TL: xLordFifth
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Tak, tak, tak, tak…….
Only after they were all gone did Alexander stop charging. The light emitted from the spear faded in line with his slowly stopping footsteps.
[Alexander!]
“Bailephus.”
In the place where Faust and all the undead disappeared, only traces of the emperor’s tracks remained.
“We need to contact Ha Leeha.”
[Do it right now.]
Faust ran away not long after Lee Jiwon and Ram Hwajeong retreated.
Leeha: Come again?
After receiving the whisper, Leeha just wanted to cry.
He just got a call from Lee Jiwon and Lim Hwajeong.
And what else is Alexander saying now?
“Did I miss anything..?! No, I didn’t miss anything.”
“What, what’s wrong with your face? Are you listening?”
Ram Hwayeon spoke to Leeha without knowing what was going on. Leeha summarized the current situation.
‘It’s accidental, but considering the war, at least two teams have almost been killed. But none of the teams- however, even Alexander couldn’t catch Faust?’
At least Alexander was able to drive Faust away.
It meant that if it wasn’t for Kuzgunak’sh’s interference, Bailephus could have blocked the space.
But what about the other two teams?
‘Lee Jiwon and Ram Hwajeong had a tie- no, they are prideful so they said it was a tie… but they lost.’
The individual battle score was 1:2.
It was as if the board of the subjugation operation against the Demon King’s army, which Leeha had barely gained the upper hand, had suddenly tilted.
“Ram Hwayeon-ssi, I need to go and take a look.”
“What? Where?”
“Look at the city for a while. Sorry.”
“Ha Leeha?! Wait-! Where are you going-”
Shyuuk-! Leeha momentarily looked at the friend’s window and immediately activated the crystal ball.
“Huuk, huuk, huuk……. Crowley? Igor?”
“Kyahahaha! You’re late! You told us to come here-”
“Shh. Shut up and check first. The same goes for you, Igor. Have you contacted Chiyou?”
“What are you talking about, you damned lizard?”
“Have you ever contacted Chiyou?! Or, I want you to check to see if any of Chiyou’s spies have followed you!”
Faust also contacted Crowley and Igor right before escaping from Alexander, so it was not unusual for them to meet.
Igor and Crowley, who arrived first, had a triumphant look on their faces, but Faust prioritized checking.
“No! Go to the tavern that high-demand bitch and play properly-”
“No, we will do no such thing in the future. At least as long as we belong to the Demon King’s army.”
Faust mercilessly cut off Crowley’s excited words.
Hearing the conversation, Igor grinned and smiled.
“I see. You mean that damned whore sold us out?”
“Probably……. All the places we were staying were provided by her.”
Faust gritted his teeth and muttered. Only then did Crowley realize the seriousness of the situation.
“Waaa? Come to think of it, it really is like that! Chiyou told me about it, and it was a secret that no one knew about! The 1st, 2nd, and 9th rankers appeared as if they had been waiting for us!”
There were no idiots from the Demon King’s army who would dismiss it as a mere ‘coincidence’. It was only natural for them to suspect Chiyou.
No one had even registered her as a friend, and all of them had blocked off her whispers.
“For the time being we have to take advantage of the circumstances, we will have to go on foot.”
“Kukukuku, where are we going? Do we have anywhere to go? It’s not easy to avoid because that madwoman’s eyes are everywhere.”
Faust gave a quick order, and Igor showed his teeth and smiled. His expression showed the joy of defeating Lee Jiwon and was able to greatly preserve Czar’s power.
Faust pondered for a moment before opening his mouth. He knew for a fact that Chiyou’s unknown ‘information network’ was excellent. Moreover, she belonged to Minis.
Getting out of her backyard was the first priority.
“……Let’s go to Fibiel.”
“You want to cross the border?”
“If we go there, there is something that could give us strength. Are you ready?”
Although their plans changed a little, Faust was determined.
‘The quest rewards changes in proportion to the damage done to humanity and its duration. I can never get caught.’
If they logged out for a certain period of time, the quest would be lost, so the Demon King’s army’s soldiers are forced to move only inside Middle Earth.
“What are you thinking about?! Let’s go! It’s a pity that there are only a few reagent bottles left, but-”
Crowley whizzed around, and in the space where there was nothing until just now, an ice golem fell.
Craash-! And started rebuilding itself.
“-I’m not like I was before. But I still have Nudugi.”
Looking at Crowley’s strength, Faust nodded.
“……Good. Igor?”
“This is driving me crazy. The three bastards that I wanted to kill are already after us.”
“You need to be careful of Ha Leeha as much as them.”
Faust’s ability wasn’t shallow either, he was able to assume that Ha Leeha would be chasing them without being told by Chiyou.
“Kyahahaha, that’s even better. Very good. Whether they are rankers or outsiders, they can come anytime. I will squeeze the blood out of all of them.”
“Let’s move as soon as the sun goes down.”
Of course, it was his mistake to assume that he wouldn’t be able to rally the rankers or bring about any change to the situation.
As soon as the sun went down, the Demon King’s army began to move, and it wasn’t until a while later that Chiyou found out.
It was at that moment that the face of the intelligence guild guild master crumpled.
***
Chiyou vented her anger to her heart’s content in a high-class bar she owned.
“You weren’t able to find Faust?!”
“Sorry. Oka-san. Marking does not work on-”
“Eeek-! P-please, drink more water!”
Shinobi-gumi’s men could not chase them as Faust’s group completely hid their tracks.
There were users with tracking and hunting skills, however, the level of their skills was not enough to chase after Faust, Igor, and Crowley.
“How on earth did those guys know about our hideout?! You said that Ha Leeha stayed in the same place! You said he did not contact Alexander or Lee Jiwon!”
It was just as Faust had worried about. Chiyou had also laid enough ‘eyes’ around the jungle he had designated for them.
It was after they had already heard reports that Alexander, Lee Jiwon, and Ram Hwajeong appeared.
“That…… I’m sorry. We have yet to determine whether Ha Leeha had something to do with them-”
“Are you blind? Sasuke! Are you a fool?! Don’t you have any idea why rivals like Alexander and Lee Jiwon worked together?! It means someone is behind them! If it is related to the Demon King’s quest, of course, it is Ha Leeha!”
Chiyou was indeed the head of the Intelligence Guild. She was able to put all the pieces together. Sasuke just kept his head down like a criminal.
“And most importantly, Ram Hwajeong also made a move! It was already in front of your eyes, Ram Hwajeong was sitting next to Ha Leeha!”
“I thought she went to Castle Dale-”
“-Huuuuu……”
Chiyou closed her mouth. It was because it was she herself who made Sasuke think that ‘Ram Hwajeong would have gone to Castle Dale.
“Did you say Ha Leeha disappeared again?”
“Yes.”
“Call all of Shinobi-gumi. Stop everything you’re doing and focus on a new target.”
“..I don’t know how to say it but, is Bluebeard that important?”
“Of course. That NPC is the center of Middle Earth [Phase 2]! How long will we live under the control of trash NPCs or users? If we want to be able to hold this continent we need to get in touch with NPCs like that.”
“I understand. Then the new targets…”
Sasuke did not finish his words.
The subordinate, who completely trusted her judgment, waited for a new order from her.
“The Three Musketeers, Ha Leeha, Kidd, and Luger. Fibiel’s NPC Browless, Alexander, Lee Jiwon, and Ram Hwajeong. And the Demon King’s army or the demon noble monsters. In other words, spread the name of everyone involved in this case. You have to find them no matter what. Now that we know we can’t find Blue Beard ourselves, we have no choice but to follow them.”
“Understood!”
In the confrontation between the subjugation team and the Demon King’s army.
They had to hide, seek, and pursue, and they were playing hide and seek, pouring all their information, connections, and knowledge.
Another disadvantage for Chiyou was that she had a very wide field of vision. Having a wide field of vision would sometimes cause her to have a hard time seeing those who are hiding beneath her feet.
Chiyo couldn’t even guess who was in the huge new restaurant on the southwestern outskirts of Gaza City, exactly symmetrical with Chiyo’s pub located on the northeastern outskirts of City Kazua.
A building was under construction, southwest of the Gaza City.
It was a boutique Leeha had designed in order to bring profits, and was in progress at the same time as Ram Hwayeon’s urban restoration.
Its main purpose was to gather information, and at the time they would have never thought that it would be used as a hideout, but they instinctively felt that it was ‘Divine Intervention’.
Worker NPCs could be seen moving back and forth from time to time, but even they did not know what kind of people were gathered on the 3rd floor inside the building.
“Thank you, Madam.”
“It is nothing. You didn’t forget the tax rate benefit for 3 months, right?”
“That promise was related to the hatchling, right? I haven’t checked the data yet, so there’s no definitive answer… I will definitely repay you for providing me with a shelter like this.”
“Huhut, you are thorough. Still, I liked that side of Ha Leeha-ssi. Then, have a good time everyone! Don’t worry, I will stop other people from going up!”
Ju left the room winking at the gathered people.
Click- Leeha’s expression changed horribly at the sound of the door closing.
“Do you know what the situation is like now?”
Leeha’s voice was different from his usual voice.
The atmosphere made the people gathered in the room look at each other.
Of course, among them were Luger and Kidd, who were fiddling with their guns with expressions that made it seem like what was happening had nothing to do with them.
“I am sorry. The moment I saw Kuzgunak’sh’s undead form, I was not able to control myself. As an ancient, I feel like I lack diligence.”
Bailephus, wearing golden armor, was the first to speak speak. The gold dragon bowed its head.
Alexander, who was next to him, also bowed lightly, but there was no way that Leeha’s anger could be relieved.
“No, that- Haaa……. Bailephus-ssi, you are over 5000 years old, aren’t you?! If you are that old, you should have – you should have endured such an important moment! You just needed to follow them! If you had followed them all the way to their gathering location, we could have wiped them out in one fell swoop! No, if you were going to be impatient, you should have at least killed Faust! You missed the chance-”
“……I am sorry.”
How many users could receive an apology from an ancient gold dragon?
However, no one in the room paid attention to that.
Lee Jiwon-ssi and Ram Hwajeong-ssi both have their own pride that got trampled on.
“Haaa… . What is that? Not only in terms of position difference, but also in terms of skill, but it is enough! You were about to lose and ran away like that.-”
“I didn’t lose. It’s a draw.”
“Hyung-nim! Did you just say I ran away?! Wasn’t Igor was on the brink of death?”
“Just admit it, no matter how many times you say it’s a draw, you lost. It’s because you ran away while fighting those who have lower skills..”
“Haha. You should have left that to me. What did you expect leaving it to shitheads? The one who came up with such a strategy is stupid.”
“Shut up, Luger. I don’t want to waste energy right now.”
Luger found it nice to see that people who have more fame than him got scolded by Leeha. He was smiling.
Leeha sent a whisper to Fernand, barely holding back his desire to hit Luger.
(To be continued…)
TL: xLordFifth
ED:
Tak, tak, tak, tak…….
Only after they were all gone did Alexander stop charging. The light emitted from the spear faded in line with his slowly stopping footsteps.
[Alexander!]
“Bailephus.”
In the place where Faust and all the undead disappeared, only traces of the emperor’s tracks remained.
“We need to contact Ha Leeha.”
[Do it right now.]
Faust ran away not long after Lee Jiwon and Ram Hwajeong retreated.
Leeha: Come again?
After receiving the whisper, Leeha just wanted to cry.
He just got a call from Lee Jiwon and Lim Hwajeong.
And what else is Alexander saying now?
“Did I miss anything..?! No, I didn’t miss anything.”
“What, what’s wrong with your face? Are you listening?”
Ram Hwayeon spoke to Leeha without knowing what was going on. Leeha summarized the current situation.
‘It’s accidental, but considering the war, at least two teams have almost been killed. But none of the teams- however, even Alexander couldn’t catch Faust?’
At least Alexander was able to drive Faust away.
It meant that if it wasn’t for Kuzgunak’sh’s interference, Bailephus could have blocked the space.
But what about the other two teams?
‘Lee Jiwon and Ram Hwajeong had a tie- no, they are prideful so they said it was a tie… but they lost.’
The individual battle score was 1:2.
It was as if the board of the subjugation operation against the Demon King’s army, which Leeha had barely gained the upper hand, had suddenly tilted.
“Ram Hwayeon-ssi, I need to go and take a look.”
“What? Where?”
“Look at the city for a while. Sorry.”
“Ha Leeha?! Wait-! Where are you going-”
Shyuuk-! Leeha momentarily looked at the friend’s window and immediately activated the crystal ball.
“Huuk, huuk, huuk……. Crowley? Igor?”
“Kyahahaha! You’re late! You told us to come here-”
“Shh. Shut up and check first. The same goes for you, Igor. Have you contacted Chiyou?”
“What are you talking about, you damned lizard?”
“Have you ever contacted Chiyou?! Or, I want you to check to see if any of Chiyou’s spies have followed you!”
Faust also contacted Crowley and Igor right before escaping from Alexander, so it was not unusual for them to meet.
Igor and Crowley, who arrived first, had a triumphant look on their faces, but Faust prioritized checking.
“No! Go to the tavern that high-demand bitch and play properly-”
“No, we will do no such thing in the future. At least as long as we belong to the Demon King’s army.”
Faust mercilessly cut off Crowley’s excited words.
Hearing the conversation, Igor grinned and smiled.
“I see. You mean that damned whore sold us out?”
“Probably……. All the places we were staying were provided by her.”
Faust gritted his teeth and muttered. Only then did Crowley realize the seriousness of the situation.
“Waaa? Come to think of it, it really is like that! Chiyou told me about it, and it was a secret that no one knew about! The 1st, 2nd, and 9th rankers appeared as if they had been waiting for us!”
There were no idiots from the Demon King’s army who would dismiss it as a mere ‘coincidence’. It was only natural for them to suspect Chiyou.
No one had even registered her as a friend, and all of them had blocked off her whispers.
“For the time being we have to take advantage of the circumstances, we will have to go on foot.”
“Kukukuku, where are we going? Do we have anywhere to go? It’s not easy to avoid because that madwoman’s eyes are everywhere.”
Faust gave a quick order, and Igor showed his teeth and smiled. His expression showed the joy of defeating Lee Jiwon and was able to greatly preserve Czar’s power.
Faust pondered for a moment before opening his mouth. He knew for a fact that Chiyou’s unknown ‘information network’ was excellent. Moreover, she belonged to Minis.
Getting out of her backyard was the first priority.
“……Let’s go to Fibiel.”
“You want to cross the border?”
“If we go there, there is something that could give us strength. Are you ready?”
Although their plans changed a little, Faust was determined.
‘The quest rewards changes in proportion to the damage done to humanity and its duration. I can never get caught.’
If they logged out for a certain period of time, the quest would be lost, so the Demon King’s army’s soldiers are forced to move only inside Middle Earth.
“What are you thinking about?! Let’s go! It’s a pity that there are only a few reagent bottles left, but-”
Crowley whizzed around, and in the space where there was nothing until just now, an ice golem fell.
Craash-! And started rebuilding itself.
“-I’m not like I was before. But I still have Nudugi.”
Looking at Crowley’s strength, Faust nodded.
“……Good. Igor?”
“This is driving me crazy. The three bastards that I wanted to kill are already after us.”
“You need to be careful of Ha Leeha as much as them.”
Faust’s ability wasn’t shallow either, he was able to assume that Ha Leeha would be chasing them without being told by Chiyou.
“Kyahahaha, that’s even better. Very good. Whether they are rankers or outsiders, they can come anytime. I will squeeze the blood out of all of them.”
“Let’s move as soon as the sun goes down.”
Of course, it was his mistake to assume that he wouldn’t be able to rally the rankers or bring about any change to the situation.
As soon as the sun went down, the Demon King’s army began to move, and it wasn’t until a while later that Chiyou found out.
It was at that moment that the face of the intelligence guild guild master crumpled.
***
Chiyou vented her anger to her heart’s content in a high-class bar she owned.
“You weren’t able to find Faust?!”
“Sorry. Oka-san. Marking does not work on-”
“Eeek-! P-please, drink more water!”
Shinobi-gumi’s men could not chase them as Faust’s group completely hid their tracks.
There were users with tracking and hunting skills, however, the level of their skills was not enough to chase after Faust, Igor, and Crowley.
“How on earth did those guys know about our hideout?! You said that Ha Leeha stayed in the same place! You said he did not contact Alexander or Lee Jiwon!”
It was just as Faust had worried about. Chiyou had also laid enough ‘eyes’ around the jungle he had designated for them.
It was after they had already heard reports that Alexander, Lee Jiwon, and Ram Hwajeong appeared.
“That…… I’m sorry. We have yet to determine whether Ha Leeha had something to do with them-”
“Are you blind? Sasuke! Are you a fool?! Don’t you have any idea why rivals like Alexander and Lee Jiwon worked together?! It means someone is behind them! If it is related to the Demon King’s quest, of course, it is Ha Leeha!”
Chiyou was indeed the head of the Intelligence Guild. She was able to put all the pieces together. Sasuke just kept his head down like a criminal.
“And most importantly, Ram Hwajeong also made a move! It was already in front of your eyes, Ram Hwajeong was sitting next to Ha Leeha!”
“I thought she went to Castle Dale-”
“-Huuuuu……”
Chiyou closed her mouth. It was because it was she herself who made Sasuke think that ‘Ram Hwajeong would have gone to Castle Dale.
“Did you say Ha Leeha disappeared again?”
“Yes.”
“Call all of Shinobi-gumi. Stop everything you’re doing and focus on a new target.”
“..I don’t know how to say it but, is Bluebeard that important?”
“Of course. That NPC is the center of Middle Earth [Phase 2]! How long will we live under the control of trash NPCs or users? If we want to be able to hold this continent we need to get in touch with NPCs like that.”
“I understand. Then the new targets…”
Sasuke did not finish his words.
The subordinate, who completely trusted her judgment, waited for a new order from her.
“The Three Musketeers, Ha Leeha, Kidd, and Luger. Fibiel’s NPC Browless, Alexander, Lee Jiwon, and Ram Hwajeong. And the Demon King’s army or the demon noble monsters. In other words, spread the name of everyone involved in this case. You have to find them no matter what. Now that we know we can’t find Blue Beard ourselves, we have no choice but to follow them.”
“Understood!”
In the confrontation between the subjugation team and the Demon King’s army.
They had to hide, seek, and pursue, and they were playing hide and seek, pouring all their information, connections, and knowledge.
Another disadvantage for Chiyou was that she had a very wide field of vision. Having a wide field of vision would sometimes cause her to have a hard time seeing those who are hiding beneath her feet.
Chiyo couldn’t even guess who was in the huge new restaurant on the southwestern outskirts of Gaza City, exactly symmetrical with Chiyo’s pub located on the northeastern outskirts of City Kazua.
A building was under construction, southwest of the Gaza City.
It was a boutique Leeha had designed in order to bring profits, and was in progress at the same time as Ram Hwayeon’s urban restoration.
Its main purpose was to gather information, and at the time they would have never thought that it would be used as a hideout, but they instinctively felt that it was ‘Divine Intervention’.
Worker NPCs could be seen moving back and forth from time to time, but even they did not know what kind of people were gathered on the 3rd floor inside the building.
“Thank you, Madam.”
“It is nothing. You didn’t forget the tax rate benefit for 3 months, right?”
“That promise was related to the hatchling, right? I haven’t checked the data yet, so there’s no definitive answer… I will definitely repay you for providing me with a shelter like this.”
“Huhut, you are thorough. Still, I liked that side of Ha Leeha-ssi. Then, have a good time everyone! Don’t worry, I will stop other people from going up!”
Ju left the room winking at the gathered people.
Click- Leeha’s expression changed horribly at the sound of the door closing.
“Do you know what the situation is like now?”
Leeha’s voice was different from his usual voice.
The atmosphere made the people gathered in the room look at each other.
Of course, among them were Luger and Kidd, who were fiddling with their guns with expressions that made it seem like what was happening had nothing to do with them.
“I am sorry. The moment I saw Kuzgunak’sh’s undead form, I was not able to control myself. As an ancient, I feel like I lack diligence.”
Bailephus, wearing golden armor, was the first to speak speak. The gold dragon bowed its head.
Alexander, who was next to him, also bowed lightly, but there was no way that Leeha’s anger could be relieved.
“No, that- Haaa……. Bailephus-ssi, you are over 5000 years old, aren’t you?! If you are that old, you should have – you should have endured such an important moment! You just needed to follow them! If you had followed them all the way to their gathering location, we could have wiped them out in one fell swoop! No, if you were going to be impatient, you should have at least killed Faust! You missed the chance-”
“……I am sorry.”
How many users could receive an apology from an ancient gold dragon?
However, no one in the room paid attention to that.
Lee Jiwon-ssi and Ram Hwajeong-ssi both have their own pride that got trampled on.
“Haaa… . What is that? Not only in terms of position difference, but also in terms of skill, but it is enough! You were about to lose and ran away like that.-”
“I didn’t lose. It’s a draw.”
“Hyung-nim! Did you just say I ran away?! Wasn’t Igor was on the brink of death?”
“Just admit it, no matter how many times you say it’s a draw, you lost. It’s because you ran away while fighting those who have lower skills..”
“Haha. You should have left that to me. What did you expect leaving it to shitheads? The one who came up with such a strategy is stupid.”
“Shut up, Luger. I don’t want to waste energy right now.”
Luger found it nice to see that people who have more fame than him got scolded by Leeha. He was smiling.
Leeha sent a whisper to Fernand, barely holding back his desire to hit Luger.
(To be continued…)
