Chapter 11 – Hunting
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Chow!
As he pulled out the dagger, crimson blood gushed out from the goblin’s chest.
“Whoah-“
Chorin exhaled one long breath and struggled to get up. She looked back and saw that Gaon had slain all the goblins he was entrusted with and was shaking off her spear.
A week has passed since I was brought to Union. During that time, with Gaon’s help, Chorin successfully adjusted herself to the point where she was now quite adept at killing goblins.
Of course, that is not the only end.
By killing goblins for a week, Gaon’s words were proven to be true. Chorin, who experienced the miracle of increasing his physical abilities the more he killed, was no longer tired even after hours of hiking.
Besides that, he also shared information about mana.
He roughly said that it was information he found after exploring the green light emitted by Chorin with psychometry.
In addition to that, as an excuse for using mana later, the master who taught me spearmanship usually said that the natural qi was the same as this, and said something absurd.
Of course, upon hearing that, Chorin showed signs of thinking that maybe his head was seriously hurt, but that’s it.
Even if you don’t want to believe it, you will have no choice but to believe it when the time comes. She just needs to at least not harbor strange suspicions.
After searching the dead goblins for anything useful, Chorin wiped off the blood on her dagger with a rag and headed for Gaon.
“Miss Gaon. Did you find any good stuff?
“… No. There is nothing. Let’s go back now. The sun will set.”
“Yes!”
The distance between the two of them, who ate, slept, fought and spent quite a long time together, was noticeably reduced compared to the beginning. To be precise, as Chorin became more comfortable with Gaon, they played pranks from time to time.
Like right now
“Miss Gaon. I’m having a hard time!”
“… Would you like to rest?”
“No! Mr. Gaon, please carry me!”
Chorin imitated her innocent face and stared at her with open arms and pressure.
Gaon, who was looking down at her expressionlessly, ignored it with a sign that it was a start again.
Without a word from her, Whirik ─ turns her body and moves her steps in the direction of the cave.
It felt like he was angry to anyone, but on the contrary, Chorin welcomed such a reaction. That kind of change in Gaon, who was so blunt that she wondered if she was human, gave her a strange feeling of relief. Chorin smiles and hurriedly follows her.
“Go with Gaon! It was a joke. Sorry!”
Meanwhile, Gaon listened to Chorin’s voice following her and was lost in her thoughts.
‘I think it’s about time…’
I killed several goblins every day for a week.
It piled up and piled up, and now that there are already more than 40 of them, the time has come for a reaction from there.
It’s probably not long before they’ll start looking for the beast on a large scale. Gaon had been waiting for that moment.
Chorin’s ability is the kind that deals with her life force.
Until now, injuries were rare, and at most only scratches, so it was easy to heal even at the current level, but later it will be different.
Gaon will also be hurt quite badly, and there will come a time when he will have to rely heavily on Chorin’s abilities.
Therefore, it is necessary to have a spirit of improvement in order to develop further without being satisfied here.
For that to happen, there must be a crisis.
Only through a crisis would Chorin realize that he was not safe at all.
Of course, besides this, there is also a reason Gaon wants to prove the theory he has personally.
Vitality. By definition, it is the power to sustain life. If so, what is that power? Most of the time it reminds me of blood. Because people cannot live without blood. The images planted in various media also play a role here.
It was the same for all beings in other dimensions including Union, so in the previous life, the Healing Church squeezed the blood of slaves to supplement Chorin’s power.
Gaon looked at it and thought.
It’s stupid.
It’s not just to sell them.
It was because Gaon came up with something else to perfectly replace it. Rather, I even had the impression that I wondered why I couldn’t recall this.
It’s what every man after puberty must have. It is not a level reminiscent of life force, but a substance that has the potential to become life at all.
Yes. It is semen.
To be precise, it’s the sperm contained in it, but anyway, if it’s Gaon, I think this can be accepted as a kind of wonderful life force.
The problem is that you can’t just tell Chorin about this. No matter how different the way of thinking is from ordinary people, and it is said that it is far from common sense because it has not been talked for a long time, I know that sexual problems between men and women should not be mentioned carelessly.
When Gaon glanced to the side, Chorin, who felt his gaze, met his eyes and smiled.
Got to know a lot He has also built trust and has become a dependable relationship. Of course, I can’t be sure of this, so I’ll have to use my unique good heart.
Gaon waited for that moment to come.
***
Afternoon the next day.
Gaon and Chorin were constantly hovering around the neutral zone. Strangely, I didn’t find a single goblin from morning to afternoon.
“Miss Gaon. Why isn’t there one? That’s strange…”
“I don’t know either.”
Actually I know.
I have already passed the traces of the goblins several times. Of course, it was so faint that Chorin didn’t notice it.
Those who knew how to hide their traces were most likely veterans among the goblins.
Finally, the moment Gaon had hoped for had arrived.
Where she was, a sign was detected by Gaon’s spirit as he looked around her. In the meantime, as mana accumulated in the Danjeon, it spread and was able to sense a certain range.
Gaon focused his attention on her presence, and soon realized that it was a goblin chaser. Judging by the fact that he was holding a bow, he was an archer.
Then, two goblin soldiers followed him as if escorting him, and the archer began to draw his bowstring. Is to do a surprise attack.
It’s hard to think that only three will be the end, so it’s right to assume there will be more. As if to prove such an idea, signs were revealed one after another. It is a form of siege centering on Gaon and Chorin.
“Lee Cho-rin. Don’t stop. Listen. I’m under siege now.
Perhaps thanks to the warning, Chorin did not stop even after hearing Gaon’s words.
It was just that he was very surprised, and when he tried to turn his head, his body trembled for a moment, and he awkwardly brushed his hair next to him.
“… Po, posie?”
“Yes. It surrounds you now. It looks like it was stepped on.”
“Then uh, what?”
Chorin’s arm trembled slightly. He tightened his grip on the dagger in her hand and began to observe her surroundings more closely.
But there’s no way Chorin can catch them. This is because Gaon has been assimilated into the environment so well that it is difficult to find with the naked eye.
‘How will we do it.’
Gaon’s troubles deepened.
He said he needed a crisis, but he had no intention of hurting Chorin to prove his theory.
If you do that, in the end, something will be different from your previous life.
Even then, whenever her conscience was pricked, she rationalized herself, saying that she, her regressor, needed to be strong in order to stand up to the Dimension Eaters that would one day attack.
The result of such actions was the end of the world.
She had no intention of repeating her life full of regrets. Even if it is a crisis, Chorin does not have to be hurt. It’s enough to hurt yourself.
She made a rough decision and whispered softly.
“We will return to the cave. No matter how bad they are, they won’t enter the realm of the orcs. You just have to go there.”
“Yeah, that’s right. So what do we do? As soon as… Do you run?”
A look of nervousness was evident on Chorin’s face.
Gaon could clearly feel the guys blocking the escape route. As elsewhere, one archer and two escorts. There are 15 of them in five pairs.
Gaon sensed that they were slowly closing the siege. He intends to attack the orcs before they get any closer. I can’t stand to see something like that.
“Lee Cho-rin. I will open the way. Run in three seconds.”
“Yes!”
3. Raise the window. The siege net flinched.
2. I pushed her shoulders back hard. The guys are hastily aiming their bows.
1. I shouted as I took one step with all my might.
“Now!”
0. The rotation that started at the ankle passed through the calf and thigh, turned around once at the waist, and was transmitted intact beyond the shoulder and wrist.
The spear, with all its weight and rotation, ferociously ripped through the air and disappeared over the brush.
─Kieek!
The spear was shot, and before a second had passed, a scream rang out. The stomach of a goblin archer who was on the road to the orcs’ realm was pierced and knocked down.
With this, the escape route was opened.
Chorin, who had been standing still, heard the goblin archer’s scream and ran out, while the others moved as well.
The moment the escorts ran to block the retreat, arrows flew faster than that.
Fish Shu Shoot!
The sound of cutting through the air came from all four directions except where the one who had been speared earlier was located. Even two of them are aiming for Chorin. Seeing that the trajectory was concentrated downward, the will to die was conveyed.
“Haap!”
Cut it off in the middle Mysterious spearmanship knocks out two arrows aimed at Chorin with a single swing. He blocked the attack on Chorin with a thumping sound, but because of that, he became vulnerable to the arrows that were aimed at Gaon.
Of course, Gaon’s spearmanship was not easy enough to deserve that level. You can spin it like this and hit it, or you can just pull yourself out of the trajectory.
However, Gaon did not hesitate to avoid it.
He brought his right arm between two arrows that aimed at his stomach and heart.
Fubuk!
“Keugh… !”
“Go, Mr. Gaon! I’ll treat you right away!”
She sees Gaon’s wound when Chorin, who belatedly recognized that the arrow had landed on her, approached her, saying he would heal her.
Gaon, who was watching this, moved the spear from his right arm to his left arm and stopped it.
“All right. I don’t have time for that now. Run!”
“Ha, but…”
“Hurry!”
“Oh… Yes!”
When her loud voice stopped, Chorin looked at Gaon’s arm anxiously and reluctantly moved her steps.
It’s because even Chorin knows that she has no time to heal her wounds.
“Kyaaaaagh!”
“Kryaaak!”
As she ran a little further, she saw two escorts next to the fallen goblin archer, who had been speared in the stomach.
Their eyes were on Chorin. He noticed that Gaon, already wounded, was not a threat.
Gaon didn’t dare to respond to that reaction. He just stepped in front of Chorin and speared them.
Kigigi-
The blade of one of the swords slid across the spear and pierced the air. And Gaon’s spear tore his throat. Even until his death, he questioned his own death and lay down on the ground as it was.
The other one was in the form of a sword and buckler, and when I smashed his toe with his spear, the gap was easily revealed. A spear penetrated through the disorganized shield and pierced a hole in his lungs.
He stepped over the goblin’s blood spreading on the floor and jumped over, finishing the confirmed kill of the goblin archer whose stomach was stabbed and running.
“Hoo-wook! Whoop!”
It was quite nice to have a scar after a long time.
Every time his heart beats, this burning sensation that travels through his blood vessels and spreads to the wounded area made Gaon realize that he is alive.
In her previous life, she has not been hurt since reaching 11 star. A truly boring life. It’s literally a hellish daily life with nothing to the point of doubting whether you’re really alive.
Compared to that, the pain didn’t even hurt Gaon.
Of course, that is only Gaon’s position. Chorin exhaled heavily and cried as he watched Gaon break out in a cold sweat.
“Miss Gaon. It’s fine, right? Don’t die!”
“I will not die.”
“You just have to go a little further! Hold on until then!”
He makes a fuss about having two arrows stuck in his arm. Though thinking so, Gaon smiled at Chorin’s concern.
… It was 10 minutes after they left the neutral zone and set foot in the territory of the orcs that the two escaped from the chase.
