The Transmigrated Novelist

As they had walked away almost double of the distance from the other day, and far away from the senses of all the other Masters, something weird happened.

Roy's senses started ranging even more than normal, as he felt that a weird smell had slowly emerged in the surroundings.

He was about to ask the captain about the weird smell, but he noticed that no one beside him seemed to smell something weird.

If he said something at this point then he would most certainly alert Master Troy, as most probably this smell was related to his plan.

But he didn't have the time to think much about this, as the next moment the captain that was by his side took out a knife and quickly stabbed with it towards his back.

Roy was quickly alarmed as he thought of dodging that knife that was heading towards his kidney, but if he reacted too much then he would most probably receive the attack of Master Troy.

He could feel Master Troy's 'sense area' locked upon him, so if he reacted too much then he was extremely certain that the next attack would be from Master Troy himself.

Furthermore, thinking about this deeper it was most probably a probing attack from Master Troy, through the captain's hand.

With this new line of thought, he decided to not fully dodge the knife, meaning that he would accept the stab, but not exactly on the target.

With his decision taken, Roy just moved his body slightly to the left as if he was scared by the action of the captain, making the knife stab into him, but failing to hit his kidney.

As if he couldn't believe his eyes or his senses, he looked at the captain with a bewildered expression as he asked,

"What are you doing captain!?"

"Sorry kid is just that it was too late to save you! You have to die for the Young Noble's plan to succeed!"

"I have to die for Young Noble Fjord's plan to succeed!?"

"That trash doesn't deserve to be my Young Noble!"

"Then who!? Don't tell me it's for that new guy!"

"Yes, my Young Noble is Young Noble Clark!"

'Cough~! Cough~!'

As Roy was surprised by what he heard, as even though he had expected that Young Noble Clark to be behind all this, it was still a bit surprising to learn that it was truly the case.

He couldn't help but think that the waste and good-for-nothing guy that everyone seemed to know about, was actually a sly snake that would kill them the moment that his true self had appeared.

This guy was perfect at playing the pig in order to eat the tiger. Even though the tiger in this case was much weaker than him.

As he was caught in those thoughts, the coughs served as some kind of wake-up call, and he noticed that he wasn't the only one to have been stabbed on the back.

Looking around he found out that more than half of the soldiers that were in this party had been stabbed from behind, but not killed.

This didn't add up, why would they just badly injure them, and not directly kill them, just what were they trying to do?

Master Troy and that Young Noble Clark must have thought this plan many times, so there was no way that they would leave behind loopholes, which meant that this was all part of the plan.

What he didn't understand was what kind of plan was this, and why was there a need for this plan. After all, Master Troy, with the two Masters behind Young Noble Clark didn't need these tricks right?

While Roy was caught in his thoughts and playing his part well, he heard a voice from one of the guys in the wounded crowd,

"You damn traitors, how dare you do this! Young Noble Fjord will kill you all!"

"Hhahahah~! Shouldn't he be alive for something like that to happen!?"

"What!? Have you killed Young Noble Fjord!?"

"No, not yet! But you guys will help us with that! After all, Young Noble Fjord should be rushing towards here, knowing that you have found the lair of one of the beasts.

Don't you think!?"

Immediately a deathly silence conquered the place, as even though these guys were lowly soldiers they weren't idiots.

They knew that the moment that he heard about the lair of one of the beasts, their Young Master would come running towards the spot, and he might even leave a part of the army behind.

After all, the temptation of the lair of a Rank 5 beast was just that great! Furthermore, he would think that with Master Troy here, he might even have an advantage.

Master Troy was after all a Master hired by his family, so he should be on his side. He was one of the cards he had to play against Young Noble Clark and Master Gorg.

But when even his strongest card was used to play against him, then what was the possibility of him escaping this alive?

"Hhahaha~! Do you think that you will be able to kill Young Noble Fjord if there is Master Gorg and the rest of the army by his side!?

How do you even think of explaining this to the Noble when you get back! Do you think he will let you easily after you kill his son!?"

Stop playing around!"

This time the one who spoke was Roy, he had seen that the ones setting this trap were extremely confident in their selves, as they were even throwing their plan out in open.

It seemed like they were extremely confident on this, so he decided to learn more about this from the source.

Just as he thought, the moment he said that the Young Master, or to be more precise the disciple of Master Troy just mockingly laughed out loud at him, while saying,

"Hhahaahha~! Do you think that we will be talking like this now if we weren't certain of our plan, stupid!?

Master truly seemed to have valued you wrongly, you don't seem like anything special at all. You are just a poor idiot!

Well, anyway allow me to enlighten you, poor idiot! The truth is that this place we are standing upon will soon turn into the main focus of a beast's horde!

You see, while we were moving yesterday, and today, we have continuously spread 'Bewitching Powder' which is the best solution to attract beasts and enrage them!

I think in about 10 minutes the situation and the place will be ripped, as not only Young Noble Fjord, but even that maniac idiot Master Gorg will end up caught in the disaster! Hhahah~!

What do you think of our plan!?"

Hearing all that Roy couldn't help but get a bit startled as he hadn't expected these guys to plan this trap so much and even involve his future father-in-law in this.

It wasn't surprising that this scum said only about him, as most probably they were thinking of using Amelia to play around later.

But now he didn't have time to think about that, as there was something much more important to think about.

The reason why they were only wounded and left bleeding was most probably in order to pull the beasts towards their location, and soon this place would turn into a damn locust of beasts.

While this looked like a terrible future, it was at the same time his best way of getting out of this damned situation.

All this time he had been thinking about how to escape the situation he was stuck in, as he was even thinking of escaping to Gaia.

But once he revealed that secret, then he would be the main attraction for these Rank 5 Masters, as his importance would even exceed the two Rank 5 beasts they were looking for.

As he was thinking like this, Roy felt that there was something wrong with this situation. These guys hadn't found the two supposedly injured Rank 5 beasts, and neither their lairs.

The main purpose of this operation was still those two Rank 5 beasts, Young Noble Fjord should only be some kind of extra bonus that they would receive.

So, why were they making their move now? They shouldn't have thrown away all the other benefits just to deal with a Young Noble Fjord, and a battle maniac, right!?

This didn't make sense in the least, just what were these guys thinking!? So he couldn't help but ask in curiosity,

"Wasn't you main mission those two Rank 5 beasts, and their lairs? Why are you doing this now, when you haven't found them yet?"

Now that the cat was out of the bag, he guessed that he could ask a bit more. It wasn't like he would lose anything.

What he didn't expect though, was that his question would earn him even more of Master Troy's attention, and even a look of surprise and admiration from that Young Master.

To be able to think of the main points when one is already in a desperate situation is truly something that is worthy of admiration.

Not many people could do something like that. If one wants proof of this, he could just look at more than 100 soldiers around Roy who were crying about their fate.

Roy was one of the few that were able to keep their face, and emotions, and the only one who could think straight at this point.

Even though he wasn't truly injured right now, Master Troy and that Young Master hadn't noticed that, so it was obvious how much they appreciated him.

Still, that Young Master didn't give in to the surprise, as he looked at Roy with a mocking expression and said…