Chapter 346 – 346. Cheolhodan (3)
Staring at the center of the guild building and the guild members surrounding them, Alvin took a vigilant posture.
Ugh
In an instant, she deploys her magic power and activates the imaging technique.
Elvin, who was holding a staff in one hand, was instantly covered with jet-black armor, revealing the famous figure well known to many adventurers.
“I-that look… !?”
A dark knight whose entire body and face are covered with a black helmet, and black shadows rise from his entire body and sway like flames.
As soon as he turned into a dark knight, the bloody red eyes glaring at them from within the jet-black helmet were enough to make the guild members of the Cheolhodan who surrounded him flinch.
“Why is the black knight here!”
Black knight.
Alvin’s nickname among adventurers’ guilds and adventurers.
It is only natural that the guild members of the Cheolhodan couldn’t even guess that the identity of the black knight was an insignificant man who claimed that he was scammed by bringing cheap staff.
No one would have imagined that a man who never took off his helmet or revealed his identity under any circumstances would reveal his face in such a futile way.
Besides, Erwin’s original eye color was gray with a slight golden tint like Erin’s.
As soon as he uses the spirit’s power, his eyes that turn into bloody red eyes like Eun-hyeon’s are useful for hiding his true identity.
But that too, until this moment today.
Alvin revealed his true identity.
“Shit! What the hell!”
Member Cheolho, who had laughed at Elvin, shouted with his face distorted.
As soon as he became a newbie, he made a brilliant performance and was promoted to the silver rank in less than a year. For what reason did the strongman come to them and claim that he was scammed?
Not only did he come and claim that he had been cheated on, but he was also concerned about his relationship with Erin, who accompanied him.
‘Could it be this black knight too?’
Did Erin and the Black Knight also belong to Eunhyeon?
‘… Are you okay. Still, we have more numbers.’
I was quite taken aback by Alvin’s sudden reveal of his identity, but there were only two opponents.
This is over dozens of people.
In addition, inside the territory, no matter how adventurous you are, the use of weapons or offensive magic is prohibited.
In the case of Erinn’s fox fire, white ghost summoning, and Elvin’s shadow, which are rumored to be rumored, it is a mysterious ability that ordinary adventurers do not even know how to activate or structure.
Those who arbitrarily mistakenly thought that those abilities were a type of magic were estimating Errin and Elvin’s strength with their own standards.
Confidence that they would never lose in a melee that started with bare fists while occupying numerical superiority.
Gulp
However, despite that confidence, the feeling of intimidation emitted by Alvin, who appeared as the black knight, gave off an atmosphere that seemed to shake that confidence completely.
In order to get rid of that uneasiness, one of the members of the Iron Guard shouted with all his might.
“Hit!”
“Aaaaa!”
The Iron Fleet members surrounding Erwin and Erin cheered up and rushed at them all at once.
The situation made Erin deeply unhappy with her.
Originally, she planned to draw attention by causing confusion in the guild through Erwin’s protest, but she felt resentful of her brother for making it a situation where they had no choice but to fight.
“What is all this because of my brother? Really!”
Erin was annoyed at Alvin when he saw the members of the Iron Fleet all at once.
Eventually, accepting that the battle had completely begun, he took out a potion bottle from his waist pouch and held it up.
A bottle containing gray smoke rather than liquid is not a potion for healing people.
“Eight!”
As soon as he hit the potion bottle on the floor without hesitation, the gray smoke in the bottle multiplied like a cloud and rose to the bottom to fill the area around Erwin and Erwin.
“What, what!”
“Performance?”
Half of the members of the Cheolho team hesitated while paying attention to the smoke that slowly climbed up and encroached on them.
However, the other members of the Cheolho Troops, who rushed to Erin and Alvin at the forefront to close the distance, were not even aware of the performances.
Erin didn’t even realize she was acting as she slammed the man’s fist into the right hook as hard as she could, then landed a counter punch right in his face.
Fuck!
“Ouch!”
When Erin’s straight line, which went straight in, fell down with a dull sound, the man’s head was thrown back in shock.
Her nose bleeds and the whites of her eyes are exposed, and she falls to the floor.
When he kicked the staggering man in the abdomen as hard as he could, he collided with members of the Cheolho team who ran after him and interrupted their rush.
It was not enough power to wipe out even the members of the Iron Fleet who rushed after it, but it was enough to make them stop their actions.
Erin, who created her momentary void, took out her handkerchief from her bosom and unfolded it, and she quickly covered her own nose and mouth.
Her five senses are more sensitive than anyone else’s, so she doesn’t want to inhale her smoke that rises from her bottom to her chest.
“This acting… Coke!”
“Coke! Coke!”
As she was hit by Erin’s kick, she was pushed behind her and the other members of the group were pushed around and stopped.
As it rode over her chest and completely covered her head, the Cheolho members inhaled the smoke and began coughing in unison.
Because the smoke seeping through their nose and mouth made their airways sting.
Realizing the identity of the smoke, a member of the cheolho troupe shouted in a loud voice in the smoke.
“It’s a smoke grenade!”
Immediately after setting off her smoke grenade, Erin recalled Gerard’s advice from earlier.
After the massive flooding of monsters on the border of Mograf, Eunhyeon returned with Illyana and Eleanor.
Even after that, she was often away due to her busy work, so she couldn’t watch Erin’s training.
– Hmm. How to fight one-on-one with your bare hands and no magic or weapons?
-Yes…
The person Erin turned to was none other than Gerard, who had nowhere to turn for advice.
She put on a troubled expression and Gerard put on a puzzled expression when Erin asked her for advice.
-This is true…
Scratching her head, she let out a small sigh and continued.
– Miss Erin, that’s why you’re giving me this kind of advice?
-That is…
Erin hesitated for a moment, then she opened her mouth with a determined expression.
-I want to help Hyuni…
-You mean you want to help? I don’t know what it means.
-Hyun is something… Because there are many enemies.
-… Hmm.
Hearing that meaningful expression, Gerard urged Erin to continue talking.
-Hyeoni said this to me in the past. People’s enemies aren’t just monsters, people’s enemies can sometimes be people.
– Well, that’s right.
There are not only witches in the world that threaten people.
In the case of a monster-like disaster, there are cases in which many humans unite their forces to deal with the danger.
However, it is the war between people that causes more deaths than the number of people who die from demonic disasters in the world.
-I didn’t understand Hyun-i’s words at first that people should be more vigilant than demons.
However, now Erin understood the meaning of those words well.
Just like there are people who disapprove of their appearance and fight against them.
Erin guessed from her own experience that Eunhyeon had a similar experience and that she would go through many more in the future.
To a level that is incomparable to itself.
To Eun-hyeon, she thought about what she could do to help, and reached the conclusion.
You have to be strong
It is not just about getting stronger, but rather about dealing with demons, learning how to deal with people, assuming various situations of adverse conditions, and building up experience so that you can cope with the situation.
-So, in a situation where the conceived family cannot use magic or weapons, what should one do to win against a large number of people alone? That’s a question.
Gerard smiled as he thought of Erin’s ‘what if’ situation, which she had beaten all the bad conditions he could think of.
It’s quite commendable that I want to help Eunhyun and want to grow.
– Ms. Erin. I don’t know if my advice will be helpful, but when a situation is unfavorable to one’s side in a fight, the standard of fighting is to devise means to at least equalize the unfavorable situation or turn it into an advantageous situation.
-… How?
-For example, in the case of Hyeon-hyung, he intentionally creates a disadvantageous situation and makes the other person firmly believe that the situation is absolutely advantageous to them. After that, he often uses means to reverse the situation by stabbing him in the back.
-… I don’t think it’s possible for me to do something like Hyun. .
– I don’t mean to think of a means by taking Hyun-hyung’s method as a motif. In the case of Hyun-hyung… There are parts that I can use because my brother’s personality and physicality are possible.
The ability to create a situation by using one’s way of thinking, personal connections, and backgrounds is very good, and Erin does not have the subtlety to create a situation so meticulously.
-It just meant that if you were in a disadvantageous situation, you should devise some means to make the plate at least up to an equal situation. Just like before, if Miss Erinn had to defeat multiple enemies with her bare hands, something like a means to reverse the one-to-many difference.
-… For example?
-Hmm, a smoke grenade or something?
-… Smoke shell?
– Take away the opponent’s vision with a smoke screen, and use the smoke screen to harass the airway to cause confusion. And if you take advantage of the chaos and knock out the enemies, wouldn’t a one-to-many unfavorable fight become a great turnaround?
-But… If I explode that smoke grenade, won’t I take damage as well? Even if you wear a mask to prepare for inhaling gas, how can you protect the other person in a smoke screen with limited visibility…
– Ms. Erin.
-Yes?
-Sister Illyana said that. Erin said that if Hyeon-hyung is within a 50m radius, he can detect his brother’s location just by smelling and breathing without looking at his face.
-… !
At Gerard’s sudden question, Erin shook her shoulders.
It was a fact that she had never been particularly aware of, but she had a more sensitive sense than others, and it was true that she had noticed Eun-hyeon’s smell or breath even from a distance.
– Miss Erin seems to be a bit similar to me. I also don’t tend to forget the sound or scent of a woman that I have marked in my heart.
Gerard’s expression lit up with joy, as if she realized that she had met her own people.
– Well, I’m not a stalker! It’s just that my senses are a bit more sensitive than others… !
– Uh-huh! Stalker! My love is just a little dull and black!
-That’s called a stalker!
At Gerard’s declaration of her self-confidence, Erin retorted with a tired expression on her face.
– No, that’s nonsense… I… ?
Upon hearing her Gerard’s words, Erin began to feel confused about her own identity.
-Hmmmm, back to the story, Ms. Erin’s strength is that, as she explained, her senses are more sensitive than others.
-…
– Besides, isn’t Miss Erin learning and using that skill called ‘sensing’ from her older brother?
One of Eun-hyeon’s exclusive patent-like fraudulent techniques is the ability to sense the movements of all objects within range by flowing magic around her and collect information in her head.
Forcibly pushing her confusion deep into her heart as she became aware of her tendency to be a stalker, Erin came to her senses and listened to Gerard’s story.
-Yes, but… I can’t even reach Hyun’s toes.
The senses that Erin can use are not even half of Eunhyun’s range, and she can’t spread them in all directions.
-But being able to use it alone is Miss Erinn’s biggest weapon. Because I can’t use that sense.
In a way, she doesn’t have the ability to borrow some of the goddess’s power like Eun-hyeon to accelerate the speed of thinking in her head.
Being able to use some of her sensing skills purely with her own thought processing abilities is also her Erin’s real talent.
-If you properly combine Erin’s five senses and sensing skills, wouldn’t it be very easy to subdue multiple enemies in a chaotic situation even when her eyesight is obscured by her smoke screen?
-… But a smoke screen, isn’t that too cowardly?
-Where is cowardice in fighting? If you win, that’s great. Since Miss Erin’s one-to-many situation has already happened, hasn’t it been a long time since we discussed such cowardice?
“It’s a smoke grenade!”
“Such a fucking foot!”
“This X is cowardly!?”
The Cheolho members distorted her impression and blamed Erin, her culprit, for causing chaos inside her building by setting off her smoke grenade with her blushing face.
Erin was furious at the attitude of the Cheolho members who were unilaterally criticizing her.
She finally let her tantrum through the mask she made of a handkerchief.
“What is he saying now! The coward is on your side! Look in the mirror and talk!”
Dozens of people rushing in and swinging their fists against just two people are cowardly.
It’s not the level of putting an iron plate on her face, but she has no conscience to the extent that I wonder if she’s made of mithril at all.
In the end, Erin personally experienced that Gerard was right.
“There is no cowardice in fighting! If you win, you’re good!”
