Chapter 87

They say that this horse named Dark runs like the wind. It also doesn’t get tired easily. It was so good that Ed had to control his speed because of Diego’s words that followed him.  

What he likes more than anything else is the strange sense of unity. Ed had so far used horses as a means of transportation or bait. 

However, Dark seemed to be a horse that he’d continue to cherish in the future. It was such a great horse that he even thought that moving along with Diego would get him there sooner.  

While running like that, Dark suddenly jumped up. Ed turned his head to look back at the sight, as the horse suddenly leaped off the road. He was wondering what was going on.

And Diego’s horse ran towards the spot where Dark had jumped and saw the floor go off.  

Before he could figure out what was going on, Ed lightly kicked Dark’s back and jumped up and ran towards Diego.  Then, by stepping on the head of Diego’s horse, he was able to catch Diego and leap.  

Diego’s horse fell into a pit and broke his neck and died, but Diego was saved.  

Ed laid Diego down, took out his bow, held it in his left hand, and looked around him quickly.  

Dark circled his pit and returned to Ed with a light footstep.  Feeling alive was possible with Ed’s agile sense, but Ed knew that even he could not feel this pre-made trap.

However, he was able to avoid it thanks to Dark.  

Ed patted Dark’s neck lightly and stood up. Then he began to awaken all his senses. And he could feel the strangeness.  

He was concentrating on running through the wind, unaware that the sound around him had disappeared.  

It is a place where even the noise of insects cannot be heard. It’s an ambush.  

Ed pulled out an arrow and hung it on a protest, then asked Diego.  

“Can you feel the power of the devil?” 

Diego calmed his startled heart and closed his eyes. After a while, Diego opened his eyes and stirred his dog.

“No. I don’t feel it.”  

“Then I guess it’s not Crossel.” 

Are there people who are after them even though they’re not Crossel?  

“Come out!” 

There was no response to Ed’s exclamation. 

Ed snorted.  

Just because they don’t come out doesn’t mean that you can’t find them. It just gets annoying.

But he already had enough to take the trouble.  

“Diego. Can you summon Tom?”  

“It’s not night, so even if I summon it, I won’t be able to use my power.”  

“It’s okay. Go to the shadows and see. Take Dark with you.”  

“I see.” 

Diego took Dark back and summoned Tom. 

While Diego, who had summoned Tom from the shadows, was waiting with Dark, Ed moved calmly.  

Those who are hiding now, who can’t even hear the bugs, seem to be in an ambush to attack whenever the opportunity arises, but they didn’t know Ed.

A breath could be heard in Ed’s ears, raising his senses to the limit. No matter how great a person he is, he would get caught.  And with that brief breath, Ed fired an arrow there.  

It doesn’t matter if you’re hiding behind a tree, if it’s that much angle of rotation, you can hit it even if it’s not visible.  

Even though one person died, they did not show any signs of movement.  

It seems that they are not shaken enough by the death of one of them. At this level, it reminds me of Agents of Acalan. But in Acalan, the King’s troop is now holding the Crown Prince’s hand.

Pendragon said that he would also go to work, so he wouldn’t have the strength to attack him.  Ed pondered for a moment, then looked for the next breath.  

This time it is on the tree.  

It’s a little tricky, but not to the point where he can’t get it right. Another fell from the tree when the arrow flew again.  

Did they realize that their trap didn’t work?  

At the same time, there were commendations flying from all directions.  

Ed jumped up from his spot and fired an arrow while avoiding the flying shuriken just by twisting his body in mid-air.  No matter how good Ed was, he had only two feet to shoot arrows in such an acrobatic position. 

Afraid of getting down on the floor, Ed fired an arrow in the direction the shuriken flew, but he couldn’t hear a scream because it had already escaped.  

About twelve people are moving. Their moving skills were great, but once they started moving, there was no reason to miss it.  

The arrow that Ed fired was sucked into the forest.  

They seem to be moving in search of cover, but Ed’s arrow, which was bent and flying, did not miss the target.  

As long as the presence was discovered, even the most trained people could not immediately hide the presence again, so Ed was able to kill them all.  Suddenly, the blade protruded from the floor.

It was the point where most of the arrows were shot, so breathing was cut off at the point where he took care of all the signs he felt. And hit the guys hiding behind the obstacles.  

Ed was also surprised by the blade that rose as if he had waited for that moment. 

However, Ed’s body and senses that had been trained were already soaring upward as soon as he recognized that the blade had pierced the floor.  

It appears to have risen lightly, but it reached three meters in height. In an instant, he took out the raindoes and threw it.  Three raindoes flew towards the one soaring from the floor.  

“Wow!” 

Ed gently lowered to the floor, awakening the sensations again. There was no one that he could catch by the senses, but even the one who jumped up from the floor with the blade a while ago was not caught.  

Ed searched the body of the dead at last, sharpening his senses to be able to respond to any situation.  

He wondered if something could be a clue, but like the trained ones, there was no such thing.  After confirming that there was nothing special, Ed pulled out the ring he was wearing on his finger.  

Diego asked, “Brother, are you okay now?” 

Ed nodded and beckoned.  

“Perhaps.” 

Ed threw the ring as Diego came along with Dark.  Diego asked, taking the ring.  

“What’s this?”  

“Put it on,” said Ed.

Without hesitation, Diego put the ring on his finger. Ed watched Diego put the ring on his thumb, and then the sun went down.  

But he can’t even hear his breathing. For assassins, it is a relic-grade equipment that will not change even if it is a castle relic.  

Ed wondered if Diego really needed it, but a necromancer, who was close to an assassin, didn’t seem too bad.  

Diego came over to Ed’s side and asked.  

“But, what about these people?”  

“I don’t know.” 

What was surprising was that they were reading their tracks correctly. They knew in advance that they were going to leave this morning, so they dug a trap and prepared for it in advance.

It was yesterday that they decided to go to the city of Korun. So it is a matter of curiosity as to when they discovered their whereabouts.  

Ed searched extensively upon realizing that there were no more people. The others obviously didn’t have any useful equipment.  

He only got a little experience. So he was annoyed, but the person who died at the end was at the level of a low-level demon and adding up all the rest it was not so much.  

Ed drew all the arrows he shot at them, retrieved them, and told Diego.  

“Your horse is dead, so let’s ride Dark together.”

“Is that okay?”  

“It’s no big deal. I’m planning to get to Korun city before sunset today.”  

“Aww!” 

Ed rode his horse, putting Diego in front.  Even with two people riding on it, Dark’s speed did not decrease at all.  

Miller chuckled as he lowered the telescope he was holding over his right eye.

“The task force was beaten without leaving a single wound,” 

Miller said, and Sasha, who was standing behind him, couldn’t hide her surprise.  

This is the first time that Cerberus’s task force had failed an assassination attempt. It also looked bad as the trap had been made in advance.  

But she couldn’t believe it because he said that they didn’t leave a single wound on the other person.  

Miller looked at the telescope again and asked Sasha.  

“Did you say Ed?”  

“Yes. He’s called the Demon Hunter.”  

“Is he going to be the rank of a General?”

Sasha’s expression hardened at those words.  

There are only one or two powerful generals in the kingdom.  

A strong enough person can come out by training in a mountain somewhere, but if not, there are at most two strong people.  

Even if there are only three strong generals in the ranks of generals, it is enough to wage a war of.  

Miller looked at Ed’s back as he moved away, raising a small distant globe in the distance through the telescope.  

Then suddenly Ed, who was running far away, seemed to turn his head.  

Miller, feeling that his eyes met through the telescope, saw him disappear from the telescope, folded the telescope, grabbed Sasha’s wrist, and flew away.  

It was not clear how their eyes met from a distance that could not be imagined to detect a presence, but if the opponent was a general, he could not be vigilant.

“Why?”

Miller’s instincts were telling.  

It’s not that their eyes met by chance.  Ed grinned as he stood on a branch on a small hillside.  

He immediately flew away at the gaze he felt from afar.  

Even though Ed had made up his mind to run, there was already no trace left there.  

Did Miller also feel the moment their eyes met?  

At first glance, looking at the reflection of the light, it seems that he was looking through a telescope, but it was a pity that he missed it.  

Ed gave up and went back to Diego.  

“Did you catch it?”  

“I missed it. I heard you were quick?” 

“I’m sorry.  Even if it’s only the night, I use Jerry to find it.”

“Yeah.”

Ed, who lost his appetite for searching, immediately gave up.  

It’s annoying to lose trackers, but you can’t just stick with it.  

Fortunately, Dark was very fast.  

So he was able to reach the city of Korun before the sun went down. If he had run in a normal horse, it’d take even a greater time. 

So he should just be grateful to Dark, who at least came to the place without getting tired even with the two of them on board.  

And thanks to Prince Melt’s capture of the Knights of Korun, the place was still poorly guarded.  

They were able to enter the castle just by lightly stabbing the gate guard with a silver coin.  

Ed went up to the room after having dinner at the inn and looked at Diego.  Diego summoned Jerry and shared his senses for a moment, then his expression hardened.

“Huh?”  

“Why?”  

“Too many?” said Diego, looking at Ed with his eyes open.  

“Even if not, there are more than ten.”