Chapter 33 – Trust

Ed didn’t know that a magician was such a threat. He had never encountered a magician in person, but her skills were beyond his common sense. He didn’t think it was such a threatening ability when he was playing the game. An arrow doesn’t work? Ed snorted as he read the energy of her sword, which was preparing for another magic technique, with the barbarian warrior at the front. Isn’t this just ridiculous? Ed shot arrows one after another. The barbarian warrior must have had faith in her, so he ignored Ed’s arrows and kept charging. Arin ran toward the barbarian warrior who rushed. At the moment when she and the barbarian warrior clashed, Ed’s arrows were swirled along the wind shield made by the magician. It was a wind shield that rotates and flows arrows around. Ed, who read the wind’s grain, fired the last arrow. Faster and stronger than ever. The arrow, penetrated the protective layer of the wind shield halfway and flowed to the side. And as soon as her wind shield was about to explode, the arrow was deflected. It didn’t give the magician time to respond. As Ed planned from the beginning, an arrow with a turned direction pierced the magician’s neck. The magician’s eyes got bigger and her mouth opened, but she couldn’t say anything and threw up blood and collapsed. This shows that magicians are great, but they are not all-around. Apparently, her ability was superior to the archer by nature. Her wind shield keeps distant attacks out of reach. She believed in it so much that she thought her safety was secured and died in vain while trying to counterattack. Ed don’t know who it was, but he didn’t mean to show mercy to those who rushed to kill him. Ed’s eyes turned to the barbarian warrior who was fighting Arin. Although he wields a Battle Axe and boasts outstanding strength, Arin is throwing the attack away with a shield and swinging her Holy Sword to counterattack. Come to think of it, this really didn’t make any sense. They attacked a carriage that exudes the sacred power of the Astron Church? A carriage this big is usually used by someone of the archbishop’s level? The barbarian warrior stood back and shouted, while preventing Arin from stabbing him.

“Sylvia! What are you doing?”

The barbarian warrior looked back and opened his eyes. She was laying dead with arrows stuck in her neck.

“How?”

He’s seen how good Sylvia’s windshield is, going back and forth between numerous battlefields. They had not been hit by a single arrow even in the rain of arrows pouring down from the battlefield. Greg, who knew how big her role was in the Dalian conquest of the Ranger Army, couldn’t believe it. But she died. It wasn’t like she was going to resign with a smile on her face. On the contrary, she died, so his backup was gone. Greg spits out the jerky he was chewing and points the Battle Axe at Ed.

“Are you Ed?”

Ed fired an arrow instead of answering the question. Greg hurriedly lifted Battle Axe and stopped it. Perhaps because of the wide side of Battle Axe, he blocked the arrow, but his grip was wobbly. Greg tried to have a conversation, but the arrows did not stop flying towards him.

Kakakan!

No matter how capable he was to swing Battle Axe to block the arrow, it was just too much to block the seven arrows that flew at once. However, as he got hit by it, it became difficult to hold his Battle Axe because of the cold air. Only then did he realize that his opponent was using artifacts, but it was too late. The arrow hit his left knee.

“Gasp!”

It’s not just an ordinary arrow, it was cold and his knees became frozen and soon broke off. If he had been determined to attack from the beginning, he wouldn’t have been pushed back like this. But he didn’t mean to just step down. If he had to die, he had to burn to the end. And yet he hasn’t gone all out. Greg pumped mana into Battle Axe and lifted it up as hard as he could. And three arrows were simultaneously lodged in his chest.

“This bastard is a real ···.”

The mana that was being pushed into Battle Axe was cut off. Ed’s voice was heard while Greg broke down helplessly.

“What are you guys?” “Oh, fuck.”

Greg let out a swear, and was out of breath.

Ed had to deal with the magician first, and when the warrior asked for his name, Ed had already fired an arrow at him. As he spoke, Arin stopped the attack, but Ed didn’t want to wait. He was going to pick up his experience level while he was at a distance from Arin. So he poured out arrows generously. While shooting, he pulled an arrow from the Ice barrel and shot his knee while his Battle Axe was freezing. And at the end, Ed stopped his breathing by firing three arrows at his chest. And he looked back at the party and asked.

“What are you guys?” “Oh, fuck.”

After seeing him spit out swear words, Ed thought he’d shoot more arrows, but he let him go because his experience levels were about to rise. Thane patted his back and came out and said.

“I think he is looking for you, Ed. Why don’t you see what he has to say?” “He blew up the carriage without talking to me. What are we talking about?”

Thane nodded at the words.

“You’re right about that.”

Thane approached the barbarian warrior and saw the axe he was holding.

“Huh? This is the Earth Breaker.” “What’s that?” “It costs about a thousand gold.” “What?”

The ice bow cost about 200 gold. A thousand gold? In other words, it is a powerful relic as it is expensive.

“Why is it so expensive?” “It’s an object that can cause an earthquake with a radius of about 10 meters.” “Do you know who this is?” “Greg is a barbarian warrior under Prince Cliff. Come to think of it, Sylvia must have been the magician who used the wind sword.”

Thane finally came to his senses and ran to the carriage.

“Doug! Doug!”

At Thane’s cry, Ed also remembered. When the magic flew in while outside the carriage, the carriage performed a protective magic, but it was a dangerous attack and the carriage rolled several times. It would have been dangerous if Ed hadn’t covered them, but what would Doug be like outside the carriage?

“Doug!”

When Ed and Arin came forward and looked for him, Doug groaned in the bushes and lifted himself up. His waist clasped, and he raised his hand.

“I’m here.”

Thane finally breathed a sigh of relief. Doug said, coming out of the bushes, shaking off the leaves stuck in his hair.

“Are you all right?” “I thought you were dead. You managed to survive.”

Ed looked at Doug calmly talking to Thane and wondered. The situation was so hectic, he couldn’t tell whether Doug was alive or not. He’s alive though. Ed decided to pay more attention to Doug as Arin treated him. Maybe he hid his skills from them.

The carriage was pulled back up, and all the horses were dead. With the carriage parked, Doug went back to Antsy to buy a horse. Fortunately, the distance to Antsy is not that far. As the sacred power charged in the construction team ran out, Thane looked and asked Ed while Arin was recharging the carriage with sacred power.

“Why did you kill Prince Cliff?” “He was a demon subordinate.” “He must have been Nefthael’s subordinate.” “Yes, that’s why I killed him.”

Thane burst into laughter.

“You remind me of Pendrigan when he was young. He never held back with anything.”

Ed shrugged his shoulders and answered with a blood stone he had recovered.

“Well, those guys who will avenge Prince Cliff are done, aren’t they?” “I see. But there’s still one left.”

Ed looked at today’s catch. He got the “Earth Breaker” and the “Wind Sword” that the barbarian warrior Greg had. The “Earth Breaker” can be lifted, but lacks strength to swing freely. And the “Wind Sword” is an object that only magicians can handle. Especially for those who can control wind. It was something Ed couldn’t use. They were special items. Ed was wondering whether to sell it off or give it as a gift. In the past, he would have sold it without thinking about it and changed it into a good equipment, but now that he has money, he thought about making a connection with it. As expected, he felt that way because he had enough money now. Arin came back and sat next to the bonfire. She sat next to Doug and inspected the equipment because she thought it would be around dinner time when he drove back. Ed glanced at her equipment. Even though the 1,000-gold Battle Axe, the “Earth Breaker,” was received head-on, there was no scratch on it. As expected, it’s an artifact. It occurred to Ed that he should visit Diana’s denomination. Strengthening the ice bow would be fine for the time being, but eventually, it seemed necessary to get better relics. Something powerful. Arin looked at Ed, grooming her shield.

“Do you know anything about them?”

Ed looked at Arin quietly. Come to think of it, it wasn’t something to hide from her.

“Do you know Prince Cliff?”

Arin nodded as if it were natural.

“The prince of misfortune. Even though he was born with the ability to become a king, he was so good that the king sent him to the kingdom of Dalia to die, and he punished the kingdom of Dalia. I heard he was assassinated by the remnants of the kingdom of Dalia. He could have been the king of the kingdom of Dalia. That is why he is the prince of misfortune.”

Ed admitted frankly that Arin seemed to realize something as she spoke.

“He was a demon’s subordinate.” “What?”

Ed told Arin with a soft voice.

“He sacrificed his soul to Nefthael.”

Arin understood the situation now. Why Nefthael tried so hard to target Ed, and why those who were as good as her were targeting Ed. When she knew that, she looked at Ed again. It’s not usually a big deal if a prince becomes a demon subordinate. It was not difficult to avoid the eyes of the church. But so much blood would have been shed if they were swayed by the demon. The prince was hard to kill even if the church knew his secret. If the prince was a demon subordinate, the entire church had to press the royal family and put forward numerous political means. He killed a man like that. Just because he was a demon’s subordinate. Without telling anyone. Does this man know what he’s done? And he told her this secret. This big secret. The corners of her mouth rose unknowingly when she found out that this man trusted her.

“Good job.”

Frankly, Ed agonized as he brought it up. Killing a prince is not something that can be easily passed on to a holy knight. Nevertheless, he liked this woman who accepted it willingly and praised him.

“Thank you for understanding.”