Chapter 44 - Chapter 7: Advent #2 (2/2)

Recalling how Caitlin had caused an orc to explode while they were rescuing Felicia, In-gong swallowed his saliva. He looked at the Earth Quaker on his right.

‘I can do it.’

He could do it! That wasn’t the only reason for the strong explosion. Beast Authority and Aura were level 5 and 6 respectively. He couldn’t be compared to the first time he fought the Red Lightning tribe.

In-gong frowned. Circulating the pure white aura boosted his physical abilities and made him several times stronger than Villager A.

‘Go.’

In-gong kicked his feet. It had only been a few seconds since the head of the casios leader exploded, so there were a few shocked casios that had been unable to escape.

If there was a word symbolizing Beast Authority, it was explosive power. While the draco rampaged, In-gong narrowed the distance to another casios. His aura exploded again and a casios collapsed.

In-gong didn’t spare his aura. The casios leader was dead, so this battle was as good as over.

”Kuraha!”

Carack let out a battle cry as he moved through the crowd of casios. He couldn’t smash a casios in one move like In-gong, but the huge battle axe was an overwhelming threat by itself.

When the weak centaurs grabbed weapons to try and counterattack as well, the casios lost their will to fight. They used the momentum to start fleeing.

”Karaha!”

Carack roared after the fleeing casios. Instead of talking to him, In-gong turned and stared at the centaurs.

The expressions of the centaurs, who were wearing light leather armour as scouts, were really complicated. They were excited from the battle, pleased about being rescued and anxious since they didn’t know who the people before them were.

In-gong recognized that the green centaur was the leader. There was a blue armband around his right arm.

“I am 9th Prince Shutra.”

The centaurs roared simultaneously.

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“Really wonderful! Amazing!”

Karma shouted with excitement. Her wide and bright eyes reminded him of Caitlin.

'Isn’t it natural?’

It hadn’t even been a day since they were separated, so her face and voice were clear. In-gong was reminded of Caitlin but he quickly realized reality again.

”Prince, wipe your face.”

Carack handed over a dry washcloth to In-gong. He was known as In-gong’s aide, so the centaurs would listen to his simple instructions.

Two centaurs dismantled the corpses of the cassios while the other three took down the tent and packed the luggage. It was in preparation to move.

As they prepared to leave for a new camp, In-gong mounted the draco and replied to Karma absent-mindedly.

“Well, well. Yes, yes. Good. Make sure they eat when we arrive at the new camp.”

The draco seemed to only eat live food like snakes but they were actually omnivores. The casios meat from today would be enough to last a few weeks.

“Prince, we are ready to leave.”

Carack said while covering a small cauldron with a lid. It felt like he was going to start preparing a meal while moving.

”The nearest campground is only 20 minutes from here.”

Karma’s eyes were still shining like lanterns. In-gong directed the draco toward the centaur scout leader.

”Did you say you were Quick Wind?”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

The centaur with the armband, named Quick Wind, responded to In-gong’s question. His eyes weren’t as bright as Karma’s, but there were clearly emotions in them.

‘Ah, Prince remembered my name!’

In-gong guessed that might be the emotion, then asked a question,

”Can you give me the details of the situation?”

Immediately after the battle was over, he hadn’t been able to hear anything except for their names and that they were a scouting group. Quick Wind spoke in a fast manner like his name,

”We were expecting 9th Prince tomorrow. In order to check the safety of the surrounding areas, we were sent to scout and encountered the casios.”

Quick Wind’s face darkened dramatically. Like he had thought, they had been scouting.

In-gong sighed and asked again,

”The casios have already come this far down?”

The casios subjugation quest required him to defeat the casios in the north after joining the centaurs. In other words, the casios should have been in the north at this point.

However, the casios had shown up here. It was a little farther south than the settlements of the centaurs.

Quick Wind answered with an uneasy expression,

”It doesn’t seem like the whole group has come down. It's just... the casios seem to be moving faster than usual.”

It was different from the previous times. In-gong sensed something ominous as he listened.

”I can’t believe this. The demon king’s mission really isn’t ordinary.”

Carack said from beside In-gong.

‘I had been hoping this wouldn’t happen.’

Of course, it wasn’t like the demon king had been expecting this exact situation. However, he would have felt something was wrong if the demon king’s task was ordinary.

In-gong nodded while gazing at Karma ahead of him.

”Once we get there, let’s have a meal.”

“Don't worry. I won’t eat everything.”

Carack laughed and tapped on the pot that he was holding like a treasure.

The next afternoon, In-gong arrived at the settlement of the centaurs.