085. Instructor? What’s wrong? (6)

“Oooh!”

“Oops!”

The knights who visited the site vomited with pale faces.

In the meantime, the White Tiger Knights have been participating in various battlefields and catching monsters like a monthly event.

Although they were so accustomed to blood and death, no one could remain calm in the face of the horrors in front of them.

Their leader, the captain of the knights, also swallowed dry saliva, unable to find words to describe it.

A corpse without a head, a corpse without arms, a corpse without legs, and a corpse dismembered. Even corpses that have been crushed and crushed to the point of being unrecognizable.

All corpses have one thing in common. They were terrified faces.

“Hey, start investigating!”

The captain of the knights gave orders to the members.

and after a while

“……Are you saying that the devil has descended?”

Joheiden’s head of household, Duke of Furna, swallowed his saliva and said.

From the moment I received the report, I thought something terrible had happened, but what I actually encountered was a field of corpses far beyond my imagination.

The retching sounds of those in charge of the investigation could be heard intermittently.

“Have you confirmed the identity of these people?”

He looked around the site and asked the captain of the knights.

“Yes… Excuse me, but could you please take a look at the corpse separately?”

The knight commander apologized for having to show dirty things to the duke.

“It’s done. I’ve already seen this scene, so there’s no problem watching one or two more.”

“Then come here…”

The knight commander led them to a corpse with a large body.

“Um…”

The Duke’s lips were tightly shut.

There were countless corpses scattered around, but the one guided by the captain of the knights was dead in the most gruesome way.

Both arms and legs had their skin and muscles removed, leaving only bones.

Intestines spilled out of a large hole in the abdomen. However, the viscera itself seemed to have been harvested alive, as there were no injuries.

His face was distorted, stained with thick fear.

“This guy…”

The duke narrowed his eyes and studied the guy’s face. A feeling of déjà vu.

“He was famous as a wanted criminal in the archipelago. It’s a bandit king named Kayg.”

“Kayg!”

Speaking of Keigra, he was a wanted criminal so famous that there were no aristocrats in the island that didn’t know his name.

Regardless of social status, he committed cruel things without hesitation, so a subjugation party was formed several times, but he was so powerful and so good that he failed to deal with it in the end.

“That clever and elusive bastard settled down in Hygma Forest, only half a day’s drive from the island. It was dark under the lamp…”

The duke looked around at the corpses scattered around and said.

“Then, are all the corpses here bandits who are his subordinates?”

“Yes. As a result of checking the belongings, no one who looks like an ordinary citizen has come out yet.”

“Um… that’s fortunate…”

“And… please look at this.”

The knight commander handed a piece of paper to the duke.

“What is this.”

“This contract was found in his bosom.”

“contract?”

The duke accepted the contract and examined it.

The original writing was quite stained with blood, but there was no problem in grasping the contents.

“Abduction of humans… 1 gold per person…?”

“Yes…. It seems that someone offered them a human trade.”

“Those who kidnap and trade humans are at most slave traders… But they say they pay 1 gold per person? You can’t get that much money when you sell them…”

It was a suspicious case in many ways.

The duke, who was pondering his thoughts, asked the knight commander again.

“Um, I thought it was monsters that could commit such a massacre, but it could also be a group of humans. There’s a possibility that there was a problem with the contract and they collided.”

“It’s not like that either.”

The knight commander looked around with a stiff face.

“Speaking of which, I’m not sure, but… I think it’s probably one guy’s work.”

“What!?”

“If it’s the work of several guys, there should be disorder in the marks… But if you look here, the wounds are uniform, as if everyone had been attacked in the same way.”

“Does that make sense! More than a thousand people! This is impossible even if it’s the work of monsters!”

“I don’t think it’s a monster. If it’s a monster’s work… it should be a little rougher, and there should be a decisive trace of eating a corpse. However, I couldn’t find any traces of cannibalism here.”

The absurd words that kept flowing from the knight commander’s mouth.

Doing this massacre alone? Even the Grand Duke of the North, who was said to have been extremely prolific with his sword, would do such a thing.

After coming to check the situation for a while, what I encountered was a much more complicated and bigger case than I thought.

The duke pressed his throbbing forehead to see if there were any other peculiarities.

Then, all of a sudden, I felt a strange sense of discomfort.

Unpleasant feeling as if something sticky and viscous is stuck to the body.

“Knight leader. Something. Isn’t that strange…?”

“Yes? Of course, everything is strange…”

“No, I mean, isn’t it too quiet?”

“Come to think of it, there isn’t a single baby ant. Couldn’t all the monsters have fled from the one who committed the massacre?”

“No, no. I’m not saying that. This isn’t the level where the sound has completely disappeared.”

There is no sound other than the sound of the armor of the White Tiger Knights.

Soon, he noticed the identity of the sense of incongruity and had goosebumps running down his forearm.

“There are no worms on the corpse…”

Yes, it is understandable that there are no monsters.

The guy who created this mountain of corpses wasn’t an ordinary guy, so he could have instinctively sensed the danger and avoided it.

but.

On a dead body, even after 10 minutes, one or two bugs are bound to appear,

Brains and intestines overflowing from countless corpses like this give off a stench, but there isn’t a single ant baby?

There is not a single insect that lives only by appetite, so all that remains is silence.

It’s not slave traders or monsters who can do this.

strange transfer.

And the one who needs humans as sacrifices.

gulp.

Dry spittle ran down his throat.

“…the black magician.”

“!”

The knight commander’s eyes widened at the words of the Duke of Joheiden.

“This is dangerous. We must go back immediately and raise the matter to the emperor.”

at that time.

“Hmm…? I came here to tell you that the souls of innocent people are needed… Did something interesting happen?”

Tickling beauty.

A man wearing a black hood.

After that, people in the same outfit appeared together.

* * *

“Tell me again. So what’s wrong!?”

“Black magicians in black appear. Joheiden’s White Tiger Knights…”

“Black magician!!!!! The family head! What happened to the family head!”

“Uh, first of all, I ordered Sedan-nim to report to the imperial family! And then lead the Duke and all of the White Tiger Knights, and link up with the other families…”

“No! Nothing like that! What happened to the head of the family!!!”

With a blood clot in his neck, Sedan threatened the scout.

The scout swallowed a gulp and spoke in a crawling voice.

“I-I’m saying you’re staying and dealing with them…”

baek!

Sedan’s fist punched the scout in the face.

“Ah, Father…!”

Serena, who was listening to this from the side, covered her mouth with both hands and trembled.

“Serena.”

Zeke walked over to Serena and put his hand on her shoulder.

Pupil shaking vigorously.

“School, Instructor… Ah, Father, Father…”

“calm down.”

However, Serena shook her head as if normal judgment was impossible.

Zeke poured mana into his voice.

“I told you, Serena.”

Zeke met Serena’s eyes.

“If you want, I’ll even catch the demon king.”

At Zeke’s words, Serena’s pupil returned to its place.

Serena parted her trembling lips.

As if desperately holding on to straw.

“Even, please help…”

“Yes. I’ll help you.”

Zeke smiled like a grinning boy.

“Let’s go find your father.”

At that time, the sedan, which had been grunting from the side and could not control the quarter, approached with great strides.

“You bastard! What did you just say!!”

Sedan grabbed Zeke by the collar.

“The head of the household has given an order! But where are you going now!?”

“Huh? What is it, let go of this.”

Zeke tilted his head as he was grabbed by the collar.

“Umm… do you, don’t you want to save your dad?”

“That’s not it! An order has been given and you must follow it! He told me to come with all the other families!”

“No, your dad is in danger right now, but does that matter?”

Zeke frowned and said to Sedan.

“Go, the family head’s order is like that, it’s something we can’t handle, so you said that…”

“So, is that important? And I warned you to let go of this.”

Ugh-

The heavy mana flowing from Zeke’s body pressed on Sedan’s shoulders.

cooong.

Sedan’s knees knelt on the floor.

“Keep it off. Eh, what is this…!”

She was sweating profusely and tried to get up, but Sedan’s arms trembled and she couldn’t get up.

“You. Are you scared?”

“I-I’m nothing, I’m not afraid…!”

“Brother!”

Serena was moving towards the sedan, but she turned to Zeke and grabbed his arm.

“Instructor! Hey, go quickly! Hurry up! My father is in danger!”

At those words, Sedan bit his lip and raised his head.

He glared at Serena with blood vessels in his eyes.

“Serena!! Where are you going now!!!”

“Serena will come with me.”

“Serena in that dangerous place! Absolutely no! I can’t allow it!”

“you.”

Zeke glared at the sedan with an annoyed face.

“You know Serena?”

“Well, at least I’m much older than you…

Serena interrupted him.

“Older brother, I will follow the instructor!”

“Serena!!! At that bastard’s words!”

“Yumma.”

ha-

A sigh escaped Jack’s mouth.

“I know what you’re worried about, but he’s the one who decided to use the sword. He’s not the kid you used to raise in your arms. At least now, we need to help him become independent. What if the family doesn’t trust Serena?”

“……What on earth do you know!

“Hmm, the color of the eyes isn’t a knot hole. But… it might have been like that at one time…”

Zeke wrapped his hands around Serena’s waist.

“Not anymore.”

“What!”

He grabbed Serena’s waist and lifted it as if carrying a load.

“The sword suits me now, right?”

“Kyaaak! School, Instructor!?”

Zeke was about to start immediately, but turned his head toward the sedan.

Then he scratched his head with a knife.

“Instructor?! Are you okay?”

“Tsk, I don’t like messing around, but at least if you have something precious, don’t miss the opportunity to protect it with your own hands.

Zeke kicked the ground.

Whoops-

aaa!!

Sedan opened his mouth in the direction Serena and Zeke had left.

“Three, Serena…”