Chapter 25 – Rescuing the Princess – 1
Days waiting for Princess Silvia, rolling around with three beauties.
While I was leisurely thinking about how to attack her when she came, I heard the news that she would hit me like a thunderbolt.
“Is that true?”
I look at Selena at the unbelievable story.
But there was no trace of playfulness on her expression.
“Yes. “I think he was kidnapped on his way here.”
Princess of the kingdom.
Sylvia, the next queen candidate, has been kidnapped.
Is this possible?
Isn’t the successor to the next monarch usually given a good bodyguard?
“Is that possible?”
“I never thought it would end up like this…”
Selena made a bewildered yet embarrassed expression.
My expression won’t be much different now.
Who on earth kidnapped the princess?
“Who is the culprit? “Are you another heir to the throne?”
“No.”
No?
Usually, in cases like this, it would be like a rebellion.
If the goal is not to attack the heir, cause chaos, and then ascend to the throne, then who?
“I think it was the work of ogres.”
“What an ogre. Tsu-eup… “
Ogres are powerful monsters with crazy resilience.
It is understandable that the guard was breached if there were not just one but several of them that would be nearly impossible for even an elite knight to defeat in a one-on-one match.
“The princess was so unlucky.”
Ogres that roam alone can still be dealt with to some extent by mobilizing people.
However, in rare cases where they form a group, they are no different from thugs in the ecosystem that even humans have a hard time doing anything about.
They know this very well, so they attack anyone they see.
“Do you know where they went?”
“I know the approximate location, but it’s so dangerous that I haven’t yet detailed the exact location…”
Kidnapping the princess means there is still time.
But we don’t have that much time.
The reason why the ogres kidnapped the princess.
It’s not a soft reason like a hostage.
They eat people.
In other words, the princess was taken as food.
The guards would have been taken away, so she would still be alive, but if it dragged on for too long, the princess would end up in the ogre’s stomach.
“How will the kingdom react?”
“I don’t know yet.”
Is this a fact that only Selena still knows?
It is too late to report to the kingdom and wait for reinforcements to arrive.
“Really… Nothing is easy in this world.”
I sighed heavily and strapped the sword to my waist.
I have no choice but to go rescue you.
“Would you like to go directly?”
Selena opened her eyes wide and looked at me with a surprised expression.
It’s like watching someone go to die.
“Okay. “You can’t let the kingdom’s princess die.”
“But it’s not even a single ogre…”
“Don’t worry. No matter what, I have no intention of fighting head-on this time.”
If you face a group of ogres head on, you are guaranteed to be killed.
There is no way for Agnes if a group of them attack her.
But I have stronger strength and faster legs than anyone else.
“If we just sneak in and take the princess away, everything will work out.”
I am confident that I can run away with at least one princess on my back.
Besides, no matter how powerful the ogre is, we can’t let it eat the princess.
I am the one who eats Princess Silvia.
Of course, in a different sense than the ogres.
*****
Sweltering heat.
Sweat flowing down.
“I guess I said I was coming for no reason.”
The place where the ogre was presumed to be was a sweltering swampy area.
Swarming with bugs and humid air.
The weather is so irritating that I wonder if the discomfort index will hit over 50.
“Why are the ogre bastards in a place like this?”
Even if you want to relax and move around, time does not allow.
Two days since moving from Roern.
Maybe the princess has already been eaten.
But the good news is that there is a high probability that he is still alive.
I heard from Selena that Ogres have a habit of eating human women last as a delicacy.
At least there won’t be a trash situation where only the princess died.
Hwiik-
As I hop from tree to tree, humid air passes by my cheek.
It’s difficult to move quickly down there because of the swamp.
It is much faster to go straight to the expected point using these dense trees.
Hwiik- Hwiik-
A speed that is incomparable to that of an ordinary person.
When the surroundings became dark, a large object finally came into view.
Huge height that appears to be about 4 to 6 meters.
A huge body boasting enormous chunks of flesh.
The object that appeared to be a weapon was a club crudely carved from a huge log.
If that hits a person, every bone in their body will be crushed, and they will turn bright red.
I carefully approach them so as not to be detected.
Ten.
At this level, we actually have to bring in the military to do anything.
“The princess… Is over there.”
A beauty with silver hair tied tightly with an unidentifiable vine-like thing.
She must be Sylvia, the princess of the Loomis Kingdom.
Since there is no one around, it seems like everyone else is already dead.
However, Sylvia did not look scared at all.
Is that the charisma of the next queen?
Come down from the tree and hide in the bushes.
The ogres are deeply asleep, oblivious to the world.
Now is your chance.
I approach Sylvia while keeping my footsteps as low as possible in case I get caught.
Her eyes widened when she saw me.
Maybe it feels like I found a savior.
“Shh… I’ll release you now.”
As she cut down her tightly bound vines with her sword, her unexpected appearance unfolded before her eyes.
Immaculate skin without any blemishes.
Sylvia quickly covered up her body, but even her beautiful private parts remained vivid in my mind.
Now that I think about it, there was no mention of ogres even eating clothes.
Just like a person prepares food, they probably took off all their clothes before eating it the next morning.
Fortunately, Sylvia didn’t yell anything.
She knew very well that if she woke up the ogre here, she would be turned to mush.
“Let’s get out of here first.”
There are many strange spiky plants on the floor.
On the other hand, Sylvia is barefoot.
I lifted her body and hugged her.
“…!”
She walks quietly, feeling the princess’s soft skin.
Step. Step. Carefully.
“Over there!”
Sylvia shouts urgently and loudly.
Rather than reprimanding her, I quickly turned her gaze in the direction I spoke to.
Before I knew it, one of the ogres had raised its huge body and was looking here.
How on earth did they get caught?
At that moment, the guy’s nose caught my eye.
“Ah… Fuck.”
You all had a plan.
Bang!
A club hits the spot where I was standing 0.5 seconds ago.
It was so powerful that a huge amount of dirt rose high into the sky and fell all over the body.
“Wow!!”
As its cries rang out like a signal, the other guys started running at once.
“What a piece of shit!!”
Boom! Boom!
From the moment you step, the ground shakes like some kind of dinosaur.
The ogres were running aggressively, breaking the trees in the way like branches, just like the final boss.
“Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. Damn.”
This is the first time since coming to this world that my survival instinct has sounded an alarm like this.
Move your legs with all your might.
The speed of the ogre was insanely fast, as if its huge flesh was filled with muscles.
Is this what it feels like to be chased by a monster in a movie?
Perhaps because they are so big, they pass through swamps full of water as easily as splashing in the water.
In comparison, I was zigzagging and avoiding obstacles to maintain as much speed as possible.
Before I knew it, the ogres were almost right behind me.
“Over there!”
Sylvia, who was hanging in her arms, desperately pointed her finger.
The place she pointed to was a narrow gap that only people could pass through.
It was a cave with a visible space inside.
“Aaaaah!!!”
There is no choice.
Concentrate as much mana as possible on the leg and jump towards it.
“Kuuuuu!!”
By a narrow margin, the ogres failed to catch me and crashed into the cave entrance.
“Phew…”
When life, which was like a candle in front of a typhoon, comes back to life, a sigh of relief automatically flows out.
I thought I had become quite strong after coming to this world, but such a crazy monster is still beyond my reach.
Thud-! Boom!
The ogres were angry at having missed their prey right in front of them, so they attacked the cave entrance indiscriminately.
The cave shakes every time it happens.
The stone wall near the entrance is slowly starting to crack.
“You crazy people, don’t do this!”
Thud-! Thud-! Quagwagwang—!
The entrance to a collapsing cave.
“Kolok-Kolok-“
When the thick dust settled, almost nothing was visible.
The entrance is just blocked by a huge pile of stones.
Sylvia and I were trapped alone in an unknown cave.
Uh… Hold on?
Now that I think about it, does it seem okay?
