Chapter 49: [Day 17] – “Despair” (1/2)

∼ Day 17 ∼

‹ Micheal ›

[Henry has taken 122 damage, a critical hit!]

[LVL: 33 - Henry has been slain!]

[You have been rewarded with 1565 points of EXP]

[Congratulations! You've reached level 11]

[You've been rewarded with 1 skill point for reaching level 11]

”You've done well. I have no wish to kill you, you're free to go.” - Me

Not hearing any response other than a strained sob from the broken Elias, I simply turn to leave.

I hadn't really intended for this to happen. But as I was scouting out the camp, figuring out the best approach to this, I was discovered by this old fellow, Henry.

I was quite surprised that he managed to find me. I didn't have obscurement activated at the time since I can't use it indefinitely with the constant drain of stamina it put my body through. But I thought if I just steered clear of the entity inside the tent, I should stay undiscovered.

Apparently this old man had a weird and rare class called ”reconnoiterer”. If I remembered correctly, that word was usually tied to military scouting and information gathering.

That should explain how he could've possibly found me, and other than that he was already quite a formidable man with just his level alone. It was just very unfortunate that he specifically specified in discovering stealthed targets and such.

Luckily he didn't recognize me as a threat when he had first spotted my form. While he knew where I was, he had yet to actually lay eyes upon my body and form. So I think he actually thought that I was some critter or animal that he could use for that stew he had been so religiously hovering over all this time.

While he definitely wasn't an optimal choice in someone to kidnap and interrogate because of him seemingly being the camp chef, I had to make due, if I ran now he would alert my presence to the camp.

So after preparing a large dose of my paralytic compound, I injected it into him and took him to an obscured location. I was also lucky in the fact that he wasn't too much of a combat specialized man. Or my paralysis wouldn't have taken effect that easily.

Unfortunately, when I had started to interrogate to old man, I found out that he was a stubborn old fool as he refused to answer any of my questions. Vehemently rejecting any and all communication.

Suddenly I heard the call of a similar voice in the distance with my enhanced hearing that was many times better than that of a human's. It was that guy Elias, and he was calling for this guy's name ”Henry”.

Quickly knocking the man out and severing several certain tendons, making sure he couldn't escape even if he woke up before I returned, I flew back to the camp at breakneck speeds.

Seeing the form of Elias looking around for the guy I had just kidnapped, cursed my bad luck. Taking position, I made some noise to attract Elias' attention since I could see that he was about to go and alert someone of Henry's disappearance.

Once again pulling the same trick of paralyzing my victim and then promptly kidnapping them, I drag Elias' form back to where I had left Henry.

What I had feared would happen when the cook, Henry, disappeared did actually happen when Elias went looking for him. But this kind of turned out for the better as Henry wouldn't speak a word, but I should be able to easily get Elias to spill the beans.

By doing some threatening, I easily got the information I wanted. I only needed information about if I needed to worry about humans stumbling upon my tribe and followers, so knowing where the closest human town or civilization was would help greatly with expanding my vision of the world around me.

As they had expended their usefulness, I decided to just off the man named Henry. While sure I could've probably gotten more information, I knew that I was running on borrowed time.

It wouldn't take long before they noticed two people missing, and I would rather get a move on before they caught up to me. As I moved away a dozen meters, I was about to take off.

But I was suddenly halted in my tracks as I heard a bellow from behind.

”ELIAS!” - ???

Turning around, I was surprised as I saw three familiar figures emerging from the foliage. It was Darshan, Hennard, and Yrmel. Quickly expanding my senses out to detect if any had followed them out here, I detect that they were completely alone.

They all dashed for the prone of Elias. As Yrmel and Darshan were tending to the half-paralyzed Elias, Hennard had placed himself between me and them while brandishing his big metal two-hander.

”W-what happened, Elias!” - Darshan

Looking to the corpse of Henry who was staring lifelessly out into the nothingness, Darshan looked back to Elias with a questioning expression. Getting propped up by Yrmel, Elias only shook his head in sadness and then shot me a deadly glare of hatred. Obviously signaling me as the perpetrator.

While I could've killed them both, I believed that Elias hadn't really done anything untoward to me, and killing him would only reward me with a very meager amount of EXP. So I only killed Henry due to him being quite a high-level human.

Moving to Hennard's side, Darshan also brandished his sword and pointed its tip towards me.

”Monster! You will pay for what you've done.” - Darshan

Hearing his ”righteous” proclamation, I could only chuckle slightly.

”I have no wish to kill you, you can all leave.” - Me

Immediate shock and horror flashed across the new arrivals' faces at hearing their language being spoken by a monster.

”Y-you can't escape that easily you filthy monster.” - Darshan

I only sigh, at this guy Darshan's stupidity. To discourage him from doing anything he definitely will regret, I let some of my killing intent flow out. This was only a minuscule amount of my aura as if I used anymore I worried that I would alert the powerful entity, back the camp, to my presence.

But it was enough for them all to adopt slightly pale faces of stunned terror. To my surprise, Elias at this moment managed to regain most of his motory functions. Letting go from Yrmel's support he took a stance beside Darshan and Hennard.