107 – Strike-8

I couldn’t afford to argue with her any more. If it’s already starting, I need to be there right now to stop it.

I couldn’t answer her after all. I couldn’t answer whether it was right to block the Weather family’s wishes.

“Did I spend too much time…”

“No. Assuming that you do not directly use force, your actions were for the best.”

I think Eleanor was trying to comfort me. It didn’t help much.

I thought I did my best. I thought I did everything possible.

But, maybe it was too late.

The world doesn’t revolve around me. When I arrived on this land, it may have already been insufficient to prevent this conflict and anger.

“You are not responsible.”

“…”

“Whatever you’ve done, it’s done out of favor for the people of this land. If things go wrong, it’s not your fault.”

She was right. I have nothing to do with these people.

Even if a tragedy does occur, it is not my responsibility. Even if I hadn’t visited this place at all, it would have happened.

I leaned against the carriage for a moment and closed my eyes. No matter how fast he spoke, he still had some time to reach his destination.

“Enerel. Footsteps.”

When I opened my eyes and concentrated on Nerwen’s words, I heard it too.

A lot of people are moving irregularly. It’s too big to be a corps, and it’s not orderly to be an army.

It was the sound of human footsteps. I peeked out and saw a familiar face, albeit a bit far away.

“thank god.”

The person standing at the front of the procession was the mercenary he had met at the entrance of the poison scorpion mercenary fortress.

They must have recognized this wagon as well, and started walking towards us. When the horse stopped, I hurriedly got out of the carriage.

“It’s been a while. I was worried, but it’s nice to meet you.”

It was quite a few people. As long as they were here, it didn’t seem like the poison scorpion mercenaries moved first.

“Mi-I’m sorry, brother. It’s not my fault. Really!”

But his expression was not good.

“Anything…”

“The new head is dead.”

His expression darkened in an instant. When he saw my face, he sat down in terror.

“What’s going on? Please explain in detail.”

“I-I mean, the incident happened shortly after you left…”

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“Hey, why is this the only food given to us?”

“There are people who went out to buy food with the money he gave. We have to survive with this right now…”

“I mean, why are you handing out food to those bastards!”

It was a poisonous scorpion mercenary group with too many children and the elderly to be considered a mercenary group. They were not easily threatened because they were brothers and families of other mercenaries, but they were just a thorn in the eye of single mercenaries.

“I’ve already pushed it to the limit. You really can’t starve to death!”

“Weak people must die, don’t they?”

The new mercenary leader was smart and capable, but lacked charisma compared to the former mercenary leader.

Compared to the former mercenary leader who led the group with cruelty and determination, his personal strength and legitimacy were poor.

“In the first place, you’re a traitor. You live so comfortably under the former captain, but betray at an important moment?”

“It couldn’t be helped! You said you were going to fight someone who killed people with your bare hands? In the first place, among you, no one resisted!”

“That was then, and this is now.”

The mercenaries, who thought that consistency was something only knights would argue about, responded with a mockery no matter what the new leader said.

In the first place, they did not seriously dislike the new leader for the reason that they ‘didn’t keep their faith’.

He seemed more easygoing than the former leader, so he was just trying to bully him.

“And I don’t like the fact that important matters are taken care of without consulting us.”

“Now I am the leader. I make the decision.”

However, the support of the new leader was not small.

There was food released right away, and the gold coins that Enerel left behind as an advance payment were also a considerable sum for them.

He had done a great job managing money and allocating resources before, so many thought he was needed.

“Anyway, didn’t a boy who looked like a nobleman come in? I heard that he left behind some letters. Give it to me. We should listen too.”

“It’s dangerous. We can’t listen…”

“Oh, we’ll judge, so give it to us!”

The mercenaries who stormed into the leader’s office were prepared to do just that. I thought it wouldn’t matter if we fought right away.

“Brother, I found it!”

Taking advantage of the mercenaries’ conversation, the mercenary who found the letter somewhere in the leader’s office found a mercenary who could read and handed over the letter.

“What is written on it?”

“Didn’t I say there was nothing good to see!”

Despite the leader’s shouts, the mercenary who received the letter stuttered through it.

“Wait a minute please. It says… what it says… there are strange words in front of it, uh… Go? It’s time to start? It says something like that.”

And even if he was an illiterate mercenary, he could recognize the family crest. Even ignorant mercenaries could read Weather’s sentence clearly stamped under the letter.

“Looks like he’s late. We can’t help it because the contract is in. Let’s go. Everyone get your weapons!”

“Are you crazy? If the merchant comes back and kills everyone else…”

“So what? Think about it the other way around. You don’t know when he’ll come back and kill someone, so he’s hiding like this?”

“Didn’t you pay for it! If we wait patiently and carry out his request, we will receive more money!”

The new director tried to persuade them somehow.

“If you’re caught plundering without permission, you could lose it all!”

“Since when do you say that mercenaries were afraid of such things, Mr. San?”

When the tough mercenary laughed at the leader, the mercenaries next to him laughed.

“That’s right, brother!”

“Anyone who used to play the role of a thief next to the former captain, how dare you boast that you are a mercenary!”

The leader tried to somehow find the initiative in the strange atmosphere.

“Everyone get out. This is my order as the captain.”

“Don’t talk! We’re mercenaries anyway, and whoever the captain must keep the contract, right? The Weather family hired us, so let’s run wild!”

“That’s right, brother!”

There are people who want to plunder.

There are people who have not forgotten that thrilling feeling of taking away everything from a loser after winning.

Although not many of them, the most violent and cruel were of that kind. And that madness is contagious.

“In the first place, isn’t that merchant going to be able to chase us for the rest of his life? Just rob it quickly, collect enough money, and then run away!”

“Get out of here. If you don’t leave immediately…”

The mercenary with a grim face smiled and swung his sword. In an instant, the captain’s head flew off. It was so fleeting that it was difficult to react.

“Well, do you have to beat someone to death to kill them well? Killing like this is convenient, huh?”

“What are you doing!”

The mercenaries who supported the refurbishment immediately drew their swords. A fight broke out right away.

“These bastards betrayed me!”

“I have to say it right, the bastard who betrayed me first is the leader!”

a person falls People’s blood is shed in vain. The severed head of the leader was rolling around like garbage.

was not a match. The rebels were mercenaries who were prepared to kill from the beginning, scraped up their meager armament, and enjoyed plunder.

Unlike ordinary members who were swept around and accidentally joined the mercenary corps, the mercenaries who enjoyed plunder were rough people even within the mercenary corps of Poison Scorpion.

The mercenaries, who had little combat experience and were not active in fighting, gave up fighting quickly or died shortly after fighting.

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Just like that, the corpse was created so easily.

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“That’s how the mercenaries split. The others have already left with the Weather family’s request.”

“These people…”

“After they left the citadel, I tried to find people to escape. The atmosphere became bloody and people like us couldn’t stay.”

If you take a quick look at the people around you, most of them are elderly. It was a poisonous scorpion mercenary group that was not very well armed, but to anyone looking at it, they looked more like a group of refugees than a mercenary group.

“I’m sorry. Seriously, we were trying to stop…”

“No. Good job. Thank you.”

I put the hopeless situation behind and praised him.

When the Swan Mercenary Corps or Weather’s privates started targeting the Poison Scorpion Mercenary Corps, they wouldn’t have been able to protect even these remaining people.

I took out a map and showed it to him.

“This is a map that we also need to use, so we can’t give it to you… Can you remember the location?”

“Some of us are from around here. You’ll find them.”

“I’ve stored food. It’s borrowed food, so don’t use it too quickly or sell it, just hold on to it for now.”

“Go, thank you! I will not forget this favor!”

It was like selling the future and spending the present. Solving the Weather family’s food problem was a statement that could only be made on the premise that they wouldn’t move their soldiers.

As long as the military family has increased, the clue to solving the food problem may disappear.

With a confused mind, I got back on the carriage again.