My Villains Episode 277
52. Ancient Gate (5)
After dragging the dead wyverns and gathering them in a corner of the camp, pulling out their teeth and claws and stripping off their skins, it was late at night.
The skins were spread wide and hung under a tree that had been cleared of snow to dry off. Claws and teeth were cleaned and distributed in sacks.
Originally, just peeling off the skin would have required all of us to be beaten for about two days. Dealing with six massive monsters weighing up to one ton is just as laborious and ti-consuming.
Fortunately, however, we had Utequai. He handled the wyvern like a big wild boar and peeled off the skin in an instant. It was entirely to Utequai’s credit that all the work was completed in just four or five hours.
I felt it the other day when I was skinning a brown bear, but he was like a skinning machine.
After loading the bag of claws and teeth onto the cart, I asked the Confair.
“About how much will this be?”
“well.”
He replied, roughly wiping his oily and bloody hands with snow.
“Leather will vary greatly depending on how you negotiate with the rchant. Teeth and claws should cost roughly twenty gold coins.”
“Chapter 20? In just two sacks?”
“Yes Nari.”
Twenty gold coins is an amount equivalent to the annual output of a small manor, which is certainly not insignificant.
But considering my circumstances, it’s not that much money.
Even if the money that goes out as a rcenary’s weekly wage is 23 silver coins and 6 pennies, that is, it is a little less than 5 gold coins. This ans that sotis you need this inco to cover your expenses.
Of course, the reason I was spending money to maintain rcenaries and even call them little by little was for the future.
There is a realistic limit to being strong alone. My current level is 30 and the required experience is 150,000.
If you roughly calculate the experience gained from catching the wyvern, it would be a little less than 20,000, so you have to go through the sa battle as just 8 or so to go up one level.
However, no matter how chaotic this world is, the experience points won’t co to you periodically like the Wyvern. Monsters are not endlessly regenerated like in other gas.
In the end, the level up has no choice but to continue to be delayed. So I decided it was necessary to look for other power enhancent thods.
The result of that judgnt was the rcenary.
All kinds of mysteries, including magic and miracles, exist in this world. There are also humans with magical physical abilities.
For example, Lord Langboldt, the first knight of Prince Ulkar, is a human without a handful of magical powers. Even so, he swung his sword like lightning to split the iron plate and jumped 2 ters while wearing plate armor. It is the sound of a superman that can only co out of a movie.
Right now, among my rcenaries, Fritz and Dervish Steedman often demonstrate superpowers that exceed human limits. Things like folding coins with your fingers, smashing people’s heads with punches, swinging your sword and splitting orcs in half.
That’s why he trained with rcenaries every morning. It was my judgnt that one day, if the rcenaries under my command beca strong enough and gave miscellaneous magic tools, it would definitely beco a useful force.
The short thought ended with Confyer’s additional words.
“There is nothing to be surprised about, sir. Originally, all items used in alchemy are expensive.”
“Alchemy?”
“Wyvern’s teeth and claws are materials that alchemists dream of. I don’t know exactly, but I heard that it has the property of pushing out poison and cold.”
“…Right.”
As Confair left to warm up, I sat down on a stump next to the wagon.
“It must have been an alchemy ingredient.”
I sighed lightly and looked up to see a round full moon. Even during the day there was not a single cloud, but the night sky was full of starlight.
Suddenly, one night in August, the scenery vividly cos to life.
One night when moonlight and starlight stread down through a field of fir and pine trees and these jagged flies. One night a cool breeze blew under a large spruce tree.
Silky golden hair and white forehead, neatly curled eyelashes. At that ti, that thin hand was holding my knee tightly.
Following the resurrected mories, sothing seed to fill up in my heart.
“……trunnion?”
“O Ha
■己三
The thing that brought out of my mory was Mungchi’s voice. He was looking at with anxiety or worry filling his little face.
“Why?”
“…no.”
A bitter laugh flows out.
“No, what is it?”
Saying that, he stroked his hair, and Munchhi lifted his chin slightly and closed his eyes.
Moongchi didn’t leave my side for a while after Ellen left. The look in his eyes all the ti back then was the sa as before.
Suddenly, I raised my head and t eyes with Utequai, who was wiping himself in the snow on the border of the camp. Then he suddenly scooped up a handful of blood and oily eyes and threw them away.
“I-ssi”
I tried to avoid it, but the snowball was not aid at , but at the tree next to . Snowballs shattered and poured over their heads.
“What are you doing you bastard! It’s dirty!”
“It is cleaner than your face.”
“what?”
I groped my face, but there was no blood or oil on it. Well, there’s no way I, a blood knight, didn’t know that I had blood on my body.
“There is nothing!”
Although he lost his temper, Utequai just laughed and wiped himself.
Utequai, who climbed the mountain at the call of the so-called ‘Mother God’ not too long ago, returned in just a week, just as he said. His legs were tattooed and his eyes were clearer than before.
After a short thought, I confessed without lies the reason Ellen left.
Contrary to my expectations, Utequai did not vent his anger. I wasn’t sorry or sad.
All he did was pat on the shoulder after muttering, “That’s right.” After that, he hadn’t said a word about Ellen.
It was unclear exactly what Utequai was thinking. However, the fact that there were fewer things to worry about was enough to be thankful for.
I was taking revenge on Utequai with the help of Mungchi, but a group of rcenaries ca to .
“lily!” The four or five rcenaries, led by the heavy-duty Dervish, all had angry faces.
“……what?”
“Did you hear the story?”
“What kind of nonsense is that? What are you talking about?”
“Wyverns. This new kid here has been attacking because he stole an egg.”
At Dervish’s words, the rcenary with burns on half of his face – whatever his na was? – dragged the skinny boy forward. The boy’s face was pale as he was grabbed by the man’s violent hand.
“Cavas?”
“I sent him out to pick up so firewood, and he said he did sothing stupid, but I was so full of energy-”
I opened my mouth, scratching my eyebrows.
“…uh so?”
“yes? Do you think this bastard the size of a mouse called the wyverns to the campsite?”
Other rcenaries also gathered one by one in the sudden uproar. Dervish raised his voice as if everyone would listen.
“I didn’t make a mistake while scouting, I ssed around with the monsters to fill my stomach. You should be punished sir!”
Well, that’s a problem.
Dervish’s request was justified. After hearing the truth, it was procedurally justified that Cavas was dragged in front of instead of beating arbitrarily. But…
“What kind of punishnt would you like to give you?”
“After beating them,
you have to take off their clothes and drive them out.”
At her words, Cavas’ face turned pale. Behind the scenes, Golman and Shea shouted ‘No!’ He shouted and tried to step out, but was stopped by other rcenaries.
“…Isn’t that a bit harsh? Cabas is still a kid. And it’s a bit hard to say it’s thanks to you, but you’ve also been able to get a decent amount of extra inco.”
“lily! What is that-”
Dervish’s face contorted at once, and the Confair, who had been standing silently next to her, stepped forward, blocking her.
“Thanks to Nari, Mr. Hatanka, and Lady Heila, this raid was practically a fortune. It’s like being hit by a thunderbolt.”
He looked around and spoke in a calm voice.
“But it does not change that the newcor has brought misfortune to the encampnt. I think you should be punished.”
“…so let’s drive them out with a beating? In this valley at night?”
“People do that often, sir. Allies who cause harm to those around them are more dangerous than enemies.”
Cavas stiffened and could not protest. Goleman and Shea, who were making a fuss, were also silenced by the other rcenaries.
It’s a pain in the ass. I just want to give it all up and go to sleep, but I can’t do that, right?
I folded my arms and pretended to be in trouble, but Heila appeared next to and suddenly opened her mouth.
“Where did you pick it up?”
“……yes?”
“That egg. Where did you pick it up?”
At the sudden question, Kavas kept his mouth shut and barely answered.
“There was a nest on the four cliffs in front of that yo-yo, so I picked it up there.”
“Cliff Nest. Where is it?”
“That’s…
“Can you point with your hand?”
Cavas pointed sowhere with a trembling hand while Donnie’s hand was gripped by the collar. I glanced back and saw a not very high cliff under the bright moonlight.
“I see.”
Heila blinked once and looked back at .
“There is a story I heard from rchants in Modos.”
“…Modos?”
“huh. They said they ca in from the northwest because the southwest road leading to Seteniora Monastery and Odenlock was blocked.”
Southwest road leading to Seteniora Abbey and Odenlock. It was where we are now.
“And the group of wyverns built their nests just a short distance away. They probably attacked and ate travelers and rchants on the road.”
Everyone in the camp was listening. Heyla’s voice was very low, but thanks to her noble status, powerful blood magic, and the usual goodwill, no one expressed dissatisfaction.
“This is the domain of the Wyverns. This is not Zen.”
“…So you’re saying that even if it wasn’t for Cavas, the Wyvern would have attacked us?”
“huh. I must have been aiming for the night.”
It’s a night raid by a bunch of wyverns.
I’ve been imagining it for a while, but I don’t think it will be easy. It can be stopped, but there must be a few casualties.
Strange expressions and murmurs floated among the gathered rcenaries, as if they had similar thoughts.
Heila stood still, blinking, looking at .
After leaving Ellen, my anger was directed at Heila.
Of course, I knew that the direction of my anger was completely wrong, so I did not express it directly to her. However, he was not relaxed enough to have a comfortable conversation with her.
So, really embarrassingly and childishly, I treated myself as soone who didn’t have Heila for a while. He didn’t speak and didn’t even look at .
Still, Heila didn’t change much from usual. He stayed near all the ti, eating, reading, taking care of Altonise, looking into Hrunting (what it was).
About a week passed like that, and around the ti I left Paulville, I cald down and apologized to her. I know very well that I shouldn’t be angry with you, saying I’m sorry for looking ugly.
Heila then blinked three tis quickly before replying, “It’s okay.” In that mont, I could notice. She had no idea that I was angry.
I burst out laughing when I saw Heila sipping tea pretending to be calm.
Thanks to Heila, the commotion of the night ended.
The rcenaries admitted that Cavas had summoned a wyvern, but it was only a planned attack.
However, Cavas’s faults did not completely disappear, so he had to pay the price for the newcor’s deviation from the campsite.
According to the implicit rules of the rcenary world, the conductor Dervish Esson and others suggested that they clean up with 5 lashes.
I was still reluctant to beat a 16-year-old child, but the reason of the world is that when I go to Ro, I have to follow the Roman law… I am a person from Korea, a country of gullible gullibility. there is no reason to do
So, for the next month, Utequai’s punishnt for Kavasu was replaced by becoming a demonstration partner for Nabuk.
If there were people who expressed dissatisfaction, I was going to just threaten to shut up, but I was a bit embarrassed because everyone seed to agree.
Two days later, after walking for so ti past the three-way intersection that leads southward to Odenlock and westward to Seteniora Monastery, we finally arrived at our stopover.
A high stone wall with more than 800 years of history and a desolate site beneath it.
It was the gateway to an ancient empire.
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