Chapter 150: Attackers

Chapter 150: Attackers

We led Solas back to surface by retracing the path we took on our way down. We had healed him, but he was still missing quite a bit of blood so I figured his pace would be a rather slow one. Contrary to my expectations, however, he was still moving along fairly steadily regardless.

I’d honestly just kinda ended up assuming that he was an F ranker because he said his party was comprised of D, E and F ranked adventurers, but he seemed to at least be as good as an E ranker.Discover new chapters at novelhall.com

「Hey Fran, are you using some sort of detection type skill? It sure seems like it. I’ve only got Presence Detection myself.」

「Nn.」

Solas seemed to be the boisterous type. He more or less kept talking and wouldn’t shut up despite the fact that all Fran really ever did in response to his rambling was nod.

We were able to progress up through the dungeon fairly quickly due to the fact that the traps we disarmed had yet to be restored. I wasn’t sure if everything would stay disarmed long enough for us to break through the fifth and sixth floors, but I sure hoped that would end up being the case, as the traps therein were more difficult to deal with.

Two men appeared in front of us as we continued to make our way towards the exit.

「Hey there.」

「Nn. Hi.」

「Huh...? Are you two by yourselves?」

「That’s impossible. They’re just kids. There’s no way two kids would be able to make it this deep by themselves.」

「Right, good point. So where’s your party at?」

Both men seemed rather surprised that Fran and Solas appeared to be travelling alone. I couldn’t really blame them. They were really quite justified if one was to take the norm into account. That said though, they soon regained their calm after asking us a few questions.

「So you two really are all by yourselves?」

「And you’re adventurers?」

「Is that wolf your familiar?」

「Feel free to stick with us for a bit if you got separated from the rest of your party members.」

「Hey, that’s not a bad idea!」

「Right? Come on, let’s go.」

They seemed like good guys that were concerned about Fran and Solas...

Not.

A quick appraisal immediately informed me that they were about as villainous as could be.

They not only had the theft, torture, threaten, and deceptions skills, but were also marked with titles claiming them to be murderers.

「Ugh, whatever, enough of this sheet already.」

The person who spoke seemed to be a leader, and his words some sort of signal. The man that’d been sneaking up behind Fran immediately drew his a dagger and dashed towards her at an incredible speed.

Although the attacker was just a thief, I had to admit that he wasn’t all that bad at combat. Specifically, I felt that he deserved praise for remaining cautious. He didn’t let his guard down around Fran despite her being a young girl, he remained vigilant and tried to deliver a blow that would hinder any future actions as opposed to one that would slay her in one strike. In other words, he didn’t fully commit himself to the engagement and tried to make sure that he’d be able to withdraw if he wasn’t able to accomplish his objective.

『He’s a careful one, but not nearly careful enough.』

「What!?」

I stopped the man’s dagger in place, and sliced his neck open with wind magic before he was able to recover from the shock of his arm suddenly losing all its momentum and freezing in place.

「Huh!? What!?」

Solas was left completely bamboozled as the situation continued to rapidly change.

「Daz!」

「Guah!」

Fran sliced one of the men into pieces, and sent the other flying by batting him with the flat of my blade.

「Gruaaahh!」

The man that got sent flying had so much momentum that he ended up cracking the wall he was smashed against. His arms and ribs both looked like that’d immediately been broken. His spine looked like it’d seen much better days as well.

「Why...」

「Too obvious.」

「Foock’n... ‘ell...」

The man responded to Fran with a frustrated groan before finally losing consciousness.

(Master, what now?)

『Let’s head back into the city for now so we can hand the guy we just captured off to the guild. You get rewarded for turning him in, remember? We can probably get him to tell us who he’s working with while we’re at it.』

Solas approached the man while we were figuring what to do with him and immediately swung his sword without even the slightest shred of hesitation.

His action and Fran’s response to it caused a metallic clang to ring through the dungeon’s corridors.

The man we painstakingly refrained from killing would’ve ended up six feet under had Fran not used me to stop Solas’ strike.

「Explain?」

「Sorry, seeing him again just made me want to...」

It turned out that these guys really were the ones that’d attacked Solas and his party. He ultimately ended up lowering his sword, but continued to fiercely glare at the scumbag we had just captured regardless.