Chapter 162

My Villains Episode 162

40. The Trackers Again (6)

The afternoon sun was waning, casting shadows down the mountain.

Wide fields of wheat stretched out beneath the mountain peaks shoulder to shoulder with a cloudless sky. The trampled and burnt half was no more than a clod of dirt, but the other half was golden and waved with hope.

The wind from the far south brushed the wheat grains and soared up the steep mountain slopes. The wind reached the man standing on the edge of a certain peak.

The one-eyed bounty hunter spit out while savoring the vitality and hope that it carried.

A tall young man in a cloak approached him.

“Dark.”

The one-eyed man looked at the young man and then looked back down the mountain.

Because the bushes were low and sparse, there was almost nothing to block the view. It is a great place where you can see the foot of the mountain at a glance.

“What about them?”

“I stopped on a mountain road.”

“mountain path?”

“This is where the bodies were.”

A sharp one-eyed skimmed the path along the foot of the mountain. Dirk noticed something and furrowed his brows.

“You’re lighting a fire.”

“...Did you notice?”

“Maybe.”

“I will ask Evan to launch the familiar.”

“no.”

Watching the smoke rising from the hillside, Dirk scratched under his eyepatch.

“There are only three wizards and even a druid. It’s too dangerous.”

“Then what shall we do?”

“...Bring back the guys from across the street.” “You mean now?”

“okay. Send a letter and tell them to tighten up from behind. Tell them to hurry as we have to move before the fire blocks our way.”

“All right.”

“and.”

Dirk took something out of his pocket and handed it to the young man.

“...What is this?”

“It’s a ‘judo rod’. Keep an eye on it, and when it glows, throw it at them.”

The young man, who was fiddling with the handed piece of metal, glanced sideways at the rock wall behind Dirk.

“Are they coming out?”

“maybe.”

“...It must be quite dangerous.”

“That’s why we brought in mercenaries. Don’t get caught up in the magic, just control it from behind.”

When the young man stepped back, The Big, who had put on his cloak, turned around and walked away. Approaching the wall of the cliff, he put his shoulder through a small crack in the rock.

Suwook.

A long passage appeared in front of Dirk, who dug through a small crack in the rocks. It was an exquisitely hidden cave.

After walking some distance along the aisle, he arrived at a fairly spacious cavity. Small balls of fire were floating in the air, dispelling the darkness of the caverns.

Dirk slightly bowed his head to the one in the innermost of the four figures in the cavity.

“The preparations are complete.”

“...Hong, it’s over quickly.”

The four figures were dressed in such a way that one could tell that they were magicians at a glance.

The three of them were wearing gray-white robes with hoods pulled down deeply, and the middle-aged man who was sarcastic to Dirk was wearing a blue robe and a wide-brimmed hat, and was holding a long iron staff.

“I’m glad this annoying companion didn’t fill the two months.”

“...I think so too, Master Widal.”

When Dirk answered with an expressionless face, the wizard holding the steel staff stared at him silently.

“...Should we come forward anyway?”

“I hope you will.”

“You’re so impudent.”

“please understand. It’s because there was an error in the information about the subject of the request.”

At Dirk’s calm words, one of the hooded spirits suddenly got nervous.

“Information, anyway, that bitch is half the same. Can’t you catch a girl like that even after eating three hundred gold coins?

It was the voice of a young woman. The wizard of the steel wand looked at her and let out a stern voice.

“Shut your mouth.”

“Aren’t you angry with Master? Black wolves and all, they took the form as they were, and then they tried to take care of us before work.”

Despite the woman’s accusations, Dirk just stood there.

‘... let’s wait. I’m an asshole for making a mistake.’

Dirk had stopped in the town of Inbury two and a half months earlier while searching the countryside of Leadburn. There, he met a cold-faced knight and a huge savage blonde beautiful girl.

‘You can’t remember that. Even if the captain had only thought of it before boarding the ship

...

Afterwards, when he heard information about his new target – a wizard named ‘Erenar Radha Carlin’ – Dirk turned the three people he met in Inveri black. It was after I forgot.

‘Anyone could see that she was a bloody swordsman, a red bear fire witch, but she couldn’t remember that. This idiot.’

Swallowing the belated self-blame inside, the bigger one smiled leisurely.

“I understand Olide-sama’s anger, but I also did my best.”

“What about keeping employers in these burrows? best?”

When the woman called Oleida started to lose her temper again, the steel wand wizard stopped her.

“stop. Reprimanding him is something you can do later. The important thing now is to catch the traitor and retrieve the forbidden book.”

However, the joints that were covered with only cloth or leather, or the face exposed under the helmet, were disorganized as if they had been scratched by sharp claws.

“Whoa.” As the smell of blood spread out, something hot surged from the lower abdomen. I wanted to activate ‘thirst’ right away and dye my sight red, but...

no, there’s no need to do that.

I swallowed and stretched out my left arm. Then he pulled the mercenary who was grabbing his eyes and strangled him with his arms.

Puppy pew!

“Keep it off!”

Three or four crossbows that just flew in were pierced into his chest and stomach in quick succession. I

dove between enemies with a firm grip on my meat shield.

Like skilled mercenaries, the enemy did not back down easily. Taking advantage of solid armament and numerical superiority, it was like a veteran and very tricky.

“Get ahead, shield bearers!”

Around the time four more mercenaries were defeated, Regan, the captain, grasped the situation and began to use evil.

It didn’t last very long. It was because something fell from above and landed on Regan’s shoulder.

“Huh?” And before Regan could raise his head, a series of sharp blades stabbed him in the throat.

snooze!

“Kreuk,”

his men shouted as his handsome face contorted terribly.

“Eith- Regan!”

“What is that bitch!”

Even in the midst of the mercenaries attacking in admiration, the group squatting on Regan’s shoulder remained calm.

Blood spewed from his neck, he kicked the crumbling corpse and quickly rolled it to the ground. In the meantime, he threw a dagger and stuck it in the neck of the mercenary who was reloading the crossbow.

“Hold the X arm! That bitch killed the captain!”

“Kill the knight first, you idiots!”

Mercenaries with knives and axes clamored to catch the bundle.

However, Mungchi dodged and jumped at the crossbowmen, brandishing a short sword, throwing a dagger, and kicking three crossbowmen in an instant.

And by the time he threw himself away and hid himself behind me, there were only four mercenaries standing.

“Um, is it over already?”

When I heard the sound behind me, I turned to see Utequai appearing from among the bushes.

“There are few of them.”

I nodded and held out my hand to Steedman, who had just appeared. He ran quickly and handed over the javelin he was carrying on his shoulder.

“The rest seems to have gone down already. It seems to be waiting under the mattress.” When a string of parties appeared behind Utequai, the mercenaries who had lost all of their comrades suddenly started running away.

“Hueup.”

The spear he threw with a simple motion penetrated the back of a mercenary.

Well, I was aiming for the neck.

I missed it because I was aiming while talking. The chain armor had been pierced from the front and back, so the spear blade must have been useless.

“Tsk. I just set fire to it.”

“We have dealt with our evil offerings. No regrets.”

Arrows were fired one after another at the other three fugitives.

As the two of them fell down after being hit by an arrow, a freckled mummy appeared out of nowhere and attacked the last one with a sharp spirit.

“You could start the fire after killing all the mercenaries. It would have been a lot easier if I had left it unguarded.”

“I couldn’t pass the time. If I had left it as it was, my mother would have been furious.”

“......Turn off”

O.

I closed my mouth and scratched my eyebrows. It wasn’t very wise for Utequai to hold back his horse when he mentioned his mother.

“The enemy is gathering.”

Zanavas, who was cradling a small thrush, was eyeing another thrush. As he whispered something, the thrush in his arms staggered for a moment and then flapped its wings after the larger thrush.

“There are so many people wearing armor.”

“How many are there?”

“They don’t count people accurately. One or ten are equally threatening.”

“...then there’s nothing you can do about it. I have no choice but to go down and see.”

The ones waiting at the foot of the mountain are probably Randall’s mercenaries. I just killed Regan, so that’s probably for sure.

I can’t quite figure out why he’s attacking. It’s not that he doesn’t know his motive, it means that he doesn’t know what he believes in and jumps at.

For mercenaries like wild dogs to attack a dangerous party like ours...

well, it’s irrational to say the least. It’s not the kind of mercenaries who risk death to pay their grudges.

There must be a corner to believe in, but I don’t know what it is.

Ellen, who had been silent, suddenly opened her mouth.

“Something is wrong.”

“what?”

“...I do not know.”

What is he talking about?

Ellen pursed her lips as I put on a bewildered expression, then let out a sigh.

“My heart is strangely heavy. I have a tickling, anxious feeling about something.”

“...Um, is that so?”

Other people might not know, but it was hard to pass over because it was Ellen’s words.

Just as Utequai and Munchwi each possess superhuman strength and agility, Ellen possesses abnormally high magic power.

If you have high magical power, you can see things that normal people can’t see.

Besides, since I was feeling bad inside, Ellen’s words felt even more meaningful.

“...good.”

After a short thought, I called the party together.