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[Playing tag]
Kugugoong!
The first vibration was weak.
Therefore, few of the customers who came to the gambling house felt it. Most people’s senses were dulled due to their addiction to alcohol and gambling.
-Cugunggung Kugugung!
However, as the vibrations began to get louder, people who were relatively less drunk and more sensitive began to notice strange symptoms.
“Isn’t it a little… dizzy here?”
“It feels like the floor is shaking….”
And not long after,
coo goo goo goong-!!
A vibration that could clearly be felt was transmitted throughout the building. The glass on the table fell to the floor and broke, and the chandelier on the ceiling swayed dangerously.
“Ugh!”
“Aaaah!”
There were many people falling on the floor and getting hurt. The man and woman who were dancing together got tangled up, rolled on the floor, and the food they were eating spilled out, staining their clothes.
-Kugugugugugugung!
The vibrations became increasingly severe.
Clink! The windows of the hotel were broken one by one.
Grumble! The candlestick fell and the tablecloth caught fire.
As the situation became more serious, people began rushing out of the building.
“It’s an earthquake!”
“Run away quickly!”
The inside of the gambling hall instantly turned into chaos.
The number of casualties increased as people tried to escape through the narrow door, pushing and trampling on each other. Meanwhile, there were people trying to steal money from the gambling establishment.
Among those who managed to get out of the hotel, there were some who claimed that they saw something in vain, perhaps due to severe mental shock.
“I saw a giant as black as coal breaking the floor! I’m sure I saw it! “That monster brought about this disaster!”
A man with a face blackened by fire was shouting like that with a half-crazy expression on his face. But few people paid attention to that.
Everyone was looking at the hotel [Grand Firenza] engulfed in flames.
At first, smoke rose from the basement, but then red-hot flames began to engulf the entire hotel.
Those who escaped watched blankly from a distance as the most expensive firewood in the kingdom burned.
“oh my god. “How much money is in there…”
“I left all my chips in there!”
“Who is in charge! “Who will compensate us for our property?”
People who sit down in their seats and look devastated, people who question who is responsible and demand compensation, and even people who contact someone with a serious expression on their faces.
As countless eyes turned towards the hotel, another strange thing began to occur at the hotel.
-Kugugugugugugung!
-Pow! Pow! Fuuuuuuu!
There were violent vibrations and several explosions, and then a ray of intense light broke through the hotel wall and shot up into the sky.
A beam of white energy shot up from below and streaked across the night sky. Where the light came from, there was a hole the size of a human torso in the hotel wall.
“-This is awesome!”
Some people with sensitive hearing seemed to have heard the shouts of an excited young man.
Even after that, the energy beams continued to explode.
-Paaaa!
-Paaaa!
-Paaaa!
It was a sight reminiscent of a laser show. The rays, which were initially white, even changed color to red, blue, and yellow.
“-This is really the best!”
This time, many more people heard the voice. It was clearly the happy voice of a young man.
However, the voices were soon drowned out by multiple screams, shouts, and the sounds of something being smashed and broken.
“Kwaaaak!”
“Wow!”
“Stop it from going up! no more!”
The ominous, imaginative noises coming from inside the hotel engulfed in flames were getting louder.
Onlookers gathered together and murmured.
“What on earth is going on in there?”
“I know you guys. Is there even a demon sealed away?…”
“Does it look like someone is fighting?”
It was time for the onlookers to slowly retreat.
The lord’s army, which received the report, has just arrived at the scene.
The knight commander who led dozens of knights and wizards and hundreds of soldiers asked the onlookers.
“What is happening!”
People were talking loudly. The driver frowned and took a picture of a few people to explain.
After a while, the knight commander shouted with an expression of bewilderment.
“After all, doesn’t that mean you don’t know anything!”
To summarize, the building suddenly shook, the hotel was engulfed in flames, and when I ran outside, I saw light coming out of there and all kinds of sounds coming from inside.
The knight commander looked back and shouted.
“Get ready to put out the fire!”
At those words, the wizards stepped forward, followed by soldiers carrying carts carrying water tanks and buckets.
Hotel [Grand Firenza] is a specialty of this city.
It was already impossible to calculate the damage, but the fire had to be extinguished as quickly as possible.
And…
the knight commander looked at the hotel engulfed in flames with a nervous expression. Now, the noise of the battle, shouting and screaming, was coming to his ears.
‘Is it true that the Red Goblin betrayed me? ‘Why do you do that?’
The knight commander was a member of Pandemonium.
He received a report through the crystal ball before rushing here. Red Goblin came and suddenly betrayed him and tried to steal the test subject.
It was a report I could not understand at all. The knight commander shouted with a nervous look on his face.
“Quickly extinguish the fire!”
Wizards chanted spells and soldiers carrying carts and buckets carrying water headed forward.
It was then.
Flames erupted from the floor of the building, incomparable to anything seen before.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The flames were not enough to completely cover the building and turned into a huge pillar of fire that seemed to pierce the sky.
The knight commander’s complexion turned white.
“Crazy…”
With a fire that big, nothing inside it would have survived.
And after a while, one side of the pillar of fire split and something came out from within.
Heeheeheehee!
An unusually large black horse stretched out its long legs and galloped west.
Behind it, a black carriage and two wagons connected to a black horse were seen. Strangely enough, the flames did not even come close to the carriage, but the knight commander could see the test subjects crouching inside the carriage.
And he saw something else too.
“!!”
The red mask of the person standing arrogantly on the roof of the carriage and looking down.
At that moment, the knight commander shouted, forgetting that he had to hide his identity.
“Red Goblin!”
The Red Goblin must have heard that voice and turned his head to look this way.
“you! why-!!”
That was the knight commander’s mistake.
At that moment, Red Goblin raised his left hand and aimed at the knight commander, and the hand cannon attached to the back of his hand began to charge with energy.
Wooooow-!
The charged energy condensed into the gun’s muzzle and glowed white.
Feeling anxious, the knight commander turned his body to the side, but
-Paaaaaaa!
At that time, the hand cannon’s muzzle had already fired light.
dump.
The knight commander, no, it was the knight commander whose entire upper body was blown off, fell awkwardly under the horse.
““Commander!!””
The panicked knights and soldiers were struggling, not knowing what to do. Meanwhile, the black carriage was leaving the city at breakneck speed.
And after the steel carriage was completely out of the city
– kwa kwa kwa kwa kwakwa!
The hotel, which was barely able to maintain its shape, collapsed.
The events that occurred in Florence that day spread throughout the continent through the words of eyewitnesses.
***
One of the most famous gambling establishments on the continent has been robbed!
It wasn’t just a simple theft or robbery.
A major incident in which the building itself was completely burned down, most of the security forces were killed, and all the most expensive items were stolen from the treasure trove.
The celebrities created and inflated all kinds of speculations and rumors about the incident.
And whenever people gathered together to talk about it, there was a name that never failed to appear.
“The culprit is Red Goblin?”
“Goblin? “What kind of name is that?”
“Is this your first time hearing this? “The criminal wore a red-faced goblin mask…”
The name the knight commander shouted before his death had already become the criminal’s official name. Moreover, there were more than one person who saw the criminal wearing a mask.
And the person in question
was now glaring at his immediate superior with an angry expression.
The Red Goblin spoke in a hoarse and cracked voice.
“Do you think I betrayed you too?”
Beyond the communication crystal ball, the orc mask frowned.
‘It’s you…’
I wanted to correct the goblin’s arrogant tone right away, but the orc mask held back and said.
[I didn’t say so.]
Red Goblin growled.
“Then why are you asking me to return? I was outside the borders of the kingdom when the fakes were burning down the gambling houses!”
[I know. But things have changed.]
“What on earth has changed!”
[He knew our information. The meeting place and the method of meeting. It means there is a traitor within us.]
“…….”
At that moment, Red Goblin was speechless. It was because I remembered that I had recently told a guy named Ansel about the meeting place.
‘No way, that guy Ansel…’
The Orc mask asked, narrowing its eyes as if sensing something strange.
[Do you know anything?]
“…Nothing. nothing.”
All you have to do is retrieve the child of fire. Then all other mistakes will be forgiven.
[First, we plan to stop all external activities and hunt down internal traitors first. After that, we will have to make a new plan.]
…But if he returns like this and is investigated, he may never be able to come out into the world again.
The Red Goblin gritted his teeth and said.
“I will continue to search for the Fire Child.”
The orc mask looked irritated.
[Goblin. Don’t make me say the same thing over and over again. Please return immediately.]
“I don’t want to.”
At that moment, the orc mask growled fiercely beyond the communication crystal sphere.
[You are going to disobey me now!]
There was a strict hierarchy among the priests.
That meant that the higher priests had absolute command over the lower priests.
A protest was something that could never have happened.
Until now.
Red Goblin said, reaching for the crystal ball.
“I will not return until I find and take the Fire Child.”
[Goblin! It is the last warning! If you don’t return right away…!]
Pick!
The face of the orc mask disappeared from the crystal ball and turned transparent. Red Goblin placed the crystal ball in his arms.
“I won’t go back until I find the Fire Child and tear the fake bastard to death.”
The goblin muttered in a sad voice and came out of the room.
He was staying at a small inn on the outskirts of the city. He was the only guest.
Because they killed all the other customers.
Jump and jump.
As I came down the blood-soaked stairs, I saw drunkards with their heads on the tables.
The Red Goblin was so excited that I killed him first. Then, because he was screaming here and there, he got irritated and killed it again.
As a result, I killed them all before I knew it.
“…….”
Red Goblin looked up at the ceiling. Blood had splattered all the way to the ceiling, staining it red.
“Child of Fire. “It’s the same color as your hair.”
He took out a strand of red hair from his arms.
This was the only clue found where the hotel burned down.
Hair that did not melt even in the flames. I could tell who the owner was without even having to check.
And with this, I no longer needed anyone’s help.
“Whoa-.”
When Red Goblin blew air with his mouth, his hair floated in the air and began to spin in the air.
After a while, the hair stopped pointing in one direction like a compass.
“…It’s not far.”
Red Goblin opened the door and went out.
Hwiiing-.
The cold night wind spread the smell of blood on his body everywhere.
[Tag game] End
ⓒ Ganjjajang
