Chapter 27 – Chapter 3

‘What did I just see?’

Lillian forgot the pain from the cuts in her side as the battle unfolded before her eyes.

He made a shield and sword freely while wearing strange gloves that fell from the sky, and succeeded in counterattacking as expected of Kenneth’s transformation, a skilled person who can be treated anywhere.

In addition, he made undead with black magic, and even copied Kenneth’s swordsmanship freely.

I don’t even know where to start talking about this.

“Keuk…Guk…”

But one thing was certain.
That Kaicent is not suited to fighting.

“Hehe… Ha… Hehe…”

Kaicent, who managed to calm his emotions after crying hard, approached Lillian while wiping away his tears.

“Wolf, are you okay?”
“Ugh…The intestines didn’t protrude, so it’s okay.”

Sensing her belated pain, Lillian unlatched her cumbersome armor.

Kai Sent learned one of Lillian’s secrets when her armor came off.

The clunky-looking armor was just camouflage to look like a man, and there was a beautiful fruit hidden inside.

A gracefully tucked-in waist and a healthy beauty and slim abdomen line like a leopard.
H-cup breasts and peach-like hips that stand out more because of the narrow shoulders and waist.

In particular, thanks to the dark blue high leggings and over-knee stockings with a special energy, her already beautiful body was highlighted even more.

“I never thought I’d be able to use this…”

She took a small box out of a pocket inside her armour.
Inside were dried herbs and a clean, disinfected bandage.

After crushing her herbs with her teeth, she chewed them moderately before dabbing them on her wounds.

“Kaisent. Help me bandage.”
“Ah yes.”

After being absent-minded, Kaicent, who received the bandage a beat late, wrapped the bandage around her waist from behind her.

‘It smells a little salty, but it has a pleasant, refreshing scent.’

Perhaps because she had been in her armor for a long time, Lillian’s body was mixing with a sweet scent mixed with a bit of salt, creating a unique body odor.

In addition, the waist that draws a graceful curve due to high leggings and the beautifully shaped hips keep coming into view.

“I’ll tie it up tight. It’ll hurt a little.”
“Okay. Hehe…!”

Lillian, groaning as she tightened her bandages one last time, had to control her breathing to get used to her pain.

“Let’s get out of here for now. The story comes after that.”
“…Yes.”

Kai Sent had to reveal her hidden skills, and Lillian’s mask as a wolf was shattered.

There’s a lot of things they want to ask each other, but taking their time in the greenskin realm is suicidal.

Just as she was ready to move, Lillian stared at Kenneth’s corpse.

“Kaisent.”
“Yes?”
“Can you turn that person’s corpse into an undead?”
“…It’s possible, but…”

If possible, he wanted to follow the orders of his benefactor, Wolf, but ‘that’ was so creepy that he didn’t even want to save it as an undead.

“Please. To escape the greenskins’ realm, we need at least one power. Above all, don’t let that man’s armor fall to the greenskins.”
“Can’t Wolf wear it?”
“It’s cumbersome because he’s bigger than me. And…That…It’s for men, so the chest area is stuffy.”
“Ah…”

In order to survive, Kaicent, who was persuaded by Lillian who came up with various reasons, turned Kenneth into an undead.

Kenneth, whose intestines were muddy and whose bones were intact, came back to life as a zombie knight.

The two decided to enter the forest to get out of the greenskins’ realm after putting Kenneth in magic armor.

After a while, just as Lillian was worried about, the greenskin’s unique squeaking sound came closer little by little.

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Two people and a corpse moved nonstop through the forest.

The speed was a little slow due to Lillian’s injury, but thanks to diligent movement, he was able to travel a considerable distance.

In addition, there was no pursuit by the goblin riders, perhaps thanks to Lillian’s obliteration of their traces.

“There doesn’t seem to be a chase, so let’s rest a bit.”
“Yes.”

By ordering Kenneth, who became a zombie, to be vigilant from a distance, only two people remain.

“May I ask first?”
“…Yes.”

And the two of them went into question time, which was tacitly agreed upon.

Kaicent answered Lillian’s question wholeheartedly.

How he learned black magic, why he hid his skills, and so on.

“And breaking up with a woman named Dang Seol-young brought her to this point?”
“That’s right.”

Naturally, Kaicent didn’t even mention the physical relationship between himself and Dang Seol-yeong.

“Okay. This is the last question. A strange object that came down from the sky, as if it was prepared for you from the beginning. What is it?”
“It’s an item sent by my father in the original dimension. It seems that it is used to determine which dimension I am in, considering that he sent an object with only this level of function.”

A father who crosses the dimensional wall and gives aid to his children even though he is in another dimension.

And a family with the level of power to send an excellent magic item that can use a shield and sword at any time by infusing energy, although it is only in a fixed form, to check where it is.

‘This boy wants to return the favor to me. If you use it well…’

If you coax Kaicent well, it will be of great help in achieving your goal.

In addition, he has an outstanding talent, so it is a tool for revenge…

“Wolf…? I’m afraid of the snow…”
“…Sorry.”

However, when Kaisent looked at him with a fearful expression, he felt a strong sense of self-loathing.

He is a weak-minded boy who vomits and weeps in shock after killing the man who tried to rape him.

Belatedly recognizing that he was trying to use such a boy as a tool for himself, he made up his mind.

‘No. You can’t treat this child that way.’

Even if Kaicent helps him avenge himself, it must be his own will.

Not wanting to fall to the same level as Kenneth, she handed over her right to question.

“Now it’s your turn.”
“First…What is your real name?”
“Lillian Valen Prosteni. You can call me Lillian.”
“Until now, there have been very few female mercenaries. But, did she bother to hide her existence because of her sexuality?”

A normal person in her would have wondered why she was pretending to be a man, but Kai Sent went one step further and got her right to the core.

Had he been a normal little boy, he would have been just a little idioty, but he’d been around and seen how smart he was.

If it were Kai Sent, she wouldn’t brag about her childish mind.

Believing so, she confided in her own secret.

“I am the last direct descendant of the Lucy Arkenel royal family.”
“Lucia Arcenel… Huh? Ah? Then, Princess…?”
“Okay. Such an unfamiliar expression. Like I said before, just call me Lillian. I’m more used to living like this than being treated like a princess.”

Kaicent, who heard various information while staying with the mercenaries, came up with a keyword that he could hear often because it was Harlot Kingdom.

The tragedy of the Kingdom of Lucy Arkenel.

10 years ago from now.

Due to a sudden large-scale dimensional rift, the palace of the vampire kingdom of the other world and the palace of the Lucy Arkenel kingdom ‘overlapped’.

In general, there were cases where the lands of another world merged with this world, but the fact that the royal palaces overlapped like this was the product of a miracle that could not be explained even with astronomical words.

And the tragedy began.

Each regarded each other as intruders, and both vampires and humans fought desperately to protect the ‘royal palace’.

In the end, the vampire royal family, which was superior in ability, won, and the kingdom of Lucy Arkenel was destroyed as most of the immediate royal family in the palace died at the same time as a royal meeting was held.

Of course, the nobility of the Kingdom of Lucy Arkenel united and attacked the vampires, but the aristocratic union was defeated by the power of the vampires who were united enough to create a ‘royal family’.

In the end, the Kingdom of Lucy Arkenel became the kingdom of vampires and was called the ‘Death Kingdom’ by the people of this world.

To the kingdom of the dead where eternal darkness exists with thick clouds blocking sunlight.

Lillian, who was 17 at the time, was able to escape through her secret passage at everyone’s expense, along with her childhood friend and her fiancé, Frederick.

As Kaicent, Lee Jong-in, he knew the tragedy of the Lucy Arkenel Kingdom, but it was difficult to know the members of the royal family or his family name unless he paid attention to them.

“Even if I am the princess of a ruined kingdom, in the end, the royal family is the royal family. If I find out my identity, there will be people who rush to marry me in order to legally inherit the territory of the Kingdom of Lucy Arkenel, which will be restored someday. No one knows.”

No one knows whether or not she will be able to destroy the kingdom of the dead according to her words.

But even so, there will be people who want to marry her once in her heart.

On top of that, she has a beautiful appearance and has reached the level of an expert, so being in her late 20s is not a big flaw.

If you become an expert, you can get pregnant even if you are 70 years old.

“Among those who are looking for my lineage, if I marry a powerful noble or a member of the Harlot family, I will be able to live comfortably. But I didn’t like being able to do anything by becoming a trophy to stand out like that.”
“So you covered your face and pretended to be a man.”
“Even if I use a pseudonym, my face is quite well known in the neighboring country of Harlot. If I were to hide my face, I pretended to be a man with a helmet enchanted with voice-altering magic to completely hide my identity.”

And, as a mercenary, he was planning to increase his power and participate if the Harlot Kingdom or other kingdoms were to subjugate the Command Kingdom.

If she succeeds in taking her revenge on the kingdom of the dead, she has no political base and will only become a puppet of a foreign country, so she even planned to go into seclusion quietly.

“Uh…But that pitch was for Kenneth…”
“It’s okay. I’ve stocked up on spares just in case. When you get to Munratel, you can go to Frederick by yourself and talk about the situation.”

Fortunately, it seems that all the current problems will be solved once we arrive at Munratel.

The problem is that you have to break through the greenskin area with a combination of 1 wounded, 1 zombie, and 1 boy.

‘Maybe we should prepare for the worst…’

Unexpectedly injured by Kenneth, she felt bleak.

In the end, the only thing she could trust was Kaicent.

“Kaisent. How many undead can you make?”
“I don’t know because I haven’t tested it either.”
“I see… If you meet greenskins and somehow kill them, make them undead too. Because even one requires a lot of power.”
“Yes.”

Worried about how talented but mentally fragile Kaicent would be, Lillian prayed that she would be able to return to Munratel as soon as possible.

However, she only confirmed the weak part of Kai Sent, and did not properly recognize the size of her determination to regain her Tang Seol-yeong.

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Goblins patrolling the surroundings in groups of three.

“Boring.”
“Boring.”
“Don’t follow me!”
“Don’t follow me!”

The two of them couldn’t overcome boredom and started bickering with each other.

“Kikyakkak! Fight! Fight!”

Far from stopping the remaining goblins, they even fanned them if they wanted to fight.

It’s literally a ragtag, no, it’s a lower level than that, but even if it looks like this, it fights well on a large battlefield.

Although inferior to Hobgoblins, they are generally smarter, and goblins from high-level clans know how to make metal weapons and siege weapons.

The problem is that they do not get along well with each other due to their nature of being cruel and despicable, weak to the strong and strong to the weak.

Shhh- puck-

At that time, a long, pointed stone pierced the head of the goblin who was watching.

“Kek!?”
“Kick!?”

The goblins, who had been biting and scratching each other and fighting, reacted in surprise when they witnessed the scene a moment later,

Perpuck!

The goblins’ heads were pierced at the same time by the memorization that flew in succession, and they died instantly.

“Summon undead.”

Kaicent, who killed the goblins instantly, quietly turned them into zombies.

He checked the possessions of the goblins and filled his quiver with the best arrows.

“Whoa… That’s okay. Let’s move.”

Kaicent calmed down by adding more powerful goblin zombies and signaled to Lillian, who was watching.

“Kaisent.”
“Yes?”
“Did you ever know how to scout in the woods?”
“Because the mercenary seniors told me about it.”

Scouting in the woods is not a simple task.

In particular, greenskins, whose noses are superior to those of humans, although not at the level of beasts, will catch you straight away if you smell them in the wind.

However, Kaicent always moved while feeling the flow of the wind, and quickly checked where there might be traps.

In addition, he noticed the subtle smell of the greenskins faster than he did, and executed the surprise attack perfectly.

Its appearance felt familiar, like an old soldier who had gone through decades of reversal as a scout.

‘Could he grow this much in that short amount of time?’

His men have gone out a few times to tell Kai Sent how to scout, but only 4 times so far.

For Lillian, who believed that reconnaissance was not a realm of talent, but was trained through the accumulation of experience, it felt like common sense was changing.

‘I have to learn everything to find Seol-young.’

Naturally, this scouting ability was taught by the mercenaries in case the worst-case scenario was that he had to set out to find Dangseolyeong himself.

Kaicent’s tenacity, prepared to kill people to find Dang Seol-young, was making his dormant talent even more active.