episode_0657
by admin
Bang! Bang! Boom!
“Over there!”
“Catch her! Catch the witch!”
“If you see any suspicious guys, catch them first!”
“This time, break his legs so he can’t escape!”
The sound of an explosion coming from a corner of the village caused the guards and the town’s men to rush there.
The village, which should have been filled with the sounds of cows mooing and bleating, bells tinkling, and the lively sounds of women and merchants haggling over prices, was thrown into chaos.
All of this was committed in just one day by a group of ‘witches’ from outside the country.
The strangers who suddenly appeared disturbed the daily lives of the villagers by talking about witches.
Not only did they grab the shoulders of pedestrians on the street and start quarrels, but they also ate the fruits displayed by merchants without paying for them.
He even went into the home of a newlywed couple who had just gotten married a few days ago, kicked them out, and took over the house to spend the night.
Of course, the guys were subdued by the security guards who arrived before they could even wake up the next morning.
The funny thing is that even though they committed such a crime, when they were caught by the security guards, they shouted back at them, asking what they were doing, saying that they were also villagers.
The villagers saw them spouting nonsense, and at first they thought they were crazy, so they decided to beat them up and chase them out of the village.
But that thought changed when a real witch appeared.
The real witch emitted a flash of light like the sun and a roar louder than thunder from her hands.
And while the townspeople were distracted by the light and sound, the witch intercepted the captured madmen, or rather, her minions, and hid herself.
It was truly a thing that would make a ghost cry.
“It’s a witch! A real witch has appeared!”
“The witch saved the servants!”
“Oh my goodness! A witch came into our town!”
The townspeople were shocked and horrified.
It was because I had personally seen and experienced with my own eyes the shocking fact that there really was a witch in the village.
But the shock and horror disappeared as suddenly as they appeared.
Instead, anger and madness took their place.
The guards who directly subdued the witch’s minions were the first to come to their senses, and it was significant that no villagers were killed or injured during the witch’s attack.
The only people who were injured were those who were startled by the loud noise and fell on their butts.
The guards organized the villagers and recruited young men to help them.
“All adult males, come out and help find the witch!”
“Take up a weapon, whether it be a sickle, a club, or a club!”
“Should I bring a torch too?”
“What kind of torch is that in broad daylight… ”
“Still, I wonder if there’s something I should burn, so why don’t you listen?”
So the townspeople began to patrol the town carrying various farming tools and torches that could be used to burn witches on the spot.
“Wait a minute, but didn’t those witch’s minions stir up the town looking for the witch? Are you sure they’re on the same side?”
“They must have been looking for the witch they served because she disappeared.”
“He must have been under the influence of a witch, judging by his strange mental state.”
Some people noticed that something was strange, but such doubts were quickly dispelled by the crowd’s determination to capture and execute the witch.
Now the witch hunt has become a search operation in which the entire village puts its all into it.
Naturally, the ones who suffered the most from this unexpected result were the other hidden metastases.
“Damn it. What kind of crazy bastards stirred up a beehive… !”
Norton was one of those who fell victim to the sparks that flew.
He grumbled and ran down the alley, covering his face with a shabby cloth he had picked up from a nearby house.
In fact, Norton was a transfer student belonging to a fairly sound clan, and he had obtained information about the 3rd floor test from his seniors and had challenged the test.
He was quite confident in his abilities and was confident that he could pass the test on the third floor by himself without any help from others.
And actually, the start was quite smooth.
Having succeeded in bribing one of the villagers using the precious metals he had collected from the first floor of the tower, he planned to hide in that villager’s house and slowly gather information about the surrounding area.
Since the role was also played by a priest, I was confident that I would not be eliminated even if I was cursed by a witch in the worst case scenario.
But there was also a problem he hadn’t thought of.
For this type of test, unless you have a fairly strong body, it is nearly impossible to pass the test on your own at the level of a normal person who can climb three floors.
A sudden outbreak of witch hunts forced him to escape from the house of a villager he had bought, which he had intended to use as a base.
Even though he had his mouth sealed with precious metal, he had no idea when he would be sold out in a situation where the whole town was going crazy.
Norton had no naive idea that the landlord would protect him, a foreigner, until the end just because he had received a little gold. After all, the current commotion was started by foreigners, or more precisely, by the transferees.
“I have to hide because of the trolling of those idiots… Why didn’t the clan seniors tell me about these precautions…! If I had known this would happen, I would have saved the party! Why did I come up here in such a hurry and end up like this?”
A thick slur came out between Norton’s molars.
The clan’s senior transferees also had something to say.
There is no risk to your life if you simply choose to fail the test on the third floor.
So, from the clan’s perspective, it was beneficial for the clan members to gain as much experience as possible during these opportunities.
Passing these levels of testing was also a sort of filter for the refinement of the clan.
Since enough information was provided, even if no warning was given, smart people would have figured out the danger.
In fact, it’s not like there aren’t cases where you get lucky and things go really smoothly.
He moved his feet busily, not even realizing that he was in the middle of an initiation ceremony.
Could it be because I moved away from where the commotion was taking place and kept some distance?
Before I knew it, the surroundings had become quite quiet.
Norton tried to hold his breath because it suddenly seemed too loud.
at that time.
Rustle-
“… … !”
I heard something moving behind me.
‘Are you a villager? Did you follow me because you saw me moving in the opposite direction? No, don’t be scared for no reason. He must have just been passing by.’
Norton thought so, but quickly threw himself into the bushes on the side of the road.
I didn’t want to cause a commotion by picking a fight with someone passing by and attract the attention of the enraged security guards.
Thud thud…
He heard the sound of someone walking towards him from outside the bushes. Listening closely, he noticed that the footsteps did not overlap strangely, suggesting that there were two or three people approaching.
‘Please just go…’
Norton prayed desperately, but the footsteps stopped just before the bushes where he was hiding.
That meant he knew he was hiding here.
In fact, it was hard not to know. He was the one who threw himself in panic. The sound of the bushes was quite loud.
In the end, Norton had no choice but to make up his mind.
‘There’s nothing we can do. We have no choice but to deal with the witnesses as quickly as possible and move on.’
He was confident that he could easily defeat two villagers.
That’s when he pulled out his sword and jumped out of the bushes.
“Huh… ?”
He blurted out something stupid without realizing it.
He had guessed that there must have been two villagers following him by the sound of footsteps, but there were now three people standing in front of him.
He didn’t even look like a villager. He was wearing a robe and hiding his identity, which made him look suspicious to anyone.
The man standing at the very front opened his mouth.
“He was a priest.”
“I got caught at the very end.”
“… … !”
Upon hearing this, Norton realized that they were transference characters like himself.
“… How did you know I was a priest?”
“Because everyone else was eliminated except you. They were all hiding in one place so it was easy to catch them, but you kept wandering around so it took some time to find you. Then I heard you moving in the opposite direction of the residents so I followed you.”
“You…! You are the trolls who caused this mess!”
Norton felt a surge of anger and frustration.
It was clear that one of them had a witch’s mark.
Otherwise, the test would have already ended in victory for the villagers.
‘Can I fight and win against the three Jeon-i-sa?’
I don’t know how the two behind can win.
One of them looked quite formidable when seen from a standing position, but the other one looked quite weak.
But the man who seemed to be leading them from the front was unusual.
It was also annoying that I couldn’t hear any footsteps when I followed him.
In the end, he is thinking about giving up on this exam.
The man in the lead suddenly threw an object at him.
Whoosh-
“?”
Norton instinctively grabbed the flying object. It wasn’t thrown specifically to hit him, so it wasn’t hard to catch.
Feeling a familiar sensation, he opened his hand to check the identity of the object.
“What is this…?”
What he was holding in his hand was a witch’s mark.
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