Chapter 64 – Tracking
“So what kind of magic does he use? Let’s be surprised together.”
When Gongju-in asked, Kang Ji-ah and Shin Eun-seo explained what they had seen in a voice full of bewilderment.
After hearing the explanation, the princess raises one eyebrow as if wondering.
“He’s physically sluggish, heals wounds quickly, and even uses various magics with his spirit?”
“Yeah, maybe he’s hiding something using miasma? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.”
“Hmm…”
The princess tilts her head and strokes her chin.
It was an expression that looked suspicious.
“What do you mean miasma? How do people have miasma?”
“My sister will explain later. Let’s deal with that woman first.”
“All right.”
“Whoa…”
The gray-haired woman let out a quiet sigh.
It was a bad habit to often look down on her opponents.
Kang Ji-ah and Shin Eun-seo were more annoying enemies than I thought, and as a result of looking down on them, I couldn’t subdue them in time.
To make matters worse, now that the number of enemies has increased, the odds of winning are even smaller than before.
The distance between the princess and the party is about 7m.
It is a distance that Ji-Ah Kang and Gongju-In can reach with just one spur.
If I made a hasty move, I was sure to be attacked before I could utter the words properly.
Then there is only one way.
She fiddled with her pea-sized pill with her hand, which she tucked into her hood pocket.
With the effect of this drug, this crisis can be easily overcome.
The side effects are serious, so I was warned several times not to exceed the prescribed amount.
‘Anyway, if I don’t eat now, I’ll die.’
She opened her clear pupils blankly and pulled her hand out of her pocket and carried her pill into her mouth.
It was a quick movement that contrasted with the troubled expression on everything.
Kang Ji-ah’s reaction to her hand movement is delayed by one beat because he is watching her mouth, wary of her words.
The princess, for some reason, stood on her horse and she remained motionless.
This gap was enough.
Bang!
The round, white pill was about to enter her mouth.
A bullet that flew along with a sharp gunshot hit her hand hard.
“Oh!”
The princess is aiming her pistol from her saddle.
She had stolen her gun from ‘Dances with Wolves’.
Of course, the princess wasn’t her gunman, so her bullets didn’t carry her magic.
Thanks to this, the wound the woman suffered was only a slight bruise on her skin, but she was properly caught off guard.
The back of her hand flips back from her shot, and the pill slips from her shrunken fingers.
The pill fell to the sandy bottom with a popping sound.
At that moment, her princess, who threw her pistol and quickly slammed the ground with her well-to-do feet, attacked her.
Chin!
After grabbing her by the collar and walking her legs, Linda.
The Princess grabbed her woman by the collar and knocked her down with the skill of a wild beast that bites the throat of her prey and beats it.
He holds her neck down so she can’t say anything of her own and sits on top of her stomach.
“Ah…!”
Intense miasma gathers in the right hand of the princess raised above her head along with a bleak chill.
She was a deadly sheep, although no one noticed except herself, the princess, and her Kang Jia.
If he just injected it into the woman, the game was as good as over.
The Princess looked down at the strangled woman and slowly lowered her right hand.
Right then.
Squeak.
As the woman’s head is thrown back, the hood that was covering her face comes off.
Inside, the princess stopped moving as she saw her exposed face.
“You…”
The princess made an expression as if she had been beaten in the back of the head with her club.
She seemed quite surprised as if she had witnessed something she couldn’t see.
His grip, which had been tightly gripping the nape of his neck, loosened slightly.
The woman did not miss the chance.
“[Push][Wind]!”
“Master!”
The Eonryeong is completed and a gust of wind rushes in.
The rushing wind turned into a hammer wielded by a giant and pushed the princess’s body away.
As the princess was pushed out of the way and rolled on her floor, Jia Kang ran towards him.
Tsk.
The princess clicks her tongue and bounces her body up.
He suffered no injuries from the woman’s attack.
It was an attack just for pushing away.
And she has already achieved her goal.
Pushing her princess free, she fumbled for her dropped pill and put it in her mouth and bit it.
“Master, are you okay?! Did you get attacked by something?
“No, I was just pushed. I was thinking about something else. I’m sorry.”
“You’re thinking of something else…”
“By the way, it was a big deal. I don’t know what it was, but I ended up eating that.
I wouldn’t have tried to take Cheongsimhwan in this situation.”
Saying that, the princess grabbed her left foot.
Red marks were oozing from the bandage that wrapped around the calf.
It was a reward for moving forcefully with a leg that suffered a puncture wound.
If she forced herself through the pain, she might be able to move a little more, but if she overworked her legs, even a princess, her wounds might get worse.
“Master, the injury is worse than I thought. That woman is resting because I will do something about it.”
“I don’t think it will come off that easily. Look at that.”
Kang Ji-ah turned her head and her body trembled.
She did as he said.
The white-haired woman looked completely different from before.
She used magic several times while facing Kang Ji-ah and Shin Eun-seo at the same time.
Among them, the two magics that were particularly powerful were completely replaced with the magic power of several ordinary people.
No matter how strong she is, it’s time to show her bottom.
But I couldn’t find any signs of exhaustion in her.
After taking her pills, she radiated so much magical power that she could clearly see it with her own eyes.
Mana leaks out from her body in the form of a hazy mist, and from her transparent eyes in the form of flames.
Her tolerable magic could not even reach her and would surely fade away.
“Huh… Uh…”
Occasionally, a painful groan is heard.
A gray-haired woman, unable to handle her own magical powers, crouched over her body, her limbs trembling slightly.
“Let’s run away. I’m hurt and you and Eunseo are tired too.
If we go on like this, one of us might die.
Above all, there is no guarantee that he is alone.”
When Gongju-in spoke, Kang Ji-ah’s eyes trembled.
To run away when there is a clue in front of her that leads to the enemy she has been looking for for years.
She didn’t answer right away.
While wandering from place to place, her gaze turned to the princess who injured her leg and to Shin Eun-seo, who looked exhausted.
“…”
She nodded her head as if she had made up her mind.
“Nice job. What does that woman smell like?”
“Never forget it. And master. The pill that woman took is no ordinary thing.
After eating that, the venom I felt from that woman was a little, but it definitely increased.”
“Looks like it. Let’s run away like this.”
Kang Ji-ah helped the limping princess and approached the words of ‘Dancing with Wolves’.
Kang Ji-ah confirmed that he was getting on the mare and climbed another horse with Shin Eun-seo.
There were only two horses here, as the horses they originally rode were tied up far away for stealth.
At this rate, it seemed that those words could not be retrieved.
“Do you think they’ll just let you go? Did you go this far?
Run away at will and run away at will. Don’t let that happen!”
The voice of a white-haired woman comes from behind.
The horse’s head often trembled, as if it had convulsed.
“Yes, I will kill you.
I will definitely kill you!”
The woman’s voice was completely different from the one full of languidness and annoyance until now.
It’s a sound like living on the evil.
Kang Ji-ah turned her head as she started off his horse.
“What the hell is that…?”
The woman was staring at her somewhere with bloodshot eyes.
She intermittently twitches her limbs, black blood dripping from her nose each time she stumbles.
I could feel the disgusting reverberation of the miasma in her blood that flew on the wind.
“Kill Juju… I will kill you…”
As waves of intense magical energy from the woman dispersed in all directions, all the small remaining sparks around them faded.
The strange voice that came out of the darkness without a single light sent chills down Kang Ji-ah’s spine.
No matter how angry she was, would a person change completely like that?
The woman’s appearance was like a zombie.
“Let’s run away like this, oppa! No matter how she attacks, I’ll block her with my barrier!”
Shin Eun-seo exclaims.
She looked pretty exhausted, but she was trying hard not to show it.
No matter what the situation was, it was a plan to draw out all the strength that had been sucking on teeth.
“It’ll be fine. I think he’s out of his mind. He wasn’t even looking in our direction.”
She did as he said.
The woman’s footsteps were slowly moving away in the opposite direction.
“Puppy. What’s in the direction that woman was looking at?”
“Uh… I can smell the gang members. It looks like the belated runaways are close by.”
“Did you get into that woman’s field of vision instead of us? Unlucky people.”
Shin Eun Seo let out her groan.
“Master, you said you planned to capture the Deadman gang members and turn them over to the Noel Company.
If this continues, everyone will die. What should I do?”
“Leave it alone. There’s nothing we can do about it now that the situation has turned out like this. Change the plan.”
The princess, lost in thought for a moment, lifted her head and said.
“That woman is an aristocrat, so she’s a barrier. There’s a good chance she’s sent by the Viscount.
Viscount Barrier is a mine owner who owns mining rights in the mines south of Daejeon.
The Deadman Gang, which has been rampaging here for years, is a thorn in the eye.”
When her father’s name came up, Shin Eun-seo flinched briefly.
The princess pretended not to notice her reaction.
“Come to think of it, that woman mentioned the Deadman Gang when I ran into her earlier.”
“Then it’s almost certain. But how did you find out where this place is?
She heard that it was the way she changed her hiding place from time to time, and she hadn’t found it for years now.”
The princess frowned at her eyes.
At that time, a certain scene flashed through Kang Ji-ah’s mind.
“A little while ago, Mika came to our side as well. They said that the story was different and that the second team was planning to come.
Couldn’t he have sold out his comrades?”
“Hmm…”
Then Eunseo Shin intervened.
“It was strange from the beginning. If you were going to use a storage box enchanted with space warping magic, you wouldn’t have to take so many stagecoaches with you.
Wasn’t this expedition a trap aimed at the Deadman gang from the beginning?”
“It’s plausible. If you leak information about the expedition to the gang in advance, and then intentionally loot the cache that you put the tracking spell on beforehand, you can find out their location.”
“Oh, that Micah had a crate on his side!”
Jiah Kang said.
The stories fit together.
“By the way, sister. If Mika is a traitor, isn’t she a bit strange?
That bastard burned and killed Noel’s bodyguards.”
“Apart from betraying your comrades, isn’t your hatred for them sincere?
It is said that Noel Company ordered it, but it is said that the bodyguards directly stained their hands with blood. Who knows what’s going on in the mind of a madman who burns people alive in the first place?”
“I guess so.”
Shin Eun Seo nodded her head.
As we exchanged opinions and ran, we arrived at a place quite far from where the gang was.
The princess pulled the reins lightly and stopped talking.
“Did that Micah run away again?”
“Yes, while we were fighting her. She desperately took her crate and ran away.
I knew it, but I didn’t have time to worry about anything else.”
“Then it’s decided. Meongmong, let’s follow Mika’s scent. Mika carried her chest with her tracking magic on it, so according to our reasoning, she will go after Mika.”
“Yes!”
Kang Jia resolutely nodded her head.
After she sniffed her nose a few times, she turned her head.
“I’ll have to cook this woman in the meantime.”
The princess, who was looking at it, murmured.
‘Dancing with the Wolves’, carried on the rump of her horse, with ropes tied around her wrists.
The princess freed her wrists.
