Chapter 33: The Only Way for You to Live (1)
The direction of the presence was above my head. He moves so stealthily that it was difficult to know how far away he was, but I could tell that he was within 10 paces away from .
It was hard to see him from where I was laying down.
“Ah, this feels great.”
I mumbled as if I was talking to myself and turned my body to the side. I could finally look toward the direction of the presence.
The presence seed to stop for a mont. But seeing just continue to lay there, he slowly started to move again.
Pitch black darkness. But I could see everything clearly.
Except one thing.
Wobble-wobble-
It was like the air was moving. Sothing that looked like a haze was cautiously approaching my location.
At the end of the haze was a hand hoe. Right now, it looked like a floating hand hoe.
‘There he is!’
Based on the location of the handle and angle, I can pretty much determine where he is.
His movent was extrely cautious. He was moving as slow as possible in order to make sure that I don’t notice his presence.
The distance was approximately 5m.
If he cos too close, I’ll end up in danger. This distance feels about right.
Jump!
I quickly stood up. At the sa ti, I threw the secret weapon in my right hand toward the wobbling haze.
Splat!
‘It hit him!’
But it wasn’t a direct hit. The mont I stood up, he had quickly moved to the side.
Caaaaaaw-
He took three or four steps back in surprise.
However, he stopped there without moving any further. Seeing that he wasn’t hurt at all from the weapon that I threw, he was starting to get confident.
‘Stand right there!’
I moved the item in my left hand to my right and then threw it again.
Swish- splat!
It only grazed him again. His movent is faster than I expected.
Of course he was fine again. There wasn’t a single injury on his body.
It would have been weird if he ended up injured. My secret weapon was sothing that can’t cause any injuries.
It was just your typical red paint!
But thanks to it, his body, which was as transparent as haze, was clearly visible. Only a portion of his body had been hit, but that was enough for to know where he was and what he was about to do.
I continued to take paint out of my bag and threw it toward him.
He continued to move around to avoid it, but in the end, I successfully managed to make him red from head to toe.
He was a tiny little thing. If he stood up straight, he’d co up to about my chest? His bent back made him look even smaller.
The monster looked at his body and then made a devastated expression. He finally realized that his strongest weapon, the invisible (invisible) magic, was now useless. [1]
A shocked voice followed.
“Caw! This is bad!”
It was clearly human language.
“Why don’t you just show yourself now!”
The monster looked around us. It was trying to see if there was anybody else here.
But everyone else was in the fenced area over 100m away.
It ant that I was alone, and I was only level 9!
The monster should have already confird my level. It would have only approached knowing that I was weaker than it.
That is this monster’s thod. If the opponent is stronger than itself, it never shows up. If soone weaker than it is separated from a group and ends up by themselves, it uses the invisible magic to approach and kill with a surprise attack.
How is it possible to verify the level without the person’s permission?
People need permission to check other people’s level, but that type of rule doesn’t apply to monsters.
“Die! Human!”
The monster flung itself toward while swinging the hand hoe in its right hand.
Swoooosh-
He moves quite quickly! And he is pretty strong!
But compared to when he was avoiding my paint, he wasn’t as agile. In fact, he was at least a half step slower than . And there was a large gap between our ability to see in the dark as well.
Seeing the way it moves, it must have so type of ability that lets it see in the dark, but still, would it be as good as the ‘Owl’s Eye’ which was a present from Hades?
As long as I don’t underestimate him, there shouldn’t be a reason for to lose.
But I won’t unnecessarily fight him. There is a way to hunt him without putting myself in danger like that. I just continued to avoid him. Once there was a decent amount of distance between us, I then picked up a few rocks from the floor and threw it at him. That was all I did.
Even hitting him with the rocks cause so damage.
Although it was extrely low amounts of damage.
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I managed to land a critical hit every so often as well.
This monster was pretty sharp. After being hit by the rocks exactly 4 tis, it finished assessing the situation.
“Caw! Your abilities are extrely high for your level! You tricked !”
It then started to hop hop hop and run away.
But even if he runs, he’s still on top of Buddha’s palm.
I kept a decent distance between us as I chased after him. I continued to throw rocks at him as well.
Every so often, I also hit him with more paint. That way, even if I lose him, I can use the paint on the floor to track him down.
Thanks to that, the monster could not run back to its hideout. It knew that the paint would give away the location of his hideout.
But he couldn’t run fast enough to lose either. I don’t know about his strength, but when it cos to agility, my agility is definitely higher.
The monster just continued to go around in circles and I just continued to follow him and throw rocks at him.
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“Fine! Just keep running away! I can do this for days without stopping.”
It wasn’t just a bluff. This chase that started in the early evening had continued past midnight into the early morning.
Around 6 hours passed by. I’m so bored just chasing him and throwing rocks at him, so how annoyed must he be? He probably wants to commit suicide right now.
It continued like that for another hour.
In the end, the monster stopped running away and lifted up both of its hands.
“Caaaw! Please don’t kill !”
He even threw down the hand hoe that was in his hand.
But I can’t fall for his trick. If I show an opening, he will definitely attack.
I glared at the monster as I picked up the hand hoe. I then pointed it at his neck. The end of this hoe was pretty sharp.
‘Now I can relax a bit.’
“Na?”
“W$G%$$Y&%U%Y!#!F.”
“What the hell kind of na is that? Do you want to die?! I will ask again. Na?”
I pointed the hoe closer to his neck.
The monster was shaking quite a bit.
“Caw! That is my na! If it is difficult, just caw, just call ‘Master the Kobbit Village’.”
Even then his na was long. But his na wasn’t that important. What mattered was that his na was the sa as his na in the ga.
I wonder if his story would be the sa as well.
“Where the hell did you co from? Don’t leave anything out and tell everything. Otherwise, I will kill you.”
The extrely afraid Kobbit started to share his sad story.
The content was pretty simple.
This punk used to be the chief of the Kobbit tribe village.
But he responded to a challenge from a competitor and lost, and following the rule of the Kobbits, he was banished from the village. After wandering here and there, he ended up here, and since then, he had been murdering weak miners and turning this into his territory.
As expected, his story was the sa as in the ga.
That made my heart beat even faster. In the ga, there was a huge load of treasures hidden in his hideout.
Please let it be here as well……
“Where is your hideout?”
“Caw! It is over there!”
“Slowly walk over there. If you try anything, I will kill you right there!”
“Caaw! Please don’t kill !”
Kobbit started to walk in front of .
His hideout was about 20m up on the cliff. There was a very small cave there and even that was covered by a rock.
I don’t even need to look inside to know it’s a complicated maze in there. There’s probably multiple exits as well.
But at the sa ti, there should be a large pile of treasure inside for sure.
But confirming that is for later. If I’m not careful, Kobbit can stab in the back.
“Then it is now ti for you to die!”
I lifted up the hand hoe and tried to slice Kobbit’s neck.
Kobbit curled down and started to beg for his life.
“Caaaw! Please don’t kill ! You told you won’t kill !”
“When did I say that?”
Of course I had no intentions of killing him. But I never said I wouldn’t kill him with my own mouth.
“Give one good reason I should let you live!”
“Caaw! There is a lot of gold inside. Mithril as well. I will give it all to you. Caaw. Please just don’t kill .”
As expected! Hoho!
“I can take all of that after killing you. Not good enough. Next!”
Kobbit’s eyes were moving quickly trying to co up with an answer.
But it wasn’t easy for him to figure sothing out. It did take him a while in the ga as well.
As he was thinking, it started to get brighter outside. I had spent all night playing tag with Kobbit.
It’s annoying to wait. Since the result will be the sa anyways, I will just give him the answer.
“Should I tell you the answer? Do you want to know the only way for you to live?”
“Caaw! That …… what is it?”
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[1] Similar to before, since the author used English, I put the English in italics
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