Legend

Night forest with bugs sounding like May flies. There were those who were moving on like that.

"Shit, you're persistent!

Alogan leading the way flashed his demon sword toward the dark as he struck his tongue. The goblin that was about to strike me was severed from the neck and fell to the spot without screaming.

"At all, are you crazy going into the woods at night?

"... you didn't say anything in particular during the noon ops meeting. Is that it now?

Spelvia stabbed her sword at a giant bat about 1 m from the air without a sound.

"Well, as far as I'm concerned, I don't see how you guys can let that monster bother you."

"Um... If you have a complaint, tell the person, not us, right? When you get out in front of Ray, you're in a terrible habit, and if you're not there, your attitude gets bigger."

"Ah!?

It was an alogan staring its face at Cullot's grumpy words, but soon you understood it wasn't if you were doing that now. Go forward and go into the woods.

"By and large, isn't it party-balanced? Two warriors and one bandit? I don't care what you think, you don't have enough guards."

Most of all, with stupidity in his mouth.

Yes, only three people, Alogan, Sperpia and Cullot, are currently traveling through the night forest. Of course not three people are resting in the rear: Ray, Scola and Firma. The other three are on the move to snipe from positions not found by the lookout bandits, as we talked about during the day. These three are acting differently in order to quickly pack the distance and keep watch when a sniper from a distance fails...

"Whew, if the sniping fails, the lookout is set to let the guy inside know at that point, right? I don't care what we do with that. You can snipe with us in the first place."

"So Ray would also have said it was just in case. More than that, see, we're going through the woods. If we find him on the lookout before the lookout informs him inside, he can't even look. Besides, we can't afford to have a sniper team acting differently from us. Regardless of Ranger's fielder and all the mysterious rays, Scola can't imitate being a raw wizard and traveling as far as the bandits can go."

Spelvia told Allogan so, but she continued with a grin that Curot, who had heard it, could describe it as a nymphomaniac.

"Well, if this finds us, it's just that Ray's watching us hard. I wonder what happens to Arogan or something. Maybe I'd like to take a look."

"Whoa, don't even joke about such ominous things. Damn, okay, you just have to be serious."

Listening to the voice exerted with the odd stunt of screaming alogan whispers, Cullot peeks softly ahead through the woods leading to the cliffs that are the gateway to the bandits.

There were two watchmen there, as Cullot expected. But I could clearly see how distracted and alarmed I was.

(Is that all you're confident you won't find this safe house...... or just stupid)

Chirali, and Cullot who turns his gaze only for a moment toward Alogan.

(... maybe you're an idiot)

It would be nice to have a pine light. Whatever you call a bandit, it's not a bandit in the professional sense of an adventurer, because it's only a bandit as a rogue who is a form of banditry, and so it doesn't mean that the night works like a culot.

But when I say it's a lookout, I'm sitting on the lookout, and I don't want to talk about it, but it sounds like a stupid laugh. You can't call it a lookout if you try to make it a culot, and I don't want to. Even if we say that we don't make any noise or erase the signs, we don't even realize that we're not 10 meters away.

(Don't think about Scola not being able to erase the signs or anything like that. You didn't have a problem coming with me like Alogan said.)

Whimpering inside, see how the two of us have acted together so far.

The two Alogans and Spelvia have already pulled out their weapons and are in a position to be attacked at any time. I confirmed that. Cullot also waits for things to happen with the dagger that scratched off Goblin's neck in the woods as it is.

"... not yet?

Minutes after diving near the forest exit. You were in a hurry for the attack not to start yet, and Cullott waited still for the attack from Scola and Firma to begin as he heard Allogan whine small.

"You're frightened."

Sniper point away from the Cullots. So Firma shrugged like she was right in words as she watched the lookouts of the bandits looking far away.

Somehow the watchdog at the end of his gaze is sitting around and laughing as he talks about something, and he's not acting as a watchman, so he can't help it.

"But if you try it on us, it'll help, so don't you have to blame me?

"I know that..."

Listening to such an exchange between the two, Ray turns his gaze toward the woods.

It would not be possible to grasp what it would be like to be in the woods wrapped in darkness at night if that was not the kind of bandit like Cullot. But Ray's body, created by a gate of Zeppyre, just says that such common sense has nothing to do with it. I can see exactly what's going on in the woods.

At the end of Ray's gaze, it was well established that three people, Alogan, Spelvia and Cullot, were lurking near the forest exit.

"Looks like three of the avant-garde have been safely placed. You ready for this?

Two people nodding silently at Ray's words.

Confirming that, Ray also nods and announces the start of the night raid.

"All right, Scola, start the magic chant. Firma attacks with a bow in time for Scola to unleash her magic."

"Okay."

"Leave it to me."

Scola nods and begins chanting the spell, and Firma also puts an arrow on the bow to timing it again.

"Wind, turn it into an invisible arrow and stick it in front of you."

Scola's spell, which he also used during simulated warfare, falsifies the world and creates an invisible arrow in front of it. The invisible wind arrows, which are difficult to see even when the sun is there, are more of their secrecy by using them at night.

Scola turns her gaze to Firma when she stops at the end of the spell and then just activates the magic. Confirming Firma nodded at that gaze unleashes the magic.

"Wind Arrow!

Along with the words, about five invisible wind arrows are released. At the same time, Firma also unleashes the arrow he was watching directly above the watchmen.

At the next moment when the two attacks are unleashed, Wind Arrow arrives at the neck or face of one of the watches he was sitting and talking to, and at the same time the other man, who does not know what happened across the street, is pierced through its head by an arrow falling in a straight line from overhead and desperate.

"I'm here!

One of the two watchmen, who was at the end of his gaze, had his neck and face mutilated, bled out, and collapsed from the watchtower to the ground at that impact, almost at the same time confirming that the arrow that the other man had descended from overhead pierced his head, Cullot screams briefly and screams sharply at Arogan and Spelvia.

The two people who heard the words quickly rush out of the forest exit to rapidly reduce their distance from the watchmen.

And Spelvia punched one tongue while shrinking the distance from the watch.

"That's awkward, if you've been attacked by Scola's magic, you haven't finished it yet. Allogan, you fall off the watch deck to the ground and keep an eye on those who are still alive. I'm wary of anyone coming out of the inside of the cave."

"Whoa, why me!

"Shut up, I don't have time. I don't have time to talk long from here. It's a fight against time."

"Shit, okay, shit."

He arrives under guard as he talks, and as he told Alogan, Spelvia dives near the entrance and exit of the cave with a long sword and asks what's going on inside.

Fortunately, most of what comes from inside is laughter and cheer. Spelvia exhales relieved when she decides that she's probably even serving alcohol, even though she doesn't seem to have been noticed about the watch.

Nearby, Allogan fell to the ground and targeted a lookout that was rampant by pain and confusion… it was still solidifying.

"Damn, I'm like this..."

"but haha... hahaha, tahahahaha..."

The misfortune of the watchman was that Scola's magical arm was still immature.... No, as a Rank E adventurer, it's an arm enough, but Wind Arrow, which emphasizes secrecy and attack speed, couldn't cut his life off with that blow, even if all five hit him in the neck or head.

In that sense, I guess the man with his head pierced by Firma's arrow would have been happier. Because I instantly finished the raw one without even knowing what had happened.

"Alogan, hurry up!

Spelvia whispers and quickly orders Arogan, who is hesitant about the act of killing people.

But even an alogan kills a person... whose hands tremble and do not move well in the act of recognizing it so on their own and then pruning the lives of themselves and their kind. I'll take that life in a mock fight or a duel like I did with Ray before! Many have waved their partner's devil's sword all the time, but happiness or misfortune has never actually claimed a human life before. Therefore, my hand with the Devil's Sword is shaking like this now.

"Chi, Cullot, you scout inside, just like Ray told you to."

"Wow, okay!

Spelvia drops off Cullot's back as he enters the cave with Sulri in exchange for himself, approaching the watchman rolling around the ground due to pain and breathlessness, shaking the longsword down with his man's neck unraveled.

"Damn!"

The blade of the long sword causes the head of the guard with his neck amputated to roll down the ground leaving traces of blood.

"Oeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Not a monster, Alogan, who sees the sight of a creature of his own kind dead, spits out more in his stomach than runs into the shadows.

Seeing such an alogan with a complex expression, Spelvia was clear in her ears at the sounds coming from what was going on inside the cave.

Fortunately, he hasn't noticed that the watch is still dead in there, or that there's an intruder named Cullot. As usual, he only hears cheers and laughter.

In that situation, the guards meet.

"What happened to Cullot?

"We broke inside as per the operation."

Spelvia checks on Scola and Firma as she answers to Ray.

Firma doesn't seem particularly guilty about the act of killing people. Or there will be enough spiritual strength to hide it through. But Scola had blood drawn from her face because she saw it.

"Or Scola."

To Spelvia's words, Ray also turns his gaze to Alogan, who is still throwing up in the shadows.

"Apparently. He enjoyed the magic he used to suffer."

"Well, it's my first kill. I don't know if I can do that."

"Spelvia seems fine."

"I'm used to everything. That won't change that, will it?

"Well, I don't know... hey, I'm back"

Ray notices Cullot returning while killing his footsteps and stops the conversation at one end. Even with a strange look on his face, he gets a convincing look when he comes out of the cave.

"How'd it go?

I can snort and curot at Ray's questions like that.

"One main road ahead for a while. It's just that the aisle is divided into three parts. Several merchant-like people have been caught on the right. I don't know the exact number of people because I had a watch. At the end of the middle road, it's made wide, and that's where the banquet sounds coming from. So, on the left is the warehouse, the arsenal, that sort of thing."

"How many bandits?

"Thirty people are weak."

"I see. Is there any other entrance or exit connected to the outside here?

"I just didn't have time to find out."

"Then first, should we tailor as many bandits as possible in the first contact?

"But it's not funny how merchants get held hostage."

To Ray's whining, Spelvia speaks so.

"Well, sure.... Cullot, do you know if there's a way out of the place where we're having that banquet?

"I told you now, but I didn't have time, so I just don't get it. But if I'm going to give you a personal opinion, I don't think you're thinking about what you're doing, because it's not weird when a crusader comes."

"Then... Cullot, you first secure the hostage toward that cell. And then... Gran, are you there?

Speaking into the darkness, Gran shows up with a bitter smile.

"You didn't think they'd notice. So, what can I do for you?

"After rescuing the hostages, is it rank-up testing to leave them to you?

"No, nothing. My role is only to see if you guys have the equivalent of Rank D. I can't help you without a good reason. And now things don't deserve much reason."

"... I can't help it. It's a shame you're losing your power, Cullot, but you have to come back here and hide after you rescue the prisoners."

"Okay."

"Okay, then we're going into a cave. As I said at noon, the avant-garde is Allogan and Spelvia. Zhongwei is Scola and Firma. I'll take the rear guard.... Can you do that?

He gives a bitter look and nods when he calls out to Arogan, who is finally back at Ray's side to see if his nausea has subsided.

"Oh, I'll do it."

"Scola, what about you?

"Yes, I'm fine. I'll do something about it."

Scola was much better than earlier because she had put aside a little time.

"All right, let's go in."

With Ray's signal, he enters the cave interior.