Episode 113
The moment to prove Lucia’s abilities came without waiting.
Lucia came out of the office and absentmindedly looked out the window and discovered something.
Seo Sang-ho, who was following her, flinched without realizing it when he saw the changed look in her eyes.
‘What? I was scared?’
Even though he wanted to deny it, the goosebumps on his arm proved what Seo Sang-ho had felt for a moment.
“Can I break that glass?”
Lucia’s sudden question caught Kang Jin-hyeok off guard.
Anyone would be surprised if they were suddenly asked whether it was okay to break the glass of a building.
“What’s going on all of a sudden?”
Lucia did not answer, but grabbed the bow on her back.
She decided that if she wasted time explaining, her goal might disappear.
Before the target, who had briefly appeared, could hide in the square, Lucia simultaneously pulled out her bow and arrow.
Pulling the bowstring and aiming at the target.
And the process of shooting the arrow was done in one go.
Even the most famous gunslinger in the West couldn’t shoot faster than her.
“crazy.”
Seo Sang-ho opened his eyes wide in shock when the arrow shot by Lucia passed through the glass.
There was only a hole in the glass where the arrow passed through. The entire glass did not break.
It was a fearsome arrow that concentrated all of its strength into one point without wasting any useless energy.
‘Is that possible with human power?’
While Seo Sang-ho was surprised, Lucia put the bow on her back with a calm expression as if nothing had happened.
“What on earth did you shoot?”
“There was a human looking this way while holding some strange equipment.”
“what?”
It wasn’t a good thing that surveillance was put in place so soon after the war.
Kang Jin-hyeok believed that Lucia could never have seen anything wrong.
“Which side?”
“Over there.”
Kang Jin-hyeok took out his cell phone and relayed to the guild members the location that Lucia was pointing to with her finger.
The guild members who received the contact selected those with quick feet and quickly sent them to the instructed location.
“Did you kill him?”
When Kang Jin-hyeok asked with a worried face, Lucia reacted unpleasantly.
“There’s no way I would do something so stupid.”
Lucia had been an adventurer for a long time and was very seasoned.
I knew full well that in a situation like this, it would be wiser to capture them alive and extract information rather than kill them.
“I aimed for the thigh. Your leg will be hurt, so it will be hard to walk, and if you don’t stop the bleeding, it will be dangerous, so you won’t be able to move rashly.”
Seo Sang-ho couldn’t help but be even more surprised after hearing Lucia’s words.
No matter how much he looked outside the window, he couldn’t find anyone there.
But Lucia not only shot it, she also marked the area she wanted to hit with the intention of capturing it alive.
If those words were really true, Lucia was definitely not an ordinary human being.
“Wait a minute, even if you hit the thigh, it’s useless if the opponent heals you with a potion.”
Seo Sang-ho’s point was valid.
If the opponent was holding even a high-level potion, shooting the thigh to stop their movement was a meaningless action.
It was better to just pull out the arrow and pour a potion to completely cure him, than to hit the vital point and kill him.
“The arrow you just shot can’t be cured with a potion.”
“Did you put poison on the arrow?”
“It’s more deadly than poison.”
Lucia smiled mischievously.
If someone who had been shot by an arrow saw this expression, they would feel like they had seen a ghost.
‘That guy Kang Jin-hyeok isn’t even surprised.’
Seo Sang-ho could guess that the two had been together for quite some time because Kang Jin-hyeok reacted in a familiar way.
‘Was that woman the one who caught the new type of monster that appeared in the sky? …?’
Seo Sang-ho never forgot the beam of light that had shot the new monster.
Until now, I thought it was Kang Jin-hyeok’s doing, but now that I think about it, Kang Jin-hyeok has never shown such a skill before.
If it was Lucia and not Kang Jinhyuk who caught the new monster, then it would make sense.
‘Where on earth did you meet such a monster?’
Seo Sang-ho knew that he would not hear the answer from his own mouth.
He was a person who hid his origins, so there was no way he would reveal such circumstances.
‘No, it’s too early to tell.’
It cannot be completely ruled out that it was a fabrication to create an impressive appearance.
Seo Sang-ho believed that Kang Jin-hyeok was not the type of person to do something like that, but Lucia disagreed.
[Bloodstains found!]
At that moment, the voice of a guild member coming from Kang Jin-hyeok’s cell phone stopped Seo Sang-ho’s thoughts.
“I really was there?”
Seo Sang-ho ended up revealing the fact that he had been unconsciously suspecting something.
Lucia didn’t miss that remark.
“You were suspicious of something as trivial as this?”
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“Ahem.”
Seo Sang-ho, whose true intentions had been revealed, did not make any excuses.
“What great skill.”
Even if it hurts your pride a little, you have to admit what needs to be admitted.
Seo Sang-ho honestly accepted his mistakes.
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‘fu*k! fu*k!’
The man, limping as he ran through the mountains, cursed inwardly.
‘All I have to do is just monitor it!’
When the man was instructed to do this by Park Sung-cheol, he was told that there was no need to fight as it was only a matter of observing the Pantheon’s movements.
Since it was Park Seong-cheol’s words, the man accepted them without any doubt.
But what is this?
The results I believed in were disastrous.
‘That damn old man! What the hell is a wise man doing!’
The man hid behind a tree and held his breath quietly.
I couldn’t get out of here even if I wanted to because of the arrow stuck in my leg.
‘Why won’t this arrow be pulled out?’
The man tried to pull the arrow with all his might.
But the arrow stuck in his thigh didn’t move at all.
The man was completely unaware that the aura in the arrow was holding it firmly in place at the wound.
“There’s blood here!”
The man was so startled by the voice he heard from the other side that he flinched.
‘I knew the chase was coming already.’
It hasn’t been that long since I was hit by an arrow.
Just counting the voices I could hear, there were at least five people.
I wouldn’t mind fighting one or two, but I didn’t have the confidence to fight five or six at the same time with my injured body.
‘We need to ask the guild for help quickly!’
The man quickly took his cell phone out of his pocket and contacted Park Sung-cheol.
Now that I’ve been caught, send me some support so I can escape.
There was no reply to the message sent with such earnestness.
Normally, even if I just uploaded a simple report, I would receive a confirmation message, but in this urgent situation, all I got was silence.
‘Is this X -footed baby now cut your tail?’
Park Sung-cheol, who did not want to clash head-on with Pantheon, chose to overcome the crisis by abandoning one person.
Although it was an efficient decision, it was an unacceptable decision for the person who became the victim.
‘I’ve been working so hard at the guild… …!’
I became Park Sung-cheol’s dog and took on all kinds of dirty work, and this is all I got as a result.
The man felt completely drained of energy due to the overwhelming sense of emptiness.
‘Park Sung-cheol, you son of a bitch! Do you think I’ll die easily here?!’
The man swore that he would definitely come back alive and stab you in the back of the head with a knife.
Thanks to that determination, the man was able to regain his energy.
‘shit!’
The man gave up on pulling out the arrow and poured the potion into the wound.
If you do this without pulling out the arrow, the muscles and blood vessels will become entangled with the arrow, making it very difficult to deal with later.
The surgery would be incredibly expensive and painful, as the arrow would have to be removed by cutting out the newly grown flesh.
But the man couldn’t hesitate any longer.
First of all, you have to survive now so that there will be tomorrow, right?
The man who had blocked his wounds with a potion got up and moved while making quiet footsteps.
“The blood trail ended here.”
“What, where did you go?”
The pursuing Pantheon hunters were thrown into confusion.
It was impossible to follow the blood trail any further as the man treated his wounds and ran away.
“Isn’t there anyone with tracking skills?”
“I just tried it, but it didn’t work.”
“A guy with stealth skills… …!”
As expected from Pantheon, the man had a skill tree optimized for stealth.
The path chosen to carry out Park Sung-cheol’s instructions became the lifeline that saved the man’s life.
“Still, we probably wouldn’t have gone far. Let’s split up and look for it again.”
The Pantheon Hunters nodded and split up to look for where the man might have run off to.
A man was watching the scene from not far away.
‘You idiots.’
Since they volunteered to divide the number of people so that they could be defeated individually, the man had no reason to hesitate.
If he could just deal with those five hunters chasing him, he could escape the crisis for now.
‘No matter how good a hunter is, if you cut off his balls once, he’s finished.’
The man took out a sharpened dagger and smiled wickedly.
Using your honed stealth skills, you can approach from behind and instantly cut off the carotid artery.
That simple and surefire method of killing was the solution that had kept the man from being caught by other hunters until now.
‘Okay, just keep walking.’
The man, targeting the weakest-looking character, waited quietly behind a rock.
Even if you erase your presence with a stealth skill, you can’t completely erase the sound of your footsteps.
To minimize the distance he had to approach, the man waited for the moment when the targeted hunter got closer to him.
As the man approached the desired location, he held his breath and slowly approached from behind.
‘One guy first!’
The man cheered in his heart and swung his dagger towards the hunter’s neck.
Ting!
He was clearly aiming for the back of his opponent’s neck, but all he could hear was the sound of metal clashing with metal.
The man looked at his hand to see what was happening and saw that the dagger he was holding had disappeared.
The dagger the man was holding lay in the grass right next to him.
“What, what!?”
The hunter, who was almost taken by surprise, was so startled that he lost his balance and fell to the ground.
It was the perfect time to kill, but the man couldn’t move.
He discovered the bow and its owner aimed at him from beyond the grass.
“This fu*king bitch… … !”
The person aiming the arrow was a beauty with dazzling blonde hair.
Although she was a woman of exceptional beauty that was enough to make one’s eyes roll back, the man was more interested in her arrows than her looks.
The arrow the woman had hung on the pole had the same shape as the one now embedded in her thigh.
“Did you like the arrow I gave you?”
Lucia smiled sweetly and pulled the protest back even further.
Even if I hid my body using my stealth skill, it was impossible to escape her gaze.
