Chapter 347 – 347. Cheolhodan (4)
Inside the building filled with dark gray fog.
“Coke! Coke!”
“XBaaal!”
The smoke screen inhaled through the nose and mouth made the prayers of the guild members of Cheolhodan painful, and the inside of the building was filled with confusion.
A confused situation in which people vomit up a cough or vomit coming up through an airway that has been stung by smoke.
Erin quickly covered her nose and mouth with a handkerchief to avoid inhaling the fumes, put on a mask, and acted.
As soon as he jumped out of the smoke obstructing his vision, he kicked as hard as he could in the calf of a member of the Cheolho Troop who was coughing and frowning.
Fuck!
“Cheak!”
Erin’s low kick entered neatly in a defenseless state.
The attacked member of Cheolho screamed, one leg bent at the knee, and at the same time, an elbow elbow was applied to the lowered upper body to inflict additional blows.
His face bent to the side as the blunt blow of the elbow strikes his left cheek.
Leaving behind the Iron Tigers, who were knocked out by only two attacks, Erin and Elvin continued to defeat the other Iron Tigers, who were confused with smoke bombs, one by one.
It wasn’t that the members of the Cheolho Team couldn’t respond to Erin’s general attack at all.
However, it was not so easy to catch Erin’s movements as she made full use of tactics, such as appearing strangely in the smoke, counterattacking, and disappearing in an instant.
“How can you do that!”
Even the act of raising one’s voice and being irritated is nothing more than a lax act to expose one’s position.
Erin, who appeared behind the irritated member Cheolho, put her palms on the waist behind him and concentrated his mana.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Hwajeopbalgyeong (胡蝶發勁)]
A powerful shock from her condensed mana burst out and hit the back of the waist of the annoyed Cheolho member from the palm of his hand.
“Kuaa!”
His body bounced up into the air and screamed as it collided with the wall.
‘You can do it.’
At first, I tried it by throwing a number that was close to gambling with dubious doubt.
Things weren’t that bad.
Even though she protected her nose and mouth with a mask, the penalty of having her eyesight obstructed by smoke was the same as for Erinn.
However, Erin had a means to cover this penalty.
‘One on the left, two on the right.’
Among the senses that are more sensitive than others, it identifies the position of the opponent through its ears, and uses the sense to grasp all the actions of the opponents who rush towards it.
Erin dodged her punch from her left, then snatched his arm and twisted it in reverse.
Immediately she pulled him towards her and used his body as her shield.
Fuck!
“Heuk!”
The fists of the two men who charged from the right hit the face of the man who was used as a shield.
“What, what!”
“Why are you jumping out!?”
It was absurd that the situation in which they suddenly attacked a colleague on the same side was the same as the two men who directly hit their colleague’s fist.
“This X grabbed my arm and used it as a shield!”
Taking advantage of the gap between the three of them arguing with each other, he kicked the back of the Cheolho Trooper, who was using it as a shield, with his foot.
“Ahh!”
As Erin was pushed forward, the two men faltered and collapsed, and Erin immediately dug into the left flank of the two men and punched her in the side.
“Nice… !”
Excellent
I confirmed that my ribs were cracking, and I could feel the twisting sound and sensation even to the fist that had been struck.
Erin shifted her gaze away from the three people who were knocked over and looked for Alvin.
“Quaaah!”
“X-foot, how hard it is!”
It was spectacle to see Elvin fighting from a distance.
For him, the penalty of having his vision restricted by the smoke screen meant nothing.
Although he modeled on human bodily organs, his airways were unaffected by the smoke screen.
No adventurer could penetrate Elvin’s shadow armor.
Even if it was a body that was strengthened with magical powers, piercing Erwin’s shadow with bare fists was a different matter for low-ranking adventurers.
There is a record of blocking even Illyana’s magic, and it is impossible to penetrate easily even with weapons.
With that hard shadow armor at the fore, Alvin swung his fist through the smoke.
“… What is that?”
She is a wild beast as she recklessly slaps her fists in the face of Cheolho, taking every attack thrown at her.
No matter how fiercely the opponent outmaneuvered her and aimed at the vitals, her bare fists blocked by her shadow armor were rather pitiful.
The sight of her swinging her fists in her nakedly large movements in her fog, kicking her feet, and recklessly running through the members of Iron Tiger was bloody, but Erin was ridiculous.
“… It’s a scam.”
Erin frowned and was displeased with this unreasonable spectacle.
While himself was estimating the limits of his headache and moving his whole body busily without stopping thinking, Elvin was creating a one-sided fight, ignoring all of the opponent’s attacks.
It was a fact that she already knew that the performance of the imaging technique used by her own brother was amazing, but seeing her majesty again, I couldn’t help but feel jealous of its performance.
[That’s funny.]
“Huh?”
[It is said that the source of your brother’s power is not from a normal spirit, but its starting point is savage black magic. To dare to compare it with my strength as a divine beast is tantamount to an insult.]
“… Sorry. It didn’t mean that.”
Erin nodded her head obediently and apologized.
[Huh, I know that too. However, while embracing my power, I envy other abilities. Know how blessed you are.]
Although she was jealous of Alvin’s abilities, she did not compare them to the power of her nine-tailed fox.
Gumiho also knows her Erin’s heart, so she finished her with a small advice.
[Be more disciplined and don’t waste your time idle.]
“… Huh.”
Erin again grasped her complicated mind of her own, then turned her head again to stare at her own enemies.
“X feet! Ventilate! Open all the windows!”
It was belatedly said to somehow improve the situation, but it took a long time for the method to be accepted due to confusion.
After the smoke grenade exploded and the fight started, it took about 5 minutes.
After the gray smoke screen escaped through the ventilation, the situation inside the Cheolhodan Guild building was revealed.
“What is this…”
Gareum, who hurriedly came down to the first floor after receiving the belated report, was at a loss for words at the horror in front of her eyes.
Surrounding the two of Erwin and Erin, many guild members are staring at them and confronting them.
In addition, as soon as he saw more than half of them lying on the floor with bloody faces or moaning while holding onto his arms, Gareum felt as if his head had been hit hard with a hammer.
‘No way, just the two of us… ?’
Does this mean that he subdued so many guild members with his bare hands?
I knew Erinn’s power only through rumors, but the situation was unexpected.
‘And the author…’
Gareum belatedly realized the appearance of the jet-black knight standing with Erin and swallowed his breath.
An adventurer who was recognized by the adventurer’s guild and was promoted to silver rank faster than Erinn.
Among many adventurers, he is known as the ‘Black Knight’.
Gareum saw the two of them and quickly judged the current situation.
The only thing the guild members reported to her was that some men and women came to the guild and protested.
For now, I asked Erin while maintaining a very displeased attitude.
“What’s the fuss about visiting the guild?”
“Ah, that…”
Erin hesitated as she couldn’t come up with the answer she had in mind.
She spoke candidly of her thoughts that soon popped into her head.
“I’m here to protest.”
“… What protest?”
“Recently, it seems that the guild members of this guild are running scams against newbie adventurers in the Armitas Territory.”
“…”
Reports that it was Erin who discovered it first had already been discredited.
But without any preparation, she was relieved by Erin’s behavior, which seemed to be just her body.
“What nonsense. We legitimately sold high-quality weapons at low prices to adventurers in good faith. By the way, do you really believe the nonsense of the newbie who insists that it is a cheap weapon with defects, even though you have been using it harshly enough to greatly damage its durability not long after purchasing it?”
“…”
Erin frowned at Garreum’s statement of her own legitimacy wrapped up in a shameless lie.
She didn’t say anything, but seeing Erin’s frown on her face, Garreum, who thought she wasn’t really refuting, shrugged her shoulders even more triumphantly.
“Shouldn’t we listen to what we have to say? Our guild is proud. Besides, it can be said that the unilateral push in like this includes the intentions of the master and the duke’s family, right?”
Erinn’s teacher mentioned the relationship of being the husband of Eleanor, the daughter of Duke Armitas, the owner of this estate.
If done well, it is part of the ground work to weave Erinn’s reckless behavior and make it more profitable by formally protesting against Duke Armitas.
“You can talk like that shamelessly.”
“Is there any clear evidence that our guild cheated? Not the testimonies of those newbies who were unilaterally scammed, but the proof that we were scammed.”
“…”
Except for the victim’s statement, the evidence Erin has is all circumstantial evidence.
As Erin kept her silence again, her tense feelings gradually eased.
The situation was bad for her, and she felt that things were getting better for her.
“Under! A young lady only knows how to run amok with the power of being strong, and has no idea what to do next!”
Realizing that the situation was gradually progressing in their favor due to Gareum’s remarks, the Cheolho team members glared at Erin and Alvin and gnashed their teeth.
It was an expression of eagerness to return the things that had been suffered one-sidedly.
She hadn’t forgotten that she was still breaking, so she couldn’t come running.
“Compensation for the damage caused to our guild members like this. I will make a formal protest against the ducal family and pay the price!”
“I think you should ask for compensation.”
Hearing the cold, low-pitched voice, Gareum narrowed her eyes and stared at the exit of the guild building.
At the appearance of a man wearing silver armor with the Armitas seal on his left chest and a long sword around his waist, all members of Cheolho flinched and made a surprised expression.
“What are the knights of Armitas doing here?”
The situation in which the high-ranking knight leading the Armitas knights, Merdin, entered the building in a row was enough to naturally make the members of the Iron Guard, including Gareum, nervous.
Merdin took the paper out of her arms and read it.
“All members of the Cheolhodan guild. I will arrest them in the name of the Duke of Armitas due to suspicion of fraudulent sale and beating and intimidation of newbie adventurers.”
Garreum held his breath as he proudly checked the arrest warrant with the seal of Armitas.
“… !”
“Arrest them all!”
“Yes!”
The knights all at once pulled out their ropes and began arresting the members of the Cheolho Troop.
“Ah, knight! Help me!”
“I didn’t do anything wrong!”
“Such a fucking foot!”
There are guild members who complain to the knights while being arrested, and when they try to beat the knights to escape, they are overpowered and forcibly arrested.
The interior of the Cheolhodan Guild building quickly turned into a scene of mayhem.
“Whoah…”
Erin took a deep breath and sat down on her floor, apparently relaxed.
“Good job. And… I have no face.”
Approaching Erin, Merdin greeted her with feelings of gratitude and apology.
Originally, it was the role that the knights of Armitas had to take the lead and subdue the guild members of the Cheolhodan.
“No. I’m glad I can be of help to Eleanor or Alex. Did you get the evidence right?”
“Of course.”
Merdin confidently nodded her head in affirmation.
After hearing that confirmation, Erin showed a relieved smile.
“Ah, I’m glad. Lol.”
“… ?”
When she saw Erin, who suddenly started laughing, Merdin put on a puzzled expression.
“It looks like he’s contemplating what to ask Eleanor-nim for a prize. Don’t worry too much about it.”
She then shifted her gaze to Alvin, who explained the meaning of her bright expression.
“I should also say thank you to them.”
“I’m glad you found it helpful.”
Alvin silently accepted Merdin’s thanks and nodded her head.
