Episode 45
“Okay, I got it.”
After hearing the whole story from Kang Jin-hyeok, Lucia immediately looked around to find Jeong Dae-yoon.
“A dinosaur pattern on the shoulder… … .”
Lucia, who was mumbling what she heard and moving her gaze around, belatedly realized one important fact.
“But what is a dinosaur?”
Coming from another world, she had no knowledge of dinosaurs.
It seems like a creature with a similar feel to a ‘dragon’.
The information given was too insufficient to imagine what it would look like.
Lucia was wondering if she should reconnect and ask, when she noticed a Hunter who stood out.
The hunter had a different symbol tattooed on his shoulder than the Titan’s. He was fighting hunters with the same symbol as himself.
“That’s the kid that Jinhyuk said he saved.”
At that time, Jeong Dae-yoon was in a critical situation.
“This fucking kid!”
“I wonder where you went, and you’re fighting with those Titans!!”
The Tyrant Hunters, who had the traitor right in front of them, rushed at Jeong Dae-yoon with fierce momentum.
Moreover, the Titan Hunters seem to be taking a step back, intending to use Jung Dae-yoon as bait rather than helping him.
Lucia was glad she found it before it was too late.
“Anyway, I don’t like what these Titans and all.”
Even if they belonged to different guilds, aren’t they fighting together now?
Judging from the way they tossed out such a person like a lizard’s tail, Titan could never be considered a proper organization.
Lucia drew her bow just before Tyrant’s blade fell on Jeong Dae-yoon.
For most people, it would have been quite late at the latest, but she was an exception.
For Lucia, the time needed to aim was only a fraction of a second, given while drawing the bowstring.
“Ugh!”
An arrow hit Tyrant right between the eyebrows as he was about to cut off Jeong Dae-yoon’s neck.
The remaining Tyrant Hunters also had no time to be surprised by the sight and were shot by arrows one after another.
Even though her abilities had increased significantly through Alaune’s powder, she was still just a target that moved a little faster to Lucia.
While Jeong Dae-yoon and the Titan Hunters were surprised by the sudden turn of events, Lucia came down from the tree.
And he approached Jeong Dae-yoon and relayed Kang Jin-hyeok’s words on his behalf.
“Now it’s the final stage.”
Jung Dae-yoon, who had been dazed for a moment, soon came to his senses and understood Lucia’s words.
“Aha. So you are the person that Kang Jin-hyeok was talking about.”
They say he’s a master of archery, and indeed he is.
Jung Dae-yoon was amazed by Lucia’s skills, which he had never seen before even within Tyrant.
“Nice to meet you. My name is Jeong Dae-yoon.”
“Okay, okay. Now that you’ve introduced yourself, you should hurry up and do what you have to do.”
“Haha… … . Okay.”
Lucia saw Jung Dae-yoon running and picked up her bow again.
The target she was aiming for was Ha Jin-hwan, the Tyrant Hunter who was facing off against Baek Jin-wook.
As Baek Jin-wook was running wild with Berserker’s skills, Ha Jin-hwan’s movements to counter him were also difficult to track with the naked eye.
Lucia quietly watched Ha Jin-hwan running around, trying to predict his actions.
Once she had a rough idea of where she would move, she pulled back the bowstring and fired an arrow without hesitation.
The arrow, flying through the strong wind, reached its target without a single error.
“Ugh!”
Ha Jin-hwan, whose ankle was pierced by an arrow, screamed and lost his balance.
It just so happened that he was dodging Baek Jin-wook’s axe at the time, so that brief moment of hesitation could only turn out to be a fatal defeat.
Baek Jin-wook instinctively recognized this as his chance and swung the axe with all his might, drawing a diagonal line.
“Euryaaaaah!”
As the thick blade of the axe passed from Ha Jin-hwan’s left shoulder to his right side, blood gushed out.
Ha Jin-hwan collapsed and died with his heart and other major organs torn in half.
After confirming his opponent’s death, Baek Jin-wook stuck the axe into the ground and roared toward the sky.
“Woooooooo!!”
The morale of the Titan Hunters rose as Baek Jin-wook loudly announced his victory.
The Titan Hunters have become more aggressive.
The Tyrant Hunters began to wander after losing their commander.
When these two situations came together, the battle changed in an instant.
“Kwaaak!”
“Ugh!”
After two of their comrades were pushed back and mortally wounded, only three were left on the Tyrant side.
Even if their abilities were boosted by Alaune’s potion, it was impossible for just three people to fight against over twenty hunters.
“Oh, what should I do?”
“What are you going to do!? I have to live first!”
“Fuck!”
The remaining Tyrant Hunters chose to retreat tactically.
Because they have stats that are more than doubled.
I believed that even if it was impossible to fight back, if I ran away with all my might, the Titan Hunters would not be able to catch up.
Han Yeong-seok noticed their plan and shouted urgently when the Tyrant Hunters suddenly turned their backs.
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“The guys are trying to escape! Don’t let them go!”
The day they escape and report to headquarters, war will break out immediately.
Now that the guild leader has gone abroad.
If a war broke out with the Tyrant, it was clear that the Titans would literally be destroyed.
“We must stop it!”
As if in response to Han Yeong-seok’s earnest cries, the skills fired by the Titan magicians decorated the sky.
But the Tyrant’s hunters had already moved.
If things continued like this, they would be out of range before the skill could even reach them.
Finally, Lucia, unable to stand it any longer, took up her bow again.
“These guys can’t do anything without me.”
Lucia took three arrows from her quiver and hung them on her bow.
Not one step at a time, but three steps at once.
At the same time, the arrows flew out in a fan shape and chased after the hunters who ran away in different directions.
Tyrant’s hunters ran faster than the wind, but even they could not avoid Lucia’s arrows.
All three hunters fell to the ground at the same moment, clutching their right thighs.
And then, as they fell down in the same exact manner as before, the skills that the magicians had sent down fell all at once on their heads.
Boom!
The sight of a huge pillar of fire rising with a loud roar was truly spectacular.
“There’s no need to go look for the body.”
The half-elf’s excellent eyesight clearly captured even the pieces of flesh flying in the pillar of fire.
Although it was something I saw often while living the life of an adventurer, it was not a pleasant sight.
Lucia, who didn’t want to be offended, turned her gaze and found Han Yeong-seok laughing and clapping.
“Hahahahahaha! Good job! Good job!”
The sight of someone laughing heartily without even realizing that they are spitting is nothing more than a piece of corpse.
It was equally embarrassing to look at.
Jeong Dae-yoon approached Han Yeong-seok, who was laughing, with a serious expression on his face.
“This is not the time for you to like it. Get out of here quickly!”
“What do you mean, evade? We need to investigate the building that the Tyrant guys are guarding right now!”
Han Yeong-seok was certain of the existence of the ‘Alune’s Powder’ and the sharp scream he had heard from the building a little while ago.
Alaune is hidden right in that building.
‘Maybe I’ve completed the welcome!’
Han Yeong-seok wanted to get his hands on the Alaune Welcome Plate at all costs, if nothing else.
Although it was prohibited because it was an item made through inhumane methods, there was no law that required it to be traded in a conspicuous place.
Just by selling them on the black market, it was possible to obtain an amount equivalent to five years’ worth of the guild’s budget.
“What are you guys doing!? Search the building now!”
“No!”
Jeong Dae-yoon stood with his arms spread wide, blocking the hunters who were trying to move.
“That crazy guy!”
Han Yeong-seok expressed his displeasure and grabbed Jeong Dae-yoon by the collar.
“Are you thinking of coming here now and saying we’re in the same guild!?”
“no!”
“Then why is it like this!”
“They say that the guild leader is coming from headquarters with reinforcements!”
“What, what?”
“If we delay, we may end up in an all-out war with the Tyrant!”
dump.
After hearing Jeong Dae-yoon’s words, Han Yeong-seok’s legs gave out and he sat down on the spot as if he were in his own living room.
“Ta, ta, the Tyrant Guildmaster is coming? How did you know?”
“They don’t know I’ve betrayed them yet, so I’ve just been given the order to stall for time until I get there.”
Han Yeong-seok held his head with both hands.
Tyrant’s guild leader, Jo Won-cheol.
He was a monster who was ranked 2nd in Korea among S-class hunters.
Even with Seo Sang-ho, he’s an opponent that would be pushed back, so how can he go up against less than 50 A-class hunters?
You have a better chance of survival if you carry a can of oil on your back and jump into the fire.
‘Are you lying?’
Han Yeong-seok looked at Jeong Dae-yoon with a glimmer of hope.
A face that is full of emotions and an anxious expression.
No matter how I looked at it, he didn’t look like someone lying.
‘No, but just in case!’
Han Yeong-seok expected a one-in-a-million case and chose the quickest members of the guild to scout out.
The guild members who went out on reconnaissance hid themselves secretly and ran in the direction that Jeong Dae-yoon had told them to.
As some time passed, Han Yeong-seok put his hands together in his heart and prayed.
Please, let it be a lie.
It was too cruel to come this far and return empty-handed.
While Han Yeong-seok was praying to all the gods, he received a call from the guild members who had gone out on a reconnaissance mission.
When he heard the reconnaissance report, Han Yeong-seok’s circuit of happiness that had been spinning was shattered in an instant.
‘Well, if Alaune’s welcome is really here, then that’s only natural… …!’
Maybe they came with the intention of killing us all in order to bury the truth about Alaune.
Jo Won-cheol was a person who could do that and still survive.
“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!!”
The stakes were too high to take the risk.
Han Yeong-seok did not want to lose everything in a moment of greed.
In the end, Han Yeong-seok bit his lip so hard that it bled.
It was a battle we won, but we have to leave without any spoils.
It was extremely unfair, but none of the Titan Hunters stepped forward to say they would persevere.
After hearing Jung Dae-yoon’s words that Jo Won-cheol was coming, there was no hunter here who could come forward with courage.
“What are you planning to do? Are you going to go with us?”
Jeong Dae-yoon shook his head at Han Yeong-seok’s question.
“I’ll stay here and think of an alibi.”
“An alibi?”
“If I disappear like this, it might be revealed that it was the Titans who did it. So I will stay and give a false report.”
“Are you saying you’re going to blame it on someone else?”
“Yes.”
Han Yeong-seok was greatly impressed when he heard Jeong Dae-yoon’s plan.
If I could blame someone else for this situation.
Not only could Titans avoid war, they could also target those they didn’t like.
Han Yeong-seok, who had come up with a brilliant idea, made a suggestion to Jeong Dae-yoon with a smile that clearly showed his true intentions.
“Then how about mentioning Kang Jin-hyeok’s name? He happens to be still in that building, so it would be easy to fool him.”
“… … I’ll think about it.”
“It’s definitely the most effective way. I’ll definitely look into it positively.”
Han Yeong-seok, who felt a sudden sense of loss, looked around belatedly.
Only after discovering Lucia far away did Han Yeong-seok let out a sigh of relief.
‘At that level, eavesdropping would have been impossible, right?’
Han Yeong-seok believed that the fact that Lucia did not fire the arrow right away was proof of that.
“Then I will only trust you.”
Han Yeong-seok showed his trust by patting Jeong Dae-yoon on the shoulder.
But deep down, I didn’t trust him at all.
The leader of the Tyrant Guild is not an idiot. How could he fall for such a lie?
‘It’s obvious they’ll try to find out the real story, whether it’s through torture or something.’
I don’t know how long Jeong Dae-yoon will last.
Since he was someone who had already betrayed his own guild once, he might have been able to get it out easily just by being pressured.
Han Yeong-seok thought that the best he could do in that short amount of time was to prepare for an all-out war.
‘The cause is ours anyway.’
As long as there are materials obtained from investigating the Tyrant branch and the hostages that were held captive.
The Titan could have thrown the Tyrant’s image into the abyss at any time.
Even if the Tyrants were to declare all-out war in anger, how much more could they do when public opinion turned against them?
‘I have to make a deal with that human before it’s too late.’
Han Yeong-seok continued to think of the S-class hunter who was working on the water mill.
If we can successfully recruit that Hunter, we can easily withstand the Tyrant.
They withstood the initial onslaught of Tyrant and used the opportunity to form an alliance with other guilds for a greater cause.
And the Titans take the lead in defeating the Tyrant, who has become a public enemy!
“Hehehehe.”
Han Yeong-seok imagined the numerous benefits that would be gained by disintegrating the Tyrant in mid-air.
Although he did not receive Alaune’s welcome, he gained an equally great benefit.
It would be foolish to be greedy and waste power here.
Han Yeong-seok consoled his regretful heart like that.
“We’re withdrawing here! Stop dawdling and get moving!”
To expedite the work, Han Yeong-seok and his guild members began a full-scale withdrawal operation.
I cleaned up the messy scene with my skills and removed as many traces of the Titan as possible.
The Titan Hunters had to run around without even having time to heal their wounds before Tyrant reinforcements arrived.
While the guild members were busy moving around, Han Yeong-seok approached Lucia, who was alone and in a remote place.
“Your colleague still seems to be stuck in the building. Did something happen?”
“I guess they’re looking through a treasure trove.”
When Lucia answered teasingly, using formal language that she never used, Han Yeong-seok’s expression distorted.
Han Yeong-seok felt like he was going to die from a stomachache when he thought that Kang Jin-hyeok had gotten his hands on Alaune’s welcome party.
‘I don’t know about anyone else, but why that guy… … !’
Kang Jin-hyeok was a thorn in Han Yeong-seok’s side, not only sending Ahn Do-yoon, who was being pushed by Han Yeong-seok, to the hospital, but also monopolizing the new type of monster.
It was never a pleasant thing for Han Yeong-seok to see someone like that obtain the Hwandan and become stronger.
‘No. Even if I get it, it’s certain that it will be taken away by Jo Won-cheol who will come soon.’
This is an item that permanently doubles your abilities.
If Jo Won-cheol finds out that someone took it, he will go to the ends of the earth to kill them.
Even though Kang Jin-hyeok showed off his strength as a C-class hunter, he was nothing but a snail in front of an S-class hunter.
Moreover, if you shift the blame to Kang Jin-hyeok as Jung Dae-yoon asked, it will be even harder to survive.
“Excessive greed invites trouble.”
“Now that I’ve given you some advice, let’s get back to what we were doing.”
“Tsk. You guys really stick together.”
Han Yeong-seok turned his back and left as if it was not worth listening to any more.
I wanted to bring him into the guild if possible because he had excellent archery skills.
Such an arrogant person is difficult to deal with and just causes headaches.
“Stay and die or not, do as you wish.”
As soon as the Titan guild members finished preparing to withdraw, Han Yeong-seok left the place.
Is this what they mean when they say something disappears in the blink of an eye?
As expected of seasoned hunters, they left no clues that could reveal their whereabouts.
Without testimony, no one would have thought that it was the Titans who did it.
In the middle of a vast rural plain without even a single convenience store, there was no sign of life, except for Jeong Dae-yoon and Lucia.
Jeong Dae-yoon looked around cautiously just in case.
After searching all the way into the forest, I confirmed that there was not a single trace of life left.
Jeong Dae-yoon burst out into laughter that he had been holding back.
