98 – Maxburg True Education (2)

A few days before the start of the war, Sir Creutel had come to our Black Bats with a man named Lieutenant Short and his gang.

His Excellency looked at us with contempt, as if looking at a rat, and said.

“Probably Maxburg hired you. to assassinate me how much did you get I’ll give you double that, so come under my command.”

So our guild master laughed and said,

“It is 1000 gold coins. And no matter how much we say that even Deus gave up on them, we can’t ignore the request we received first. Kill us, otherwise the other guild members will lose their faith and will never survive in this industry.”

Hearing that, His Excellency laughed and said,

“Heh heh heh, from what I can see, your head is full of baskets! What are you doing? Come on, Lieutenant Short, without breaking that satanic bastard’s head?”

After that, His Excellency killed the guild master for a ridiculous reason and hired us for 2,000 gold coins.

And His Excellency ordered us to be quiet.

“Don’t overdo it and target the nobles and commanders in downtown Lothringen. Just, once you enter the castle, make it a fight between the citizens and the serfs from the countryside. Only attempt assassination against serfs and citizens. That’s efficient.”

It’s an order, so I’m going to do it, but if I’m going to do it, it’s better to kill everyone, regardless of whether it’s commoners or nobles.

It’s the Count’s orders, so what are you thinking?

As I hurried my steps toward Lotringen, lost in thought, I heard a voice calling me from behind.

“Hey Switz, I will be arriving in Lothringen soon.”

“yes? i get it.”

Then the village chief looked at me and asked while rubbing his hands.

“By the way, didn’t we do a good job in bringing us here… ? Pay for that… Otherwise, some people who are quiet will open their mouths.”

His Excellency handed me money in preparation for such an occasion, but it was only a week ago that I barely saved my life… How can you be so shameless?

“I’ll give you 40 more gold coins. Do you know instead?”

“Is there any way, old man… ”

**

After several days, we finally arrived in the city of Lothringen.

At the gate of the city, the refugees who had heard rumors of His Excellency’s arrival and the gatekeepers were arguing.

“No, look. Gatekeeper, when are we going to be able to enter! Maybe it’s because I’ve been sleeping outside in the cold for the past few days, but the kids and their parents are dying… ”

“Didn’t the captain of the garrison say that you can enter only when you make a decision!”

“Then let the kids in first! Soon the evil Count Kreuttel will come after you!”

“His Highness, the Duke of Maxburg, will surely defeat that idiot Count! Still talking a lot, are you a spy! If it’s not like that, I’ll sew that mouth up.”

“No, no!!”

If it’s this confusing, it’ll be easier to get in.

“Chief, as you know, it will be difficult for you and the villagers to survive if we tell you that we gave you money. So you know?”

“Is it possible? lily.”

“Who are we?”

“Didn’t you join us after being victimized by the evil Baron Frost?”

“You are right.”

After waiting for the sun to rise, it was finally our turn to enter the castle.

Standing in front of the castle gate, a garrison who seemed to be in a high position, wearing a crudely made helmet and armor of a level that was treated as low-grade at Kreutel’s steel mill, approached the village chief and asked.

“Where do you belong?”

“Oh, old man. This is Rover, the chief of Miles Village. And those behind them are our villagers.”

“How much food did you bring?”

“500 people only had enough to last for about a week… The Kreutel bug is so poisonous… ”

“Oh, you are like a serf who is of no help! Wait a minute, I need to call the garrison commander!”

Damn, if a high-ranking man like the captain of the garrison sees us, he might call us suspicious…

I can’t help it, I have no choice but to use a bribe here.

“I, old man… ”

Hearing that, the soldier who was looking for the garrison commander said in an annoyed voice.

“What kind of an old man are you to freeze to death? Can’t you see this body is busy?”

“Stop doing that and take this.”

Then, I passed 5 gold coins to the soldier in front of me.

“It can’t be helped, even if the sincerity of relying on His Highness, the Duke of Maxburg, is commendable… Ahem, let’s get right in. Stay in the clearing under watchtower number 20 on the wall!”

“Thank you, Nari.”

And we entered the gate.

After entering the gate and arriving at watchtower number 20 on the wall, my party and I called the village chief and said.

“If you want to live long, you had better not say that we are His Excellency’s people. If we get any suspicions, you and the people in your village won’t die well.”

“Is it possible… ”

Hearing that, the 20 soldiers I and His Excellency had invaded moved to an unnoticed place in the corner of the castle wall.

And we made sure no one was around and we started talking.

“Sergeant Sweets, what should I do now?”

“Once I leave them, you stay with the villagers. Then, when vicious rumors start to spread, spread the rumor to other villagers in Romania that ‘a spy from Count Creutel has entered.’ And, when the rumors start to rage, tell them that you heard that the gates of this castle will be opened by guys who are about as low as a lowly knight or a centurion.”

Hearing that, foolish guys who didn’t know that they were being purged by His Excellency because they were blinded by the desire to succeed looked at me with expectant eyes.

However, His Excellency already said that.

“If we carry out this mission, all who survive will be put into the intelligence unit, but nine out of them will most likely die at the hands of the enemy. And it’s cheap even if you die, and it feels good to be able to write things like this that ignored your superiors during training.”

But you don’t have to tell them the truth to rob them of their will to live, and you really promised a reward if they survived.

“It is an important mission that must not fail. So, you guys, get moving. I will do my job.”

Then, I took my black robes, daggers, and throwing darts, which I had hidden in the luggage I had brought, and quietly hid.

**

As time passed, night fell, and 3/4 of the soldiers who stood in the arsenal, castle, warehouse, and walls went to bed.

And the remaining soldiers put on a bored expression, holding a torch in one hand and a weapon in the other, and started chatting.

“Yeah, so that’s it. Because I knocked over Bella at the inn then? But Bella, as if she fell in love with the handsome face of the old man, she loosened her chest to show it. How it looks like a small hill… ”

“It’s bullshit and it’s crazy. Bella I admit she’s pretty, but she’s the kind of woman who seduces even a bald centurion if he’s willing to give her money. It’s not just you, Brandon, an unmarried bachelor.”

“What, this child… ”

Fools, even though we haven’t besieged the castle yet, standing guard and talking like that…

It’s really pathetic how you’re going to take responsibility if the weapons behind you are robbed.

Well, it’s our assassin’s job to teach those pitiful things true through death.

“Hey, I am! If you just confess to Veronica this time, you’ll get married right away! The priest said he would provide books for the officiating.”

“Yeah, I’ll be fine. No, but why the hell did Veronica kick the chance when she had a chance to become the knight’s concubine a few months ago?”

“Isn’t it all because of this wonderful old man… ”

I threw a dart from a distance and landed it right in the idiot’s neck.

Then the guy next to me panicked and waved his torch around, but then I went up to him and cut his throat with a knife.

“Phew, if I had more time, I would have set fire to this place too… There won’t be time for that, we have to move on to the next one quickly… ”

As I grumbled like that, I felt someone from behind.

When I turned around with the dagger in my hand unconsciously, I saw my classmate waving with a shy expression.

“The master who entered here seemed to be an arsenal, but he told us not to think about the fire and surprise the serfs in the village.”

“I know that. But where is the Master? Where do you want to see me?”

“He just told me to come back in three days. And he told me to bring as many of the rest of the people who came into the castle as possible.”

“driving me crazy.”

“I agree, but if you want to do it from above, you have to do it.”

After saying that, I quickly left the armory and hit the floor near the heads of the village chiefs who were sleeping against the wall with a hammer.

Then, with a bang, the soil on the floor splattered all over the place, and the startled eyes of the village chief and the rest of the villagers focused on me.

“Ah, an assassin!!”

“garrison! garrison!!!”

“Catch all the damn farming tools!!!”

“You can’t search like that, take your tools, you have to kill them all!”

Having said that, the serfs started chasing me, first with the implements they had piled up around them.

“Get that bastard! Kill!!!”

“Damn it, it’s unfair that I entered the castle to escape Kreutel-kun, but I can’t die like this!!!”

Even if you chase me like that, you won’t be able to catch me…

And I and the other assassins continued to assassinate vigilant soldiers if we had the chance, and terrified the serfs to maximize their insecurity.

As a result, in the morning, the serf seized the garrison soldier and shouted as if he had lost his temper in fear.

“No, didn’t His Highness say that he would protect us? But why is it so dangerous here!!”

“I heard from the guy who evacuated with me yesterday, and I heard that there are people among the soldiers who are intrigued by the fact that assassins are openly roaming around like this. Please kill that bastard!”

“Please ensure safety!”

As the words continued, the captain of the castle’s garrison came out and said.

“We will increase our vigilance twice as much as yesterday to catch the assassins, and there are no traitors among us! So rest assured. And all those who spread rumors that there is an infiltrator will be hanged!”

As soon as I heard that, my companions and I quietly hid in the house of a nobleman with a large mansion that we had killed beforehand.

And the guild master told us.

“In the future, until the arrival of the Count, assassination and destruction will continue on a smaller scale than today.”