Chapter 444: Even if you breathe quietly (3)
Translator: miraclerifle
Editor: Borderline Masochist
“I, it’s an attack!”
The Dubori territory lord’s eyes reflected the red fire. The fire that shot up past the city walls looked like a large snake that could attack the city at any moment.
Cale made eye contact with the White Star at that moment.
Pfft.
The White Star’s lips twisted up as he laughed.
‘Huh?’
Cale’s pupils shook for a moment. The White Star’s expression turned calm as if the anxiety he showed earlier was all just an act. Cale's mind quickly started to move after confirming this.
He heard an angry voice at that moment.
“You, you dare-!”
The lord slowly started to walk toward a west-facing window. The moment his hand touched the window... Slam! The window opened as the lord shouted in anger.
“They dare to attack my territory! What the hell are those?!”
He could see the fire and the nearby whirlwinds but he did not see anybody who was launching the attack.
“Aaaaaah!”
"W, what is that fire?!”
“It’s a curse! It's a disaster brought forth from the Land of Death!”
The residents of the small city who had returned home after a long day ran out of their houses to scream about the fire or hide deep in their houses while shaking in fear. One old man couldn't move his eyes away from the fire.
“I, it’s the grudges of those who ran away and died! Their anger finally came to destroy this rotten territory!”
“Death, death is coming!”
The angry gazes of the people responding to the old man's words turned toward the Lord’s Castle. However, their anger did not reach the lord in the Lord’s Castle.
“My land, you are aiming for my stuff?”
The lord’s eyes showed no fear toward the fire. The badge with the territory crest hanging on his new suit glowed red.
"Sir Barrow!”
His body quickly rushed toward the White Star.
“Immediately, bring the bastard who caused that fire to me immediately!”
“Lord-nim, but-”
The lord could see the awkward expression from the shape of the man's lips underneath the white mask. That made the lord turn his gaze elsewhere.
“Knights, immediately arrest those two rat-like bastards who snuck into the hall! Throw them in the underground prison!”
The lord was pointing to Cale and Choi Han who were standing on the chandelier.
“You dare to disturb the feast of the owner of this Dubori territory!”
Tap, tap, tap.
The hall doors opened and the servants handed the swords they had taken earlier back to the knights.
“These two bastards are definitely with those enemies outside!”
Clang! Clang!
The knights immediately drew their swords and surrounded Cale and Choi Han. Choi Han turned toward Cale and noticed that Cale was slowly looking around the entire hall.
‘Mm!’
Choi Han's eyes clouded over. Shhh. Cale undid the top button of his shirt. The lord approached the White Star with an angry and confident expression as he did that.
“I knew it! Sir Barrow, you were right! There really were people aiming for our territory!”
“That is correct. Lord-nim, those people are the ones who snuck in trying to take the Dubori territory.”
The White Star pointed his finger at Cale.
‘Ho! I did?’
Cale looked toward the White Star in shock but the White Star didn't show any reaction. Cale became nervous after seeing this reaction.
‘There’s definitely something else. That’s why he can be so calm.’
Cale's mind became even more complicated. He heard the lord’s voice at that moment.
“Sir Sayeru, use your holy light arrow to burn those bastards alive!”
“Yes sir, I will gladly follow the lord-nim’s will. We will punish these evil bastards.”
“Yes, yes! You are correct!”
Bear King Sayeru snickered as he threw a light arrow toward Cale and Choi Han. He seemed as if he would die from laughter at Cale’s shocked gaze.
The now extremely confident lord shouted toward Cale and Choi Han in a mocking tone.
“Put out that fire immediately if you bastards want to live!”
“But I don't want to.”
The surrounding nights and everyone in the hall closed their mouths in shock at that moment. Their gazes headed toward the brown-haired man standing on the chandelier.
“...What did you just say......?”
He responded to the lord’s question again.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m
“’But I don't want to,’ is what I said.”
“Y, you damn arrogant bastard-! Put that fire out imme-”
“I don’t want to.”
Cale shrugged his shoulders and glared at the lord in a profane way that could not compare to how he had looked at crown prince Alberu at any point so far.
“Why should I?”
“...What? You dare talk back-”
Swooooooosh-
Cale reached his hand out and wind came out of his hand and surrounded the lord.
“A, aaaahhh!”
His body shot up into the air. His new suit was turning into a mess. The lord reached his hand out to the White Star in fear as if he had never been confident at all.
“Down, put me down! S, Sir Barrow! Help me down!”
The White Star looked toward the lord once before turning his gaze to Cale.
“I believe that fire is not magic?”
Cale had no issue nodding his head and agreeing to the White Star who was pointing to the fire and whirlwinds outside the city walls.
“Correct. It’s my friends’ powers.”
To be more specific, it was the Wind Elementals next to Cale who had shared Cale's message to the Elementals in the desert.
‘Wow! He said we are his friends? Hehe! It feels good hearing it straight from him!’
Caro Kingdom's crown prince Valentino was at the center of the knights sitting on a horse and looking at the city walls. His eyes looked angry.
“...The fire in the desert was fake.”
Valentino’s eyes turned to the side.
“Young master Cale is captured inside?”
“That is correct. Your highness.”
Valentino turned away from the tattooed old man wearing an odd outfit and looked toward the city gate.
Screeeeeech- boom.
The closed gate opened and the Royal Knights Brigade entered. The sound of horses hooves were headed toward the Lord’s Castle. The old man who was on a horse next to Valentino raised his head.
Caw, caw, caw.
The sun had gone down at some point and it was night now. The crows hid their bodies in the darkness as they headed toward the Dubori Lord’s Castle. The old man, Tiger shaman Gashan, started to speak.
“Catch all the rats.”
Caw. Caw, caw.
The tens, no, hundreds of crows all started to hunt for rats. Gashan's gaze headed toward the west.
Baaaaaang!
He could see the fire that shot up after an explosion. The city walls heading toward the Land of Death... The fire burning wildly outside those walls cut through the air like a red snake and flew toward the Lord’s Castle.
“Ahhhhh!”
“R, run away! The fire, that fire snake is attacking the territory!”
The residents who had been debating whether to run started to quickly run in shock. The fire looked scary as it cut through the dark night.
“Huh?”
However, some of them stopped running and expressed their shocks as they looked up.
“Those black people are?”
“...T, the person leading that fire is?”
There was a black person in front of the fire snake who was surrounded by wind and seemed to be leading the snake. They had not noticed right away because it was dark, but the people with great vision were able to see the person moving past them.
“...Elf! It’s a Dark Elf!”
A Dark Elf was leading the fire snake. They could also see more Dark Elves running behind the fire snake. They then realized that the fire snake was heading for the Lord’s Castle. No buildings were destroyed as the fire snake and the Dark Elves cut through the sky. They were just charging ferociously toward the Lord’s Castle.
The people in the Lord’s Castle could see the fire snake as well. They heard the crown’s drums again as well.
“Oh my, it looks like you got us.”
The White Star looked toward Cale. He saw Cale's smiling face.
“S, Sir Barrow!”
The White Star waved his hand after hearing the lord’s desperate plea.
Bang, there was a small explosion and the wind that came out of the White Star's hand instantly gobbled up Cale's wind.
“Aaaaah!”
Boom! The lord fell to the ground and was busy checking his body for injuries. The White Star stared at him for a moment before starting to speak.
“Get started.”
Cale clenched his fists at that moment. There must be a reason the White Star was so relaxed. That was why Cale couldn't help but be nervous even though he already pulled the crown prince into this.
“Cale-nim.”
Choi Han approached Cale and pointed his sword toward the White Star.
Clang.
He heard the sound of swords falling at that moment. That was the beginning.
‘What the hell?’
Every knight inside the hall dropped their swords and weapons. The weapons rolled on the ground. However, they did not care.
They were not the only ones.
“...Must capture them.”
“...Will capture... ...Will capture...”
The territory administrators, mages, and even the lord started to move with blank expressions like the knights.
“Cale-nim.”
“...What is this?”
Knights, mages, administrators, territory lord, servants, they all quickly charged toward Cale and Choi Han trying to capture them. Cale heard the Illusionist’s voice at that moment. Red smoke was surrounding the green-haired woman.
“That person is the person who planned this terrible deed.”
That person was referring to Cale.
“Next to him is the poor soul who was bewitched by that evil man’s glib tongue.”
Choi Han was the poor soul.
“Good people of Dubori. Save the poor soul from the evildoer.”
There were a lot of people since all Dubori knights, mages, administrators and servants were gathered together. They all started to head toward Choi Han.
“We must s, save him.”
“...We will save him. Save him... We must.”
Cale saw even a young servant reaching his hand out toward Choi Han alongside the knights and mages. There was also a weak old man approaching Choi Han saying he needed to be saved.
Everybody looked ready to grab Choi Han.
Cale could see the awkward expression on Choi Han’s face.
"Cale, shall we make a bet?”
He heard the laughing White Star’s voice at that moment. The White Star created a wind wall to surround the hall at the same time.
Boom. Boom-
North, South, East, West. All windows and doors were blocked by the large wind wall. The White Star continued to speak to Cale who was staring at him once Cale and Choi Han were trapped.
“A good person like you probably knows good Choi Han’s thoughts well. Okay then, do you think Choi Han can avoid the hands of the weak children, the old men, and the others who are trying to grab him?”
Cale started to frown.
“They are all innocent. They’ve all just been tricked by me.”
‘No. They’ve been tricked by my amazing illusions.”
The Illusionist laughed as she continued to speak.
“Those people won't faint. Fainting has no impact on the illusion status. They will keep trying to save Choi Han even if they get hurt or lose an arm or a leg. So, Mr. Cale and Mr. Choi Han. What will you do?”
Cale could see Choi Han’s anxious gaze heading toward him. They could hear the entertained Illusionist's voice.
“Will you hurt them and push them aside? Or will you be a good boy and be captured, Mr. Choi Han?”
The White Star added on.
“Choi Han is one of my goals this time. Shouldn’t I at least grab him? So, what will you do? Cale Henituse, the man who tries to even save the enemy soldiers.”
Cale started to frown. He could see Choi Han’s sword that could not leave the scabbard because he didn’t want to attack the servants and administrators.