Episode 109
The Nymphs and Pluto’s Underground Labyrinth
109 ? Nymph Cult and Pluto’s Underground Labyrinth #7
“It’s true, it really was just as you said, hyung! There was an expensive-looking carriage! Wow, I’m lucky!”
“It wasn’t luck, it was my faith that was answered. It hit me like a revelation. Jodya, get up from your seat and go to the plains- like this!”
“What kind of person is there who doesn’t even pray?”
As I picked up my weapon and went out of the carriage, I saw about ten men surrounding the carriage.
Most of them had dirty, unkempt hair and beards, and were dressed in old leather clothes and armed with long swords and maces.
If I had to describe their appearance, I would say they are vagabonds carrying swords and clubs.
To sum it up in one word, it’s truly a bunch of thieves.
Among them, a man holding two rather fancy swords in each hand shouted with his eyes gleaming.
“Don’t damage the horse and carriage! You can make a lot of money by selling them again!”
“Brother, what should we do about the groom?”
“What are you asking? Will it take a day or two? I don’t need anything else except horses and carriages!”
“Shippal, if you don’t ask, they’ll yell at you for acting so selfishly. It’s fucking absurd.”
From what I’ve heard the bandits talking to each other, the man with the twin swords seems to be the leader of this group.
Looking at the fact that he’s leading a group of ten, not three or four, I wonder if he’s a guy with quite a reputation around here?
It’s a bit overwhelming for me to lead a party of five subalterns. How am I supposed to be the leader of ten thieving brats?
With that thought in mind, I was slightly increasing the risk to the bandit leader.
Dwarf Didier, who was standing next to me, wielding a double-edged axe and aiming at the bandits, spoke to me in a quiet voice.
“Party leader, what are you going to do? Are you going to abandon the carriage and run away? Those guys seem to be targeting the carriage. There are too many of them to deal with.”
Didier’s opinion was absolutely correct.
About ten armed men. I don’t know their individual skills, but they seemed to be experienced bandits, so it was clear that they would be ahead of us in terms of tactics and combat power.
I feel sorry for the coachman, but wouldn’t it be wiser to just abandon the carriage and run away? Of course, it’s uncertain whether they’ll let us go without a fight.
How could there be no way?
“Icicle!”
At that moment, a loud voice burst out from Belmina, who was standing behind Didier and me.
Soon, something strange and crystal-like began to form in the air.
Pfft. Pushyaaaaaaah.
Didn’t it fly like an arrow and hit the necks of two thieves, spurting blood?
“Fuck, shit, it’s a wizard!”
“There is a wizard among the passengers in the carriage!”
The thieves looked bewildered as they saw their two comrades being killed in an instant. But that was only for a moment.
“Fuck, it’s gonna take a while until the next spell! Get rid of them all before I recite the spell! The longer we waste, the worse it’ll be for us!”
As soon as the leader of the twin sword bandits roared, the bandits began to charge at us with their swords drawn like well-trained soldiers.
“Fuck, Didier! Save the girls!”
“Okay!”
My eyes caught sight of the thieves, the one who rushed at me first.
“Savage! Come here, let me see your skills!”
A bald thief of similar size to me, with well-nourished health for a thief, and with tanned muscles that looked quite firm under his torn leather clothes.
“Your clothes are crocodile skin? Your body type is similar and it seems like it would fit me perfectly! Hehe, I’ll take the skin off!”
Indeed, it seems that the reason he targeted me was because we were the same size. It would be hard to find clothes that fit someone of my size.
Phew.
The bald guy ran across the dry ground, swinging his longsword without any hesitation or cunning.
An attack that is pushed forward with such force that it is more like a beast slamming its forelegs down than it is like swinging a sword.
However, the tempo was faster than I expected. So rather than avoiding it, I chose to block the attack by raising the club above my head.
Kwajik!
Then the guy’s long sword got stuck in my thick club without cutting through it completely. There was a brief shock to my wrist and elbow, but it was bearable.
“What the heck? It’s stuck!”
The bald robber trembled and seemed to be trying to pull out his weapon, perhaps not expecting it to be blocked.
Then, without missing that gap, I kicked my foot with all my might and hit the bastard in the stomach.
“Ugh!”
A bald kid lets out a ragged breath as his toe gets stuck in his chin. If it were anyone else, he would have fallen down and screamed.
“Ugh-.”
Even though he was in a lot of pain, he didn’t fall over, so he must be worth his size. I swung my longsword-embedded club with all my might at the low-crouching man’s head.
Boom! Thump!
“Ugh!”
The longsword is pulled out with a sharp impact and flies away. Then, he strikes the head of the large, flinching thief again.
Bam-!
With a cracking sound, the large, bulky thief fell to the ground without moving an inch.
Subal, I can’t believe I subdued a thief of the same weight class with just a few moves! I was happy about that, but I still had a lot of bastards to deal with, so I’ll postpone getting too emotional until next time.
“Hey, hey, what the hell, why isn’t this thing breaking!”
“Try hitting it with more force!”
“Fuck, fuck, come out here you bitch! Come out here!”
Bang, bang!
A sharp, painful cracking sound continued to be heard, as if someone was hitting a thin metal plate with a hammer.
Turning my head in excitement, I saw Velmina trapped in some strange ice-like thing, and thieves swinging swords and clubs to break it.
“Hee, heeeek!”
The scream heard at that moment.
“Wow, I never thought I’d meet a nymph again in this day and age. She looks so soft.”
“Come near and I will curse you! I warned you!”
“Hehe, what’s this? A strange pink-haired girl. She doesn’t look like the type of adventurer who would roll around in a field of dirt. Did she come out to pick flowers or something?”
We see Paranoy trembling in fear, and Luna holding an ominous obsidian dagger in front of him.
A situation where defenseless women are exposed to armed robbers? I can’t help but have a bad feeling about it.
What happened to Dwarf Didier? Didn’t he tell you to guard the women?
When you are rolling your eyes so quickly to grasp the situation.
“Hey!”
We were able to capture Didier wielding a giant double-edged axe and fighting the bandit leader. That bastard, I told him to protect the women, but why is he fighting the bandit leader?
But I didn’t have enough time to feel such doubts. I stopped thinking and kicked the ground with all my might and ran towards Luna.
Tadah.
“Hehehe, come here quietly.”
But it seemed like the thieves would reach out to Luna faster than I could hit their heads with my club.
Shit, what should I do! Should I throw the club?
Just when you’re about to clench your fists like that.
“That, Shadow Binding Curse-! Haaat!!”
Luna lowered her head to avoid the man’s touch and stabbed the dagger into the ground. At that very moment, the thief’s body stopped with his arm outstretched.
“Uh, what, what, what the fuck… . My, body… . What the fuck is this… .”
“Suh, it seems I succeeded! I succeeded in performing a high-level spell! Wow! Shh!”
I don’t know what it was, but I was sure that I had gained a little bit of time. So I swung the same arm I had used to throw the club and struck the bandit’s waist with all my might.
Bam-!
Then, with a loud crashing sound, the body of the thief who was attacked while defenseless rolled on the ground and flew far away.
“Do, Dorka! Shit, what kind of human body is flying around like a rock! C, what should I do, Captain!”
“I, I don’t know! This fucking dwarf! That little shit is so persistent!”
“Huhhh!”
Kang, Kang-, Kang!
Metal clashed with metal, creating sparks, and the dwarf Didier, who was thought to be tough, was starting to gain ground against a man twice his size.
I was a little worried because she said that making pancakes was her hobby, but I guess she’s worth the price of admission as a promising prospect carefully selected by the guild?
Sval, if we keep this up, we’ll be able to repel the bandits without a hitch! Is this a normal party where each person does their part?
Pyeong-.
Then, an arrow flies from somewhere and sticks into Didier’s back.
“Damn! How cowardly of you to receive help from your comrades! Aren’t you ashamed as a warrior!”
“Fuck, I’m not a warrior, I’m a thief, you idiot! I have no intention of fighting you in a one-on-one duel! What are you guys doing! Hurry up and cover!”
Didier, who had been shot by an arrow and was crouching down, began to be trampled by the men’s feet.
“Ugh, ugh! Ouch, that hurts so bad! Ugh, you cowards! You cowardly bastards came in a bunch and got in my way…”
Bang, bang-!
“Hey, shit! The ice’s almost broken! Get out there and get out there, you cowardly bitch!”
“Let’s take him to the cave and make him our ice-making slave! We can have a cool summer.”
“Hehehe, I have to make some shaved ice!!”
Velmina’s condition, which had been tightly wrapped around her body by a solid ice wall, seemed to be gradually reaching its limits.
Crunch, crunch, the ice surrounding her body begins to crack.
“Hey, order me to break it!? I, I really won’t sit idly by if you break my ice! I, I said I won’t sit idly by!”
“Ha, Hassan! You need help quickly!”
A chaotic battle broke out here and there. Was there really no way to defeat Dagul? It was really crazy to fight off about ten bandits with five people at once.
Shit, is this pretty flower garden going to be my grave?
No, I can’t stand seeing that kind of thing!!
“You fucking criminals! You fucking dogs who earn money but don’t pay taxes!!”
As I vented my anger, I rushed towards the bandits who were beating the warrior Didier.
It may take a little more time for Ice Wizard Velmina’s ice barrier to break, so Velmina still has some time to spare.
And Didier is a capable kid who could stand up to the leader of the bandits before he gets cowardly beaten, so let’s save him quickly before he gets trampled and his already small height gets even shorter!
“Hey, Deforma. Kalmir Nanae-!”
Just before I could strike the torso of those thieves with my bat, a large spell-like thing burst out from Paranoy, who was crouching behind Luna.
Honest, honest-.
Soon, the grass and flower petals that had grown abundantly on the ground began to weave together in strange shapes, and the dirt and sand clumped together to form a peculiar shape.
“What, what is this, Sval… .”
It looked like a child had roughly made a doll out of dirt and grass. The problem, though, was its size.
It had swelled so much that it was nearly twice my size, so just looking at it felt real, but it was also at a level where things like before would fly away.
Oh my god.
“Um, what is that…?”
“Shit, it’s a golem…! Shit, it’s a golem!”
“P, Pluto’s sorcery. T, these damned bastards weren’t adventurers, they were dirty cultists! F*ck!”
Even the thieves who had been exuding murderous aura just a moment ago trembled as if they were bewildered by the giant clay doll that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
It seemed like an opportunity had arisen for us, who were caught in a disadvantageous situation where we were soon slowly retreating.
“It’s a gap!”
Phew.
At that moment, Didier, a dwarf warrior who was crouching among the bandits and defending against the attack, swung his axe forward and cut off all the bandits’ legs.
Pushaaa-!
The thieves lose their balance in an instant and fall down. They each start rolling on the ground, clutching their injured ankles and Achilles tendons.
“My, my feet! My feet!”
“Now you’re lower than me. Good, I’m satisfied.”
I don’t know how it happened, but the situation really changed in an instant.
There are only about three thieves left, including the leader and the thieves breaking the ice.
There are five of us.
Those who are less numerous than us cannot escape our strongest tactic: encirclement and destruction.
“Hehe, Sipal, give me everything you have!”
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