84. Salvation
“Report!”
After a while.
A soldier who had left to deliver the news hurriedly came running.
“How is the situation!”
“It is as you said!”
He shouted as he pushed the documents brought by the soldier.
“The guards at the west gate of the east gate of Kamar were also attacked by fishmen from Pitsta!”
“From the east gate to the west gate?”
“I’ll see you in a minute.”
Kang Seung-hyun looked at the documents the soldier had brought.
It was said that many soldiers were attacked by fishmen and injured.
‘I knew it.’
Right now, the guards at the south gate of Camar south of Pitsta Lake suffered little damage.
The number of fishmen that attacked was the largest, but Kang Seung-hyeon wiped them all out.
However, in other regions the situation was different.
The number of fishmen attacked was smaller than that of the South Gate, but it was difficult to deal with it properly, so the damage was great.
‘Other places have gone wild too.’
According to the document, it was also written that the bodies of some of the injured soldiers began to change like fish-men, such as their skin turning blue or scales sprouting.
‘Symptoms of mutation, a typical irony.’
As Kang Seung-hyun thought, other soldiers were also showing ironic symptoms of mutation.
“…good job making ample supplies.”
Three hours have passed since the fishmen attacked the south gate of Camar.
As the rate of mutation symptoms varies depending on the wound site and constitution, patients in the terminal stage of mutation must have appeared.
‘I should have moved a little faster.’
Once you completely transform into a fish-man, no matter how good the cure is, it won’t work.
Because this is a medicine that cures half-fish, who are neither human nor fish-man.
“Now the patients are in the Kamar Guards Infirmary!”
“Let’s go right away.”
“Follow Healer Kang Seung-hyun!”
Kang Seung-hyeon took several Kamar soldiers and headed to the Kamar infirmary.
-I expected it, but the infirmary was a mess.
“Aaaaaaagh!”
“My body…!”
“Uruk uraaaa!”
“Really…ugh!”
Several soldiers lost their reason and turned into fishmen.
Mutation patients who still have reason but are terrified at the sight of their colleagues.
And even healers who don’t know what to do with this situation.
It was just chaos.
bang!
[Summons Freea’s crossbow.]
Freea’s crossbow was created in the hand of Kang Seung-hyun, who entered the door.
[Fria’s bond pouch]
[Generates half-fish medicine arrows.]
‘I can’t afford to feed the medicine one by one.’
Kang Seung-hyun made a cure into an arrow, and then
PABABABAK!!
As soon as you see it, it started to rampage.
In order to feed an unspecified number of people with a cure, shooting it with a crossbow is the fastest and most effective way.
“Ugh?”
“This…is this…!?”
“My body is getting back to normal!”
The soldiers who did not have severe symptoms stopped mutating and returned to humans, but shouted
“Rurr!”
“Uraaaaagh!”
“Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
Some soldiers, instead of returning to human form even when hit by a medicine arrow, howled and ran wild in pain like beasts.
They are already out of hand monsters.
“How can it be!”
“Soldiers…!”
“I can’t help those who have already changed.”
Kang Seung-hyeon aimed the crossbow and said.
Once they have turned into fishmen, they are no longer patients. I have no intention of showing mercy unless I am a patient.
“If we don’t deal with it quickly, other healthy people will also be infected.”
Even if they were human in the past, their blood is fatal to other humans as long as they have turned into fishmen.
If left alone, it will create another half-fish man.
“You don’t want to see something like that in the middle of Qamar, right?”
“Keueueugh…”
“I’m sorry…”
The Kamar soldiers raised their weapons in pain. They say they are now fishmen, but at one time they were colleagues wearing the same Camar armor.
‘It must be a bit difficult to kill them with their own hands.’
Wouldn’t it be an adventurer to come out at this time?
Kang Seung-hyun glanced at Kim Ho-jung.
Kim Ho-jeong nodded and took out the bloodstone.
“We will take care of the fish, so you evacuate the people.”
“Leave the tough work to the adventurer.”
The two men with their weapons out took the lead.
“I’ll give you several bottles of treatment, so if you have a patient with symptoms of mutation, treat it yourself.”
“I see.”
“please!”
The Qamar soldiers listened to the two men and began guiding them.
“This way!”
“Everyone beware!”
“Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
As the people fled outside, the fishmen began to pursue them.
“Where!”
[Vampire impulse!]
[Attack power increases for a certain period of time.]
Kang!
While Kim Ho-jung pulled out his sword to block the fisherman, Kang Seung-hyun pulled out a crimson ruby.
[Concentrate!]
[Receives the effect of ‘Concentration’ for a certain period of time.]
[Evasion rate rises!]
Break!
With the sound of weapons breaking, Kim Ho-jung’s sword broke.
“ah!! shit!! It’s broken!!”
It seems that the durability of the sword has reached its limit because of breaking the ice bridge earlier.
“I did use that for a while.”
“It’s a pity.”
Kim Ho-jung looked at the broken knife and stepped back.
Kang Seung-hyeon aimed his crossbow.
[Harpoon Arrow★]
When I pulled the trigger, a black harpoon-shaped arrow was fired from the crossbow.
‘The harpoon arrow’s skill is specialized for underwater warfare, so it’s a bit slow outside the water, but…’
Pabak!
Harpoon arrows pierced the fishmen’s bodies. The fisherman screamed and stepped back.
‘It doesn’t matter if fish people slow down outside the water.’
Every time an arrow pierced the fisherman’s body, the fisherman’s blood splattered in all directions.
“I just don’t have any weapons I can use other than that… Mr. Kang, lend me your knife.”
“Because it shouldn’t be broken.”
“Should I just die then…? Then it’s comfortable.”
“You can pick up another weapon.”
The blue silver dagger I am using now is a borrowed item.
If you lend it to Kim Ho-jung, it will most likely break.
‘If you’re going to use it as a weapon, something stronger…’
Kang Seung-hyeon looked around.
A miscellaneous toolbox in the corner of the infirmary caught my eye.
“How about this? I’m fine.”
“Isn’t this… a shovel?”
Kang Seung-hyun threw a kamar shovel.
It seems that the Kamar soldiers also shovel whenever they have a chance.
“Honestly, Kim Ho-jeong looks better with a blunt weapon than a knife.”
The best match is a bare fist, but if you have to pick up a weapon, a blunt weapon with strong power is better.
It’s not like I’m particularly good at knives.
“Shovel… shovel…”
Kim Ho-jung looked at the kamar shovel and ran to it and began to wield it.
“I don’t know!”
The shovel performed better than I thought, so I was able to inflict much stronger damage.
“You shouldn’t have eaten a shovel before.”
Kang Seung-hyun pulled the trigger from behind and took care of the approaching fishmen.
“Grumble….”
One fisherman collapsed, followed by another fisherman.
“There are only a few left….”
“Rurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”
At that time, a fisherman threw the bed in the infirmary. The harpoon arrow is good for catching fish, but it’s not a skill to catch flying beds.
‘Sheesh!’
thud!!
Kang Seung-hyun pulled the trigger and at the same time avoided the flying bed and evaded his body to the side.
The fisherman who threw the bed was hit by an arrow and fell down, but
shouted “Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
A fishman aimed at Kang Seung-hyeon, who had evaded it, and charged at him screaming.
“I’m going to be a tanker!”
Just as the fisherman was about to bite Kang Seung-hyeon, Kim Ho-jung rushed at him.
Wow!!
Kim Ho-jung’s forearm was bitten by the fish man’s teeth and even splashed with red blood, but
“I don’t care if I get bitten!”
Kim Ho-jeong swung the shovel with a face that said she didn’t care at all.
Fuck!
The moment the fishman stumbled after being hit by the shovel, Kang Seung-hyeon aimed the crossbow at the fisherman’s head.
“….”
[Harpoon arrow ★]
Wow!!
When he pulled the trigger of the crossbow, the harpoon arrow pierced the fishman’s head at once.
The fisherman stopped moving and collapsed.
dump!
“Did you sort it out with this?”
“For now.”
[Freeah’s crossbow disappears.]
Kang Seung-hyun examined his body. Her body and clothes were covered in fishman’s blood.
‘It’s only natural that this happens when fighting fishmen on land.’
Kang Seung-hyeon brushed off the fishman’s blood from his body.
It does not enter the body, so there is no need to take medicine.
“Kim Ho-jeong is…”
“I am immune to ‘different’ mutations.”
Kim Ho-jung looked at the bitten arm and said.
If it was a normal person, the symptoms of mutation would have been ironic, but his arm was intact.
“There is no way to become a fisherman.”
Kim Ho-jeong is immune to body transformation attacks thanks to her special skills.
“That’s right.”
“But treat the wounds. It really hurts.”
There’s no way to become a fishman, but that doesn’t mean the injuries are gone.
Kang Seung-hyun took out a bandage and medicine.
“It’s bittersweet.”
While his arm was being treated, Kim Ho-jeong looked around.
The corpses of miserable things that were once human, but now met death as fishmen, were strewn about.
“It must be very difficult for the people of Azul Continent to live. It’s a tough neighborhood to live in.”
“It’s unfortunate. If there had been an ironic cure in the city of Camar, this wouldn’t have happened.”
“Say that.”
Kamar relied solely on protection magic and was unable to properly deal with situations where magic was neutralized.
“If it hadn’t been for the fact that there were guards, Kamar would have perished.”
The two adventurers prayed for the souls of the fallen soldiers.
– “He came out!”
When the two went out of the infirmary, there was a large crowd of Kamar soldiers and people.
It seems he was waiting impatiently.
“My name is Sepen, Captain of the Kamar West Gate Guard.”
“I’m Kang Seung-hyun’s healer.”
After introducing his name, the captain of the guard approached Kang Seung-hyeon.
“The… how was the situation?”
“We saved people to save, but we couldn’t help those who were too late.”
“I see…”
Sepen nodded with a confused face.
There comes a moment in life when you can’t save everyone.
“Even though he turned into a fish man, he was a soldier of Camar. I plan to hold a funeral appropriate for him.”
“You take care of the rest.”
The adventurer’s work ends here.
The rest is up to the soldiers to figure it out.
“Thanks to you, I live.”
Thanks to Kang Seung-hyun’s cure, the worst could have been prevented. Without him, fishmen would have appeared in the middle of Camar.
“If I had known there would be so many patients, I would have taken more livers.”
I’ve used up all the remedies I made earlier.
Also, it is difficult to have a patient, so I think I will have to make more treatments when I have time.
“For this work, the Camar Guard will officially reward you through the Adventurer’s Guild.”
“thank you! Adventurer!”
Receiving rewards through the Adventurer Guild increases your value as an Adventurer.
It will take a bit of commission, but it will become famous as much as it is.
“Well, he’ll take care of the reward… The important thing is that we were planning to leave Camar today in a wagon.”
When I looked up at the sky, it was stained black.
It’s night now, not day.
“Aren’t there any wagons going out?”
“As it stands now, yes.”
The city of Camar is desperately guarded by mages, but not outside the city.
“It’s a situation where monsters are boiling over…”
“It’s probably like that.”
I guess I’ll have to give up going out in a wagon.
You can walk if you want, but it is tiring to travel long distances without a carriage.
“If you need any help, please feel free to contact us. We will do our best to help.”
The head of the front guard bowed his head and left with the soldiers.
Kim Ho-jeong scratched her head and muttered.
“Then how are we?”
“I guess I’ll have to stay in Kamar for the night. I need to replenish the potion.”
Going out of town in the middle of the night is for a fool with nothing to do anyway.
I’ll have to think about the details tomorrow.
“Then… shall we eat first?”
“Let’s deal with this first.”
“Ah, Mr. Kang, you said you fought a rare monster, right?”
What Kang Seung-hyun took out was a rare artifact.
“Because I got it by catching a Pizta fisherman. I think something useful will come out.”
