Episode 255: We are taking over this place. (2)
The innkeeper looked at Giselle blankly. The knights and hunters all blinked, as if they had misheard.
When you come to an inn, you either have to rent it or leave it. What kind of reception do you mean?
Then, Jiselle clicked her tongue as if she was annoyed and said.
“What are you doing? Everyone, pack your bags quickly and leave the room.”
The innkeeper was shocked. What on earth does this guy know to do something like this? Is he doing this because there are too many of them? So he asked to confirm.
“You… … do you know who I am and yet you say such things?”
“I came to get a hotel room, why do I need to know that?”
“Pfft, puhhhhh! What the heck is this?”
The innkeeper burst into laughter. The hunters who were watching also held their stomachs and laughed.
“Are you crazy?”
“They seem to be newcomers, so we need to recognize our opponents and then move.”
“Hahahaha, sometimes there are people who are so ignorant of the ways of the world?”
Kaoru glanced around and asked Giselle.
“What are you doing now?”
“Well, I’m looking for a place to stay.”
“Are you now a full-time robber? Well, that suits you, but… … If you’re going to form a gang of robbers, wouldn’t it be better if you told me in advance so that I can prepare myself mentally?”
Kaoru was very talkative.
He was also known as a mad dog because of his bad temper and he caused a lot of accidents when he was working as a mercenary.
But even though the situation was bad, he did not commit robbery. It was a matter of manly pride.
I did put a bit of a burden on the client, but that was also customary.
Jiselle answered Kaor with an indifferent expression.
“Are you scared again?”
“I wasn’t scared!”
Kaor flared up again. Giselle chuckled and continued.
“These guys are all robbers too.”
“… … ?”
“This place isn’t a lawless zone for nothing. Originally, there was nothing here.”
“sure?”
“Someone started small and took it, and then someone else took it again. They kept taking from each other and growing it. Take a good look around here. Does this look like a normally run inn?”
Kaor and the knights looked around at those words. Inside the old building, which had a gloomy and eerie atmosphere, there were countless dried bloodstains everywhere.
Only then did Kaor narrow his eyes and nod.
‘You forbid murder?’
In principle, that’s true, but in practice, it’s not true. There’s no way that murder won’t happen in a place where all kinds of criminals gather. That’s impossible.
Officially, there are no dead people, but unofficially, there are probably quite a few dead people.
Knock knock, knock knock.
The knights stretched their bodies, bending their necks. The hunters around them had suspicious eyes.
The innkeeper laughed heartily, then looked at Giselle and said.
“10 gold per person.”
Jiselle also smiled and asked.
“Is that the accommodation fee? It’s too expensive? Are you trying to rip me off because I’m a foreigner?”
“No, the price of your lives.”
The innkeeper rang a small bell in front of him.
Tinkle, tinkle.
Then the sound of paper ringing was heard from the other side.
Tinkle, tinkle.
Soon the bell stopped ringing and a large number of hunters came down from the upper floor.
Rattling!
The door in the floor opened upwards and hunters crawled out from it as well. They were all holding weapons.
The innkeeper looked around at the hunters and said.
“Hey, hey. Just put those idiots away for now. If we kill this many people, the kingdom will have no choice but to intervene. Just make them half-crippled and send them out. Then they’ll either go home or starve to death. Oh, and take everything of value.”
Even in a lawless area, there are at least some rules. You don’t kill people unconditionally. There are frequent instances of taking things by force, but each force checks the other appropriately so that it doesn’t become excessive.
If all the hunters who can’t endure it leave, those who remain will also end up in danger.
So they lived by their own principles and maintained order. The kingdom only intervened in the worst cases.
However, people who run wild without knowing the ways of the world like this are usually punished under the guise of education. This is because setting an example is necessary to maintain discipline.
The hunters nodded and raised their clubs or clenched their fists. There were about 200 people gathered. The first floor of the large inn was full.
It was enough to make Aesong half-crippled.
As the hunters surrounded Giselle and the knights, the innkeeper spoke up.
“What do you think? You seem like a nobleman, but if you don’t want to leave a lifelong shame, why don’t you settle it with money? Or maybe we can just fight for once.”
The hunters here are those who have trained their skills through actual combat by hunting monsters. They are on a different level from ordinary soldiers.
Most of them were of the rank of semi-knight, and some of them used a little bit of mana.
Jiselle looked around at them and then snickered.
Kwaaaaang!
Then he grabbed the innkeeper’s head and slammed it against the wooden bar table.
The table was smashed and the innkeeper was knocked unconscious with his head cracked open. The hunters also stopped in their tracks due to the sudden attack.
Jiselle looked around and opened her mouth again.
“Huh? It hasn’t started yet?”
“Poohahahaha!”
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Kaor laughed loudly. It seemed that he knew why the lord had brought him here.
Now that I think about it, isn’t this the place that suits me best?
I think I wanted to emulate them because I spent time with good people in Yeongji. The inferiority complex and sense of entitlement that I originally had were further aggravated by their influence.
On second thought, I guess there was no need to do that.
‘A mad dog should live like a mad dog. There must be a role that suits a mad dog.’
There was no need to follow the pathetic good guys. Kaor had always been the one who openly said that ‘bad guys’ were the coolest.
He shouted, kicking the nearest hunter with his foot.
“Shit! Come at me, you little shi*s!”
The hunters came to their senses at the shout and rushed in.
“Take care of these kids!”
Phew!
As soon as the two sides joined forces, chaos began. Objects were broken without mercy.
The knights of Fenris also broke chairs and swung anything they could get their hands on. This kind of situation was very familiar to those who had been mercenaries.
Boom!
“Ugh! What are these guys?”
Despite being outnumbered, the Hunters began to fall behind, as the Knights could all use Mana.
However, the hunters who risked their lives to hunt countless times were not just taking it easy.
In between, the hunters who had learned mana blocked the knights’ attacks. Some of them would attack the knights while blocking the attacks or taking advantage of the gaps in the attacks of others.
Maybe it was because I often cooperated when hunting monsters, but the timing was amazing.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
That’s why the knights got hurt little by little, or fell and got stepped on.
And Giselle escaped from the melee and watched from a corner.
“Well, okay. This is also part of training. You can become friends with the hunters quickly.”
In any case, if you want to stay here for a long time, you need to make a name for yourself and establish a hierarchy. In Jiselle’s view, the current situation was a very good one, as it allowed her to build relationships and quickly secure an inn.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
“Hey, you little shi*s! Do you know where this is? Ugh!”
“I don’t know! You little shi*s! Just go away!”
The fight became increasingly heated as shouting and cursing continued.
Since I was fighting without using my blade, there were times when the guy who had fallen would get up again and attack me. So the fighting had to become even more violent.
One by one, more and more people began to break down and become unable to fight.
“Shit! I’m the best! Even inspiration can’t beat me!”
“What the hell are you talking about! I’m still young, you punk!”
The one who showed the best skills in this fight was Kaor. He really ran wild like a mad dog and beat up those who attacked him without mercy.
However, because he was attacked by hunters with decent skills, one of his eyes was slightly swollen and the back of his head was broken and bleeding.
Because it was difficult to kill or subdue them in one go without a sword, he had no choice but to allow multiple attacks.
However, he defeated the hunters one by one based on his unique venom and the skills he had accumulated over time.
Boom! Boom!
As they fought, their eyes could not help but roll back. Kaor’s eyes were increasingly emitting a wild murderous intent.
“Kwaaah!”
Kaor mercilessly trampled the fallen men and bit their necks. He did not hesitate when he saw an opportunity to break their limbs.
There was no mercy in his hands. It was the first time in a long while that he had reappeared, as was his old appearance when he was called a mad dog.
The hunters also started to back away as they got tired of his increasingly bloody and rampaging appearance.
“What the hell is this kid? He’s a real bad guy.”
“Are you sure they were all real knights?”
“Everyone, stand back! Let’s evacuate for now and regroup!”
The remaining hunters quickly ran towards the door.
The tide has already turned. The opponent is stronger than expected. In this case, the first thing you should do is run away.
But they couldn’t get out.
“You may have been free to come in, but you weren’t free to leave.”
Jiselle was standing at the door.
A hunter shouted.
“It’s just one guy! Just step on him and go!”
“What are you saying?”
Bam!
As Jiselle swung her fist, the hunter who was running towards her fell down with his neck twisted. He looked half dead as he was foaming at the mouth.
All the hunters who were running towards him stopped walking after seeing that move.
Behind them, Kaor and the knights, very angry, were approaching, grumbling.
50 in the back, one in the front.
One looked a bit weak, but I thought it would be faster to hit the front.
“Push!”
At the shout of one hunter, Jiselle snickered. At the same time, Jiselle’s fist flew towards the approaching hunters.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Hunters fell one after another as the sound rang out to the brisk beat. It was a punch with incredible timing.
Boom!
The last hunter to fall muttered without realizing it.
“Those freaking bastards… … .”
The inn was filled with heavy breathing and groans. Looking down at the floor filled with fallen hunters, Jiselle said.
“Is it worth doing?”
Kaor and the knights laughed. Their hair was disheveled and they looked quite unsightly, but their bodies were relaxed after a long fight.
These kinds of fistfights were definitely different from the swordfights on the battlefield. Since they didn’t see much blood, they were more like play to them. They could also sort out the rankings.
Jiselle looked around at everyone and smiled.
“This is our base now.”
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All the fallen hunters were thrown out of the inn. People couldn’t help but be surprised at the number.
It was natural, since nearly 200 hunters were piled up, all corpses dead.
Jiselle strode out of the inn and said.
“This place is ours now. You all understand, right? If you have any complaints, come back anytime. The accommodation fee is 100 gold per day.”
Nod nod.
The onlookers nodded.
Arnold, the innkeeper, was a man of considerable power and influence here. He had defeated and driven away all those hunters at once.
It is a place where power takes precedence over law. I couldn’t even think of opposing or challenging those powerful people.
“Arnold passed out with his head cracked? That guy was so easy to beat?”
“It looks like some idiots came. Is it okay?”
“But aren’t the new guys pretty strong? If we can negotiate well with Donkad, we’ll form a big force.”
There were few who had caused such a big accident and shown their skills as soon as they arrived. It seemed like they could establish their own territory in the fortress at this level.
The people who had gathered did not leave their seats. It was because of their curiosity about the powerful figures who had suddenly appeared.
Regardless, Giselle and the knights were busy cleaning the inn.
“Phew, it’s finally a little cleaner now. People shouldn’t live so dirty.”
Looking at the inn, which was cleaner than before, Jiselle smiled with satisfaction.
After cleaning up and resting for a day, Giselle called everyone together. Now that they had established a base, it was time to move quickly.
Jiselle looked around at everyone and said.
“Okay, now that we’ve secured the base, I’ll tell you exactly what we’re going to do here. Everyone, just move according to that goal.”
A knight asked him about that.
“Isn’t it enough to catch monsters and get their skins? Isn’t that what you came here for?”
“Yes, but our territory needs a lot of leather. I will return once we have settled in a bit, and you guys stay here and send the leather and by-products to the territory.”
The knights made sinister expressions. When the lord returns? We can just drink and have fun and catch some people. It really felt like we were out for fun.
So everyone shouted loudly.
“Yes! I will work hard and send it!”
Giselle also smiled pleasantly at the sight of her full of enthusiasm.
“I will also train you to improve your skills. If you hunt monsters, your skills will improve a lot.”
The knights snickered. I always feel this way, but the lord ignores us too much.
“My lord! I am a former mercenary. I have also caught quite a few monsters.”
“I’ve learned Mana, so how much will my skills improve if I just kill a few monsters?”
“Haven’t you been to the Demon Forest?”
Catching monsters every day doesn’t necessarily increase your skill. If that were possible, all hunters would have become sword masters.
Even though it’s called a life-threatening real battle, it’s still a real battle, but if you make one mistake, you’ll die before you can improve your skills.
The standard way to improve your skills is to consistently fight suitable opponents. This means that your skills won’t improve easily just by fighting monsters.
But Giselle had no intention of doing that.
“Of course, it won’t work if you just work hard. I’ll set a target amount for you so that you can practice.”
“… … How many is the target number?”
“Catch 100,000 of them within half a year.”
The knights’ faces turned pale at the absurd talk.
