Chapter 67 – 066 Village – Road to Lehil
Hwanin was a little dumbfounded at the thieves’ babbling.
It’s not some kind of Deus Ex Machina, it’s a spirit master.
‘No, there’s a possibility that a place called God’s Garden really exists in a yard where psychic powers exist, so it wouldn’t be strange.’
= Isilitera seems to have quite a bit of leadership. You can see how they keep their formation even when they are agitated.=
Susa, who had been whispering very quietly next to her, continued with a solemn clearing of her throat.
=Now, what are you going to do by hiding it? Your guess is correct. The precious person meant this very person, Mr. Spirit.=
=…….=
Sure enough, the sound of teeth grinding could be heard from here, and Susa grinned.
=If you don’t believe me, I can show you the proof. Spirit Master?=
As they had kissed beforehand, Hwanin took off his hood. Then, the eyes of the thieves who were looking at the boss turned to Hwanin, and the agitation grew.
Hwanin’s appearance was very exotic and mysterious even in the eyes of those who saw various races while stealing.
=Are you a girl?=
= Sick child. You’re a man But Fleur… Is it? I don’t think so.=
Looking at that slender physique, it seems to be of the Fleur species, but the ears are short, and above all, the hair and eyes are too black.
The hair and eyes that are as black as the night sky, the skin that is similar to the white skin of women but a bit darker, and the similar but different features come across as very different.
Isilite gnashed her teeth again.
= Laugh…… Don’t stretch…. Bringing in a different race and pretending to be a spirit master, doesn’t it mean you don’t want to go to the Garden of the Gods?
=I swear by the great and glorious existence of the beast god, I am not lying. Why would you lie to me as soon as it was discovered?=
If I could just hit that grinning face, I’d feel really refreshed! Isilite shouted as she gripped the hilt of her greatsword even harder.
=Don’t make a face like that, show the proper evidence!=
= That’s right The person standing next to Issilite-san over there. That’s right, you. There’s a lily flower right next to me. Won’t you bring me some?=
=…….=
The male thief who was pointed out glanced at the female leader, but went to the side of the road with crab steps and picked three lily flowers.
Seeing the male thief’s gaze as if asking what to do now, Hwanin said.
“Woman’s left shoulder.”
Isilite stiffened at Hwanin’s words. What? Confusion on my shoulder, clinging to it?
Seeing Isilite stop breathing and stiffen, the thief holding the Ilya flower hesitated and approached the boss, then threw the scorched flower away in surprise.
=Hey!!=
Then, after three or four steps, she brushes off his hands as if they are on fire. His expression is like that of a plagued zombie.
Other thieves also showed such behavior.
He put on a face as if he had seen something terrible, and kept his distance from the head yeoman.
Isilite, the victim, was unable to move as if she had been completely paralyzed. Seeing that, Susa muttered with a bleak smile.
= Our Spirit Master is a great person who purifies and attains Buddhahood. But you guys keep pointing your weapon at the spirit master?=
Do you want to be cursed? The thieves flinch at the obvious tone and hesitantly lower their weapons.
= This…… Cubs! Do you want to get behind my hands?! I can’t pick up a weapon right now!!=
= Uh-huh! Mr. Isilite, I didn’t just tell you. They say that our spirit master is the one who can achieve Buddhahood even in the midst of confusion. Otherwise, how could you have discovered the mixture so easily?=
=…… !=
Isilite, who was about to shout to attack the devil, shut her mouth like a mute who had eaten honey at those words.
= So do you! If you have been with the confluence for a long time, there is no guarantee that your souls will not be contaminated!=
=…… ?!=
=…… !=
=Don’t you want to die fighting bravely and enter the Garden of the Gods?! If so, drop your weapon now! And kneel before the spirit priest and ask for mercy!!
Teo-deok, chaeng-grang!
Except for Isilite, the bandits immediately threw down their swords, shields, spears, and bows, and ran and knelt in front of the carriage.
Susa’s escorts retrieved all of the bandits’ weapons.
Some thieves were furious at the sight of them taking their weapons, but no one said anything when Susa said they were only keeping it for a while for the safety and protection of the Spirit Master.
“…….”
And Hwanin looked down at the heads of the nineteen men and women and closed his eyes.
To Hwanin, who watched everything from the beginning, this situation was nothing more or less than a black comedy.
He thought that he had learned the perception of the people of this world about the affairs of the soul to some extent from the way the residents of Yulkam treated him, but this is to the point of overturning that calculation entirely.
Isn’t this faith itself?
‘Am I taking their folk beliefs too lightly? Or is it that I still don’t understand this world properly?’
= It’s all the credit of the spirit master. If it wasn’t for that, the thief wouldn’t admit it even if he died and would have started a fight.=
Hwanin opened his eyes and made a complex and subtle expression at Susa’s words as she stared at Isilite, who was snorting like a wild boar while being guarded by Brillit.
“I just…… I thought it was just an inducement book. But the reaction is beyond my imagination, so I’m embarrassed.”
=If Mr. Spirit hadn’t discovered the mixture, it would have been an inducement, just as he said. You found the confusion, and it seems that these people still have clean hands, so it works well.=
“Well…….”
What a clean theft.
At the ironic expression, Hwanin gave a small smile instead of an answer, and Susa shook her head, interpreting the smile as she wanted.
The thieves who were on their knees began to open their mouths one by one.
= I…… Soul sir. How are we?=
=Even though we were robbers, we did not harm the helpless villagers, the peddlers who paid the toll, or the travelers. We have been betting on the rules and abiding by them, and giving to the residents living in the activity area in our own way.=
=Some of the other burglars are just out for pleasure, but I swear we are not like that! The reason for moving the area of activity was that the Baron said they would subjugate us…… !=
Summarizing the stories of the thieves, the main reason for moving the area of activity to this place was to touch the direct line of the former local baron.
The thieves noticed that the target was a direct descendant of a baron, that is, the nobility of this world, and tried to let it go, but the novices, blinded by the sympathy, attacked them.
Of course, the Baron, whose family died, mobilized an army to pursue the Isilite bandits, and they escaped the pursuit by crossing the mountains and crossing the river to reach here.
‘That’s why the condition of the equipment was as good as that of thieves.’
Hwanin was sorry. He could have been a little vain.
I wondered if I would get a taste of human malice in this world……. It feels like something is leaking. Would you say that the resolution you had made so far has faded?
After calculating the situation, Hwanin sighed and pointed at the female thief who finally opened her mouth. She was a woman with a sword and shield.
=Yes, yes!=
The designated female thief wakes up with anticipation in her eyes. She unfolded her lowest-level doctrine to the woman.
From Hwanin’s point of view, he was just frightened by the mixture, and there was nothing wrong with him. So, stop using the placebo effect.
The female thief’s face gradually brightens as she feels her body become hotter and lighter after receiving her command.
When Hwanin silently motioned for her to get out of the way, her expression brightened even more.
=Thank you, Spirit Master! Thank you so much!!=
Then she darted out of the way. As Hwanin intended, it seemed that the reinforcing effect of the decree was accepted as something like a blessing of purification.
=…….=
=…….=
There was no visible change, but the thieves’ eyes became even more eager to see their colleague excitedly saying that his body was slightly heated and overflowing with energy.
Hwanin, who saw that, thought that the spirits might be people with a lot of swindlers.
Swindlers who use the fear of people who are afraid of confusion to satisfy their desire to rise.
‘I’ll have to look at other soul history to know for sure.’
Hwanin randomly selected 6 people out of 19 and spread the code, leaving the rest unattended.
It was to maintain the current situation with appropriate discrimination. If you give all 19 people a code and then suddenly get attacked, it can get in trouble.
In the meantime, Isilite, who had been searching for the Il’il flower, ignoring Brillit’s watch, could see the I’l’il flower crackling and burning as long as she got close.
Undoubtedly. Confusion clung to herself.
Why am I Why only me?
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to die and not go to God’s Garden just because she was herself. So I tried my best not to incur resentment, but why am I the only one who is confused while the others are fine?
Because I’m the boss of the thieves?
‘No!’
His subordinates will not treat him as the boss with mixed feelings attached to him. If you go back like this, 100% hypocrisy will happen.
No, they’ll be killed here and the corpse will be left there. And the subordinates will pick up a new boss and move to another area.
Look Even now, those who have been blessed are looking at the spirits with envy, but aren’t they glaring at themselves?
The unblessed are openly sending their own lives.
He himself is a duo. I’m confident I’ll hit those bastards, but if there’s a fight, the ones from far away will come in, and then the chances of dying are very high.
If I died, Isilite would be caught by Honjae and fall into the abyss, but Isilite hated that.
It was then.
Beep- Boom!
A red fireball soared into the sky, leaving a long tail, then exploded, spewing large amounts of red smoke.
Isilite gnashed her teeth at her men who had set off her emergency contact flares without permission.
= Kugal! What are you doing!!=
= What would you like? I called because I thought other colleagues should know about this situation.=
It’s been a while since I’ve been trembling at the behavior of a subordinate who doesn’t even treat himself as a boss.
Moments later, Isilite’s expression hardens as she sees seven thieves approaching on brown and straw colored Que, horses and camels.
=They seem to be the detached unit that Isilite said. There must have been a reason why you were so confident.=
Vehicles are not unified, but everyone is riding. The equipment is also at a slightly better level than other thieves.
The latecomers had expressions that did not understand what had happened, but their complexions hardened at the explanation of the thief who set off the flare and at the withered Illail flowers scattered around Isilite.
After that, the reaction was immediate.
A buffalo-headed man in a brown hoodie waved his massive horn and opened his mouth in a calm tone.
= Boss. We can’t have you as our boss any longer. I think you know why.=
=…… How much effort do you think I put into making the bandits grow this much? How many times have you escaped a crisis with your own strength? How many times have you guys saved your life with my knife! You’re going to forget all of that and throw me away?!=
= I still appreciate that. But you have mixed feelings. I can no longer follow those whose souls are dirty.=
=Damn it! Galtade, are you really going to come out like this!? Wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of the confusion!!=
As Isilite raises her greatsword and assumes her stance, the thugs on her mount draw their weapons in unison.
= How are you going to erase it? Are you thinking of making a request to that spirit master? I hope you will be kind to those who tried to rob you.=
=You just need to find another soul master!=
=Do not force yourself. The boss knows better that it’s realistically impossible.=
= Ugh…… !=
“I don’t want to get involved in the bandits’ internal affairs. I want you to clear the way for me to pass through like this.”
The atmosphere became threatening, but Hwanin did not express himself and opened his mouth calmly, and the thieves moved left and right in amazement.
“Let’s go.”
=Yes.=
=Where are you going? Even if I go, I have to clean up the confusion attached to me and go!!=
Issilite, who ran quickly and blocked the front of her wagon, glared at the Hwanin with her cold eyes and screamed again.
= It was written in mixed media anyway, so I’ve seen everything I’ve seen in my life! I know you’ll let me go quietly like this…… ?!=
Beep!!
Isilite, who was screaming with great excitement, saw her phantom pointing at her, and she was thrown out of her way with a great shock.
The thieves were also caught up in the shapeless, colorless explosion and were shocked to hear the boss bounce off without making a sound.
Isilite jumped up and screamed as her skin was torn and bleeding everywhere.
=What?!=
I’m sorry!!
=Keep!=
Isilite, who bounced off again, only then realized that the goddamn soul master had used his strength.
‘What? You said it was a soul mate. But what about this explosion? Sorceress?’
Isilite, who barely managed to fall thanks to her forced endurance, was terribly confused. She’s never heard of the Spirit Saga using these strange powers?
Isilite was startled at the sight of Hwanin pointing her finger at her again, so she raised her greatsword upside down and shrank, but no explosion occurred.
“Don’t block the road.”
The cold warning that came instead made Issilite unable to budge as if her feet were tied.
At Susa’s direction, the porters began distributing the weapons recovered from the bandits.
=Here is your weapon. I believe you will not come after us.=
= Now, wait! What shall we do!?=
=Soul Master! Spirit Master! I’ll give you all my money, so please clean it up! Help me!=
The bandits clamored for their weapons, chasing after the moving wagon. Seeing that, Susa’s porters screamed.
=Don’t chase me! Isn’t it because the Spirit Master didn’t purify it because he didn’t need it!=
= If you come closer, you will be in big trouble! Are you going to disrespect the Spirit Master?!=
Perhaps feeling threatened by the approaching thieves, the porters threw away the weapons while distributing them, and quickly climbed onto the wagon.
The speed of the wagon gradually increases.
The thieves were worried, but they believed the porter’s words and stopped following them. In fact, I was more afraid of the unknown disadvantage that would make me uncomfortable.
But Isilite couldn’t do that.
Scary. That spirit master’s emotionless voice, those black eyes that don’t know what to do, scare me. However, it is more terrifying to die and fall into the abyss after living with the mixture attached to it.
=…… Damn it! You bastard, get down!!=
=What, what are you doing?!=
= Fuck! Do you guys really want to die with me?! If you don’t want to be left behind, give me one in Que!!=
=…… Give it up.=
=…….=
The female thieves, whose greatswords were aimed at Galteid’s heavy orders, dismounted from Que with a puzzled expression.
Isilite, who seemed to have lost everything but her body in her sleep, climbed onto the Que, she said as she gnashed her teeth.
= It sucks, but I understand your bastards. I would have slit his neck if the guy with mixed feelings had done this shit. =
=…….=
= But shit is shit. Galtade, you are the next boss. And next time we meet, know that you will all die by my hands.=
Isilite, who left a threat that was not a threat with her bloody face, saw the wagon that was already far away and spurred her on to drive Que.
