30. When is the moment when you make darkness your friend?
When is the moment to make darkness your friend?
If this was the problem, the answer was easy.
A place you know well.
A place with a clear understanding of the terrain, like the front yard.
If possible, it would be better if it was a place where you lived until recently.
Just by vaguely seeing the surroundings, you will be able to determine the general location.
It would be better if it was a place that was extremely familiar, for example, used as a night training ground just yesterday.
That was the place Encred had reached now.
Originally, it would have been an unfamiliar place.
“This… … .”
Originally, I should have been surprised to see this.
“shit.”
Originally, I should have despaired the moment the scale of the enemy came into view.
This was not the case for Encred.
He’s already been here several times.
It wasn’t just that he came.
I rolled and rolled again.
We fought and fought again.
The number of people coming together changed slightly each time.
Still, the basic configuration was similar.
Andrew, the grumpy-looking soldier, Enri, and other squad members.
Among them, two squad members who were gangsters were of great help.
The place where we left Longari Grass Field in retrograde.
An unexpected scene unfolded before them.
Some of the squad members thought that since the escape route to the main base was blocked, this was the other way out.
Exactly, Enri thought that way.
He had a good sense of direction, as did a tough-looking soldier.
I didn’t become a plains hunter for nothing.
Enri thought that since the enemy had set up an ambush in the grass, this side might actually be empty.
His prediction was wrong.
That made me even more desperate.
Enri felt her legs giving out.
Grumbling.
The first thing I saw was a burning torch.
And then I saw a wide, thick cloth half blocking the light.
As soon as Enri saw that, she took a step back.
As I raised my head and expanded my field of vision, the shape of the structure that caught my eye was revealed.
It was a tent.
Why is there a tent here?
As I turned my head to the side, relying on the dim light, I saw a burning torch next to the tent.
Rows of perches all the way into the distance.
Even if I roughly counted the numbers, there were more than ten.
The gap between the perches was so wide that I could barely see the surroundings.
As the moonlight and the light of the torch intertwined, the view became clearer.
What they saw was a tent.
At least twenty tents were lined up along the side of the long grass field.
This is the opposite side from our camp.
So, the tent in front of you was the camp of the enemy, the Principality of Azpen.
“f*ck, what is this?”
The gangster-turned-soldier muttered instinctively, keeping his voice quiet.
“Huh, that’s where I came from.”
Enri opened her mouth in a defeated voice.
“Shh, quiet.”
At this moment, the grumpy-looking soldier reacted the fastest.
If you are discovered by the guards right now, a fight will break out.
If that happens, you will be killed in an instant.
In addition to the light from the perch, everyone could see several moving lights in the distance.
Everyone knew that it was a torch holding a guard without anyone telling them.
“Close your mouth.”
The grumpy-looking soldier spoke and looked around.
If you stumble, you die. In moments of crisis, the veteran’s experience is bound to shine.
He acted based on his own experience.
I lowered my posture and tried to detect the presence of guards.
Hide as much as possible, assess the situation, and then find an opening to escape to. If I was lucky, it might be possible.
It was night now, and although it was not his intention, he moved in a direction that was far from the enemy’s expectations.
Even though you are in the middle of the enemy camp, where you can touch the enemy’s tent if you stretch out your hand, there is still a chance to escape if you do not get caught.
He made that decision.
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If you come to your senses, you can survive even if you fall into the middle of a horde of monsters.
“Don’t pull out the blade and lower your posture.”
He acted as if he was the leader.
Most of the squad members followed his words.
Except only two.
Of course, one was Encred and the other was Andrew.
“You might have an idea. The squad leader is Encred.”
Has the hawk become medicine?
The guy who lost his squad leader in a fight this morning was the only one who took Encred’s side.
“Now is not the time to joke around.”
The grim-looking soldier bowed his back and turned his head back.
The voice was small, but contained the force of an animal growling.
He was anxious.
This is the middle of the enemy army.
It was a situation several times more dangerous than facing an enemy ambush in the tall grass field.
Even if the enemy’s spearhead were to come straight out from beyond this tent, there would be nothing to say.
What are you thinking in this situation?
The grumpy-looking soldier’s reaction was reasonable.
In fact, Encred thought the same thing as he looked at this soldier several times.
‘It’s not an average bet.’
Skills, experience, judgment and action.
Not all of them were at the level of ordinary soldiers.
If I wasn’t confident, if I didn’t repeat today.
It would have been right to make this man the squad leader and struggle.
But there was no need for that now.
The other squad members didn’t know, but the path to get here was all according to Encred’s intentions.
Time, location, place, everything.
How many nights have you already spent here?
How many lives have you thrown away?
How many times did you repeat today?
In the tent in front of me now, three dull soldiers are asleep.
There was still time to meet the soldiers patrolling the camp.
Encred acted because he knew everything.
Okay.
He pulled out his sword and tore the tent wall apart.
From bottom to top, the blade reflects the moonlight.
“You crazy bastard.”
The grim-looking soldier was scared.
And here Andrew reacted to Encred’s actions.
He entered the torn tent at once and plunged the tip of his shortsword into the neck of an enemy soldier who opened his eyes in surprise.
Sigh!
After that, Encred also ran in.
When I held the blade to the neck of the guy who was trying to wake up, the guy who woke up gasped in surprise and tried to grab the blade with his hand.
Encred pushed down the blade with force and slit his throat.
Buuuk.
There was a sound like leather being torn, and soon the smell of blood filled the tent.
The last enemy soldier, a gangster-turned-squad member, stuck a dagger in his heart.
“Kruk, kruk play.”
The man who had been stabbed in the heart crawled on the floor and stretched out his hand.
He was a man with strong vitality.
The light coming from the tent entrance illuminated the head of the enemy soldier who had reached out.
And a black shadow appeared above it.
He is a tough-looking soldier.
He pressed his knee against the enemy soldier’s back and grabbed his neck with his hand, twisting it.
Wow.
The enemy soldier with a broken neck died with his tongue sticking out.
“Hey you.”
In the darkness, the grim-looking soldier’s eyes glowed brightly.
He glared at Encred.
We were lucky, otherwise we would have been surrounded and annihilated right in the middle of enemy territory.
This was truly like gambling.
That’s how he saw it.
“Move sideways.”
Encred ignored that look.
Before he could say anything, he extended his sword.
“Hey, you crazy bastard.”
The grim-looking soldier spoke in a low voice.
I felt desperate frustration and anger.
Because in his opinion, it was absolutely crazy.
Encred only turned his head back as he tore and cut the side of the tent with his sword.
He didn’t seem to have the slightest worry about what would happen to him behind his back.
Even though you live like this?
Even though they were only charging into enemy territory with a patrol force, everyone looked at them as a violent atmosphere passed between them as if lightning had struck.
“name is?”
“what?”
“Your name.”
Is it because of Encred’s calm attitude?
Is it because of the boldness of not reacting to living?
In response to Encred’s question as he held the sword and lowered it, the grim-looking soldier obediently opened his mouth.
“Call me Mac.”
Even as he spoke, he did not give up his life. Encred said, withdrawing his gaze from the soldier.
“Mac, I will not accept any complaints.”
“what?”
Bu-wook.
Encred tore the tent wall apart.
There was only one option for those remaining.
I have no choice but to follow behind him.
“Whew, what is it really?”
Mac muttered to himself and made eye contact with Andrew.
“Yes, I’m going.”
Mac responded to that look.
For now, this is a plan that needs to be followed.
The barracks next to it were empty.
It seemed like all the soldiers in the barracks were on night guard duty somewhere.
‘Does that make sense?’
The tent is large enough to accommodate at least ten people.
It is the minimum squad unit.
If you overdo it, two squads of troops could stay there.
In fact, if you look at the traces inside the tent, there were traces of more than ten people.
“from now on.”
After passing through the tent, the troublemaker squad leader did not even tear down the tent wall.
He sticks his head out to the entrance of the tent, looks left and right, and then leaps forward.
The squad members followed.
Before I knew it, clouds had gathered and blocked the moonlight.
Then, it was not easy to see the surroundings with just the light from the perch.
Even though I blinked several times and tried to adjust to the night, it was still dark.
Encred went to that place without hesitation.
There was no sound other than the breathing of the squad members following him.
“this way.”
A voice rings out in the darkness. It’s not a very small voice.
If there are enemies nearby, the noise is loud enough to be heard.
Mac felt goosebumps rising on his back.
‘That bastard is real.’
But there is no sign of it. There was no movement of the enemy that could not be detected.
If I had found it, I would have immediately been asked who it was.
Encred moved again.
Now even Mac had trouble telling his direction.
Since the sun was high above my head in the tall grass, I had no problem looking in the direction, but now it’s dark everywhere.
‘What do you know before going?’
Yes, it seemed. There seemed to be no hesitation in Encred’s steps.
He moved, stopping only when he saw a tent with two perches in the distance.
Encrud used a suitable tree towering in front as cover and gestured towards the back.
I could barely see his hand gestures with my eyes adjusted to the darkness.
Mac felt like he was possessed.
‘How long did we walk?’
I don’t know exactly. However, when estimating the size of the camp based on the number of tents.
‘I think it penetrated?’
It seemed like I had walked enough to penetrate enemy territory.
But no one knows? Why isn’t this happening?
So it was natural to feel possessed by a ghost.
“Wait here.”
Encred turned back and said.
It was a whispering voice.
I took a quick look at the tent he was talking about, and saw that there were four soldiers guarding it.
The enemy’s camp was strangely quiet even at night, but that tent seemed crowded.
Whiing.
As the wind blew and the light on the perch swayed, the soldier’s shadow moved around.
Then I saw someone come out from inside the tent and say something.
Because of the distance, I couldn’t hear the voice properly, but I could see the soldier who heard it nod his head.
‘What are you protecting?’
So, is that what the troublemaker squad leader was looking for?
Only then did Mac understand the situation. No, you guessed it. Suddenly, a thought crossed his mind and took root in his mind.
‘It was a secret mission.’
A mission given only to the troublemaker squad leader, excluding himself and other squad members.
That’s how much he must have gained the commander’s trust.
Mac recalled what Andrew had said.
It was said that the accident-prone squad leader had joined at the direction of the company commander.
Now everything is aligned.
Encred, the squad leader was carrying out a secret mission.
‘Was it something like that?’
It was a misunderstanding.
Mac had a small realization, but he didn’t say it out loud.
And even if Encred knew that this misunderstanding had occurred, he would not have bothered to explain further.
Because there was more urgent work to do right away.
“We set fire to that barracks.”
Encred raised a finger.
It was a barracks guarded by four soldiers only at the front.
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