Vol 5 Chapter 1 (1/2)
Chapter 1
Editor:Starbuck11
”Ha, ha, ha, ha...”
Rough breathing could be heard.
Although he knew that his action could've informed the enemy of his position, his body didn't listen to the young man's mind.
Certainly, the young man's body who had experienced many battlefields was strong. Furthermore, it was also being strengthened by magic arts.
However, even if he possessed muscular strength and endurance that can't be compared to the regular guys, he still possessed the body of a human being.
His body still needed to inhale oxygen into its lungs, burn sugar and fat inside his body to produce energy. Then, the energy generated would be consumed by the muscles, oxygen then turns into carbon dioxide and is released outside of his body. Such fundamental things that were characteristic of a human being, didn't change no matter how strong one became.
The young man was one of the best among the guild members and was C ranked.
He wiped sweat dripping from his forehead with his hand. The young man then took the leather water jug hanging on his waist toward his mouth.
Water tasting like animal's skin entered his mouth.
It was not the taste that could be said as delicious, but for the young man whose life depended on it, he can only think of the water as equal to high-quality wine.
”I should be okay now...”
After he squeezed the water to the last drop, he threw away the leather jug while feeling irritated.
If he could reach a water spring scattered inside the forest, he should be able to replenish the jug.
Actually, the young man had memorized the Wortenia Peninsula map he saw at the guild.
Although it was not something that can be compared to a modern world map, it was enough to at least give him the directions of where he could find water.
However, he never got a single chance to reach those water springs.
(They intentionally pursue me towards the direction opposite of those water springs... They tried to exhaust my stamina...)
He spits out his irritation while glancing backward.
He was someone who could run 10 kilometers straight on the highway and feel nothing about it, but this place was an uninhabited place. The trees and the monsters living in the forest disturbed his escape path, with unknown pursuers following behind him, he was being cornered mentally and physically.
Such situation made him want to take a small break somewhere...
(f.u.c.k this s.h.i.+t...)
The comrade who urged him to take on this job had already gone to h.e.l.l first...
He was a greedy man, but the young man strangely got along with him.
When they had a good income they often went together to the bar or brothel.
However, inside the current young man's mind were regrets that he accepted this job, after being persuaded by his comrade who
had already died.
The amount of the reward for this job was five times more than normal. Furthermore, they paid the money in advance and depending on the result of the investigation, a bonus will be given.
Although it was suspicious that the job didn't go through the guild but directly from the n.o.bles, the amount of the reward was very delicious to pa.s.s...
That was why the young man took part in this job.
However...
(What do you mean by a simple investigation... That b.a.s.t.a.r.d... Involving me in this kind of s.h.i.+tty job...)
Wortenia Peninsula.
It was a name that one should have heard once if the person belonged to the guild.
And indeed, the young man had heard rumors about the land in the past.
According to the rumors, the territory was abandoned and became the home base of pirates, and a hidden sanctuary for demi-humans...
It was a harsh place, but it was also filled with a mountain of treasures that were in the form of high-level monsters with skins and fangs that could be traded at a very high price.
Every time such stories were told, he and his comrades would raise high their arm in a bar while saying that one day they would go there.
After all, if they go there and come back, the guild will recognize you as a skilled person.
Thus, it was natural for the young man to feel both admiration and fear towards the place.
And it was about two years ago that changes happened to that Wortenia Peninsula. Suddenly, a n.o.bleman with a name that had never been heard before was born, and the ruler of the Rozeria Kingdom had given that n.o.bleman the Wortenia Peninsula.
It was like a thunderbolt out of the blue sky.
Many people felt surprised when they heard that an unknown mercenary was given a n.o.ble rank, but soon they laughed at said mercenary when he was given the Wortenia Peninsula.
Although it was a reward, for normal people who knew about the territory, they could only see it as hara.s.sment and punishment to the mercenary.
Certainly, the Wortenia Peninsula was a vast land for a n.o.ble to possess as one's territory.
Even within the western continent, only a few n.o.bles possessed such vast land.
But no matter how large the territory was, there was no meaning in it if there were no people residing inside said territory.
The land had no industries, and no people to rule, in other words, a fake ruler.
Or rather, in case of people to rule then there were only the pirates.
Either way, in the eyes of the general public, Baron Mikos.h.i.+ba was a popular person, but mostly known as an idiotic n.o.ble or unlucky one.
However, the young man realized that such evaluation was a big mistake.
”The one who created that must be... a monster...”
The
monster...”
The sight he saw from the top of the hill emerged inside the young man's mind, then words of curses and admiration came out from the young man's mouth.
He might be someone who was born in the countryside of the Rozeria Kingdom, but he never saw a city as big as that...
Surely, the scale was still inferior when it was compared to the Ortomea Empire's capital city that he heard from his colleagues...
However, if one looked at the city surrounded by the heavy city's walls and the huge harbor, n.o.body would be able to calm down.
And at the center of the bay, a castle was being built.
That magnificent castle overwhelmed the heart of the young man and his comrade.
”I will definitely report it... about that place...”
Right now, n.o.body knew the exact situation within the Wortenia peninsula.
That was because Baron Mikos.h.i.+ba refused to create a guild branch within the Wortenia Peninsula, and set up an official office north of the Salzberg territory, blocking almost all traffic.
Because of that reason, right now the requests for gathering resources in the Wortenia Peninsula increased, and the requests of the neighboring n.o.bles who wanted to know the truth regarding the situation within the peninsula cannot be ignored.
And thanks to that, the reward for the job this time was good, but the reality was heartless.
”I will tell them that, that place is a monster’s den... That everyone who comes there will be erased...”
After Baron Mikos.h.i.+ba Ryouma took the Wortenia Peninsula, an incident occurred where all of the mercenaries and adventurers who head towards the peninsula disappear.
Initially, the people from the guild thought it was because those mercenaries and adventurers misunderstood their skills and got killed by the monsters, but the young man knows the true reason for that incident.