episode_0014

I tried to take my mother and daughter to the evacuation center, but a bigger problem than I expected arose.

My daughter has bad legs, so she can’t run.

“I’m sorry.”

The child looked at me, and I responded by trying to smile and patting his head to reassure him.

“Don’t worry. Because my brother is strong.”

He then asked the child’s mother for permission.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

“Kyaaa?!”

“Please bear with me even if I feel bad.”

Because the situation is the situation. I put my mother and daughter on my shoulders and quickly ran to the shelter.

I’m worried because I can’t see any cripples, but first of all, those who will survive must survive.

That’s how we arrived at the refuge.

The shelter was not closed yet.

Let me bring the mother and daughter to the shelter. Carlson approached me.

“Now the mercenaries have retreated. I guess there is a lot of resistance. It looks like they are reorganizing.”

“I understand if there is a lull for now.”

Things were going better than expected.

However, the problem was that there were no traps left and there weren’t many arrows left.

‘There are about 50 people over there, and there are about 20 people over here.’

Can the country overcome the 2.5 times difference in power as a variable?

‘It’s not something you can do, you have to do it.’

Because I have to protect my family.

Of course, I know very well that it is not easy.

. . .

It was not easy to plunder the village with a mercenary group.

From a mercenary perspective, it is an act to make money, but in a situation where one is being plundered, one’s life is at stake, so it is natural that resistance is strong.

However, once a mercenary group was at the level of the Black Wolf mercenaries, plundering was a piece of cake.

They had already looted dozens of times and were no different from looting experts. No matter how large the village was, it could be easily overpowered.

In that sense, once you become the head of a large mercenary force, you don’t run out and go looting.

My subordinates will repay it on their own.

I was watching with a relaxed mind, but the level of resistance was different than I expected.

It was reminiscent of a battlefield.

“Traps, arrows from the top of the guard tower, and even mercenary skills? Was it a garrison camp, not a rural village?”

I had an unusual feeling ever since I came here, but I never thought it would be like this.

Wolff, who was inwardly impressed, looked at the adjutant on his staff.

“What are you going to do with this? The damage is huge. Aaron.”

Adjutant Aaron broke into a cold sweat at Wolf’s words.

I lost a lot of my men on the way here, and already lost half of my mercenary members due to the village’s resistance.

No matter how easy it was to find mercenaries, there were no mercenaries with more than ten seals of skill.

They themselves were assets of the mercenary group. So there should have been no more damage than this.

“I’m sorry, but I think the leader will have to step forward himself.”

“Ha… It’s annoying.”

Wolff stood up in annoyance.

I came with the intention of marrying a beautiful village girl as planned, but things turned out not to be easy.

“I have an expensive body.”

“Yes. I know.”

Wolf’s power was stronger than the entire Black Wolf mercenary group combined.

The knight-level power was so enormous.

A knight is someone who single-handedly changes the outcome of the battlefield.

“I will give you half of this profit.”

“It should come out like that.”

The leader was Wolf, but the real power of the Black Wolf mercenaries was Aaron, the vice leader.

That’s because Aaron is the one who created the Black Wolf mercenaries and the one who recruited Wolf.

He appointed Wolf, a knight-level soldier, as the leader and made him active on the battlefield, while Aaron was in charge of minor office work and the salaries of members.

This was an effective system.

The mercenary group’s performance is built up by Wolff, and internal affairs are mediated by rational Aaron.

However, unlike Aaron, Wolff was not obsessed with the mercenary group.

For Wolf, the Black Wolf mercenaries are just one of the ways to make money.

Aaron also knew this, so when he ruled Wolff, he used money to appease him.

Like now.

“Then let’s go!”

Wolf ran out.

His physical abilities, strengthened by the use of aurors, were such that it would not be strange to call him a superhuman.

“Leader?!”

“Why are you here?”

“I came here because you guys are so fucking pathetic.”

Wolff looked pitifully at his men who were being beaten by farmers and the like, then looked at a blond middle-aged man who was particularly good at using a sword.

“There was one decent guy in the mix.”

A blond man was leading the vigilante group and blocking the mercenaries’ attack.

In particular, Wolff’s mercenary skills that took advantage of the uphill slope were quite good.

But he was not Wolf’s opponent.

“Would you like to see your skills?”

“What?”

Carlson was taken aback by Wolf who suddenly appeared in front of him and swung his sword, but Wolf, who dodged it cleanly, launched a counterattack.

Carlson quickly defended himself with his sword, but Wolff’s sword was not just a sword.

A magic sword made of mithril, a mineral that is now depleted.

That blow, which also included Wolff’s aura, cut through the steel sword as if it were a piece of paper.

“Kaaak!”

“Carlson!”

“Damn Carlson got hit!”

With the leader gone, the villagers’ resistance quickly collapsed.

“Should I come forward just because of something like this?”

“Haha, sorry.”

As if Wolf hadn’t even warmed up, he went back again, stretching his sore body. Anyway, I took care of the most troublesome part.

The rest could be left to the subordinates.

“Quaaah!”

at that time.

One of his men who ran in front of him was torn apart left and right.

“Haha, well, there is a proper guy.”

People are divided symmetrically left and right instead of up and down?

With pure power and no aurors?!

Wolf laughed excitedly at the funny stunt.

. . .

Carlson suffered.

Fortunately, the injuries weren’t serious enough to kill him, but he had to retreat for a while.

‘The problem is that guy.’

A man with black hair who gives the impression of the composure of a strong man just by looking at him.

Although he was shorter than me, I instinctively knew that he wasn’t going to be easy to see.

fault!

At that moment, the man rushed towards me and started stabbing me with his sword.

‘Fast?’

It wasn’t to the point where I couldn’t follow it with my eyes. However, tension was felt throughout my body due to the inhuman speed.

“Look at this. Damage?”

‘That sword is dangerous.’

That sword, with its blue energy, cut Carlson’s sword like it was tofu.

It would be impossible to stop it.

If so, the strategy was simple. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t fit.

“Then, try avoiding this too!”

The man persistently targeted me.

He put pressure on me by swinging his sword quickly and violently, and in the process, the surrounding area was devastated, but as I gradually got used to his speed, I began to understand his swordsmanship.

‘It’s easier than the black tiger.’

Although it was not easy compared to that crazy creature, it was true that it was an easy opponent.

“What are you doing?”

The man who had been running wild for a while suddenly stopped attacking and spoke with a puzzled expression.

“You follow my speed without an auror? Are you a child of a monster?”

“Because they can’t win, they immediately start making personal attacks.”

You call people monsters?

I was dumbfounded by the personal attacks I heard for the first time.

“I’m asking purely out of curiosity. It is said that humans cannot follow this level of movement without an auror. Maybe it’s a mixed race of Ogre.”

“Has there been a hybrid between ogres and humans?”

“That’s what they say. You’re as tall as me.”

The man who spit out the curse thought carefully and extended his hand towards me.

“Hey, you become my subordinate.”

“Is this a sudden casting call?”

“Okay. It would be a shame to let someone with good skills rot in this countryside. And I also need a proper subordinate. I’m tired of hanging out with assholes.”

I answered his words without any hesitation.

“Is that so? I’m sorry, but I’ll decline. Even looking at it this way, he is the head of a family.”

If I had met that man before I got married, maybe I could have followed him.

Because I was tired of living alone in the forest.

But now I am already married.

I have a lovely wife named Chloe, a family named Sylvia, Clia, and Leon, and a friend named Tom.

Having taken root in this village, it would never be possible for me to go anywhere.

“It’s a shame. I can’t help but dislike it. What is your name?”

“Cyan.”

“My name is Wolf. It would be less unfair if you at least knew the name of the man you were going to kill. Isn’t that right?”

“That’s what I’m going to say.”

I lifted up the black neck I had used as a trap to the guy who was deluded with confidence.

“You are the one who dies.”

“Crazy… Oh, you’re a bastard.”

I never dreamed that I would be able to lift a log by myself. Wolf took a step back, but I wasn’t about to miss this opportunity.

“Che!”

Wolff’s sword could easily cut down the black tree, but the thickness of the black tree was longer than the length of the sword, so he could not cut it all down.

Pop!

I did damage to Wolff for the first time, but the effect seemed to be minimal, as he clenched his molars, climbed onto the log, and charged at me. And I waited for this moment.

“Oooo!”

“Ignorant bastard!”

The moment he got on the black neck, he threw it high into the sky. Wolf floated into the sky, and I also jumped into the sky using the log as a stepping stone.

It is an aerial battle, not a ground battle that takes place in a split second.

And that was the moment when the powerful swordsmanship that used the ground as a stepping stone became weak.

“Die!”

Wolf and I swung our swords at the same time.

Wolf cut me in the chest,

“Damn it!”

I cut off Wolff’s hand holding the sword.

I fell to the ground like that and didn’t stop.

Just as wounded prey becomes more violent, now is the moment when it is most dangerous.

So I moved without delay and stabbed him.

Phew!

Just like that, my sword pierced its stomach.

“You are the one who hurt me the second time.”

“Fuck, that’s an honor. Sigh… ”

Did you sense death?

Or perhaps he didn’t know that he would die in vain like this in a rural village, and Wolf began to burst into laughter.

“Puhahahaha, I never thought I would die in a place like this. Nike will say something! Cough!

In the end, Wolff, who had coughed up blood, looked at me and asked me one favor.

“Hey, you use this sword. Don’t give it to someone else.”

Perhaps that was his will, but he died on the spot.