Chapter 74 – The Magic Bandits
Heo heo heo-
Ian ran without hesitation.
I ran and ran until a sweet smell came out of my mouth. Fortunately, his body, which had been trained through training with Seo-jun, was very efficient at climbing steep mountain trails. Maybe it was because he sometimes ran canter in the mountains.
Ian, who was running like that, was worried about the situation in the village.
Are Lily, Seojun hyung, parents, and the villagers all right…?
It wasn’t once or twice that he looked back with anxiety, wondering if he was already being wiped out by the bandits.
However, as his role was more important than anything else, it was a problem if he wasted time hesitating.
Heck heck-
After running, Ian leaned against a wooden pole to catch his breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and climbed the slope again.
But suddenly, the sound of cutting wind from somewhere was heard, and something snapped into the wooden pole Ian was leaning on.
“Heo-euk…! What, what…!”
Surprised, Ian quickly lowered his stance and looked at the tree stick.
It was an arrow He flew so fast that the feathered tip of his arrow quivered.
Ian sat with his back to the wooden pillar and glanced in the direction the arrow had come from.
Weeeeeaeaeae liquid-
Then an arrow flew again, and Ian quickly hid his body behind a wooden pole again.
Kwadeuk- There was the sound of an arrow being stabbed into a pillar. Ian’s shoulders trembled in surprise, as if an arrow had gone through his chest.
Someone was shooting arrows at him…! But who…?
Could it be the magic bandits? Or are they mercenaries…? Are you saying they were on the same team as the pirates…?
Ian listened to him, holding his breath.
It was so dark and so shady in the mountains at night that it would be difficult to know where he was unless he moved quickly.
However, I couldn’t stay still here for a hundred days and a thousand days. He had to reach De Jero to seek help.
Ian looked at the position of the moon and stars and determined his direction, ran and repeated his hide.
Midway through the middle of the day, arrows flew through the wind, but because of his agility, he was able to barely avoid it by moving with his back to the tree.
In the meantime, I heard someone rustling and approaching through the grass.
Ian paused momentarily—he hid himself in the thickly shaded bushes.
The rustle of the leaves—a bright, approaching sound, getting closer and closer. Ian held his breath and clutched at his heart thumping.
He didn’t have a proper weapon.
Before leaving, there was a dagger for slaughter that Seo-joon put in his bosom warning of danger.
You said that the mercenaries might be one… If it’s a gang, Ian will probably target you…
The shady eyes they looked at Lily were still vivid in my memory.
I couldn’t let those bastards dirty Lily and further harm the townsfolk.
Seo-joon said it might not be, but Ian somehow thought that his prediction was correct.
He listened to him and he never lost. That’s mostly what Ian has been through.
I don’t know who is shooting the arrow at him now, or who is sneaking up on him, but I can clearly see his intention to stop Ian from going to the next village.
Hook-
Someone passes by the bush right next to him.
Once again, he held his breath and waited.
“What···. I must have passed this way…”
Through the bushes, I could see the figure of the person who had followed Ian. The identity of that person was Shields, a female mercenary with long brown hair.
Shields stood with her hatchet drawn, as she watched Ian’s tracks.
Ian covered his mouth with the palm of his hand.
Seojun’s prediction was correct…
They were originally a team with the bandits…!
Shields searched her floor for signs and, unable to find anything, frowned at her and looked around her. Ian crouched down even further to avoid meeting her eyes, and put his hand over his muzzle.
Just in case, she put a lot of strength into his hand holding the butcher’s dagger. If she noticed Ian’s existence, he was going to run out and attack her right away.
However, someone else came up behind Shields.
“A kid?”
“I don’t know where she went. I’m sure there are traces up to this point…”
The person who revealed his identity through the bushes was Daryl, a mercenary archer.
Daryl swung his long beard and swept across the floor with his typical hunched posture.
“Well···?”
Then he turned his head towards the bushes where Ian was hiding.
“He hid around here…”
Ian held his breath.
However, Daryl continued to examine the floor and slowly approached. Ian held the dagger in his hand in reverse, and his toes trembled.
Coming. Gradually···.
Ian caught her trembling heart.
If he doesn’t kill, he will die this way.
As Seo-jun hyung said-, if you die, that’s not the end. His death will put Lily, her family, and the townspeople at risk.
In other words, Ian wasn’t the only one who would die if he didn’t kill. He will lose all his precious people…
Ian gritted his teeth and held out the tip of her knife little by little.
Daryl came a little closer. Ian swallowed his saliva and prepared for murder.
“Are you here…?”
Whee-ae-ae-aek-Kwajik-!
The moment Daryl spotted him, Ian grabbed the dagger and tried to run away.
But almost at the same time, an arrow from somewhere pierced Daryl’s temple.
The arrow went through his skull and came out of the opposite temple. His optic nerves twist and his eyes turn in all directions.
Dump···.
Daryl fell to the ground, his face buried in the dirt and intermittently shaking his limbs.
“This fucking…! What kind of bastard…!”
Shields, who had been following Daryl, was very flustered, brandishing a hatchet all around him and threatening him.
After stepping backwards like that, I stepped on Ian’s leg with his heel.
“Uh···?”
“Aaaaa!”
Ian was so flustered that he lunged at Shields with an angry scream.
The butcher’s dagger stabbed Shields in the back.
“Ahhhhh! This washpaaal…!”
Shields swallowed a scream and slammed his elbow on Ian’s back. Ian rolled on the floor in pain as his back snapped, but he was able to get up quickly.
This much pain was nothing because he had been beaten so badly by Seo-joon.
“You bastard…! I will kill you…!”
Whee-ae-ae-aek-Pak-!
“Aaaaa! It must be pretty…!”
Shields barely blocked the flying arrow with the back of his forearm.
The arrow was obviously aiming for the head. If it was enough to shoot an arrow directly at the head in this darkness, it was self-evident how good the archer was.
At least he was a more skilled archer than Daryl, who fell dead at his feet.
Shields stood with his back to the wooden pole in the direction the arrow had come from, and cursed at Ian.
“You bastard…! Stay there…! If you come close, I’ll kill you…! I said ah…!”
Ian held his breath and looked at the feather of the arrow stuck in Daryl’s head. The way the quilt was tied caught my eye.
It was definitely Lily’s or Booker’s arrow.
Convinced that the shooter was an ally, Ian pulled out a dagger from Daryl’s arms as he collapsed on the floor and cooled down. He then grabbed it and approached Shields.
Shields, who was nervous and sweating profusely looking around, noticed Ian sneaking up on him and held out the ax in her hand to him.
“Hey you bastard…! Oh, don’t come…! I told you not to come!”
Ian held out his dagger and stood up, as he had learned from Seojun. He never learned to wield a dagger, but his blade was short and black.
When Shields saw him getting into position, he knew he was going to fight after all, no matter what he said.
Gulp- Both of them were clearly nervous.
Shields broke out in a cold sweat while holding on to the child’s stabbed stomach.
The slightest movement of her blade cut her inside, so she grabbed the handle of the butcher’s dagger stuck in her stomach and pulled it out.
Blood was leaking out, but I was much better able to move now. She patted her wound with the palm of her hand and spat bloody saliva onto the dirt floor.
Then he glared at Ian and growled.
“Come on…! You bastard…!”
Ian flinched a little at the momentum she emitted, but it was insignificant compared to what Seo-joon occasionally emits to Ian, and he quickly regained his composure.
However, it was the first time he had directly stabbed a person’s skin, so Ian’s fingertips were shaking like an aspen tree.
Shields, who stood face to face with him, immediately noticed his condition.
For her, who had gone through all of her prenatal struggles, it was no task to split such a child’s head.
However, her problem was the existence of an archer aiming for her somewhere…
Kaak Tue…!
But again, this was the wrong time.
If that blond kid was used as a shield, even an archer would probably not be able to shoot an arrow recklessly…
While I was thinking about that, a blonde kid sneaked up on me.
Then, in an instant, he came running and stabbed again, aiming at her abdomen.
Write it…!
But Shields expected him to target the stomach.
The guy was a coward.
He can’t wield a sword in a person’s face. He did the same with his chest. Perhaps because she is a woman, she seemed to care.
To be considerate of a dogfight that kills and kills… There’s no such thing as funny-.
Shields gripped the knife-piercer’s wrist and pulled him inward, knocking him off balance.
I could barely avoid the knife tip stabbing my stomach by twisting my body to the side.
As if the basics were there, the focus was good, the tip of the knife persistently followed, and the lower belly was slightly cut, but that was the end.
“What…?”
I hit the hatchet down on the kid who had become defenseless in an instant and cut his thigh.
Write it down…!
Because the ax blade dug deeper than expected, the kid is agh-! And screamed. I was thinking of cutting off his thigh entirely, but he only got a cut because he dodged by a single edge.
Shields immediately put his forearm around the guy’s neck and aimed the axe at him.
“Put down the knife, you bastard…! Before cutting off the head…!”
The blond ass frightened and dropped her knife into the grass.
Shields dragged the kid out of the tree trunk.
“Yai-i-i, you bastard! Shoot it…! Shoot it ooh ooh ooh…!”
Shields looked up at the hill sideways. On top of it, there was a lot of thicket. He must be aiming a bow somewhere up there.
Just show what kind of bastard you are… He’ll come back later and split your head in half.
“Why···! I can’t shoot…? Can’t you shoot…? Haha…!”
Shields smiled boldly and continued to stomp sideways. As long as he hid behind the back of a large rock beside him, he could put aside the worry of arrows flying for a while.
But at that moment, an arrow came flying. Shields threw himself beside him in awe.
The arrow grazed Shields’ temple.
Shields, who was about to end up like Daryl, who died from an arrow stuck in his temple, crawled across the floor like a dog and ran toward the back of a rock. He missed the blonde kid he had been holding onto, but that didn’t matter.
Nettle liquid-
The arrow flew again. She ran with all her might, but the arrow pierced her thigh.
“Aaaaa! It’s a pretty little bastard…!”
Shields dragged his battered body and managed to hide behind the back of a rock. She immediately sat down on her floor and looked around her all winter, holding her breath.
The wound in her abdomen was closing, but her blood was leaking steadily. In addition, the arrows lodged in her thighs and forearms were lodged so deeply that they could not be pulled out.
All I had to do was break her shaft to avoid getting caught in her bush.
Breaking her tt-duk-tabs, Shields groaned outside her.
“You bastards…! If only the bandits come…! Anyway, you all are dead. Aah…!”
Heo heo heo-
Sweetness rose from her mouth.
Even if she crawled, she had to get out of this place.
It’s a pity that I couldn’t catch and kill that blonde bastard, but the most important thing was my life. Shouldn’t you live to take revenge or not?
Shields dragged her thighs up the slope again. To the place where the pirates are… At least if I could only get to where their voices could reach…!
“Heo-heo-heo-uh, where are you running to…!”
The one blocking her path was a blonde kid.
He clenched his thighs that were turning red, and in one hand he was clutching the dagger he had just dropped.
“I can never go!”
Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
Just like that, the two collided, exhaling in anger.
