Journey to the Capital
The rank 4 adventurer party, rcenary of Dawn.
The mbers that ford it are a rank 4 warrior, Dagget. Male, 31 years old. Blue eyes and red hair.
Rank 3 heavy warrior, Randy. Male, 29 years old. Brown eyes and thinning blonde hair.
Ran 3 scout, forr hunter Dankan. Male, 30 years old. Blue eyes and black hair.
Ran 3 sorcerer, Grinda. Light and water elents. Female, 26 years old. Black eyes and brown hair. Daggets lover.
They are my targets. They embezzled the requested item that they should collect and ran away with a necklace that is a family heirloom. The noble that they tricked requested the assassin guild to assassinate them and recover the necklace.
Family heirloom huh
I unconsciously touched my mothers nto inside the amulet pouch on my chest.
If Im in opposition against the assassin guild, there is no need for to do this work, but with a contact of the guild coming to keep watch, I cant slack off.
Im glad that they are scoundrels.
The rcenary of Dawn headed to the large scale dungeon near the capital because although their party has few mbers for their rank, they have good balance and depending on their equipnt, it will be possible for them to stay in the dungeon for a long period.
It will be difficult for to chase after them alone if they dived until the deep floor. To deal with them safely, I should deal with them in the capital or in the city at the south where the dungeon is located, but if I cant catch up to them there, then my only choice is to aim when they return for resupply.
Even so as expected, the most solid plan will be to do it inside the dungeon.
The public order in the capital is too good, so it will be dangerous in a different sense there. But if its in the dungeon, my life will also be at risk, but the sa will also apply to my targets. An opening will show more often the more dangerous it is.
Its my bad habit to think too much about a lot of things. But, if I imagine various situations and prepare counterasure beforehand, Ill be able to take action imdiately when things actually happen.
Even so right now I should take action first rather than thinking too much about things that are still far off in the future.
My assumption and hypothesis will change completely depending on the environnt and situation at the actual site. I need detailed information in order to heighten the precision of my thinking and assumption too.
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I stayed in the neighboring city of the northern frontier districts branch for three days to prepare using the adventurer guild and the shops in the city before departing to the capital.
I couldnt find out who my contact will be even after investigating during those three days. I think they will contact at the actual site but, what I wanted to know is how many contacts there will be.
As long as they are there, I wont be able to take any strange action. Even if I dispose the contact, but if there is more than one contacts and I let them get away, my betrayal will be exposed. I can only pray that at the very least the contact is soone who I can defeat easily.
There are two routes to go to the capital from this territory of Count Heydale.
First is passing through the main route along the sea from the territory of Count Sentrea where I worked last ti. Its the relatively safer road that Elena used before. And then the other route is going straight to the south from Dandall, through the valley of a mountain district. Its dangerous but I can arrive faster with this path.
If I used exclusive high speed carriage like Elena, I might be able to arrive faster using the main road along the sea. But, I will take one month by walking and riding the stagecoach stationed along the way. Its not like carriage cant pass through valley but, even so ordinary carriage and traveler doesnt pass there because of the bird type monsters frequent appearance in the valley.
Only a major company guarded by Dandalls garrison guards will pass through there once a month. Even commoner can co along if they buy the ticket that is issued by the rchant guild, but its really expensive. If one doesnt care about the required ti, normal traveler usually will use the safe route.
But, the route Ill use is the dangerous valley. I intentionally choose the dangerous path in order to beco stronger in short ti.
After that I spent another ten days and passed through several territories of nobles who are the dependents of Margrave Dandall and went south. Then I arrived at a territory of a baron that is close to the mountain district.
Even a free person like wont need to pay that much money to enter a city unless its a big city. Even so I paid one silver coin as the passing fee at the last city and entered inside. There I purchased food and other necessities.
After that I asked for information of monsters in the adventurer guild of that city. The guild here is a desolate place where there are only hunters bringing in monster material when they defeated monster by so chance. The staff who taught a lot about the monsters here also grieved that this city only has few dedicated adventurers.
There are several types of monsters that appeared in the valley, but as expected a subjugation force will be dispatched right away if high ranked monster like griffon appeared, so its appearance hasnt been seen for these ten years. In the first place griffon will target horse. It should prefer to hunt sothing like deer rather attacking walking traveler.
When passing through that valley by food, the small and dium sized monster will beco the problem. There are falcon type monster nad Wind Bird that tore apart its prey with outrageous speed before preying on it, and crow type monster Giant Crow that like to catch traveler and bring them back to its nest for food. Those two types of monsters frequently appeared.
The small Wind Bird is a rank 1 monster, while the dium sized Giant Crow is rank 2, but according to the adventurer guilds hypothetical difficulty level, the Wind Bird is categorized as rank 2 while Giant Crow is rank 3.
The reason for that is simple. Thats because the location is at the valley where there are a lot of obstacles and open sky.
Its difficult even for adventurer with rank 1 or 2 bow skill to hit them. Even rank 2 or 3 warrior cant attack unless the monster co down. To have a proper hunt, sorcerer who can use offensive wind sorcery is necessary, and even then its difficult to hunt the monsters unless with a party that can prepare shield for protecting the sorcerer.
Normally that is.
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Early morning in the next day, I avoided peoples gaze and stepped into the valley while the sky is still dark.
Im passing the bottom of the valley, but its width is only around ten ters at best. The steep cliffs at both sides are around fifty ter high. The place is a bit dark even when its afternoon.
But, its safer to walk here when its dark as long as you have a way to conquer the darkness. The enemy are monsters so they will attack if they feel my presence, even so perhaps because of their bird eye, their search range narrowed when it get dark.
On my way until here, I travelled while training my darkness magic, but its still difficult to activate it and Im still training even now while Im walking through the valley. A monster finally found when it beca noon and the sun shined down on the valley from directly above .
It ca.
I heard a faint sound of sothing slicing through wind, then an instant after that my Search skill caught the presence of sothing small approaching.
I reflexively twisted my body backward and dodged while swinging my black knife as the thing passed , but that presences owner also rotated to dodge the blade and swiveled to the sky mockingly.
The falcon type monsterWind Bird attacked human not on its own by in swarm.
As expected its hard to hit flying opponent with knife. If it can move like that, then hitting it even by throwing knife will depend on luck.
While Im thinking that, the second Wind Bird attacked from the side. Its speed is like arrow. It will be hard to sense them with sight if I fight them properly, but Wind Birds speed will drop only for an instant when they attack.
I focused my Search so that I wont miss that instant and threw my blade to the Wind Bird when it attacked again.
The Wind Bird rotated in the air to dodge that blade, but I matched its movent and controlled the string of the pendulum that I threw.
Gugyah!
The Wind Bird whose wing is cut by the pendulums blade crashed on the ground like arrow. I didnt inflict a lethal blow, but it wont be safe after falling to the ground with that speed.
I also threw a pendulum from my left hand in a curving trajectory instead of straight. It cut apart the wing of another Wind Bird that attacked .
I dont stay in one spot and dodged the Wind Birds attacks with complicated footwork and taking them down with the pendulums drawing an arc through the air.
I paid no mind even when my aim missed. Its good enough if my blades hit accuracy reached thirty percent. But, even if the blade is dodged its aningless if they also dont dodge the string I controlled. The Giant Spider string that I strengthened with my mana cant be cut even by the Wind Birds claws.
I cut their wings or entangled them with string. I took down nearly ten Wind Birds in several minutes. With that the rest stopped approaching and circled around on the sky. One of them fired wind colored magic particles at .
The na Wind Bird isnt just for show. These things can use level 1 wind sorcery Wind Cutter.
Wind type sorcery has good speed and they are also invisible, so its hard to dodge, but my eyes that can see the color of magic particle can dodge as long as there is enough distance.
With the magic power value of Wind Bird, they can only fire once or twice at best. If they fired twice, they will run out of mana and their speed will drop drastically, so Wind Cutter can be said as the Wind Birds trump card.
One Wind Bird ran out of patience seeing continuously evading and attacked while firing wind sorcery from close range.
Shield
A shield of light around thirty centiter in size is created on my left hand. I made the Shield ca into contact with the thickest part of the approaching green colored magic particles and parried it by holding the Shield diagonally.
Without pause I cut the wing of the Wind Bird that ca straight at with my black knife. Then the remaining Wind Bird flew away to the sky to escape.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
The next mont, as though to replace the Wind Birds, a piercing cry reverberated through the valley.
Its unknown whether the Wind Bird escaped from or got scared because this ca. I heard the cry together with the sound of wings flapping. A black bird with huge body that reached four ters with its wings spread out swooped down as though to cut through the darkness of the sky.
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Giant Crow Race : Large Bird Difficulty Rank 2
Magic Power : 69/73Stamina : 212/215
Overall Combat Strength : 145
The Giant Crow caused a gust of wind with its wings while heading straight at .
I threw the pendulums in my hands in order to et its charge. But, the pendulums blade only grazed its black wings a little. The intelligent Giant Crow saw that and directed its sharp talons toward in ridicule.
Gua!?
In that instant, I took out a new pendulum on my palm and dodged the talon while winding the pendulum around the Giant Crows wing.
The Giant Crow flew to the sky in panic. I controlled the string with String Control and hindered it.
KUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
The Giant Crow shrieked angrily and flapped its wings to drag to the sky along with the pendulums string.
But, I dont let it. I pulled the string even stronger to hinder its wings flap. I also quickly knocked the heel of my boots together so that blade shot out from it. Then I kicked it on the ground like a wedge.
The boots that I received from master is sothing that she used in the past. It has a chanism in them. If they got impacted from a certain direction, small blades will co out from its front tips and the heel.
I fixed myself on the ground with the heel blades and pulled the string with my body reinforcent in full power throughout my whole body.
My rank on the whole is still rank 2, but several of my support skills has reached level 3. Using Magic Power Control level 3, I circulated mana through my whole body, and with Pressure level 2 I stopped the Giant Crows movent for just a mont
TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Even though I got dragged across the ground through the inertia that left the ground gouged, I used all my strength and slamd the fearfully screeching Giant Crow on the ground head first.
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