Episode 48
EPISODE.24
Pot-.
As I landed under the shadow of a towering rock wall, several grains of sand jumped out.
Did you catch your breath?
Thinking so, Russell opened his inventory.
I took out a few pieces of preserved food and put it in my mouth.
He then stared at his surroundings with heavy sunken eyes.
‘I think it’s been about three days.’
three days.
It was the time when the guard dogs of the Empire began to attack him.
Probably because the fight with the cultists, the Abominations, caught their attention.
The only thing that bothered me a little was that they had been recklessly attacking.
To attack first without even asking who he is…
‘That means he knows my identity, even if it’s fragmentary.’
At the very least, you should be certain that you are not a magician belonging to the Empire.
It was quite possible that he knew that he was a wizard belonging to Endymion.
‘How much more do they know?’
Without showing any signs of wariness, Russell was deep in thought.
Dealing with guard dogs isn’t difficult, but the problem is that they know it too.
Still sticking to it tenaciously.
It was clear that something was up.
‘I can roughly guess…’
Seeing as he is trying to drive himself in the same direction, he must be preparing a trap.
That’s why Russell didn’t hang out with them the way they wanted.
It seemed to be moving in the direction they were driving, but it changed the angle and bounced up.
Thanks to that, little by little, the distance from the empire was getting farther away.
‘bothered.’
It would be nice to be able to get away with it completely.
Unfortunately, that seemed impossible.
‘I can’t help it in the environment of the desert.’
It was a desert where there was almost no cover and most of it was made up of terrain comparable to an open area.
The only cover they had was a small hill made of piled up sand and a huge rock jutting out like now.
It wouldn’t be too difficult to find yourself with just one telescope.
It was then.
– Kyareuk.
Pepper, who was orbiting the sky, sent a signal.
‘One, two, three, four…’
was the tracking team of the empire.
Twenty in combination.
It’s coming towards you while cutting north, so if you calculate that direction and avoid it…
-Kyareuk.
Pepper signaled once again. This time to the southeast.
‘A double operation?’
-Kyarreuk.
It wasn’t a bucket.
Russell lightly frowned at the encirclement that narrowed and entered as many as three directions instead of two.
‘I read it.’
The arrangement of the Empire seems to have noticed that something is giving Russell information about the siege they have formed.
‘Even though he didn’t seem to understand that it was Pepper yet.’
I can’t help it.
‘Let it go back. Pepper.’
Thank you.
With a short greeting, Russell reverse summoned Pepper.
moved right away.
I used the magic that kills the presence again.
‘I wish I could use camouflage.’
Camouflage.
This advanced camouflage magic that completely assimilates the surroundings and oneself was magic that belonged to the 6th circle.
Even if you overdo it, you can’t unfold it right now.
Even if it is possible, it should not be unfolded.
In a situation where you don’t know what will happen in the future, it wasn’t a very good option to abuse the circle.
‘I think I’ll have to get out of there for the next three days or so.’
At that point, it would be nice to say that the empire’s reach was almost out of reach.
If you go beyond that, you will be closer to Endymion than the Empire.
The problem was the remaining three days.
‘Besieging more than three directions and narrowly entering…’
There was a high possibility that they were trying to drive themselves in the direction they wanted.
Perhaps something else is in store for that direction.
‘Tsk.’
Russell clicked his tongue in annoyance.
In an instant, he went into battle mode.
He swung his magic so that he could deal with any situation at any time, and moved on again.
[Mission]
Back home.
Escape the increasingly narrow siege of the Empire and safely enter Endymion.
[Reward]
Lesser Manastone (Edible) x5
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Wedge-Ae-Ae-!
Dozens of arrows pierced the hot desert air.
Drawing a parabola, it fell toward the top of the head.
The position of the arrow that started at the dot got closer and closer and Russell activated the magic he had prepared.
‘Gale Force-!’
A powerful gust of wind blows up the desert sand.
The arrows that flew along with him stopped in the air as if they were caught on something.
Arrows with such power that it is not too much trouble even if you simply block them with a shield.
Nevertheless, Russell had a clear reason for using Gale Force.
‘Because I have to break through the empire’s bastards who are blocking my way.’
What unfolds is an invisible hand.
It is magic that is only one circle.
But that’s why it wasn’t much of a problem to operate more than a few dozen at a time.
Fire!
Dozens of invisible hands grabbed the arrow that had stopped in the air.
One after another, he slapped stones… No, slapped arrows, returning the arrows that flew by to them.
“Gagging!”
“Keep it off!”
Some of the Imperial soldiers who were hit by the arrow fell down on the spot.
Then showers of flame covered the arrows of the desert.
After cheating with arrows, the fire bolts cast were shot in a straight line.
Wedge juice is raging!
The appearance of dozens of fiery arrows striking in a straight line was a level that could be called a beam of light.
“Boo fire!”
“Aagh! Give me water!”
A soldier pierced by a flaming arrow,
and a commander of ten seals engulfed by the flames.
In an instant, an abysmal battle unfolded.
Russell quickly crossed them.
last two days.
He had dealt with countless enemies who held back his ankles in this way.
How should I deal with it now?
I wondered if the mechanism from A to Z had been created.
Russell, who covered hundreds of meters at once, turned his head as it was.
He quickly glanced at the situation of the imperial army, which was making a mess with fire spreading here and there.
‘It’s only one day left.’
If you run for one more day, then the Empire’s influence is relatively weak.
As the Takle Desert is a neutral zone, the pursuit won’t completely stop, but at least it will be less than it is now.
There.
‘From then on, the probability of encountering our soldiers is higher.’
If the information network of the kingdom and magic hadn’t gone wrong, they would have noticed the incident in the desert by now.
With optimistic speculation, Russell started moving again.
I stretched out my foot…
-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The senses screamed.
Instinctively, I took one step to the side.
That judgment saved Russell’s life.
Stand up-!
The sand was cut straight with sharp momentum.
It was the exact spot where Russell had been standing before.
The length of the cut sand is one meter.
Now, this slash came from a farther distance than that.
Even at a rough estimate, it was more than thirty meters.
If I hadn’t avoided it, my back would have splintered and cracked.
Something more terrifying than that swordsman.
It was that he hadn’t been able to catch his presence even though he had come that far.
‘The strong one.’
Even if you take it as a minimum, it may be the same as yourself, or even more.
Before raising his head, the contents of the mission changed.
[Mission]
A powerful enemy you’ve never met before.
You’ve faced enemies on a level you’ve never met before.
Escape safely from the clutches of the enemy.
Condition: Flee (or win).
[Reward]
Intermediate Manastone (Edible) x4
It was a mission that gave as many as four Intermediate Manastones as a reward.
The level of reward and the difficulty of the mission were not necessarily proportional, but it must have been quite dangerous.
‘Escape is listed first in the completion conditions.’
The odds of succeeding in escaping are higher than winning.
Extraordinary judgment and cool-headed reason.
Russell, who grasped the situation in a split second, raised his head.
It was an attack that flew outside of the senses, so even if the first blow was dangerous, it wouldn’t be like that from now on.
Thinking so, Russell raised the density of the magic power that was wrapped around his body.
I stared at the enemy who had attacked me.
“How can you avoid that? Aren’t the movements pretty good for a wizard?”
A costume that looks free-spirited in snake eyes.
Contrary to his flirtatious way of speaking and gait, he was someone who somehow smelled strongly of blood.
Russell, too, had met a few people who smelled like that in the past.
Regardless of the level of strength, the stench felt only by those who genuinely enjoy killing and who have not been on the battlefield for a long time.
A sign that is fundamentally different from the black magic of the cultists.
“Are you a murderer?”
He spat out, concentrating his nervous mana into his fingertips.
The distance between him and himself was more than tens of meters.
However, if you are a skilled person like him, you should be able to hear this level of sound without any problems.
“that’s right.”
Sure enough, the answer came back.
“Right. killer.”
Crazy spandom Have you ever heard of it?
Introducing yourself as a lunatic.
It’s a line that is not an ordinary crazy person for asking a bright question.
Russell shrugged his shoulders, thinking that it was a very intuitive and well-suited nickname.
“Never heard of it.”
It’s a lie.
It was the name of a famous killer even in the future before the return.
Couldn’t have heard
The youngest disciple of the Great Swordsman, the pride of the Empire, and a skilled swordsman who inherited his swordsmanship, Volare Sangue.
Even so, I pretended not to know because I didn’t want to match the guy’s excessive self-consciousness.
“I don’t know? really? Crazy spandom? Haven’t you heard of it?”
“It’s not a good habit to ask for the same answer multiple times.”
Russell sneered, and after thinking for a while, he nodded in agreement.
“You are right. It’s not a good habit.”
smiling brightly…
“But this time, make sure to remember. Crazy spandom. So…”
He raised his sword.
“-Because I can leave at least the tombstone of who died.”
Flash!
The same sword attack as the first!
The sword light flashed and the distance between the two quickly decreased.
A speed as if it were squeezing and compressing space!
Russell gritted his teeth at the gap that was rapidly shrinking.
‘The top priority is to escape!’
It would be better to make a successful blow to create a gap and then increase the distance between them.
The magic was completed as quickly as the judgment.
Blink.
sorcerer and swordsman.
The most important thing in a fight between the two is to set the interval, he had learned to tire of it in the real world as well as in the academy.
If caught, if only I could open the distance against the wizard’s defeat-!
‘A wizard who can strike and hit firepower is more advantageous!’
Flash!
The accumulated magic exploded and the light flashed.
Russell’s model suddenly disappeared on the spot.
Parbat-.
The place where his new form reappeared was after it had already moved more than a hundred meters to the back of Spandom.
It was clear that even a sword attack that flew more than 30 meters would not reach this point properly.
‘Then start magic-.’
It didn’t take long for me to realize that it was a mistake.
dragon-swallowed wizard
