Published at 30th of October 2020 11:18:52 AM
Chapter 16: Super Long-Range Sniping
After sending Byron back, I was holding Leviathan in my room . (TN: I swear it sounds weird)
Leviathan, a demon sword and also my loyal dog .
I wasn’t worried about betrayal or anything like that because of its fierce ‘personality’, but I did want to figure out what it could do for me .
So I was asking Leviathan and asked what other things it could do and to try those things on a smaller scale .
Just then, there was a knock on the door of the room .
“Enter”
I gave my permission and Zoe, the maid, came in .
I was touching Leviathan while waiting to see what she wanted, but Zoe didn’t say anything for any length of time .
So I looked at her again, wondering .
“What’s wrong, you don’t look well?”
Zoe looked like a dead person with a bloody look on her face .
She freaked out when I asked, then slumped into a cowering position and got down on her knees to me .
“What the matter … . ”
As expected, this wasn’t just a normal thing, I got up from my seat and stood in front of Zoe .
“Th- this …”
Zoe held out a small leather bag with her quivering hands
I received and opened the bag .
There was money inside .
“What’s this? It’s a lot of money … hmm, 500 reens or so?”
Immediately after I mentioned it, I noticed something .
Zoe is just a maid at the residence of 13th Prince, and is paid more than someone who works outside .
That said, she shouldn’t have received enough to save 500 reens .
In the first place, she was about to be sold to a brothel a while ago because she had no money .
She couldn’t have such an amount by any means .
“ST-, a stranger gave it to me . That person said if I give this to Master, this money will be my reward . ”
Her voice was shaky and her content was to the point .
I accepted the small bottle Zoe offered me, then took the lid off and sniffed it .
“What’s this?”
“He said something about sleeping pills . ”
“…… Heh?”
“I’m sorry!”
As the tone of her voice lowered, Zoe made more and more of a flat-out apology as she rubbed her forehead against the floor .
“They want you mix this into my drink or something and hand it over if I pass out, right?”
“Y-Yes!”
“I see . ”
I looked at Zoe, who was completely frightened, and thought .
It’s probably the Almerians again .
They tried to attack me and failed, so now they’re trying to bribe my maids to kidnap me .
They want me that badly, it seems .
But we’ll leave it at that .
I turned to Zoey .
“Get your head up . ”
I said .
“Ha, yes ……”
“You’ve made your point . But why did you bring this to me?”
“I cannot betray my master! You even helped me and the village I live in . ”
“Hmm . ”
“But he threatened to kill me if I didn’t do it, and he forced me to take these pills and money . But I couldn’t betray my master . Um, um, …… . ”
Perhaps she was still panicking, but there were so many “buts” in Zoe’s words that she couldn’t seem to say what she wanted to say very well .
Still, I got the general idea of the story .
“They threatened you and made you grab a lot of money, but you still couldn’t betray me, so you came to confess . So that’s it . ”
“Yes!”
“Okay . ”
I turned myself around and went back to the chair I had been sitting in earlier and quickly ran a pen over the paper on the table .
I come back to Zoe again and hand it to her .
“Is this ……?”
“This is your reward . They tried to buy your betrayal with 500 reens . And since you didn’t betray me, I’ll add one zero to that . ”
“one more 0 …… 5000 reens!?”
“Yeah, I put my signature on it . You can get it from the accountant tomorrow . ”
“Oh, no! I can’t take it!”
“You should have it for not ratting me out . ”
An invitation to betrayal, a big money reward .
Zoe couldn’t get her head around the whole thing, and she was left to her own devices .
“Thank you …… thank you …… . Master is a really big caliber ……”
“But you need to do one more thing for me . ”
“–Hey! I’ll do it! I’ll do anything!”
“Hm, I’ll take these pills . If I pass out, just do what they tell you to do and hand me over to them . ”
“…… eh . ”
“Once you hand me over, you run and hide immediately, and no doubt they will try to shut your mouth . ”
“…………”
Zoe was still in a state of confusion and didn’t come back .
As I watched her, I simulated in my mind what I needed to do .
I woke up and found myself in total darkness .
I was tied up hand and foot, lying on what looked like hay .
It’s a hut somewhere, and from the smell it looks like a stable or something .
“Hey, the fire’s going out . Go get some wood . ”
“All right . You just keep an eye on the kid . ”
“Hey, why don’t we take that dagger and kick it to the curb? That’s all you have to do . ”
“They told me that was a last resort, you idiot . Are you going to admit to yourself, ‘I couldn’t catch a single child’?”
I heard a coarse-talking voice from outside the hut .
They got me .
I shook my head on the hay .
My ears chattered behind my ears, and after a few shakes, something popped out .
The one that came out was something the size of a pea grain, and when it came out of my ear, it returned to its original size .
Demon sword, Leviathan .
I touched it, and it transformed the linked ring and cut the rope binding my limbs .
I ask Leviathan about the situation .
A moment later, an image ran through my mind .
I told Zoe in the mansion .
I could never take it with me when I got caught, so I made the Leviathan, which can change size, into a pesized piece and hid it in my ear . Unlike weapon, the ring can’t be removed, so I left it in place .
Then I took the pills Zoe had brought me, my consciousness was cut off here .
This is where Leviathan’s memories came from .
Zoe left the room, and a short time later, several men dressed in black entered the room .
The men tied my hands and feet, Zoe quietly disappeared at this point .
The men carried me away from the mansion and pushed me into the back of a carriage waiting outside and drove the carriage .
We left the capital and took a short break for the night at a great distance .
What I thought was a stable, it seemed, was simply the back of the wagon, covered with a cloth .
I untied the rope and grabbed the leviathan and told him to work hard .
The Loyal Sword Leviathan was so delighted by that alone that a dog’s tail would have been torn off, and the joy flowed directly into my heart .
I stood up and slashed the cloth that was covered with it with a slash .
“What!”
“The kid is on the move!”
“Who’s the one! The one who didn’t tie the rope properly!”
I stand on the back of the cart and look around .
An empty grassy field, a little off the road .
Ten men in black were sitting around a bonfire .
I moved, but there was no tension whatsoever .
The kid made a move – they are carefree cause they think that I am just a kid .
I leapt at the guys from the back of the truck .
The nearest man who saw me like that and laughed at me .
In a flash, the man’s throat was slashed and blood spurted out in a terrific gush .
“What!”
“You little shit!”
The expression on the men’s faces finally changed after one of them was killed, and they all drew their swords and pointed their cutting edges at me .
“Too slow . ”
The hostile spirit finally came out, but the feeling of crisis was still fatally lacking .
However, I’m not going to point it out to them, though, I kept wielding my Leviathan and cut them all down with the Leviathan’s sword technique .
There were ten of them in total . It didn’t even take a minute .
“That was a waste of time . ”
I chuckled .
I took Zoe’s sleeping pills, knowing that Leviathan would tell me later what it saw and heard from me .
I was captured, and while I was asleep, I ordered Leviathan to listen to the secrets told by the men who held me captive .
But I didn’t get much information .
They are part of the Almerian Rebellion, and since they failed in their previous raids, they have bribed their servants to kidnap me and take me back to Almeria .
I didn’t have any more information than that, so I took care of him .
“Well, let’s go home–hmm?”
Which way to the Imperial City? And as I looked at the front and back of the street, I saw countless lights coming towards me in the distance .
After waiting for a while, a squad of soldiers approached us holding a torch .
Along with that soldier, I saw Zoe .
They’re coming for me .
“My lord!”
Zoey looked at me like she was terribly worried about me .
“What’s this?”
“Yes! I’m worried about master, so, I mean, I asked the soldiers to help me . ”
“So, You came here to help me . ”
Zoe nodded vigorously .
“Well, good job then,”
“But …… this is ……”
Zoe looks at me, then at the men in black who are falling around me, then at the leviathan I have again .
“Is this done by master alone ……?’
“Yeah . ”
“Awesome ……”
Zoe murmured, and the group of soldiers buzzed .
Well, I didn’t need any help, but it helps to have a manpower .
“You guys, who’s the captain?”
“Ha!”
A young man stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and bowed to me .
“It’s a pleasure to meet you for the first time, Your Highness the Thirteenth Prince . ”
“I’ll have you bring these guys in . They attacked me a few days ago, have them look for anything in common . ”
“I understand!”
The captain had his men carry the body of the kidnapper away under my orders .
Then I heard a cracking sound .
I looked down and saw that a dagger had fallen from one of the bodies onto the ground and was resting on a rock .
“—-!”
The moment I saw it, my whole body shuddered .
Murderous intent .
A tremendous killing intent could be felt from that dagger .
“Don’t touch that . ”
I stopped the soldier who was trying to pick it up and stood in front of the dagger and stared at it .
This is the dagger that the men were talking about when I woke up …… .
Through the Leviathan, I can feel a “curse” along with a killing intent .
It’s not just a dagger, it’s also a spell and the human thoughts that went into it – a great deal of resentment .
…… Maybe…
I drew my leviathan and set it up .
“Can you do it?”
When I asked it, the reply was yes .
“Then, do it!”
The moment the order is given, Leviathan is overjoyed .
Immediately after that, a column of water gushed into the heavens from the blade I raised .
It’s much thinner than the one I shot before, only about as thick as a six-year-old’s arm .
It did however ascend to the sky and then turned and went flying on the way .
Far, far away .
Even farther away than over the horizon, the water column flew away .
Zoe, and the soldiers .
They all looked unsure of what had happened .
The next day, in the royal palace’s flower garden .
As soon as His Majesty saw me when I was summoned, he smiled happily .
“Great, Noah, well done!”
He came toward me faster than I could kneel down and bow, grabbing my shoulder and revealing his joy .
“What exactly sire,”
“A man named Baker, the rebel leader, was apparently shot between the eyes by a water column that appeared out of nowhere last night . It was Noah, wasn’t it?”
“…… Yes . ”
I’m half surprised and half relieved .
The surprising thing is that His Majesty’s ears are still very quick .
Of course I was relieved that Leviathan’s ultrlong range snipe was successful .
That dagger, a dagger with a tremendous curse and grudge, was used as a marker to snipe the Lord of the grudge with the Leviathan .
Leviathan said it could be done, but I was a little concerned about its ability to reach Almeria, which is almost in the middle of nowhere .
“The loss of the leader has decimated the rebel chain of command . Henry has told me that they will be catapulted in a few days . Well done, Noah!”
His Majesty praised my accomplishments with the most excited feeling ever .
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