Chapter 201 – Black Moon
It is a bad habit of mine to get caught off guard when things go easily.
Even in her previous life, Ah-young’s teaching assistant hadn’t completely finished, but she fell into a defenseless sleep in front of her and was killed.
Even though she was beaten up once, she still couldn’t break the habit.
I was immersed in enjoying the sweet sensuality of 5P sex, so I didn’t fully understand Johannes’ plan, and I acted in moderation. As a result, she is unable to see through Johannes’ plan and she nearly has Hergel killed.
I won’t be careless this time. I will do my best and act thoroughly.
When we arrived at the Black Moon with Hergel, who was in a state of disrepair, the gang members greeted us with rabbit eyes.
“Huh, Master Hergel?!”
“What happened?!”
“Details will be discussed later, but for now, we need to take the boss to a place where he can rest comfortably.”
“Ah, I see. Come this way!”
“I will bring a therapist!”
There are only a few healers within the Black Moon, as they need to check the physical health of the slaves or treat minor injuries and illnesses. If they were called, they would be able to take care of Hergel’s injuries more reliably.
I carefully laid Hergel on the bed in the room I arrived at with the guidance of the organizers. When he thought that he had been relieved, he felt a sense of weariness overtake him.
No, I was actually very tired. His eyes were puffy and his shoulders were sore. It must have been the aftereffects of using mana.
He sat down on the chair next to the bed.
“Ha… How did you save…”
“No matter how good the potion made with troll blood is, can it be improved this much? Is it the power of a beastman… ?”
Roin, who was looking at Hergel lying on the bed, stroked his chin and tilted his head. Natalia looked at me.
“Even if you’re a beast, it’s hard to see this level of effect with a troll’s potion. Han Sung, did you do something? I could feel the movement of magical power.”
“Uh? Huh. That… What should I say, should I say that I poured my magic power into it?”
“Magic power… Do you spill it?”
“Yeah, I used the opposite feeling of sucking blood and using it as magic.”
“It’s the first time I’ve heard of this management method… Since you’re an incarnation, you’ve realized something about how to move mana… ?”
“Um…”
If you think critically, you can. In fact, if I were an incarnation who had lost my memory, I might be able to use authority or something while gradually recovering my memories and regaining my strength.
But I’m not like an incarnation. He is an ordinary human being I had never heard or seen anything like mana until I came to this world.
But when I made up my mind that I had to save Hergel, for some reason, I realized something about the way mana was used. No, enlightened is not an appropriate expression. As if I had stolen a cheat sheet, the necessary information came into my head instantly.
Also, this is kind of weird.
What’s inside me…
“I brought a therapist!”
I was awakened from my thoughts by an organization member who burst through the door.
“Healer! Check Hergel-sama’s condition.”
“Yes, yes!”
The therapist who entered the room looked at me and Hergel lying on the bed alternately and began examining Hergel’s body with skillful hand movements while wearing a puzzled expression.
Hergel, who just left after the retirement ceremony, came back with a broken body, so he must be embarrassed.
“Could you please explain what it was like?”
“The abdomen had been cut, severe fractures to his face, and flesh from the lower half of his body had been ripped off. I used a potion made of troll’s blood to restore all acute wounds, but the wounds were so serious that I was on the verge of dying, so I’m worried about Hergel-sama’s condition.”
“Is that so. Troll Potion… I’ve heard of it by word of mouth, but it seems that such a wound is healed this far, and it has tremendous efficacy.”
The therapist looked around Hergel’s body and exclaimed exclamations.
“It is expected that there will be mild anemia. For now, we will supply stabilizers and nutrients.”
“Do the best you can.”
“Yes.”
The therapist left the room to take the medicine. Again, only me, Natalie, and Roin were left.
I can relate to the therapist’s surprise. The wound on his thigh, where even the bones were visible when he poured the potion, quickly recovered with new flesh growing.
Madecassol is incomparable.
“The troll potion is so good, it’s always good to keep a spare.”
“That will be difficult.”
At my words, Natalia shook her head.
“It’s hard? Why?”
“Trolls themselves are rare monsters. In addition, when a troll potion is made, the lord of the city where the alchemist branch is located often buys it right away for use in the knights or the army. The two bottles I had were also something I barely got because I claimed the right to catch trolls in the past.”
“You mean we have to catch the troll again to get the troll potion?”
“Yes, but it’s a monster that’s hard to see…”
“Sorry.”
It’s like an extra life, but it’s a pity that it’s hard to find. It’s my fault for not making things clear. No, because Johannes did bad things, it’s not my fault, it’s Johannes’ fault.
I used up two bottles of precious troll potion on this bastard. I will definitely take this price tenfold. Because it is my life motto to repay you tenfold if you are beaten, and to pay back before you even get hurt.
“Did you hire the homeless to do the work?”
“If you think about what the city guards said earlier, I think that’s right. Because you said you were being gang-raped by homeless people.”
“Um…”
Homeless people, the last time I went to investigate Johannes’ background, I definitely should have gotten some information.
The problem was that the back alley was so dirty and smelly that I didn’t want to stay there for a long time, so I assumed that Johannes would act the way I expected, and then looked around and came out.
If I were Johannes, he would have been aiming for the next time he got out of the city unconditionally, but why on earth did Johannes aim for that timing?
What do you get by attacking at that timing? No matter how you think about it, it’s an act of loss, isn’t it? After all, a genius like me can’t understand the criminal’s thoughts?
No, you shouldn’t be arrogant. To defeat the enemy, you must understand the enemy. I don’t like it, but I need to think about it again because Johannes’s position is the bug’s position.
“Um…”
Suddenly, he remembered the scene where Hergel had collapsed. At the time of discovery, Hergel’s appearance was so shocking that the surroundings were not visible, but let’s trace his memory and recall the scene again.
The first thing that caught my eye was the wagon lying on its side, and dozens of bolts stuck in the wagon.
I looked down at Hergel. Compared to me, who is quite large, a huge figure that is about twice as large caught my eye.
Quite a few adult men would rip the other half off with sharp claws if confronted head-on. As proof, there were 10 corpses of homeless people next to Hergel.
City Guard said that when they arrived, the homeless people who were massacring Hergel had run away.
In other words, it is a story that even after fifteen people died, there were enough people to surround such a large Hergel. How many people were surrounded by them?
Surrounded by a group of people, shot crossbows to neutralize them, and then beat them up?
In the meantime, did Hergel resist and kill dozens of homeless people?
“Roin, can you win in a one-on-one fight with Hergel?”
“Uh? What about Hergel? Impossible… Sungah Han. There is a saying that when the Grand Corps hires an escort, it hires two prisoners.”
“What do you mean?”
“It means that if there is only one prisoner, you can’t handle it when they betray you, so hire one more to keep them in check.”
“… So what about assassination? Is it possible to target and kill while sleeping?”
“It would be hard to fake a tiger’s nose when it’s in a normal state. Why do you keep asking such scary questions?”
“Um…”
As far as I know, Roin, who is thought to be the strongest, is saying that he cannot win against Hergel.
Herendal, who inherited 1/4 of the beastman’s blood, also dragged on for dozens of minutes against troll skeletons and steel skeletons by himself.
If it had been a regular skull skeleton rather than a steel skeleton, it would have been Herendal who had been destroyed and won long ago, not us.
If so, how strong is Hergel, who has 1/2 the blood of a beastman?
“I see… So…”
I realized why my expectations were wrong and why I made a mistake. My gaze was focused only on Johannes.
I hadn’t thought of Hergel’s powerlessness. I naturally assumed that Hergel would be an ordinary old man. He is an old man who can easily be defeated and killed. But Johannes, who had spent a long time with Hergel, knew him better than I did.
So, knowing that there was no one who could quietly assassinate Hergel one-on-one, he used the tactic.
It wasn’t that I made this choice because there were benefits, it was that there was no other way to choose.
But, then, how are you going to deal with the aftermath after killing him?
Rumors will spread throughout the city about the homeless people trying to kill Hergel.
Of course, the executives know too. In order to retaliate, if the organization invested a large amount of manpower to wipe out Harlem and capture and torture the homeless, would it be easy to fire against the person who instigated the work?
