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"There! Get them!"
Commander Dure Fabien shouted.
Following Commander Dure's shout, the guards moved in perfect order.
'Today is the day! The day to prove that all the effort wasn't in vain.'
Dure Fabien.
He is the commander of the guard in Comes City, located in the southeast of the continent.
Comes City is located west of Portus City, the largest port city in Alcanzia, and is a thriving commercial city with various goods coming and going.
The pirates are all blocked by Espin Elina, the witch of the battlefield in Portus City.
There are no monsters around the city in the plains, and not even a common bandit group.
There are no greedy nobles trying to expand their territory near the city, and no wars are taking place as a result.
All of this is thanks to Espin Elina, the Marchioness of the neighboring city of Portus.
After she took office, not only Portus City but also Comes City, where Dure Fabien is the commander of the guard, became an extremely safe and peaceful city.
'Frustrating city councilors.'
As the city found stability and peace, the city councilors began to think about reducing the city's security budget.
Absolutely not.
Danger can come anytime, anywhere.
Every year, while persuading, fighting, and raising his voice to the city councilors who tried to cut the budget.
The city guard's personnel have been maintained as is.
And today.
It's time to show the results.
He was dispatched after receiving a report that there was a dismembered body on the way into the city.
As he searched nearby, a creepy woman was hiding and watching.
As soon as their eyes met, she quickly started running away.
"Stop there! We have something to investigate regarding the murder case!"
Rustle.
A thin thread seemed to shimmer in the sunlight.
Squeak.
One of the guards was cut into three pieces.
The woman laughed hysterically in a chilling voice.
"I'm the murderer. Now, try to catch me."
Then she started running away again.
"Everyone, draw your weapons and chase after that woman! She's using strange tricks! Don't let your guard down!"
They chased the woman with a dozen guards for 10 minutes.
Behind them, a long river can be seen.
'That's it!'
"Surround her in a circle! Don't let your guard down!"
The woman who encountered the fast-flowing river stopped.
The guards surrounded the woman who was facing the river in a semicircle according to Commander Dure's orders.
Commander Dure stepped forward.
"The murderer should willingly submit to being arrested! We will transfer you to the city court."
Solbere Linea's creepy eyes narrowed sharply.
"Are you the captain?"
"I am Dure Fabien, the commander of the Comes City guard!"
"But what is an arrest? Is it tying up with rope?"
Dure frowned.
Considering her running speed, he thought she was a fairly well-trained opponent.
Does she not even know what an arrest is?
"If you willingly submit to being arrested, at least you won't get hurt here! Of course, you'll be sentenced to death as soon as you stand in court. Hey guys!"
The guard's encirclement began to narrow.
Solbere Linea laughed loudly.
"I'm good at tying people up too. Would you like to see?"
Solbere Linea stretches out her arms forward.
"Be careful! Shields forward!"
They stopped narrowing the encirclement and the shield soldiers stepped forward.
Rustle.
The silver thread was reflected in the sunlight and shimmered.
The shimmer spread out in an instant and wrapped around the surroundings.
Dozens of silver threads seemed to float in the air.
Before they knew it, they were all pulled taut.
"Now, from now on, we're going to play a game. Anyone who moves even a little will be dismembered. Let's see who lasts the longest."
Surprised, Dure Fabien looked down.
A thin silver thread that was barely visible to the eye was wrapped around his body.
Once around the neck.
Once around the right arm.
Once around the left arm and torso.
Once around the lower pelvis.
"What kind of strange trickery are you using!"
Solbere giggled.
"You're making a lot of noise. You can't move, so you must be scared, right?"
He was hit where it hurt.
Dure Fabien has been honing his swordsmanship for over 30 years.
He has a sense that the silver thread wrapped around his body right now is unusually dangerous.
"You wicked woman! Untie it quickly!"
"All talk and no action."
Solbere lightly moved her left arm.
Rustle.
Glitter.
One more strand of silver thread sparkled in the sunlight.
One more silver thread was wrapped around Dure's head.
The silver thread passed through the middle of Dure's open mouth.
"One more game rule. From now on, anyone who makes a loud noise will be dismembered."
"Ugh... ugh..."
While Dure was panicking and feeling the chilling and sharp texture of the silver thread touching his lips, not knowing what to do.
One of the guards shouted.
"Such tricks!"
He transferred the sword he was holding in his right arm to his left arm and tried to cut out the silver thread that was diagonally wrapping around his right shoulder and left neck.
At that time.
Swish!
The guard's body became a three-part corpse as is.
"Ugh, ugh!"
"I said I'd dismember anyone who made a loud noise."
Swish!
"Ugh... ugh...!"
Thud.
Another guard's legs gave out and he collapsed.
Swish!
Three guards became corpses in an instant.
The heads of the guards who were still alive were filled with fear.
The same goes for Commander Dure.
A time of fear and despair flowed.
Sway.
Swish!
If you sway your body because you can't stand the pressure.
It becomes a dismembered corpse as is.
Only one thought remained in the heads of all the guards.
Will she spare us if we last until the end?
But.
Solbere Linea never said that.
It's just the last hope created by the desire for life.
"Haa. Still, are these guards? They're lasting a long time. I'm getting bored."
Bored?
Then will she spare us?
Swish!
The silver threads wrapped around the guards' bodies were pulled at once.
Snap, thud.
The dismembered bodies of the guards fell weakly to the ground and rolled around.
It was truly.
A scene of carnage.
Rustle.
Solbere, who had collected the silver threads, dusted off her hands.
"The elimination of the witnesses of the witness is complete."
Just in time, Proton and his subordinates walked up from the river estuary.
Proton frowned at the scene of carnage.
"Weren't the witnesses who saw our faces three merchants?"
"They've been taken care of."
"Then what about these guys?"
"They witnessed the corpses of the witnesses."
"Is it really necessary to kill everyone up to that point..."
Solbere interrupted Proton.
"They saw my face. Is that a reason?"
Proton shook his head.
It was obvious that she deliberately waited there and showed her face.
'This woman is not a fixer, she's just a killing machine.'
"Let's go quickly. Before someone else sees us here."
"Okay. Today was a satisfying day for once."
Knock knock.
"Davian, it's me. Liber."
"Come in."
Liber entered the dormitory room being used by Davian and Nubes.
Snore. Phew. Snore. Phew.
Nubes was lying on the bed snoring loudly.
"Is he already asleep?"
"He couldn't sleep last night because he was doing external force training all night."
"All night? Wow... Nubes is working hard too."
Davian nodded.
He's working hard indeed.
There's a reason why he's gotten so strong.
Of course, he's not learning anything else separately.
But when it comes to external force training, he's really serious.
Yesterday, he said that the training was going well, so he was sitting cross-legged for over 20 hours.
Liber and Davian sat facing each other at a small tea table in the dormitory.
"Here, Davian."
Liber placed a small note on the table.
"This time, there was a mass murder in Comes City. First, they killed some merchants. Then, they killed about a dozen guards on the riverside a little further away. The method is..."
"It must be the same."
"Yeah. It's the same. Hey, Davian..."
Liber paused for a moment.
"I'm sorry I couldn't find them sooner. Strangely, the direction keeps getting off."
"No. They're not easy to catch in the first place. Can't you tell by the fact that they're killing all the witnesses? In the dungeon, they don't even fight monsters, they just amplify the core somehow."
"That's true. That's the most amazing thing. How do they do such a thing without any traces of fighting monsters? Anyway, they have to go all the way to the core room to do something."
"We don't know everything. If they're from the Marino Empire, it wouldn't be strange if they developed some kind of magic tool."
"Anyway, just trust and wait a little longer. Our Specula family is searching extensively."
Davian took out a small copy of the club map and spread it out on the table.
It was another map that showed the location of the dungeon marked by Ariel as is.
On the map, the dungeon that Solbere Linea is presumed to have visited is marked with an X.
"Then I'll go. Rest."
"Liber."
"Yeah?"
"It seems that the core amplification imminent dungeon that we know and the core amplification imminent dungeon that the Marino Empire has identified are slightly different. Some places overlap, but many don't."
Liber, who was about to get up and leave, sat down again.
"How?"
"Look here. We don't even know if the core amplification has occurred in dungeons in the desert or mountains. So, the X marks that we marked may not be all the dungeons that the guys touched."
"I guess so?"
Davian connected the dungeons marked with an X one by one with a pen.
Then, he marked the dungeons near that line with a triangle.
"Please investigate these dungeons marked with a triangle."
"Okay! I'll contact the family right away!"
"And look at this."
This time, he drew a circle of an appropriate size around the dungeons marked with an X.
"Do you see?"
"...Oh!"
Davian colored in some of the uncertain triangle-marked dungeons.
"They hit a few dungeons nearby..."
He followed the line he had drawn earlier with his finger.
Liber, who was looking at the map following Davian's finger, shouted.
"They moved to some extent and then hit a few dungeons nearby again! If they keep going to nearby places, they might get caught! But if they keep going far away, it won't be efficient!"
Davian nodded.
"The guys who were working in the northwest appeared in the southeast this time. If you draw a circle based on the southern dungeon of Comes City that they newly touched..."
"Here?"
"Yeah."
"If it's correct that they hit a few nearby places and then move to another distant place. There's only here near this dungeon?"
"I have to go to Portus City as soon as the sun rises tomorrow."
"Shall I go with you?"
Davian shook his head.
"No, it's dangerous. I'll go alone."
"Are you sure you'll be okay alone? These guys seem really strong."
"You're a strategic advisor. Do your part, Liber."
"Well... I guess it wouldn't be of much help if I went with you either. Okay! I'll go to the family and check all these triangle dungeons! When are you going to Portus City?"
"As soon as it's dawn tomorrow."
"Portus City is a military stronghold, so there are no connected magic circles, right?"
Davian went to the desk and took out a scroll.
"It's a scroll that can take you directly to Marchioness Espin Elina's castle."
"...The Witch of the Battlefield, Espin Elina?"
"She said I could visit anytime, so I drew a magic circle in a spare room and left."
"Isn't that illegal? It's a military stronghold."
"I got permission from Marchioness Espin to draw it, so who can say anything. And this is one-way."
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