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158 – Necromancer #1
“Ifrit..”
Elfriede, holding a short staff, recited a spell.
Then, a soccer ball-sized fireball appears in front of her face and quickly flies towards the gathered thieves.
Elfriede’s specialty was attack magic, a third-tier fireball.
Boom, boom!
“Oh, there’s a wizard! A wizard who uses fire! He can cast magic without even using long spells!”
“What the heck! This must have been a secret place! How did I not know!”
The thieves, who narrowly avoided the fireball, scattered in all directions and shouted.
“Chief! What should we do?”
Some of them were looking at me and asking for my opinion. As if they hadn’t missed that moment, Delphina pulled out a long, needle-like sword and sped toward me.
“You’re the boss! You’ve been dealing with a lot of big, black-haired guys lately!”
Wheeeeeek!
The sharp tip of the sword cuts through the air and flies towards the nape of my neck at a fierce speed.
Seeing him not hesitate at all to stab someone in the neck, it’s clear that there is no other natural killer worthy of being promoted to Silver Tier.
“Ugh, shit!”
I was barely able to avoid the attack by bending down.
Shake!
Delphina’s sword blade passes over my head, and I feel a faint heat as it passes over my hair. If I were to be stabbed by a sword like that, I would surely die without even being able to scream.
“Huh? Dodge my sword? You’re doing quite well, thief boss!”
Shh, shh.
Delphina continues to stab me with her sword.
“Don’t joke around, Delphina. I want to finish quickly and rest. Firefly -.”
And Elfriede, who sets fires here and there.
“Then, I will also recite the order.”
A nun in blue robes who begins to chant a strange spell.
Finally, there’s the taciturn female fighter who engages in a showdown with the thieves.
I don’t know what happened, but it was a do-or-die situation.
If I get caught by these guys now, there’s a high chance that I’ll be captured and branded as the leader of a thieves’ guild without being able to do anything.
Besides, would an excuse like ‘This is part of an undercover investigation…’ work? No, in this world where things are done haphazardly and in an uncivilized legal system, there’s no way I’d be able to get away with something like that.
“Disband, disband as ordered! As of today, the Thieves’ Guild Hydra is completely disbanded!”
At that moment, Big Joe, a huge man who was fighting the fighter, shouted loudly. The thieves scattered in all directions at that.
“Run away!”
“I knew you’d miss it, the order has already been completed. The law of the barrier is here!”
As the nun with the hoarse voice struck the floor with her stone staff, a bluish soap film spread from the floor.
Bubbling…
It soon expanded to a large size, completely enveloping us.
“Barrier! Barrier! What a barrier! This is just a barrier! I’ve seen it before in the rich man’s safe!”
“You shouldn’t look at it like that, with some cheap magic device.”
In an attempt to escape the barrier, the thieves swung their daggers. However, despite its appearance as a soft soap film, it was quite strong and could only stretch without breaking.
Oh, are all of these Svals going to be captured and punished?
When I’m panicking.
phut-!
A sharp sound rang in my ears, as if a balloon had been pricked with a needle. For some reason, the barrier itself had suddenly burst.
The one who showed up after that was Luna.
Luna shouts loudly, her thick Silence Totem heavily laden with semicircular protrusions.
“Thieves! We’re here too! Hassan, Hassan is here! We’re here to help! You guys, don’t even think about stealing!”
“My, my barrier technique…?”
“If I plant my enhanced silence totem, I won’t be able to move, even with a barrier!”
Luna’s Silent Totem is a great item that I finished the interior construction with the onyx I got last time. Its shape is just like a goblin’s club.
Indeed, if you put something like that in, nothing will be able to move.
“…Now is the time! Escape!”
The thieves quickly began to escape through the broken barrier.
“Damn it, they’re all running away! I have to catch you too!”
Delphina continued to stab me with her sword. I was barely able to avoid her attacks, but if I continued like this, there was a high chance that I would end up getting stabbed in the heart and die.
Blood.
When I see the guy’s sword pierce through the pillar like a bullet, I can easily imagine what will happen to my soft body.
This is exactly the kind of situation that the saying, “do or die” is used to describe.
It was at that very moment that I thought, “Should I really tell the truth that I am Hassan?”
Oh my god!
Something sharp flew from somewhere and crashed into Delphina’s body. Delphina stopped attacking me and raised her blade high to block it.
“Ugh! What the!?”
Kagagagagak..
There is a sharp, piercing sound of metal clashing with metal, and then something explodes with a “thud!”
“Oh my, it’s…black!”
Delphina growled in disbelief at what had flown towards her. Soon, Hippolyta, clad in red fluttering armor, appeared through the blazing flames.
The gold necklace around her neck flashes in the flames.
“No swindling. The Thieves’ Guild is mine, you country bumpkins of Calcutta.”
Hippolyte smiling confidently and Paranoy hiding behind her and shouting excitedly.
“A fearsome Gold Tier adventurer! It’s reassuring to be on the same side as you…! Well, I’ll be cheering you on from here…!”
Delphina opens her mouth as if indignant at the sight.
“Elphie! Do something about that guy! He chased me all the way here!”
“You’re chasing me? We were heading towards this place.”
“Ifrit!”
As Delphina and Hippolyte are arguing, Elfriede recites a short chant, and soon a large fireball grows near the girl’s face and blazes towards Hippolyte.
Whoosh whoosh.
If I got hit by that, it was clear that all the moisture in my body would evaporate in an instant.
“A fire spell of this magnitude in such a short time? Amazing.”
But Hippolyta cuts the fireball flying at her in two with her sword as if she were splitting a watermelon.
Boom, boom! Boom!
The fireball split into two exactly, bouncing off to Hippolyte’s left and right, each creating a large explosion and scorching the surrounding area with even more heat.
Flames burning everywhere and people screaming here and there.
There really is no hell.
“Fuck..”
Elfriede prepares to enter the palace once again with a short swearing. Hippolyte speaks to her.
“You are quite a strong wizard. But I suggest you stop. A fire wizard cannot defeat me. He will only make my blood run hotter.”
The one who attacked Hippolyta was a taciturn fighter in a China dress who had never opened her mouth before.
Pabat.
The left and right main branches stretch out neatly.
Hippolyta says it likewise, avoiding it without any frills from right to left.
“Is that a martial arts technique? Okay, I’ll deal with it in the same way.”
Hippolyte sheathed her sword in the sheath at her waist and confronted the man with her bare hands. The fighter took advantage of that brief moment to deliver a sharp roundhouse kick.
“It’s sharp. It has good form.”
Hippolyta, who just tilted her head back to avoid the high-altitude instep aimed at her face, clenched her fists and smiled, revealing her sharp fangs.
“Avoid it.”
As soon as he stretches his right hand forward, a quick straight punch is fired. I can only describe it as a real punch.
“…!”
The Silver Tier fighter raised his guard with both hands as if he thought he could not avoid the attack because it was very fast.
Pfft-! Tang, thud, bang!
But the taciturn fighter, despite defending himself, was sent flying low, bouncing off the ground before being slammed into the wall and falling down.
“I told you not to stop it, but to avoid it.”
“Coolook..”
“Lee, Lee Lee! I’ll recite a healing spell for you!
A woman dressed in blue shouted urgently at the sight of a blood-spitting fighter.
But in the meantime, Hippolyta, who had been kicking the floor, approached him at an invisible speed and struck him in the back of the neck with the blade of her hand, knocking him down.
Pot.
“–!”
The female monk cannot even scream, but just rolls her eyes back and foams at the mouth.
“Edwin!”
Seeing that, Delphina also turned her back on me and took a stance to attack Hippolyte.
“Damn, I never said it would be this strong! There’s no way the gap between Gold Tier and us can be this big!”
At those words, Hippolyte laughed quite leisurely in the midst of the flames.
“You frogs of Calcutta. Don’t you find the word hero too ridiculous? You wouldn’t be able to defeat that fool Actaeon.”
“Fuck -!”
I was surprised too.
Hippolyta is really damn strong.
I guess I also found the word hero funny.
Is that a gold tier adventurer?
I feel like my goal is somehow getting further away.
She would be noticeably weaker at night. Right now, she looks like someone who has no problem with leveling up. Is there a reason for that?
Anyway, it was fortunate that the attention directed at me had subsided. I quickly flew over and picked up my precious club, the Fear Smasher, that had fallen to the floor.
At that very moment, a prickly sensation ran down the back of my neck, as if a bee had stung me.
So I turned my head and saw Luna swinging a large bat at the fleeing thieves in the distance.
“The Voodoo of Catching Thieves-!!”
“What is he talking about! Someone, give him a break!”
“Be quiet!”
Because he was wearing a bone helmet, his expression was unreadable, but it seemed like his condition was not normal.
I don’t know if Luna’s signature madness has set in because there are fires burning everywhere.
“Hassan, where is Hassan! You wicked thieves!”
Phew, phew-!
Ruda continued swinging his huge bat from left to right, right to left. Just when one of the thieves’ leaders was about to get hit by his fearsome attacks,
“Ugh, uhh, someone help me up!”
“Hehehe, silent voodoo-!”
Phew, exactly.
Just as Luna was lifting the large bat, a rock flew from somewhere and hit the back of Luna’s helmet.
“Ugh!”
“Now is the time, get out of here!”
It was one of the leaders of another thieves’ guild who had not yet escaped. The guy threw a rock at Luna’s back of the head, claiming to be saving his comrade.
“Huh…..”
Luna, who was hit by it, falls to the floor and starts convulsing.
“Huhhhh..”
It was a big deal because Luna seemed to have lost consciousness. I pushed aside my complicated thoughts and decided to just tap Luna’s cheek to check for signs of a concussion.
For me, Luna’s health and safety are the most important things.
“Luna, Luna, wake up! Get a grip! Luna, wake up! If you lose consciousness in a place like this, you’ll be in big trouble!”
But no matter how much I shook her, Luna showed no signs of coming to her senses. She must have fainted from the unexpected attack.
It was at that very moment that I was thinking about feeling her wrist and giving her a massage to wake her up.
Swish.
A cold wind blows from somewhere and puts out the fires burning everywhere.
The feeling of the blood running cold throughout my body sent shivers down my spine and made my hair stand on end.
“The light went out…?”
The first to react was Hippolyte, who was dealing with Delphina. She clicked her tongue as she watched the flames around her begin to die down.
“Tch-.”
The second to react was Elfriede, a fairy sorceress who was collecting her unconscious comrades.
“The flame of my karma, is going out…?”
Elfriede said, as if she couldn’t believe that her flame was going out.
In fact, her flame was one that would not go out easily. I know that better than anyone else.
That’s why Elfriede’s magic was scary.
But all those sparks lose their power as if they were going out.
Moreover, this dark and wide space is filled with a strange chill, and the air begins to cool down.
Crackle, crackle…
It didn’t seem like a normal situation for ice to freeze over.
Is it possible that Lord Knox is about to appear?
So I took off Luna’s helmet and checked her face. There was no sign of that. What the hell, what the hell is going on? At that moment, I was panicking.
Swish.
Something that had been lying in the midst of this chaos raised itself.
Ugh, ugh..
It twisted its body grotesquely, making a sound as if its broken joints and bones were being forced back into place.
– Grrrrrrr…..
It was none other than Ismail.
Ismail, the leader of the thieves.
I must have stabbed the guy’s body with a dagger. I even completed the kill shot to make sure his pulse was completely cut off.
That guy just got up from his seat.
-Ugh….
Knock, knock.
When we saw the corpse rise up, bleeding, we all froze and did not say a word.
…Sval, why the hell is that kid getting up?
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