Chapter 98 – The Obvious Development
It was early in the morning when I woke up.
Snowfields are characterized by the fact that the white snow reflects the sunlight, so when the sun rises, the surroundings quickly become bright.
The ventilation was briefly turned on last night, but thanks to Dorothea, the human boiler, the temperature quickly rose again, so I was able to sleep warmly despite the cold weather.
Turning his body around, he crawls out of the tent.
As if I wasn’t the only one who woke up early, some people were already out and moving.
“Oh, it’s cold.”
He rubbed his hands together and exhaled white breath.
It was completely mid-winter weather, and even the wind against my skin felt fierce.
After securing the doors properly to keep the wind out, I found a nearby place to meditate.
I happened to see a snow-covered cedar not far from the base camp.
I walked to the foot of the cedar tree as if I was going for a light walk, and sat cross-legged with my eyes as a cushion.
Sue-
Mana is more abundantly distributed in places where nature is preserved as it is.
The mana that came down through the air along with the breath permeates the virtual magic furnace that had been asleep all night.
The magical furnace, which began to rotate slowly, soon turned violently and began to produce wind mana.
Oh oh oh ──
The act of turning the mana produced in this way once from head to toe is called Ilchucheon.
As a kind of preparation exercise, the difference between suddenly starting the magic furnace without any preparation and preheating it in advance is quite large.
After learning the secret breathing method from Master, it was almost a habit.
It takes about 30 minutes for mana to return to her head after traveling through her blood vessels.
It could be shorter than this if my level rises, but for now it was just a distant story.
Since Master had said that he had risen to the 7th level this time, he thought of listening to some advice when he went to the Emerald Tower.
Bassrock-
“Well?”
I suddenly opened my eyes to a strange sound in my ears.
Wanting something, I looked up, and the narrow-eyed man who had said he wanted to join our party before the departure yesterday was doing something.
At first I thought they were picking up branches for firewood, but now I see they are twisting the bushes into knots.
It is a guiding mark that many hunters use.
It’s a mark you leave behind to avoid getting lost when you’re walking around a place like a forest, but are you doing that at this time and in this location?
It was an act as suspicious as a narrowed eye.
As the alert against him was rising in my mind, the narrow-eyed man, who was about to return to the base camp after making all the signs, was startled when his eyes met me, who was sitting cross-legged under a tree.
“Ahh!”
I was dumbfounded by her appearance and asked with a grimace.
“What is it?”
The narrow-eyed man gave the tree branch he had spilled on the floor with a puzzled expression.
“No, I thought no one was there, but I want you to sit there.”
“I was meditating in a quiet place for a while.”
When I said that and replied calmly, the narrow-eyed man smiled awkwardly with an ahaha and then bent his waist at a right angle.
“Sorry to disturb you! Then I’m done!”
As he said that, he seemed to be stabbing himself as he hurriedly ran to the base camp.
‘Well, since we’re here, it’s going to work somehow.’
Since the meditation was over, I thought of going back to the tent before it was too late.
***
Back at the tent, Vanessa was putting on her armor.
“Did you sleep well?”
“Huh? Uh uh.”
Vanessa answered a beat late, as if she hadn’t woken up yet.
After I waved her hand appropriately, I entered the seat inside Dorothea’s rolling tent.
As she was rummaging through her rucksack to grab a few toiletries, Dorothea, who had been drooling and scratching her belly, suddenly lifted her upper body.
“…I’m hungry.”
“Are you a beast?”
I looked at her with her salty expression, then put the towel in her hand on her head.
“Let’s go wash up and come back. We’ll eat after that.”
Then Dorothea did not get up right away, hesitated, and got up only after I urged her once more.
I already miss her lieutenant, Eva.
If he hadn’t been promoted and made commander-in-chief of the Hamburg Fortress, he would have taken care of Dorothea instead of me.
As I was about to leave Dorothea’s tent, helping Dorothea from one side, Vanessa, who was behind her, spoke.
“Go slowly. I’ll be organizing the tent.”
“Okay? Let me ask you a favor.”
My work is reducing, but there was no reason to refuse it.
When she came out again to wash her face, Dorothea, who was wearing thin clothes as usual, trembled.
No matter how much the flame witch is, the cold of midwinter seems to be difficult for her bare body.
Dorothea, who hurriedly thrust her arm into her coat I was holding, looked much better after tying her collar.
I headed to the river near the base camp with Dorothea.
***
There were about 30 adventurers who participated in this trip.
Considering that there are about 50 people at the top, the number of people who can actually fight will be about 60 to 70 people, even excluding the elderly and weak who cannot fight.
Of course, with a decent number of bandits, it was impossible to touch a business of this scale.
But in a different sense, it was fine as long as it wasn’t a ‘reasonable’ number.
Wedge!
I was struggling with the icy water in the river a short distance from the base camp, and I was speechless when I saw dozens of arrows flying from the sky falling towards the base camp.
They said they were going to catch people, but the bandits really attacked from early in the morning.
It must have been a suspicious narrow-eyed guy.
“Kyaaaaah
It wasn’t even fully lined up like yesterday, and the base camp, where people who had just woken up and were busily running around to cook and eat, quickly became a mess.
Several men, struck by blind arrows, fell to the ground bleeding, followed by the sound of horses hooves coming closer.
Doo doo doo doo!
Dorothea, who had washed her cat’s face almost as if she were dipping herself in the cold river water, wiped off the water with a towel and said,
“It looks like bandits have appeared?”
“Should I go help?”
“There’s Vanessa anyway. Go slowly.”
As Dorothea said, she tied her straight red hair with a braid.
Today’s hairstyle is a ponytail.
It must have been troublesome to braid her hair into two braids as usual when her hair was frizzy because she couldn’t wash it properly.
“Haha! Kill the woman and rape the man!”
The thieves with colorful Mohican hair rode horses and rode into the camp without hesitation.
We, who were watching the scene from not too far away, spotted the thief running towards Vanessa’s tent and quietly prayed for her soul.
Awesome!
It happened in an instant.
The horse’s leg, which had been running fine, suddenly slipped and collapsed.
The thief fell off his horse at the same speed as he was running and fell at the feet of Vanessa, who was dismantling the tent.
The scarred thief tried to say something, but one beat faster-
The blade of the longsword dug into his mouth.
Fu-wook!
With just that, the thief who was moaning in pain was mortally wounded.
Vanessa’s movements were very efficient.
The most efficient way to slaughter people.
In the first place MasterThat in itself means a person who has reached the limit in a field.
A supreme state that only a handful of countless Aura users can reach.
The role of the captain of the devil’s bodyguard is not a position that can be obtained by joking around.
“Aaaaa! Kill!”
The other thieves, seeing how their colleague was killed in an instant, change their targets and rush at Vanessa.
In general, occupying a high position in a fight is a very important condition.
This is because there is a difference between attacking from the bottom up and attacking from the top down in the power of the weapon.
It was one of the reasons cavalry was called a nightmare for infantrymen.
However, for a master of Vanessa’s level, such a disadvantage did not really matter.
In the first place, if you ‘cut’, you’ll die the same.
Kiyiing─
A sword was heard.
Due to the ruthless mana Vanessa pumped in, the sword couldn’t overcome the subordinate and screamed.
Vanessa pulled out a long blue aura like a whip from the tip of his sword and swung it three times.
Ilseom (一閃).
All the horses ridden by the bandits lost their legs.
Iseom (two islands).
The wrists of those holding the weapons were severed.
Three islands.
Before I can even feel the pain, the head on top of my neck flies off.
Patter!
The fountain of blood that burst out belatedly dyes the white snow field red.
Vanessa, unable to read her expression because she was wearing a helmet, brushed off the blood from her sword and then started to dismantle the tent again.
It seemed that no matter who saw it, it did not care at all about what had just happened.
It’s like someone who accidentally stepped on an ant while walking down the street.
