Chapter 89 – Chapter 9

“Hold on! It’s okay to give up the attack, so hold on unconditionally!”

About a hundred mercenaries were desperately holding on, erecting shields, as if trying to defy the wave of undead that numbered close to a thousand units.

“Sunfire!”

Rrrr

From there, dozens of fireballs jumped out at the undead group and began to spit out streams of flame.

Hundreds of undead were burned by powerful flames and turned to ashes, or turned into bodies that could not fight properly.

“Let’s go!”
“Kill!”

The mercenaries waiting behind the shield soldiers split left and right and rushed towards the undead devastated by magic.

Kwajijik!

Among them, the first thing that popped out was Arti, a mechanical weapon of a heterogeneous form.

Artie ignored the weapons flying at him and slashed the undead by literally swinging the specially provided giant axe like a tree branch.

After that, the Abyss Knight, heavily armed with a halberd and a tower shield, rides on a horse and tramples down the ranks of the undead.

“Waaaaa!”

Finally, a full-scale battle broke out as the mercenaries attacked the undead.

There were still a lot of undead, but the experienced mercenaries did not grab the heads of the undead by using a rattle, but kept their distance and dealt with them one by one.

“Don’t mix with the undead!”
“Keep your distance and slash! There’s no hurry!”

Since it was a battle that would end only by dealing with the undead troops in front of their eyes, the existing Wolf mercenary corps led the battle by controlling the new recruits so that they did not come out.

Some of the new recruits were frustrated with the movements of the Wolf Mercenary Corps, which moved tactically like a regular army, only with a different level of weaponry rather than a random charge, but most of them adapted well.

Key eh eh —-

At that time, one undead stood out as the magic of morale exploded in one place.

“Keep!”
“Phi, avoid!”

A well-armed undead warrior with a black aura that looked ominous at first glance had appeared on the front lines.

“The Fallen!”

If the cleric who worships the god does not die gracefully and becomes undead, he becomes a high-ranking undead that uses wicked divine power.

The Fallen that appeared now must have been a wandering paladin, judging by the level of armament.

I don’t know what his ability was in life, but the Fallen who became undead swung a sword imbued with energy to kill the living and slashed the weapons of the mercenaries.

“Oh, it’s coming!”
“Spread!”

The moment when the mercenaries hurriedly tried to disperse, because the Fallen’s attack would not end with a simple injury.

Choo Woo-wook–

The Fallen suddenly drooped and turned and began slashing through the undead.

“Uh…What is it?”
“What is this?”

When the mercenaries were confused by the appearance of the Fallen suddenly attacking the undead, the existing mercenaries saw it and shouted.

“Our mage has tamed it! It has become an ally, so don’t be afraid and attack!”

Then, boldly, he rushed near the Fallen and began cutting down the undead.

No matter how much the undead are tamed, the upper undead can resist domination.
Nonetheless, because of their trust in Kaisent, the existing mercenaries were able to fight alongside the undead that had just been dominated.

Kaicent, who gained a new power as a Fallen, supported his allies by using various magics, including Fire Ball, instead of Sun Fire, which could damage allies in combat.

‘The undead, which are outnumbered and weak, are of no help. I will gather the strong Undead one by one and make Lillian able to choose what he wants.’

If you raise the mercenaries like this, you will eventually encounter the Command Kingdom.

Normally, you have to worry about winning or losing, but Kaicent, who never intends to lose even for Lillian’s sake, decided to gather strong undead and make them his own, even in the fight against the kingdom of the dead and for the future choice.

In any case, the morale of the Wolf mercenaries, who had won without much damage against the undead 5 times more than themselves, went up in a good direction.

“I can see why all the places that go well are all wizards.”
“So. Now I think I know why famous adventurers and mercenaries always have wizards.”

Those who first learned of the magician’s power showed wonder, but the mercenaries who met the wizard were different.

“This is the power of wizards? Then what are the wizards I’ve seen?”
“Isn’t the age system different between this world and the other world?”
“Yes, yes. You have to go up from there.”

The wizards I’ve met so far use powerful magic one after another that they couldn’t even give out their cards, and even the ability to easily dominate the seemingly strong undead from a distance.

In addition, because of his introverted personality, he did not have noisy friendships with people, but because of his docile and good nature, he did not look down on others for his outstanding abilities and maintained appropriate friendships with everyone.

Those who went undercover to dig up information requested an increase in the value of Kaicent, citing these points while reporting.

There are many wizards with good abilities, but there were very few wizards with a mild personality and good cooperation as well as excellent abilities.

After completing her first request without any major casualties, Lillian gave her a glass of beer and lightly toasted her.

“Today’s battle was a request for 20 gold coins! And there are many requests like this in this kingdom!”

Raising her glass, Lillian displayed her dignity as a wolf.

“I have no intention of ending up as a simple solid mercenary leader! Follow me! I’ll make you able to carry strength on your shoulders with a thunderbolt of money!”
“Wow!”

Her mercenaries raised her glasses and drank her beer at her declaration that she would make it into a larger mercenary corps.

It was disappointing in many ways to have just one drink, but I couldn’t get drunk enough with her first request.
Still, as soon as a glass of alcohol went in, the mercenaries began to chat happily.

“Hey, by the way, the vice-captain.”
“Huh?”
“Didn’t you say that the level was lowered to standard class because of the curse?”
“It did?”
“But seeing today’s fight, there’s nothing different from the old days, right?”

Some who had been active in Wolf’s mercenary corps for a long time questioned that Priscilla was no different from when she was Frederick.

“You were originally an expert level.
“Is it?”
“Most of the Undead we fought today were low-class with a lot of numbers. If you fight against a high-level Undead, you’ll feel that your level has gone down, right?”

But no such thing will exist.
Kaisent will tame the dangerous undead and use them for his own power.

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After that, the Wolf Mercenary Corps wandered around the Harlot Kingdom and resolved various requests.

The types of requests varied.
Like the first quest, deal with the undead army or hunt the upper undead in a specific area.

The Wolf Mercenary Corps, which succeeded in all requests without failing even once, became so famous in Harlot Kingdom that no one knew it, and the number of eyes that saw them increased as they became famous.

The problem is that there are very few friendly people, half of them are neutral like a dog and chicken, and the other half are hostile.

Favor belonged to those who were helped by the mercenaries, neutrality belonged to those in power in Harlot, and enmity belonged to other mercenaries.

Among the hostility, there was the obvious fact that it was a huge existing mercenary group that received a new challenger, but the biggest thing was that the mercenary group of a similar size was reflected.

In the past, if someone similar to me suddenly sniffles and goes well, it’s human nature to be jealous.
Especially if it is in the same industry.

“There go the bodymen.”
“I heard it smells like a corpse, but it turns out they were corpses.”

Funny enough, the other mercenaries who came to make money using the undead avalanche also degraded the Wolf mercenary corps as a corpse catcher mercenary.

“These bastards.”
“Hey, what did you guys just say?”

Of course, the friction between Wolf’s mercenary group and other mercenary groups, which could not pass this provocation lightly, intensified.

However, in Wolf’s Mercenary Corps, there are experts who can receive high treatment from any noble family.

They could inflate their size at any time if they wanted to, but the mercenary group they wanted was not a balloon-like mercenary group that would explode if pricked, but a mercenary group with a full stomach, so they were only running a small mercenary group that did not fit the realm.

Pupper pupper puck!

“Kkeuk!”
“Ouch!”
“Hey, wait a minute! Kwweeek!”

If the other mercenaries went beyond the limits, two experts would jump out and destroy the other mercenaries with their bare hands.

“Go…Strong…!”
“What is it! Experts and wizards all said that it was true!”

When dozens of people were knocked out by the overwhelming skills of the two, the remaining mercenaries were unable to recklessly attack and were terrified.

“You guys. I’m going to say it next time, think about it one more time and then spit it out.”
“Keugh…”

Today, without thinking about the words, he stormed into the camp of the mercenaries, and Lillian, who had ‘admonished’, returned with Priscilla.

“Waaaaa!”
“As expected, I’m the leader! I’m going to fall in love with you!”
“Puhahaha! Crazy bastard!”

Dozens of Wolf’s mercenaries, brought in just in case, cheered for the skills of the two who destroyed a mercenary without them.

“Anyway. There are people who only come to their senses when they’re right. Let’s go back!”
“Yes, boss!”
“Don’t call me the boss! It feels strange in this situation!”
Haha!”

Lillian smiled as he punished the mercenary corps for going too far, as if he had forgotten that they were experts at the level of experts, or thought that all their reputation was a lie.

“Keukkeuk. Come to think of it, it’s funny. I’ve fought more with other mercenaries than I’ve fought with the undead.”
“That’s right, haha!”

The other mercenaries giggled at her jokes, but Priscilla was quiet, as if thinking about something for some reason.

“Fru…Sdrick. What are you thinking?”
“Huh? Ah, sorry. I was thinking about something else for a while…”

She said she was thinking about something for a moment, but Lillian noticed that she was absent-minded a lot these days.

‘Pleasure will be imprinted on your body, and your pussy water will flow all day long. You’ll have a hard time until you get used to it, Priscilla♡’

Lillian, whose pupils were half-moon-shaped behind her helmet, smiled as if she was looking forward to seeing how long she could last.

‘By the way, now that we have enough money, we should also raise our level.’

Up until now, funds had been insufficient to increase the number and quality of the mercenaries, but thanks to Kaisent, they could now afford to purchase crystals for the two of them.

Lillian, who has returned to her mercenary group, sells her high-level crystals in large cities, so she decides to find a new quest and move to a city that can sell expert crystals.

And when Kaicent learned that he was going to buy the crystal from Lillian, he opened his mouth as if it was all right.

“You say you’re buying a crystal? Then can you buy me one crystal too?”
“Are you going to do crystal research?”
“Yes.”

Until now, it had been postponed for various reasons, but this time he showed his will to purchase and study the crystal.

Towards a city where they could purchase crystals like that, the Wolf Mercenary Corps moved to the center of Harlot Kingdom and made a camp in front of the city where traces of burning bodies remained like other places.

“I think it’s a bit better here.”

The center of the kingdom was in much better condition than other places, probably for the survival of the capital.

As evidence of this, there are traces of destruction here and there on the ground, but the castle walls did not feel like they were seriously attacked.

“Please enter only the representative of the mercenary corps and a small number of people!”

However, the soldier on the wall shouts for only a small number of people to enter.
If the mercenaries go on a rampage and cause trouble, the citizens will shrink even more.

Of course, Lilian entered the city accompanied by Kaicent and Priscilla.

“Where is the alchemist’s guild?”

Passing some of her fairy tales to the guard, she asked for the location of the alchemist’s guild.
As much as the guard received the fairy tale, he faithfully informed it.

The three of them went to the alchemist guild rather than the mercenary guild.

“I’m going to sell this and buy 2 Expert 5 Crystals and 1 Novice Crystal.”
“Wait a moment.”

The guild staff at the counter held out two green orbs and one white marble that shimmered like jewels.

‘This is the crystal that raises the level of prana…’

After accepting the crystals eaten by those who learn prana, Kaicent activates the qi and analyzes the components of the crystals.

“Please lend me that too.”
“Yes, here.”

Kaicent, who took turns comparing and analyzing the two crystals, swallowed the nobis crystal while activating his senses, as if it was difficult to analyze it perfectly in this way.

‘It has a strong life force and mana of various attributes in harmony.’

It is a degree of perfection where you can feel the history of this world that has used its own strengthening method called Prana.
However, this was not the only information about the crystal Kaicent wanted.

“Would you mind if I take a look at you later when you eat the crystal?”
“What? That.”
“Are you okay.”
“Lilian?”

When absorbing crystals, the user’s talent is important, but concentration is equally important.

It’s not to the extent of gaining ‘enlightenment’ as the Murim people say, but it’s because you have to focus all your senses on accepting the energy of crystals that permeate your body.

Of course, if an outsider’s aura interferes, it can get on your nerves and disrupt or worsen your concentration.
That’s why when absorbing crystals, it’s standard to do it in a quiet place without being disturbed.

“If it’s for Kaicent, it’s okay to fail once.”
“…”

It’s okay to fail to raise the level of prana.

Priscilla was already in a situation where Lillian and Kaicent had gone beyond her reach.

A small regret arose, asking why she didn’t know this fact herself, but strangely, she felt a strange feeling of jealousy along with the regret.

She had a desire to build a relationship of trust with Kai Sent herself.

‘What am I thinking!’

She was understandably baffled at having such a terrible thought and blamed herself, but no matter how much she grew angry, she found herself unable to hate Kaicent for humiliating her.