CHAPTER 50 – THE MOUNTAIN’S WATCHN
For a while, the forest road continued on, eventually changing into a gentle uphill, and the view in front of them had changed to that of a mountain road before the two won realized it.
“W-What should we do?! It’s too dark! I can’t see anything!”
The sun set as the won made their way up the mountain path, and the stars lit up the night sky. Totoara grew concerned as a result of the change.
“You can’t see? Why didn’t you say so sooner?”
“Well! You were moving so confidently, and I didn’t want to lose to you…”
“You’re quite stubborn aren’t you. Hmm, what should we do…”
rc had no trouble grasping the entire picture as she peered around her dimly lighted surroundings. However, this was primarily due to the elves having eyes that were unaffected by darkness. The stars and the moon shone brightly as well. It was no wonder rc didn’t have any problems looking around.
We can surely walk a bit more… But, since Totoara can’t see anything, I wouldn’t want to force her to go any further…
Because rc had lived as an elf for so long, she had forgotten that humans were not acclimated to the dark. As such, she had no other option but to rest for the day.
“At least the weather is nice. We didn’t have to pack any sleeping bags or anything like that.”
After reclining against a huge tree right next to them, rc said to Totoara. Totoara followed rc’s lead and rested against the tree with her back against it.
rc deduced from Totoara’s deanor that she was no stranger to travel. rc had even seen her go out of her way to obtain water when she noticed it was becoming dark. Totoara had most likely realized that they would be camping out in the mountains so she had decided to prepare herself beforehand.
“Good grief. To think that a lady such as would be forced to sleep in this place…”
Totoara complained as she noticed rc looking at her. Totoara, on the other hand, didn’t appear to be a pampered lady in any way.
“rc. Can you perhaps see in the dark?”
“I can… Miss assassin, are you unable to do so?”
“Good grief. Don’t tease !”
Totoara said with a smile. She was a lovely and charming young woman. In addition, her chest was quite large. rc could not have asked for a better travel buddy.
However, she’s still hiding sothing. She’s unquestionably used to traveling, no matter how I look at it. Why is she behaving as if she is a complete novice?
That was the one thing rc didn’t understand.
rc reasoned that Totoara was worried of provoking trouble by sticking out too much. Perhaps she was worried that if she stood out too much, she might be hampered during the exam.
If Totoara was correct, rc would have to think about doing the sa. After all, it wasn’t out of the question that others envious of their ability would try to sabotage them in so way.
Perhaps I should also pretend to be ignorant.
As rc was thinking this, she beca aware of a presence approaching them and stood up.
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“rc?”
“Quiet!”
rc quickly interrupted her before she could say anything else. Totoara raised her body slightly as she noticed rc abruptly stand up and place her hand on her wooden stick.
When rc saw Totoara’s movents, she was convinced they weren’t those of a novice. But this wasn’t the ti to be concerned about that.
There’s sothing there. A group… There’s 20 of them.
rc was able to deduce that a group of 20 was closing up on them by sensing the magic power around the group. She assud they were humans based on the quality of their Mana, but she couldn’t be certain.
The one thing she was confident of was that the group was well aware of their location and was heading right for them. rc and Totoara had no choice except to flee or fight at this point.
“rc, what happened?”
Totoara inquired softly. She had most likely also noticed that sothing wasn’t right.
“There’s a group coming our way.”
“What? What did you just say?!”
A tiny red light could be seen flickering between the trees in front of them at the ti Totoara said that. The movent of the light indicated that it was the fla of a torch. Which ant that the group consisted of humans.
“Fire!”
A single arrow pierced the darkness the mont that voice echoed throughout the area.
The arrow flew entirely above rc and Totoara’s heads before piercing a tree in the back. rc and Totoara had no ans of knowing whether the n had missed on purpose.
“Don’t move! The next one won’t miss!”
rc determined that the arrow had only served as a threat based on what the opposing side had just said.
“Who are you?”
rc asked. After this, a row of guys carrying lit torches erged from the shrubbery. The man in the middle of the row then smirked devilishly as he drew his blade.
“Hehehe. We’re this mountain’s watchn. If you wish to pass you’ll have to pay the toll.”
The man with the filthy circle beard who had just now spoken appeared to be the leader of the bunch.
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Watchn my a̲s̲s̲. They’re nothing more than mountain bandits…
rc thought as she tightened the grip on her wooden stick.
There were twenty enemies.
rc could tell they were all small fry, but she couldn’t relax her guard. In addition to having ten tis their numbers, rc sensed sothing peculiar about the group’s leader.
“How much is the toll?”
“10 gold coins1! Are you paying?”
10 gold coins? Ridiculous…
rc knew that the n’s goal wasn’t the toll based on the amount the leader had just declared.
rc was curious as to which traveler would be able to spit out ten gold coins. She was convinced that the n had no intention of ever letting them go.
“And what if we can’t pay?”
“Hehe. We’ll have to resort to other ans. You see, we’re not mountain bandits so we’ll let you off if you leave everything you have.”
That’s just what a mountain bandit would say…
“That’s just what a mountain bandit would say!”
Totoara shouted out exactly what rc was thinking, slamming the n. As soon as he heard that, the n’s leader knit his brows.
“Missy. That’s not sothing you’re allowed to say. We have a rule of not letting anyone who has called us bandits leave.”
“S-So what? Y-You want so of this huh?”
Totoara said this while fearfully scanning the area and nervously adopting a gap-filled stance. She was fidgeting with her arms, most likely owing to the stress from the nurous torches that surrounded them.
“No. You are won after all. Only filthy scumbags would lay a hand on won. We’ll let you off the hook this ti.”
“So lax rules you got here.” rc said mockingly.
“Did you say sothing? Well it doesn’t matter. Just leave everything that you have. This includes your money, weapons and clothes. Everything. If you do that, we’ll let you go.”
Totoara looked at rc after the leader announced his demands and asked, “What should we do?”
“We fight.”
rc naturally responded in hushed tones.
After all, they would lose the map that the Adventurers’ Guild had given them if they had all of their belongings stolen. They wouldn’t be able to take the shortest path if it happened, which would make arriving at their goal difficult. Rather, it would make it impossible.
It was sothing they had to avoid at all costs.
“So, Missies, what will it be?”
As he carelessly lifted his foot to approach closer, the group’s leader inquired.
The mont the leader’s foot lifted off of the ground was the mont that rc dashed forward2.
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