
I quickly looked around out of the corner of my eye.
A common appearance of an ordinary family home.
What’s unique is that all the windows and doors are nailed and blocked with wooden boards.
It must be the Drepenner’s preliminary hiding place.
“He’s a cute kid.”
The guild leader smiled like a snake as he saw Ornette coming up the stairs.
“Would you like to sit down?”
The guild leader pointed to the chair.
The chair is fixed to the floor.
Judging by the fact that the floor beneath it is slightly cracked, it appears that it was designed to open to the floor and cause it to fall down if it falls.
Otherwise, they might be trying to hang a noose around their neck and use it like a gallows.
Besides that, minor pitfalls here and there caught my eye.
“Since you are a guest, let me offer you some tea.”
“I don’t drink tea. I’m sure it’s got something on it.”
Drapener smiled at my words.
“Is that possible? I don’t use any sloppy tricks against demon hunters.”
You know who I am.
So, did you understand everything that happened in the guild?
Either that or not.
“Oh, I see. Then, please don’t be shy and answer the questions I ask.”
The Drapener guild leader kept his mouth shut, as if asking someone to ask.
“Last night, fourteen members of the Tenèvre guild attacked our guild. Thirteen were killed and one escaped. I think the person who ran away is probably the leader of the Tenèvre guild. She is your biological sister.”
“Hmm.”
Drepenner did not show any particular reaction to learning that she was his biological sister.
Maybe because he is a highly trained assassin, his facial expression management is ridiculous.
“I counted the number of dead guild members here and there, and now there is only one guild leader in the Tenèvre guild. So if he doesn’t go crazy, he won’t go back to the guild headquarters and be arrested, and he’ll be hiding somewhere?”
Guild leader Dre Fenner narrowed his eyes and smiled.
“So you came here with the suspicion that I hid her sister here?”
“Yes. I have to file a claim for damages with the Tenevre Guild, so please let me meet that person.”
“It’s a claim for damages…”
The Drapener guild leader looked at me blankly and answered.
“She’s not here.” She was disowned a long time ago.”
“You said she was disowned, so why did you rescue her sister last night? When you let all the other Tenebre guild members die?”
The Drapener Guild Leader’s cheek muscles visibly flinched at my words.
“Haha. I don’t know what you’re talking about. What does last night mean?”
At that, the eyes of the Drapener Guild Leader turned to the side.
There was something like a thin fishing line that was invisible to the public eye.
If you pull that thing, it seems like some kind of fatal trap will be triggered.
“Didn’t you say with your own mouth that you don’t take easy steps against demon hunters?”
I smiled and played with the hilt of Nightrend’s sword.
Drapener smiled at that sight.
“Did I do that?”
“Does the Demon Hunter look like a dick?”
The Drapener Guild Leader’s face hardened at my words.
“It’s a loud sound when you’ve already entered the tiger’s jaw with your feet.”
The Drapener guild leader looked at me for a moment and then smiled evilly.
“I thought you would come visit us. Our workload has been decreasing, so we were planning to do some work sometime, so I’m just grateful that you came on your own.”
“Drepner. Don’t do anything you’ll regret. Let’s end this with a good conversation.”
Even as I said this, I was secretly thinking that everything went well.
If the other side comes out first like this, there will be a reason to destroy them in the name of self-defense.
As Ornette grasped the situation, a very faint energy of magic was blooming from her fingertips.
Dreffener saw that and snorted.
“Do you think a wizard can do anything special here?”
“Seeing that you’re so confident, it looks like you’ve applied magic resistance oil, right?”
At those words, Ornet opened his eyes wide and looked back at me.
“They say genuine oils are secretly being distributed on the black market these days. I guess there’s a lot of money in it?”
Drepener shrugged his shoulders.
“It was quite a bit. Still, you end up having to use something like this, right?”
“What should I do because I’m sorry? You wasted that money.”
“You never know. But, do demon hunters actually fight with their tongues?”
“You’re the one who keeps dragging me on with words.”
At that time, Ornette, who was next to me, gently pulled my sleeve.
When I turned my head, people who looked like guild members appeared here and there, carrying vicious weapons.
Drapener continued to hold me and continue the conversation while waiting for the guild members to arrive.
But actually, I followed Drapener’s intentions until all the guild members gathered.
But what are they, those bastards?
There are more than you think?
Wasn’t this a place registered as a small guild with less than ten people?
There is no way Leana is mistaken.
Hmm, then those guys aren’t official guild members, but are just informal guild members.
Well, there is no way that the guild is governed by the law, with a shady person like a former assassin sitting as the guild leader.
“Is this all?”
“What difference does it make if I pretend to be strong?”
“No, I’m not trying to act strong, I’m just asking because I’m really curious. I’m trying to deal with it all at once. It gets annoying if there are little bits left over.”
“Ha.”
I could see Dreffener’s arm muscles twitching.
Looking at the overall angle, it looks like he’s trying to pull the fishing line next to him.
While I was measuring the timing with my hand on the hilt of Nightrend’s sword, Ornette suddenly whispered.
“I will do it.”
‘What?”
“That guild leader. I’ll handle it.”
“You? Why suddenly?”
“Give it to me. I will do it.”
No, why is he suddenly doing this again?
Drapener is not a quest target, and catching it does not increase your performance or earn you more money.
Moreover, the assassin has an absolute advantage at this close.
Ornette, whose physical abilities are very low, cannot follow Drapener’s movements with her eyes.
Ornette’s head will fall off before the spell can be cast.
“No. That thing was coated with magic resistance oil.”
“You can ignore that.”
“It’s oil made by the demon hunter himself. It can never be penetrated.”
“Haa…”
Ornette let out a sigh full of disappointment.
At that moment, Dreffener’s arm moved towards the fishing line like lightning.
As soon as I grabbed Ornette by the back and threw her to the side her, sharp iron needles rose from the floor where we were sitting and shattered the chair.
When he roughly threw Ornet down and looked behind him, the Drepeners came right in front of him.
I dodged the incoming curved dagger and extended my hand about 1 meter to the right of the visible Drapener.
The alter ego distortion that disturbed my vision disappeared, and I was able to grab the real body by the collar.
As expected, this bitch is a high-level assassin.
The Drapener that was grabbed by my collar tried to blink, but it had no chance.
I threw the Drapener on the floor with all my might.
The floor shattered and Drapener’s body her went limp, hitting her face her her her her.
At that time, flashes of light flashed everywhere.
It seemed like Ornette was using some kind of magic, but the guild members who were hit by the magic hesitated but didn’t seem to suffer much damage.
After confirming that the magic resistance oil really blocks magic, the guild members quickly began to move with movements equivalent to blinking.
If you just fight against them, Ornette will be defenseless.
We need another way.
“Illusion magic! Make them mistake you for a devil!”
Ornette immediately understood what I was saying and immediately cast magic.
Knowing that Ornet was an expert in illusion magic, he had been thinking about trying it for a long time.
Will it really work?
They applied the magic resistance oil, and I’m the target of the illusion magic, so wouldn’t it work?
When Ornette cast a spell on me, the guild members surrounding us suddenly began to look like black humanoid demons.
Done!
When the hunting dog’s brand was activated, a bright red inverted triangle symbol appeared above their heads.
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Ornette could not believe her eyes
As soon as I cast illusion magic on the secretary at his request her her her, guild members suddenly started falling randomly
Literally as soon as the spell was cast, the office manager, who turned into black smoke, disappeared and it only lasted a few seconds.
Looking at the dozens of guild members rolling around on the floor, Ornette swallowed dry saliva without realizing it.
What the hell is this… What… ?
Could it be that the office manager was also a wizard… ? ?
How on earth… ?
“Ugh…”
The Drapener guild leader, who was pinned to the floor, groaned and got up.
Then the office manager walked over and kicked the guild leader in the chin.
“They’re making fun of things that don’t matter.”
The secretary clicked his tongue as he looked down at the Drapener Guild Leader who fainted again.