Chapter 348 – 348. Fallen Heroes (1)
While Erin and Elvin recklessly stormed into the Cheolhodan Guild and created a chaotic situation.
The role of the Armitas Knights was to collect evidence of their evil deeds inside the territory.
In addition to the current newbie adventurers who were descendants of former noble families, there were many possibilities of victims.
Identification of the victim, arrest of the swindler who proposed to the Cheolhodan guild to conspire in this false sale fraud, and collection of cheap weapons that were actually scheduled to be sold.
Elvin and Erin went to the Cheolhodan guild, and as they went wild at a level that they thought might have been a bit extreme, the guild members were able to smoothly arrest and move to the interrogation room without a single exception.
“Great job. Erin.”
“Lol. No.”
Erin smiled at Eleanor’s actions as she held her in her arms and stroked her hair, burying her face in her chest.
Eventually she shifted her gaze to Alvin as well, and she praised him for his hard work.
“Alvin suffered too.”
“No. I think she did her part.”
Alvin, who lowered her head and did his courtesy, had a calm expression.
As a spirit subordinate to Eun-hyeon, it is natural to be helpful to his wives.
“Thanks to the two of them stepping up from the front, the Knights Templar were able to concentrate on gathering evidence and arresting the impostor who proposed the collusion. Originally, your role was also a role that the Knights had to play.”
“No. I did it because I wanted to be of help to Eleanor.”
Eleanor smiled wryly at Erin’s words as she shook her head in her own arms and spoke her words as if it were no big deal, and Eleanor nodded her head.
“Elvin will soon prepare a magic stone that can replenish the mana consumed by her from this job.”
“Thank you.”
Eleanor then shifted her gaze to her Erin, who was burying her face in her own arms.
“And Erin… Shall we talk about this once he comes back?”
“Hyun?”
“Huh. I’ll help you right next to you, so let’s beg for a prize?”
“Really good! Miss Eleanor!”
Eleanor’s consideration to be by her side and help her to receive praise from Eun-hyeon for her own performance, followed by her award, made Erin’s smile bloom on her face.
“Huh, this is a gift from my older brother and me.”
“This…”
With her Erin away from her arms, Eleanor held out her pocket to her Erin, which she had left on her desk.
Erin took her pocket with a puzzled expression and looked at her contents with a surprised expression.
“Oh, Miss Eleanor! This!”
“Don’t you like it?”
“Oh, no… ! Too many… !”
Seeing the gold coins in her pockets, she is embarrassed because she can’t keep her mouth shut.
“It was that dangerous, and it means that Erin and Elvin contributed a lot. Because her share of Erwin’s was also included. Just take it.”
“… Yes.”
At first, Erin was a bit embarrassed as well, but when she explained that her share of the relationship with Elvin was also included, she nodded her head with a convinced expression.
“Are you going home right away?”
“Hmm… No. I’m going to stop by the nursery school with my brother and then go.”
“Then why don’t you buy some wine for Illyana-sama when you come?”
“Yes! Okay! Thank you for the reward. Miss Eleanor!”
“Did you or we really need to step out?”
While the procedure was going smoothly, Alvin felt a question.
Even if they didn’t dare to step out, wouldn’t it be a neat solution if they dispatched the knights to the Cheolhodan guild, showed them an arrest warrant, argued for legitimacy, and arrested them?
Erin’s answer to that was concise.
“Huh? I just helped Eleanor-sama because she looked troubled.”
“…”
Originally, was her own sister a good person who likes to help others like this?
“In addition, there is no proper evidence, but there is no reason to move the knights. That’s why I said that I would go into the guild as an individual and protest and pass the time.”
The key to this work was that it had to be carried out with diversion.
The knights made a justification for moving through the collection of evidence, and in the meantime, there was a need to divert attention so that the knights did not notice the movement of the knights.
In this part, Erin went to the Cheolhodan guild to draw attention to herself.
“Besides, I can’t forgive the people who do bad things in this territory. It’s Eleanor-sama’s job, and of course I should help.”
“If you were done with that, okay.”
“And you got paid well like this?”
Erin smiled and waved her purse in her own hand, and Alvin nodded her head as well.
The amount of compensation given to Erin by brother and sister Alex and Eleanor for their hard work was certainly substantial.
“Let’s buy something delicious to feed the children at the nursery school with this.”
“Okay.”
It only made me think that he was really kind to the fact that he was using the money he received for the sake of others instead of for himself.
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Gong Seok-soo carried Federica on his back and walked down the dark mountain road.
“Uh, uh…”
As Federica’s arms went into strength, she strongly pulled the vacancy officer’s neck around her arm.
“…”
In response to Federica’s strong moaning, the vacant seat stopped his steps and put Federica off his back.
I leaned against a nearby tree and checked her complexion.
Federica, frowning and breaking out in a cold sweat, groans as her body trembles.
“… We must stop here.”
No longer could she force her unreasonable night march with her, as long as she realized that she was having terrible nightmares again.
After finding a place chosen by Jiban and settling down, he took out the camping tools and prepared for the homeless.
“Miss. Lie down.”
It was said that they had laid out blankets, but it was still cold in the mountains where the cool night wind was blowing.
Gong Seok-soo lit a bonfire to raise the temperature, created an environment to warm Federica’s body temperature, and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
-Live. That’s my punishment for that woman.
Seeing Peredica tremble in her pain, the vacancy count remembered her words spoken a week ago by a woman named Lily.
“It’s a punishment…”
As the mafia organization was disbanded in just one night, a wanted order was issued for all members of the mafia organization, including Federica and the vacancy.
As the existence of an underground black market that was implicitly tolerated was revealed, and to make matters worse, it was revealed that the beasts were being bred underground, the Brodia Mafia lost everything.
In the end, the vacancy had to choose to run away with Federica.
Duke Saviros, who received bribes and was secretly tolerating the business of the Brodia mafia, announced that the mafia was the cause of all incidents and accidents that occurred within the territory.
The same goes for the collapse of the casino hotel, Sabia, which was caused by Eun-hyeon.
The fact that he summoned an unknown golem and destroyed his own hotel building was just nonsense with no motive or basis.
A wanted order was granted and the two became fugitives.
“I’m almost there, but…”
He was currently on his way out of the dukedom and heading south.
I stayed homeless for a week and ate preservatives.
The long-distance march of more than 10 hours a day, carrying Federica on his back, is getting emaciated and thinner day by day.
“Once we go, we will immediately prepare for smuggling…”
Gong-suk-soo estimated the remaining time and distance and made plans for the future.
The place at the end of his journey southward with Federica is the second most active territory within the Kingdom of Lendir and the port city of Portena, where the fishing industry has developed.
Gong Seok-su’s plan is to take Federica, who has become half-dead due to mental breakdown, and smuggle her to a port city in a foreign country located in the west.
There was no place for the two of them, who had become fugitives in the kingdom of Rendir, which had no place to rely on.
“Whoa…”
Maybe it’s because I’ve been walking for a long time?
My legs were heavy, and there was no feeling in the soles of my feet.
She glanced at Federica, who was sleeping soundly on her floor under her blanket, and sat down in front of her campfire.
As she took off her boots and massaged the tired soles of her feet, the feeling in her toes came back to life more like a slight pain than a cool sensation.
“This…”
As soon as he sat down and kneaded himself to relieve the fatigue in his legs, the fatigue that had accumulated over the years began to rush through his relaxed body.
It is not easy to resist the fatigue of a long march, eating only simple preserved food for close to a week.
He was almost there, but it would have been nice if he had arrived at Fortena and was able to rest at an inn, but his body was at its limit from the accumulated fatigue.
“In this case…”
When sleeping outdoors, the first thing to be wary of is the approach of wild beasts.
“Shit…”
Leaning her back against the tree little by little, the two eyes between her eyelids that grew heavier finally looked for Federica.
Praying that nothing happened, Gong Seok-soo eventually fell asleep as if fainting.
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“… Breath!?”
The factor that made Gong Seok-soo, who had fallen into a deep sleep, aware of a sense of incongruity in his consciousness and hurriedly awakened, was that the space where he was lying on the ground was not cold.
Not his body, but the entire space felt shaken, and he was aware of his state of being seated on a chair somewhere, with both his hands restrained by ropes.
A cold instinct set off an alarm bell in his head, and the number of vacancies that awakened his consciousness raised his lowered head as if jumping up and down the game.
“Here is…”
Soon after, he quickly explored the situation around him.
The state of himself sitting on a wooden chair and his hands restrained with ropes, and the room full of musty smell with mold seeping into every nook and corner.
The magic lamp on the ceiling swayed minutely from side to side at regular intervals.
Feeling this sensation that the entire space, not his own body, was shaking, Gong Seok-soo guessed his situation.
“… Room?”
When he came to his senses, realizing that it was a boat, Gong Seok-soo hurriedly turned his head and looked around him.
“My lady…”
Federica, who should have been with him, was nowhere to be seen.
What is placed in the narrow room is just oneself and the chair that restrains oneself.
“What happened?”
Numerous thoughts passed through Gong Seok-suk’s mind.
Why the hell are you here?
If this place is inside a ship and above the sea, how did he get himself into this ship?
Losing consciousness on land, there was still a day or so left until the port city, which was the destination.
Physical distance and time also make no sense.
“I’ve been asleep for days… ?”
Was it that much fatigue accumulated in his body and mind?
To the point where I wouldn’t wake up for more than a day without knowing who was carrying it?
However, putting all those questions aside, the thoughts that filled Gong Seok-soo’s head existed.
“My lady…”
He felt greatly uneasy that he could not see Federica in front of him.
Eventually, while trying to find Federica, he forcibly untied the ropes that bound her hands.
Squeak
Hearing the sound of the hinged wooden door opening, Gong Seok-soo stopped trying to untie the rope and quickly looked at the opening of the door with a sign of alertness.
After checking the face of the man who appeared before long, Gong Seok-soo was greatly agitated.
“You… Is… !”
“Long time no see.”
The name of the man who shook Gong Seok-soo’s reason and made him agitate while he was vigilantly trying to grasp the situation.
“You…”
One of the six great heroes known for killing the Emperor of the Empire and ending the war in the war between the Empire and the Continental Union that resulted in many deaths 20 years ago.
‘Raynan Barfeld’ appeared in front of the vacant seat like that.
