episode_0146

“Oh my, who is this! It’s Mina!”

A middle-aged woman wearing a turban called out Mina’s name, appearing delighted.

Judging from the woman’s attire and the surrounding appearance, she seemed to be the owner of a fairly large store.

“Have you been well, Aunt Himena?”

The middle-aged woman’s name is Himena.

Mina greeted Himena with a very bright smile.

Mina was also wearing a turban, and her outfit was different from usual.

To be precise, Mina is currently wearing clothes mainly worn in the desert.

“Hehe! There’s always a lot going on in the desert! Big temperature differences, sandstorms blowing, and even locust swarms! It’s just that this place is where I was born and raised, so whether I like it or not, I’m living with it, Mina! Hehe!”

Himena responded to Mina’s greeting by openly dissing her hometown.

The place where Mina is is a market near the western desert.

It can be seen as a market created at the entrance where the desert begins in earnest.

It is known as the Sahara Market, and unlike before, it is a center of trade where barbarian tribes in the desert, who have begun to interact with outside civilizations, open their own markets to buy and sell their goods.

“Aren’t you too cheerful considering you’re going through such huge things?”

“Thanks to that, I got to meet our Mina again. What’s the point of complaining? To be honest, at this age, I’m just grateful to be alive.”

Barbarians are, in a bad way, belligerent, and in a good way, straightforward.

Of course, it can be seen as a cultural DNA rather than an innate personality.

Therefore, Mina, who did not spend her growth period among the barbarian tribes, has extremely Pangean values.

From her perspective, Himena, who does not lose her pure smile in adverse conditions, only looks amazing.

So, Mina clicked her tongue at Himena’s straightforwardness, and

Himena simply expressed her joy at seeing Mina.

“Oh! Baramion steel?”

Mina and Himena, who entered Himena’s store, had a serious conversation.

Himena’s eyes widened at Mina’s words in the process.

Baramion steel, a special metal from the western desert.

It is said that the skin of the legendary divine beast, Baramion Tiger, was so hard that the name was created after it.

As such, it is not only difficult to handle, but it is also a special metal that only those who are well versed in the desert situation know well, so Himena is showing the same reaction as now.

“I have a dedicated customer, and I think I need to make his armor out of Baramion steel. He has considerable mana abilities. I don’t think ordinary steel can handle that mana.”

Mina told Himena indirectly the reason why she requested Baramion steel.

Wasn’t Mina, who became Eugene Schneider’s exclusive blacksmith, not?

Therefore, she pondered how she could make armor that would suit Eugene.

So, what she came up with was Baramion steel.

Of course, there are special metals used by those who have awakened above Sword Expert in Elysium, but

Mina judged that Baramion steel was suitable for the great swordsman class, where durability and mana conductivity are important.

“Hmm… Mina, if you’re going to use Baramion steel, is he really a customer you have a strong bond with? You haven’t tried to use this side’s color as much as possible, you know.”

Himena, who had been listening to Mina’s words silently, talked about a somewhat side issue.

But on the other hand, it can be an important story.

In fact, Mina doesn’t have very good memories of the western desert, let alone barbarian society.

She had a relationship with Himena in the Empire.

The fact that she is trying to handle Baramion steel, which is one of the symbols of barbarian society, is why Himena is showing the same reaction as now.

“He’s a customer who sends very deep trust to me, who is from the underground city. I want to do my best, putting aside my personal circumstances.”

Smiling…!

Then, Mina told her state of mind with a deep smile.

Not long ago, she found out that Eugene and Jeanne were like that.

No, Mina even saw the two of them having rough sex.

But Mina still likes Eugene Schneider so much.

In the first place, she felt the difference in status and thought of him as just an object to look up to.

So, at least as his exclusive blacksmith, she wanted to do everything and be near him, whom she wanted to look up to.

“Oh~ This is really good news? I’m glad you have such thoughts, Mina. Then, of course, I have to help you. Okay. I’ll roughly find out how much Baramion steel is available right now. Can you wait here for a bit, Mina?”

“Yes, I understand, Auntie.”

Himena felt that Mina, who lives hard, was admirable, but she also felt that she was somewhat suppressed.

So, she felt very sorry for her, who had lived about half of her life.

She felt that Mina had taken a step forward, so Himena herself also showed a desire to contribute to Mina’s project.

‘Huh?’

Himena went inside the store to find out the availability of Baramion steel, as she said.

And Mina is waiting for her,

At that moment, her eyes widened slightly.

‘This voice?’

Because she heard a familiar voice.

Dash dash dash!

So, Mina quickly moved her steps outside the store.

“!!!!”

Mina, who approached the side where the familiar voice was heard, became even more surprised.

‘That person is from the White Iri Mercenary Corps, right?’

It is because one of the people who came to the Black Hair Smithy with Kyle in the past and caused a commotion appeared in the Sahara Market near the western desert, which is far from Pangea.

Feeling suspicious, Mina secretly tracked the White Iri Mercenary Corps member.

‘Sahara Assassination Squad????’

After 20 minutes of stalking, Mina was even more surprised by the situation she witnessed.

The person the White Iri Mercenary Corps member contacted was a member of the Sahara Assassination Squad, a secret assassination squad made up of barbarian people.

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‘I didn’t expect it, but they’re really entrusting Eugene’s assassination to the barbarian tribe’s assassination squad. The White Iri Mercenary Corps people are out of their minds.’

Swish…! Swish…! Swish…!

Mina shook her head, wiping Eugene Schneider’s forehead, which was burning with fever.

Mina witnessed the contact between the White Iri Mercenary Corps member and the Sahara Assassination Squad member, but she couldn’t dig up anything more than that.

After the contact was made, they disappeared into the Sahara Assassination Squad’s base.

Anyway, Mina’s head became complicated after recognizing the situation and returning to Pangea.

She has ties to the barbarian as a barbarian and went there to obtain Baramion steel, but

The fact that a mercenary of the human race based in Pangea set foot in the western great desert was clearly alien.

In addition, the target of contact is the secret assassination squad organization there,

As a result, what quickly crossed Mina’s mind was the assassination of Eugene, the main revenge target of the White Iri Mercenary Corps, which everyone in the Pangea mercenary residential district knows.

However, it is absurd for Mina to tell the Red Fox Mercenary Corps or Eugene directly about the suspicion.

This is because it is not a material to be mentioned with only circumstances and hunches without any basis.

Therefore, Mina only gave a roundabout hint to Marie and then accompanied Eugene’s party as if she was stalking them to support him directly.

‘But looking at the poison used, I understand why they did this crazy thing. Because they can definitely avoid suspicion. The effect is also very clear.’

Swish…!

Mina looked at the throwing star placed next to Eugene.

Eugene grabbed the throwing star the moment he fell off the cliff, pulled it out, and held it in his hand.

He instinctively wanted to let people know what weapon he died from so that the Red Fox Mercenary Corps could figure out the situation in case something went wrong with him.

Thanks to this, Mina was also able to figure out what poison the Sahara Assassination Squad, hired by the White Iri Mercenary Corps, used.

‘Sahara scorpion venom, it’s such an unfamiliar poison in the Empire that you won’t be able to figure out the identity of the poison. Of course, it’s also difficult to find a medicine to treat it.’

The first throwing star’s poison was a common anesthetic poison.

Its purpose was to restrict Eugene’s actions, but it was also intended to confuse the identity of the poison that had a secondary effect.

The poison used to assassinate Eugene is the Sahara scorpion venom on the second throwing star.

Sahara scorpion venom can be said to be a particularly unique poison among the almost unknown poisons.

First of all, there are not many of them, and they are creatures that only live in certain areas of the western desert, so

It can be said that only a very few assassins among the barbarians use it.

‘I was honestly bored when my teacher told me this story in the past, but it’s helping me like this.’

The reason why Mina, who mainly lived in Pangea, knows it well is thanks to her blacksmith teacher.

Her teacher was also a barbarian.

He was an old man over 60 when he first met Mina.

He had been working as a blacksmith for the barbarian tribe in the desert until he was 40 years old, so there was nothing he didn’t know about the barbarian tribe.

Based on that knowledge, he showed off his old man’s spirit and taught Mina, a barbarian girl who knew almost nothing about barbarians unlike himself, how to be a blacksmith and at the same time, he passed on various barbarian knowledge.

Furthermore, he told her stories about barbarian society, as well as knowledge about magicians and swordsmen, etc. that he knew. Mina also learned the knowledge of the video recording magic stone, which Eugene was surprised by in the past, from her teacher.

‘Of course, I’ll have to use a different method to treat Eugene’s Sahara scorpion venom than the method my teacher taught me.’

Of course, Mina’s teacher also told her about the antidote to scorpion venom.

But a problem arose.

Mina found out that the poison the assassination squad used on Eugene was Sahara scorpion venom after she brought him to the cave.

So, Mina didn’t prepare a customized antidote for Sahara scorpion venom.

Nevertheless, she doesn’t seem to be in a hurry.

Because she has a way to save Eugene.

Swish…!

Mina, who was wiping Eugene’s cold sweat, picked up a small bottle placed by his head.

Pooh…!

Then she opened the bottle’s cap and

gulp…! gulp…! gulp…!

She drank the contents of the bottle herself.

Wincing…!

Mina’s face contorted after drinking the contents.

It seems to have a very strong taste.

“Hoo… Hoo… Hoo…”

And that harsh effect was immediately exerted.

Mina, whose breathing began to become rapidly rough,

Not only did her face flush, but her body also began to heat up.

Swish…!

In that state, she turned her gaze somewhere.

That place was none other than Eugene’s lower body.

Eugene Schneider in a naked state,

In other words, Mina’s gaze was on Eugene’s huge dick.

Chaaak…!

Since the owner is suffering from a high fever, the dick is also suffering from the heat and is drooping down,

Mina knelt demurely between the legs of such Eugene’s lower body crotch.

Then

Thud…!

She grabbed Eugene’s sprawling huge dick with her right hand.