Volume 5 - CH 11

Chapter 11 – Trampling

After using the keys to free Gaios and the children, Eto confirmed what he should do from there.

First of all, he knew that escaping with the children right now was risky. So it seems it is better if he had the children and Gaios hide in the room where the key was placed and try to reduce the strength of the old castle as much as possible.

“Gaios-san, what is your adventurer rank?”

“C-rank.”

“Are there any opponents that Gaios-san thinks will be difficult to fight here?”

“There is one. It’s the guy called ‘Aniki’. He is probably a knife user and is pretty good at it.”

“I’m Eto, a B-rank adventurer. I’m thinking of letting the kids wait in this room while I go clean the castle. What about Gaios-san?”

“Understood. Then, I will be guarding the children here.”

“Are you fine with that? I think you can escape when I’m causing a distraction here.”

“Fun! If I do that, I won’t be relieved. At least let me protect the children. Rather than that, will you be fine, Eto-san?”

“In case of emergency, I will blow away this castle without holding back.”

“…Who are you really?”

Gaios looked at Eto with an astonished expression. On the other hand, Eto was also surprised that Gaios easily believed his words.

“Do you believe what I just said?”

“The quality and quantity of your magic power. And the thunder magic and magic control that you showed earlier. To be honest with you, my danger signal has been ringing since that time.”

Gaios said while pointing to a long whisker extending from his nose.

“Hee, I never knew beastmen had such a useful ability. By the way, there are other doorways in this basement, right? I think considering how big their bodies are, those Sleipnir won’t be able to use the staircase, don’t you think so?”

“Aa. There is indeed a carry-in entrance leading to the outside in the passage on the other side of the stairs. After you finished ‘cleaning’, it might be good to exit from that carry-in entrance. And after we reach the outside, as long as we follow the wall, we will soon be at the gate.”

As Eto and Gaios were talking in the back room, a voice was heard from the corridor. Apparently, someone came to pick up Eto and the other man who hasn’t returned back up for a while.

Eto immediately broke the tip of a cleaning brush and mop to make several wooden sticks. He held one of them and gave the rest to Gaios and the older children.

“I will reduce the number of enemies. Don’t worry. You will know when you see it.”

Saying that, Eto left the room.

Eto ran through the long passage, reducing his distance at once, then smashed the thunder-enchanted wooden stick, attacking the men’s bodies with a lighting strike that generated from the tip of the stick. And the next moment, they stopped moving and fell to the ground. Among them is also a servant of Tulle Firm, as no distinction could be made at that time. Eto wasted no time and put everyone in a nearby prison and had Gaios lock them up.

“Well then, I will go.”

“Ou, be careful!”

The children are also staring at Eto with high expectations. Looking at them, Eto nodded firmly and went up the stairs.

But as soon as Eto arrived at the first floor, an arrow approached him from his blind spot, and was deflected by Protect. It seems they have noticed the turmoil in the basement and waited on the first floor to ambush whoever attacked them.

Arrows flew one after another toward Eto, but none of them were able to hit him. Judging that there were no professional archers among the assailants, Eto ran to the center of the room while ‘Protect’ deflected the arrows launched at him. As soon as he arrived, Eto rotated the thunder-enchanted wooden stick overhead, generating a whirlpool of thunder that struck the people around him. And no one was wearing armor nor any defensive equipment, so they had no choice but to fall prey to the thunder.

After that, Eto began his rampage like a typhoon. However instead of rain and wind, thunder and a storm of magic power blew through the old castle. No one even got into a proper battle with Eto, as they lost consciousness immediately due to the impact of the approaching lightning. Thus, in just tens of minutes, no one could stand before Eto.

Eto also saw Dent had fallen in the hallway. He doesn’t seem to be injured and just fainted. And perhaps because Eto had saved his life once, he was a little relieved that Dent didn’t die.