Chapter 155 – The Beginning of a Counterattack Starting With the Bandits (03)

“Pfft!”

Although he is said to have become a demon through the duke’s secret arts, he does not feel pain and does not feel his body his being damaged, so he appears strong and fearless, but his actual body his his does not become that strong.

You can be frightened by its ability, but if you come to your senses and deal with it, even if you take just a little bit of time, you will not protect your body and will either self-destruct or fall if you give it an opportunity, so if you just respond calmly.

“‘If you break Slave No. 1’s arm straight ahead, you can block the opponent’s movement…’.”

While frantically giving instructions to my bandits, I was also busy swinging a tree branch against the squad leader-level soldier standing in front of me.

First of all, the female thieves A and B, who are not combat troops, are used as bait, circling around to avoid the Peasant soldiers, luring them in, giving William and I time to play 1:1.

Pop!

Even though I was holding a tree branch, my main ability was over 400, so my attack power was overwhelming, and although the [Swordmaster] Attribute was lost, it was a disadvantage, but my swordsmanship skills were at a certain level to deal with soldiers who only had enhanced abilities. It had been achieved.

Rather, the reason I’m taking so much time until now is that I’m not used to the longer limbs, so I try to bring them in a little more like before, but I make a mistake in controlling the distance, or I instinctively thought I wouldn’t hit, so I saved my sword, but it was at the exact point of the hit, so I missed it. The problem of not being able to adapt was bigger.

Let’s go!

The arm of the soldier hit by William’s mace was broken, and when his leg was also kicked, the soldier could no longer hold on and fell to the floor, incapacitated.

Even after seeing their comrades horribly shattered, they still attacked us. In the first place, the soldiers of the Duke faction did not retreat.

This is because the lower-level soldiers were just berserkers or zombies without any sense.

Thanks to that, every time they tried to move and send a signal without worrying about running away, it was enough for me to intervene or rush female thieves A and B to interfere.

‘Here… Disarm!’

During the battle, the feeling in my fingertips gradually returned and I got used to the extended arm length. Without missing the moment when the squad leader swung his sword at me, I used a tree branch to strike the sword’s face, attached the branch to the sword’s face, and spun around to pull it out of my hand.〈 Br〉

It is a technique that was practiced against Sir Andre and was successful against Marian, and also worked on Ophelia.

Since it wasn’t a technique that a squad leader-level soldier could block, he was immediately disarmed by me, and he took advantage of the opportunity to throw his sword away.

‘It would be easier if I could use that sword right away…’

According to the system, it was impossible to take away an opponent’s weapon unless the opponent had a special ability or characteristic, such as not being able to steal or use your wooden sword.

In terms of the game, it is not a case of seizing a weapon, but a disarming, that is, a situation where you have to go back to the inventory compartment and temporarily re-equip the weapon, so it becomes a fight between branches and bare hands…

“Master!”

“I stole it!”

“…Huh?”

Female thieves A and B, who were looking for an opportunity, grabbed the dropped weapons and handed them to me. Suddenly, the squad leader-level soldier, who had lost ownership of the weapons, and I, looking at the weapons in front of us, stopped at the same time.

– Renellian Iron Sword (Level) –

– Durability 8/15 –

– Inspection weapon –

– Attack power 23 –

– An iron sword specially manufactured by the Renellian family. It has low durability and hardness, so it looks like it will break easily, but it exerts power that is unheard of in a sword in this price range –

Chang!

The moment you pull out the sword, the grip feels different.

In the Renellian Dukedom, even if you give them proper weapons with enhanced abilities without risking their lives, they will not be able to use them for a long time, so they just give the soldiers weapons that have been strengthened in a way that lowers their durability and demonstrates lethal power.

So, the spear point is fatally dangerous, but if it collides with a weapon of the same class, it will break and the hilt will break quickly, but since the soldiers cannot survive long enough to use the weapon anyway, they just use it.

Suddenly!

Before he could react, I cut off the squad leader’s neck with the Renellian iron sword I was holding and jumped towards the duke soldiers rushing towards the female thieves.

– Warning. The durability of the Renellian iron sword is low –

Know. So I strictly swung the sword only on exposed parts, such as their necks and faces.

Because I didn’t have the master swordsmanship correction provided by the [Master of the Sword] Trait, my sword strokes weren’t as clean as usual, and I was used to swinging the sword with my short, childish arms, so it was a bit awkward and jerky.

Still, there was enough skill left to split four soldiers in an instant.

Phew!

Thanks to this, the durability of the Renellian iron sword still remained at 5.

Sigh-!

I avoided her while blood was spurting into the air and checked on William’s battle. She had already crushed a squad leader-level soldier who could not move and was resting, panting.

Of course, even though the game system was tightly applied when I was giving instructions to the characters on the other side of the screen, now that I was actually active, there were cases where it had changed in one way or another, so I checked to see if the weapons were the same.

Looking at the other soldiers, they did not drop their weapons, but the moment they fell, their spears were broken or damaged and were in a state of no use. Even if they managed to save one, it had only 1 durability, so it could be broken with just a little swing.

It was not strange that the durability was 1. The concept of getting lucky and using a weapon from an enemy you defeated was a method of obtaining a weapon whose durability had dropped to 1, repairing it, and using it.

‘But you get a weapon, a weapon with more than half of its durability remaining, during battle?’

“How did they do it?”

“Master?”

“Did we just steal it like we did?”

“…”

I briefly checked the status windows of A and B.

[Characteristics] And abilities can be checked, but these female thief A and B have no special characteristics and are just listed as female thief A and female thief B. Their abilities are slightly adjusted only for agility, but the rest are based on Part 1 .It was also weak.

However, there may be skills that I cannot check through the status window, such as the special skills that I learned from Sir Andre that allow me to use disarming, or Alice and other wizards that can use magic that they know.

“Was looting possible in the first place?”

“Yes!”

Sigh.

I couldn’t help but gasp as I looked at the herbs and small point coins that each of them had probably been stolen from the soldiers while running away.

“How are you, master?”

“Did we do well?”

As I watched the female thieves answer brightly, probably because they thought they were helpful, I thought about what happened when a humanoid thieve like her appeared as an enemy.

‘Now that I think about it, the thieves had the skill to steal.’

Take something out of an ally’s bag.

Sometimes, they steal potions or point points, but if you don’t catch them before they run away, the items are lost and disappear.

In addition, because the characters were set up to steal the most expensive items, characters at the level of friends or lower, who were unable to manage their bags as they pleased, faced the worst situation where they brought expensive items, got robbed by thieves , and were unable to find them, causing their favorability to drop.

However, of course, due to the balance, you cannot seize the weapon you are holding, but if it was possible to seize the weapon, it would have been a really vicious balance.

“…Ah!”

When I thought about it that way, I understood.

Sir Andre’s ‘Disarm’ skill, which I use, disarms the ‘equipment’ equipped in the opponent’s hand and returns it to the owner’s ‘Item’ box.

And thieves-type enemies steal the owner’s most expensive ‘item’.

If these two things come together.

‘If I use these female thieves to seize the weapon I disarmed… Does that mean I can take it away?’

Actually, this couldn’t have happened.

Among the characters in Celestial Academy, there was Inori, a ninja, who had a similar image to a thief, and there was Seri, who had quick feet, but there were no characters who actually had the job of a thief.

Even including NPCs who joined the team, even William was just a warrior-type character with a thief background, without stealing.

In other words, stealing was only used by enemies, and disarming was occasionally used by NPCs from the [Sword Master], But since they did not move with the thieves at that time, it was an accident that would not normally occur.

Even if it were to happen, it would have happened to our allies and it would not have been of use to the enemy, but thanks to the illusion of enslavement, I made William the number one slave, and she has two subordinates who have survived. . To this day…

“Is this… A really useful bug… ?”

“Are we useful, master?”

“Okay. Well done to both of you.”

“Master. Then as a reward…”

“Are you going to ‘treat’ us again?”

I was momentarily speechless, but if I said no, my likability would naturally drop, so I smiled with a troubled expression and nodded my head in a lie.

“Wow! I’ll steal it again next time!”

“Yeah…Yeah.”

First of all, let’s think of it as motivation.

The two female thieves were happy and gave me various items as gifts, but the clothes had no pockets so I couldn’t put them in them, so I returned them to them.

I had no idea that the female thieves, who were only meant to be used to deal with burdensome tasks, could be so useful.

If we hadn’t implemented the bug-prone third route in the first place, we wouldn’t have become such allies.

“Let’s move quickly before reinforcements from the communist soldiers arrive.”

After William’s rest was over and I checked his condition, I threw away the tree branch, wrapped the Renellian iron sword roughly in cloth, put it on my belt, and walked away.

From here, follow the gentle path and take the shortest route under the guidance of William and the female thieves.

When moving by carriage, it took a while because we had to take a detour along the road to avoid the forest, but since we were moving the shortest distance as we are now, we were able to arrive at Celestial Academy in a similar amount of time as when moving by carriage.

‘Originally, this place was patrolled by guards, the fence was high, and entry except for the front and back gates was prohibited by school rules, so it was an inaccessible road…’

When I go out for field training, I have to report near the main gate on the way back by carriage, so I couldn’t use this shortcut, but now I don’t need to report and I can just jump over the fence, so I’m going this way.

As I climbed up the hill surrounding the academy, I couldn’t help but groan as I looked down at the panoramic view.

“This is…”

The Celestial Academy visible from the hill was completely ashes.