Episode 668
Lee Han cursed inwardly, but from his friends’ perspective, it was something that could not be helped.
The hunters asked, ‘Can you do that too?’ You can’t lie and say ‘Yes!’
After landing, the hunters tied up the poachers and took their equipment.
“Keep walking east. “If you look back, I will shoot you.”
“Please, if you give me back the armor…”
“no.”
Lee Han agreed with the firmness of the nameless hunters.
Although it may seem excessive to take away other equipment, even weapons, the empire’s poachers were as persistent and mean-spirited as their prey.
To put it bluntly, wouldn’t he be able to hide other weapons around here and then go back to poaching?
I have to get rid of all my equipment and go down the mountain crying and eating mustard…
“The poachers’ equipment is unlucky and should be thrown away.”
“……”
For a superstitious reason that was different from what he had thought, Lee Han was speechless and had a shocked expression on his face.
‘hmm. Still, the result is the same.’
Lee Han thought he should stop observing the hunters’ work and set up camp.
From earlier, whenever the hunters looked at Lee Han, they were trying to hide their faces with their coats.
I don’t know what this tradition means, but it didn’t feel very good.
“Perhaps this person thinks you will use the petrification curse?”
Vonrigg purred and nodded in agreement.
The basilisk also tapped its wrist with its tail as if to tell it not to worry.
‘Isn’t it because of these two?’
Lee Han looked at the two with slightly suspicious eyes, but did not say anything.
They were both pretty narrow-minded guys, so if they started talking, they might get upset.
“Let’s prepare the camp.”
Hearing Lee Han’s words, Yoner tied up his hair and called his friends.
It was to share the work.
“First of all, the wall…”
“I’ll do it.”
“The pit in front is…”
“I dig it.”
“Securing drinking water is…”
“I will make it.”
Yoner glanced at Ihan. Lee Han became embarrassed and asked.
“Did you take on a little too much?”
“If you take three out of three, it’s not much. Anyway, Lee Han, be quiet now. “I’m going to make lights too…”
“oh. “I think it would be better for me to do that.”
Yoner gestured to Sianna and Durgyu. The two dragged Lee Han out.
“He just used a lot of magic, so let’s just do it ourselves.”
“It would be better that way.”
In response to Siana’s answer, Gainando asked in an anxious voice.
“But what if it’s worse than the campsite Lee Han created?”
“Then you go outside and sleep.”
“…Now that I think about it, it’s okay if it’s a bit bad. “You don’t have to make the camp perfect!”
Two hours later.
After completing the campsite (Lee Han also sneaked out along the way to help his friends), the students checked the surroundings.
“got it? Mountain ranges are basically dangerous places. “Even if you make a camp like this, you never know what kind of monsters might creep in.”
As expected from a hunter background, Nilia pointed out harshly.
However, despite my criticism, my friends did not seem that worried.
The defense of the completed camp was stronger than expected.
A moat to prevent wild animals from approaching, herbs to repel them, an alarm spell to prepare for an unexpected attack on the main gate of the camp, a wooden wall at the camp with a wind-proof spell…
Nilia, who noticed her friends’ carelessness, spoke strongly.
“The mountains are a more dangerous place than Einrogard!”
“omg!”
Only then did the friends check the surroundings of the campsite with nervous expressions.
Professor Lightning Step and the hunters have set out to check the area nearby.
Explorer Frostwalk would only check the back waterfall area and return soon, but at least he had to make sure to check it out by then.
Lee Han rode a phone rig and wandered around the fortress. Nilia looked puzzled at that and asked.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m covering up the scent of the gryphon in case monsters come. “For weak monsters, this is enough.”
“……”
Nilia looked down at her palms.
Just now, I was working hard to clear away bushes and break tree branches to block the path for snake-type monsters to enter…
When I thought about it, there was a better way.
“Could you please lend me a basilisk?”
In response to Nylia’s question, the baby basilisk writhed as if it absolutely hated it.
* * *
“Did you smell the wyvern?”
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At the words of Professor Lightning Walk, an unnamed hunter put his hand to his mouth.
It was a signal to turn down the sound.
“Are there a lot of monsters?”
Professor Lightning Walk accepted the advice and lowered his voice.
The empire’s mountain ranges were dangerous for various reasons, and there were many things to be careful about.
In the case of the Vuitton Mountains, we had to be extremely careful about sound from the section beyond the middle point.
You need to be careful as there are many monsters that react to sound.
It was still at the entrance to the mountain range, but judging from the nameless hunters telling us to keep the noise down, it seemed like a lot of monsters from deep inside had come out.
“no. professor. “That friend has a tradition of keeping silent while hiking on even-numbered days.”
“……”
Professor Lightning Walk looked annoyed.
The nameless hunters were certainly excellent people, but their dozens of superstitions irritated people.
“I think it smells like a wyvern. “Monsters don’t approach.”
“Even though it was stolen like that, there is nothing we can do. “I’ll just have to hope that time will solve the problem.”
The wyvern’s scent prevented other monsters from approaching.
Even the approach of a unicorn.
So, instead of leaving the wyvern at the camp, they tied it down below, and the professor and hunters attempted to steal it with an alchemist’s potion…
And yet, there is still a faint smell lingering. Wyverns were not ordinary monsters either.
“Let’s go around a little longer until the smell of the mountain range naturally dissipates.”
“Are the students going to be okay?”
To Ranger Mrangse’s question, Professor Lightning Walk answered as if there was nothing to worry about.
“It’s okay, there’s nothing to worry about.”
“Well, there’s also Mr. Frostwalk…”
“ah. that’s right. “He is there too.”
“……”
Mranse was taken aback by the sight of the lightning-walking professor who belatedly remembered his relative.
So what did you just believe and say it was okay?
“It seems like the Einrogard students are really trustworthy. Well, one of my friends is a guy named Geuse. They say that Einrogard students are amazing. “The first-year students stacked several enchantments and destroyed the rock…”
“I guess he was making fun of you? “No matter how great the first-year students at Einrogard are, they are not at that level.”
“Is that so? No, he’s not that kind of friend…”
“Anyway, the Einrogard students will be fine. “There are also trustworthy guys.”
The nameless hunters began to whisper.
Even without listening, it was obvious who was talking, so the lightning-walking professor spoke as if he was annoyed.
“I tamed the griffon and basilisk by accident! “There is no need to worry about strange superstitions.”
“Basilisk?”
‘Oops.’
The lightning-walking professor thought it was a mistake.
When I think about it, hunters only knew about taming griffons, but they didn’t know about taming basilisks.
The nameless hunters were whispering like crazy. Mranse was worried that boys from the Wardanaz family would be banned from entering some mountain ranges in the empire.
“There are more poachers than you think. professor.”
An unnamed hunter who had gone out to scout returned and reported with a serious look on his face.
“Is it that much?”
“exactly. It seems like the rumor about the unicorn has spread a lot. “I saw three groups of them wandering around here right now.”
Mranse looked worried at those words.
Even if you can find the unicorn quickly, you end up wasting your time because of poachers.
Still, I couldn’t help it.
Among the proverbs of the wasteland stargazers was this:
Sometimes the way back is the fastest way.
“Let’s go to the campsite first. Catch all the poachers first…”
“huh? are you okay. First, let’s check the area first. “Keep in mind that the wyvern smell hasn’t completely disappeared yet…”
“Gyo, professor. “I know you want to find a unicorn, but I heard there are three groups of poachers.”
Mranse was taken aback.
The poachers were not simple, stupid bandits.
If you fight head-on with the Einroguard students, you will naturally be unable to break through the magical storm and be destroyed in six pieces, but if the poachers discover the camp, they will naturally use a cunning plan.
Moreover, since some time had passed since the previous flight, rumors could have spread among the poachers about the type of group that had newly entered the mountains. Then the students were even more at risk.
Isn’t there anything more threatening than a hunter who knows his prey well?
“I heard it, it’s okay. ruler. let’s go.”
“Oh, no…!”
“I said it’s okay. Everyone move! “If you think about the time we will be disturbed by the poachers, we have to move faster!”
* * *
Poacher Zulvan was an experienced hunter in several mountain ranges, including the Vuitton Mountains.
In fact, a good poacher could only be a good hunter.
How can you not excel at sneaking into the mountains to avoid the Empire’s guards, capturing forbidden monsters, and bringing them back?
As such, Julvan also had excellent hunting skills.
However, Zulvan had an ability that other hunters did not have: sociability.
For most hunters, the only social activity they did was taking the animals they had caught to villages or cities down the mountain and selling them.
But Julban was different.
Zulvan knew how to meet and make deals with merchants looking for banned monsters in the city, and he knew how to go to nobles who urgently needed the monsters and win their favor, and he also knew how to lure wandering mercenaries and adventurers into working under him.
It was no exaggeration to say that poachers of this scale were almost a group of thieves.
“Explorers arrived with hunters and wizards?”
“We’ve already set up camp!”
“I can never give up a unicorn…”
Zulvan sighed.
There was not just one customer looking for Unicorn right now. As long as you save the unicorn, you will have enough gold to retire.
‘But I’m reluctant to clash with wizards…’
“You don’t have to worry. Julban! “There are people who came after seeing the campsite, and they are all young people.”
“Is that really true!”
“There aren’t even any hunters at camp right now.”
“!”
It was such a good opportunity that for a moment I thought it was a trick.
But when I thought about it, it was nonsense. Who would come looking for a unicorn and set up a trap like that?
“I will check it myself.”
Zulvan climbed up a distant rock and checked the campsite.
It was a well-made camp, as if to show off the presence of wizards, but as the subordinates said, there were definitely gaps.
Unlike hunters, wizards were often geniuses who were active even at a relatively young age.
It was natural as all you had to do was know how to use magic, but to experienced poachers like Zulvan, it just seemed like prey.
“good! I’m going to subdue them. “He’s a wizard, so the ransom should be fine!”
* * *
“You have to endure it.”
Lee Han comforted Vonrig when he became angry after entering the temporary stable at the camp.
After the smell was all over the surrounding area, Lee Han quietly put the phone rig into the stable.
It is said that unicorns do not mind the smell of griffons, but it was unclear how they would react if they saw a griffon in the presence.
Ponrig protested, ‘Are you treating me the same way as a unicorn avoiding lowly creatures like wyverns?’, but it did not reach Lee Han.
It’s already annoying because someone keeps looking at me from afar…!
“Someone keeps looking at me? Probably poachers. don’t worry. Unless you go crazy, you won’t come near me.”
-Are you, by any chance, wizards?
“!”
Lee Han was startled by a voice coming from outside and climbed up the watchtower.
And then he immediately cast the spell.
Let’s go!
