Chapter 21 – Chapter 3

‘If you look at the size and number of military camps, it’s about 60~70.’

After hiding the mercenaries in the forest and checking the size of the military camp, Wolf confirmed that he was at a level he could deal with and gave Frederick a chin.

Since they were already in a relationship where they could understand each other even if they didn’t speak, Frederick commanded the mercenaries with shields, lowered his waist and slowly approached the tent as close as possible.

“Give a signal and fire a volley with a howitzer. Then free fire.”

Wolf gave instructions to the archers and prepared to charge at any time against the mercenaries with unified melee weapons.

“Haha.”

Sensing the air of war, Kai Sent wasn’t even tired, but his breathing was rough and his hands were shaking.

“Colton.”
“Yeah, boss.”
“If Kai Sent stays that way, he won’t let me shoot even if he takes his bow after a volley.”
“Okay.”

Wolf instructed a mercenary named Colton to take the bow from Kai Sent when he became frightened.

This is because he has keenly felt what his allies in panic are doing while rolling on various battlefields.

Kkang kkang kkang kkang kkang kkang kkang kkang!

While Wolf was giving orders like that, the goblins in the furniture-studded watchtower found the shield soldiers led by Frederick and started hitting dented metal here and there.

“It’s smooth! The smooth ones are coming!”

Kaicent witnessed other greenskins swarming from inside the camp on the border of the slightly smaller goblins.

“Quaaaaa!”
“Ooh!”

What appeared at the campsite were three types of greenskins.

Muscular orcs with thick iron plates attached to their bodies.
A hobgoblin with a size between a goblin and an orc.
A goblin with leather armor and a crude bow and spear.

The Orcs defended their chests and backs with iron plates and were armed with huge weapons, the Hobgoblins were armed with human armor and weapons, and the Goblins were armed with poor-quality leather armor and crude bows and spears.

“Preparation!”

After confirming the greenskins rushing toward the shield soldiers, Wolf gave the order, and everyone measured their arrows and took a posture for a howitzer shot.

“Ugh, ah, ah.”

Kaisent, crushed by the air of a savage battlefield that kills and kills not with guns or mechas, but with cold weapons, takes out an arrow, but his hand slips and misses, showing ugliness.

It was not long ago that he was afraid of close combat and was confident that he would develop his long-distance combat ability, but now his head is paralyzed and he does not even know what he is thinking.

“Hey, kid. From here on out, it’s not a world you can normally enter with determination.”

Colton listens to Wolf’s instructions and gives advice in a relaxed voice as he draws arrows beside Kaicent.

‘Resolution…’

Kaicent, who had the keyword that Colton mentioned, “Resolve,” Had dug into his mind, and realized why he was fighting.

‘To get revenge on that guy and get Seol-yeong noona back. If I manage to escape from here, finding Seol-young noona will be impossible even in my dreams.’

In order to find Dang Seol-young, who has disappeared somewhere, you may have to pay a large sum of money to various intelligence organizations or visit them yourself.

Even if they manage to find Dang Seol-young, if they encounter the man who attacked them at least once in a while, then both of them will have no choice but to die.

At that time, the man was in a state of wounds, as if he had fought a big battle somewhere, but he overpowered Tang Seol-yeong.

‘If I run away from here, I won’t be able to find my sister or avenge her!’

Recalling the sorrow and hatred of his own precious things being unilaterally destroyed and destroyed by the will of those stronger than himself, Kaicent felt his paralyzed head clear.

Kiik-

The blurry and terrified eyes from before disappeared and Kaicent, who had the eyes of a warrior, ignored the arrow that had fallen on the ground and took out a new arrow and drew a string.

‘Have you come out of a panic? Did he have a sense of duty stronger than the fear of war?’

Colton was surprised that Kaicent had overcome his fear and that such a young and timid boy had a mission to the extent that he had to overcome his fear and fight.

Anyway, after confirming that the greenskins rushed recklessly to attack the shield soldier and their flanks were exposed, he gave the order to fire.

“Shooting!”

Pipipipiping!

At the same time, as the sound of the protests resounded, arrows that went up diagonally crashed into the greenskins.

“Kieek!”
“Kuwoeouk!”

As the greenskins were attacked from the side, a part of the unit jumped out and charged towards the archers.

Except for the road-level commander who united the greenskins, all the greenskins united and charged.

Due to the physical abilities of the greenskins, it is a dangerous tactic if they are confronted head-on, but if it is a routine ambush or surprise attack, it can weaken the power so easily.

“Turn around!”
“Whoaaaaa!”
“Kill!”

Ordering the unshielded mercenaries to charge, Wolf took the lead brandishing a large two-handed sword.

“Kralarak!”

Among the greenskins running towards this side, an orc with a huge ax driven roughly into a thick tree aimed at Wolf and attacked.

In an instant, as Wolf’s sword collided with the ax with white energy, the ax cracked like a split in the head and cut through the orc’s neck.

“Whoaaaaa!”
“Wow wow wow!”

The mercenaries, whose morale was boosted by Wolf’s overwhelming inaction at the forefront, collided with the greenskins.

The number of greenskins was quickly reduced by Wolf, who focused on Orcs and well-armed Hobgoblins.

However, that did not mean that the mercenaries were not without damage.

Pooh!

“Keah!”
“Kike kek!”

The moment he blocked the Hobgoblin’s sword, the mercenary stumbled with a knee injury from the goblin who used his short stature to thrust a spear between his legs.

“Wow!”

Hobgoblin aiming at the mercenary’s head wields a long sword that must have been captured by humans.

The mercenary raised his weapon in a weak position to defend, but with one hit, his posture collapsed and he collapsed.

The other colleagues are busy fighting the greenskins.

The moment the mercenary, who felt that death was approaching, closed his eyes tightly, the Hobgoblin, which was about to attack again, hesitated and then rolled forward powerlessly and attacked the mercenary.

“Wow!? Evil! Huh…?”

The mercenary, who had been screaming at the sudden situation, was only relieved when he saw that an arrow was stuck in Hobgoblin’s head.

‘You got your eyebrows right? Who is it?’

The arrow pierced the mercenary right between his eyes, and he stuck out his tongue and used the corpse of the hobgoblin with his eyes turned upside down as a shield to escape safely by crawling backwards.

‘It’s dead.’

Kaicent, who saw a mercenary in danger and unknowingly shot it, put on a dazed expression.

‘I killed that man…’ …’

To Kaicent, who had seen countless races in space, greenskins and humans were both human beings and living beings.

In any case, even if they talk and are savage, they seem to have their own culture (bone necklace).

It would be absurd for the people of this world who call greenskins monsters, but it was inevitable for Kaicent, who was born in a society that acknowledged the diversity of races and had established values.

‘This is the path I have chosen. I won’t cry anymore!’

Kaicent, who had painstakingly erased the shock of the murder with his desire for revenge and longing for Dang Seol-young, shot the arrow again.

‘Sister. Sister! Sister… !’

Every time I see my arrows go into the heads of greenskins, biting their tongues and rolling their eyes, I feel the shock of someone hammering my chest.

Kaicent, who had endured the urge to throw away his bow at any moment, remembering Dang Seol-young, continued shooting arrows against his will, despite shedding tears.

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The battle naturally ended with the mercenaries’ victory.

However, there were many strange things about this victory.

“No one died?”

Only a few were injured because the shield soldiers formed a rank and reliably received the enemy’s attack and used counterattack tactics.

However, ordinary mercenaries who engage in melee with the enemy are bound to die.

However, in this battle, there were no casualties even though there were wounded.

“Hey. How did you guess this place correctly?”
“So. I don’t know who it was, but luckily I got it right.”
“If this guy was alive, how many people would he have died?”

The mercenaries who were collecting loot from the battlefield by cutting off the heads of the greenskins were interested in the body of the orc with a large body and a helmet that covered his face.

With a larger physique and better armament than the other orcs, an arrow pierced the helmet’s eye socket and killed him instantly.

Had this orc, whom Wolf had failed to deal with, had run rampant, the number of deaths in this battle would have increased by ten units.

“Ugh… I almost died, but thanks to someone shooting an arrow, I survived.”
“I thought they were suckers who snickered from afar.”
“I’ll have to take a shot at the archers later.”

In addition, there were mercenaries who survived the danger of dying thanks to someone else’s arrow.

Everyone thought that this battle was fortunate in many ways, but Wolf and Frederick, who were well aware of the mercenaries’ abilities, felt that they were out of luck.

The normal level, the level of the archers, no more and no less.

But today, he showed a sniper-level performance by suddenly sniping a strong enemy and rescuing an ally in a crisis situation.

Of course, the two couldn’t have thought that the archers had suddenly grown up after the Great Awakening.

“Kaisent.”
“Is that boy?”

Kaicent, a new member of the archers, naturally came to mind.

The two confirmed that there were no survivors among the looted villagers, and after retrieving their belongings, they found Colton.

“Colton. What about Kaicent?”
“After the battle, I went to vomit.”

Kaicent regained his sanity from the heat of the battlefield only after the greenskins were annihilated, and all his emotions rushed in at once and vomited.

“Did you check the arrow Kaicent shot?”
“I didn’t care after confirming that the first shot hit the greenskin’s head, not the back of my ally. Who was it by any chance?”
“No, I asked just in case, since people often make mistakes in the first battle.”

No matter how veteran Colton is, he can’t focus all his attention on Kaicent in a situation where a single arrow of his own could endanger the life and death of his allies.

So as soon as he made sure his first shot landed right on the greenskin, he focused on his business.

After sending Colton back, the two continued their conversation not as Lillian and Frederick, but as the mercenary’s co-founders, the mercenary leader and vice-captain.

“Is it luck?”
“It’s not at the level of once or twice to see it as luck.”
“But Kaisent, that child’s skills weren’t that great…”

In the first place, Kaicent is a beginner who has only been learning the bow for two weeks.

If archery is easy enough to shoot only the enemy accurately on a battlefield in a fierce battle in just two weeks, everyone will only train archers.

In general, it is common for archers to operate in a way that they shoot as if they are spreading bullets as a group, so it is possible to quickly train them in this way.

However, if it is a method of sniping by increasing the accuracy rate, a training period of years is required.

“Did they trick us? Spy?”

Frederick thought of the worst, but Wolf shook his head.

“It’s not like that. If you’re a spy, it’s easier to do chores and get out of the spotlight.”
“But it’s clear that he hid his skills.”

No matter what Kai Sent’s purpose was, everyone agreed that he was hiding his skills.

It was because it was not possible to explain the performance of the archers this time.

Then why did you hide your skills?
What are the benefits of hiding your skills?

The two couldn’t find an answer to this part, and decided to watch Kaisent more carefully.