My Villains Episode 044
12. The Night of the Fireflies (2)
I suddenly thought of the science fiction novel ‘The Invisible Man’.
In that novel, I remember that the setting was quite harsh for the main character to invent and take a drug that makes the body invisible.
Even the retina becomes transparent and you can’t see
, or you have to take off all your clothes to become fully transparent…
On the other hand, the magic potion obtained from Torvald was much more forgiving. I didn’t have to take off my clothes, and my vision didn’t change.
It was embarrassing not to be able to see my own body, but it was not to the point of panic because I was fully prepared.
I moved slowly, taking the utmost care not to hear the clank of my armor.
As I was about to exit, counting the remaining duration, one of the sentries turned his head in my direction.
“What?”
“what’s the matter?”
“Looks like the floor over there just went off.”
“What bullshit?”
No matter how invisible a person was, it was unavoidable to have footprints on the dirt floor.
I held my breath as I stood still as a stone statue, and the sentry, who was resting on a rock, stared at my feet for a moment.
uh i don’t have much time
Even for a moment of nervousness, the sentry yawned and looked away. I swallowed a sigh of relief and moved cautiously.
The thick soles of the boots made a subtle sound whenever they touched the floor, but fortunately the night in May was not so quiet.
In the distance, the sound of lapping waves could be heard, and nearby, the water rushing into the sea flowed noisily.
To that was added the occasional chirping of birds and rustling of animals, and my footsteps melted into a series of noises.
It was clumsy stealth, but the loose guards didn’t notice, and I was able to get into the camp unharmed.
The exit to the secret passage was cut under a small mound rising from the river bank.
Perhaps the river that flows there is the ‘Salt River’? After passing through the small forest on the other side of the river, there would be a plain that the reinforcements had raised a beacon.
Okay, it seems that the encirclement is out of the way as planned… There are more bandits than I thought.
The number of bandits, including the vigilantes gathered around the bonfire in the center, the guards guarding the secret passage, and those asleep near them, seemed to be well over thirty.
There were about a dozen horses tied to a beautiful tree nearby, half of which I thought were Torvald’s.
The other half seemed to belong to six or seven people who had settled near the campfire, but I guessed that because they were well armed.
In the Middle World, horses were quite expensive livestock.
Some of the war horses treated as strategic goods cost hundreds of gold coins, and even cheap mules could only be obtained by spending a few gold coins.
Given this situation, a thief riding a horse was, of course, quite rare. Among the bandits besieging South Harbor, less than half of them could be called true bandits.
In other words, about half of the bandits had the same meaning as the bandits, contrary to their names.
Remembering the guard’s explanation, I approached the bonfire cautiously.
It was quite a thrill to run among the sleeping thieves.
ha i hate this Playing tag or hide-and-seek is just the right color.
Just as I was complaining inwardly, a sudden night wind blew across the river bank.
The bonfire shook and the bushes swayed, so I moved without thinking about it, but the horses that were lying down raised their heads one by one and started to wrestle noisily.
“What the hell is this all of a sudden?”
“Why are you fucking?”
…Damn that’s what I mean.
Apparently, the horses seemed to notice my presence. Maybe it’s because he’s turned his back on the wind.
One of the bandits guarding the campfire looked around with a worried look.
“They wouldn’t do that for nothing. What do you have?”
“It’s a bitch.”
While the rest of the thieves said that, they shook their butts and got up. Then he looked around for a moment and wheezed a little.
“Looks like you got bitten by a bug. Be a bother, you bastards…”
“Where are you going?”
“I need to calm down. Jockey (Ho) New m, no jockeys, if you wake up, you will be beaten for no reason. Come here too.”
“Haha.”
uh this?
The two thieves grumbled and approached the horses. Leave the bonfire alone.
…What kind of windfall is this?
Grateful for the sudden good fortune, he took out a wad of rags wrapped in a lump of poison from his bosom.
I quickly tossed a wad of rags into the fire and climbed a nearby mound.
Tak Tak! A roaring sound rang out a couple of times, but no one thought it strange.
After lying on his stomach among the bushes on the hill, he groped for a pulse while holding his breath.
Sureureung.
The sharp blade let out a low cry, but the campsite was still fast asleep.
Immediately, white smoke began to flow from the bonfire and spread to the floor. Poison pills (毒 A) were burning in the bonfire, spreading mild poison.
According to Ellen, if you inhaled it, you wouldn’t die, but the extremities would stiffen for a while.
While quietly inspecting the camp, I swallowed the pill in my hand.
it’s soggy Due to nervousness, the saliva is dry, so the medicine does not pass well.
Since we settled on high ground, we’ll be able to avoid poisonous smoke from being laid low… but just in case.
If you take the antidote in advance, you should be able to neutralize the poison if you accidentally inhale the smoke.
As white smoke crawled over the campsite, the sentries guarding the secret passage poured out nutmeg letters.
“uh? *sniff sniff* What is this? Some backbone threw wet wood into the bonfire.”
“I know. What the fuck does this smell like?”
The poisonous smoke from the campfire was spread low on the floor, and the sentries only smelled the strange smell, but did not inhale the smoke directly.
good. Wait until the people who sleep like this are moderately poisoned and then signal…
Ugh.
While I was thinking that, I was overcome by a strange sensation as if something was being washed away from my body.
Instinctively, I looked down at my hand to see that the invisibility effect had ended, and the thick leather gloves were shining bright green in the moonlight… …
Wait a minute. light green?
“What is that?”
“Crazy-monster!”
With a sudden shout, the midnight camp began to wake up in a commotion. The guards who were running their feet through the poisonous smoke on the floor were pointing their fingers at me.
The invisibility was said to be gone, but the reason why I was hiding in the bushes above the mound was immediately caught by them…
because I was emitting yellow-green fluorescent light all over my body!
“What the hell is this!”
Since it was a crude magic potion, they said it would have side effects, but wasn’t it just that the duration was short? What if I turn people into fireflies!
“Wake up you bastards!”
“It’s an assault!”
Like skilled thieves, the snoring men rose up in an instant and prepared for battle.
The one who shakes his head to shake off his sleep.
The guy who hurriedly gets up and hits his butt.
The one who picks up a gondendak (a club with a spear point) and stabs his palm and bleeds.
It was very cluttered, but unfortunately it didn’t look like it was paralyzed.
There must have been a lack of either the time for the poison to spread or the power of the poison itself.
“Hey.”
Now that it’s like this, I’m going to run like crazy and pull aggro.
It was because if you let even one of them run away, countless bandits lurking in the reeds would come after you.
I quickly got up and slashed the inside of my palm with the pulse.
As soon as the blade was covered in blood, the ‘thirst’ skill was activated, dyeing the sight red.
Wedge liquid!
A pagong sound that makes your hair grow naturally.
I hurriedly fixed my shield and covered my upper body, and the arrows rushing through the darkness were empty! It was embedded in the shield with a heavy sound.
“What is that? Are you a person?”
“Don’t care, just keep shooting, back shoes!”
It is extremely difficult to shoot an arrow and hit the target at night.
This is because archery was a difficult martial art, and when the darkness of the night was added to it, the field of vision was also limited.
But now the case was a little different. It was because the body, which glittered as if it had been illuminated by a pin, had dispelled the curtain of darkness.
Wedge juice empty!
Crazy arrows never stop! How many archers are there?
It was difficult to see them precisely because of the unequal veil of darkness and the helmet that narrowed the field of view.
Honest moving forward was the only option.
Most of the arrows stuck shallowly into the shield or ricocheted weakly, but there were also occasional hits on the helmet or shin rest.
Every time a tingling shock spread from the hit area with a thumping sound, a strong sense of relief and the thrill of survival licked my spine.
Oh yeah, the armor is the truth. When I go back, I’ll spend all the money I have to buy better armor.
I lowered my upper body a little and tried to cover the area from below the eyes to above the knees with the shield.
The steps that followed were cautious, but without hesitation.
“Kill!”
Did he block a dozen arrows?
As soon as we got down the mound, a bandit jumped at us, brandishing a long-handled lumbering axe. Like chopping firewood, he was in the mood to cut down his shield.
“Whoa
, I held my breath and followed the axe’s trajectory with my eyes. And right before it touched the shield, the boss bulged out in the center of the shield and bounced the ax blade.
Caang!
Enjoying the light vibration from my left hand, I let out a pulse right away.
“Kek keruk.”
The thief whose neck was pierced was dragged by my savage hand and became a shield to cover the archers’ lines of fire.
The thieves panicked at the reckless charge and swung their weapons, but they couldn’t pierce my original shield and meat shield.
“Uh uh uh…”
Phoenix’s height is estimated to be a little less than 190cm.
For such a large warrior to recklessly push with the weight of two men and strength beyond that of a criminal, it became a decent technique in itself.
Even if they were thieves, they were mediocre people, and they were only pushed back helplessly by my bulldozer-like rush.
“Crazy- STOP! Don’t back down and hold on!”
“Poke the gap!”
Loud shouts rang out, but no one resisted properly.
The thieves in the first line, who had been walking backwards, finally got tangled up with the gang in the back row and fell.
I swiftly swung the pulse and decapitated the meat shield and began to slaughter the fallen thieves.
After killing seven people in an instant with a sword full of monstrous power, the ‘real magicians’ finally stepped forward.
“Get out of the way, these scumbags!”
“Don’t disturb me and get out of here!”
The guys who came out shouting wildly were all well armed.
They wore chain mail or chain mail made of wood or bone fragments, and wore nosepieces or iron helmets or two chains.
Four of the seven were holding large shields and swords and iron clubs, while the other three were holding large iron flails or double-edged axes for war.
No, if it’s a magical enemy, isn’t the gokdo or chang a national rule? Why are you using these ignorant weapons?
“Whoa whoa-”
Aside from this dissatisfaction, something hot welled up in her heart, probably due to the effect of the ‘thirst’ skill.
It could be anger for no reason against the enemy, a sense of selfishness ahead of a difficult battle, or a dirty desire for murder.
Whatever it was, I shouted as if I was pouring hot things on the magic bandits who were sneakily surrounding me.
“Quaaaaaagh!”
When two of the demons stopped, frightened by the beastly roar, I jumped forward as if throwing myself.
When he cut his exposed leg under the shield, blood spurted out along with the iron ring, and before he could finish him off, he turned the shield to the side to block the iron club.
Tuong
“Turn it off.”
“Pounce!”
the ensuing melee.
Since they were equipped with proper armor, it was not easy to kill them with a single attack.
When the shield covering the vital points was bounced off, a large ax blade flew in from the side, and when he fired a pulse while avoiding a surprise attack, only shallow wounds were carved because he did not have enough power.
“The wounded man step away for a moment!”
“back! You stupid bastards to aim for the back!”
The seven magicians shouted wildly and attacked even though they received several injuries. He seemed to think that he could catch me if he somehow managed to find an opening and made one successful attack.
However, the fighting spirit of the magicians soon broke.
It was because of the arrows and magic that flew into the back of his head.
Crack the nettle!
An arrow suddenly flew in and hit the shoulder of a demonic enemy holding a shield and an iron club.
Glancing at the direction the arrow flew, the rest of the party, led by Nigrania, came out of the exit and attacked the thieves.
Okay, this isn’t quite a failed night raid.
Meanwhile
, the guy who got hit by the arrow was walking backwards with the arrow hanging from his shoulder, and I didn’t miss the chance and rushed.
“Cheer up!”
When the thunderbolt-like kick struck his shield, the bandit, who had been backing away, rolled over.
The number of people surrounding me instantly increased to six, and half of them were crippled by the arrows flying in succession.
That was it.
The one with the iron flail had his brain ripped out by the pulse that penetrated his eyeball, and the next one had his head slit after his knee was shattered by the blade of his shield.
One of them was pierced by the flames that flew in and engulfed the darkness, and his whole body was engulfed in flames. The other one shouted and got an arrow stuck in his throat.
The one who wielded the double-edged ax broke the clavicle and split the pit to the pit of the stomach and spurted blood like a fountain.
“Oh, what a piece of shit…
The magician, who had been shot down by an arrow, threw away his iron club and started to run away when his comrades were slaughtered in an instant.
But before long, my feet got tangled and I fell hard.
“Why is this happening…
Not only that magic bandit, but other bandits also rolled on the ground instead of running away.
Marjeok, whose limbs were stiff, was crawling on the floor of Eonggeum Eonggeum when he approached his back and discovered a mysterious glow.
The light green glow that radiated from me, which was soaked wet, mixed with dark red blood to give off a strange yellow light.
At that ominous brilliance, the magician began to mutter something while his chin trembled.
“O light that illuminates this royal family, save me.”
It was not a sentence suitable for a thief who commits evil deeds.
“Light up the valley full of death, kuk!”
The clumsy prayer was cut off by the blood-soaked military boots.
“Huh”
I groaned softly as I stretched out.
An unknown sense of fulfillment knocked on the pit of the stomach.
