Chapter 106 – Headhunters (4)
“It doesn’t work either. This is all because of you Bolt.”
Seeing the humans running away, Ariel punished Bolt. Originally, it was intended to make the human being held captive scream. And when the humans chased after the screams, the elves in ambush planned to shoot their bows at once.
But it was ruined because of this idiot Bolt.
“Hey, hey, it’s not my fault. I only played around a bit, but those people are too weak. And above all else, the guy who just shot the arrow did the worst.”
Ariel sighed at Bolt’s rude excuse. Yeah, the guy who just shot the arrow was also a problem. She shot arrows at the people who were worried and made them run away.
It would have been better if I had hit it, but I couldn’t.
Ariel later decided to call him aside and scold him.
“Uh, huh? Me, that guy runs away alone Heck, he’s human too.”
Ariel turned her head to follow her bolt’s gaze. She sprang out alone among the crowd and noticed a running human.
‘Anyway, humans…’
She couldn’t stand it. It was a betrayal. He is so different from himself and his fellow tribesmen, with whom he is bound by tight camaraderie. She had Ariel’s eyes on the human running away with her face in her contempt.
“I want to catch that guy. No who thinks he’s alive, I want to see him make a look of despair.”
Greed burned in Bolt’s eyes as he watched the human flee alone. If I dry this, it will swell again. Ariel grants Volt’s wish as many times as she can.
“Take three people behind you. Whether you’re captured alive or killed, you have to finish it quickly and come back. Do you know where it is?”
“Hey, don’t worry. I remember everything.”
Bolt grinned and patted my head. Ariel nodded her head and hee-ha! She laughed loudly and ran towards the place where the humans had fled.
“Don’t forget to bring three people!”
Hehe!”
Bolt responded with a grotesque laugh. Ariel shook her head and remembered that now is not the time for her.
“Ah, help me.”
-Yingying!
The power of the wind dwelled on Ariel. Her wind no longer blocked her, but rather pushed her and made her movements light.
[Haste]
Thanks to her wind elemental magic, Ariel was able to move faster than other elves and comparable in speed to humans, even though she is an elf with very little muscle.
But she couldn’t get enough speed. Because she should have arrived at that place before the humans did.
Ariel jumped towards the tree. Ea lifted her up on her tree. Ariel, standing on top of a tree branch, jumped to the next tree without hesitation, and Ea, the wind spirit, and Weria, the water spirit, helped her to land on her next tree.
Ariel climbed the tree and arrived at her desired location.
‘Humans… Are still there.’
A river was flowing in front of her eyes. Around the river, there were no obstructive trees, and it was in a state of openness.
‘I’m sure everyone is driving them well, right?’
Since her first plan failed, she had to move on to the second. The second plan is that if the elves drive the humans into the river, Ariel will sweep them away with her surprise.
Even if some of the humans survived, that much could be dealt with by the remaining elves.
‘I hope I don’t run out of arrows.’
They are elves who hide in the forest to avoid humans. Of course, there was no such thing as smelting technology, and arrows were just made by carving trees.
‘…Fucking humans.’
Ariel hated humans.
Because they drove the elves into the woods? Because you don’t respect the elves as a creature and only see them as a resource?
No.
That was a reason, but not the root cause.
So what is the root cause?
I do not know.
Ariel didn’t know where her hatred came from. There is no memory of her from her childhood and all that comes to mind is a picture of herself running through the woods, panting. However, since then, a deep hatred for humans has already been planted in her heart.
She’s quite dubious, but it’s not that important to her. The important thing for her now was to kill all these hated humans.
“Ah. Weria.”
The two spirits responded to Ariel’s voice. A lump of water separated from the body of the water spirit and came out. The separated water froze little by little from the tip. That’s how dozens of ice picks the size of your forearms were made.
Her air elemental spun the wind around her own core. The whirlwind gradually grew larger, and soon it became bigger and bigger than Ariel.
Ice picks got stuck in the whirlwind. Then the ice picks rotated with the wind, and it looked like a giant top.
‘Ice whirlwind.’
Ariel gave a satisfied laugh. Now, when the humans show up, all we have to do is throw it away. Spinning ice picks will rip through their flesh. The thought of hearing human screams already makes me feel…
Rustle-
The sound of leaves being trampled and crushed.
Ariel’s lips went down.
“Who is this.”
“…”
“Yuli? Melina? Akia?”
Ariel called out the names of the three elves guarding her residence. However, only the sound of insects and birds chirping echoes in the forest, but the answer she wants is not heard.
‘Is it a monster? Or a beast?’
It’s embarrassing.
‘At a time like this…!’
Her tribesmen told her that in the distant past, her ancestors communicated with animals and lived in harmony. However, that’s just an old story, and today’s elves don’t know how to communicate with beasts.
Ariel frowned and made her spirits unleash an ice whirlwind. It’s still before humans appear, so I’ll have to quickly organize it and make it again.
Ariel carefully turned her head and looked around her. Where did you hear that rustle just now? She was so focused on something else that she couldn’t hear correctly.
She looked around frantically, but no noise came again, except for a rustle.
‘…Was I sensitive?’
Ariel turned her body towards the river again. Because I had to finish preparing again before the humans came.
“Ah, Weria. Please.”
She asked the two spirits to recreate the ice whirlwind. However, the spirit did not move. She was when Ariel thought she was weird about him. Her water spirit, Welia, attacked her.
“Wow?! Welia, what are you doing all of a sudden…”
Iron puck. The dagger that flew from somewhere was blocked by Weria. Ariel opened her eyes wide at the sight of her dagger, which Weria held up.
“What is this…”
Dagger?
Why is this flying towards her?
There was only one answer.
“Human…!”
Who is it?
Did the tribesmen lose sight of the humans they were chasing? No, arrows are guiding the escape route, so there is nothing to miss. In addition, most of the weapons of humans were long swords. A dagger…
‘Ah!’
A man who escaped alone. Daggers hung from the waist of the human. Did that human follow you?
‘But that person must have been pursued by Bolt?’
How are you here?
Bolt and the elves who followed him?
Curious, but she decided to put her curiosity to rest. It’s not too late to ask after catching such a thing. Ariel looked around her, holding the dagger that Waria had blocked in her right hand.
‘Where are you?’
The forest was still quiet except for the sounds of bugs and birds chirping. It wasn’t even a dark night, but I couldn’t see even a shadow, let alone a human form.
‘Is he hiding?’
The surprise attack failed, so he was hiding. Otherwise, there’s no way you can’t hear footsteps. Are you going to hide like this and run away when she leaves?
It’s a no-brainer.
“Weria, where did this dagger come from?”
Whispering softly, he pointed to the direction from which Weria had flown.
I mean that tree…
“Weria, ice pick. Ea windblade.”
An ice pick the size of an adult man’s forearm flew and pierced the tree. Three wind blades flew towards the tree. The first severely wounded the tree, the second deepened the wound, and the third completely felled the tree.
“Okay, good job.”
Ariel smiled at her two spirits and walked to the fallen tree. Judging from the shape of the tree, she doesn’t look like she’s alive, but seeing her dead makes her feel better.
However, as she approached the fallen tree, she felt strange. It’s a human scream. Even if he died instantly, wouldn’t it make sense that there wouldn’t be a single blood stain left around him?
She ran hastily to the fallen tree.
“Doesn’t exist..?”
There were no humans there, only a broken tree.
“Wow, Weria. You said you were here.”
Ariel urged the water spirit out of her rising anxiety, but she said that the water spirit was definitely here too, and she had a puzzled attitude. Ariel searched around the tree and the area herself, just in case she wanted to.
There were no humans around. Sensitive, she wondered if she was looking at something, but the dagger in her right hand was real. Cold sweat ran down her spine.
“What, you said you were here. But why, why not? You couldn’t even hear it move.”
Rustle-
“?!”
Ariel turned her around hastily.
Look around, look around-
She found the owner of the noise.
“Where are you… Where did you hear that?”
Ariel focused on her hearing.
Only once.
It seemed that if I listened just one more time, I would be able to pinpoint its location.
However, things did not go the way she wanted.
“…”
After that, there was no sound of footsteps again. It’s like you know what I’m thinking.
Little by little, the composure in Ariel’s mind collapsed, and nervousness replaced it and filled it.
She turned her head nervously as she bit her lip. Even if she does, she won’t be able to see what she can’t see.
“Where are you?! Come out!”
Eventually, Ariel couldn’t get over her nervousness and she cried out loud.
It is because her sense of contempt and fear gnawed at her when she became her prey instead of being her hunter who hunted her.
On the other hand, her human figure still did not appear, as if laughing at her nervousness. He didn’t do anything to pinpoint his location, such as making footsteps or throwing daggers.
Man was a calm hunter.
As time went by, Ariel went mad.
The people who were running away will arrive soon,
I need to get ready quickly
I’m tied up because of that one person. Even her life was in danger.
“If I catch you, I will kill you. I will kill you very painfully.”
She gritted her teeth and distorted her elegant face. At the same time, her graceful green eyes rolled left and right eagerly. In order not to miss even the slightest trace.
And…
Rustle-
The sound of the rustling of leaves.
Ariel didn’t miss. She pointed with her hand in the direction of the sound.
“Weria Whip! Ea wind blade! Do not save your strength and use it! Just sweep it away!”
Weria, who used to be the size of her fist, grows in size. Welia, who quickly became a 7m tall gesture, swung her body like a whip. The trees hit by her whip fell helplessly. Dozens of wind blades tore apart places where humans could escape.
Ariel’s tense expression eased. She’s so smashed up that there’s no way she’ll be alive. She turned her body toward the riverside with ease. She needs to prepare for an ambush quickly…
Her body stiffened.
“Sick.”
Because within five steps of her, the man she shouldn’t have looked at her and smiled at her.
‘Boo, I must have heard the sound from over there?!’
Ariel panicked and hurriedly swung her dagger. Meteor watched her dagger’s trajectory toward her own face with her own eyes.
It’s lame.
Yuseong grabbed her wrist and hit her elbow with her opposite hand.
“Ugh!”
Her recoil caused Ariel to miss her dagger. Yuseong bent her arms back, put them on her back, and kicked her in the hamstrings, causing her to fall to her knees. She brought her dagger to Ariel’s throat, warning her spirits to return in haste.
“If it moves, it cuts it.”
Ariel bit her lip as the sharp blade touched her uvula. The clear green eyes trembled.
