Chapter 446 – Greed
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The scene where Bark left after dealing with the ogre.
A female knight wearing white armor appeared.
She was Hestia, a Holy Knight of Terraism.
Hestia approached the ogre’s body.
I know that Bark dealt with the ogre.
Because from the beginning she was watching the ogre and the course of his battle. And then she witnessed a bizarre scene.
I saw Bark cutting through an ogre with a sword that did not display Aura.
The bizarre scene aroused Hestia’s curiosity and doubts.
“…”
Hestia’s face hardened as she looked closely at the ogre’s body.
“… This?!”
The traces of force felt on the cut surface gave Hestia quite a shock.
She was not a demon like I thought.
However, it didn’t show any traces of an Auror.
But I feel an inexplicable eerieness.
Hestia, the sword master, could tell.
What was felt from the ogre’s cut surface was something more high-dimensional.
I felt a power that changed course.
Hestia couldn’t take her eyes off the ogre’s scars.
She looked at the ogre’s scars as if she were fascinated.
Bark’s thoughts that remained in her scars wandered through her mind.
Hestia was lost in her deep thoughts without realizing it.
“Ah…”
Hestia, who had been standing blankly for a while, came to her senses at some point. And she realized that she had taken a step forward.
At Hestia’s level, she was able to roughly estimate the other person’s abilities. In her opinion, Bark’s abilities didn’t seem that great.
But when she looked at the ogre’s scars, she seemed to be a human of a higher level than herself.
‘You were hiding this kind of power… You were hiding it? Is that so?’
When I think about what happened when he killed his knight at Little Lord Crea’s party, or how he knocked down Lord Crea… It doesn’t seem like he was hiding anything or anything.
Now that I think about it, I can see that she was acting out of the confidence of someone with power.
However, seeing her cut down the ogre and spit out blood, it seemed like she had power that could not be used carelessly.
I understood.
I could see it clearly when I saw it up close.
It was such an amazing sword.
‘Was it really just a suspicion?’
Hestia felt a little sorry for Bark who enlightened her with some relief.
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The group was loitering in front of the cave, as if they were waiting for me.
“Oh, what happened to the ogre?”
Louise, who noticed me, quickly approached me and asked with her eyes full of curiosity.
“Gotcha.”
“Oh, you caught an ogre?!”
“Really?!”
Louise and Hilda asked in surprise at my answer.
Even the taciturn Rappard looks surprised.
“Wow, Bark!! You were an even greater knight than I expected!!”
For some reason, Louise smiles brightly and is happy. And then she got a straight face and shouted at Hilda and Lafferd.
“Everybody pack your bags!”
“… What?”
“Hilda! Raepard! Don’t you know what it means to say that Bark defeated the ogre?!”
Louise’s big eyes were once again colored with greed.
“Does this mean that there is no longer anyone to hinder me from digging up Araune? And that the fresh ogre corpse is just left lying around!!”
Hilda and Rappard were looking at Louise with a look of disgust on their faces.
If I were an ordinary knight, Louise’s greed could have put the party in danger.
However, seeing that he still couldn’t come to his senses… I felt the need to scold this greedy alchemist.
“What are you blankly doing?!”
I grabbed the waist of Louise, the vicious employer who was yelling at Hilda and Rappard, and lifted her up.
“Bah, Bark?! What is this?”
Louise, who stopped by me, looks at me in confusion.
“Rafford, turn around.”
Although Rafferd was nervous, he obediently followed my instructions. When I saw him turn her body, I took off Louise’s pants.
Louise’s fair cheeks were revealed.
“Hey!! Mr. Bark! W-here?! Please do it in a place where no one is around!! I’m not ready to do it in front of other people yet!”
Louise seems to have some strange misunderstanding.
I lifted my palm up, admiring her plump, well-cleaved buttocks.
“Now, wait a minute!!”
Louise realized that what I was doing was different from what she had thought and called me in a hurry.
“Hmm?”
“If this is correct, will you go to Araune’s habitat?”
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Even in this situation… It is truly a great desire.
Louise’s greed was beyond my imagination.
My palm mercilessly fell on her plump buttocks.
-Wow!!
“Ugh!!”
-Wow! Wow!
Her ass wasn’t even a fruit… For some reason, the palm of my hand smeared her ass with slippery juice.
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Even with my merciless thrashing of her ass, Louise’s fierce greed was not dampened at all.
“You can sleep there! Since Bark took care of the ogres, there is no place safer than that place that used to be the ogre’s territory!”
Louise was rubbing her ass and rubbing her butt with Hilda. Rather, I have paid the price for my sins, so I have a more confident attitude.
Following Louise’s torch, we headed back to the habitat of the spirit Araune.
Of course, the promise of reasonable compensation was basic.
We arrived at Araune’s habitat just as the sky was turning orange.
The ogre’s large corpse was still there.
“Really!!”
Louise is happy after discovering the ogre’s body and runs there.
“Ah… This precious blood…”
Because about half of the body was cut, the amount of bleeding was quite large.
According to Louise, even if an ogre is not a magic stone, he has nothing to throw away, including tendons, bones, skin, blood, and even sheep water.
I had no intention of taking the ogre’s body anyway, and since Louise had asked to share the profits from her body, she had no reason to refuse.
We set up camp, and Louise latched onto the ogre’s body and began dismembering her.
“What is that knife?”
I asked as I saw Louise’s knife digging into the ogre’s hard leather without hesitation.
“This is it? It’s an artifact with the same sharpness as a sword Auror. It’s perfect for peeling off such hard leather!”
“If there was such a thing, I shouldn’t have given it to you when I was fighting the ogre.”
“Hey, I didn’t know that you would catch an ogre, Bark. You should have told me earlier. Then I would have lent it to you…”
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It’s not wrong.
But something is disgusting.
I suddenly felt like spanking Louise’s butt again.
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After dealing with the Crea knights, I moved to Ramona and reached level 15. In fact, the experience level of the Crea Knights was considerably higher than that of the monsters in the forest.
And this time, I caught the ogre and went up 2 levels, reaching level 17.
〔Level 17〕
〔ID: Bark.〕
〔Race: Demon.〕
〔Strength: 35〕
〔Stamina: 40〕
〔Agility: 35〕
〔Magic attribute: 20〕
〔Stat Points: 00〕
〔Number of skill enhancements possible: 05〕
〔Skill: Blood magic. Intermediate seal.〕
First, the stats were continuously raised in a balanced manner.
And for skill enhancement, I kept saving.
The sealing skill still seemed to be working well, so there was no reason to increase it further. However, I feel uneasy about raising blood magic.
As the power of blood magic becomes stronger, the load that must be borne by the seal will also increase.
Strengthening my skills wasn’t that urgent, so I kept building them.
After roughly finishing the level up settlement, I looked around.
The day was completely dark.
A round vacant lot without any trees shows the night sky with countless twinkling stars.
After everyone finished dinner, they were sitting around the bonfire and having a lazy time.
Except Louise…
Louise installs the lighting artifact, and she clings to the ogre corpse alone, frantically separating its bones and flesh.
She looked at it for a moment, then picked up a small tree branch nearby.
I felt the need to study more about the power of thought.
What I was trying to experiment was whether thoughts work without passing through matter.
I looked at the tree branch and thought ‘I’m going to cut it down.’
-Suddenly…
The top of the tree branch is cut smoothly and falls off.
My head is hot.
I felt a little dizzy.
It seemed like an ability that would be a significant burden without a medium.
I cut down a tree branch with just my intention.
It could be said that the fact that this phenomenon occurs simply with intention without any magical power is similar to the sword of the mind mentioned in martial arts.
It’s amazing.
But if you think about it calmly, it didn’t seem practical. If just one tree branch puts this much of a burden on the avatar, the actual game is a disaster.
Is the body any different?
I think so.
I felt good when I thought about experimenting when I logged out later.
“Bark… Are you a magic swordsman?”
Hilda asked in surprise if she had seen me cutting down a tree branch with intent.
“It’s not magic… It’s a little… Different.”
Even if you explain it, she won’t understand.
Even if it were said that such a phenomenon occurred just by thinking, it would be difficult for an ordinary person to believe.
It’s time to sleep.
However, Louise seemed to have no intention of sleeping at all.
The sight of Louise holding a knife and grinning as she cut into the ogre’s flesh looked creepy in a way.
We left Louise alone and let her sleep while looking at the night sky.
