Chapter 149 – 149 Checkmate
“Master. It seems that all the personnel on the wall have been organized.”
But since there was no fuss, it seemed that Lily and Mimi were doing their best.
“Let’s go too.”
I quickly wrapped my arms around Lia’s neck and hugged her in a princess hug position.
Resting her hands on my thighs and lower back, Lia corrected her posture and climbed onto the wall with a single jump.
There, Lily, who had no blood on her face, and Mimi, whose face was covered with blood, were waiting for me.
“It would be better to kill only those involved, but in ambiguous cases, just kill them.”
“Yes. Master.”
“Huh! Zuin.”
As a sign of support, he gently patted Lily and Mimi’s buttocks.
Lily gently sticking out her butt, and Mimi openly rubbing her butt against me.
“Where do you think the hostages are?”
When I asked while touching their buttocks, Mimi pointed to a building that looked like a warehouse.
“A very peculiar smell is coming from over there. Does it feel like unique smells that are hard to mix with each other come together?”
The composition of the hostages is a state in which various beasts such as dogs, cats, and tigers are jumbled together.
It was most likely the unique smells that Mimi said were difficult to mix and the unique smells of each race.
“Even with my gut feeling, I can feel the most life forms over there. However…”
“Is something strange?”
“It looks like it’s not on the ground, but underground.”
I scratched my chin at the gaze looking down a little further, not where the building was.
It would have been more comfortable if it was on the ground, but it would be a little annoying.
“What is the barrier?”
“I don’t feel anything different.”
“That is fortunate.”
If there was a barrier, unless it was dismantled, no matter how secretly you entered it, you would have been caught right away.
“There is a possibility that the hostages are not concentrated in one place, but managed in several places, so Lily, please confirm that.”
“Yes. Master.”
To tell her to go away, he slapped her on the butt.
“Haha… I’ll be back.”
Lily gave me one enchanting glance and disappeared as if it were seeping into the darkness.
It’s very reprehensible to be enchanted by the master even under these circumstances.
I’m going to put him on my lap later and give him a butt slap.
“Mimi, let’s take care of all the patrols on the way to that building.”
“Huh!”
As for Mimi, I gave her a slap on the ass and she smiled and disappeared into the darkness.
“Let’s go too.”
When I gave a gesture to move forward, everyone nodded and lowered their stance.
After that, things went smoother than expected.
“Kkeuk…”
From time to time, the sounds of life passing away could be heard around, but there was no case that it escalated into a big commotion.
The sound of our running was also muted thanks to Arserine’s magic, so we ran toward our destination rather boldly.
We arrived at the shopping center right in front of the warehouse and stopped for a while.
“I think there are two people guarding the door, two people stationed in the guard room right next to it, and about six people patrolling the perimeter of the building from over the wall.”
“Around the wall?”
“Mimi just killed them all.”
“Let’s enter when the internal patrols are cleared.”
At my command, Leah nodded her head and quietly pulled out her greatsword slung behind her back.
It was to cut through the gatekeepers through the front door.
If you destroy the main gate, you can eliminate the enemy and at the same time create an escape route for thousands of hostages.
“As soon as Lia gives instructions, install the Silent Magic at the front door.”
“Yes.”
Arseline silently prepares magic at my words.
This guy He always used it only as a mount, so I didn’t know much about it, but it’s more useful than I thought.
Normally, I didn’t know because Lily was in charge of such trifles, but it seems that a dragon is a dragon, even if it’s Hetzling.
“Arceline.”
As Lia gave her signal, a faint light leaked from Arcelin’s hand.
She looked at it curiously, then looked at the front door to see that the situation had already ended.
Lia stands proudly above the front gate and the gatekeepers, which have been completely torn apart.
Her figure with her huge greatsword resting on her shoulder is Girl Crush. No, it was just the crush itself.
The master is going to die, Lia.
“Okay, let’s go right away.”
I’ll finish the work right away and this master will handle it sticky!
***
“Hmm…”
Lily, who had been walking around the city hiding her body in the dark, felt something uneasy.
Actions that are so easy.
Of course, when she thought of the strength of this side, of course she couldn’t help but feel something strange.
‘What. What is the problem.’
Just in case, Lily slowly reviewed the operation from the beginning.
Six soldiers who were first dealt with on the wall.
Dealing with a single soldier was easier than yawning.
There were no mistakes.
‘Thousands of hostages just found? No. I found this right away because it’s like Mimi with me. I’m sure normal humans won’t be able to notice it easily.’
Even now, as I wandered around the city, fearing that the hostages might be dispersed and managed, I couldn’t see where the other hostages were supposed to be.
‘There was no problem with dealing with the patrols roaming around the city.’
After being separated from the master, she dealt with two soldiers in total.
While walking around most of the city, probably because the security is usually good, the patrol only met that much.
Now, there was only one huge castle where the lord of the castle stayed.
‘For now, let’s shake off that too.’
It didn’t look like there were too many people residing in the castle at the time.
Roughly the same as the number of people staying in the Baker family.
Thanks to that, it didn’t take long to reach the top floor even though I was going upstairs, tidying up from the bottom floor.
Reaching right in front of what is believed to be the office used by the lord of the castle, Lily opened the door without hesitation.
“Hmm?”
When the human sitting at her desk, eagerly writing something, lifted her head, Lily stepped in front of him.
“Hi?”
“…I don’t think I’ve ever seen an employee like you. Even the end is short.”
Could it be that she mistook herself for an employee when she saw herself in a maid outfit?
Lily was stunned.
“There’s no way I’m an employee like you.”
“So is he.”
The oddly calm demeanor made Lily feel uncomfortable.
Could it be that he is not the lord of the castle, but someone else?
As I was thinking that, the man who was sitting in the chair slowly got up and walked to the window.
“Relax. Because the person in front of you is the lord of this city.”
Annoyed that she seemed to have read her mind, Lily wanted to tear that cheeky human’s mouth open, but for some reason, she couldn’t because that human seemed to know the cause of the awkwardness she had felt earlier.
“Okay? So, do you know what will happen in the future?”
“I don’t think that would be a very good thing.”
Seeing that the lord of the castle could not be expected to greet an intruder, Lily decided to search for the information she wanted by simply rummaging through her brain.
However, she stopped her steps at the words of the lord that followed.
“Still, I can die seeing Lilith, who appears only in legends, so I have no regrets. What’s more, since it’s so beautiful, there’s nothing better.”
“…What?”
“Anyway, the boss’s prediction wasn’t wrong. They said Lilith wouldn’t feel strange about this city, but seeing as she came here instead of over there, it doesn’t seem wrong.”
It was the nuance that she had staged this situation itself, not to the extent that she expected the raid.
Sensing that the situation was taking a strange turn, Lily rushed at the lord of the castle and grabbed him by the throat.
Lily was in a situation where even a little bit of strength would break his neck, but Seongju didn’t change his face color and just spit out his own words.
“You probably wouldn’t have felt strange seeing the number of troops deployed on the walls. It wouldn’t have made much of a difference whether you had dozens of troops or just six. Because they have so much power, they don’t care about the number of subordinate troops.”
“What do you want to say?”
“What is it? It sounds like a trap.”
Lily’s face crumpled mercilessly at the carefree answer.
At the word trap, the master’s face came to mind reflexively.
But right now, by the master’s side were Lia, Mimi, and the somewhat unreliable dragon Arserine.
I don’t know what kind of trap they prepared, but they weren’t easily defeated.
“Do you think the party will be safe no matter what trap it is?”
Lily was irritated when her thoughts were read through again.
“Don’t think about wasting time. If you want to die painlessly, you’d better explain it in a concise summary.”
She said so, but Lily was already gathering mana in her hands and preparing the brain-destroying magic she had cast on Suin the cat before.
Haha! Don’t worry. I have no intention of hiding anything. Because it has already served its purpose.”
At that, she had no choice but to stop casting the spell.
“Our purpose is to get you into this city, and Lilith to get you here, not over there. Because there are only these two things. It’s worthwhile to intentionally release the barriers installed in the warehouse!”
“…Why do you only need to achieve those two things?”
“The blood we need is not yours, but the blood of others.”
The hostages, not a single one of whom has died in the past few days, the mass of people gathered in one place, saying that they want the blood of others, not their own.
“Sacrificial ceremony…!”
“That is correct. To be a little more kind, it covers the entire city. And there, only you will survive unconditionally. That is the picture we want.”
I don’t know why, but they were thinking of turning themselves into mass murderers.
“No matter how much Lilith is, she can’t be aware of an unactivated sacrificial ritual in advance. Of course, you can make the ceremony stop midway, but by then, how many lives will be fleetingly lost?”
“Under! Do you think we would care about that?”
“It doesn’t matter. Other people will mind…Gagging!”
Lily, who did not feel the need to listen to the castle lord anymore, pierced the castle lord’s heart at once.
The moment he was about to throw away the castle lord, who was about to become a corpse, while looking at the eyes that were gradually dying out.
“Cha, by the way… The condition for the consciousness to activate… Cool… Is… My death… Cluck.”
Seongju sighed until the end and passed away quietly.
Fast.
“These are…!”
