Chapter 400 – Assassination Family Raven 4 (21)

I slowly ascended to the place where men’s semen was squeezed out of a cavity filled with the scent of harpy blood.

In the meantime, he cut off the head of the harpy, who was walking down with a slightly awkward gait, as if he had finished settling down, and the body slid down together along with the helpless body.

“Keeeeek!”

“Keeek!”

Is there anything that could attract the attention of harpies who are concentrating on making noises? I thought for a moment that there might be trouble if the Raven family’s assassin was seen using flames.

‘If a problem arises, just remove the witness.’

Flame wheel.

A ring of flame floated in the center where the harpies and the captured men were mixing flesh in the dark.

“Keeeeek!”

“Ugh! Who is it?”

When a light source appeared, the harpies were startled and stood up from their seats, and the men also shouted.

There are seven harpies here, and I threw a weak spin on the shadow’s sword towards the harpies.

Sigh! Sigh! Deep!

When seven harpies lost their lives, the number of people alive here was drastically reduced to six men.

Unlike when I glanced at him with my night eyes, which had become brighter due to Shadow Mastery, I opened my eyes and looked at the men properly.

It must have been some time since they were captured, so their clothes were all messed up, and they all had haggard faces.

“Did you kill them all? More than that, when did you get here?”

Among the men, the one who seemed to have the strongest body stood up staggeringly.

His dick was erect, probably because he was having sex with the harpy, but he didn’t want to see that, so he turned his head slightly.

“Let me ask you a question. Is there anyone who had a magic tool and was kidnapped by a harpy?”

Except for one man, he couldn’t even get up properly. Among them, the man who looked a little weak slowly raised his hand and said.

“I… Had one.”

As I walked towards the man raising his hand, a strong man spoke from behind.

“This is amazing. Is it magic?”

It seems like you can get closer to the flame ring floating in the air and look at it, but you probably won’t be able to find out anything.

The frail-looking man lowered his arms as I approached.

I grabbed his shoulder and blew some heat on him, briefly activating his physical abilities.

Then the man took a deep breath.

“I found a magic tool downstairs. Is that the magic tool you brought?”

When I took out a magic tool that was emitting blue flames from his pocket and showed it to him, the man lay down and nodded his head a few times.

“Yes, that’s right. It’s what I had when I was kidnapped by the harpy.”

“What effect does it have?”

“It will have the effect of making the baby in the womb healthy… My wife and I are weak, so I bought it with the intention that the child will grow up healthy… Ugh…”

As the man spoke, he shed tears as if he was thinking of his family.

First, the harpies acquired magic tools that were supposed to be used on people, and because of that, the harpies grew rapidly, and their numbers seem to have increased significantly.

And as their numbers increased, they could not supply enough food from the Ernian Mountains, so they had to look outside, and that’s where the Garret Estate was located.

It was a problem caused by a magic tool that a man bought with his children in mind, so the cause was solved.

“Can we get out alive now?”

“To be honest, there is no food. I can escape on my own, but I will have to stay here for another day.”

When I used the flame wheel, I decided to eliminate witnesses, but I had a good excuse as a magic tool.

In that case, I thought it would be better to save as many people as possible.

If I leave the person alive, I can receive a larger share of the gold I have to give to Sagrun.

“The food is here, right? I’ve tasted what these bitches’ milk tastes like, so I’m curious what their meat is like.”

When I turned my head, the only man who was up kicked the harpy’s body and spoke.

I said while looking at the man, thinking that the story of living off the milk of a harpy until now was quite fascinating.

“I’ll come back after I finish killing the harpy, so you can do it yourself.”

You have to kill the harpy dozing at the entrance of the cave to be able to get out.

I walked forward a little quickly and cut down all the harpies at the cave entrance.

*

While I was away for a moment, I saw a man diligently cutting off a harpy’s leg, probably looking for a hidden dagger.

Since they were talking about breasts, I wondered if they were planning to cut off the breasts and roast them, but it seems they were planning to eat the legs, which were covered in feathers and resembled birds.

“Get out of the way.”

The man who heard my voice quietly backed away, and I cut the harpy’s thigh cleanly with the shadow sword.

The man roughly scraped off the feathers with a dagger to expose the skin, then stuck the dagger in and brought it close to the flame wheel that illuminated the cave.

It’s not that hot of a temperature for me, who has mastered the Flame God Art, but seeing the smell of the harpy’s thigh meat being cooked wafting through the cave, it seems like it’s enough temperature for cooking.

Even after the harpy died, other people who had been lying on the ground slowly began to gather when they smelled the meat being cooked.

“Brother, shouldn’t each person eat one?”

“I hope I don’t die after eating like that and going down the mountain.”

After cutting a few more thighs of the harpy and handing them out, the men roughly cooked them and started eating them.

I watched it from a distance.

*

The men who were captured and exploited by the harpies recovered some of their stamina after eating a piece of the harpy’s thigh.

Still, it was late now, and we couldn’t go outside, so we sat huddled near the salt wheel.

“Who are you? I don’t think you’re an ordinary adventurer.”

Another man, not the two men I was talking to, spoke to me.

Since his head is round, should we remember him as a round man?

“Cian Raven, an assassin of the Raven family. Garret’s territory suffered great damage from the Harpies, so a mission with quite a high reward arose. So I came to solve it.”

“Assassin of the Raven family? That was the one who cut up the harpy with that shadow or something.”

“I’ve heard of it. They say there’s an assassin from the Raven family who mainly uses swords, not shadow magic. I guess that’s him…? Why is an assassin doing what an adventurer would do?”

I answered while looking at the weak man.

“Don’t you need to have a certain amount of emergency fund to buy at least one gift for your child?”

“They say that when you assassinate, you get paid for the commission with a person’s life. That must be tight for money.”

In fact, I was given a mission that paid a lot of money to go to Shainen, but I was able to pass it like that.

All the men here heard a little while ago a weak man talking about buying magic tools for his children.

“Do you think that the number of harpies has increased significantly because of the magic tools I bought?”

At that time, the weak man spoke to me.

“That’s the only possibility. There was a stone tower where the harpies were raising their children, and blue flames bloomed from there and slowly seeped into the harpies. Perhaps because it was a monster, the effect was a little excessive.”

“Like that…”

“This happened not because I wanted to increase the power of the Harpy, but because I was kidnapped on my way back after buying magic tools for my child, so there will be no disadvantage to you.”

Of course, I don’t know what the people in the Garret estate who directly suffered the damage would think.

The weak man, who was a little depressed, lowered his head and said.

“Even though I was a little hungry, I survived well thanks to the Harpy’s Pillar. I think I’ve had all the sex I’ll ever want in my life.”

A healthy-looking man lay flat on his back on the floor.

When I saw the harpy’s corpse being roughly pulled out and used as a pillow, I couldn’t help but say that I was very nervous.

Other men also slept around Yeomryun to save up their stamina to go down the Ernian Mountains tomorrow.

When they fell asleep, I retrieved the flame wheel and closed my eyes for a moment.

*

“That’s crazy… I don’t think they are the same person.”

“It’s not something I can use easily.”

It was quite difficult to use Shadow Jump with five people at once.

Even if the body was full of Yin attribute mana rather than a body lacking mana like Choi Xian, the five of them still had a bit of a hard time.

‘Still, it took less mana than doing five round trips.’

I slowly walked down the Ernian Mountains with five men wearing rags and holding the roasted thighs of harpies dearly.

A group of harpies cleared the area, and we didn’t find any monsters or wild animals on the way up, so all we had to do was pay attention to our stamina and go down.

Yesterday I followed someone up, but today I was leading five people down, and while we were quietly going down, a man said.

“My life was saved… But the future is bleak.”

“I don’t know if my wife is doing well. I think it’s been 4 months since she was captured…”

While I was talking about such negative things, a sturdy man who showed a special appearance yesterday also spoke.

“Compared to being dead and not being able to do anything, being alive is 10,000 times better. These bastards are saying they are full.”

I silently agreed with what the man said and continued to lead the people.

*

“Well, I knew you could do it. Didn’t I tell you that your dagger throwing skills were extraordinary?”

Near the wall of Garet’s territory, there were several people who had seen faces from Sagrun and the Adventurer’s Guild.

“So what happened? Did you find out why the harpy population increased?”

Sagrun didn’t seem to think that I wouldn’t have been able to kill the harpy.

“It was the effect of a magic tool. It seems that a magic tool that has a weak effect on humans had an excessive effect on the harpies.”

“Well… Um… I feel a little empty now that I know that. Let’s go back to the guild. To get the settlement, we have to confirm with the guild, so we’ll have to send someone, so it’ll take a few days.”

“I guess you don’t trust me for saving people from the harpy’s nest?”

“There’s 30 gold at stake. Let’s be sure. And what kind of crazy person would take money from an assassin from the Raven family?”

Since the last addition increased trust, I decided to follow the Adventurer’s Guild’s policy.