Chapter 50 – Walter

Ed did not consider the man following to be excellent in swordsmanship.

In simple comparison, he seemed to be inferior to Etrian, but when he shouted a few times, Ed couldn’t avoid him without fighting.

Ed thought for a moment. But soon he shook his head.

If Ed wanted to, he can kill him without a problem. But the man is only doing his job.

He seems to be a guardian knight, and Ed does not intend to kill such a person just because he is doing his job.

The reality is that the person who helps Caren seems to have done a lot of bad things, but Ed doesn’t know anything about the author’s crimes yet, so Ed decided to let him live for now.

Ed decided so and immediately rushed toward those who blocked him. The guards stabbed Ed as he rushed toward them.

Ed, who jumped slightly and stepped on the spear and made a leap again. He jumped over the guards’ heads. Seeing Ed jumping over them, the guards’ eyes followed to where he landed.

Ed lightly stepped down behind them and ran toward the wall.

Even if there were many guards, the garden was so large. So, the road opened after breaking through the siege.

Then Ed heard the sound of horseshoe behind him. Ed glanced back and made a strong impression. A horse was running toward him, and the guardian knight, who was giving orders, was on the horse.

“That’s no fun.”

No matter how fast Ed is, it is not easy to outrun someone on a horse.

If Ed had his arrow and bow, he would have shot the horse, but now he doesn’t have it. Ed was running toward the wall, and the guards running from behind were shooting arrows.

Ed kept running and avoided the flying arrows. Ed, who avoided the arrow once, jumped toward the wall, kicked the wall once, and ran over the wall with all his might. Ed’s direction was opposite the Pendragon’s mansion.

Their eyes were certainly drawn, but it was highly likely that Kyle, who was not in good shape, had not yet arrived, and he needed a little more.

When Ed ran along the wall, the front door opened and cavalry popped out. Looking back at them, Ed climbed the wall of the opposite mansion in front of them and ran along the wall.

It looked like he was doing acrobatics, but his speed was not slower than the speed at which the horse ran, so the distance was not narrowed.

“Release all the soldiers and block all the roads!”

Ed realized that he was annoyed by the sound he heard from behind, but after jumping down the running wall, he escaped the residential area to avoid the eyes of those who woke up in the disturbance.

Outside the residential area where the nobles lived, Ed ran through the shopping district where the lights were turned off. Leaving the fuss behind, Ed disappeared into the darkness.

Thane heard the disturbance from the outside.

“So, what happened to Caren?”

“He is still alive.”

“He should have just killed him. Now the royal road will be turned upside down.”

It was Thane talking to Kyle. Thane also recognized the man that came with Kyle. He was Gado, the man that was betrayed by the Southern aristocratic union. Known to have been handed over to the kingdom of Magelta, he was trapped underground instead of Caren?

If this is known, Caren can be in big trouble. But the royal road will be overturned by the attack that happened tonight.

When Thane was wrapping his head, Ed popped in through the open window.

“Oh, my!”

Thane freak out, Ed tapped his clothes and said.

“How’s Kyle doing?”

“What happened to the attack on Caren?”

Ed replied insignificantly.

“I threw a stone to turn his attention away. I don’t think he died.”

Thane sighed deeply at the words.

“Why didn’t you just kill him?”

“Huh? You wanted him dead?”

“That’s not what I’m saying.”

Thane patted his chest as if he was suffocating and said.

“He probably didn’t see my face. Anyway, I need to find someone.”

“It’s a relief that he didn’t see your face. Then you’ll have to change your outfit because he could recognize it.”

“Walter, a slave merchant. Where does that piece of shit live?”

Ed doesn’t like the system of slaves itself, perhaps because he has lived in modern times.

It was surprising that such a thing was legal.

There were no positive words that could be said to those who bought and sold people.

Thane frowned a little but recalled what Kyle had said to Merjen and replied.

“Walter is one of the best slave merchants. He lives in a circular stadium.”

Ed knew that there was a circular stadium on the royal road. And there is also a gladiatorial contest of slave gladiators.

“Does he collect slaves there?”

“He also collects ordinary slaves and fosters gladiatorial slaves. But he doesn’t save any slaves, he collects special slaves that only nobles can buy in unless they are gladiatorial slaves.”

“Okay.”

“Where are you going?”

“I need to go and get Leaf.”

Thane hesitated.

“It’s a little dangerous there.”

Ed wondered what this meant, and Thane said with a serious look.

“It’s a place where there are at least 100 gladiatorial slaves. Among them, there are champions, and these gladiatorial slaves are guarding him.”

Ed smiled bitterly at the words.

“I’m not going to kill Walter, I’m going to save Leaf. Why do you worry so much?”

Thane shook his head. Ed passed by him and went to Arin. There, Arin was treating Gado. His condition had improved a lot.

Seeing that new flesh has sprung up to the point where bones were no longer visible.

Arin has tremendous divine power. She saved the one who was almost dying with a basic recovery spell, so Ed called her saint.

Kyle was also sitting on a chair next to Gado, and Merjen was next to Kyle.

When Ed came inside, Kyle and Merjen jumped up. Ed raised his hand to stop them from approaching, and approached Arin and asked.

“How’s his condition”?

“His wound has recovered, but it will take a long time before he can get up.”

Gado had been cursed for years, and he couldn’t eat properly, so it would take him a long time to get up. Besides, Ed was sure his brain is already ruined.

Arin finished putting a bandage around Gado’s body and looked back at Ed. Her eyes seemed to be burning blue.

“Who did this to him?”

Ed replied with a bitter smile at Arin’s appearance.

“I gave him a little payback for what he did. But now I have other things deal with before him.”

“You said you were going to save Leaf, right? I’ll come with you this time.”

Ed shook his head.

“You stand out too much.”

If Ed is a shadow, she is like light. If she tried to use her strength, a blue light would come out, so Ed couldn’t take her.

She has so much potential for an all-out war, but now is not the time for an all-out war.

Ed took off his coat and asked Thane.

“Is there a leather belt that I can put my daggers on?”

“Wait a minute.”

Thane spoke to the butler, and after that, he looked at Ed and said.

“You’d better bring her back before you get in trouble.”

Ed doesn’t know much about Caren, who had a witchcraft man, and a slave merchant, but Ed can guess what he would have done to slaves.

Since they are a product sold to aristocrats, they would try to make them obedient.

After a while, the butler brought a leather belt. It was not possible to insert a large number of daggers like a coat, but it was still a leather belt with six pockets to insert his daggers.

To be honest, daggers were not Ed’s forte, but he thought he was pretty good with them. Ed wore the leather belt diagonally from his left shoulder and wrapped the shadow cape over it.

When he took off his coat, which had 24 bags of daggers in it, he felt relieved. Ed looked back at the group and said.

“I’ll get Leaf, so wait for me.”

Merjen hesitated for a while and opened her mouth.

“Can I come with you?”

“You can’t because I’m going to go secretly.”

If it’s an all-out war, he’ll desperately need the help of a magician, but what he needs now is confidentiality.

“I will head off now.”

Ed smiled while patting Merjen’s hair.

“I’ll be back.”

A dwarf woman was tied to a chair. Her brown eyes were seen through her tangled brown short hair and were blazing with anger.

“Untie this right now!”

A middle-aged handsome man scratched his beard and said.

“Your appearance is excellent, but your mouth is the problem.”

“Walter, you punk! Don’t you know this is illegal?”

The handsome man, called Walter, smiled with wrinkles around his eyes.

“You have to try hard to get the prize.”

Walter approached and grabbed the jaw of the dwarf woman Leaf and lifted it, and said, looking down.

“I don’t want to scratch my precious product. Please do not make me upset.”

“Phwett!”

Leaf spat, and Walter screamed and stepped back. Leaf burst into laughter at the appearance.

“As the rumor says. You really do have OCD.”

Walter shouted while rubbing his skin with a handkerchief.

“You! How dare you!”

Walter said, looking down at her from afar.

“If you want this, I can’t help you.”

When Walter beckoned, a muscular man with dark skin appeared behind him.

“Make her obedient by tomorrow morning.”

“Do you mind if I treat her harshly?”

“It’s okay as long as you don’t make her disabled. We can treat most wounds anyway. Just fix that attitude that she has.”

“Okay. You can go in and rest.”

Walter looked down at Leaf with contempt and said.

“We’ll see if you still act the same tomorrow morning.”

When Walter stepped down, Leaf looked at the muscular man standing in front.

“Shaft. Isn’t the former champion ashamed of doing this?”

When asked by Leaf, the man, called the shaft, pulled out a whip from his waist. And he swung the whip without even answering.

Whiiiip!

Leaf’s clothes were torn and her white skin burst, causing blood to soar. Leaf started at Shaft without even screaming.

She opened her mouth as Shaft lifted the whip again.

“If you swing it, I will surely kill you.”

Shaft swung the whip again without answering.

Whiiiip!

He did not hurt her face, but there was another deep wound on Leaf’s body.

“You punk. I will surely kill you and Walter.”

Shaft lifted the whip again. Leaf has lived with this malice so far. Because the world was not easy for a beautiful dwarf to live in.

However, if Shaft was whipped a few more times, Leaf might not see another day. Even strong muscular human slaves die in a few whippings.

Leaf looked at Shaft with a spiteful look. Leaf tried not to even blink, but she lost her strength. Then she saw the ship droop to the floor.

She was wondering what was going on, and a solid line was drawn on the neck of Shaft, and his head rolled and fell on the floor.

“Huh?”

She thought she was seeing something, but she realized this was real when the head rolled and hit her foot.

“Leaf?”

A man approached with a sword and asked.

“Yeah. Who are you?”

Ed swung his sword, cut off the string that tied her wrist and ankle to the chair, and replied when turning the sword back.

“I came at the request of Merjen.”

Leaf was relieved at the words. Ed looked down at her and asked.

“Can you walk?”

Leaf stumbled, frowning as she tried to get up. The aftermath of the whip was too much for her.

“Ahhh. I don’t think I can at this point.”

Ed sighed and tore the clothes of the fallen body and tied Leaf tightly to his back.

And he came out wearing a shadow cape, the hallway was lined with gladiators.

He came in secretly, but gladiators were ready for battle when Ed was about to leave.

Ed looked firmly at Walter. He appeared behind the gladiators.

“When I heard that Caren was attacked today, I prepared the kids just in case. That is why I locked her up underground where there aren’t any windows.”

A swear word popped out from behind Walter’s back as he talked.

“Did that shit use me as bait?”

Ed looked at Walter quietly and opened his mouth.

“Open the way. Then there will be no bloodshed.”

Walter burst into laughter at the words.

“Sounds like a man who would really attack Caren. I liked your guts. If you’d be my slave…”

As soon as Walter collapsed with a dagger stuck in his forehead, Ed pulled out his sword and jumped into the gladiators blocking the hallway.