Episode 8 The Prince is a Bower
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“Aww!”
One of the mercenaries was knocked down by a sudden arrow. No, it wasn’t over.
“Leader! Avoid!”
“Gerard vs…”
Whoops! Poop Poop Puff!
He was yelling at the arrows falling from the trees, so he couldn’t even hear his voice properly.
However, there were no victims among the mercenaries than expected.
“I lived with a shield.”
“If that prince hadn’t shouted…”
Those who fell were either ignoring Ian’s words, or those who could not lift the shield because it was far away.
Still, most of the mercenaries seemed unharmed.
‘Good luck.’
At that moment, Ian swept his chest.
In the past, more than half of the mercenaries died at this time.
It wasn’t just a sudden surprise late at night.
‘I couldn’t even react properly because my stamina dropped due to excessive marching.’
At that time, there was no conflict with the centurion.
But he hastened his schedule thanks to Gallon and Nathan, who will get the job done quickly. In the end, the exhausted mercenaries had no choice but to be helpless by them.
Besides, the scent of the fruit that Ian just smelled.
‘Clearly, the scent of poison used by assassins. It’s also obviously paralyzing poison.’
It was a familiar scent that Ian knew.
But no matter how I thought about it, it was strange.
‘You mean bandits only use poison? Besides, with a normal army of this size, they would have avoided it.’
Whether in the past or now, this raid was a bit strange.
Later, the duke said that it was an attack by bandits, but they rushed at them relentlessly.
Even though there were as many as two knights in the party.
‘It’s also a duke’s knight who is called a national level power with only one person.’
The Duke’s Knights are famous knights on the continent. In particular, there was even a Gallon called the Three Great Knights of the Continent.
‘With this level of power, it is normal for bandits to have escaped in the middle.’
Anyway, thanks to that, some of the soldiers, as well as all of the mercenaries except for Rhine and Gerard, lost their lives.
‘Thanks to you, the other mercenaries were also making a fuss about revenge.’
Strangely, I even got a grudge against the mercenary guild.It was difficult to hire mercenaries for even a small job, saying that he had a headache wherever he went, and that he was even cursed.
Unfortunately, when the mercenaries said they were entangled, they refused the quest and often had a headache when working with the nobles who hired them.
Anyway, it was fortunate that many mercenaries survived.
For the future of Ion, and to fight the Duke, they had to survive.
But it was that moment.
Rumble!
“Prince! Come out!”
The white man hurriedly opened the carriage door and entered. At the same time, he grabbed Ian’s wrist and dragged him outside.
Where Ion arrived was where his soldiers were forming squares with their shields.
“It will be safe here. So just be quiet.”
The white man pushed Ion as if tossing it. His rough hand movements, as if he wanted to fall.
But Ian did not fall.
Instead, he glanced at the white man with curious eyes.
‘Can you see this child?’
It was obviously the same behavior as in the past, but it was because he noticed something.
‘At that time, I was so scared that I couldn’t afford to look around.’
Now it was different.
In the first place, two knights, a hundred soldiers, and mercenaries were not afraid to protect themselves. Most of the mercenaries were unharmed even in the rain of arrows.
Ian’s eyes were looking straight at the white man’s back.
‘If it were common sense, of course, you would have thought that the soldiers behind the shields were safer than the poor wagons.’
However, the carriage prepared by the duke is different.
A top-class item with a whopping defensive magic circle.
It doesn’t even get scratched by that rain of arrows.
‘There’s no way a guy as big as a centurion wouldn’t know that.’
Then why the hell did you drag him out?
That was the moment.
“Dangerous!”
Someone pushed Ian on the back.
He was a soldier who had been assigned separately by his side until now.
In an instant, an arrow passed in front of Ian’s eyes.
pit!
The arrow brushed past Ian’s cheek. A drop of blood ran down his cheek.
It was a wound that had never happened before.
The white man next to him was furious.
“You idiot! Can’t you properly protect the prince?”
“Sorry. I’m sorry. White man! I will fix it!”
“noisy! The prince almost died a while ago! You know how to go back and receive severe punishment…”
However, the centurion, who even scolded the soldiers, was startled.
‘This little boy. You weren’t scared at all!’
There was no change in Ian’s expression when he looked back. Rather, he even wipes the wounds on his cheeks, not like a kid.
It was as if he was used to this kind of daily life.
In fact, Ion had gloomy eyes.
‘It’s disgusting.’
Ian noticed the craftiness of these guys.
‘Did you mean to scare me?’
It started with dragging him out of the wagon in the first place.
If you’ve been a serf all your life, of course you can’t get close to a sword and arrow. He would have never had the experience of losing his life to someone’s malice.
‘But if an arrow passed in front of you and someone fell and fell, wouldn’t you have lost consciousness?’
It was very likely he was aiming for it.
Expose Ion to the violence of war, so that he is terrified. He might have thought that that would make it easier to wield.
The same was the case with the previous soldier’s mistake.
‘Is this really a mistake? Do the soldiers of the famous duke make such a mistake?’
It was a perfect dusting that an arrow could never pass through.
‘It was kind of awkward. Who the hell orders you to do this?’
At this point, doubts arose about the identities of the enemies that the Duke said were bandits.
Of course, he would not have calculated until Ion was hit directly by the arrow.
As evidence, the soldier who served him was a white man.The location has been changed to the cravings of the intestines.
Then the white man approached in a cold sweat.
“I am very sorry, Prince. I did the wrong training for my subordinates…but that’s the way the battlefield is. A place where a blind arrow can kill you.”
It was never an expression of regret.
For some reason, I even felt like I was threatening to kill you by a blind arrow if you looked at us too.
‘Is it because of my changed attitude that I received arrows unlike in the past?’
In this life, Ian did not feel hesitant, nor did he cry because he was afraid. So it must have been a threat to the extent that the arrow touched it directly.
Ian’s eyes looking at the white man were cold.
‘In the end, you killed the mercenaries to wield me. At least not even me.’
Perhaps they were also related to the raid that killed mercenaries in the past.
‘Bandits are horns.’
Ian secretly twinkled his eyes as he remembered the peacock.
And there were two people who looked at Ion with surprise.
“Gallon. did you hear it too? Be wary of your surroundings before attacking.”
“okay············”
It was the knights Nathan and Galon.
No matter how careless he was, an attack could happen at any time. So the attack was supposed to be like that, but Ian obviously noticed the attack before them.
Besides, he immediately instructed me to pick up the shield.
‘The eyes are familiar with battle.’
But Nathan was surprised in another sense.
‘Then, the reason I’ve been resting so strangely until now…’
Others didn’t know, but Nathan knew for sure.
Now, the mercenaries avoiding the rain of arrows were more agile than usual. But what if Ian didn’t take a break and the mercenaries’ stamina ran out. It was an attack that could never be avoided.
In short, the mercenaries could have been annihilated in the first attack.
Nathan’s heart grew cold for a moment.
‘Is it a mistake to look down on you as a child or a kid who used to be a serf?’
It wasn’t a mission where the power of the knights was put in for nothing. It was a job to bring the blood of the royal family, and he always had to be prepared for an attack.
But that kid is more concerned about his surroundings than the knights themselves.
‘I’ve been amazed since the first meeting.’
Of course, this attack doesn’t seem like a simple night attack.
It was around the time that Nathan’s eyes looking at Ion changed.
“Hey! Calm down!”
“No one! Please help me here!”
“!”
Ion was startled by the urgent voice and turned his head.
It was the mercenaries.
The mercenaries were desperately protecting someone while blocking arrows with their shields.
But things didn’t look good.
“Cool…”
The arrow was stuck in a dangerous place, and the injured person was vomiting blood from his mouth.
“Damn it.”
“It must have pierced my lungs.”
Everyone was giving up on the wounded. Even the mercenary leader, Gerard, had a hardened face.
And when Ion saw the wounded, he was startled.
“Calm down, Line! You must not die in a place like this!”
“Seo.. senior…”
The wounded was none other than a line famous for being the devil’s strategist in the future.
Even dying dangerous wounds!
Ian became urgent.
‘He must never die here.’
Ian moved quickly. Then the centurion and the soldiers were terrified.
“Wow, Prince!”
“Dangerous! Come back!”
Surprised, the centurion and the soldiers try to catch him, but Ion is faster.
“For wounds from arrows, speed is paramount.”
Or die right away.
That’s when I got to the line.
“Prince?”
The mercenary commander Gerard called Ion with a surprised look. It was the expression of why you, the prince, came all the way here.
However, Ian, who saw Gerard,I was terribly surprised.
“Chief.. Snow!”
“Ah, I just got hurt. Embarrassingly, stop being shot by arrows…”
Gerrard had one of his eyes covered with a bandage.
And in the blood flowing all the time, the location where the blood flows!
Ian wanted to say goodbye.
‘no way.’
it was undoubtedly
A mercenary king who has neither blood nor tears. Gerard, who had a bad eye, must have been born on this day.
‘Then I hope he lost all his colleagues that day…’
It was certain.
So, he hated and targeted the mercenary guild as well as the entire mercenary. Later, Gerrard became the mercenary king, and he commanded all the mercenaries.
In other words.
‘It was revenge for this.’
Ian looked at the dying line quickly.
‘One arrow on the leg and one on the chest.’
Ian narrowed her brow.
Rhine, later called the genius strategist of the mercenary king Gerard, was crippled.
And I’m not sure, but if the single-eyed Gerrard was born here, the lame line could have been born that day.
Of course, life is at risk, it is not known whether this is the first variable that has arisen as the future has changed, or whether it has happened in the past.
If it happened in the past, it would be wise not to touch it so that the future does not change…
‘If it never happened before…’
Ian shook his head.
‘The location is very bad. Line might die while thinking about it.’
Senior healers and priests were needed.
In fact, no one was holding his hand.
“If you take it out quickly, you won’t be able to breathe properly forever.”
But Ian shone his eyes.
‘I can do this.’
Ion went back and forth on the battlefield in the past. Thanks to him, he was familiar with the emergency treatment for this situation. He pretended to have learned herbalism and healing from the mercenaries just in case.
“Everyone shut up. I will treat you.”
“Yes? What are you talking about!”
This time, even the mercenaries were angry.
No matter how good the prince was, he couldn’t entrust the life of his comrades.
The mercenaries opened their eyes and blocked Ion.
“If a beginner tinkers with it, you die!”
“I’d rather call the priest!”
“Shut up. Because waiting for them to really die.”
“Prince!!”
But it was that moment.
“Stand back!”
“!”
It was Gerard who exclaimed firmly. He was looking at Ian with a serious expression.
“Can you really…?”
Anxiety felt the same. But if he could save the line, he also had the look of asking him to do something.
“Trust me. I will definitely save you.”
“Leader! Do you believe that now? No matter how much a prince is saying, now!”
“no. Leader! I’d rather let me pick it up! Line’s life like that…”
Gerrard bit his lip.
“It is enough for you to come forward like this. So that’s why you’ve made it this far…”
No matter how much the prince stepped forward for the mercenaries. That is enough. When the mercenaries are showing their favor. I mean just do it here.
And the soldiers who were far away from the commotion quickly drew their swords and approached Ion.
But Ian didn’t wait any longer. He is biting a twig in the mouth of the line.
Whoops!
“Aaah!”
I just pulled out the arrow.
The mercenaries screamed like crazy at the sight.
“This.. this crazy!”
“it’s crazy! If you pull it out like that, blood will spit out…”
All of them live by eating knife rice.
He was well aware that blood spurted from the wound if he pulled it out without thinking like that. Besides, I knew all too well that it didn’t end there and even my life was in danger.
By the way.
“uh?”
“what. Why is there no blood coming out?”
“no way······”
Ian’s actions were perfect.