Chapter 80 (1/2)

“I heard Sir Raynold was fired?”

“Our Lord ordered us all to surround the forest, but Sir Raynold disobeyed the order and sent his lory The result of which was Hans’s entire group getting killed”

“Hans? That third child of the hunter?”

“That’s what I heard”

“Wouldn’t he know the forest better than any of us here?”

“Have you never been here at night before? It gets quite creepy once the sun sets”

“Hey! Who do you think I am? Back in my day, I used to date my wife here Kuh! I still re on soht, and she fell head over heels for me instantly”

“Ha! As if!”

“Hey, it’s true!”

“You lot! Focus! You think we’re here to play?”

The banter between the soldiers grew louder with each exchange, and the knight as leading the soldiers at the front shouted at them when even he could hear their conversations The soldiers ere conversing with one another quickly shrunk back and becaroup continued to whisper to one another while keeping an eye on the knight

“Can you believe half of the entire fiefdom’s army was deployed to capture one person? I heard he’s critically injured too”

“We’re the lucky ones you know I hear cleaning up the dead corpses of those summoned monsters makes you want to kill yourself”

“You have a point What would happen if by chance you got cursed by touching those disgusting things? Uhuk! I never thought I’d get to see monsters in my life They really do look hideous But why do we have to do the search ourselves? Can’t we just send in the hounds to do the work?”

“Haven’t you heard? The s can’t sot a hold of that thing alone”

“Don’t worry The Lord said he’ll give us a bounty and a share of the artefacts the warlock has if we capture hihts will get everything iiven whatever re”

“And would you even want to keep artefacts previously owned by a warlock?”

“You’re not so sharp are you? I’et a hold of anything a warlock owned It’s not just the bounty, but even a small piece of his clothes would net you a decent profit”

The senior soldiers continued to talk to one another, oblivious to the fact that one of the recruits was keenly eavesdropping on their conversation The recruit followed the group diligently, when he suddenly noticed a gleam within the bushes

Curious, the recruit approached the bush to find a ring of an unknoner The recruit was about to call out to his seniors, when he remembered the conversation about how he could sell the warlock’s possessions for a high price Possessed by greed, the recruit carefully looked around and then snatched the ring As he did, he felt so he felt

Smack!

“Uwaah!”

One of the soldiers in the group noticed that a recruit had split off fro But then, he screa itself into the recruit’s head

Seeing soht that these soldiers had never witnessed, having never fought in a provincial war before – not to mention that the victim was a fellow soldier whom everyone was familiar with Everyone fell into a panic, seniors and new recruits alike

“shi+t! What happened?”

Everyone gathered around the dead soldier’s body, and even the knight as leading the group had turned back to join theht’s face crumbled at the report he had received The loss of soldiers was always ht was indeed unhappy that this blunder had clouded his future prospects, but he needed to deal with the body for now

“Sebril!”

One of the soldiers who returned with the knight seemed to have been close with the dead soldier, as he cried in agony Seeing this, the knight tried to put up as soave his order

“Let’s take his body for now”

With the order given, one of the soldiers took out a dagger and cut the string tying the stakes together With a loud ‘bang!’ the ball of stakes exploded and launched the pieces of the wooden stakes into the surrounding like a claymore

“Aak! My eye!”

“Uwaak! Help!”