My Villains Episode 416
64. Fog (3)
A wet blade of grass brushes my chin. It was because the rain showers that had been pouring down for half a day yesterday soaked the whole ground.
My clothes were soaked from lying on the grass. While crawling from afar, the slippery soil was so thick that even the trouser hem was heavy. The operation hasn’t even started yet, but I’m already desperate for warm bath water.
“When are you coming, these kids?”
It was Atalanta who grumbled quietly. She was lying next to me in a similar manner to me.
“Let’s wait patiently. You still have plenty of time.”
“Relax? In a place like this?”
Atalanta, who had her hair tied up in a bun to reveal her long neckline, supported her chest with her elbows while rustling.
“I feel like my back is about to break, and there’s no place I can’t stand. How the hell are you supposed to wait?”
Instead of answering, I looked ahead. The fog was already rising, probably because of the heavy showers during the day. Only the swaying torches are dimmed, and the silhouette of the castle cannot be seen.
The sorcerer who was lying on the other side in my place agreed with Atalanta’s words.
“That’s true- *no* no feeling in my elbows and knees after hours of crawling.” A young man in his mid-twenties with a metal rim around his forehead. It was Master Epos, a genius magician who was accompanying me on the orders of Prince Ulkar.
“A few hours didn’t even last an hour…don’t be mean.”
“It’s tough to say that you’re sick. Lord Phoenix, this tidying up and post-meal exercise would be nothing but not for me. It has grown so beautifully that I have never crawled or walked for such a long time.”
“Then why don’t you close your snout for a while? It would be a little less difficult.” He grunted a little and wiped his face. Something that I don’t know whether it’s sweat or raindrops dripped down.
“How did you become quiet?”
To my question, Atalanta answered with a wink at Epos.
“It made me realize how unsightly it is for grown-ups to whine.”
The young wizard huffed, ‘Are you telling me to listen to that?’, but Atalanta just shrugged.
The arcane hunter Atalante, the genius wizard Epos, and me. It was a trio of people who would infiltrate Eisbovald by hiding in a corpse cart tonight
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I told Epos and Atalanta to wait leisurely, but as the night got deeper and deeper, even I became nervous.
Maybe it was a mistake to trust the thugs. I don’t have enough time, but I wonder if I’m seduced by the funny attitude of Deozen or something, and I’m losing the day for no reason.
It feels like it’s well past midnight. Just as I was about to burst out swearing in my nervousness, a disgusting smell wafted up in front of me. Soon, a pair of dim lights appeared with a rattling sound.
“come.”
Spreading out on the wet grass, we checked the presence of people with our nerves on edge.
“…I think it’s two people.”
“O”
While Atalanta and I sharpened our senses, Master Epos cast a spell. As soon as the three words in Milano were finished saying, “Scatter and smell the scent,” a small whirlwind blew up. The whirlwind soon died down and spread the wind containing the reverberation of mana in all directions.
It was the ‘Detect Magical Power’ spell.
“I don’t feel anything special.”
I nodded and lifted myself slightly. I blew a whistle. I tried to imitate the birdsong, but it wasn’t very similar.
Anyway, the cart, which gave off a stench at my awkward whistle, hesitated and headed this way.
“lily.”
“late.”
The gangster Deogen lowered his head as if to apologize. He was wearing an oil lamp and wearing a faded hood, and the back of his head glanced at the back of his body as if it was itching.
“sorry. I was hiding for a while.”
“Hide yourself?”
“Suddenly, the bastard mayor will drop the plague. There’s no moon and the fog is terrible , so I thought I
‘d look around the castle walls all the way…
“That won’t be it. It’s something that happens often.”
It is said that the mayor named ‘Pash Horse’ once worked as a bureaucrat in Baeknyeonseong’s concubine. In the meantime, he had earned the trust of the Duke of Avillambers and was entrusted with Aisbobalt, which connects the three provinces of Topal Obdorp-Anst.
Since it served as the main strategic point of the dukedom and the center of trade, there would be no flaws in terms of loyalty to the Strom family or ability to possess. However, I heard that he had no powers with him because he was from Korea and the United States, and that he had a strong reputation for public opinion and was not popular because of his strong personality, perhaps because of his greed for a hereditary title.
“Not to mention the South Gate, which is in a snowball fight with the enemy and the Nari’s army, and the East Gate, which can be attacked at any time. The West Gate was very tense from the beginning.”
“The North Gate?”
“It’s not even a day or two that the market is fucking, so I must have been scared for a while. Since the sergeants on that side were pre-soaked, they would soon be stuck everywhere, and the soldiers would just sit around and chat. If you are sleeping on the cart, I can take you to the front yard of the Haenggung Palace.”
I don’t know if it will go according to his boast, but I couldn’t go back empty-handed after coming this far.
“People have changed. What is that guy?”
“He is my dearest brother. The guy you saw before had all his teeth brushed out, so he only has seven left. I couldn’t bring him back as if I was going to run out of breath at any moment.”
I scratched my eyebrows for a moment, then abruptly reached out my hand. As my fingertips ran down my neck, Deozen stood back and stepped back.
“Sigh”
“Don’t be afraid. Because it doesn’t kill me.”
He fumbled near his throat and swallowed a gulp. It was because the sticky blood that seeped through Death King’s scaled handcuffs was smeared there.
“Did you hear some rumors about me?”
“Yes- yes Nari.”
“Then you have a rough idea of what I can do with that blood, right?”
Deogen clenched his trembling chin and nodded.
“The way I see it, if things go wrong, your neck will just explode. okay?”
“…All right.”
“good. Behave well.”
“yep.”
The two thugs roughly dumped the cart full of corpses onto the floor and removed a few loose planks. Under the cart, a space was revealed where three or four people could barely hide.
“… Hey, is this too small?”
“That’s why I didn’t know that you would come in person.”
The secret space of the corpse cart looked like a place that three or four people could enter by crouching.
The problem was my body. At 190 cm and 105 kg, he was clearly above average even by the standards of the Earth, and was almost treated as a giant in this world. It wasn’t just me, Atalante was also taller than average, and Master Epos was also tall, befitting a wizard from an aristocratic family.
In the end, we were able to hide in the secret space of the cart only after wrestling with our bodies for a long time. With the disgusting smell added to the narrow space, there was no hard work like this.
Deogen folded the large cloth covering the corpse and placed it on the cart. It looked like it had been thrown loosely, but it seemed that care was taken to cover up the loosely fitted planks.
“I will depart.”
“uh. Let’s go ASAP. Because I feel like I’m going to choke to death.”
As the cart started to move, Master Epos uttered an incantation.
“A veil over the exhaled breath.”
Outwardly, nothing seemed to have changed, but when I spread the feeling, it seemed like something like jelly was wriggling around and hugging the area. It was a kind of barrier to hide the signs of the magic that the three of us exuded.
Even if he hid in the corpse cart brought by Deogen, he could not avoid the ‘detection’ spell that Eisbobalt’s battle mages would be spraying. The reason I brought Master Epos was to deal with this.
“A little more, a little more, a little more-”
‘Magic Concealment’ was a spell of a fairly high level, so it wasn’t something that could be maintained just by spitting it once. He recited an incantation in a barely audible voice, while continuing to draw circles with his hand holding the hand sign.
“…Ah, I’m going crazy, really.” Caught between Epos and me, Atalanta muttered in tears as if holding her nose. It was full of a terrible stench mixed with the smell of corpses and rotten salted fish, and there was a groan-like sound and waving hands from behind, so it was understandable.
“Don’t throw up.”
“Ah, hearing that, I suddenly get nauseous.”
“…You’re kidding, right?”
“It’s true.”
The secret space of the cart is a dark space without a single light, but somehow the bronze silhouette of Atalanta looks pale, whether it is an illusion or not.
“If you vomit, it’s a failure. You have to be patient.”
“Okay, so tell me a little bit- Ugh.”
“Fuck your feet, please.”
A food auction house located on one side of the market floor in Eisbowald. The auction house was also closed due to the kingdom army lurking outside the city and the gates tightly closed, but inside it was full of strong men.
They were thugs armed with knives of ambiguous length, whether short swords or daggers, axes for logging, and hammers for stone.
“… Damn it.”
A middle-aged man was sitting at a table sipping brandy while about thirty vicious thugs were sitting on the floor. He couldn’t hide his nervousness and trembled on one leg.
“What the hell are you doing so late, you salted fish vendor?”
The name of the pot-bellied man with a plentiful beard is ‘Kurz’. He is the best smuggler and loan shark in Eisbobalt and reigns as the owner of the market.
He runs a large merchant enterprise and prefers to be called the merchant merchant, but his identity is closer to that of a gang leader than a merchant.
“Isn’t he noticing the situation and sticking to Hoblu?”
“On the Hoblu side?”
“Contrary to what he looks like, he is a very shrewd fellow. I don’t know if he noticed Danju-nim’s plan and tried to strike first.” The man in the rat costume said in a low voice as he filled his glass. Kurtz thought for a moment and then shook his head.
“Even if Deogen took care of it himself, it’s over 20, so would a bandaeng like Hoblu forgive and accept it? Besides, the nephew of the pickled fisherman’s Hoblu family was also dipped in garum.”
“Hoblu is a greedy bastard. Boss-no, if I can defeat the lord and eat the whole market, I won’t even care about hurting my prestige.”
“……well.”
Kurz gulped down the clear brandy with an incomprehensible expression. The moment he put down his glass,
the side door of the auction house opened and a thug came running.
“Deogen is here.”
“……okay?”
When Kurz got up, the thugs in the auction house also stood up. Vicious weapons flashed their blades in the light of the lanterns placed here and there.
“…You bastard won’t open the door?”
“Hyung, you’re still sober”
The sound of bickering continued briefly, and the door opened wide. Kurz hardened his expression when he saw the four or five thugs who were guarding the auction house lying around, bursting or broken somewhere.
“What are you doing with this ignorant bastard!”
To the boss’s scolding, Deogen, who pulled a cart with one of his subordinates, replied with a calm face.
“My younger siblings didn’t seem to know what was up and down, so I scolded them a bit. Please forgive me, my lord.”
Kurz looked at the corpse cart and behind it, his face reddened.
“Why did you bring it here again? No way”
“Don’t worry. Because it’s empty.”
“Then why did you bring the empty cart? Didn’t I tell you to leave the whole cart in the house of the hoblu kid and come back?”
At the leader’s questioning, Deogen’s face distorted.
“…X arm. I gave up my lifeline and went back and forth through the city gates twice. Is that the only thing Danju has to say to me?”
“Do you want me to wash your back? huh? If you just clean things up, will I not wash the front and back, you salted fish vendor?”
As Kurz’s voice rose, life erupted among the thugs who filled the auction house. Deogen burst into laughter as he stared at the men armed with weapons.
“Iya, military commander turned on the light in his eyes and conscripted, but there are so many children left. My younger siblings are all sucking shit on the wall. As expected, our Danju is resourceful.”
Kurtz silently raised his hand while he was crying. The thugs guarding the door staggered to their feet and entered the store. The door was closed tightly.
“What is this situation?”
“What do you think you are doing?”
“Did you gather the kids to kill me?”
“No way. I’m going to hang you up and go to the safe house of the hobleu bastard.”
Deogen giggled.
“Ha why? Are you afraid it won’t work?”
“Because you don’t know.”
“Can’t that famous red knight, Master, just kill a few thugs?”
“Red knight, there must be no problem with Hoblu’s gang. But you don’t know the skills of the guys under the red knight.”
“You worry about nothing. The red knight, Nari, has come directly, so don’t be fooled.”
“…Is the red knight coming in person? You stupid bastard, what are you going to do with things like that!”
Kurz’s plan was simple.
It was intended to lure the kingdom army who was sitting in front of the south gate, bring a few knights or elite soldiers into Eisbobalt, release them into Hoblu’s safe house, induce a battle, and then rush in around dawn to deal with all the remaining guys. am.
Kurtz hurriedly ordered the man in the rat costume standing next to him.
“Damn, call all the kids waiting on the hoblu side! No, just stop moving and hide there!”
Even if the rumors about the red knight were only half true, the swordsmen infested with Eisbobalt wouldn’t be able to deal with him. The teachers of the swordsmen and those who were given the title of ‘sword master’ by the emperor must step up. But if the disturbance gets that big, the odds of hurting Kurz and his gang increase…
“It doesn’t have to be.”
“what?”
Deogen, who had a fishy laugh, took a step back with his subordinate and added his words.
“Because I never stopped by the Hoblu’s house.”
Before Kurz could understand the meaning, Kwajik! The cart was smashed and three men and women came out.
“Oh, I thought you were going to die.”
Phoenix kneaded the back of her neck and stretched out, Atalanta couldn’t stand the nausea and immediately vomited on the floor.
“Can I take a break, Sir Phoenix?”
“What about your order?”
“Have you already entered the middle of the city? The battle mages here must also think they are allies.”
“Then rest. I won’t be able to afford that much.”
In front of the two men conversing in a foreign language, the thugs were unaware of the situation and kept their mouths open.
Either way, Epos squatted down and looked into the crystal ball. Something like blue smoke released from the crystal ball and was sucked into his nose and mouth.
While the young wizard was recovering mana, the nude female warrior vomited again with a loud noise, and the cold-looking handsome man pulled out his long sword.
“Can I kill everyone here?”
“Yes Nari. And the mayor and hoblu
“The other thugs we’ll deal with later, the mayor’s on hold.”
“yes? But”
“Instead of performing the sword dance here, we decided to deal with the mayor at our own discretion. If you want to see Mayor Jeong die, you can take care of the work here.”
Deogen quickly shook his head.
“No, sir. Please make sure to deal with only the thugs.”
“good.”
Phoenix dyed the blade a dark red light and looked around the auction house.
“Is it okay to make noise?”
“Take it easy. That piggy must have paid a lot of bribes by keeping his mouth shut anyway.”
Kurz, who belatedly grasped the situation, stammered with a pale face.
“Deogen wait… Red Knight Nari.”
“I’m sorry, uncle. Today’s deal is over. I don’t have much time.”
The blood knight jumped between the thugs holding weapons in an awkward position. In one breath, nine thugs were killed.
Frightened by the violence beyond imagination, the men screamed wildly. However, as Deogen assured, no one listened to the sounds coming from the auction house. The guards, residents, and even the officers and sergeants of the barracks only spat out a few words of complaint.
“ruler.”
Phoenix smiled in front of the last survivor.
“Isn’t it right to yield at the end?”
“…Thank you sir.”
Deogen looked down and picked up a dagger with a wet handle.
“X arm. This salted fish vendor-”
Kurz, whose blade was stuck under his throat, coughed a couple of times and coughed bloody foam before drooping down.
A real silence fell on Eisbowald’s market.
The night was still long.
