Becoming a Hunter in a Dark Fantasy - Chapter 87
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Episode 87 Horned Lizard (1)
“Oh, how did… …you wake up?! I clearly cast a sleep spell?”
Sercia was shocked to see the horned lizard awake and sound.
Her yellow eyes are clear and clear, without any trace of sleep.
“flaw.”
The horned lizard, Candela, laughed heartily.
“Well~ Thanks to whom?”
She stood up, dusting off her clothes. She was a large woman.
He had rugged muscles and long hair sticking out from his back. At first glance, he looked as solid as a rock.
“… … Thanks to whom? What does that mean? Speak clearly!”
Sercia frowned and scolded Candela.
At the same time, he brought both hands together and created a hot flame energy, ready to shoot out at any moment.
“Hey, sis. Let’s go well, well.”
Clank-
The cold muzzle was pressed against Candela’s head. It was Gale.
“There are three of us, and you are one.”
As soon as he heard the unfamiliar voice, Gale grabbed his sword and gun in both hands and immediately followed Candela.
During battle, Gale’s usual easygoing attitude was nowhere to be seen.
“aha?”
She smiled faintly and raised both hands. It was a sign of surrender, but her relaxed attitude was annoying.
Sercia asked, her eyebrows furrowed.
“Do you have any faith at all? You’re quite relaxed even in a life-threatening situation.”
“Huh? That’s… … obvious, right?”
The vertical pupils characteristic of reptiles were wide open as if excited.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve had the courage to approach you from behind without knowing anything!”
“… …! Mr. Gale, get out of here!”
Sercia sensed something ominous in the grinning face and shouted urgently, but it was already too late.
Candela’s spiky hair stretched out and moved at an incredible speed, blowing Gale away.
“… … !”
It was a moment.
Kwaaang!
Gale, who had not expected such an attack at all, was hit by the rock-hard hair and was thrown far away.
No, it was really no different from a rock!
Before Gale could even get up, he crashed into the surrounding rocks with a loud noise.
“Hahahaha! Let’s have fun!”
Candela quickly approached him and struck him down with her clenched fist. A solid rock was wrapped around her fist like armor.
Phew, when I slammed my fist, there was a sound like the air was splitting apart. It was as if the air was screaming. It was that powerful.
“Cough!”
Gale vomited blood and stepped back after being struck in quick succession. His breathing was ragged, but he was still conscious.
“Mr. Gale!”
To protect this, Sercia tried to shoot a fireball.
‘After you’ve knocked the Horned Lizard down with a Fireball, you can use healing magic to heal Gale’s wounds!’
But at that moment… … !
“Would you please stop?”
A sharp knife touched her white neck. The blade was so sharp that as soon as it brushed against her, a line formed and a stream of blood flowed out.
“……you!”
Hake smiled and aimed his sword at Sercia. Sercia’s lavender eyes shook greatly.
“A wizard should only allow those he truly trusts to be by his side.”
But Hake continued speaking calmly, paying no attention to her agitation.
“This is my final advice to you as a child of the same witch, Miss Sercia.”
Soon, a dull shock was felt on the back of her neck, and Sercia’s consciousness began to fade.
* * *
“The intruders?”
The Horned Lizard, Candela, winked at his subordinate and asked him coldly.
“They’re all locked in the dungeon!”
“No. I’m asking about the other two.”
Candela had been keeping a close eye on the ‘intruders’ since they first entered the tunnel.
It was because the reports from the gatekeepers were so suspicious.
-Candela! Something is strange! ‘Frau’ doesn’t recognize us… …!
This was truly a strange thing.
One of the 12 new hunters of the 616th batch, Frau the Fighter was Candela’s precious younger sibling!
‘You are like a wicked intruder! How dare you invade me in the guise of my brother?’
Bam!
There was an eerie sound as fangs clanked together. The group was torn apart in the middle, losing two of the intruders.
‘… … In the meantime, when did you come into my office?’
A messy room, a safe split in two, and the things that were secretly hidden there were gone!
Papyrus that diligently wrote down Depicio’s weaknesses little by little in preparation for any situation… … !
‘That must never be taken away. I must get it back, even if it means capturing or killing those two guys!’
Candela planned to lure and capture the two people he thought would pose the greatest threat.
She pretended to be a drunkard and fell down in front of the intruders. There is no hunter in the world who would turn down prey that has come to him on its own two feet.
They’ll probably take Candela to a secluded place and interrogate her.
-Hello! You know me? Can I talk to you for a moment?
-… … Deficio?
According to what I heard from the assassin Deficio who came secretly a few days ago, there was a wizard among the intruders who could freely use spatial magic.
He asked the assassin to move the location to the outskirts of the tunnel.
And he had placed his subordinates in ambush around them in advance, and was able to subdue and arrest them when they let their guard down.
Even though things are going so smoothly, is it because of the two remaining intruders that have yet to be found, or is it because of the stolen papyrus?
‘Somehow this feels ominous.’
She was one of the most intuitive people among the people. That instinct spoke. Gale and Sersia… … .
‘… … No. That human male felt several times more threatening.’
But when you actually open the lid, the woman is much more threatening than the man. She is the sorceress the assassin mentioned.
Candela tilted her head in confusion for a moment, but soon dismissed it as nothing serious.
Anyway, now was not the time to think about why my intuition was wrong.
‘Yes. I can’t just leave it like this. Right!’
We must prevent him from coming up to the surface with that papyrus… … No, we must at least get rid of it so that Depicchio does not see it.
Her gaze flickered to Hake, who was sitting across from her and smiling.
‘Why did Depicchio come at this time of all times? … … No, is this why he came?’
Candela had also been informed of what had happened in the Kingdom of Batevill on Earth.
‘Clover Company… … .’
For fear of causing a big fuss, they were still controlling the information from circulating within the tunnel.
Candela, who knew Depicchio’s purpose, had no idea how ridiculous it was to hear that they had failed!
‘That’s great! I’d rather take this opportunity to escape from Depicio’s clutches… . . . ‘
But this was a gamble with uncertainties. Deficio would not have fallen after one failure, and the location of the tunnel was fixed and there was no alternative.
‘… … No. It’s not the time yet.’
Although she was a gambler who loved gambling, she could not risk not only her life but also the lives of the tunnel people.
‘Ugh! It’s hard. Being a butler. I told you, this position doesn’t suit me.’
… … Anyway, Candela must do what she is supposed to do as the ruler of the tunnels.
“You are the ruthless ones who dare to invade our tunnel! We cannot allow you to be exposed to sunlight with your limbs intact!”
Candela laughed sinisterly and slammed the table down. Then he shouted in a booming voice.
Because no one has ever entered her tunnel and come out alive.
“We’ve sealed off the exit to the surface, so they must still be inside the tunnel. Search it thoroughly. We must find them!”
“Yes! Candela!”
The subordinates who had answered loudly quickly went out. Hake, who had been sitting across from Candela and shaking his leg quietly, giggled.
“Thank you for waiting. I’m glad to meet a capable assassin like you. I heard you’re considered a candidate for Deficio’s next ‘Moon’?”
Candela spoke politely, bowing slightly. It was the complete opposite of his usual wild personality.
“What? You even gilded it. I am truly honored. I will meet the youngest ruler of the Batevill Tunnel and one of the ten strongest men in the North Continent.”
Hake waved his hand and grinned.
It was an artificial smile, like a painting. As expected, Depicchio’s assassin was creepy just by being in the same place.
“Do you know who those guys are?”
“Of course. But before that, isn’t there something you need to give me?”
“Oh, right.”
Candela, her spiky hair fluttering, approached my desk and took something out.
What he took out with a rustling sound was a piece of paper whose outer surface had turned yellow.
“This is what I found out.”
The Horned Lizard, Candela, possessed a unique magic called ‘Sound of the Earth’. When she touched the earth, she could glimpse past memories.
It was an ability that could only hear voices and required a lot of trial and error to obtain the information he wanted, but it was very useful for gathering information in this way secretly.
That is why Depicchio, who found out about this, proposed an alliance to her.
In return for protecting the Batevil tunnels and its people and providing them with the supplies they wanted, Depicchio occasionally requested Candela’s assistance.
But Candela instinctively realized that if she continued like this, she would get rid of the girl who knew too much.
Plus, we’ll get rid of the Batavil Tunnel people too.
“Now, read it.”
“thank you.”
Hake’s eyes were calm as he read the documents.
But is that really true? Candela, who knew the information written in the documents, thought.
“What are you going to do now? Now that you know that information, are you still going to be loyal to Depicio?”
Then, Hake crumpled up the documents he had finished reading and said, this time with an artificial smile like in the picture.
“Is that personal curiosity? Excessive. Do you really need to know more than this?”
“… … Excuse me.”
Hake continued,
“You said earlier that you were curious about the identities of those intruders, right? Their true identities are ‘hunters.’”
“……what?”
Candela felt as if someone had hit her on the back of the head.
Last night was a disaster. It was like a famous person I only knew by face suddenly showed up and slapped me in the ear.
“Huh, why is the Hunter here?”
Candela stuttered and spoke without answering.
“They are the 616th Hunters. They are of the same class as me.”
“If it’s the 616th… …like Frau?”
“Yeah. How did you think I could come into the tunnel with them?”
“Isn’t that because of your unique magic?”
─Hake’s unique magic, ‘Daydream’.
A unique magic that deceives the senses of others and shows them ecstatic or horrifying ‘illusions’ according to the owner’s will.
However, this was one of Depicio’s secrets. Unique magic had a different system from regular magic, and was used beneficially as a secret weapon.
Candela, who had casually mentioned this, made a stinging expression.
“So you knew that?”
Hake smiled. But this time, unlike the previous two times, it wasn’t that artificial, inhuman smile.
“Then it’ll be easy to talk. Right?”
A very mischievous, sinister smile.
“… … !”
Candela sensed something ominous! And at that moment, something strange happened!
“Welcome back to reality!”
With a bright cry, I opened my eyes again.
“Eww! I can’t see!”
“My eyes! My nuuuuun… …!”
“Baby! Baby? Where are you, baby!”
It was the scene of Abigyuhuan.