The Returner Wants Complete Victory

18 – 018. City at the Bottom (4)

After the battle, I returned the spear to Bo-kyung.

Bo-kyung’s face turned blue at the tragedy that unfolded before her eyes, and Eun-ha was staring blankly ahead with unfocused eyes.

It was too early.

It was the only way to think about it.

In Kirnyu, it is not uncommon for people to kill their opponents starting from trivial disputes.

And when you see such scenes, your psychological barriers are naturally lowered.

Kill someone for just that reason?

You’re fighting for your life over something like that?

If this happens repeatedly, you end up making choices to protect yourself when that situation comes your way.

Because if I don’t kill him, I might die.

Because everyone else does this too.

The aversion to seeing blood disappears.

But it’s too early now.

I became a party right away without going through any of that process.

Even if you skip a step, you’ve skipped a few steps, so of course the shock will be big.

I hope it doesn’t cause any trauma.

Have I become too dull after living in Proa for 7 years?

In the first round, I was slowly worn out while rolling around Kirnyu.

I was only thinking about how to raise the kids’ stats and what kind of equipment to get, but I wasn’t considering this issue at all.

It was a problem that could be figured out with just a little thought, but I couldn’t hide the feeling of self-deprecation that came from realizing it only after the situation had occurred.

However, it was even more frustrating that I couldn’t do anything right away.

I sighed internally and decided to choose a weapon first.

Nine people, nine types of weapons.

As a highway robber, it was great to see him carry out whatever he wanted without even thinking about team play.

Long sword, curved sword, spear, knuckle… What are knuckles again? Are you really gangsters?

I was wondering if some idiot was running in empty-handed, but it looks like he had knuckles in his hands.

“Keuuu… . What are you doing… .”

After fiddling with his hand for a moment to look at his knuckles, the man let out a groan.

Not only this man, but all eight people except the one he had killed in the carriage were lying on the floor, breathing heavily.

Since I said I wouldn’t kill you gracefully, I have to keep my word.

I looked around, but there wasn’t a particularly high-grade weapon.

It was a window after all.

▶ Emotions

[window/F]

It’s a window.

Use something nice, you bastards.

If it’s grade F, it’s worse than what Bokyung is holding.

It was a moment when I had no choice but to pick up a cheap spear.

Clap- Clap- Clap-

I heard applause from the driver’s seat, and the coachman approached me at a leisurely pace.

“It’s amazing. “I heard he was definitely a wizard.”

I thought he wasn’t a combat soldier because he sat calmly throughout the fight, but now that he was behaving like that as if something happened, I was honestly embarrassed.

The man may or may not have known what I was thinking, but leisurely took a puff of tobacco from his pipe.

Most of the pipe smokers in Proa are drug addicts.

… This is not prejudice, but a reasonable inference based on my experience.

When I didn’t show any reaction, the man chuckled and spoke first.

“Why do you want to come to Kirnyu?”

“What do you mean?”

The man paid no heed to my retort and began to say what he wanted to say.

“A chick who had just graduated from the tutorial captured Raven, who couldn’t be defeated even by the entire mercenary group in Emur. “I heard it definitely caused the core to explode, but now I see that’s not necessarily the case?”

The man knew that I was strengthening my body with magical powers.

To the extent that he could recognize it, his level was at least a little higher than that of the highwaymen he had just defeated.

Even so, it seemed like my skills were comparable to those of a combat soldier in pull-ups when I went to Emur.

“Besides, now that I see it, your spear skills are at a high level. Even though they are beggars who survive by borrowing for a living, 8 to 1 is not easy.”

The scene where Tteolgeoji swears at Tteolgeoji was quite avant-garde.

“Get to the point. “Unless you want to end up like these bastards.”

Annoyed by the constant conversation, I kicked the guy lying down in front of me.

The guy who got hit let out a gasping sound, but neither I nor the other person paid any attention.

“I said it at the beginning, right? Why do you want to come to Kirnyu?”

“I’m going because I have something to do. Who cares? “Is it just a day or two before the stragglers go to the front line cities?”

“A person who is clearly not a loser is coming, so how can we not be worried?”

“Just don’t worry about it, right? “I’m going to quietly get what I need, do what I have to do, and then leave.”

The person listening to me looked at me as if observing.

What do you notice?

The man who was staring at me shook his head and said no.

“No matter how much I think about it, I can’t do it. “Go back.”

The man confidently ordered me to return as if he were the lord of Kirnyu.

“Skills, speaking, etc. No matter how you look at it, you are not a chick. “The last Korean jockey was four months ago, so he must have arrived then at the latest.”

“so?”

“Kirnyu has a perfect balance of power right now. No one wants variables getting in the way. Unless you have received a secret message from a mercenary group in Emur and are coming to Kirnyu to do something, just go to another border city. “If you want, I’ll give you some travel expenses.”

They have their own power structure, so don’t just come and muddy the waters.

okay. That’s enough to say.

But before that, don’t we have a problem to solve?

“This is a funny guy. hey. Isn’t it you who instigated these bastards? Why are you acting like nothing happened?”

Feeling bad, I once again kicked the guy lying down in front of me.

The one who was kicked screamed, twisting his body as if it were a duck doll that made noise when pressed.

“I’m making this offer because you survived those guys. “If I could kill him, I would have just killed him.”

“It doesn’t sound like you’re begging for your life, does it? Can I just take this as a request to kill me?”

“If you’re going to go to another city, that won’t matter. But even if just by chance, if you plan to kill me and go to Kirnyu, I want to stop you.”

The man must have finished smoking his pipe and shook the ashes on the floor.

“I belong to the Martial Artists League.”

The man revealed the source of his confidence.

The tone is arrogant, as if someone like you could kill me even after hearing this story.

“You know, right? The influence of the Martial Artists’ League in Kirnyu is absolute. If you touch us carelessly, you won’t be able to do anything comfortably, from walking on the roadside to eating or sleeping. If you understand, please go home quietly. “You may think you are holding back, but I would like to tell you that you are also mistaken.”

I roughly heard everything.

So, to summarize,

Kirnyu is currently maintaining a precarious balance of power between forces, to the point where just me getting involved could cause a rift.

They are guessing that I came in before this tutorial and stayed hidden.

The thing that is most actively keeping me in check is the Martial Artists League.

very good.

“hey. Do you remember what I said earlier? “The reason for going to Kirnyu.”

“Didn’t you say you were coming to get something and do something?”

“okay. “I’ll tell you now what to do among them.”

The man looked at me with his arms crossed as if asking me to speak, and I responded with an explosion spell.

bang!

“Ouch!”

A man fell to the floor bleeding after being hit directly by an explosion right next to his head.

The man covered his face and crawled on the ground with a dazed expression, as if he didn’t know what had happened to him.

“why. “I haven’t even seen you chanting, but I’m under a spell. What do you think this is?”

– The trait, [Mana Circuit Acceleration (A)] has been awakened!

▷ Mana Circuit Acceleration (A)

The flow of magical power becomes faster and can be handled more precisely.

– The trait, [No Chanting (D)] has been awakened!

▷ Mu Yeong-chang (D)

You can now use magic of level 3 or lower without chanting.

※ Prerequisite: Mana Circuit Acceleration (A)

As if I had been waiting, I heard a notification sound from my phone informing me that the trait had been awakened.

This made it clear.

The characteristics awakened through effort in the first round are immediately awakened the moment you use them in the second round.

The system did not recognize it in the ‘can-do state’, but it seemed to recognize and register it ‘at the moment of execution’.

Probably, if you use level 5 magic without chanting, your grade will immediately rise to B.

In that case, it can be said that the characteristics that he had in the first round are still intact now.

While I was taking a moment to gather my thoughts, the man must have also recognized the situation, covered his half-blown face, glared at me as if he were going to kill me, and shouted.

“You bastard, how dare you ignore the warning of the Martial Artists’ League? And still… !”

When I heard that story, I realized I had stopped talking.

How angry can the other person be if you don’t finish your sentence?

I decided to finish the answer I gave earlier.

“What on earth is there to do in Kirnyu? Well, there are many things.”

Phuuk-

“Big… !”

“One of your tasks will be to get rid of all the bastards from the Martial Artist League.”

The man’s eyes showed nothing but anger until the last moment.

That’s because he firmly believes that he will return to Earth when he dies.

Would he have been able to act so boldly even if he knew that death here would mean complete death?