Chapter 61 – Awakening Madness (6)
‘Did Tirsi do a good job?’
Mindful of being threatened with hostages, we split into two groups and shared roles in advance.
I cause a commotion inside with cloud summoning magic, and Tyrsi rescues the hostages using the opportunity.
Everything was according to plan.
“For whatever reason, you crossed the line.”
I said, manipulating the fog inconspicuously.
“But I am very merciful. I will spare you as much as you, the boss of the thieves.”
“Are you sure?”
With just one word, the thief leader changed his attitude. The other thieves screamed at his words.
“Two, boss!! What do you mean!!”
“Shut up!! If you resist anyway, you’ll be beaten!! I want to live in my country, but what’s wrong with that!!”
“Earlier, even if you die, you told him to feed him at least a knife and die together, didn’t you?!”
“Things have changed!!”
Babies are just fucking crazy. I gesticulated softly.
“Come this way. If you’re scared to be next to me, it’s okay to stay in the corner. You guys didn’t intend to kill me from the start. I like a competent guy.”
“Thank you!!”
The head of the head turned red and clung to the corner. I ignored the thieves who were the bastard’s subordinates.
‘Jerk the.’
I have no intention of ever saving that kid. No, I’ll let you live, but I’ll arrest you and hand you over to the guards. Because we need someone to testify.
After letting them know everything, the guards would execute them on their own. Because he’s too evil to keep alive. I’m also going to make sure the guards kill them properly.
‘I’ll have to break my limbs later so that there’s no confusion.’
As I thought so, I noticed that one of the bandits was making a disturbing move. He was secretly attaching arrows to his bow.
“Search!!”
Why are you screaming when you’re doing a surprise attack? Anyway, the thief who shouted like an idiot raised his bow and shot it quickly.
It was supposed to target me, but the arrow that flew away was the leader of the thieves. Beating traitors first was a really good example of a group of assholes.
Wedge liquid! Puck!
“Fuck!!”
The boss, who had been hit in the shoulder by a single blow, collapsed. How rubbish the armor is, they say it can be pierced by a single arrow. Seeing him not even laughing, I threw the ax in my hand.
Boom bung bung bung!!
─Puff!!
A different world tomahawk with a spinning spin made Mohican hair on the archer’s head. Since even the handle was stuck, it would have been an instant death unless that baby father became a slime.
“Heeheeeee!!”
“Aaaaa!!”
The thieves screamed and urinated in sets at the sight of people’s heads exploding. Even those familiar with killing would not have had the experience of standing on the side of their dying.
Rumble—.
The blood and brains spilled by the bowman with the ax Mohican Hair seeped into a nearby box.
This room was full of all sorts of stolen goods and daily necessities. Fucking bastards are doing better than me. It’s crazy. The professor slayer in me ripped his shirt in anger as their cavernous suite looked so damn cozy.
“──As expected, you guys are also professors.”
A being who extorts and exploits the achievements of others.
That was the professor
So did you. Those guys are pests that can’t make anything by themselves and only harm civilian society!
If you have a lot of fucking greed on such a subject, you will go as far as plundering the fruits of other people’s hard work!
All the treasures piled up over there were someone’s thesis!!
They were more vicious and base creatures than the cockroaches that live in the kitchen cupboard!!
Thus!!!!! I deserve to die a hundred times a thousand times!!!!!!
“──I will kill the professor.”
I said it like spitting out angry hatred.
“Of course I will kill you too!!! I will kill all professors who bully graduate students!!! I will kill every professor in the world!!!”
“Hey, you crazy bastard!! Why are you looking for a professor in the thieves’ lair!!!”
“Questions and answers are useless!!!!”
I threw a tantrum at the villain who made excuses. They took on my murderous intent and drew their weapons like madmen whose sanity values had completely evaporated.
“Kill!! If you kill that one bastard, you can escape!!!!”
“Kill that bastard and the boss who fell for that bastard!!!”
“Wow! Argh! Argh! Argh!──!!!!!”
Rumble!!
More than 10 bandits attacked at the same time. I watched them charge with a weaponless enemy air strike.
Those bastards are all vicious killers. A villain who kidnaps illegal slaves and sells them to strangers.
Co2 generators not worth keeping alive!
Let die here!
“Death Fog!!”
He waved his hands as he chanted an incantation. The fog of Justice followed my manipulations and colored the cave thickly. Although it couldn’t grant killing power, it could make it blow as fast as the wind.
“Don’t be scared!! Go forward and surround yourself!!”
“Run!! Surround them and beat them to death!!”
They ran without hesitation. I raised my arms and ran in the direction of the sound, keeping only my head.
Why did I have fruitless conversations with these bastards? It was all to figure out the structure of this room. Even if I ran forward, there was no structure that I could collide with.
─Tattatat!
Even my vision was obscured by fog, but I believed in the defenses of Beast Return. I cut through the fog and ran into the guy I bumped into while dashing.
Bang!!
“Kwaaaaa!!”
The thief who collided with me flew away like a lie as if he had been hit by a car. The thieves who heard the screams stopped in panic.
“Stop!! Stop!! This bastard is out!!”
“Where are you!! Don’t hide, come out!!”
“Don’t get excited!! Gather here!! If we stick together, even that bastard won’t dare!!”
Assholes who believe in the number of pages and rise in spirit. I sighed holding the jjangdol that I had packed.
They say that if we unite we live and if we scatter we die, but that only applies to brave soldiers. No matter how many assholes gather together, assholes are nothing more than rice balls.
– Booung!!
I threw a jjangdol that I had packed into the place where I could hear the sound. By controlling the fog around me, I secured my sight. The target was also large, so the hit rate was 100%.
Quick-!!
─Fluff!
The flying jjangdol sent another idiot to the side of King Yeomra. They screamed in terror.
“Again, I got hit again!!”
“Who is it!!! Who lost it!!!”
“I know what to do!! Don’t be scared and watch your head!!”
It’s annoying anyway. A bit funny, I looked around for something to throw. However, there was a sign that something was creeping out of the fog.
I thought it was Tyrsi, so I focused for a while, but it wasn’t.
I told Tyrsi beforehand not to come near the fog. Even if he came, he agreed to say the pre-determined password. There is no way to crawl on the floor.
‘He’s the boss kid.’
This kid was trying to run through the gap in the fog.
─Suddenly.
I was moving so fucking quietly, but I still couldn’t escape my five senses, which were reinforced with mana.
‘I can see how Nefertiti noticed me and Fran were hiding at that time.’
It reminded me of the time when I was asked to guard the ruins.
Nefertiti found us simply hiding.
For a warrior who possesses superhuman five senses and even a sixth sense that reads mana, the concealment of those who cannot handle mana is worse than children’s hide and seek.
This much was possible even for me who had not yet reached the realm of the Mithril class. I picked up a nearby heavy box and threw it at him.
“Keep!!”
A boss who passed out because he was hit in the head. Let’s believe that I didn’t fall behind because I threw it lightly.
I stunned the fugitive and looked at the bandits. Even though there was a commotion, the cubs were scared and huddled together. I haven’t been attacked for over a few minutes, so I’m sure I’m going crazy with fear and tension.
‘Hehe.’
Suddenly, I had a very good idea. I raised my hands and lowered them like an orchestra player.
‘──Let’s kill each other from now on.’
The mist faithfully obeyed my commands. The speeding fog wind made a sound like a weak wind from an electric fan, scratching at a piece of stone near the thief.
─Sabak.
“Is there!!!”
The insane thief swung his weapon without hesitation.
In his tense consciousness, when he suddenly heard a noise, he inadvertently attacked.
In that bastard’s brain, he could see through the enemy’s silent approach, and perhaps the heroic figure of himself, who had been beaten in the first place, might be replaying.
‘But the one over there is your colleague, you idiot.’
“Kwaaaaa!!”
“What?!”
A colleague who was hit by the blind man’s attitude screamed. The attacker realized he had made a mistake, but it was too late.
“There!!”
“Kill!!”
“Wait a minute! That’s not it——huh?!”
─Chaengchaengchaeng!!
─Sigh!! Puffy!!
People are so weak in the face of fear. The longer the tension is, the better it gets, so only the thought of wanting it to end quickly dominates my head.
That’s why the idiots believed in the illusion that I had attacked them.
If they had camaraderie, they would have been hesitant to attack for fear of hurting their comrades, but the thieves have something else to ask of them.
Those guys would want to kill me and run away as soon as they could survive on their own.
──This is the result.
“Kwaaaaah!! Die!! Die!!”
“Kiaaaaa!!!”
“You bastard!! Pup!! Fuck you bastard!!!”
─Puk puk puk puk clap clap clap!!
Foolish ones are consumed by the horrors of the fog. Abandoning reason, he gave himself up to fear and engaged in a physical battle with his colleagues.
No, maybe this was an inevitable result.
The real monsters were not in the fog, but in their minds.
‘──Mr. Watt, can you hear me?’
I conducted a performance in honor of the inventor of the steam engine.
‘This is a requiem dedicated to you.’
A misty wind blew, mingling with the screams and sounds of battle.
──When the frenzied performance that will go down in history came to an end.
In the space where the fog disappeared, only me and the leader were the only ones living and breathing.
***
A certain popularity approached me while I was intoxicated with the inspiration of the performance after annihilating the thieves.
As I raised my guard and stared at her sharply, the woman wearing a hood recited the code she had set.
“Five double-sided sheets with a font size of 10 and line spacing of 160.”
“Tea… Whoops, Ash. Was it you?”
I almost called your name by mistake. It’s not easy to use a pseudonym.
Tirshi came closer and said while wiping the blood on his clothes.
“You worked hard. Thanks to that, there were few thieves who got in the way of saving the hostages.”
“Are you sure you overpowered it? Where are you hurt?”
“I killed them all, and I’m fine. Arthur and you?”
“This is alumni. Oh, except for the boss.”
He pointed at the boss, who was still in a stunned state. Tirsi confirmed it and nodded her head.
“Excellent. I wouldn’t have to be.”
“Nope. Thanks to Ash, I felt comfortable because I didn’t have to fight to keep the hostage. If those guys started to fall behind in the fight, they would have tried to threaten you with hostages.”
The thieves regarded me as an agent of some evil organization, but I was in the same position as the agent in that the goal was to save and take hostages.
If those bastards had threatened me with a knife to the child’s throat, it would have been a terrible situation. Since Tyrsi prevented it in advance, she served enough for one person.
“So where are the hostages you rescued?”
“I was not feeling well, so I handed out diluted physical recovery potions and had them wait around here. The transport guild leader’s son was also alive.”
“This is good news.”
Was that bald head of the transportation guild? He had a reason to promise a big payoff at his personal discretion. Why didn’t I know
“Anyway, since the job is over, we’ll tie up the boss and take some of the stolen goods and go back. Ownership issues will be resolved later.”
I said as I loosened my shoulders.
“Can’t someone come here and sweep away all the stolen goods while we’re gone? If I do, I will be so dumbfounded that I won’t be able to sleep for days.”
“Whoops. I do. I’ll tell the hostages to wait and come.”
“Yes. I’ll tie up the boss first.”
While Tyrsi delivered the news of victory to the hostages, I also tied the leader with a rope. All the way down to the limbs. You can release it later.
─Ssucksssss.
While I was doing it, I also shaved my hair. Perhaps this was a living space for thieves, there were even razors.
Shiny-.
“Well. A great bald head.”
I returned to my seat after slapping my bald head with my gauntlet hand. It was after Tyrsi returned after talking to the hostages.
“Let’s take something light and expensive and go.”
Said Tyrsi, her eyes shining. Some of the stolen goods belonged to us, so this is our right. If you don’t get ownership of it, you can return it to the guard later.
─Less, less,
That’s how Tyrsi and I took care of our thesis first.
“Found…!”
It was impressive to see Tirsi holding his thesis in his arms with tears in his arms. Even though I also found the thesis I wrote and took good care of it.
─All right.
We also decided to take expensive potions and silver coins. I left my bag outside the cave, so I put it in a box with my thesis.
According to the alchemist Tyrsi, these potions are equivalent to 10 silver.
10 silver.
It’s 5 times my sales. Looking at it like this, it’s fucking cheap. You can purchase one Nord every month with your master’s salary.
Anyway, stealing is good for money. So you’re taking the risk of these assholes going behind, and you’re rolling. Only the peddlers’ wallets contained 3 silver.
“Ash. Can I just drink this mana potion? It’s because my mana is a bit sparse.”
I took out one of the potions and waved it.
It’s enough to fight with beast return turned on, but it felt like only about 30% of the maximum was left. I wanted to restore it in case of an emergency.
“Wait a minute. Let me check the capacity.”
Tyrsi received the mana potion and looked into it, or opened the lid and smelled the scent.
“It is a middle-class product. Do you know how to drink it?”
“Slowly, mouth by mouth, so as not to overdo it. Right?”
“Yeah. You know that.”
The mana potion in another world was not something you could just shut up and drink like the items in the game.
It’s not made with narcotic ingredients, but if you recover beyond mana, your body can’t stand it and it stretches out.
If a guy with 100 MP drinks 120, there is no potion that is as convenient as 100. If you overdo it, it rises to 220, so it’s perfect for stretching while biting into mana bubbles. It’s the same as real drugs.
‘If it had been restored as it was washed, it would not have been distributed to the private sector.’
Would you let such a dangerous thing go on the market just because you’re crazy?
What if a crazy wizard puts the mana potions he’s accumulated over the years as IV and burns the city down with fireballs?
“Here, Arthur.”
I got the mana potion back from Tyrsi and put it in her mouth. It was a small bottle the size of a high-end drink taken to a hospital visit.
I drank slowly while measuring the amount of manatong recovery.
It is not good to drink more potions than the potions in another world, or drink more than necessary. Just like drinking caffeine doesn’t mean you don’t have to sleep.
─Gulp.
One bottle was enough for me though. I didn’t drink even a third of it, but my mana pain felt like it had recovered more than half.
‘Fuck. I thought my mana tube got bigger.’
Full recovery with a small amount of low-mid potion. I clicked my tongue and closed the lid again and put it in my bosom. Tirsi, who had been watching it, packed her things and tied the heavy bag back on, she said.
“Go now. I have to hand over that thief boss to the guards and let the hostages go home—”
Tirsi, who was talking, slowly shut her mouth. It was because I silenced Tyrsi.
“Arthur?”
“… Wait.”
I put my hand on Tirsi’s shoulder and made her come behind me.
─It tingles.
I could feel a presence from the direction I entered. It was an unknown pressure.
──There is something in the darkness of the cave.
